That headline leaps out at you if you thumb through the latest National Review.
It’s part of a Cato Institute ad featuring more than 100 scientists who disagree with the following Nov. 19 statement from then President-elect Obama:
“Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute, and the facts are clear.”
The scientists, including Richard Lindzen (shown here speaking at the John Locke Foundation offices in May 2007), Patrick Michaels, and Roy Spencer (shown here speaking to a JLF Headliner audience in September 2008), offer the following response:
We, the undersigned scientists, maintain that the case for alarm regarding climate change is grossly overstated. Surface temperature changes over the past century have been episodic and modest and there has been no net global warming for over a decade now. After controlling for population growth and property values, there has been no increase in damages from severe weather-related events. The computer models forecasting rapid temperature change abjectly fail to explain recent climate behavior. Mr. President, your characterization of the scientific facts regarding climate change and the degree of certainty informing the scientific debate is simply incorrect.
