Using smart science to find solutions to the myth of Human-Induced Global Warming http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:18:44 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org Using smart science to find solutions to the myth of Human-Induced Global Warming http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/reprint/two_dead_elephants.html The following conclusions are obtained from examining this catalogue’s list of UN IPCC misrepresentations of science. We are now seeing publicly what eminent UN IPCC scientists have been saying since the UN IPCC ’s second report in 1995—the UN IPCC peddles bogus science for political objectives. Science Papers - Reprint Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:20:27 +0100 http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/reprint/consensus_exposed.html In this report, Minority Staff of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works examine key documents and emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU). Science Papers - Reprint Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:12:01 +0100 http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/blog_watch/the_money_trail.html Somehow the tables have turned. For all the smears of big money funding the deniers , the numbers reveal that the sceptics are actually the true grassroots campaigners, while Greenpeace defends Wall St. How times have changed. Sceptics are fighting a billion dollar industry aligned with a trillion dollar trading scheme. Big Oil's supposed evil influence has been vastly outdone by Big Government, and even those taxpayer billions are trumped by Big-Banking. Science Papers - Blog Watch Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:58:54 +0100 http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/reprint/rebuttal_comments_boston_globe.html Comment by Bill Gray, Professor Emeritus, Colorado State University on Kerry Emanuel’s Boston Globe (15 February 2010) Op/Ed piece titled “Climate Changes Are Proven Fact.” This piece has many inaccuracies, and in my view, is not a positive contribution to the global warming debate for the reasons I present in my rebuttal of various Emanuel statements. Science Papers - Reprint Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:54:13 +0100 http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/commentaries_essays/ethics_of_science.html Dishonesty in science can harm people. Over the last century science has played an ever increasing role in the lives of all people, particularly so in the western hemisphere and in Europe and Asia. Science, and its resulting technology, the applications of science to practical problems, has increased life expectancy, improved our standard of living, dramatically speeded communications, and made us a space-faring people, to cite only a few examples. Our ability to feed a rapidly growing global population and to make their lives easier and more productive both stem from advances in science. Commentaries & Essays - Commentaries Essays Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:36:34 +0100 http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/pursuing_justice.html Alleged threats of global warming disaster must not hobble justice and civil rights. Endangerment rules and cap-and-trade laws threaten jobs, opportunity and justice in Utah. Science Papers - Originals Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:08:16 +0100 http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/commentaries_essays/lysenkoism_and_james_hansen.html On June 23, 1988, a young and previously unknown NASA computer modeller, James Hansen, appeared before a United States Congressional hearing on climate change. On that occasion, Dr. Hansen used a graph to convince his listeners that late 20th century warming was taking place at an accelerated rate, which, it being a scorching summer's day in Washington, a glance out of the window appeared to confirm. He wrote later in justification, in the Washington Post (February 11, 1989), that the evidence for an increasing greenhouse effect is now sufficiently strong that it would have been irresponsible if I had not attempted to alert political leaders Commentaries & Essays - Commentaries Essays Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:05:37 +0100 http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/reprint/alt_explanation.html This paper investigates surface and satellite temperature trends over the period from 1979 to 2008. Surface temperature data sets from the National Climate Data Center and the Hadley Center show larger trends over the 30-year period than the lower-tropospheric data from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Remote Sensing Systems data sets. The differences between trends observed in the surface and lower-tropospheric satellite data sets are statistically significant in most comparisons, with much greater differences over land areas than over ocean areas. These findings strongly suggest that there remain important inconsistencies between surface and satellite records. Science Papers - Reprint Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:44:37 +0100 http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/climate_change_causes.html This article discusses the limits of the Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory advocated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A phenomenological theory of climate change based on the physical properties of the data themselves is proposed. At least 60% of the warming of the Earth observed since 1970 appears to be induced by natural cycles which are present in the solar system. A climatic stabilization or cooling until 2030-2040 is forecast by the phenomenological model. Science Papers - Originals Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:39:45 +0100 http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/reprint/record_setting.html It has been a winter for many to remember (or forget). There are lots of reasons why. The sun is just coming out of a very long slumber for one. Let's look at some of the other factors likely at play. Science Papers - Reprint Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:25:24 +0100