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Scientists critical of consensus Scientists sceptical of man-made global warming In medieval times, there was a "scientific consensus" _claim that numerous colleagues share their views but that the Earth was flat. Today, there is a "scientific are afraid of speaking out in public about them. "Many consensus" that global warming is real. But to achieve of my colleagues that | have spoken to share this stance, this consensus, there have been personal attacks, calls | and inform me about the impossibility of...publishing for defunding the sceptics, etc. their scepticism in scientific or public media," said Dr It seems that such bullying tactics were required to Nathan Paldor, an atmospheric scientist and a professor keep up the pretence. of dynamic meteorology and physical oceanography a The bible of global warming consensus is the United The Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as the Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — author of more than 70 scientific studies.” (IPCC) Assessment Report, which in 2007 stated that by Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasona 2100 global average surface temperatures could rise by hurricane forecasts, shares his conviction and has between 1.1°C and 6.4°C, or 2°F and 11.5°F, compared to —_ argued that humans are not responsible for the warming 1980-99 levels. Note the word "could". It also claimed = of the Earth. "We're brainwashing our children," said that in the next 20 years alone, the global climate would Gray, a long-time professor at Colorado State University. warm by around 0.2°C, or 0.4°F, per "They're going to the Gore movie and decade. being fed all this. It's ridiculous." But Dr Fred Seitz noted in the Wall Gray does not deny the phenomenon, Street Journal (12 June 1996) that there but instead argues that a natural cycle were already serious problems with . of ocean water temperatures—related the UN IPCC's Second Assessment Report: But to achieve o the amount of salt in ocean rote, THe IPCC report, like ait | AIS CONSENSUS, ee ne acknowledges has others, is held in such high regard there have been aken place. However, he said, tha largely because it has been peer- same cycle means a period of globa reviewed. That is, it has been read, personal attacks, cooling will begin soon and last for discussed, modified and approved by calls for defunding several years. "We'll look back on al an international body of experts. . of this in 10 or 15 years and realize These scientists have laid their the sceptics, etc. how foolish it was," Gray said. "The reputations on the line. But this It seems that such uman impact on ne report is not what it appears to . . atmosphere is simply too sma be—it is not the version that was bullying tactics o have a major effect on globa approved by ihe contributing were required emperattes He said that his scientists listed on the title page. beliefs have made him an In my more than 60 years as a to keep up the outsider in popular science. "I member of the American pretence. bothers me that my fellow scientists are not speaking ou against something they know is wrong," he said. “But they also now that they'd never get any grants if they spoke out. | don’ care about grants.""° scientific community, including service as president of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Physica Society, | have never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer-review process than the events that led to this IPCC report." The "hockey stick" graph debunked A second, brief IPCC document, entitled "Summary for Getting grants from governments, whether they be Policymakers" (SPM), did not match what the hundreds scientists or oil executives asking for them, is what the of scientists had stated in the SAR. Seitz claimed that man-made global warming hoax is mostly about. The the SPM misrepresented what the scientists had said, | chief billboard for their cause is the "hockey stick" without their knowledge or approval. graph, which has been used by the IPCC to promote Professor Edward Wegman, who was asked to _ how global warming has rocketed. The graph, however, arbitrate in the debate about the so-called "hockey _ has also been subject to manipulation. This chart was stick" chart—one of the main graphs used by _ included as fact in the UN IPCC’'s Third Assessment Report: anthropogenic global warming adherents—identified 42 Climate Change 2001 (TAR) and has been shown widely people who were publishing together and also peer- _ since the report's publication. The "hockey stick" term reviewing each other's literature. In short, it wasasmall refers to the general shape of the chart of global cabal, helping to further themselves and like-minded temperatures over the past 1,000 years or so. The chart colleagues. was produced by modifying temperature data and personal attacks, calls for defunding the sceptics, etc. It seems that such pretence. The "hockey stick" graph debunked Getting grants from governments, whether they be scientists or oil executives asking for them, is what the man-made global warming hoax is mostly about. The chief billboard for their cause is the "hockey stick" graph, which has been used by the IPCC to promote how global warming has rocketed. The graph, however, has also been subject to manipulation. This chart was included as fact in the UN IPCC's Third Assessment Report: Climate Change 2001 (TAR) and has been shown widely since the report's publication. The "hockey stick" term refers to the general shape of the chart of global temperatures over the past 1,000 years or so. The chart was produced by modifying temperature data and NEXUS ° 13 But to achieve this consensus, there have been bullying tactics were required to keep up the FEBRUARY - MARCH 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com