Re: [Phys-l] Phys-l Digest, Vol 25, Issue 12

[Leigh Palmer <palmer@sfu.ca>]

I guess I'm drawn in again.

Right on, Jack, and Steve Schroeder is a very distinguished Professor  
at A&M. It is my guess that Dressler is his postdoc.

Check closer to your source: <http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID. 
25586,filter.all/pub_detail.asp>

I have also opined elsewhere that the AEI offer is on the cheap side.

The logical fallacies of argument ad hominem and argument from  
authority are flying thick in this discussion. Why do you guys  
discuss religion (you are arguing from belief) when there is so much  
interesting physics to discuss?

If you would like to see some source materials try <http://www.sfu.ca/ 
~palmer/> and browse. I don't have the SOD on there, and I don't have  
the IPCC procedures document which imposes prior restraint on  
contributors, requiring them to edit their publications to assure  
there is no conflict with the SPL!

Bob Zanelli knows all about that; ask him. He may forward my emails  
to the group if he wishes to do so.

Leigh

On 12 Feb 2007, at 08:33, Jack Uretsky wrote:

> Hi all-
> 	The name Andrew Dessler seems familiar.  I think I may have  
> collaborated with him at one time in some aspect of his work.  For  
> more information about him (he is a faculty member at Texas A & M):
> 	http://www.met.tamu.edu/people/faculty/dessler.php.
>
> 	I have no reason to believe hie would not respond to any  
> reasonable inquiries.
> 			Regards,
> 				Jack
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, John Clement wrote:
>
> > > > > > .... you should look into the original letter. There
> > > > > > is one available at
> > > > > >  <http://www.met.tamu.edu/people/faculty/dessler/AEIscan.pdf>.
> > > > > > Leigh
> > > > >
> > > > > One or two folks may have had a web error message due
> > > > >  to the URL break, despite Leigh's careful bracketing.
> > The letter is addressed to Steve Schroeder at the department of  
> > atmospheric
> > sciences, but further checking revealed there is no professor in the
> > department by that name.  The letter was posted by Prof. Andrew  
> > Dessler.
> > Steve Schroeder is listed under research staff, but not under  
> > faculty.
> > Schroeder is listed with no bio. and no further information given.
> >
> > Now why was a junior person who is research staff but not faculty  
> > offered
> > big bucks for writing the article?  Why didn't they offer it to a  
> > well known
> > researcher who is on the faculty??
> >
> > It looks like they are looking for people who sympathize with  
> > them, and not
> > people who have good credentials.  I would draw the conclusion  
> > that they are
> > grasping for straws.  While a series of articles by second tier  
> > people may
> > convince politicians and the public, but it will not convince  
> > scientists in
> > the field.
> >
> > The Guardian article said:
> > One American scientist turned down the offer, citing fears that  
> > the report
> > could easily be misused for political gain. "You wouldn't know if  
> > some of
> > the other authors might say nothing's going to happen, that we  
> > should ignore
> > it, or that it's not our fault," said Steve Schroeder, a professor  
> > at Texas
> > A&M university.
> >
> > Well they had it wrong, as he is on the staff, but not a professor.
> >
> > John M. Clement
> > Houston, TX
> >
> >
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