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How to conclude a scientific debate (an observation of the end of debate on climate change)

1. Declare skeptics of your theory wrong
2. Declare skeptics of your theory irrelevant
3. Declare the debate over

Non-existant debate over man-made climate change

• Scientists respond to Gore's warnings of climate catastrophe, Tom Harris, Canada Free Press, June 12, 2006
• The Inconvenient Truth About Al Gore, Joseph Bast, Heartlander, July 1, 2006
• Global Warming at Skepticism.Net
• Two Sides to Global Warming: Is it proven fact, or just conventional wisdom? Ronald Bailey, Reason Magazine, November 10, 2004
• Confessions of an Alleged ExxonMobil Whore: Actually no one paid me to be wrong about global warming. Or anything else. Ronald Bailey, Reason Magazine, September 22, 2006
• Global warming controversy, Wikipedia.org
• Globalwarming.org
• Global Warming Skeptics Shunned, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com, February 08, 2007
• Global warming policy perils, Robert L. Bradley Jr., The Washington Times, January 17, 2007
• Are You a Global Warming Skeptic?, George Musser, Scientific American (online), March 6, 2006
  • Summary of comments
  • Actual Comments
• The Tempest, Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post, Sunday, May 28, 2006; Page W08

"The skeptics don't have to win the argument, they just have to stay in the game, keep things stirred up...[so it's our duty to shut them up]", a brilliant example of the utter uselessness of popular news media as a source of anything of substantial value.

Non-existant expert skeptics of man-made climate change

Open Kyoto to Debate

^{An April 2006 open letter to Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, from 60 Expert Scientists listed below
[Negatively biased] database of credentials on fourty (as of March 2, 2007) of the following sixty experts, individual links are unrelated to this database}

