Harriette Johnson and Dennis Avery
Environment News, The Heartland Institute
May 1, 2008
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=23085
The co-authors of the bestseller Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1,500
Years have released a second list of peer-reviewed scientists who've
recently found physical evidence of the long, natural climate cycle.
The second list brings together 400 names, increasing the total number
of such authors to more than 700.
Dennis Avery of the Hudson Institute and S. Fred Singer of the Science
and Environmental Policy Project presented the new list of scientists on
March 3 at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in New
York City.
Warmer Weather in Past
The Singer-Avery book assembled the historical and physical evidence of
the climate cycle, including the Medieval Warming, Roman Warming, and
six previous global warmings since the last Ice Age. The authors note,
for example, Suzanne Carbotte of New York's Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory used side-scanning sonar to locate long-dead fossil oyster
beds that were active in a warmer Hudson River 1,000 years ago, 2,000
years ago, and 6,000 years ago.
"Most of our modern warming occurred before 1940," Avery said, "before
there was much human-emitted CO2. The net warming since 1940 is a
minuscule 0.2º C, with no warming at all in the last nine years. The
Greenhouse Theory can't explain these realities, but the 1,500-year
cycle does."
"The warmings have been the good times, for both humans and wild
species," noted Singer, professor emeritus of environmental studies at
the University of Virginia. "The world today has more vegetation and a
richer diversity of birds, bears, butterflies, and lichens than the
planet had during the 550 years of the Little Ice Age. The cold times
gave humanity famine, bubonic plague, fiercer storms, and clouded skies.
People today don't understand the blessings the warmer climate brings."
Solid Evidence
The 1,500-year climate cycle was initially found in the first long ice
cores scientists brought up in Greenland and Antarctica in the 1980s.
Avery notes the original discoverers won the Tyler Prize ("the
environmental Nobel") in 1996, "but now nobody mentions them."
Evidence for the cycle has also been found in sources such as seabed
sediments, cave stalagmites, fossil pollen, and ancient Chinese court
records.
Scientists Agree
Dozens of other researchers have also found links between the 1,500-year
cycle and solar variations recorded in the sunspot index.
"We've known for 400 years about the strong correlation between sunspots
and the Earth's temperatures," said Singer. "There is no correlation
between our temperatures and CO2."
Avery and Singer published an earlier list in September 12, 2007
including more than 300 peer-reviewed scientists--most cited in their
book--who had published evidence of the long climate cycle in
prestigious journals such as Science, Nature, and Climate Dynamics.
The new list includes mostly peer-reviewed scientists who have published
since the book was completed, cited both alphabetically and with their
research studies.
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"There is no compelling evidence that carbon dioxide has any significant
control over the direction of global temperature and climate. The
processes that regulate the interannual to decadal fluctuations of
climate are poorly understood and, as yet, unpredictable" William
Kininmonth, Meteorologist, Former Head, National Climate Centre, Bureau
of Meteorology, 1986-1998
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