Update: More
Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming
Claims
Outpouring of
Skeptical Scientists Continues as 59 Scientists Added to
Senate Report
‘The science has, quite simply, gone awry’
Washington, DC: Fifty-nine
additional scientists from around the world have been added to the U.S. Senate
Minority Report of dissenting scientists, pushing the total to over 700 skeptical
international scientists – a dramatic increase from the original 650 scientists
featured in the initial December 11,
2008 release. The 59 additional scientists added to the 255-page Senate
Minority report since the initial release 13 ½ weeks ago represents an average
of over four skeptical scientists a week. This updated report –
which includes yet another former UN IPCC scientist – represents an additional
300 (and growing) scientists and climate researchers since the initial report’s
release in December 2007.
The over 700
dissenting scientists are now more than 13 times the number of
UN scientists (52) who authored the media-hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for
Policymakers. The 59 additional scientists hail from all over the world,
including Japan, Italy, UK, Czech Republic, Canada, Netherlands, the U.S. and
many are affiliated with prestigious institutions including, NASA, U.S. Navy,
U.S. Defense Department, Energy Department, U.S. Air Force,
the Philosophical Society of Washington (the oldest scientific society in
Washington), Princeton University, Tulane University, American University,
Oregon State University, U.S. Naval Academy and EPA.
The explosion of
skeptical scientific voices is accelerating unabated in 2009. A March 14, 2009
article in the Australian revealed that Japanese scientists are now at the forefront
of rejecting man-made climate fears prompted by the UN IPCC.
Prominent Japanese
Geologist Dr. Shigenori Maruyama, a professor at the Tokyo Institute of
Technology’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences who has authored more
than 125 scientific publications, said in March 2009 that “there was widespread
skepticism among his colleagues about the IPCC's fourth and latest assessment
report that most of the observed global temperature increase since the mid-20th
century ‘is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic
greenhouse gas concentrations.” Maruyama noted that when this question was
raised at a Japan Geoscience Union symposium last year, ‘the result showed 90
per cent of the participants do not believe the IPCC report.” [Also
See: The prestigious International Geological Congress, dubbed the
geologists' equivalent of the Olympic Games, was held in Norway in August 2008
and prominently featured the voices of scientists skeptical of man-made global
warming fears. [ See:Skeptical scientists
overwhelm conference: '2/3 of presenters and question-askers were hostile to,
even dismissive of, the UN IPCC' & see full
reportshere & here –More analyses
of recent developments see report’s introductionhere. ]
“I do not find the
supposed scientific consensus among my colleagues,” noted Earth Scientist
Dr. Javier Cuadros on March 3, 2009. Cuadros, of the UK Natural History
Museum, specializes in Clay Mineralogy and has published more than 30 scientific
papers.
Award-Winning
Princeton University Physicist Dr. Robert H. Austin, who has published 170
scientific papers and was elected a member of the U.S. National Academy of
Sciences, lamented the current fears over global warming.
“Unfortunately,
Climate Science has become Political Science…It is tragic that some perhaps
well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have
whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomena which is statistically
questionable at best,” Austin told the minority staff on the Environment and
Public Works Committee on March 2, 2009.
‘Could turn the
climate change world upside down’
The rise in skeptical
scientists are responding not only to an increase in dire “predictions” of
climate change, but also a steady stream of peer-reviewed studies,analyses, real world data, and inconvenient developments have further
cast doubts on the claims of man-made global warming fear activists. The
latest peer-reviewed study in Geophysical Research Letters is being
touted as a development that “could turn the climate change world upside
down.” The study finds that the “Earth is undergoing natural climate shift.”
The March 15, 2009 article in WISN.com details the
research of Dr. Anastasios Tsonis of the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. “We realized a lot of changes in the past century from
warmer to cooler and then back to warmer were all natural," Tsonis said.
“I don't think we can say much about what the humans are doing,” he added.
Tsonis further added: “The temperature has
flattened and is actually going down. We are seeing a new shift towards cooler
temperatures that will last for probably about three decades.” [ See
also: Peer-Reviewed
Study Finds Global Warming could stop 'for up to 30 years! Warming 'On
Hold?...'Could go into hiding for decades' study finds – Discovery.com – March
2, 2009 ]
Climate ‘primarily
being driven by natural forcing mechanisms’
Climatologist and
Paloeclimate researcher Dr. Diane Douglas, who has authored or edited over 200
technical reports, also declared natural factors are dominating climate, not
CO2. “The recent ‘panic’ to control GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions and
billions of dollars being dedicated for the task has me deeply concerned that
US, and other countries are spending precious global funds to stop global
warming, when it is primarily being driven by natural forcing mechanisms,”
Douglas, who is releasing a major new paper she authored that will be presented
at a UNESCO conference in Ghent, Belgium on March 20, 2009, told the
minority staff on the Environment and Public Works Committee on March 10,
2009.
