Nobel Prize Winner for Physics Declares Himself Dissenter

'I am a skeptic'
EPW Blog
July 2, 2008

QUOTE: We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important.


Add another prominent scientist to list of dissenters to Gore's sinking ship.

See growing number of scientists (over 500 and counting) at U.S. Senate report of 'consensus busters'

Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever, Declares Himself Dissenter: 'I am a skeptic'

Excerpt: Ivar Giaever (Norway), the 1973 Nobel prize winner for superconductivity (he was essential to master electron tunneling in superconductors and shared the physics award with Esaki and Josephson), was asked how the world should tackle climate change:

"First of all, I didn't want to be on this panel. Second of all, I am a skeptic. Third of all, if I am Norwegian, should I really worry about a little bit of warming? I am unfortunately becoming an old man. We have heard many similar warnings about the acid rain 30 years ago and the ozone hole 10 years ago or deforestation but the humanity is still around. The ozone hole width has peaked in 1993.

Moreover, global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money [question period]," he referred to a lecture about poverty by Hans Rosling (Sweden) that heavily relied on my favorite Gapminder: well, he is the director of the Gapminder Foundation."

Ivar Giaever had done some "Google research" before the panel so he could also speak about 1934, 1998 as the warmest U.S. (where they have the best record) years in the 20th century, the hockey stick graph, the crucial role of the huge heat capacity of the oceans, the little ice age whose cause is unknown, and about the increase of "bulk" Greenland ice in the last century (by 2 meters at the center). Another panelist conjectured that this increase of ice was due to precipitation.

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"There is no compelling evidence that carbon dioxide has any significant control over the direction of global temperature and climate. The processes that regulate the interannual to decadal fluctuations of climate are poorly understood and, as yet, unpredictable" William Kininmonth, Meteorologist, Former Head, National Climate Centre, Bureau of Meteorology, 1986-1998