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far, to my mind," Golubchikov continued. "Anxiety easily turns to panic, forcing the world
into hasty, and possibly wrong, steps. The Kyoto Protocol, for instance, was ratified even
before the link between global warming and the concentration of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere had been proved," Golubchikov explained. "But is the gas [CO2] so bad? It is
no poison, and plants need it as much as we humans need our daily bread. At present it
makes up a mere 0.037% of the atmosphere. Greater concentrations cause plant life to
flourish-especially forests, the greatest absorbers of greenhouse gases. If the release of
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere were suddenly stopped, the earth's plant life would
consume that remaining in a matter of 8-11 years. After that they would curl up and die.
Every living thing on earth would be doomed with them," he wrote. "As 95% of the world's
carbon dioxide is dissolved in saline water, global warming makes the sea the principal
source of emissions, leaving industry far behind. To my mind, international agreements
should instead seek to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide, carbonic and nitric oxides,
benzpyrene, soot, heavy metals and other toxic substances responsible for causing cancer
and mutations. These are, in fact, the greatest environmental challenge to governments and
the public," he added. (LINK)
Aeronautical engineer Bob Edleman, former Chief Engineer of Boeing's Electronic
Systems Division who also worked as a software engineer in data reduction and flight
simulation, expressed skepticism about man-made climate fears promoted in former Vice
President Al Gore's film. "My conclusion is that the movie is mostly misleading and, yes,
we'd better stop the ideological wrangling and consider the facts," Edelman wrote on
October 4, 2007. "There is no consensus. Even if there were it would have no value in
science. Proof leads to consensus, not the other way around," he added. (LINK)
Geologists Dr. George Chilingar, and L.F. Khilyuk of the University of Southern
California authored a December 2006 study in the peer-reviewed journal
Environmental Geology which found warming temperatures were due to natural factors,
not mankind. "The current global warming is most likely a combined effect of increased
solar and tectonic activities and cannot be attributed to the increased anthropogenic impact
on the atmosphere. Humans may be responsible for less than 0.01°C (of approximately
0.56°C (1°F) total average atmospheric heating during the last century)," the paper
concluded. "Recalculating this amount into the total anthropogenic carbon dioxide
emission in grams of CO2, one obtains the estimate 1.003×1018 g, which constitutes less
than 0.00022% of the total CO2 amount naturally degassed from the mantle during
geologic history. Comparing these figures, one can conclude that anthropogenic carbon
dioxide emission is negligible (indistinguishable) in any energy-matter transformation
processes changing the Earth's climate," Chilingar and Khilyuk added. Chilingar is a
professor of civil and petroleum engineering at UCLA and is the former president of the
U.S. chapter of the Russian Academy Sciences. (LINK) & (LINK)
Chemist Dr. Daniel W. Miles, a former professor of physics who earned his PhD from
the University of Utah, expressed skepticism of climate fears in 2007. "It is very apparent
from a dozen or so peer-reviewed scientific articles that fluctuations in cosmic radiation
have an important impact on climate change," Miles wrote in a November 8, 2007 essay
titled "Scientific Consensus on Global Warming Not Overwhelming." "It is claimed that
even if the carbon dioxide concentration in the air were doubled, its greenhouse effect
would be canceled by a mere one percent rise in cloudiness. The reason is simply that
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