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

is only a fraction of, is not to blame for global warming,‖ Heiss explained. ―Carbon dioxide
is not responsible for the warming of the global climate over the last 150 years. But what
then? For more than 90 percent are changes in the Earth-Sun relationship to the climate
fluctuations. One is the sun's activities themselves, such as the recently discovered 22-yearcycles
occur and sunspots,‖ Heiss continued. ―Looking at the climate history of our planet,
it is clear to see - and quite reassuring with regard to the possible consequences of global
warming as predicted by the IPCC -- that we are now (more precisely, in the last two to
three million years ago) in a very cold climate period. Any warming would give us only the
best long-term climate of the last 560 million years back,‖ he added. ―Moreover, despite all
the proposed measures and their enormous costs, most professional economic studies
indicate that warmer times are generally better,‖ he concluded. (translated) (LINK)
Economist Dr. Arnold Kling, formerly of the Federal Reserve Board and Freddie
Mac, expressed man-made climate skepticism in 2007. ―I am worried about climate
change. In one respect, I may be more worried than other people. I am worried because I
have very little confidence that we know what is causing it,‖ Kling wrote in a December
21, 2007 commentary. ―One of my fears is that we could reduce carbon emissions by some
drastic amount, only to discover that--oops--it turns out that climate change is being caused
by something else,‖ Kling explained. ―I am not a skeptic about the rise in average
temperatures. Nor am I skeptical that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has
been increasing. However, I remain skeptical about the connection between the two,‖ he
wrote. (LINK)
Dr. R. W. Bradnock, former Head of Department of Geography at the School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and currently a Senior Visiting Research Fellow
at King‟s College London (KCL), has published field-based research on sea level and
environmental change and dissented in 2008. ―In my own narrow area of research, I know
that many of the claims about the impact of ‗global warming‘ in Bangladesh, for example,
are completely unfounded. There is no evidence that flooding has increased at all in recent
years. Drought and excessive rainfall are the nature of the monsoon system. Agricultural
production, far from being decimated by worsening floods over the last twenty years, has
nearly doubled,‖ Bradnock wrote on June 9, 2008. ―There remain many academics from a
wide range of fields who question the evidence, and who believe that the catalogue of woes
directly attributed to ‗global warming‘ cannot be reduced simply to an increase in the
proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from 280 parts per million by volume to
c.384 ppmv - the increase that has taken place as a result of the intensive use of fossil fuels
since the beginning of the industrial revolution,‖ Bradnock added. (LINK) (LINK)
Chemical Engineer Dr. Thomas L. Gould, an award-winning engineer with the
Society of Petroleum Engineers, dissented from climate fears in 2008. ―Global warming
is dominated by the sun, clouds, water vapor, and other factors before any influence is felt
by CO2,‖ Gould wrote EPW on June 10, 2008. ―Even if you accept the alarmist view that
the seas will rise and this is a ‗Planetary Emergency‘, why do we think that we can solve
this problem with climate control, costing $10‘s of Trillions? We need to change the
debate, and not let the alarmists set the agenda,‖ Gould wrote. ―I have been doing a lot of
personal research into the short comings of the Global Warming alarmist theories,‖ he
added. (LINK)
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