Notable Quotes

"My humble plan was to become a hero of the environmental movement. I was going to go up to the Canadian Arctic, I was going to write this mournful elegy for the polar bears, at which point I'd be hailed as the next coming of John Muir and borne aloft on the shoulders of my environmental compatriots ...

"So when I got up there, I started realizing polar bears were not in as bad a shape as the conventional wisdom had led me to believe, which was actually very heartening, but didn't fit well with the book I'd been planning to write.

"... There are far more polar bears alive today than there were 40 years ago. ... In 1973, there was a global hunting ban. So once hunting was dramatically reduced, the population exploded. This is not to say that global warming is not real or is not a problem for the polar bears. But polar bear populations are large, and the truth is that we can't look at it as a monolithic population that is all going one way or another."

Zac Unger

"Notable Quotes"

"As for NSIDC’s claim that the Arctic has been “warm” I’m not sure that -25C would be considered that warm by most people."

Steven Goddard

So it is written, so it shall be

"In four years, the Arctic is projected to experience its first ice-free summer—not in 2030, but in 2013. The threat is real and fast approaching. "

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Senator John Kerry (D) Massachusetts


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AUSTRALIA
Dr. Cliff Ollier. geologist, geomorphologist, soil scientist, emeritus professor and honorary research fellow, School of Earth and Geographical Sciences University of Western Australia







"The global warming doomsday writers claim the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are melting catastrophically, and will cause a sudden rise in sea level of 5 or more metres. This ignores the mechanism of glacier flow which is by creep. Glaciers are not melting from the surface down, nor are they sliding down an inclined plane lubricated by meltwater. The existence of ice over 3 km thick preserving details of past snowfall and atmospheres, used to decipher past temperature and CO2 levels, shows that the ice sheets have accumulated for hundreds of thousands of years without melting. Variations in melting around the edges of ice sheets are no indication that they are collapsing. Indeed ‘collapse’ is impossible"

"Notable Quotes"

(about arctic)

“For this to be effective, we need to be there for 20, 30, 40 years, have a long-term data set and then we can start to make useful predictions. We know there is so much complexity involved, we want to tread more cautiously. Maybe in 10 years time, it’ll all start to freeze over, we just don’t know.”
























Wayne Hocking professor of physics, University of Western Ontario, Head of the Atmospheric Dynamics Group


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Argentina

Dr Rosa Compagnucci, Leading Researcher at CONICET, professor Department of Atmosphere Sciences in the University of Buenos Aires, Member of the IPCC Working Group II and specialist on the "El Niño" phenomenon.

"Is global warming something unusual, say, the last two thousand years?...There was a global warming in medieval times, during the years between 800 and 1300. And that made Greenland, now covered with ice, christened with a name [by the Vikings] that refers to land green: 'Greenland.’”

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UNITED STATES

Benjamin Herman-Former Director of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics and Head of the the Department of Atmoshpheric Sciences University of Arizona

“It is interesting that all of the AGW (anthropogenic global warming) stories concerning Antarctica are always about what’s happening around the [western] peninsula, which seems to be the only place on Antarctica that has shown warming. “How about the net ‘no change’ or ‘cooling’ over the rest of the continent, which is probably about 95% of the land mass, not to mention the record sea ice coverage recently?”

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CANADA

Susan Crockford, PhD (University Victoria )Archaeozoology/Zoogeography; Archaeozoology in the Pacific Rim, Domestication and Breed Development, Evolutionaary Theory, Evolution and History of the Domestic Dog; Pacific Rim (Sessional Instructor and Adjunct Assistant Professor)




The polar bear survived two major warming periods over the last 11,000 years, the first of which saw temperatures rise rapidly to at least 2.50C higher than present and there is no evidence that Arctic sea ice disappeared entirely during those times or that any ice-dependent species became extinct.

Skeptics From Around the Globe

CANADA


Ian D. CLARK- Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa,
Director, G.G. Hatch Isotope Laboratories








"I am compelled to disagree that there is a consensus of scientists who agree that this is the consequence of human activities. While the melting of permafrost, retreat of glaciers and waning of the permanent ice pack may be alarming, it is only alarming to those unfamiliar with past changes in climate in the North. Paleoclimatologists recognize such events as part of natural changes wholly unrelated to CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. In fact, the waxing and waning of ice shelves, along with glaciers, ice caps and pack ice are largely related to changes in solar inputs.


Arctic paleoclimatologists are very familiar with the Holocene "Hypsithermal" event - a warm period some five to 10 thousand years ago caused widespread retreat of permafrost and changes in vegetation patterns. Indeed, we have shown that Arctic summer temperatures at that time were five to eight degrees warmer than today. Polar bears and those lower on the Arctic food chain survived, as they will with the current warming."