Prominent Climate Denier Scientists |
By T.L. Winslow (TLW), the Historyscoper™ |
© Copyright by T.L. Winslow. All Rights Reserved. |
| Original Pub. Date: Nov. 26, 2024. Last Update: May 20, 2025. |
We're living in dim but interesting times when climate science has been hijacked by resurgent global Marxism spearheaded by the global Marxist politician-run U.N. IPCC octopus
of leftist anti-Big Oil activists masquerading as scientists and its lapdog the WEF of leftist billionaires and politicians, which for decades has been frantically working to frame the harmless
CO2 emissions of Big Oil as causing global warming and threatening a climate crisis to scare and trick Western nations into taxing it to death and give the loot to them to save us. The only crisis
is their power grab.
This has created the absurd situation where real climate scientists are defunded, smeared, and cancelled while the U.N. IPCC's fake climate scientists receive billions to fund their junk
science research to serve as sales literature for their trillion-dollar fake climate crisis scam based scientifically on the totally bogus greenhouse effect. They took the entire veteran crew of
real climate scientists and ran over them with a steam roller to replace them with pampered entitled young wet-behind-the-ears miseducated junk climate scientists that are really just
Marxist apparatchiks who jump when they whistle.
Like all Marxists, they pretend to be a Ministry of Truth whose high priests are all in lock-step consensus and can't even be questioned. Again, like all Marxists, they redefine language to game the
debate, using the Marxist smear term "climate (change) denier" to scare people from even looking at their views. Every day they broadcast their lying agitprop on all channels via Big Tech
and the PC press, which they enjoy nearly complete control of to muzzle climate deniers and keep their gravy train speeding down the tracks.
Never fear, they still can't completely control the Internet, leaving corners like X (Twitter) and Quora open for truth-tellers to set up their soapboxes.
Too bad, even the few brave hardy freedom-fighting independent scientists who survive with their own private blogs aren't in lock-step agreement that the greenhouse effect is a hoax,
with some "warmists" claiming it's real but not as strong as the IPCC says. Others claim that global warming will be beneficial, and other claim that more atmospheric CO2 will help green
the Earth to feed the teeming billions, but the global Marxists will brook no deviation from the official party line, paying their fake scientists to churn out heaps of fake scientific papers
heaping mental manure on them. Unfortunately the most popular climate denier blog
Watts Up With That (500M+ hits) is run by warmist Willard Anthony Watts (1958-),
who effectively baits independent thinkers harmlessly into a padlocked corral by praising the U.N. IPCC with faint damnation while studiously ignoring my complete curriculum disproving
the whole U.N. IPCC version of climate science, why do I suspect he's a double-agent sometimes?
Once you know that the greenhouse effect is a fake physics hoax, nothing remains of the vast edifice of climate science built-up at great taxpayer expense by the U.N. IPCC., revealing
the truth that they're the real climate deniers because they deny that ONLY THE SUN heats the Earth's atmosphere and surface and is its master control knob, not CO2 or any other
so-called greenhouse gas.
For years every academic journal banned articles criticizing the global Marxist Ministry of Truth, but each year the truth gets out anyway, and the center is threatening to break.
Already a smattering of "climate denier" articles get published by the academic press each year.
As a historyscoper I wish I were born 500 years from now to see how it came out, hopefully with the U.N. IPCC being defunded and dismantled, and hopefully forced to give the money back.
Will they also lamely apologize like Pope John Paul II?
Note:
This cool historyscope of U.N. IPCC-banned "climate deniers" is presented in a condensed form that can be used as a top--down speed introduction to the whole subject.
When possible I link to the Wikipedia biography, even though they have long been hijacked by the U.N. IPCC. At least the limited biased cherry-picked informtion they provide is sourced,
and sometimes they supply a link to the subject's blog. For a cool free nearly complete list of all climate change blogs on all sides, see:
TLW's Climate Change Blog List
If you want to see hijacking in action, see the biographies in
DeSmog Blog, a U.N. IPCC octopus smear site designed to scare readers away from looking at anything about or by "climate deniers", who are
treated like suspected criminals.
Habibullo Ismailovich Abdussamatov (1940-), Russian astrophysicist, head of the space research laboratory
at the Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. Believes that global warming is primarily caused by natural processes.
"The common view that man's industrial activity is a deciding factor in global warming has emerged from a misinterpretation of cause and effect relations."
Syun-Ichi Akasofu (1930-), retired professor of geophysics and founding director of the
International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. "Arctic warming during the last half of the last century is due to natural change."
Claude J. Allègre (1937-), French Socialist Party politician and geochemist, emeritus professor at Institute of Geophysics in Paris.
France's #1 global warming skeptic. Warmist.
"We do not deny climate change, but we consider that global warming is not the essential phenomenon. If the temperature increases by 1 or 2° C per century and the sea level rises 25 centimeters,
this does not seem catastrophic. We think, for our part, that the essential phenomenon is the increased frequency of extreme events: heat waves or Russian winter, heavy rains with flooding and
drought with lack of clean water, and frequent violent tornadoes. All with seemingly random geographic distributions."
" The cause of this climate change is unknown."
"There is no basis for saying, as most do, that the 'science is settled.'"
Sallie Louise Baliunas (1953-), astrophysicist at the Harvard University/Smithsonian Institution Center for Astrophysics in 1989-2003.
Warmist. Colleague of Willie Soon, who claim that solar variability is more strongly correlated with variations in air temperature than any other factor, even CO2 levels.
Their landmark 2003 research paper that claimed that "the 20th century is probably not the warmest nor a uniquely extreme climatic period of the last millennium" caused a
huge controversy, if you can't stand the heat stay out of the kitchen.
"But is it possible that the particular temperature increase observed in the last 100 years is the result of carbon dioxide produced by human activities? The scientific evidence clearly indicates
that this is not the case... Measurements of atmospheric temperatures made by instruments lofted in satellites and balloons show that no warming has occurred in the atmosphere in the
last 50 years. This is just the period in which humanmade carbon dioxide has been pouring into the atmosphere and according to the climate studies, the resultant atmospheric warming should
be clearly evident."
"Predictions of an anthropogenic global warming have been greatly exaggerated, and that the human contribution to global warming over the course of the 21st century will be less than
one degree Celsius and probably only a few tenths of a degree."
"The recent warming trend in the surface temperature record cannot be caused by the increase of human-made greenhouse gases in the air."
"If scientists and researchers were coming out releasing reports that global warming has little to do with man, and most to do with just how the planet works, there wouldn't be as much money
to study it."
Timothy Francis "Tim" Ball (1938-2022), British-born geographer, professor at the Dept. of Geography of the University of Winnipeg.
"The deception is the hypothesis that human production of CO2 is causing global warming. The hypothesis is referred to as Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). The agency that carried
out the deception was the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)."
"They don't have to worry about CO2 because it is not a pollutant and is not causing climate change. No significant environmental problems are threatening the world. All the stories about
impending environmental doom are fictions deliberately created to make people surrender control to the government. It is time to break the emotional stranglehold of those who used the
environment to create global socialism." Nice biography:
In Memoriam: Timothy Ball, Ph.D., Fierce Defender of Science.
Read Ball's essay
Environmentalism: Evidence Suggests It Was Always And Only About Achieving World Government.
Robert C. Balling, Jr. (1952-) American climatologist, professor of geography at Arizona State University. CO2 beneficitalist.
"All of us engage in activities that involve burning fossil fuels, and according to some self-proclaimed environmentalists we should feel guilty doing so due to the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2)
which can lead to ever-dreaded global warming. However, the botanical literature is full of 1,000s of articles showing that elevated atmospheric concentrations of CO2 will be beneficial for plants
throughout the world... We see the forest and we see the trees, and they both thank us for the CO2 we're adding to the atmosphere... So drive out to the forest and feel good about the CO2
coming out of your tailpipe!"
"Elevated atmospheric CO2 will produce biological miracles all over the world."
Joe Bastardi (1955-), American meteorologist.
"In the entire geological history of the planet, there has been no known linkage between CO2 and temperatures."
David James Bellamy (1933-2019), English botanist.
"I'm sceptical about man-made climate change. There's absolutely no proof that carbon dioxide will kill us all. It's not a poison, it's the most important gas in the world. Carbon dioxide
is an airborne fertiliser. How can farmers grow increasing amounts of food without a rise in CO2?"
