Human induced global warming is a bunch of “hooey” according to Reid Bryson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Some interesting quotes from an article in the The Capital Times:
There is no question the earth has been warming. It is coming out of the “Little Ice Age,” he said in an interview this week.
“However, there is no credible evidence that it is due to mankind and carbon dioxide. We’ve been coming out of a Little Ice Age for 300 years. We have not been making very much carbon dioxide for 300 years. It’s been warming up for a long time,” Bryson said.
Commenting on the effect of carbon dioxide….
It’s like there is an elephant charging in and you worry about the fact that there is a fly sitting on its head. It’s just a total misplacement of emphasis,” he said. “It really isn’t science because there’s no really good scientific evidence.”
and now let’s “follow the money”…
So, if global warming isn’t such a burning issue, why are thousands of scientists so concerned about it?
“Why are so many thousands not concerned about it?” Bryson shot back.
“There is a lot of money to be made in this,” he added. “If you want to be an eminent scientist you have to have a lot of grad students and a lot of grants. You can’t get grants unless you say, ‘Oh global warming, yes, yes, carbon dioxide.'”
And certainly in Boulder this is the case….
Speaking out against global warming is like being a heretic, Bryson noted.
…and sometimes the “scientists word” is an unqualified or inexperienced opinion notes Bryson:
Up against his students’ students: Reporters will often call the meteorology building seeking the opinion of a scientist and some beginning graduate student will pick up the phone and say he or she is a meteorologist, Bryson said. “And that goes in the paper as ‘scientists say.'”
The word of this young graduate student then trumps the views of someone like Bryson, who has been working in the field for more than 50 years, he said. “It is sort of a smear.”
and the Church of Algore…
“There is very little truth to what is being said and an awful lot of religion. It’s almost a religion. Where you have to believe in anthropogenic (or man-made) global warming or else you are nuts.”
The remainder of the article is interviews with other Professors critical of Bryson. One can only hope the authors would be equally “fair and balanced” if the article started with the opposite premise.
