Every solid news report or analysis begins with solid sources, and the enclosed Guide to Global Warming Experts can help you find those sources quickly and easily. |  |
Jim Martin, executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, recently told a reporter, “You could have a convention of all the scientists who dispute climate change in a relatively small phone booth.” (Denver Post, February 12, 2008) I suppose it depends on what is meant by “dispute climate change.” My organization, The Heartland Institute, has been studying and commenting on climate change since 1995, making contact with hundreds of scientists, economists, and policy experts whose views on climate change certainly dispute the notion that “global warming is a crisis.” These individuals are not on the “fringe” of the scientific community. Lawrence Solomon, a Canadian journalist and environmentalist, wrote, “What I found when I started digging first surprised and then shocked me. I found dozens of truly eminent and world-renowned scientists who reject the conventional wisdom on global warming. I also found that, in case after case, the scientists putting forward the contrary argument were far more accomplished than those who originated the U.N.’s doomsayer view. “In short,” wrote Solomon, “the scientists I found and profiled are too eminent and their research too devastating to allow narrow and simplistic views of global warming to survive.” Many of these scientists are simply asking questions that any good journalist would think to ask, such as:
This booklet identifies about 120 experts on climate change whose research suggests global warming is moderate, mostly natural, and unlikely to be harmful to plants, wildlife, or human civilization. |
