THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume X, Issue # 131, May 23, 2008
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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OVER 31,000 U.S. SCIENTISTS DENY MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING
By Dennis T. Avery
THE OREGON PETITION: REFUTING THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX -- SCIENTISTS REJECTING THE BOGUS CLAIM THAT
HUMAN-INDUCED CATASTROPHIC GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE IS IMMINENT -- "THERE IS NO CONVINCING SCIENTIFIC
EVIDENCE THAT HUMAN RELEASE OF CARBON DIOXIDE, METHANE, OR OTHER GREENHOUSE GASES IS CAUSING OR WILL, IN
THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE, CAUSE CATASTROPHIC HEATING OF THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE & DISRUPTION OF THE
EARTH'S CLIMATE." (Global Warming Petition, http://www.oism.org/pproject/)
FULL STORY:
In 1998, Dr. Arthur Robinson, Director of the Oregon Institute for Science and Medicine (OISM), posted his first Global
Warming skeptic petition, on the Institute’s website (www.oism.org) [1]. It quickly attracted the signatures of more than
17,000 Americans who held college degrees in science. Widely known as the Oregon Petition, it became a counter-weight
for the “all scientists agree” mantra of the man-man Global Warming crowd.
Recently, with America being dragged toward Kyoto-style energy limits by cadres of alarmists, Robinson mailed a new copy
of the petition to his original signers, asking them to recruit additional qualified scientists. Now his list includes nearly 32,000
American man-made warming skeptics with science qualifications. More than 9,000 hold scientific PhDs. Almost 32,000
thousand skeptics happen to be twelve times as many scientists as the 2,500 scientific reviewers claimed by the UN
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to form a scientific consensus.
Last week, Robinson held a press meeting at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., followed by a luncheon on Capital
Hill, to which members of Congress and their aides were invited. Not surprisingly, attendance was low.
Robinson’s petition states a truth: “There is no convincing evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other
greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and
disruption of the Earth’s climate.”
What do these approximately 32,000 scientists believe has caused the earth’s warming since 1850, if it isn’t CO2? He points
to the sun. Robinson notes that, over the past 150 years, the sunspot index has predicted the Earth’s temperature changes —
with 79 percent accuracy — about ten years before they happen. The sunspots actually predicted the 2007 global
temperature decline; the index turned down in 2000. The computer models didn’t foresee it.
The correlation between Earth’s temperatures and CO2 is only at the “accidental” level — 22 percent and declining sharply
over the past decade, as the temperatures have refused to increase with the CO2 levels. Robinson says the lack of correlation
between CO2 levels and past Earth temperatures proves that CO2 is not dominating our climate.
The Oregon chemist warns that “no other major scientific problem has ever been tackled the way the UN has approached
global warming.” The UN hosted a big meeting of scientists, he says, and then a small group of “authors” summarized the
discussions into a global action plan. But the UN has never produced any evidence that humans are warming our climate.
The UN panel says CO2 became the culprit “by the process of elimination,” but such a process is neither scientific nor
admissible in a court of law.
The forecasts of desperate temperature increases all come from computer climate models, notes Robinson. But the
computer models keep forecasting more warming than we get. In fact, 70 percent of the earth’s recent warming occurred
before 1940, while virtually all of humanity’s greenhouse gas emission has occurred since that date. The Earth’s net warming
since 1940 is a tiny 0.2 degree C.
“If CO2 isn’t causing our tiny warming, then banning all our energy will simply make people poor and helpless, says
Robinson. “The cold spells and heat waves nature will always throw at us, will then indeed, threaten human lives on the
planet.”
NOTE:
[1] Global Warming Petition (Oregon Petition):
"We urge the United States government to reject the global
warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan, in
December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The
proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the
environment, hinder the advance of science and technology,
and damage the health and welfare of mankind.
"There is no convincing scientific evidence that human
release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse
gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause
catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and
disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is
substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric
carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the
natural plant and animal environments of the Earth."
http://www.oism.org/pproject/
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
The Earth's Natural History, Global Climate Changes,
& the Future of Human Life & Civilization on the Planet:
Science, Ideology, & Public Policy
Dennis T. Avery is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., and is the Director of the Institute's Center for
Global Food Issues (www.cgfi.org). Formerly he was a senior policy analyst for the United
States Department of State, where he won the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement. He is the co-author, with
atmospheric physicist Fred Singer, of the book, Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years (Blue Ridge Summit,
Pennsylvania: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006). Avery's book, Saving the Planet With Pesticides and Plastic: The Environmental
Triumph of High-Yield Farming (Washington, D.C.: Hudson Institute, 1995), continues to be popular as a readable overview
of realistic agriculture for the future and for today. Readers may write Avery at Post Office Box 202, Churchville, Virginia, 24421.
Email: cgfi@hughes.net
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