LETTER: Climate change supporters need to get a better grip on statistics

I will not waste ink refuting the incorrect conclusions of Dr. Bradley (Daily Inter Lake, Feb. 7) in support of man-made (a descriptor he neglects to mention) climate change, nor will I counter his consensus “data” about warming with equally valid data which refute his.

I certainly don’t have to defend Dr. Berry... he is more than capable. However, since part of Bradley’s attack is that Dr. Berry “never studied statistics,” I would strongly recommend that this biologist read an excellent book by a REAL STATISTICIAN, Dr. Bjorn Lomborg.

Dr. Lomborg wrote an outstanding, sensible and practical book, “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” which looks at a host of wrong conclusions regarding the environment, including climate change, that have been espoused based on statistical and practical misinterpretations of data.

I would strongly suggest that Dr. Bradley and anyone else looking for the truth about man’s contribution to climate change read Dr. Lomborg’s book, especially if you don’t know much about statistics, which is obviously the case with Dr. Bradley.

Fortunately, my master’s degree in surgery from the University of Minnesota includes a minor in computer science and statistics, so I have some background in the field. Dr. Lomborg’s book readily explains the fallacy in the “settled science of man-made climate change” and, once again, gives credence to that quote popularized by Mark Twain which he ascribed to Disraeli, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

Since man-made climate change is as much a political agenda as it is science, I believe Twain’s description is spot on! —P. David Myerowitz, Columbia Falls