Global Climate Coalition
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April 8, 1993
Dear Reporter:
The number of scientists and articles questioning theories that predict "clobal warming"
cont
. Pl' seientiss who i.AculatëCihe original climate change assessments from
early computer models said it would take a decade or more to verify their predictions. As new
observational data (as opposed to computer projections) begin to come in, the questions remain.
Some of the new data appear to support the climate models, other data (like that reported in the
article we sent you recently from Nature magazine) do not.
One of the nation's leading independent environmental magazines, Gagge, ran a story in
its February/March issue titled, "Global Warming." Editor Patricia Poore describes the piece this
way: "What follows is a departure from the usual approach to this topic, wherein dueling scientists
cancel each other out.. . Instead, two political scientists.. explain how 'greenhouse policy' is being
driven by inadequate notions of scientific consensus, the improper use of scenarios, and a suspect
analogy to buying insurance."
The authors open this way: "To the scientifically trained or merely observant reader, a giant
gap exists between popular accounts of global warming and the scientific reports upon which they
are purportedly based. These discrepancies are very disturbing...."
The Global Climate Coalition agrees. The debate over whether the Earth is on a collision
course with catastrophic climate change has been driven in part by vociferous commentary by
individuals using simDlistic theoretical models and yet incomplete data. The recent series in the
ew York Times is interesting to review as it explores to what extent U.S. environmental policy is
based on sound scientific analysis. Perhaps articles like the one attached will help put this debate in
perspective -- we need good analysis of real costs and of appropriate actions.
Sincerely,

4 statAa-0
John Shlaes
Executive Director