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Physics professor Kjell Aleklett of the Department of Radiation Sciences and the
Uppsala Hydrocarbon Depletion Study Group at Uppsala University in Sweden
asserts that severe climate change is unlikely before the Earth runs out of fossil fuels.
Writing in a June 5, 2007 post at Australia's Online Opinion, Aleklett suggests that "the
combined volumes of these fuels are insufficient to cause the changes in climate." Aleklett
believes that "compared with what has been previously asserted, we are going to be much
better off in terms of carbon dioxide emissions" because the Earth is nearing "the
maximum production rate for oil, or ‗Peak Oil.'" He concludes by noting "we must discuss
and dispute the temperature increases that the IPCC-families indicate and the fossil fuel
resources that the IPCC uses in its prognoses. We need new estimates of future temperature
increases based on realistic expectations of oil, natural gas and coal use. Only then can we
make sensible decisions for our future. The world's greatest future problem is that too many
people must share too little energy." (LINK)
Anthony Watts, former meteorologist for KHSL-TV, a CBS-TV affiliate in Redding,
California, has examined 460 of the 1221 official climatic weather stations in the 48
lower states, and discovered multiple irregularities that are causing temperature data
to skew higher than it should. Watts, who publishes a website devoted to investigating
surface stations, (LINK) believes his research casts doubt on NOAA's current and historical
temperature data reports. "I believe we will be able to demonstrate that some of the global
warming increase is not from CO2 but from localized changes in the temperaturemeasurement
environment," Watts told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on June 17, 2007.
Watts examined temperature stations that the National Oceanic & Atmospheric
Administration's (NOAA) uses as part of its National Climatic Data Center. The NCDC
has about 1,221 mostly rural weather observation stations around the country. Watts, who
founded the web site surfacestations.org, has made it his mission to quality check weather
stations to see if the data is being accurately captured. (LINK) Watts noted one such
weather station in California was "surrounded by asphalt and concrete, its also within 10
feet of buildings, and within 8 feet of a large metal cell tower that could be felt reflecting
sunlight/heat. And worst of all, air conditioning units on the cell tower electronics buildings
vent warm air within 10 feet of the sensor." Watts concluded, "I can tell you with certainty,
the temperature data from this station is useless." Watt's extensive data research was noted
by Meteorologist Joseph Conklin on August 10, 2007: (LINK) "The (U.S.) National
Climate Data Center (NCDC) is in the middle of a scandal. Their global observing
network, the heart and soul of surface weather measurement, is a disaster. Urbanization
has placed many sites in unsuitable locations - on hot black asphalt, next to trash burn
barrels, beside heat exhaust vents, even attached to hot chimneys and above outdoor grills!
The data and approach taken by many global warming alarmists is seriously flawed. If the
global data were properly adjusted for urbanization and station siting, and land use change
issues were addressed, what would emerge is a cyclical pattern of rises and falls with much
less of any background trend." (LINK)
Dr. Wilson Flood, of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a chemistry education
consultant, wrote that it is an "unproven hypothesis that rising greenhouse gas levels are
largely responsible for climate change" in a June 27, 2007 letter to the Scotsman
newspaper. "Further Met Office data also shows that global temperatures have actually
fallen slightly in the last decade and have shown no statistically significant rise since 1990.
Just to cap it all, NASA studies show that atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gas
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