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WHY DO WE NEED THE CLIMATE SCIENTISTS' REGISTER? A common misunderstanding amongst the general public, mainstream media and politicians is that only a small proportion of experts in the climate science community have serious problems with the concept of a carbon dioxide-driven climate crisis. In reality, thousands of climate experts are highly skeptical of this hypothesis. This fact has been repeatedly demonstrated through open letters, petitions and other declarations. However, these documents have not had sufficient impact on government policy largely because mainstream media have generally ignored them and so only a minority of the public is aware of their existence. Consequently, ICSC has incorporated the following characteristics into The Climate Scientists' Register to address this problem: • The Register statement is apolitical, non-commercial and deals with one physical science topic only. Many scientists have been reluctant to endorse past declarations because they did not want to become involved in something they regarded as outside of their professional field of knowledge. Similarly, many potential supporters in the general public, mass media and government have not often cited past open letters for fear of appearing to support their ideological opponents. • Scientist endorsers from all countries are welcome, thus negating the perception that national interests of any specific nation dominate. • The Register will include full professional identification of each endorser along with areas of specialization. For endorsers who are willing and able to speak with media, politicians and the public, ICSC will also include detailed contact coordinates. • ICSC will carefully vet any and all endorsers, allowing only the most qualified climate scientists to be included. • No scientist will be listed as endorsing the Register without their specific approval, and any wishing to have their names removed in the future will be accommodated immediately. • The coordinating organization, ICSC, is a single-issue entity that is, and is widely seen to be, neutral politically, philosophically and financially. ICSC carefully avoids all ad hominem attacks and other logical fallacies. We also maintain strict confidentiality with regards to funders’ identities and critique the comments of those involved in the debate based solely on the scientific accuracy of what they say and our perception of the effectiveness of their strategies. For sensible climate policy to triumph, it will require that the vast majority of the public come to regard human caused climate catastrophe concerns as unfounded. This can only happen if we quickly ‘expand the tent’ of supporters of sound, science-based climate policies to include citizens of many different political persuasions, social philosophies and commercial interests. The Climate Scientists' Register does just that by focusing solely on the most important of the climate science topics under debate – is human produced carbon dioxide leading to dangerous global warming, or not? To help ICSC produce and broadly publicize The Register and its endorsers, we invite donations to "International Climate Science Coalition" to be sent to the address below. Media who wish to contact scientists involved in this project may also contact the below. Tom Harris, Executive Director - International Climate Science Coalition icsc.tom.harris@gmail.com Back to Register

DR. JAY LEHR - BOOK REVIEW Is Capitalism bad for the Environment? by Dr. E. Cal Beisner Book review by Jay Lehr, Ph.D. For decades now, Green Parties in Scandinavia and Western Europe have argued that, although capitalism lifts people out of poverty, it should be replaced with socialism, which they claim is more likely to protect the environment. Proof positive that this is a false argument is provided by Beisner in this brief insightful booklet . His irrefutable example is all of East Germany when it was unified with the West and seen in all its socialist/communist devastation for the first time when the wall came down. Its drinking waters were polluted, its lakes were dead, and its forests were damaged. China’s Three Gorges Dam built in China on the Yangtze River is the most destructive engineering project ever built under socialist/communist rule, polluting everything in its way, submerging 140 towns, 1350 villages and hundreds of factories displacing 1.2 million people in its 420 mile wake. Beisner explains that China’ severe air pollution, blocks enough sunlight to reduce photosynthesis and thereby reduce crop yields. 40% of its rivers are polluted, 55% of the groundwater supplying 200 cities is polluted. In 2010 it is estimated that there were a total of 8000 premature deaths from air pollution in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Xian. Deforestation in China has led to the creation of 950 square miles of desert each year. All of these socialist environmental calamities Beisner explains are first a result of a lack of property rights where no one takes responsibly and second due to the fact that socialism does not create enough wealth to afford the environment to be a high priority. Food and shelter and clothing are the priorities that leave little behind to pay for expensive environmental protection. Beisner quotes Colin Grabow from the article “If You Think Communism Is Bad for People, Check Out What It Did to the Environment ,” in explaining another problem with extreme leftist governments: “communism invariably means authoritarianism....with little tolerance for dissent or concerns about hazardous waste in the worker’s paradise. To voice an opinion that perhaps not quite all is well, or that the air smelled funny, was to invite suspicions of being a saboteur, or harboring bourgeois tendencies.” Charges against capitalism Beisner says stemmed mostly from Rachel Carson’s horribly flawed book Silent Spring published in 1962. Gus Speth founder of the Natural Resource Defense Council made five charges against capitalism in a number of his publications. 1- capitalism is indifferent to nature 2- capitalism is unsustainable because it promotes consumerism 3- capitalism leads to resource depletion and ecosystem damage 4- capitalism forces others to bear protection costs while industry profits 5- capitalism’s short-term goals blinds it to long-term harm The short answer to each of these charges is a resounding NO. However Beisner discharges all of these narrow-minded shortsighted claims in well referenced detail. They come from a man who in my opinion and personnel knowledge is an avowed socialist whether or not he will admit to it. If I have one qualm with this booklet it is that the author is too kind to Mr. Speth but perhaps it is understandable as Calvin Beisner is a man of God. He is also an excellent economist and this booklet is also a kind of Economics 101. It is clear from all these fallacious charges that Speth himself apparently has no understanding of economics. Capitalism is a system whose entire purpose is to benefit all citizens standard of living and to be pursued in a free market with property rights at its core. It has been proven long ago by Simon Kuznet that in order to pull people out of poverty there can be initial damage to the environment but once a reasonable standard is achieved, excess income is definitely used to improve the environment as a desirable improvement in additional living standards. In Beisner’s own words capitalism’s “historical track record shows that it’s better than any other economic system so far devised at raising people out of poverty and making efficient use of resources. No other system better protects or improves our natural environment.” I cannot recommend this booklet too strongly. It is available for $5 from The Cornwall Alliance at https://cornwallalliance.org/product/is-capitalism-bad-for-the-environment/ .

