“He won a Nobel Prize. Then he started denying climate change.
John Clauser shared the Nobel in physics last year. Now he’s a self-described ‘denier’ of the overwhelming scientific consensus on a warming planet.”
John Clauser won a Nobel Prize. Then he started denying climate change. – The Washington Post
“31,487 American scientists have signed this petition, including 9,029 with PhDs.
We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind,
‘There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.”
Climate Science is so extremely settled that it created the biggest countermovement science has ever seen.
Another interesting thing is – how can there be a 97% consensus
when 32000 scientists of (it seems) a single country are opposing it.
Seems every fagot with a wig is a scientist in the USA .
A second interesting thing is – when I clicked the WaPo article,
the top article that was suggested on the right side had an interesting title , something like
” scientists race against microplastics “.
Seems all scientists who do not sign petitions, are extremely busy to save us from something at the very last minute (a last minute that will last for decades as result of dozens of goalpost movements)
You would think, that if they could think, someone, anyone, with an average IQ or better, would stop and think that Clauser is a PhD in physics and a Nobel Prize winner in physics, and if he has his doubts, then maybe dumb little me should have doubts too. Maybe plumbers do that, but journalists and politicians don’t. They are utterly stupid.
Our electromagnetic shield has been weakening at an accelerated rate; Our focus should shift to mitigating that pending disasters. Unfortunately, the weaker shield will likely result in changes in weather which the warmists will claim is caused by GHG.
The impression that I have of it, I won’t say my understanding of it, because I really don’t understand it, is that the molten outer core of the planet has circuits of flow in it, and that is causing our magnetic field. I’m sure that this is cooling, and would reduce the magnetic field, but this should take a long time, tens and hundreds of millions of years. But I have also read that the magnetic field has flipped many times in the past and this is known by alternating polarity in magnetic stripes in the ocean floor where the mantle is spreading apart. Now I wonder what makes the poles flip? Would a comet or other large celestial body passing nearby do it? Or a massive solar flare, something like a moderate gamma ray burster (still would kill off a lot of life, I would imagine).
The 97% consensus is a political slogan. Nothing to do with science. Even if it had any relevance, it is itself highly questionable. 97% probably agree the Earth has been warming recently, but as far as the whole AGW myth is concerned – pull the other one. If the likes of Clauser, Kari Mullis and Edward Teller dismiss it as nonsense, who cares what the B and C teams think?
Consensus makes the stupid feel right.
Here is how the “97% consensus” was invented – not measured – invented.
The actual consensus is about 0.3%
https://co2coalition.org/2021/10/31/97-consensus-what-consensus/
Actually the initial 97% originated in a paper that predates the Cook crappola that I lost during computer transitions. I did, however, find a distillation of it in an old email. It said:
Why do at least 97 percent, and perhaps as high as 99.9 percent of climate scientists say it’s [Anthropogenic GW] real?
-10,257 Earth Scientists were sent an invitation
– 7,054 scientists did not reply to the survey
– 567 scientists surveyed did not believe man is responsible for climate change
– Only 157 of the remainder were climate scientists
– The “97%” is only 75 out of 77 subjectively identified “specialists” or 2.4% of the 3146 who participated in the survey out of 10,257 invited. What’s interesting is that 3% of the invitees didn’t think the earth had warmed since the Little Ice Age.
The 97% was carved out of a survey by changing the criteria to get the answer they wanted from 77 people. For this we are spending trillions and changing our society. Geez.
I also contend that 97% of the climate scientists that ever existed live today, and majored in climate science to save the world. It would be hell to admit that you boondoggled your college degree.
If I had relied on consensus, I would have had a C average in all of my classes. I would be worth about $84.00 right now, I would be demanding that someone else pay for the things I want, and worst of all, I would be a Democrat.
Just think of all of the plastic participation trophies you could have had. Really valuable – everybody a winner.