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Monday, June 3, 2002 6:11 p.m. EDT
Climate Expert: Bush Enviro Report Based on Bogus Clinton Data
A leading expert in ecological climatology said Monday that a controversial Bush administration report to the United Nations that endorses the theory of global warming was based on erroneous and obsolete computer data calculated by Clinton administration environmental researchers.
"I tested those models over the United States ... and they didn't work," said Dr. Patrick Michaels, a research professor in environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, in an interview with WABC Radio's Sean Hannity.
"I told them that and I said, 'You know, you really can't go forward with this. This is not science.'"
But, he explained, "Of course, that was the Gore-Clinton administration and it went forward and now that document is sitting there being cited in a report to the United Nations."
The Bush administration climate report was the subject of a front page New York Times story on Monday, which called its endoresement for global warming "a stark shift" in administration policy.
While the Clinton-era numbers predicted an increase in average U.S. temperatures of 5 to 9 degrees before the century is out, Michaels said accurate numbers are much lower.
"If we are to believe any of the computer models that work globally, you would say that the warming of this next century is going to be rather modest - about 1.5 to 1.6 degrees Celsius," he told WABC.
What's worse, even if the U.S. adopted every provision of the Kyoto protocols - the political goal of global warming theorists - the impact would offset the expected temperature increase by a mere 1/100 of a percent over the next century, Michaels said.
Climate Expert: Bush Enviro Report Based on Bogus Clinton Data
A leading expert in ecological climatology said Monday that a controversial Bush administration report to the United Nations that endorses the theory of global warming was based on erroneous and obsolete computer data calculated by Clinton administration environmental researchers.
"I tested those models over the United States ... and they didn't work," said Dr. Patrick Michaels, a research professor in environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, in an interview with WABC Radio's Sean Hannity.
"I told them that and I said, 'You know, you really can't go forward with this. This is not science.'"
But, he explained, "Of course, that was the Gore-Clinton administration and it went forward and now that document is sitting there being cited in a report to the United Nations."
The Bush administration climate report was the subject of a front page New York Times story on Monday, which called its endoresement for global warming "a stark shift" in administration policy.
While the Clinton-era numbers predicted an increase in average U.S. temperatures of 5 to 9 degrees before the century is out, Michaels said accurate numbers are much lower.
"If we are to believe any of the computer models that work globally, you would say that the warming of this next century is going to be rather modest - about 1.5 to 1.6 degrees Celsius," he told WABC.
What's worse, even if the U.S. adopted every provision of the Kyoto protocols - the political goal of global warming theorists - the impact would offset the expected temperature increase by a mere 1/100 of a percent over the next century, Michaels said.
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