The fact that Marono is a shill for entrenched interests is revealing, but that fact alone doesn't necessarily discredit his citations. They seem to do that on their own.
For example, Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, says in his Wall Street Journal op-ed piece: "A general characteristic of Mr. Gore's approach is to assiduously ignore the fact that the earth and its climate are dynamic; they are always changing even without any external forcing." In fact, Gore spends a lot of time reviewing the dynamic nature of climate, all to the purpose of showing how strongly recent trends depart from anything seen in hundreds of thousands of years. It seems that Lindzen's critique assiduously ignores what Gore is really saying. Marono also cites "Last week's National Academy of Sciences report dispelled Mann's often cited claims by reaffirming the existence of both the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age." But Gore shows how those temperature anomalies are nowhere close to being as dramatic as what we're undergoing now. I don't see, looking at a graph of the data, how the hockey stick graph has been discredited. Upon close examination, the critics Marono cites sound like the carping I see in newsgroups a lot, when a critic tries to discredit an entire argument by picking at a loose thread here or there. --- authfriend posted: > > From TalkingPointsMemo.com: > > Until a couple months ago, the [writer of this press release], Marc > Marono, worked for [the very right-wing] CNSnews.com where he > distinguished himself by using disgraced NASA crony George Deutsch to > attack NASA scientist James Hansen. Deutsch...was the young Bush > campaign flack who was sent over to NASA to censor scientific > publications, made a splash when he instructed NASA scientists not to > discuss the Big Bang without considering the topic from a religious > perspective and then got bounced when it emerged that he'd lied about > having a college degree. Earlier, Marono wrote [an article for > CNSnews.com] questioning whether Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) may have > faked the wounds for which he received two Purple Hearts. > > http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/008860.php > > (CNSNews.com is an extremely right-wing "news" site > whose parent organization is the equally right-wing > Media Research Center, both founded by right-wing > zealot Brent Bozell III.) > > > AP INCORRECTLY CLAIMS SCIENTISTS PRAISE GORE'S MOVIE > <snip> > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
