Links tagged “santer”

Ben Santer "said he is cutting ties with a prestigious government-funded laboratory over its plans to invite a scientist who has spread climate denial to speak in a seminar. ... Santer, who is affiliated with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, sent out an emailed statement viewed by Earther and first published by the Union of Concerned Scientists in protest of a planned LLNL seminar with Steve Koonin, a well-known climate denier whose new book on how climate science is “unsettled” has attracted widespread praise from right-wing media and condemnation from basically everyone else."

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Flashback: Bingo: Warmist Ben Santer’s former friend described Santer perfectly: Bingo! “[My friend] argued that my politics had infected my science’

Flashback: Climategate 2.0: Ben Santer Whining and Dining: ‘I’m assuming there may be DOE restrictions on using that money for purchasing wine and beer. I’ll check into this’

Flashback: Ben Santer: Climate Change Responsible for Hotter and Colder Weather

Flashback: UN IPCC’s Ben Santer promotes climate fears to kids in video which INCORRECTLY claims Mt. Kilimanjaro melting due to global warming!

Media hypes study: 99.9999 percent chance we're the cause of global warming, study says

Climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer: "Current climate models are programmed to only produce human-caused warming"

"The new Santer et al. study merely shows that the satellite data have indeed detected warming (not saying how much) that the models can currently only explain with increasing CO2 (since they cannot yet reproduce natural climate variability on multi-decadal time scales). 
That’s all.
But we already knew that, didn’t we? So why publish a paper that goes to such great lengths to demonstrate it with an absurdly exaggerated statistic such as 1 in 3.5 million (which corresponds to 99.99997% confidence)? I’ll leave that as a rhetorical question for you to ponder."

'The article is so bad that it might just be the worst piece of reporting I've ever seen in NYT on climate' -- 'The NYT article relies on a very few people from usual small circle of folks...Ben Santer, Jeff Masters, Peter Stott. Not one researcher is cited who actually publishes peer-reviewed work on tornadoes, economic impacts of disasters, or long-term history of US weather extremes. However, somehow Cong. GOP shows up as the bad guys'