In a Feb. 16 speech in Indonesia, Secretary of State John Kerry assailed climate-change skeptics as members of the "Flat Earth
Society" for doubting the reality of catastrophic climate change. He
said, "We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists" and
"extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts."
But
who are the Flat Earthers, and who is ignoring the scientific facts? In
ancient times, the notion of a flat Earth was the scientific consensus,
and it was only a minority who dared question this belief. We are among
today's scientists who are skeptical about the so-called consensus on
climate change. Does that make us modern-day Flat Earthers, as Mr. Kerry
suggests, or are we among those who defy the prevailing wisdom to
declare that the world is round?

What is not a known fact is by
how much the Earth's atmosphere will warm in response to this added
carbon dioxide. The warming numbers most commonly advanced are created
by climate computer models built almost entirely by scientists who
believe in catastrophic global warming. The rate of warming forecast by
these models depends on many assumptions and engineering to replicate a
complex world in tractable terms, such as how water vapor and clouds
will react to the direct heat added by carbon dioxide or the rate of
heat uptake, or absorption, by the oceans.
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