Editor's
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More
on Mr Singer: Global Warming
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From: Norrman Bo
To: petroleumworldeditor@hotmail.com
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 5:35 AM
Subject: Mr Singer
Dear Editor,
I would like to respond to your publication of a commentary by
the so called climate scientist Fred Singer. I will not debate
the "content" of his writing, that is already well
covered by a number of well renowned organisations. For a summary,
see below under the Real Climate (realclimate.org) banner.
If you trust your readers I think you should make this link
available on teh web site and give them the opportunity to
make up their own minds.
But
I would like to point to your responsibility as an editor in
accepting the statement that Mr Singer is a climate scientist.
In the scientific world there is one generally accepted way
of checking the validity of someone stating to be an expert
in a certain field and that is to check the publication record.
A search of Mr Singer in the Web of Science database (http://portal.isiknowledge.com)
with the following criteria yielded
this outcome.
A double check with Singer F* yielded the same result
In summary:
Mr Singer has in the last ten years published a total of 2 (two)
scientific articles published in peer reviewed (quality controlled)
journals. This hardly qualifies him as an expert whose views
outweighs the work done by many thousands of scientist over
the world and which is summarized in the last IPPC report.
Thus, given the freedom of information principle that I am
sure that both you and I subscribe to, you should allow him
to bring forward his arguments. But in the interest of the
public and you readers, you should check weather his scientific
knowledge and integrity gives his view any specific weight.
Yours sincerely,
Bo Norrman
For the record: I am not a climate scientist. I "only" have
25 years of science background
Bo Norrman
Dr Med Sci, Senior Lecturer
Unit for BioEntrepreneurship, LIME
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm. Sweden
bo.norrman@ki.se
www.lime.ki.se/ube
Mobile tel +46-70-3710949
Skype zeebooswede
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