I would suggest not reading outdated Wikipedia links and jumping to any wingnut conclusions.
Hardly anyone, even people with science degrees, have ever heard of “The Univesity of Delaware Climatic Research Unit”. Here’s a tip. Any professor can set up a website and call it a “Research Institute”. Remember when you tried to give me link to the “Oregon Research Institute”, and it turned out that the “Oregon Institute” was located on a rural farm in Oregon, and run by a crackpot and his son who are more known for selling homeschooling materials than anything else? Would you please stop wasting my time by tossing crap out in the hopes it will fly under the radar? You don’t know what you’re talking about man, this is total flailing.
According to the University of Delawares climate center website, the “skeptic” scientist in your Wikipedia article isn’t even at that “center” anymore. Their website has three Delaware scientists, none of whom have posted any peer reviewed science, or anything else for that matter that I could find, on their webpage that debunks the current state of climate science, or offers plausible alternative theories. I surveyed the literature you skeptic dude has published, and in recent years he appears to be known for writing opinion articles, and writing non-peer reviewed stuff for rightwing think tanks.
Cheers, for bringing up Delaware. Thanks man. It allows me, once again, to demonstrate how pervasive, how robust, and how nearly universal the consensus is on climate change.
This is the Official Position of the University of Delaware on Climate Change, based on the Input of the Environmental Science Faculty
also, this is the official position of the State of Delaware, in conjunction with local and national climate experts.
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Now, with further regard to your claims that the National Science Academies of the World are not reputable and prestigious sources of information on Climate:
I did a quick check of the New Zealand National Academy of Science – known there as the New Zealand Royal Society.
Here’s a factoid you asked for further information on:
Just like the US National Academy of Sciences, the NZ Royal Society commissions their own Panel of Nationally Recognized and Presitgeious New Zealand Climate Experts, and collectively, the Royal Society and their panel of climate experts came to the same conclusion the US Academy did: it is highly likely that humans are mostly responsible for warming of the last half century.
I stopped researching after those two. Your claims that the National Science Academies of the World are not reputable sources, while you throw out Wikipedia links, rightwing blog links, and links to some outdated and laughable skeptic scientist in Delaware is preposterous. You can’t possibly ask me to waste anymore time on this. You’re obviously emotionally invested in science denial, and this stuff is so easy to debunk, it’s not even fun anymore. You were wrong about Climate Gate, you were wrong that liberal scientists are lying and fudging data. You’ll just have to deal with that somehow.
Finally, I write with economy of language, just like everyone else. Just so you know, I'm not going to write:
A Panel of Nationally Acclaimed Climate Experts convened and commissioned to work for the US National Academy of Sciences has concluded, as reported on the Academy's website, that it is an established scientific fact that the earth is warming, and humans are very likely to be mostly responsible.
I'm going to write:
the National Academy of Sciences has concluded humans are warming the planet.
Hopefully that's crystal clear to you. The National Academy, and it's Panels of Experts, are used interchangeably by me and every other intelligent person.
Now, I am officially closing the contest....
After one month, the Climate Gate Clown Challenge is now officially closed. No Tea Bag Partier was ever able to step up to the challenge.
http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showpost.php?p=663778&postcount=3
My work here is done.
