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No Need to Panic About Global Warming
Source: The Wall Street Journal
1/27/12A candidate for public office in any contemporary democracy may have to consider what, if anything, to do about "global warming." Candidates should understand that the oft-repeated claim that nearly all scientists demand that something dramatic be done to stop global warming is not true. In fact, a large and growing number of distinguished scientists and engineers do not agree that drastic actions on global warming are needed.
In September, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever, a supporter of President Obama in the last election, publicly resigned from the American Physical Society (APS) with a letter that begins: "I did not renew [my membership] because I cannot live with the [APS policy] statement: 'The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring."[More]
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Will Replicated Global Warming Science Make Mann Go Ape?
Source: World Climate Report
1/10/12About 10 years ago, December 20, 2002 to be exact, we published a paper titled "Revised 21st century temperature projections" in the journal Climate Research. We concluded:
Temperature projections for the 21st century made in the Third Assessment Report (TAR) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicate a rise of 1.4 to 5.8°C for 1990-2100. However, several independent lines of evidence suggest that the projections at the upper end of this range are not well supported..[More]
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Antarctic Temperature Trends
Source: World Climate Report
1/03/12Almost exactly two three years ago, a prominent paper became a media darling as it, according to the alarmist website Real Climate "appeared to reverse the 'Antarctic cooling' meme that has been a staple of disinformation efforts for a while now."
The Nature paper, by Eric Steig and colleagues, made the cover on the January 22, 2009 issue.
Figure 1. Cover of January 22, 2009 issue of Nature magazine (left) showing the map of temperature trends across Antarctica as determined by the analysis of Steig et al.[More]
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Huh? A Reply to Nathan Urban
Source: World Climate Report
12/05/11A few weeks ago, we ran a story about a paper which was (then) soon to be published in Science magazine which generally concluded that the earth's climate sensitivity (how much the earth's average temperature will rise from a doubling of the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration) was likely lower than the IPCC's best guess (which is 3°C) and known with far less uncertainty-especially at the high end. While the IPCC's vision of the uncertainty as to the true value of the climate sensitivity included a "fat tail" at the high end (that is, a non-negligible possibility that the true climate sensitivity was greater than 6°C), the new Science paper put the kibosh on that notion, concluding "In summary, using a spatially extensive network of paleoclimate observations in combination with a climate model we find that climate sensitivities larger than 6 K are implausible." And adding "Assuming paleoclimatic constraints apply to the future as predicted by our model, these results imply lower probability of imminent extreme climatic change than previously thought."
A pretty provocative finding to say the least!
In our article, "A new, lower estimate of climate sensitivity," we described the paper-by a team led by Andreas Schmittner-in a positive light, presented and commented on the paper's main findings and conclusions, reprinted the abstract in its entirety, and included a link to where (a free version) of the paper was available at the personal website of one of the paper's co-authors (Nathan Urban).[More]
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NAtural Variability Still Plays Large Role in WInter Climate
SOURCE: World Climate Report
10/24/11The last couple of winters across the central and eastern United States as well as much of Europe were on the cold and snowy-side of things, to say the least. And of course, anytime there is some type of weather misery, a particular segment of the population likes to trot out global warming as the culprit. Cold, snowy, winters are no exception (despite your apparent (mis)conception as to what global “warming” would entail).[More]
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Press Release: Severe Food SHortages on the Horizon
SOURCE: CO2 Science
6/14/11A new study by the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change -- Estimates of Global Food Production in the Year 2050: Will We Produce Enough to Adequately Feed the World? -- reveals that a very real and devastating food crisis is looming on the horizon, and continuing advancements in agricultural technology and expertise will most likely not be able to bridge the gap between global food supply and global food demand just a few short years from now.
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Taking the EPA to Court
SOURCE: World Climate Report
6/08/11On May 20, three briefs were filed with the Washington DC Circuit Court of Appeals laying out petitions to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulatory initiatives concerning greenhouse gas emissions (and how the initiatives came to be). Of the three petitions, two were from a conglomerate of states led by Texas and Virginia, and the other was by a 80-odd member grouping on non-state parties with a variety of interests in the EPA’s regulations. A fourth brief from a collection of climate scientists followed week later.[More]
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Volcanism Caused by Global Warming?
Source: World Climate Report
3/14/11We all know that if you are impacted by a flood, drought, tornado, hurricane, heat wave, wildfire, tsunami, earthquake, landslide, or anything else you can dream of, you might as well just go ahead and blame global warming—after all, if you don’t someone else most assuredly will. Whether or not you’d be correct, though, is another story entirely.
