The debate surrounding global warming is, truly, heating up. Former Colorado State Climatologist Dr. Roger Pielke has responded to Stanford University professor Stephen Schneider’s recent claim that he could he could "slaughter" skeptical scientists in a global warming debate.
Schneider’s remarks are part of a recent interview he did with the San Francisco Examiner. Schneider was presented with this remark by the interviewer: “More specifically, the principal skeptic websites (Watt’s Up With That, Climate Skeptic, Climate Audit and Climate Science) that I look at regularly seem to think they are winning the day (the global warming debate). They think data is coming in that questions the established paradigm.”
To which he responded: “They have been thinking that as long as I have observed them and they have very few mainstream climate scientists who publish original research in climate refereed journals with them–a petroleum geologist’s opinion on climate science is a as good as a climate scientists opinion on oil reserves. So petitions sent to hundreds of thousands of earth scientists are frauds. If these guys think they are ‘winning’ why don’t they try to take on face to face real climatologists at real meetings–not fake ideology shows like Heartland Institute–but with those with real knowledge–because they’d be slaughtered in public debate by Trenberth, Santer, Hansen, Oppenheimer, Allen, Mitchell, even little ol’ me. It’s easy to blog, easy to write op-eds in the Wall Street Journal.”
Pielke gladly accpeted Schneider’s remarks. “I would be glad to debate Dr. Schneider (or any of the other individuals who are listed),” he said on his website. “I also challenge them to refute in the professional literature (and in a debate) the numerous peer reviewed articles and national (e.g. See) and international climate assessments (e.g. see) that present scientific evidence that conflicts with the narrow perspective on climate science that Steve Schneider is representing.”
I would add a couple of links at the end to the interview and both websites.
Interview with Stephen Schneider.
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