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== How to conclude a scientific debate (an observation of the end of debate on climate change) ==
#Declare skeptics of your thoery wrong
#Declare skeptics of your theory irrelevant
#Declare the debate over

== Non-existant expert skeptics of man-made climate change ==
=== [http://www.lavoisier.com.au/papers/articles/canadianPMletter06.html Open Kyoto to Debate] ===
<sup>An April 2006 open letter to Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, from 60 Expert Scientists listed below<br>
[http://www.desmogblog.com/node/1319 <nowiki>[Hostile]</nowiki> database of credentials on fourty (as of March 2, 2007) of the following sixty experts], individual links are unrelated to this database</sup>
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Spencer Dr. Roy Spencer, Principal Research Scientist at The University of Alabama in Huntsville]
*[http://www.science.uottawa.ca/est/eng/prof/clark/pubs.html Dr. Ian D. Clark, professor, isotope hydrogeology and paleoclimatology, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa]
*[http://www.nrsp.com/NRSP-SAC.html Dr. Tad Murty, former senior research scientist, Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans, former director of Australia's National Tidal Facility and professor of earth sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide; currently adjunct professor, Departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa]
*[http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tim_Patterson Dr. R. Timothy Patterson, professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences (paleoclimatology), Carleton University, Ottawa]
*[http://www.nrsp.com/people-fred-michel.html Dr. Fred Michel, director, Institute of Environmental Science and associate professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa]
*[http://meteo.lcd.lu/globalwarming/Khandekar/india_economic_progress.html Dr. Madhav Khandekar, former research scientist, Environment Canada. Member of editorial board of Climate Research and Natural Hazards]
*[http://oldwebsite.laurentian.ca/geology/faculty/copper.html Dr. Paul Copper, FRSC, professor emeritus, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ont.]
*[http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/author.asp?id=285 Dr. Ross McKitrick, associate professor, Dept. of Economics, University of Guelph, Ont.]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_F._Ball Dr. Tim Ball, former professor of climatology, University of Winnipeg; environmental consultant]
*Dr. Andreas Prokocon, adjunct professor of earth sciences, University of Ottawa; consultant in statistics and geology
*Mr. David Nowell, M.Sc. (Meteorology), fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, Canadian member and past chairman of the NATO Meteorological Group, Ottawa
*[http://www.apmaths.uwo.ca/~essex/ Dr. Christopher Essex, professor of applied mathematics and associate director of the Program in Theoretical Physics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont.]
*[http://pacific.math.ualberta.ca/gordon/ Dr. Gordon E. Swaters, professor of applied mathematics, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, and member, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Research Group, University of Alberta]
*[http://www2.blogger.com/profile/01118540981074309253 Dr. L. Graham Smith, associate professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont.]
*[http://web.uvic.ca/~kooten/ Dr. G. Cornelis van Kooten, professor and Canada Research Chair in environmental studies and climate change, Dept. of Economics, University of Victoria]
*[http://fizz.phys.dal.ca/people/PChylek/PChylek.html Dr. Petr Chylek, adjunct professor, Dept. of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax]
*Dr./Cdr. M. R. Morgan, FRMS, climate consultant, former meteorology advisor to the World Meteorological Organization. Previously research scientist in climatology at University of Exeter, U.K.
*Dr. Keith D. Hage, climate consultant and professor emeritus of Meteorology, University of Alberta
*[http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/resume.html Dr. David E. Wojick, P.Eng., energy consultant, Star Tannery, Va., and Sioux Lookout, Ont.]
*Rob Scagel, M.Sc., forest microclimate specialist, principal consultant, Pacific Phytometric Consultants, Surrey, B.C.
*Dr. Douglas Leahey, meteorologist and air-quality consultant, Calgary
*Paavo Siitam, M.Sc., agronomist, chemist, Cobourg, Ont.