"Global warming is part of a natural cycle and there's nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem
that doesn't actually exist."
"Global warming is a largely natural phenomenon. The world is wasting stupendous amounts of money on trying to fix something that can't be fixed."
"I don't like being called a denier because deniers don't believe in facts. There are no facts linking the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide with imminent catastrophic global warming,
there are only predictions based on complex computer models."
Paul Berenson (1932-2009), American physicist, executive secretary of the
Defense Science Board of the U.S. Defense Department.
"Man has been putting increasingly large amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Age and rapidly increasing the last 60 years as shown in all the references.
However, the amount of CO2 man has added to the atmosphere is less than 1 % of the CO2 that is there from natural causes."
"Current atmospheric temperatures and CO2 content are no higher than they have been at various times during the past million years. The so-called Climate Optimum 1000 to 1300 A.D. was
1-3 degrees C warmer than now, and apparently provided better living conditions for humans, animals, and vegetation. For example, Greenland was green and habitable by farmers.
Water vapor (H2O) is the primary greenhouse gas, contributing roughly 80 % of the greenhouse effect. Without the warming effect of the greenhouse gases, the Earth would be roughly 10 degrees
cooler, and probably uninhabitable by humans. It has been estimated that the warming effect of CO2 is roughly one thousandth that of water vapor."
"The analytical models used to predict higher atmospheric CO2 content and temperature have not been validated, and do not predict the measured values from the last 200 years; e.g., the cooling
of roughly 1 degree C from about 1940 to 1975. Thus they are not valid and should not be used. They are not valid because they do not include major effects on the climate such as clouds, rain,
electric currents, cosmic rays, sun spots, etc."
Reid Bryson (1920-2008), American geologist, meteorologist and atmospheric scientist, founder of the
Dept. of Meteorology and Center for Climatic Research at the U. of Wisconsin-Madison, and first dir. of the Institute for Environmental Studies (Nelson Insitute).
First to propose that human aerosols are causing a "human volcano" leading to global cooling.
"All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it's absurd. Of course it's going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because
we're coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we're putting more carbon dioxide into the air."
Robert Merlin Carter (1942-2016), English-born Kiwi geologist-paleontologist, head of the
Earth Sciences School of James Cook University. In Apr. 2006 he originated the claim that global avg. surface temperature rise "stopped" in 1998.
Georgia-born George V. Chilingar (Chilingarian) (1929-2023), American geologist, professor of Civil and Petroleum Engineering
at the University of Southern California.
"The authors identify and describe the following global forces of nature driving the Earth's climate: (1) solar radiation ..., (2) outgassing as a major supplier of gases to the World Ocean
and the atmosphere, and, possibly, (3) microbial activities ... . The writers provide quantitative estimates of the scope and extent of their corresponding effects on the Earth's climate [and]
show that the human-induced climatic changes are negligible."
John R. Christy (1951-), American climate scientist, professor of atmospheric science and director of the
Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, contributor to several IPCC reports. Colleague of Roy Spencer. Warmist. CO2 beneficialist.
"I'm sure the majority (but not all) of my IPCC colleagues cringe when I say this, but I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame
for most of the warming we see."
"[W]e are not morally bad people for taking carbon and turning it into the energy that offers life to humanity in a world that would otherwise be brutal (think of life before modernity). On the
contrary, we are good people for doing so."
"Carbon dioxide makes things grow. The world used to have five times as much carbon dioxide as it does now. Plants love this stuff. It creates more food. CO2 is not the problem... There is
absolutely no question that carbon energy provides with longer and better lives.”
Petr Chylek, Czech-born physicist, adjunct professor of atmospheric physics at Dalhousie University in Halifax, space and
remote sensing sciences researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Warmist.
"A common view on the current climate change (global warming) is that it is a result of fossil fuel burning and the following increase in atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide. In reality
there are several factors that produce the current climate change."
"Thus, two of the three pillars of the global warming and carbon dioxide paradigm are open to reinvestigation. The damage has been done. The public trust in climate science has been eroded.
At least a part of the IPCC 2007 report has been put in question. We cannot blame it on a few irresponsible individuals. The entire esteemed climate research community has to take responsibility.
Yes, there always will be a few deniers and obstructionists."
Terigi Ciccone, Italian-born American gas turbine engineer,
Banned from IPCC-controlled academic journals, he has self-published many articles criticizing their version of climate science.
"There is no climate change or weather or warming crisis. The Earth's temperature has increased about 1.3C since the Earth emerged from the Little Ice Age about 175 years ago and that's
been a blessing for humanity and all life on Earth."
"The Sun is the primary driver of the Earth's temperature."
"Atmospheric CO2 does not cause global warming, rather it acts as a cooling mechanism for the planet."
"The increased CO2 and slightly warmer temperatures have caused a massive greening of the planet."
Ian D. Clark, palaeoclimatologist at the University of Waterloo and University of Paris.
"Solar activity of the last hundred years, over the last several hundred years correlates very nicely on a decadal basis, with sea ice and Arctic temperatures."
"That portion of the scientific community that attributes climate warming to CO2 relies on the hypothesis that increasing CO2, which is in fact a minor greenhouse gas, triggers a much
larger water vapour response to warm the atmosphere. This mechanism has never been tested scientifically beyond the mathematical models that predict extensive warming, and are
confounded by the complexity of cloud formation - which has a cooling effect. ... We know that [the sun] was responsible for climate change in the past, and so is clearly going to play
the lead role in present and future climate change. And interestingly... solar activity has recently begun a downward cycle."
John Francis Clauser (1942-), American quantum physicist, recipient of the 2022 Nobel Physics Prize. Warmist. CO2 beneficialist.
"The popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world's economy and the well-being of billions of people. Misguided climate science
has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience. In turn, the pseudoscience has become a scapegoat for a wide variety of other unrelated ills. It has been promoted and extended
by similarly misguided business marketing agents, politicians, journalists, government agencies, and environmentalists. In my opinion, there is no real climate crisis. There is, however, a
very real problem with providing a decent standard of living to the world's large population and an associated energy crisis. The latter is being unnecessarily exacerbated by what, in my opinion,
is incorrect climate science."
John Stewart Coleman (1934-2018), American meteorologist, co-founder of the Weather Channel.
"There is no runaway climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril."
"Global Warming, i.e. Climate Change, is not about environmentalism or politics. It is not a religion . It is not something you 'believe in.' It is science; the science of meteorology. This is my field
of lifelong expertise. And I am telling you Global Warming is a nonevent, a manufactured crisis and a total scam. I say this knowing you probably won't believe me, a mere TV weatherman,
challenging a Nobel Prize, Academy Award and Emmy Award winning former Vice President of United States. So be it."
Piers Richard Corbyn (1947-), British weather forecaster, owner of the business WeatherAction.
"CO2 has no effect on the temperatures. The levels of CO2 are driven by temperatures."
"The warming that we are told about is 100 per cent fake... It's a massive ideological tool by the globalists who are under massive pressure right now to justify the de-industrialisation agenda
making super profits for the biggest corporations and more and more money for the super rich."
"This campaign to control climate by changing CO2 levels won't achieve anything. It's not there to control climate, it's there to control you."
"Their observation of this extra number of warm years since 2002 is that they've had an extra amount of climate fraud since 2002."
William R. Cotton (1942-), cloud physicist, professor emeritus of atmospheric science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
Warmist. "It is an open question if human produced changes in climate are large enough to be detected from the noise of the natural variability of the climate system."
"Climate variability has been with Earth for eons. Greenhouse warming is only one factor affecting climate change. There are many other factors, some associated with human activity,
many not, and not all processes associated with climate variability have been quantitatively identified. Therefore I am skeptical about claims of forecasts of what the climate will be like
in say, 5, 10 years or more I also view claims that a few years of abnormal weather like intense hurricane landfalls, severe storms and floods, and droughts to be caused by human activity
as abuse of limited scientific knowledge."
Susan Janet Crockford (1964-), Canadian zoologist, adjunct professor in Anthropology at the University of Victoria.
Founder of the Web site Polar Bear Science, which proves that alleged global warming hasn't hurt polar bear populations or health.
"I am here today to give you an example of the failed science that is used to convince uninformed people that burning fossil fuels has had and will continue to have harmful effects on the planet."
