Re: 32,000 scientists dissent from global-warming “consensus”

GoldenbergStanley Goldenberg is a Miami-based research meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And he is astounded by the vociferous arguments that global warming theories have triggered among his fellow hurricane researchers.

“It has been a hot debate. I mean, I have never seen anything like it in my career -- the name-calling, the stuff going back and forth, the threats, everything,” Goldenberg described to a ballroom audience.

Friday morning, blood pressures will likely jack up further. That’s when a “Global Warming and Hurricanes” debate is scheduled between two dueling scientists: Chris Landsea, a National Hurricane Center researcher who disputes a link between human activities and storms; and Kerry Emanuel, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology meteorology professor who contends that global warming is spawning more hurricanes.

Goldenberg, for one, sides with Landsea in the debate.

“There are numerous -- and I mean numerous -- scientists who don’t believe that the majority of the warming we’ve been seeing is anthropogenic. And (they) don’t believe we’re going to experience catastrophic anthropogenic global warming. That’s a fact,” Goldenberg said. “And many of these are prominent scientists in the climate field who have been studying this for years.

“Why don’t you hear that? Because it is masked by media censorship, bias and distortion.”

Rather, Goldenberg said hurricane frequency naturally goes up and down in multi-decadal cycles.

(Stanley Goldenberg, a meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division, speaks at the Governor's Hurricane Conference Wednesday, May 14, 2008 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Photo by Wilfredo Lee, AP)


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