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

about 5 degrees warmer than it is now -- especially in North America and Northern Europe.
Guess what? Some of the best climate, the best crop-growing weather and everything else,
and the seas weren't 3 feet higher than they are today," he added.
Economist Dr. Robert Higgs, a Senior Fellow for the Independent Institute and who
has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University, Stanford University, and a fellow for
the National Science Foundation, rejected the notion of a "consensus" on man-made
global warming and dismissed the UN IPCC's scientific credentials. "The United Nations
(and its committees and the bureaus it oversees) is no more a scientific organization than
the U.S. Congress (and its committees and the bureaus it oversees). When decisions and
pronouncements come forth from these political organizations, it makes sense to treat them
as essentially political in origin and purpose," Higgs wrote on May 7, 2007. "I have thirtynine
years of professional experience -- twenty-six as a university professor, including
fifteen at a major research university, and then thirteen as a researcher, writer, and editor --
in close contact with scientists of various sorts, including some in the biological and
physical sciences and many in the social sciences and demography. I have served as a peer
reviewer for more than thirty professional journals and as a reviewer of research proposals
for the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health," Higgs wrote. He
then explained how the peer-review process has many flaws. "Personal vendettas,
ideological conflicts, professional jealousies, methodological disagreements, sheer selfpromotion,
and a great deal of plain incompetence and irresponsibility are no strangers to
the scientific world; indeed, that world is rife with these all-too-human attributes. In no
event can peer review ensure that research is correct in its procedures or its conclusions.
The history of every science is a chronicle of one mistake after another," Higgs wrote.
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Physicist Wm. Robert Johnston, who co-wrote the scientific paper in 2007
"Observations of the Ionospheric Projection of the Plasmapause and Comparisons
with Relativistic Electron Measurements" which was submitted to the GRL, expressed
his skepticism about global warming in a December 29, 2005 report entitled "What If All
the Ice Melts? - Myths and Realities." "The suggestions that human activities will cause
significant changes in global temperature and sea level in the next century are flawed
predictions which haven't been confirmed by observations. The solutions to this apparently
non-existent problem proposed by environmentalists would not have a significant effect on
climate, but they would cause a significant amount of human suffering," Johnston wrote.
"Note that it has taken 18,000 years to melt 60% of the ice from the last ice age. The
remaining ice is almost entirely at the north and south poles and is isolated from warmer
weather. To melt the ice of Greenland and Antarctica would take thousands of years under
any realistic change in climate. In the case of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, which accounts
for 80% of the Earth's current ice, Sudgen argues that it existed for 14,000,000 years,
through wide ranges in global climate," Johnston explained. "It is sad that some youngsters
think that burning of hydrocarbons could cause the ice caps to melt and drown cities; it is
criminal when teachers don't correct this nonsense," he concluded. (LINK)
Space Physicist Dr. James Wanliss of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, who
received a prestigious award from National Science Foundation in 2004, rejects manmade
climate fears and teaches an honors course titled "The Politics and Science of Fear."
"I fear that attempts are being made to purposefully subvert the public understanding of the
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