Harvard astrophysicist dismisses AGW theory, challenges peers to 'take back climate science'

In the following interview, Dr. Willie Soon, a solar and climate scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, questions the prevailing dogma of man-made global warming and challenges his peers to “take back climate science.” His remarks are his personal opinion based upon 19 years of scientific research.

Dr. Soon: Most of the weather and climate variations we observed are essentially related to the sun and the changing seasons – not by CO2 radiative forcing and feedback. The climate system is constantly readjusting naturally in a large way – more than we would ever see from CO2. The CO2 kick [impact of CO2 emissions] is extremely small compared to what is happening in a natural way. Within the framework of a proper study of the sun-climate connection, you don’t need CO2 to explain anything.

Examiner.com: What is your opinion of the anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming theory?

Dr. Soon: It’s never been about the science – even from the very beginning. It’s based on confusion and a mixture of ideology. We should deal only in the facts that we do know.

Examiner.com: Many of the scientists promoting the global warming theory appear to be driven by politics rather than hard scientific data. What are your thoughts?

Dr. Soon: I am a scientist. I go where the facts take me. And the facts are fairly clear. It doesn’t take very long to discover that their views [of man-caused global warming] aren’t grounded in the facts. Why would any solid science need so much promotion and advertisement and the endless shouting about how the science has all been “settled”? And now we’re supposed to believe that the growing consensus on the street that humans are not responsible for global warming is due mainly to the

Legions of Anthropogenic Global Warming Skeptics

Global Warming Petition Project, also known as the Oregon Project, has been signed to date by 31,486 American scientists, including 9,029 with PhDs, and nearly 4,000 with specific training in atmospheric, earth, and environmental sciences. All signers have the necessary training in physics, chemistry, and mathematics to understand and evaluate the scientific data relevant to the human-caused global warming hypothesis and to the effects of human activities upon environmental quality.
Statement by Atmospheric Scientists on Greenhouse Warming signed by 47 scientists against the highly uncertain scientific theories being used to support global environmental regulations in anticipation of the Earth Summit (Brazil 1992). FEBRUARY 27, 1992
THE LEIPZIG DECLARATION ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE originally a prebuttal to the 1997 Kyoto Climate Treaty Conference. It has 105 signatories. (1995, 1997, revised 2005)
The CATO Institute Climate Change Ad signed by 115 scientists, mostly PhDs. Ad in pdf form. March 30, 2009
141 Scientists Sign Letter Sent to UN Secretary-General Questioning Global Warming stating that the science behind anthropogenic global warming is anything but "settled". December 8, 2009
U. S. Senate Minority Report: More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claim Over 700 dissenting scientists to date from around the globe challenged man-made global warming claims made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice President Al Gore. Initially released December 2007.
Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change approximately 1000 endorsers of the International Climate Science Coalition, March 2-4, 2008.
Memorandum submitted by the Institute of Physics The Institute of Physics, with a worldwide membership of over 36,000, has submitted a memorandum to the U.K. Parliament in which they excoriate the CRU as an affront to the integrity of science, as well as decry the corrupt peer review process in climatology that has evolved to support the anthropogenic global warming fraud. February 2010
More than 60 German Scientists Dissent Over Global Warming Claims in an open letter to German Chancellor. The more than 60 signers of the letter include several United Nations IPCC scientists. The scientists declared that global warming has become a “pseudo religion” and they noted that rising CO2 has “had no measurable effect” on temperatures. The German scientists, also wrote that the “UN IPCC has lost its scientific credibility." August 9, 2009

Who ya gonna believe? A mere astrophysicist - or al gore?

After all, don't forget while everyone says the earth's core is only 5,000-6,000 degrees F...al knows it's “millions and millions.”

And don't forget, he had his nearly 9 million dollar spread with 9 bathrooms, pool and pool-house built ON THE SHORE so’s he could keep an eye on that rising sea for us. What a hero.

Does’ anyone wonder where he gets this money? I mean BESIDES OXY oil?

Shares in carbon trading? hmmmm?

This guy seems to agree with Roy Spencer, who is a principal research scientist at The University of Alabama, where he directs a variety of climate research projects. He received his Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Wisconsin and was a senior scientist for climate studies at NASA. He has authored numerous weather and climate research articles, provided congressional testimony on global warming and penned the 2008 NYT best seller, Climate Confusion.

Most of us learned of him through his visits with Rush Limbaugh.

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