"The original proclamation of polar bears becoming extinct or being threatened with extinction back in 2007 was that polar bears were raised and used as an icon for global warming. And it
became an important talisman for the whole movement. And that whole level of argument is being protected, and one of the reasons I'm being attacked is that I'm using the data, the
scientific information that these biologists have collected themselves, I'm using that against them."
Ronnie Walter Cunningham (1932-2023), American astronaut and physicist, lunar module pilot on the NASA Apollo 7 mission,
Warmist. CO2 beneficialist.
"It doesn't help that NASA scientist James Hansen was one of the early alarmists claiming humans caused global warming. Hansen is a political activist who spreads fear even when NASA's
own data contradict him. NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused, or
Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science. Advocacy is replacing objective
evaluation of data, while scientific data is being ignored in favor of emotions and politics. I do see hopeful signs that some true believers are beginning to harbor doubts about AGW. Let's hope
that NASA can focus the global warming discussion back on scientific evidence before we perpetrate an economic disaster on ourselves."
"The reality is that atmospheric CO2 has a minimal impact on greenhouse gases and world temperature. Water vapor is responsible for 95 percent of the greenhouse effect. CO2 contributes
just 3.6 percent, with human activity responsible for only 3.2 percent of that. That is why some studies claim CO2 levels are largely irrelevant to global warming.
Without the greenhouse effect to keep our world warm, the planet would have an average temperature of minus 18 degrees Celsius. Because we do have it, the temperature is a
comfortable plus 15 degrees Celsius. Based on the seasonal and geographic distribution of any projected warming, a good case can be made that a warmer average temperature would
be even more beneficial for humans."
Judith A. Curry (1952-), American climatologist, professor and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Warmist.
"Recent data and research supports the importance of natural climate variability and calls into question the conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of recent climate change…
Climate models predict much more warming than has been observed in the early 21st century."
”Judith Curry described reports from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as 'bumper sticker' climate science - making a political statement while using the overall
reputation of science to give authority to a politically manufactured consensus."
" I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate change debate."
Joseph S. D'Aleo, American meteologist, co-founder of the Weather Channel, past chairman,
American Meteorological Society's Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, former chairman of the meteorology program at Lyndon State College.
Robert E. Davis, American climatologist, professor of climatology at the University of Virginia.
David Deming (1954-), American geophysicist, geology professor at the University of Oklahoma.
"The seminal event that transformed the United States into an industrial and technological powerhouse" was the discovery of oil at Spindletop, Texas, in 1901."
David Holmes Douglass (1932-2023), American solid state physicist, professor at the University of Rochester.
"The observed pattern of warming, comparing surface and atmospheric temperature trends, does not show the characteristic fingerprint associated with greenhouse warming.
The inescapable conclusion is that the human contribution is not significant and that observed increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases make only a negligible
contribution to climate warming."
Paul Driessen (1948-), American geologist-ecologist-lawyer, senior policy advisor for
CFACT (Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow), founding member of
Climate Exit (Clexit). "[He] abandoned [the environmentalist cause] when he recognized that the environmental movement had become intolerant
in its views, inflexible in its demands, unwilling to recognize our tremendous strides in protecting the environment, and insensitive to the needs of billions of people who lack the food, electricity,
safe water, healthcare and other basic necessities that we take for granted."
"As to climate change, numerous studies demonstrate that there is no credible evidence that manmade carbon dioxide is causing dangerous global warming. Moreover, rising CO2 emissions
from China, India and other rapidly developing nations vastly exceed any imaginable US reductions."
"No Real-World evidence supports a 'dangerous manmade climate change' thesis. In fact, a moderately warmer planet with more atmospheric carbon dioxide would hugely benefit crop,
forest and other plant growth, wildlife and humans - with no or minimal climate effect. A colder planet with less CO2 would punish them. And a chillier CO2-deprived planet with less reliable,
less affordable energy (from massive wind, solar and biofuel projects) would threaten habitats, species, nutrition and the poorest among us."
Freeman John Dyson (1923-2020), Britiish-born physicist, professor emeritus of the School of Natural Sciences,
Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. CO2 beneficialist.
"My first heresy says that all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated. Here I am opposing the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens who
believe the numbers predicted by the computer models."
"There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global."
"The fact is, carbon dioxide will increase. We will continue to burn oil and coal, and probably it does us good. The Earth will get greener as a result."
"CO2 is so beneficial... It would be crazy to try to reduce it. Man-made climate change is, on the whole, good."
"'The costs of what Gore tells us to do would be extremely large. By restricting CO2 you make life more expensive and hurt the poor. 'I'm concerned about the Chinese."
"I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence."
Don J. Easterbrook (1936-), American geologist, emeritus professor of geology at Western Washington University.
Back the global warming pause in 1998. "The total increase in global warming for the century should be ~0.3 °C, rather than the catastrophic warming of 3–6 °C (37–43 °F) predicted by the IPCC."
"Global warming since 1900 could well have happened without any effect of CO2. If the cycles continue as in the past, the current warm cycle should end soon and global temperatures
should cool slightly until about 2035."
Christopher Rhodes "Chris" de Freitas (1948-2017), Australian geographer, associate professor,
School of Geography, Geology and Environmentalism. Warmist. Review editor for Climate Research journal who triggered the Soon-Baliunas controversy.
"There is evidence of global warming.... But warming does not confirm that carbon dioxide is causing it. Climate is always warming or cooling. There are natural variability theories of warming.
To support the argument that carbon dioxide is causing it, the evidence would have to distinguish between human-caused and natural warming. This has not been done."
"Climate is not responding to greenhouse gases in the way we thought it might. If increasing carbon dioxide is in fact increasing climate change, its impact is smaller than natural variation.
People are being misled by people making money out of this."
Serge Galam (1952-), French physicist, emeritus director of research at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) at
Ecole Polytechnique.
"The human cause of global warming is the subject of a consensus of scientists and experts, but not a diagnosis indisputable."
"No Scientific Certainty on Climate."
"The world, our planet, is showing signs of changing its undeniable natural cycles, which also shape the course of all life forms currently on the Earth. These changes are clearly visible,
but remain limited for the time being."
"Throughout the history, our ancestors were persuaded that the forces of nature obeyed the gods, and that these was the mistakes which involved their ires, which appeared then by natural
disordered states. During very a long time, one believed to be able to stop them by human and animal sacrifices. Science taught us that that was not founded, and here that this old
antiquated belief re-appears with a found vitality, and who in more is pressed on the scientists in the name of science."
"It is not the duty of the sceptics to have to bring a proof of whatever it is about which they are sceptical... Rather, it is up to the scientists making the new assertion who must bring the
corresponding proof, in this case of human guilt."
"In case the current climate changes have natural causes, focusing our entire efforts on a drastic reduction of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, implying a suppression of
advanced technologies, could leave us defenceless in the face of a newly hostile nature."
Ivar Giaever (1929-), Norwegian-born physicist and 1973 Nobel laureate in physics. Resigned on Sept. 13, 2011 from the
American Physical Society after calling the global warming movement a "new religion".
Stanley B. Goldenberg (1952-), American meteorologist with NOAA/AOML's Hurricane Research Division.
"Just because climate change has happened doesn't mean AGW. Just because weather disasters happen doesn't mean AGW. And an inconvenient truth that most of the media are speaking of,
CAGW – that's very important. They're not just talking about AGW, but catastrophic [anthropogenic global warming]. If we just have a little bit of warming from manmade causes, nobody
really cares, but they're talking about it's going to be catastrophic."
"[A scientific consensus] is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into anthropogenic global warming."
Vincent Richard Gray (1922-2018), London-born Kiwi chemist.
Calls the U.N. IPCC "fundamentally corrupt". "Tthe quality and reliability of the IPCC's measurements are poor, the system of determining how much weight should be attributed to
different influences on the earth's temperature is faulty, and the validity of evidence derived from computer modeling is questionable."
founder of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition.
William Mason Gray (1929-2016), American meteorologist, emeritus professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University
in Fort Collins. Pioneer in tropical cyclone forecasting. Warmist.
"I am very disappointed at the downward path the AMS [American Meteorological Society] has been following for the last 10-15 years in its advocacy of the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW)
hypothesis. The society has officially taken a position many of us AMS members do not agree with. We believe that humans are having little or no significant influence on the global climate and
that the many Global Circulation Climate Model (GCMs) results and the four IPCC reports do not realistically give accurate future projections. To take this position which so many of its members
do not necessarily agree with shows that the AMS is following more of a political than a scientific agenda."