• Dr. Roy Spencer, Principal Research Scientist at The University of Alabama in Huntsville
• Dr. Ian D. Clark, professor, isotope hydrogeology and paleoclimatology, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa
• Dr. Tad Murty, former senior research scientist, Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans, former director of Australia's National Tidal Facility and professor of earth sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide; currently adjunct professor, Departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa
• Dr. R. Timothy Patterson, professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences (paleoclimatology), Carleton University, Ottawa
• Dr. Fred Michel, director, Institute of Environmental Science and associate professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa
• Dr. Madhav Khandekar, former research scientist, Environment Canada. Member of editorial board of Climate Research and Natural Hazards
• Dr. Paul Copper, FRSC, professor emeritus, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ont.
• Dr. Ross McKitrick, associate professor, Dept. of Economics, University of Guelph, Ont.
• Dr. Tim Ball, former professor of climatology, University of Winnipeg; environmental consultant
• Dr. Andreas Prokocon, adjunct professor of earth sciences, University of Ottawa; consultant in statistics and geology
• Mr. David Nowell, M.Sc. (Meteorology), fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, Canadian member and past chairman of the NATO Meteorological Group, Ottawa
• Dr. Christopher Essex, professor of applied mathematics and associate director of the Program in Theoretical Physics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont.
• Dr. Gordon E. Swaters, professor of applied mathematics, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, and member, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Research Group, University of Alberta
• Dr. L. Graham Smith, associate professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont.
• Dr. G. Cornelis van Kooten, professor and Canada Research Chair in environmental studies and climate change, Dept. of Economics, University of Victoria
• Dr. Petr Chylek, adjunct professor, Dept. of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax
• Dr./Cdr. M. R. Morgan, FRMS, climate consultant, former meteorology advisor to the World Meteorological Organization. Previously research scientist in climatology at University of Exeter, U.K.
• Dr. Keith D. Hage, climate consultant and professor emeritus of Meteorology, University of Alberta
• Dr. David E. Wojick, P.Eng., energy consultant, Star Tannery, Va., and Sioux Lookout, Ont.
• Rob Scagel, M.Sc., forest microclimate specialist, principal consultant, Pacific Phytometric Consultants, Surrey, B.C.
• Dr. Douglas Leahey, meteorologist and air-quality consultant, Calgary
• Paavo Siitam, M.Sc., agronomist, chemist, Cobourg, Ont.
• Dr. Chris de Freitas, climate scientist, associate professor, The University of Auckland, N.Z.
• Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Dr. Freeman J. Dyson, emeritus professor of physics, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, N.J.
• Mr. George Taylor, Dept. of Meteorology, Oregon State University; Oregon State climatologist; past president, American Association of State Climatologists
• Ian Plimer, professor of geology, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide; emeritus professor of earth sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Dr. R.M. Carter, professor, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
• Mr. William Kininmonth, Australasian Climate Research, former Head National Climate Centre, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; former Australian delegate to World Meteorological Organization Commission for Climatology, Scientific and Technical Review
• Dr. Hendrik Tennekes, former director of research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
• Gerrit J. van der Lingen, geologist/paleoclimatologist, Climate Change Consultant, Geoscience Research and Investigations, New Zealand
• Dr. Patrick J. Michaels, professor of environmental sciences, University of Virginia
• Dr. Nils-Axel Morner, emeritus professor of paleogeophysics & geodynamics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
• Dr. Gary D. Sharp, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study, Salinas, Calif.
• Dr. Al Pekarek, associate professor of geology, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Dept., St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minn.
• Dr. Marcel Leroux, professor emeritus of climatology, University of Lyon, France; former director of Laboratory of Climatology, Risks and Environment, CNRS
• Paul Reiter, professor, Institut Pasteur, Unit of Insects and Infectious Diseases, Paris, France. Expert reviewer, IPCC Working group II, chapter 8 (human health)
• Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski, physicist and chairman, Scientific Council of Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection, Warsaw, Poland
• Dr. Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, reader, Dept. of Geography, University of Hull, U.K.; editor, Energy & Environment
• Dr. Hans H.J. Labohm, former advisor to the executive board, Clingendael Institute (The Netherlands Institute of International Relations) and an economist who has focused on climate change
• Dr. Lee C. Gerhard, senior scientist emeritus, University of Kansas, past director and state geologist, Kansas Geological Survey
• Dr. Asmunn Moene, past head of the Forecasting Centre, Meteorological Institute, Norway
• Dr. August H. Auer, past professor of atmospheric science, University of Wyoming; previously chief meteorologist, Meteorological Service (MetService) of New Zealand
• Dr. Vincent Gray, expert reviewer for the IPCC and author of The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of 'Climate Change 2001,' Wellington, N.Z.
• Dr. Howard Hayden, emeritus professor of physics, University of Connecticut
• Dr Benny Peiser, professor of social anthropology, Faculty of Science, Liverpool John Moores University, U.K.
• Dr. Jack Barrett, chemist and spectroscopist, formerly with Imperial College London, U.K.
• Dr. William J.R. Alexander, professor emeritus, Dept. of Civil and Biosystems Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Member, United Nations Scientific and Technical Committee on Natural Disasters, 1994-2000
• Dr. S. Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences, University of Virginia; former director, U.S. Weather Satellite Service
• Dr. Harry N.A. Priem, emeritus professor of planetary geology and isotope geophysics, Utrecht University; former director of the Netherlands Institute for Isotope Geosciences; past president of the Royal Netherlands Geological & Mining Society
• Dr. Robert H. Essenhigh, E.G. Bailey professor of energy conversion, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University
• Dr. Sallie Baliunas, astrophysicist and climate researcher, Boston, Mass.
• Douglas Hoyt, senior scientist at Raytheon (retired) and co-author of the book The Role of the Sun in Climate Change; previously with NCAR, NOAA, and the World Radiation Center, Davos, Switzerland
• Dipl.-Ing. Peter Dietze, independent energy advisor and scientific climate and carbon modeller, official IPCC reviewer, Bavaria, Germany
• Dr. Boris Winterhalter, senior marine researcher (retired), Geological Survey of Finland, former professor in marine geology, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Dr. Wibjorn Karlen, emeritus professor, Dept. of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden
• Dr. Hugh W. Ellsaesser, physicist/meteorologist, previously with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Calif.; atmospheric consultant.
• Dr. Art Robinson, founder, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, Cave Junction, Ore.
• Dr. Arthur Rorsch, emeritus professor of molecular genetics, Leiden University, The Netherlands; past board member, Netherlands organization for applied research (TNO) in environmental, food and public health
• Dr. Alister McFarquhar, Downing College, Cambridge, U.K.; international economist
• Dr. Richard S. Courtney, climate and atmospheric science consultant, IPCC expert reviewer, U.K.

