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Furthermore, Arctic permafrost zones revert to marshy peat bogs when the Arctic warms,
and then bacterial activity takes hold and converts decaying ancient vegetation into
atmospheric CO2. Both of those processes are happening right now," Smith wrote. "The
Russian Vostok ice cores going back 420 000 years and the Dome-C ice cores going back
730 000 years show that the Antarctic ice sheet has not melted during that time frame, even
in the warmest interglacial periods. The ice cores also show periods of rapid global
warming followed by rapidly increasing atmospheric CO2," he added. (LINK)
Evolutionary Biologist and Paleozoologist Dr. Susan Crockford of University of
Victoria in Canada has published papers in peer-reviewed academic journals and
rejected fears that man-made global warming could devastate animal life on Earth. "It is
apparent to me that animal species are much more flexible over the long term (centuries
and millennia) than we assume based on short-term studies of local populations: most
species have the capacity to adjust to abrupt climate or habitat change," Crockford told
EPW on December 1, 2007. "While many individuals, or even entire local populations,
may perish in the face of change, others do just fine (this variation in ‗survivability' among
individuals within a population is characteristic of all species). The individuals who survive
rebuild the population and the species perpetuates," Crockford added. "Contrary to popular
belief, populations can rebound from quite low levels, as demonstrated by the fact that
many population expansions (and introductions by humans) derive from a handful of
individuals at best and often, a single pregnant female. Polar bears, for example, survived
several episodes of much warmer climate over the last 10,000 years than exists today and if
global numbers of bears dropped during these times, they must have rebounded nicely or
there would not be so many bears today. Ringed seals, the primary prey of polar bears (and
similarly dependant on sea ice), also survived these warm periods and are now very
abundant," she added. "In other words, there is no evidence to suggest that the polar bear or
its food supply is in danger of disappearing entirely with increased Arctic warming,
regardless of the dire fairy-tale scenarios predicted by computer models: evidence from the
past is a kind of ‗ground truth' we can trust and it tells us that sufficient sea ice will persist,
even with significant increases in temperature, to ensure the survival of both polar bears
and ringed seals," she concluded. (LINK)
Meteorologist Herb Stevens, one of the original meteorologists at The Weather
Channel and founder of Grass Roots Weather, expressed climate skepticism in 2007.
"Based on my background as a scientist, you should also know that I am a firm believer
that warming of out atmosphere is not caused by man. Quite simply, the evidence does not
exist to prove a correlation between greenhouse gas emissions and rising atmospheric
temperatures...the correlation does not pass muster with the scientific method, and until it
does, thousands of other scientists and I continue to look elsewhere for the answers to
questions of short and long term climate change," Stevens wrote on May 17, 2007. "The
vast majority of the coverage of global warming suggests catastrophic consequences await
in the not too distant future...mind you, all of those predictions for 25, 50, or even 100
years in the future come from computer models, the same technology that quite often can't
get tomorrow's weather right," Stevens explained. "It is especially troubling to scientists
that the vast majority of spokespersons for global warming have little if any scientific
background...politicians, actors, radio and television hosts, and other members of the
media, most of whom have journalism backgrounds," Stevens added. "Unfortunately, due
to the one-sidedness of the information barrage, much of our society has bought in to the
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