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THE MANHATTEN DECLARATION ON CLIMATE CHANGE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA CONTACTS (IN 16 COUNTRIES) FOR THE DECLARATION - CLICK HERE TO VIEW ENDORSERS OF THE DECLARATION - CLICK HERE TO ENDORSE THE DECLARATION - CLICK HERE Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change “Global warming” is not a global crisis We, the scientists and researchers in climate and related fields, economists, policymakers, and business leaders, assembled at Times Square, New York City, participating in the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, Resolving that scientific questions should be evaluated solely by the scientific method; Affirming that global climate has always changed and always will, independent of the actions of humans, and that carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant but rather a necessity for all life; Recognising that the causes and extent of recently-observed climatic change are the subject of intense debates in the climate science community and that oft-repeated assertions of a supposed ‘consensus’ among climate experts are false; Affirming that attempts by governments to legislate costly regulations on industry and individual citizens to encourage CO2 emission 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; Noting that warmer weather is generally less harmful to life on Earth than colder: Hereby declare: That current plans to restrict anthropogenic CO2 emissions are a dangerous misallocation of intellectual capital and resources that should be dedicated to solving humanity’s real and serious problems. That there is no convincing evidence that CO2 emissions from modern industrial activity has in the past, is now, or will in the future cause catastrophic climate change. That attempts by governments to inflict taxes and costly regulations on industry and individual citizens with the aim of reducing emissions of CO2 will pointlessly curtail the prosperity of the West and progress of developing nations without affecting climate. That adaptation as needed is massively more cost-effective than any attempted mitigation, and that a focus on such mitigation will divert the attention and resources of governments away from addressing the real problems of their peoples. That human-caused climate change is not a global crisis. Now, therefore, we recommend – That world leaders reject the views expressed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as popular, but misguided works such as “An Inconvenient Truth”. That all taxes, regulations, and other interventions intended to reduce emissions of CO2 be abandoned forthwith. Agreed at New York, 4 March 2008.

CLIMATE EXPERTS WHO SIGNED MANHATTAN DECLARATION The following 206 Manhattan Declaration endorsers are climate science specialists or scientists in closely related fields (this is a subset extracted from the other lists): Syun-Ichi Akasofu, PhD, Professor of Physics, Emeritus and Founding Director, International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.A. William J. R. Alexander, PrEng, Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil and Biosystems Engineering, University of Pretoria, Honorary Fellow, South African Institution of Civil Engineering, South Africa Bjarne Andresen, PhD, Physicist, Professor, The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark John W. Bales, BA, MA, PhD (Mathematics, Modeling), Professor, Tuskegee University, Waverly, Alabama, U.S.A. Timothy F. Ball, PhD, environmental consultant and former climatology professor - University of Winnipeg, Science Advisory Board member, ICSC, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Gregory J. Balle, B.E., MSc., PhD. (Joint Aerospace Engineering and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics), Pukekohe, New Zealand Romuald Bartnik, PhD (Organic Chemistry), Professor Emeritus, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland Colin Barton, PhD, Earth Science, Principal research scientist (retd), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Joe Bastardi, BSc, (Meteorology, Pennsylvania State), meteorologist, State College, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Matthew Bastardi, BSc (Meteorology, Texas A and M University), Florida, U.S.A. Ernst-Georg Beck, Dipl. Biol., Biologist, Dept. Biotechnology and Nutrition Science, Merian-Schule, Freiburg, Germany David Bellamy, OBE, English botanist, author, broadcaster, environmental campaigner, Hon. Professor of Botany (Geography), University of Nottingham, Hon. Prof. Faculty of Engineering and Physical Systems, Central Queensland University, Hon. Prof. of Adult and Continuing Education, University of Durham, United Nations Environment Program Global 500 Award Winner, Dutch Order of The Golden Ark, Bishop Auckland County, Durham, U.K. Andre Bernier, Meteorologist, WJW-TV, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. Sally Bernier, Meteorologist, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. M.I. Bhat, Professor (Tectonics, Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Kashmir), Sprinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India Sonja A. Boehmer-Christiansen, PhD, Reader, Dept. of Geography, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom Frederick Bopp, PhD (Geology), Environmental Consulting, Owner, Earth Quest, Downingtown, Pennsylvania. U.S.A. Ian Bock, BSc, PhD, DSc, Biological sciences (retired), Ringkobing, Denmark Bruce Borders, PhD, Forest Biometrics, Professor, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A. William M. Briggs, PhD., Statistical Consultant (specializing in accuracy of forecasts and climate