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1) the Earth is currently well within natural climate —_air—surface system. We only need to watch the weather variability; forecasts. "But as a scientist I remain skeptical," she 2) almost all climate fear is generated by unproven _ added. computer model predictions; 3) abundant peer-reviewed studies continue to debunk Number of Sceptical Scientists Continues to Grow rising CO: fears; and On February 28, William F. McClenney, a California- 4) "consensus" has been manufactured for political, not licensed professional geologist and former certified scientific, purposes. environmental auditor in Victoria, Australia, announced In such nations as Germany, Brazil, the Netherlands, that he had reversed his views about man-made global Russia, Argentina, New Zealand, Portugal and France, warming. McClenney now says he has done "the math groups of scientists have recently spoken out to oppose _and realized that you just can't get to global warming with and debunk man-made climate change fears. In addition, | CO2". McClenney joins other scientists who have recently many scientists who are also progressive converted from believer to sceptic of man-made climate environmentalists believe climate fear change fears. promotion has "co-opted" and Geologist Dr Don Easterbrook, an "hijacked" the green movement. emeritus professor of geology at Former US Vice-President Al Gore's Western Washington University who film An Inconvenient Truth and the UN has authored eight books and 150 IPCC reports have prompted many ir journal publications, announced that sceptical scientists to speak out and join The argument that he's putting his "reputation on the line" ne growing resistance. bat Gore this is too short a time | by predicting global cooling. he rought me back to the battle an . . average of the four main temperature- prompted me to do renewed research in period to be meaningful measuring methods is slightly cooler the field of climatology. And because . since 2002 (except for a brief el Nifio of all the misinformation that Gore and would be valid were interruption) and record-breaking his army have been spreading about it not for the fact that | cooling this winter. The argument that climate change, I have decided that . . this is too short a time period to be 'real' climatologists should try to help this cooling exactly meaningful would be valid were it not the public understand the nature of fits the pattern for the fact that this cooling the problem," climatologist Robert to. exactly fits the pattern of timing of Durrenberger, past president of the of timing of warm/ warm/cool cycles over the past American Association of State cool cycles over the 400 years," Easterbrook wrote on past 400 years..." Climatologists, declared in May March 1, 2008. 2007. Atmospheric scientist Dr Art V. Since the release of the Douglas, the recently retired chair December 20, 2007, Senate of the Atmospheric Sciences Minority Report detailing the Department at Creighton views of hundreds of sceptics, University in Omaha, Nebraska, scientists in a steady stream from and author of numerous papers for around the world have continued to peer-reviewed publications, declare themselves dissenters of publicly announced his dissent the alleged "climate crisis". from man-made climate change fears in February 2008. Just days before the international climate conference "Whatever the weather," Douglas said, "it's not being began, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in _ caused by global warming." meteorology, Dr Joanne Simpson, declared she was Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the "skeptical" of catastrophic man-made warming. "Since I Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh and am no longer affiliated with any organization nor a founding member of the American Society for Mass receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly," Spectrometry, announced his scepticism on February 18, Simpson, formerly of NASA and who has authored more 2008. "Sorry, folks, but we're not exactly buying into the than 190 studies, wrote in a public letter posted on Global Hysteria just yet. We know a great deal about February 27, 2008, by former Colorado State atmospheric physics, and, from the onset, many of the Climatologist Roger Pielke, Sr. Pielke described Simpson claims were just plain fishy," Peden wrote. as "among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 In January 2008, environmental scientist Professor years". Simpson explained: "[T]he main basis of the | Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder and director claim that man's release of greenhouse gases is the cause of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, announced of the warming is based almost entirely upon climate _ publicly that he considers CO:-related climate fears to be models. We all know the frailty of models concerning the "dangerous nonsense". Domingos, who retired in 2006, air—surface system. We only need to watch the weather forecasts. "But as a scientist I remain skeptical," she added. fits the pattern . of timing of warm/ cool cycles over the NEXUS ¢ 21 "The argument that would be valid were it not for the fact that this cooling exactly past 400 years..." FEBRUARY — MARCH 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com