Retired Award
Winning NASA Atmospheric Scientist Dr. William W. Vaughan,recipient of the NASA Exceptional
Service Medal, a former Division Chief of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
and author of more than 100 refereed journal articles, monographs, and papers,
also now points to natural causes of recent climate changes. “The cause of
these global changes is fundamentally due to the Sun and its effect on the
Earth as it moves about in its orbit. Not from man-made activities,” Vaughan
told the minority staff on the Environment and Public Works Committee on
February 6, 2009.
Geology Professor Uberto
Crescenti of the University G.d'Annunzio in Italy, the past president of the
Society of Italian Geologists also agrees that nature, not mankind is ruling
the climate. “I think that climatic changes have natural causes according
to geological data…I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate’s report of
scientists against the theory of man-made global warming,” Crescenti told
the minority staff on the Environment and Public Works Committee on January 15,
2009.
UN IPCC Scientist Dr.
Steven M. Japar, a PhD atmospheric chemist who was part of Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Second (1995) and Third (2001) Assessment
Reports, and has authored 83 peer-reviewed publications and in the areas of
climate change, atmospheric chemistry, air pollutions and vehicle emissions,
challenged the IPCC’s climate claims.
“Temperature
measurements show that the [climate model-predicted mid-troposphere] hot zone
is non-existent. This is more than sufficient to invalidate global climate
models and projections made with them!” Japar told the minority staff on the
Environment and Public Works Committee on January 7, 2009.
Mathematical Physicist
Dr. Frank Tipler, professor at Tulane University who has authored 58
peer-reviewed publications and five books, ridiculed man-made climate claims.
“Whether the ice caps melt, or expand --- whatever happens --- the AGW
(anthropogenic global warming) theorists claim it confirms their theory. A
perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology," Tipler wrote on
December 22, 2008.
Botanist Dr. David
Bellamy, a famed UK environmental campaigner, former lecturer at Durham
University, and host of a popular UK TV series on wildlife, says the
international promotion of man-made global warming fears are nearing their end.
(Note: Bellamy was in the original 2007 U.S. Senate report.] “The science has, quite
simply, gone awry. In fact, it’s not even science any more, it’s anti-science,”
Bellamy, who used to believe in man-made warming, declared on November 5, 2008.
‘Journalistic
malpractice’
Chemist Dr. Mark L.
Campbell, a professor of chemistry at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD,
who has published numerous studies in the Journal of the American Chemical
Society on topics such as methane, squarely blames the media for promoting
unfounded climate fears. “The sky is not burning, and to claim that it is
amounts to journalistic malpractice…the press only promotes the global warming
alarmists and ignores or minimizes those of us who are skeptical,” Chapman
wrote on January 13, 2009.
“Scientists across the
globe are catching on -- global warming is not real science. There
is a sucker born every minute who believes in it, and Al Gore is playing the
role of P.T. Barnum,” Chemist Max S. Strozier
declared on December 22, 2009 in an email to the minority staff of the
Environment and Public Works Committee. Strozier spent 26 years
specializing in chemical laboratory analysis, served as a U.S. Department of
Defense aerospace chemist and is a former lecturer at San Jose State University
and the University of Texas.
Highlights
of the Updated 2009 Senate Minority Report of 700 plus scientists featuring the
59 additional scientists:
The
new scientific report “directly challenges the conclusions of the IPCC Summary
that human emissions of carbon dioxide are causing dangerous and unprecedented
warming.” - Quantitative Economist Kenneth A. Haapala, the past
president of the prestigious Philosophical Society of Washington, the oldest
scientific society in Washington (founded 1871), has reviewed hundreds of
reports based on quantitative techniques. Haapala co-authored the report
“Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate”
“I
think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological
data…I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate’s report of scientists against the
theory of man-made global warming.” - Geology
Professor Uberto Crescenti of the University G.d'Annunzio in Italy is the past
president of the Society of Italian Geologists.
