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The Climate Change Debate Goes On demonstrates that the [scientific] all over the US and the rest of the debate is not over. The climate is not world. [Global warming] has been "Warming Island". He ridiculed the being influenced by carbon dioxide." over-hyped tremendously; most of the claim that the island is "new" by citing * Canadian climatologist Dr climate change we have seen is largely a 1957 book, Arctic Riviera, by Swiss Timothy Ball: "If we are facing [a natural. I think we are brainwashing explorer Ernst Hofer, which featured crisis] at all, I think it is that we are our children terribly." an illustration clearly depicting the preparing for warming when it is * UK astrophysicist Piers Corbyn: same island in the early 1950s. looking like we are cooling. We are "There is no evidence that CO: has Michaels noted that Greenland preparing for the wrong thing." ever driven or will ever drive world temperatures were as warm as or ¢ Climate researcher Dr Craig temperatures and climate change. The warmer in the 1930s and 1940s than {oehle, formerly of the Department of consequence of that is that worrying today's temperatures. Energy Laboratories and currently about CO: is irrelevant. Our . with the National Council for Air and prediction is world temperatures will Sampling of Key Quotes from Stream Improvements, who has continue to decline until 2014 and Scientists Participating in the published more than 100 peer- probably continue to decline after 2008 International Conference reviewed papers: "The 2,000-year _ that." on Climate Change: [temperature] trend is not flat,soa | ¢ Weather Channel founder and * Scientist Dr Paul Reiter, from the warming period is not unprecedented... meteorologist John Coleman: Pasteur Institute in Paris, who [The] 1,500-year [temperature] cycle "Serious scientists and serious resigned from the UN IPCC in protest: a. proposed by [S. Fred] Singer and students of global warming have "As far as the science being 'settled! [Dennis] Avery is consistent with concluded after a lot of effort that [is concerned], I think that is an | oehle climate reconstruction... [The] _ there is little basis for the thought that obscenity. The fact is the science is 1,500-year cycle implies that recent we are going to have catastrophic being distorted by people who are not warming is part of a natural trend." global warming." scientists." * Hurricane expert and ¢ Dr Benny Peiser of the Faculty of ¢ UN IPCC scientist Vincent Gray of meteorologist Dr William Gray: New Zealand: "This conference There are lots of skeptics out there, Continued on page 73 "Warming Island". He ridiculed the claim that the island is "new" by citing a 1957 book, Arctic Riviera, by Swiss explorer Ernst Hofer, which featured an illustration clearly depicting the same island in the early 1950s. Michaels noted that Greenland temperatures were as warm as or warmer in the 1930s and 1940s than today's temperatures. Sampling of Key Quotes from Scientists Participating in the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change: ¢ Scientist Dr Paul Reiter, from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, who resigned from the UN IPCC in protest: "As far as the science being ‘settled! [is concerned], I think that is an obscenity. The fact is the science is being distorted by people who are not scientists." ¢ UN IPCC scientist Vincent Gray of New Zealand: "This conference and 72 ¢ NEXUS Continued on page 73 www.nexusmagazine.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2009