Since ClimateballTM (H/T Willard) is back with the publication of the first report from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Climate Working Group, I thought it was time to start writing posts again. The report is called A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate, and the authors are John Christy, Judith Curry, Steven Koonin, Ross McKitrick, and Roy Spencer.
The first point to make is that if someone had asked me 10 years ago to guess the names of a group of scientists who might be recruited to write a contrarian report on climate science, I would have guessed a significant number of those listed above. Why are there so few contrarians that it’s pretty easy to guess most who might be invited to write such a report? Why are there no new names? Why were no early-career researchers invited? The answer is pretty obvious: the bench is pretty thin.