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New Study Explodes Human-Global Warming Story
Monday, December 10, 2007
As much of the U.S. is being blasted by vicious ice storms, a blockbuster
report published in a prestigious scientific journal insists that the
evidence shows that climate warming is both natural and unstoppable and that
carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant.
Writing in the International Journal of Climatology of the Royal
Meteorological Society, professor David H. Douglass (of the University of
Rochester), professor John R. Christy (of the University of Alabama),
Benjamin D. Pearson and professor S. Fred Singer (of the University of
Virginia) report that observed patterns of temperature changes
("fingerprints") over the last 30 years disagree with what greenhouse models
predict and can better be explained by natural factors, such as solar
variability.
The conclusion is that climate change is "unstoppable" and cannot be
affected or modified by controlling the emission of greenhouse gases, such
as CO2, as is proposed in current legislation.
According to Dr. Douglass: "The observed pattern of warming, comparing
surface and atmospheric temperature trends, does not show the characteristic
fingerprint associated with greenhouse warming. The inescapable conclusion
is that the human contribution is not significant and that observed
increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases make only a
negligible contribution to climate warming."
One of his co-authors, Dr. John Christy, added: "Satellite data and
independent balloon data agree that atmospheric warming trends do not exceed
those of the surface. Greenhouse models, on the other hand, demand that
atmospheric trend values be 2-3 times greater.
"We have good reason, therefore, to believe that current climate models
greatly overestimate the effects of greenhouse gases. Satellite observations
suggest that GH models ignore negative feedbacks, produced by clouds and by
water vapor, that diminish the warming effects of carbon dioxide."
And the third co-author, Dr. S. Fred Singer, said: "The current warming
trend is simply part of a natural cycle of climate warming and cooling that
has been seen in ice cores, deep-sea sediments, stalagmites, etc., and
published in hundreds of papers in peer-reviewed journals.
"The mechanism for producing such cyclical climate changes is still under
discussion; but they are most likely caused by variations in the solar wind
and associated magnetic fields that affect the flux of cosmic rays incident
on the earth's atmosphere.
"In turn, such cosmic rays are believed to influence cloudiness and thereby
control the amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface
New Study Explodes Human-Global Warming Story
Monday, December 10, 2007
As much of the U.S. is being blasted by vicious ice storms, a blockbuster
report published in a prestigious scientific journal insists that the
evidence shows that climate warming is both natural and unstoppable and that
carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant.
Writing in the International Journal of Climatology of the Royal
Meteorological Society, professor David H. Douglass (of the University of
Rochester), professor John R. Christy (of the University of Alabama),
Benjamin D. Pearson and professor S. Fred Singer (of the University of
Virginia) report that observed patterns of temperature changes
("fingerprints") over the last 30 years disagree with what greenhouse models
predict and can better be explained by natural factors, such as solar
variability.
The conclusion is that climate change is "unstoppable" and cannot be
affected or modified by controlling the emission of greenhouse gases, such
as CO2, as is proposed in current legislation.
According to Dr. Douglass: "The observed pattern of warming, comparing
surface and atmospheric temperature trends, does not show the characteristic
fingerprint associated with greenhouse warming. The inescapable conclusion
is that the human contribution is not significant and that observed
increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases make only a
negligible contribution to climate warming."
One of his co-authors, Dr. John Christy, added: "Satellite data and
independent balloon data agree that atmospheric warming trends do not exceed
those of the surface. Greenhouse models, on the other hand, demand that
atmospheric trend values be 2-3 times greater.
"We have good reason, therefore, to believe that current climate models
greatly overestimate the effects of greenhouse gases. Satellite observations
suggest that GH models ignore negative feedbacks, produced by clouds and by
water vapor, that diminish the warming effects of carbon dioxide."
And the third co-author, Dr. S. Fred Singer, said: "The current warming
trend is simply part of a natural cycle of climate warming and cooling that
has been seen in ice cores, deep-sea sediments, stalagmites, etc., and
published in hundreds of papers in peer-reviewed journals.
"The mechanism for producing such cyclical climate changes is still under
discussion; but they are most likely caused by variations in the solar wind
and associated magnetic fields that affect the flux of cosmic rays incident
on the earth's atmosphere.
"In turn, such cosmic rays are believed to influence cloudiness and thereby
control the amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface
