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

warming fears. ―Water vapor accounts for about 95 percent of earth‘s natural ‗greenhouse‘
effect. Carbon dioxide gets all the attention because that is what is released in the burning
of fossil fuels. Yet it accounts for less than 4 percent of the total greenhouse effect. For the
anthropogenic global warming argument to work, water vapor must increase along with
CO2. CO2‘s contribution - natural and manmade - is just not enough to raise global
temperatures as much as climate models predict,‖ Bohnak wrote on January 28, 2008. ―On
the other hand, [Climatologist Roger] Pielke, Sr. coauthored a paper... In it, lowertropospheric
temperatures over North America had indeed increased between 1979 and
2006, but precipitable water vapor and total precipitable water content had not. This
suggests that climate model assumptions of constant relative humidity in a warmer world
may be all wet,‖ Bohnak explained. (LINK) & (LINK) & (LINK)
Geologist Dr. David Gee, the chairman of the science committee of the 2008
International Geological Congress, has authored 130 plus peer reviewed papers and
is currently a professor at the Department for Geosciences of Uppsala University in
Sweden. Gee was awarded the European Geosciences Union award for his scientific
leadership of EUROPROBE, a project of the International Lithosphere Program and
the European Science Foundation. Gee has led geologic expeditions to such locales as
Svalbard, Novaya Zemlya, Severnaya Zemlya, the Polar Urals and the Taimyr
Peninsula. Gee, who chairs a Swedish Research Council committee, declared himself a
dissenter of man-made global warming fears in 2008. ―So my question is extremely simple,
we know temperature goes up and down. We know there is tremendous amount of natural
variations, but for how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that
the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?" Gee asked to
applause from the audience on August 8, 2008, during the prestigious Geological Congress
in Oslo, Norway, dubbed the geologists' equivalent of the Olympic Games. Gee presented a
temperature and carbon dioxide chart to the conference to illustrate the lack of linkage
between global temperature and carbon dioxide levels. ―How sure can we be [about carbon
dioxide driving global temperatures]?‖ ―You see the carbon dioxide curve going straight
across that diagram from left to right, upwards,‖ Gee continued. [Note: An online video of
an August 8, 2008, conference climate change panel has been posted and is a must-see
video for anyone desiring healthy scientific debate. See: HERE ] ―If we look at last ten
years, this is the thing we have been quarrelling about. You see on left there in 1998, the
temperature when we had the El Niño, and the very high peak in 1998 and then a general
sinking and flattening and then two years of sharply decreasing temperatures. I don‘t think
anyone quarrels about this; this is international data and well established graphs. You see
the carbon dioxide curve going straight across that diagram from left to right, upwards,‖ he
added. (LINK) (LINK) (LINK)
Award-winning Geologist Leighton Steward, who has been a recognized
environmentalist and conservationist for his work on preserving wetlands, twice
chaired the Audubon Nature Institute and is currently the chairman of the Institute
for the study of Earth and Man at SMU. He is a former member of the Advisory
Board of the Lamon-Dougherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University and has
received numerous environmental awards, including the EPA's award for
environmental excellence and the API's Gold Medal Award for his company's
leadership in voluntary environmental practices. His new book just released in 2008 is
titled Fire, Ice and Paradise. Steward reversed his global warming view and is now a
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