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

Man-made or Natural?D on June 16, 2008. ―I am only a humble scientist with a PhD
degree in physical chemistry and an interest in the history of the globe we inhabit. I have
no connection with any oil or energy-related business. I have nothing to gain from being a
skeptic,‖ Rundt explained. ―My personal belief is that natural forcings have more
importance than anthropogenic forcings such as the CO2 level,‖ Rundt wrote. ―It can also
be reliably inferred from palaeoclimatological data that no uncontrolled, runaway
greenhouse effect has occurred in the last half billion years when atmospheric CO2
concentration peaked at almost 20 times today‘s value. Given the stability of the climate
over this time period there is little danger that current CO2 levels will cause a runaway
greenhouse effect. It is likely, therefore, that the IPCC‘s current estimates of the magnitude
of climate feedbacks have been substantially overestimated,‖ Rundt wrote. According to
Rundt, even a doubling of CO2 levels from 317 ppm to 714 ppm ―would increase
absorption approximately 0.17%. This corresponds to an additional radiative forcing of
0.054 W/m2, substantially below IPCC‗s figure of 4 W/m2. An increase of this order
would not result in a temperature increase of more than a tenth of a centigrade.‖ ―The
biggest problem for the pro-IPCC scientific community is that there are no means to
experimentally determine the effect of an increasing CO2 level,‖ Rundt wrote. ―IPCC‘s
spokesman Al Gore has often claimed that the ‗science is settled‘, but there is a growing
group of scientists critical against the claims of ‗settled science‘ and overwhelming
‗consensus,‘ he concluded. (LINK) (LINK)
Ecologist Dr. John R Etherington, formerly Reader in Ecology at the University of
Wales, declared that CO2 has ―close to zero correlation with temperature.‖ ―Carbon
dioxide, supposedly the major driver of man-made climatic warming, has inexorably and
uniformly risen in concentration for every one of these years, with close to zero correlation
with temperature. The previous three years 1998-2000 also show no temperature
correlation with change, but 1998 was an atypically warm El Niño year,‖ Etherington wrote
on October 18, 2008. ―We are making some of the most expensive global decisions ever,
on the basis of what atmospheric physicist James Peden has described as ‗computerized
tinker toys with which one can construct any outcome he chooses,‘‖ Etherington added.
(LINK)
Meteorologist Justin Loew of Wisconsin‟s WAOW-TV and Great Lakes Weather
Service rejected climate fears in 2008. ―Call me skeptical, but I think the headlines have
shifted dramatically over the last year [to "climate change"] in response to the fact that the
earth hasn't warmed one degree since 1998. In fact, the average global temperature has
gone down slightly,‖ Loew wrote on October 27, 2008. ―I do get skeptical of the
motivation of some of the scientists and media outlets when they use ‗climate change‘
instead of AGW. After all, the problem, as we are told, is human caused climate change,
not ‗climate change‘ in general. I guess on the most basic level ‗climate change‘ will
always force humans and life on this planet to adjust and cope, but that is not what has been
in the headlines for nearly 20 years. The drill has been ‗global warming‘ = ‗climate change‘
= AGW = the end of the world,‖ Loew added. ―I suppose it might start to sound silly
saying ‗global warming‘ when the globe hasn't warmed for 10 years. If the AGW theorists
are confident in the global climate model predictions of environmental Armageddon, then
they should not be afraid to continue using the term ‗global warming‘ or more accurately,
AGW,‖ he added. (LINK) (LINK)
130