Originally posted by: Butterbean
I just got done reading an MIT professor restating what has become clear to many more people.
"Why So Gloomy?"
By Richard S. Lindzen
Newsweek International
"April 16, 2007 issue - "Recently many people have said that the earth is facing a crisis requiring urgent action. This statement has nothing to do with science. There is no compelling evidence that the warming trend we've seen will amount to anything close to catastrophe. What most commentatorsand many scientistsseem to miss is that the only thing we can say with certainly about climate is that it changes..
Many of the most alarming studies rely on long-range predictions using inherently untrustworthy climate models, similar to those that cannot accurately forecast the weather a week from now. Interpretations of these studies rarely consider that the impact of carbon on temperature goes downnot upthe more carbon accumulates in the atmosphere. Even if emissions were the sole cause of the recent temperature risea dubious propositionfuture increases wouldn't be as steep as the climb in emissions.."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17997788/site/newsweek/
That followed an article from a few days ago:
"Forecaster Blasts Gore on Global Warming"
"NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A top hurricane forecaster called Al Gore "a gross alarmist" Friday for making an Oscar-winning documentary about global warming.
"He's one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things. I think he's doing a great disservice and he doesn't know what he's talking about," Dr. William Gray said in an interview with The Associated Press at the National Hurricane Conference in New Orleans, where he delivered the closing speech."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070407/D8OBK1DG0.html
Science Daily also had a recent analysis of warming models
Researchers Question Validity Of A 'Global Temperature'
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070315101129.htm
"Discussions on global warming often refer to 'global temperature.' Yet the concept is thermodynamically as well as mathematically an impossibility, says Bjarne Andresen, a professor at The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, who has analyzed this topic in collaboration with professors Christopher Essex from University of Western Ontario and Ross McKitrick from University of Guelph, Canada."
Even the New York Times is running articles about the blatant un-scientific hysteria:
"From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype"
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/scien...1176264000&en=5d2044778a3c3be1&ei=5070
"But part of his scientific audience is uneasy. In talks, articles and blog entries that have appeared since his film and accompanying book came out last year, these scientists argue that some of Mr. Gores central points are exaggerated and erroneous. They are alarmed, some say, at what they call his alarmism.
I dont want to pick on Al Gore, Don J. Easterbrook, an emeritus professor of geology at Western Washington University, told hundreds of experts at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. But there are a lot of inaccuracies in the statements we are seeing, and we have to temper that with real data.
Criticisms of Mr. Gore have come not only from conservative groups and prominent skeptics of catastrophic warming, but also from rank-and-file scientists like Dr. Easterbook, who told his peers that he had no political ax to grind. A few see natural variation as more central to global warming than heat-trapping gases. Many appear to occupy a middle ground in the climate debate, seeing human activity as a serious threat but challenging what they call the extremism of both skeptics and zealots.
Kevin Vranes, a climatologist at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, said he sensed a growing backlash against exaggeration. While praising Mr. Gore for getting the message out, Dr. Vranes questioned whether his presentations were overselling our certainty about knowing the future."
Even Michael Crichton (a friend of Gore's) said the facts don't support anthropomorphic global warming and that Gore Misuses data - like the UN people do.
The cracks in the "convienient lie" are showing.