Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change: En liten titt i hvem av våre norske forskere som ble med fra 2008 og fram til signering i 2010.
Det lille knippet sentrale politikkmakere i den indre IPCC-klanen hevder som kjent jevnt og trutt at der er konsensus blant seriøse vitenskapsfolk om AGW/CO2-hypotesen.
Å?!
Hvordan har det seg da at prominente vitenskapsmenn fra 40 land signerte i 2010 den såkalte Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change, sponset av the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC).
Den innledende 2008-deklarasjonen, som utformet deres protest, sa bl.a. at:
"Global climate has always changed and always will, independent of the actions of humans, and carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant but rather a necessity for all life; the causes and extent of recently-observed climatic change are the subject of intense debates in the climate science community and that oft-repeated assertions of a supposed "consensus" among climate experts are false.‖
Deklarasjonen konluderer:
There is no convincing evidence that CO2 emissions from modern industrial activity has in the past, is now, or will in the future cause catastrophic climate change.‖ A sampling of scientists signing the declaration as of June 19, 2008, are listed below. The signatory process has been open for two years and continues to add new scientists."
Fullstendig statement lød slik:
Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change - “Global warming” is not a global crisis: We, the scientists and researchers in climate and related fields, economists, policymakers, and business leaders, assembled at Times Square, New York City, participating in the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, Resolving that scientific questions should be evaluated solely by the scientific method; Affirming that global climate has always changed and always will, independent of the actions of humans, and that carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant but rather a necessity for all life; Recognizing that the causes and extent of recently-observed climatic change are the subject of intense debates in the climate science community and that oft-repeated assertions of a supposed ‗consensus‘ among climate experts are false; Affirming that attempts by governments to legislate costly regulations on industry and individual citizens to encourage CO2 emission reduction will slow development while having no appreciable impact on the future trajectory of global climate change. Such policies will markedly diminish future prosperity and so reduce the ability of societies to adapt to inevitable climate change, thereby increasing, not decreasing human suffering; Noting that warmer weather is generally less harmful to life on Earth than colder: Hereby declare: That current plans to restrict anthropogenic CO2 emissions are a dangerous misallocation of intellectual capital and resources that should be dedicated to solving humanity‘s real and serious problems. That there is no convincing evidence that CO2 emissions from modern industrial activity has in the past, is now, or will in the future cause catastrophic climate change. That attempts by governments to inflict taxes and costly regulations on industry and individual citizens with the aim of reducing emissions of CO2 will pointlessly curtail the prosperity of the West and progress of developing nations without affecting climate. That adaptation as needed is massively more cost-effective than any attempted mitigation, and that a focus on such mitigation will divert the attention and resources of governments away from addressing the real problems of their peoples. That human-caused climate change is not a global crisis. Now, therefore, we recommend – That world leaders reject the views expressed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as popular, but misguided works such as ―An Inconvenient Truth‖. That all taxes, regulations, and other interventions intended to reduce emissions of CO2 be abandoned forthwith. Agreed at New York, 4 March 2008.63
Først signerte noen hundre vitenskapsfolk i 2008, så i desember 2010 signerte ytterligere 712 vitenskapsfolk på deklarasjonen, herunder folk som (de norske er uthevet med rødt):
Clive Stevens, BS, MSc, D.I.C. FR Meteorogical Society, Weather Forecasting (since 1971), Private Companies around the world, Baku, Azerbaijan;
Gordon Evans, BS (Meteorology, Texas A&M University), MS (Soil Science, Texas A&M University), 30 yrs as environmental consultant on natural earth systems and processes and industrial pollution, including management of several advanced atmospheric modeling and measurement projects, Environmental Manager, The Texas A&M University System, College Station, Texas, U.S.A.;
Oscar Fann, College Degree, Media (television), Chief Meteorologist, WTVY-TV (CBS), Dothan, Alabama, U.S.A.;
