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Responding
Tue Sep 16, 2003
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Hi, I'm Bryan Yeaton for The Weather Notebook. Last week, we aired criticism to a paper on
Climate Change presented by Dr. Willie Soon and others, who feel that climate change may have
more to do with natural patterns than burning fossil fuels. Today, Dr. Soon responds:
You have to remember that a lot of these issues of "global warming" that been, let's say, very
well popular known, is simply based on, mostly driven by, uh, you know, using climate, uh,
computer climate model, right?
That is not a very secure way of looking at, uh, scientific questions. It's what I call a tool
that should teach you something but it cannot be based you know to use it as a - you know - to
make policy. Simply because it's just not very good tool yet.
BRYAN: With all the science behind your research and your paper, why do you think it was so
vehemently attacked?
DR. SOON: I'm not a bio-climatologist. I'm just simply doing a survey work, you know? It's
true you can tell the audience that some group of scientists has been really very unhappy with
what I have seen. If I've done anything incorrect or improper, I mean I'm totally willing to
take back and, in fact, the way science works is that you got to formulate your hypotheses and
then try to reject it.
It's not about well, I have a feeling it's going to be warming up - you know? You gotta tell
me exactly how much. That is very, very misleading picture because, I mean, the atmosphere
doesn't work that way.
DR. SOON: This issue is further from, what you call, settled. We should really learn more
about how the climate system would change in most unperturbed way - meaning in its most
natural mode of operation.
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