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Since its creation in March by the
International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), the Manhattan
Declaration on Climate Change has attracted signatories from 40
countries. Although ignored by most media and governments, endorsement
for the Declaration has rained in from hundreds of climate experts and
other scientists, as well as professional engineers, economists, policy
experts, medical doctors and average citizens. The complete Declaration
text, endorser lists and international media contacts for expert
commentary, may be viewed at http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/media1.php
"The climate change declaration offers Americans of all backgrounds an
opportunity to demonstrate that they are increasingly ill at ease with
the wild forecasts of Al Gore, James Hansen and the UN’s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)," said Dr. J. Scott
Armstrong, Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania. "Such skepticism is entirely appropriate.
In our research, we found that the forecasts in the latest IPCC
Assessment Report are not the outcome of scientific procedures. They
are merely the opinions of scientists transformed by mathematics and
obscured by complex writing. Americans must realize that IPCC global
warming forecasts have no more credence than saying that the planet
will get colder."
Here is a small sample of the hundreds of Americans who have endorsed the Declaration:
- Amesh A. Adalja, MD, Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh, Butler, Pennsylvania
- Syun-Ichi Akasofu, PhD, Professor of Physics, Emeritus and
Founding Director, International Arctic Research Center of the
University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska
- John W. Bales, BA, MA, PhD (Mathematics, Modeling), Professor, Tuskegee University, Waverly, Alabama
- Bruce Borders, PhD, Forest Biometrics, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
- Stephen Brown, PhD, Ground Penetrating Radar Glacier
research, District Agriculture Agent Cooperative Extension Service
University of Alaska
- George V. Chilingar, PhD, Professor, Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering of Engineering, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, California
- Dalcio K. Dacol, PhD (physics, University of California at
Berkeley), physicist at the US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington,
D.C.
- David Deming, PhD (Geophysics), Associate Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
- David Douglass, PhD, Professor of Physics, University of Rochester, New York
- Robert Durrenberger, PhD, former Arizona State
Climatologist and President of the American Association of State
Climatologists, Professor Emeritus of Geography, Arizona State
University; Sun City, Arizona
- Don J. Easterbrook, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Geology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington
- Michael J. Economides, PhD, Professor, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
- Peter Friedman, PhD, Member, American Geophysical Union,
Assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of
Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Massachusetts
- Stanley B. Goldenberg, Research Meteorologist, NOAA, AOML/Hurricane Research Division, Miami, Florida
- Allan Gotthelf, PhD, Visiting Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- William M. Gray, PhD, Professor Emeritus (Dept. of
Atmospheric Science), Colorado State University, Head of the Tropical
Meteorology Project, Fort Collins, Colorado
- Ross Hays, Atmospheric Scientist, NASA Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, Palestine, Texas
- Ted Hinds, PhD (Physical Ecology), Quantitative empirical
analyses regarding climatological, meteorological, and ecological
responses to environmental stresses, consultant for USA EPA research on
global climate change program. Senior Research Scientist, retired,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington
- Stanley M. Howard, PhD (Metallurgical Engineering (chemical
processing focus)), Professor of Materials and Metallurgical
Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City,
South Dakota
- Kendall Johnson, PhD (Physics), Infrared Calibration Engineer, Space Synamics Laboratory, North Logan, Utah
- Leonid Khilyuk, PhD, Professor of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
- Joseph Kunc, PhD, Molecular Physics, Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
- John David Lewis, PhD, Research Scholar in History and
Classics, Social Philosophy and Policy center, Bowling Green State
University, Bowling Green, Ohio
- Anthony R. Lupo, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Atmospheric
Science, Department of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science,
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
- Michael Monce, PhD (Physics), Atomic/Molecular; energy and
environment, Prof. Physics, Connecticut College, New London,
Connecticut
- Todd Nesbit, PhD (economics), Assistant Professor of Economics, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, Erie, Pennsylvania
- James J. O'Brien, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Meteorology and Oceanography, Florida State University, Florida
- Robert G. Roper, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
- James Rust, PhD (Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University),
MEng (Nuclear, MIT), BSc (Chemical, Purdue), Retired professor, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
- Ronald J. Rychlak, JD, Professor of Law and Associate Dean
for Academic Affairs, University of Mississippi School of Law, Oxford,
Mississippi
- Douglas Southgate, PhD, Professor of Agricultural,
Environmental and Development Economics, Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio
- Gary Sharp, PhD, Scientific Director, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study, Salinas, California
- Charles Van Eaton, PhD (Economics), Public Policy, Distinguished Professor, Bryan College, Dayton, Tennessee
The Manhattan Declaration concludes, “Attempts by
governments to legislate costly regulations on industry and individual
citizens to encourage CO2 reduction will slow development while having
no appreciable impact on the future trajectory of global climate
change. Such policies will markedly diminish future prosperity and so
reduce the ability of societies to adapt to inevitable climate change,
thereby increasing, not decreasing human suffering.”
"Just as the Manhattan Project was key to finally ending the Second
World War, the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change may one day be
regarded as a critical catalyst that helped end today's climate
hysteria," said ICSC Science Advisory Board member, Professor Bob
Carter of James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
"Protecting the natural world is crucially important and so
environmental policy must be based on our best understanding of science
and technology coupled with a realistic appreciation of the relevant
economics and policy options. This is not happening in the climate
debate." Source
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