Fred Singer, R.I.P.

Fred Singer, an old friend, has passed away.  Fred was a Princeton-trained astrophysicist who became the chief scientific tormenter of Al Gore and his fellow “Watermelons” (green on the outside, red on the inside).  I first met Fred when I was on the economics faculty at George Mason University in the 1980s and Fred was invited to give a talk on the economics of the energy industry.  Very interesting for an astrophysicist to step into those waters and give a talk on economics with future Nobel laureate James M. Buchanan sitting in the front row.  Fred was a brilliant scientist, and his tormenting (and utter demolition) of Gore was the least of his many life’s accomplishments (he invented the satellite technology that measures worldwide temperatures).  He worked with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the most free market of all the D.C. “libertarian” organizations, along with several others, and was a warrior for science in service of freedom to the end.

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10:47 am on April 30, 2020