U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007

Senate Report Debunks "Consensus"



Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently
voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called "consensus"
on man-made global warming. These scientists, many of whom are current and
former participants in the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change), criticized the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice
President Al Gore.

The new report issued by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's
office of the GOP Ranking Member details the views of the scientists, the
overwhelming majority of whom spoke out in 2007.

Even some in the establishment media now appear to be taking notice of the
growing number of skeptical scientists. In October, the Washington Post
Staff Writer Juliet Eilperin conceded the obvious, writing that climate
skeptics "appear to be expanding rather than shrinking." Many scientists
from around the world have dubbed 2007 as the year man-made global warming
fears "bite the dust." In addition, many scientists who are also
progressive environmentalists believe climate fear promotion has "co-opted"
the green movement. This blockbuster Senate report lists the scientists by
name, country of residence, and academic/institutional affiliation. It also
features their own words, biographies, and weblinks to their peer reviewed
studies and original source materials as gathered from public statements,
various news outlets, and websites in 2007. This new "consensus busters"
report is poised to redefine the debate. Many of the scientists featured in
this report consistently stated that numerous colleagues shared their views,
but they will not speak out publicly for fear of retribution. Atmospheric
scientist Dr. Nathan Paldor, Professor of Dynamical Meteorology and Physical
Oceanography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, author of almost 70
peer-reviewed studies, explains how many of his fellow scientists have been
intimidated.

"Many of my colleagues with whom I spoke share these views and report on
their inability to publish their skepticism in the scientific or public
media," Paldor wrote. [Note: See also July 2007 Senate report detailing how
skeptical scientists have faced threats and intimidation.]

Scientists from Around the World Dissent

This new report details how teams of international scientists are dissenting
from the UN IPCC's view of climate science. In such nations as Germany,
Brazil, the Netherlands, Russia, New Zealand and France, nations, scientists
banded together in 2007 to oppose climate alarmism. In addition, over 100
prominent international scientists sent an open letter in December 2007 to
the UN stating attempts to control climate were "futile."

Paleoclimatologist Dr. Tim Patterson, professor in the department of Earth
Sciences at Carleton University in Ottawa, recently converted from a
believer in man-made climate change to a skeptic. Patterson noted that the
notion of a "consensus" of scientists aligned with the UN IPCC or former
Vice President Al Gore is false. "I was at the Geological Society of America
meeting in Philadelphia in the fall and I would say that people with my
opinion were probably in the majority." This new committee report, a first
of its kind, comes after the UN IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri implied that
there were only "about a dozen" skeptical scientists left in the world.
Former Vice President Gore has claimed that scientists skeptical of climate
change are akin to "flat Earth society members" and similar in number to
those who "believe the moon landing was actually staged in a movie lot in
Arizona."

The distinguished scientists featured in this new report are experts in
diverse fields, including: climatology; oceanography; geology; biology;
glaciology; biogeography; meteorology; oceanography; economics; chemistry;
mathematics; environmental sciences; engineering; physics and
paleoclimatology. Some of those profiled have won Nobel Prizes for their
outstanding contribution to their field of expertise and many shared a
portion of the UN IPCC Nobel Peace Prize with Vice President Gore.
Additionally, these scientists hail from prestigious institutions worldwide,
including: Harvard University; NASA; National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research
(NCAR); Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the UN IPCC; the Danish
National Space Center; U.S. Department of Energy; Princeton University; the
Environmental Protection Agency; University of Pennsylvania; Hebrew
University of Jerusalem; the International Arctic Research Centre; the
Pasteur Institute in Paris; the Belgian Weather Institute; Royal Netherlands
Meteorological Institute; the University of Helsinki; the National Academy
of Sciences of the U.S., France, and Russia; the University of Pretoria;
University of Notre Dame; Stockholm University; University of Melbourne;
University of Columbia; the World Federation of Scientists; and the
University of London.

The voices of many of these hundreds of scientists serve as a direct
challenge to the often media-hyped "consensus" that the debate is "settled."

A May 2007 Senate report detailed scientists who had recently converted from
believers in man-made global warming to skepticism. [See May 15, 2007
report: Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in
Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics: Growing Number of Scientists Convert
to Skeptics After Reviewing New Research. The report counters the claims
made by the promoters of man-made global warming fears that the number of
skeptical scientists is dwindling.

Examples of "consensus" claims made by promoters of man-made climate fears:



Former Vice President Al Gore (November 5, 2007): "There are still people
who believe that the Earth is flat." Gore also compared global warming
skeptics to people who 'believe the moon landing was actually staged in a
movie lot in Arizona' (June 20, 2006)



CNN's Miles O'Brien (July 23, 2007): The scientific debate is over." "We're
done." O'Brien also declared on CNN on February 9, 2006 that scientific
skeptics of man-made catastrophic global warming "are bought and paid for by
the fossil fuel industry, usually."



