U. S. Senate Minority Report: - Klimaforschung

account the actual physical properties of CO2 and its limited effect on thermal radiation as
defined by quantum physics,” he added. (LINK)
Scientists from 40 countries signed the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change,
sponsored by the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC). The 2008 declaration
states in part, “Global climate has always changed and always will, independent of the
actions of humans, and carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant but rather a necessity for all
life; the causes and extent of recently-observed climatic change are the subject of intense
debates in the climate science community and that oft-repeated assertions of a supposed
‘consensus’ among climate experts are false.” The declaration concludes, “There is no
convincing evidence that CO2 emissions from modern industrial activity has in the past, is
now, or will in the future cause catastrophic climate change.” A sampling of scientists
signing the declaration as of June 19, 2008, included: Wayne Goodfellow, PhD (Earth
Science), Ocean Evolution, Paleoenvironments, Adjunct Professor, Senior Research
Scientist, University of Ottawa, Geological Survey of Canada; John Brodie, BASc.,
MASc. (Metallurgical), P.Eng., Director Environmental Affairs, British Columbia Railway
Co., Surrey; Atholl Sutherland Brown, PhD (Geology, Princeton University), Regional
geology, tectonics and mineral deposits; Paul Copper, BSc, MSc, PhD, DIC, FRSC,
Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University Sudbury,
Ontario; Les McDonald, RP Bio; Senior Impact Assessment Biologist, BC Environmental
Protection (retired), Consulting Aquatic Biologist; John W. Bales, BA, MA, PhD
(Mathematics, Modeling), Professor, Tuskegee University, Waverly, Alabama, U.S.A.;
Gregory J. Balle, B.E., MSc., PhD. (Joint Aerospace Engineering and Geophysical Fluid
Dynamics), Pukekohe, New Zealand; Romuald Bartnik, PhD (Organic Chemistry),
Professor Emeritus, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland; Colin Barton, PhD, Earth Science,
Principal research scientist (retd), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation (CSIRO), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Matthew Bastardi, BSc
(Meteorology, Texas A and M University), Florida, U.S.A.; M.I. Bhat, Professor
(Tectonics, Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Kashmir), Sprinagar,
Jammu & Kashmir, India; Frederick Bopp, PhD (Geology), Environmental Consulting,
Owner, Earth Quest, Downingtown, Pennsylvania. U.S.A.; Bruce Borders, PhD, Forest
Biometrics, Professor, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of
Georgia, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.; James Brooks, BS, PhD, Geophysics, Adelaide,
Australia; Stephen Brown, PhD (Environmental Science, State University of New York),
Ground Penetrating Radar Glacier research, District Agriculture Agent Cooperative
Extension Service, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Mat-Su District Office Palmer; Alaska
Agriculture Extension Agent/Researcher, Alaska, U.S.A.; James Buckee, PhD
(astrophysics), Calgary, Alberta, Canada; James Clarke, BS (Meteorology), TV-
Meteorologist, WZVN-TV, Ft. Myers, Florida, U.S.A.; Michael Clover, PhD
(experimental nuclear physics); Computer Simulation, Senior Scientist, Science
Applications International Corp., San Diego, California, U.S.A.; Martin Coniglio,
Meteorologist, KUSA-TV, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.; Claude Culross, PhD (Organic
Chemistry), retired, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A.; Michael Coffman, PhD,
(ecosysytems analysis and climate change), CEO of Sovereignty International, President of
Environmental Perspectives, Inc., Bangor, Maine, U.S.A.; Dalcio K. Dacol, PhD (physics,
University of California at Berkeley), physicist at the US Naval Research Laboratory,
Washington, D.C., U.S.A.; James DeMeo, PhD (University of Kansas, Geography,
Climate, Environmental Science), retired University Professor, now in Private Research,
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