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

on a moral or religious overtone,‖ Pann explained. ―The argument for me now is this: Can
we get people to act on the environment without scaring the ‗you know what‘ out of them?
I hope so.‖ Pann also explained, ―I believe the earth naturally goes through warming and
cooling cycles. It could very well be that it's colder in five years. We just don't know.
Anyone remember the Time magazine cover stories back in the 1970s about us going into a
‗mini ice age?‘‖ (LINK) (LINK) (LINK)
Certified Consulting Meteorologist Mike Smith, the CEO of WeatherData Services of
Wichita Kansas, dissented in 2009. ―My personal conclusion: The science is definitely not
settled,‖ Smith wrote in a January 16, 2009, article titled ―Global Warming Doom, Gloom
Haven‘t Occurred.‖ ―I don't know what 2009's or 2029's weather might bring, nor does
anyone else. The sciences of meteorology and climatology still have a lot of learning to
do,‖ Smith explained. ―The fact is that the solar-land-ocean-atmosphere system is
incredibly complex, and meteorologists have no consistent skill at forecasting its behavior a
year into the future, let alone decades hence,‖ he added. ―The 2001 forecasts by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (cited by Al Gore) have failed to capture the
recent cooling, as the above graph indicates, suggesting that the carbon dioxide-atmosphere
connection is more complex than some initially believed. A small but growing number of
scientists are becoming concerned about global cooling due to the current, unusually low
solar activity and other geophysical factors,‖ Smith added. (LINK)
Geology Professor Uberto Crescenti of the University G. d'Annunzio in Italy is the
past president of the Society of Italian Geologists and dissented in 2009. ―I am very glad
to sign the U.S. Senate‘s report of scientists against the theory of man-made global
warming,‖ Crescenti wrote to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on
January 15, 2009. ―I think that climatic changes have natural causes according to
geological data (my Conference, XCI Congress of Society of Italiana di Fisica, Catania
2005). I am very glad to sign the [Senate‘s] AGW-650 report,‖ Crescenti added. (LINK)
Physicist Jerome Hudson who studies focused on aperture synthesis and optics,
dissented from man-made climate fears in 2009. ―I am not convinced that CO2 is any threat
to the environment, nor am I convinced of any catastrophic warming. You can classify me
as a ‗skeptic,‘‖ Hudson wrote to Environment and Public Works Committee on January 10,
2009. ―I don't believe our government should spend vast sums of money in a fruitless
attempt to counter a non-problem. I don't oppose further research on the topic - there is
certainly enough of a case for that, so long as the funding is fairly distributed to scientists
on both sides of the issue,‖ Hudson added.
Professor Luigi Mariani, PhD, of the Agro-Meteorological Research Group, Dept. of
Crop Science at the University of Milan, who has authored or co-authored more than
50 peer-reviewed studies and other scientific reports, refuted man-made fears and
ridiculed former Vice President Al Gore's climate claims in 2009. "The sheer number of
contradictions in Gore‘s charts vs. words makes that all too evident. The graph showing
CO2 concentrations over the last 650,000 years alongside temperatures clearly indicates
increased CO2 is an effect of warming and not a cause," Dr. Mariani said on January 23,
2009, after a public screening of Al Gore‘s An Inconvenient Truth. "Temperatures in
Switzerland definitely increase but only from 1989: why would the greenhouse effect of
CO2 show up only from that date, one wonders? Is there something else perhaps,
underneath Gore‘s neat explanations? I am really impressed by Gore‘s light-mindedness in
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