Tuesday, May 20, 2008

30,000 Scientists: AGW Is Wrong

Some 30,000 scientists have now signed to indicate their agreement with the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine's Global Warming Review Paper, "Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide". Read the report (here, as a web page) to get some highly interesting facts. This is the abstract:

A review of the research literature concerning the environmental consequences of increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide leads to the conclusion that increases during the 20th and early 21st centuries have produced no deleterious effects upon Earth's weather and climate. Increased carbon dioxide has, however, markedly increased plant growth. Predictions of harmful climatic effects due to future increases in hydrocarbon use and minor greenhouse gases like CO2 do not conform to current experimental knowledge. The environmental effects of rapid expansion of the nuclear and hydrocarbon energy industries are discussed.

4 comments:

  1. But....
    The science is settled.
    We have reached that totally scientific state know as consensus.
    The whole world agrees,
    pfffftthhh... to your puny 30,000!

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  2. (Spoken in Epic voice):

    "The pens of the 30,000 shall prove mightier than the (political) swords of the multitudes!"

    Yeah, lame, ok, but it was something.

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  3. 30,000 is a hundred times 300, and look what that small number was able to do.

    <Leonidas Voice>

    We... are... SCIENTISTS!!!!

    </Leonidas Voice>

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  4. You're kidding, right? Did you look at the list of "scientists?"

    George Bush qualifies by those criteria.

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