[WikiEN-l] Re: Quote me as saying I was misquoted

Tue Nov 25 18:50:08 UTC 2003

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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