variability), U.S.A. James Brooks, BS, PhD, Geophysics, Adelaide, Australia John W. Brosnahan, Vanderpool, Texas, U.S.A., Research Physicist (Atmospheric Remote Sensing), atmospheric science consultant, founder of Signal Hill Research, LLC., former President of Alpha/Power, Inc., founder of LaSalle Research Inc., founder of Tycho Technology Inc. Atholl Sutherland Brown, PhD (Geology, Princeton University), Regional Geology, Tectonics and Mineral Deposits, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Stephen Brown, PhD (Environmental Science, State University of New York), Ground Penetrating Radar Glacier research, District Agriculture Agent Cooperative Extension Service, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Mat-Su District Office Palmer; Alaska Agriculture Extension Agent/Researcher, Alaska, U.S.A. Reid A. Bryson, Ph.D., D.Sc., D.Engr., Senior Scientist, Center for Climatic Research, Emeritus Prof. of Meteorology, of Geography, and of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. James Buckee, PhD (astrophysics), Calgary, Alberta, Canada Bruce Bullough, BS (Chemical Engineering), chemical process design, pollution controls systems design, Cottage Grove, Minnesota, U.S.A. Mark Campbell, PhD (Chemical Physics, Johns Hopkins University, 1987), gas phase kinetics, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A. Dan Carruthers, M.Sc., wildlife biology consultant specializing in animal ecology in Arctic and Subarctic regions, Alberta, Canada Robert M. Carter, PhD, Professor, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia George V. Chilingar, PhD, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. Ian D. Clark, PhD, Professor (isotope hydrogeology and paleoclimatology), Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada James Clarke, BS (Meteorology), TV-Meteorologist, WZVN-TV, Ft. Myers, Florida, U.S.A. Charles A. Clough, BS (Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), MS (Atmospheric Science, Texas Tech University), former (to 2006) Chief of the US Army Atmospheric Effects Team at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; now residing in Bel Air, Maryland, U.S.A. Michael Clover, PhD (experimental nuclear physics); Computer Simulation, Senior Scientist, Science Applications International Corp., San Diego, California, U.S.A. Michael Coffman, PhD, (ecosysytems analysis and climate change), CEO of Sovereignty International, President of Environmental Perspectives, Inc., Bangor, Maine, U.S.A. John Coleman, Founder, The Weather Channel, Weather Anchor, KUSI-TV, San Diego, California, U.S.A. Martin Coniglio, Meteorologist, KUSA-TV, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. Paul Copper, BSc, MSc, PhD, DIC, FRSC, Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University Sudbury, Ontario, Canada Piers Corbyn, ARCS, FRAS, FRMetS, astrophysicist (Queen Mary College, London), consultant, owner of Weather Action long range forecasters, degree in Physics (Imperial College London), England Allan Cortese, meteorological researcher and spotter for the National Weather Service, retired computer professional, Billerica, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Richard S. Courtney, PhD, energy and environmental consultant, IPCC expert reviewer, Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom Susan Crockford, PhD (Zoology/Evolutionary Biology/Archaeozoology), Adjunct Professor (Anthropology/Faculty of Graduate Studies), University of Victoria, Victoria, British Colombia, Canada Claude Culross, PhD (Organic Chemistry), retired, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A. Joseph D’Aleo, MS, BS (University of Wisconsin) Meteorologist and Climatologist (retired), Executive Director, ICECAP (International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project), Hudson, New Hampshire, U.S.A. Dalcio K. Dacol, PhD (physics, University of California at Berkeley), physicist at the US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Dave Dahl, BSc (Meteorology, Florida State University), Chief Meteorologist, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS/KSTP-TV, Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A. José Carlos de Almeida Azevedo, PhD (Physics, MIT), Consulting, former President, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil Willem De Lange, PhD, MSc (Hons), Dphil (Computer and Earth Sciences), Senior Lecturer in Earth and Ocean Sciences, Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand James DeMeo, PhD (University of Kansas, Geography, Climate, Environmental Science), retired University Professor, now in Private Research, Ashland, Oregon, U.S.A. David Deming, PhD (Geophysics), Associate Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A. David Douglass, PhD, Professor of Physics, University of Rochester, New York, U.S.A. Geoffrey Duffy, DEng, PhD, BSc, ASTC Dip, Professor of Chemical Engineering, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 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, U.S.A.. Freeman J. Dyson, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A. Don J. Easterbrook, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Geology, Western Washington, University, Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A. Per Engene, PhD, Biologist, Valenvegen, Norway Robert H. Essenhigh, PhD, E.G. Bailey Professor of Energy Conversion, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. David Evans, PhD (EE), MSc (Stat), MSc (EE), MA (Math), BE (EE), BSc, mathematician, carbon accountant, computer and electrical engineer and head of 'Science Speak', Perth, Western Australia, Australia Donald W. Farley, P.Eng, M.Eng. (Water Resources Engineering & Hydrology), Gatineau, Quebec, Canada