"Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com writes:
=> Quoted at http://www.sepp.org/glwarm/sciaddheat.html
Or maybe I was wrong to believe that S. Fred Singer was quoting Ponte correctly.
Lets quote from other sections of "The Cooling"
"There are very few pages that, as a scientist, I could accept without questions of accuracy, of precision, or of balance..."
Thats from the preface. Sadly, you're not a scientist Ed, and so not quite as discriminating.
Ponte massively misrepresented the NAS report, in order to (wait, here comes the shocker SELL MORE BOOKS [see Lomberg, Bjorn]) Here is the conclusion of that NAS report :
"The climates of the earth have always been changing, and they will doubtless continue to do so in the future. How large these future changes will be, and where and how rapidly they will occur, we do not know"
The final recommendations of the report, were that climate change was possible, and that further research would be advisable. Pretty shocking stuff.
Basing a scientific article on Ponte's "The Cooling" is akin to writing a balanced report on the US media using only quotes from Ann Coulter and Michael Moore, or quoting Paul Ehrlich on the Black-Scholes equations...
Further Reading : http://www.wmc.care4free.net/sci/iceage/nas-1975.html http://www.wmc.care4free.net/sci/iceage/ponte.html The last six months JPO, GRL or any other creditabel Earth Science journal)
(PS : Lowell Ponte's future scientific works were published in Reader's Digest)