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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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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Climategate: You should be steamed
Source: Houston Chronicle
1/03/10Now that Copenhagen is past history, what is the next step in the man-made global warming controversy? Without question, there should be an immediate and thorough investigation of the scientific debauchery revealed by “Climategate.”
If you have not heard, hackers penetrated the computers of the Climate Research Unit, or CRU, of the United Kingdom's University of East Anglia, exposing thousands of e-mails and other documents. CRU is one of the top climate research centers in the world. Many of the exchanges were between top mainstream climate scientists in Britain and the U.S.[More]
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The Climate Science Isn't Settled
Source: WSJ By RICHARD S. LINDZEN
12/13/09Is there a reason to be alarmed by the prospect of global warming? Consider that the measurement used, the globally averaged temperature anomaly (GATA), is always changing. Sometimes it goes up, sometimes down, and occasionally-such as for the last dozen years or so-it does little that can be discerned.
Claims that climate change is accelerating are bizarre.[More]
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Open Letter to Secretary-General of United Nations
Source:His Excellency Ban Ki Moon
12/08/09Dear Secretary-General,
Climate change science is in a period of ‘negative discovery’ - the more we learn about this exceptionally complex and rapidly evolving field the more we realize how little we know. Truly, the science is NOT settled.
Therefore, there is no sound reason to impose expensive and restrictive public policy decisions on the peoples of the Earth without first providing convincing evidence that human activities are causing dangerous climate change beyond that resulting from natural causes.[More]
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A December 7th Message Regarding the Proposed Copenhagen Climate Treaty
12/07/09A December 7th Message Regarding the Proposed Copenhagen Climate Treaty
Welcome to CO2IsGreen.org and for today, December 7th, 2009, to SpeakOutforAmerica.com. I would like to make some brief remarks about the meeting that is being convened in Copenhagen which will attempt to come up with an agreement, and ultimately a treaty, to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide.
The bottom line of what we believe the empirical observations are telling us about CO2 and climate change and the impact of restricting CO2 emissions follow:
1. CO2 is not a major cause of climate change. While Earth's climate system is extremely complex, three key observations mentioned in the videos today, bear this out.
a. Increases or decreases in atmospheric CO2 follow temperature changes.
b. CO2's capacity to trap additional heat in the Earth's atmosphere declines very rapidly, logarithmically, and has nearly maxed out.
c. Simply respecting the implications of a.[More]
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Speak Out for America
Comments and Videos from Climate and Plants Science Experts
12/04/09Speak Out for America is a community that engages scientists and enthusiastic activists who support the best about America in the face of climate change hysterics. Speak Out for America aims to defend America against those who twist science to justify burdens on our economy. The Obama Administration, our Congress, and international bodies, are proposing regulatory solutions and carbon costs that consumers, taxpayers and producers will bear as the costs of goods and services increase.[More]
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Australia's Parliament Defeats Global Warming Bill
Source: The Associated Press
12/01/09SYDNEY — Australia's Parliament defeated legislation to set up a greenhouse gas emissions trading system on Wednesday, throwing a central plank of the government's plans to combat global warming into disarray.
The Senate, where Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's government does not hold a majority, rejected his administration's proposal for Australia to become one of the first countries to install a so-called cap-and-trade system to slash the amount of heat-trapping pollution that industries pump into the air.
The 41-33 vote followed a tumultuous debate in which the conservative main opposition party at first agreed to support a version of the government's bill, then dramatically dumped its leader and switched sides after bitter divisions erupted within the party.[More]
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Global-warming legislation - fight isn't over
Source: OneNewsNow
11/27/09Although a vote on "climate change" legislation is being pushed into 2010, a leading think tank is warning people to stay on their toes.
Prospects are looking dim for cap-and-trade legislation in 2009. In conjunction, America's failure to pass the legislation is having a negative effect on the upcoming Copenhagen climate treaty talks.[More]
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Climate Emails Stoke Debate: Scientists' Leaked Correspondence Illustrates Bitter Feud over Global Warming
Source: Wall Street Journal
11/23/09The scientific community is buzzing over thousands of emails and documents -- posted on the Internet last week after being hacked from a prominent climate-change research center -- that some say raise ethical questions about a group of scientists who contend humans are responsible for global warming.
The correspondence between dozens of climate-change researchers, including many in the U.S., illustrates bitter feelings among those who believe human activities cause global warming toward rivals who argue that the link between humans and climate change remains uncertain.
