CHAPTER 6
6-48 Man-made climate change global warming
6-48a Al Gore
“The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time.
We are facing a global climate crisis.
... The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It’s been
the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40
percent is gone and the rest of it is going.
... Sixty-eight percent of Americans now believe that human activity is responsible
for global warming. Sixty-nine percent believe that the Earth is heating up in a
significant way... What is missing is a sense of urgency.
...The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge
of global warming. We have all the technologies we need, more are being developed....
But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait.”
Al Gore
“I had the privilege of being fired by Al Gore, since I refused to go along with his
alarmism... I have spent a long research career studying physics that is closely
related to the greenhouse effect... Fears about man-made global warming are
unwarranted and are not based on good science. The earth’s climate is
changing now, as it always has. There is no evidence that the changes differ in
any qualitative way from those of the past.”
Will Harper, Princeton University physicist, former Director of Energy Research
at the Department of Energy
“When it comes to future climate, no one knows what they’re talking about.
No one. Not the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) nor its scientists,
not the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, not the NRDC or National Geographic,
not the U.S. congressional House leadership, not me, not you, and certainly not
Mr. Albert Gore.”
Patrick Frank, chemist
“There are thousands of scientists all over the world who disagree fundamentally
with what Al Gore is saying... The 1930s were the hottest decade... It was warmer
in the Middle Ages... There has been no significant warming in the last decade,
and even the actual figures are relevant because none of their wonderful climate
models predicted this. They’re predicting what it is going to be in 100 years time
based on climate models but they can’t predict 10 years from now.”
Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer
“Governmental officials are currently casting trillions of dollars down a huge rat
hole to solve a problem which doesn’t exist... Packs of rats wait in that hole to
reap trillions coming down it to fill advocates’ pockets... The money we are about
to spend on drastically reducing carbon dioxide will line the pockets of the environmentalists...
Some politicians are standing in line to fill their pockets with kickback money for large
grants to the environmental experts... In case you haven’t noticed, it is an expanding
profit-making industry, growing in proportion to the horror warnings by government
officials and former vice-presidents.”
Tom McElmurry, meteorologist, former tornado forecaster in Severe Weather Service
“Politicians have come to see global warming as a way to raise revenue by rationing
CO2 production with schemes such as the ‘cap and trade’ legislation now in Congress.
The taxes assessed for producing CO2 could be huge. But global warming as
proclaimed by Al Gore and Co. is a hoax.”
John Takeuchi, meteorologist
“If this were a human caused warming, it should have started about 1940 and trended
strongly upward as global industrialization followed World War II. That isn’t what happened.
The warming started about 1850. We had a surge of warming from about 1850 to 1870.
We had another surge from 1916 to 1940 and then, when the greenhouse gasses began
to spew from the factories, the temperatures went down for 35 years. 1976 to 1998,
we had another surge of warming, but we’ve had no warming in the last 8 years.
So, what we have is an erratic warming that started too soon to be blamed on humans.”
Dennis Avery
“Most meteorological research is funded by the federal government. And boy, if you
want to get federal funding, you better not come out and say human-induced global
warming is a hoax because you stand the chance of not getting funded.”
Willaim Gray
“Billions of dollars of grant money (over $50 billion) are flowing into the pockets of those
on the man-made global warming bandwagon. No man-made global warming, the money
dries up. This is big money, make no mistake about it. Always follow the money trail
and it tells a story.”
James Spann, American Meteorological Society-certified meteorologist
“The only people who would be hurt by abandoning the Kyoto Protocol (on Climate Change)
would be several thousand people who make a living from attending conferences on
global warming.”
Kirill Kondratyev, scientist, Russian Academy of Sciences
“Climate change has become a convenient excuse when there are other environmental
issues that need to be addressed... If we disproportionately blame ourselves for climate
change, our response will be different... We should look at the bigger picture and address
other issues... There are serious environment problems that need to be addressed in order
to effectively deal with climate change... The issues are: the destruction and conversion of
forest, ocean, fresh water systems and other natural habitats; overharvesting of wild foods;
the loss of biodiversity; excess fossil fuel extraction; soil erosion and swelling human population.”
Perry Ong, director of the Institute of Biology at the UP College of Science, Phillipines
“The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is pre-programmed to produce
reports to support the hypotheses of anthropogenic warming and the control of greenhouse
gases, as envisioned in the Global Climate Treaty... The 1990 IPCC Summary completely
ignored satellite data, since they showed no warming. The 1995 IPCC report was notorious
for the significant alterations made to the text after it was approved by the scientists - in order
to convey the impression of a human influence. The 2001 IPCC report claimed the twentieth
century showed ‘unusual warming’ based on the now-discredited hockey stick graph.
