U. S. Senate Minority Report: - Klimaforschung

dishonest science. Hopefully we are beginning to see political climate change to Global
Warming. More and more scientists are having the courage to step forward with scientific
evidence, as well as common sense arguments against it. The Global Warming crusaders
will not debate the issues. Can they not back up their claims, or if they debated other
scientists would their case just fall apart?” he concluded.
Dr. Peter Friedman, who is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at
University of Massachusetts- Dartmouth and a member of the American Geophysical
Union, spoke out against the alleged “consensus” of global warming in 2008. “Several
respected climate scientists have told me that there would be even more vocal skeptics if
they were not afraid of losing funding, much of which is controlled by politically correct
organizations,” Friedman wrote on March 11, 2008. “The IPCC ‘policy summaries,’
written by a small group of their political operatives, frequently contradict the work of the
scientists that prepare the scientific assessments. Even worse, some of the wording in the
science portions has been changed by policy makers after the scientists have approved the
conclusions,” Freidman explained. Freidman ridiculed the notion of a “consensus.”
“Having frequently attended related conferences including the American Geophysical
Union, I have observed quite the opposite. There is consistently vigorous debate in these
technical sessions,” he concluded. (LINK)
University of Western Ontario physics professor Wayne Hocking, who heads the
Atmospheric Dynamics Group and is co-editor of the 1990 book The Earth's Middle
Atmosphere, dissented from anthropogenic climate change in 2008. Hocking says it is
important to look to the poles – the Arctic and Antarctic poles – to find the truth about
global warming and other atmospheric changes, but with all of the data he has collected on
atmospheric changes over the last 15 years, Hocking is hesitant to claim he can make any
predictions about global warming. “For this to be effective, we need to be there for 20, 30,
40 years, have a long-term data set and then we can start to make useful predictions,” he
says. He says researchers do not know enough about the atmospheric changes and how they
influence each other to draw any conclusions about global warming. “We know there is so
much complexity involved, we want to tread more cautiously,” he says. “Maybe in 10 years
time, it’ll all start to freeze over, we just don’t know.” Hocking cautions against focusing
solely on global warming, but rather to view it as one of many atmospheric changes that
must be researched and understood. “I think it’s too narrow of a view,” he says. “You’ve
got to consider everything together and see global warming as part of a larger picture rather
than something in isolation.” […] “I’m not against global warming, but I want people to
realize it is only one of many dynamic events that occur in the atmosphere and we need to
understand them all,” he says. Hocking recently presented his polar research to a crowded
room at the Physics and Astronomy Colloquium. [LINK and Bio here]
Charles Clough, an atmospheric scientist and Chief of the Atmospheric Effects Team
with the Department of the Army at Aberdeen Proving Ground from 1982 until 2006,
spoke out against man-made climate change on October 6, 2008. “Government
officeholders at federal and state levels assume that current global warming is chiefly, if
not entirely, due to mankind’s growing carbon dioxide emissions, but they have not
examined the science enough,” Clough said. “It certainly does not follow logically that
CO2 emissions drive a warming trend that began prior to widespread fossil fuel use and
that has yet to reach the magnitude of the medieval warm period when Vikings colonized
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