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indications from solar studies that Earth's current temperature stasis will be followed by
climatic cooling over the next few decades," he added. (LINK)
Penn State Meteorologist Paul Knight, host and founder of the program "Weather
World" expressed skepticism about man-made global warming in 2007. "We have to be
very careful about using global temperatures. You have very few people who do it
absolutely correctly," Knight said in a April 20, 2007 interview. "I wish the climate system
were simple. It is not. Listen to the facts. There is a fair bit we do not understand," Knight
said. The article continued, "The southern ice cap over Antarctica has actually gotten
larger since the 1970s, Knight said. And the overall average temperature on the southern
tundra has actually dropped a half degree Celsius over the last two decades. To understand
global climate change, the sun must be taken into account, according to Knight. He said
much of the warmer temperatures the earth has experienced may be attributed to longer
sunspot cycles on the sun. Some scientists argue sunspots may actually make the sun's
powerful rays even stronger during cycles and may cause slightly higher temperatures on
Earth." http://www.lancasterfarming.com/node/532
Geophysicist Dr. David Deming, associate professor of arts and sciences at the
University of Oklahoma who has published numerous peer-reviewed research
articles, dismissed fears of man-made global warming. "Present-day temperatures are not
anomalously warm. The best methods we have for estimating past temperatures are
borehole temperatures and the elevation of tree lines. Both of these methods indicate
temperatures during the High Middle Ages were just as warm as today. Five thousand to
7,000 years ago, temperatures were significantly warmer," Deming wrote in a January 10,
2007 op-ed in the Edmond Sun. "Ninety percent of the greenhouse effect is due to water
vapor. The warming response to the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is
logarithmic. That means if some global warming does occur, most of it will be at night, at
winter, and at high latitudes where humidity is low. These are places and times where
warmer temperatures would be beneficial, not detrimental," Deming wrote. "Neither the
Greenland nor the Antarctic ice sheets are undergoing any significant ablation or melting.
The polar bear population is stable," he added. "No one has ever died from global warming.
What kills people is cold, not heat. For more than 150 years, it has been documented in the
medical literature that human mortality rates are highest in the winter when temperatures
are the coldest," he explained. "In summary, the problem is not one of skepticism, it's one
of ignorance. Global warming hysteria is based on ignorance fueled by speculation and
alarmism. The average person is more likely to be struck by a meteorite from outer space
than harmed by global warming," Deming concluded. (LINK)
Dr. Mel Goldstein, a PhD Meteorologist on Connecticut's TV News Channel 8,
questioned the long-range climate models used by the UN's IPCC. "When you are in the
trenches and forecasting each and everyday, you begin to realize the inadequacies of our
computer models," Goldstein wrote in a March 9, 2007 blog. "I become skeptical when
atmospheric models are used to project conditions 100 or 200 years from now," he noted.
Goldstein, who established the first and only Bachelor's degree program in meteorology at
Connecticut Western Connecticut State University and authored the book The Complete
Idiot's Guide to Weather, also questioned how the IPCC could account for the range of
variables that go into long range climate projections. "There are many important variables
we just can't handle with confidence. For example in the IPCC report, the cooling effect of
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