U. S. Senate Minority Report: - Klimaforschung

used that line of thinking, man would have never gone to the moon, the Wright Brothers
would have never flown, and we’d still think the Sun rotated around the Earth,” he
concluded. (LINK)
Professor of Nuclear Chemistry Dr. Oliver K. Manuel of the University of Missouri-
Rolla, has authored more than 100 scientific papers and published research in peerreviewed
literature, rejected rising CO2 fears in 2008. Manuel wrote to CCNET in
February 2008 that there is an “irrational basis of the current scare over global warming.”
Manuel had previously rejected global warming predictions. “Compared to solar magnetic
fields, however, the carbon dioxide production has as much influence on climate as a flea
has on the weight of an elephant,” he wrote to CCNET. Manuel co-authored a December
2007 paper slated for publication in Supernova Research. (LINK) (LINK)
Hydrologist and geologist Mike McConnell of the U.S. Forest Service is a professional
Earth scientist who has studied atmospheric pollution, post-wildfire mitigation
planning, and groundwater surface water modeling. In 2007, McConnell dissented
from the view that mankind has created a climate crisis. “Climate change is a climate
system that we have no real control over,” McConnell wrote on December 27, 2007. “Our
understanding on the complexities of our climate system, the Earth itself and even the sun
are still quite limited. Scaring people into submission is not the answer to get people to
change their environmental ways,” McConnell explained. He also dismissed claims that the
human race was “the cause of our global warming.” McConnell wrote, “There is no real
basis for this. There is a growing body of scientific literatures outlining that this not to be
the case.” He concluded, “Now, if Earth was suffering under an accelerated greenhouse
effect caused by human produced addition of CO2, the troposphere should heat up faster
than the surface of the planet, but data collected from satellites and weather balloons do not
support this fundamental presumption even though we are seeing higher CO2. We ought to
see near lockstep temperature increments along with higher CO2 concentration over time,
especially over the last several years. But we're not.” (LINK) & (LINK)
Physicist F. James Cripwell, a former scientist with UK’s Cavendish Laboratory in
Cambridge who worked under the leading expert in infra red spectroscopy -- Sir
Gordon Sutherland – and worked with the Operations Research for the Canadian
Defense Research Board, recently dissented from man-made climate change fears. “It
seems fair to believe that this new model (from the UK’s Climate Research Unit) assumes
that if CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere increase, temperatures will go up. Since
some of us know this is wrong, it seems quite likely that the 2008 forecast will be as badly
wrong as the 2007 one was. What will the media do then? Maybe if the Northwest
Passage does not open up this summer, as seems quite likely, people may start to realize
that AGW (Anthropogenic Global warming) is a myth,” Cripwell wrote to CCNET on
January 8, 2008. Cripwell continued, “Throughout the discussion of doubling the
concentration of CO2, there is absolutely no reference to the concentrations of CO2 in the
atmosphere over which the increased amount of radiative forcing is supposed to increase
linearly when the concentration of CO2 doubles. Presumably if you halved the
concentration of CO2, you would decrease the radiative forcing by some linear amount. If
you go on halving the CO2 concentration, then as the concentration of CO2 approached
zero, it would appear that the CO2 was rapidly cooling the earth!! Clearly any claim that
the doubling of the CO2 concentration results in a linear increase in the level of radiative
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