And the debate rages on... Dr. Patrick Moore, a co-founder of - TopicsExpress

And the debate rages on... Dr. Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace, quit the activist environmental organization in 1986 after it strayed away from objective science and took a sharp turn to the political left. Testifying on February 25 before the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight, Moore took issue with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claim that, “Since the mid-20th century it is ‘extremely likely’ that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming. Moore pointed out “There is no scientific proof that human emissions of carbon dioxide are the dominant cause of the minor warming of the Earth’s atmosphere over the past 100 years,” arguing that “perhaps the simplest way to expose the fallacy of extreme certainty is to look at the historical record.” He told the committee: “When modern life evolved over 500 million years ago, CO2 was more than 10 times higher than today, yet life flourished at this time. Then an ice age occurred 450 million years ago when carbon dioxide was 10 times higher than today.”