Ellsaesser, H

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Hugh Ellsaesser A meteorologist and guest scientist at California's Lawrence Livermore nuclear laboratory, Dr. Hugh Ellsaesser is another widely quoted global warming skeptic. He doesn't deny that CO2 buildup causes global warming -- he argues that we should just sit back and enjoy it. He's also a scientific advisor to the Lyndon LaRouche group 21st Century Science Associates, which publishes an anti-environmental magazine promoting LaRouche's wacky <a href="http://www.publiceye.org/pra/larouche/nclc3.html">Neo-Nazi</a> cult.

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<h1>Hugh W. Ellsaesser</h1>

<h2>Credentials</h2>

<ul>

<li>Ph.D., Meteorology.<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/hugh_ellsaesser#s1"> [1]</a></li>

</ul>

<h2>Background</h2>

A meteorologist by training, Ellsaesser is a retired "guest scientist" at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and a widely-quoted global warming skeptic.

He is "CEO of HWE Atmospheric Consultant." <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/hugh_ellsaesser#s1">[1]</a>

<h2>Stance on Climate Change</h2>

". . . I am one of the strong supporters of the proposition that the available records indicate climate warming over the past century or so. It's just that I don't believe the observed warming is due to an increase in greenhouse gases." <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/hugh_ellsaesser#s2">[2]</a>
{{<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20071028093049/http://www.cfact.org/site/view_article.asp?idCategory=4&idarticle=209">http://web.archive.org/web/20071028093049/http://www.cfact.org/site/view_article.asp?idCategory=4&idarticle=209</a><table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="">R<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20071028093049/http://www.cfact.org/site/view_article.asp?idCategory=4&idarticle=209" style="text-decoration-line: none;">eassessing the Montreal Protocol</a></td></tr><tr><td style="" /><td style=""><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20071028093049im/http://www.cfact.org/site/images/space.gif" width="1" height="5" /></td></tr><tr><td style=""><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style=""><tbody><tr><td valign="bottom" style=""><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style=""><tbody><tr valign="bottom" align="left"><td style="">Health and biological effects of increased UV exposure may be overestimated</td><td style=""><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20071028093049im/http://www.cfact.org/site/images/space.gif" width="8" height="1" border="0" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td valign="bottom" align="right" style=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style=""><tbody><tr align="right"><td style="" /></tr><tr align="right"><td style="" /></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr align="right" colspan="2"><td style=""><div> </div><div>Friday, November 01, 1996</div></td></tr><tr align="right"><td style="">by Hugh W. Ellsaesser</td></tr><tr><td style=""> </td></tr><tr><td style="" /></tr></tbody></table><table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><td style=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="00" border="0" style=""><tbody><tr><td style="">I have been recommending for some time that the U.S. delay implementation of the Montreal Protocol and initiate action to withdraw from this treaty to phase-out CFCs at the earliest
opportunity.  My reasons for this position are: (1) As of now there
is no accepted explanation for increases and decreases in ozone
layer depths over the past 35 years; and (2) the health and
biological effects of increased UV exposure have been grossly
misrepresented.
     The ozone depletion theory, of course, maintains that man's
use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) is causing a thinning of the
earth's protective ozone layer allowing more ultraviolet radiation
to reach the surface.  This in turn is said to increase the skin
cancer risk to millions around the world.  However, there is little
proof to substantiate either of these two tenets.
     Regarding ozone loss, computer models have failed to
demonstrate any reliability whatsoever.  There has indeed been a
slight decline in global ozone levels, probably due to sunspot
activity and natural dynamics in the atmosphere, but in no way has
this decline paralleled the computer model calculations.  This, in
fact, has been noted by NASA's Dr. Robert Watson who stated: "[our
models] do not predict that ozone decreased the way it did over the
Northern Hemisphere during the past 17 years," and also by NASA's
Dr. James Anderson who said, "We don't know much of
anything...We've confused computer models of the atmosphere with
the real thing.  We're making huge extrapolation based on nothing
but models, and models are often wrong."
     The original 5% decline in ozone, predicted from the continued
use of Freon, was estimated to cause a 14% increase in skin cancer
incidence.  For the U.S. this would mean an increase from about
600,000 to 685,000 new skin-cancer cases per year.  But between
1979 and 1993, our ozone levels did drop by 5% and has anyone
noticed the intolerable effects this was supposed to produce.  Of
course not, because such an increase in UV is merely the equivalent
of each of us moving 70 miles south of our present homes -- hardly
a dangerous thing to do.
     The public has been misled to an even great extent in that the
possible beneficial consequences of increased UV have been
consistently ignored.  For land vertebrates (including man), the
only natural source of vitamin D required to metabolize calcium
into bone is from the action of solar UV on the oils in the skin.
Shortages in vitamin D during the growing years can lead to the
very serious disease of rickets in youth or to osteomalacia in
later life. 
     In the U.S., it is estimated that 20 to 25 million people now
suffer from osteomalacia.  Among these there are over twice as many
bone fractures per year (typically on the femur or spine) as there
are new cases of skin cancer per year.  Theoretically, an increase
in UV exposure would alleviate this condition.  At least two other
diseases, namely colon and breast cancer, have also been reported
with incidences inversely related to exposure to sunlight.
     To be sure, environmental groups, the media, and United
Nations organizations have been concerned about the issue of ozone
depletion.  But let us hope the new incoming Congress has the willingness to cut through any cloud of emotion that might be shadowing this issue and remove our nation from the ill-founded
mandates of the Montreal Protocol.
     Dr. Ellsaesser, a CFACT advisor, is a participating guest
scientist at the atmospheric science division of the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory (retired).November, 1996}}</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>

