John Christy weerlegt misvattingen over klimaatscepsis
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'The New York Times' staat bekend als een fervent apostel van het broeikasevangelie. Des te opmerkelijker is het dat deze krant onlangs prominent aandacht schonk aan de opvattingen van John Christy, die samen met zijn collega Roy Spencer verantwoordelijk is voor de vervaardiging van een van de nauwkeurigste temperatuurreeksen die in de klimatologie worden gebruikt.
Onder de titel, 'Though Scorned by Colleagues, a Climate-Change Skeptic Is Unbowed', schreef Michael Wines in de NYT:
John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, says he remembers the morning he spotted a well-known colleague at a gathering of climate experts.
I walked over and held out my hand to greet him, Dr. Christy recalled. He looked me in the eye, and he said, No. I said, Come on, shake hands with me. And he said, No.
Dr. Christy is an outlier on what the vast majority of his colleagues consider to be a matter of consensus: that global warming is both settled science and a dire threat. He regards it as neither. Not that the earth is not heating up. It is, he says, and carbon dioxide spewed from power plants, automobiles and other sources is at least partly responsible.
But in speeches, congressional testimony and peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals, he argues that predictions of future warming have been greatly overstated and that humans have weathered warmer stretches without perishing. Dr. Christys willingness to publicize his views, often strongly, has also hurt his standing among scientists who tend to be suspicious of those with high profiles. His frequent appearances on Capitol Hill have almost always been at the request of Republican legislators opposed to addressing climate change.
I detest words like contrarian and denier, he said. Im a data-driven climate scientist. Every time I hear that phrase, The science is settled, I say I can easily demonstrate that that is false, because this is the climate right here. The science is not settled.
. Dr. Christy argues that reining in carbon emissions is both futile and unnecessary, and that money is better spent adapting to what he says will be moderately higher temperatures. Among other initiatives, he said, the authorities could limit development in coastal and hurricane-prone areas, expand flood plains, make manufactured housing more resistant to tornadoes and high winds, and make farms in arid regions less dependent on imported water or move production to rainier places.
In interviews, prominent scientists, while disagreeing with Dr. Christy, took pains to acknowledge his credentials. They are substantial: Dr. Christy, 63, has researched climate issues for 27 years and was a lead author in essence, an editor of a section of the 2001 report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the definitive assessment of the state of global warming. With a colleague at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Dr. Roy Spencer, he received NASAs medal for exceptional scientific achievement in 1991 for building a global temperature database. ...
Dr. Christy says he became fascinated with weather as a fifth grader when a snowstorm hit Fresno in 1961. By his high school junior year, he had taught himself Fortran, the first widely used programming language, and had programmed a school computer to make weather predictions. After earning a degree in mathematics at California State University, Fresno, he became an evangelical Christian missionary in Kenya, married and returned as pastor of a mission church in South Dakota.
There, as a part-time college math teacher, he found his true calling. He left the pastoral position, earned a doctorate in atmospheric sciences at the University of Illinois and moved to Alabama.
And while his work has been widely published, he has often been vilified by his peers. Dr. Christy is mentioned, usually critically, in dozens of the so-called Climategate emails that were hacked from the computers of the University of East Anglias Climatic Research Center, the British keeper of global temperature records, in 2009.
John Christy has made a scientific career out of being wrong, one prominent climate scientist, Benjamin D. Santer of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wrote in one 2008 email. Hes not even a third-rate scientist. ...
Dr. Christy has been dismissed in environmental circles as a pawn of the fossil-fuel industry who distorts science to fit his own ideology. (I dont take money from industries, he said.)
He says he worries that his climate stances are affecting his chances of publishing future research and winning grants. The largest of them, a four-year Department of Energy stipend to investigate discrepancies between climate models and real-world data, expires in September.
Theres a climate establishment, Dr. Christy said. And Im not in it.
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Onder de titel, 'Dr. John Christy rebuts climate alarmist talking points', rapporteerde 'The Hockey Schtick' onlangs:
Dr. John Christy's radio interview today debunks silly misconceptions including the bogus "97% consensus", that all climate change is man-made, that CO2 has a significant effect on climate, that climate models are reliable, that glacier melt is 'unprecedented' or man-made, that skeptics are against clean air, the mistaken beliefs of amateur climatologist Neil Degrasse Tyson, as well as other alarmist talking points.
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In dit interview worden de vele misvattingen die er over klimaatscepsis in omloop zijn op uiterst simpele en begrijpelijke wijze door John Christy weerlegd. Aanbevolen!
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