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Download the emails and documents (The file is over 60 MB) Journal Community
Vote: Are humans responsible for climate change? Some emails also refer to efforts by scientists who believe man is causing global warming to exclude contrary views from important scientific publications.[More]
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Even Monbiot says the science now needs “reanalyising”
Source: The Harold Sun
11/22/09Even George Monbiot, one of the fiercest media propagandists of the warming faith, admits he should have been more sceptical and says the science now needs to be rechecked:
It’s no use pretending that this isn’t a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that they are genuine, and I’m dismayed and deeply shaken by them.[More]
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Time for Inaction on Global Warming
Source: The Wall Street Journal
11/18/09"Global" and "warming" are perhaps the two most important words used to justify the approaching governmental control of our economy. In reality, global warming is barely occurring: In the 30 years starting in 1977, warming amounted to 0.32 degree Fahrenheit per decade, and in the next hundred years it is estimated to be about half a degree per decade.
So global warming looks like neither the alarmists' serious threat, nor an immediate crisis that requires governmental control of America's economy to reduce it.[More]
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The Economic Uses of Al Gore
Sourrce: The Wall Street Journal
11/17/09Last spring Tennessee Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn asked Al Gore during a House hearing if his investments in green energy meant he would benefit personally from cap and trade.
"If you believe that the reason I have been working on this issue for 30 years is because of greed, you don't know me," Mr.[More]
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Group uses new media in climate-change debate
Source: Washington Post
10/21/09A new advocacy group seeking to expose what it says will be the high cost of climate-change legislation to consumers is spreading its message with the same tools that catapulted President Obama into office: blogs, Twitter and other new media outlets.
The Cost of Energy Information Project (CEIP) is the latest addition to the dozens of ad hoc organizations pressing lawmakers on Capitol Hill to consider the bill's effects before casting a vote. This group, backed by energy-producing interests, is clearly in the anti-legislation category.[More]
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U.S. sovereignty and the Climate Summit
Source: American Thinker
10/21/09By James Simpson
Not content with his humiliation at Copenhagen this past September, President Obama will be traveling again to the Danish capital in December to attend the U.N. COP15 Climate Change Conference. This agreement would commit the United States to punitive and expensive greenhouse gas regulations dictated by the United Nations without recourse.[More]
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Climate assumptions from another planet
Canada Free Press
10/19/09By Roy Innis and Paul Driessen Monday, October 19, 2009 As the 821-page Kerry-Boxer climate bill gets fast-tracked in the Senate, as a companion to the 1427-page House bill, it is critical that we reexamine the assumptions behind cap-tax-and-trade legislation.
The Environmental Protection Agency, Energy Information Administration and other optimistic analysts claim America can limit and tax hydrocarbon use, and switch to "ecologically friendly" renewable energy, with minimal harm to families, businesses and jobs. Their low-ball cost estimates are based on assumptions that can only have come from another planet:
These EPA and EIA assumptions are naively optimistic at best:
We will overcome decades of fear, resistance, lawsuits and over-regulation, and double US nuclear power in just 25 years.[More]
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Warmer Planet, Fewer Crops?
Source: Washington Post
10/14/09By Ezra Klein Wednesday, October 14, 2009 This column has focused on the effects of food production on climate change. But what about the effects of climate change on food production? After all, few things are as sensitive to changes in weather as agriculture. Farmers wait for warmer seasons to grow some crops and colder seasons to plant others.[More]
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Clouds hang over the global-warming alarmists
Source: The Star Ledger
10/11/09President Obama’s headed to Copenhagen next month to talk climate change. Al Gore’s headed toward profits that could make him the world’s first "carbon billionaire." But where’s global temperature headed?
Nowhere, it seems. The most reliable readings of the Earth’s temperature show that it peaked back in 1998.[More]
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UN Climate Reports: They Lie
Source: American By Marc Sheppard
10/10/09For years, claims that UN climate reports represent the consensus of the majority of international scientists have been mindlessly accepted and regurgitated by left-leaning policy makers and the media at large. But in the past week or so, it's become more apparent than ever that those who've accused the international organization of politicizing science and manipulating data have been right all along.
This latest disclosure again concerns what has become the favorite propaganda propagation tool of climate activists -- the infamous "Hockey Stick Graph." The familiar reconstruction, which deceitfully depicts last millennium's global temperatures as flat prior to a dramatic upturn last century, has been displayed and touted ad nauseum as irrefutable proof of unprecedented and, therefore, anthropogenic, global warming (AGW).[More]
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Al Gore: The un-credible man
Source: MN Daily
10/08/09By Alex Pongratz Advertisement Login or register to post comments Printer-friendly version Send to friend PDF version Al Gore is not an environmental expert of any sort, despite what he wants you to believe. So how does Al Gore get so much credibility for his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth?" The answer lies in fear. Gore scares the world's people into believing the Earth is doomed because of human activity and wants us to believe we must take drastic action now in order to save our planet.[More]
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CO2 is Not a Pollutant
