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

1855, and rose back to about 440 ppm by 1940,‖ Bell explained. ―Cause and effect
relationships between atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations from all sources and
global temperatures are inconclusive. Although carbon dioxide levels have generally been
observed to increase during warm periods and fall during colder ones, the temperature
changes typically lead rather than follow carbon dioxide changes. For example, records
indicate that carbon dioxide concentrations fall at the start of ice ages, when more of the
gas is absorbed by colder oceans, and levels rise during glacial retreats when the processes
reverse,‖ Bell continued. ―The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
estimates that about 97 percent of that small amount originates from natural sources, and
further, that all atmospheric carbon dioxide may account for less than 10 percent of total
greenhouse influence. In comparison, water vapor, by far the primary greenhouse gas, may
account for 70 percent or more of the very small total warming effect,‖ he added. (LINK)
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Geologist Dr. W.J. “Bill” Collins, a professor at the School of Earth and
Environmental Sciences at Australia‟s James Cook University, dissented in 2008. ―As
the climate change debate moves from the scientific to the political, it is important to stay
with the facts. The bottom line is that humans cannot prevent global warming. Therefore,
we should not be forced into emissions trading schemes, or any other scheme that sacrifices
Australia‘s economic advantage and standard of living for the wrong reasons,‖ Collins
wrote on August 13, 2008. ―Sure, let us try to lessen our environmental impact and develop
a sustainable economy, but we should not be carried away by misconceptions about what is
driving climate change. It‘s with the Earth itself,‖ Collins explained. (LINK) (LINK)
Agricultural scientist John Williams, a researcher, author, and educator who is
studying for a PhD at the University of Melbourne, dissented in 2008. Williams said
that ―there are ‗strong and powerful counter-arguments‘ to the theories on global warming
and carbon trading that are not being fully considered.‖ ―There is no proof that carbon
dioxide is causing or precedes global warming,‖ Williams wrote on August 15, 2008. ―All
indications are that the minor warming cycle finished in 2001 and that Arctic ice melting is
related to cyclical orbit-tilt-axis changes in earth‘s angle to the sun,‖ Williams added.
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Dr. Peter Dailey, director of Atmospheric Science at Boston based AIR Worldwide, a
risk modeling and technology firm specializing in risks associated with natural and
man-made catastrophes, weather and climate, rejected the notion that there is a
―consensus‖ on global warming in 2008. ―There is now a near consensus that global air
temperatures are increasing, however, there is no consensus on how this has affected the
temperature of the world‘s oceans, and in particular in the Atlantic Ocean, or how much of
the recent warming trend is attributable to man‘s activities,‖ Dailey said according to an
August 18, 2008, article. In the article, Dailey noted that ―recently published studies
indicate that hurricane activity could decrease as a result of other competing factors. ‗For
example, simulations of tropical cyclone activity carried out at the GFDL using climate
conditions projected for the 21st century indicate the potential for decreased hurricane
activity under more pronounced global warming conditions, and cautions against a reliance
on statistical extrapolations of recently elevated activity levels through the end of the
century,‘ he said.‖ ―For the layman, there is sometimes a tendency to regard every new
‗discovery‘ or scientific finding from the latest published paper as an inviolate fact,‖ Dailey
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