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

an oil company,' Dr. Easterbrook told the group," the Times article explained. (LINK)
Easterbrook rejects the notion that there is a "consensus" on global warming. "There are
several hundred thousand scientists in the world. And the people who wrote the [UN IPCC]
report that received a lot of publicity in February consisted of 33 policy makers, and the
authorship of the entire IPCC report consists of 143 people. And that's hardly
representative of the entire meteorological word," Easterbrook told Fox News Channel on
March 13, 2007. "The validity of a scientific concept is not a matter of how many people
vote for it or against it. It's a matter of the evidence upon which it's based. And the truth is
there is no real tangible evidence of the connection between CO2 and global warming," he
added.
Paleoclimate expert Augusto Mangini of the University of Heidelberg in Germany,
criticized the UN IPCC summary. "I consider the part of the IPCC report, which I can
really judge as an expert, i.e. the reconstruction of the paleoclimate, wrong," Mangini noted
in an April 5, 2007 article.(translated) "The earth will not die. Our archives show clearly
that it has often been warmer, in addition, there have been cooler periods, which occurred
just as fast as the current warm phase," Mangini said. "The statement that the heating up of
the climate taking place now is comparable only with the heating up before 120,000 years
is simply not correct. We have data, which show that there were periods which were
similarly warm or even still warmer than today during the last ten thousand years,"
Mangini said. (LINK)
German climate scientist Dr. Hans von Storch, the Director of Institute for Coastal
Research of the GKSS Research Centre, a professor at the Meteorological Institute of
the University of Hamburg who focuses on climate diagnostics and statistical
climatology, and has published 11 books. Storch believes human are influencing climate
change, but feels the fear factor has been dramatically overplayed. "We should spend more
time talking about adjusting to the inevitable and not about reducing CO2 emissions. We
have to take away people's fear of climate change," Storch told the German publication Der
Spiegel on March 16, 2007. Storch dismissed fears of mass deaths from future heat waves
caused by global warming. "Such claims are completely idiotic and dubious. What they did
was to simply perform an extrapolation based on the mortality rate during the exceptionally
hot 2003 summer, which took everyone by surprise and for which we were therefore
completely unprepared. But if higher summer temperatures become the norm in the future,
people will adjust," he explained. (LINK) Storch noted the limitations of science. "We
climate researchers can only offer possible scenarios. In other words, things could end up
being completely different. But there are undoubtedly parts of the world that will benefit on
balance from climate change. Those areas tend to be in the north, where it has been cold
and uncomfortable in the past. But it's considered practically heretical to even raise such
issues," he said.
Alabama State Climatologist Dr. John Christy of the University of Alabama in
Huntsville and NASA, served as a UN IPCC lead author in 2001 for the 3rd
assessment report and detailed how he witnessed scientists distorting the science. "I was
at the table with three Europeans, and we were having lunch. And they were talking about
their role as lead authors. And they were talking about how they were trying to make the
report so dramatic that the United States would just have to sign that Kyoto Protocol,"
Christy told CNN on May 2, 2007. "One of the statements in the [IPCC Summary for
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