Rusted Sky

You can pretty well judge when a particular subject changes from a science to a religion - when it becomes completely unacceptable to question any portion of the dogma surrounding it.

With that as a criteria, the global warming controversy has passed for some from science to religion - but there are those who are really, seriously questioning the premises that form up the arguments for golobal warming.

As such, they're heretics to the orthodoxy of St. Al.

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Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics

Growing Number of Scientists Convert to Skeptics After Reviewing New Research

Following the U.S. Senate's vote today on a global warming measure (see today's AP article: Senate Defeats Climate Change Measure,) it is an opportune time to examine the recent and quite remarkable momentum shift taking place in climate science. Many former believers in catastrophic man-made global warming have recently reversed themselves and are now climate skeptics. The names included below are just a sampling of the prominent scientists who have spoken out recently to oppose former Vice President Al Gore, the United Nations, and the media driven “consensus” on man-made global warming.

I keep trying to say that we don't know enough to know what 'normal' is - and it kind of looks like there's starting to be some pushback on Gore's attempt to own the subject and define its limits.

Paleoclimatologist Dr. Ian D. Clark, professor of the Department of Earth Sciences at University of Ottawa, reversed his views on man-made climate change after further examining the evidence. “I used to agree with these dramatic warnings of climate disaster. I taught my students that most of the increase in temperature of the past century was due to human contribution of C02. The association seemed so clear and simple. Increases of greenhouse gases were driving us towards a climate catastrophe,” Clark said in a 2005 documentary "Climate Catastrophe Cancelled: What You're Not Being Told About the Science of Climate Change.” “However, a few years ago, I decided to look more closely at the science and it astonished me. In fact there is no evidence of humans being the cause. There is, however, overwhelming evidence of natural causes such as changes in the output of the sun. This has completely reversed my views on the Kyoto protocol,” Clark explained. “Actually, many other leading climate researchers also have serious concerns about the science underlying the [Kyoto] Protocol,” he added.

Perhaps that's the reason behind the strident push to establish anthropogenic global warming as a hard and fast fact that must not be disputed. They have a gut feeling the science they're depending on is iffy so they must make the changes it demands quickly before the whole house of cards falls down...

J.