“I
am appalled at the state of discord in the field of climate science…There is no
observational evidence that the addition of anthropogenic greenhouse gas
emissions have caused any temperature perturbations in the atmosphere.” - Award-winning
atmospheric scientist Dr. George T. Wolff, former member of the EPA’s Science
Advisory Board, served on a committee of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) and authored more than 90 peer-reviewed
studies.
“The
sky is not burning, and to claim that it is amounts to journalistic malpractice…the
press only promotes the global warming alarmists and ignores or minimizes those
of us who are skeptical.” - Chemist Dr. Mark L. Campbell, a professor of chemistry at
the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, who has published numerous studies in
the Journal of the American Chemical Society on topics such as
methane.
“Once
again we have misleading climate change pronouncements being based on data
errors, data errors detected by non-UN, non-IPCC, non-peer-reviewed external
observers…This is exactly what happens when you base your arguments on
‘consensus science’ and not scientific fact.” - Professor Dr.
Doug L. Hoffman, a mathematician, computer programmer, and engineer, who worked
on environmental models and conducted research in molecular dynamics
simulations. Hoffman co-authored the 2009 book, The Resilient
Earth, described as “bringing a dose of
skeptical reality to climate science and the global warming debate.”
“The questions are
scientific, but the UN answers are political. The global warming debate is
hardly about science.” - Computer Modeler
and Engineer Allen Simmons, who worked 12 years with NASA's top climate
scientists and wrote computer systems software for the world's first weather
satellites and aided in the development of computer systems for polar orbiting
satellites. Simmons co-authored the new skeptical book The Resilient
Earth.
Belief
in climate models compared to “ancient astrology”… "I believe the
anthropogenic (man-made) effect for climate change is still only one of the
hypotheses to explain the variability of climate.” - Award-winning
Japanese Physicist Dr. Kanya Kusano, program director of the Japan Agency for
Marine-Earth Science and Technology who’s research “focuses on the immaturity
of simulation work cited in support of the theory of anthropogenic climate
change.”compared climate models to “ancient astrology.”
“The
recent ‘panic’ to control GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions and billions of
dollars being dedicated for the task has me deeply concerned that US, and other
countries are spending precious global funds to stop global warming, when it is
primarily being driven by natural forcing mechanisms.” -Climatologist and
Paloeclimate researcher Dr. Diane Douglas, who has authored or edited over 200
technical reports, specialized in the reconstruction of a variety of proxy data
and has worked for the Department of Energy and conducted research for the
Arizona State Office of Climatology to investigate the Little
Ice Age.
“Temperature
measurements show that the [climate model-predicted mid-troposphere] hot zone
is non-existent. This is more than sufficient to invalidate global climate
models and projections made with them!”- UN IPCC
Scientist Dr. Steven M. Japar, a PhD atmospheric chemist who was part of
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Second (1995) and Third
(2001) Assessment Reports, and has authored 83 peer-reviewed publications and
in the areas of climate change, atmospheric chemistry, air pollutions and
vehicle emissions.
“The
cause of these global changes is fundamentally due to the Sun and its effect on
the Earth as it moves about in its orbit. Not from man-made activities.” - Retired Award
Winning NASA Atmospheric Scientist Dr. William W. Vaughan, recipient of the
NASA Exceptional Service Medal, a former Division Chief of NASA’s Marshall Space
Flight Center and author more than 100 refereed journal articles, monographs,
and papers.
“Unfortunately,
Climate Science has become Political Science…It is tragic that some perhaps
well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have
whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomena which is statistically
questionable at best.” - Award-Winning Princeton University Physicist Dr. Robert H.
Austin, who has published 170 scientific papers, was elected a member of the
U.S. National Academy of Sciences and is the current Chair of the U.S. Liaison
Committee of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. Austin, who
won the 2005 Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society
“If
global cooling will come soon -- scientists will lose trust .” - Award-winning
Japanese Geologist Dr. Shigenori Maruyama, a professor at the Tokyo Institute
of Technology’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences who has authored
more than 125 scientific publications, was decorated with the Medal of Honor
with Purple Ribbon for a major contribution in the field of geology,
specializes in the geological evidence of prehistoric climate change.
“Observe
which side resorts to the most vociferous name-calling and you are likely to
have identified the side with the weaker argument and they know it.” - Materials and
Research Physicist Dr. Charles R. Anderson, a former Department of Navy
research physicist who has published more than 25 scientific papers
specializes in spectroscopy, microscopy, thermal analysis, mass spectroscopy,
and surface chemistry.
