Originally Posted by
Adlerdriver
The hubris required for anyone to actually believe the human race can control the global climate for good or bad is astounding.
And here's a paragraph from the survey about the sample field apparently written without a hint of irony:
Alberta has the highest per capita of professional engineers and geoscientists (a category of licensure that includes climatologists, geologists, glaciologists, meteorologists, geophysicists, and paleo-climatologists) in North America. And the petroleum industry – through oil and gas companies, related industrial services, and consulting services – is the largest employer, either directly or indirectly, of professional engineers and geoscientists in Alberta. In oil and gas companies, almost half of CEOs are professional engineers or geoscientists and most senior management teams and boards have at least one licensed professional...
Like the author of the Forbes article, Roy Spencer is a paid hack of the big oil/gas/coal funded think tank - the Heartland Institute, who doesn't believe in evolution either.
ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Roy W. Spencer