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Are climate scientists biased?
Sir David King chose to belittle those who doubt aspects of climate change
In particular "there is another small group of scientists who appear at every meeting but are not seriously regarded...a French scientist who claims from a study of records of tea plantation companies in Tanzania that there has been no temperature increase around Kilimanjaro despite the loss of 85% of its ice cap (which has been dated back to the last ice age) over the past 100 years"
Ray Bradley has posted here [with Will Connelly and Gavin Schmidt] correcting errors sceptical in articles
Yet they seem somehow unwilling to put King straight or to defend this maligned French scientist.
Is it another R Bradley who co-authored "MODERN GLACIER RETREAT ON KILIMANJARO AS EVIDENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE: OBSERVATIONS AND FACTS" ?
http://www.geo.umass.edu:80/faculty/bradley/kaser2004.pdf
I hope so.
Am I wrong in fearing another WMD style fiasco in the making?
Perhaps
http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/xsoc530/groups.html
is relevant?
Submitted on Fri, 2005-05-20 22:23
Re: Are climate scientists biased?
A fair question, though ungraciously posed. Try http://mustelid.blogspot.com/2005/05/looking-at-david-king-on-opendemocracy.html for my answer.
In summary: DK has done a lot better than BP, but not (IMHO) perfectly. I have no great sympathy for the French scientist, or indeed for people too careless to spell my name properly...
Re: Are climate scientists biased?
Yes they are. Not just groupthink but almost to the pint of mass hysteria.
We have seen that too often.
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