George Rebane

This little update is primarily to continue the record of recent columns, commentraries, comments, and other contributions to the bubbling pot of preventable global warming (PGW).  As documented in these pages, I wrote a response to a Union piece by a couple of physicians making the usual outlandish claims for the existence of PGW, which they, as is common these days, confounded under the label ‘climate change’.  Other pro and con columns followed the initial piece, the most notable con pieces by skeptics Bob Hren and Norm Sauer (here, here, and here).

However, for some reason my 8sep15 counter – ‘Bad time for making draconian public policy’ – to the Drs Newsom has drawn particular and ongoing ire from true believers, of which I am unabashedly proud.  The most recent in this sequence was from the Klistoff couple in Grass Valley.  I present it italized below as it appears on The Union’s blog (here)

A hoax?  Really?

George Rebane’s acrimonious commentary regarding Bill and Christine Newsome’s open letter to Congressman LaMalfa is a sad example of many right-winged opinion pieces and letters published in The Union.

There seems to be an undercurrent of anger mixed with presumptuous and pedantic platitudes that do nothing to foster mutual understanding of the issues being discussed.

But now apparently, these articles suggest the existence of an international conspiracy among climate scientists claiming their research is falsified in order to obtain grant money. Wow!

Is this what Congressman LaMalfa is suggesting when he claims there is political manipulation of climate science? What is the evidence for this? Some even claim there is “global cooling” and that climate change is a hoax. Really?

Take a look at the world’s glaciers and ice caps. Is their rapid rate of melting consistent with global “cooling”? Where is the data to back up this claim?

The scientific evidence for climate change, influenced by human activity, is overwhelming. American and International scientific organizations unanimously agree. So what is the political agenda of those who claim it is a hoax?

Alex and Ronda Klistoff, Grass Valley

I responded to the above with a letter-to-the-editor that was emailed on 26 September 2015.  It has yet to appear.  (Presumably The Union editor will supply it with a title.)

True believers in preventable global warming (PGW) denigrate the science and data that counters public policy nostrums designed to sacrifice economies on the altar of human salvation from a promised heat catastrophe in the making.  As commentaries in these pages record, skeptics continue to cite detailed and compelling science to contradict that the PGW ‘debate is over’.

In their 26sep15 letter Mr & Mrs Klistoff cite my 8sep15 “acrimonious commentary” responding to the 29aug15 OV column by the Drs Newsom, and summarily dismiss major contributors to the ongoing PGW debate.  All true believers live with the comfortable knowledge that government funded research is unbiased, untainted by money, with findings true and pure as the fresh driven snow.  However, research and researchers that have ever had even a smidgeon of industry funding are forever tainted beyond redemption.  And doubly so if these counter any ‘science’ which for them is already beyond debate.

Those of us who have spent many years doing R&D with the government know that faith to be misplaced.  Government agencies also have agendas, and dispense their monies to advance those agendas.  Therefore for those who consume research, it is ever ‘Caveat Emptor’.

George Rebane, Nevada City