I tend to question everything.  I especially question science that is "indisputable".I especially question "facts" and assertions from people that have a financial or personal interest in the "facts" supporting a certain outcome. - Jraeyre


He is a scientist who is looking at what the climate models predict should be happening and then looking at what is actually happening.

One doesn't need an advanced degree in climatology to see that the models don't do a very good job of predicting what will happen.

- AZKC
 

Happer signed a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that claims there is no need to panic about global warming.

Other "scientists" who signed the article include Claude Allègre, J. Scott Armstrong, Roger Cohen, William Kininmonth, Jan Breslow, Richard Lindzen, James McGrath, Rodney Nichols, Burt Rutan, Harrison H. Schmitt, Nir Shaviv, Edward David, Michael Kelly, Henk Tennekes, and Antonino Zichichi.

Media Transparency reported on the Op-Ed, concluding that most of the scientists have never published articles in peer-reviewed journals on the subject of climate change. They also contacted economist William Nordhaus who had been cited by the article, and he said that the WSJ was guilty of a "Complete Mischaracterization Of My Work."

Skeptical Science
also looked into the signatories, and summarize how the list "only includes four scientists who have actually published climate research in peer-reviewed journals, and only two who have published climate research in the past three decades." Also, almost half have received funding from oil companies and big industry.


and on a final note:

With Fred Singer, Harold Lewis, Robert Austin, Larry Gould, and Roger Cohen, Happer led the 2009 petition  to the American Physical Society to change its position statement on climate change. The petition was signed by a few hundred of the 47,000 members and was rejected.
  
Apparently 46,000 + scientists from the American Physical Society think he has his head up his ancient ass.....smiley: laugh 

Ich geh' in Flammen auf....

  
Edited 1 time by Drache 03/28/12 20:03.