(Global Warming Talk) Shutting Down Scientist-Who Oppose Global Warming… « Centurean2's …

What happens to experts whose scientific opinions contradict Global Warming or Climate Change, or whatever the latest incantation is? Dr Taylor was told that his views running "counter to human-induced climate change are extremely unhelpful". His signing of the Manhattan Declaration â" a statement by 500 scientists that the causes of climate change are not CO2 but natural, such as changes in the radiation of the sun and ocean currents â" was "inconsistent with the position taken by the PBSG". But he ascribes this not to rising levels of CO2 â" as is dictated by the computer models of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and believed by his PBSG colleagues â" but to currents bringing warm water into the Arctic from the Pacific and the effect of winds blowing in from the Bering Sea. He has also observed, however, how the melting of Arctic ice, supposedly threatening the survival of the bears, has rocketed to the top of the warmists' agenda as their most iconic single cause. The famous photograph of two bears standing forlornly on a melting iceberg was produced thousands of times by Al Gore, the WWF and others as an emblem of how the bears faced extinction â" until last year the photographer, Amanda Byrd, revealed that the bears, just off the Alaska coast, were in no danger. read more

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