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Miranda Devine's latest thinkpiece lists the scientific heavyweights advising Senator Steve Fielding on global warming:
What misgivings did [Professor Bob] Carter and three other scientists advising Fielding (the climatologist William Kininmonth, the former head of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology National Climate Centre; the hydro-climatologist Dr Stewart Franks; and the mathematician Dr David Evans, the former Australian Greenhouse Office carbon modeller) have about the science underpinning the Government's legislation?
It's the question we've all been dying to know the answer to. I couldn't wait. Oddly, however, Devine doesn't provide an answer. So permit me to make at least one conjecture. I'd bet the mathematician Dr Evans restated once again his false, addled and debunked assertion that 'The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics'. As for the group's public assertions* (in, I suppose it goes without saying, The Australian), I refer you to this post. I wonder also what the Herald thinks about publishing a columnist who cites as an authority someone about whom it had this to say in 2007:
Professor Carter, whose background is in marine geology, appears to have little, if any, standing in the Australian climate science community. He is on the research committee at the Institute of Public Affairs, a think tank that has received funding from oil and tobacco companies, and whose directors sit on the boards of companies in the fossil fuel sector.
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A former CSIRO climate scientist, and now head of a new sustainability institute at Monash University, Graeme Pearman, said Professor Carter was not a credible source on climate change. "If he has any evidence that [global warming over the past 100 years] is a natural variability he should publish through the peer review process," Dr Pearman said. "That is what the rest of us have to do." He said he was letting the fossil fuel industry off the hook.
Of Senator Minchin's letter, he said: "I am worried that a federal minister would believe this crap."
Kininmonth hasn't published a single peer-reviewed article on global warming either. That's probably because his and Carter's 'misgivings' alike are 'crap'. And Devine, like her cinematic namesake, eats it up.
*Notice that the heroic gang of four tactfully omits to mention that the conference where Senator Fielding had his revelation was sponsored by the Heartland Institute
What misgivings did [Professor Bob] Carter and three other scientists advising Fielding (the climatologist William Kininmonth, the former head of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology National Climate Centre; the hydro-climatologist Dr Stewart Franks; and the mathematician Dr David Evans, the former Australian Greenhouse Office carbon modeller) have about the science underpinning the Government's legislation?
It's the question we've all been dying to know the answer to. I couldn't wait. Oddly, however, Devine doesn't provide an answer. So permit me to make at least one conjecture. I'd bet the mathematician Dr Evans restated once again his false, addled and debunked assertion that 'The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics'. As for the group's public assertions* (in, I suppose it goes without saying, The Australian), I refer you to this post. I wonder also what the Herald thinks about publishing a columnist who cites as an authority someone about whom it had this to say in 2007:
Professor Carter, whose background is in marine geology, appears to have little, if any, standing in the Australian climate science community. He is on the research committee at the Institute of Public Affairs, a think tank that has received funding from oil and tobacco companies, and whose directors sit on the boards of companies in the fossil fuel sector.
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A former CSIRO climate scientist, and now head of a new sustainability institute at Monash University, Graeme Pearman, said Professor Carter was not a credible source on climate change. "If he has any evidence that [global warming over the past 100 years] is a natural variability he should publish through the peer review process," Dr Pearman said. "That is what the rest of us have to do." He said he was letting the fossil fuel industry off the hook.
Of Senator Minchin's letter, he said: "I am worried that a federal minister would believe this crap."
Kininmonth hasn't published a single peer-reviewed article on global warming either. That's probably because his and Carter's 'misgivings' alike are 'crap'. And Devine, like her cinematic namesake, eats it up.
*Notice that the heroic gang of four tactfully omits to mention that the conference where Senator Fielding had his revelation was sponsored by the Heartland Institute