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

alternative thesis on global warming and the role of carbon dioxide. All dissent is met with
ridicule and/or name calling. Al Gore certainly doesn't appear to understand the potential
value of hypotheses testing. Instead Gore reduces global warming to a moral issue and a
contest between the good guys, which according to Gore includes all of the world's climate
scientists, and the so-bad so-called skeptics, who he suggests are all hired guns," Marohasy
wrote on September 16, 2006. (LINK) She has also stated, "As a consequence of the
burning of fossil fuels, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are currently increasing. There is
no evidence, however, to suggest this will bring doom or that, by signing the Kyoto
Protocol, Australia would make a significant difference to global carbon dioxide levels or
to the rate of climate change." (LINK)
Professor Dr. William J.R. Alexander, Emeritus of the Department of Civil and
Biosystems Engineering at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and a former
member of the United Nations Scientific and Technical Committee on Natural
Disasters, rejected the so-called "consensus" view on global warming. "Mix Al Gore, polar
bears, Kilimanjaro, Katrina, the Royal Society, the Stern Review, the 2000 IPCC scientists
and what do you get - the end of the world. Should we in Africa start digging our graves or
make reservations at the crematorium? Or should we challenge the doomsday scenarios?"
Alexander wrote in a May 1, 2007 report. "The claimed increases in surface air temperature
resulting from global warming are less than those between breakfast and morning tea on a
sunny day. In our part of the world they are also considerably less than those experienced
when moving in and out of the shade on a cloudless day," Alexander explained. "Acting
under political pressures of their own making, northern hemisphere scientists have allowed
themselves to be forced into a claustrophobic position from which there is no escape. They
are now desperately trying to convince the rest of the world of the catastrophic terrestrial
consequences of global warming. In the absence of believable evidence of the claimed
consequences, they are exercising dangerous practices of attempting to suppress all
research that questions human causality. The reprehensible edicts of the Royal Society, the
patently dishonest Stern Review and the pompous attempts to prevent the distribution of
the DVD on the climate change swindle are evidence of the desperate situation in which the
doomsday advocates find themselves," he added. Alexander also expressed concerns that
any so-called "solutions" to global warming will harm the poor. "The World Trade
Organization has failed in its attempts to lift trade restrictions imposed by affluent
countries. In a recent development, some UK organizations have reduced the importation
of perishable agricultural products from Africa using the excuse that this will reduce air
pollution. Now the developed countries have the audacity to expect African countries to
bow to their pressures based on corrupt science and broken promises of aid, in order to save
the world from their imaginary doomsday scenarios. We are not that stupid," he concluded.
(LINK) Alexander co-authored a June 2, 2007 paper entitled "Linkages between solar
activity, climate predictability and water resource development" with Solar system
researcher Frederick Bailey, Hydrogeologist Dr. David B Bredenkamp, Chemical
engineer Dr. Alwyn van der Merwe and engineer Nico Willemse. The paper read in
part: "The analysis of this data demonstrates an unequivocal synchronous linkage between
these processes in South Africa and elsewhere, and solar activity. This confirms
observations and reports by others in many countries during the past 150 years. It is also
shown with a high degree of assurance that there is a synchronous linkage between the
statistically significant, 21-year periodicity in these processes and the acceleration and
deceleration of the sun as it moves through galactic space. Despite a diligent search, no
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