Trevor, Yes I can.
Quote by Will Happer, Princeton University physicist, former Director of Energy Research at the Department of Energy: “I had the privilege of being fired by Al Gore, since I refused to go along with his alarmism....I have spent a long research career studying physics that is closely related to the greenhouse effect....Fears about man-made global warming are unwarranted and are not based on good science. The earth's climate is changing now, as it always has. There is no evidence that the changes differ in any qualitative way from those of the past.”
And I know you know of him. So again, you bluster.
How about another.
Quote by Nobel Prize Winner For Physics, Ivar Giaever: “I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.”
Or how about this one:
Quote by Theodore G. Pavlopoulos, retired U.S. Navy physicist and chemist, New York Academy of Sciences: “CO2 in air has been branded as the culprit for causing the green house effect, causing global warming. However, regularly omitted is another important green house gas also present in air and in much higher concentration. It is water vapor. In the air, it absorbs infrared radiation (heat) more strongly than CO2....The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is considerable lower than that of water vapor; it is just a few percent. Consequently, doubling the CO2 concentration would not significantly increase the combined absorption of the two green house gases of water vapor and CO2.”
How about this one?
Quote by Roger W. Cohen, physics, American Physical Society fellow: “I retired four years ago, and at the time of my retirement I was well convinced, as were most technically trained people, that the IPCC's case for Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is very tight. However, upon taking the time to get into the details of the science, I was appalled at how flimsy the case really is....I was also appalled at the behavior of many of those who helped produce the IPCC reports and by many of those who promote it. In particular I am referring to the arrogance; the activities aimed at shutting down debate; the outright fabrications; the mindless defense of bogus science, and the politicization of the IPCC process and the science process itself.”
Need more?
Quote by Gerhard Lobert, physicist, Recipient of The Needle of Honor of German Aeronautics: “As the glaciological and tree ring evidence shows, climate change is a natural phenomenon that has occurred many times in the past, both with the magnitude as well as with the time rate of the temperature change that have occurred in the recent decades.”
Quote by Phil Chapman, an astronautical engineer and the first Australian to become a NASA astronaut, staff physicist at MIT: “The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years. The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue,” Chapman wrote. “All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead."
Quote by Jeffrey A. Glassman, physicist and engineer, former division Chief Scientist - Hughes Aircraft Company, expert modeler of microwave and millimeter wave propagation in the atmosphere: “CO2 concentration is a response to the proxy temperature in the Vostok ice core data, not a cause....The Vostok data support an entirely new model. Atmospheric CO2 is absorbed by the oceans. Fires, volcanoes, and now man deposit CO2 into the atmosphere, but those effects are transient. What exists in steady state is CO2 perpetually pumped into the atmosphere by the oceans....Atmospheric CO2 is a dynamic stream, from the warm ocean and back into the cool ocean. Public policy represented by the Kyoto Accords and the efforts to reduce CO2 emissions should be scrapped as wasteful, unjustified, and futile.”
I could go on but what is the use. Your mind is made up and you will probably spew your garbage about these men.
Ha! Ha! You ought to get out more.
Thank you graph for Dyson. Yes Dyson is right in Bluster Trevor's backyard. How could dear old Trev not know that one. I don't think he is who he says. He may have a PhD in internet smoke bombs,but not in Climatology. Ha! Ha! Ha!
Freeman John Dyson FRS (born December 15, 1923) is an English American theoretical physicist and mathematician ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dys...
Dyson contends that since carbon dioxide is good for plants, a warmer planet could be a very good thing. And if CO2 does get to be a problem, Dyson believes we can just do some genetic engineering to create a new species of super-tree that can suck up the excess.
"Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science."
Freeman Dyson
"The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm."
Freeman Dyson
"I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain."
Freeman Dyson
"The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared."
Freeman Dyson
"We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods."
Freeman Dyson
"Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least."
Freeman Dyson
"The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models."
Freeman Dyson
I'm not aware of Albert Einstein saying anything about global warming. He probably knew about the greenhouse effect and of the work of Svante Arrhenius, but probably believed that Knut ?ngstr?m had shown that the effect of carbon dioxide on was saturated. However, later work showed that ?ngstr?m's work was flawed.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/arc...
I think he would have recognized that appealing to authority, as global warming alarmists tend to do, is no substitute for scientific evidence.
However like many socialists (and apparently he was politically quite left wing), the idea of carbon trading and reducing industrial output likely would have appealed to his political views.
I couldn't find the one I wanted nor remember it but he did say this
'It may be heuristically useful to keep in mind what one has observed. But on principle it is quite wrong to try grounding a theory on observable quantities alone. In reality the opposite happens. It is the theory which determines what we can observe.' End Quote.
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
The same as Aristotle, Galileo, Newton and Edison. Namely nothing because he died before it became an issue.
Undoubtedly he would have agreed it was happening, to have disagreed would have meant throwing away his work on theoretical physics and coming up with alternative explanations for how the universe works. Indeed, it was Einstein’s foresight and incredible comprehension of physics that prepared many of the foundations upon which the scientific theory of global warming is founded.
I can’t think of a single theoretical physicist that doesn’t accept global warming is happening, can you?
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EDIT: TO SAGEBRUSH
Your staggering lack of knowledge about anything even remotely scientific sees you fall flat on your face yet again. Fail.
I was asking for theoretical physicists, you’ve provided a list of physicists. They’re two completely different things. You have to be scientifically illiterate not to know that. Fail.
You did manage to mention one theoretical physicist, but only by referencing someone else’s response, that being Freeman Dyson. If you knew what you were talking about you’d be only too aware that Dyson does not dispute that humans are causing climate change. Fail.
Try again. In fact, don’t bother. It would only be another waste of time.
Little to nothing I would imagine. He was a physicist with no interest in climate. Irrelevant misdirection is intellectually dishonest. Typical denialist tactic and a sign that you are losing the argument
