Minority Report del Senado norteamericano sobre Calentamiento Global

El nuevo informe de la Comisión de Medio Ambiente del Senado norteamericano ya está online. Apabullante, cargado de declaraciones de científicos de las más diversas ramas: climatólogos, meteorólogos, geólogos, bioquímicos, químicos, ingenieros, médicos … incluso dos científicos españoles encuentran sitio esta vez en el informe.  Les destaco un par de cositas, el informe completo lo encuentran aquí (231 páginas, no se pierdan ni una!):

José Ramón Arévalo, Professor of Ecology at the University of La Laguna in Spain, dissented from climate fears in 2008. «Climate warming is more an ideology, that I have read is call «Climatism»… so, as an ideology is perfect to me, the problem is when administrators become members of this sect, and then they have to spend millions in demonstrating their ideology», Professor Arévalo wrote to EPW on December 7, 2008.
Professor Arévalo held an event at the university in July 2008 that proclaimed man-made global warming «is not happening». Arévalo «refuted the usual claims that extreme weather conditions are already increasing, or that more forest fires were occurring», according to a July 2008 article. The article continued, identifying another skeptic:
«Professor of Geography at the Madrid Complutense University, Maria Eugenia Peréz, spoke about the actual temperature measurements around the globe. Peréz recalled that most temperatures are recorded in urban areas where microclimates can be warmer, and the reduction of the number of stations at high latitudes since the collapse of the USSR, both of which could bias data upwards. She also commented on the reliability of some data, and its short period of collection (some stations only for 50 years), but then showed that the general trend in the last 10 years has been slight cooling. This was after a cool period of around 1940-1970, which was followed by the rapid rise in temperatures to the end of the nineties which caused scientists to start thinking that global warming
was happening. Peréz warned against drawing conclusions about climate change from data sets of less than three sets of 30 years».

«Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical. The main basis of the claim that man’s release of greenhouse gases is the cause of the warming is based almost entirely upon climate models. We all know the frailty of models concerning the air-surface system» – Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology, and formerly of NASA, who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called «among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years».

«The quantity of CO2 we produce is insignificant in terms of the natural circulation between air, water and soil… I am doing a detailed assessment of the UN IPCC reports and the Summaries for Policy Makers, identifying the way in which the Summaries have distorted the science». – South Afican Nuclear Physicist and Chemical Engineer Dr. Philip Lloyd, a UN IPCC co-coordinating lead author who has authored over 150 refereed publications.

Y tantos otros …

Por cierto, no dejen de leer este artículo de  Antón Uriarte en su CO2, clarito como el agua con que se bañan los elefantes.