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June 16, 2009

Skeptics From Around the Globe



ARGENTINA


Eduardo Tonni Committee for Scientific Research in Buenos Aires and head of the Paleontology Department at the University of La Plata



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"There is no denying that global warming exists, the debate is whether it was generated by human beings or if it is only natural. There are effects of the action of man, but it is much more likely to be a natural product.......

....The [global warming] scaremongering has its justification in the fact that it is something that generates funds"

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June 4, 2009

Skeptics From Around the Globe


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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May 13, 2009

Skeptics From Around the Globe


ARGENTINA




Victor Pochat,- President of the Argentine Institute of Water Resources and professor of water resources planning at Universidad del Litoral








“....it is not clear that increases of a few degrees in average temperature of the planet is directly related to human activity but could be due to cyclical effects....Scientists that deserve credit for their background say global warming is a climatic variability associated to cycles of warming and cooling of the Earth.”

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