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[Flying Binghi]

Originally Posted by Beer Baron

Binghi, interesting person to reference this Bryson. From your own link he is said to have held the following positions on climate change:

1. The climate is actually cooling because of human impacts on the environment.
2. When the evidence proved that he was wrong and the climate was actually warming, Bryson testified to Congress that global warming from fossil-fuel combustion was politically unstoppable.
3. He then reversed himself (again) and said the warming was not caused by humans after all.

So a guy who can’t decide if global temperatures are going up or down, nor whether it is effected by humans or not, seems an odd choice for a climate change authority.

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Seems there’s a bit more to the subject than you realised eh, Beer Baron…

I’ve been ‘utilising’ Bryson as an example here in pprune for many years now. As I said, in his time the most referenced (cited) climate scientist.

When Bryson and other climate scientists were convinced of the coming ice age the world average temperature had been in decline for a number of years. Time magazine had it headlined at the time. Lucky for the world economy at the time Al Gore and his ilk were not yet around to make the global climate ‘issue’ into the highly profitable money making and career making industry it has now become.

Poor ol Bryson and his fellow climate scientists later changed their views when the world average temps started to climb back up. Must have been traumatic at the time for the worlds most cited climate scientist to have got it so wrong. At least it got him delving into the so-called climate drivers a bit more. In the end Bryson researched a bit more of the archeology of the climate and noted things such as the medieval warm period, thats the medieval warm period that is were warmer than today, and noted there were no increased CO2 ‘driver’ to explain the medieval warm period - in fact, there is still no ‘scientific’ explanation of the medieval warm period. Nor is there any science as such on the warm period that predates the period of cooling that Bryson and other climate scientists thought were a coming ice age.

So its no surprise that near the end of his life Bryson said:

“You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide.”