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Truth, for "persuad[ing] some people that global warming is contributing to hurricane
frequency and strength." (LINK) Landsea, who was both an author and a reviewer for the
IPCC's 2nd Assessment Report in 1995 and the 3rd Assessment Report in 2001, resigned
from the 4 th Assessment Report after becoming charging the UN with playing politics with
Hurricane science. "I am withdrawing because I have come to view the part of the IPCC to
which my expertise is relevant as having become politicized. In addition, when I have
raised my concerns to the IPCC leadership, their response was simply to dismiss my
concerns," Landsea wrote in a January 17, 2005 public letter. "My view is that when people
identify themselves as being associated with the IPCC and then make pronouncements far
outside current scientific understandings that this will harm the credibility of climate
change science and will in the longer term diminish our role in public policy," he
continued. "I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process that I view
as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound,"
Landsea added. (LINK)
Atmospheric scientist Glen Shaw, a Professor of Physics at the Geophysical Institute
at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, who was skeptical of global cooling fears in
1970s, now calls the current warming scare "massively political." Shaw noted in a April 22,
2007 article in News Miner that "a significantly large fraction of the science being done on
global climate change is perhaps not wrong, but not enough, a little naive, repetitive and
incorporating only a fraction of the complexity required to base policy on." "And the issue
of global warming has become massively political. Special interests abound. Try getting
funding while being a skeptic," he added. Shaw also explained how he ran up against the
coming ice age scare three decades ago. "In the 1970s as a young scientist at the
Geophysical Institute I wrote passionate letters complaining that for the first time in the
geologic era man was changing the atmosphere of the planet. I argued that continued
dumping of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere would be associated with a warming of the
entire Earth and pled for attention to this matter. The letters were ignored. They were
ignored because in the 1970s, Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York
Times, and countless books and articles were warning of the dangers of global cooling.
Things have changed." Shaw concluded: "There is much more in climate science that we
simply do not understand. Believe it or not, nobody has any sustainable theory, other than a
few clues, about the causes of the ice ages. They are resonant with some of the orbital
movements of the planets, but only roughly so and other things are going on that cause and
end these spectacular events. We do not know." (LINK)
Geologist Dr. Lee C. Gerhard, past director and state geologist with the Kansas
Geological Society and a senior scientist emeritus of the University of Kansas and a
UN IPCC reviewer, debunked the notion that human C02 emissions are driving climate
change. "Overall, the earth's climate has been cooling for 60 million years, but that is only
an average -- temperature goes up and down constantly," Gerhard said in a January article
in a National Policy Analysis publication. "Depending on the period in earth's history that
is chosen, the climate will either be warming or cooling. Choosing whether earth is
warming or cooling is simply a matter of picking end points," Gerhard stated. Gerhard also
noted that C02 only represents about ¼ of one percent of the total greenhouse gas effect,
"hardly a device to drive the massive energy system of earth's climate." (LINK) Gerhard
also wrote on August 17, 2006: "I never fully accepted or denied the anthropogenic global
warming (AGW) concept until the furor started after [NASA's James] Hansen's wild claims
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