BYU's Barry Bickmore Helps Organize Takedown of Monckton

Since launching his blog, BYU's Barry Bickmore has quickly become a prominent defender of climate science. I've noticed increasing references to him on the leading popular blogs and websites dealing with global warming. Now he has kicked it up another notch.

Last May, the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing on the reliability of climate science in the wake of 'Climategate.' Several scientists were invited to testify. The lone witness invited by the Republicans was Christopher Monckton.

Bickmore, a proud Republican himself, has been quite critical of Monckton on his blog. In fact, according to Bickmore,

A few weeks ago, Monckton e-mailed the president of my university asking him to check on my mental health, because I had been publishing all kinds of lies about him and sending him hate mail! (Nothing came of it, in case you were wondering, and I’m still working at the old day job.)

Now Bickmore and four others have assembled responses to Monckton's testimony by 21 climate scientists, that refute Monckton's claims. The report is titled, Climate Scientists Respond (PDF).

The Guardian has an article: 'Chemical nonsense': Leading scientists refute Lord Monckton's attack on climate science

For more information and links, see Skeptical Science.

Oh, yes. Go Cougars!

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