The latest IPCC report, published in 2007, completely devaluates the climate contributions
from changes in solar activities, which are likely to dominate any human influence.”
Frederick Seitz, Past President, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
“The longer trends tell us that by 2020, we will be experiencing an unusually low-energy sun.
Apparently, these are exactly the conditions that ... ushered in the Little Ice Age. The science
goes on. There is an increasing body of science that says that the sun may have a greater
role. If it does have, then global warming is likely to stop, as it appears to have done
since 1998, and if the current sunspot cycle fails to ignite, then cooling, possibly rapid
and severe cooling, may eventuate.”
Geoffrey Kearsley, geographer, director of Wilderness Research Foundation
“All temperature and weather observations indicate that the earth isn’t like a greenhouse
and that there is in reality no ‘natural greenhouse effect’ which could warm up the earth by
its own emitted energy - a ‘global warming effect’. With or without atmosphere everybody
loses heat, gets inevitably colder... The hypothesis of a natural and a man-made
‘greenhouse effect’, like eugenics, belongs to the category ‘scientific errors.”
Wolfgang P. Thuene, former analyst and forecaster for the German Weather Service
“Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful.
To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is
environmentally helpful... (The Kyoto Treaty on Climate Change) would have very negative
effects upon the technology of nations throughout the world especially those that are
currently attempting to lift from poverty and provide opportunities to the over 4 billion
people in technologically underdeveloped countries.”
Frederick Seitz, Past President, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
“Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact
(on global temperature) as water vapor and water condensed on particles as clouds
dominate the worldwide scene and always will.”
Geoffrey G. Duffy, Scientist, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the
University of Auckland, New Zealand
“Because CO2 is slightly soluble in water and will come back to the Earth with
precipitation, nature corrects for any excess, just as it does with other excess materials
from volcanoes and forest fires. Nature recycles all of what it considers excess very efficiently.”
Sherwood Thoele, analytical chemist and mathematician
“The hypothesis that the global warming of the past decades is man-made is based on
the results of calculations with climate models in which the main influence on climate is
not included. The most important climate driver comes from the interplay of solar activity,
interplanetary magnetic field strength, cosmic radiation intensity, and cloud cover of the
Earth atmosphere.”
Gerhard Lobert, physicist, Recipient of The Needle of Honor of German Aeronautics
“There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide,
methane, or other greenhouse gases 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.”
Jon Hartzler, retired science professor from St. Cloud State University
“CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference (in global temperature) 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.”
Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at
Chubu University, Japan
“There is no evidence that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is driving surface
temperature, and there is plenty of evidence to show that current levels of temperature
and carbon dioxide are neither extreme nor of concern... It is unbelievable that many
in politics and the media are whipping up public hysteria about ‘global warming’ when
the best evidence suggests that for the 100 years ending in the year 2000, the century
of coal, steel, electricity, the internal combustion engine, jet planes, two world wars and
a population explosion, the average surface temperature rose by only 0.6 deg, and
there has been no increase in temperature since 1998.”
Viv Forbes, geologist
“Global warming fears are the worst scientific scandal in history. When people come
to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.”
Kiminori Itoh, member of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change),
award-winning environmental physical chemist
“More important than CO2 is the interaction of solar activity (solar winds) with
penetrating cosmic rays into the earth’s atmosphere. When cosmic ray activity is
great, a large volume of rays penetrates the earth’s lower atmosphere and contributes
to cloud formation and cools the earth. However, when there is a lot of solar activity,
solar winds tend to blow away just enough of the cosmic rays to thwart cloud
formation at the lower levels resulting in fewer clouds and global warming.
This phenomenon can be documented over hundreds if not thousands of years -
well before humans were able to affect atmosphere.”
Terry Wimberley, professor of Ecological Studies
“Human CO2 emissions are insignificant compared to total natural greenhouse
gas emissions. Therefore, lowering human CO2 emissions will have no measurable
effect on climate, and continued CO2 emissions will have little or no effect on future
temperature... While controlling CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels may have
some beneficial effects on air quality, it will have no measurable effect on climate,
but great detrimental effects on the economy and our standard of living.”
