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   From: barry-the-illegal-alien@democrats.com   
      
   A group of 15 scientists and meteorologists have put forward a   
   scathing rebuttal to the Obama administration’s recent climate   
   report which said the U.S. is already being harmed by global   
   warming.   
      
   Scientists skeptical that mankind is causing the Earth’s climate   
   to change say that such claims are based on false theories and   
   flawed models. The White House report is a “masterpiece of   
   marketing” that is trying to scare people into action,   
   scientists said.   
      
   “As independent scientists, we know that apparent evidence of   
   ‘Climate Change,’ however scary, is not proof of anything,”   
   wrote the 15 scientists and meteorologists,including Dr. Don   
   Easterbrook of Western Washington University and Dr. George   
   Wolff, who formerly chaired the Environmental Protection   
   Agency’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee.   
      
   “Science derives its objectivity from robust logic and honest   
   evidence repeatedly tested by all knowledgeable scientists, not   
   just those paid to support the administration’s version of   
   ‘Global Warming,’ ‘Climate Change,’ ‘Climate Disruption,’ or   
   whatever their marketing specialists call it today,” they   
   continued.   
      
   The White House’s “National Climate Assessment” (NCA), released   
   last week, claimed that the U.S. was already being affected by   
   global warming though warmer temperatures and increasing extreme   
   weather events.   
      
   But the 15 skeptical scientists said the White House is trying   
   to lay the blame for global warming at the feet of the fossil   
   fuels industry when there is little evidence to back up that   
   claim. The Earth’s climate is very cyclical and has gone through   
   many changes in the past, the scientists said, without humans   
   emitting carbon dioxide.   
      
   “This NCA is so grossly flawed it should play no role in U.S.   
   Energy Policy Analyses and CO2 regulatory processes,” the   
   skeptics wrote. “As this rebuttal makes clear, the NCA provides   
   no scientific basis whatsoever for regulating CO2 emissions.”   
      
   “We are asked to believe that humans are drastically changing   
   the earth’s climate by burning fossil fuels,” they added. “The   
   problem with their theory is very simple: It is NOT true.”   
      
   The NCA says the U.S. average temperature has risen between 1.3   
   degrees Fahrenheit to 1.9 degrees Fahrenheit since 1895, which   
   is causing more extreme weather, like hurricanes and droughts,   
   and harming fragile ecosystems around the country.   
      
   The NCA also warns that the U.S. average temperature could rise   
   4 degrees Fahrenheit in the coming decades if nothing is done to   
   limit carbon dioxide emissions. The report suggests a slew of   
   regulatory solutions from cap-and-trade to green energy   
   subsidies to mitigate global warming.   
      
   “’Global Warming’ has not been global and has not set regional   
   records where warming has occurred,” the skeptical scientists   
   rebutted. “For example, over the last fifty years, while the   
   Arctic has warmed, the tropical oceans had a flat trend and the   
   Antarctic cooled slightly.”   
      
   “The most significant warming during this period occurred in the   
   Northern Hemisphere, north of the tropics but that ceased over   
   the last 15 years or more,” they wrote, adding that “over the   
   last 130 years the decade of the 1930s still has the most U.S.   
   State High Temperatures records.”   
      
   “And, over the past 50 years, there were more new State Record   
   Lows set than Record Highs,” they wrote. “In fact, roughly 70   
   percent of the current State Record Highs were set prior to   
   1940.”   
      
   President Barack Obama touted the NCA’s findings late last week   
   when announcing his plan to promote more solar power use through   
   executive orders.   
      
   “So unfortunately, inside of Washington we’ve still got some   
   climate deniers who shout loud, but they’re wasting everybody’s   
   time on a settled debate,” Obama said, doubling down on remarks   
   made during his State of the Union Address this year by adding   
   that, “Climate change is a fact.”   
      
   “Here in California, you’ve seen these effects firsthand,” Obama   
   told the audience at a Mountain View Wal-Mart. “You know what’s   
   happening. And increasingly, more and more Americans do —   
   including, by the way, many Republicans outside of Washington.”   
      
   The Obama administration and environmentalists have tried to   
   make it seem like there are virtually no dissenting voices among   
   scientists that mankind is causing the Earth to warm rapidly and   
   towards a catastrophic end. But not all scientists are in lock-   
   step with the White House on climate science.   
      
   “By ignoring and even denouncing growing criticism, they have   
   lost the benefit of crucial scientific debates which are   
   critical to keeping their analyses honest and objective,” the 15   
   skeptical scientists wrote. “In fact… they are even disregarding   
   their usual allies, the U.N. IPCC and U.S. National Academy of   
   Sciences, both of whom have been dialing back apocalyptic   
   claims, not amplifying them due at least in part to such   
   critical feedback.”   
      
   http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/skeptical-scientists-debunk-   
   white-house-global-warming-report/#axzz3InSFot7H   
      
        
      
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