“The
data which is used to date for making the conclusions and predictions on global
warming are so rough and primitive, compared to what’s needed, and so
unreliable that they are not even worth mentioning by respectful scientists.” - Award-winning
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineer Dr. Gregory W. Moore, who has authored or
co-authored more than 75 publications, book chapters, and reports, and authored
the 2001 Version of the NASA Space Science Technology Plan which included a
comprehensive approach to studying the Sun-Earth connection aspect of
space-based research.
“I
appreciate the opportunity to add my name to those who disagree that global
warming is man-made…Hansen embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of
global warming.” - Retired senior NASA atmospheric scientist Dr. John S.
Theon, a former supervisor of NASA’s James Hansen, and the former Chief of the
Climate Processes Research Program at NASA Headquarters and former Chief of the
Atmospheric Dynamics & Radiation Branch.
“I
am pleased to be considered a ‘denier’ in this cause if this puts me in the
class with those who defied prevailing ‘scientific consensus’ that the earth
was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe.” – Retired U.S. Air
Force (USAF) Meteorologist William “Bill” Lyons, of the USAF’s Global Weather
Central at Strategic Air Command.
“I
do not find the supposed scientific consensus among my colleagues… Curiously,
it is a feature of man-made global warming that every fact confirms it: rising
temperatures or decreasing temperatures. No matter what the weather, some model
of global warming offers a watertight explanation.” - Earth Scientist
Dr. Javier Cuadros of the UK Natural History Museum, who specializes in Clay Mineralogy and
has published more than 30 scientific papers
“It
is amazing to me, as a professional geologist, how many otherwise intelligent
people have, as some may say, ‘drunk the Al Gore Kool-Aid’ concerning global
climate change.” - Professional Geologist Earl F. Titcomb Jr. has co-authored
analyses of geological and seismological hazards.
“Let’s
be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus [which]
is the business of politics. . . . What is relevant is reproducible
results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because
they broke with the consensus.’” - Atmospheric
Scientist Timothy R. Minnich, who has more than 30 years experience in the
design and management of a wide range of air quality investigations for
industry and government, is a past member of the American Meteorological
Society and specializes in issues like acid rain and ozone, and has authored or
co-authored numerous technical publications and reports.
“Based
on the laws of physics, the effect on temperature of man’s contribution to
atmospheric CO2 levels is minuscule and indiscernible from the natural
variability caused in large part by changes in solar energy output.” - Atmospheric
Scientist Robert L. Scotto, who has more than 30 years air quality consulting
experience, served as a manager for an EPA Superfund contract and is co-founder
of Minnich and Scotto, Inc., a full-service air quality consulting firm. He
also is a past member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). Scotto, a
meteorologist who has authored or co-authored numerous technical publications
and reports.
“Whether
the ice caps melt, or expand --- whatever happens --- the AGW (anthropogenic
global warming) theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of
a pseudo-science like astrology.” - Mathematical
Physicist Dr. Frank Tipler, professor at Tulane University has authored 58
peer-reviewed publications and five books.
“My
dear colleague [NASA’s James] Hansen, I believe, has finally gone off the deep
end... The global warming ‘time bomb,’ ‘disastrous climate changes that spiral
dynamically out of humanity's control.’ These are the words of an apocalyptic
prophet, not a rational scientist.” - Chemist Dr.
Nicholas Drapela of the faculty of Oregon State University Chemistry
Department
“There
is no credible evidence of the current exceptional global warming trumpeted by
the IPCC…The IPCC is no longer behaving as an investigative scientific
organization or pretending to be one…Their leaders betrayed the trust of the
world community.” - Chemist Dr. Grant Miles, author of numerous scientific
publications who was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Institute of
Chemistry, was a member of UK Atomic Energy Authority Chemical Separation Plant
Committee.
Other
scientists added to the U.S. Senate Minority Report since its initial December
11, 2009 release include the following:
Geologist Dr. Lloyd C.
Furer, a
past Associate Scientist and Visiting Professor at Indiana University who
served as a meteorologist for the U.S. Air Force and has authored more than 35
publications; Physicist and environmental activist John Droz, Jr., who
holds a graduate degree in physics from Syracuse University;Geologist Dr. A.
