Global Warming?
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There is a growing list in the scientific community questioning the causes of global warming. It's a separate issue from the causes of and need to correct man made pollution. Many of them question the reliability of modeling global climate, others point to increased solar radiation. Reid Bryson, emeritus professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "It's absurd. Of course it's going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we're coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we're putting more carbon dioxide into the air."[18] Ian Clark, hydrogeologist, professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa: "That portion of the scientific community that attributes climate warming to CO2 relies on the hypothesis that increasing CO2, which is in fact a minor greenhouse gas, triggers a much larger water vapour response to warm the atmosphere. This mechanism has never been tested scientifically beyond the mathematical models that predict extensive warming, and are confounded by the complexity of cloud formation - which has a cooling effect. ... We know that [the sun] was responsible for climate change in the past, and so is clearly going to play the lead role in present and future climate change. And interestingly... solar activity has recently begun a downward cycle." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the_mainstrea m_scientific_assessment_of_global_warming#Believe_global_warming_is_pr imarily_caused_by_natural_processes