A former climate alarmist comes in from the hot – from Hot Air:
David Evans is a scientist. He has also worked in the heart of the AGW machine. He consulted full-time for the Australian Greenhouse Office (now the Department of Climate Change) from 1999 to 2005, and part-time 2008 to 2010, modeling Australia’s carbon in plants, debris, mulch, soils, and forestry and agricultural products. He has six university degrees, including a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. The other day he said:
The debate about global warming has reached ridiculous proportions and is full of micro-thin half-truths and misunderstandings. I am a scientist who was on the carbon gravy train, understands the evidence, was once an alarmist, but am now a skeptic.
And with that he begins a demolition of the theories, premises and methods by which the AGW scare has been foisted on the public…
Do read the whole thing as it is an excellent look at the way scientific credentials are conscripted for political purposes. It is good to keep in mind that the basis of global warming being “settled” is the assertion that all the scientists advancing it are on the level. This article is yet more evidence that those who push global warming alarmism are corrupt grant-grubbers in the service of corrupt politicians, bureaucracies and businesses.
The bad news is that there is a such a gigantic constituency in favor of global warming that getting rid of it will be difficult – after all, we’re decades in to many government programs which have proven counter-productive and no end in sight…as was once said, the closest thing we have to immortality is a government program. Doesn’t matter how stupid or destructive it is, once people are making money off it they will defend it to their dying breath.
This one, though, might be coming to an end. What I’ve read recently indicates that we’re entering a cooling cycle – and as temperatures drop over several years it will become increasingly difficult to defend the global warming alarm. Naturally, they’ll just seek to replace it with some other government-funded doomsday scenario, but global warming’s days may be numbered.
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