Westbrook responds

01/05/2009
The letter by Jeff Temple (OGJ, December 8, 2008, p. 14) on my letter (OGJ, Nov. 3, 2008, p. 12) has about a dozen areas deserving comment. I will cite six. 1. I started out by asking about three physicists (Dr. Richard Lindzen, Dr. Robert Jastrow, and Dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov). Mr. Temple berates me by observing one of these was deceased. I didn’t realize it was not cricket to refer to scientists who have passed on. Furthermore, the work by Dr. Jastrow that I cited (Reference 1) was from 1990, when he was very much alive.2. Next he complains that none of these three have “ever authored a testable theory, produced data, or presented papers explaining the current global tempe...

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