"They've been brainwashing us for 20 years, starting with the nuclear winter and now with the global warming. This scare will also run its course. In 15-20 years, we'll look back and see what a
hoax this was."
"I am of the opinion that this is one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people."
"Human kind has little or nothing to do with the recent temperature changes. We are not that influential."
"Gore believed in global warming almost as much as Hitler believed there was something wrong with the Jews."
"The main misconception of the global warmers is to assume that all the many large energy terms of the climate system remain constant over long periods and that the only changes that matter for
climate alteration are the very small magnitude variations of human-induced CO2. How could the warmers be so naive as to believe that changes in CO2 are the dominate climate forcing mechanism?";
"Increases in CO2 and other greenhouse gases will not be able to bring about significant climate disruption in the next 75-100 years. The main problem with the Anthropogenic Global Warming
(AGW) theory is the false treatment of the global hydrologic cycle which is not adequately understood by any of the AGW advocates. The water vapor, cloud, and condensation-evaporation
assumptionswithin the conventional AGW theory and the (GCM) simulations are incorrectly designed to block too much infrared (IR) radiation to space. They also do not reflect-scatter enough
short wave (albedo)energy to space. These two misrepresentations result in a large artificial warming that is not realistic. A realistic treatment of the hydrologic cycle would show that the influence
of a doubling of CO2 should lead to a global surface warming of only about 0.3°C - not the 3°C warming as indicated by the climate simulations."
William "Will" Happer (1939-), American physicist, emeritus Eugene Higgens professor of physics at Princeton U.
Co-founder of the CO2 Coalition. Warmist.
"Since the year 1800, the Earth has warmed by about 1 degree Celsius. Some fraction of the warming is due to more atmospheric CO2 from burning fossil fuels, but most of the warming is
probably due to the same natural forces that have always controlled the Earth's changeable climate."
"I, and many other scientists, think the warming will be small compared the natural fluctuations in the earth's temperature, and that the warming and increased CO2 will be good for mankind."
"It's not as though if you double CO2 you make a big difference. You make a barely detectable difference."
"The only thing alarming about the climate is the way made-up threats of climate catastrophe are being used by Pol Pot wannabes to seize absolute power over humanity."
"The 'demonization of CO2' really differs little from the Nazi persecution of the Jews, the Soviet extermination of class enemies or ISIL slaughter of infidels."
"The alleged 'climate emergency' has no more substance than the 'witch emergency' in Salem, Massachusetts. Evil as the witch trials were, climate madness has the potential to do much more harm.
It can impoverish or destroy the lives of billions of people, not just a few dozen innocents framed as witches."
"I feel bad about the younger generation. They have been brainwashed. The people who think this is a winning election issue are wrong."
Tony Heller (1957-) (AKA Steve Goddard), American computer engineer and climate science historian. Warmist.
Founder of The Deplorable (Real) Climate Science Blog.
"From my experience, at least 97% of what you read in the press about climate is fake news."
"Writers hide data, and do severely flawed analysis on the data they aren't hiding."
"Climate scientists are classic snake oil salesmen. They'll take whatever the current ailment is then say they have cure and you just need to give them money. And they employ
Orwellian doublespeak as their standard technique.... Climate science is not a science at all. It's just the largest scam in history."
Craig D. Idso, American geographer, faculty researcher, Office of Climatology, Arizona State University. CO2 beneficialist.
Cofounder of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change.
Keith E. Idso, American botanist, former adjunct professor of biology at Maricopa County Community College District
and vice president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. CO2 beneficialist.
"The data show the relative growth-enhancing effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment to be greatest when resource limitations and environmental stresses are most severe."
Sherwood B. Idso (1942-), American physicist, former research physicist at USDA Water Conservation Laboratory,
and adjunct professor, Arizona State University. Warmist. CO2 beneficialist. Cofounder with his sons Craig and Keith of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Gl;obal Change.
Famous for a study in the mid-1980s showing
increased growth of pine trees with increased ambient CO2.
"I find no compelling reason to believe that the Earth will necessarily experience any global warming as a consequence of the ongoing rise in the atmosphere's carbon dioxide concentration."
Zbigniew Jaworowski (1927-2011), Polish radiologist.
Questions the U.N. IPCC's use of ancient ice cores in climate research. "Based its global-warming hypothesis on arbitrary assumptions and these assumptions, it is now clear, are false."
Michael Joseph Kelly (1949-), British physicist, Prince Phillip Professor of Technology at the Department of Engineering, Cambridge University.
"It is perfectly possible to adopt a position, as I have, of 'a principled climate science scepticism.' It is based on the fact that every time an engineering-standard analysis is done of the climate data,
one ends up contradicting the results of the climate change modellers. I am heavily involved in the debate in the UK."
"Up to and throughout this exercise, I have remained puzzled how the real humility of the scientists in this area, as evident in their papers, including all these here, and the talks I have heard
them give, is morphed into statements of confidence at the 95% level for public consumption through the IPCC process. This does not happen in other subjects of equal importance to humanity,
e.g. energy futures or environmental degradation or resource depletion. I can only think it is the 'authority' appropriated by the IPCC itself that is the root cause."
William Robert Kininmonth, Australian meteorologist, former head of the Australian National Centre at the
Bureau of Meteorology. Warmist. "Fundamental science has always identified that it is quixotic to attempt regulation of climate through management of carbon dioxide emissions. The pity is that
community leaders have been beguiled by the mystery of powerful computers and have failed to critically assess the predictions within the context of Earth's history."
"There has been a real climate change over the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries that can be attributed to natural phenomena. Natural variability of the climate system has been
underestimated by IPCC and has, to now, dominated human influences."
Steven Elliot Koonin (1951-), American theoretical physicist, director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University.
"Hubris is a Greek word that means dangerously overconfident. Based on my research, hubris fairly describes our current response to the issue of climate change."
"Policy makers and the public may wish for the comfort of certainty in their climate science. But I fear that rigidly promulgating the idea that climate science is 'settled' (or is a 'hoax')
demeans and chills the scientific enterprise, retarding its progress in these important matters."
"Yes, it's true that the globe is warming, and that humans are exerting a warming influence upon it. But beyond that, to paraphrase a line from the classic movie The Princess Bride,
'I do not think 'The Science' says what you think it says.'"
George Kukla (1930-2014), Czech-born American climatologist, retired professor of climatology at Columbia University's
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Warmist. Believes in the likelihood of a future ice age. Pioneer in astronomical climate forcing.
"I feel we're on pretty solid ground in interpreting orbit around the sun as the primary driving force behind ice-age glaciation. The relationship is just too clear and consistent to allow
reasonable doubt."
"What I think is this: Man is responsible for a part of global warming. Most of it is still natural."
"The only thing to worry about global warming is the damage that can be done by worrying. Why are some scientists worried? Perhaps because they feel that to stop worrying may mean t
o stop being paid."
Christopher William "Chris" Landsea (1965-), American meteorologist, National Hurricane Center.
In Jan. 2005 he withdraw from participation in the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report for using "a process that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being
scientifically unsound." " There are no known scientific studies that show a conclusive physical link between global warming and observed hurricane frequency and intensity."
"With the Atlantic hurricanes in particular, they're due to changes both in the ocean as well as the atmosphere. Just changing the ocean where it's a little bit warmer isn't sufficient."
David Russell Legates (1960-), American geographer, director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Delaware.
Warmist. "[Global warming] may be no more than one-third to one-half of IPCC's summary of current projections."
"About half of the warming during the 20th century occurred prior to the 1940s, and natural variability accounts for all or nearly all of the warming."
Marcel Leroux (1938-2008), French climatologist, former professor of climatology at Université Jean Moulin,
"Leroux is outraged at what has happened to the respectable field of climatology in the past twenty years since the U.S. federal government started pouring about a billion dollars a year into
global warming research. This level of funding provided the climate modelers each with several million dollars a year and what the U.S. government got was tabloid climatology because those
research grants were dependent upon producing sensationalistic, apocalyptic pronouncements. The tabloids do not have to exaggerate these sensationalistic pronouncement; they only have to
assert that the apocalyse is coming next summer instead of fifty years in the future."
