"We believe Earth and its ecosystems – created by God’s intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence – are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory. Earth’s climate system is no exception. Recent global warming is one of many natural cycles of warming and cooling in geologic history."
IMHO, anyone who believes in intelligent design does not qualify as a scientist.
Spencer, as so many other deniers, already has his mind made up about the cause of climate change: all he has got to do now is cherry-pick the science done mostly by others to support his case while ignoring the inconvenient findings which contradict his religion based hypothesis.
Contrary to what Jim Z says, I do not particularly wish that Roy Spencer didn't exist. I have nothing against people questioning AGW or proposing alternative hypotheses. As far as I understand, Roy Spencer is actually in favor of solar and nuclear power. It is denialists who are psychotic like Ken Cuccinelli, Monckton, or Senator Inhofe, or such YA contributors as Madd Maxx or Sagebrush that I wish didn't exist.
In fact, given the lack of progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, perhaps our only hope is for Roy Spencer to be right.
Maxx
Don't count out Roy Spencer for a Nobel Prize yet. If your side is right, he will get one.
I googled and found:
Roy W. Spencer received his Ph.D. in meteorology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981. Before becoming a Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2001, he was a Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, where he and Dr. John Christy received NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for their global temperature monitoring work with satellites. Dr. Spencer’s work with NASA continues as the U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite. He has provided congressional testimony several times on the subject of global warming.
Dr. Spencer’s research has been entirely supported by U.S. government agencies: NASA, NOAA, and DOE. He has never been asked by any oil company to perform any kind of service. Not even Exxon-Mobil.
http://www.drroyspencer.com/about/
If you are asking how he rates, I am sure those scientists that disagree with him rate him low and those that agree rate him higher. I am sure alarmists just wish he didn't exist.
I think Spencer has worked on some important projects and provided a useful tool, but only after some pretty egregious errors were pointed out by others, which he then fixed.
Hey Dook's link to that portion of "The Boxer" is funny, but it's a great song and you'll be missing out if that's the only portion you listen to.
He recognizes his mistakes when they are pointed out to him. I've "never" seen the IP CC nor another AGW theorist admit to the clear mistakes they make with climate models or any information contrary to the proposed solutions. The solutions are the same - ("Stop using fossil fuels!") They don't put out 'news releases' saying they are wrong about anything. The agenda is clear and accurately labeled through the United Nations program. It is all political and directed at the global illiterate.
The Simon and Garfunkel analogy is sooo touching! It's too bad the Planet isn't revolving because of emotions. We could cry our way to a better world.
pegminer - It is appreciated that you acknowledge Spencer's up-standing character and professionalism. It shows that you understand his openness to constructive criticism which is hardly a character trait of Hey Dook. Thumbs up for your candor!
In direct reference to your question, it is hard to see another point of view when one is convinced with certainty of another point of view. Here's his website anyway : http://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-globa...
Enjoy! :-)
Gringo has pointed out the obvious and most basic difference in who believes in AGW and who doesn't. Having faith in science is where scientific arrogance stems from. Gringo states : "IMHO, anyone who believes in intelligent design does not qualify as a scientist." Scientific evidence of his own arrogance rests its case based on his own admission of scientific supremacy over all who do not agree with his way of thinking. There's nothing humble about how Gringo sees things. He's a legend in his own mind!
Well he is important enough that the alarmist cabal forced an editor of a journal to resign for publishing one of his papers that goes against the alarmists' declarations. He then managed to find errors i record amount of time in the alarmists' rebuttal to his paper, which itself was approved for publication in Geophysical Research Letters in record time. From ClimateGate e-mails,"The hole has been plugged at GRL".
Well, Dr. Roy Spencer didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize like Michael Mann (- ahem -) but over all he's had a pretty impressive career. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Spencer...
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held up as a major figure by skeptics, not by the general scientific community.
Spencer is a diehard denier who thinks GW is a natural occurrence. He is affiliated with heartland institute which has received money from big oils. As an expert there, he likely received oil money himself from heartland. He is a self proclaimed climatologist and not trained as one. He is a fraud
http://www.desmogblog.com/roy-spencer
Dr. Roy Spencer is repeatedly held up as a major figure in climate change. No one is perfect. How does Dr. Roy Spencer's work compare to that of other scientists, in particular climatologists, but also top-rated scientists in general? Please give evidence.
