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Next installment of Global warming deniers: kooks and crooks?

May 9th, 2008, 9:56 am · 3 Comments · posted by Mark Landsbaum

Lawrence Solomon’s book on global warming “deniers” shows they aren’t the kooks and crooks they are made out to be.

In fact, the book, “The Deniers, The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution and fraud,” presents page after page of evidence showing:

“. . . conclusively that many of the greatest experts in the field are deeply skeptical of the Gore & co. version of global warming.”

Regarding the since-completely-refuted “hockey stick” chart that purported to show dramatic historic increases in global temperatures coinciding with increases of manmade greenhouse gases, Solomon notes that not only was it flat wrong:

“. . . the mistakes . . .  made were ones that would have been fairly obvious to a top-notch statistician. . . a basic error that ‘may be easily overlooked by someone not trained in statistical methodology’.”

Incidentally, the IPCC, which had cited the hockey stick as central to its evidence of manmade global warming, quietly dropped any mention of it once folks like Dr. Edward Wegman demolished its credibility. So who is this “denier?” 

“Denier” Wegman repeatedly has been honored by his peers, is a member of the Board of The American Statistical Association, past president of the International Association of Statistical Computing and past chairman of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the National Academy of Science.

But Gore and company would have you believe deniers are flat earthers. Right.

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