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

natural variability caused in large part by changes in solar energy output. Acknowledgment
of this true science is critical to implementation of much-needed practical measures for
increasing domestic energy and world food supplies,‖ he added. (LINK) (LINK)
Atmospheric Scientist Timothy R. Minnich, who has more than 30 years experience in
the design and management of a wide range of air quality investigations for industry
and government, specializes in the application of optical remote sensing (ORS) to a
wide range of air-related issues. Minnich has worked with EPA as a Superfund
contractor, is co-founder of Minnich and Scotto, Inc., a full-service air quality
consulting firm. Minnich holds a masters degree in meteorology and taught courses at
Rutgers University and University of Michigan. He is a past member of the American
Meteorological Society, specializes in issues like acid rain and ozone, and has
authored or co-authored numerous technical publications and reports. ―I choose to
take President-elect Obama at his word when, upon his appointment of John Holdren as
director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, he promised to
‗[protect] free and open inquiry . . . ensuring that facts and evidence are never twisted or
obscured by politics or ideology,‘‖ Minnich told EPW on December 22, 2008. Clearly the
best means to fulfill on this commitment is to appoint to the Council of Advisors on
Science and Technology, over which Dr. Holdren will preside, several of the more than 650
distinguished and renowned scientists who have openly questioned the ―consensus‖ on
AGW in Senator Inhofe‘s 2008 U.S. Senate Minority Report,‖ Minnich explained. ―The
late Michael Crichton said it well: ‗Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first
refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already
settled. . . . Let‘s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus
[which] is the business of politics. . . . What is relevant is reproducible results. The
greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus,‘‖
Minnich added. (LINK) (LINK)
Certified consulting meteorologist Anthony J. Sadar, co-author of Environmental Risk
Communication: Principles and Practices for Industry, dissented from man-made climate
fears in 2009. ―Everyone has been conditioned to believe that an extremely complex
climate system is largely controlled by a single simple gas - carbon dioxide - even though
the biggest single climate regulator on Earth is most likely water,‖ Sadar wrote on February
23, 2009. ―The global atmospheric temperature is substantially controlled by water in all its
forms, as invisible vapor in air, as liquid in oceans and clouds, and as solid ice crystals,
snow cover, and glaciers,‖ Sadar explained. ―Many in the environmental profession have
come to an epiphany like the one the late Michael Crichton had - that contemporary
environmentalism, with its authoritative, unchallengeable proclamations and rigid tenets, is
analogous to organized religion. This environmental religion is headed by politicians (or
former politicians) as the high priests and an established political cathedral (read
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Besides, could other uncontrollable factors
like variation in incoming solar radiation and cosmic rays, as some atmospheric scientists
have proposed, have a dominant influence over climate? So, before we all surrender to a
calamitous climate change scenario, let's put it into perspective with the very real presentday
calamities of mass starvation, disease, ethnic cleansing, potential economic collapses,
and the like. With these exceptionally serious challenges at hand and based on the
enormous complexity of the Earth-climate system and the relative paucity of knowledge
scientists have about the systems operation, we sincerely hope to encourage a return to
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