Teller is just a PhD in physics who is known as the father of the nuclear bomb.
All it takes is a scribble, and you too can have a Ph.D.!
All it takes is a dopey liberal to not know who Teller is. .And yes, he became a CAGW skeptic as the models proved unreliable. He changed his mind to become a skeptic on the basis of better data:
Teller was one of the first prominent people to raise the danger of climate change, driven by the burning of fossil fuels. At an address to the membership of the American Chemical Society in December 1957, Teller warned that the large amount of carbon-based fuel that had been burnt since the mid-19th century was increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which would "act in the same way as a greenhouse and will raise the temperature at the surface", and that he had calculated that if the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased by 10% "an appreciable part of the polar ice might melt." [81]
However, as better data and models were created, Teller, in his later years, would come to deride much of what he saw as increasingly common exaggerations and general doomsdayism on the matter of climate change. Thus, he became one of the most prestigious signers [82] of the Oregon Petition. The petition, drafted in 1998, states, in part:"There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate" [emphasis added]. |
