Global Hot Air

It's the "end of the discussion." I'm always skeptical when someone declares "the end of discussion" by citing computer models and false assertions instead of REAL science. Professor Thomas Sowell tells about Professor Fred Singer, who designed the very instruments other scientists use to measure global temperature and who has suffered from an attempt to "marginalize" him due to his opposition to global warming., "Other serious scientists who are not on the global warming bandwagon include a professor of meteorology at MIT, Richard S. Lindzen. His name was big enough for the National Academy of Sciences to list it among the names of other experts on its 2001 report that was supposed to end the debate by declaring the dangers of global warming proven scientifically. Professor Lindzen then objected and pointed out that neither he nor any of the other scientists listed ever saw that report before it was published. It was in fact written by government bureaucrats -- as was the more recently published summary report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that is also touted as the final proof and the end of the discussion." By whose authority is this "the end of the discussion?" That's how they get their "consensus." They lie about things and falsely include the names of top climatological scientists as those who have "approved" of their claims. (Thomas Sowell, 2/16/07)