Meteorologist Dan Satterfield Launches Assault on Skeptics! Declares claims are ‘laughable to anyone who understands science’

[Climate Depot Editor’s Note: Satterfield and other promoters of man-made climate fears are reaching desperation time as new peer-reviewed studies, the growing number of scientists, real world data and public opinion continue to turn against them. Satterfield is such a “believer” in man-made climate fears that he approvingly cites the works of Joe (global warming may have casued the Minnesota bridge collapse) Romm of Climate Progress and NASA’s James Hansen. It appears Satterfield has joined with other recent frustrated “believers” in man-made climate fears. See: ‘Find ways to exaggerate’: Nobel Prize-winning economist wishes for ‘tornadoes’ and ‘a lot of horrid things’ to convince Americans of global warming threat! – July 14, 2009 ]

Below are excerpts from The Denver Weather Examiner article about climate fear promoter Meteorologist Dan Satterfield of Alabama’s WHNT TV in Huntsville. Satterfield’s publicly available email is: [email protected]

An August 3, 2009 article by the Denver Weather Examiner’s Tony Hake titled “An example why global warming alarmists are losing ground,” details Satterfield’s climate views.

Excerpt: This past weekend alarmist, WHNT TV meteorologist Dan Satterfield, resorted to similar tactics by launching an insulting attack on one of his station’s viewers via Twitter. […] Twitter user ‘backscatter’ posted a link to one of [the Denver Weather Examiner’s articles discussing a new study that says nature is the primary driver behind climate change. Dan Satterfield, ‘danwhnt’ on Twitter, picked up on the link and immediately replied to backscatter saying, “That bastion of science the denver examiner [sic] – read the actual paper by chance? thought not.” […]

Satterfield pressed his attack saying that claims that are contrary to the theory of anthropogenic global warming are “laughable to anyone who understands science” and proceeded to insult backscatter’s education while touting his own. Backscatter as it turns out though holds a degree in electrical engineering so he would certainly be one who “understands science.”

Satterfield’s Twitter message: “just what is your background- I hv a BS Metr. and MS Earth Sci.” – wrote WHNT Meteorologist Dan Satterfield touting his credentials while questioning those of someone who disagrees with him.

When the Denver Weather Examiner picked up on the debate, we sent a tweet drawing attention to it without offering any commentary. Satterfield then turned his fire to us saying, “I could care less about the politics but if you are going to publish junk that

Professor William Calvin Unhinged! Calls on scientists to use ‘interventional activism’ to combat global warming!

[Climate Depot Editorial Note: Dr. Calvin should consider heeding the wisdom of Dr. Richard Lindzen. See: MIT Climate Scientist Lindzen: ‘Ordinary people see through man-made climate fears — but educated people are very vulnerable’ – July 6, 2009 ]

By William Calvin, Neuroscientist at the University of Washington School of Medicine; Author of “A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change.” Calvin’s essay was posted online by The Edge as part of their “World Question Center 2009” series. Calvin also writes for the left-wing website DailyKos.com. Calivn’s full bio here and here. Dr. Calvin’s publicly available email address is : [email protected]

Dr. Calvin excerpts: (emphasis added) Climate will change our ways of doing science, making some areas more like medicine with its combination of science and interventional activism, where delay to resolve uncertainties is often not an option. Few scientists are trained to think this way — and certainly not climate scientists, who are having to improvise as the window of interventional opportunity shrinks. […]

Climate will, at times, force a hiatus on doing science as usual, much like what happened during World War II when many academics laid aside their usual teaching and research interests to intensively focus on the war effort. The big working models of fluid dynamics used to simulate ocean and atmospheric circulation will themselves be game-changing for other fields of dynamics, such as brain processing and decision making. […]

Long-term thinking can be dangerous if it causes us to neglect the short term hazards. A mid-century plan for emissions reduction will be worthless if the Amazon rain forest burns down during the next El Niño. [End excerpt of Dr. Calvin’s essay.]

For Dr. Calvin’s full essay see here.

[ Climate Depot Editorial Note: Kudos to Dr. Calvin for restraining himself and not following in the footsteps of Nobel-Prize Winning Economist Thomas Schelling who wished death and destruction on Americans in order to convince them man-made global warming was a threat.

See: ‘Find ways to exaggerate’: Nobel Prize-winning economist wishes for ‘tornadoes’ and ‘a lot of horrid things’ to convince Americans of global warming threat! – July 14, 2009 ]

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Meteorologist Dan Satterfield Launches Assault on Skeptics! Declares claims are ‘laughable to anyone who understands science’ – August 3, 2009