An international team of scientists skeptical of man-made climate fears promoted by the UN and former Vice President Al Gore, descended on Bali this week to urge the world to “have the courage to do nothing” in response to UN demands. Lord Christopher Monckton, a UK climate researcher, had a blunt message for UN climate conference participants on Monday. “Climate change is a non problem. The right answer to a non problem is to have the courage to do nothing,” Monckton told participants. “The UN conference is a complete waste of our time and your money and we should no longer pay the slightest attention to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,)” Monckton added. Monckton also noted that the UN has not been overly welcoming to the group of skeptical scientists. “UN organizers refused my credentials and appeared desperate that I should not come to this conference. They have also made several attempts to interfere with our public meetings,” Monckton explained.
“It is a circus here,” agreed Australian scientist Dr. David Evans. Evans is making scientific presentations to delegates and journalists at the conference revealing the latest peer-reviewed studies that refute the UN’s climate claims. “This is the most lavish conference I have ever been to, but I am only a scientist and I actually only go to the science conferences,” Evans said, noting the luxury of the tropical resort. Evans, a mathematician who did carbon accounting for the Australian government, recently converted to a skeptical scientist about man-made global warming after reviewing the new scientific studies.
“We now have quite a lot of evidence that carbon emissions definitely don’t cause global warming. We have the missing [human] signature [in the atmosphere], we have the IPCC models being wrong and we have the lack of a temperature going up the last 5 years,” Evans said in an interview with the Inhofe EPW Press Blog. Evans authored a November 28 2007 paper ”Carbon Emissions Don’t Cause Global Warming.” Evans touted a new peer-reviewed study by a team of scientists appearing in the December 2007 issue of the International Journal of Climatology of the Royal Meteorological Society which found “Warming is naturally caused and shows no human influence.” “Most of the people here have jobs that are very well paid and they depend on the idea that carbon emissions cause global warming. They are not going to be very receptive to the idea that well actually the science has gone off in a different direction,” Evans explained.
UN IPCC reviewer and climate researcher Dr. Vincent Gray of New Zealand, an expert reviewer on every single draft of the IPCC reports since its inception going back to 1990, had a clear message to UN participants. “There is no evidence that carbon dioxide increases are having any affect whatsoever on the climate,” Gray, who shares in the Nobel Prize awarded to the UN IPCC, explained. “All the science of the IPCC is unsound. I have come to this conclusion after a very long time. Read more here
The group of German scientists issued a proclamation on September 15, 2007 titled “The Climate Manifest of Heiligenroth” with six basic points of skepticism about man-made global warming. They stated that their “motivation was to initiate processes against daily campaigns of media and politics concerning climate.” Their six points are: 1) “There is not proven influence on climate by man made emission of CO2. 2) Scenarios on future climate change derived from computer models are speculative and contradicted by climate history. 3) There has been climate change in all times of Earth history with alternating cold and warm phases. 4) The trace gas CO2 dos not pollute the atmosphere. CO2 is an essential resource for plant growth and therefore a precondition for life on Earth. 5) We are committing ourselves to an effective preservation of our environment and support arrangements to prevent unnecessary stress on eco systems. 6) We strongly warn against taking action using imminent climate catastrophe as a vehicle which will not be beneficial for our environment and will cause economic damage.” Read more here. Watch organizing meeting on youtube here.
Meanwhile Analytical Chemist Hans Schreuder who publishes the website ILoveMyCarbonDioxide.com, rejected man-made global warming fears in 2007. “Any and all arguments put forward by the perceived consensus of scientists who still have their names engraved on the IPCC report are based on nothing more than theory and best fit computer modeling. Normally varying weather patterns are “blamed” on AGW without any scientific basis and for the sole purpose of scaremongering a gullible public,” Schreuder wrote on December 10, 2007. Schreuder also asserted that “ALL ‘proof’ is based on theories and computer models, not actual direct evidence - cause there ain’t none. ALL the records from the past show clearly that CO2 did NOTHING to ‘drive’ or ‘force’ any temperature changes. If it did, we would be as hot as hell by now and no life would be possible.” Read more here.
By Jen Kelly, news.com.au
A West Australian medical expert wants families to pay a $5000-plus “baby levy” at birth and an annual carbon tax of up to $800 a child. Writing in today’s Medical Journal of Australia, Associate Professor Barry Walters said every couple with more than two children should be taxed to pay for enough trees to offset the carbon emissions generated over each child’s lifetime. Professor Walters, clinical associate professor of obstetric medicine at the University of Western Australia and the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth, called for condoms and “greenhouse-friendly” services such as sterilisation procedures to earn carbon credits.
Australian Family Association spokeswoman Angela Conway said it was ridiculous to blame babies for global warming. “I think self-important professors with silly ideas should have to pay carbon tax for all the hot air they create,” she said. “There’s masses of evidence to say that child-rich families have much lower resource consumption per head than other styles of households. Read more here.