John Ferguson, BSc, PhD. ARCST, DipHE, Ceng, Computer Control Systems & Mathematical Modelling (retired), Berwick, United Kingdom Robert Jacomb Foster, BE (Adelaide University), palaeoclimatologist and energy economist, Director Lavoisier Group; past Councillor Royal Society of Victoria and Victorian Institute of Marine Science, Melbourne, Australia Louis Fowler, BS (Mathematics), MA (Physics), 33 years in environmental measurements (Ambient Air Quality Measurements), Austin, Texas, U.S.A. Peter Friedman, PhD, Member, American Geophysical Union, Assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Gordon Fulks, PhD (Physics, University of Chicago), cosmic radiation, solar wind, electromagnetic and geophysical phenomena, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Maureen T. Gallagher, PhD, (Geology, Micropaleontology), Consultant, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Rigoberto Garcia, MC, Climate Change and Urban Sustainability, Doctorate Student, El Colegio de México, México City, DF, México Edgar Gärtner, Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA, en Ecologie appliquée, Redaktionsbüro), Frankfurt am Main, Germany Lee C. Gerhard, PhD, Senior Scientist Emeritus, University of Kansas, past director and state geologist, Kansas Geological Survey, U.S.A. Albrecht Glatzle, PhD, ScAgr, Agro-Biologist and Gerente ejecutivo, Tropical pasture research and land use management, INTTAS, Asunción, Paraguay Indur M. Goklany, PhD (Electrical Eng, Michigan State University), climate policy analyst, Vienna, Virginia, U.S.A. Fred Goldberg, PhD, Adj Professor, Royal Institute of Technology (Mechanical Engineering), Secretary General KTH International Climate Seminar 2006 and Climate analyst, Stockholm, Sweden Stanley B. Goldenberg, Research Meteorologist, NOAA, AOML/Hurricane Research Division, Miami, Florida, U.S.A. Wayne Goodfellow, PhD (Earth Science), Ocean Evolution, Paleoenvironments, Adjunct Professor, Senior Research Scientist, University of Ottawa, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada David Gray, PhD (EE Stanford U., Electromagnetic Wave Transmission (in Atmosphere, and fiber)), Asst Professor of Engineering, Messiah College, Grantham, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Thomas B. Gray, MS, Meteorology, Retired, USAF, Yachats, Oregon, U.S.A. Vincent Gray, PhD, New Zealand Climate Coalition, expert reviewer for the IPCC, author of The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of Climate Change 2001, Wellington, New Zealand William M. Gray, PhD, Professor Emeritus (Dept. of Atmospheric Science), Colorado State University, Head of the Tropical Meteorology Project, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A. Charles Hammons, PhD (Applied Mathematics), systems/software engineering, modelling & simulation, design, Consultant, Coyle, Oklahoma, U.S.A. Howard Hayden, PhD, Emeritus Professor (Physics), University of Connecticut, The Energy Advocate, U.S.A. Ross Hays, Atmospheric Scientist, NASA Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, Palestine, Texas, U.S.A. D. Hebert, PhD, Faculty for Chemistry and Physics, Institut fur Angewandte Physik, Freiberg, Germany Hug Hienz, PhD, (Chemistry, University of Mainz, Germany), former Professor of Organic Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Germany Ted Hinds, BS (Engineering Science), MS (Atmospheric Science), PhD (Physical Ecology, U. Washington, Seattle), 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, U.S.A. Art Horn, Meteorologist (honors, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, Vermont), operator, The Art of Weather, U.S.A. Warwick S. Hughes, MSc Hon. (University of Auckland, New Zealand), geologist (retired), Canberra, Australia Ole Humlum, PhD, Physical Geography, Professor, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Steve Hynek, BS (Meteorology), Air Quality Analyst, Dairyland Power Cooperative, La Crosse, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Craig D. Idso, PhD, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. Sherwood B. Idso, PhD, President, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. Albert F. Jacobs, MS, P. Geology, retired geologist, co-founder Friends of Science, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Zbigniew Jaworowski, PhD, physicist, Senior Science Advisor of the Scientific Council of Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection, Warsaw, Poland Terrell Johnson, B.S. (Zoology), M.S. (Wildlife & Range Resources, Air & Water Quality), Principal Environmental Engineer, Green River, Wyoming, U.S.A. Bill Kappel, BS (Physical Science-Geology), BS (Meteorology), Storm Analysis, Climatology, Operation Forecasting, Vice President/Senior Meteorologist for Applied Weather Associates, LLC, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, U.S.A. Wibjörn Karlén, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Joel M. Kauffman, PhD (Organic Chemistry, M.I.T.), Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. David Kear, PhD, FRSNZ, CMG, geologist, former Director-General of NZ Dept. of Scientific & Industrial Research, Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand Harald Kehl, PD Dr. rer. nat., Ecosystem Analysis, Lecturer, Researcher, Berlin, Germany Madhav L. Khandekar, PhD, consultant meteorologist, (former) Research Scientist, Environment Canada, Editor "Climate Research” (03-05), Editorial Board Member "Natural Hazards, IPCC Expert Reviewer 2007, Unionville, Ontario, Canada William Kininmonth, MSc, MAdmin, former head of Australia’s National Climate Centre and a consultant to the World Meteorological organization’s Commission for Climatology, Kew, Victoria, Australia R.W.J. Kouffeld, PhD, Emeritus Professor - Energy Conversion, Technical University Delft, Driebergen, The Netherlands Gerhard Kramm, Dr. rer. nat. (Meteorology), Theoretical Meteorology, Research Faculty, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.A. Gary Kubat, BS (Atmospheric Science), MS (Atmospheric Science), professional meteorologist last 18 years, O'Fallon, Illinois, U.S.A. Olav M. Kvalheim, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Univ. of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Roar Larsen, Dr.ing.