The above titled news article can be reached at the Signs of the Times, Living Planet.
Dr. Frederic Seitz says that carbon dioxide is in fact useful for plants and other living organisms dependent on it. Then he goes on to explain his view using graphs etc. As I am no climatologist can anyone comment on this. I searched for his background and came up with the info below.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frederick_Seitz
Dr. Frederick Seitz was born in San Francisco on July 4, 1911. ( So he is 96 yeras old this year. )
Education:
1932 Bachelor's degree from Stanford University (mathematics)
1934 Ph.D. from Princeton University (physics)
Former Postions:
1946-1947 director of the training program on peaceful uses of atomic energy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
1949-1968 professor of physics at the University of Illinois
1957-1964 department head at the University of Illinois
1964-1965 Graduate College dean at the University of Illinois
1962-1969 president of the National Academy of Sciences
1968-1978 president of Rockefeller University
Former Member of Advisory Council, National Strategy Information Center (1984 at least)
Frederick Seitz was one of the scientists that signed in 1995 the Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change.
Current Positions:
chairman of Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
member of the Risk Policy Center [1]
Council member of the Environmental Literacy Council
member of the National Advisory Board of Accuracy in Media
member of the Board of Directors and Chairman Emeritus of the George C. Marshall Institute
President Emeritus of Rockefeller University
[edit]Books
Frederick Seitz ,"Modern Theory of Solids", McGraw-Hill, NY, 1940, (reprint Dover Publications, 1987: ISBN 0486654826)
W. Thüne, F. Singer, F. Seitz, Helmut Metzner, "Treibhaus-Kontroverse und Ozon-Problem : Symposium der Europäischen Akademie für Umweltfragen Leipzig 9.-10. November 1995", Böttiger, 1996, ISBN 3925725296
S. Fred Singer, Frederick Seitz , "Hot Talk Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate", The Independent Institute, December 1 1998, ISBN 094599978X
Dr. Frederic Seitz says that carbon dioxide is in fact useful for plants and other living organisms dependent on it. Then he goes on to explain his view using graphs etc. As I am no climatologist can anyone comment on this. I searched for his background and came up with the info below.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frederick_Seitz
Dr. Frederick Seitz was born in San Francisco on July 4, 1911. ( So he is 96 yeras old this year. )
Education:
1932 Bachelor's degree from Stanford University (mathematics)
1934 Ph.D. from Princeton University (physics)
Former Postions:
1946-1947 director of the training program on peaceful uses of atomic energy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
1949-1968 professor of physics at the University of Illinois
1957-1964 department head at the University of Illinois
1964-1965 Graduate College dean at the University of Illinois
1962-1969 president of the National Academy of Sciences
1968-1978 president of Rockefeller University
Former Member of Advisory Council, National Strategy Information Center (1984 at least)
Frederick Seitz was one of the scientists that signed in 1995 the Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change.
Current Positions:
chairman of Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
member of the Risk Policy Center [1]
Council member of the Environmental Literacy Council
member of the National Advisory Board of Accuracy in Media
member of the Board of Directors and Chairman Emeritus of the George C. Marshall Institute
President Emeritus of Rockefeller University
[edit]Books
Frederick Seitz ,"Modern Theory of Solids", McGraw-Hill, NY, 1940, (reprint Dover Publications, 1987: ISBN 0486654826)
W. Thüne, F. Singer, F. Seitz, Helmut Metzner, "Treibhaus-Kontroverse und Ozon-Problem : Symposium der Europäischen Akademie für Umweltfragen Leipzig 9.-10. November 1995", Böttiger, 1996, ISBN 3925725296
S. Fred Singer, Frederick Seitz , "Hot Talk Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate", The Independent Institute, December 1 1998, ISBN 094599978X
