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

esearch focuses on the interface between science and society, questioned man-made
climate fears in 2008. ―As is well-known, there is serious and persistent skepticism in
regard to both the magnitude and the direction of climate change and the degree to which it
may be said to be anthropogenic. This might be a largely ‗academic‘ question were it not
for the fact that measures of taxation and regulation are proposed that have the potential to
cause significant harm to the economic well-being of New Zealand,‖ Smith wrote on June
4, 2008. ―The consequence of suppressing the deviant view may not be simply that we
remain in ignorance. It may be that we embark on policies that are likely to be very
damaging to us and only marginally advantageous (if at all) to the wider global
community,‖ Smith explained. There is a need for a substantial and wide-ranging debate
and this must surely mean that at least one of the political parties contesting the up-coming
election must offer an alternative to the prevailing un-wisdom on climate,‖ Smith added.
―Given that the world will very likely continue to increase its production of greenhouse
gases (and in the light of the earlier-expressed doubts about the causation and extent of any
climate change) there should surely be some thorough-going review of the facts before
New Zealand, to its very considerable detriment, elects to fulfill what it sees as its Kyoto
commitments,‖ Smith wrote. ―It may be that even if we satisfied ourselves that the
scientific data pointed (with whatever degree of certainty) to undesirable change, caused by
human activity, we still might conclude that we should not proceed with measures now
proposed on the grounds of the damage that these will cause to New Zealand interests, both
collective and individual,‖ he concluded. (LINK) & (LINK)
Chemist Tom Kondis, a consultant with practical experience in absorption and
emission spectroscopy, dissented in 2008. ―To support their argument, advocates of manmade
global warming have intermingled elements of greenhouse activity and infrared
absorption to promote the image that carbon dioxide traps heat near earth's surface like
molecular greenhouses insulating our atmosphere. Their imagery, however, is seriously
flawed,‖ Kondis wrote in a May 21, 2008, essay titled ―Greenhouse Gas Facts and
Fantasies.‖ ―The fictitious ‗trapped heat‘ property, which they aggressively promote with a
dishonest ‗greenhouse gas‘ metaphor, is based on their misrepresentation of natural
absorption and emission energy transfer processes and disregard of two fundamental laws
of physics. Their promotional embellishments have also corrupted the meaning of
‗greenhouse effect,‘ a term originally relating the loose confinement of warm nighttime air
near ground level by cloud cover, to hot air trapped inside a greenhouse,‖ Kondis
explained. (LINK)
Dr. Klaus P. Heiss, formerly of Princeton University and Mathematica, and a space
engineer who has worked with NASA, the US Atomic Energy Commission and the
Office of Naval Research. Heiss received the NASA Public Service award for unique
contributions to the US Space Program and is a member of the International
Astronautics Academy. Heiss dissented from what he termed the ―alleged climate
catastrophe‖ in 2007. ―The 20th Century increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere continuously. Man-made CO 2 grew exponentially; however, global
temperatures fell between 1940 and 1975, during the time span as the global industrial
production almost exploded. Then [temperatures] rose strongly to 1990 and they have since
stagnated, with the exception of El-Nino 1998 – at roughly the same level, although CO 2
emissions are still rising,‖ Heiss wrote in a September 7, 2007 commentary titled ―No
Reason For Hysteria.‖ ―The entire atmospheric carbon dioxide, of which man-made CO 2
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