*[http://www.sges.auckland.ac.nz/the_school/our_people/staff_url/cdefreitas/index.htm Dr. Chris de Freitas, climate scientist, associate professor, The University of Auckland, N.Z.]
*[http://www-eaps.mit.edu/faculty/lindzen.htm Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology]
*[http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/20/035.html Dr. Freeman J. Dyson, emeritus professor of physics, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, N.J.]
*[http://www.ocs.orst.edu/page_links/ocs_people/george_t.html Mr. George Taylor, Dept. of Meteorology, Oregon State University; Oregon State climatologist; past president, American Association of State Climatologists]
*[http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/people/plimer/Dr. Ian Plimer, professor of geology, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide; emeritus professor of earth sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._Carter Dr. R.M. Carter, professor, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia]
*[http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/1442.html Mr. William Kininmonth, Australasian Climate Research, former Head National Climate Centre, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; former Australian delegate to World Meteorological Organization Commission for Climatology, Scientific and Technical Review]
*Dr. Hendrik Tennekes, former director of research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
*[http://www.climatescience.org.nz/assets/20060428_I_Lingen_AGW.pdfDr. Gerrit J. van der Lingen, geologist/paleoclimatologist, Climate Change Consultant, Geoscience Research and Investigations, New Zealand]
*[http://cato.org/people/michaels.html Dr. Patrick J. Michaels, professor of environmental sciences, University of Virginia]
*Dr. Nils-Axel Morner, emeritus professor of paleogeophysics & geodynamics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
*Dr. Gary D. Sharp, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study, Salinas, Calif.
*Dr. Al Pekarek, associate professor of geology, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Dept., St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minn.
*Dr. Marcel Leroux, professor emeritus of climatology, University of Lyon, France; former director of Laboratory of Climatology, Risks and Environment, CNRS
*[http://www.cei.org/dyn/pubs_by_author.cfm/pubs_by_author.cfm?expert=111Dr. Paul Reiter, professor, Institut Pasteur, Unit of Insects and Infectious Diseases, Paris, France. Expert reviewer, IPCC Working group II, chapter 8 (human health)]
*[http://www.warwickhughes.com/icecore/ Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski, physicist and chairman, Scientific Council of Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection, Warsaw, Poland]
*[http://www.hull.ac.uk/geog/staff/Boehmer.htm Dr. Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, reader, Dept. of Geography, University of Hull, U.K.; editor, Energy & Environment]
*Dr. Hans H.J. Labohm, former advisor to the executive board, Clingendael Institute (The Netherlands Institute of International Relations) and an economist who has focused on climate change
*[http://www.clearlight.com/~mhieb/WVFossils/Reference_Docs/Gerhard_Climate_Change.pdf Dr. Lee C. Gerhard, senior scientist emeritus, University of Kansas, past director and state geologist, Kansas Geological Survey]
*Dr. Asmunn Moene, past head of the Forecasting Centre, Meteorological Institute, Norway
*Dr. August H. Auer, past professor of atmospheric science, University of Wyoming; previously chief meteorologist, Meteorological Service (MetService) of New Zealand
*[http://www.john-daly.com/guests/regional.htm Dr. Vincent Gray, expert reviewer for the IPCC and author of The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of 'Climate Change 2001,' Wellington, N.Z.]
*Dr. Howard Hayden, emeritus professor of physics, University of Connecticut
*Dr Benny Peiser, professor of social anthropology, Faculty of Science, Liverpool John Moores University, U.K.
*Dr. Jack Barrett, chemist and spectroscopist, formerly with Imperial College London, U.K.
*Dr. William J.R. Alexander, professor emeritus, Dept. of Civil and Biosystems Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Member, United Nations Scientific and Technical Committee on Natural Disasters, 1994-2000
*Dr. S. Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences, University of Virginia; former director, U.S. Weather Satellite Service
*Dr. Harry N.A. Priem, emeritus professor of planetary geology and isotope geophysics, Utrecht University; former director of the Netherlands Institute for Isotope Geosciences; past president of the Royal Netherlands Geological & Mining Society
*Dr. Robert H. Essenhigh, E.G. Bailey professor of energy conversion, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallie_Baliunas Dr. Sallie Baliunas, astrophysicist and climate researcher, Boston, Mass.]
