Deniers Popping Up Everywhere

The list of scientists, experts, and governments now lining up as skeptics on global warming/climate change, is growing. The central issue is this: 1) man is causing global warming (primarily through the use of fossil fuels), 2) carbon is the cause of global warming . Actually, carbon accounts for only .003% of our atmosphere, carbon's contribution, if any, is minuscule and irrelevant. But true, born again environmentalists have for decades sought ways to limit growth, reduce the use of carbon based fuels, and get man to live more caveman like; you know, stop using air conditioning, build smaller homes, drive less, fly less, eat less...well, you get the idea.

But despite Al Gore's absurd declaration that "the debate is over," ever increasing numbers of scientists, experts and governments, not to mention the general public, are fighting back and showing how silly this whole global warming thing really is. And if you're a meteorologist, the notion that man can affect the weather is quite silly.

Here is a partial list of the new "deniers:"
1. In April, the Polish Academy of Sciences published a document challenging man-made global warming.
2. the Czech Republic, where President Vaclav Klaus remains a leading skeptic, today only 11% of the population believes humans play a role.
3. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to tap Claude Allegre to lead the country's new ministry of industry and innovation. Twenty years ago Mr. Allegre was among the first to trill about man-made global warming, but the geochemist has since recanted.
4. New Zealand last year elected a new government, which immediately suspended the country's weeks-old cap-and-trade program.
5. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. -- 13 times the number who authored the U.N.'s 2007 climate summary for policymakers.
6. Joanne Simpson, the world's first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak "frankly" of her nonbelief.
7. Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming "the worst scientific scandal in history."
8. Norway's Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it as the "new religion."
9. A group of 54 noted physicists, led by Princeton's Will Happer, is demanding the American Physical Society revise its position that the science is settled. (Both Nature and Science magazines have refused to run the physicists' open letter.)
10. Dr. Ian Plimer, a well-known Australian geologist. Earlier this year he published "Heaven and Earth," a damning critique of the "evidence" underpinning man-made global warming.
11. Paul Sheehan, a noted Australian columnist -- and ardent global warming believer -- in April humbly pronounced it "an evidence-based attack on conformity and orthodoxy, including my own, and a reminder to respect informed dissent and beware of ideology subverting evidence."

The collapse of the "consensus" has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth's temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon.

This information came from an editorial by KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL, in the Wall Street Journal.