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Whoops! CO2 has almost nothing to do with global warming, discovers top US meteorologist ? Telegraph Blogs

By STEPHEN HOLZER

Dr Spencer, formerly senior scientist for climate studies at NASA, now leads the US science team for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSRE) on NASA?s Aqua satellite. He co-developed the original satellite method for precise monitoring of global temperatures from Earth-orbiting satellites. He?s just the kind of egghead the IPCC claims to represent when it tells us the world is getting dangerously warmer, it?s man?s fault ? the result of CO2 emissions ? and it must be urgently addressed.

Except Dr Spencer doesn?t agree with any of that. He thinks it?s all nonsense, based on a very elementary error he describes in his new book The Great Global Warming Blunder. I summarise his arguments in this article.

Climate change, he shows, is an almost entirely natural process on which human influence is negligible.

via blogs.telegraph.co.uk

Full post as published by Environmental Legal Blogs on May 05, 2010 (boomark / email).