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Related: About this forumClimate Scientists Rebuke Rupert Murdoch: WSJ Denier Op-Ed Like ‘Dentists Practicing Cardiology’
http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/02/01/416078/climate-scientists-rebuke-rupert-murdoch-wsj-denier-op-ed-like-dentists-practicing-cardiology/n a scathing letter to the editor, thirty-eight of the worlds top climatologists have rebuked Rupert Murdochs Wall Street Journal for its publication of a scientist op-ed denying the threat of manmade global warming. The letter, authored by climate scientist Kevin Trenberth and colleagues from the worlds top science institutions, tells the Wall Street Journal editors to Check With Climate Scientists for Views on Climate:
You published No Need to Panic About Global Warming (op-ed, Jan. 27) on climate change by the climate-science equivalent of dentists practicing cardiology. While accomplished in their own fields, most of these authors have no expertise in climate science. The few authors who have such expertise are known to have extreme views that are out of step with nearly every other climate expert. This happens in nearly every field of science. For example, there is a retrovirus expert who does not accept that HIV causes AIDS. And it is instructive to recall that a few scientists continued to state that smoking did not cause cancer, long after that was settled science.
The 16 climate deniers include a medical doctor, some engineers, and astrophysicists. One of the climate deniers who wrote the No Need to Panic op-ed, Richard Lindzen, questions whether smoking causes cancer, and another of the climate deniers, Claude Allegre, doesnt believe asbestos is hazardous.
The climate scientists demolish the canard that global warming stopped:
Climate experts know that the long-term warming trend has not abated in the past decade. In fact, it was the warmest decade on record. Observations show unequivocally that our planet is getting hotter. And computer models have recently shown that during periods when there is a smaller increase of surface temperatures, warming is occurring elsewhere in the climate system, typically in the deep ocean. Such periods are a relatively common climate phenomenon, are consistent with our physical understanding of how the climate system works, and certainly do not invalidate our understanding of human-induced warming or the models used to simulate that warming.
The Wall Street Journal published the denier op-ed after rejecting a letter on the threat of manmade climate change from fossil fuel pollution by 255 members of the National Academies of Science.
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Climate Scientists Rebuke Rupert Murdoch: WSJ Denier Op-Ed Like ‘Dentists Practicing Cardiology’ (Original Post)
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Feb 2012
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kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)1. I know how climatologists feel every time one of my cat-owning clients
tries to tell me my professional veterinary opinion is wrong and the clerk down at Petco is right.
progressoid
(49,990 posts)2. More like plumbers practicing cardiology.
Oh, that reminds me; I need to call my plumber.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)3. tweakers practicing cardiology, that's the analogy we're looking for