(PhD), Chief scientist, and adjunct professor, Chemical Engineering, SINTEF and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway Rune B. Larsen, PhD (Geology, Geochemistry), Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway Douglas Leahey, PhD, meteorologist and air-quality consultant, President - Friends of Science, Calgary, Alberta, Canada David R. Legates, PhD, Director, Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, U.S.A. Jay Lehr, BEng (Princeton), PhD (environmental science and ground water hydrology), Science Director, The Heartland Institute, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Marcel Leroux, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Climatology, University of Lyon, former director of Laboratory of Climatology, Risks and Environment, France Bryan Leyland, M.Sc., FIEE, FIMechE, FIPENZ, MRSNZ, consulting engineer (power), Secretary - International Climate Science Coalition, Auckland, New Zealand Edward Liebsch, MS (Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University), BA (Earth Science & Chemistry, St. Cloud State University), Air Quality, Meteorology, Senior Air Quality Scientist, HDR, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. William Lindqvist, PhD, consulting Geologist and Company Director, Tiburon, California, U.S.A. Peter Link, BS, MS, PhD (Geology, Climatology), Geol/Paleoclimatology, retired, Active in Geol-paleoclimatology, Tulsa University and Industry, Evergreen, Colorado, U.S.A. Endel Lippmaa, Prof.Dr.habil (Physics, Chemistry), Chairman - Energy Council of the Estonian Academy of Science, Tallinn, Estonia Keith Lockitch, PhD (Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), Science and Environmental Policy, Resident Fellow, Ayn Rand Institute, Irvine, California, U.S.A. Anthony R. Lupo, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science, Department of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A. Richard Mackey, Statistician, author of papers about the role of the Sun in the Earth's climate dynamics and biographer of Rhodes W. Fairbridge, Canberra, Australia Horst Malberg, PhD, former director of Institute of Meteorology, Free University of Berlin, Germany Björn Malmgren, PhD, University Professor, Paleoclimate Science, retired, Lerum, Sweden Jennifer Marohasy, BSc, PhD, Biologist, Writer, Senior Fellow, Institute of Public Affairs, Director, Australian Environment Foundation, Sydney, Australia Les McDonald, RP Bio; Senior Impact Assessment Biologist, BC Environmental Protection (retired); Consulting Aquatic Biologist, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada Alister McFarquhar, PhD (international economy, Downing College), Cambridge, United Kingdom John McLean, Climate Data Analyst, Post-graduate Diploma of Computer Studies, B. Arch., Climate Data Analyst, Computer scientist, Melbourne, Australia Rob Meleon, PhD, biochemist, CSO Pepscan, Lelystad, The Netherlands Amos Meyer, Theoretical Physics, Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Modeling, Chief Scientist, Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A. Fred Michel, PhD, Director, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Ferenc Mark Miskolczi, PhD, atmospheric physicist, formerly of NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, U.S.A. Asmunn Moene, PhD, MSc (Meteorology), former head of the Forecasting Centre, Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway H. Michael "Mike" Mogil, Certified Consulting Meteorologist (three decades with NOAA), weather educator and science writer, How the Weatherworks, Naples, Florida, U.S.A. Michael Monce, PhD (Physics), Atomic/Molecular, Energy and Environment, Professor of Physics, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, U.S.A. M. R. Morgan, PhD, Cdr., FRMS, climate consultant, former meteorology advisor to the World Meteorological Organization. Previously research scientist in climatology at University of Exeter, U.K., now residing in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada Nils-Axel Mörner, PhD (Sea Level Changes and Climate), Emeritus Professor of Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Luboš Motl, PhD, Physicist, former Harvard string theorist, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Robert Neff, M.S. (Meteorology, St Louis University), Weather Officer, USAF; Contractor support to NASA Meteorology Satellites, Retired, Camp Springs, Maryland, U.S.A. John Nicol, BSc (University of Queensland), PhD (James Cook University); Radio Physics and High Resolution Optical Spectroscopy, former Senior Lecturer of Physics at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia; now residing in Brisbane, Australia David Nowell, M.Sc., Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, former chairman of the NATO Meteorological Group, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada James J. O'Brien, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Meteorology and Oceanography, Florida State University, Florida, U.S.A. Peter Oliver, BS, MS, PhD, FGA, Geology, Geochemistry, Paleomagnetism, Research Scientist, retired, Upper Hutt, New Zealand Cliff