Is there a scientific consensus about global
warming?
One of the main planks on which the 'man-made glogal warming' hypothesis relies is the oft-repeated belief that most, if not all, serious scientists support the concept.
But the facts are very different. Over the last decade, as more and more scientists see that the warmers' computer models do not stack up, they are coming out against the idea that we humans are in any way responsible for any climate change.
Here is a rough idea of the 'fors' and 'againsts'. As can clearly be seen, there are actually very few scientists who back man-made global warming.
FOR Man-made Global Warming
- 52 scientists signed the IPCC’s Statement
For Policy Makers
AGAINST Man-made Global Warming
- In 1997
fully 90% of State Climatologists did not agree
with the Man-made Global Warming hypothesis
- 19,000
scientists and academics with higher degrees
signed the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
Petition, including 2,600 with climate science
credentials
- 2-4
March 2008: 100 scientists spoke and 400 more
attended the Heartland Institute’s
International Conference on Climate Change, New
York City.
- And on 8 January 2009, “More Than 650
International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made
Global Warming Claims”. A US Senate
Committee on Environment & Public Works press
release, entitled "Global Warming
‘Consensus in Freefall", reported "More Than
650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made
Global Warming Claims"
In a report of the Heartland Institute's Conference,
Dr Fred Hanson of the Adam Smith Institute wrote:
“. . . leading scientists presented solid,
dramatic and verified new material completely refuting
the myth that climate change was caused by mankind's
production of carbon dioxide.
“The number of scientists attending the
conference apparently well exceeded the number involved
in the IPCC process.
“I felt touched by 100 scientists with the
courage to put their convictions in writing to the
United Nations . . .
“The scientists from 17 nations include
internationally eminent climatologists – and
authors of the scientific report prepared for the
United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change [IPCC], including some IPCC Lead
Authors.” [1]
Those who still believe the propaganda that there is
actually a majority of scientists in agreement with the
hyporthsis that global warming is man made, need to
understand that the vast majority of scientists
aren't!
References
1. Dr Fred Hanson. Unethical climate science
debunked. Adam Smith Institute, 2008.
Last updated 31 March
2009
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