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

"The most potent greenhouse gas is water, explains Shaidurov, and it is this compound on
which his study focuses. According to Shaidurov, only small changes in the atmospheric
levels of water, in the form of vapour and ice crystals can contribute to significant changes
to the temperature of the earth's surface, which far outweighs the effects of carbon dioxide
and other gases released by human activities. Just a rise of 1% of water vapour could raise
the global average temperature of Earth's surface more then 4 degrees Celsius." The release
concluded, "Shaidurov has concluded that only an enormous natural phenomenon, such as
an asteroid or comet impact or airburst, could seriously disturb atmospheric water levels,
destroying persistent so-called 'silver', or noctilucent, clouds composed of ice crystals in the
high altitude mesosphere (50 to 85km)." (LINK)
Dr. Ross McKitrick, Associate Professor of Environmental Economics at the
University of Guelph, is author or coauthor of dozens of peer-reviewed papers in both
economics and climate science journals. McKitrick, a UN IPCC expert reviewer, and
one of the de-bunkers of the IPCC “hockey stick” graph, is coauthor of the prizewinning
best-seller Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of
Global Warming. In an essay published on December 5, 2007 in the National Post, he
describes new research that shows the IPCC surface temperature record is exaggerated.
"The data come from thermometers around the world, but between the thermometer
readings and the final, famous, warming ramp, a lot of statistical modeling aims at
removing known sources of exaggeration in the warming trend. In a new article in the
December 2007 issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Geophysical Research, Climatologist
Dr. Patrick Michaels and McKitrick concluded that the temperature manipulations for the
steep post-1980 period are inadequate, and the [IPCC] graph is an exaggeration. McKitrick
believes that the United Nations agency promoting the global temperature graph has made
"false claims about the quality of its data." McKitrick reports in this new, peer-reviewed
study that data contamination problems "account for about half the surface warming
measured over land since 1980." (LINK) & (LINK) & (LINK)
Meteorologist Gary England, who pioneered the use of Doppler radar weatherforecasting,
dismisses climate fears. "The climate has always been changing and it will
most likely always continue to change. In the distant past, we have been much colder than
we are now and we have been much warmer than we are now. And all of that happened
many times without humans," England wrote on July 1, 2007 in an article in Associated
Content. "Here in Oklahoma we're a little warmer than we were 30 years ago. Recently we
ended a two year drought and it has been replaced with significant, long duration rains. Is
all of this a result of global warming? Maybe it is and maybe it isn't. You see, no one really
knows. If they say they do, I suggest that person is confused at best or has an agenda at the
worst," England explained. "An examination of ice core data is frequently used as proof
that CO2 heats the atmosphere. A close examination of that data shows that the air
temperature went up first and then the CO2 went up. Mars is loosing pole ice faster that
earth is loosing the same. As someone said recently, ‗It's the sun stupid!' Recent research
suggests that the activity of our sun combined with cosmic radiation from far outside our
galaxy interact with our atmosphere to produce effects never dreamed of a few years ago.
Is anything or everything in this paragraph correct? Nobody really knows," he concluded.
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