The Global Warming Alarmists are losing ground

U. S. Senate Minority Report:
More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims
Scientists Continue to Debunk “Consensus” in 2008


INTRODUCTION:
Over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe challenged man-made global
warming claims made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) and former Vice President Al Gore. This new 231-page U.S. Senate Minority
Report report -- updated from 2007’s groundbreaking report of over 400 scientists who
voiced skepticism about the so-called global warming “consensus” -- features the
skeptical voices of over 650 prominent international scientists, including many current
and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN IPCC. This
updated report includes an additional 250 (and growing) scientists and climate
researchers since the initial release in December 2007. The over 650 dissenting scientists
are more than 12 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media-hyped
IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers.


Highlights of statements made by some of these scientists:


“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.


“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.

Editorial note;
Finally the scientific community has chosen to have their collective voices heard regardless of being "blackballed" by the UN or the Gore followers. The new administration wishes to adopt the Kyoto Protocol, regardless of the monetary hardships it encompasses.

This is the most important part you will read here. Most of the EU subscribed to the Protocol 4 years ago. The agreement states that they will not only hold firm any CO2 contaminants from the 2003 level, but to reduce them by certain percentages. TO THIS DAY NOT ONE HAS EVEN HELD THE LEVEL FIRM, let alone reduce it. The only thing it has served to do is to give the UN money by way of fines.

Link to this report are as follows:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=4fabcdd2-6567-4c62-8e5b-2a1411df5804

Link to an interesting video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbpPOqXgFno