Andrew Dessler's New Paper Debunks Both Roy Spencer And Richard
Lindzen Posted on 6 September 2011 by Rob Painting, dana1981
Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University, has
released a scientific paper (Dessler 2011) that looks at the
claims made by two of a small group of "skeptic" climate
scientists who regular SkS readers will be familiar with: Roy
Spencer and Richard Lindzen. Both were co-authors on peer-
reviewed papers released this year (Spencer & Braswell  &
Lindzen & Choi ) which, once again, sought to overturn the
orthodox view of climate. Dessler (2011) finds that the
conclusions of these two papers are unsupported by observational
data. Spencer & Lindzen: Tipping reality on its head The
Spencer/Braswell and Lindzen/Choi papers have an unusual take on
global warming: rather than warming causing a change in cloud
cover (i.e. acting as a feedback to either increase or reduce
warming), both papers claim that it's the other way around -
changes in cloud cover cause changes in the surface