Posted on 01/18/2007 2:07:32 PM PST by blam
Global warming dissenters few at U.S. weather meeting
Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:30 PM GMT
By Ed Stoddard
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Joe D'Aleo was a rare voice of dissent this week at the American Meteorological Society's annual meeting in San Antonio.
D'Aleo, executive director of the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, a group of scientists, doesn't think greenhouse gas emissions are the major cause of global warming and climate change.
Researchers who hold such contrary views do not appreciate being lumped together with flat-Earthers. They are legitimate scientists who question the mainstream, but they are a distinct minority.
"Greenhouse warming is real, but I think it is a relatively minor player," D'Aleo said.
He claims other factors like solar activity and other natural causes are probably playing a greater role in rising temperatures -- a position that gets a mostly chilly reception from this crowd.
Several scientists and writers interviewed at the society's conference, which ends on Thursday, stressed that most researchers believe there is little scientific debate about the causes of global warming.
That does not mean there is a consensus.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.co.uk ...
"Global Warming Dissenters Few At US Weather Meeting"
Of course they weren't invited, but we won't talk about that.
Taht's because they've been systematically defunded.
It's a bunch of cooling towers and that's steam coming off them! They're trying to convey an image that big energy is trashing the planet with tons of pollution.
Of course no one at the conference can argue that the physical mechanisms identified that do have an effect on Earth's surface temps don't exist. None of them can argue that the effect can be significant also. Even by 2060, when a predicted 550ppmv CO2, ~0.34% increase in the Earth's atmospheric energy content and a ~1oC temp increase occurs.
Global warming is a con job perpetrated by the leaftists to grab control of the energy supply and it's use.
The fact is that the Earth has been going through warming adn cooling cycles since it came into being. Evidence indicates that the medieval warming period was warmer than today. It was followed by a cooling period during the Renaissance.
And BTW, the polar ice caps are melting.
On Mars.
"Several scientists and writers interviewed at the society's conference, which ends on Thursday, stressed that most researchers believe there is little scientific debate about the causes of global warming."
Good jobs folks. 10,000 more carbon credits in your market accouts!
It is so ridiculous. We are all geting freezing in places other than normal. I can't understand why we sit out here and take this baloney. I would even be more tempted to believe these are signs of the end of times than to believe in this bull. At least a sign of end of times makes some sense.
Recently in Alaska a park ranger mentioned that Mendenhall glacier (Juneau) has been impacted by global warming for the last 250 years.
Q: In Washington state, the #1 polluter is very famous, won't pay any fines, and is totally uncontrollable...
It's not Microsoft, the federal government or even Boeing...
A: sneleH tniaS tnuoM
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