School children would know more about the Greenhouse effect than Senator Roberts.

One paragraph of Senator Roberts Maiden Speech in the Parliament of Australia really says a lot about his understanding of basic science on the greenhouse effect, there is none. School children would know more about it than he would and I quote from his Maiden Speech:

'It is basic. The sun warms the earth's surface. The surface, by contact, warms the moving, circulating atmosphere. That means the atmosphere cools the surface. How then can the atmosphere warm it? It cannot. That is why their computer models are wrong.'

Since I said school children would know more about the greenhouse effect than Senator Roberts, I think it fitting that I should get the information for him from NASA's Climate Kids website: http://climatekids.nasa.gov/greenhouse-effect/

Also Senator Roberts always goes around saying "empirical" this and "empirical" that well I would like to inform him that according to my Oxford Dictionary, the archaic meaning of "empiric" is "quack doctor". Seems to fit Malcolm Roberts!

Extract from 'The Ascent of Man' by J. Bronowski:

Galileo is the creator of the modern scientific method. And he did that in the six months following his triumph on the Campanile, which would have been enough for anyone else. It occurred to him then that it was not enough to turn the Flanders toy into an instrument of navigation. It could also be turned into an instrument of research, an idea which was altogether new to that age. He stepped up the magnification of the telescope to thirty, and he turned it on the stars. In that way he really did for the first time what we think of as practical science: build the apparatus, do the experiment, publish the results. And that he did between September of 1609 and March of 1610, when he published in Venice the splendid book Sidereus Nuncius, The Starry Messenger, which gave an illustrated account of his new astronomical observations.

Exactly what Climate Scientists are doing today!

The Worker