March 22, 2007
IPCC's Doomsday Scenario
Here is a list of prominent figures who have 'issues' with aspects of the published report released by the "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change {IPCC}
Prof. John Christy, Lead Author, IPCC; Director, Earth System Science Center, Univ. of Alabama
Prof. Paul Reiter, IPCC & Pasteur Institute, Paris, who resigned and had to threaten a lawsuit to have his name removed from the IPCC report.
Prof. Richard Lindzen, IPCC & Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prof. Carl Wunsch, Dept. of Oceanography, M.I.T.
Patrick Moore, Co-founder, Greenpeace
Paul Driessen, author "Green Power, Black Death"
Dr. Roy Spencer, Weather Satellite Team Leader, NASA
Prof. Frederick Singer, Former Director, US National Weather Service
Prof. Patrick Michaels, Dept. of Environmental Science, University of
Virginia. Also IPCC)
James Shikwati, Economist and Author
Prof. Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Director, Int'l. Arctic Research Centre
Prof. Tim Ball, Dept. of Climatology, University of Winnipeg
Prof. Nir Shaviv, Institute of Physics, University of Jerusalem
Prof. Ian Clark, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Univ. of Ottawa
Dr. Piers Corbyn, Climate Forecaster, Weather Action
Prof. Philip Stott, Dept. of Biogeography, Univ. of London
Prof. Eigil Friis-Christensen, Dir. Danish National Space Centre
Nigel Calder, Former Editor, New Scientist; co-author, "The Chilling Stars"; BBC Special: The Weather Machine.
Prof. Frederick Seitz, Former President of US National Academy of Sciences. He has criticized IPCC for creative editing and other deceptive practices.
The effort to smear these individuals has begun. Be prepared to learn that one or two of these folks find 'intelligent design' to be a as good a theory as 'eve-oh-loo-shun'. In 2005, Roy Spencer wrote: "Twenty years ago, as a PhD scientist, I intensely studied the evolution versus intelligent design controversy for about two years. And finally, despite my previous acceptance of evolutionary theory as 'fact,' I came to the realization that intelligent design, as a theory of origins, is no more religious, and no less scientific, than evolutionism. . . ."
Others have been attacked because they were part of research projects funded, in part, by fossil fuel companies; such as that nasty ole bogey man: "Big Oil." Of course, it is not surprising if companies tend to fund folks who might agree with them; or who, at least, are not out to destroy them. However, private funding for climatological research is a drop in the bucket. And we all know that the politicians and government bureaucrats who dole out grant money are bias free {not!}.
What really bothers me is the smearing of Paul Seitz. A published report has tarred Dr. Seitz by connecting him with the arch-villain Joe Camel. I''ll have a bit more on this in a later blog. Then I shall go back to my regular scheduled, impartial, self funded Buddhist research. Having commented on a political issue, I now need a shower.
BTW, doesn't Ichinen Sanzen imply a sort of intelligent design? The thing is, we and other living beings are the designers of our own five skandhas, as individuals; while, collectively, we are the painters of our social and geographical
environments.