Climate change will be considered a joke in five years time, meteorologist Augie Auer told the annual meeting of Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers in Ashburton this week.
Man's contribution to the greenhouse gases was so small we couldn't change the climate if we tried, he maintained.
"We're all going to survive this. It's all going to be a joke in five years," he said.
A combination of misinterpreted and misguided science, media hype, and political spin had created the current hysteria and it was time to put a stop to it.
Who is Augie Auer? Well...
Professor Augie Auer spent 22 years at the University of Wyoming as Professor of Atmospheric Science before he took sabbatical to work with the former New Zealand Meteorological Service in 1984 & 1985. Emigrating to New Zealand in 1990, Augie became Chief Meteorologist for the MetService until 1998, he was responsible for the improvement and updating of the technical competence of the MetService weather forecasting staff. His frequent liaison between the media and the MetService during major weather events, and his accurate interpretations, endeared him to the nation. Because of media presence, in 1998 he became TV3’s weekday Weather Presenter. In February 2002 he moved into a new role as the network’s resident meteorologist. .And while I'm at it, a rebuttal to his opinion piece is here.
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