Over the past year, a number of volcanic events have been in the news from Europe to Hawaii and now the big earthquake in Japan and resultant tsunami has a lot of folks asking “can we blame all of this global warming.” Literally one day after the earthquake in Japan, The Daily Caller ran a story entitled “Some respond to Japan earthquake by pointing to global warming” starting with the sentence “Hours after a massive earthquake rattled Japan, environmental advocates connected the natural disaster to global warming.[More]
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A Frog Revival
Source: World Climate Report
12/13/10About 15 to 20 years ago, folks began to notice problems in amphibian communities around the world. At first, physical deformities were being noticed and then large population declines were being documented.
The finger was initially pointed at the coal industry, with an idea that perhaps mercury was leading to the deformities.[More]
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CO2-induced Vegetation Growth Slows Global Warming
Source: World Climate Report
12/08/10We are continually deluged with talk about positive feedbacks leading to even higher levels of global warming, but aside from the great water vapor debate, we rarely hear much about negative feedbacks which could act to slow the rate of temperature rise.
Well that is about to change.
A new study has identified a negative feedback between carbon dioxide-enhanced vegetative growth and global warming—the denser that vegetation becomes, the greater the cooling influence it has on any global temperature rise.[More]
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'Warmest Year On Record?' The Truth Is Global Warming Has Halted
Source: The Global Warming Policy Foundation
12/05/10A year ago tomorrow, just before the opening of the UN Copenhagen world climate summit, the British Meteorological Office issued a confident prediction. The mean world temperature for 2010, it announced, 'is expected to be 14.58C, the warmest on record' - a deeply worrying 0.58C above the 1961-1990 average.
World temperatures, it went on, were locked inexorably into an ever-rising trend: 'Our experimental decadal forecast confirms previous indications that about half the years 2010-2019 will be warmer than the warmest year observed so far - 1998.'
Met Office officials openly boasted that they hoped by their statements to persuade the Copenhagen gathering to impose new and stringent carbon emission limits - an ambition that was not to be met.[More]
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The EPA's And Enron's End-Runs Of Congress
Source: Forbes.com
12/01/10Immediately after chances for carbon cap-and-tax legislation were swept away by a Nov. 2 Republican House cleaning, the Obama administration proceeded with its Plan B. At a time when Congress was recessed for the Thanksgiving holiday and the president was ceremoniously pardoning two white turkeys, the Environmental Protection Agency served up American industries a fowl of far darker feathering--a gobbler of regulatory control.[More]
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Boycott the Cancun Climate Circus
Source:Canada Free Press
11/27/10Why is Australia participating in the Cancun Climate Circus?
This conference is no longer about climate – it is about international redistribution of wealth and industry from the west to the rest of the world. Australia is part of the spoils they hope to redistribute.
There is zero chance of global agreement on emissions trading schemes or more carbon taxes.[More]
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The EPA Permitorium
Source: The Wall Street Journal
11/22/10President Obama is now retrenching after his midterm rebuke, and one of the main ways he'll try to press his agenda is through the alphabet soup of the federal regulators. So a special oversight priority for the new Congress ought to be the Environmental Protection Agency, which has turned a regulatory firehose on U.S. business and the power industry in particular.[More]
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UN IPCC Official Admits 'We Redistribute World's Wealth By Climate Policy'
Source: News Busters
11/18/10If you needed any more evidence that the entire theory of manmade global warming was a scheme to redistribute wealth you got it Sunday when a leading member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change told a German news outlet, "[W]e redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy."
Such was originally published by Germany's NZZ Online Sunday, and reprinted in English by the Global Warming Policy Foundation moments ago:
(NZZ AM SONNTAG): The new thing about your proposal for a Global Deal is the stress on the importance of development policy for climate policy. Until now, many think of aid when they hear development policies.
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Quaking Aspen Rejoice
Source: World Climate Report
11/01/10The fall is here again, and deciduous trees across America are putting on their annual display of fall colors. Americans are particularly fond of Quaking Aspen trees that really know how to put on a show in the fall with leaves turning spectacular tints of red and yellow in the autumn. The range of Quaking Aspen is extensive in North America including many picturesque locations in the Rockies (makes us think about John Denver).
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Sweet News for Maple Syrup
SOURCE: World Climate Report
9/30/10We conducted a web search for “Global Warming and Maple Syrup” and found over 150,000 sites – almost all proclaim that the maple syrup industry is in deep peril given the threat of global warming. This must surely be seen as bad news for all those who enjoy maple syrup on waffles, pancakes, oatmeal, crumpets, and French toast (and in any number of desserts as well). Before you think this threat is less than serious, be aware that maple syrup is big business in New England and in Canada.[More]
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Open Letter from Craig Idso to the InterAcademy Council
9/07/10Thank you for the time and effort put forth by you and others on the InterAcademy Council in reviewing the policies and procedures of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and for
the recommendations for change the Council has made. I hope those suggestions will be implemented and that the IPCC will become more open in its processes and in the compilation of its assessment
reports. It is to this end that I wish to further address you.[More]
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Meltdown of the climate 'consensus'
Source: New York Post
9/01/10If this keeps up, no one's going to trust any scientists.
