The following statement was released on February 27,1992 by the Science & Environmental Policy Project  As independent scientists researching atmosphere and climate problems, we are  concerned by the agenda for UNCED, the United Nations Conference on  Environment and Development, being developed by environmental and  activists  groups and certain political leaders. This so called "Earth Summit" is  scheduled to convene in  Brazil in June 1992 and aims to impose a system of  global envionmental regulations, including onerous taxes on energy fuels, on  the population of the United States and other industrialized nations. Such policy initiatives derive from highly uncetain scientific theories. They  are based on the unsupported assumption that catastrophic global warming  follows from the burning of fossill fuels and requires immediate action. We  do not agree.  A survey of U.S. Atmospheric scientists, conducted in the summer of 1991,  confirms that there is  no consesensus about the cause of the slight warming  observed during the past century. A recently published research paper even  suggests sunspot variability (which is directly proportional to solar  activity),  rather  than a rise in greenhouse gases is responsible for the  global temperature increases and decreases recoded since about 1880. Futhermore, the majority of scientific participants in the survey agreed that  the theoretical climate climate models used to predict a future warming  cannot be relied upon and are not validated by the existing climate record.  Yet all predictions are based on such theoretical models. Finally, agriculturalits generally agree that any increase in carbon dioxide  levels from fossil fuels burning has beneficial effects on most crops and on  world food supply. We are disturbed that activists, anxious to stop energy and economic growth,  are pushing ahead with drastic policies without taking notice of recent  changes in the underlying science. We fear that the rush to impose global  regulations will have catastrophic impacts on the world economy, on jobs,  standards of living, and health care, with the most severe consequences  falling on developing countries and the  poor. David B. Aubrey, PhD, Senior Scintist, Woods  Hole Oceanographic Institute.  Nathaniel B. Guttman, PhD, Research Physical Scientist, National Climatic  Data Center. Hugh B. Ellsaesser, PhD, Meteorologist, Lawerence Livermore  National Laboratory. Richard Lindzen, PhD, Center for Meteorology and  Physical Meteorolgy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Robert C.  Balling, PhD, Director, Laboratory of Climatology, Arizona State University. Patrick Micheals, PhD, Assoc. Professor of Environmental Sciences,  Universityy of Virginia. Roger Pielke, PhD, Professor of Atmospheric Science,  Colorado State University. Micheal Garstang, PhD, Professor of Meteorology,  University of Virginia. Sherwood P. Idso, PhD, Research Physicist, U.S. Water  Conservation Laboratory. Lev S. Gandin PhD, Visiting Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric  Research. John A. McGinley, Chief, Forecast Research group, Forecast Systems  Laboratory, NOAA. H. Jean Thiebaux, PhD, Research Scientist, National  Meterological Center, National Weather Service, NOAA. Kenneth V. Beard, PhD,  Professor of Atmospheric Physics, University of Illinois. Paul W. Mielke, Jr.  PhD, Professor, Department of Statistics, Colorado State University. Thomas  Lockhart, Meteorological Standards Institute. Peter F. Giddings, Meterologist, Weather Service Director. Hazen A. bedke,  Meteoroligist, Former Regional Director, National Weather Service.   Gabriel T. Csanady, PhD, Eminent Professor, Old Dominion University. Roy  Leep, Executive Weather Director, Gillet Weather Data Services. Terrance J.  Clark, Meteorologist, U.S. Air Force. Neil L. Frank, PhD, Meteorologist,  National Weather service. Bruce A. Boe, PhD, Director, North Dakota  Atmospheric Resource Board. Andrew Detweiler, PhD, Assoc. Professor,  Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, South Dakota School of Mines And  Technology. Robert M. Cunningham, Consulting Meteorologist, Fellow, American  Meteorological Society. Stephen R. Hanna, PhD, Sigma Research Corporation,  Elliot Abrams, Meteoroligist, Senior Vice President, AccuWeather, Inc.  William E. Reifsnyder, PhD, Consulting Meteorologist, professor Emeritus,  Forest Meteorology, Yale University. David W. Reylnolds, Research  meteorologist. Jerry A. Williams, Meteorologist, President, Ocean Routes,  Inc. Lee W. Eddington, Meteorologist, Geophysics Division, Pacific Missile test  Center.Werner A Braum, PhD, Former Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, Florida  State University.David P. Rodgers, PhD, Assoc. Professor of Research  Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanograghy. Brian Fiedler, PhD, Asst  professor of Meteorology, University of Oaklahoma. Edward A. Brandes, Meterologist. Melvyn Shapiro, Chief of Meteorological  Research Wave Propagation Laboratory, NOAA. Joesph Zabransky, Jr., Associate  professor of Meteorology, Plymouth State College. James A. Moore, Project  Manager, Research Applications program, national Center for Atmospheric  Research. Daniel J McNaughton, ENSR Consultating and Engineering. Brian  Sussman, Meteorologist, Fellow, American Meteorologist, fellow, American  Meteorological Society. H Read McGrath, PhD, Meteorologist. Robert E.  Zabrecky, Meteorologist. William  M. Porch, PhD, Atmospheric Physicist, Los Alamos national  Laboratory. Earle R. Williams, PhD, Associate Profesor of Meteorology, Dept.  of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of  Technology. S. Fred Singer, PhD, Atmospheric Physsicist, University of  Virginia, Director, Science & Environmental Policy Project. (Affilitions  listed are for identification purposes only).