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David Deming has a BS in geology and his Phd is in geophysics. He is Associate Professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma. Deming is the author of more than thirty research papers and the textbook
Introduction to Hydrogeology.
He is an associate editor for the academic journals
Petroleum Geoscience and
Ground Water. (link).
NCTCS blog has previously reported the exchange between Dr David Deming and IPCC Lead Author Jonathan Overpeck (
link.) Overpeck emailed Deming saying that, to
scare people, they had to get
rid of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP.) Phil Jones (Professor in the
School of Environmental Sciences, UEA) referred to it in the
Climategate emails.
David Deming gave evidence to the Senate enquiry (see you-tube below), although as he hadn't
archived the email, didn't mention Overpeck. Later, Overpeck put his
hand up as the author.
Dr Deming has written for the Washington Post a piece titled:
He describes the current cold weather in the Northern Hemisphere.
The United Kingdom had the coldest March weather in 50 years, and there
were more than a thousand record low temperatures in the United States.
The Irish meteorological office reported that March “temperatures were
the lowest on record nearly everywhere.” Spring snowfall in Europe was
also high. In Moscow, the snow depth was the highest in 134 years of
observation.
He details predictions made by Alarmists:
- winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event. (British IPCC contributor David Viner)
- children just aren’t going to know what snow is. (environmental activist Robert Kennedy Jr.)
- less snow and more blizzards (Associated Press)
He continues:
Portraying cold weather as the result of global warming is only one
aspect of the circus. Gems that stand out include claims that
earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes are caused or will be made worse
by global warming. Last year, we were told that global warming could
“turn us all into hobbits,” the mythical creatures from J.R.R. Tolkien’s
novels.
Confronted by an endless avalanche of such nonsensical drivel, it seems
almost foolhardy to argue facts. There has been no increase in mean
global temperature for 15 years.
Although the Alarmists are now switching to saying extreme weather events are caused by Global warming, David details
- Drought is not increasing
- Tornadoes are not
increasing in frequency or intensity.
- Worldwide hurricane activity is near a 40-year low. Over the past 20
years, sea level has risen by about 5 centimeters an ominous trend
unless you’re aware that since the end of the last Ice Age, global sea
level has risen 120 meters.
- Global sea ice
was above the 30-year mean and higher than it was in March 1980.
Dr Deming concludes:
With each passing year, it is becoming increasingly clear that global
warming is not a scientific theory subject to empirical falsification,
but a political ideology that has to be fiercely defended against any
challenge. It is ironic that skeptics are called “deniers” when every
fact that would tend to falsify global warming is immediately explained
away by an industry of denial.
H/t Marc Morano's Climate Depot.