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

Chemical Engineer Ed Rademacher, who holds a masters degree and is a licensed
Professional Engineer with an expertise in operating equipment that removes
pollutants from the atmosphere, dissented in 2008. ―Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant
and, in fact, is a desired,‖ Rademacher wrote to EPW on April 4, 2008. Rademacher has
researched global warming claims. ―I utilize my perspective as an engineer to evaluate the
available data to determine the data's validity. I do the same for the various claims seen
being issued by the participants in the ongoing climate debate,‖ Rademacher wrote. ―To
date, global warming alarmists have not come close to providing any valid scientific data
that proves humans are the sole source of changes in so-called global average temperatures.
Quite simply, correlation between the carbon dioxide levels and the global average
temperatures does not prove a causal relationship,‖ he added. (LINK)
Physicist Dr. John Blethen runs the global warming skeptic website
Heliogenic.blogspot.com. Blethen is blunt in his climate change views. ―The Sun, not a
harmless essential trace gas (CO2), drives climate change,‖ Blethan declares on his website
in 2008. Blethen highlights the dire predictions of global warmng and counters, ―Someone
should tell these people the globe has been cooling.‖ (LINK) Blethen also endorsed the
Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change, sponsored by the International Climate Science
Coalition (ICSC) in 2008. The declaration reads in part: ―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.‖
Professional Geophysicist Norm Kalmanovitch of Canada spoke out against climate
fears in 2008 by analyzing rising CO2 impacts. ―There is zero warming possible from
further increases in CO2,‖ Kalmanovitch wrote in November 2008. ―The temperature
record shows that the global temperature has been increasing naturally at a rate of about
0.5°C/century since the Little Ice Age. The forcing parameter is based on the full measured
0.6°C/century without subtracting the natural warming of 0.5°C/century giving a forcing
parameter that is 6 times larger than can be attributed to the measured increase in CO2,‖
Kalmanovitch wrote. ―Far less obvious, but the major fatal fl aw of the forcing parameter is
that it is based on an observation of temperature and CO2 concentration without taking into
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
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