In testimony last week before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Committee on Science, Space and Technology, forecasting expert J. Scott Armstrong of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania called on Congress to cease funding global warming research, programs and advocacy organizations.
Referring to an analysis he conducted with Kesten C. Green of the University of South Australia and Willie Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Armstrong told the subcommittee, "We approach the issue of alarm over dangerous manmade global warming as a problem of forecasting temperatures over the long term. The global warming alarm is not based on what has happened, but on what will happen. In other words, it is a forecasting problem. And it is a very complex problem."
The three researchers audited the forecasting procedures used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), whose "procedures violated 81 percent of the 89 relevant forecasting principles," Armstrong noted.
Armstrong and his colleagues recommend Congress end government funding for climate change research as well as other research, government programs and regulations that assume the planet is warming. They also recommend Congress cease funding organizations that lobby or campaign for global warming.
"Based on our analyses, especially with respect to the violations of the principles regarding objectivity and full disclosure," Armstrong told members of Congress, "We conclude that the manmade global warming alarm is an anti-scientific political movement."
Armstrong can be reached for further comment at (610) 622-6480 or Armstrong@wharton.upenn.edu. A copy of the report he submitted to the committee is available online at http://www.environmentandclimate-news.org/article/29687.