Jonathan DuHamel, geologist
“Fossils from the Holocene Era reveal a northern tree line approaching the
Arctic Ocean. Surely it was warm enough then to preclude pack ice, and perhaps
summer ice, from natural causes, and at only three-quarters of today’s carbon-
dioxide level... Climate that seems unusual, but falls within the natural envelope
of past climate, is no proof of man-made global warming.”
Claude Culross, organic chemistry
“On the differences between astronomy and astrology, both use the same data of
the relative positions and motions of the earth, sun, moon, planets and stars; both
have long complex calculations; both result in numerical answers. In the case of
astronomy, the numbers have a scientific meaning; in the case of astrology, they
do not... The claim of doubling the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere resulting
in global warming is more akin to astrology than it is to astronomy.”
F. James Cripwell, physicist, former scientist with UK’s Cavendish Laboratory
“Geologists and paleo-climatologists know that in the past the Earth’s temperature
has been substantially warmer than it is today, and that this warming has occurred
under purely natural circumstances.”
Greg Benson, earth scientist, geologic study/geologic modeling
“The press promotes the global warming alarmists and ignores or minimizes those
who are skeptical. To many of us, there is no convincing evidence that carbon
dioxide produced by humans has any influence on the Earth’s climate.”
Mark L. Campbell, professor of chemistry at the U.S. Naval Academy
“The new green left environmentalist propaganda reminds me of the old red left
communist propaganda. The dirty word is now carbon rather than capitalism.
The game is simply to intrude and control everything.”
Vincent U. Muirhead, professor emeritus of aerospace engineering, University
of Kansas
“There would be more vocal skeptics of global warming if they were not afraid
of losing funding, much of which is controlled by politically correct organizations.”
Peter Friedman, mechanical engineer
“Scientists and activists alike have jumped on the global warming bandwagon.
It’s become a fad, a trend, a wave of enthusiasm, and the scientists are going
along with the fad to get research grants and the media limelight... The facts,
such as we can observe and calculate them, do not support the idea of man-
made global warming.”
William Hunt, research scientist National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
“The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) climate change
documents do not provide an objective assessment of the earth’s temperature
trends and associated climate change.
... An increasing number of scientists are now questioning the hypothesis of
Greenhouse gas induced warming of the earth’s surface.”
Madhav L. Khandekar, UN scientist and retired Environment Canada scientist
“There is an irrational basis regarding the current scare over global warming...
Compared to solar magnetic fields, carbon dioxide production has as much
influence on climate as a flea has on the weight of an elephant.”
Oliver K. Manuel, professor of nuclear chemistry
“Is global warming something unusual, say, in the last two thousand years?...
There was a global warming in medieval times, during the years between
800 and 1300. And that made Greenland, - now covered with ice - green,
christened by the Vikings with the name - ‘Greenland.’”
Rosa Compagnucci, researcher with the National Science and Technology
Commission, Argentina
“Dire predictions of catastrophe from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change are based solely on computer models that amount to poorly crafted
mathematical opinions, not experimental proof... There is no proof that
man-made carbon dioxide causes additional warming, or that carbon-dioxide
reduction would reduce warming.”
Claude Culross, organic chemist
“NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and
debunking the current hysteria over human-caused or Anthropogenic
Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency
caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science.”
Walter Cunningham, NASA astronaut/physicist
“The sun is the primary source of energy impacting the earth’s surface.
That energy heats the land and the seas, which then warm the air above them.
Water vapor and other gases in the atmosphere also affect temperature...
Oceans are the main repository for CO2. They release CO2 as their temperature
rises. This strongly suggests that warming oceans - heated by the sun - are
a major contributor to CO2 in the atmosphere.”
John Takeuchi, meteorologist
“At a time when advocates of man-made global warming continue to push
government policies to restrict energy use and the burning of fossil fuels in
order to prevent ‘catastrophic’ warming, the world continues to cool....
That is leading to increasing skepticism that the call to sacrifice living
standards in order to “save the planet” is just political spin designed to
persuade the public to accept green taxes.”
Muriel Newman, mathematician and member of the Northland Conservation
Board
“In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-
religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in particular
have filled the vacuum of organized religion, with reasoned questioning
of its mantras regarded as a form of blasphemy.”
Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor of the Exchequer of UK
“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.”
Delgado Domingos, environmental scientist
“Global warming has become a new religion.”
Nobel Prize Winner For Physics, Ivar Giaever
“Global warming is indeed a scam, perpetrated by scientists with vested
interests.”
Martin Keeley, geology scientist
“What I’d do with the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
report is to put it in the trash can because that’s all it’s worth....carbon dioxide
was an insignificant component of the earth’s atmosphere and that, rather than
being the purveyor of doom it is currently viewed as today, it is needed in order
for plants to grow.”
