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Here is a post that warms my heart. The author is not a technical person, or doesn’t claim to be. But it is a great example of logic applied to the assessment of evidence.

The COTO article by Rady Ananda reveals that there are qualified scientists willing to stand up to the bullying of the AGW and trying to counter the media misinformation and bias. She admits the significant influence it has on her.

“Today, the Wall Street Journal published a letter from 16 distinguished scientists addressed to political candidates entitled, No Need to Panic About Global Warming.

“Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now,” they write, a fact that “is known to the warming establishment…”

The piece directly attacks the notion that carbon dioxide emissions are warming the globe, concluding with:

“Every candidate should support rational measures to protect and improve our environment, but it makes no sense at all to back expensive programs that divert resources from real needs and are based on alarming but untenable claims of ‘incontrovertible’ evidence.”

The term ‘incontrovertible’ refers to a policy statement of the American Physical Society which states, “The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring.”

These guys are no lightweights. The group includes a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, the aerospace engineer who designed Voyager, past and present editors of scientific journals; professors from Princeton, Cambridge and MIT, and the president of the World Federation of Scientists.

This letter propels my shift from ardent warmist to lukewarmist, to, eventually, full blown skeptic, it seems.”

Read the whole article here and note the further link suggested.

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• Don’t Panic Over Global Warming (usapartisan.com)
• No Need to Panic About Global Warming (chimalaya.org)
• The Global Warming Hoax (ken_ashford.typepad.com)
• Global Warming…a HOAX? (theshaunsays.com)