Gary Kubat, BS (Atmospheric Science), MS (Atmospheric Science), professional meteorologist last 18 years, O\'Fallon, Illinois, U.S.A.;
Joseph Kunc, PhD, Molecular Physics, Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.;
James Kurtz, PhD (Inorganic Chemistry, Syracuse University), Postdoctoral (Chemical Kinetics, Purdue University), Industrial Research and Development, Idaho Falls, Idaho, U.S.A.;
Rune B. Larsen, PhD (Geology, Geochemistry), Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway; , PhD, meteorologist and air-quality consultant, President - Friends of Science, Calgary, Alberta, Canada;
Asmunn Moene, PhD, MSc (Meteorology), former head of the Forecasting Centre, Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway;
M. R. Morgan, PhD, Cdr., FRMS, climate consultant, former meteorology advisor to the World Meteorological Organization. Previously research scientist in climatology at University of Exeter, U.K, now residing in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada; Travis Littlechilds, PhD (Geology), MSc (Environmental Sciences), Geomorphography, Climate Patterns, The British Columbia Institute of Environmental Sciences, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada;
John Llewellyn, Meteorology, Airport Meteorologist, NOAA NWS (USWB), retired, Ellensburg, WA, U.S.A.;
Björn Malmgren, PhD, University Professor, Paleoclimate Science, retired, Lerum, Sweden;
Emmanuel Malterre, B. Eng., Professional Geophysicist (APEGGA), Calgary, Alberta, Canada;
John Marshall, Dip. Geosci (Open), retired, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom;
Romuald Bartnik, PhD (Organic Chemistry), Professor Emeritus, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland;
William R. Bennett, BS, MS, M (AAM), Ms (AAM), Director for The Kentucky Science Teachers' Association, Professor of Chemistry and Microbiology, St, Catherine College and The University of Kentucky, St. Catherine, Kentucky, U.S.A.;
Roger Burtner, PhD (Harvard University), MS (Stanford University), Former National Science Foundation Fellow, Fellow Geological Society of America, research geologist/geochemist, Consulting geologist, former research scientist, Chevron Oil Field Research Co, R. L. Burtner & Associates, Fullerton, California, U.S.A.;
Elizabeth Innes, PhD, Scientist, Senior Chemist, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada;
Olav M. Kvalheim, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Univ. of Bergen, Bergen, Norway;
Erwin Lalik, PhD (crystallography), materials science and heterogeous catalysis, Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Science, Krakow, Poland;
Endel Lippmaa, Prof.Dr.habil (Physics, Chemistry), Chairman - Energy Council of the Estonian Academy of Science, Tallinn, Estonia;
James Weeg, BS (Geology), MS (Env. Science), Professional Geologist, Hydrologist, Associate Professor, Environmental Geology, Geologist Advent Environmental Inc., Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, U.S.A.;
Larry D. Agenbroad, Emeritus Professor of Geology & Quaternary Studies, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, U.S.A., Director, Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, Hot Springs, South Dakota, U.S.A.;
M.I. Bhat, Professor (Tectonics, Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Kashmir), Sprinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India;
Vedat Shehu, Prof. Dr. Eng., Geologist, Engineering Geology, Tectonics, Geoingineering, Sharon, Massachusetts, U.S.A. and Professor "Geoingineering Research Unit" in Tirana, Albania;
Joseph Silverman, Fellow APS, ANS, Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering Dept., University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, U.S.A.;
Gösta Walin, Professor, oceanografi, Earth Science Center, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden;
Richard Becherer PhD (Optics, University of Rochester), MS (Physics, University of Illinois), BS (Physics, Boston College);
Ahmed Boucenna PhD, Professor of Physics, Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Ferhat Abbas University, Setif, Algéria;
Antonio Brambati PhD, Emeritus Professor (sedimentology), Department of Geological, Environmental and Marine Sciences (DiSGAM), University of Trieste (specialization: climate change as determined by Antarctic marine sediments), Trieste, Italy;
Arthur Chadwick PhD (Molecular Biology), Research Professor, Department of Biology and Geology, Southwestern Adventist University, Climate Specialties: dendrochronology (determination of past climate states by tree ring analysis), palynology (same but using pollen as a climate proxy), paleobotany and botany; Keene, Texas, U.S.A.;
Cornelia Codreanova Diploma in Geography, Researcher (Areas of Specialization: formation of glacial lakes) at Liberec University, Czech Republic, Zwenkau, Germany;
