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Written by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
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Monday, 16 November 2009 04:14 |
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In the April/May 2009 Journal of the Chartered Insurance Institute of London, Paul Maynard and I published an article entitled Let Cool Heads Prevail, expressing grave scientific doubt about the supposed magnitude of the anthropogenic effect on global temperature, and providing substantial evidence from the published data and from the peer-reviewed literature.
Our article caught the insurance industry by surprise. Lloyds of London had publicly issued blood-curdling warnings of the climatic terrors allegedly to come. The Prince of Wales had established Climate Wise, a group of leading figures in the insurance market committed, in effect, to peddling and promulgating the scare, and to silencing all dissent. The market was sewn up. How, then, could no less an organ of academic opinion than the Journal have allowed two heretics – one of them a very senior and widely-respected in the insurance world – to publish a substantial and well-referenced paper demonstrating that the scare was scientifically baseless?
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Last Updated on Saturday, 21 November 2009 05:21 |
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Read more... [Global Warming" A Debate at Last]
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Written by the Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009 03:52 |
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SECRETARY CHU’S senate testimony is predicated upon two false assumptions: that the “threat” from “climate change” is “grave”; and that, even if it were grave, reducing carbon emissions would make a difference. He cites the now-outdated 2007 Climate Assessment Report of the IPCC and a subsequent but also now-outdated MIT study, saying global warming by 2100 would be 7-11 Fº. These excessive estimates are founded solely on computerized guesswork.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 October 2009 03:58 |
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Read more... [Response to U.S. Secretary of Energy on Climate Statement]
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Written by Christopher Monckton
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Tuesday, 13 October 2009 21:01 |
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20th-century warming: less than had been thought
SPPI's authoritative Monthly CO2 Report for September 2009 reproduces a
research paper by Dr. Joe D'Aleo showing that global temperatures over the
past century, corrected for urban bias and other errors in the current
datasets, have changed by far less than official sources suggest.
- Science
Focus, pages 24-29.
"Global warming" poses no national-security threat. Fearmongers are
the real threat.
- Editorial comment: Page 3.
- The North-East Passage has been open before, so the Green
shipowner's recent stunt that got a ship round the northern coast of Russia
with the assistance of several ice-breakers is nothing new and tells us
nothing of "global warming". Pages 4-5.
- The IPCC assumes CO2 concentration will reach 836 ppmv by 2100, but,
for almost eight years, CO2 concentration has headed straight for only 570
ppmv by 2100. This alone halves all of the IPCC's temperature projections.
Pages 6-7.
- Since 1980 temperature has risen at only 2.3 °F (1.4 °C)/century,
not the 7 F° (3.9 C°) the IPCC predicts. Pages 8-10.
- Sea level rose just 8 inches in the 20th century, and has scarcely
risen since 2006. The oceans are not warming. Page 11.
- Arctic sea-ice extent is now beyond its summer low, but there was
more summer ice than there was in 2007 or 2008. In the Antarctic, sea ice
extent reached a record high in 2007. Global sea ice extent shows little
trend for 30 years. Pages 12-16.
- Hurricane and tropical-cyclone activity is almost at its lowest
since satellite measurement began. Page 17.
- CO2 residence time is about 7 years, not the 100 years imagined by
the UN's climate panel. Page 18.
- The Sun is still very quiet, but some solar activity returned at the
end of September. Page 19.
- The (very few) benefits and the (very large) costs of the
Waxman/Markey Bill are illustrated at Pages 20-23.
- We offer a special puzzle to our readers, just for entertainment. Page 30.
- As always, there's our "global warming" ready reckoner, and our
monthly selection of scientific papers. Pages 31-35.
- And finally, a Technical Note explains how we compile our
state-of-the-art CO2 and temperature graphs. Page 36.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 October 2009 05:25 |
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Read more... [SPPI Monthly CO2 Report: September]
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Written by Christopher Monckton
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Friday, 11 September 2009 10:18 |
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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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Last Updated on Friday, 11 September 2009 10:30 |
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Read more... [SPPI Monthly CO2 Report: August]
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Written by Christopher Monckton
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Monday, 31 August 2009 08:01 |
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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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Last Updated on Monday, 31 August 2009 08:12 |
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Read more... [A Climate Science Brief]
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