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

Climate scientist Dr. Richard C. Willson of Columbia University's Center for Climate
Systems Research. http://icecap.us
Oceanographer Dr. Willem de Lange of the department of Earth and Ocean Sciences
at the University of Waikato in New Zealand has published numerous peer-reviewed
papers in the areas of coastal processes and climatic hazards; tsunami and storm
surge prediction and mitigation; wave-induced sediment transport. He has also
declared himself skeptical of man-made climate fears. "The Greenhouse Effect is a climate
feedback mechanism - it modifies climate change but does not drive it," de Lange wrote to
EPW on December 18, 2007. "Earth's climate is a complex system that is continually
changing at different temporal and spatial scales - it may change abruptly, or gradually and
affect regions or the whole globe. The primary driver of Earth's Climate at Human time
scales is the quantity and quality of Solar radiation - the total amount, and the distribution
of radiation across different wavelengths," de Lange explained. "Humans affect climate in a
variety of ways - Human impacts are greatest at the micro-scale (your office), and diminish
at larger spatial and temporal scales (impact at a global scale over the last 100 years is
small - as far as I can tell it tends to disappear into the measurement errors). Emissions of
greenhouse gases are a minor contribution to climate feedback as the Greenhouse Effect
operates between physically constrained limits," he wrote. "Catastrophic climate changes in
the next century are unlikely based on observational data," he concluded. (LINK)
Senior Meteorologist Dr. Joe Sobel of Accuweather, winner of the American
Meteorological Society 2005 Award for Broadcaster of the Year, asserted that climate
change is nothing new. "The climate is changing. The climate has always changed, that is a
fact of the earth's existence," Sobel said on January 11, 2007. Sobel has 35 years
experience at Accuweather and has also been a member of the American Meteorology
Society since 1966. "Only 10,000 years ago -- which is geologically speaking is like [the
snap of a finger] -- we were in the midst of an ice age," Sobel said. "There is not much
doubt that climate changes and that climate will continue to change," Sobel reiterated. "The
question is what is causing it. It is totally a naturally cycle? Is it totally human induced? I
suspect the truth lies somewhere in between," he concluded. (LINK) Sobel also lamented
the National Hurricane Center's new tropical storm naming policy because he believes it
results in false claims of global warming related increases in storms. "Back in the old
days... and I'm only talking 5 years or so ago... we did not name sub-tropical storms.
Names were only given to storms that were deemed to be truly tropical. In the last few
years, there have been a number of sub-tropical storms named. Those named storms go into
the total of named storms and obviously increase the number of storms that year and
consequently increase the average number of storms per year," Sobel wrote on May 9, 2007
in his blog. "It has been claimed that global warming is responsible for an increasing
number of tropical storms and hurricanes, but here is a reason that the number of storms is
increasing that has absolutely nothing to do with global warming. It's because we are
mixing apples and oranges and calling them all apples!" he added. (LINK)
Economist Dr. Owen McShane, chair of the policy panel of the New Zealand based
International Climate Science Coalition, slammed "consensus" science on global
warming on April 21, 2007. "There is no scientific evidence to justify the wild claims of
doom and catastrophe that have made headlines in recent weeks," McShane said. "All we
have is a scenario promoted by government funded scientists who are part of the United
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