Princeton Physicist testifies before the Senate – CO2 has little effect on warming
Wintery Knight Blog has an exclusive 11 page transcript of the official testimony of William Happer, the Cyrus Fogg Bracket Professor of Physics at Princeton University. This testimony was given on February 25, 2009 to the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by Democrat Barbara Boxer.
This is for you types who are certain that spending money and harming the economy is warranted because of the 'inconvenient truth' of man-made global warming via CO2. Your panic is unwarranted, anti-intellectual, and hurts society.
First he argues that CO2's effects are limited, and already maxed out:
Second, he contends that evidence shows almost no effect, and perhaps even a slight cooling effect, not a warming effect:
and clouds, added CO2 must substantially increase water’s contribution
to lead to the frightening scenarios that are bandied about. The buzz
word here is that there is “positive feedback.” With each passing year,
experimental observations further undermine the claim of a large
positive feedback from water. In fact, observations suggest that the
feedback is close to zero and may even be negative. That is, water
vapor and clouds may actually diminish the already small global warming
expected from CO2, not amplify it.
There is much more over at Princeton physics professor testifies to Senate about global warming. Enjoy.
there may come a day when GWAs will be ashamed of their panic – then again, probably not, they'll justify it by saying "well, at least we reduced pollution in general," forgetting about the millions that their children have to pay due to the depressed economy, not to mention the millions that could have been spent on more fruitful endeavors.
I wonder if the Nobel Prize that Al Gore got will bring shame on the prize itself. Again, probably not, they cover their tracks by ignoring history…sad