Copenhagen Skeptics Conference: Global Warming
'caused by sun's radiation'
As the world gathered in the Danish capital for the UN Climate Change
Conference, more than 50 scientists, businessmen and lobby groups met to
discuss the arguments against man made global warming.
Although the meeting was considerably smaller than the official
gathering of 15,000 people meeting down the road, the organizers claimed
it could change the course of negotiations.
Professor Henrik Svensmark, a physicist at the Danish National Space
Center in Copenhagen, said the recent warming period was caused by solar
activity.
He said the last time the world experienced such high temperatures,
during the medieval warming period, the Sun and the Earth were in a
similar cycle.
Professor Nils-Axel Morner, a geologist from Stockholm University, said
sea level rise has also been exaggerated by the “climate alarmists”
using computer models.
He said observational data from lake sediments, coast lines and trees
show sea levels have remained stable.
Professor Cliff Ollier, another geologist from the University of Western
Australia, also said the environmental lobby have got it wrong on ice
caps. He said the melting of ice sheets is caused by geothermal activity
rather than global surface temperatures.
Professor Ian Plimer, from the University of Adelaide, claimed carbon
dioxide from volcanoes rather than humans is driving warming as part of
a natural process.
The meeting was organised by Danish group Climate Sense and the lobby
group Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT).
Craig Rucker, Executive Director of CFACT, admitted the organisation
have taken funding from Exxon Mobil in the past but pointed out that
many environmental groups are also receiving funding from major
corporations.
Graham Capper of Climate Sense said manmade global warming was a myth
and scientists who said otherwise were lying. :
"There are people who know they are lying and do it simply for money and
others who think they are doing good," he said. "But they not good
scientists."
Lord Monckton, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, said he was
speaking to delegations from the US and Canada about question marks over
the science.
He said a recent poll by the Telegraph, that shows only one in two
people accept man made climate change, show people are questioning the
consensus being pushed by the UN summit.
“As anybody knows who follows the opinion polls in Britain and Australia
and the US, in the last few weeks and months there has been a rapid
collapse in the global warming chimera so while we still have our
freedom, let us speak out.”
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