JLF/Reese Institute climate change forum: Part 5 of 8

The John Locke Foundation and Lenoir-Rhyne University's Reese Institute for the Conservation of Natural Resources hosted A Forum on Climate Change: Opposing Views, Feb. 11. 2009, at the Hickory (N.C.) Metro Convention Center. Dr. William H. Schlesinger, president of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, and Dr. John R. Christy, professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, offered the opposing views. In this clip, Christy concludes his prepared remarks, and Schlesinger begins his response.

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[tippman2k01]

schlesinger is an idiot. when he criticized christy for the climate models, christy said "the data already shows the climate models are wrong but lets ASSUME that the climate models are right

[bfpccbm]

Think Christy is saying (without saying) is that he trusts his models........think I do too...

[dossthane]

The quality of Christy's climate models is essential to his argument. "We agree ... that our method ... introduced a spurious component," as he and a co-author write in a 2005 letter to _Science_, doesn't encourage belief, I'm afraid. When others note the same spurious component first appeared in their papers in 1998 and is an obvious sign-flip error (the troposphere must warm at night and cool in the day), one has to wonder if Christy can be trusted to make models that contradict his belief.

[anoniab]

At 4:25 "we're being unrealistic about the magnitude of the problem."

No, he's being unrealistic about how much CO2 humans produce.