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by TeMPOraL 2744 days ago
> I was rather stunned that somebody so intelligent would be so willingly not so in other areas.

Judging by the Wikipedia article, he's Christian. Which means creationism is a part of his belief systems. As for climate skepticism, hard to say, though I am curious about one thing. Wikipedia mentions him doing a lot of atmospheric research, hand has some pretty charts near the end - charts that, to my layman's opinion, should show a rising trend (due to correlation between water vapour and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere), not a steady one. Could anyone comment on that and their relevance?

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> Which means creationism is a part of his belief systems

This is only true for some doctrinal subsets of Christianity, and it's rare in European christian communities.

Far weirder to find someone who's innovated in atmospheric research - a great little paper on how to determine atmospheric water content with a $10 IR thermometer - who doesn't believe in climate change.

(https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/2011BAMS3215.1 if you want the paper)