No Al -- There Ain't No Scientific Consensus After All

From Senator Jim Inhofe's (R-OK) EPW Press Blog comes this:

U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007 Senate Report Debunks "Consensus" Complete U.S. Senate Report Now Available: (LINK)

Bet it's about time for Bart Simpson to tell ol' Big Al Gore, "Don't have a cow, man!" I doubt that Al and his Holy Roller Church of Global Warming Hysterics are gonna take this one without squealin' like a little girl. They're probably feeling like our own guv, Aaaunold, after the EPA told him and the 12 states that follow California as it struts around the environmental playground like a bully and his crew to "stuff it" -- No, you can't usurp the Congress and the EPA and set your own pie-in-the-sky, economy-killin' regulations on carbon dioxide emissions. In fact, if you'd settle down, relax, be calm and SHUT UP -- your own personal carbon emissions would be a whole heck of a lot lower, dude! Of course, now our do-nothing Congress -- which kinda did something with the new Energy Bill that the President Bush did sign -- has their panties in a tight wad over the EPA denying CA and Co. their little special privilege.

The House Oversight Committee today demanded the Environmental Protection Agency turn over documents describing how it made its decision to deny California and 12 other states the right to impose their own stricter emissions rules under the Clean Air Act.

The chairman of the committee, Rep. Henry Waxman, sent a two-page letter to EPA administrator Stephen Johnson demanding "all communications within the agency and all communications between the agency and persons outside the agency, including persons in the White House, related to the California waiver request."

Johnson denied California's request to require a 30-percent reduction in vehicle tailpipe emissions by 2016 -- or a 43.7 mpg requirement for passenger cars and 26.6 mpg for light trucks -- in a major victory for automakers.

"The Bush administration is moving forward with a clear national solution, not a confusing patchwork of state rules, to reduce America's climate footprint from vehicles," Johnson told reporters on a conference call Thursday night, adopting the language of automakers.

Yep -- my very own House of Representative's representative, Henry Waxman -- guess ol' Henry never got my memo . . . but, back to the Inhofe report -- not that Henry & Co. or Big Al would ever read that one.

Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called "consensus" on man-made global warming. These scientists, many of whom are current and former participants in the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), criticized the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore. The new report issued by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s office of the GOP Ranking Member details the views of the scientists, the overwhelming majority of whom spoke out in 2007.

Even some in the establishment media now appear to be taking notice of the growing number of skeptical scientists. In October, the Washington Post Staff Writer Juliet Eilperin conceded the obvious, writing that climate skeptics "appear to be expanding rather than shrinking." Many scientists from around the world have dubbed 2007 as the year man-made global warming fears “bite the dust.” In addition, many scientists who are also progressive environmentalists believe climate fear promotion has "co-opted" the green movement.

This blockbuster Senate report lists the scientists by name, country of residence, and academic/institutional affiliation. It also features their own words, biographies, and weblinks to their peer reviewed studies and original source materials as gathered from public statements, various news outlets, and websites in 2007. This new “consensus busters” report is poised to redefine the debate.

Pretty strong evidence that there is NO scientific consensus on Anthropogenic Climate Change. No Harriet, it's not time to head to higher ground, cancel those plans for that beach-front cabin in Barstow, stop plannin' on wheat farmin' in Greenland next year -- ol' Big Al is full o' Bandini and a lot of the scientific community is gettin' sick o' the smell. Here's just a sample from The Washington Times of these counter opinions from the scientific community -- Oh BTW, Al . . . now where'd you misplace that ol' pesky consensus?

The following are comments from some of the more than 400 scientists in a Republican report on global warming:

• "Even if the concentration of 'greenhouse gases' double, man would not perceive the temperature impact."

Oleg Sorochtin of the Institute of Oceanology at the Russian Academy of Sciences

• "I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting — a six-meter sea level rise, 15 times the [U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] number — entirely without merit. ... I protest vigorously the idea that the climate reacts like a home heating system to a changed setting of the thermostat: just turn the dial, and the desired temperature will soon be reached."

Atmospheric scientist Hendrik Tennekes, former research director at the Netherlands' Royal National Meteorological Institute

• "The hypothesis that solar variability and not human activity is warming the oceans goes a long way to explain the puzzling idea that the Earth's surface may be warming while the atmosphere is not. The [greenhouse-gas] hypothesis does not do this. ... The public is not well served by this constant drumbeat of false alarms fed by computer models manipulated by advocates."

David Wojick, expert reviewer for U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• "The media is promoting an unprecedented hyping related to global warming. The media and many scientists are ignoring very important facts that point to a natural variation in the climate system as the cause of the recent global warming."

Chief Meteorologist Eugenio Hackbart of the MetSul Meteorologia Weather Center in Sao Leopoldo-Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

• "There's no need to be worried. It's very interesting to study [climate change], but there's no need to be worried."

Anton Uriarte, a professor of physical geography at the University of the Basque Country in Spain

What's left to say? Heh!

[Cross posted at Okie on the Lam]