Login / RegisterU.S. expert John Mashey says climate science under attack by shadowy network
An upcoming public lecture in Vancouver will explore the theory that a shadowy network of the wealthy and influential is waging an “anti-science” campaign against climate-change experts.
John Mashey, a computer scientist and technology expert from California, claimed the 20-year-long effort has targeted scientific findings that he said show the planet “is getting warmer”.
Mashey, who delivers the talk on April 6, claimed North American energy companies, industrialists, and politicians are among the key behind-the-scenes players in the movement and are motivated by financial and political interests.
“If the science is giving you results you don’t like because it’ll hurt your profits what you do is obscure it, and you lobby, and you generate uncertainty, and you say more research is needed,” he told the Straight by phone.
As an example, he highlighted a 2006 U.S. congressional report that questioned the research of some climate scientists but that he alleges contained elements of bias and plagiarized sections.
“The original version of this stuff was the tobacco wars in the 1950s, 60s, [and] 70s,” he said.
Mashey said climate scientists face opposition from a network that “exists to obfuscate and put a big cloud over the science to confuse public policy”.
“That machine does not like visibility,” he said. “It wants the fog over the science to exist, but it keeps its own fog over its own funding patterns and who’s doing what to whom and how.”
Mashey is scheduled to deliver a lecture titled “The Machinery of Climate Anti-Science” on April 6 at UBC Robson Square. Hosted by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, the free public event starts at 7:30 p.m.
Mashey is also scheduled to speak at the University of Victoria on April 7.
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"Rising greenhouse gas emissions pose significant risks to society and ecosystems."
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"Climate change is a major global challenge – one that will require the efforts of governments, industry and individuals
Current forecasts underscore the size of the climate change challenge. BP’s analysis suggests that CO2 emissions could rise by at least 27% by 2030, despite expected tightening in global climate policy. Even assuming that more aggressive policy changes are enacted, carbon emissions are likely to rise by up to 9% by 2030.These are projections, and not propositions for a desired outcome.
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1) What makes you so confident there's no connection between the things we humans do (e.g. burning fossil fuels, industrial agriculture, deforestation) and the stability of the global climate system? What is your evidence?
2) Why are you saying there are "no climate change experts"? Are climate scientists not "experts"? If not them, then who are the experts you rely on to confirm that there's no connection between human activities and global climate change?
3) What's your evidence of a "man made climate change gravy train"?
4) How do you account for the fact that "Each of the last three decades has been much warmer than the decade before... At the time, the 1980 was the hottest decade on record. In the 1990s, every year was warmer than the average of the previous decade. And the 2000s were warmer still." (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/07/global-...)?
For anyone who doubts AGW, I suggest doing as I have, sitting with B.C. lumber guys in a ski lodge, who had zero doubts about AGW, given what the spread Northward of bark beetles has done to them. Feel free to tell them how wrong they are, but note that they also seemed big guys who likely still knew how to use axes.
The evidence is given in hundreds of pages of detailed analysis, including public funding records.
His website: http://www.weatheraction.com/