On July 27, 2006, Associated Press reporter Seth Borenstein described a
scientist as "one of the few remaining scientists skeptical of the global
warming harm caused by industries that burn fossil fuels."

Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the IPCC view on the number of skeptical
scientists as quoted on Feb. 20, 2003: "About 300 years ago, a Flat Earth
Society was founded by those who did not believe the world was round. That
society still exists; it probably has about a dozen members."

Agence France-Press (AFP Press) article (December 4, 2007): The article
noted that a prominent skeptic "finds himself increasingly alone in his
claim that climate change poses no imminent threat to the planet."

Andrew Dessler in the eco-publication Grist Magazine (November 21, 2007):
"While some people claim there are lots of skeptical climate scientists out
there, if you actually try to find one, you keep turning up the same two
dozen or so (e.g., Singer, Lindzen, Michaels, Christy, etc., etc.). These
skeptics are endlessly recycled by the denial machine, so someone not paying
close attention might think there are lots of them out there -- but that's
not the case.

The Washington Post asserted on May 23, 2006 that there were only "a handful
of skeptics" of man-made climate fears.

UN special climate envoy Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland on May 10, 2007 declared
the climate debate "over" and added "it's completely immoral, even, to
question" the UN's scientific "consensus."

ABC News Global Warming Reporter Bill Blakemore reported on August 30, 2006:
"After extensive searches, ABC News has found no such [scientific] debate"
on global warming.



Brief highlights of the report featuring over 400 international scientists:



Israel: Dr. Nathan Paldor, Professor of Dynamical Meteorology and Physical
Oceanography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has authored almost 70
peer-reviewed studies and won several awards. "First, temperature changes,
as well as rates of temperature changes (both increase and decrease) of
magnitudes similar to that reported by IPCC to have occurred since the
Industrial revolution (about 0.8C in 150 years or even 0.4C in the last 35
years) have occurred in Earth's climatic history. There's nothing special
about the recent rise!"

Russia: Russian scientist Dr. Oleg Sorochtin of the Institute of Oceanology
at the Russian Academy of Sciences has authored more than 300 studies, nine
books, and a 2006 paper titled "The Evolution and the Prediction of Global
Climate Changes on Earth." "Even if the concentration of 'greenhouse gases'
double man would not perceive the temperature impact," Sorochtin wrote.

Spain: Anton Uriarte, a professor of Physical Geography at the University of
the Basque Country in Spain and author of a book on the paleoclimate,
rejected man-made climate fears in 2007. "There's no need to be worried.
It's very interesting to study [climate change], but there's no need to be
worried," Uriate wrote.

Netherlands: Atmospheric scientist Dr. Hendrik Tennekes, a scientific
pioneer in the development of numerical weather prediction and former
director of research at The Netherlands' Royal National Meteorological
Institute, and an internationally recognized expert in atmospheric boundary
layer processes, "I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a
six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely without
merit," Tennekes wrote. "I protest vigorously the idea that the climate
reacts like a home heating system to a changed setting of the thermostat:
just turn the dial, and the desired temperature will soon be reached."

Brazil: Chief Meteorologist Eugenio Hackbart of the MetSul Meteorologia
Weather Center in Sao Leopoldo - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil declared himself
a skeptic. "The media is promoting an unprecedented hyping related to global
warming. The media and many scientists are ignoring very important facts
that point to a natural variation in the climate system as the cause of the
recent global warming," Hackbart wrote on May 30, 2007.

France: Climatologist Dr. Marcel Leroux, former professor at Université Jean
Moulin and director of the Laboratory of Climatology, Risks, and Environment
in Lyon, is a climate skeptic. Leroux wrote a 2005 book titled Global
Warming - Myth or Reality? - The Erring Ways of Climatology. "Day after
day, the same mantra - that 'the Earth is warming up' - is churned out in
all its forms. As 'the ice melts' and 'sea level rises,' the Apocalypse
looms ever nearer! Without realizing it, or perhaps without wishing to, the
average citizen in bamboozled, lobotomized, lulled into mindless
ac­ceptance. ... Non-believers in the greenhouse scenario are in the
position of those long ago who doubted the existence of God ... fortunately
for them, the Inquisition is no longer with us!"

Norway: Geologist/Geochemist Dr. Tom V. Segalstad, a professor and head of
the Geological Museum at the University of Oslo and formerly an expert
reviewer with the UN IPCC: "It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to
explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer
model that purports to show that an impossible amount of fossil fuel burning
is heating the atmosphere. It is all a fiction."

