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

Yury Izrael, the director of Global Climate and Ecology Institute, a member of the
Russian Academy of Sciences and UN IPCC Vice President, rejected man-made global
warming fears. "There is no proven link between human activity and global warming,"
Izrael, who also served as former first vice-president of the World Meteorological
Organization, wrote on June 23, 2005 in RIA Novosti. "Global temperatures increased
throughout the 1940s, declined in the 1970s and subsequently began to rise again. Presentday
global warming resembles the 1940s, when ships could easily navigate Arctic
passages. However, man's impact was much smaller at that time. A Russian expedition that
recently returned from the central Antarctic says that temperatures are now starting to
decrease. These sensational findings are one of Mother Nature's surprises," Izrael wrote.
"Atmospheric carbon dioxide was 280 PPM (parts per million air molecules) in 1880, and
now stands at 378 PPM. It has increased by 31% since the pre-industrial era. This is quite a
lot, but temperatures have increased by only 0.6 degrees. Paradoxically, temperatures
tended to rise by one to 12 degrees at peak intervals, with carbon-dioxide fluctuations
totaling not more than 300 PPM. This contradiction is rather baffling. Therefore I believe
that the link between man's activities and rising temperatures has not been proved
completely. Natural factors and the impact of man seem to be interlinked," he added. "The
European Union has established by fiat that a two-degree rise in global temperatures would
be quite dangerous. However, this data is not scientifically sound. In ancient times the
Earth had periods when maximum CO2 concentrations were 6,000 PPM (in Carboniferous
period). But life still goes on," he concluded. (LINK)
Chemist Dr. Joel M. Kauffman, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of
the Sciences in Philadelphia, rejected the notion that "the vast majority" of scientists
believe in man-made global warming. "The truth about this is the opposite; most scientists
do not," Kauffman wrote on September 7, 2007. "CO2 can hardly have been the cause of
warming because its level in air has been higher than it is now at least 3 times between
1812 and 1962 as shown by 90,000 direct chemical measurements (Beck, E.-G., 180 Years
of Atmospheric CO2 Gas Analysis by Chemical Methods, Energy & Environment, 2007,
18(2), 259-282). Further, there is no recent correlation between CO2 levels and
atmospheric temps as you may see easily from a NOAA graph," he wrote. "With an
allowance for such urban heat island effects, the global temperature rise from 1905-1940
was similar to the one from 1970-2003 (www.giss.nasa.gov). Dr. Hansen's flawed USA
ground station temps from 2000-2006 needed a Y2K correction provided by the Canadian
Steve McIntyre showing that 1934 was the warmest year of the last 100, not 1998 or 2006,"
he concluded. (LINK)
Meteorologist Jim Ott, formerly of WTMJ-TV in Wisconsin, a member of the
American Meteorological Society and a former lecturer at University of Wisconsin,
expressed climate skepticism in 2007 of climate fears. "There is no question that the past
25 years have been warmer than average. There is also no question that background levels
of carbon dioxide, or CO2, in the atmosphere have shown a slow but steady increase since
the late 1950s, when measurements were begun in a remote spot in the Hawaiian Islands.
That is where the certainty ends and the questions really begin," Ott, who hold a masters of
science, wrote on February 10, 2007. "Evidence buried deeper in the Earth suggests that
there may have been four major glaciations in North America, with each period of cooling
followed by warming. Theories abound about why the climate changed enough to form the
glaciers and then to melt them, but the fact is no one knows for sure what caused those
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