Posted 31 December 2016
The inauguration on 20 January 2017 of new American President Donald Trump will be sure to introduce new investigations into the integrity of the received hypothesis that humans can or do raise the global temperature to dangerous levels (aka 'climate change'). Already the rhetoric has started, with one of the original alarmists, Ben Santer, publishing an open letter to President-elect Trump. This was immediately countered by a group of climate skeptics, led by Viscount Christopher Monckton, and followed by another article by Jim Lakely, of Heartland Institute, Chicago. We post links to all three articles below:
Santer piece here
Reply by Monckton et al here
Further reply by Heartland's Jim Lakely here