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Harvard astrophysicist dismisses AGW theory, challenges peers to 'take back climate science'

By STEPHEN HOLZER

In the following interview, Dr. Willie Soon, a solar and climate scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, questions the prevailing dogma of man-made global warming and challenges his peers to ?take back climate science.? His remarks are his personal opinion based upon 19 years of scientific research.

Examiner.com: What drives climate change on Earth?

Dr. Soon: Most of the weather and climate variations we observed are essentially related to the sun and the changing seasons ? not by CO2 radiative forcing and feedback. The climate system is constantly readjusting naturally in a large way ? more than we would ever see from CO2. The CO2 kick [impact of CO2 emissions] is extremely small compared to what is happening in a natural way. Within the framework of a proper study of the sun-climate connection, you don?t need CO2 to explain anything.

via www.examiner.com

Full post as published by Environmental Legal Blogs on May 15, 2010 (boomark / email).