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

Iowa Meteorologists George Waldenberger and Gary Shore expressed skepticism about
whether mankind was driving climate change in 2007. "Well, I went to school at UCLA, a
big climate school. And it isn't really an issue as to if the global climate has been
warming," Waldenberger said on April 11, 2007. "It has over the past 40 years. The
question is what type of role do we take in that warming. Is it all natural fluctuations or are
the increased concentrations of carbon dioxide part of this? And that's a subject that's up in
the air," Waldenberger explained. [ Note: There have been questions raised regarding
whether Waldenberger belongs in this report. For clarification, please see this January
13, 2008 letter to Waldenberger. (LINK) Waldenberger has been removed from the count
of scientists in this report. ]
Meteorologist Gary Shore, agreed with Waldenberger. "There's definitely global
warming," Shore said on April 11, 2007. "No question about that. And it seems very likely
that what we're doing has some part of that, some impact; but as to exactly how much of it
is us and how much of it is other things, nobody knows," Shore explained. Waldenberger
further commented, "But you know carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas just like water
vapor, which is actually the most efficient greenhouse gas. And that's why we're actually 60
degrees warmer than we would be without water vapor in the air. So if you're talking about
the greenhouse effect, that's very real, and we need it to survive. But as far as carbon
dioxide concentrations increasing over the last 100 years, they have about 30 percent. And
temperatures have increased about a degree on average across the entire globe over the last
hundred years as well. So it seems to be a reasonable argument." "So the debate now goes
into, well, what does that mean? Are things going to keep going in the direction that they're
going or does increased carbon dioxide sort of fertilize the air and does that create more
plants which in turn digest more carbon dioxide and create more oxygen? You know,
there's a wide variety of ways we can go from here. So the debate then becomes: What do
we need to do now?" he added. (LINK)
Atmospheric scientist H. Michael Mogil, a 30-year veteran of NOAA (National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), who is certified by the American
Metrological Society and currently owns the "How the Weatherworks" consulting
firm, questioned man-made global warming fears in 2007. "As a certified consulting
meteorologist who has written extensively about weather, I am compelled to address the
spate of stories that appear almost daily promoting climate fears," Mogil, who holds a
masters degree in Meteorology, wrote in a commentary published on October 27, 2007 in
the Napa Valley Register titled "Earth is Warming, but it's Not Our Fault." "Long-term
climate studies show that the Earth goes through large- and small-scale weather and climate
patterns. These are based on solar energy output and solar flare activity, wobbles of the
Earth's rotation, changes in land locations (plate tectonics or continental drift, depending
upon your age when the subject was taught), periodic melting and reformation of glaciers
and much more. Humans are clearly affecting some of these typical variations, but we are
not their cause," Mogil explained. "While the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) and Al Gore claim that humans are almost certainly the cause of the changes, I
disagree. The warming began as the last ice age waned some 500 years ago, not as humans
started to industrialize," he wrote. "I'm not sure why so many of my meteorological
colleagues who have similar feelings have not spoken up. Perhaps it is because the news
media is presenting mostly a one-sided approach to the topic. So, in my new book, Extreme
Weather, coming in November [2007], and in letters like this, I'm pushing for a more
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