Finland: Dr. Boris Winterhalter, retired Senior Marine Researcher of the
Geological Survey of Finland and former professor of marine geology at
University of Helsinki, criticized the media for what he considered its
alarming climate coverage. "The effect of solar winds on cosmic radiation
has just recently been established and, furthermore, there seems to be a
good correlation between cloudiness and variations in the intensity of
cosmic radiation. Here we have a mechanism which is a far better explanation
to variations in global climate than the attempts by IPCC to blame it all on
anthropogenic input of greenhouse gases. "

Germany: Paleoclimate expert Augusto Mangini of the University of Heidelberg
in Germany, criticized the UN IPCC summary. "I consider the part of the IPCC
report, which I can really judge as an expert, i.e. the reconstruction of
the paleoclimate, wrong," Mangini noted in an April 5, 2007 article. He
added: "The earth will not die."

Canada: IPCC 2007 Expert Reviewer Madhav Khandekar, a Ph.D meteorologist, a
scientist with the Natural Resources Stewardship Project who has over 45
years experience in climatology, meteorology and oceanography, and who has
published nearly 100 papers, reports, book reviews and a book on Ocean Wave
Analysis and Modeling: "To my dismay, IPCC authors ignored all my comments
and suggestions for major changes in the FOD (First Order Draft) and sent me
the SOD (Second Order Draft) with essentially the same text as the FOD. None
of the authors of the chapter bothered to directly communicate with me (or
with other expert reviewers with whom I communicate on a regular basis) on
many issues that were raised in my review. This is not an acceptable
scientific review process."

Czech Republic: Czech-born U.S. climatologist Dr. George Kukla, a research
scientist with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University,
expressed climate skepticism in 2007. "The only thing to worry about is the
damage that can be done by worrying. Why are some scientists worried?
Perhaps because they feel that to stop worrying may mean to stop being
paid," Kukla told Gelf Magazine on April 24, 2007.

India: One of India's leading geologists, B.P. Radhakrishna, President of
the Geological Society of India, expressed climate skepticism in 2007. "We
appear to be overplaying this global warming issue as global warming is
nothing new. It has happened in the past, not once but several times, giving
rise to glacial-interglacial cycles."

USA: Climatologist Robert Durrenberger, past president of the American
Association of State Climatologists, and one of the climatologists who
gathered at Woods Hole to review the National Climate Program Plan in July,
1979: "Al Gore brought me back to the battle and prompted me to do renewed
research in the field of climatology. And because of all the misinformation
that Gore and his army have been spreading about climate change I have
decided that 'real' climatologists should try to help the public understand
the nature of the problem."

Italy: Internationally renowned scientist Dr. Antonio Zichichi, president of
the World Federation of Scientists and a retired Professor of Advanced
Physics at the University of Bologna in Italy, who has published over 800
scientific papers: "Significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even
more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming."

New Zealand: IPCC reviewer and climate researcher Dr. Vincent Gray, an
expert reviewer on every single draft of the IPCC reports going back to 1990
and author of The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of "Climate Change 2001:
"The [IPCC] 'Summary for Policymakers' might get a few readers, but the main
purpose of the report is to provide a spurious scientific backup for the
absurd claims of the worldwide environmentalist lobby that it has been
established scientifically that increases in carbon dioxide are harmful to
the climate. It just does not matter that this ain't so."

South Africa: Dr. Kelvin Kemm, formerly a scientist at South Africa's Atomic
Energy Corporation who holds degrees in nuclear physics and mathematics:
"The global-warming mania continues with more and more hype and less and
less thinking. With religious zeal, people look for issues or events to
blame on global warming."

Poland: Physicist Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski, Chairman of the Central
Laboratory for the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of
Radiological Protection in Warsaw: ""We thus find ourselves in the situation
that the entire theory of man-made global warming-with its repercussions in
science, and its important consequences for politics and the global
economy-is based on ice core studies that provided a false picture of the
atmospheric CO2 levels."

Australia: Prize-wining Geologist Dr. Ian Plimer, a professor of Earth and
Environmental Sciences at the University of Adelaide in Australia: "There is
new work emerging even in the last few weeks that shows we can have a very
close correlation between the temperatures of the Earth and supernova and
solar radiation."

Britain: Dr. Richard Courtney, a UN IPCC expert reviewer and a UK-based
climate and atmospheric science consultant: "To date, no convincing evidence
for AGW (anthropogenic global warming) has been discovered. And recent
global climate behavior is not consistent with AGW model predictions."

