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

French climatologist Dr. Marcel Leroux, former professor at University of Jean
Moulin and former director of the Laboratory of Climatology, Risks, and
Environment (CNRS) in Lyon, is a climate skeptic. Leroux wrote a 2005 book titled
Global Warming - Myth or Reality? - The Erring Ways of Climatology. "Hardly a week
goes by without some new scoop ... filling our screens and the pages of our newspapers,"
Leroux wrote in his book. The media promotes the view that "global warming caused by
the greenhouse effect is our fault, just like everything else, and the
message/slogan/misinformation becomes even more simplistic, ever cruder! It could not be
simpler: if the rain falls or draught strikes; if the wind blows a gale or there is none at all;
whether it's heat or hard frost; it's all because of the greenhouse effect, and we are to blame.
An easy argument, but stupid!" he explained. "The Fourth Report of the IPCC might just
as well decree the suppression of all climatology textbooks, and replace them in our
schools with press communiqués. ... Day after day, the same mantra - that ‗the Earth is
warming up' - is churned out in all its forms. As ‗the ice melts' and ‗sea level rises,' the
Apocalypse looms ever nearer! Without realizing it, or perhaps without wishing to, the
average citizen in bamboozled, lobotomized, lulled into mindless acceptance. ... Nonbelievers
in the greenhouse scenario are in the position of those long ago who doubted the
existence of God ... fortunately for them, the Inquisition is no longer with us!" he wrote.
"The possible causes, then, of climate change are: well-established orbital parameters on
the paleoclimatic scale, ... solar activity, ...; volcanism ...; and far at the rear, the
greenhouse effect, and in particular that caused by water vapor, the extent of its influence
being unknown. These factors are working together all the time, and it seems difficult to
unravel the relative importance of their respective influences upon climatic evolution.
Equally, it is tendentious to highlight the anthropogenic factor, which is, clearly, the least
credible among all those previously mentioned," he added. (LINK) (Leroux died in August
2008)
Climate scientist Dr. Chris de Freitas of the University of Auckland, N.Z., also
converted from a believer in man-made global warming to a skeptic. "At first I accepted
that increases in human-caused additions of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere
would trigger changes in water vapor, etc. and lead to dangerous ‗global warming,' but with
time and with the results of research, I formed the view that, although it makes for a good
story, it is unlikely that the man-made changes are drivers of significant climate variation,"
de Freitas wrote on August 17, 2006. "I accept there may be small changes. But I see the
risk of anything serious to be minute," he added. "One could reasonably argue that lack of
evidence is not a good reason for complacency. But I believe the billions of dollars
committed to GW research and lobbying for GW and for Kyoto treaties etc could be better
spent on uncontroversial and very real environmental problems (such as air pollution, poor
sanitation, provision of clean water and improved health services) that we know affect tens
of millions of people," de Freitas concluded. De Freitas was one of the 60 scientists who
wrote an April 6, 2006 letter urging withdrawal of Kyoto to Canadian Prime Minister
Stephen Harper which stated in part, "Significant [scientific] advances have been made
since the [Kyoto] protocol was created, many of which are taking us away from a concern
about increasing greenhouse gases." (LINK)
Atmospheric scientist Dr. Gerhard Kramm of the Geophysical Institute at the
University of Alaska Fairbanks expressed climate skepticism in 2007. "The IPCC would
never be awarded by the Nobel Prize in Physics because most of the statements of the
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