So The Science Is Settled?–Part IV

 

 

• Research Chemist William C. Gilbert who published  “The thermodynamic relationship between surface temperature and water vapour concentration in the troposphere” in the journal Energy and Environment  – “I am ashamed of what climate science has become today” adding “I was immediately amazed at the paltry level of scientific competence that I found, especially in the basic areas of heat and mass transfer”.
• 61 prominent German scientists from relevant disciplines such as physics, chemistry, geology and meteorology sent a joint letter to Angela Merkel in 2009 stating “humans have had no measurable effect on global warming through CO2 emissions. Instead the temperature fluctuations have been within normal ranges and are due to natural cycles” and complaining “In the meantime, the belief of climate change, and that it is manmade, has become a pseudo-religion”.
• 260 members of the American Physical Society were so unhappy with their governing boards stance on global warming that they formally requested in 2010 in a letter to the Society – "As current and past members of the American Physical Society, we the undersigned petition the APS Council to commission an independent, objective study and assessment of the science relating to the question of anthropogenic global warming. The assessment should consider findings representing the full scope of available scientific sources. The assessment is to be used as a basis for a new Statement on Climate Change that reflects the current state of scientific knowledge and its uncertainties.”
• More than 100 international scientists wrote an open letter to President Obama in 2008  – "Mr. President, your characterization of the scientific facts regarding climate change and the degree of certainty informing the scientific debate is simply incorrect”, continuing "We, the undersigned scientists, maintain that the case for alarm regarding climate change is grossly overstated. Surface temperature changes over the past century have been episodic and modest and there has been no net global warming for over a decade now”.
• In 2009, 166 international scientists sent this open letter to the UN Secretary General, which began “Climate change science is in a period of  negative discovery – the more we learn about this exceptionally complex and rapidly evolving field the more we realize how little we know. Truly, the science is NOT settled.”. They go on to say “It is not the responsibility of  climate realist‘ scientists to prove that dangerous human-caused climate change is not happening. Rather, it is those who propose that it is, and promote the allocation of massive investments to solve the supposed  problem‘, who have the obligation to convincingly demonstrate that recent climate change is not of mostly natural origin and, if we do nothing, catastrophic change will ensue. To date, this they have utterly failed to do”. All of these scientists were qualified in climate related scientific disciplines.
• Hundreds of prominent scientists from 40 countries signed the 2008 Manhattan Declaration which stated  – “Global climate has always changed and always will, independent of the actions of humans, and carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant but rather a necessity for all life; the causes and extent of recently-observed climatic change are the subject of intense debates in the climate science community and that oft-repeated assertions of a supposed consensus among climate experts are false “.
• Nobel prize winning physicist, Ivar Giaever – “I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion”.
• Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology, and formerly of NASA, who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called ―among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years – “Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical…The main basis of the claim that man‟s release of greenhouse gases is the cause of the warming is based almost entirely upon climate models. We all know the frailty of models concerning the air-surface system.”
• UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist – “Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history”…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.”
• Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University – ““The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn‟t listen to others. It doesn‟t have open minds… I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists”.
   

   

  For Parts I to III, see here.

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Marc Morano has the full list of more than 1000 scientists who disagree that “the science is settled”.

 

N.B. Inevitably there will some overlap amongst scientists who have signed more than one letter.