Post by moondog on Dec 22, 2008 12:32:20 GMT -5
How many of you out there have had the opportunity to read the report by Senate Minority Ranking Member James M. Inhofe? It is a pdf file so you will need acrobat reader to display it.
Or you can go to the Website of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Or you can enter through the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Minority Page
What I find striking is that there are now 650 scientists that dissent over the issue of Man-Made Global Warming. Including former Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scientists.
I quote one scientist from the report, you may read the rest if you desire:
Award-winning NASA Astronaut and Physicist Walter Cunningham of NASA’s Apollo 7. was awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal and Navy Astronaut Wings and is a member of the American Geophysical Union and fellow of the American Astronautical Society. Bio Link Cunningham rejected climate fears in 2008. “It doesn’t help that NASA scientist James Hansen was one of the early alarmists claiming humans caused global warming. Hansen is a political activist who spreads fear even when NASA’s own data contradict him,” Cunningham wrote in an essay in the July/August 2008 issue of Launch Magazine. “NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused, or Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science. Advocacy is replacing objective evaluation of data, while scientific data is being ignored in favor of emotions and politics,” he explained. “I do see hopeful signs that some true believers are beginning to harbor doubts about AGW. Let’s hope that NASA can focus the global warming discussion back on scientific evidence before we perpetrate an economic disaster on ourselves,” he added. “The reality is that atmospheric CO2 has a minimal impact on greenhouse gases and world temperature. Water vapor is responsible for 95 percent of the greenhouse effect. CO2 contributes just 3.6 percent, with human activity responsible for only 3.2 percent of that. That is why some studies claim CO2 levels are largely irrelevant to global warming. Without the greenhouse effect to keep our world warm, the planet would have an average temperature of minus 18 degrees Celsius. Because we do have it, the temperature is a comfortable plus 15 degrees Celsius. Based on the seasonal and geographic distribution of any projected warming, a good case can be made that a warmer average temperature would be even more beneficial for humans,” he concluded. (LINK)
Or you can go to the Website of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Or you can enter through the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Minority Page
What I find striking is that there are now 650 scientists that dissent over the issue of Man-Made Global Warming. Including former Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scientists.
I quote one scientist from the report, you may read the rest if you desire:
Award-winning NASA Astronaut and Physicist Walter Cunningham of NASA’s Apollo 7. was awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal and Navy Astronaut Wings and is a member of the American Geophysical Union and fellow of the American Astronautical Society. Bio Link Cunningham rejected climate fears in 2008. “It doesn’t help that NASA scientist James Hansen was one of the early alarmists claiming humans caused global warming. Hansen is a political activist who spreads fear even when NASA’s own data contradict him,” Cunningham wrote in an essay in the July/August 2008 issue of Launch Magazine. “NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused, or Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science. Advocacy is replacing objective evaluation of data, while scientific data is being ignored in favor of emotions and politics,” he explained. “I do see hopeful signs that some true believers are beginning to harbor doubts about AGW. Let’s hope that NASA can focus the global warming discussion back on scientific evidence before we perpetrate an economic disaster on ourselves,” he added. “The reality is that atmospheric CO2 has a minimal impact on greenhouse gases and world temperature. Water vapor is responsible for 95 percent of the greenhouse effect. CO2 contributes just 3.6 percent, with human activity responsible for only 3.2 percent of that. That is why some studies claim CO2 levels are largely irrelevant to global warming. Without the greenhouse effect to keep our world warm, the planet would have an average temperature of minus 18 degrees Celsius. Because we do have it, the temperature is a comfortable plus 15 degrees Celsius. Based on the seasonal and geographic distribution of any projected warming, a good case can be made that a warmer average temperature would be even more beneficial for humans,” he concluded. (LINK)
