Letter To Senators Regarding Climate Change Reconsidered

Dear Senator: Global warming is real, but how much of it is due to human activity and how much is natural? How reliable are predictions of future climate change? And have the beneficial effects of a warmer world outweighed the negative effects?

These are the real scientific questions at the base of the global warming debate.

Some of the world’s most prominent physicists and atmospheric scientists are on record saying popular fears of global warming are “preposterous” (Dr. Richard Tol), “incoherent” (Dr. Antonino Zichichi), “grossly exaggerated” (Dr. Freeman Dyson), and “embarrassing” (Dr. Richard Lindzen).

An independent organization called the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) has produced a comprehensive survey of climate science research. Its 880-page report, titled Climate Change Reconsidered, finds:

-   Climate models cannot predict future climate conditions;

-   The IPCC has overlooked feedback effects that reduce the climate’s sensitivity to carbon dioxide by a factor of ten or more;

-   Real-world temperature and weather patterns contradict the IPCC’s predictions of more droughts, floods, and severe weather; and

-   The net effect of rising carbon dioxide levels is beneficial, not harmful, to wildlife and to human health.

The message of the 37 scientists who produced Climate Change Reconsidered is simple: Global warming is not a crisis, and it never was.

The Heartland Institute has arranged for copies of Climate Change Reconsidered to be distributed to every member of Congress. This report was produced without any corporate funding, and it is completely silent on the matter of legislation that is currently pending.

I urge you or members of your staff to at least review the executive summary (page 1-8) of this important new book to see how many of the claims and assertions of environmental advocates are far removed from real science.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Brian Costin, The Heartland Institute’s assistant director of government relations, at 312/377-4000 or by email at bcostin@heartland.org.

Sincerely,

Joseph L. Bast

President