Dennis Hollars, astrophysicist
“I was appalled at the behavior of many of those who helped produce the
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports and by many
of those who promote it. In particular I am referring to the arrogance; the activities
aimed at shutting down debate; the outright fabrications; the mindless defense
of bogus science, and the politicization of the IPCC process and the science
process itself.”
Roger W. Cohen, physicist
“I submit that there is no man-made global cooling/warming, that there is no
study or research data that makes a good argument to that effect when
carefully examined objectively, and that the Earth has many different and
wide ranging cycles that man cannot control, no matter how much he would
like to.”
Sherwood Thoele, analytical chemist and mathematician
“As the glaciological and tree ring evidence shows, climate change is a
natural phenomenon that has occurred many times in the past, both with the
magnitude as well as with the time rate of the temperature change that have
occurred in the recent decades.”
Gerhard Lobert, physicist
“When it comes to science, never blindly accept an explanation from a politician
or scientists who have turned political for their own private gain. Taxing carbon
will have absolutely no beneficial effect on our climate, will hurt the economies
of the world, and will be harmful to the production of food because less carbon
dioxide means reduced plant growth.”
Bob Ashworth, chemical engineer, authored a 2008 technical analysis of global
warming
“The sun may play the main role in climate variation here on earth.”
Dave Dahl, meteorologist
“For most of earth’s history carbon dioxide level has been several times higher
than the present....The conclusion from all this is that carbon dioxide change
does not cause significant climate change. Actions to control the amount of
non-condensing greenhouse gases that are added to the atmosphere are
based on the mistaken assumption that global warming was caused by human
activity.”
Dan Pangburn, mechanical engineer, author of a climate research paper
“Atmospheric CO2 is absorbed by the oceans. Fires, volcanoes, and now man
deposit CO2 into the atmosphere, but those effects are transient. What exists
in steady state is CO2 perpetually pumped into the atmosphere by the oceans....
Atmospheric CO2 is a dynamic stream, from the warm ocean and back into
the cool ocean. Public policy represented by the Kyoto Accords and the efforts
to reduce CO2 emissions should be scrapped as wasteful, unjustified, and futile.”
Jeffrey A. Glassman, physicist and engineer
“Carbon dioxide is not responsible for the warming of the global climate over
the last 150 years... More than 90 percent of climate fluctuations are due to the
sun’s activities themselves, such as the recently discovered 22-year cycles and
sunspots.”
Klaus P. Heiss, space engineer, NASA
“If the greenhouse effect didn’t exist, life on this planet would be frozen?...
Carbon dioxide is vital for life. Plants need it, and, in turn, give us oxygen.
No CO2 means no plants, which means little oxygen for us. Certainly not enough
to live on. Why, then, is CO2 called “pollution”?
Kevin Lemanowicz, meteorologist
“Are global temperatures rising? Surely, they were rising from the late 1970s to
1998, but there has been no net global warming since 1998. Indeed, the more
recent numbers show that there is now evidence of significant cooling...
Mankind is responsible for just a fraction of one percent of the effect from
greenhouse gases, and greenhouse gases are not responsible for most of what
causes warming (e.g., the Sun).”
John Lott, Jr., research scientist
“As the climate change debate moves from the scientific to the political, it is
important to stay with the facts. The bottom line is that humans cannot prevent
global warming... We should not be carried away by misconceptions about
what is driving climate change. It’s with the Earth itself.”
W.J. “Bill” Collins, professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences-
James Cook University, Australia
“There is no proof that carbon dioxide is causing or precedes global warming...
All indications are that the minor warming cycle finished in 2001 and that
Arctic ice melting is related to cyclical orbit-tilt-axis changes in earth’s angle
to the sun.”
John Williams, agricultural scientist, University of Melbourne, Australia
“Water vapor accounts for about 95 percent of earth’s natural ‘greenhouse’
effect. Carbon dioxide gets all the attention because that is what is released
in the burning of fossil fuels. Yet it accounts for less than 4 percent of the total
greenhouse effect.”
Karl Bohnak, meteorologist
“A consistent and significant correlation exists between the planet’s temperature
and the output of energy from the sun.”
Leighton Steward, geologist
“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.’”
Richard Keen, climatologist, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic
Sciences University of Colorado
“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!”
Marcel Leroux, climatologist, director of the Laboratory of Climatology, Risks,
and Environment in Lyon, France
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