U. S. Senate Minority Report: - Klimaforschung

the reasons for the unusually cold winter that was experienced across much of the Northern
Hemisphere. An extremely low number of solar flares and sunspots may be linked to the
current cooling trend globally,” Dahl explained. A May 20, 2008 article in the Star Tribune
noted: “Meteorologist, Dave Dahl, is of kindred global warming spirit with [skeptical
meteorologist Mike] Fairbourne.” (LINK) & (LINK) & (LINK) & (LINK)
Economist Colin Robinson is the founder of the Department of Economics at the
University of Surrey in the UK and an emeritus professor of economics. Robinson is
also a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society who has authored 25 books and 160
journal papers with a focus on energy policy. Robinson recently dissented from the
“consensus” on man-made global warming. “One does not have to be a ‘climate change
denier’ to see that a degree of skepticism about the present consensus might be in order. In
that sense, I think that the skeptics are right,” Robinson wrote in April 2008. “Most likely,
now – as in the past – many analysts have become carried away by the results of their
models, which purport to look into a far distant future, and have convinced themselves that
they must embark on a crusade to enlighten others. Dissent must be discouraged and
indeed, in a mild version of the Inquisition, the views of anyone who questions the
conventional wisdom should be disregarded and, if possible, suppressed. In such a climate,
we need skepticism even if it brings condemnation by the top echelons of the Royal
Society,” Robinson explained. “The scientific establishment regards anyone who questions
the consensus about climate change and its effects in much the same way as heretics are
regarded by religious movements. Indeed, in many ways, upholders of the consensus view
are a religious movement,” Robinson continued. “In an echo of earlier times, the climate
change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent.
August members of the Royal Society, a body once noted for its cultivation of debate in
science, are now leaders of the ‘science is settled’ camp: the only debate they consider to
be legitimate is about choice among the different forms of the centralized action they
believe is required to deal with the problems they foresee,” he added. “Human myopia
cannot be overcome simply by well-meaning attempts to build models that purport to peer
decades and centuries ahead. Action taken now, in anticipation of supposed long run
trends, may concentrate on the wrong issues and make matters worse rather than better,” he
concluded. (LINK) & (LINK)
Meteorologist Patrick Carroll, a retired Environment Canada meteorologist, publicly
rejected global warming fears in 2008. “The IPCC theory of anthropogenic warming is a
hoax that is rapidly falling into disfavour among atmospheric scientists,” Carroll wrote on
June 9, 2008 in Canada’s The Hill Times. “Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion (of Canada) is a
gullible fool in continuing to believe that CO2 emissions drive climate change. He is
whistling past a political graveyard if he thinks that Canadians will accept billions more in
taxes to reduce and sequester CO2 emissions when there is zero proof that such activities
will have any measurable, let alone detectable, effect on global temperatures. In short, Dion
has been a victim of the alarmist propaganda emanating from the IPCC and radical
environmentalists such as David Suzuki,” Carroll explained. “If Dion had advisers who
were keeping up with the latest research and climate data, he would have been informed by
now that the IPCC theory of anthropogenic warming is a hoax that is rapidly falling into
disfavour among atmospheric scientists. Instead, he continues to blunder along listening to
clueless alarmists like Mr. Suzuki,” he added. (LINK)
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