U. S. Senate Minority Report: - Klimaforschung

Hyslop got selected, and Wheeler Calhoun’s data got quoted daily in the Gazette-Times,”
Decker wrote. (LINK) & (LINK) & (LINK) & (LINK)
Soil scientist and geologist Viv Forbes, the chairman of Australian based “The
Carbon Sense Coalition,” dissented from man-made climate fears. “There is no evidence
that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is driving surface temperature, and there is plenty of
evidence to show that current levels of temperature and carbon dioxide are neither extreme
nor of concern,” Forbes wrote on July 1, 2007. “Even if the water vapor and carbon dioxide
produced by man did cause some slight warming of the earth, is this a problem? Eons of
geological history show that a warm, moist, carbon-rich atmosphere encourages all life on
earth. These periods are referred to as ‘Golden Ages’. The cold barren periods are those to
be feared – they get called ‘The Dark Ages’,” Forbes explained. “It is unbelievable that
many in politics and the media are whipping up public hysteria about ‘global warming’
when the best evidence suggests that for the 100 years ending in the year 2000, the century
of coal, steel, electricity, the internal combustion engine, jet planes, two world wars and a
population explosion, the average surface temperature rose by only 0.6 deg, and there has
been NO increase in temperature since 1998. In many areas, surface temperatures have
been falling for decades,” he continued. “The output of a complex computer simulation of
the atmosphere is not ‘evidence’. It is a fluttering flag of forecasts, hung on a slim flagpole
of theory, resting on a leaky raft of assumptions, which is drifting without the rudder of
evidence, in cross currents of ideology emotion and bias, on the wide deep and restless
ocean of the unknown,” Forbes added. (LINK)
Italian Air Force Meteorologist Guido Guidi, who managed weather stations that
were part of the global climate monitoring system and runs the “Climate Monitor”
website, dissented in 2008. “Despite the continued substantial margin of uncertainty in
understanding the dynamics of climate -- including the weight of the anthropogenic factor -
- the long wave of publications of the 4th Report of 'IPCC last year is having its effect. No
matter how many scientists are not yet convinced of the responsibilities of humankind in
climate change, no matter the distance between the reality of the observations and
projections resulting from (computer) simulations, no matter the hundreds of thousands of
pages written to rebut the arguments underlying this [man-made global warming]
conviction,” Guidi wrote on November 1, 2008. (LINK) “If the temperature does not
increase again, I see it getting hard for those who support the theory of man-made global
warming," Guidi wrote on September 24, 2008. (LINK)
A team of scientists signed a June 11, 2007, Cornwall Alliance “Open Letter”
debunking man-made global warming fears. “Natural causes may account for a large
part, perhaps the majority, of the global warming in both the last thirty and the last one
hundred fifty years, which together constitute an episode in the natural rising and falling
cycles of global average temperature. Human emissions of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases are probably a minor and possibly an insignificant contributor to its
causes,” the scientists declared. “Reducing carbon dioxide emissions would have at most
an insignificant impact on the quantity and duration of global warming and would not
significantly reduce alleged harmful effects. Government-mandated carbon dioxide
emissions reductions not only would not significantly curtail global warming or reduce its
harmful effects but also would cause greater harm than good to humanity–especially the
poor–while offering virtually no benefit to the rest of the world’s inhabitants,” the open
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