Simmons co-authors global warming book

Allen Simmons' latest work, The Resilient Earth, co-authored with Dr. Doug L. Hoffman, takes on a tough scientific subject which is charged with emotion - global warming.
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When the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report came out in 2007, the term “scientific consensus,” troubled both Simmons and Hoffman.

“Science is not consensus, Science is theory, observation and measurement. Science is not, ‘let's all take a vote on the speed of light and see what number we get.' Science is dictated by nature's rules,” said Simmons.

In view of this, they felt the IPCC report and Al Gore's sideshow did not reflect science.

“Calving icebergs and polar bears swimming in Arctic waters puts images in the mind, but it is not science,” said Simmons.

Both authors' careers led them to engineering and scientific projects. Simmons worked 12 years with NASA's top climate scientists and wrote one of the first computer models of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere.

“It's in NASA's archives,” Simmons said.

Hoffman has his Ph.D. in Computer Science and wrote computer models funded by the Human Genome Project, so it was a good match to challenge the IPCC reports, which were based on computer models.

Simmons said, “We are not challenging weekly weather models, nor those which predict the paths of hurricanes. We are challenging computer models which predict Earth's temperature 100 years in the future..."

Primary Cause of Global Warming Discovered, According to Dr. Peter L. Ward of Teton Tectonics

JACKSON, WY--(Marketwire - February 8, 2009) - Sulfur dioxide emitted from volcanoes and from burning fossil fuel is the primary initiator of global climate change, according to Dr. Peter L. Ward, a retired U.S. Geological Survey scientist who continues to study the earth and its environment through his own company, Teton Tectonics. "Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas compounding global warming, but it is not the initiator of climate change," according to Ward.
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"By reducing acid rain, we accidentally reduced global warming," Ward said. "The problem now is that sulfur dioxide emissions are rapidly increasing again as new power plants come on line every week around the world. But we know how to reduce sulfur emissions both technically and politically. It is much easier to do than reducing carbon dioxide emissions."