- Roy Spencer
Climatologist
- Roy Warren Spencer is a climatologist, Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and the U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on NASA's Aqua satellite.Wikipedia
Sounds like every Climate Change fearists dream.
IDiocy
While Spencer has become an ID PRATT machine, he hasn't contributed any new cards to the
creationists' deck. He mostly just parrots the greatest hits like "no
transitional fossils" and "
microevolution not
macroevolution."
[18] He also flogs the "
secular religion" trope even harder when it comes to
evolution than he does for global warming.
Pallin' around with cranks and shills
Spencer is affiliated with a number of
astroturf and
Christian fundamentalist organizations. He is a member of the George C. Marshall Institute, which was founded by
expert for hire Frederick Seitz and is a
think tankand
front group for various corporate interests including oil companies. He also makes the rounds at the
Heartland Institute's denialist conferences.
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The fundamentalist organizations he has worked with include the
Cornwall Alliance and the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance (ISA), which reorganized into the Cornwall Alliance in 2006. The organization promotes "
Bible-based environmental stewardship," which translates to "a bunch of cranks denying science." He helped the ISA author their "Call to Truth," a denialist manifesto for
evangelicals.
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As is common amongst cranks, Spencer flaunts his
credentials at every turn. His website is called
Roy Spencer PhD and is entitled "Roy Spencer, Ph.D." Contrast this with the scientists at realclimate.org, who go by names like "Gavin" and "Mike.
Roy Spencer - RationalWiki
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Do a Google Search on Dr. Spencer. It's hilarious.