He also favors intelligent design to evolution.
I hope all of the author's other sources were equally distinguished.
"To be clear, the hypothesis that global warming is destabilizing the polar jet stream is a legitimate idea that has been published in peer-reviewed journals, though it remains controversial. But even the scientist who developed the hypothesis, Jennifer Francis, a professor of meteorology at Rutgers University, suggested it had been misapplied by Scribbler and Beckwith. “I’d say cross-equator flow cannot be unprecedented, maybe not even all that unusual,” she said."
Francis hardly sounds like someone who doesn't believe in climate change (since her research is about how global warming destabilizes the jet stream).
Also, neither of the two people who made the claims are established climate scientists - they're a writer and a PhD student:
"The two bloggers who have perpetuated this misinformation are Robert Scribbler, who describes himself as ” a progressive novelist, non-fiction writer and emerging threats expert,” and Paul Beckwith, who is working on a PhD with “a focus on abrupt climate system change” at the University of Ottawa."
If this was really an unprecedented event that signified a threat, why didn't any of the thousands of climate scientists notice it? If it was really a significant result, wouldn't the PhD student (and his advisor) have tried to get it published in the peer reviewed literature before going public with it on a blog (a publication medium which has no value to an academic researcher's career)?
Newton believed in alchemy and according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton's_occult_studies "Newton considered himself to be one of a select group of individuals who were specially chosen by God for the task of understanding Biblical scripture". What does this mean for calculus and the Newtonian laws? Precisely nothing.
Spencer doesn't have that excuse.
He gave a talk to the Huntsville L5 Society (http://chapters.nss.org/al/HAL5/), started out with that, and managed to set off my kook-detector hard. I haven't been back to any of the HAL5 events since.
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/02/time-to-push-back-agains...
You're putting a spin on what he believes, and how the nazis thing got started.
> One such creditor is Roy Spencer, who teaches at the University of Alabama, Huntsville. Spencer, a vocal denier of climate change science who writes a popular blog, has a Ph.D. in meteorology from University of Wisconsin-Madison and was once employed by NASA, according to his website. The Senate often asks him to testify about climate science.
> Spencer’s website claims he “has never been asked by any oil company to perform any kind of service. Not even Exxon-Mobil.”
> Yet, Peabody Energy’s bankruptcy documents show that Spencer is a creditor.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roy-spencer-peabody-ener...