"'Global warming', caused by the 'greenhouse effect', is our fault, just like everything else, and the message/slogan/misinformation becomes ever more simplistic, ever cruder! It could not be
simpler: if the rain falls or drought strikes; if the wind blows a gale or there is none at all; whether it's heat or hard frost; it's all 'because of the greenhouse effect', and we are to blame! An easy
argument but stupid! The Fourth Report of the IPCC might just as well decree the suppression of all climatological textbooks, and replace them in our schools and universities with its press
communiqués!"
"The possible causes, then, of climate change are: well-established orbital parameters on the palaeoclimatic scale, ... solar activity, ...; volcanism ...; and far at the rear, the greenhouse effect,
and in particular that caused by water vapor, the extent of its influence being unknown. These factors are working together all the time, and it seems difficult to unravel the relative importance
of their respective influences upon climatic evolution. Equally, it is tendentious to highlight the anthropic factor, which is, clearly, the least credible among all those previously mentioned."
Richard Siegmund Lindzen (1940-), American atmospheric physicist, Alfred P. Sloan Professor Meteorology at MIT. Warmist.
"Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life."
"What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful s
pecial interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the
history of the world - that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison."
"In this complex multifactor system, what is the likelihood of the climate (which, itself, consists in many variables and not just globally averaged temperature anomaly) is controlled by
this 2% perturbation in a single variable? Believing this is pretty close to believing in magic. Instead, you are told that it is believing in 'science'".
"The only meaningful question would be whether we are seeing anything sufficiently unusual to to warrant concern. And the answer to this is unambiguously 'no'."
"So what, then, is one to make of this alleged debate? I would suggest at least three points. First, nonscientists generally do not want to bother with understanding the science. Claims of
consensus relieve policy types, environmental advocates and politicians of any need to do so. Such claims also serve to intimidate the public and even scientists - especially those outside the
area of climate dynamics. Secondly, given that the question of human attribution largely cannot be resolved, its use in promoting visions of disaster constitutes nothing so much as a
bait-and-switch scam. That is an inauspicious beginning to what Mr. Gore claims is not a political issue but a 'moral' crusade. Lastly, there is a clear attempt to establish truth not by
scientific methods but by perpetual repetition. An earlier attempt at this was accompanied by tragedy. Perhaps Marx was right. This time around we may have farce - if we're lucky."
Philip Lloyd (1936-2018), South African chemist, professor of chemical engineering at
Wits University, research fellow at the Energy Research Centre at the University of Cape Town, professor of energy at Cape Peninsula University of Technology.
""I have grave difficulties in finding any but the most circumstantial evidence for any human impact on the climate,:
"It has been warming for at least 180 years. Yes, it has become warmer, and glaciers are melting. But as the ice disappears on alpine passes, so footpaths appear that were last in use 800 years ago,
when it was warmer than today."
"The quantity of CO2 we produce is insignificant in terms of the natural circulation between air, water and soil. I have tried numerous tests for radiative effects, and all have failed. I have tried
to develop an isotopic method for identifying stable C12 (from fossil fuels) and merely ended up understanding the difference between the major plant chemistries and their differing ability to
use the different isotopes. I have studied the ice core record, in detail, and am concerned that those who claim to have a model of our climate future haven't a clue about the forces driving our
climate past."
"I am particularly concerned that the rigor of science seems to have been sacrificed on an altar of fundraising. I am doing a detailed assessment of the IPCC reports and the
Summaries for Policy Makers, identifying the way in which the Summaries have distorted the science. I have found examples of a Summary saying precisely the opposite of what the scientists said,”
"Temperature change between 1920 and 1940, which is not regarded as being CO2-driven, is very similar to the temperature change from 1970 to 2000, which the IPCC puts solely down to CO2,"
Craig Loehle, American ecologist, NCASI Department of Energy, principal scientist at the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement.
"The climate change 'biodiversity crisis' is like a whack-a-mole game (a carnival game where plastic animals pop out of holes and you try to whack them with a mallet), with an almost-daily claim
popping up about this species or that at risk from climate change. Not just polar bears and coral reefs, but even avocados are going to disappear! Whacking each silly claim one by one is an
impossible task, and the claims get into public consciousness whereas the refutations do not."
Bjorn Lomborg (1965-), Danish political scientist-economist. Accepts the greenhouse effect but criticizes policies for prioritizing
mitigation over adaptation. "As surely as temperatures rise during the summer, climate alarmism serves up more stories of life-threatening heat domes, apocalyptic fires and biblical floods,
all blamed squarely on global warming. Yet, the data to prove this link is often cherry-picked, and the proposed policy responses could be more effective. To do better on climate, we must resist
the misleading, alarmist climate narrative.."
Jennifer Marohasy (1963-), Australian biologist.
"We cannot confirm that recent warming is anything but natural - what might have occurred anyway, even if there was no industrial revolution."
""It's ambiguous. It's not clear that climate change is being driven by carbon dioxide levels... Whether or not we can reduce carbon dioxide levels, there will be climate change."
"Global warming is actually not a hard issue to dissect, because fundamentally it relies on evidence of there being a general trend of temperature increase - and measuring temperatures is not
rocket science. Of course, there is nowhere on Earth where the mean global temperature anomaly can be measured. So, steer-clear when this statistic is mentioned by an expert - you can probably
dismiss it as something entirely contrived, like say the Virgin birth."
"Bcause the masses believe that global atmospheric temperatures are rising unnaturall, the Hazelwood coal-fired power station was decommissioned, and the price of electricity is surging across
Australia. The evidence, however, for a rise in global temperatures is actually not that compelling, unless you believe the output from computer models... So, I have always thought, once this
obsession with catastrophic global warming eventually comes to an end (as surely it must), we will be able to start over, with the real data."
Ross McKitrick (1965-), Canadian environmental economist, professor of economics and CBE chair in sustainable commerce,
University of Guelph. "Calculations behind the social cost of carbon need to reflect empirical evidence about low climate sensitivity, and when this is done, the numbers appear to be much lower
than those currently in use." "The phony claim of 97 per cent consensus is mere political rhetoric aimed at stifling debate and intimidating people into silence."
Patrick J. Michaels (1950-2022), American biologist-climatologist, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and
retired research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia. Warmist.
"It's hardly news that human beings have had a hand in the planetary warming that began more than 30 years ago. For nearly a century, scientists have known that increasing
atmospheric carbon dioxide would eventually result in warming that was most pronounced in winter, especially on winter's coldest days, and a cooling of the stratosphere. All of these have
been observed."
"The [papal conference on climate change] also has a moral duty to examine the corruption of science that can be caused by massive amounts of money. The United States has disbursed
tens of billions of dollars to climate scientists who would not have received those funds had their research shown climate change to be beneficial or even modest in its effects. Are these
scientists being tempted by money? And are the very, very few climate scientists whose research is supported by industry somehow less virtuous?"
Steven J. "Steve" Milloy (1959-), American climate scientist, founder of the blog
Junk Science. Warmist.
"doubling of atmospheric CO2 from pre-Industrial Revolution days might increase global temperature from between 0.5 degrees Centigrade to 1.5 degrees Centigrade - that is, not much."
[AGW is not based on] "actual temperature measurements and greenhouse physics - rather it comes from manmade computer models relying on myriad assumptions and guesswork."
"Of the many guises of the 'War on Coal'”, global warming is perhaps the most used excuse… Simple math shows that the Obama war on coal, for purposes of climate control, is futile. Even
if U.S.' CO2 emissions stopped today and were to be zero for the remainder of this century, atmospheric CO2 levels would only decrease by about 3%. There would be no measurable impact on
global climate, at a cost of 25% of global GDP."
"Our opposition to global warming alarmism is based on three points. First, we don't believe the available scientific data indicate that human activity is measurably changing global climate -
history shows that natural climate change can be far more significant than any slight change in climate that may have occurred over the last 200 years.
Second, even if human activity is altering global climate to some extent, such climate change might actually be beneficial – historically, civilization has fared better in warmer climatic conditions
as opposed to cooler climatic conditions.
Third, even if humans are undesirably affecting global climate, the best path forward may be adaptation to that climate change rather than harming the global economy through the expenditure
of hundreds of billion dollars under the questionable rationale that greenhouse gas regulation can act as some sort of global thermostat.
