U. S. Senate Minority Report: - Klimaforschung

Geophysicist Robert Woock is a senior geophysicist at Stone Energy in Louisiana and
past president of the Southwest Louisiana Geophysical Society. Woock, who earned a
masters in geology, has published on hydrocarbon detection techniques in the
publication of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). Woock
recently declared himself skeptical of man-made climate fears. “I am a Geophysicist by
education and practice with over thirty years in practice. Having studied the paleoclimate
and environment for over thirty-five years I have come to some fundamental conclusions
about our current conditions. The global warming debate is not over. I do not see any
evidence in nature or data to suggest that we are in any anthropologic climate cycle,”
Woock told EPW on December 21, 2007. “We have certainly created local climes, hot
cities and deforestation that affect certain areas, but these are reversible to a large degree. I
also agree with the point that weather is not climate. It is difficult to accept, and probably
impossible to prove that manipulation of second order effects such as CO2 content could
have any climatic impact. Climate is driven by first order processes, i.e.; solar flux and
planetary environments. All the rest, including CO2 content, is driven by the first order
processes,” Woock explained. “All the data used to ‘support’ the global warming theory
can better demonstrate this relationship. Put me down as a serious skeptic on
anthropologic global warming,” he concluded. (LINK)
Nobel Prize Winner for Physics in 1973, Ivar Giaever, a fellow of the American
Physical Society, declared himself a dissenter in 2008. “I am a skeptic,” Giaever
announced in June 2008. “Global warming has become a new religion,” Giaever added. “I
am Norwegian, should I really worry about a little bit of warming? I am unfortunately
becoming an old man. We have heard many similar warnings about the acid rain 30 years
ago and the ozone hole 10 years ago or deforestation but the humanity is still around. The
ozone hole width has peaked in 1993,” he continued. “Moreover, global warming has
become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it.
But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really
know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the
money,” he added. (LINK) (LINK) (LINK)
Climatologist Dr. Richard Keen, who is a lecturer in the Department of Atmospheric
and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado, a member of the American
Meteorological Society, and has worked with the National Center for Atmospheric
Research, dissented in 2008. Keen specializes in volcanic aerosols and climate change
studies and wrote the book Skywatch: The Western Weather Guide. Keen’s 2008 global
warming PowerPoint asking “Inconvenient Questions” was featured on October 14, 2008,
on former Colorado State climatologist Dr. Roger Pielke’s Sr. website. (LINK) According
to Keen, global warming ranges between a “minor inconvenience that’s overblown” or
“nothing – it doesn’t exist” or “a good thing.” “Earth has cooled since 1998,” Keen noted,
“in defiance of the predictions by the UN-IPCC.” According to Keen, “The global
temperature for 2007 was the coldest in a decade and the coldest of the millennium.” After
noting the recent cooling temps, Keen wrote “which is why ‘global warming’ is now called
‘climate change.’” Keen also pointed out that the most Antarctic sea ice on record was
recorded in 2007 and then he rhetorically asked: “Did you see [that fact] reported in the
news?” “U.S. carbon emission growth rate has slowed to 0.2 % per year since 2000,” Keen
wrote. Keen concludes his PowerPoint by stating: “Enjoy the warm climate while it lasts,
and please make enough CO2 to feed a tree.” (LINK) & (LINK)
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