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is no credibility for arguments such as ‗there is no other explanation‘ [than anthropogenic
generation of carbon dioxide]. This must be remembered when making future political
decisions related to these matters.‖ (LINK) Stilbs also was one of the signatories of the
December 13, 2007 letter critical of the UN IPCC‘s climate view. ―These [IPCC]
Summaries are prepared by a relatively small core writing team with the final drafts
approved line-by-line by government representatives. The great majority of IPCC
contributors and reviewers, and the tens of thousands of other scientists who are qualified
to comment on these matters, are not involved in the preparation of these documents. The
summaries therefore cannot properly be represented as a consensus view among experts,"
the letter Stilbs signed explained. (LINK)
Geography professor Dr. Randy Cerveny of Arizona State University oversees the
university‟s meteorology program and was named to a key post at the UN‟s World
Meteorological Organization in 2007. Cerveny, who has written nearly 100 scientific
papers and magazine articles, is in charge of developing a global weather archive for
the UN. He was also a contributing author to the skeptical climate change book
Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming, edited by climatologist Dr.
Patrick Michaels. Cerveny rejected catastrophic fears of man-made climate change in
2007. "I don't think [global warming] is going to be catastrophic,‖ Cerveny said according
to an October 7, 2007 article. "Hopefully, our grandkids are going to have a lot better
weather information than we did, and they will be able to answer a lot of the questions
we're just in the process of asking," Cerveny explained. (LINK) & (LINK)
Award-winning NASA Astronaut and Physicist Walter Cunningham of NASA‟s
Apollo 7. was awarded the NASA Exceptional Distinguished Service Medal and Navy
Astronaut Wings and is a member of the American Geophysical Union and fellow of
the American Astronautical Society. (Bio Link) Cunningham, a long time skeptic, again
rejected climate fears in 2008. ―It doesn‘t help that NASA scientist James Hansen was one
of the early alarmists claiming humans caused global warming. Hansen is a political
activist who spreads fear even when NASA‘s own data contradict him,‖ Cunningham wrote
in an essay in the July/August 2008 issue of Launch Magazine. ―NASA should be at the
forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over
human-caused, or Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming
just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized
science. Advocacy is replacing objective evaluation of data, while scientific data is being
ignored in favor of emotions and politics,‖ he explained. ―I do see hopeful signs that some
true believers are beginning to harbor doubts about AGW. Let‘s hope that NASA can focus
the global warming discussion back on scientific evidence before we perpetrate an
economic disaster on ourselves,‖ he added. ―The reality is that atmospheric CO2 has a
minimal impact on greenhouse gases and world temperature. Water vapor is responsible for
95 percent of the greenhouse effect. CO2 contributes just 3.6 percent, with human activity
responsible for only 3.2 percent of that. That is why some studies claim CO2 levels are
largely irrelevant to global warming. Without the greenhouse effect to keep our world
warm, the planet would have an average temperature of minus 18 degrees Celsius. Because
we do have it, the temperature is a comfortable plus 15 degrees Celsius. Based on the
seasonal and geographic distribution of any projected warming, a good case can be made
that a warmer average temperature would be even more beneficial for humans,‖ he
concluded. (LINK)
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