If you happen to be looking for 'scepticism' regarding mainstream climatology, you can do a lot worse than ask why climate 'sceptics' are so against renewable sources of energy, like say, wind and solar.
But first consider the list of scientific organisations worldwide that endorse the mainstream science, which says that human-produced greenhouse gases (the main one being carbon dioxide, CO2) are reponsible for potentially dangerous global warming....
List of 198 Scientific Organizations Worldwide
The following are scientific organizations that endorse the proposition that Climate Change has been caused by human action:
[Note please the highlighted ones: The Royal Society; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and Australia’s own CSIRO]
Academia Chilena de Ciencias, Chile
Academia das Ciencias de Lisboa, Portugal
Academia de Ciencias de la República Dominicana
Academia de Ciencias Físicas, Matemáticas y Naturales de Venezuela
Academia de Ciencias Medicas, Fisicas y Naturales de Guatemala
Academia Mexicana de Ciencias,Mexico
Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Bolivia
Academia Nacional de Ciencias del Peru
Académie des Sciences et Techniques du Sénégal
Académie des Sciences, France
Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada
Academy of Athens
Academy of Science of Mozambique
Academy of Science of South Africa
Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS)
Academy of Sciences Malaysia
Academy of Sciences of Moldova
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Academy of Sciences of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt
Academy of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy
Africa Centre for Climate and Earth Systems Science
African Academy of Sciences
Albanian Academy of Sciences
Amazon Environmental Research Institute
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Anthropological Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association of State Climatologists (AASC)
American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians
American Astronomical Society
American Chemical Society
American College of Preventive Medicine
American Fisheries Society
American Geophysical Union
American Institute of Biological Sciences
American Institute of Physics
American Meteorological Society
American Physical Society
American Public Health Association
American Quaternary Association
American Society for Microbiology
American Society of Agronomy
American Society of Civil Engineers
American Society of Plant Biologists
American Statistical Association
Association of Ecosystem Research Centers
Australian Academy of Science
Australian Bureau of Meteorology
Australian Coral Reef Society
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Australian Institute of Physics
Australian Marine Sciences Association
Australian Medical Association
Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Bangladesh Academy of Sciences
Botanical Society of America
Brazilian Academy of Sciences
British Antarctic Survey
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
California Academy of Sciences
Cameroon Academy of Sciences
Canadian Association of Physicists
Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences
Canadian Geophysical Union
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Canadian Society of Soil Science
Canadian Society of Zoologists
Caribbean Academy of Sciences views
Center for International Forestry Research
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) (Australia)
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences
Crop Science Society of America
Cuban Academy of Sciences
Delegation of the Finnish Academies of Science and Letters
Ecological Society of America
Ecological Society of Australia
Environmental Protection Agency
European Academy of Sciences and Arts
European Federation of Geologists
European Geosciences Union
European Physical Society
European Science Foundation
Federation of American Scientists
French Academy of Sciences
Geological Society of America
Geological Society of Australia
Geological Society of London
Georgian Academy of Sciences
German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences
Indian National Science Academy
Indonesian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management
Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology
Institute of Professional Engineers New Zealand
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK
InterAcademy Council
International Alliance of Research Universities
International Arctic Science Committee
International Association for Great Lakes Research
International Council for Science
International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences
International Research Institute for Climate and Society
International Union for Quaternary Research
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
Islamic World Academy of Sciences
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Kenya National Academy of Sciences
Korean Academy of Science and Technology
Kosovo Academy of Sciences and Arts
l'Académie des Sciences et Techniques du Sénégal
Latin American Academy of Sciences
Latvian Academy of Sciences
Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
Madagascar National Academy of Arts, Letters, and Sciences
Mauritius Academy of Science and Technology
Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts
National Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, Argentina
National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic
National Academy of Sciences, Sri Lanka
National Academy of Sciences, United States of America
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
National Association of State Foresters
National Center for Atmospheric Research
National Council of Engineers Australia
National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, New Zealand
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Research Council
National Science Foundation
Natural England
Natural Environment Research Council, UK
Natural Science Collections Alliance
Network of African Science Academies
New York Academy of Sciences
Nicaraguan Academy of Sciences
Nigerian Academy of Sciences
Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters
Oklahoma Climatological Survey
Organization of Biological Field Stations
Pakistan Academy of Sciences
Palestine Academy for Science and Technology
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Polish Academy of Sciences
Romanian Academy
Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium
Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Spain
Royal Astronomical Society, UK
Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
Royal Irish Academy
Royal Meteorological Society (UK)
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Royal Scientific Society of Jordan
Royal Society of Canada
Royal Society of Chemistry, UK
Royal Society of the United Kingdom
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Russian Academy of Sciences
Science and Technology, Australia
Science Council of Japan
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Society for Ecological Restoration International
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Society of American Foresters
Society of Biology (UK)
Society of Systematic Biologists
Soil Science Society of America
Sudan Academy of Sciences
Sudanese National Academy of Science
Tanzania Academy of Sciences
The Wildlife Society (international)
Turkish Academy of Sciences
Uganda National Academy of Sciences
Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities
United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole Research Center
World Association of Zoos and Aquariums
World Federation of Public Health Associations
World Forestry Congress
World Health Organization
World Meteorological Organization
Zambia Academy of Sciences
Zimbabwe Academy of Sciences
Against these, we have 'conservative' outfits like Quadrant Online, and a heap of others cited
at Hotwhopper
Quadrant Online is dead-set against renewables. It speaks for the extreme right of the Liberal Party, as led by Tony "the future is coal" Abbott.
