Conservative blogger JR on his blog Just Right encapsulates the arguments of environmental scientist Hendrik Tennekes, who is not in agreement with the vocal factions on climate change.
Seventeen years ago, I wrote ..."I worry about the arrogance of scientists who claim they can help solve the climate problem, provided their research receives massive increases in funding."
Just Right: One angry climate scientist
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Not everybody is riding the emissions train
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Thanks for posting this. It belongs here because the politically motivated climate policies of our government and others will deeply affect us economically, socially and culturally (at least) likely over the rest of our lifetimes. The disconcerting tone the debate has taken on recently is what disturbs me most. The most vocal of what I call the "greenhouse gasser lobby" have begun using language previously fit only for religious debate in their attempt to limit all debate on the subject of "climate change". I'm old enough to remember the 70's and the doomsday claims of the impending global ice age. There articles were in every newspaper and magazine of the day.
Now we have been warned about "global warming" to the point where many are reacting in fear. Yet if you follow the stream of press releases coming from the various scientific stakeholders you will note that the term "global warming" has been deftly replaced with the term "climate change". It is a much more defensible term for the scientific community to defend should it turn out that overall warming not be our fate.
While it is obvious that human activity has had a negative impact on the ecology of many places on the Earth, I have for years agreed with Dr. Tennekes that the scientific community has been arrogant in their claims that we can have a global effect on climate simply by focusing enough money and political will on the problem. Too many factors have been stubbornly ignored in the calculations leading to the dire predictions being made and too many questions have remained unanswered.
The greatest threat we now face, in my never to be humble opinion, is that with the debate devolving to the level of near rabid zealotry we will have an even less likely opportunity to discover what is really happening to our planet - and what we could really do that might be effective to help ourselves - before it is too late.
Arrogance and hubris may turn out to be more deadly to humanity than all the greenhouse gases combined.
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