More than 400 people jammed into a Portland hotel ballroom Wednesday night to hear a panel of global warming skeptics assert that manmade increases in greenhouse gases are not driving climate change.
Scott Learn of The Oregonian resorts to hiding behind the propaganda site “real climate” for a kind of “but skeptics can’t be right (especially in Oregon!)”
The event had no built-in rebuttal. But a 2010 study published in the journal Science concluded that “ample physical evidence shows that carbon dioxide is the single most important climate-relevant greenhouse gas in Earth’s atmosphere.”
That was just one of many points stressed Wednesday night. The chapter will post the speakers’ presentations, which include charts and data citations, and a video of the meeting on its Web site — ametsoc.org/chapters/oregon — in one or two days, Pierce said. The Web site realclimate.org, run by climate scientists, disputes skeptics’ arguments.
