some scientists do not believe in the green house effect the following statement was released on february by the science environmental policy project as independent scientists researching atmosphere and climate problems we are concerned by the agenda for unced the united nations conference on environment and development being developed by environmental and activists groups and certain political leaders this so called earth summit is scheduled to convene in brazil in june and aims to impose a system of global envionmental regulations including onerous taxes on energy fuels on the population of the united states and other industrialized nations such policy initiatives derive from highly uncetain scientific theories they are based on the unsupported assumption that catastrophic global warming follows from the burning of fossill fuels and requires immediate action we do not agree a survey of u s atmospheric scientists conducted in the summer of confirms that there is no consesensus about the cause of the slight warming observed during the past century a recently published research paper even suggests sunspot variability which is directly proportional to solar activity rather than a rise in greenhouse gases is responsible for the global temperature increases and decreases recoded since about futhermore the majority of scientific participants in the survey agreed that the theoretical climate climate models used to predict a future warming cannot be relied upon and are not validated by the existing climate record yet all predictions are based on such theoretical models finally agriculturalits generally agree that any increase in carbon dioxide levels from fossil fuels burning has beneficial effects on most crops and on world food supply we are disturbed that activists anxious to stop energy and economic growth are pushing ahead with drastic policies without taking notice of recent changes in the underlying science we fear that the rush to impose global regulations will have catastrophic impacts on the world economy on jobs standards of living and health care with the most severe consequences falling on developing countries and the poor david b aubrey phd senior scintist woods hole oceanographic institute nathaniel b guttman phd research physical scientist national climatic data center hugh b ellsaesser phd meteorologist lawerence livermore national laboratory richard lindzen phd center for meteorology and physical meteorolgy massachusetts institute of technology robert c balling phd director laboratory of climatology arizona state university patrick micheals phd assoc professor of environmental sciences universityy of virginia roger pielke phd professor of atmospheric science colorado state university micheal garstang phd professor of meteorology university of virginia sherwood p idso phd research physicist u s water conservation laboratory lev s gandin phd visiting scientist national center for atmospheric research john a mcginley chief forecast research group forecast systems laboratory noaa h jean thiebaux phd research scientist national meterological center national weather service noaa kenneth v beard phd professor of atmospheric physics university of illinois paul w mielke jr phd professor department of statistics colorado state university thomas lockhart meteorological standards institute peter f giddings meterologist weather service director hazen a bedke meteoroligist former regional director national weather service gabriel t csanady phd eminent professor old dominion university roy leep executive weather director gillet weather data services terrance j clark meteorologist u s air force neil l frank phd meteorologist national weather service bruce a boe phd director north dakota atmospheric resource board andrew detweiler phd assoc professor institute of atmospheric sciences south dakota school of mines and technology robert m cunningham consulting meteorologist fellow american meteorological society stephen r hanna phd sigma research corporation elliot abrams meteoroligist senior vice president accuweather inc william e reifsnyder phd consulting meteorologist professor emeritus forest meteorology yale university david w reylnolds research meteorologist jerry a williams meteorologist president ocean routes inc lee w eddington meteorologist geophysics division pacific missile test center werner a braum phd former dean college of arts sciences florida state university david p rodgers phd assoc professor of research oceanography scripps institution of oceanograghy brian fiedler phd asst professor of meteorology university of oaklahoma edward a brandes meterologist melvyn shapiro chief of meteorological research wave propagation laboratory noaa joesph zabransky jr associate professor of meteorology plymouth state college james a moore project manager research applications program national center for atmospheric research daniel j mcnaughton ensr consultating and engineering brian sussman meteorologist fellow american meteorologist fellow american meteorological society h read mcgrath phd meteorologist robert e zabrecky meteorologist william m porch phd atmospheric physicist los alamos national laboratory earle r williams phd associate profesor of meteorology dept of earth atmospheric and planetary sciences massachusetts institute of technology s fred singer phd atmospheric physsicist university of virginia director science environmental policy project affilitions listed are for identification purposes only techie cellar org william a bacon the cellar bbs
