Real climate scientists respond to misleading WSJ editorial
Creative Commons: Evan P. Cordes, 2006
38 climate scientists have set the record straight after the Wall Street Journal ran a misleading op-ed by purported “scientists” claiming the threat of climate change is not real. In today’s rebuttal, the group of leading climate scientists point out that none of the op-ed authors (who included marketing and psychology professors and geologists funded by ExxonMobil) were climate scientists and should not be commenting on a subject matter they don’t understand. Conversely, all 38 signers of today’s editorial are experts in the specific field of climate science.
As they say in their op-ed:
“Climate experts know that the long-term warming trend has not abated in the past decade. In fact, it was the warmest decade on record. Observations show unequivocally that our planet is getting hotter. And computer models have recently shown that during periods when there is a smaller increase of surface temperatures, warming is occurring elsewhere in the climate system, typically in the deep ocean. Such periods are a relatively common climate phenomenon, are consistent with our physical understanding of how the climate system works, and certainly do not invalidate our understanding of human-induced warming or the models used to simulate that warming.”
“Do you go to a dentist for your heart condition?”
The editorial also makes it clear that the authors of the January 27th editorial should not self-identify as climate science experts. While accomplished in their own fields, most of the 16 authors of the January 27th editorial printed in the Wall Street Journal have no expertise in climate science. The few authors who have such expertise are known to have extreme views that are out of step with nearly every other climate expert. Only two of the sixteen scientists can legitimately say they have studied climate science, while the rest of the group includes a former employee of ExxonMobil, a board member of an ExxonMobil-funded group, one marketing professor, two chemists, a spaceship designer, and a geneticist.
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