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

five or ten years, and I‘ll have history to back me up,‖ he concluded. In a follow-up
February 19, 2009, article, Ganahl explained how he was under siege for expressing
skepticism. ―I started to fear for my personal safety,‖ Ganahl said. ―I worried that someone
was going to ambush me while I‘m walking the dog at midnight,‖ he added. But the tide
turned and he received ―hundreds of emails‖ supporting him. ―This thing has gone
worldwide,‖ he said. ―I‘ve had mail from 12 countries, 20 states, and some unidentified,‖
he added. Ganahl also received a call of support from American Meteorologist Society
President Thomas Karl. ―In my whole career, I‘ve never got a call from him,‖ he said.
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Professional Geologist Gary Walker, a member of the Canadian Society of Petroleum
Geologists, declared his dissent from climate fears. ―I have done extensive research
regarding the global warming debate and have come to the conclusion that while global
warming is real (the earth has been warming since the end of the last ice age), the amount
of this warming that has taken place in the last 150 years that has been caused by
anthropogenic CO2 is very much uncertain,‖ Walker wrote to Environment and Public
Works Committee on January 27, 2009. ―Climate models are in large part based on
assumptions not facts. In my opinion MUCH more research has to be done and more
climate data has to be collected before we can even attempt to quantify the effects of
anthropogenic CO2 on our climate system. I would estimate more than 95% of the
petroleum geologists and geophysicists in Alberta (there are probably over 4000) are
somewhat skeptical when it comes to the claims being made about global warming. Our
views come as a result not just from our education but also our occupation where we see
the effects of constant climate change via the rock record,‖ Walker explained. ―Personally I
feel the media has done a bad job with respect to reporting the global warming issue. Most
stories focus on the most pessimistic climate forecasts imagined. Many of the stories quote
scientists who feel strongly man is causing global warming,‖ Walker concluded.
Geologist Dr. A. Neil Hutton, former District Geologist for Northwest Territories and
the Arctic Islands and former Assistant Chief Geologist for the Western Canadian
Basin, wrote a January 2009 analysis skeptical of man-made global warming. ―On the
whole, the media have done a remarkably poor job in reporting on global warming.
Typically, the reports have been a simple regurgitation of the spin produced by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),‖ Hutton wrote. ―In an extraordinary
move last spring the IPCC released the 21-page SPM for the Fourth Assessment Report
(2007) more than three months ahead of the 1,600-page scientific report. This was to
ensure that the scientific report was consistent with the SPM. In other words the science
was not to conflict with the politics!‖ Hutton explained. ―The general public and the media,
apparently, are quite unaware of these contradictions and are much taken up with the
emotional aspects of the reports of melting arctic ice, glaciers, and the snows of
Kilimanjaro, as well as many other weather catastrophes appearing in the press,‖ he added.
In the long term, the failure to challenge the so-called consensus will be detrimental to
scientists and our future ability to legitimately influence public policy,‖ he added. ―Most of
the statements from the SPM are unproven assumptions and a review of the literature on
the basis of a truly multidisciplinary approach involving physics, geology, history, and
archaeology leads to much different conclusions,‖ he concluded. (LINK) (LINK)
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