Physics Prof Offers $10K to Anyone Who Disproves Man-Made Global Warming
Someone will surely step up and take this professor’s challenge. We’ll see if he follows through on the money.
Andrew Desiderio reports at The College Fix.
Physicist Promises $10K to Anyone Who Disproves Man-Made Global Warming
A longtime physics professor promises to pay $10,000 of his own money to anyone who can disprove man-made global climate change.
Dr. Christopher Keating posted “The $10,000 Global Warming Skeptic Challenge!” on his blog earlier this month, and confirmed in an email to The College Fix on Friday that the contest is 100 percent legit.
Keating, an ardent believer in man-made global warming, said he’s not worried that he’ll be out ten grand, because he doesn’t believe anyone can disprove humans are not the cause of global warming.
“Deniers actively claim that science is on their side and there is no proof of man-made climate change,” he told The College Fix in his email. But he called the science proving his beliefs “overwhelming.”
“You would think that if it was really as easy as the deniers claim that someone, somewhere would do it,” he said, adding there’s nothing so far because “it can’t be done.”
Keating, a physicist who has taught at the University of South Dakota and the U.S. Naval Academy, is no fan of people who do not believe climate change is caused by humans. He compares them to tobacco executives of the past who denied a link between lung cancer and smoking.
As for his contest, no entry fee is required, and entrants must be 18 or older to enter. In terms of disproving man-made global warming, he said he’ll take just about any scrap of evidence someone wants to provide.
“They are even free to find proof on the Internet and cut and paste it,” he said, adding “you don’t have to be a scientist and you don’t have to submit an original proof.”
Dr. Keating said he would be “surprised” if anyone could produce a scientifically sound argument disproving man-made climate change.
And is he seriously willing to give away $10,000?
“Absolutely!” he stated. “This is not a bluff.”
Physicist Promises $10K to Anyone Who Disproves Man-Made Global Warming (The College Fix)
Comments
This is a stunt; nothing scientific about it. It’s almost identical to the more common solicitations for proof that astrology is hokum.
I could offer the same prize to anyone who can disprove the folk wisdom that the moon is made of green cheese.
Nor could Dr. Christopher Keating prove that there is any such thing as man-made global warming.
This guy teaches a science class? He wants someone to prove a negative?
Challenge him to prove “N Rays” do not exist and watch him sputter.
Sucks to be him in light of this report: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/10916086/The-scandal-of-fiddled-global-warming-data.html.
I hope he has the money to pay up.
It’s worse than just bogus data.
In order for Keating’s belief to be true, the climate must be warming, and the cause of the warming must be some human activity.
That would be a lot to prove.
But it’s no great challenge to simply assert it, if you’re not concerned about proof.
Keating is not providing evidence – let alone proof – that the two things are in fact true, he’s demanding proof that at least one of them is false.