Ollier, PhD, Professor Emeritus (Geology), Research Fellow, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia Curtis Osgood, BS (Meteorology, Lyndon State College), Consulting Meteorologist, Forecaster/Consultant, Granby, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Pat Palmer, MAgrSc (agronomy), pollution control expert (sources and effects on health), retired from Crop Research Division, DSIR, Christchurch, New Zealand Donald Parkes, PhD, BA (Hons), MA, retired Professor Human Ecology, Australia and Japan R. Timothy Patterson, PhD, Professor & Director, Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center, Department of Earth Sciences (paleoclimatology), Carleton University, Chair - International Climate Science Coalition, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada James A. Peden, Atmospheric Physicist, webmaster Middlebury Networks, Vermont, U.S.A. Al Pekarek, PhD, Associate Professor of Geology, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Dept., St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S.A. Ian Plimer, PhD, Professor of Mining Geology, The University of Adelaide; Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Australia Daniel Joseph Pounder, BS (Meteorology, University of Oklahoma), MS (Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign); Weather Forecasting, Meteorologist, WILL AM/FM/TV, the public broadcasting station of the University of Illinois, Urbana, U.S.A. Patrick Powell, BS (Meteorology/Physical Geography, Western Illinois University), AMS Board of Broadcast Meteorology, CBM, Chief Meteorologist, WLUK-TV, Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Brian Pratt, PhD, Professor of Geology (Sedimentology), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Harry N.A. Priem, PhD, Professor (retired) Utrecht University, isotope and planetary geology, Past-President Royal Netherlands Society of Geology and Mining, Amsterdam, The Netherlands George A. Reilly, PhD (Geology), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Henriques Renato, PhD, Geology, Auxiliary Professor, University of Minho, Braga, Braga, Portugal Art Robinson, PhD (Chemistry), founder and Professor of Chemistry, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, Cave Junction, Oregon, U.S.A. Robert G. Roper, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. Arthur Rorsch, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Molecular Genetics, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands Curt Rose, BA, MA (University of Western Ontario), MA, PhD (Clark University), Professor Emeritus, Department of Environmental Studies and Geography, Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada Robert Roseman, Meteorology & Climatology, TV Meteorologist, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. 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REGISTER ENDORSERS FROM INDIA To add your name to the list of climate science experts who have endorsed The Register, please click here . Learn more about The Register. The Climate Scientists' Register “We, the undersigned, having assessed the relevant scientific evidence, do not find convincing support for the hypothesis that human emissions of carbon dioxide are causing, or will in the foreseeable future cause, dangerous global warming." Endorsed by the following climate experts from India: M. I. Bhat, PhD, formerly Scientist at the Wadia institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehra, currently Professor & Head, Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Kashmir (areas of specialization: Geochemistry, Himalayan and global tectonics & tectonics and climate (Prof Bhat: “Arguing for deepening the climate frontiers by considering interaction between solar flares and core-mantle boundary processes. Clue possibly lies in exploring the tectonics of regions that underlies high and low pressure cells of the three global oscillations (SO, NAO, NPO)”), Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India S. Jeevananda Reddy, M.Sc. (Geophysics), Post Graduate Diploma (Applied Statistics, Andhra University), PhD (Agricultural Meteorology, Australian University, Canberra), Formerly Chief Technical Advisor -- United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) & Expert-Food and Agriculture Organization (UN), Convenor - Forum for a Sustainable Environment, author of 500 scientific articles and several books - here is one: "Climate Change - Myths & Realities ", Hyderabad, India Vijay Kumar Raina, Ex. Deputy Director General, Geological Survey of India, author of 2010 MoEF Discussion Paper, “Himalayan Glaciers - State-of-Art Review of Glacial Studies, Glacial Retreat and Climate Change ”, the first comprehensive study on the region. Mr. Raina’s field activities covered extensive research on the geology and the glaciers of the Himalayas, Andaman Islands that included research on the volcanoes in the Bay of Bengal. He led two Indian Scientific Expeditions to Antarctica that earned him the National Mineral Award and the Antarctica Award. He has authored over 100 scientific papers and three books: ‘Glacier Atlas of India ’ dealing with various aspects of glacier studies under taken in the Himalayas; ‘Glaciers, the rivers of ice’ and ‘Images Antarctica, Reminiscences’, Chandigarh, India Back to Register

