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The Climate Science Coalition of America (CSCA) is an apolitical, non-profit association of scientists, engineers, energy experts, and concerned citizens. Our focus is intentionally on outreach regarding climate science only. The American people have been repeatedly told that Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) or manmade climate change is today’s most significant “threat,” and that the science is “settled.” If it is settled, why do the United States and the European Union still pour billions of dollars into more climate studies each year?
Our goals are to provide the American people with an independent, unbiased source of information on climate science because public does not appear to have adequate access to such information now. Americans should be more readily aware of the status and complexity of climate science, the many data gaps and uncertainties underlying the AGW theory, the current phase of “negative discovery,” and the actual limitations associated with the AGW theory’s “evidence.” The American public also likely needs access to information on the many scientific studies that continue to be published each year that either:
- Do not support the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory, or
- Identify or illustrate data gaps, uncertainties or as yet unknown mechanisms that may have a significant impact on the Earth’s climate systems.
Proposed government solutions are highly complex, carry a high price tag, and bring numerous unanticipated consequences. In addition, the US EPA has admitted before Congress that the effects of legislation debated during 2009 will be minimal: global temperature reductions are projected to generate mere tenths of a degree “savings” or reductions in global temperatures by 2050, a difference impossible to measure. One analysis (assuming a 83% reduction in US carbon dioxide emissions, a goal of the House-passed Waxman-Markey bill) indicates global temperature reductions as low as:
- 0.05°C by 2050
- 0.122°C to 0.195°C by 2100[1]
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[1] Knappenberger, C., Climate Impacts of Waxman-Markey (the IPCC-based arithmetic of no gain), 6 May 2009. Available on-line at http://masterresource.org/?p=2355, last accessed 20 December 2009.
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