Scientists support Wisconsin Senate candidate Ron Johnson's view on natural climate change

• 8/31/10, "Climate change: US Senate candidate Ron Johnson's stance is the correct one," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 scientists

"As scientists, we write to support U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson's correct view on natural factors of climate change as reported in the Journal Sentinel (Page 1B, Aug. 17; Page 1A, Aug. 21).

• This is not a debate about politics or about a belief system.
  

Objective science informs us that the so-called consensus viewpoints offered by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• about man-made carbon dioxide being the dominant factor of climate change is largely a
  
• political conclusion and not likely a scientifically correct one.

If global temperatures are supposedly affected by rapidly rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations but

• the warming has ceased over at least the last decade, then something
  

• more important than atmospheric CO2 must be driving climate change.
  

This is why the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported Aug. 13 that

• "greenhouse gas forcing fails to explain the 2010 heat wave over western Russia."

We wish to emphasize that many peer-reviewed publications exist that support the minimal role of atmospheric CO2 as a cause for the weather and climate that we experience.

Extremist views only serve to induce panic about climate change, and the unwillingness to address the real science only leads to

• spurious claims that "the science is settled."

For example, a paper published Aug. 19 in Geophysical Research Letters by a scientist from the California Institute of Technology shows that even the apparently drastic decrease of summer-autumn Arctic sea ice is not unprecedented but

• merely an effect of Arctic Ocean geography.

We therefore applaud Senate candidate Ron Johnson's stance against CO2-induced climate change.

Eight scientists signed this letter; they noted that their university affiliations are for identification purposes only and are not an endorsement of the letter. The signers are:

• Willie Soon, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics;
  

• Scott Armstrong, Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania;
  

• Robert Carter, James Cook University, Australia;
  

• Susan Crockford, University of Victoria, Canada;
  

• Kesten Green, University of South Australia;
  

• Nils-Axel Morner, Stockholm University, Sweden;
  

• George Taylor, Oregon State University, retired; and
  

• Mitchell Taylor, Lakehead University, Canada."

via Climate Depot

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