DR. JAY LEHR - BOOK REVIEW Understanding Federal Tyranny , by Matt Erickson Book review by Jay Lehr, Ph.D. Matt Erickson is a self-trained constitutional scholar who has written a number of brief, well-documented books. They are all free in the public domain with the purpose of attempting to educate the public about the document that governs the actions of our officials and members of Congress. They are available at his web site www.PatriotCorps.org . This writer had the pleasure of reviewing his latest effort, Understanding Federal Tyranny. In the time it took to read its 118 pages, I learned a great deal about our constitution and how our Congress and our Presidents have so easily been able to bypass their constitutional restraints. We have all begun to notice that governments in the US, Canada, Australia and countries around the world are slowly moving away from their constitutions hoping their publics will not notice. The constitution of the US and many countries and their amendments in the US guarantee to every state of the Union, a Republican Form of government. It should be a representative form of government of delegated powers (under Article IV, Section 4). Erickson examines the evidence that separates action from its underlying principles. Most countries have a way to right the wrongs implemented by power hungry leaders but find it difficult to do. The author makes a strong and obvious case that it is dangerous to concede our Republic of enumerated powers to the unlimited action of those persons who should be legally bound to support their constitution. He says “our safety will never be found on the careful picking of like-minded political masters; instead, we must leave no stone unturned to search for their source of absolute authority and expose the fraud.” The first two chapters of the book give a broad overview of the mechanism of constitutional bypass—how our elected members of Congress and unelected officials run roughshod over the ideas implemented by our founding fathers in the original constitution. The mechanism of bypass used is obscure, but perhaps not to the Congress. Conservatives must realize that Maryland and Virginia each individually ceded tracts of land to Congress and the U.S. Government for the District constituted as the Seat of Government (D.C.), in a manner that carries none of the constraints the constitution imposes upon the 50 “States.” And, unlike States of the Union which are empowered but limited by their own State constitutions, no local, State-like constitution exists in the District of Columbia to bind Congress in like manner when they act in a local capacity. Thus, in the District of Columbia, members of Congress and federal officials must make up all their own local rules as they go along. They are able to do virtually anything they choose. They have cleverly discovered the means to free this omnipotent power from its proper boundaries that are limited to ten miles square. Conservatives accuse progressives of liberally construing the constitution, of giving the old words of the constitution new meaning. Matt Erickson believes that this is what progressives want conservatives to think, in order to keep them off track from discovering progressives’ actual source of unlimited power. Are the progressives smart enough or deceitful enough to play this game? The reader must decide, but Erickson makes an excellent case. Instead, Erickson argues progressives turned the highly-unusual exception to all the normal rules of the constitution against the remainder, with the aid of another clause. Indeed, since even the clause enumerating the District Seat is necessarily part of “This Constitution”—which is the supreme Law of the Land—then the courts have held that even local laws enacted by Congress for the District Seat “bind the nation.” The implications of this 1821 holding now reach to every single transgression of federal authority, into the domain of the States, affecting the people. Indeed, devious officials have turned the letter of the constitution against its spirit, Erickson writes, allowing Congress to extend their local power for the District Seat instead throughout the Union. In his last three chapters, Erickson seeks to prove true his underlying premise by examining a specific case. While he could have used any of different instances where members of Congress or federal officials ignore their constitutional constraints, he chose the conversion of our legal tender from gold and silver coin to paper currency. For many in current times the Climate Change fraud might have been a better choice as the world has now seen trillions of tax payer dollars poured down a rabbit hole to the benefit of only the few in the winning lobby. The senate.gov website in the US acknowledges that there have been some 11,700 proposed amendments since 1789 and only 27 have been ratified. No ratified amendment has changed any of the monetary powers of the US Congress, so the monetary powers today remain the same as those established in 1789. The monetary powers were codified in the 1792 Coinage Act where standards for minting silver and gold coins were established. The reader will be amazed and delighted with the specificity quoted from the law in this book as to the silver and gold standards which have been essentially ignored over the past century. Nothing could be lawful tender money that did not contain silver or gold. The constitution has never been modified to change that firm rule, Erickson tells us that “what the mint has done daily since 1965—making coins without any silver, but said to have a legal value equivalent of the old silver coins - would have been punishable by death in 1792”. On February 25, 1862 President Lincoln signed into law the Legal Tender Act which established the first paper currencies, all supported by the same silver standards. Throughout this fascinating short book the author tells those of us too busy to pay attention, what the government has been doing to us, rather than for us, through subterfuge of our constitution. He reminds us that every