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Air Force, and the Navy. DuBois is very skeptical of climate computer models predicting
doom. "I know something about how misleading models can be, and the fact that their
underlying assumptions can completely predetermine the results of the model. If the major
climate models that are having a major impact on public policy were documented and put
in the public domain, other qualified professionals around the world would be interested in
looking into the validity of these models," DuBois wrote to EPW on May 17, 2007. "Right
now, climate science is a black box that is highly questionable with unstated assumptions
and model inputs. It is especially urgent that these models come out in the open
considering how much climate change legislation could cost the United States and the
world economies. Ross McKitrick's difficulty in getting the information from [Michael]
Mann on his famous ‗hockey stick' [temperature] curve is a case in point which should be a
scandal not worth repeating. The cost of documenting the models and making them
available would be a trifle; the cost of not doing so could be astronomical," DuBois wrote.
"I headed up a project to model computer networks (to see how they will perform before
they are built) for NASA's International Space Station (including the ground stations
around the globe). If I had suggested a $250 million network for the ISS and said that I
was basing this recommendation on my modeling but the models were not available for
inspection, I would have been laughed out of the auditorium in Houston."
Anton Uriarte, a professor of Physical Geography at the University of the Basque
Country in Spain and author of a book on the paleoclimate, rejected man-made climate
fears. "It's just a political thing, and the lies about global warming are contributing to the
proliferation of nuclear energy," Uriarte said according to a September 2007 article in the
Spanish newspaper El Correo. "There's no need to be worried. It's very interesting to study
[climate change], but there's no need to be worried," Uriarte wrote. "Far from provoking
the so-called greenhouse effect, [CO2] stabilizes the climate." Uriarte noted that "the Earth
is not becoming desertified, it's greener all the time." Uriarte says natural factors dominate
the climate system. "The Earth being spherical, the tropics always receive more heat than
the poles and the imbalance has to be continually rectified. They change places because of
the tilt of the earth's axis. And, moreover, the planet isn't smooth, but rough, which
produces perturbations in the interchange of air masses. We know the history of the climate
very well and it has changed continuously," he wrote. "It's evident that the Earth is a human
planet, and that being so, it's quite normal that we influence the atmosphere. It's something
else altogether to say that things will get worse. I believe that a little more heat will be very
good for us. The epochs of vegetational exuberance coincided with those of more heat," he
explained. "In warm periods, when there are more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere -
more CO2 and water vapour - climate variability is less. In these periods greenhouse gases,
which act as a blanket, cushion the differences between the tropics and the poles. There is
less interchange of air masses, less storms. We're talking about a climate which is much
less variable," he added. (Translation) (LINK)
Professor David F. Noble of Canada's York University authored the book America by
Design: Science, Technology and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism and co-founded a
group designed to make scientific and technological research relevant to the needs of
working people. Noble, a former curator at the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington and a former professor at MIT, is a committed environmentalist and a manmade
global warming skeptic. Noble now believes that the movement has "hyped the
global climate issue into an obsession." Noble wrote a May 8, 2007 essay entitled "The
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