Another global warming sceptic

Professor Laurence I Gould, a physicist from the University of Hartford writes an opinion piece of the newsletter of the New England section of the American Physical Society:

The world has been inundated with claims about dangerous anthropogenic global warming (AGW). Such claims continue to be advocated by a number of scientists, believed by frightened citizens, prominently featured in the mass media, urged to be acted on by many politicians, held to be true by a variety of business people, and spread through educational institutions. As a result, there has emerged a predominant AGWA [my acronym for AGW Alarmist (or Alarmism)] point of view. That point of view probably stems from a confluence of interactions explained through sociology, psychology, philosophy, politics, economics, the media, and science. Only a few of those issues can be treated here — and then, only briefly.

I think it urgent that members of the scientific community should know about some of the issues being propagated. It is urgent because of the dangers to physics in particular, and to science and, consequently, to civilization (depending so heavily as it does on science) in general.

The global warming enthusiasts have been known to call, from time to time, for sceptics ("denialists") to be tried for crimes against humanity. Those of us on the other side of the debate might wonder what steps the scientific community will take against those who have promoted the scam with such vehemence, once the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.

Via Greenie Watch. 

Comments

[Kit]

"once the whole house of cards comes tumbling down"

If only! It will just gradually fade away. No lessons will be learned. Just its corrupting effect on science will linger.

[cookie]

There have been ten years or so of global temperatures being either static or declining. yet during this time we have seen the AGW hysteria rise and with it the imposition of huge swathes of tax increases and international target setting. What will happen if the current trends continue for another ten years or so, showing the scare of disastrous warming to be just that - a scare without foundations in science? Will we get our monies spent on extra taxes on cars, petrol, subsidies to 'environmentally friendly' this that and the other refunded? If not, why not?

[TDK]

It's already clear how this will play out. The claim of "warming" has already been switched to one of "change". Any and every "extreme" will be blamed on climate change. This has several years to run yet.

It will be defeated finally when people in the west suddenly wake up to find China and India are not only economically dominant, but that they each out pollute the entire west.

I think it is a western centric nihilism to imagine that the we are the cause of all the world's ills and the only ones capable of making things better.

[Bishop Hill]

Cookie,

If these are genuine Pigou taxes, the money should be handed over to the (alleged) victims of the (alleged) polution. So there shouldn't be any money to hand back, should there?

What did you say? They're spending the money on public sector wages over here? Surely not!