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as International Journal of Climatology and Geophysical Research Letters. Douglas, a
member of the American Meteorology Society, also was elected a member of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Global
Programs North American Monsoon Experiment Science Working Group. Douglas,
who has served as a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) consultant, recently
dissented from man-made climate fears. Douglas noted that the Arctic Ocean had an
extensive refreeze between November 2007 and January 2008 and the winter in China and
Siberia has been unusually brutal. ―We've really never seen anything like this for many,
many years," Douglas said, according to a February 8, 2008, article in the Capital Press.
The article noted that Douglas rejected claims that current weather is a result of man-made
global warming. ―Whatever the weather,‖ Douglas said, ―it's not being caused by global
warming. If anything, the climate may be starting into a cooling period.‖ Douglas also
pointed to the record cold and snow in the Southern Hemisphere last winter. "Within four
or five months, it appears that a warming trend can go very rapidly in the other direction,‖
Douglas said. The article continued: ―Douglas said he believes the weather patterns the
world is now experiencing are regional phenomena and not a global pattern. He also noted
that the warmest year on record was 1998, but questioned why, if we're in a warming trend,
it hasn't gotten any warmer than it was that year. Douglas said warming trends put more
moisture in the atmosphere, resulting in more snow, which leads to cooling. Americans
don't understand, he said, that what Europeans fear is that we may be heading into a period
of global cooling, which could push ice lower than Europe has experienced in modern
times, creating problems for ports there. After his speech, Douglas told a group of farmers
who questioned him that alarm over global warming is analogous to alarm a few decades
ago that the Great Salt Lake had shrunk so much that it could never recover. In only three
years - in the 1980s - the lake was flooding farmland and endangering highways, industries
and subdivisions, which prompted the state to build pumping stations to draw water into the
desert to evaporate.‖ (LINK) & (LINK) & (LINK)
Meteorologist and hurricane expert Boylan Point, past chairman of the American
Meteorological Society‟s broadcast board, a retired U.S. Navy Flight meteorologist
with Hurricane Hunters and currently a forecaster with WSBB in Florida, dissented
from the view that man-made CO2 is driving a climate disaster. ―A lot of folks have
opinions in which they have nothing to back them up with. Mr. [Al] Gore I think may well
fit into that category,‖ Point said in an interview on WeatherBrains.com on February 19,
2008. ―To lay the whole thing [global warming] at one doorstep [CO2] may be a bit of a
mistake,‖ Point explained. Point is a pioneer in the study of hurricanes, having logged
thousands of hours flying through the storms taking critical measurements during his U.S.
Navy career. (LINK) & (LINK)
Professor Dr. Don Aitkin of the University of Canberra is a former foundation
Chairman of the Australian Research Council, a member of the Australian Science
and Technology Council, and founder and past chairman of the Australian
Mathematics Trust. Aitkin expressed his skepticism of a man-made climate crisis in an
April 2008 speech. ―Is the warming unprecedented? Probably not. There is abundant
historical and proxy evidence for both hotter and cooler periods in human history. Is it our
fault? Again, maybe. The correlation of increasing warmth with increasing carbon dioxide
concentrations is particularly weak; that with solar energy and with ocean movements is
much stronger.‖ Aitkin said. ―Are we likely to see rising sea-levels? Not in our lifetimes or
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