Consensus Conshmensus!

Elmer Bueareguard
Minnesotans For Global Warming
Dec. 12, 2007

Major New Study Released That Says:
Climate warming is naturally caused and shows no human influence:
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant.

We can all breath a little easier knowing that our breath is not destroying the planet according to a new study. Climate scientist from the University of Rochester, the University of Alabama, and the University of Virginia, conluced that the patterns of temperature changes over the last thirty years don't fit the greenhouse models but do follow other naturally occuring variables such as solar activity.

Of course this flies directly in the face of Al Gore and his U.N. "Scientists" who on the same day as the release of this study were accepting the Nobel Peace Prize for their conclusions on virtually the same data. Ironically, during Al's acceptance speech the midwest was being pelted by a deadly winter storm that killed 20 people.

Link to the press release.

The report is published in the December 2007 issue of the International Journal of Climatology of the Royal Meteorological Society [DOI: 10.1002/joc.1651]. The authors are Prof. David H. Douglass (Univ. of Rochester), Prof. John R. Christy (Univ. of Alabama), Benjamin D. Pearson (graduate student), and Prof. S. Fred Singer (Univ. of Virginia).

The fundamental question is whether the observed warming is natural or anthropogenic (human-caused). Lead author David Douglass said: “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.”

Co-author John Christy said: “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.”

Co-author 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—and thus the climate.” Our research demonstrates that the ongoing rise of atmospheric CO2 has only a minor influence on climate change. We must conclude, therefore, that attempts to control CO2 emissions are ineffective and pointless. – but very costly.