[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
I find it very suspect that I have been a scientist for about 2 decades, 95% of my friends are scientists, I am engaged to a scientist, and this is the first I am hearing about studies, which are usually the result of many months and even years of work, disappearing into thin air or scientists magically knowing what the results of experiments will be before they are conducted in order to get funding.
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Martin Keeley, geology scientist: “Global warming is indeed a scam, perpetrated by scientists with vested interests, but in need of crash courses in geology, logic and the philosophy of science.”
Eduardo Tonni, paleontologist, Committee for Scientific Research, Argentina: “The [global warming] scaremongering has its justification in the fact that it is something that generates funds.”
George Kukla, climatologist, research scientist with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University: “The only thing to worry about is the damage that can be done by worrying. Why are some scientists worried? Perhaps because they feel that to stop worrying may mean to stop being paid.”
James Spann, American Meteorological Society-certified meteorologist: “Billions of dollars of grant money [over $50 billion] are flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon. No man-made global warming, the money dries up. This is big money, make no mistake about it. Always follow the money trail and it tells a story.”
Only 52 scientists agreed to IPCC 2007 summary report linking human CO2 to global warming. In contrast, 650 scientists have publicly announced their disagreement with the theory of man-made global warming. In addition, 31,000 American scientists/researchers have signed the Oregon Petition stating their direct opposition to the Kyoto global warming agreement. Approximately 17,000 signers have a PhD or a M.S.
Quote by Viv Forbes, soil scientist and geologist, chairman-Australian based The Carbon Sense Coalition: “The output of a complex computer simulation of the atmosphere is not ‘evidence’. It is a fluttering flag of forecasts, hung on a slim flagpole of theory, resting on a leaky raft of assumptions, which is drifting without the rudder of evidence, in cross currents of ideology emotion and bias, on the wide deep and restless ocean of the unknown.”
Claude Culross, organic chemistry: “Dire predictions of catastrophe from that bottomless pit of disasters du jour, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, are based solely on computer models that amount to poorly crafted mathematical opinions, not experimental proof…There is no proof that man-made carbon dioxide causes additional warming, or that carbon-dioxide reduction would reduce warming.”
Madhav L. Khandekar, UN scientist, a retired Environment Canada scientist: “Unfortunately, the IPCC climate change documents do not provide an objective assessment of the earth’s temperature trends and associated climate changeâ?¦.As one of the invited expert reviewers for the 2007 IPCC documents, I have pointed out the flawed review process used by the IPCC scientists in one of my letters. I have also pointed out in my letter that an increasing number of scientists are now questioning the hypothesis of Greenhouse gas induced warming of the earth’s surface and suggesting a stronger impact of solar variability and large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns on the observed temperature increase than previously believed.”
Delgado Domingos, environmental scientist: “Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense…The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.”
Quote by Tom McElmurry, meteorologist, former tornado forecaster in Severe Weather Service: “Governmental officials are currently casting trillions down huge rat hole to solve a problem which doesn’t exist…Packs of rats wait in that [rat] hole to reap trillions coming down it to fill advocates pockets…The money we are about to spend on drastically reducing carbon dioxide will line the pockets of the environmentalists…some politicians are standing in line to fill their pockets with kick back money for large grants to the environmental experts…In case you haven’t noticed, it is an expanding profit-making industry, growing in proportion to the horror warnings by government officials and former vice-presidents.”
Gerrit van der Lingen, scientist: “Being a scientist means being a skeptic.”
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