<h2>Key Quotes</h2>

"In considering the question of human activity and climate change it is essential to distinguish between global warming, which is a progressive increase in the annual mean global temperature, and human-activity-induced greenhouse warming, as may, for example, be caused by the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as a result of fossil fuel combustion or deforestation." <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/hugh_ellsaesser#s1">[1]</a>

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<h2>Key Deeds</h2>

November 1996

Ellsaesser questioned the validity of government action on ozone depletion and reducing the use of CFC's. In a <a target="_blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20071028093049/http://www.cfact.org/site/view_article.asp?idCategory=4&idarticle=209">November 1996 article</a> he said that "The public has been misled to an even great extent in that the possible beneficial consequences of increased UV have been consistently ignored." <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/hugh_ellsaesser#s3">[3]</a>

April, 2006

Ellsaesser was one of the signatories of the 2006 <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/denying-climate-change-urging-inaction">open letter</a> to Prime Minister Harper that urged inaction on climate policy while denying the existence of human-caused, or anthropogenic, global warming.

May, 2000

Ellsaesser was part of a group created to examine the IPCC's third assessment report. The <a target="blank" href="http://www.sepp.org/Archive/NewSEPP/ipccreview.htm">group</a> was assembled by the Science and Environmental Policy Project <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SEPP">(SEPP)</a>.

The group contained 14 "climate scientists" that made up SEPP's "Science Integrity Team." The team set out to present its findings "in plain English" to congress and the media—findings which suggested a lack of significant or human-caused global warming while concluding that "if the earth were to warm slightly, and atmospheric CO2 were to increase, the effects would be mostly beneficial."

Others who participated in SEPP's briefing included <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/david-wojick">David Wojick</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/richard-s-courtney">Richard Courtney</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/vincent-gray">Vincent Gray</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/wibjorn-karlen">Wibjorn Karlin</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ross-mckitrick" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ross McKitrick</a> and numerous other global warming skeptics. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/hugh_ellsaesser#s4">[4]</a>

