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A prominent scientist and former NASA researcher has added his voice
to those who challenge the "scientific fact" that manmade carbon
emissions are causing global warming.
Dr. Leslie Woodcock is a professor emeritus of
chemical thermodynamics at the University of Manchester in England, with
a Ph.D. from the University of London, and served as a senior research
consultant at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Laboratory in Ohio.
In an interview with Britain's Yorkshire
Evening Post, Woodcock declared: "The theory of 'manmade climate change'
is an unsubstantiated hypothesis.
"The theory is that CO2 emitted by burning
fossil fuel causes 'global warming.' In fact, water is a much more
powerful greenhouse gas and there is 20 times more of it in our
atmosphere [than carbon dioxide].
"Carbon dioxide has been made out to be some
kind of toxic gas but the truth is it's the gas of life. We breathe it
out, plants breathe it in. The green lobby has created a do-good
industry and it becomes a way of life, like a religion. I understand why
people defend it when they have spent so long believing in it."
Woodcock is also a Fellow of the Royal Society
of Chemistry, a founding editor of the journal Molecular Simulation, a
recipient of a Max Planck Society Visiting Fellowship, and a former
guest scientist at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and
Technology.
He went on to say: "If you talk to real
scientists who have no political interest, they will tell you there is
nothing in global warming. It's an industry which creates vast amounts
of money for some people.
"The temperature of the earth has been going up
and down for millions of years. If there are extremes, it's nothing to
do with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, it's not permanent and it's
not caused by us. Global warming is nonsense.
"It's become almost an industry, as a consequence of this professional misconduct by government advisers around the world."
But he added: "You can't blame ordinary people
with little or no science education for wanting to be seen to be good
citizens who care about their grandchildren's future and the
environment."
