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NAS - The National Association of Scholars :: Press Releases

By STEPHEN HOLZER

PRINCETON, NJ (January 3, 2011)?S. Fred Singer said in an interview with the National Association of Scholars (NAS) that ?the number of skeptical qualified scientists has been growing steadily; I would guess it is about 40% now.?

 

Singer, a leading scientific skeptic of anthropocentric global warming (AGW), is an atmospheric physicist, and founder of the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), an organization that began challenging the published findings of the UN?s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the 1990s. SEPP established the Leipzig Declaration, a statement of dissent from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that has been signed by over one hundred scientists and meteorologists.

 

Asked what he would like to see happen in regard to public opinion and policy on climate change, Singer replied,

 

I would like to see the public look upon global warming as just another scientific controversy and oppose any public policies until the major issues are settled, such as the cause. If mostly natural, as NIPCC concludes, then the public policies currently discussed are pointless, hugely expensive, and wasteful of resources that could better be applied to real societal problems.

via www.nas.org

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