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</font></div><div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Climate Science Denier Patrick Moore Under Attack ... - DeSmog https://www.desmog.com › 2016/04/07 › climate-scienc...</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Apr 7, 2016 —<b> British environmentalist and author Mark Lynas, who is also pro-nuclear energy</b>, weighed in too, describing Moore as “just a predictable ...</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Climate science denialist <a href="https://www.desmog.com/patrick-moore" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Patrick Moore</a> is all about “consensus building.” We know this because it says so on his <a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6ga3sqkxW" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">biography at the think tank</a> Frontier Centre for Public Policy.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And so, fresh from delivering a <a href="http://www.desmog.com/2016/03/14/coal-lobbyists-euracoal-paid-patrick-moore-dinner-climate-science-deniers-eu-officials-and-european-parliament-members" data-wpel-link="internal" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">coal-funded talk in Brussels</a> where he told the audience to “celebrate <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">CO2</span>”, the Canadian has been out doing a bit of that “consensus building” in his own unique way.</b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In recent days, Moore has accused respected climate scientist</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Ken Caldeira of “fakery”,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> called him a “jerk” and then told a fellow nuclear power advocate to “<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">GFY</span>”.</span></b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The nuclear advocate in question was Australian energy and climate consultant Ben Heard, who had engaged Moore on social media. He’s written a </span><a href="http://decarbonisesa.com/2016/03/30/friends-like-moore/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">blog about the exchange</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">British environmentalist and author Mark Lynas, who is also pro-nuclear energy, weighed in too, <a href="https://twitter.com/mark_lynas/status/715629383369801729" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">describing Moore as</a> “just a predictable right-wing anti-green contrarian”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When </span><a href="http://www.desmog.com/2016/03/14/coal-lobbyists-euracoal-paid-patrick-moore-dinner-climate-science-deniers-eu-officials-and-european-parliament-members" data-wpel-link="internal" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">DeSmog <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">UK</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> gave Moore the chance to respond to a story showing he had been paid by coal lobbyists to deliver a talk, his response was “bugger off”.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;" /><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2;">Who is Patrick Moore?</h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">For those that don’t know, <a href="https://www.desmog.com/patrick-moore" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Patrick Moore</a> is often described as a former senior member of Greenpeace, even though he left that organisation 30 years ago.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Since then, he has spent his time being an advocate for nuclear power, <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">GM</span> crops, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2010/dec/02/sumatra-rainforest-destruction-patrick-moore" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">forestry</a> and, apparently, burning as much coal as you can get your hands on.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/monsanto-roundup-patrick-moore_n_6956034.html?section=australia" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">French television interview last year</a>, Moore told a journalist that the pesticide glyphosate was not a carcinogen and was so safe, “you could drink a whole quart of it and it won’t hurt you”. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Moore was then immediately offered the chance to drink a glass by the interviewer, which he declined. “I’m not an idiot,” he said.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Moore is a long-time climate science denialist and claims, against all credible scientific institutions, that there is “<a href="https://twitter.com/EcoSenseNow/status/692799155123523584" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">no proof</a>” that the extra <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">CO2</span> in the atmosphere (about 40 per cent more than there was before the industrial revolution) is causing any global warming.</p><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2;">Acidification denial </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In April 2015, <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LGh8oEBeA84J:www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/put-the-acid-on-great-barrier-reef-doomsayers/news-story/196fe4ff3971485f176d4fdc755c2c87+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Moore wrote a column for The Australian</a> newspaper claiming that ocean acidification, caused by adding <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">CO2</span> to the atmsophere mostly from burning fossil fuels, wouldn’t be a problem for the oceans and the species that live in them.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In typical conspiratorial style, Moore even claimed the science of ocean acidification had been “invented” around the year 2005.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Moore has no academic publishing record at all on ocean acidification (or much else in the last 20 years), so it was no surprise that he got things badly wrong.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Several of the world’s leading scientists on ocean acidification, including one who had apparently begun studying the issue a whole five years before it had even been “invented”, tore Moore’s claims to pieces.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Moore’s column was “ill informed and highly misleading”, “very wrong”, “</span><span class="caps" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">BS</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” and “nonsense”, the scientists </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2015/apr/16/ask-the-real-experts-about-ocean-acidification-not-climate-science-deniers" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">told me for The Guardian</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, who explained in painstaking detail why his analysis was flawed.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But this didn’t stop Moore making the same claims in a subsequent </span><a href="https://fcpp.org/sites/default/files/documents/Moore%20-%20Ocean%20Acidification%20Alarmism.