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

desperate attempts to shore up their crumbling doctrine of man-made climate change,
Professor Lockwood and Henry Davenport (Letters, July 14) cherry-pick data themselves.
Professor Lockwood's ‗refutation' of the decisive role of solar activity in driving climate is
as valid as claiming a particular year was not warm by simply looking at the winter half of
data. The most significant and persistent cycle of variation in the world's temperature
follows the 22-year magnetic cycle of the sun's activity. So what does he do? He ‗finds' that
for an 11-year stretch around 1987 to 1998 world temperatures rose, while there was a fall
in his preferred measures of solar activity. A 22-year cycle and an 11-year cycle will of
necessity move in opposite directions half the time. The problem for global warmers is that
there is no evidence that changing CO2 is a net driver for world climate. Feedback
processes negate its potential warming effects. Their theory has no power to predict. It is
faith, not science. I challenge them to issue a forecast to compete with our severe weather
warnings - made months ago - for this month and August which are based on predictions of
solar-particle and magnetic effects that there will be periods of major thunderstorms, hail
and further flooding in Britain, most notably July 22-26, August 5-9 and August 18-23.
These periods will be associated with new activity on the sun and tropical storms. We also
forecast that British and world temperatures will continue to decline this year and in 2008.
What do the global warmers forecast?" Corbyn wrote. (LINK)
Meteorologist Joseph D'Aleo served as the first Director of Meteorology at The
Weather Channel and was the Chief Meteorologist at Weather Services International
Corporation and served as chairman of the American Meteorological Society's (AMS)
Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting. D'Aleo founded a new website and
organization skeptical of man-made global warming fears called International
Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project at Icecap.us on April 9, 2007.
D'Aleo is a Certified Consultant Meteorologist (CCM) and he was elected a Fellow and a
councilor with the AMS. D'Aleo's new website states the affiliated scientists "believe that
local problems with the station data and natural cycles such as those in the sun and oceans
are also important contributors to the global changes in our climate and weather. We worry
the sole focus on greenhouse gases and the unwise reliance on imperfect climate models
while ignoring real data may leave civilization unprepared for a sudden climate shift that
history tells us will occur again, very possibly soon." D'Aleo wrote on May 17, 2007,
"When I started really looking at the data I saw the signatures of urbanization and local
land use factor in global temperatures. I also saw that temperatures cycled over time and
those cycles correlated far better with the cycles in the sun and ocean temperatures than
with greenhouse gases, which would argue for a parallel increase not cyclical warming and
cooling." "I have recently done extensive correlative studies that convince me that the sun
and oceans are the real drivers and carbon dioxide is a bit player in the scheme of things. I
also believe the cyclical warming has peaked as the factors are changing and a cooling has
started or will soon do so, depending on what measure you use," he added. Other scientists
affiliated with D'Aleo on his Icecap.us website include: Astrophysicist Dr. Sallie
Baliunas, Deputy Director of Mount Wilson Observatory; Hurricane expert Dr.
William Gray, Associate Professor head of the Tropical Research Project at Colorado
State University; Oregon State Climatologist George Taylor of Oregon State
University's College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences; Marine Biologist Dr. Gary
D. Sharp of the Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study; former radiochemist
Alan Siddons, Florida State Climatologist Dr. James O'Brien, Director Emeritus of
the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies at Florida State University;
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