Global Warming Senate Minority Report
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U. S. Senate Minority Report:
More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global
Warming Claims
Scientists Continue to Debunk "Consensus" in 2008 & 2009
INTRODUCTION:
Over 700 dissenting scientists (updates previous 650 report) from
around the globe challenged man-made global warming claims made by
the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
and former Vice President Al Gore. This new 2009 255-page U.S.
Senate Minority Report -- updated from 2007's groundbreaking report
of over 400 scientists who voiced skepticism about the so-called
global warming "consensus" -- features the skeptical voices of over
700 prominent international scientists, including many current and
former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN IPCC.
This updated report includes an additional 300 (and growing)
scientists and climate researchers since the initial release in
December 2007. The over 700 dissenting scientists are more than
13 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media-hyped
IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers.
* "I am a skeptic ... . Global warming has become a new religion." --
Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.
* "Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor
receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly ... . As a
scientist I remain skeptical." -- Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne
Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a Ph.D. in
meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190
studies and has been called "among the most pre-eminent scientists
of the last 100 years."
* Warming fears are the "worst scientific scandal in the history ...
. When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel
deceived by science and scientists." -- U.N. IPCC Japanese
Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning Ph.D. environmental
physical chemist.
* "The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn't listen
to others. It doesn't have open minds ... . I am really amazed that
the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect
conclusions by people who are not geologists." -- Indian geologist
Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of
the U.N.-supported International Year of the Planet.
* "The models and forecasts of the U.N. IPCC "are incorrect because
they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at
scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity." --
Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of
Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
* "It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem
there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into
anthropogenic global warming." -- U.S. Government Atmospheric
Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division
of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
* "Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will
virtually have little impact, as water vapor and water condensed on
particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will."
-- Geoffrey G. Duffy, a professor in the Department of Chemical and
Materials Engineering of the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
* "After reading [U.N. IPCC chairman] Pachauri's asinine comment
[comparing skeptics to] Flat Earthers, it's hard to remain quiet."
-- Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in
the statistics of forecast evaluation, serves on the American
Meteorological Society's Probability and Statistics Committee and
is an associate editor of Monthly Weather Review.
* "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?" -- Geologist Dr. David Gee, the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who
has authored 130 plus peer-reviewed papers, and is currently at
Uppsala University in Sweden.
* "Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I
quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp ... . Climate
models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after
the fact." -- Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, who reversed his
belief in man-made warming to become a skeptic, is a former member
of the Dutch U.N. IPCC committee.
* "Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly
(from promoting warming fears), without having their professional
careers ruined." -- Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly
of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh, Pa.
* "Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous
nonsense ... . The present alarm on climate change is an instrument
of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political
battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning." --
Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the
founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150
published articles.
* "CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another ...
. Every scientist knows this, but it doesn't pay to say so ... .
Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the
driver's seat and developing nations walking barefoot." -- Dr.
Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and
Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan.
* "The [global warming] scaremongering has its justification in the
fact that it is something that generates funds." -- Award-winning
Paleontologist Dr. Eduardo Tonni, of the Committee for Scientific
Research in Buenos Aires and head of the Paleontology Department at
the University of La Plata.