U. S. Senate Minority Report: - Klimaforschung

nonsense,” he added. “The claims of those convinced that AGW (anthropogenic global
warming) is real and dangerous are not supported by reliable data,” Gray concluded.
Physical chemist Dr. Peter Stilbs, who chairs the climate seminar Department of
Physical Chemistry at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, has
authored more than 165 scientific publications in refereed journals since 1970. Stilbs
coordinated a meeting of international scientists and declared his skepticism about manmade
climate fears. Stilbs wrote on December 21, 2006 that “by the final panel discussion
stage of the conference, there appeared to be wide agreement” about several key points
regarding man-made climate fears. Stilbs announced that the scientists concluded, “There is
no strong evidence to prove significant human influence on climate on a global basis. The
global cooling trend from 1940 to 1970 is inconsistent with models based on anthropogenic
carbon dioxide emissions. Actual claims put forward are that an observed global
temperature increase of about 0.3 degrees C since 1970 exceeds what could be expected
from natural variation. However, recent temperature data do not indicate any continued
global warming since 1998.” Stilbs also noted, “There is no reliable evidence to support
that the 20th century was the warmest in the last 1000 years. Previous claims based on the
‘Mann hockey-stick curve’ are by now totally discredited.” Stilbs noted that the team of
international scientists concluded: “There is no doubt that the science behind ‘the climate
issue’ is far from settled. As so many cosmic effects are omitted from climate models, there
is no credibility for arguments such as ‘there is no other explanation’ [than anthropogenic
generation of carbon dioxide]. This must be remembered when making future political
decisions related to these matters.” (LINK) Stilbs also was one of the signatories of the
December 13, 2007 letter critical of the UN IPCC’s climate view. “These [IPCC]
Summaries are prepared by a relatively small core writing team with the final drafts
approved line-by-line by government representatives. The great majority of IPCC
contributors and reviewers, and the tens of thousands of other scientists who are qualified
to comment on these matters, are not involved in the preparation of these documents. The
summaries therefore cannot properly be represented as a consensus view among experts,"
the letter Stilbs signed explained. (LINK)
Geography professor Dr. Randy Cerveny of Arizona State University oversees the
university’s meteorology program and was named to a key post at the UN’s World
Meteorological Organization in 2007. Cerveny, who has written nearly 100 scientific
papers and magazine articles, is in charge of developing a global weather archive for
the UN. He was also a contributing author to the skeptical climate change book
Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming, edited by climatologist Dr.
Patrick Michaels. Cerveny rejected catastrophic fears of man-made climate change in
2007. "I don't think [global warming] is going to be catastrophic,” Cerveny said according
to an October 7, 2007 article. "Hopefully, our grandkids are going to have a lot better
weather information than we did, and they will be able to answer a lot of the questions
we're just in the process of asking," Cerveny explained. (LINK) & (LINK)
Award-winning NASA Astronaut and Physicist Walter Cunningham of NASA’s
Apollo 7. was awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal and Navy Astronaut
Wings and is a member of the American Geophysical Union and fellow of the
American Astronautical Society. (Bio Link) Cunningham rejected climate fears in 2008.
“It doesn’t help that NASA scientist James Hansen was one of the early alarmists claiming
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