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

professor, University of Utrecht; Dick Thoenes, em. professor chemical process
engineering TU Eindhoven, a former chairman Royal Dutch Chemical Society; and Jan
Pieter van Wolfswinkel, a retired mechanical engineering professor, TU Delft. (LINK)
Australian marine scientist Dr. Walter Starck rallied around NASA's top
administrator Michael Griffin's skeptical climate comments. "Griffin makes an important
distinction between the scientific findings of climate change and dramatic predictions of
catastrophic consequences accompanied by policy demands. The former can be evaluated
by its evidence, but; the latter rest only on assertions and claims to authority," Starck said
in a June 1, 2007 press release. "Alternate predictions of benefits from projected changes
have been proposed with comparable authority and plausibility. For example, unless one
chooses to define the Little Ice Age as ‗normal' and ‗optimal' the net effect of any warming
has only been beneficial and any anthropogenic contribution very small indeed. Dramatic
predictions of imminent disaster have a near perfect record of failure. Griffin's note of
caution in the escalating concern over climate change deserves sober consideration," he
added. (LINK)
Meteorologist Paul G. Becker, a former chief meteorologist with the Air Force and
former Colorado Springs chapter president of the American Meteorological Society,
called Gore's view of climate change the "biggest myth of the century." "The most plentiful
is water vapor making up 35 to 70 percent of all greenhouse gases. Mankind's total
contribution to all greenhouse gases - this includes cars, trucks, manufacturing plants,
boats, planes and any pollution producer you can name - the total is less than 1 percent.
Mother Nature provides the other 99 percent," Becker wrote in a June 3, 2007 article.
"Remember that most of the natural wonders of the world were caused by various ice ages
and periods of global warming. We've warmed one-half of a degree in the last century, but
Gore has Florida under water in a decade or so when the ice cap melts," he added. (LINK)
Climatologist Dr. Robert E. Davis, a Professor at University of Virginia, a former UN
IPCC contributor and past president of the Association of American Geographers,
and past-chair of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on
Biometeorology and Aerobiology, dismissed what he termed "hysteria over global
warming." "We keep hearing about historically warm years, warm decades, or warm
centuries, uncharacteristically long or severe droughts, etc. for which mankind's striving for
a high quality of life is to blame, via the internal combustion engine and its by-product,
carbon dioxide. But in reality, in most cases, we have a tragically short record of good
observations to really determine how much of a record we're even close to setting," Davis
wrote on May 12, 2005. "Be wary of global warming psychics warning us of
unprecedented climate shifts -- in most cases, they are only unprecedented because of the
short life span of most scientists. Remember one of the absolutely fundamental and toooften
unstated tenets of science -- there's little point in studying anything that doesn't vary
during a scientist's lifetime," he added. Davis has written numerous papers on such topics
as atmospheric circulation change." (LINK)
Dr. Robert H. Essenhigh, a Bailey Professor of Energy Conversion in the department
of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio State University, who has published over 45 peerreviewed
studies, dismissed climate fears. "Man's addition to the carbon-dioxide flux in
the atmosphere, by fossil-fuel combustion, is essentially irrelevant," Essenhigh wrote on
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