*Douglas Hoyt, senior scientist at Raytheon (retired) and co-author of the book The Role of the Sun in Climate Change; previously with NCAR, NOAA, and the World Radiation Center, Davos, Switzerland
*Dipl.-Ing. Peter Dietze, independent energy advisor and scientific climate and carbon modeller, official IPCC reviewer, Bavaria, Germany
*[http://www.kolumbus.fi/boris.winterhalter/ Dr. Boris Winterhalter, senior marine researcher (retired), Geological Survey of Finland, former professor in marine geology, University of Helsinki, Finland]
*[http://unjobs.org/authors/wibjorn-karlen Dr. Wibjorn Karlen, emeritus professor, Dept. of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden]
*Dr. Hugh W. Ellsaesser, physicist/meteorologist, previously with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Calif.; atmospheric consultant.
*Dr. Art Robinson, founder, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, Cave Junction, Ore.
*Dr. Arthur Rorsch, emeritus professor of molecular genetics, Leiden University, The Netherlands; past board member, Netherlands organization for applied research (TNO) in environmental, food and public health
*Dr. Alister McFarquhar, Downing College, Cambridge, U.K.; international economist
*Dr. Richard S. Courtney, climate and atmospheric science consultant, IPCC expert reviewer, U.K.

=== [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig_Declaration Leipzig Declaration signatories] ===
<sup>(several names from above likely repeated)</sup>
*Dr. John Apel, oceanographer, Global Oceans Associates, formerly with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
*Dr. David Aubrey, Senior Scientist, Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Massachusetts
*Dr. Duwayne M. Anderson,Professor, Texas A&M University
*Dr. Robert Balling, Professor and Director of the Office of Climatology, Arizona State University; more than 80 research articles published in scientific journals; author of The Heated Debate: Greenhouse Predictions vs. Climate Reality (1992); coauthor, Interactions of Desertifications and Climate, a report for the UN Environmental Program and the World Meteorological Organization; contributor/reviewer, IPCC.
*Dr. Jack Barrett, Imperial College, London, UK
*Dr. Warren Berning, atmospheric physicist, New Mexico State University
*Dr. Jiri Blumel, Institute Sozialokon. Forschg. Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic
*Bruce Boe, atmospheric scientist and Director of the North Dakota Atmospheric Resources Board; member, American Meteorological Society; former chairman, AMS Committee on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification. 
*Dr. C.J.F. Böttcher, Chairman of the Board, The Global Institute for the Study of Natural Resources, The Hague, The Netherlands; Professor Emeritus of physical chemistry, Leiden University; past President of the Science Policy Council of The Netherlands; former member, Scientific Council for Government Policy; former head of the Netherlands Delegation to the OECD Committee for Science and Technology; author, The Science and Fiction of the Greenhouse Effect and Carbon Dioxide; founding member of The Club of Rome.
*Dr. Arthur Bourne, Professor, University of London, UK
*Larry H. Brace, physicist, former director of the Planetary Atmospheres Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; recipient NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement.
*Dr. Norman M.D. Brown, FRSC, Professor, University of Ulster.
*Dr. R.A.D. Byron-Scott, meteorologist, formerly senior lecturer in meteorology, Flinders Institute for Atmospheric and Marine Science, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
*Dr. Joseph Cain, Professor of planetary physics and geophysics, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute, Florida State University; elected Fellow, American Geophysical Union; formerly with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (scientific satellites) and the U.S. Geological Survey.
*Dr. Gabriel T. Csanady, meteorologist, Eminent Professor, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.
