Re: "Global warming is great," wrote space technologist Duncan St eelin the comment pages of The Guardian recently, ...

[Bob LaMontagne <rlamont@POSTOFFICE.PROVIDENCE.EDU>]

Certainly Westbrook's credentials pale when compared to those of Barbara
Streisand, Paul Newman, and a host of other learned authorites who are
constantly lecturing us on environmental issues :-)

My PhD is in atmospheric physics. Even though it was not my main focus, I did do
some "parameterization" of the effects of small cumulus (non-precipitating)
clouds for a global circulation model. I often saw my numbers, and other numbers
in the model as well, changed by an order of magnitude just to keep the model
from crashing - never mind making predictions. I'm sure things have improved
since I left the field, but I wouldn't bet any of my own money on any of the
current models.

Bob at PC

Jim Krider wrote:

> My son wrote an article for the Houston Press where he interviews the people
> that support global warming.  One thing he learned is that none of them have
> credentials that would make them an authority of global warming.
>
> http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2002-08-15/feature.html/1/index.html.
>
> Jim Krider Laboratory Coordinator Senior
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernard Cleyet [mailto:anngeorg@PACBELL.NET]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:46 PM
> To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
> Subject: "Global warming is great," wrote space technologist Duncan Steel in
> the comment pages of The Guardian recently, ...
>
> http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2003-01/18cromwell.cfm
>
> If this doesn't work and you want to read more, squeak.
>
> bc