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

Nobel Prize Winner for Physics in 1973, Ivar Giaever, a fellow of the American
Physical Society, declared himself a dissenter in 2008. ―I am a skeptic,‖ Giaever
announced in June 2008. ―Global warming has become a new religion,‖ Giaever added. ―I
am Norwegian, should I really worry about a little bit of warming? I am unfortunately
becoming an old man. We have heard many similar warnings about the acid rain 30 years
ago and the ozone hole 10 years ago or deforestation but the humanity is still around. The
ozone hole width has peaked in 1993,‖ he continued. ―Moreover, global warming has
become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it.
But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really
know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the
money,‖ he added. (LINK) (LINK) (LINK)
Climatologist Dr. Richard Keen, who is a lecturer in the Department of Atmospheric
and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado, a member of the American
Meteorological Society, and has worked with the National Center for Atmospheric
Research, dissented in 2008. Keen specializes in volcanic aerosols and climate change
studies and wrote the book Skywatch: The Western Weather Guide. Keen‘s 2008 global
warming PowerPoint asking ―Inconvenient Questions‖ was featured on October 14, 2008,
on former Colorado State climatologist Dr. Roger Pielke‘s Sr. website. (LINK) According
to Keen, global warming ranges between a ―minor inconvenience that‘s overblown‖ or
―nothing – it doesn‘t exist‖ or ―a good thing.‖ ―Earth has cooled since 1998,‖ Keen noted,
―in defiance of the predictions by the UN-IPCC.‖ According to Keen, ―The global
temperature for 2007 was the coldest in a decade and the coldest of the millennium.‖ After
noting the recent cooling temps, Keen wrote ―which is why ‗global warming‘ is now called
‗climate change.‘‖ Keen also pointed out that the most Antarctic sea ice on record was
recorded in 2007 and then he rhetorically asked: ―Did you see [that fact] reported in the
news?‖ ―U.S. carbon emission growth rate has slowed to 0.2 % per year since 2000,‖ Keen
wrote. Keen concludes his PowerPoint by stating: ―Enjoy the warm climate while it lasts,
and please make enough CO2 to feed a tree.‖ (LINK) & (LINK)
Finnish Scientist Dr. Jarl R. Ahlbeck is lecturer of environmental technology and a
chemical engineer at Abo Akademi University in Finland and has authored 200
scientific publications and was former Greenpeace member. ―The theory of how carbon
dioxide influences the global mean temperature is complicated and unreliable… so far, real
measurements give no ground for concern about a catastrophic future warming,‖ Ahlbeck
wrote in a October 8, 2008 paper titled ―No Significant Global Warming Sine 1995.‖ ―It
has been widely discussed if the satellite-derived global temperature measurements that
show only little warming should be more reliable than the temperatures obtained on the
ground that show more warming. But after 1995 both sources show about the same. A good
reason to start a diagram from 1995 is that since that year no big (cooling) volcano
eruptions have disturbed the temperature trend. Contrary to common belief, there has been
no or little global warming since 1995 and this is shown by two completely independent
datasets. The curves look very normal and it seems probable that the natural recovery from
the little ice age has went on without any significant decelerations or accelerations caused
by human activity. It is impossible to say what is going to happen in the future. But so far,
real measurements give no ground for concern about a catastrophic future warming,‖
Ahlbeck explained. (LINK) (LINK) [Note: Many other scientists who are also progressive
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