Mar 15 2010
Nation’s Leading Scientists and Economists Deliver Urgent Letter on Global Warming
An annual Gallup Poll released on Thursday shows an increasing number of Americans are less concerned about the threat of global warming. In the highest numbers since tracking began thirteen years ago, forty-eight percent of those surveyed believed that the dangers posed by the changing climate are exaggerated. Despite a consensus within the scientific community, the Gallup Poll also found that forty-six percent of Americans now believe that scientists are unsure about global warming or think that it is not occurring at all. The general reversal of attitudes charted over the past two years was attributed to the media framing and prominence of, among others, the so-called “Climate Gate,” email story and the blistering snow storms and cold temperatures this winter. Partly in response to the increasingly effective campaign of disinformation against climate science, Nobel Prize-winning scientists and economists delivered a letter on Thursday urging the Senate to immediately address global warming through responsible legislation. More than 2,000 signatories warn that failure to act will be costly both in economic and environmental terms. The letter was delivered to every member of Congress and calls for deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. According to the nation’s leading scientists and economists, limiting the warming of the planet to two degrees Celsius would require the United States to reduce emissions by eighty percent below 2000 levels by 2050. The letter concludes that “There is no time to waste. The most risky thing we can do is nothing.”
GUEST: Kevin Gurney, Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Purdue University, Member of the Union of Concerned Scientists
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4 Responses to “Nation’s Leading Scientists and Economists Deliver Urgent Letter on Global Warming”
“Member of the Union of Concerned Scientists”
Enough said….
This is a dead issue. Remember the boy who cried wolf?
Quote: “Despite a consensus within the scientific community, the Gallup Poll also found that forty-six percent of Americans now believe that scientists are unsure about global warming or think that it is not occurring at all.” [end quote]
What consensus? There is a petition signed by over 31,000 scientists (over 9,000 have PhD’s) who believe that climate change is not caused by humans. It can be found here:
http://www.oism.org/pproject/
This has been in existence for several years, yet many so-called journalists continue to claim there is a scientific consensus when clearly there is none. Moreover, even if there was a consensus, in and of itself, a consensus proves nothing. Scientific claims stand or fall on their own merit. Scientific truth is not reached by a “show of hands” — not in Galileo’s time and not now.
Scientific consensus, bah. Go away and only come back when you can show proof, not computer models.
Despite the mounting evidence that there is no global warming (Jones 2010)the AGW followers cannot accept that they may have been duped. I am pleased to see the discussion of man-made global warming falling apart. Since there is no global warming, why do we need to do anything?