SPECIAL
STATEMENT OF AMICI CURIAE IN REPLY TO RESPONSE BY PLAINTIFF TO MOTION TO FILE
AMICI CURIAE BRIEF
(3)
PROFESSOR DAVID LEGATES…
On
March 16, 2018, the above-listed persons filed their Motion for Leave to File
an Amici Curiae Brief in Support of Defendants.
On
March 20, 2018, Plaintiff filed its Response to the Motion,
II.
SUMMARY
Plaintiff’s allegations are untrue, unfair, or … described as a logical
fallacy by Aristotle in his Sophistical Refutations some 2,500 years
ago. Argumentum ad hominem is an infamous subspecies of ignoratio
elenchi…
III.
ARGUMENT
(A)
Plaintiff says: ... “the proposed amici are (with one exception) not
climate scientists ...”
Response:
Amici
are happy not merely to admit that this is true, but to embrace and champion
that truth. The whole point of our amici brief is that climate scientists do
not know what they are doing
Climate scientists’ ignorant mishandling of this crucial material… requires intervention and correction by Engineers and Statisticians. Amici are able to supply that necessary expertise.
Climate scientists’ ignorant mishandling of this crucial material… requires intervention and correction by Engineers and Statisticians. Amici are able to supply that necessary expertise.
1 Lord Monckton received individual tuition
in applied mathematics and in mathematical as well as formal logic as part of
his Cambridge degree in Classical Architecture.
REALLY? DESPITE BEING
TUTORED BY HIS
TUTORS, THE LATIN-LITERATE LORD FLUNKED HIS FINAL TROPOS EXAMS, GOT A THIRD-CLASS CLASSICS DEGREE, AND WENT ON TO A CAREER IN SHIRTMAKING
14 Dr. Willie Soon is an award-winning
astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
SOON IS NOT AN ASTROPHYSICIST,
NOT AT THE
HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER,
AND WAS NEVER HIRED BY HARVARD.
HE’S AN AEROSPACE
ENGINEER WHO ASSISTED THE SMITHSONIAN IN
DC WITH CIRCUIT DESIGN.
AS
THE AMICI NOTE IN THE SAME DOCUMENT :
“the emoluments actually received by
Dr Soon from these contracts were approximately equivalent to the annual wages
of a burger-flipper at McDonald’s.”
where his work on the connection between solar
variability and terrestrial climate
THE FIRST AUTHOR OF THAT LONG DISCREDITED WORK, DR. SALLY BALIUNAS, THEN AT HARVARD, PRESENTLY REFUSES TO DEFEND IT AND IS NOT MENTIONED AS AN AMICUS
is directly
relevant to the scientific questions that amici have brought before the
Court.
THE DEFENDENTS WISELY DO NOT INVOKE SOLAR
VARIABILITY TO EXPLAIN AWAY CLIMATE CHANGE
Plaintiff says:... “Willie Soon ...
is known to have accepted more than $1.2 million from the fossil-fuel
industry, including Exxon and the American Petroleum
Institute (an organization supported by
all Defendants directly or through their predecessors and/or operating
subsidiaries. As the New York Times has reported,
Soon’s correspondence with his corporate
funders “described many of his scientific papers as “deliverables” that he
completed in exchange for their money.
18
Dr David Legates is the tenured Professor ofClimatology in the
University of Delaware, and is a former Delaware State Climatologist.
Plaintiff says: “David Legates identifies
himself as a “former State Climatologist” for Delaware, but he does not mention
that the Delaware governor ordered him not to use that title in connection with
any statement on climate change… He is a research fellow at the Independent
Institute (which previously received
funding from Exxon and other fossil fuel interests),
Plaintiff says: “... the first four proposed amici (Monckton,
Soon, Legates and Briggs) are ... affiliated with [the] Heartland [Institute];
three are explicitly listed by Heartland as its “policy advisors”. And
Heartland has a well-known history of attacking scientific conclusions to
gratify its corporate funders… Heartland is a veteran anti-science
mercenary.”
