Climate Scientist To CEI: Stop Misrepresenting My Research

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[Zepps_News] #Think Progress » Climate Scientist To CEI: Stop

Misrepresenting My Research

 

 

 

 

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/20/climate-scientist-to-cei/

 

[Zeppnote: bad enough they rob us blind; they have to poison us and

then lie to us about the findings of scientists who are studying the

effects these vicious bastards are having upon us.]

 

 

Climate Scientist To CEI: Stop Misrepresenting My Research

 

On Wednesday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute – a front group

funded by ExxonMobil and other big oil companies

<http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/17/attack-on-gore/>

 

– launched two advertisements

<http://streams.cei.org/>

in response to Al Gore's new movie about global warming, An

Inconvenient Truth

<http://www.climatecrisis.net/>.

 

One of the advertisements attempts to show that the scientific

evidence for global warming is in dispute, claiming a study found the

" Antarctic ice sheet is getting thicker, not thinner. "

 

The primary author of that study, Curt Davis, has issued statement

blasting CEI's use of his study

<https://cf.iats.missouri.edu/news/NewsBureauSingleNews.cfm?newsid=9842>.

Here's an excerpt:

 

*These television ads are a deliberate effort to confuse and

mislead

the public about the global warming debate.* They are selectively

using only parts of my previous research to support their claims.

They are not telling the entire story to the public.

 

The whole story, according to Davis, is that increased precipitation

in the interior of Antarctica is " predicted consequence of global

climate warming

<https://cf.iats.missouri.edu/news/NewsBureauSingleNews.cfm?newsid=9842>. "

 

 

Warmer temperatures mean more participation and more snow on the

interior of the continent. Meanwhile, " Growth of the ice sheet was

only noted on the interior of the ice sheet and did not include

coastal areas. Coastal areas are known to be losing mass. "

 

The reality is, there are no legitimate scientists or scientific

studies that support CEI's views on global warming. So they are forced

to grossly misrepresent scientific research. Unfortunately for them,

the scientists don't look like they are going to put up with it.

 

 

 

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