Neil Hutton, former District Geologist for Northwest Territories and the
Arctic Islands and former Assistant Chief Geologist for the Western Canadian
Basin; Professional Geologist Gary Walker, a member of the Canadian
Society of Petroleum Geologists; Ohio’s NBC 4 chief meteorologist Jym
Ganahl who was the youngest person to be granted the American
Metrological (AMS) Seal of Approval; Dr. Jim Buckee, who holds a PhD
in Astrophysicsfrom Oxford University, lectured about climate change at the
University of Aberdeen; Geologist Allan Shepard, former Chief
Geologist for Amoco International and member of the Association of Engineers,
Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta; Physicist Gary M. Hoover,
a consultant with research and operational experience in atmospheric energy
absorption, nuclear reactor operations and exploration geophysics; Meteorologist
Scott Sumner of North Carolina; Professor Dr. Caleb Stewart
Rossiter, an adjunct professor at the School of International Service at
American University and a former teacher of quantitative research methods;
Chemical Process Control Engineer Dr. Pierre R Latour, who
holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering and has published more than 70 publications
and managed NASA’s Apollo Docking Simulator development; TerryJackson
of the Institute of Physics in London, the founder of the Energy Group, and
a physics teacher at Belfast Institute Further and Higher Education for 30
years;Certified consulting meteorologist Anthony J. Sadar, co-author of
Environmental Risk Communication: Principles and Practices for Industry; Physicist
Dr. Paul Drallos, who worked as a Post Doc at Sandia National Labs in
Albuquerque and at the University of Toledo, formed Plasma Dynamics
Corporation, a small research company that specializes in plasma display
technology and computer simulation; Surface Chemist Dr. Mark Rose Head
of Environmental Quality at Qatar Petroleum who has generated two patents and
developed the largest Purified Wet Acid Plant in the world; Geologist
Dr. Seymour Merrin, a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and a
research scientist; Environmental Chemist Jim Nibeck, who also
worked in the biomedical research industry, wrote a 2008 paper on climate
titled “Doubt About Anthropogenic Global Warming”; Physicist
Jerome Hudson who studies focused on aperture synthesis and
optics; Certified Consulting Meteorologist Mike Smith, the CEO of
WeatherData Services of Wichita Kansas; Environmental Engineer James A.
Haigh, PE, a Certified Plant Engineer and Licensed Professional Engineer of
36 years who has assisted in the design of Class III Nuclear Valves for Nuclear
Power Plants; Meteorologist Tony Pann of WUSA 9 in Washington
DC, holds the American Meteorological Seal of Approval; Biologist and
Biochemist Dr. John Reinhard, a member of the American Chemical Society who
has published 76 papers and currently a scientist in the pharmaceutical
industry;Engineer Alan Cheetham has 30 years experience including
extensive scientific training, data analysis, modeling and statistics and runs
the skeptical website “Global Warming Science”; Professor of Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology Dr. W. M. Schaffer, Ph. D., of the University of
Arizona; CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers, an meteorologist for 22
years, certified by the American Meteorological Society; Engineer and
Physicist J.K. “Jim” August, formerly of the U.S. Navy nuclear power program;
Biologist and Neuropharmacologist Dr. Doug Pettibone, who has
authored 120 scientific publications and holds ten patents and is a past member
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science;Meteorologist Tom
Wysmuller, former weather forecaster at Amsterdam’s Royal Dutch Weather
Bureau; MIT Scientist Dr. Robert Rose, a professor of Materials
Science and Engineering at MIT with approximately 50 years of experience
teaching various scientific; Climate researcher Dr. Craig Loehle,
formerly of the Department of Energy Laboratories and currently with the
National Council for Air and Stream Improvements, who has published more than
100 peer-reviewed scientific papers; German Meteorologist Dr.
Gerd-Rainer Weber, a Consulting Meteorologist; Professor Luigi
Mariani of the Agrometeorological Research Group, Dept. of Crop
Science at the University of Milan, has authored or co-authored more than 50
peer-reviewed studies and other scientific reports; Miroslav
Kutilek, Emeritus Professor of Soil Science and Soil Physics at Czech
Technical University in Prague who specialized in paleoclimatology of
soil; Coastal Engineer Cyril Galvin, member of the American
Geophysical Union; Nuclear Chemist Gary L. Troyer has
worked as an analytical chemist and was a Fellow Scientist at the Westinghouse
Hanford Company; and Award Winning Physicist Dr. Will Happer,
Professor at the Department of Physics at Princeton University and Former
Director of Energy Research at the Department of Energy, who has published over
200 scientific papers.
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