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nature of science in order to achieve political goals," Wanliss said according to a May 12,
2007 article in Florida's News Journal. "Science is not about consensus, and to invoke this
raises the hackles of scientists such as myself. The lure of politics and publicity is no doubt
seductive, but it nevertheless amazes me that so many scientists have jumped on the
bandwagon of consensus science, apparently forgetting or ignoring the sad history of
consensus science," Wanliss explained. "The atmosphere is incredibly complicated, and we
know very little about it. We are studying a system which is so big . . . we don't know what
all the variables are," he said. "You want certainty, but it's hard to get that," he said.
"Science isn't about certainty." Wanliss is heading a team of researchers who will use data
gathered from ground- and satellite-based instruments that measure fluctuations in the
Earth's magnetic field. (LINK)
Oregon State Climatologist George Taylor of Oregon State University's College of
Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, had his job title threatened by the state's Governor
over his skeptical stance on man-made warming fears. Excerpt from a February 8, 2007
article from KGW.com: "[State Climatologist George Taylor] does not believe human
activities are the main cause of global climate change...So the [Oregon] governor wants to
take that title from Taylor and make it a position that he would appoint. In an exclusive
interview with KGW-TV, Governor Ted Kulongoski confirmed he wants to take that title
from Taylor." The article quoted Taylor as stating: "Most of the climate changes we have
seen up until now have been a result of natural variations."
Astronomer and Physicist Dr. Hugh Ross, who has conducted research on quasars
and galaxies, expressed global warming skepticism in a December 18, 2006 article entitled
"Global Warming -- How Concerned Do We Really Need to be?" "We tend to think Earth's
climate will always be optimal for human civilization if we just take better care of it. But
nothing could be further from the truth," Ross wrote. "When we put emotion and politics
aside and take a rational look at our planet's history, we actually see something quite
different. Ice and sediment cores show that over the past four million years, the global
climate has oscillated many times. The changes are caused by variations in Earth's orbit.
Each cycle lasts about 100,000 years with an ice age typically taking up 90,000 of those
years, and a global warming effect, the other 10,000 years," Ross explained. "Contrary to
the claims of a few high profile politicians, celebrities, and environmentalists, some of our
human activities in fact create a cooling effect," Ross wrote. "The release of aerosols and
particulates actually blocks out sunlight and generates light-reflecting cloud layers,
especially over densely populated and highly industrialized regions where pollution is
loosely, if at all regulated. The bottom line here is that there are dozens of physical,
chemical, and biological processes that contribute to both heating and cooling the planet.
When any one of these factors gets out of balance with the others, Earth is at risk of losing
its optimal climate for human civilization," Ross added. "This delicate balancing act of
multiple and diverse natural processes and human activities gives us reason to be cautious.
But to suggest that we can stop global warming by simply cutting back on fossil fuel
combustion and altering our industrial processes is naïve at best. If we ignore one or more
of certain mechanisms that contribute to either global warming or cooling, our attempted
solutions could actually make matters worse," he concluded. (LINK)
Paleoclimatologist Dr. Fred Michel, Director of the Institute of Environmental
Science and Associate Professor of the Department of Earth Sciences at Carleton
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