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Willie Soon

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:40:50 +0000

Willie Wei-Hock Soon (born 1966) is an astrophysicist at the Solar and Stellar Physics Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is known for his views that most global warming is caused by solar variation.
He is chief science adviser to the Science and Public Policy Institute, an organisation which devotes most of its scientific coverage to arguing against anthropogenic global warming or playing down the effects of global warming. In 2003, he was invited to testify in the United States Senate and was later recognized, with an award, for “detailed scholarship on biogeological and climatic change over the past 1000 years” by the Smithsonian Institution. In June 2004, he was presented with the Petr Beckmann award of the by Doctors for Disaster Preparedness for “courage and achievement in defense of scientific truth and freedom.”

Dr Willie Soon is the co-author of a famous article entitled Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide.

The 12-page review article rejects the human caused global warming hypothesis. The article and its conclusions is the scientific basis of the Global warming petition project where 31,486 American scientists have signed a petition, to urge the United States government to reject the Kyoto protocol -and any other similar proposal -because there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of greenhouse gases is causing catastrophic heating of the Earth´s atmosphere.

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Sallie Baliunas

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:08:31 +0000

Sallie Baliunas is an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences Division.

Baliunas received her M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1980) degrees in Astrophysics from Harvard University. In 1991 Discover magazine profiled her as one of America’s outstanding women scientists.

Baliunas’s main focus is on astrophysical research. She studies visible and ultraviolet spectroscopy of stars; structure, variations, and activity in cool stars; evolution of stellar angular momentum; solar variability and global change; adaptive optics; exoplanets of Sun-like stars.

Baliunas is a strong skeptic in regard to there being a connection between CO2 rise and climate change.

Sallie Baliunas in the news articles.

You can download the article “Climatic and environmental changes of the past 1000 years” from here.

The paper is the scientific background for the the interviews with Baliunas, Soon and David Legates on climateclips.

Clips with Baliunas here and here.

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Warming Not Unusual

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:26:56 +0000

The 20th century warming is not unusual, Says Dr. Sallie Baliunas and Dr. Willie Soon from the harvard.

They have conducted a resarch that once and for all confirms that the climate globally have had swings up and down for the last 10.000 years. Of special interest is the claim that the MWP from year 900 to 1300 was warmer than today….

Sallie Baliunas has along with her colleagues, Harvard astrophysicists Dr. Willie Soon and Dr. David Legates, in strong terms criticised the validity of the “hockey stick” by Michael Mann. The hockey stick were for many years the icon of manmade global warming. The pilar that the arguments were standing on. Michael Mann argued that the warming in the last 100 years were unpresidented and it was 98% likely that humans were to blame. His temperature grapfh completely deleted the Medieval Warm period and the Little Ice Age. But Baliunas and Soon and his colleagues refuted these claims in a now famous article from 2003:

RECONSTRUCTING CLIMATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES OF THE PAST 1000 YEARS: A REAPPRAISAL

Part of the conclusion goes like this:

“After examining more than 240 individual proxy records analyzed by nearly 1000 researchers, we concluded that taken individually, proxy records offer strong support for the widespread existence of both a Medieval Warm Period (~A.D. 800 to 1300) and a Little Ice Age (~A.D. 1400 to 1850), undermining Mann’s conclusion that the climate of the 20th Century was unusual when compared to the variability over the last millennium. (Proxy records are secondary or inferred sources from which assumptions about air temperature may be drawn).” Find the full .pdf article here.

You can read more of the work of Sallie Baliunas here.

You can watch a clips with Sallie Baliunas here and here

David Legates

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:30:05 +0000

David R. Legates is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Delaware and a Research Fellow at The Independent Institute in Oakland, California.

Legates is a signer of the Oregon Petition, which stated:

“There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth”.

Legates has along with his colleagues, Harvard astrophysicists Dr. Willie Soon and Dr. Sallie Baliunas, in strong terms criticised the validity of the “hockey stick” by Michael Mann. The hockey stick were for many years the icon of manmade global warming. The pilar that the arguments were standing on. Michael Mann argued that the warming in the last 100 years were unpresidented and it was 98% likely that humans were to blame. His temperature grapfh completely deleted the Medieval Warm period and the Little Ice Age. But David Legates and his collegues refuted theese claims in a now famous article from 2003: RECONSTRUCTING CLIMATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL

CHANGES OF THE PAST 1000 YEARS: A REAPPRAISAL

Part of the conclusion goes like this:

You can read more of the work of David Legates here

David R. Legates is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Delaware and a Research Fellow at The Independent Institute in Oakland, California.

Legates is a signer of the Oregon Petition, which stated: ”There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth”.

RECONSTRUCTING CLIMATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES OF THE PAST 1000 YEARS: A REAPPRAISAL

Part of the conclusion goes like this:

Since Legates, Baliunas and Soon criticized Michael Mann also Steve McIntyre a canadian mathematician has pointed to the scientific flaws in Michael Mann´s graph. Now The Mann Made Hockey-stick is deleted from the IPCC 2007 report.

You can read more of the work of David Legates here

You can watch a clip with David Legates here.