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skeptic. ―Steward came to the issue of global warming as a ‗believer‘,‖ an October 4, 2007
article reported. ―‗I was a prophetic global warmer,‘ Steward said. ‗Gore won‘t debate this
subject,‘ said Steward, but maybe he has come to understand it – ‗maybe that‘s why he has
cancelled the last six months of his tour,‘‖ the article continued. ―‗We [on earth] are at one
of the lowest points of CO2 levels today,‘ Steward said.‖ The article explained that
Steward believes ―CO2‘s ability to trap heat declines rapidly, logarithmically, and reaches
a point of significantly reduced future effect, said Steward, in explaining why correlations
with CO2 don‘t hold. A far m ore consistent and significant correlation exists between the
planet‘s temperature and the output of energy from the sun, said Steward. There have been
a lot of sunspots this century, which are associated with higher energy levels from the sun.
45 million years ago the sun was 30 percent warmer.‖ Steward is concerned about earth
cooling. Historic cycles would suggest that another ice age is more likely in the near future.
And, they can happen relatively quickly – within a hundred years. Human beings can
withstand a warming of the planet more so than a cooling, said Steward. Many times more
people die from cold than from heat, he said. In fact, Steward‘s not all that sure that slightly
warmer climates would be all that bad. (LINK) [Note: Steward joins a growing number of
scientists who have reconsidered their views because of new data observations, peerreviewed
studies and scientific analysis. See: Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent
Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics – May 15, 2007 ]
Geoffrey G. Duffy, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials
Engineering of the University of Auckland, NZ, who received the New Zealand
Science and Technology Silver Medal in 2003 from The Royal Society of New
Zealand, has published 218 journal, peer-reviewed papers and conference papers.
Duffy also declared himself skeptical of man-made global warming fears in 2008. ―Even
doubling or trebling (tripling) the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little
impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the
worldwide scene and always will,‖ Duffy said in a September 4, 2008, essay. ―It is also
interesting to note that NASA‘s Aqua satellite system has shown that the earth has been
cooling since 1998. This corresponds with measurements from the Argos sub-ocean probes
that the ocean is cooling. This is in stark contrast with the proposals from many ‗climate
alarmists‘. The solar effect is huge and overwhelming and there must be time delays in
absorbance and build up in energy received by earth and ocean masses. But the warmer the
Earth gets, the faster it radiates heat out into space. This is a self-correcting, self-healing
process,‖ Duffy wrote. ―So what are the key players in ‗Climate Change‘? The major
driver is the sun. Warming depends on the sun. Cooling is due to the lack of sun‘s energy.
Radiant energy enters the earth‘s atmosphere. Air (on a dry basis) consists mainly of
nitrogen 78.08% and oxygen 20.94%. Of the 0.98% remaining, 95% of that (i.e. 0.934%),
or almost all is the inert gas argon. Carbon dioxide CO2 is a trace. It is less than 400ppm
(parts per million) or 0.04% of all the atmosphere (on a dry basis). Surprisingly, less than a
fifth of that is man-made CO2 (0.008% of the total), and that is only since the beginning of
the industrial era and the rapid increase in world population,‖ Duffy concluded. (LINK)
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Dr. G LeBlanc Smith, a retired Principal Research Scientist with Australia's
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) who
specializes in geosciences and sedimentology, rejected global warming fears in 2008. ―I
have yet to see credible proof of carbon dioxide driving climate change, yet alone man-
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