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contribution of anthropogenic warming,'" Wingham said. (LINK) Wingham has also
asserted, ―There‘s a tendency today to associate every change that one sees in the ice on the
planet with global warming. Almost certainly some of the changes are nothing to do with
global warming at all but are connected with natural variability in the climate system.‖
Wingham, the lead investigator on the UK-led Cryosat spacecraft mission to monitor ice
sheets, added, ―I wouldn‘t be surprised if Cryosat will increase the confusion rather than
decrease it, because we will start to see natural processes in the climate system that we
don‘t see today.‖ (LINK)
The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change and the website
"C02 Science" was established to debunk man-made climate fears. An April 11, 2007
report noted that current temperatures in Southern Greenland are "1.5°C colder than the
peak warmth of Medieval Times." (LINK) A June 6, 2007 scientific report by the Center
also debunked many of NASA's James Hansen's climate claims by finding "very little
evidence to justify [Hansen's] policy prescriptions for dealing with what he calls a
„dangerous climate change.'" (LINK) The website, run by three scientists, agronomist
Dr. Craig Idso, physicist Dr. Sherwood Idso, and botanist Keith Idso, documents the
scientific evidence countering warming fears and offers evidence that the Earth was as
warm or warmer during the Medieval Warm Period. The "Medieval Warm Period
Project's" goal is to show that "approximately one thousand years ago, when the
atmosphere's CO2 concentration was approximately 25% lower than it is currently, earth's
near-surface air temperature was equally as warm as, or even warmer than, it is today,
demonstrating that today's temperatures are not unnatural and need not be due to the
historical rise in the air's CO2 content." Scientific supporters of the Center for the Study of
Carbon Dioxide and Global change include: Climate expert Donald G. Baker of the
University of Minnesota; Biologist W. Dennis Clark of Arizona State University;
Chemist Alan Moghissi of the Institute for Regulatory Science; Meteorologist William
E. Reifsnyder (Deceased); Physics professor Clinton H. Sheehan of Ouachita Baptist
University in Arkansas; Zoologist Kenneth E. F. Watt; and Horticulturist Sylvan H.
Wittwer of the Michigan State University. (LINK)
Astrophysicist Piers Corbyn of the UK based long-term solar forecast group Weather
Action noted the UN's IPCC fourth assessment had a "serious misrepresentation of solar
activity in the Report." Corbyn also ridiculed the idea that the IPCC summary for
policymakers was written by 2500 of the worlds "leading scientists" and said IPCC should
instead be called a "The IPCC Report by appointees of many governments." "In fact the
report is drafted and finalized by appointees of Governments who may have little or no
expertise in many of the wide ranging fields covered. It should further be noted that the
many scientists who undertake diligent measurement and observational or estimation work
which is used to indirectly support the report conclusions have generally no expertise or
locus around the key subject on which the findings of the report are actually based, namely
‗Climate Models.' This is the preserve of only a handful of people who generally are in
government funded institutions rather than more independent bodies," Corbyn wrote in an
open letter to UK government officials on February 11, 2007. "Perhaps the phrase ‗The
(IPCC) Report by appointees of many governments' would be fairer and should be insisted
on, and would not incorrectly imply informed confirmed agreement from many scientists
whose work, however excellent, does no such thing," Corbyn concluded. (LINK) Corbyn
also debunked a 2007 widely publicized no solar-climate link study on July 20, 2007. "In
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