More
Than 700 Scientists Discredit Man Made Global Warming
The Cleveland Examiner ^ | March 17, 2009 | Paul Fuhr
Posted on Wednesday,
April 08, 2009 11:41:39 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
“59” might be the magic number for Americans to
start thinking twice about global warming fears.
59 scientists around the world have officially
added their names to the much-publicized U.S. Senate Minority Report that
denounces claims about man-made global warming. This pushes the tally of
skeptical scientists to well over 700.
According to a new report, the 700-plus scientists
are “now more than 13 times the number of U.N. scientists who authored the
media-hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers.” Many of the scientists are
“affiliated with prestigious institutions” including NASA, the U.S. Navy, the
U.S. Defense Department, Princeton University, as well as countless others.
Skeptical scientific voices are enjoying more and
more company in past weeks, especially in light of a recent article published
in The Australian that says Japanese scientists are largely rejecting
man-made global warming claims. Japanese Geologist Dr. Shigenori Maruyama,
professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Department of Earth and
Planetary Sciences, said this month that “there was widespread skepticism among
his colleagues about the IPCC's fourth and latest
assessment report that most of the observed global temperature increase since
the mid-20th century 'is very likely due to the observed increase in
anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.'"
According to a report published by the U.S. Senate
Committee on Environment and Public Works, Maruyama noted that when this
question was raised at a Japan Geoscience Union
symposium last year, "the result showed 90 percent of the participants do
not believe the IPCC report.” The same report notes:
Botanist Dr. David Bellamy, a famed UK
environmental campaigner, former lecturer at Durham University, and host of a
popular UK TV series on wildlife, says the international promotion of man-made
global warming fears are nearing their end. “The science has, quite simply,
gone awry. In fact, it’s not even science any more, it’s anti-science,” says
Bellamy, who used to believe in man-made warming.
Perhaps Princeton physicist Dr. Robert H. Austen,
a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, said it best earlier this
month: “Unfortunately, Climate Science has become Political Science … It is
tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically-motivated scientists who
should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomena which is
statistically questionable at best.”
Increasingly, the number of
scientists skeptical of global warming seem to be responding to both
doomsday predictions of climate change as well as peer-reviewed analyses that
downplay claims that man-made global warming is a reality. Just a few weeks
ago, Dr. Anastasios Tsonis
of the