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Harrison Schmitt among 70 skeptics to speak at international conference
Tom Sharpe | The New Mexican
2/14/2009 - 2/14/09
Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, one of the last men to walk on the moon and a former U.S. senator from New Mexico, doesn't buy the idea that humans are causing global warming.
"I don't think the human effect is significant compared to the natural effect," he said.
Schmitt, who is among 70 skeptics scheduled speak at an international conference next month, admitted his beliefs fly in the face of the political consensus that burning fossil fuels has increased carbon-dioxide levels, temperatures and sea levels.
Scientists who disagree with this scenario "are being intimidated," Schmitt said. "They've seen too many of their colleagues lose grant funding when they haven't gone along with the so-called political consensus that we're in a human-caused global warming."
The 74-year-old geologist recently resigned from The Planetary Society, a nonprofit dedicated to space exploration, after the group blamed global warming on human activity.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/SantaFeNorthernNM/Former-astronaut-scoffs-at-global-warming