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Kyoto
is pointless,
say 60 leading scientists
4
Apr 2006 - In an open letter to
Canada
's new Conservative prime minister,
Stephen Harper, more than 60 leading international climate change experts have
asked him to review the global warming policies he inherited from his
center-left
predecessor.
"Much
of the billions of dollars earmarked for implementation of the protocol in
Canada
will be squandered without a proper assessment of recent developments in
climate science," they wrote in the Canadian Financial Post last week.
There
is no consensus among climate scientists on the relative importance of the
various causes of global climate change, they wrote. Study of global climate
change is an "emerging science."
"'Climate
change is real' is a meaningless phrase used repeatedly by activists to
convince the public that a climate catastrophe is looming and humanity is the
cause.
Neither of these fears is justified.
"Global
climate changes all the time due to natural causes and the human impact
still remains impossible to distinguish from this natural 'noise'."
The
list of brave signatories (below) looks like a list of “Who’s Who” of the
world’s scientists.
Dr.
Ian D. Clark, professor, isotope hydrogeology and paleoclimatology,
Dept. of Earth Sciences,
University
of
Ottawa
Dr.
Tad Murty, former senior research scientist, Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans,
former director of Australia's National Tidal Facility and professor of earth
sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide; currently adjunct professor,
Departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa
Dr.
R. Timothy Patterson, professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences (paleoclimatology),
Carleton
University
,
Ottawa
Dr.
Fred Michel, director,
Institute
of
Environmental Science
and associate
professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences,
Carleton
University
,
Ottawa
Dr.
Madhav Khandekar, former research scientist, Environment Canada.
Member of editorial board of Climate Research and Natural Hazards
Dr.
Paul Copper, FRSC, professor emeritus, Dept. of Earth Sciences,
Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ont.
Dr.
Ross McKitrick, associate professor, Dept. of Economics,
University
of
Guelph
, Ont.
Dr.
Tim Ball, former professor of climatology,
University
of
Winnipeg
; environmental consultant
Dr.
Andreas Prokoph, adjunct professor of earth sciences,
University
of
Ottawa
;
consultant in statistics and geology
Mr.
David Nowell, M.Sc. (Meteorology), fellow of the Royal Meteorological
Society, Canadian member and past chairman of the NATO Meteorological
Group, Ottawa
Dr.
Christopher Essex, professor of applied mathematics and associate director of
the Program in Theoretical Physics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont.
Dr.
Gordon E. Swaters, professor of applied mathematics, Dept. of Mathematical
Sciences, and member, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Research Group, University
of Alberta
Dr.
L. Graham Smith, associate professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Western
Ontario, London, Ont.
Dr.
G. Cornelis van Kooten, professor and Canada Research Chair in
environmental studies and climate change, Dept. of Economics,
University
of
Victoria
Dr.
Petr Chylek, adjunct professor, Dept. of Physics and Atmospheric Science,
Dalhousie
University
,
Halifax
Dr./Cdr.
M. R. Morgan, FRMS, climate consultant, former meteorology advisor
to the World Meteorological Organization. Previously research scientist in
climatology at
University of Exeter
,
U.K.
Dr.
Keith D. Hage, climate consultant and professor emeritus of Meteorology,
University
of
Alberta
Dr.
David E. Wojick, P.Eng., energy consultant, Star Tannery,
Va.
, and Sioux
Lookout, Ont.
Rob
Scagel, M.Sc., forest microclimate specialist, principal consultant,
Pacific Phytometric Consultants,
Surrey
, B.C.
Dr.
Douglas Leahey, meteorologist and air-quality consultant,
Calgary
Paavo
Siitam, M.Sc., agronomist, chemist, Cobourg, Ont.
Dr.
Chris de Freitas, climate scientist, associate professor, The University of
Auckland, N.Z.
Dr.
Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology, Dept. of Earth,
Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr.
Freeman J. Dyson, emeritus professor of physics, Institute for Advanced Studies,
Princeton
,
N.J.
Mr.
George Taylor,
Dept. of Meteorology
,
Oregon
State University;
Oregon
State
climatologist; past president, American Association of State Climatologists
Dr.
Ian Plimer, professor of geology, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Adelaide; emeritus professor of earth sciences, University of
Melbourne, Australia
Dr.
R.M. Carter, professor, Marine Geophysical Laboratory,
James
Cook
University
,
Townsville
,
Australia
Mr.
William Kininmonth, Australasian Climate Research, former Head National
Climate Centre, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; former Australian delegate to
World Meteorological Organization Commission for Climatology, Scientific and
Technical Review
Dr.
