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are still quite limited. Scaring people into submission is not the answer to get people to
change their environmental ways,‖ McConnell explained. He also dismissed claims that the
human race was ―the cause of our global warming.‖ McConnell wrote, ―There is no real
basis for this. There is a growing body of scientific literatures outlining that this not to be
the case.‖ He concluded, ―Now, if Earth was suffering under an accelerated greenhouse
effect caused by human produced addition of CO2, the troposphere should heat up faster
than the surface of the planet, but data collected from satellites and weather balloons do not
support this fundamental presumption even though we are seeing higher CO2. We ought to
see near lockstep temperature increments along with higher CO2 concentration over time,
especially over the last several years. But we're not.‖ (LINK) & (LINK)
Physicist F. James Cripwell, a former scientist with UK‟s Cavendish Laboratory in
Cambridge who worked under the leading expert in infra red spectroscopy -- Sir
Gordon Sutherland – and worked with the Operations Research for the Canadian
Defense Research Board, recently dissented from man-made climate change fears. ―It
seems fair to believe that this new model (from the UK‘s Climate Research Unit) assumes
that if CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere increase, temperatures will go up. Since
some of us know this is wrong, it seems quite likely that the 2008 forecast will be as badly
wrong as the 2007 one was. What will the media do then? Maybe if the Northwest
Passage does not open up this summer, as seems quite likely, people may start to realize
that AGW (Anthropogenic Global warming) is a myth,‖ Cripwell wrote to CCNET on
January 8, 2008. Cripwell continued, ―Throughout the discussion of doubling the
concentration of CO2, there is absolutely no reference to the concentrations of CO2 in the
atmosphere over which the increased amount of radiative forcing is supposed to increase
linearly when the concentration of CO2 doubles. Presumably if you halved the
concentration of CO2, you would decrease the radiative forcing by some linear amount. If
you go on halving the CO2 concentration, then as the concentration of CO2 approached
zero, it would appear that the CO2 was rapidly cooling the earth!! Clearly any claim that
the doubling of the CO2 concentration results in a linear increase in the level of radiative
forcing can have no credibility unless the range of CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere,
over which the relationship is claimed to exist, is clearly established from sound scientific
principles.‖ Cripwell concluded, ―If there is no scientific basis for the claim that doubling
the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere increases the radiative forcing linearly, then
any claim to put a numerical value on this increase has no basis in science.‖ (LINK) In
another interview in 2005, Cripwell said, "Whatever is causing warming, it is not an
increase in levels of carbon dioxide. A more plausible theory is that it is water put into high
altitudes by aircraft; this would have roughly the same time line,‖ Cripwell said. (LINK)
Chemist and Biochemist Dr. Michael F. Farona, an emeritus professor of Chemistry
at the University of Akron and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
critiqued the news media for inadequate reporting about global warming and expressed
climate skepticism. ―Data, numbers, graphs, trends, etc., are generally missing in
supposedly scientific reports on global warming. These articles are usually long on
opinions and short on hard data. Phrases such as ‗scientists agree that ...‘ scientists doubt
that ...‘ do not belong in a scientific article. There are more data in Michael Crichton's
novel State of Fear than in all the global warming articles combined that I have read,‖
Farona wrote on January 3, 2008. ―There have been at least four interglacial periods, where
the glaciers have advanced and retreated. The last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago
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