Keeping a cool head at a time of global warming

30th March 2009

S. Fred Singer

Professor Emeritus of environmental science, University of Virginia – President, Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)

Biography

Atmospheric physicist S. Fred Singer is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia and served as the founding director of the US Weather Satellite Service. In the 1980s, he was vice chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Oceans and Atmosphere and later served as Chief Scientist of the US Dept of Transportation. He has received numerous awards for his research. After retiring from the University of Virginia, he founded the nonprofit Science and Environmental Policy Project on the premise that credible science must form the basis for major societal health and environmental decisions. His most recent book “Unstoppable Global Warming – Every 1500 Years” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007) presents the evidence for natural climate cycles of warming and cooling and became a NY Times best-seller. He is the organizer of NIPCC (Non-governmental International Panel on Climate Change) and editor of the NIPCC report [2008] “Nature – Not Human Activity – Rules the Climate” http://www.sepp.org/publications/NIPCC_final.pdf , with conclusions contrary to those of the UN-IPCC. However, as a reviewer of IPCC reports, he shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore and over 2000 others.

Abstract

The scientific evidence (S. Fred Singer(ed,). NIPCC report [2008] “Nature – Not Human Activity – Rules the Climate”) clearly demonstrates that Carbon Dioxide contributes insignificantly to Global Warming and is therefore not a 'pollutant.' While CO2 levels keep increasing, the climate has not warmed for the past decade and may even be cooling. Sea level continues to rise at the normal rate of 18 cm per century. These facts have not yet been widely recognized, and irrational GW fears continue to distort energy policies and foreign policy. All efforts to curtail CO2 emissions, whether global, federal, or at the state level, are pointless - and in any case, completely ineffective and very costly. Higher levels of CO2 benefit both agriculture and forestry. On the whole, a warmer climate is beneficial for the national economy. On a time-scale of decades, changes in solar activity control the climate by modulating cosmic rays and thereby the degree of cloudiness of the atmosphere.