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alternative to climate catastrophism. Indeed, if Schwartz's results are correct, that alone
would be enough to overturn in one fell swoop the IPCC's scientific ‗consensus', the
environmentalists' climate hysteria, and the political pretext for the energy-restriction
policies that have become so popular with the world's environmental regulators, elected
officials, and corporations. The question is, will anyone in the mainstream media notice?"
AEI's Schwartz concluded.
Chemist Dr. Franco Battaglia, a professor of Environmental Chemistry at the
University of Modena in Italy and co-author of a book critical of the modern
environmental movement titled Green Outside, Red Inside: Deception of
Environmentalists. The book was co-authored with Dr. Renato Angelo Ricci, emeritus
professor of physics at the University of Padua and honorary president of the Italian
Society of Physics. Battaglia dismissed man-made global warming fears as "trivial."
Battaglia mocked that notion that we live in "a world where the colorless, odorless, taste,
harmless CO2, food plants and therefore our food was at the same rank of radioactive
waste." "A world where a trivial global warming is currently less than what [Viking] Erik
the Red faced when he colonized Greenland" during the Medieval Warm Period," Battaglia
wrote on September 2, 2007 in the Italian newspaper Il Giornale. "Our energy needs put
CO2 into the atmosphere (at least until we decide to produce at 100% over nuclear), he
explained. Battaglia also referred to the Kyoto Protocol as "stupid." (translated) (LINK)
* Climate scientist Luc Debontridder of the Belgium Weather Institute's Royal
Meteorological Institute (RMI) co-authored a study in August 2007 which dismissed a
decisive role of CO2 in global warming. The press release about the study read, "CO2 is
not the big bogeyman of climate change and global warming. This is the conclusion of a
comprehensive scientific study done by the Royal Meteorological Institute, which will be
published this summer. The study does not state that CO2 plays no role in warming the
earth." "But it can never play the decisive role that is currently attributed to it," Luc
Debontridder said according to the August 2007 release. "Not CO2, but water vapor is the
most important greenhouse gas. It is responsible for at least 75 % of the greenhouse effect.
This is a simple scientific fact, but Al Gore's movie has hyped CO2 so much that nobody
seems to take note of it," Debontridder explained. "Every change in weather conditions is
blamed on CO2. But the warm winters of the last few years (in Belgium) are simply due to
the 'North-Atlantic Oscillation'. And this has absolutely nothing to do with CO2," he added.
(LINK) [ Note: Though Debontridder dampened climate fears with such quotes as
“There's no need either to needlessly frighten the public. Bruges will not be on the
coastline by 2050,” he reportedly claims he was not translated correctly in media reports
from 2007 and his climate views were incorrectly reported. (LINK) ]
Australian climate data analyst John McLean authored a September 2007 study
which found the UN IPCC peer-review process is "an illusion." A September 2007
analysis of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) scientific review
process entitled "Peer Review? What Peer Review?" revealed very few scientists are
actively involved in the UN's peer-review process. According to McLean's analysis, "The
IPCC would have us believe that its reports are diligently reviewed by many hundreds of
scientists and that these reviewers endorse the contents of the report. Analyses of reviewer
comments show a very different and disturbing story." The paper continued, "In [the
IPCC's] Chapter 9, the key science chapter, the IPCC concludes that 'it is very highly likely
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