… but there’s no such thing, says scientist

Date: 03/06/04

AN EMINENT American scientist set himself on a collision course with environmentalists after rubbishing the widely held belief that the Earth's climate is warming.

Fred Singer, a leading atmospheric physicist, told a Brussels conference: "The Earth's climate, as measured in the atmosphere, is currently not warming. This may come as a surprise to many of you who read newspapers or listen to TV who have been told that the climate is warming. It is not."

Singer, professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, was addressing an audience of environmentalists and lobbyists last week at an event organized by Centre for New Europe, a Brussels think-tank.

He also dismissed suggestions that rising sea levels were the result of global warming, partly caused by human activity.

"The sea level will continue to rise as it has risen for the past 15,000 years, since the end of the last Ice Age.

"It has risen around 120 metres in 15,000 years and will continue to do so and there is nothing we can do about this.

"It is not possible for humans to stop the rise … any more than we can stop the drift of continents or stop the tides of the ocean.

"It is entirely controlled by natural forces."

Singer, the first director of the US weather satellite service, did acknowledge that renewable forms of energy, such as wind power, will have an increasingly important role to play in meeting the world's future energy needs.

However, his comments on global warming were dismissed by environment group, Climate Action Network Europe, as "simply not true".

Fred Singer, a leading US atmospheric physicist, told a conference at the Centre for the New Europe, Brussels, on 27 May 2004, that the earth's climate was not warming. Climate Action Network Europe has dismissed his comments as 'simply not true'.

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