From the Capital Times, Reid Bryson says global warming is "a bunch of hooey." Is he a radical Right-winger? Is he a pro-business drone? No, he's known as the father of scientific climatology.
There is no question the earth has been warming. It is coming out of the "Little Ice Age," he said in an interview this week.
"However, there is no credible evidence that it is due to mankind and carbon dioxide. We've been coming out of a Little Ice Age for 300 years. We have not been making very much carbon dioxide for 300 years. It's been warming up for a long time," Bryson said.
The Little Ice Age was driven by volcanic activity. That settled down so it is getting warmer, he said.
Even if the scientific consensus claimed by Al Gore were true (it isn't--not by a longshot), what would it mean?
Just because almost all of the scientific community believes in man-made global warming proves absolutely nothing, Bryson said. "Consensus doesn't prove anything, in science or anywhere else, except in democracy, maybe."
Even in a democracy, it only proves what the majority believes; it doesn't prove that what the majority believes is right or true. So why do we have all this global warming hysteria in the first place?
So, if global warming isn't such a burning issue, why are thousands of scientists so concerned about it?
"Why are so many thousands not concerned about it?" Bryson shot back.
"There is a lot of money to be made in this," he added. "If you want to be an eminent scientist you have to have a lot of grad students and a lot of grants. You can't get grants unless you say, 'Oh global warming, yes, yes, carbon dioxide.'"
I've said before that global warming has become a religion to many (it requires faith just like a religion, and it's disciples display a religious-like ardor), and apparently I'm not alone in that analysis:
"There is very little truth to what is being said and an awful lot of religion. It's almost a religion. Where you have to believe in anthropogenic (or man-made) global warming or else you are nuts."
What does Bryson think of Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth?"
"Don't make me throw up," he said. "It is not science. It is not true."
The article is a bit lengthy, but very informative and even has quotes from global warming disciples. I'd encourage you to read the whole thing.
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