- Dr. S. Fred Singer, an
atmospheric scientist at the University of Virginia, who served as the
first Director of the US Weather Satellite Service (which is now in the
Department of Commerce) and more recently as a member and vice chairman
of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere (NACOA)
- Dr. Tom Wigley, a senior
scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, who found
that if the Kyoto Protocol were fully implemented by all signatories, it
would reduce temperatures by a mere 0.07 degrees Celsius by 2050, and
0.13 degrees Celsius by 2100. What does this mean? Such an amount is so
small that ground-based thermometers cannot reliably measure it.
- Dr. Richard Lindzen, an MIT
scientist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, who has
specialized in climate issues for over 30 years.
- Jerry Mahlman, Director of NOAA's
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, who points out that when regional
climate models, of the kind relied upon by the IPCC, attempt to
incorporate such factors as population growth "the details of future
climate recede toward unintelligibility."
- >Gerald North of Texas A&M
University in College Station, agrees that the IPCC's predictions are
baseless, in part because climate models are highly imperfect
instruments. As he said after the IPCC report came out: "It's extremely
hard to tell whether the models have improved" since the last IPCC
report. "The uncertainties are large."
- Peter Stone, an MIT climate
modeler, said in reference to the IPCC, "The major [climate prediction]
uncertainties have not been reduced at all."
- Dr. David Wojick, an expert in
climate science, who recently wrote in an article in Canada's National
Post, "The computer models cannot...decide among the variable drivers,
like solar versus lunar change, or chaos versus ocean circulation versus
greenhouse gas increases. Unless and until they can explain these
things, the models cannot be taken seriously as a basis for public
policy."
- Climate modelers from four separate
climate modeling centers who wrote in the October 2000 edition of
Nature that, "Forecasts of climate change are inevitably
uncertain." They go on to explain that, "A basic problem with all such
predictions to date has been the difficulty of providing any systematic
estimate of uncertainty," a problem that stems from the fact that "these
[climate] models do not necessarily span the full range of known climate
system behavior."
- NASA scientists Roy Spencer and John
Christy whose satellite data, validated independently by
measurements from NOAA balloon radiosonde instruments, show that the
atmosphere has not warmed as alarmists theorize.
- Dr. Thomas R. Karl, senior
scientist at the National Climate Data Center, who corrected the U.S.
surface temperatures for the urban heat-island effect and found that
there has been a downward temperature trend since 1940. This suggests a
strong warming bias in the surface-based temperature record.
- Scientists from the Scripps
Institution for Oceanography who concluded that the temperature rise
comes first, followed by a carbon dioxide boost 400 to 1,000 years
later. This contradicts everything alarmists have been saying about
man-made global warming in the 20th century.
- University of Illinois researchers
who reported "a net cooling on the Antarctic continent between 1966 and
2000." In some regions, like the McMurdo Dry Valleys, temperatures
cooled between 1986 and 1999 by as much as two degrees centigrade per
decade.
- Dr. Paul Reiter who convincingly
debunks the claim that higher temperatures will induce more deaths and
massive outbreaks of deadly diseases in a 2000 study for the Center for
Disease Control.
- Dr. David Legates, a renowned
professor at the University of Delaware and world's leading expert in
the hydrology of climate.
- Over 4,000 scientists, 70 of whom are
Nobel Prize winners, who signed the Heidelberg Appeal, which says
that no compelling evidence exists to justify controls of anthropogenic
greenhouse gas emissions.
- I also point to a 1998 recent survey of
state climatologists, which reveals that a majority of
respondents have serious doubts about whether anthropogenic emissions of
greenhouse gases present a serious threat to climate stability.
- Drs. Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas
of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who have just
completed the most comprehensive review of temperature records ever.
- Then there is Dr. Frederick Seitz,
a past president of the National Academy of Sciences, and a professor
emeritus at Rockefeller University.
- Over 17,000 independently verified
signers of the Oregon Petition, which reads as follows:
"We urge the United States government to reject the global warming
agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any
other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would
harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and
damage the health and welfare of mankind.
"There is no convincing scientific
evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other
greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause
catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the
Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that
increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects
upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth."
- Kenneth Green, D. Env., is Chief
Scientist and Director of the Risk and Environment Centre at The Fraser
Institute. He most recently wrote Global Warming: Understanding
the Debate.
- George H. Taylor, who is the
State Climatologist for Oregon, and a faculty member at Oregon State
University's College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, manages the
Oregon Climate Service, the state repository of weather and climate
information. Mr. Taylor is a member of the American Meteorological
Society and is past president of the American Association of State
Climatologists.
- Pat Michaels is a research
professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and
visiting scientist with the Marshall Institute in Washington, D.C. He is
a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and
was program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the
American Meteorological Society. Michaels has authored tests on climate
and is a contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. According to Nature magazine,
Pat Michaels may be the most popular lecturer in the nation on the
subject of global warming.
- Freeman Dyson, professor of
physics at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, since
1953, is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a member of the U.S. National
Academy of Science, and has received numerous international awards;
- Robert Balling, Jr., Professor &
Director of the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University who
received his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma, has authored three
books on climate;
- Professor Chris Essex of the
University of Western Ontario and of the Niels Bohr Institute's Orsted
Laboratory and the Canadian Climate Center co-authored Taken by Storm
with Professor Ross McKitrick of the University of Guelph and the
Fraser Institute in Vancouver;
- Dr. John Reilly, of the MIT Joint
Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, who established the
benefits of CO2 on flora;
- and many, many others.
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