Scientists do not believe human activities threaten to disrupt the Earths climate

Scientists do not believe human activities threaten to disrupt the Earth's climate by Joseph Bast (January 30, 2001)

Article website address: http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=176

Summary: Much of what is reported about global warming in newspapers and on television is wrong. Unfortunately, few reporters have the training or background needed to distinguish real science and economic facts from political and ideological 'spin.' Over the next few days we will present seven facts you should know about global warming.

[CAPITALISM MAGAZINE.COM]Over 17,000 scientists have signed a petition saying, in part, '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.' [The names of persons who have signed the petition can be viewed at http://www.oism.org/pproject.]

The petition is being circulated by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, an independent research organization that receives no funding from industry.

Among the signers of the petition are over 2,100 physicists, geophysicists, climatologists, meteorologists, and environmental scientists who are especially well-qualified to evaluate the effects of carbon dioxide on the Earth's atmosphere. Another 4,400 signers are scientists qualified to comment on carbon dioxide's effects on plant and animal life. Nearly all of the signers have some sort of advanced technical training.

The qualifications of the signers of the Oregon Institute Petition are dramatically better than the qualifications of the 2,600 'scientists' who have signed a competing petition, circulated by Ozone Action, calling for immediate action to counter global warming. An investigation by Citizens for a Sound Economy found that more than 90 percent of the Ozone Action petition's signers lacked credentials to speak with authority on the issue. [Citizens for a Sound Economy, 'Analyses Finds Only 10% of Ozone Action 2600 are 'Experts' on Global Warming,' news release, October 29, 1997.] The entire list included just one climatologist.

Over one hundred climate scientists signed the 1996 Leipzig Declaration, which stated in part, 'there does not exist today a general scientific consensus about the importance of greenhouse warming from rising levels of carbon dioxide. On the contrary, most scientists now accept the fact that actual observations from Earth satellites show no climate warming whatsoever.' [Dr. S. Fred Singer, Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate (Oakland, CA: The Independent Institute, 1997), pages 40-43.]

A survey of 36 state climatologists

You are LYING!

Try a scientific source, idiot.

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Yeah, like you'd know what a fact is.

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And 6 years ago, that was true. It's 2003 now, in case you haven't noticed.

Go to scientific journals and see what the consensus in science is.

You really are an idiot.