- Sources: Daily Mail, Canada Post and Others 3-5-7
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- The Gore climate machine loves to claim that there is
no scientific opposition to their human-caused global warming fraud. It's
a lie. The real truth is that anyone who criticizes it is either misrepresented
or silenced. Some examples:
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- ** Prof. Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institute in Paris
said the list of scientists endorsing the recent Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) report was a "sham," because it included
the names of panel scientists who disagreed with its exaggerated climate
predictions. Reiter, an expert in malaria, told the London Daily Mail that
he only got his name removed after he threatened a lawsuit. "That
is how they make it seem that all the top scientists are agreed,"
Prof. Reiter said. In a report in the Jan.-Feb. 2000 issue of {Emerging
Infectious Diseases}, Reiter showed that the claim that the increase in
malaria was due to climate change was absurd. Dr. Reiter contributed a
Viewpoint to {21st Century Science}, Winter 2003.
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- ** Senior French physicist and pioneer of isotope studies
Claude Allegre came out against global warming last September, after having
been one of its most outspoken proponents for over 15 years. His case is
featured today in Canada's National Post, in an ongoing series called "The
Deniers." Fifteen years ago, Dr. Allegre, had been among the 1,500
scientists who signed a highly publicized letter stressing that global
warming's "potential risks are very great." But last September,
in an article in {l'Express} ("The Snows of Kilimanjaro"), Allegre
said that the retreat of the Kilimanjaro glacier had nothing to do with
human-produced carbon dioxide, and also pointed to growth in the Antarctic
glacier. There is no basis for saying, as most do, that the "science
is settled," he said. A member of the U.S. and French Academies of
Science, Allegre is a pioneer in the field of isotope geodynamics, a method
of dating past events like the formation of the atmosphere, by isotope
signatures. He participated in the Apollo lunar program, where he helped
determine the age of the Moon. Allegre is also a leading figure in the
Socialist Party and served as Education Minister.
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- ** Oregon State Climatologist George Taylor is under
threat of losing his job for arguing that most climate change is the result
of natural variations, not human-produced carbon dioxide. Despite threats
from the Governor and a pending bill in the legislatures to have him removed,
sponsored by Democratic State Sen. Brad Avakian, Taylor has held firm.
"If the facts change, I'll change my mind. So far, I haven't,"
Taylor told a climate change conference at Oregon State University. Taylor
has held the title of "state climatologist" since 1991, when
the legislature created a state climate office at OSU.
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- ** Chris Landsea, one of the world's foremost experts
on hurricanes, resigned from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
in January 2005, in protest over their bias. He wrote an open letter shortly
before the issuance of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report. Dr Kevin Trenberth,
the lead author of a part of the IPCC report had participated in a press
conference claiming the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season was caused by greenhouse
gases. Wrote Landsea: "To my knowledge none of the participants in
that press conference had performed any research on hurricane variability,
nor were they reporting on any new work in the field. All previous and
current research in the area of hurricane variability has shown no reliable,
long-term trend up in the frequency or intensity of tropical cyclones,
either in the Atlantic or any other basin."
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