Hendrik Tennekes, former director of research, Royal Netherlands
Meteorological Institute Dr. Gerrit J. van der Lingen, geologist/paleoclimatologist,
Climate Change Consultant, Geoscience Research and Investigations,
New
Zealand
Dr.
Patrick J. Michaels, professor of environmental sciences,
University
of
Virginia
Dr.
Nils-Axel Morner, emeritus professor of paleogeophysics & geodynamics,
Stockholm
University
,
Stockholm
,
Sweden
Dr.
Gary D. Sharp, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study,
Salinas
,
Calif.
Dr.
Roy W. Spencer, principal research scientist,
Earth
System
Science
Center
,
The University of Alabama,
Huntsville
Dr.
Al Pekarek, associate professor of geology, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Dept., St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minn.
Dr.
Marcel Leroux, professor emeritus of climatology,
University of Lyon
,
France
;
former director of Laboratory of Climatology, Risks and Environment, CNRS
Dr.
Paul Reiter, professor, Institut Pasteur, Unit of Insects and Infectious
Diseases,
Paris
,
France
. Expert reviewer, IPCC Working group II, chapter 8 (human health)
Dr.
Zbigniew Jaworowski, physicist and chairman, Scientific Council of Central
Laboratory for Radiological Protection,
Warsaw
,
Poland
Dr.
Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, reader, Dept. of Geography,
University of Hull
,
U.K.
; editor, Energy & Environment
Dr.
Hans H.J. Labohm, former advisor to the executive board, Clingendael
Institute (The Netherlands Institute of International Relations) and an
economist
who has focused on climate change
Dr.
Lee C. Gerhard, senior scientist emeritus,
University
of
Kansas
, past director
and state geologist, Kansas Geological Survey
Dr.
Asmunn Moene, past head of the Forecasting Centre, Meteorological Institute,
Norway
Dr.
August H. Auer, past professor of atmospheric science,
University
of
Wyoming
; previously chief meteorologist, Meteorological Service (MetService)
of
New Zealand
Dr.
Vincent Gray, expert reviewer for the IPCC and author of The Greenhouse
Delusion: A Critique of 'Climate Change 2001,'
Wellington
, N.Z.
Dr.
Howard Hayden, emeritus professor of physics,
University
of
Connecticut
Dr
Benny Peiser, professor of social anthropology, Faculty of Science,
Liverpool John Moores University
,
U.K.
Dr.
Jack Barrett, chemist and spectroscopist, formerly with Imperial College
London, U.K.
Dr.
William J.R. Alexander, professor emeritus, Dept. of Civil and Biosystems
Engineering,
University of Pretoria
,
South Africa
. Member, United Nations
Scientific and Technical Committee on Natural Disasters, 1994-2000
Dr.
S. Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences,
University
of
Virginia
; former director, U.S. Weather Satellite Service
Dr.
Harry N.A. Priem, emeritus professor of planetary geology and isotope
geophysics, Utrecht University; former director of the Netherlands Institute for
Isotope Geosciences; past president of the Royal Netherlands Geological &
Mining Society
Dr.
Robert H. Essenhigh, E.G. Bailey professor of energy conversion, Dept.
of Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University
Dr.
Sallie Baliunas, astrophysicist and climate researcher,
Boston
,
Mass.
Douglas
Hoyt, senior scientist at Raytheon (retired) and co-author of the book
The Role of the Sun in Climate Change; previously with NCAR, NOAA,
and the World Radiation Center, Davos, Switzerland
Dipl.-Ing.
Peter Dietze, independent energy advisor and scientific climate and
carbon modeller, official IPCC reviewer,
Bavaria
,
Germany
Dr.
Boris Winterhalter, senior marine researcher (retired), Geological Survey
of Finland, former professor in marine geology,
University of Helsinki
,
Finland
Dr. Wibjorn Karlen, emeritus professor, Dept. of Physical Geography and
Quaternary Geology,
Stockholm University
,
Sweden
Dr.
Hugh W. Ellsaesser, physicist/meteorologist, previously with the
Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory,
Calif.
; atmospheric consultant.
Dr.
Art Robinson, founder, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, Cave Junction,
Ore.
Dr.
Arthur Rorsch, emeritus professor of molecular genetics, Leiden University,
The Netherlands; past board member, Netherlands organization for applied
research (TNO) in environmental, food and public health
Dr.
Alister McFarquhar,
Downing
College
,
Cambridge
,
U.K.
; international
economist
Dr.
Richard S. Courtney, climate and atmospheric science consultant, IPCC expert
reviewer,
U.K.
See the letter:
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=3711460e-bd5a-475d-a6be-4db87559d605&rfp=dta
See article by Philip
Sherwell
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/09/wkyoto09.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/04/09/ixworld.html
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