"When the Clean Air Act was enacted in 1970, air pollution in the U.S. was more of an aesthetic than a public health problem. That is even more the case today. Few people realize this after 30 years
of non-stop junk science-fueled alarmism from environmental activists."
Patrick Albert Moore (1947-), Canadian environmental scientist and activist, former president of Greenpeace Canada.
Warmist. "In fact, the whole climate crisis, as they call it, is not only fake news, it's fake science. There is no climate crisis."
"I didn't say CO2 emissions were not affecting climate change. I said that it is an insignificant effect. CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but it is in the atmosphere at four one hundredths of a percent.
How can we something in the atmosphere that is invisible, tasteless, odorless, colorless at 0.04% be the most powerful agent in the universe at this point in time? Obviously the climate changed
dramatically throughout history with nothing to do with CO2."
"As I have stated publicly on many occasions, there is no definitive scientific proof, through real-world observation, that carbon dioxide is responsible for any of the slight warming of the
global climate that has occurred during the past 300 years, since the peak of the Little Ice Age."
"Moore contended that global warming and the melting of glaciers is positive because it creates more arable land and the use of forest products drives up demand for wood and spurs the
planting of more trees. He added that any realistic plan to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and the emission of so-called greenhouse gases should include increased use of nuclear energy."
Marc Morano (1968-), American Repub. political scientist, founder of ClimateDepot.
"The bottom line is, not only do we not face a climate crisis, but if we face a climate crisis what Congress is proposing, what the United Nations is proposing, is scientifically meaningless.
It would have no detectable impact. So we'd all be doomed if we had to rely on them for a solution."
"Carbon pricing harkens back to the idea, you know, that Massachusetts had to deal with, is the witchcraft trials. The idea that witches change the weather. Now they're claiming SUVs and
our coal plants are changing the weather."
Niklas "Nils"-Axel Mörner af Morlanda (1938-2020), retired head of the
Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics Department at Stockholm University, pres. of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution (Neotectonics).
"The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade."
Tad S. Murty (1937-), Indian-born oceanographer, adjunct professor in the Earth Science Department of the University of Ottawa,
former president of the Tsunami Society.
[Global warming] "is the biggest scientific hoax being perpetrated on humanity. There is no global warming due to human anthropogenic activities. The atmosphere hasn't changed much
in 280 million years, and there have always been cycles of warming and cooling. The Cretaceous period was the warmest on earth. You could have grown tomatoes at the North Pole."
Nedialko "Ned" Nikolov, Bulgarian-born physical scientist, works for the U.S. Forest Service. With his collaborator Karl Zeller they
challenged the accepted greenhouse gas theory on climate change, suggesting that atmospheric pressure is the cause for warming, only to be blown off.
David Roy Packham (1939-), Australian chemist, senior research fellow of
geography and environmental science at Monash University.
"I find that I am uncomfortable with the quality of the science being applied to the global warming question. This lack of comfort comes from many directions: A lack of actual measurements
for terrestrial radiation and the use of deemed values for particulate radiation absorption; The failure to consider the role of particulates from biomatter burning; The lack of critical thought
and total acceptance of the global warming models as conclusive evidence; The lack of transparency and obscuration of the critical weaknesses in the GCMs. Along with these discomforts goes
an observation that research funding for environmental research in Australia, in my case mercury and wildfires, is almost impossible unless it is part of yet more greenhouse data gathering.
There is also an atmosphere of intimidation if one expresses dissenting views or evidence. It is as if one is doing one's colleagues a great disservice in dissenting and perhaps derailing the
gravy train. The effect of the group think is creating a corporate data gathering mind set amongst our young researchers that I think is dangerous. As you can see there are many reasons that
I would like to join my dissenting colleagues, some scientific and some social and political but all of them are sincerely held. The global warming monopoly is seriously bad for science."
Garth William Paltridge (1940-), Australian atmospheric physicist, retired chief research scientist,
CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research ,and retired director of the Institute of the Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre, visiting fellow Australian National University.
Warmist.
R. Timothy "Tim" Patterson (1958-), paleoclimatologist, professor or geology at Carleton University in
Ottawa, Canada.
"There is no meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and Earth's temperature over this [geologic] time frame. In fact, when CO2 levels were over ten times higher than they are now,
about 450 million years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period in the last half billion years. On the basis of this evidence, how could anyone still believe that the recent
relatively small increase in CO2 levels would be the major cause of the past century's modest warming?"
Roger A. Pielke, Jr. (1968-), American political scientist, director of the Sports Governance Center within the Department of Athletics
at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
"I believe climate change is real and that human emissions of greenhouse gases risk justifying action, including a carbon tax. But my research led me to a conclusion that many
climate campaigners find unacceptable: There is scant evidence to indicate that hurricanes, floods, tornadoes or drought have become more frequent or intense in the U.S. or globally. In fact
we are in an era of good fortune when it comes to extreme weather. This is a topic I've studied and published on as much as anyone over two decades. My conclusion might be wrong, but I think
I've earned the right to share this research without risk to my career."
Ian Rutherford Plimer (1946-), Australian geologist, professor emeritus at the University of Melbourne.
"The IPCC process is related to environmental activism, politics and opportunism... the IPCC process is unrelated to science."
Vijay Kumar Raina, Indian glaciologist.
"It is premature to make a statement that glaciers in the Himalayas are retreating abnormally because of the global warming. A glacier is affected by a range of physical features and a complex
interplay of climatic factors. It is therefore unlikely that the snout movement of any glacier can be claimed to be a result of periodic climate variation until many centuries of observations become
available. While glacier movements are primarily due to climate and snowfall, snout movements appear to be peculiar to each particular glacier."
Denis Rancourt (1957-), French physicist, former professor of physics at University of Ottawa, research scientist in
condensed matter physics, plus environmental and soil science. Rare leftist who rejects AGW, reversing their Marxist logic.
"Regarding planetary greenhouse warming, by far the most important greenhouse active atmospheric gas is water vapour - it is a major constituent of the atmosphere whereas CO2 is a trace
atmospheric gas. This is well known and it is established, for example, that even doubling the present atmospheric CO2 concentration, to the unattainable value of 800 ppm (parts per million) say,
without changing anything else in the atmosphere, would have little discernable effect on global temperature or climate.
All of the climate models that relate CO2 concentrations to climate effects do so by arbitrarily linking a model increase in CO2 to an induced and larger increase in atmospheric water vapour.
In other words, all the climate models postulate a large and positive feedback between CO2 and water vapour.
Several scientists have argued that these models are computer realizations of the tail wagging the dog"; he goes on to call the global warming myth part of
"the beliefs of mainstream environmentalists", which "are beliefs of the First World liberal middleclass".
Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (1935-), geologist, Apollo 17 astronaut, Repub. Ariz. U.S. senator (1977-83).
Pub. an op-ed. in The Wall Street Journal, claiming that atmospheric CO2 levels aren't correlated with global warming, blaming the "single-minded demonization of this natural
and essential atmospheric gas" to big government-loving leftists.
"Contrary to what some would have us believe, increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will benefit the increasing population on the planet by increasing agricultural productivity."
Tom Victor Segalstad (1949-), Norwegian geologist, University of Oslo. Warmist.
"Most leading geologists" know that the U.N. IPCC's views "of Earth processes are implausible."
"Man's contribution to atmospheric CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels is small, maximum 4% found by carbon isotope mass balance calculations. The 'Greenhouse Effect' of this contribution
is small and well within natural climatic variability... The global climate is primarily governed by the enormous heat energy stored in the oceans and the latent heat of melting of the ice caps,
not by the small amount of heat that can be absorbed in atmospheric CO2. 'CO2 taxes' to be paid by the public cannot influence the sea level and the global climate."
Nir Joseph Shaviv (1972-), American-born Israeli astrophysist, professor at the Racah Institute of Physics at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Warmist. Proponent of cosmic ray causation of ice ages.
"The truth is probably somewhere in between [the common view and that of skeptics], with natural causes probably being more important over the past century, whereas anthropogenic causes
will probably be more dominant over the next century... About 2/3's (give or take a third or so) of the warming [over the past century] should be attributed to increased solar activity and the
remaining to anthropogenic causes."
Siegfried Fred Singer (1924-2020, Austrian-born physicist, emeritus professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia.
Warmist. ""I go back to the major error of the UN climate panel, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). They have been claiming in all their 5 major reports that CO2 increases
are the cause of warming. I am of the opinion, and have tried to back it up with publications, that these arguments don't hold water and that their evidence does not exist."