The global-warming establishment took a body blow this week, as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change received a stunning rebuke from a top-notch independent investigation.
For two decades, the IPCC has spearheaded efforts to convince the world's governments that man-made carbon emissions pose a threat to the global temperature equilibrium -- and to civilization itself.[More]
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The Great Russian Heat Wave of 2010 Part II
Source: World Climate Report
8/19/10Last week we presented our analysis of the causes behind this summer’s record-breaking heat wave in western Russia.
We summarized the situation thus:
But global warming theory doesn’t come anywhere close to explaining why it’s so darn hot this summer in Moscow.
Long-term observations suggest a more basic cause—an unusual and unprecedented (at least since 1950) confluence of several naturally-occurring atmospheric circulation patterns that together combined to set the stage for extreme warmth.[More]
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Climate Change Alarmists Ignore Scientific Methods
Source: Houston Chronicle
8/14/10When it comes to global warming, the public at large doesn't know what to believe anymore. Global warming alarmists have been hammering at us for years; the media is made up mostly of true believers; and politicians, who, in the absence of understanding and knowledge about climate science, have put themselves out on a limb from which it is difficult to retreat. Given the economic interests and the political powers involved, this dilemma will not go away quietly.[More]
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NOAA’s magic wand waves away 2000-2009 cooling
Source: Paul MacRae
8/05/10The recent report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration claims that surface temperatures have increased in the past decade. In fact, the NOAA report, “State of the Climate in 2009,” says 2000-2009 was 0.2° Celsius [1] warmer than the decade previous. However, the report’s summary, as shown in Figure 1 below, shows a decadal increase of only .2° Fahrenheit (1.1°C) based on 20th century temperatures.[More]
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What the Earth Knows
Source: The American Scholar.org
7/22/10By Robert B. Laughlin
Any serious conversation about the planet's climate and our energy future must begin, paradoxically, with a backward look at geologic time. The reason for this is that the way forward is fogged by
misunderstandings about the earth.[More]
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The Week That Was 2010-07-17 (July 17, 2010)
SOURCE: Science & Environmental Policy Project
7/17/10The Week That Was 2010-07-17 (July 17, 2010)
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Although the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act (APA) appears dead, Senator Reid announced he will introduce, yet, another version of cap-and-tax this month by any other name. But both the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and EPA have produced studies showing that cap-and-tax will be economically harmful. The CBO report is a solid, prudent review of three studies: Resources for the Future, Brookings Institution, and CRA International.[More]
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It's the Sun, Stupid
Source: National Post
5/21/10Four years ago, when I first started profiling scientists who were global warming skeptics, I soon learned two things: Solar scientists were overwhelmingly skeptical that humans caused climate change and, overwhelmingly, they were reluctant to go public with their views. Often, they refused to be quoted at all, saying they feared for their funding, or they feared other recriminations from climate scientists in the doomsayer camp.
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Sesame Street Revisited: Interviewing Vegetable Puppets about CO2
Source: World Climate Report
3/22/10Back in November, Sesame Street celebrated its 40 anniversary, and the show featured First Lady Michelle Obama talking to vegetable puppets about helping curb childhood obesity. The First Lady explained to three young children and two somewhat old muppets the logistics of planting and growing tomatoes, lettuce and carrots as part of her initiative to promote healthy eating. She mentioned that eating these vegetables can make the children big and strong.[More]
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State suing for responsible scientific conclusions
Source: Houston Chronicle
3/13/10The Environmental Protection Agency recently concluded that man-made greenhouse gas emissions — including carbon dioxide — are harmful pollutants and must be regulated. The lawsuit I filed challenging that finding does not address the disputed science surrounding global warming. Instead, it focuses on the indisputable fact that the EPA relied on information that has been discredited, manipulated, lost or destroyed, and sometimes evaded peer review.[More]
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Chasing votes with ‘clean and green'
Source: Houston Chronicle
3/07/10I'm a backer of wind, solar and biofuels as new, high-technology future contributors to the energy supply of the nation. Facing the daunting demand forecasts of the medium- and long-term future, the nation will need all the energy it can produce from every available source. Today's seeming abundance of energy is a recession-driven aberration from the continuing rise in postindustrial, electron-dominated energy requirements in this century.[More]
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A Rational Look at Green Jobs
Source: Science & Public Policy Institute
2/23/10Recent public statements promote the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) as a way to create millions of green jobs. But the esoteric definition of green jobs may deliver employment far below what these statements lead average Americans to expect. The electric sector is likely to provide less than two or three percent of these projections in terms of direct employment.[More]
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IPCC Corruption Included Ignoring Facts and Science
Source: CFP
2/15/10Phil Jones, disgraced and dismissed Director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU), granted BBC reporter Roger Harrabin an interview. Why Harrabin? His reporting has shown bias on all the IPCC and CRU activities. Leaked emails showed the CRU gang used friends in the BBC and that apparently continues.[More]
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Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995
Source: Mail Online
2/14/10The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.
Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.
Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.[More]
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Why the EPA is Wrong about Recent Warming
Source: Master Resource
2/11/10by Chip Knappenberger
February 11, 2010
Back in December, the EPA announced that it had determined that greenhouse gases released by human activities “threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations.” This “Endangerment Finding” is the first step toward EPA’s issuing regulations aimed at restricting GHG emissions in the U.S.
Unfortunately for the EPA, a major pillar of support of the Endangerment Finding—that “most” of the “observed warming” since the mid-20th century is from greenhouse gas emissions from human activities—has been shown by recent scientific research in major peer-reviewed scientific journals to be largely in doubt.
Add this result to the list of problems that seems to grow longer with each passing day as more IPCC gaffes are uncovered and Climategate emails are parsed.[More]
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The Next Climate-gate?
SOURCE: Fox News
2/10/10The global warming scandal keeps getting worse. Revelations over the few weeks show that many important assertions in the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were based on misquotes and false claims from environmental groups, not on published academic research as it was originally presented. This is on top of the recent mess regarding data, where the three most relied-on data series used by the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 assessment report still have not been released.[More]
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“Warming Island”—Another Global Warming Myth Exposed
Source: World Climate Report
2/08/10In our continuing theme of exposing ill-founded global warming alarmist stories (see here and here for our most recent debunkings), we’ll examine the much touted discovery of “Warming Island”—a small piece of land that has been “long thought to be part of Greenland’s mainland”—but that turns out to have been known to be an island back in the early 1950s.
Another good story out the window.
As was the case of the previous two scare stories we examined that turned out to be untrue (global warming leading to amphibian decline in Central and South America, and the Inuit language lacking a word for ‘robin’), the story of “Warming Island” was also prominently featured in the New York Times.[More]
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Africagate: top British scientist says UN panel is losing credibility
SOURCE: Times Online
2/07/10A LEADING British government scientist has warned the United Nations’ climate panel to tackle its blunders or lose all credibility.
Robert Watson, chief scientist at Defra, the environment ministry, who chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1997 to 2002, was speaking after more potential inaccuracies emerged in the IPCC’s 2007 benchmark report on global warming.
The most important is a claim that global warming could cut rain-fed north African crop production by up to 50% by 2020, a remarkably short time for such a dramatic change.[More]
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COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD — Clues to climate found in ‘deep time’
Source: Holland Sentinel
2/04/10By John Barwis
Holland Sentinel contributor
Posted Feb 04, 2010 @ 10:13 AM
Park Township, MI — Anyone who sees a sonogram of an unborn child can imagine the thrill experienced more than 100 years ago by the first physicians to image internal organs using x-rays. The joy and amazement of lifting the veil on previously unseen wonders has driven the lure of discovery since man’s very beginning.
Over the past 40 years earth scientists have perfected 3D seismic tools, similar to sonograms but employing more powerful energy sources, which illuminate details of the ground beneath us to a depth of several miles.[More]
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Climate Researchers Manipulated and Hid Data
SOURCE: Fox News
2/02/10Climate-gate has struck again: A new investigation reveals crucial flaws in data about climate change, as well as attempts by leading researchers to cover up their own mistakes.
The study by London paper The Guardian relies upon e-mails leaked by hackers from the University of East Anglia's climatic research unit (CRU). The paper found serious flaws in measurements from Chinese weather stations, noting that documents from them could not be produced.[More]
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ClimateGate's Michael Mann Received Stimulus Funds
The Wall Street Journal
1/16/10A scientist in the middle of the ClimateGate scandal received economic stimulus funds last June.
As NewsBusters reported on November 28, Penn State University is investigating Professor Michael Mann, the creator of the discredited "Hockey Stick Graph," for his involvement in an international attempt to exaggerate and manipulate climate data in order to advance the myth of manmade global warming.
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Judicial Watch Uncovers NASA Documents Related to Global Warming Controversy
Source: Judicial Watch
1/14/10NASA Scientists Go on Attack After Climate Data Error Exposed
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Washington, DC -- January 14, 2010
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained internal documents from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) related to a controversy that erupted in 2007 when Canadian blogger Stephen McIntyre exposed an error in NASA's handling of raw temperature data from 2000-2006 that exaggerated the reported rise in temperature readings in the United States. According to multiple press reports, when NASA corrected the error, the new data apparently caused a reshuffling of NASA's rankings for the hottest years on record in the United States, with 1934 replacing 1998 at the top of the list.
These new documents, obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), include internal GISS email correspondence as NASA scientists attempted to deal with the media firestorm resulting from the controversy.[More]
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CO2 is Not a Pollutant
