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proclaimed his man-made climate skepticism in 2007. "When it comes to global warming,
I'm a skeptic because the conclusions about the cause of the apparent warming stand on the
shoulders of incredibly uncertain data and models," Schnare wrote on August 10, 2007. "I
'm a Ph.D. environmental scientist. As a scientist, from time-to-time I must also be a
skeptic. It's in the nature of the job," he wrote. "The fundamental data set on which the
international community has based its models has been challenged and the keepers of the
data have had to downward adjust their numbers, the first of several downward
adjustments, apparently," Schnare explained. "As a policy matter, one has to be less willing
to take extreme actions when data are highly uncertain. So, for this reason alone, I'm also
skeptical about governmental responses," he added. (LINK)
Environmental Economist and global warming co-author Dennis Avery's 2006 book,
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years, details the solar-climate link using
hundreds of studies from peer reviewed literature and "shows the earth's temperatures
following variations in solar intensity through centuries of sunspot records, and finds cycles
of sun-linked isotopes in ice and tree rings." "Past climate warmings haven't correlated with
CO2 changes. The Antarctic ice cores show that after the last four Ice Ages, the
temperatures warmed 800 years before the CO2 levels increased in the atmosphere. The
warming produced more CO2 in the atmosphere, not the other way around," said co-author
Avery in an April 6, 2007 op-ed. (LINK) Avery also noted that "70% of the warming we
have had since 1850 occurred before 1940 and 80% of the human emitted C02 occurred
after 1940, which tells me that the warming before 1940 was by natural cycle. The
warming since 1940 -- 2/10 of a degree Celsius -- I will give Al Gore 1/10 [of a degree
Celsius], that is all I can give him (for a human contribution to warming) and I don't think
that's enough to frighten my school children," Avery said in an April 28, 2007 CBS
Chicago TV special "The Truth About Global Warming." (LINK) Avery also explained in
an April 25, 2007 op-ed, "We've had no warming at all since 1998." "Remember, too, that
each added unit of CO2 has less impact on the climate. The first 40 parts per million (ppm)
of human-emitted CO2 added to the atmosphere in the 1940s had as much climate impact
as the next 360 ppm," he added. (LINK)
Aeronautical engineer Eduardo Ferreyra, president and founder of the Argentinean
Foundation for a Scientific Ecology, questioned man-made climate fears in 2007. "Wasn't
warming supposed to be ‗global'? As our records shows, Argentina has been cooling since
10 years ago, and the central part of the country since 1987. As Hadley Center's recently
published data shows, the Southern Hemisphere temperatures have been decreasing for the
last seven years," Ferreyra wrote in the New York Times blog Dot Earth on December 18,
2007. "2007 has seen media temperatures steadily 2º to 4ºC lower than normal average, and
our present summer shows a December with a decreasing trend," Ferreyra explained. "Cold
Antarctic Polar Fronts have increased in intensity and frequency. Late frosts as the
November 14th, 2007 one caused a 50-80% loss in wheat, corn, and barley crops in the
humid Pampas. Similar abnormal cold weather was observed in the rest of South America,
South Africa, New Zealand and big areas in Australia. So, where is global warming? Or
these are just natural variations (when it is cooling) but when there is a slight increase in
temperature then it is human induced "global warming"? Ferreyra wrote. (LINK) & (LINK)
Climatologist Brian Fuchs of the National Drought Mitigation Center at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln said in February 2007 that it was "up in the air" how long
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