"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has to provide proof for significant human-caused climate change; yet their climate models have never been validated and
are rapidly diverging from actual observations. The real threat to humanity comes not from any (trivial) greenhouse warming but from cooling periods creating food shorta ges and famines."
"Climate change has been going on for millions of years - long before humans existed on this planet. Obviously, the causes were all of natural origin and not anthropogenic. There is no reason
to think that these natural causes have suddenly stopped."
"We have to ask, what is the impact of a warmer climate? It's not the warming itself that we should be concerned about. It is the impact. So we have to then ask: What is the impact on agriculture?
The answer is: It's positive. It's good. What's the impact on forests of greater levels of CO2 and greater temperatures? It's good. What is the impact on water supplies? It's neutral. What is the impact
on sea level? It will produce a reduction in sea-level rise. It will not raise sea levels. What is the impact on recreation? It's mixed. You get, on the one hand, perhaps less skiing; on the other hand,
you get more sunshine and maybe better beach weather. Let's face it. People like warmer climates. There's a good reason why much of the U.S. population is moving into the Sun Belt, and not just
people who are retiring."
Sami Khan Solanki (1958-), Pakistani astronomer, dir. of the Sun-Heliosphere Department of the
Max Planck Institute for Solar Research. "The impact of more intense sunshine on the ozone layer and on cloud cover could be affecting the climate more than the sunlight itself."
Willie Wei-Hock Soon (1965-), Malaysian-born astrophysicist. Researcher at the Solar and Stellar Physics Division of the
Center of Astrophysics at Harvard University/Smithsonian Institution. Warmist. Colleague of Sallie Balliunas, who claim that solar variability is more strongly correlated with variations
in air temperature than any other factor, even CO2 levels.
Their landmark 2003 research paper that claimed that "the 20th century is probably not the warmest nor a uniquely extreme climatic period of the last millennium" caused a
huge controversy, if you can't stand the heat stay out of the kitchen.
"No experimental data exist that support the view that the Earth's climate is anomalous or changing in a dangerous manner. Instead we know that CO2 is the gas of life. … Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
is merely a bit player in climate change."
"In the realm of climate scientism, the rule seems to be: If the facts don't support your argument, talk louder, twist the facts, and insult your opponents. That's certainly what self-styled
global warming 'experts' like Al Gore and Bill Nye are doing. Rather than debating scientists who don't accept false claims that humans are causing dangerous climate change, they just
proclaim more loudly."
"Carbon dioxide is absolutely essential for plant growth - and for all life on Earth. Volumes of research clearly demonstrate that crop, garden, forest, grassland and ocean plants want more CO2,
not less. The increased greening of our Earth over the past 30 years testifies to the desperate need of plants for this most fundamental fertilizer. The more CO2 they get, the better and faster
they grow."
James Max Spann Jr. (1956-), American TV meteorologist.
"Billions of dollars of grant money is flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon. No man-made global warming, the money dries up. This is big money, make
no mistake about it. Always follow the money trail and it tells a story. Even the lady at The Weather Channel probably gets paid good money for a primetime show on climate change. No
man-made global warming, no show, and no salary. Nothing wrong with making money at all, but when money becomes the motivation for a scientific conclusion, then we have a problem. For
many, global warming is a big cash grab."
[The climate] "will always change, and the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades. And, lets not forget we are at the end of
the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe."
"I have been in operational meteorology since 1978, and I know dozens and dozens of broadcast meteorologists all over the country... I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into
the man-made global warming hype. I know there must be a few out there, but I can't find them,"
Roy Warren Spencer (1955-), American meteorologist, principal research scientist with John Christy at the
University of Alabama in Huntsville. Warmist. CO2 beneficialist.
"There's probably a natural reason for global warming […] We will look back on it as a gigantic false alarm.”
"The Earth isn't that sensitive to how much CO2 we put into the atmosphere. I think we need to consider the possibility that more carbon dioxide is better than less."
"We're warmer than we've been in probably a few centuries, and I think some of that warmth is due to the CO2 we're producing, but the warming is not nearly as fast as what has been predicted.
I think about half of it's natural, and from a policy standpoint there's really nothing we could do about the human-caused portion of it anyway."
"It matters because there is no Climate Crisis. There is no Climate Emergency. Yes, irregular warming is occurring. Yes, it is at least partly due to human greenhouse gas emissions. But
seldom are the benefits of a somewhat warmer climate system mentioned, or the benefits of more CO2 in the atmosphere (which is required for life on Earth to exist)."
Peter Stilbs (1945-), Swedish chemist, professor of physical chemistry at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
"There is no strong evidence to prove significant human influence on climate on a global basis. The global cooling trend from 1940 to 1970 is inconsistent with models based on
anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. There's no reliable evidence to support that the 20th century was the warmest in the last 1000 years."
"These [U.N. IPCC] Summaries are prepared by a relatively small core writing team with the final drafts approved line-by-line by government representatives. The great majority of IPCC
contributors and reviewers, and the tens of thousands of other scientists who are qualified to comment on these matters, are not involved in the preparation of these documents. The
summaries therefore cannot properly be represented as a consensus view among experts."
Philip Stott (1945-), professor emeritus of biogeography at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies.
"Britain's leading climate-change denier" -New Statesman.
""I am nothing of the sort [a climate change denier]. I believe passionately in climate change. Climate change is the norm, not the exception; if climate were not changing, that would be really
newsworthy."
"The myth is starting to implode... Serious new research at the Max Planck Society has indicated that the Sun is a far more significant factor."
"The idea that climate change can be attributed to just one or two politically chosen factors, such as the so-called 'greenhouse gases', like carbon dioxide and methane, is simply very bad science.
Climate change is controlled by millions of interlinked factors, ranging from the swish of a butterfly's wing, through 11- and 22-year solar magnetic cycles, volcanism, ocean-atmospheric linkages,
sunspot activity, shorter duration wobbles of the Earth, to 96,000-year orbital changes and even intermittent meteor impacts. The intrinsic complexity of all these myriad links still totally defeats
our climate modellers, many of whom cannot even account for the variation of water vapour, the most important greenhouse gas of all, and this means that climate change remains largely u
npredictable. Moreover, this inherent unpredictability should warn us that, when, God-like, we try to adjust one or two of the factors involved, such as greenhouse gas emissions, our very best
intentions may bring about results we neither expect nor want. We have no knowledge of how the tiny changes we initiate may interact with all the other ever-changing cycle."
"Climate change is thus reality; global warming a dangerous myth. The sooner we recognize this, the safer for us all."
Henrik Svensmark (1958-), Danish physicist, prof. in the Solar Systems Division of the Danish National Space Institute in Copenhagen;
claims that a reduction in cosmic rays reduces cloud cover, leading to global warming.
"The hypothesis is that solar variability is linked to climate variability by a chain that involves the solar wind, cosmic rays, and clouds."
"Those who are absolute certain that the rise in temperature is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork."
Hendrik (Henk) Tennekes (1936-2021), Dutch meteorologist, dir. of research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.
Questions climate predictability studies as having "no sound theoretical framework", causing him to lose his job.
"The blind adherence to the harebrained idea that climate models can generate 'realistic' simulations of climate is the principal reason why I remain a climate skeptic. From my background
in turbulence I look forward with grim anticipation to the day that climate models will run with a horizontal resolution of less than a kilometer. The horrible predictability problems of
turbulent flows then will descend on climate science with a vengeance."
Richard S.J. Tol (1969-), Dutch climate change economist, principal researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies
at Vrije Universiteit, adjunct professor at the Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change at Carnegie Mellon University.
"Dismissed the idea that mankind must act now to prevent catastrophic global warming."
Willard Anthony Watts (1958-), American meteorologist. #1 warmist, with most popular climate denier blog.
"I believe that our [man-made] contribution [to climate change] may be far less than has been postulated. Our measurement network has been compromised - not intentionally, but
accidentally and through carelessness."
"The majority of weather stations used by NOAA to detect climate change temperature signal have been compromised by encroachment of artificial surfaces like concrete, asphalt, and
heat sources like air conditioner exhausts."
Thomas Lee "T.L." Winslow, Jr. (TLW) (1953-), American pansophist, "World's #1 climate scientist, amateur by choice".
