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CO2," Clark said according to a November 16, 2007 article. "It comes from ocean current
circulation," which shifts about every 10 years, Clark added. Clark attributed sun spot
activity to warming and other natural factors. "Most global warming models require
assumptions," he explained. "We assume global warming is real, so we build it into our
models so we can calculate CO2 concentration. It's all a big joke." He concluded, "Water
vapor and clouds drive climate temperature." (LINK)
Dr. Richard Courtney, a UN IPCC expert reviewer and a UK-based climate and
atmospheric science consultant, declared the case for man-made climate fears is
weakening. "The case for anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming (AGW) is getting
weaker and weaker, not ‗stronger and stronger and stronger' as many have claimed,"
Courtney wrote on November 27, 2007. "To date, no convincing evidence for AGW has
been discovered. And recent global climate behavior is not consistent with AGW model
predictions. Mean global temperature has not again reached the high it did in 1998 (an El
Niño year) and it has been stable for the last 6 years despite an increase in atmospheric
carbon dioxide concentration of by 4% since 1998," Courtney explained. "Global
temperature has not increased since 1998 because, while the northern hemisphere has
warmed, the southern hemisphere has cooled. Global warming was supposed to actually be
global, not hemispheric," he added. "Scares of hypothetical ‗tipping points,' run-away sea
level rise, massively increased storms, floods, pestilence and drought are simply that,
unjustified and unjustifiable scares," he concluded. (LINK)
Meteorologist Kevin Williams of the New York based WEATHER-TRACK and Chief
Meteorologist at WHEC-TV in Rochester is skeptical of man-made climate fears. "It is
said that the one constant in life is change. The same can be said about the Earth's climate,"
Williams, who holds the American Meteorological Society's Seal of Approval, wrote on
June 8, 2007. "For millions of years our planet has undergone colossal climatic upheavals
that would make recent storms and heat waves pale in comparison. And while we know
these events were not the result of humans burning fossil fuels, some claim that recent
miniscule warming portends a coming, man-made catastrophe. While it is my belief that we
need to be good stewards of the planet and to develop sound alternative energy sources, I
also believe that the climate will continue to warm and cool naturally due to planetary and
solar cycles, independent of human activities," Williams, the author of three books about
the weather, explained.
The Dean of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health, Donald S. Burke, rejected
climate fears relating to the spread of infectious diseases in 2007. "There are no apocalyptic
pronouncements," Burke said, according to a December 5, 2007 Boston Globe article.
"There's an awful lot we don't know," Burke added. The article explained that Burke "noted
that the 2001 study found that weather fluctuation and seasonal variability may influence
the spread of infectious disease. But he also noted that such conclusions should be
interpreted with caution." The article continued, "Burke said he is not convinced that
climate change can be proven to cause the spread of many diseases, specifically naming
dengue fever, influenza, and West Nile virus." (LINK)
Harold Brown, an agricultural scientist and professor emeritus at the University of
Georgia and author of The Greening of Georgia: The Improvement of the Environment
in the Twentieth Century, mocked global warming fears in 2007. "Global warming is a
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