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Prof Fired For Calling Global Warming 'Unproved Science'
Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:54 pm
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Prof Fired For Calling Global Warming 'Unproved Science'
Rossiter wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal titled “Sacrificing Africa for Climate Change,” in which he called notions of climate catastrophe “unproved science,” and shortly thereafter received word from the institute that his position was terminated.
“Unfortunately, we now feel that your views on key issues, including climate science, climate justice, and many aspects of US policy to Africa, diverge so significantly from ours,” their note to Rossiter stated.
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About a decade ago, Rossiter assigned his international statistics students a paper that asked them to analyze some topic of international affairs using statistics. When one female student turned in a paper on humans’ role in global warming, he gave her an F.
“She came to see me and said, ‘But Doc, it’s not fair, I am just repeating exactly what they said,” he recalled. “And I said, ‘That’s impossible, because the evidence you cited here is just wishful thinking, there is no real data.’”
“So I sat down with her and we looked over the article, which is one of the classic ones in climate change in which they developed a computer model that tries to say how much of the half a degree rise in temperature can you attribute to natural variation or the Arctic oscillation, or whatever the hell is going on up in the north there when the seas gets warmer and colder over long periods, things sort of like El Niño- or is it human [caused]?”
“I had to raise her grade because she certainly had cited the evidence they had given, but I just couldn’t give her much of a grade because she should have been able to see – as most people should be able to see – that the computer models were just guessing and sort of notional, and just kind of playing around to get a good fit, but didn’t have much scientific basis.”
“So I became quite interested in this phenomenon,” he added. “So many of my colleagues and so much of educated America and liberal newspapers and all just believe that mathematicians have set up models that should make us very certain that the recent half-degree uptick from 1980 to 2000 was human caused – when in fact they were just playing with the models. I use models a lot, and these were pretty weak.”
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Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:55 pm to NC_Tigah
I am sure there is more to it than this.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:56 pm to NC_Tigah
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Sacrificing Africa for Climate Change
Western policies seem more interested in carbon-dioxide levels than in life expectancy.
by Caleb Rossiter
. . . The left wants to stop industrialization—even if the hypothesis of catastrophic, man-made global warming is false. John Feffer, my colleague at the Institute for Policy Studies, wrote in the Dec. 8, 2009, Huffington Post that "even if the mercury weren't rising" we should bring "the developing world into the postindustrial age in a sustainable manner." He sees the "climate crisis [as] precisely the giant lever with which we can, following Archimedes, move the world in a greener, more equitable direction."
I started to suspect that the climate-change data were dubious a decade ago while teaching statistics. Computer models used by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to determine the cause of the six-tenths of one degree Fahrenheit rise in global temperature from 1980 to 2000 could not statistically separate fossil-fueled and natural trends.
Then, as now, the computer models simply built in the assumption that fossil fuels are the culprit when temperatures rise, even though a similar warming took place from 1900 to 1940, before fossil fuels could have caused it. The IPCC also claims that the warming, whatever its cause, has slightly increased the length of droughts, the frequency of floods, the intensity of storms, and the rising of sea levels, projecting that these impacts will accelerate disastrously. Yet even the IPCC acknowledges that the average global temperature today remains unchanged since 2000, and did not rise one degree as the models predicted.
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Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:59 pm to NC_Tigah
There has to be more to it than this, especially if he has tenure.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:01 pm to NC_Tigah
Too bad they weren't tenured.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:02 pm to Tactical1
quote:Did you read the entire article from the link NC gave?
I am sure there is more to it than this.
"Warmers" are this generation's version of Flat Earthers. The Earth was flat and no one was allowed to question it or they were heretics. The debate was over.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:02 pm to NC_Tigah
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we now feel that your views on key issues, including climate science, climate justice, and many aspects of US policy to Africa,
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:02 pm to Tactical1
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I am sure there is more to it than this
Really? Do you know something or are you just talking out of your arse?
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:03 pm to NC_Tigah
quote:This x INFINITY
“I am simply someone who became convinced that the claims of certainty about the cause of the warming and the effect of the warming were tremendously and irresponsibly overblown,” he said in an exclusive interview Tuesday with The College Fix. “I am not someone who says there wasn’t warming and it doesn’t have an effect, I just cannot figure out why so many people believe that it is a catastrophic threat to our society and to Africa.”
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:04 pm to kingbob
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There has to be more to it than this, especially if he has tenure.
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Rossiter, a former Democratic congressional candidate, has impeccably liberal credentials. As the founder of Demilitarization for Democracy he has campaigned against US backed wars in Central America and Southern Africa, against US military support for dictators and against anti-personnel landmines. But none of this was enough to spare him the wrath of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) when he wrote an OpEd in the Wall Street Journal describing man-made global warming as an "unproved science."
Two days later, he was sacked by email. The IPS said: "We would like to inform you that we are terminating your position as an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies...Unfortunately, we now feel that your views on key issues, including climate science, climate justice, and many aspects of US policy to Africa, diverge so significantly from ours."
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Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:05 pm to Y.A. Tittle
powerman IRATE
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:09 pm to Scruffy
quote:And this x INFINITY
“I think they believe … that you give legitimacy to the ‘denialists’ if you debate them,” Rossiter adds. “I think that’s a terrible idea. … At IPS, like many other places, people don’t want to debate it because they have this funny statement that, and Mr. Obama repeats it every time he opens his mouth, ‘the debate is over.’ I have never heard a more remarkable statement in my life about anything.”
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:09 pm to Scruffy
PMan went poof so soon? Bummer.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:10 pm to 90proofprofessional
quote:...and gone.
powerman IRATE
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:14 pm to LSURussian
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...and gone.
Good, frick that guy. I'd rather Tuba.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:22 pm to 90proofprofessional
They got my post also...
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:25 pm to wickowick
Mine too.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 6:10 pm to NC_Tigah
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climate justice
New one to me. I guess climate is lawyering up.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 6:11 pm to NC_Tigah
As well he should have been.
Any college professor worth his salt would have known to say "unproven" science.
Any college professor worth his salt would have known to say "unproven" science.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 6:13 pm to NC_Tigah
ETA: Read the article. Fired from the Institute of Policy Studies. It's kind of a shame when think-tanks swiftly put down dissenting voices. We're all aware that they all have philosophical bents, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't condone healthy debates among their fellows.
Pretty sure this is Clinton Rossiter's kid.
Pretty sure this is Clinton Rossiter's kid.
This post was edited on 6/18/14 at 6:19 pm
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