2/27/2014

"Greenpeace co-founder: No scientific proof humans are dominant cause of warming climate"

I met Patrick Moore this past summer, and I found him quite impressive.  From Fox News:
A co-founder of Greenpeace told lawmakers there is no evidence man is contributing to climate change, and said he left the group when it became more interested in politics than the environment. 
Patrick Moore, a Canadian ecologist and business consultant who was a member of Greenpeace from 1971-86, told members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee environmental groups like the one he helped establish use faulty computer models and scare tactics in promoting claims man-made gases are heating up the planet.
“There is no scientific proof that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are the dominant cause of the minor warming of the Earth’s atmosphere over the past 100 years,” he said. 
Even if the planet is warming up, Moore claimed it would not be calamitous for men, which he described as a “subtropical species.” 
Skeptics of manmade climate change say there is no evidence the Earth is warming. A UN report on the scientific data behind global warming released in September indicated that global surface temperatures have not increased for the past 15 years, but scientists who believe climate change due to man is occurring say it has merely paused because of several factors and will soon resume. . . .

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Blogger Unknown said...

Fox News- give me a break!

3/05/2014 6:07 AM  
Blogger John Lott said...

Sorry, Tim, but I met Patrick Moore and got to listen to him make a presentation last August. Fox accurately reported Moore's views on global warming. It is too bad that the rest of the media cover this story. Do you have any evidence that Moore's views aren't being accurately reflected? I am sure that you don't.

3/07/2014 12:40 AM  

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