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">research paper</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> ”</span><a href="https://fcpp.org/sites/default/files/documents/Moore%20-%20Ocean%20Acidification%20Alarmism.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Ocean ‘Acidification’ Alarmism in Perspective</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” for the Canada-based </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Frontier Center for Public Policy (<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">FCPP</span>)</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, where he is chair of the think tank’s “Energy, Ecology and Prosperity Program”.</span></b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Oddly, the paper carried a disclaimer that the views expressed “do not reflect the opinions” of the center, “its Board of Directors, staff and/or donors” despite it being written by one of its own.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to </span><span class="caps" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">FCPP</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, its papers are “rigorously researched by the most credible experts in their field”. They also claim to run their own “peer review” system for their reports.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>This is just as well, because Moore thinks that actual peer reviewed scientific journals are ruled by a “warmist ideology”.</b></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This appears to be a pattern for Moore. When challenged, respond with a mixture of abuse, name-calling and conspiracy theories.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So when a group of students walked out of a speech he gave at a </span><span class="caps" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">US</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> college last year, he </span><a href="https://www.desmog.com/2014/10/23/climate-science-denialist-patrick-moore-tours-australia-after-comparing-students-taliban" target="_blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">compared them to the “taliban”</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There’s Moore’s “consensus building” skills on display again.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Image: Patrick Moore gives evidence to the <b><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">US</span> Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, February 2014</b></span></span></p></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">----</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ucla debate</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Kenneth Caldeira</b> is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_scientist" title="Atmospheric scientist" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">atmospheric scientist</a> who works at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Institution_for_Science" title="Carnegie Institution for Science" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Carnegie Institution for Science</a>'s <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dge.stanford.edu/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" base64="base64" pd94bwwgdmvyc2lvbj0ims4wiiblbmnvzgluzz0ivvrgltgipz48c3znihhtbg5zpsjodhrwoi8vd3d3lnczlm9yzy8ymdawl3n2zyigd2lkdgg9ijewiibozwlnahq9ijewij48zyb0cmfuc2zvcm09inryyw5zbgf0zsgtodi2ljqyosatnjk4ljc5mskipjxyzwn0ihdpzhropsi1ljk4miigagvpz2h0psi1ljk4miiged0iodi2ljkyosiget0inzayljmwosigzmlsbd0ii2zmziigc3ryb2tlpsijmdzjii8="PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz48c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwIj48ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtODI2LjQyOSAtNjk4Ljc5MSkiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSI1Ljk4MiIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1Ljk4MiIgeD0iODI2LjkyOSIgeT0iNzAyLjMwOSIgZmlsbD0iI2ZmZiIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMDZjIi8" pgc="PGc" phbhdgggzd0ittgzms4xotqgnjk4ljc5mwg1ljiznhy1ljm5mwwtms41nzegms41ndutms4zms0xljmxltiunzi1idiunzi1ltiunjg5ltiunjg5idiuoda4ltiuoda4lteumzexlteumzexeiigzmlsbd0iiza2ziivpjxwyxroigq9ik04mzuundi0idy5os43otvsljaymia0ljg4ns0xljgxny0xljgxny0yljg4msayljg4ms0xljiyoc0xljiyocayljg4ms0yljg4ms0xljg1ms0xljg1mxoiigzpbgw9iinmzmyilz48l2c="PHBhdGggZD0iTTgzMS4xOTQgNjk4Ljc5MWg1LjIzNHY1LjM5MWwtMS41NzEgMS41NDUtMS4zMS0xLjMxLTIuNzI1IDIuNzI1LTIuNjg5LTIuNjg5IDIuODA4LTIuODA4LTEuMzExLTEuMzExeiIgZmlsbD0iIzA2ZiIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik04MzUuNDI0IDY5OS43OTVsLjAyMiA0Ljg4NS0xLjgxNy0xLjgxNy0yLjg4MSAyLjg4MS0xLjIyOC0xLjIyOCAyLjg4MS0yLjg4MS0xLjg1MS0xLjg1MXoiIGZpbGw9IiNmZmYiLz48L2c" pc9npjwvc3znpg="=" xmlns:data="data">Department of Global Ecology</a>. He researches <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification" title="Ocean acidification" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ocean acidification</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treeplanting#Treeplanting_and_climate_change" title="Treeplanting" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">climate effects of trees</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoengineering" title="Geoengineering" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">intentional climate modification</a>, and interactions in the global <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle" title="Carbon cycle" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">carbon cycle</a>/climate system.<sup id="cite_ref-newyorker_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-newyorker-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-opedgreen_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-opedgreen-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-opedcool_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-opedcool-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-newyorkerspecter_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-newyorkerspecter-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> He also acted as an inventor for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures" title="Intellectual Ventures" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Intellectual Ventures</a>, a Seattle-based invention and patent company headed up by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Myhrvold" title="Nathan Myhrvold" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Nathan Myhrvold</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Caldeira's work was featured in 14 May 2012 article in <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The New Yorker</a></i>, entitled "The Climate Fixers"<sup id="cite_ref-newyorkerspecter_5-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-newyorkerspecter-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> and in a 20 November 2006 article in <i>The New Yorker</i>, entitled "The Darkening Sea."