Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global ...

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
Greenland. Nor is a climate catastrophe implied by the presently observed rate of warming.
Those conclusions are reached only if one accepts two intermediate steps: (1) that science
has separated anthropogenic effects from natural climate oscillations; and (2) that the
atmosphere-ocean system is metastable so CO2-induced warming will trigger a runaway
process. Neither point has widespread support among those of us who have actually
worked with atmospheric processes. Not only is the debate not over; it is expanding. Let‘s
hope that as the fall semester gets underway , science teachers will motivate their students
to study the anchor questions of points (1) and (2) rather than accept a document generated
by a U.N. bureaucracy that provided no final comment by its scientific authors. Too many
valuable resources are needed for justifiable environmental management to waste them on
a speculation for which there is no scientific consensus. Such inverted pyramids are
dangerous.‖ (LINK)
Award-winning Meteorologist Brian Sussman, a member of the American
Meteorological Society (AMS), former member of the AMS Education Advisory
Committee, and formerly of KPIX-TV CBS in San Francisco, is the author of the
forthcoming book Global Whining: A Denier‟s Handbook. ―Mankind's burning of fossil
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