Scientists' Report: Climate Change is Natural, AGW is a Fraud

On Wednesday, the Science & Environmental Policy Project announced that climate scientists at the University of Rochester, the University of Alabama, and the University of Virginia who observed patterns of temperature changes, known as "fingerprints", over the last thirty years say that these observations do not accord with what the IPCC's touted greenhouse gas computer models predict.

The U.S.-sponsored Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) backs up these findings, which indicate that climate change is natural, not man-made.

The authors of this "dissident" report are Drs. David H. Douglass, John R. Christy, and S. Fred Singer, and graduate student Benjamin D. Pearson.

"The observed pattern of warming, comparing surface and atmospheric temperature trends, does not show the characteristic fingerprint associated with greenhouse warming...Can the models accurately explain the climate from the recent past? It seems that the answer is no," said Douglass.

"Satellite data and independent balloon data agree that atmospheric warming trends do not exceed those of the surface. Greenhouse models, on the other hand, demand that atmospheric trend values be two to three times greater...observations suggest that GH models ignore negative feedbacks, produced by clouds and by water vapor, that diminish the warming effects of carbon dioxide," said Christy.

"The current warming trend is simply part of a natural cycle of climate warming and cooling that has been seen in ice cores, deep-sea sediments, stalagmites...and published in hundreds of papers in peer-reviewed journals...most likely caused by variations in the 'solar wind' that affect the flux of cosmic rays incident on the earth's atmosphere and influence cloudiness...We must conclude, therefore, that attempts to control CO2 emissions are ineffective and pointless -- while very costly," said Singer.