Climate Skepticism Hits Brazil During Rio Earth Summit — TV & Newspapers Feature Skeptical Scientists Rejecting Man-Made Climate Fears

Climate Skepticism Hits Brazil: High profile ‘denialism’ achieved liftoff due to the popular comedian Jo Soares’ show — Soares had on Dr. Ricardo Augusto Felicio, a professor at U. of Sao Paulo, specializing in the study of Antarctic climate. His faculty webpage says he engages in ‘demystifying anthropogenic climate change and its ideology embedded.’ The interview resonated and created a much wider influence. Felicio is instilling climate skepticism in his students at the University of Sao Paulo’

‘The television network known as Band, Brazil’s 4th largest, aired a climate denialist broadcast, which appears to be the beginning of a series. ‘Earth’s temperature is not increasing, say scholars’

Warmist Chris Mooney laments: ‘So much for claiming that Brazil has some sort of exemption from climate denialism among the world’s major countries’

UN Earth Summit Greeted By Brazilian Newspaper O Globo in Rio, Featuring Skeptical Scientist: ‘Global warming in check’ — ‘While delegations of world leaders landed for Rio +20, a voice of the Brazilian scientific community not only questioned the relevance of the event, but the problem of global warming itself’

Climate Realism in Brazilian television: Prof. Ricardo Augusto Felício, ‘has a PhD in Geography, by the University of São Paulo, Brazil, study of dynamic climatology in Antarctica — ‘Dr. Ricardo stated that the AGW is not a theory, but an hypothesis’

Skepticism spreads to Brazil: ‘Mark yet another day in the Diary of How the Skeptics Won. Skeptics are getting heard (funny how the truth spreads)’

For more on UN Rio Earth Summit see here.

Below are a few excerpts of additional Brazilian scientists rejecting man-made climate fears from a 2010 Special Report: More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims – Challenge UN IPCC & Gore

Page 13 of report:

Brazilian Geologist Geraldo Luís Lino, who authored the 2009 book “The Global Warming Fraud: How a Natural Phenomenon Was Converted into a False World Emergency,” rejected man-made climate claims in 2010. Luis Lino declared it “global warming fraud” and called climate fears an “imaginary threat”. ―”AGW has been forcefully imposed by means of a barrage of scare stories and indoctrination that begins in the elementary school textbooks”, he wrote on November 14, 2010. “Hundreds of billion dollars have been wasted with the attempt of imposing a (AGW) theory that is not supported by physical world evidences,” he added. “History offers a gloomy precedent of