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Below is a July 1, 2009 Open Letter to Congress by a team of prominent
atmospheric scientists.


TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: YOU ARE BEING DECEIVED ABOUT GLOBAL
WARMING


You have recently received an Open Letter from the Woods Hole Research Center,
exhorting you to act quickly to avoid global disaster. The letter purports to
be from independent scientists, but that Center is the former den of the
President's science advisor, John Holdren, and is far from independent. This
is the same science advisor who has given us predictions of "almost
certain"
thermonuclear war or eco-catastrophe by the year 2000, and many other
forecasts of doom that somehow never seem to arrive on time.


The facts are:


The sky is not falling; the Earth has been cooling for ten years, without
help.


The present cooling was NOT predicted by the alarmists' computer models, and
has come as an embarrassment to them.


The finest meteorologists in the world cannot predict the weather two weeks in
advance, let alone the climate for the rest of the century. Can Al Gore? Can
John Holdren? We are flooded with claims that the evidence is clear, that the
debate is closed, that we must act immediately, etc, but in fact


THERE IS NO SUCH EVIDENCE; IT DOESN'T EXIST.


The proposed legislation would cripple the US economy, putting us at a
disadvantage compared to our competitors. For such drastic action, it is only
prudent to demand genuine proof that it is needed, not just computer
projections, and not false claims about the state of the science.


SCIENCE IS GUIDED BY PROOF, NOT CONSENSUS


Finally, climate alarmism pays well. Alarmists are rolling in wealth from the
billions of dollars floating around for the taking, and being taken. It is
always instructive to follow the money.


Robert H. Austin
Professor of Physics
Princeton University
Fellow APS, AAAS


American Association of Arts and Science Member National Academy of Sciences
William Happer


Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics
Princeton University
Fellow APS, AAAS
Member National Academy of Sciences


S. Fred Singer
Professor of Environmental Sciences Emeritus, University of Virginia
First Director of the National Weather Satellite Service
Fellow APS, AAAS, AGU


Roger W. Cohen
Manager, Strategic Planning and Programs, ExxonMobil Corporation (retired)
Fellow APS


Harold W. Lewis
Professor of Physics Emeritus
University of California at Santa Barbara
Fellow APS, AAAS; Chairman, APS Reactor Safety Study


Laurence I. Gould
Professor of Physics
University of Hartford
Chairman (2004), New England Section of APS


Richard Lindzen
Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences, AGU, AAAS, and AMS
Member Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Member National Academy of Sciences Primary Navigation

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