James E Dent B.Sc., FCIWEM, C.Met, FRMetS, C.Env., Independent Consultant, Member of WMO OPACHE Group on Flood Warning, Hadleigh, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom;
Terrence F. Flower PhD, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, St. Catherine University, studied and taught physics of climate (focus on Arctic and Antarctic); Lars Franzén PhD (Physical Geography), Professor, Physical Geography at Earth Sciences Centre, University of Gothenburg, Areas of Specialization: Palaeoclimate from global peatland and Chinese loess studies;
Katya Georgieva MSc (Physics of the Earth, Atmosphere, and Space, specialty Meteorology), PhD (Solar-Terrestrial Physics - PhD thesis on solar influences on global climate changes), Associate Professor, Head of group "Solar dynamics and global climate change" in the Solar-Terrestrial Influences Laboratory at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, head of project "Solar activity influences of weather and climate" of the scientific plan of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, member of the "Climate changes" council of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Regional coordinator of the Balkan, Black sea and Caspian sea countries and member of the European Steering Committee for the International Heliophysical Year 2007-2008, deputy editor-in-chief of the international scientific journal "Sun and Geosphere", Bulgaria;
Larry Irons BS (Geology), MS (Geology), Sr. Geophysicist at FairfieldNodal (Areas of Specialization: Paleoclimate), Lakewood, Colorado, U.S.A.;
Leif Kullman PhD (Physical geography, plant ecology, landscape ecology), Professor, Physical geography, Department of Ecology and Environmental science, Umeå University, Areas of Specialization: Paleoclimate (Holocene to the present), glaciology, vegetation history, impact of modern climate on the living landscape, Umeå, Sweden;
David Manuta Ph.D. (Inorganic/Physical Chemistry, SUNY Binghamton), FAIC, Climate Specialties: Gas Phase Infrared Studies, Thermodynamics of Small Molecule Formation (e.g., CO2, HF, and H2O), Chairman of the Board, The American Institute of Chemists; Irina Melnikova PhD (Physics & Mathematics), Head of the Laboratory for Physics of the Atmosphere INENCO RAN, specialization: radiative regime of the cloudy atmosphere;
Stanley Penkala BS (Chemical Engineering, Univ. of PA), PhD (Chemical Engineering, Univ. of PA.), Asst. Prof. Air Engineering and Industrial Hygiene, University of Pittsburgh GSPH (1970-1973), Environmental Scientist, DeNardo & McFarland Weather Services (1973-1980), Air Science Consultants, Inc. (VP 1980-1995, President 1995-Present), Areas of Specialization: Air Dispersion Modeling, Anthropogenic Sources of Global CO2, Quality Assurance in Air Pollution Measurements, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.; Oleg M. Pokrovsky BS, MS, PhD (mathematics and atmospheric physics - St. Petersburg State University, 1970), Dr. in Phys. and Math Sciences (1985), Professor in Geophysics (1995), principal scientist, Main Geophysical Observatory (RosHydroMet), St. Petersburg, Russia;
Oleg Raspopov Doctor of Science and Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Professor - Geophysics, Senior Scientist, St. Petersburg Filial (Branch) of N.V.Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowaves Propagetion of RAS (climate specialty: climate in the past, particularly the influence of solar variability), Editor-in-Chief of journal "Geomagnetism and Aeronomy" (published by Russian Academy of Sciences), St. Petersburg, Russia;
Jan-Erik Solheim MSc (Astrophysics), Professor, Institute of Physics, University of Tromso, Norway (1971-2002), Professor (emeritus), Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway (1965-1970, 2002- present), climate specialties: sun and periodic climate variations;
Roger Tanner PhD (Analytical Chemistry, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana), 40-yr career in atmospheric chemistry and air quality measurement science at Tennessee Valley Authority, Desert Research Institute, Reno, and Brookhaven National Lab, Climate Specialties: atmospheric chemistry and air quality measurement science, Florence, Alabama, U.S.A.;
Edward M. Tomlinson MS (Meteorology), Ph.D. (Meteorology, University of Utah), President, Applied Weather Associates, LLC (leader in extreme rainfall storm analyses), 21 years US Air Force in meteorology (Air Weather Service), Monument, Colorado, U.S.A.;
Michael G. Vershovsky Ph.D. in meteorology (macrometeorology, long-term forecasts, climatology), Senior Researcher, Russian State Hydrometeorological University;
Bob Zybach PhD (Oregon State University (OSU), Environmental Sciences Program, EPA-sponsored peer-reviewed research on carbon sequestration in coniferous forests -- mostly in relation to climate history and quality of climate predictive models), MAIS (OSU, Forest Ecology, Cultural Anthropology, Historical Archaeology), BS (OSU College of Forestry);
