Climate scientist Michael Mann dismissed criticism of the validity of research pointing to the danger of climate change as failing to disprove the link between GHG emissions and increasing temperatures, USA Today reported today. The Penn State scientist said his colleagues prematurely believed that they had convinced the general public of link and that they had definitively established various conclusions about climate.
Mann said the climategate controversy posed the risk of "creating doubt in the minds of the public" about the need to cut GHG emissions "when there really shouldn't be any." He argued that various mistakes in published climate research and forecasts were akin to "a typo on page 225" of the owner's manual for a car, and "nothing has fundamentally changed" about the grounds for linking emissions to climate change.
Mann was quoted as saying: "If we don't act on this, it's not a failure of science. It's our failure as a civilization to deal with the problem." Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., commented of growing doubts in climate science: "People are waking up to how all these scandals have shot holes through the global warming propaganda."
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