Roy Spencer

About

Roy W. Spencer "is a principal research scientist for the University of Alabama in Huntsville". He was once one of the few global warming skeptics taken seriously in mainstream scientific circles, but as of 2011 (at the latest) he was no longer taken seriously and is now considered a global warming denialist.

He is also an advocate of intelligent design.

Global Warming

Asked in December 2008 what his advice was for then-President-Elect Barack Obama, Spencer responded, «He should put off the environmentalists indefinitely. ... Tell them we have to fix the economy first before we can afford unaffordable renewable energy 'solutions.'» -SourceWatch

In other words, he's against taking steps which should be a priority even if GW turns out to be overrated. FAIL. --Woozle 20:39, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Links

Reference

• Wikipedia
• Conservapedia: no equivalent page (as of 2009-05-07)
• dKosopedia: no equivalent page (as of 2009-05-07)
• RationalWiki
• SourceWatch

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• 2011-09-06 Roy Spencer Persecuted By Own Data «Roy Spencer's latest paper, published in Remote Sensing, supposedly "blew a gaping hole" in the standard theory of climate change. A new paper by Andrew Dessler shows that this is just another in a long string of Roy's faulty claims to prove that climate sensitivity is lower than previously thought. The main problem in all of these attempts has been rampant abuse of statistics. Typically, Roy would brush off such criticisms, relying on the statistical na7iuml;veté of his core audience and the media, and claim he is being persecuted by the "IPCC gatekeepers". In this case, one of Dessler's figures shows very clearly how Spencer and his co-author Danny Braswell left out of their analysis all the data that didn't fit with their hypothesis. It's so clear that even people who don't know much about statistics can see the problem. There is no running from this one – no claiming that Spencer is being persecuted – unless he wants us to believe he's being persecuted by his own data.»
• 2011-07-29 Climate Scientists Debunk Latest Bunk by Denier Roy Spencer «Long wrong climate science disinformer Roy Spencer has published another deeply flawed article. That ain't news. What is news is that the deniers have a couple of new tricks up their sleeves.»

News

• 2014-05-06 [L..T] The top ten global warming 'skeptic' arguments answered "...as one of those rare contrarian climate scientists, Spencer is in a good position to present the best arguments against the global warming consensus. Conveniently, he recently did just that on his blog, listing what he considers the "Top Ten Good Skeptical Arguments," throwing in an 11th for good measure. He also conveniently posed each of these arguments as questions; it turns out they're all easy to answer."

Writings by

• Global Warming and Nature's Thermostat by Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D.

Books by

• Climate Confusion [1]