Carl Wolk has been an occasional contributor to the Cool Blue Blog in the past. Now I am happy to say that he has gone off and started his own blog dedicated specifically to a scientific discussion of Climate Change. It's called A Skeptical Look at Climate Change.
In a post entitled New Paper Shatters the "Consensus" Myth, Carl Writes
There are many methods out there to silence the political opposition, yet, the most effective one is to simply deny the existence of an opposition, and liberals in government along with many in the environmentalist lobby have been employing this technique, successfully convincing the public that no debate exists on the threat of climate change, that there is a scientific consensus.
Now I said I wouldn’t bother delving into the “consensus” debate, but there has been a paper released by
Fergus W.M. Brown, CPE, UCLAN, Preston, UK
Roger A. Pielke Sr. CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
James D. Annan, FRCGC/JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan.
The paper is Is there agreement amongst climate scientists on the IPCC AR4 WG1?...This recent paper’s results are about what I would have expected; a clear majority of climate scientists agree with the UN or believe it is too conservative in its predictions, yet by no means do the results of the poll justify the description of a “consensus” in the climate science community. This, of course, means that statements made by many in government, especially on the left (although Republicans don’t have a clean record either) have made and continue to make false statements on the state of the debate on climate change. There is no consensus. The debate is not over. The science is not settled. I can think of a lot of issues where much less than 20% of those involved turned out to be wrong. In fact, it would be very interesting to see what percent of climate scientists bought into the “global cooling” scare of the ’70s...
Carl has done a lot of great work presenting the alternative theories that exist within the scientific community.
Check him out.