Disproved the greenhouse effect and can't get an appropriate audience. Thank your lucky stars you came across him so you can experience the thrill of being smarter than everyone else.
Frederick Wolf, American climatologist, professor of meteorology and climatology at Keene State College in New Hampshire.
"Several things have contributed to my skepticism about global warming being due to human causes. We all know that the atmosphere is a very complicated system. Also, after studying climate,
I am aware that there are cycles of warm and cold periods of varying lengths which are still not completely understood."
"I am impressed by the number of scientific colleagues who are naturally skeptical about the conclusion of human induced warming."
"Many, many of the supporters (or believers) of human induced warming have not read the IPCC report AND Al Gore is NOT a climate scientist!"
Gregory Wrightstone (1955-), American geologist. Executive director of the CO2 Coalition. CO2 beneficialist.
"Well, actually, I'm a climate realist. I live in the real world and nd I see what's actually going on today. What we're being told we're being warned of a climate apocalypse events in the future,
50 or 80 years in the future, based from failed climate models. If we look at what's actually going on today, we find that the earth is thriving, prospering and greening and humanity's benefiting
from the rise, slight modest rise in temperature and the increase in CO2. And that's a good thing."
"Fear may be the greatest motivator for humanity. It has been wielded very effectively by some who are at least as interested in damaging our economy as in blunting the spread of COVID-19.
" Their efforts are a road map to promote ‘solutions' for the non-existent problem of man-made climate change."
"During nearly all of Earth's history, carbon dioxide concentration was at many multiples of our current level, averaging 2,600 ppm, or 6.5 times our current measurement. Forerunners of most
of the plants we rely on for sustenance first appeared around 150 million years ago when CO2 levels were more than 2,000 ppm. Since that time CO2 has fallen steadily and precipitously."
"In fact, at the end of the last ice age, carbon dioxide reached the dangerously low level of 182 ppm, thought to be the lowest since the Pre-Cambrian time period more than 600 million years ago.
Why is it dangerous? Because 150 ppm is the lowest level at which plant life can survive. We came within a whisker of breaching that 'line of death'. Until we began adding CO2 to the atmosphere,
there was no guarantee that this horrific threshold would not be crossed in the future. Rather than spreading fear of increasing carbon dioxide, we should be thankful that both the Earth and
humanity are thriving, in part due to more CO2forts are a road map to promote solutions for the non-existent problem of man-made climate change."
"I don't view natural gas as a bridge to another source of energy. This is the other source."
Antonino Zichichi (1929-), Italian nuclear physicist, professor at the University of Bologna.
Called global warming models "incoherent and invalid." "Models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are incoherent and invalid from a scientific point of view."
"[I]t is not possible to exclude the idea that climate changes can be due to natural causes. [It is plausible that] man is not to blame.”
"[The U.N. IPCC] has led the public to believe - as said before - that Science has understood all about Climate. If that was true, climatologically, the destiny of our planet should be free of
uncertainties and under the rigorous control of Science. But it's not this way."
You're getting this cool historyscope free from moi as a public service, and to add to my rep as the reigning World's Greatest Genius (WGG). If you don't want to study it you must not be interested in the epic global climate change controversy, or your brain has been so caged by global Marxists that you can't handle the truth. Compare to the lame stuff you get when you pay:
Lawrence Solomon, The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud...and Those Who Are Too Fearful to Do So (Apr. 1, 2008). [From the Publisher: Al Gore says any scientist who disagrees with him on Global Warming is a kook, or a crook. Guess he never met these guys Dr. Edward Wegman -- former chairman of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the National Academy of Sciences-- demolishes the famous "hockey stick" graph that launched the global warming panic. Dr. David Bromwich - -president of the International Commission on Polar Meteorology - says "it's hard to see a global warming signal from the mainland of Antarctica right now." Prof. Paul Reiter- - Chief of Insects and Infectious Diseases at the famed Pasteur Institute - says "no major scientist with any long record in this field" accepts Al Gore's claim that global warming spreads mosquito-borne diseases. Prof. Hendrik Tennekes - director of research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute - states "there exists no sound theoretical framework for climate predictability studies" used for global warming forecasts. Dr. Christopher Landsea - past chairman of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones- - says "there are no known scientific studies that show a conclusive physical link between global warming and observed hurricane frequency and intensity." Dr. Antonino Zichichi- - one of the world's foremost physicists, former president of the European Physical Society, who discovered nuclear antimatter - calls global warming models "incoherent and invalid." Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski--world-renowned expert on the ancient ice cores used in climate research - says the U.N. "based its global-warming hypothesis on arbitrary assumptions and these assumptions, it is now clear, are false." Prof. Tom V. Segalstad - head of the Geological Museum, University of Oslo - -says "most leading geologists" know the U.N.'s views "of Earth processes are implausible." Dr. Syun-Ichi Akasofu--founding director of the International Arctic Research Center, twice named one of the "1,000 Most Cited Scientists," says much "Arctic warming during the last half of the last century is due to natural change." Dr. Claude Allegre - member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences and French Academy of Science, he was among the first to sound the alarm on the dangers of global warming. His view now: "The cause of this climate change is unknown." Dr. Richard Lindzen - Professor of Meteorology at M.I.T., member, the National Research Council Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, says global warming alarmists "are trumpeting catastrophes that couldn't happen even if the models were right." Dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov--head of the space research laboratory of the Russian Academy of Science's Pulkovo Observatory and of the International Space Station's Astrometria project says "the common view that man's industrial activity is a deciding factor in global warming has emerged from a misinterpretation of cause and effect relations." Dr. Richard Tol - Principal researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies at Vrije Universiteit, and Adjunct Professor at the Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change, at Carnegie Mellon University, calls the most influential global warming report of all time "preposterous... alarmist and incompetent." Dr. Sami Solanki - director and scientific member at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, who argues that changes in the Sun's state, not human activity, may be the principal cause of global warming: "The sun has been at its strongest over the past 60 years and may now be affecting global temperatures." - Richard Vigilante.]
As if they don't have unlimited resources, here's a sample of pro-U.N. IPCC agitprop:
List of climate scientists - Wikipedia
Scientific consensus on climate change - Wikipedia (865K pageviews).
First paragraph: "There is a nearly unanimous scientific consensus that the Earth has been consistently warming since the start of the Industrial Revolution, that the rate of recent warming
is largely unprecedented, and that this warming is mainly the result of a rapid increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by human activities. The human activities causing this
warming include fossil fuel combustion, cement production, and land use changes such as deforestation, with a significant supporting role from the other greenhouse gases such as methane
and nitrous oxide. This human role in climate change is considered 'unequivocal' and 'incontrovertible'."
'unequivocal" and "incontrovertible'.
Here's some examples of U.N. IPCC octopus agitprop against "climate deniers", comparing them to flat earthers, toxic gases, showing photos of jail cells et al.:
Climate change (global warming) skeptic (denial) - Wikipedia (1.9M pageviews).
First paragraph: "Climate change denial (also global warming denial) is a form of science denial characterized by rejecting, refusing to acknowledge, disputing, or fighting the
scientific consensus on climate change. Those promoting denial commonly use rhetorical tactics to give the appearance of a scientific controversy where there is none. Climate change denial
includes unreasonable doubts about the extent to which climate change is caused by humans, its effects on nature and human society, and the potential of adaptation to global warming by
human actions. To a lesser extent, climate change denial can also be implicit when people accept the science but fail to reconcile it with their belief or action. Several studies have analyzed these
positions as forms of denialism, pseudoscience, or propaganda."
Biggest climate deniers, blockers, and fossil fuel PR firms attend COP28
Who Are Climate Deniers? Why Do They Reject Climate Crisis Despite Evidence? | Firstpost Earth (video)
Climate deniers don't deny climate change any more (video)
The FP Guide to Climate Skeptics
Climate Deniers in the 118th Congress: A Closer Look at U.S. Political Influence on Climate Policy
List of fake news websites - Wikipedia. Includes a number of anti-U.N. IPCC sites like Climate Depot, Climate Exit, and
CO2 Coalition.
A leftist sociologist gaslights the good guys:
The Structure and Culture of Climate Change Denial
Here's one of the few level-headed voices still left:
Why We Need More Climate Change Skeptics:
Instead of demonizing such skeptics, we need to encourage and respect such people who work hard to identify where biases have interfered with the pursuit of truth.