China: Chinese Scientists Say C02 Impact on Warming May Be 'Excessively
Exaggerated' - Scientists Lin Zhen-Shan's and Sun Xian's 2007 study
published in the peer-reviewed journal Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics:
"Although the CO2 greenhouse effect on global climate change is
unsuspicious, it could have been excessively exaggerated." Their study
asserted that "it is high time to reconsider the trend of global climate
change."

Denmark: Space physicist Dr. Eigil Friis-Christensen is the director of the
Danish National Space Centre, a member of the space research advisory
committee of the Swedish National Space Board, a member of a NASA working
group, and a member of the European Space Agency who has authored or
co-authored around 100 peer-reviewed papers and chairs the Institute of
Space Physics: "The sun is the source of the energy that causes the motion
of the atmosphere and thereby controls weather and climate. Any change in
the energy from the sun received at the Earth's surface will therefore
affect climate."

Belgium: Climate scientist Luc Debontridder of the Belgium Weather Institute's
Royal Meteorological Institute (RMI) co-authored a study in August 2007
which dismissed a decisive role of CO2 in global warming: "CO2 is not the
big bogeyman of climate change and global warming. "Not CO2, but water vapor
is the most important greenhouse gas. It is responsible for at least 75 % of
the greenhouse effect. This is a simple scientific fact, but Al Gore's movie
has hyped CO2 so much that nobody seems to take note of it."

Sweden: Geologist Dr. Wibjorn Karlen, professor emeritus of the Department
of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology at Stockholm University,
critiqued the Associated Press for hyping promoting climate fears in 2007.
"Another of these hysterical views of our climate. Newspapers should think
about the damage they are doing to many persons, particularly young kids, by
spreading the exaggerated views of a human impact on climate."

USA: Dr. David Wojick is a UN IPCC expert reviewer, who earned his PhD in
Philosophy of Science and co-founded the Department of Engineering and
Public Policy at Carnegie-Mellon University: "In point of fact, the
hypothesis that solar variability and not human activity is warming the
oceans goes a long way to explain the puzzling idea that the Earth's surface
may be warming while the atmosphere is not. The GHG (greenhouse gas)
hypothesis does not do this." Wojick added: "The public is not well served
by this constant drumbeat of false alarms fed by computer models manipulated
by advocates."

Background: Only 52 Scientists Participated in UN IPCC Summary

The over 400 skeptical scientists featured in this new report outnumber by
nearly eight times the number of scientists who participated in the 2007 UN
IPCC Summary for Policymakers. The notion of "hundreds" or "thousands" of UN
scientists agreeing to a scientific statement does not hold up to scrutiny.
(See report debunking "consensus" Recent research by Australian climate data
analyst Dr. John McLean revealed that the IPCC's peer-review process for the
Summary for Policymakers leaves much to be desired.

Proponents of man-made global warming like to note how the National Academy
of Sciences (NAS) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS) have issued
statements endorsing the so-called "consensus" view that man is driving
global warming. But both the NAS and AMS never allowed member scientists to
directly vote on these climate statements. Essentially, only two dozen or so
members on the governing boards of these institutions produced the
"consensus" statements. This report gives a voice to the rank-and-file
scientists who were shut out of the process.

The most recent attempt to imply there was an overwhelming scientific
"consensus" in favor of man-made global warming fears came in December 2007
during the UN climate conference in Bali. A letter signed by only 215
scientists urged the UN to mandate deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions by
2050. But absent from the letter were the signatures of these alleged
"thousands" of scientists.



UN IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri urged the world at the December 2007 UN
climate conference in Bali, Indonesia to "Please listen to the voice of
science."



The science has continued to grow loud and clear in 2007. In addition to the
growing number of scientists expressing skepticism, an abundance of recent
peer-reviewed studies have cast considerable doubt about man-made global
warming fears. A November 3, 2007 peer-reviewed study found that "solar
changes significantly alter climate." A December 2007 peer-reviewed study
recalculated and halved the global average surface temperature trend between
1980 - 2002. Another new study found the Medieval Warm Period "0.3C warmer
than 20th century"



A peer-reviewed study by a team of scientists found that "warming is
naturally caused and shows no human influence." - Another November 2007
peer-reviewed study in the journal Physical Geography found "Long-term
climate change is driven by solar insolation changes." (These recent studies
were in addition to the abundance of peer-reviewed studies earlier in
2007. - See "New Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming
Fears"



With this new report of profiling 400 skeptical scientists, the world can
finally hear the voices of the "silent majority" of scientists.



Evil Earl and his Chicken Little Sky is falling doomsaying Loonacy will have
a MAJOR TILT, I hope his hearts in good shape as it may well not be after he
reads this.



Bwhahahahahahahahaha



Redman
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Neurotics build castles in the sky
Psychotics live in them
Psychiatrists collect the rent


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