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proclamation on September 15, 2007 titled "The Climate Manifest of Heiligenroth." The
group, which included prominent scientist Ernst-George Beck who authored a
groundbreaking February 2007 paper, entitled "180 Years of Atmospheric C02 Analysis
by Chemical Methods," (LINK) publicly issued six basic points of skepticism about manmade
global warming. They stated that their "motivation was to initiate processes against
daily campaigns of media and politics concerning climate." Their six points are: 1)
"There is not proven influence on climate by man made emission of CO2; 2) Scenarios
on future climate change derived from computer models are speculative and contradicted
by climate history; 3) There has been climate change in all times of Earth history with
alternating cold and warm phases; 4) The trace gas CO2 dos not pollute the atmosphere,
CO2 is an essential resource for plant growth and therefore a precondition for life on
Earth; 5) We are committing ourselves to an effective preservation of our environment
and support arrangements to prevent unnecessary stress on eco systems; and 6) We
strongly warn against taking action using imminent climate catastrophe as a vehicle
which will not be beneficial for our environment and will cause economic damage." The
declaration was signed by the following: Dr. Herbert Backhaus; Ernst-Georg Beck;
Dieter Ber; Paul Bossert; Brigitte Bossert; Helgo Bran; Gunter Ederer; Werner
Eisenkopf; Edgar Gartner; Wilfried Heck; Heinz Hofman; Rainer Hoffman;
Ferdinand Furst zu Hohenlohe-Bartenstein; Dieter Kramer; Nikolaus Lentz; Dr.
Rainer Six; Uwe Tempel; and Heinze Thieme. (LINK)
Paleoclimatologist Dr. Ian D. Clark, professor of the Department of Earth Sciences
at University of Ottawa, who has been involved with the International Atomic
Energy Agency and co-authored the book Environmental Isotopes in Hydrogeology,
which won the Choice Magazine "Outstanding Textbook" award in 1998, reversed
his views on man-made climate change after further examining the evidence. "I used to
agree with these dramatic warnings of climate disaster. I taught my students that most of
the increase in temperature of the past century was due to human contribution of CO2.
The association seemed so clear and simple. Increases of greenhouse gases were driving
us towards a climate catastrophe," Clark said in a 2005 documentary Climate
Catastrophe Cancelled: What You're Not Being Told About the Science of Climate
Change. "However, a few years ago, I decided to look more closely at the science and it
astonished me. In fact there is no evidence of humans being the cause. There is, however,
overwhelming evidence of natural causes such as changes in the output of the sun. This
has completely reversed my views on the Kyoto protocol," Clark explained. "Actually,
many other leading climate researchers also have serious concerns about the science
underlying the [Kyoto] Protocol," he added.
Prominent scientist Professor Dr. Nils-Axel Morner, a leading world authority on
sea levels and coastal erosion who headed the Department of Paleogeophysics &
Geodynamics at Stockholm University, declared in 2007 "the rapid rise in sea levels
predicted by computer models simply cannot happen." Morner called a September 23,
2007 AP article predicting dire sea level rise "propaganda." "The AP article must be
regarded as an untenable horror scenario not based in observational facts," Morner wrote
to EPW. "Sea level will not rise by 1 m in 100 years. This is not even possible. Storm
surges are in no way intensified at a sea level rise. Sea level was not at all rising 'a third
of a meter in the last century': only some 10 cm from 1850 to 1940," he wrote. Morner
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