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

the score at the beginning would be 1-0-0. So how do the models score when compared
with the evidence? The final score is 1-27-4. That's one confirmed prediction, 27
disconfirmed, and 4 undetermined," the blog noted. Hoyt has extensively researched the
sun-climate connection and has published nearly 100 scientific papers in such areas as the
greenhouse effect, aerosols, cloud cover, radiative transfer, and sunspot structure. (LINK)
To see Hoyt's climate model scorecard, go here: (LINK)
Dr. Boris Winterhalter, retired Senior Marine Researcher of the Geological Survey of
Finland and former professor of marine geology at University of Helsinki, criticized
the media for what he considered its alarming climate coverage. "It is with great regret that
I find media apt to grab any prophesy for catastrophes by ‗reputed scientists' without
hesitation," Winterhalter wrote on his website. Winterhalter, one of the 60 signatories in a
2006 letter urging withdrawal of Kyoto to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, also
wrote, "The effect of solar winds on cosmic radiation has just recently been established
and, furthermore, there seems to be a good correlation between cloudiness and variations in
the intensity of cosmic radiation. Here we have a mechanism which is a far better
explanation to variations in global climate than the attempts by IPCC to blame it all on
anthropogenic input of greenhouse gases." "To state that sea level rises or falls due to
global change is completely out of proportion. There are far too many factors affecting this
planet from the inside and the outside to warrant the idea that man is capable of influencing
these natural processes," he added. (LINK)
Particle Physicist Jasper Kirkby, a research scientist at CERN, the European
Organization for Nuclear Research, believes his research will reveal that the sun and
cosmic rays are a "part of the climate-change cocktail." Kirkby runs a CLOUD (Cosmics
Leaving Outdoor Droplets) project that examines how the sun and cosmic rays impact
clouds and subsequently the climate. In a February 23, 2007 Canadian National Post
article, CERN asserted, "Clouds exert a strong influence on the Earth's energy balance, and
changes of only a few per cent have an important effect on the climate." According to the
National Post article, "Dr. Kirkby has assembled a dream team of atmospheric physicists,
solar physicists, and cosmic ray and particle physicists from 18 institutes around the world,
including the California Institute of Technology and Germany's Max-Planck Institutes,
with preliminary data expected to arrive this coming summer. The world of particle physics
is awaiting these results with much anticipation because they promise to unlock mysteries
that can tell us much about climate change, as well as other phenomena." Kirkby once said
his research into the sun and cosmic rays "will probably account for somewhere between a
half and the whole of the increase in the Earth's temperature that we have seen in the last
century." (LINK)
Solar physicists Galina Mashnich and Vladimir Bashkirtsev, of the Institute of Solar-
Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
believe the climate is driven by the sun and predict global cooling will soon occur. The two
scientists are so convinced that global temperatures will cool within the next decade they
have placed a $10,000 wager with a UK scientist to prove their certainty. The criteria for
the $10,000 bet will be to "compare global temperatures between 1998 and 2003 with those
between 2012 and 2017. The loser will pay up in 2018," according to an April 16, 2007
article in Live Science. (LINK) Bashkirtsev and Mashnich have questioned the view that
the "anthropogenic impact" is driving Earth's climate. "None of the investigations dealing
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