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

United Nations. It is not a scientific body; it is a political body,‖ he wrote. Drapela also
noted that he is ―not a Republican; owns no stocks in oil companies (or any other
companies); loves the outdoors and the environment; loves polar bears and clean air and
water.‖ (LINK) (LINK) (LINK) (LINK)
Geologist Allan Shepard, former Chief Geologist for Amoco International and
member of the Association of Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta,
dissented in 2009. ―I conclude that there has been both slight warming and cooling over the
past hundred years or more largely driven by the sun and its interaction with clouds, winds,
ocean currents etc. CO2's contribution to any warming is negligible,‖ Shepard wrote to the
Environment and Public Works Committee on February 12, 2009. ―It took only a few
months of research to find that I was skeptical for the reason that the IPCC was in my
estimation a politicized monopolistic scientific body,‖ Shepard wrote.
Dr. Jim Buckee, who holds a PhD in Astrophysics from Oxford University, lectured
about climate change at the University of Aberdeen and was the former chief
executive of the oil and gas firm Talisman. Buckee dissented in 2009 and predicted the
Earth is entering a 20 year cooling period. "I think [climate skepticism] is the dominant
view in professional science circles. I know lots of people in universities and so on and
quite often they have to retire before they can say what they want because it's so frowned
upon." Buckee said according to a February 11, 2009, article. "Any dissension is like a
heresy. People are stamped on so they can't be heard. That has religious overtones." The
article continued, ―In the lecture, Dr. Jim Buckee will put forward the idea that solar
activity is responsible for changes to the climate. He will say the climate of the past few
hundred years is a continuation of a normal process of gradual warming since the ice age
10,000 years ago. During that time, he argues, there have been constant fluctuations. He
believes those fluctuations are caused by varying solar activity. When the sun is strong, it
deflects cosmic rays from within and outside our galaxy. When the sun is weak, the rays
enter the Earth's atmosphere and cause low cloud, which has a cooling effect. He believes
that, after a period of warming, the Earth is now entering a period of cooling that will last
until 2030 or beyond. It is just one of the many theories put forward by sceptics, who argue
that humans are not responsible for climate change.‖ (LINK)
Professor Dr. Doug L. Hoffman, mathematician, computer programmer, and
engineer, worked on environmental models and conducted research in molecular
dynamics simulations and continues to teach at Hendrix College and the University of
Central Arkansas. Hoffman co-authored the 2009 book, The Resilient Earth,
described as “bringing a dose of skeptical reality to climate science and the global
warming debate.” Hoffman chastised the climate science community in 2009. ―Once
again we have misleading climate change pronouncements being based on data errors, data
errors detected by non-UN, non-IPCC, non-peer-reviewed external observers. Sometimes it
is the scientists themselves who discover the errors, as with the non-disappearing ice sheets
of Greenland,‖ Hoffman wrote on February 19, 2009. ―More often than not, it is outside
observers uncovering the errors, casting doubt on the trustworthiness of all science. This is
exactly what happens when you base your arguments on ‗consensus science‘ and not
scientific fact. What is happening to the Arctic ice this year? So far, the sea ice extent is
tracking ahead of 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, so the predictions of an ice-free north pole
might be a bit premature,‖ Hoffman explained. (LINK) (LINK) (LINK) (LINK)
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