More and more anthropogenic global warming skeptics are coming out of the closet. The field of astrophysics, in particular, is replete with doubters about the importance of CO2 in the current context of global temperature rise. The most obvious reason being that the “model” the weathermen use does not contemplate the recent cooling trend. At all. And this development is worrisome to the Warmists. That is because many Warmists are not scientists, or are well outside of their field, or are relative light weights. For instance Dr Willie Soon, an astrophysicist at Harvard writes:

“The most recent scientific evidence shows that even small changes in solar radiation have a strong effect on Earth’s temperature and climate. In 2005, I demonstrated a surprisingly strong correlation between solar radiation and temperatures in the Arctic over the past 130 years. Since then, I have demonstrated similar correlations in all the regions surrounding the Arctic, including the US mainland and China.”

“There is no such match between the steady rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration and the often dramatic ups and downs of surface temperatures in and around the Arctic. I recently discovered direct evidence that changes in solar activity have influenced what has been called the “conveyor-belt” circulation of the great Atlantic Ocean currents over the past 240 years. For instance, solar-driven changes in temperature, and in the volume of freshwater output from the Arctic, cause variations in sea surface temperature in the tropical Atlantic 5-20 years later.

These previously undocumented results have been published in the journal Physical Geography. They make it difficult to maintain that changes in solar activity play an insignificant role in climate change, especially over the Arctic.”

“What WILL they think of next? Conference labels skeptics as having mental disorder”

That is right. If you disagree with the warmists then you are mentally ill.

“This weekend, the University of West England is hosting a major conference on climate change denial. Strikingly, it’s being organised by the university’s Centre for Psycho-Social Studies. It will be a gathering of those from the top of society – ‘psychotherapists, social researchers, climate change activists, eco-psychologists’ – who will analyse those at the bottom of society, as if we were so many flitting, irrational amoeba under an eco-microscope. The organisers say the conference will explore how ‘denial’ is a product of both ‘addiction and consumption’ and is the ‘consequence of living in a perverse culture which encourages collusion, complacency and irresponsibility’ (1). It is a testament to the dumbed-down, debate-phobic nature of the modern academy that a conference is being held not to explore ideas – to interrogate, analyse and fight over them – but to tag them as perverse.”

Now, the most striking thing about this is that the “diagnosis” of mental instability has already been made by these organizers. And none of them are equipped to discuss the issue on its merits. Not only are they well outside of their field of study, but even actual knowledge of the subject matter does not seem to be a criteria for participation. Frankly, that sounds a bit crazy to us here at DBKP. Not only are we skeptics, and have duly reported on solar developments over the existence of global warming on this website, but as libertarians, we are concerned about the call for unlimited government intervention in our lives, as well as the apparent desire of Warmists to shut down all energy sources that aren’t considered “green”.

“The labelling of those who question certain scientific ideas or green ways of life as ‘deniers’, ‘addicts’ and ‘reptiles’ with a ‘baffling’ inability to understand The Science and act accordingly has a deeply censorious bent. If ‘climate change denial’ is a form of mass denial and self-deception, a fundamentally psychological disorder, then there is no need to engage in a meaningful public debate; instead people just need to be treated. Thus the Ecologist says ‘denial cannot simply be countered with information’; indeed there is apparently ‘plentiful historical evidence that increased information may even intensify denial’”
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“Psychologising dissent, and refusing to recognise, much less engage with, the substance of people’s disagreements – their political objections, their rational criticisms, their desire to do things differently – is the hallmark of authoritarian regimes.”

Witch Hunt

Now this should be laughable. AGW is a theory. The impact of solar radiation on climate change is a fact. So who are the nut cases? Is it Dr Soon’s fault that the theory is falling apart? In the minds of these elitists, the answer is yes. And he should be punished. So who is crazy?

by pat

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