*Robert Cunningham, consulting meteorologist, Fellow, American Meteorological Society
*Dr. Fred W. Decker, Professor of meteorology, Oregon State University, Corvalis, Oregon; elected Fellow, AAAS; member, RMS, NWA, AWA, AMS.
*Lee W. Eddington, meteorologist, Naval Air Warfare Center
*Dr. Hugh Ellsaesser, atmospheric scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1963-1986); Participating Guest Scientist, Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab. (1986-1996), more than 40 refereed research papers and major reports in the scientific literature.
*Dr. John Emsley, Imperial College, London, UK
*Dr. Otto Franzle, Professor, University of Kiel, Germany
*Dr. C.R. de Freitas, climate scientist, University of Auckland, New Zealand, Editor of the international journal Climate Research
*Dr. John E. Gaynor, Senior Meteorologist, Environmental Technology Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, Colorado
*Dr. Tor Ragnar Gerholm, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Stockholm, member of Nobel Prize selection committee for physics; member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, author of several books on science and technology.
*Dr. Gerhard Gerlich, Professor, Technical University of Braunschweig.
*Dr. Thomas Gold, Professor of astrophysics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
*Dr. H.G. Goodell, Professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
*James D. Goodridge, climatologist, formerly with California Dept. of Water Resources.
*Dr. Adrian Gordon, meteorologist, University of South Australia.
*Prof. Dr. Eckhard Grimmel, Professor, University Hamburg, Germany.
*Dr. Nathaniel B. Guttman, Research Physical Scientist, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, North Carolina; former Professor of atmospheric sciences/climatology; former Chairman, AMS Committee on Applied Climatology.
*Dr. Paul Handler, Professor of chemistry, University of Illinois.
*Dr. Vern Harnapp, Professor, University of Akron, Ohio
*Dr. Howard C. Hayden, Professor of physics, University of Connecticut
*Dr. Michael J. Higatsberger, Professor and former Director, Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Vienna, Austria; former Director, Seibersdorf Research Center of the Austrian Atomic Energy Agency; former President, Austrian Physical Society.
*Dr. Austin W. Hogan, meteorologist, co-editor of the journal Atmospheric Research.
*Dr. William Hubbard, Professor, University of Arizona, Dept. of Planetary Sciences; elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
*Dr. Heinz Hug, lecturer, Wiesbaden, Germany
*Dr. Zbigniew Jaworski, University of Warsaw, Poland
*Dr. Kelvin Kemm, nuclear physicist, Director, Technology Strategy Consultants, Pretoria, South Africa; columnist, Engineering News; author, Techtrack: A Winding Path of South African Development.
*Dr. Robert L. Kovach, Professor of geophysics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
*Dr. David R. Legates, Professor of meteorology, University of Oklahoma
*Dr. Heinz H. Lettau, geophysicist, Increase A. Lapham Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin
*Dr. Henry R. Linden, Max McGraw Professor of Energy and Power Engineering and Management, Director, Energy and Power Center, Illinois Institute of Technology; elected Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers; former member, Energy Engineering Board of the National Research Council; member, Green Technology Committee, National Academy of Engineering.
*Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, Sloane Professor of Meteorology, Center for Meteorology and Physical Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
*Dr. J. P. Lodge, atmospheric chemist, Boulder, Colorado
*Dr. Anthony R. Lupo, atmospheric scientist, Professor, University of Missouri at Columbia, reviewer/contributing author, IPCC.
*Dr. George E. McVehil, meteorologist, Englewood, Colorado
*Dr. Helmut Metzner, Professor, Tubingen, Germany
*Dr. Patrick J. Michaels, Professor and Director of the State Office of Climatology, University of Virginia; more than 50 research articles published in scientific journals; past President, American Association of State Climatologists; author, Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming (1992); reviewer/contributing author, IPCC.
*Sir William Mitchell, physicist, University of Oxford, U.K.
*Dr. Asmunn Moene, former chief of Meteorology, Oslo, Norway.
