Roy Spencer Professions : Climatologist Born : December 20, 1955 Browse All Authors Top 18 quotes by Roy Spencer Al Gore likes to say that mankind puts 70 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day. What he probably doesn't know is that mother nature puts 24,000 times that amount of our main greenhouse gas-water vapor-into the atmosphere every day and removes about the same amount every day. While this does not 'prove' that global warming is not man-made, it shows that weather systems have by far the greatest control over the Earth's greenhouse effect, which is dominated by water vapor and clouds. Roy Spencer mother clouds men We have no idea what's natural and what's man made. [...] There is no fingerprint of human-caused warming. Roy Spencer natural men ideas Believe it or not, very little research has ever been funded to search for natural mechanisms of warming... it has simply been assumed that global warming is manmade. Climate change - it happens, with or without our help. Roy Spencer climate research believe I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out-of-control environmental extremism. I view my job a little like a legislator, supported by the taxpayer, to protect the interests of the taxpayer and to minimize the role of government. Roy Spencer government views jobs We see something change in our climate and we blame ourselves ... I don't think we understand what happens. We can watch it happen on the (climate) models, we know it happens, but we don't know for sure how it happens. Roy Spencer climate watches thinking Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem. Roy Spencer majority climate understanding Politicians and some of the scientists like to say that there's a consensus now on global warming or the science has been settled, but you have to ask them, what is there a consensus on? Because it really makes a difference. What are you talking about? The only consensus I`m aware of is that it's warmed in the last century. They completely ignore the fact that there's this thing called the Oregon petition that was signed by 19,000 professionals and scientists who don't agree with the idea that we are causing climate change. Roy Spencer oregon talking ideas Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems. Roy Spencer climate-change climate causes We are now at the point in the age of global warming hysteria where the IPCC global warming theory has crashed into the hard reality of observations. Roy Spencer hysteria age reality All scientists should be skeptics. The reason why is that, even with the best of scientific measurements, we can come up with all kinds of explanations of what those measurements mean in terms of cause and effect, and yet most of those explanations are wrong. It's really easy to be wrong in science ... it's really hard to be right. Roy Spencer measurement causes mean It is well known that strong to violent tornado activity in the US has decreased markedly since statistics began in the 1950s, which has also been a period of average warming. So, if anything, global warming causes FEWER tornado outbreaks...not more. In other words, more violent tornados would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling,' not 'global warming.' Roy Spencer strong weather average Temperature measurements in the arctic suggest that it was just as warm there in the 1930's...before most greenhouse gas emissions. Don't you ever wonder whether sea ice concentrations back then were low, too? Roy Spencer measurement ice sea I finally became convinced that the theory of creation actually had a much better scientific basis than the theory of evolution, for the creation model was actually better able to explain the physical and biological complexity in the world. Roy Spencer theory-of-evolution able world Twice I have testified in congress that unbiased funding on the subject of the causes of warming would be much closer to a reality if 50% of that money was devoted to finding natural reasons for climate change. Roy Spencer climate would-be reality Man-made global warming was a potential serious threat, and NASA wanted Congress to fund new satellites to study the problem. It was a team effort to get that accomplished. Roy Spencer effort team men The climate system is warming at such a slow rate that virtually no one would feel the change in their lifetime. Roy Spencer science Strong to violent tornado activity has been going down for decades, so when one happens now it seems unusual. Roy Spencer science People can make up virtually any claim they want, connecting something in nature to human-caused climate change, and millions of people will believe it. Roy Spencer science Similar Authors Kenneth Hare climatologist All Authors
