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wonderful environmental disease," Brown said according to a December 7, 2007 article.
"It has a thousand symptoms and a thousand cures and it has tens of thousands of
practitioners with job security for decades to come unless the press and public opinion get
tired of it." Brown also noted that many were worried about "global cooling" in the 1970s.
According to the article, Brown "said some of the direst effects of a warming world, such
as an increase in the number of deaths because of heat-related illnesses, might not be as bad
as some feared, even if climate change were to continue." (LINK)
Chief Meteorologist Mark Scirto of Texas TV's KLTV, a degreed Meteorologist who
holds the Seals of Approval from both the American Meteorological Society (AMS)
and the National Weather Association (NWA), expressed climate skepticism in 2007 and
predicted climate fears would eventually fade. "The late 1800s, early 1900s, we were so
cold parts of Galveston Bay froze over," Scirto said on November 8, 2007. "In parts of the
20th century it was one of the warmest ever, then we cooled off again and then it was the
drought." Scirto predicted the fears about man-made global warming will fade.
"Eventually, what is going to happen 20, 30 years from now, this is all going to be gone
because we will not be warming anymore," Scirto said. (LINK) & Click to watch video:
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Dr. Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, of the faculty of science at the University of Hull in
the UK who served as a Reader at the University's Department of Geography, is the
editor of the science journal Energy & Environment. Boehmer-Christiansen, who has
worked with emission modelers and published numerous peer-reviewed articles on
the politics of global warming with special reference to the role of science and
research lobbies, expressed climate skepticism in 2007. "I am pretty certain that the link
between fossil fuel use and climate remains speculative and hypothetical," Boehmer-
Christiansen wrote on December 10, 2007. "Neither [the] Stern [Report] nor the IPCC final
summaries reflect true academic opinion; they are the products of civil servants and UN
policy ambitions. They have been exaggerating the climate 'threat' in order to serve the
interests primarily of fossil fuel-poor industrialized countries," Boehmer-Christiansen
continued. "As it stands, the Climate Change convention and the supporting rhetoric about
catastrophe and serious future risks to humanity, and even to 'the creation,' serve a number
of political, ideological and now financial interests that far outweigh the influences of
'science,'" Boehmer-Christiansen added. "The UNFCCC did not ask for a scientific
examination of climate and climate variability. It did not ask for an examination of the
natural influences on climatic variability. As a result the so-called science of climate
change consists to a large degree of 'cherry picking,'" Boehmer-Christiansen wrote.
Boehmer-Christiansen warned, "Beware of the [UK] Stern Review. This is not an
independent piece of academic research, but a UK government document closely tied to a
major diplomatic effort."
Canadian biologist Dr. Mitchell Taylor, the director of wildlife research with the
Arctic government of Nunavut, dismissed these fears of global warming devastating
polar bears. "Of the 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in
number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at present," Taylor said
in 2006, noting that Canada is home to two-thirds of the world's polar bears. He added, "It
is just silly to predict the demise of polar bears in 25 years based on media-assisted
hysteria." In September 2007, Taylor further debunked the latest report hyping fears of
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