Sunday, September 18, 2011

100 scientists signed letter to Obama in 2009 disputing his view on global warming

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100 scientists signed letter to Obama in 2009 disputing his view on global warming.

9/14/11, "Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global Warming," Fox News

"Dr. Ivar Giaever, a former professor with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday, Sept. 13, from the premier physics society in
  • disgust over its officially stated policy that "global warming is occurring."
The official position of the American Physical Society (APS) supports the theory that man's actions have inexorably led to the warming of the planet, through increased emissions of carbon dioxide....

Giaever "was one of more than 100 co-signers of a 2009 letter to President Obama critical of his position on climate change."...

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100 scientists signed letter to Obama in 2009 disputing his statements about global warming:

"Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change.The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear."

— PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA, NOVEMBER 19 , 2008

With all due respect Mr. President, that is not true.

We, the undersigned scientists, maintain that the case for alarm regarding climate change is grossly overstated. Surface temperature changes over the past century have been episodic and modest and there has been no net global warming for over a decade now.1,2 After controlling for population growth and property values, there has been no increase in damages from severe weather-related events.3 The computer models forecasting rapid temperature change abjectly fail to explain recent climate behavior.4 Mr. President, your characterization of the scientific facts regarding climate change and the degree of certainty informing the scientific debate


via RedState.com

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