“Flawed science as fact is the real danger.”
Charles Battig is a plenty smart physician (a real doctor versus us doctorates) who has carefully studied the climate debate. This ‘talented amateur’ (as in non-climate scientist) knows the hidden assumptions and the non sequiturs behind the alleged case for climate alarmism and forced energy transformation. Now living in Houston, he has been a one-person truth squad to the Houston Chronicle’s New York Times-like editorials on climate.
Now retired, Dr. Battig holds three degress from Tulane University: M.D.; M.S., Electrical Engineering; and B.S., Electrical Engineering. In 2009, Battig was named president of the Piedmont Chapter of Virginia Scientists and Engineers for Energy and Environment (VA–SEEE), a “grassroots organization” founded by climatologist Fred Singer who is also president of the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP).…
“[Climate change is] a very complex subject. I’m not sure anybody is ever going to really know…. they say they have science on one side but then they also have those horrible emails that were sent between the [Climategate] scientists…. Terrible. Where they got caught, you know, so you see that and you say, what’s this all about. I absolutely have an open mind.”
– President-elect Donald Trump, “Donald Trump’s New York Times Interview: Full Transcript,” November 23, 2016. Quoted in Joe Romm, “Trump Fools the New York Times on Climate Change, ThinkProgress, November 23, 2016.
It has been seven years this month since the intellectual scandal erupted called Climategate. With President-elect Trump’s recent reference to the scandal, it is timely to recall some of the more salient quotations.…
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Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
Crossroads III, Energy and Climate Policy Summit (DC: 12/8/16)
Lomborg: Trump’s climate plan might not be so bad after all
What Trump Should Do with the Paris Treaty
Keep Science and Scientists Credible
Some Methodological Issues in Climate Science
The EPA Shows Again That It’s an Affront to Common Sense
2016 State of the Climate Report
Half Of Global Warming Alarmist Research Papers Might Be Wrong
Global Warming: Policy Hoax versus Dodgy Science
Satellite Data Reinstates Global Temperature Pause
100+ Scientific Papers From 2016 Link Solar Forcing To Climate Change
Time to Cut Our Losses on Big Wind
The Latest List of Turbine Accidents (now almost two thousand)
Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy Series: Part1, Part 2, Part 3.…