[Adam503]

Did you even read your own link?

"...Mr Justice Burton said he had NO COMPLAINT about Gore's CENTRAL THESIS that climate change was happening and was being driven by emissions from humans."

Again... What part of "ALL Nobel Prize winning scientists agree global warming is threat to humanity." do you not understand?

EVERY single Nobel Prize winning scientist has TURNED DOWN the big money the oil companies would have paid any/every them to lie and re-state the oil companies global warming talking points.

Every single one of them has agreed and stuck with the evidence showing global warming is a serious threat to mankind.

[gaius]

In that case, all those fancy scientists have agreed on a term that no-one else uses anymore because it does not accurately describe what is really happening, which we call "climate change". So much for Nobel Prizes eh?

It is exactly as I say: outside their specialist field, every scientist is just a layperson like you or I. Perhaps you ought to check out what a real expert, Dr John Theon, has to say: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/28/nasa_climate_theon/

[Adam503]

Looks like you didn't check your talking points, once again.

"So who is John S Theon?

John Theon was not Hansen's supervisor.

The usual denialists (e.g. The Register) are excited because some guy they never heard of before has joined Inhofe's merry band, writing:

    "I appreciate the opportunity to add my name to those

who disagree that global warming is man made."

M. J. Murphy has some information about Theon. It seems that Inhofe's claim that Theon was Hansen's supervisor is completely untrue:

        Theon wrote to the Minority Office at the

Environment and Public Works Committee on January 15, 2009. "I was, in effect, Hansen's supervisor because I had to justify his funding, allocate his resources, and evaluate his results. I did not have the authority to give him his annual performance evaluation...

    Read the last bit closely. Being "in effect" Hansen's

supervisor is here contrasted with being "in reality" Hansen's supervisor--being the guy who gives Hansen his annual performance appraisal, in other words--which, frankly, does linguistic violence to the term.

Gavin Schmidt writes:

    Dr. Theon appears to have RETIRED from NASA in 1994, 

some 15 YEARS AGO. Until yesterday I had never heard of him (despite working with and for NASA for the last 13 years). His insights into both modelling and publicity appear to date from then, rather than any recent events. He was not Hansen's 'boss' (the director of GISS reports to the director of GSFC, who reports to the NASA Administrator). His "some scientists" quote is simply a smear - which scientists? where? what did they do? what data? what manipulation? This kind of thing plays well with Inhofe et al because it appears to add something to the 'debate', but in actual fact there is nothing here. Just vague, unsubstantiated accusations.

http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/01/so_who_is_john_s_the...

Got anyone that isn't so old one suspects they'll say anything to keep from having to go back to the nursing home alone.