http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Tennekes
http://orangepunch.freedomblogging.com/2008/07/16/global-warming-quote-of-the-day-17/
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Today’s quote comes from atmospheric scientist Hendrik Tennekes, a scientific pioneer in the development of numerical weather prediction, former director of research at The Netherlands’ Royal National Meteorological Institute and internationally recognized expert in atmospheric boundary layer processes.
“Successive IPCC reports have presented no scientific basis for dire warnings concerning climate collapse. . . . The so-called scientific basis of the climate problem is within my professional competence as a meteorologist.”
“It is my professional opinion that there is no evidence at all for catastrophic global warming. It is likely that global temperatures will rise a little, much as IPCC predicts, but there is a growing body of evidence that the errant behavior of the Sun may cause some cooling in the foreseeable future.
“It is also my professional opinion that the severely limited predictive capacity of the natural sciences is no adequate basis for globally orchestrated mitigation efforts concerning greenhouse gases. . . . “
"“The incessant emphasis on CO2 and its effects on globally averaged temperatures leads many to ignore the fact that changes in the distribution of precipitation are far mmore threatening to agriculture and biosphere than any slight temperature changes. In precisely that part of the problem, however, the predictive capabilities of global climate science are practically nonexistent. Here in the Netherlands, where I happen to live high and dry, some forty feet above sea level, the threat of catastrophic sea level rise has anchored itself in the public mind. This threat is imaginary, too.”