<sup id="cite_ref-newyorker_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-newyorker-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> In 2007, he contributed two <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed" title="Op-ed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">op-ed</a> pieces on the subject of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming" title="Global warming" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">global warming</a> to <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The New York Times</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-opedgreen_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-opedgreen-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-opedcool_3-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-opedcool-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> He was named a "Hero Scientist of 2008" by <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist" title="New Scientist" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New Scientist</a></i> magazine.<sup id="cite_ref-newscientist_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-newscientist-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> He was listed as number 36 out of 100 <i>Agents of Change</i> in<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rolling Stone</a></i> magazine's 2 April 2009 list of 100 "artists and leaders, policymakers, writers, thinkers, scientists and provocateurs who are fighting every day to show us what is possible."<sup id="cite_ref-rs100_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-rs100-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In response to the controversy caused by the book <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperFreakonomics" title="SuperFreakonomics" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">SuperFreakonomics</a></i> over Caldeira's view on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_engineering" title="Climate engineering" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">climate engineering</a>, Caldeira rejected the suggestion that he had said, "Carbon dioxide is not the right villain". He responded by posting on his website, "Carbon dioxide is the right villain...insofar as inanimate objects can be villains."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></sup> He said that while the other statements attributed to him by authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner are "based in fact", the casual reader could come up with a misimpression of what he [Caldeira] believes.<sup id="cite_ref-e360_Goodell_10-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-e360_Goodell-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2011, Caldeira resigned as a lead author of an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC_Fifth_Assessment_Report" title="IPCC Fifth Assessment Report" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">IPCC AR5</a> chapter, stating "Again, I think the IPCC has been extremely useful in the past, and I believe the IPCC could be extremely useful in the future. [...] My resignation was made possible because I believe that the chapter team that I was part of was on the right track and doing an excellent job without my contribution. Had I had a scientific criticism of my chapter team, you can be assured that I would have stayed involved. So, my resignation was a vote of confidence in my scientific peers, not a critique." <sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Caldeira has argued for a policy goal of zero carbon dioxide emissions. In 2005, he said, "If you’re talking about mugging little old ladies, you don’t say, ‘What’s our target for the rate of mugging little old ladies?’ You say, ‘Mugging little old ladies is bad, and we’re going to try to eliminate it.’ You recognize you might not be a hundred per cent successful, but your goal is to eliminate the mugging of little old ladies. And I think we need to eventually come around to looking at carbon dioxide emissions the same way.".<sup id="cite_ref-newyorker_1-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-newyorker-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> In 2014, he said, "It is time to stop building things with tailpipes and smokestacks. It is time to stop using the sky as a waste dump for our carbon dioxide pollution." <sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2013, with other leading experts, he was co-author of an open letter to policy makers, which stated that "continued opposition to nuclear power threatens humanity's ability to avoid dangerous climate change."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); 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list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#Biography" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Biography</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#See_also" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Biography">Biography</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken_Caldeira&action=edit§ion=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Biography" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the 1980s, Caldeira worked as a software developer.<sup id="cite_ref-newyorker_1-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-newyorker-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> He received his Ph.D in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_Sciences" title="Atmospheric Sciences" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Atmospheric Sciences</a> in 1991 from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New York University</a> Department of Applied Science.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a></sup> From 1991 to 1993, Caldeira worked at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_State_University" title="Penn State University" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Penn State University</a> as a post-doctoral researcher. He then worked as an Environmental Scientist and Physicist at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory" title="Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory</a> until 2005, when he began his current position at the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Institution" title="Carnegie Institution" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Carnegie Institution</a>: Department of Global Ecology.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken_Caldeira&action=edit§ion=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: See also" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><ul style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaauaaaanaqmaaabb8jblaaaablbmvex="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX" auow5qsojaaaaaxrstlmaqobyzgaaabnjrefucb1jyeabbqw="AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw" wlcagqeagpidyt0ivcsaaaaasuvork5cyii="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide" title="Carbon dioxide" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Carbon dioxide</font></a></li></ul></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Warning-from-climate-science-front-lines-4569221.php</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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