Ed Poor wrote:
Lindzen and Baliunas have repeatedly expressed their
disagreement with
environmentalists over the GW theory. I cannot recall Baliunas
expressing ANY opinion on ozone depletion.
Baliunas was an ozone depletion skeptic, although (like Singer) she's
keeping quiet about it now. Here's the URL to a page that comments on
her ozone hole denial, and also provides a link to an essay that she
wrote about it back when denial was still fashionable:
http://mentalspace.ranters.net/quiggin/archives/001242.html
For those who don't want to bother reading the full thing and
Baliunas's paper, here's the gist of it:
Reader Robert Parson, from the University of Colorado
at Boulder,
has kindly supplied a scanned PDF file of the hard-to-obtain
Baliunas paper "Ozone and Global Warming: Are the Problems Real?",
which I've posted here (2.6MB download) . It's a fascinating
illustration of the contrarian technique at work. In particular,
it's noteworthy that Baliunas uses almost exactly the same kinds of
arguments on the two issues and, if anything, her case on CFC and
ozone seems stronger. Of course, CFC regulation was a live political
issue at the time, whereas action on global warming, such as Kyoto,
was a relatively distant prospect.
A highlight is Baliunas' confident assertion that "the ozone hole
cannot occur in the Arctic" - a claim that stood up for about three
years .
Only a few weeks after Baliunas testified before Congress that the
science on all this was unsettled, the Chemistry Nobel was awarded
to Paul Crutzen, Sherwood Rowland, and Mario Molina for their work
on stratospheric ozone. Rowland and Molina were explicitly cited for
proposing the CFC-ozone depletion theory. This killed Republican
attempts (by the aptly named Reps DeLay and Doolittle) to stop the
phaseout of CFCs, and Baliunas has been very quiet on the ozone
issue ever since.
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