Denouncing The Climate Caper

By Andrew Bolt

TonyfromOz prefaces …..

This is a comment that needs to be taken seriously. What stands out most to me is that this is from a noted person from the Climate field. As the comment rightly says, those who are most believed in this debate in Australia currently are Professor Tim Flannery who specialises in Mammals, (Australian Government) Minister for the Environment Peter Garrett, an ex singer, Greens Senator Bob Brown, a General Practice Doctor, Professor Ross Garnaut, an Economist, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, an ex Diplomat, and Al Gore, a former Politician. It seems really odd that all those people expect US to believe THEM, and not an expert in the field of Climate.

Climatologist Dr Garth Paltridge has finally had enough of the hysteria, hype and witchhunting that’s fed the great global warming scare. Out today is his new book, The Climate Caper:

(Paltridge) discusses how and why climate scientists have vastly overstated the case for disastrous global warming.

Among other things he explains why forecasts of a much dryer Australia in the future – forecasts which were the basis of the Garnaut economic recommendations which led in turn to the Emissions Trading Scheme now before parliament – are probably nonsense….

He says of climate change research:  “The whole business has hardened over the last couple of decades into a semi-religious crusade in which climate scientists have developed an arrogance about their aims and activity which brooks no argument either with their interpretation of the science or with the way the science is used.”…

Much of the book is devoted to examples and discussion of how ‘the system’ keeps scientific scepticism about forecasts of climatic doom from public view.  As for the rest of us, the attitude of a climate scientist can be coloured by politically correct ideas, by a need to be associated with a ‘cause’, by loyalty to colleagues and by the rise of excessive research competition.  These are all powerful forces which amplify a real fear within the research community that an expression of scepticism about the current wisdom on global warming can be disastrous to one’s career.

Paltridge is a critic not easily dismissed by our leading promoters of apocalyptic warming, such as mammal expert Tim Flannery, singer Peter Garrett, general practitioner Bob Brown, economist Ross Garnaut, ex diplomat Kevin Rudd and former politican Al Gore, none of whom have any of his expertise in climate science:

Dr Paltridge was a Chief Research Scientist with CSIRO and is a Fellow of the Academy of Science.  His is a specialist in atmospheric physics and climatology.  He took part in the establishment of the World Climate Program in the mid-1970’s, and was with the US National Climate Office during 1989 at the time of the emergence of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  For ten years he was CEO of the Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre studying the role of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in climate.  He is currently an Emeritus Professor at the University of Tasmania.

But what would he know, right?

Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia.

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