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Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate
© 2008, Science and Environmental Policy Project / S. Fred Singer Published by THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE 19 South LaSalle Street #903 Chicago, Illinois 60603 U.S.A. phone 312/377-4000 fax 312/377-5000 www.heartland.org All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. Opinions expressed are solely those ofthe authors. Nothing in this report should be construed as reflecting the views of the Science and Environmental Policy Project or The Heartland Institute, or as an attempt to influence pending legislation.

Please use the following reference to this report: S. Fred Singer, ed., Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate: Summary for Policymakers of the Report of the NongovernmentalInternational Panel on Climate Change, Chicago, IL: The Heartland Institute, 2008. Printed in the United States of America 978-1-934791-01-1 1-934791-01-6 Second printing: April 2008

Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate
Summary for Policymakers of the Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change

Edited by S. Fred Singer

Contributors
Warren Anderson United StatesDennis Avery United States Franco Battaglia Italy Robert Carter Australia Richard Courtney United Kingdom Joseph D’Aleo United States Fred Goldberg Sweden Vincent Gray New Zealand Kenneth Haapala United States Klaus Heiss Austria Craig Idso United States Zbigniew Jaworowski Poland Olavi Kärner Estonia Madhav Khandekar Canada William Kininmonth Australia Hans Labohm Netherlands ChristopherMonckton United Kingdom Lubos Motl Czech Republic Tom Segalstad Norway S. Fred Singer United States George Taylor United States Dick Thoenes Netherlands Anton Uriarte Spain Gerd Weber Germany

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Foreword
In his speech at the United Nations’ climate conference on September 24, 2007, Dr. Vaclav Klaus, president of the CzechRepublic, said it would most help the debate on climate change if the current monopoly and one-sidedness of the scientific debate over climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were eliminated. He reiterated his proposal that the UN organize a parallel panel and publish two competing reports. The present report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change(NIPCC) does exactly that. It is an independent examination of the evidence available in the published, peer-reviewed literature – examined without bias and selectivity. It includes many research papers ignored by the IPCC, plus additional scientific results that became available after the IPCC deadline of May 2006. The IPCC is pre-programmed to produce reports to support the hypotheses ofanthropogenic warming and the control of greenhouse gases, as envisioned in the Global Climate Treaty. The 1990 IPCC Summary completely ignored satellite data, since they showed no warming. The 1995 IPCC report was notorious for the significant alterations made to the text after it was approved by the scientists – in order to convey the impression of a human influence. The 2001 IPCC report claimed thetwentieth century showed ‘unusual warming’ based on the now-discredited hockey-stick graph. The latest IPCC report, published in 2007, completely devaluates the climate contributions from changes in solar activity, which are likely to dominate any human influence. The foundation for NIPCC was laid five years ago when a small group of scientists from the United States and Europe met in Milan duringone of the frequent UN climate conferences. But it got going only after a workshop held in Vienna in April 2007, with many more scientists, including some from the Southern Hemisphere. The NIPCC project was conceived and directed by Dr. S. Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia. He should be credited with assembling a superb group of scientists...