Prof Ray Bates discusses some points raised by a critic in response to his recent analysis of the latest IPCC summary report (SR 1.5).
Reply by Ray Bates to the blog post by Peter Thorne of Maynooth University
H/T The GWPF
A) General comments
1) Prof. Thorne states that my critique of SR1.5 was not peer-reviewed and should not be referred to as a paper.
His statement is incorrect. My critique was peer-reviewed.
I wouldn't list it in my CV as a journal article, but it is correct to call it a paper (see the Oxford Dictionary). That said, it matters little to me whether my publication is called a critique, a piece, or a paper.
2) Press freedom and right of reply
Prof. Thorne states, in relation to critical comments of his published in the Irish Times of 21/12/2018 regarding my SR1.5 critique: "To be crystal clear, a free press is an essential component of a healthy, vibrant democracy and it would be strange for the media to completely censure views." I find it very comforting to hear Prof. Thorne express this viewpoint in such a clear manner. I would request him to note, however, that I have not been accorded a corresponding right of reply to a number of defamatory articles about me by a climate-activist journalist writing in an Irish monthly magazine. It takes the website of what Prof. Thorne describes as a 'highly questionable think tank' to provide me with the opportunity to point this out.
3) Dynamic meteorologists cannot be counted as climate scientists.
In reply to Prof. Thorne's assertion that dynamic meteorologists cannot be counted as climate scientists, it will suffice to look at an example. The first assessment report addressed to policymakers warning of the risks associated with increasing carbon dioxide was "Carbon Dioxide and Climate: a Scientific Assessment" (US National Academy of Sciences, 1979). That report, known as the 'Charney Report', had nine authors. Five of these (including Charney, its chairman) were dynamic meteorologists. Is Prof. Thorne suggesting that the US National Academy of Sciences did not know what it was doing when it selected this committee?
Continued here.
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