Houghton friends and foes weigh in on global warming

I am incredibly offended that Physics Today would conduct the John Houghton interview as though he is automatically right and there is no other side to the discussion. I am quite capable of following his scientific argument, as are many other technologically capable Christians.

Houghton’s tacit assertion that no one with any knowledge of global warming should disagree with him is hogwash. He makes claims about computer models and the Sun’s impact on the climate; his claims are unverifiable and have been shown repeatedly to overestimate warming.

He talks as though all government scientists like himself have no bias, but all industry scientists are corrupt, “vested-interest” moneygrubbers.

Government scientists can no more be trusted than commercially driven scientists. No one is pure, and if Houghton wants to convince me, he’s going to have to do it with real evidence and not with politically dictated conclusions reached before the evidence is in.