Old Man Weldon - Inhofe's List of "Prominent Scientists"

2nd July 2009

Text reblogged from Robot Heart: Sex, Religion, and Politics with 21 notes

Inhofe's List of "Prominent Scientists"

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On the contrary, some of us who are Christians (and who aren’t) are merely looking at a number of factors - including the current global cooling trend, past predictions about both global warming and global cooling - to conclude that global warming, such as it is, is a naturally reversing (and repeating) trend. As such, we include as part of our viewpoint the opinions of “The distinguished scientists featured in this new report [U. S. Senate Minority Report: More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims; Scientists Continue to Debunk “Consensus” in 2008 & 2009 who] are experts in diverse fields, including: climatology; geology; biology; glaciology; biogeography; meteorology; oceanography; economics; chemistry; mathematics; environmental sciences; astrophysics, engineering; physics and paleoclimatology. Some of those profiled have won Nobel Prizes for their outstanding contribution to their field of expertise and many shared a portion of the UN IPCC Nobel Peace Prize with Vice President Gore. Additionally, these scientists hail from prestigious institutions worldwide, including: Harvard University; NASA; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the UN IPCC; the Danish National Space Center; U.S. Department of Energy; Princeton University; the Environmental Protection Agency; University of Pennsylvania; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the International Arctic Research Centre; the Pasteur Institute in Paris; the Belgian Weather Institute; Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute; the University of Helsinki; the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S., France, and Russia; the University of Pretoria; University of Notre Dame; Abo Akademi University in Finland; University of La Plata in Argentina; Stockholm University; Punjab University in India; University of Melbourne; Columbia University; the World Federation of Scientists; and the University of London.”

Inhofe’s list of scientists is frequently trotted out by global warming denialists as a rejoinder, proving there indeed is a “debate” and no scientific consensus.

Here’s a collection of links exposing Inhofe’s phony list business. Inhofe’s “scientists” include economists, the retired, television weathermen, mathmeticians, amateurs and industry spokespersons. Worse, some of the “prominent scientists” listed in Inhofe’s report have publicly stated that Inhofe is misrepresenting them as skeptics. In fact, just google Inhofe 650 and you can immediately have this nonsense debunked.

And here’s a breakdown of each entry on the list (when the list was 650, not 700).

And can I just say, there are a lot of economists on this list. :)

These fake lists used by people who deny both global climate change and evolution really prove that even THEY don’t believe what they’re pushing. The use of intellectual dishonesty betrays a lack of faith in your own argument, because you can’t even find real facts to prove your point. Or, you’re too lazy to even check your own talking points and you end up getting embarrassed when someone is capable of arguing beyond a pamphlet and that episode of “Penn & Teller B.S.” that seems to be the entire basis of your “informed” opinion.