30,000 scientists, page-4

John L. Casey and climate denial

January 08, 2015

http://environmentalforest.blogspot.com/2015/01/john-l-casey-and-climate-denial.html


AnonymousMarch 20, 2015 at 5:19 PM

Met the guy in a bookstore today, where he turned the single copy of his book there face-out. I engaged him in polite conversation, backed by a healthy skepticism. He could not back his conclusions with clear arguments, insisting only that "those in control of our government" were deliberately perpetuating the myth of global warming in order to profit from taxation of carbon emissions--and that "all of us," meaning all climate scientists, agree that global warming is a myth, and that the earth is not warming at all. When asked about his credentials, he clearly waffled. The guy is a crackpot. I buried the book (which seems to be 40 pages of personal opinions and anecdotes "supported" by text-only quotations from real climatologists, isolated and taken out of context--which comprises over half of the book. He seems a nice, intelligent, and reasonable man, which makes him all the more dangerous. Fortunately, the only people who seem to be listening to him are the ultraconservative (and dwindling) Tea Party nut jobs.