Letter: Case for climate skepticism is overwhelming - Bismarck Tribune
Letter: Case for climate skepticism is overwhelming
While it is impossible to predict the climate decades into the future, with dead certainty we can predict that unusual weather and other phenomena such as we experienced this summer will generate a torrent of apocalyptic propaganda. Steve Andrist (9/12/23), our resident climate prophet, adds to the hot air.
Andrist menaces us with the climate crisis hobgoblin because he believes it is true. But I beg Steve and his fellow true believers to pause and examine the grounds for their unquestioning faith.
For starters, check out the declaration “There Is No Climate Emergency”, signed by more than 1600 scientists and professionals from around the world, including Nobel laureates John F. Clauser and Ivar Giaver.
Other voices of sanity on climate change include Judith Curry, Richard Lindzen, Bjorn Lomborg, and William M. Briggs. Tony Heller’s painstaking archival research is a good antidote to “This year is da hottest evah!” claims.
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Andrist might appeal to the authority of the climate science establishment led by the UN’s IPCC, which has proclaimed that the science in favor of man-made global warming is settled and that drastic cuts in CO2 emissions are necessary to avoid dangerous climate change. But the IPCC is a corrupt political entity with an agenda, and the field of climate science has been corrupted by money and politics. So Andrist’s trust in the climate science establishment would be very much misplaced.
Suffice it to say the debate is not over, and it very unscientific for scientists and anyone else to say it is. The case for climate skepticism is overwhelming.
As North Dakota has a special stake in the global warming controversy, I suggest we organize a public debate. I offer the Mott’s venerable Playhouse Theater as the forum. The Tribune could moderate. What do you think Steve?
David Crane, Mott
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What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.