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My eye was caught by this story:
A small group of US experts stubbornly insist that, contrary to what the vast majority of their colleagues believe, humans may not be responsible for the warming of the planet Earth.
My first question is what makes them experts?
The story continues:
“The observed pattern of warming, comparing surface and atmospheric temperature trends, doesn’t show the characteristic fingerprint associated with greenhouse warming,” wrote lead author David Douglas, a climate expert from the University of Rochester, in New York state.
“The inescapable conclusion is that human contribution is not significant and that observed increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases make only a negligible contribution to climate warming,” Douglas wrote.
According to Source Watch, Douglas was on the dole of big Tobacco. His more famous climate change/tobacco-cancer denying co-author Fred Singer is well-know for having been on the dole of Big Tobacco and has admitted to being funded by Exxon-Mobil. Must be real renaissance men moving from cancer research to climatology. Sounds more like an advertising agency than science to me.
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