Deniers of anthropogenic causes for global warming (just a brief list with links)

A friend gave me this article:

The Tempest

By Joel Achenbach
Sunday, May 28, 2006; W08 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052301305.html

 

Here is a list of some deniers (and some linked links) from that article.

1. Bill Gray

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Gray

1. “Gray does not say there has not been any warming, but states 'I don't question that. And humans might have caused a very slight amount of this warming. Very slight. But this warming trend is not going to keep on going. My belief is that three, four years from now, the globe will start to cool again, as it did from the middle '40s to the middle '70s.' ”
2. “The core of Gray's argument is that the warming of the past decades is a natural cycle, driven by a global ocean circulation that manifests itself in the North Atlantic as the Gulf Stream.”
3. “Gray said those who had linked global warming to the increased number of hurricanes in recent years were in error. He cites statistics showing that there were 101 hurricanes from 1900 to 1949, in a period of cooler global temperature, compared to 83 from 1957 to 2006 when the earth warmed.” 
4. “he says is supported by scientists afraid of losing grant funding and promoted by government leaders and environmentalists seeking world government.”
5. “’It's a big can of worms!’ Gray says. It's his favorite line.The models can't even predict the weather in two weeks, much less 100 years, he says."
6. Marion here: how can it be both ways? Natural cycles, yet unpredictable. If you know what the cycles are, you are predicting.

2.     “George C. Marshall Institute or the National Center for Policy Analysis: helped scuttle any possibility that the United States would ratify the Kyoto treaty.”

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_Category=32

Here is a link to a scientific article they posted:

http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2008JD011637.shtml

If I understand the abstract, they are saying that tropospheric temperature variation follows Southern Oscillation Index (SOI), which follows El Niño.

 

3. Richard Lindzen

“He has been a critic of some anthropogenic global warming theories and the alleged political pressures on climate scientists. He hypothesized that the Earth may act like an infrared iris; increased sea surface temperature in the tropics would result in reduced cirrus clouds and thus more infrared radiation leakage from Earth's atmosphere.[2] This hypothesis suggested a negative feedback which would counter the effects of CO₂ warming.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lindzen

(Note: here is an article “debunking his claims: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/04/lindzen-in-newsweek/)

4. http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/index.html
5. Fred Singer “a consultant to various major corporations, including GE, Ford, GM, Exxon, Shell, Sun Oil.” “The Earth currently is experiencing a warming trend, but there is scientific evidence that human activities have little to do with it. Instead, the warming seems to be part of a 1,500-year cycle (plus or minus 500 years) of moderate temperature swings.” “In 2007, studies Singer co-authored found tropospheric temperature trends of 'Climate of the 20th Century' models differed from satellite observations by twice the model mean uncertainty.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Singer

6. Sterling Burnett http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=H._Sterling_Burnett
7. Fred Smith: Competitive Enterprise Institute, a factory for global warming skepticism http://cei.org/ “What's unnatural, Smith says, is wilderness. The so-called wilderness of early America used to be inhabited by Indians, and they changed their environment. ‘They burned down trees, they burned forests, they ran buffaloes over cliffs. They were not dancing with wolves,’ he says. ‘Wilderness is the least natural part of this planet.’" Joel Achenbach
8. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cooler_Heads_Coalition