A very enjoyable read.
--- In [email protected], "ShempMcGurk" <shempmcg...@...> wrote: > > > "I am a skeptic Global warming has become a new religion." - > Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever. > > "Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving > any funding, I can speak quite frankly .As a scientist I remain > skeptical...The main basis of the claim that man's release of > greenhouse gases is the cause of the warming is based almost entirely > upon climate models. We all know the frailty of models concerning the > air-surface system." - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the > first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology, and formerly > of NASA, who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called > "among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years." > > > > Warming fears are the "worst scientific scandal in the > history When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel > deceived by science and scientists." - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist > Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist. > > > > "The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn't > listen to others. It doesn't have open minds I am really amazed > that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect > conclusions by people who are not geologists." - Indian geologist > Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the > UN-supported International Year of the Planet. > > > > "So far, real measurements give no ground for concern about a > catastrophic future warming." - Scientist Dr. Jarl R. Ahlbeck, a > chemical engineer at Abo Akademi University in Finland, author of 200 > scientific publications and former Greenpeace member. > > > > "Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are > firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most > momentous issues of our time." - Solar physicist Dr. Pal Brekke, > senior advisor to the Norwegian Space Centre in Oslo. Brekke has > published more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles on the sun and > solar interaction with the Earth. > > "The models and forecasts of the UN IPCC "are incorrect because they > only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios > that do not include, for example, solar activity." - Victor Manuel > Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the > National Autonomous University of Mexico > "It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem > there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into > anthropogenic global warming." - U.S Government Atmospheric > Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of > NOAA. > "Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will > virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on > particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will." > . Geoffrey G. Duffy, a professor in the Department of Chemical and > Materials Engineering of the University of Auckland, NZ. > > "After reading [UN IPCC chairman] Pachauri's asinine comment > [comparing skeptics to] Flat Earthers, it's hard to remain quiet." - > Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in the > statistics of forecast evaluation, serves on the American Meteorological > Society's Probability and Statistics Committee and is an Associate > Editor of Monthly Weather Review. > > "The Kyoto theorists have put the cart before the horse. It is > global warming that triggers higher levels of carbon dioxide in the > atmosphere, not the other way round A large number of critical > documents submitted at the 1995 U.N. conference in Madrid vanished > without a trace. As a result, the discussion was one-sided and heavily > biased, and the U.N. declared global warming to be a scientific > fact," Andrei Kapitsa, a Russian geographer and Antarctic ice core > researcher. > > "I am convinced that the current alarm over carbon dioxide is > mistaken...Fears about man-made global warming are unwarranted and are > not based on good science." - 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, and is a fellow of the > American Physical Society, The American Association for the Advancement > of Science, and the National Academy of Sciences. > > > > "Nature's regulatory instrument is water vapor: more carbon dioxide > leads to less moisture in the air, keeping the overall GHG content in > accord with the necessary balance conditions." Prominent > Hungarian Physicist and environmental researcher Dr. Miklós Zágoni > reversed his view of man-made warming and is now a skeptic. Zágoni > was once Hungary's most outspoken supporter of the Kyoto Protocol. > > "For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to > understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must > cooling go on?" - Geologist Dr. David Gee the chairman of the science > committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored > 130 plus peer reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in > Sweden. > > "Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I > quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp Climate models can > at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact." - > Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, who reversed his belief in man-made > warming to become a skeptic, is a former member of the Dutch UN IPCC > committee. > > "The quantity of CO2 we produce is insignificant in terms of the > natural circulation between air, water and soil... I am doing a detailed > assessment of the UN IPCC reports and the Summaries for Policy Makers, > identifying the way in which the Summaries have distorted the > science." - South Afican Nuclear Physicist and Chemical Engineer Dr. > Philip Lloyd, a UN IPCC co-coordinating lead author who has authored > over 150 refereed publications. > > "Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly > (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional > careers ruined." - Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of > the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh. > > "All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the > blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing > global cooling instead." - Geophysicist Dr. Phil Chapman, an > astronautical engineer and former NASA astronaut, served as staff > physicist at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) > > "Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous > nonsense The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of > social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It > became an ideology, which is concerning." - Environmental Scientist > Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical > Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 published articles. > > "CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or > another .Every scientist knows this, but it doesn't pay to say > so Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the > driver's seat and developing nations walking barefoot." - Dr. > Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and > Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan. > > "The [global warming] scaremongering has its justification in the > fact that it is something that generates funds." - Award-winning > Paleontologist Dr. Eduardo Tonni, of the Committee for Scientific > Research in Buenos Aires and head of the Paleontology Department at the > University of La Plata. > > > > "Whatever the weather, it's not being caused by global warming. If > anything, the climate may be starting into a cooling period." > Atmospheric scientist Dr. Art V. Douglas, former Chair of the > Atmospheric Sciences Department at Creighton University in Omaha, > Nebraska, and is the author of numerous papers for peer-reviewed > publications. > > > > "But there is no falsifiable scientific basis whatever to assert > this warming is caused by human-produced greenhouse gasses because > current physical theory is too grossly inadequate to establish any cause > at all." - Chemist Dr. Patrick Frank, who has authored more than 50 > peer-reviewed articles. > > "The `global warming scare' is being used as a political > tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and > decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities." - > Award-Winning NASA Astronaut/Geologist and Moonwalker Jack Schmitt who > flew on the Apollo 17 mission and formerly of the Norwegian Geological > Survey and for the U.S. Geological Survey. > > "Earth has cooled since 1998 in defiance of the predictions by the > UN-IPCC .The global temperature for 2007 was the coldest in a decade > and the coldest of the millennium which is why `global > warming' is now called `climate change.'" - Climatologist > Dr. Richard Keen of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences > at the University of Colorado. > > "I have yet to see credible proof of carbon dioxide driving climate > change, yet alone man-made CO2 driving it. The atmospheric hot-spot is > missing and the ice core data refute this. When will we collectively > awake from this deceptive delusion?" - Dr. G LeBlanc Smith, a > retired Principal Research Scientist with Australia's CSIRO. (The > full quotes of the scientists are later in this report) >
