Climategate: not news to me, says Shaviv

Andrew Bolt
Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Brilliant young astrophysicist Professor Nir Shaviv says he’s not surprised at all by Climategate, whether it’s the revelation that data was destroyed to prevent checking, or evidence that sceptics were blocked from publication:

(F)rom what I’ve read in blogsphere, the e-mails did not reveal anything I didn’t think was happening anyway (though it may help the general public get a glimpse of that)….

An editor of one of the more prominent journals wrote a colleague of mine that ”any paper which doesn’t support the anthropogenic GHG theory is politically motivated, and therefore has to be rejected”.

There are many more examples. As I said, these e-mails do not surprise me. They just provide a window to whatever I had thought was happening anyway.

Shaviv was also nastily attacked and smeared by RealClimate, exposed in the Climategate emails as an arm of the Climategate conspiracy.

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But he has known for some time that this warmist bubble would burst:

The hysteria surrounding the concept of ‘global warming’ will fade over the years… People will see that the apocalyptic forecasts are not coming true. Today there is no fingerprint attesting that carbon dioxide emission causes a rise in temperature.

His own explanation for the warming that stopped in 2001: the effect on cosmic rays on cloud formation.

Shaviv is coming to Melbourne this week for Albert Dadon’s Australia Israel Leadership Forum, where I shall be only too pleased to meet him. And a little proud, too, since it was my suggestion he be invited. I hope you’ll hear from him, too, on this visit.

Unlike most top scientists, he not only has a blog, but a highly readable one (if too infrequently updated). For instance, there was this after Israel’s Earth Hour:

The Israeli populous saved a “whopping” 65,000 KWhr… In fact, if you compare it to the annual electricity usage of the Al Gore household, of 210,000 KWhr, you realize that Israelis saved a third of what Al Gore wastes in a year. :

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