The Leipzig Declaration

As independent scientists researching atmospheric and climate problems, we -- along with many of our fellow citizens -- are apprehensive about the Climate Treaty conference scheduled for Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997. This gathering of politicians from some 160 signatory nations aims to impose -- on citizens of the industrialized nations, but not on others -- a system of global environmental regulations that include quotas and punitive taxes on energy fuels.

Fossil fuels provide today's principal energy source, and energy is essential for all economic growth. Stabilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide -- the announced goal of the Climate Treaty -- would require that fuel use be cut by as much as 60 to 80 percent -- worldwide!

In a world in which poverty is the greatest social pollutant, any restriction on energy use that inhibits economic growth should be viewed with caution. We understand the motivation to eliminate what are perceived to be the driving forces behind a potential climate change; but we believe the emerging Kyoto protocol -- to curtail carbon dioxide emissions from only part of the world community -- is dangerously simplistic, quite ineffective, and economically destructive jobs and standards-of-living.

More to the point, we consider the scientific basis of the 1992 Global Climate Treaty to be flawed and its goal to be unrealistic. The policies to implement the Treaty are, as of now, based solely on unproven scientific theories, imperfect computer models -- and unsupported assumptions that catastrophic global warming follows from the burning of fossil fuels and requires immediate action. We do not agree. We believe that the dire predictions of a future warming have not been validated by the existing climate record. These predictions are based on nothing more than theoretical models and cannot be relied on.

As the debate unfolds, it has become increasingly clear that -- contrary to the conventional wisdom -- there does not exist today a general scientific consensus about the importance of greenhouse warming from rising levels of carbon dioxide. In fact, many climate specialists now agree that actual observations from weather satellites show no global warming whatsoever -- in direct contradiction to computer model results.

Historically, climate has always been a factor in human affairs -- with warmer periods, such as the medieval "climate optimum," playing an important role in economic expansion and in the welfare of nations that depend primarily on agriculture. Colder periods have caused crop failures, and led to famines, disease, and other documented human misery. We must, therefore, remain sensitive to any and all human activities that could affect future climate.

However, based on all the evidence available to us, we cannot subscribe to the politically inspired world view that envisages climate catastrophes and calls for hasty actions. For this reason, we consider the drastic emission control policies likely to be endorsed by the Kyoto conference -- lacking credible support from the underlying science -- to be ill-advised and premature.

This statement is based on the International Symposium on the Greenhouse Controversy, held in Leipzig, Germany on November 9-10, 1995, under the sponsorship of the Prime Minister of the State of Saxony. For further information, contact the Europaeische Akademie fuer Umweltfragen (fax: 011-49-7071-72939) or The Science & Environmental Policy Project in Fairfax, Virginia (fax: (703) 352-7535). Or visit the website <http://www.his.com/~sepp>.

Signers:

Abrams, Elliot - Penn State University

Apel, John - John Hopkins University

Aubrey, David - Woods Hole Ocean. Inst.

Badura, Leslaw - Univ. Kattositz, Polland

Balling, Robert - Arizona State University

Barrett, Jack - Kingston-upon-Thames, U.K.

Bauer, Ernst-Waldemar - Esslingen, Germany

Berg, Hermann - Sachsisch Akad., Jena, Germany

Berning, Warren - New Mexico State University

Boe, Bruce A. - Atm. Resource Brd. ND

Bottcher, C.J. Frits, The Hague

Bourne, Arthur - University of London

Bruce, Larry

Brown, Norman M.D., University of Ulster

Bye, Matthew - Meterologist, San Francisco

Cain, Joseph - Florida State University

Clube, S.V.M. - University of Oxford

Courtney, Richard - Epsom, U.K.

Csanady, G.T - Old Dominion University

Cunningham, Robert M. - Meterologist, Lincoln, MA

Decker, Fred - Meterologist, Corvalis, OR

de Freitas, Chris, University of Auckland

Del Re, Giuseppe Rom.

Dietze, Peter - Nurnberg, Germany

Dyer, Rosemary - Phillips Lab

Eddington, Lee W., Naval Air Warfare Center

Ellsaesser, Hugh - Livermore National Laboratory

Emsley, John, Imperial Collage

Frank, Neil - Fmr. Dir. Hurricane Center

Franzle, Otto - Univ. Kiel, Germany

Gaynor, John E. - Envir. Tech. Lab., Boulder, CO

Gerholm, Tor Ragnar - Univ of Stockholm

Gleeson, Thomas A. - Aeronomist, Florida State Univ.

