Roy W. Spencer is a principal research scientist for
He is principally known for his satellite-based temperature monitoring work, for which he was awarded the American Meteorological Society’s Special Award. He is also a supporter of intelligent design and is skeptical of the scientific consensus that human activity is primarily responsible for global warming.
In 2006 Spencer criticized Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth saying, “For instance, Mr. Gore claims that the Earth is now warmer than it has been in thousands of years. Yet the latest National Academies of Science (NAS) report on the subject has now admitted that all we really know is that we are warmer now than we were during the last 400 years, which is mostly made up of the ‘Little Ice Age.’”
Al Gore likes to say that mankind puts 70 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day. What he probably doesn’t know is that mother nature puts 24,000 times that amount of our main greenhouse gas — water vapor — into the atmosphere every day, and removes about the same amount every day. While this does not ‘prove’ that global warming is not manmade, it shows that weather systems have by far the greatest control over the Earth’s greenhouse effect, which is dominated by water vapor and clouds.
Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, “big picture” understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem.
Nice info…but…problem is the idiots and the greedy.
There will always be that one last hold out thinking he know’s everything and simply won’t let himself be changed from his point of view. Why else does the Flat Earth society stick around ? A harmless jab there for fun..but you will always have the uneducated, or those that sit in their ivory towers or just are too stubborn to admit they are wrong. Some might even violently hold to their beliefs since their otherwise useless life would have no other meaning than to fight for mother earth….even though Mother Earch has been doing it for herself for quite a long time without help.
On the other hand…the greedy have jumped on a band wagon, including Al Gore, that is making them lots of money, and I imagine they will fight tooth and nail to keep people confused to keep what they have.