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November 25, 2002
The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien, P.C., Q.C.,
M.P., LL.L., L.L.D.
Prime Minister of Canada
Room 309 -S Centre Block
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0A6
Dear Prime Minister:
Climate Specialists Urge the Canadian Government to Delay
Ratification of the Kyoto Accord Pending Comprehensive
Science Consultations
Many climate science experts from Canada and around the
world, while still strongly supporting environmental protection,
equally strongly disagree with the scientific rationale
for the Kyoto Accord. Nevertheless, the Government of
Canada has yet to conduct comprehensive consultations
with climate scientists in order to properly consider
the range of informed opinion pertaining to the science
of Kyoto. Consequently, the views of dissenting scientists
have not been properly heard or considered by the government.
Therefore, we, the undersigned climate scientists, call
on the Government of Canada to delay a decision on the
ratification of the Kyoto Accord until after a thorough
and comprehensive consultation is conducted with non-governmental
climate specialists.
If the climate models are correct, the effects of implementing
Kyoto will be so small as to be undetectable even a century
from now. Delaying ratification for a short period so
as to allow proper science consultations to take place
will do absolutely no damage to Canada or the environment
and is unquestionably the prudent and responsible course
of action at this time. Therefore, we implore the Government
of Canada to proceed with comprehensive science consultations
as soon as possible.
Signed by:
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Dr. Tim Patterson, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences
(Paleoclimatology), Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
Dr./Cdr. M. R. Morgan, Climate Consultant, Fellow of
the Royal Meteorological Society, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Dr. Roger Pocklington, F.C.I.C., Researcher - Bedford
Institute of Oceanography, Nova Scotia
Dr. Madhav Khandekar, Environmental Consultant, 25 years
Environment Canada Research Scientist, Unionville, Ontario
Dr. Chris de Freitas (Canadian), Professor - School of
Geography and Environmental Science, The University of
Auckland, NZ
Dr. David Wojick (Canadian), Climate specialist and President,
Climatechangedebate.org
Dr. Chris Essex, Professor of Applied Mathematics, University
of Western Ontario - focuses on underlying physics/math
to complex climate systems.
Dr. Kenneth Green, Chief Scientist, Fraser Institute,
Vancouver, BC - expert reviewer for the IPCC 2001 Working
Group I science report
Dr. Tim Ball, Environmental Consultant, 25 years Professor
of Climatology, University of Winnipeg
Dr. Petr Chylek, Professor of Physics and Atmospheric
Science, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
Rob Scagel, M.Sc., Forest micro-climate specialist, Principal
Consultant, Pacific Phytometric Consultants, Surrey, B.C.
Dr. Fred Michel, - Professor, Department of Earth Sciences
(Paleoclimatology), Carleton University, arctic regions
specialist, Ottawa
David Nowell, M.Sc. (Meteorology), Fellow of the Royal
Meteorological Society, Canadian member and Past Chairman
of the NATO Meteorological Group, Ottawa
Dr. Sallie L. Baliunas, Deputy Director, Mount Wilson
Observatory, Senior Scientist, George C. Marshall Institute,
Washington D.C., specialist in Sun/Earth climate interactions.
Dr. Fred Singer, Distinguished Research Professor at
George Mason University and Professor Emeritus of Environmental
Science at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Fred Seitz, climate specialist and Past President,
U.S. National Academy of Sciences, President Emeritus,
Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Dr. Art Robinson, Founder - Oregon Institute of Science
and Medicine - focus on climate change and CO2, Cave Junction,
Oregon
Dr. Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, Department of Geography,
Editor - Energy & Environment, Faculty of Science,
University of Hull, UK
Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of
Meteorology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary
Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Robert C. Balling, Jr., Director - Office of Climatology,
Arizona State University
Dr. Pat Michaels, Professor of Environmental Sciences,
University of Virginia, past president of the American
Association of State Climatologists and a contributing
author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change
George Taylor, State Climatologist, Oregon Climate Service,
Oregon State University, Past President - American Association
of State Climatologists
Dr. Willie H. Soon, Associate of the Harvard College
Observatory, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
specialist in Sun/Earth climate interactions.
Dr. Sherwood B. Idso, President, Center for the Study
of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Tempe, Arizona
Dr. Hans Jelbring - Wind/Climate specialist, Paleogeophysics
& Geodynamics Unit, Stockholm University, Sweden
Doctorandus Hans Erren, Geophysicist/climate specialist,
Sittard, The Netherlands
Dipl.-Ing. Peter Dietze, energy and climate consultant,
official scientific IPCC TAR Reviewer, Langensendelbach,
Germany
Experts who asked to be included as signatories
to the letter just after it was sent to the Prime Minister:
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Dr. Craig D. Idso, Chairman, Center for the Study of
Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Tempe, Arizona, http://web.archive.org/web/20031012070214/http://www.co2science.org/
Prof. Dr. Kirill Ya. Kondratyev, Academician, Counsellor
RAS, Research Centre for Ecological Safety, Russian Academy
of Sciences and Nansen International Environmental and
Remote Sensing Centre, Korpusnaya St., St.-Petersburg,
Russia
Dr. Asmunn Moene, Former head of the National Forecasting
Center, Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway, asmoene@c2i.net
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