Al Gore‘s “scientific consensus” is starting to disintegrate. Statements to the effect of “the matter is already settled” are getting more and more difficult for many in the scientific community to endorse. 2008 is in the record books as overall being much cooler than the “experts” predicted.
Many who once embraced the possibility of anthropogenic global warming have recanted their positions. I’m guessing that they were in the bag for the alarmists, but now need to save their credibility when it is becoming obvious that we’re not headed into a global meltdown.
Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), recently delivered a report and a speech to the Senate, where he profiled the growing dissent among the scientific community; the Senator presented a groundbreaking minority report of more than 650 scientists dissenting from climate Fears.
Below the fold is an excerpt from Inhofe’s “Consensus in Freefall” speech; go down the page to the quotations from scientists formerly “in the bag:”
The chorus of skeptical scientific voices grew louder in 2008 as a steady stream of peer-reviewed studies, analyses, real world data, and inconvenient developments challenged the UN’s and former Vice President Al Gore’s claims that the “science is settled” and there is a “consensus.” Despite what is being portrayed in the media, on a range of issues, 2008 proved to be challenging for the promoters of man-made climate fears.
In addition, the following developments further secured 2008 as the year the “consensus” collapsed. Russian scientists “rejected the very idea that carbon dioxide may be responsible for global warming.” An American Physical Society editor conceded that a “considerable presence” of scientific skeptics exists. An International team of scientists countered the UN IPCC, declaring, “Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate.” India issued a report challenging global warming fears. A team of international scientists demanded the UN IPCC “be called to account and cease its deceptive practices,” and a canvass of more than 51,000 Canadian scientists revealed that 68% disagree that global warming science is “settled.”
Here are some of the highlights of my 2008 Senate Minority Report featuring over 650 international scientists dissenting from man-made climate claims:
“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…The main basis of the claim that man’s release of greenhouse gases is the cause of the warming is based almost entirely upon climate models. We all know the frailty of models concerning the air-surface system.” – Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology, and formerly of NASA, who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent 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.” – UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD 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 UN-supported International Year of the Planet.
“So far, real measurements give no ground for concern about a catastrophic future warming.” – Scientist Dr. Jarl R. Ahlbeck, a chemical engineer at Abo Akademi University in Finland, author of 200 scientific publications and former Greenpeace member.
“Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues of our time.” – Solar physicist Dr. Pal Brekke, senior advisor to the Norwegian Space Centre in Oslo. Brekke has published more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles on the sun and solar interaction with the Earth.
“The models and forecasts of the UN 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.
“Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour 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, NZ.
Nothing like throwing some cold water on the global warming scam.
My friend and colleague, Rick, says that when all this coolness finally can’t be ignored, that the greenbats, given their total irrationality, will take credit for the reversal. All the carbon credits, electric cars and power saver light bulbs did the trick, they will say.
Unfortunately, they will never go away.
Yup, all those good, green vibes did the trick.
The whackos will still try to make us pay for global warming even though unfounded. Taxes will be put in place, carbon credits etc. Just look at Obama appointing a Global Warming Tzar, and a socialist at that.
Exactly. When it comes to Ponzi schemes, Al Gore and his following make Bernie Madhoff look like a philanthropist.