U. S. Senate Minority Report: - Klimaforschung

climate fears to] Flat Earthers, it's hard to remain quiet," Briggs explained. "It is well
known that weather forecasts, out to, say, four to five days, have skill; that is, they can beat
just guessing the average. Forecasts with lead times greater than this have decreasing to no
skill," Briggs wrote. "The skill of climate forecasts---global climate models---upon which
the vast majority of global warming science is based are not well investigated, but what is
known is that these models do not do a good job at reproducing past, known climates, nor
at predicting future climates. The error associated with climate predictions is also much
larger than that usually ascribed to them; meaning, of course, that people are far too sure of
themselves and their models," he added. Briggs also further explained the inadequacies of
climate models. "Here is a simplified version of what happens. A modeler starts with the
hypothesis that CO2 traps heat, describes an equation for this, finds a numericalapproximate
solution for this equation, codes the approximation, and then runs the model
twice, once at ‘pre-industrial’ levels of CO2, and once at twice that level, and, lo!, the
modeler discovers that the later simulation gives a warmer atmosphere! He then publishes a
paper which states something to the effect of, ‘Our new model shows that increasing CO2
warms the air,’” Briggs explained. “Well, it couldn't do anything *but* show that, since
that is what it was programmed to show. But, somehow, the fact the model shows just
what it was programmed to show is used as evidence that the assumptions underlying the
model were correct. Needless to say---but I will say it---this is backwards,” he
added. (LINK) & (LINK) & (LINK)
Geologist William F. McClenney, a California Licensed Professional Geologist and
former Certified Environmental Auditor in Victoria, Australia, conducted extensive
climate research and wrote a detailed analysis announcing that he had reversed his
views about man-made global warming. McClenney now says he has done “the math and
realized that you just can’t get to global warming with CO2.” “I believed [global warming
theory]. It made sense. I could see it easily and clearly. And that was a long, long time ago.
It seemed counterintuitive that anyone could or would not believe it. It was that seminal.
Homo Sapiens would cause the earth to warm, we now call it the Greenhouse Gas theory,
and it is now a law (at least in California),” explained. See: February 28, 2008, full
statement here. (Note: McClenney joins other scientists who recently converted from
believer to skeptic of man-made climate fears. (LINK)
Solar physicist Dr. Pal Brekke, a senior advisor to the Norwegian Space Centre in
Oslo, has published more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles on the sun and
solar interaction with the Earth and served as a referee for scientific journals. Brekke,
who was the deputy project scientist for the entire international Solar and
Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and has a new book about the sun titled SolarMax,
rejected claims of a “consensus” on global warming. “It's possible that the sun plays an
even more central role in global warming than we have suspected. 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,” Brekke said on March 3, 2008. “We
could find the temperature leveling off or actually falling in the course of a 50-year
period,” Brekke explained. "There is much evidence that the sun's high-activity cycle is
levelling off or abating. If it is true that the sun's activity is of great significance in
determining the earth's climate, this reduced solar activity could work in the opposite
direction to climate change caused by humans,” Brekke explained. The article continued,
“The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) has determined that the
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