Thursday, 24 September 2009 |
The price for speaking out against global warming is exile from your peers,
even if you are at the top of your field. What follows is an example of a
scientific group that not only stopped a leading researcher from attending a
meeting, but then-without discussing the evidence-applauds the IPCC and
recommends urgent policies to reduce greenhouse gases. What has science been
reduced to if bear biologists feel they can effectively issue ad hoc
recommendations on worldwide energy use? How low have standards sunk if
informed opinion is censored, while uninformed opinion is elevated to
official policy?
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Tuesday, 22 September 2009 |
The Economic Effects of Legislation to Reduce Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
September 2009
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Thursday, 17 September 2009 |
In an article entitled "Population adiposity and climate change," which was published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine write that "world-wide, over one billion adults are overweight and around 300 million are obese", which state of affairs, they suggest, "has serious implications for health, increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke and some cancers." What seems to concern them even more, however, are what they call the "serious implications" that the growing body mass index (BMI) of the world's human population have for the temperature of the planet.
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Thursday, 17 September 2009 |
GARTH Paltridge was a chief research scientist with the CSIRO's division of atmospheric research before becoming the director of the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies and chief executive of the Antarctic Co-operative Research Centre. His latest skeptical contribution to the debate on the dangers of carbon dioxide is a book, endearingly titled The Climate Caper.
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Friday, 11 September 2009 |
No heat buildup in the oceans = no global warming:
SPPI’s authoritative Monthly CO2 Report for August 2009 announces the
publication of a major paper by Professors David Douglass and Robert
Knox of the Physics Department in the University of Rochester, New
York, demonstrating that the heat buildup in the oceans that is a
necessary fingerprint of manmade global warming is not occurring. This
is another mortal blow to the alarmist cause in the climate debate.
Report, page 4.
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Friday, 04 September 2009 |
Life in Africa is often nasty, impoverished and short. AIDS kills 2.2 million Africans every year
according to WHO (World Health Organization) reports. Lung infections cause 1.4 million
deaths, malaria 1 million more, intestinal diseases 700,000. Diseases that could be prevented
with simple vaccines kill an additional 600,000 annually, while war, malnutrition and life in
filthy slums send countless more parents and children to early graves.
And yet, day after day, Africans are told the biggest threat we face is – global warming.
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Thursday, 03 September 2009 |
Opening Statement of Senator James M. Inhofe
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Thursday, 03 September 2009 |
“Global Warming for Dummies,” a guide which claims to “sort out fact
from fiction” about so-called global climate change, in reality
contains numerous biased statements – in some cases advocating the
censorship of opinions which differ from those of the authors.
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 |
What does the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation think about carbon dioxide (CO2)-induced global warming?
“We don’t think about it,”Bill Gates said during last year’s Engineers Without Borders International Conference.On another occasion, he told Newsweek magazine: “The angle I’ll look at most is … What about the 4 billion poorest people? What about energy and environmental issues for them?”
The question, however, is not simply a matter of reprioritising limited resources. More fundamentally, the scientific case for catastrophic global climate change from increased atmospheric CO2 is substantially flawed.
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 |
After crunching data this week from two of our satellite-based microwave sensors, and from NOAA’s official sea surface temperature (SST) product ERSST v3b, I think the evidence is pretty clear:
The ERSST v3b product has a spurious warming since 1998 of about 0.2 deg. C, most of which occurred as a jump in 2001.
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 |
What will it take for the media to let go of their biases and begin doing their job, reporting the truth?
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 |
In 2009, a series of inconvenient developments for the promoters of man-made global warming fears continue unabated.
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 |
DeSmogBlog describes itself as "the world’s number one source for accurate, fact based information regarding Global Warming misinformation campaigns." It takes the position that "An overwhelming majority of the world’s climate scientists agree that the globe is warming...and that the indiscriminate burning of fossil fuels is to blame." (Einstein didn't think majority opinion decided scientific disputes, but that's another discussion.)
DeSmogBlog alleges that those who doubt global warming theory are part of a "a well-funded and highly organized public relations campaign" that is "trying to confuse the public, to forestall individual and political actions that might cut into exorbitant coal, oil and gas industry profits."
In this comic-book view of the world, environmental issues aren't complex matters involving imperfect tradeoffs, limited resources, and inadequate technologies. Nor is it necessary to consider ideas from multiple perspectives in order to understand them thoroughly.
In the DeSmogBlog universe, good guys and bad guys are readily identifiable and the way forward is clear. Although DeSmogBlog implies that its concern is with industry lobbying efforts, in reality anyone who disagrees with its perspective gets slimed. Satirist Rex Murphy, for example, is called "resolutely stupid" because his bracing commentaries on global warming contrast with the DeSmogBlog point-of-view.
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Monday, 31 August 2009 |
A guest essay by Statistician Dr. Richard Mackey, who authored a 2007 peer-reviewed study which found that the solar system regulates the earth's climate. The paper was published August 17, 2007 in the Journal of Coastal Research - Excerpt: "According to the findings reviewed in this paper, the variable output of the sun, the sun's gravitational relationship between the earth (and the moon) and earth's variable orbital relationship with the sun, regulate the earth's climate. The processes by which the sun affects the earth show periodicities on many time scales; each process is stochastic and immensely complex."
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Monday, 31 August 2009 |
So, if the orthodox climate science is wrong, what's the real motivation for action - the real agenda?
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Monday, 31 August 2009 |
Graphs of sea level for twelve locations in the southwest Pacific show stable sea level for about ten years over the region. The data are compared with results from elsewhere, all of which suggest that any rise of global sea level is negligible. The Darwin theory of coral formation, and subsidence ideas for guyots would suggest that we should see more land subsidence, and apparent sea level rise, than is actually occurring. Sea level studies have not been carried out for very long, but they can indicate major tectonic components such as isostatic rebound in Scandinavia. Attempts to manipulate the data by modelling to show alarming rates of sea level rise (associated with alleged global warming) are not supported by primary regional or global data. Even those places frequently said to be in grave danger of drowning, such as the Maldives, Tuvalu and Holland, appear to be safe.
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Monday, 31 August 2009 |
Wherever Jim Hansen is right now -- whatever speech the "censored" NASA
scientist is giving -- perhaps he'll find time to mention the plight of
Alan Carlin. Though don't count on it.
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Monday, 31 August 2009 |
When I served on the committee that resulted in the CCSP (2006) report on reconciling the surface and tropospheric temperature trends, one of the issues I attempted to raise was a warm bias in the construction of long term surface temperature trends when near surface land minimum temperatures (and maximum temperatures when the atmospheric boundary layer remained stably stratified all day, such as in the high latitude winter) were used. This error will occur even for pristine observing sites. Tom Karl and his close associates suppressed this perspective as I document in: Pielke Sr., Roger A., 2005: Public Comment on CCSP Report “Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere: Steps for Understanding and Reconciling Differences“. 88 pp including appendices.
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Monday, 31 August 2009 |
The Earth has been warming not for 150 years but for 300. Bristlecone pines are unreliable sources of data on temperature because tree-ring width is influenced less by temperature than by rainfall and, more recently, by CO2 fertilization.
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Thursday, 20 August 2009 |
America's "mainstream" media missed it, but April 17 was a red-letter day for its Deep Ecologists. Red letter because it was the day the Obama Administration declared that carbon dioxide and five other gases emitted by industry threaten "the health and welfare of current and future generations." This opens the door to regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency to "cap" emissions. The Deep Ecologists see this as the path to their cherished dream of a less populous nation with greatly reduced industrial production. It will also lead to a poorer (they would call it "simpler") standard of living.
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