<h2>Affiliations</h2>

<ul>

<li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Advancement_of_Sound_Science_Coalition">The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC)</a> — Former advisor (TASSC is <a target="blank" href="http://www.cspinet.org/integrity/nonprofits/the_advancement_of_sound_science_coalition_defunct_.html">now defunct</a>). <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/hugh_ellsaesser#s5">[5]</a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Committee_for_a_Constructive_Tomorrow">The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)</a> —<a target="blank" href="http://www.cfact.org/site/search.asp?txtQuery=Ellsaesser&txtAction=do&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=search#"> Board of Academic and Scientific Advisors</a>. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/hugh_ellsaesser#s6">[6]</a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Natural_Resources_Stewardship_Project">The Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP)</a> — Past <a target="blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090219135116/http://nrsp.com/scientists.html">Allied Expert </a>(The NRSP is now defunct). <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/hugh_ellsaesser#s7">[7]</a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a target="blank" href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php?title=George_C.Marshall_Institute">George C. Marshall Institute</a> — Science Advisory Board. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/hugh_ellsaesser#s8">[8]</a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a target="blank" href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php?title=Consumer_Alert">Consumer Alert</a> — <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Consumer_Alert">Advisor</a>. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/hugh_ellsaesser#s9">[9]</a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li>Environmental Conservation Organization (ECO) — <a target="_blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070415215033/http://www.eco.freedom.org/whoweare.html">Advisor</a>. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/hugh_ellsaesser#s10">[10]</a></li>

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<h2>Publications</h2>

According to an <a target="_blank" href="http://scientific.thomson.com/media/scpdf/wok_multidisc_fs.pdf">ISI database search of publications</a>, Ellsaesser has not been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal since 1984.

<h2>Resources</h2>

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<a id="s1" name="s1"> </a>"<a target="_blank" href="http://naturalscience.com/ns/letters/ns_let07.html">Re: Global warming: It's happening</a>," Letter to NaturalSCIENCE.

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<a id="s2" name="s2"> </a>Environ. Sci. Technol., 1991, 25 (7), pp 1186–1186 (<a target="_blank" href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es00019a608">ES&T Letters</a>).

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<li>

<a id="s3" name="s3"> </a>Hugh W. Ellsaesser. "<a target="_blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20071028093049/http://www.cfact.org/site/view_article.asp?idCategory=4&idarticle=209">Reassessing the Montreal Protocol: Health and biological effects of increased UV exposure may be overestimated</a>," Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, November 1, 1996. Archived October 28, 2007.

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<a id="s4" name="s4"> </a>"<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070215190653/http://www.sepp.org/Archive/NewSEPP/ipccreview.htm" target="_blank">What's wrong with U.N. climate science: An independent scientific review of the IPCC's Third Assessment Report</a>" (News Release), Science and Environmental Policy Project, May 25, 2000. Archived February 15, 2007.

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<a id="s5" name="s5"> </a>"<a target="blank" href="http://www.cspinet.org/integrity/nonprofits/the_advancement_of_sound_science_coalition_defunct.html">THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOUND SCIENCE COALITION [defunct]</a>," Integrity in Science. Accessed December 7, 2011.

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<a id="s6" name="s6"> </a>"<a target="_blank" href="http://www.cfact.org/about/1551/CFACT-Board-of-Advisors">CFACT Board of Advisors</a>," CFACT.org. Accessed December 7, 2011.

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<a id="s7" name="s7"> </a>"<a target="_blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090219135116/http://nrsp.com/scientists.html">Natural Resources Stewardship Project 'Allied Experts'</a>," The Natural Resources Stewardship Project. Archived February 19, 2009.

</li>

<li>

<a id="s8" name="s8"> </a>"<a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hugh_W.Ellsaesser">Hugh W. Ellsaesser</a>," SourceWatch Profile.

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<a id="s9" name="s9"> </a>"<a target="_blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030402093334/http://www.consumeralert.org/StaffAdvisors.htm">Staff</a>," Consumer Alert. Archived April 2, 2003.

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<a id="s10" name="s10"> </a>"<a target="_blank" href="http://http://web.archive.org/web/20070415215033/http://www.eco.freedom.org/whoweare.html">Board of Directors and Advisors</a>," eco.freedom.org. Archived April 15, 2007.

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Hugh W. Ellsaesser. "<a target="_blank" href="http://sovereignty.net/p/clim/warming97.htm">What you never hear about greenhouse warming</a>," Sovereignty.net.

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<a target="_blank" href="http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=browse&cat=692">Greenpeace Investigations on Hugh Ellsaesser</a>.

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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=239">ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Hugh Ellsaesser</a>.

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"<a target="_blank" href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/wiki/index.php/Deniers:Scientists:Hugh_Ellsaesser">Deniers:Scientists:Hugh Ellsaesser</a>," ExxonSecrets Wiki.

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