Roy Spencer on Global Warming
As promised, this is the interview with the climatologist Roy Spencer. Dr. Spencer is a principal research scientist for University of Alabama in Huntsville. He has awards up and down, and is certainly not a political hack (although if you search for his name on google you will find plenty of people accusing him of being in the pockets of oil companies).
Be sure and visit the wikipedia page I linked to above on Dr. Spencer.
I tried to cut out the segments before and after the interview. To listen to the cut spots, click here (I’m not sure if this link will work or not. If not, I’m sorry).
Click here for the 16k version (for slower connections)
Click here for the 64k version or listen in the player below
[audio:http://www.nrcharles.com/files/audio/royspencer.mp3]
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Very interesting. I think what disturbs me most is that govt policy is being made/proposed that will restrict people’s freedin based on shaky science.
That’s my problem with the global warming crowd exactly. I’m all for due diligence in seeking an answer to the problem, but we’re talking about MASSIVE restrictions based on little more than dubious urgency and guilt.
I retained a ‘healthy’ skepticism of human-caused global warming for a little while. It’s not that I personally doubted it was true, just that I didn’t think the evidence was yet conclusive- mostly because, as Spencer notes, the atmospheric data from satellites and weather balloons wasn’t matching the data from surface measurements, which did match the climate models that were predicting substantial human-caused warming. It turned out, though, that there were errors in the analysis of the satellite data, and all the data match pretty well now. That mostly ended my skepticism. I’m still open to convincing (I am open to convincing on anything, but I have less philosophical ties to human-caused warming than I admit I have to, say, evolution), but I’m at the point where I seriously doubt I will be convinced. As you mentioned, Nathan, a number of those still skeptical, including Spencer, are tied to corporations like Exxon. Whether Exxon pays him because he doubts global warming, or whether he doubts global warming because Exxon pays him, I don’t know.