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human influence.‖ ―It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties
when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe,‖ Seitz wrote. ―It is foolish to do so
when the problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by observations. As NIPCC
shows by offering an independent, non-governmental ‗second opinion‘ on the ‗global
warming‘ issue, we do not currently have any convincing evidence or observations of
significant climate change from other than natural causes,‖ Seitz wrote. (LINK) & (LINK)
(Note: Seitz died on March 2, 2008)
Astrophysicist Dr. Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics recently expressed skepticism of a man-made climate crisis. According to a
February 12, 2008, article, Baliunas ―suggested global warming is more directly related to
solar variability than to increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.‖ "If you go
back far enough you eliminate some of your variables," Baliunas said during a February 12,
2008, lecture titled "Warming Up to the Truth: The Real Story About Climate Change."
"I've always been interested with the changes of the sun and how they impact the earth. I
decided to look at a narrower time scale this time… Some people argue solar influence is
large; some argue it is small. I'm somewhere in the middle," Baliunas said. Baliunas also
noted that civilizations have historically looked for causes to climate changes. ―In 16th and
17th century Europe, thousands were executed for what was called ‗weather cooking,‘
where religious and political institutions blamed witches - mostly women - for poor
growing periods or storms,‖ she said during her presentation, according to the article. The
article continued: ―Baliunas said concerns for world energy poverty should be more
significant than worrying about something 100 years from now.‖ (LINK)
Economist Dr. Donald J. Boudreaux, the Chairman of the Department of Economics
at George Mason University, recently announced his skepticism. ―I am a global-warming
skeptic - not of the science of climate change (for I have no expertise to judge it), but a
skeptic of combating climate change with increased government power,‖ Bourdreaux wrote
on Feburary 17, 2008. ―Al Gore, Robert Kennedy, Jr., and too many others dismiss the
downside of curtailing capitalism in order to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. They
write and speak as if the material prosperity that capitalism brings is either not threatened
by increased government power, or is of only small importance when compared to the
threat of global warming,‖ Boudreaux wrote. ―Truly reasonable people are, and ought to
be, skeptical of each of these dogmas,‖ he concluded. (LINK)
Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden is formerly of the Space Research and
Coordination Center in Pittsburgh and Extranuclear Laboratories in Blawnox, PA,
where he studied ion-molecule reactions in the upper atmosphere. Peden, a founding
member of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, and a member of the
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has been published in the
prestigious Journal of Chemical Physics. Peden was also a co-developer of the
Modulated Beam Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer, which was declared one of the
“100 Most Significant Technical Developments of the Year” and displayed at the
Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Peden is also skeptical of a predicted
―climate crisis.‖ ―Sorry folks, but we're not exactly buying into the Global Hysteria just
yet. We know a great deal about atmospheric physics, and from the onset, many of the
claims were just plain fishy. The extreme haste with which seemingly the entire world
immediately accepted the idea of Anthropogenic (man-made) Global Warming made us
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