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A scientist put the lie denying "U.S. Senate Minority Report"

This post probably already had to put it recently, but many commitments prevented me from doing this: public now approaching Mexico 2010, in order to understand who are the so-called "deniers." In December 2008, stato pubblicato il “U. S. Senate Minority Report: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims Scientists Continue to Debunk “Consensus” in 2008 (d’ora in avanti lo chiameremo “minority report”). Le persone citate come fonte nel documento dovrebbero, pertanto, essere contrarie ad un riscaldamento globale dovuto principalmente alle attività umane. A pagina 194, il Professor Rayner, uno dei maggiori esperti di cambiamenti climatici, viene citato come fonte contraria alla natura antropogenica delle attività umane. Conoscendolo come un’autorità in materia, gli ho chiesto quale fosse la sua opinione in proposito. Ecco la sua risposta in inglese

Giovanni:
I have been convinced since the late 1980s that climate change is largely anthropogenic and represents a serious strategic challenge for humanity to manage. I have never been a “scientific skeptic” although there have been occasions when I have been critical of overstated confidence for specific projections and the use of extreme scenarios in order to frighten people into taking action.

It is true that I have been consistently critical of the FCCC and Kyoto route for managing the problem of climate change and its impacts.

I have never directly confronted the authors of the “minority report”, although I have twice been asked by journalists about it and in each case I have made my position clear and asked them to convey to the publishers my view that my inclusion is inappropriate. The publishers apparently take the view that being a skeptic of current policy is sufficient to justify my inclusion and have ignored the calls for my removal from the list.

Steve

Steve Rayner
James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization,
Director, Insitute for Science Innovation and Society,
University of Oxford,
Honorary Professor of Climate Change and Society,
University of Copenhagen,

Provo a tradurlo al meglio in italiano, parola per parola, per chi non conosce l’inglese

Giovanni,
Sono stato convinto sin dalla fine degli anni ‘80 che climate change is largely anthropogenic and represents a serious strategic challenge for humanity to manage. I've never been a "scientific skepticism" although there have been occasions when I was critical of the exaggerated confidence for specific projections and the use of extreme scenarios to frighten people into taking action.

It 's true that I have been consistently critical of the FCCC and Kyoto on the way to handle the problem of climate change and its impacts.

I never directly compared with the authors of "Minority Report", though I have been asked twice by reporters about this and in any case, I expressed my clear position ed ho chiesto loro di comunicare agli editori (del minority report, n.d.t) il mio giudizio che la mia inclusione è inappropriata. Gli editori apparentemente hanno l’opinione che essere uno scettico della politica corrente è sufficiente per giustificare la mia inclusione ed hanno ignorato le chiamate per una mia rimozione dalla lista.

Questo caso dimostra la vera natura del “miniroty report”: un documento ideologico e disinformativo che travisa le affermazioni di persone, come successo per il Professor Rayner.