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

driving a ―climate crisis.‖ ―I am impressed by the number of scientific colleagues who are
naturally skeptical about the conclusion of human induced warming,‖ Wolf added. (LINK)
Dr. Paul Berenson, an M.I.T-educated physicist, was the executive secretary of the
Defense Science Board for the U.S. Department of Defense, the Scientific Advisor to
NATO‟s Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), and Scientific Advisor to
the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.
Berenson, who describes himself as a “scientific truth seeker," has published about a
dozen peer-reviewed studies in the field of thermodynamics, power, fluid mechanics,
and heat transfer. Berenson believes that man-made global warming fears have no
objective scientific basis. “Earth is in the final stages of a typical 10,000 year plus
interglacial when both atmospheric temperature and CO2 content tend to increase long
term from natural causes, as they have after every ice age. The next major stage is the start
of a new ice age which hopefully is more than a thousand years in the future,‖ Berenson
wrote in a February 2008 commentary. ―Man has been putting increasingly large amounts
of CO2 in the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Age and rapidly increasing
the last 60 years as shown in all the references. However, the amount of CO2 man has
added to the atmosphere is less than 1 % of the CO2 that is there from natural causes,‖
Berenson explained. ―Current atmospheric temperatures and CO2 content are no higher
than they have been at various times during the past million years. The so-called Climate
Optimum 1000 to 1300 A.D. was 1-3 degrees C warmer than now, and apparently provided
better living conditions for humans, animals, and vegetation. For example, Greenland was
green and habitable by farmers. Water vapor (H2O) is the primary greenhouse gas,
contributing roughly 80 % of the greenhouse effect. Without the warming effect of the
greenhouse gases, the Earth would be roughly 10 degrees cooler, and probably
uninhabitable by humans. It has been estimated that the warming effect of CO2 is roughly
one thousandth that of water vapor,‖ he added. ―The analytical models used to predict
higher atmospheric CO2 content and temperature have not been validated, and do not
predict the measured values from the last 200 years; e.g., the cooling of roughly 1 degree C
from about 1940 to 1975. Thus they are not valid and should not be used. They are not
valid because they do not include major effects on the climate such as clouds, rain, electric
currents, cosmic rays, sun spots, etc,‖ Berenson concluded. (LINK) & (LINK)
David Packham is a former principle research scientist with Australia‟s CSIRO, a
senior research fellow in a climate group at Monash University in Australia, and an
officer in the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, as well as author of numerous
scientific papers, who dissented in 2008. ―I find that I am uncomfortable with the quality
of the science being applied to the global warming question,‖ Packham, who now consults
in fire management, told EPW on May 3, 2008. ―This lack of comfort comes from many
directions: A lack of actual measurements for terrestrial radiation and the use of deemed
values for particulate radiation absorption; The failure to consider the role of particulates
from biomatter burning; The lack of critical thought and total acceptance of the global
warming models as conclusive evidence; The lack of transparency and obscuration of the
critical weaknesses in the GCMs,‖ Packham explained. ―Along with these discomforts goes
an observation that research funding for environmental research in Australia, in my case
mercury and wildfires, is almost impossible unless it is part of yet more greenhouse data
gathering. There is also an atmosphere of intimidation if one expresses dissenting views or
evidence. It is as if one is doing one's colleagues a great disservice in dissenting and
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