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

National Space Center Study concluding: ―The Sun still appears to be the main forcing
agent in global climate change.‖ (LINK) Friis-Christensen has authored or co-authored
around 100 peer-reviewed papers and chairs the Institute of Space Physics. (LINK)
UK atmospheric scientist John Kettley, formerly of the Met Office and the Fluid
Dynamics Department at the Bracknell headquarters, dismissed the linkage of wild
weather in the summer of 2007 in England to global warming. "In my view, none of the
severe weather we have experienced is proof of 'climate change.' It is just a poor summer -
nothing more, nothing less - something that was the norm throughout most of the Sixties
and has been repeated on several occasions more recently," Kettley, a former meteorologist
with the BBC, wrote in an op-ed on July 22, 2007 titled "Global Warming? No, Just an
Old-Style British Summer." "To many, the black skies and fierce rains must have seemed
an ominous portent of things to come: symptomatic of the environmental ravages of global
warming. But, however extreme the weather we have experienced over the past few days,
its significance in meteorological terms is likely to be more prosaic. This year's apparently
extraordinary weather is no more sinister than a typical British summer of old and a
reminder of why Mediterranean holidays first became so attractive to us more than 40 years
ago," Kettley wrote. "Going further back, history also shows that 1912 was an atrocious
summer. It was so bad, in fact, that we are still some way short of the torrential downpours
that happened that year. It seemed particularly bad at the time because 1911 had been such
an exceptionally good summer. So, taking a long view, there is a pattern of warming and
cooling. The Edwardians were experiencing a period of significant warming (much like
now) following a cold Victorian spell. There was a period of warming from the Twenties
through to the end of the Fifties and, after a cooler period, there has been a further
significant warming over the past 20 years," he added. "In the final analysis, this summer
may be just such a 'blip' in the charts," he concluded. (LINK) & (LINK)
Geologist Gabriel Salas, who leads a UN High Commission for Refugees funded team,
rejected the idea that man-made global warming was causing droughts in Africa. A July 27,
2007 article in The Christian Science Monitor reported, "Salas, as a geologist, doesn't see
the problem of global warming as a recent phenomenon, but as something that has been
going on for thousands of years." "The attack of Rome by Hannibal happened 2,400 years
ago, and he took elephants from Carthage and marched them toward Rome. Now, the fact
that you had elephants in the North of Africa shows that there has been climate change and
that desertification has been taking place for a long time," Salas said. (LINK)
Former New Zealand Science Ministry analyst Don Stewart, a UK-based researcher
in geological and biological history, said, "The residual ice caps and glaciers we see today
have shrunk considerably since 2450 BC. Furthermore, British reports from navigators and
explorers since Elizabethan times show that there has been a significant retreat since those
first empirical observations available to us from their logs written up to 200 years before
the Industrial Revolution that is often falsely blamed for global warming." "Although the
pollution of 200 years of carbon-based industrial activity may have contributed a miniscule
factor, either reducing or increasing the already-rising atmospheric temperatures, the
globe's own natural heat from molten lava and iron at its core, in addition to the sun's rays
heating the atmosphere, means that the ice caps could not exist forever anyway and in fact
now look like disappearing altogether within 4500 years (2450 BC - 2050 AD) of their
formation." Stewart dismissed claims that UK floods were evidence of man-made global
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