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Alleycat wrote:
>
>"The idea of man-made climate change used to be a minority view. Now
>new research into the history of climate science traces the story of
>how the minority won over the majority." - Ehsan Masood - Nature
>Magazine Science Update 1997

You cite ONE individual.  One is not a 'majority', although people with the
ethics of Albert Gore like to pretend that it is.   Try your ONE individual
against the following 27 names of the initial signers of the 1992
"Statement of Atmospheric Scientists", which said in part:

WASHINGTON, D.C., FEBRUARY 27, 1992</B>---As independent scientists,
researching atmospheric and climate problems, we are concerned by the 
agenda for UNCED, the United Nations Conference on Environment and 
Development, being developed by environmental activist groups and 
certain political leaders. This so-called Earth Summit is scheduled to 
convene in Brazil in June 1992 and aims to impose a system of global 
environmental regulations, including onerous taxes on energy fuels, on 
the population of the United States and other industrialized nations.

Such policy initiatives derive from highly uncertain scientific 
theories. They are based on the unsupported assumption that 
catastrophic global warming follows from the burning of fossil fuels 
and requires immediate action. We do not agree.
..

We are disturbed that activists, anxious to stop energy and economic
growth, are pushing ahead with drastic policies without taking notice 
of recent changes in the underlying science. We fear that the rush to 
impose global regulations will have catastrophic impacts on the world 
economy, on jobs, standards of living, and health care, with the most 
severe consequences falling upon developing countries and the poor.

David G. Aubrey, Ph.D., Senior Scientist,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

Nathaniel B. Guttman, Ph.D., Research
Physical Scientist, National Climatic Data Center

Hugh W. Ellsaesser, Ph.D., Meteorologist,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Richard Lindzen, Ph.D., Center for
Meteorology and Physical Meteorology, M.l.T.

Robert C. Balling, Ph.D., Director,
Laboratory of Climatology, Arizona State University

Patrick Michaels, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor
of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia

Roger Pielke, Ph.D., Professor of Atmospheric
Science, Colorado State University

Michael Garstang, Ph.D., Professor
of Meteorology, University of Virginia

Sherwood B. Idso, Ph.D., Research Physicist,
U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory

Lev S. Gandin, Ph.D., UCAR Scientist,
National Meteorological Center

John A. McGinley, Chief, Forecast Research
Group, Forecast Systems Laboratory, NOAA

H. Jean Thiebaux, Ph.D., Research Scientist,
National Meteorological Center, National Weather Service, NOM

Kenneth V. Beard, Ph.D., Professor
of Atmospheric Physics, University of Illinois

Paul W. Mielke, Jr., Ph.D., Professor,
Dept. of Statistics, Colorado State University

Thomas Lockhart, Meteorologist, Meteorological
Standards Institute

Peter F. Giddings, Meteorologist, Weather
Service Director

Hazen A. Bedke, Meteorologist, Former
Regional Director, National Weather Service

Gabriel T. Csanady, Ph.D., Eminent
Professor, Old Dominion University

Roy Leep, Executive Weather Director,
Gillett Weather Data Services

Terrance J. Clark, Meteorologist, U.S.
Air Force

Neil L Frank, Ph.D., Meteorologist

Michael S. Uhart, Ph.D., Meteorologist,
National Weather Service

Bruce A. Boe, Ph.D., Director, North
Dakota Atmospheric Resource Board

Andrew Detwiler, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof.,
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, S. Dakota School of Mines&Technology

Robert M. Cunningham, Consulting Meteorologist,
Fellow, American Meteorological Society

Steven R. Hanna, Ph.D., Sigma Research
Corporation

Elliot Abrams, Meteorologist, Senior
Vice President, AccuWeather, Inc.

William E. Reifenyder, Ph.D., Consulting
Meteorologist, Professor Emeritus, Forest Meteorology, Yale University

David W. Reynolds, Research Meteorologist

Jerry A. Williams, Meteorologist, President,
Oceanroutes, Inc.

Lee W. Eddington, Meteorologist, Geophysics
Division, Pacific Missile Test Center

Werner A. Baum, Ph.D., former Dean,
College of Arts &amp; Sciences, Florida State University

David P. Rogers, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor
of Research Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Brian Fiedler, Ph.D., Asst. Professor
of Meteorology, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma

Edward A. Brandes, Meteorologist

Melvyn Shapiro, Chief of Meteorological
Research, Wave Propagation Laboratory, NOM

Joseph Zabransky, Jr., Associate Professor
of Meteorology, Plymouth State College

James A. Moore, Project Manager, Research
Applications Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Daniel J. McNaughton, ENSR Consulting and Engineering

Brian Sussman, Meteorologist

Robert D. Elliott, Meteorologist, Fellow,
American Meteorological Society
H. Read McGrath, Ph.D., Meteorologist

Earl G. Droessler, Ph.D., North Carolina
State University

Robert E. Zabrecky, Meteorologist

William M. Porch, Ph.D., Atmospheric
Physicist, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Earle R. Williams, Ph.D, Assoc. Prof.
of Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

S. Fred Singer, Ph.D., Atmospheric
Physicist, Univ. of Virginia, President, Science & 
Environmental Policy Project

Please note: Affiliations listed are
for identification purposes only.


Andrew Russell
arussell@bix.com

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Steven Schneider:
  1989, at a Smithsonian conference on environmentalism: "We need 
  to get some broad-based support, to capture public imagination. 
  That, of course, means getting loads of media coverage.  So we 
  have to offer up some scary scenarios, make some simplified 
  dramatic statements and little mention of any doubts one might 
  have... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between 
  being effective and being honest."
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