U. S. Senate Minority Report: - Klimaforschung

not Mr. Albert Gore,” Frank wrote in the May issue of Skeptic Magazine. “But there is no
falsifiable scientific basis whatever to assert this warming is caused by human-produced
greenhouse gasses because current physical theory is too grossly inadequate to establish
any cause at all. Nevertheless, those who advocate extreme policies to reduce carbon
dioxide emissions inevitably base their case on GCM projections, which somehow become
real predictions in publicity releases,” Frank explained. “General Circulation Models are so
terribly unreliable that there is no objectively falsifiable reason to suppose any of the
current warming trend is due to human-produced CO2, or that this CO2 will detectably
warm the climate at all. Therefore, even if extreme events do develop because of a
warming climate, there is no scientifically valid reason to attribute the cause to humanproduced
CO2. In the chaos of Earth’s climate, there may be no discernible cause for
warming,” Frank added. “Many excellent scientists have explained all this in powerful
works written to defuse the CO2 panic, but the choir sings seductively and few righteous
believers seem willing to entertain disproofs,” Frank concluded. (LINK)
Retired meteorologist Harry A. Gordon, formerly of the National Weather Service,
defended global warming skeptics and noted naturally occurring cycles dominate climate.
"Meteorologist Mike Thompson (of Fox TV) is correct in his defense of global warning
skeptics. A personal examination of a 100-year period of weather in Kansas City showed a
continuous series of short-term warming and cooling periods. Studies from China covered
more than a thousand years and confirmed this. No cycles have been discovered that would
help in forecasting climate changes," Gordon wrote on April 28, 2008. Gordon also decried
intimidation of scientists skeptical of warming as being based on "personal abuse instead of
scientific proof." (LINK)
Chief Meteorologist Kevin Lemanowicz of Fox 25 TV in Massachusetts dissented from
man-made climate fears in 2008. "I continue to say that we have obviously warmed, but we
should not be setting policy based on an uncertain climate future," Lemanowicz wrote on
April 14, 2008. "I am not convinced we have been the dominant force in our global
warming, and I certainly don't trust climate models that are integrating thousands of
variables thousands of time-steps into the future. There is chaos inherent in these models,"
Lemanowicz explained. "One of the cornerstones of the movie An Inconvenient Truth was
the belief that global warming will cause more frequent and more ferocious hurricanes.
This belief was shared by esteemed MIT scientist Dr. Kerry Emmanuel. Well, just like that,
the tide has turned," Lemanowicz wrote, noting that Emmanuel was reconsidering his
views on the global warming-hurricane link. In a May 1, 2008, report, Lemanowicz noted
that "carbon dioxide is a good thing." He wrote: "Did you know that if the greenhouse
effect didn't exist, life on this planet would be frozen? Further, I'm sure you remember from
grade-school science that carbon dioxide is vital for life. Plants need it, and, in turn, give us
oxygen. No CO2 means no plants, which means little oxygen for us. Certainly not enough
to live on. Why, then, is CO2 called "pollution"? Is it really bad for us?" (LINK & (LINK)
& (LINK)
Geologist Jonathan DuHamel, a registered geologist of Arizona with a masters degree,
debunked global warming fears in 2008. “I am a geologist familiar with the scientific
literature on climate change, but I have yet to see any proof or compelling evidence
supporting the assertion that human carbon-dioxide emissions have produced measurable
temperature change,” DuHamel told the Arizona Daily Star on April 24, 2008. “So where
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