Father of Scientific Climatology Considers Global Warming a Bunch of Hooey

The Capital Times recently published a very understated article titled Is Warming Our Fault? in whichUW-Madison professor emeritus Reid Bryon, known as the father of scientific climatology, expressed his controversial thoughts on the scientific validity of currently “popular” theories on global warming.

There is no question the Earth has been warming; it is coming out of the “Little Ice Age.” However, there is no credible evidence that it is due to mankind and carbon dioxide.

We’ve been coming out of a Little Ice Age for 300 years. We have not been making very much carbon dioxide for 300 years. It’s been warming up for a long time. The Little Ice Age was driven by volcanic activity. That settled down, so it is getting warmer.

Humans are polluting the air and adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, but the effect is tiny. It’s like there is an elephant charging in and you worry about the fact that there is a fly sitting on its head. It’s just a total misplacement of emphasis. It really isn’t science because there’s no really good scientific evidence.

Professor Bryson was the founding chairman of the Institute for Environmental Studies, now known as the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. What does Professor Bryson say about the “scientists” pushing the current global warming scare?

There is a lot of money to be made in this. If you want to be an eminent scientist you have to have a lot of grad students and a lot of grants. You can’t get grants unless you say, ‘Oh global warming, yes, yes, carbon dioxide … ” There is very little truth to what is being said and an awful lot of religion. It’s almost a religion. Where you have to believe in anthropogenic (or man-made) global warming or else you are nuts.

Bryson reserved his harshest criticism for Al Gore’s recent eco-farce, “An Inconvenient Truth.”

Don’t make me throw up. It is not science. It is not true.

You can’t get much more clear than that.