U. S. Senate Minority Report: - Klimaforschung

stable C12 (from fossil fuels) and merely ended up understanding the difference between
the major plant chemistries and their differing ability to use the different isotopes. I have
studied the ice core record, in detail, and am concerned that those who claim to have a
model of our climate future haven't a clue about the forces driving our climate past,” Lloyd
wrote. “I am particularly concerned that the rigor of science seems to have been sacrificed
on an altar of fundraising. I am doing a detailed assessment of the IPCC reports and the
Summaries for Policy Makers, identifying the way in which the Summaries have distorted
the science. I have found examples of a Summary saying precisely the opposite of what the
scientists said,” he concluded. (LINK) (LINK)
Physics professor Dr. Frederick Wolf of Keene State College in New Hampshire has
taught meteorology and climatology courses for the past 25 years and will be
undertaking a sabbatical project on global warming. Wolf recently declared he was
skeptical of man-made climate fears. “Several things have contributed to my skepticism
about global warming being due to human causes. We all know that the atmosphere is a
very complicated system. Also, after studying climate, I am aware that there are cycles of
warm and cold periods of varying lengths which are still not completely understood,” Wolf
wrote EPW on January 10, 2008. “Also, many, many of the supporters (or believers) of
human induced warming have not read the IPCC report AND Al Gore is NOT a climate
scientist!” Wolf added. He also rejected the claim that most scientists agree mankind is
driving a “climate crisis.” “I am impressed by the number of scientific colleagues who are
naturally skeptical about the conclusion of human induced warming,” Wolf added. (LINK)
Dr. Paul Berenson, an M.I.T-educated physicist, was the executive secretary of the
Defense Science Board for the U.S. Department of Defense, the Scientific Advisor to
NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), and Scientific Advisor to
the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.
Berenson, who describes himself as a “scientific truth seeker," has published about a
dozen peer-reviewed studies in the field of thermodynamics, power, fluid mechanics,
and heat transfer. Berenson believes that man-made global warming fears have no
objective scientific basis. “Earth is in the final stages of a typical 10,000 year plus
interglacial when both atmospheric temperature and CO2 content tend to increase long
term from natural causes, as they have after every ice age. The next major stage is the start
of a new ice age which hopefully is more than a thousand years in the future,” Berenson
wrote in a February 2008 commentary. “Man has been putting increasingly large amounts
of CO2 in the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Age and rapidly increasing
the last 60 years as shown in all the references. However, the amount of CO2 man has
added to the atmosphere is less than 1 % of the CO2 that is there from natural causes,”
Berenson explained. “Current atmospheric temperatures and CO2 content are no higher
than they have been at various times during the past million years. The so-called Climate
Optimum 1000 to 1300 A.D. was 1-3 degrees C warmer than now, and apparently provided
better living conditions for humans, animals, and vegetation. For example, Greenland was
green and habitable by farmers. Water vapor (H2O) is the primary greenhouse gas,
contributing roughly 80 % of the greenhouse effect. Without the warming effect of the
greenhouse gases, the Earth would be roughly 10 degrees cooler, and probably
uninhabitable by humans. It has been estimated that the warming effect of CO2 is roughly
one thousandth that of water vapor,” he added. “The analytical models used to predict
higher atmospheric CO2 content and temperature have not been validated, and do not
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