Libertarian Vegan

Last month the Japan Society of Energy and Resources (JSER) released a major report that concluded global warming is not man-made.  Since then no major western media outlet has reported on the story.  British based website The Register commissioned a translation of the report, and key passages are available on their site.

The JSER is an academic society representing scientists from the energy and resource fields.  They act as a government advisory panel, much like the IPCC to the UN .  Yet the findings of the two groups could not be any more different.

The JSER report greatly criticized computer climate modeling, saying the U.S. temperature data set used to back man-made global warming is too nearsighted.

Kanya Kusano , program director and group leader for the Earth Simulator at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology , said climate research conducted by global warming scientists is “immature,” likening it to ancient astrology.

“Climate models are still in the phase of reliance on trial and error experiential models. There are still no successful precedents,” he writes. “[The IPCC’s] conclusion that from now on atmospheric temperatures are likely to show a continuous, monotonic increase, should be perceived as an unprovable hypothesis.”

The report states that recent warming has primarily acted as a “recovery” from the “little ice age” that occured around 1400-1800, and say it is part of a natural cycle.  Their conclusion holds that global warming has been due to solar activity, which the IPCC has dismissed.

Shunichi Akasofu , head of the International Arctic Research Center in Alaska , challenged the assertion that recent temperatures represent anything but a natural cycle:

“We should be cautious, IPCC’s theory that atmospheric temperature has risen since 2000 in correspondence with CO2 is nothing but a hypothesis.” Akasofu goes on to say “Before anyone noticed, this hypothesis has been substituted for truth… The opinion that great disaster will really happen must be broken.”

Sources: Infowars - Top Japanese Scientists: Warming is not caused by human activity February 27, 2009

World Net Daily - ‘Global warming’ data called ‘ancient astrology’ February 26, 2009

The Register - Japan’s boffins: Global Warming isn’t man-made February 25, 2009