*Laim Nagle, energy/engineering specialist, Cornfield University, UK
*Robert A. Neff, former U.S. Air Force meteorologist: member, AMS, AAAS.
*Dr. William A. Nierenberg, Director Emeritus, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, California; Professor Emeritus of oceanography, University of California at San Diego; former member, Council of the U.S. National Academy of Science; former Chairman, National Research Council's Carbon Dioxide Assessment Committee; former member, U.S. EPA Global Climate Change Committee; former Assistant Secretary General of NATO for scientific affairs; former Chairman, National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmospheres.
*Dr. William Porch, atmospheric physicist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.
*Dr. Harry Priem, Professor of geology, University of Utrecht
*Dr. William E. Reifsnyder, Professor Emeritus of biometeorology, Yale University; elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; former Chairman, National Academy of Science/National Research Council Committee on Climatology; AMS Award for Outstanding Achievement in Biometeorology.
*Dr. Alexander Robertson, meteorologist, Adjunct Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada; author of more than 200 scientific and technical publications in biometeorology and climatology, forestry, forest ecology, urban environmental forestry, and engineering technology.
*Dr. Thomas Schmidlin, CCM, Professor of meteorology/climatology, Kent State University, Ohio; editor, Ohio Journal of Science, elected Fellow, Ohio Academy of Science; member, AMS.
*Dr. Frederick Seitz, physicist, former President, Rockefeller University, former President, U.S. National Academy of Sciences; former member, President's Science Advisory Committee; recipient, U.S. National Medal of Science.
*Dr. Gary D. Sharp, Executive Director, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study and the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Integrated Ocean Sciences; contributed to the initial development of the Climate Change Program of the National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration; investigated climate-related resource variabilities, sustainable development, and basic environmental climatology for the UN, World Bank, and USAID.
*Dr. S. Fred Singer, atmospheric physicist; President, The Science & Environmental Policy Project; former Director, U.S. Weather Satellite Service; Professor Emeritus of environmental science, University of Virginia; former Chairman, federal panel investigating effects of the SST on stratospheric ozone; author or editor of 16 books, including Global Climate Change (1989) and Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate (1997).
*Dr. A. F. Smith, chemical engineer (ret.), Jacksonville, Florida
*Dr. Fred J. Starheim, Professor, Kent State University
*Dr. Chauncey Starr, President Emeritus, Electric Power Research Institute, winner 1992 National Medal of Engineering
*Dr. Robert E. Stevenson, Secretary General Emeritus, International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans, and a leading world authority on space oceanography; more than 100 research articles published in scientific journals; author of seven books; advisor to NASA, NATO, U.S. National Academy of Science, and the European Geophysical Society.
*Dr. George Stroke, Professor, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Munich, Germany
*Dr. Heinz Sundermann, University of Vienna, Austria
*Dr. George H. Sutton, Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii
*Dr. Arlen Super, meteorologist, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Lakewood, Colorado
*Dr. Vladimir Svidersky, Professor, Sechenoc Institute, Moscow, Russia
*Dr. M. Talwani, geophysicist, Rice University, Houston, Texas.
*Dr. W. F. Tanner, Professor, Florida State University
*Peter Arnold Toynbee, chemical engineer, F. Institute of Energy, London, England.
*Dr. Christiaan Van Sumere, Professor, University of Gent, Belgium
*Dr. Robin Vaugh, physicist, University of Dundee, UK
*Dr. Robert C. Wentworth, geophysicist, Oakland, California, formerly with Lochheed Reseach Laboratory.
*Dr. Robert C. Whitten, physicist, formerly with NASA.
*Dr. Klaus Wyrtki, Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii Sea Level Center

== Non-existant debate over man-made climate change ==
*[http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harris061206.htm Tom Harris, ''Scientists respond to Gore's warnings of climate catastrophe'', Canada Free Press, June 12, 2006]
*[http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=19358 Joseph Bast, ''The Inconvenient Truth About Al Gore'', Heartlander, July 1, 2006]