Gold, Thomas - Cornell University

Goodell, H.G. - University of Virginia

Goodridge, James D. - Climatologist, Mendocino, CA

Groeber, Richard F. - Weather Service, Springfield, OH

Guttman, Nathaniel B. - Climate Center, Asheville, NC

Hales, J. Vern - Meterologist, Las Vegas, NV

Handler, Paul, University of Illinois

Harnapp, Vern, University of Akron

Hayden, Howard C. - Univ. of Connecticut

Heyke, H.H. - Lichtenwalde, Germany

Higastberger, Michael J. - University of Vienna

Hogan, A.W. - Jour. of Aerosols, Atm. Chem.

Hubbard, William, University of Arizona

Jaworski, Zbigniew, University of Warsaw

Kloke, Adolf - University of Berlin

Kohler, Max A. - Meterologist, Silver Spring, MD

Kolstad, George A. - Geophys., Laytonsville, MD

Korber, Erich - Univ. Tubingen, Germany

Kovach, Robert L. - Stanford University

Landscheidt, Theodor, Nova Scotia

Leep, Roy - Meterologist, Tampa, FL

Legates, David R. - University of Oklahoma

Lettau, Heinz H. - University of Wisconsin

Linden, Henry R. - Illinois Inst. of Technology

Lindzen, Richard, Mass. Inst. of Technology

Lischka, Gerd - Univ. Tubingen, Germany

Lodge, J.P. - Atmos. Chemist, Boulder, CO

Lunardini, Virgil, CRREL, Hanover, NH

Lunsford, R. Dwayne, Germantown, MD

Marquardt, Karl - Dornstadt-Auhausen, Germany

McVehil, George E. - Air Quality, Englewood, CO

Mellner, Dusan - Univ of Brno, Czech Republic

Metzner, Helmut - Tubingen, Germany

Michaels, Patrick - University of Virginia

Mitchell, William, Oxford University

Moene, Asmunn, Oslo, Norway

Mohry, Herbert - Leipzig, Germany

Neumann, Eberhard - Univ. Bielefeld, Germany

Nierenberg, William A. - Scripps Inst., LaJolla

Nolte, Dieter - Stadt, Krankenhaus, Reichenhall, Germany

Oberhammer, Heinz - Univ, Tubingen, Germany

Porch, William - Colorado State University

Priem, Harry, University Of Utrecht

Reifsnyder, W.E. - Yale University

Robertson, Alexander, Univ. Of Newfoundland

Schmidlin, Thomas, Kent State University

Schuh, William, ND State Water Comm.

Seitz, Frederick - Rockefeller University

Sestak, Zdnek - Univ of Prague

Sharp, Gary D., Ctr for Climate/Ocean Resource Study

Singer, Fred - Science & Environmental Policy Project

Stange, Karl - Ludwigshafen, Germany

Starheim, Fred, Kent State University

Starr, Chauncey - Electrical Power Research Inst., Palo Alto

Steinmetz, E. - Essen, Germany

Stevenson, Robert E., IFARNS/IAPSO

Stout, Glenn E. - University of Illinois

Stroke, George - Max Planck Inst., Munich

Sundermann, Heinz - University of Vienna

Sussman, Brian - Meterologist, San Francisco, CA

Sutton, George H. - Prof. Emeeritus, Univ of Hawaii

Svidersky, Vladimir - Sechonoc Institute, Moscow

Talwani, M. - Rice University

Torrance, Thomas F. - Jena, Germany

Van Sumere, Christaan - Univ of Gent, Belgium

Vonnegut, Bernard - SUNY, Albany

Wentworth, Robert C., Geoophys. Oakland, CA

Worzel, J. Larmar - Meterologist, Wilmington, NC

Wyrtki, Klaus, University of Hawaii

Zwiener, Ulrich - Univ. Jena, Germany

Meteorologists

Apuzzo, Richard, WXIX-TV

Bernier, Andre, WJW-TV

Bernier, Sally, WJW-TV

Breckm, Robert, WVUE-TV

Colby, A.J., WICU-TV

Frank, Neil, KHOU-TV

Gantz, Dick, Weather Forecasting Service

Goddard, Dick, WJW-TV

Hollett, Shane, WJW-TV

Johnson, Mark, WEWS-TV

Koontz, Mark, WJW-TV

Leep, Roy, WTVT-TV

Loufman, Jon, WKYC-TV

Maly, Dan, WOIO-TV

McPike, Ryan, WICU-TV

Moore, James T., KSWO-TV

Sussman, Brian, KGO-TV

Sussman, Brad, WEWS-TV

Watts, Anthony, HSL-TV

Webster, Don, WEWS-TV

Westfall, Brian, Weather Forecasting Service

Williams, Jerry A., Meteorologist Consultant

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