Opinion

Climate debate is 'science friction'

Posted December 10, 2015 12:00 am

OK, what's going on here? Is there a problem? Global warming? High CO2 levels? Climate change? Our world on the brink of ...(you fill in the blank).

One problem that keeps surfacing is "cooked numbers': Obama says 99.5 percent scientist consensus vs. a Forbes Magazine article by Larry Bell, July, 2012, that concludes: "Finally, although any 98 percent climate consensus is 100 percent baloney, this is something all reasonable scientists should really agree about."

More "cooked numbers': The "buoy offset correction," scientific email scandal of 2009, And check this online headline out: "Nobel Prize-winning Scientist (Dr. Ivar Giaever) Says Obama Is 'Dead Wrong' On Global Warming".

Also, we have those problematic "31,000 scientists" who claim to be opposed to the idea that the debate is over.

However, it doesn't take much research to conclude this: There are those who are trying to silence the science: "The debate is over" ... "No greater threat" ... "Who's the dumb one?"

It appears that all the numbers trying to prove scientific consensus have been cooked to the boiling point of science friction.

Richard J. McEwen

Ingleside

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