Leipzig Declaration signatories

^{(several names from above likely repeated)}

• Dr. John Apel, oceanographer, Global Oceans Associates, formerly with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
• Dr. David Aubrey, Senior Scientist, Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Massachusetts
• Dr. Duwayne M. Anderson,Professor, Texas A&M University
• Dr. Robert Balling, Professor and Director of the Office of Climatology, Arizona State University; more than 80 research articles published in scientific journals; author of The Heated Debate: Greenhouse Predictions vs. Climate Reality (1992); coauthor, Interactions of Desertifications and Climate, a report for the UN Environmental Program and the World Meteorological Organization; contributor/reviewer, IPCC.
• Dr. Jack Barrett, Imperial College, London, UK
• Dr. Warren Berning, atmospheric physicist, New Mexico State University
• Dr. Jiri Blumel, Institute Sozialokon. Forschg. Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic
• Bruce Boe, atmospheric scientist and Director of the North Dakota Atmospheric Resources Board; member, American Meteorological Society; former chairman, AMS Committee on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification.
• Dr. C.J.F. Böttcher, Chairman of the Board, The Global Institute for the Study of Natural Resources, The Hague, The Netherlands; Professor Emeritus of physical chemistry, Leiden University; past President of the Science Policy Council of The Netherlands; former member, Scientific Council for Government Policy; former head of the Netherlands Delegation to the OECD Committee for Science and Technology; author, The Science and Fiction of the Greenhouse Effect and Carbon Dioxide; founding member of The Club of Rome.
• Dr. Arthur Bourne, Professor, University of London, UK
• Larry H. Brace, physicist, former director of the Planetary Atmospheres Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; recipient NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement.
• Dr. Norman M.D. Brown, FRSC, Professor, University of Ulster.
• Dr. R.A.D. Byron-Scott, meteorologist, formerly senior lecturer in meteorology, Flinders Institute for Atmospheric and Marine Science, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
• Dr. Joseph Cain, Professor of planetary physics and geophysics, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute, Florida State University; elected Fellow, American Geophysical Union; formerly with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (scientific satellites) and the U.S. Geological Survey.
• Dr. Gabriel T. Csanady, meteorologist, Eminent Professor, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.
• Robert Cunningham, consulting meteorologist, Fellow, American Meteorological Society
• Dr. Fred W. Decker, Professor of meteorology, Oregon State University, Corvalis, Oregon; elected Fellow, AAAS; member, RMS, NWA, AWA, AMS.
• Lee W. Eddington, meteorologist, Naval Air Warfare Center
• Dr. Hugh Ellsaesser, atmospheric scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1963-1986); Participating Guest Scientist, Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab. (1986-1996), more than 40 refereed research papers and major reports in the scientific literature.
• Dr. John Emsley, Imperial College, London, UK
• Dr. Otto Franzle, Professor, University of Kiel, Germany
• Dr. C.R. de Freitas, climate scientist, University of Auckland, New Zealand, Editor of the international journal Climate Research
• Dr. John E. Gaynor, Senior Meteorologist, Environmental Technology Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, Colorado
• Dr. Tor Ragnar Gerholm, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Stockholm, member of Nobel Prize selection committee for physics; member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, author of several books on science and technology.
• Dr. Gerhard Gerlich, Professor, Technical University of Braunschweig.
• Dr. Thomas Gold, Professor of astrophysics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
• Dr. H.G. Goodell, Professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
• James D. Goodridge, climatologist, formerly with California Dept. of Water Resources.
• Dr. Adrian Gordon, meteorologist, University of South Australia.
• Prof. Dr. Eckhard Grimmel, Professor, University Hamburg, Germany.
• Dr. Nathaniel B. Guttman, Research Physical Scientist, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, North Carolina; former Professor of atmospheric sciences/climatology; former Chairman, AMS Committee on Applied Climatology.
• Dr. Paul Handler, Professor of chemistry, University of Illinois.
• Dr. Vern Harnapp, Professor, University of Akron, Ohio
• Dr. Howard C. Hayden, Professor of physics, University of Connecticut
• Dr. Michael J. Higatsberger, Professor and former Director, Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Vienna, Austria; former Director, Seibersdorf Research Center of the Austrian Atomic Energy Agency; former President, Austrian Physical Society.
• Dr. Austin W. Hogan, meteorologist, co-editor of the journal Atmospheric Research.
• Dr. William Hubbard, Professor, University of Arizona, Dept. of Planetary Sciences; elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
• Dr. Heinz Hug, lecturer, Wiesbaden, Germany
• Dr. Zbigniew Jaworski, University of Warsaw, Poland
• Dr. Kelvin Kemm, nuclear physicist, Director, Technology Strategy Consultants, Pretoria, South Africa; columnist, Engineering News; author, Techtrack: A Winding Path of South African Development.
• Dr. Robert L. Kovach, Professor of geophysics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
• Dr. David R. Legates, Professor of meteorology, University of Oklahoma
