Detroit Auto Makers Reject Man-Made Global Warming

Source: HENRY PAYNE detnews.com



Before a Detroit Athletic Club audience in downtown Detroit, The Detroit News and WJR Radio brought together leaders from the fields of climatology, energy politics, and the auto industry to debate whether the so-called Climategate scandal has undermined auto regulations.

“ If we reduce our emissions 83% below 2005 levels by 2050 which is the law that was passed by the House on June 26, that will allow the average american (to have) the carbon dioxide emissions of the average american in 1867!” Pat Michaels a warming critic and target of some of the leaked East Anglia emails

Pat Michaels: Michaels is currently a Distinguished Senior Fellow in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. During his 30-year tenure as professor of Environmental Sciences at University of Virginia, he was president of the American Association of State Climatologists and program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. His work has been published in many major scientific journals, and was awarded climate "Paper of the Year" by the Association of American Geographers in 2004.

Michaels, a warming critic, was the target of some of the leaked East Anglia emails apparently trying to marginalize dissent. Michaels holds degrees in biological sciences and plant ecology from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in ecological climatology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Henry Pollack: Pollack is Professor of Geophysics (Emeritus) in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Michigan. Pollack has served on many advisory panels for the National Science Foundation, and provided briefings about climate change to Congress and the White House. He has published widely in scientific journals, is a Contributing Author to the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report, and a science advisor to former Vice-President Al Gore's Climate Project.

Several of the leaked East Anglia climate e-mails were authored by Mr. Pollack, and others discussed his research. He is the author of Uncertain Science...Uncertain World (Cambridge University Press, 2003).