100 Scientists Write Letter to Obama Dubunking Climate-Change Alarmism

By Mike Griffith

Just a few weeks ago, over 100 scientists wrote an open letter to President Obama debunking climate-change alarmism.  They said,

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.  After controlling for population growth and property values, there has been no increase in damages from severe weather-related events. The computer models forecasting rapid temperature change abjectly fail to explain recent climate behavior. Mr. President, your characterization of the scientific facts regarding climate change and the degree of certainty informing the scientific debate is simply incorrect.

Some of the scientists who signed the letter include the following:

* Ian Clark, Ph.D, Professor, Earth Sciences University Of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
* Roger Cohen, Ph.D, Fellow, American Physical Society
* Paul Copper, Ph.D, Laurentian University (emeritus)
* Piers Corbyn, MS, Weather Action
* Richard S. Courtney, Ph.D, Reviewer, Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change
* Uberto Crescenti, Ph.D, Past-President, Italian Geological Society
* Susan Crockford, Ph.D, University Of Victoria
* Joseph S. D’aleo, Fellow, American Meteorological Society
* James Demeo, Ph.D, University Of Kansas
* David Deming, Ph.D, University Of Oklahoma
* Diane Douglas, Ph.D, Paleoclimatologist
* David Douglass, Ph.D, University Of Rochester
* Robert H. Essenhigh, E.G. Bailey Emeritus, Professor Of Energy Conversion, The Ohio State University
* David R. Legates, Ph.D, University of Delaware
* Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
* Harry F. Lins, Ph.D. Co-Chair, IPCC Hydrology and Water Resources Working Group
* Anthony R. Lupo, Ph.D, University Of Missouri
* Horst Malberg, Ph.D, Free University of Berlin
* Bjorn Malmgren, Ph.D, Goteburg University (emeritus)
* Jennifer Marohasy, Ph.D, Australian Environment Foundation
* Ross Mckitrick, Ph.D, University Of Guelph
* Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D, University Of Virginia
* Timmothy R. Minnich, MS, Minnich And Scotto, Inc.
* Asmunn Moene, Ph.D, Former Head, Forecasting Center, Meteorological Institute, Norway

The complete letter, which includes footnotes, is available here:

http://www.cato.org/special/climatechange/alternate_version.html[
http://www.cato.org/special/climatechange/cato_climate.pdf

For more information on this issue, see:

The Myth of Man-Made Global Warming http://www.geocities.com/mtgriffith1/mmgw.htm