Eli Rabett has the sordid tale of how S Fred Singer took advantage of Roger Revelle to put his name on a paper which expressed skepticism about global warming. Justin Lancaster has a web page with all the supporting documents and evidence.
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The Nation Post's Lawrence Solomon has been writing a series of articles falsely casting scientists such as Nigel Weiss and Sami Solanki as deniers. His latest target: Roger Revelle:
Then in 1991, Dr. Revelle wrote an article for Cosmos, a scientific journal, with two illustrious colleagues,…
Fred Singer and co petitioned the American Physical Society to replace its statement on Climate Change. Instead, it got reaffirmed
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Chilingar has republished his paper that shows that if you assume CO2 is not a greenhouse gas then it doesn't warm the planetin Enviromental Geology. This paper is so bad that S Fred Singer has resigned as an editor from Environmental Geology. Yes, this S Fred Singer.
Hat tip: Eli Rabett.
The Hook reports:
In papers sent to UVA April 23, [Virginia Attorney General] Cuccinelli's office commands the university to produce a sweeping swath of documents relating to Mann's receipt of nearly half a million dollars in state grant-funded climate research conducted while Mann-- now director…
Fred Singer is truly a despicable human being for what he did to Revelle and for suing Lancaster when he was only a grad student. Singer would screw a snake if he could get that low to the ground.
Not to be confused with Fred Sanger, who won two Nobel prizes.
I have to come back one more time to note: if you are the type of person who takes advantage of someone on their death bed, then you are a truly horrific excuse for a human being.
Fred Singer should hang his head in public. This is behavior that is inexcusable.
if you are the type of person who takes advantage of someone on their death bed
So Singer here takes his place amongst luminaries like Derek Freeman and Newt Gingrich. Nice.
Kind of reminds me of the story you posted some time ago about Zhang JianDong and chromium in drinking water.
Good to remind people of this -- because you'll continue to see a partial and misleading quote attributed to Revelle, reposted; check whenever you see anything attrributed to Revelle in a denial/disinformation piece, odds are it's from that Singer article.
The ur-Crank God himself, Emmanuel Velikovsky, pestered Einstein with his Worlds in Collision/Earth in Upheaval (loose congerie of assertions from ancient texts taken as a cosmological and geological) hypothesis. The Velikovskians write that when Einstein died he was reading Worlds in Collision. Not true, but the point is, if one of Emmanuel's acolytes had gotten Einstein to make a marginal note in his copy of WIC just before he died, maybe Velikovsky could have "co-written" an "Einstein paper."
Then you'd have "Sagan's guru was wrong." or "Greatest scientist of all wanted fair treatment for cosmic catastrophism; supported it in final paper."
I'd go a lot further than "don't trust S Fred Singer" - assume anything he says is the diametric opposite of the truth. If he says there is no possibility of the sky falling down, start digging a shelter immediately.
Not logically valid, I know, but it saves a lot of time... If he should, by some strange freak of circumstance, happen to say something that actually is true, you'll hear it from someone else soon enough.