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worldwide cold temperatures. The year 1816 was known as the year without a summer,"
Goodridge wrote. Goodridge also blamed natural factors for the increase in temperatures in
California since the 1970s. "The evidence for a major climate shift since the mid 1970s is
quite real. California indices of rainfall and temperature have both shown an increasing
trend since 1975. Physical changes in Earth weather systems that accompany the 1975
weather trend changes include the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) index, a 1975 change
in the Atmospheric Angular Momentum (AAM) index and a 1940 increase in solar
irradiance," he explained. "A comparison of the accumulated departure from average of the
California temperature and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation Index (PDO) indices indicate
both peaking about 1943 and generally declining until the major climate shift of 1975.
Again, this suggests a 35-year lag time in solar influence," he added. (LINK)
Geologist Bruno Wiskel of the University of Alberta recently reversed his view of manmade
climate change and instead became a global warming skeptic. Wiskel was once such
a big believer in man-made global warming that he set out to build a "Kyoto house" in
honor of the UN sanctioned Kyoto Protocol which was signed in 1997. Wiskel wanted to
prove that the Kyoto Protocol's goals were achievable by people making small changes in
their lives. But after further examining the science behind Kyoto, Wiskel reversed his
scientific views completely and became such a strong skeptic that he recently wrote a book
titled The Emperor's New Climate: Debunking the Myth of Global Warming. A November
15, 2006 Edmonton Sun article explains Wiskel's conversion while building his "Kyoto
house," saying, "Instead, he said he realized global warming theory was full of holes and
‗red flags,' and became convinced that humans are not responsible for rising temperatures."
Wiskel now says "the truth has to start somewhere." Noting that the Earth has been
warming for 18,000 years, Wiskel told the Canadian newspaper, "If this happened once and
we were the cause of it, that would be cause for concern. But glaciers have been coming
and going for billions of years." Wiskel also said that global warming has gone "from a
science to a religion" and noted that research money is being funneled into promoting
climate alarmism instead of funding areas he considers more worthy. "If you funnel money
into things that can't be changed, the money is not going into the places that it is needed,"
he said.
Dr. Denis Dutton, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury
in New Zealand and recipient of the New Zealand Royal Society Medal for Services to
Science and Technology, teaches a course on the distinction between science and
pseudoscience. Dr. Dutton is skeptical about the degree to which human activity has
contributed to the general warming trend that began in the 1880s. "Working at the
university where Karl Popper taught in the 1940s, I am more than a little aware of the way
that adequate scientific hypotheses must always be open to falsification. The best way for
science and public policy to proceed is to continuously assess evidence pro and con for
anthropogenic global warming," Dutton wrote to EPW on December 4, 2007. "Climate
alarmists in particular are too prone to cherry-pick evidence that suits their case, ignoring
factors that might disprove it," he added. Dutton recently founded the website Climate
Debate Daily, which he co-edits with Douglas Campbell (http://climatedebatedaily.com).
Professor Emeritus Peter R Odell of International Energy Studies at the University of
Rotterdam questioned why global temperatures have not increased since 1998. "The UK's
Meteorological Office research centre has now had to confirm a fall in average global
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