Against this, we have the shills for the fossil carbon industries, admirably (in a most limited sense of the word) represented by the Tony Abbott Cheer Squad at Australia’s own said Quadrant Online.
I used to be a subscriber there. although myself inclined to the anti-totalitarian, anti-Islamic (nb not Anti-Muslim) left (which was quite compatible with that subscription.)
I failed to realise how beholden the Quad Online crowd was to the fossil-carbon industries and interests. Only slowly did it dawn on me that no other explanation would fit the reality: that they were down on renewable energy and renewable sources: as can be seen by perusal of the following links:
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The Renewable Energy Myth — Quadrant Online https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2014/11/renewable-energy-myth/ |
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Get Them Young, Make Them Green — Quadrant Online quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2015/04/get-em-young-make-em-green/ |
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The Great Renewable Energy Rort — Quadrant Online quadrant.org.au/magazine/2010/07-08/the-great-renewable-energy-rort/ |
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german green energy — Quadrant Online quadrant.org.au/tag/german-green-energy/ |
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Finally, Warmists Find a Real Threat — Quadrant Online https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/.../finally-warmists-find-real-threat/ |
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Going green costs jobs — Quadrant Online quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2011/03/going-green-costs-jobs/ |
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They Make It Easy Being Green — Quadrant Online https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2016/03/make-easy-green/ |
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Teach 'em Green, Raise 'em Stupid — Quadrant Online https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/.../teach-em-green-raise-em-stupid/ |
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The Green Gulf Between Fact and Fancy — Quadrant Online https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2015/08/green-gulf-fact-fancy/ |
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Aug 14, 2015 - The solar- and wind-power capacity to meet Labor'srenewable-energy target would cost between $80 billion and $100 billion dollars. Tony Thomas, Opinion — Quadrant Online https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/tony-thomas/ |
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Inherit the Wind (and not much else) — Quadrant Online quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2015/02/inherit-wind-much-else/ Feb 5, 2015 - Submissions to the latter inquiry are online here. ... The rationale for renewable energy is that its use reduces the consumption of fossil fuels by ... |
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Green dream jobs — Quadrant Online www.quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2011/.../green-dream-jobs Sep 22, 2011 - Australia's economic advantages are not aligned with moving towards a green energy future. China's are because, unlike us, they like nuclear, Coal, There's Just No Alternative — Quadrant Online |
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With Friends Like Oxfam... — Quadrant Online https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2015/09/oxfam-part-2/ Sep 10, 2015 - “We have arguably the best renewable energy sources in the world, in the form of large expanses of land that can feed wind, solar, geothermal |
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Blinded By The Sun — Quadrant Online https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2016/07/blinded-sun/ Jul 28, 2016 - Let's be generous and say that serious development of the two main renewable-energy technologies commenced in the 1980s. So how far ... |
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Banking on the Climate Hustle — Quadrant Online https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/.../banking-climate-hustle... Jan 3, 2016 - It wants to shift at least USD600 billion of other people's money into renewable energy projects. But only if governments establish 'legal ... |
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Young Heads Filled With Green Mush - Quadrant Online - JIM BALL www.jimball.com.au/.../young-heads-filled-green-mush-quadrant-online/ |
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Which is probably by now a very incomplete list. http://notrickszone.com/skeptic-papers-2016/#sthash.BMXWtI2v.YtVR02hf.dpbs |
Even if one believes fervently that venting CO2 from burning of fossil carbon to the atmosphere in whatever amount can do no possible harm, it still makes sense to stretch the Earth’s finite reserves of coal over the longest possible time, and to make them last as long as possible. Renewable sources of energy (chiefly wind and solar photovoltaic generation of electricity) would be welcomed by the fossil carbon interests, their lobbyists and shills, one would think. But they are not. Quite the contrary.as the above table shows.
Those who have secured for themselves proprietorial rights to the world’s deposits of fossil carbon want them burnt up and converted to $$$ in their own bank accounts as soon as possible.
This despite the fact that oil and coal are essential as feedstocks for the road tar and chemical industries. Presumably, the descendants of these 'sceptics' will not be driving cars on macadamised roads, but flying helicopters: while the rest bounce along over bullock tracks.
Venus has an atmosphere which is around 98% CO2. The Russian Venera space probes showed that it is also the hottest planet of the solar system: with a surface temperature hotter even than the surface of Mercury, closest planet to the Sun. It was that fact that inspired Jim Hansen of NASA to come up with the global warming hypothesis, which is now mainstream science.
To my knowledge, the mainstream scientists have never tried to silence the contrarians, though the latter disagree. But the converse is not true. Just google <Tony Abbott, attack on CSIRO, climatology> and see what comes up. That stupid chook Gillard was bad enough (“there will be no carbon tax under any government that I lead”) but Tony Abbott was truly the Prince of Darkness. (Befitting a former trainee priest of that Satanic Brotherhood known as the Hierarchy [nb not the Lay Congregation] of the Catholic Church.)
http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2015/02/science-deniers-try-to-change-facts.html
I also draw the reader's attention to the excellent review of the denialist Ian Plimer's book Heaven + Earth written by the astronomer Michael Ashley, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of NSW.
I have also published my own 5-part review of Plimer's classic sequence of howlers on my site Noah's Rainbow Serpent, under the title Plimer's Climatology (101-105).
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/books/ian-plimer-heaven-and-earth/news-story/21 1cf8e7a30d14ff69e97f5bb3ba5cf1?sv=bfe16b22838fd5715b9155455b7da92a
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