More Crackpots Join My Cause

Two very interesting articles today about global warming. There are about 1500 uninteresting articles about the UN's "decision" that global warming (i) is happening and (ii) is caused by man. Suffice it to say they have also implicitly resolved that the people dying in Darfur are dying of natural causes. It's much easier to throw money at problems that predict global change in 100 years than millions of deaths in several months.

Anyway, the first article is about a Penn State Professor calling out Al Gore as the incompetent idiot he is. Bravo!

The second, even more interesting piece, is about Delaware's State Climatologist (I know, just what every state needs), who has signed an amicus brief challenging the "science" of global warming. Kudos, Dr. Legates. Note the following in this piece:

Of those who dispute Dr. Legate's opinion, I count 3 people: Ali Mirzakhalili a bureaucrat whose job depends on there being a public risk; Philip Cherry, another state administrator with skin in the game; and Chad Tolman, a former DuPont research scientist whose sole accreditation is that he worked for the National Academy of Sciences. According to the only bio I could find, Dr. Tolman's work at NAS involved environmental (not climatological) and toxicology studies. So essentially, we're expected to believe that two bureaucrats and an environmentalist know more about climate than the smartest professional climatologist in the entire state, who, incidentally gets paid nothing by the state, whether global warming is true or not.

Philip Cherry, apparently condescendingly, notes that Dr. Legates "doesn't speak for the state's position," but that the governor does. Of course! Legally that's correct, Dr. Legates has no official role, his title is apparently an honorary one. But notice the slight of hand here. What you're saying Mr. Cherry, is that a politician knows more than a professional scientist. Maybe we should start killing all the intellectuals, would that make your job easier?