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generated by man is consumed by vegetation," Blick explained. "Man cannot control the
weather, but he can kill millions of people in his vain attempt to control it, by limiting or
eliminating the fuel that we use," Blick added. He also questioned the accuracy of
temperature gathering. "At the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union (around 1990), they
could not afford their weather stations in Siberia, so they were closed. Hence, with the loss
of the cooler temperature data from Siberia and rural stations in other countries, coupled
with the heat island effects of the large city stations, and errors in thermometers of the
1800's, any increase in the average earth temperature in the past may be an illusion," he
wrote. "CO2 is not poison and it is not our enemy. CO2 and oxygen are the twin gases of
life. Humans and animals breathe in oxygen and exhale CO2. Plants breathe in CO2, make
carbohydrates, and breathe out oxygen. We feed the plants and they feed us," Blick wrote.
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Iowa State Climatologist Dr. Elwynn Taylor, Professor of Meteorology at Iowa State
University and a former project scientist with the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, expressed skepticism of man-made climate fears. An August 2007
article reported that "while Taylor believes entirely in global warming, he hasn't yet jumped
on the popular Inconvenient Truth bandwagon. ‗I don't know how much people have
caused,' he says. ‗Nobody really knows ... but what I do know is that we had a global
cooling period from around the middle 1800s to around 1900, global warming from 1900 to
around 1940, global cooling again from 1940 to 1972, and global warming since 1972.
Thermometers have measured this for us.'" The article continued, "Taylor accepts that
global warming is occurring. But he says the extent to which man is contributing to its
acceleration is debatable...he says the popular theories floated by the likes of Al Gore may
be slightly overcooked. ‗I think people are exaggerating the idea that all of the temperature
change occurring on Earth is being caused by this,' he says. ‗They shouldn't be saying that.
Because pretty soon we could discover that these things are only partially true. And then
people, feeling misled, won't do anything.'" The article added, "Taylor is reluctant to blame
human activity-specifically, increased emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxidefor
[global warming's] apparent acceleration? Because the bigger picture tells him there are
more powerful cycles at play. He justifies his pragmatic position with convincing anecdotal
evidence from the story he tells about Greenland's super-thick ice cap starting to melt back
and revealing that humans inhabited the place 1,400 years ago. ‗You could have taken your
ship across the North Pole late in the summer then, too,' he says. ‗So what we've discovered
is there have been occasions throughout history when sea ice in the North Pole would go
away during certain times of the year and other spans of history where the ice was
essentially permanent. These things go back and forth. We wonder now if there was ever a
time when there was no glacier on top of Greenland at all. Geologists say yes-a short 3
million years ago we didn't have any permanent year-round ice on the planet. These things
come and go in natural cycles.'" (LINK) & (LINK)
Meteorologist Dr. Fred Ward, who earned his PhD in Meteorology from MIT and is a
former meteorologist for Boston TV, ridiculed what he termed "global warming zealots."
"Good, worldwide temperature data are available for less than a century, but that hasn't
stopped the alarmists from quoting what are called ‗temperature' data extending back to the
Romans. Such data are not temperatures, but proxies which are claimed to measure
temperature," Ward wrote in the New Hampshire Union Leader on July 16, 2007. "Such
proxies include tree rings, ice cores and the like, but they all suffer from one serious
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