Geophysicist Dr. Claude Allegre, a top geophysicist and French Socialist who has authored more than 100 scientific articles and written 11 books and received numerous scientific awards including the Goldschmidt Medal from the Geochemical Society of the United States, converted from climate alarmist to skeptic in 2006. Allegre, who was one of the first scientists to sound global warming fears 20 years ago, now says the cause of climate change is \”unknown\” and accused the “prophets of doom of global warming” of being motivated by money, noting that \”the ecology of helpless protesting has become a very lucrative business for some people!\” “Glaciers’ chronicles or historical archives point to the fact that climate is a capricious phenomena. This fact is confirmed by mathematical meteorological theories. So, let us be cautious,” Allegre explained in a September 21, 2006 article in the French newspaper L\’EXPRESS. The National Post in Canada also profiled Allegre on March 2, 2007, noting “Allegre has the highest environmental credentials. The author of early environmental books, he fought successful battles to protect the ozone layer from CFCs and public health from lead pollution.” Allegre now calls fears of a climate disaster \”simplistic and obscuring the true dangers” mocks \”the greenhouse-gas fanatics whose proclamations consist in denouncing man\’s role on the climate without doing anything about it except organizing conferences and preparing protocols that become dead letters.\” Allegre, a member of both the French and U.S. Academy of Sciences, had previously expressed concern about manmade global warming. \”By burning fossil fuels, man enhanced the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which has raised the global mean temperature by half a degree in the last century,\” Allegre wrote 20 years ago. In addition, Allegre was one of 1500 scientists who signed a November 18, 1992 letter titled “World Scientists\’ Warning to Humanity” in which the scientists warned that global warming’s “potential risks are very great.”
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Geophysicist Dr. Claude Allegre, a top geophysicist and French Socialist who has authored more than 100 scientific articles and written 11 books and received numerous scientific awards including the Goldschmidt Medal from the Geochemical Society of the United States, converted from climate alarmist to skeptic in 2006. Allegre, who was one of the first scientists to sound global warming fears 20 years ago, now says the cause of climate change is \”unknown\” and accused the “prophets of doom of global warming” of being motivated by money, noting that \”the ecology of helpless protesting has become a very lucrative business for some people!\” “Glaciers’ chronicles or historical archives point to the fact that climate is a capricious phenomena. This fact is confirmed by mathematical meteorological theories. So, let us be cautious,” Allegre explained in a September 21, 2006 article in the French newspaper L\’EXPRESS. The National Post in Canada also profiled Allegre on March 2, 2007, noting “Allegre has the highest environmental credentials. The author of early environmental books, he fought successful battles to protect the ozone layer from CFCs and public health from lead pollution.” Allegre now calls fears of a climate disaster \”simplistic and obscuring the true dangers” mocks \”the greenhouse-gas fanatics whose proclamations consist in denouncing man\’s role on the climate without doing anything about it except organizing conferences and preparing protocols that become dead letters.\” Allegre, a member of both the French and U.S. Academy of Sciences, had previously expressed concern about manmade global warming. \”By burning fossil fuels, man enhanced the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which has raised the global mean temperature by half a degree in the last century,\” Allegre wrote 20 years ago. In addition, Allegre was one of 1500 scientists who signed a November 18, 1992 letter titled “World Scientists\’ Warning to Humanity” in which the scientists warned that global warming’s “potential risks are very great.”