• Dr. Heinz H. Lettau, geophysicist, Increase A. Lapham Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin
• Dr. Henry R. Linden, Max McGraw Professor of Energy and Power Engineering and Management, Director, Energy and Power Center, Illinois Institute of Technology; elected Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers; former member, Energy Engineering Board of the National Research Council; member, Green Technology Committee, National Academy of Engineering.
• Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, Sloane Professor of Meteorology, Center for Meteorology and Physical Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Dr. J. P. Lodge, atmospheric chemist, Boulder, Colorado
• Dr. Anthony R. Lupo, atmospheric scientist, Professor, University of Missouri at Columbia, reviewer/contributing author, IPCC.
• Dr. George E. McVehil, meteorologist, Englewood, Colorado
• Dr. Helmut Metzner, Professor, Tubingen, Germany
• Dr. Patrick J. Michaels, Professor and Director of the State Office of Climatology, University of Virginia; more than 50 research articles published in scientific journals; past President, American Association of State Climatologists; author, Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming (1992); reviewer/contributing author, IPCC.
• Sir William Mitchell, physicist, University of Oxford, U.K.
• Dr. Asmunn Moene, former chief of Meteorology, Oslo, Norway.
• Laim Nagle, energy/engineering specialist, Cornfield University, UK
• Robert A. Neff, former U.S. Air Force meteorologist: member, AMS, AAAS.
• Dr. William A. Nierenberg, Director Emeritus, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, California; Professor Emeritus of oceanography, University of California at San Diego; former member, Council of the U.S. National Academy of Science; former Chairman, National Research Council's Carbon Dioxide Assessment Committee; former member, U.S. EPA Global Climate Change Committee; former Assistant Secretary General of NATO for scientific affairs; former Chairman, National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmospheres.
• Dr. William Porch, atmospheric physicist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.
• Dr. Harry Priem, Professor of geology, University of Utrecht
• Dr. William E. Reifsnyder, Professor Emeritus of biometeorology, Yale University; elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; former Chairman, National Academy of Science/National Research Council Committee on Climatology; AMS Award for Outstanding Achievement in Biometeorology.
• Dr. Alexander Robertson, meteorologist, Adjunct Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada; author of more than 200 scientific and technical publications in biometeorology and climatology, forestry, forest ecology, urban environmental forestry, and engineering technology.
• Dr. Thomas Schmidlin, CCM, Professor of meteorology/climatology, Kent State University, Ohio; editor, Ohio Journal of Science, elected Fellow, Ohio Academy of Science; member, AMS.
• Dr. Frederick Seitz, physicist, former President, Rockefeller University, former President, U.S. National Academy of Sciences; former member, President's Science Advisory Committee; recipient, U.S. National Medal of Science.
• Dr. Gary D. Sharp, Executive Director, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study and the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Integrated Ocean Sciences; contributed to the initial development of the Climate Change Program of the National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration; investigated climate-related resource variabilities, sustainable development, and basic environmental climatology for the UN, World Bank, and USAID.
• Dr. S. Fred Singer, atmospheric physicist; President, The Science & Environmental Policy Project; former Director, U.S. Weather Satellite Service; Professor Emeritus of environmental science, University of Virginia; former Chairman, federal panel investigating effects of the SST on stratospheric ozone; author or editor of 16 books, including Global Climate Change (1989) and Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate (1997).
• Dr. A. F. Smith, chemical engineer (ret.), Jacksonville, Florida
• Dr. Fred J. Starheim, Professor, Kent State University
• Dr. Chauncey Starr, President Emeritus, Electric Power Research Institute, winner 1992 National Medal of Engineering
• Dr. Robert E. Stevenson, Secretary General Emeritus, International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans, and a leading world authority on space oceanography; more than 100 research articles published in scientific journals; author of seven books; advisor to NASA, NATO, U.S. National Academy of Science, and the European Geophysical Society.
• Dr. George Stroke, Professor, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Munich, Germany
• Dr. Heinz Sundermann, University of Vienna, Austria
• Dr. George H. Sutton, Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii
• Dr. Arlen Super, meteorologist, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Lakewood, Colorado
• Dr. Vladimir Svidersky, Professor, Sechenoc Institute, Moscow, Russia
• Dr. M. Talwani, geophysicist, Rice University, Houston, Texas.
• Dr. W. F. Tanner, Professor, Florida State University
• Peter Arnold Toynbee, chemical engineer, F. Institute of Energy, London, England.
• Dr. Christiaan Van Sumere, Professor, University of Gent, Belgium
• Dr. Robin Vaugh, physicist, University of Dundee, UK
• Dr. Robert C. Wentworth, geophysicist, Oakland, California, formerly with Lochheed Reseach Laboratory.
• Dr. Robert C. Whitten, physicist, formerly with NASA.
• Dr. Klaus Wyrtki, Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii Sea Level Center