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Bernard Huinink on "Are climate scientists biased?"

Bernard Huinink — Sat, 21 May 2005 23:55:51 +0000

Yes they are. Not just groupthink but almost to the pint of mass hysteria. We have seen that too often.

William Connolley on "Are climate scientists biased?"

William Connolley — Sat, 21 May 2005 21:19:48 +0000

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...

Are climate scientists biased?,

tomkins — Fri, 20 May 2005 22:23:01 +0000

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?