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

the cart before the horse. It is global warming that triggers higher levels of carbon dioxide
in the atmosphere, not the other way round,‖ Kapitsa said in a July 10, 2008, article on
Hindu.com. ―A large number of critical documents submitted at the 1995 U.N. conference
in Madrid vanished without a trace,‖ the Kapitsa says. ―As a result, the discussion was onesided
and heavily biased, and the U.N. declared global warming to be a scientific fact,‖
Kapitsa explained. ―We found that the level of CO2 had fluctuated greatly over the period
but at any given time increases in air temperature preceded higher concentrations of CO2.‖
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Dr. Robert A. Perkins, PE, is an associate professor of civil and environmental
engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is a registered civil engineer in
California and Alaska and has worked in arctic and sub-arctic for over 30 years. He
is a scientist as well as an engineer and specializes in risk analysis and presentation.
Perkins dissented in 2008. ―All the ‗science‘ that you read about global warming is based
on models, not observed facts. Here are some reasons to doubt the models: Akaike proved
that the more parameters a model needs to fit the historical data, the less certain the model
will predict the future,‖ Perkins told EPW on December 10, 2008. ―All the climate models
are incredibly complex, hence ‗over-parameterized.‘ The climate models, however, do not
even fit the present data, at least in the Arctic,‖ Perkins explained. ―Finally, none of the
published models that ‗blame‘ human activity for the warming trend account for the known
historical variations in global climate. The underlying physical drivers of those known
historical variations are not known; hence they cannot be subtracted from the current
climate prediction models,‖ he added. (LINK)
Chemist Dr. Claude Culross slammed warming fears in 2008. Culross declared there
was a “complete dearth of experimental proof for man-made global warming” on July
23, 2008. ―Fossils from our Holocene Era reveal a northern tree line approaching the Arctic
Ocean. Surely it was warm enough then to preclude pack ice, and perhaps summer ice,
from natural causes, and at only three-quarters of today‘s carbon-dioxide level,‖ Culross
wrote. ―Climate that seems unusual, but falls within the natural envelope of past climate, is
no proof of man-made global warming. Dire predictions of catastrophe from that
bottomless pit of disasters du jour, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, are
based solely on computer models that amount to poorly crafted mathematical opinions, not
experimental proof,‖ Culross explained. ―There is no proof that man-made carbon dioxide
causes additional warming, or that carbon-dioxide reduction would reduce warming.
Problem mitigation and conservation are the right approach,‖ he added. (LINK) & (LINK)
Culross also signed the 2008 Manhattan Declaration which stated in part ―that 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.‖ (LINK)
Biochemist and molecular biologist Dr. Lynwood Yarbrough, who ran a research lab
and served as a consultant for the National Institutes of Health, dissented in 2008.
―Several years ago I began reading the literature on climate change that was appearing in
Science, Nature, and other peer-reviewed journals. I did so because I was concerned at the
alarmism I was seeing in the media regarding ‗global warming‘ and the dire predictions of
some in the scientific literature,‖ Yarbrough wrote on July 23, 2008. ―I consider myself a
scientific skeptic and want to be convinced by the data before I accept something as ‗true‘
(see Freeman Dyson at edge.org on skepticism in science). As a biologist, I am aware of a
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