member of Congress and high official must swear an oath to support the constitution. No person delegated federal authority may determine the extent of their allowable powers for the Union. They may only use inherent discretion for the District Seat and then extend this power throughout the Union. FDR in the 1930s called in all gold to the banks and then Richard Nixon took us off the gold standard. Both actions were highly deceptive, but could not do what they alleged. Indeed, the Fifth Amendment to the constitution reads in part “no person shall be…deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” Erickson believes only a better-educated and active public can begin to turn the tide of the deceptive powers executed over us. Erickson says patriots must accurately diagnose the single political problem facing us (how it is that members of Congress and federal officials are able to bypass their constitutional constraints, with impunity) before we can implement the appropriate cure. Attacking symptoms cannot bring about liberty and limited government—we must get to that root problem. He discusses two paths forward. The first is pushing a lighter-acting amendment through Congress, to exempt the clause for the District Seat from being part of the supreme Law of the Land. The second is pushing a harsher-acting amendment through a convention of States process, as a “hammer” to pressure Congress to enact the lighter-acting amendment. He does not look on current convention proposals as being potentially productive, because he asserts they only attack irrelevant symptoms and fail to reach the underlying problem. This reviewer disagrees and strongly supports one. This book is available free of charge at www.PatriotCorps.org and well worth a few hours of interesting reading.

CORE PRINCIPLES CLIMATE SCIENCE Global climate is always changing in accordance with natural causes, and recent changes are not unusual. Science is rapidly evolving away from the view that humanity's emissions of carbon dioxide and other 'greenhouse gases' are a cause of dangerous climate change. Climate models used by the IPCC* fail to reproduce known past climates without manipulation and therefore lack the scientific integrity needed for use in climate prediction and related policy decision-making. The UN IPCC Summary for Policymakers and the assertions of IPCC executives too often seriously mis-represent the conclusions of their own scientific reports. Claims that ‘consensus’ exists among climate experts regarding the causes of the modest warming of the past century are contradicted by thousands of independent scientists. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant—it is a necessary reactant in plant photosynthesis and so is essential for life on Earth. Research that identifies the Sun as a major driver of global climate change must be taken more seriously. Global cooling has presented serious problems for human society and the environment throughout history, while global warming has generally been highly beneficial. It is not possible to reliably predict how climate will change in the future beyond the certainty that multi-decadal warming and cooling trends, and abrupt changes, will all continue, underscoring a need for effective adaptation. Since science and observation have failed to substantiate the human-caused climate change hypothesis, it is premature to damage national economies with 'carbon' taxes, emissions trading, or other schemes to control greenhouse gas emissions. *United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ENERGY Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from human activity—energy production, transportation, cement production, heating and cooling, etc.—appear to have only a very small impact on global climate. So-called new renewable energy technologies are extremely expensive and rely on huge subsidies. To use such intermittent and diffuse power sources requires that the consumer pays between three and ten times the price of power from conventional sources (coal, oil, natural gas, hydro and nuclear). Regardless, it is not currently possible to safely replace a significant fraction of our conventional energy supplies with alternative energy sources such as wind, solar and most biofuels. New renewable energy technologies have only a minimal effect on carbon dioxide emissions because none of them can be relied upon to be available when needed. Therefore, conventional fossil fuel-fired power stations must be kept on standby in case the wind drops or a cloud passes over the Sun. This leads to additional emissions of carbon dioxide that, to a large extent, offset the reductions made by the renewable energy technologies. "Energy independence" is not a good reason for promoting new renewable energy technologies. Energy independence is more easily–and much more cheaply–attained by exploiting abundant national fossil fuel reserves, and spending some of the wealth created on research into potential new energy technologies.

REGISTER ENDORSERS FROM LUXEMBOURG To add your name to the list of climate science experts who have endorsed The Register, please click here . Learn more about The Register. The Climate Scientists' Register “We, the undersigned, having assessed the relevant scientific evidence, do not find convincing support for the hypothesis that human emissions of carbon dioxide are causing, or will in the foreseeable future cause, dangerous global warming." Endorsed by the following climate expert from Luxembourg: Francis Massen, PhD, Physics Lab and meteoLCD , Lycée Classique de Diekirch, 32 av. de la gare L-9233, (see interesting scientific paper by Massen et al), Diekirch, Luxembourg Back to Register