The Climate Caper – Garth W. Paltridge

The Climate Caper by former chief CSIRO scientist Garth W. Paltridge follows on from the highly popular Heaven & Earth by Dr Ian Plimer in presenting alternative evidence of climate change. A must read for all those interested in an informed and open debate abut climate change.

In his book The Climate Caper, Dr Garth Paltridge discusses how and why climate scientists have vastly overstated the case for disastrous global warming. Among other things he explains why forecasts of a much dryer Australia in the future – forecasts which were the basis of the Garnaut economic recommendations which led in turn to the Emissions Trading Scheme now before parliament – are probably nonsense. “Professor Garnaut might just as well have tossed a penny labelled ‘much dryer’ on one side and ‘much wetter’ on the other, and selected the first toss that gave him the answer he wanted”, says Dr Paltridge.

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Dr Paltridge was a Chief Research Scientist with CSIRO and is a Fellow of the Academy of Science. His is a specialist in atmospheric physics and climatology. He took part in the establishment of the World Climate Program in the mid-1970’s, and was with the US National Climate Office during 1989 at the time of the emergence of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. For ten years he was CEO of the Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre studying the role of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in climate. He is currently an Emeritus Professor at the University of Tasmania.

He says of climate change research: “The whole business has hardened over the last couple of decades into a semi-religious crusade in which climate scientists have developed an arrogance about their aims and activity which brooks no argument either with their interpretation of the science or with the way the science is used.” In order to give authority to their forecasts of climatic disaster, scientists are recklessly “drawing heavily on the capital of scientific reputation that has been so painfully assembled over hundreds of years”. They have become advocates for a cause rather than unbiased investigators of a scientific problem.

Links and Further Reading

• Watch Garth Paltridge discuss The Climate Caper

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