Here was my reply: "'You do your best to disprove your own findings.' -- Isaac Asimov. I watched the entire Happer video, and to put it kindly, he seems sincere but is too narrow in reading outside his field. To put it unkindly, there is too much at stake for him not to [respond to] the best arguments on both sides. I have two resources to consider. The first is an approx. five min. video from former skeptic Richard Muller which you can judge yourself: [reposted below]. The second is a list of specific refutations to Happer's arguments": https://whistleblower.org/politicization-of-climate-science/global-warming-denial-machine/maccracken-v-happer-the-real-truth-about-greenhouse-gases-and-climate-change/
Friday, February 9, 2018
Happer vs MacCracken
One of my longtime friends (47 years) sent me a Happer video disputing the ability of climate models "TO PREDICT THE FUTURE [overall] TEMPERATURE OF THE PLANET" due to too many variables, and too much unpredictability of direction over time. Happer used Hurricane Irma as an example, noting with just two days out, the forecast it would hit Miami and the east coast of Florida was wrong. The Feb 5, 2018, video "Can Climate Models Predict Climate Change?" has 1,920,989 views in four days so it seems people are interested in this topic.
Here was my reply: "'You do your best to disprove your own findings.' -- Isaac Asimov. I watched the entire Happer video, and to put it kindly, he seems sincere but is too narrow in reading outside his field. To put it unkindly, there is too much at stake for him not to [respond to] the best arguments on both sides. I have two resources to consider. The first is an approx. five min. video from former skeptic Richard Muller which you can judge yourself: [reposted below]. The second is a list of specific refutations to Happer's arguments": https://whistleblower.org/politicization-of-climate-science/global-warming-denial-machine/maccracken-v-happer-the-real-truth-about-greenhouse-gases-and-climate-change/
Here was my reply: "'You do your best to disprove your own findings.' -- Isaac Asimov. I watched the entire Happer video, and to put it kindly, he seems sincere but is too narrow in reading outside his field. To put it unkindly, there is too much at stake for him not to [respond to] the best arguments on both sides. I have two resources to consider. The first is an approx. five min. video from former skeptic Richard Muller which you can judge yourself: [reposted below]. The second is a list of specific refutations to Happer's arguments": https://whistleblower.org/politicization-of-climate-science/global-warming-denial-machine/maccracken-v-happer-the-real-truth-about-greenhouse-gases-and-climate-change/
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