Issue Position: Environment and Global Warming

Issue Position

The National Post of Canada reported that the snow cover in much of North America, Siberia, Mongolia, and China in 2008 was the greatest since 1966. Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service, said the 2008 Arctic winter was so severe that the ice not only recovered, it was actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places. Professor Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, said manmade climate change was a "drop in the bucket." John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, called global warming "the greatest scam in history." Richard Lindzen, a professor of meteorology at MIT, said global warming alarmists "are trumpeting catastrophes that couldn't happen even if the models were right." Freeman Dyson, a professor at Princeton University and one of the most eminent physicists in the world, said the models used to justify global warming are "full of fudge factors" and "do not begin to describe the real world." And the late Dr. Frederick Seitz, a physicist and former President of the National Academy of Sciences, wrote in 2008: "It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe. It is foolish to do so when the problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by observations. We do not currently have any convincing evidence or observations of significant climate change from other than natural causes." Prof. David Deming, a geophysicist, wrote in a column December 10, 2008, that "the last two years of global cooling have nearly erased 30 years of temperature increases. To the extent that global warming ever existed, it is now officially over."

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