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

Policymakers] SPM was the statement that, if you boil it down, it says we are 90 percent
certain that most of the warming in the last 50 years was due to human effects. I don't agree
with that. I think things are much more ambiguous," Christy said. Christy also dismissed
Gore's warning of a 20 foot sea level rise to due future global warming. "To come up with
20 feet is really grasping at straws, I think, but it does make a dramatic image. It makes a
startling announcement," Christy said. (LINK) Christy dismissed fears of man-made
climate doom. "I don't see a catastrophe developing from our emissions into the air of what
should be correctly identified as ‗plant food,'" Christy wrote in a February 6, 2007 article.
"The climate cannot be predictably managed with such [emission reduction] proposals
given the uncertainty of natural variations. For example, to make a 10 percent dent in CO2
would require 1000 nuclear power plants and this would still not make a measurable
difference on whatever the climate will do anyway," Christy explained. "I'm full of
optimism about the continued growth of wealth and health around the world. This wealth
will create cleaner environments even in countries where persistent poverty has destroyed
too much habitat and fouled too many rivers," he concluded. (LINK)
Meteorologist Brian van de Graaff attributed recent warming trends to natural variability.
"History has taught us that weather patterns are cyclical and although we have noticed a
warming pattern in recent time, I don't know what generalizations can be made from this
with the lack of long-term scientific data," van de Graaff said in a December 2006
interview. Van de Graaff, who holds the prestigious Seal of Approval from the American
Meteorological Society, also noted how global warming has turned into such a heated
debate. "Often, it is so politicized and those on both sides don't always appear to have their
facts straight," he said. (LINK)
Meteorologist David Aldrich declared, "I am a global warming skeptic" in an April 9,
2007 blog post. "If you have had doubts, you have come to the right place," Aldrich wrote.
"Although, I believe man plays a role in climate change through urbanization ("the heat
island effect" & development), land use changes, and aerosols and gases -- natural factors
are ALSO important, most notably the sun and ocean," Aldrich who is certified by both the
American Meteorological Society and the National Weather Association, explained.
(LINK) "There's a different side to what is causing climate change. I think too much
emphasis has been put on CO2. I do not believe CO2 is a pollutant. I'm made of CO2,
you're made of CO2 ... the ocean is a reservoir of CO2," Aldrich explained in a June 6,
2007 article in City Paper. (LINK)
Renowned hurricane forecaster Dr. William Gray, Emeritus Professor of
Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University (CSU), and head of the schools
Tropical Meteorology Project, chastised former Vice President Al Gore as "a gross
alarmist" in an April 6, 2007 Associated Press interview. "[Gore's] one of these guys that
preaches the end-of-the-world type of things. I think he's doing a great disservice and he
doesn't know what he's talking about," Dr. Gray said. The AP article explained, "Gray
believes a recent increase in strong hurricanes is not due to global warming but is part of a
multi-decade trend of alternating busy and slow periods related to ocean circulation
patterns." Gray believes current climate researchers rely too much on computer models.
"Us older guys that were around in the pre-satellite, pre-computer age, we had to deal with
the real weather. Most of these people don't forecast," he said. "They don't live in a real
world. They're living in an imaginary world." (LINK)
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