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

Senior Meteorologist Dr. Wolfgang P. Thuene was a former analyst and forecaster for
the German Weather Service in the field of synoptic meteorology and also worked for
the German Environmental Protection Agency. Thuene currently works in the
Ministry of Environment and Forests of Rheinland-Pfalz. Thuene rejected the idea that
mankind is driving global warming. ―All temperature and weather observations indicate
that the earth isn‘t like a greenhouse and that there is in reality no ‗natural greenhouse
effect‘ which could warm up the earth by its own emitted energy and cause by re-emission
a ‗global warming effect‘. With or without atmosphere every body looses heat, gets
inevitably colder. This natural fact, formulated by Sir Isaac Newton in his ‗cooling law‘,
led Sir James Dewar to the construction of the ‗Dewar flask‘ to minimize heat losses from
a vessel. But the most perfect thermos flask can‘t avoid that the hot coffee really gets cold.
The hypothesis of a natural and a man-made ‗greenhouse effect‘, like eugenics, belongs to
the category ‗scientific errors,‖ Thuene wrote on February 24, 2007. ―The infrared
thermography is a smoking gun proof that the IPCC-hypothesis cannot be right. The
atmosphere does not act like the glass of a greenhouse which primarily hinders the
convection! The atmosphere has an open radiation window between 8 and 14 microns and
is therefore transparent to infrared heat from the earth‘s surface. This window cannot be
closed by the distinctive absorption lines of CO2 at 4.3 and 15 microns. Because the
atmosphere is not directly heated by the Sun but indirectly by the surface the earth loses
warmth also by conduction with the air and much more effectively by vertical convection
of the air to a very great part by evaporation and transpiration. Nearly thirty percent of the
solar energy is used for evaporation and distributed as latent energy through the
atmosphere,‖ Thuene wrote. ―Summarizing we can say: Earth‘s surface gains heat from the
Sun, is warmed up and loses heat by infrared radiation. While the input of heat by solar
radiation is restricted to the daytime hours, the outgoing terrestrial radiation is a nonstop
process during day and night and depends only on the body temperature and the emissivity.
Therefore after sunset the earth continuous to radiate and therefore cools off. Because the
air is in physical contact with the ground it also cools off, the vertical temperature profile
changes, and we get a so called surface inversion which inhibits convection,‖ Thuene
explained. (LINK)
Chemist and Nuclear Engineer Robert DeFayette was formerly with NASA‟s Plum
Brook Reactor in Ohio and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) at its
headquarters office near Washington, DC. DeFayette, who earned a masters degree in
Physical Chemistry, also worked at the NRC‟s Regional Office near Chicago where he
was a Director of the Enforcement staff. He also served as a consultant to the
Department of Energy. DeFayette wrote a critique of former Vice President Al Gore's
book, An Inconvenient Truth, in 2007. ―I freely admit I am a skeptic,‖ DeFayette told EPW
on January 15, 2008. ―I take umbrage in so-called ‗experts‘ using data without checking
their sources. My scientific background taught me to question things that do not appear to
be right (e.g.-if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is). That is one reason I went to
such detail in critiquing Gore's book. I also strongly object to the IPCC and its use of socalled
‗experts,‘‖ DeFayette explained. In his March 14, 2007 critique of Gore, DeFayette
dismissed Gore‘s claim that ―the survival of our civilization‖ is at stake. DeFayette wrote,
―Nonsense! Civilization may one day cease to exist but it won‘t be from global warming
caused by CO2. I can think of many more promising scenarios such as disease, nuclear
war; volcanic eruptions; ice ages; meteor impacts; solar heating.‖ DeFayette asserted that
Gore‘s book was ―a political, not scientific, book. There is absolutely no discussion about
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