U. S. Senate Minority Report: - Klimaforschung

Frank Wachowski, a retired atmospheric scientist for the National Weather Service,
rejected the notion of a consensus about global warming in 2008. “The jury is still out,”
Wachowski said, according to a March 19, 2008 article. “Obviously, it appears that the
Arctic is getting warmer and causing problems for polar bears and other animals. But are
we doing it? It has become a big political issue,” Wachowski explained. “We don’t have a
long-enough period to study yet…everything goes through cycles,” he concluded. (LINK)
U.S. Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane
Research Division of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) in
Miami strongly protested the notion that most scientists agree with man-made climate
change theories in 2008. “It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is
only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming,” Goldenberg
said on August 18, 2008. “Not all scientists agree that the warming we’ve seen is
necessarily anthropogenic,” Goldenberg added. “There are those who want to attribute any
perceived increase in natural disasters to anthropomorphic global warming. I predict that if
we have an active hurricane season, someone will attribute it to AGW. They’re not really
looking at the science; they’re looking at the disaster,” he added. Goldenberg also praised
the skeptical climate change conference in New York City in March 2008. “The fact is that
this conference is evidence that there are numerous respected, established and in many
cases world-renowned scientists who have done careful research in various areas of
‘climate change’ that sharply differ with the [UN] IPCC results,” Goldenberg told the New
York Times. (LINK) (LINK)
Mechanical Engineer Dan Pangburn, a licensed engineer with master in Mechanical
Engineering and author of a climate research paper, dissented in 2008. “For most of
earth’s history carbon dioxide level has been several times higher than the present,”
Pangburn wrote in his paper on March 15, 2008. “The conclusion from all this is that
carbon dioxide change does NOT cause significant climate change. Actions to control the
amount of non-condensing greenhouse gases that are added to the atmosphere are based on
the mistaken assumption that global warming was caused by human activity,” he added.
(LINK)
Physicist and engineer Dr. Jeffrey A. Glassman, a former Division Chief Scientist for
Hughes Aircraft Company, is an expert modeler of microwave and millimeter wave
propagation in the atmosphere solar radiation, thermal energy in avionics. Glassman
has conducted several studies on CO2 and climate including a July 6, 2007, paper titled,
“Solar Wind has Twice the Global Warming Effect of El Niño.” Glassman is blunt, writing,
“The consensus of climate mistakenly attributes solar wind warming to man-made carbon
dioxide.” Glassman has researched ice core data and concluded, “CO2 concentration is a
response to the proxy temperature in the Vostok ice core data, not a cause. This does not
contradict that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but it does contradict the conjecture that the
presence of a greenhouse gas has any destabilizing effect on global climate. Other forces
overwhelm the conjecture of a runaway greenhouse effect. The concentration of CO2 is
dynamic, controlled by the solubility pump. Global temperature is controlled first by the
primary thermodynamic loop.” Glassman concluded, “The Vostok data support an entirely
new model. Atmospheric CO2 is absorbed by the oceans. Fires, volcanoes, and now man
deposit CO2 into the atmosphere, but those effects are transient. What exists in steady state
is CO2 perpetually pumped into the atmosphere by the oceans. Atmospheric CO2 is a
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