Good for the New York Times for writing an article about the increasingly vocal group of scientists who are saying “Enough! with the global warming alarmism”. One thing missing from the article is any mention of the intimidation that scientists who have spoken out have received from politicians. To see what I mean, click here.
From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype
While reviewers tended to praise the book and movie, vocal skeptics of global warming protested almost immediately. Richard S. Lindzen, a climatologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, who has long expressed skepticism about dire climate predictions, accused Mr. Gore in The Wall Street Journal of “shrill alarmism.â€
Some of Mr. Gore’s centrist detractors point to a report last month by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations body that studies global warming. The panel went further than ever before in saying that humans were the main cause of the globe’s warming since 1950, part of Mr. Gore’s message that few scientists dispute. But it also portrayed climate change as a slow-motion process.
It estimated that the world’s seas in this century would rise a maximum of 23 inches — down from earlier estimates. Mr. Gore, citing no particular time frame, envisions rises of up to 20 feet and depicts parts of New York, Florida and other heavily populated areas as sinking beneath the waves, implying, at least visually, that inundation is imminent.
No word yet from Ellen Goodman on why the parent company of the Boston Globe would give such precious ink to a bunch of Holocaust deniers. I’m sure she is outraged, from wherever her patch of land on the moral high ground is located.