Friday, May 7, 2010

GOP Chooses Non-Scientist Lord Monckton as Sole Expert Witness at Climate Change Hearing


I'm sure that each one's competence is adequate in their actual fields, but none of them has *published* anything relevant to climate science, and as we all know, the *minimum* standard in all academia, including all of science, is 'publish OR PERISH'.

"There are many other sources to show that scientists, many of them very distinguished and in highly relevant fields to climate science, also have serious reservations about the panic that has got into the UN, various NGOs, and even legislatures, about our climate."

Chemistry, biology, geology, oceanography and physics are all relevant to climate science but that does not make every chemist, every biologist, every geologist, every oceanographer and every physicist qualified in climatology, which is a separate field, just as all those others rely on statistics, yet are distinct disciplines, indisputably.

When a legitimate scientist undertakes original research in a new topic -- whether an undergraduate senior beginning a thesis, a Master's candidate whose preferred topic was not approved for funding, or a Nobel laureate whose previous work established a new Law of Physics -- the first step is ALWAYS reading the existing literature and none of your deniers have done that. Nor have you. It shows. You may just take my word for it.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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