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Written by Christopher Monckton
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Monday, 17 August 2009 03:58 |
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Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich), in an interview with the Detroit News in mid-August 2009, said: “Climate change is very real.” She endorsed cap and trade's massive tax increase on Michigan industry, saying it would not lead to an increase in manufacturing costs or energy prices. “Global warming creates volatility," said Senator Stabenow. “I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes.”
Every part of Senator Stabenow’s statement is misleading at best, false at worst. Her statement that “global warming” creates “volatility”, which she feels when she is flying, is entirely without scientific foundation, for the simple reason that there has been no statistically-significant “global warming” for 15 years. Indeed, there has been rapid and statistically-significant global cooling for almost eight years. So the “volatility” which she feels when flying – no doubt usually at the taxpayer’s expense – cannot be caused by “global warming”, because there has not been any.
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Read more... [Sen. Stabenow: "Global Warming' Causes More Hurricanes and Torados.]
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Written by Christopher Monckton
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009 19:32 |
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Senator John Kerry’s statement in early August 2009 about “global warming” before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which he chairs, was false in every particular, leading him to draw the incorrect conclusion that “global warming” was a threat to national security. The Senator got every fact wrong –
Wilkins Ice Shelf: Senator Kerry said the recent cracking of the thin “ice-bridge” linking the Wilkins Ice Shelf to the Antarctic Ice Shelf was caused by “global warming”. It was not: there has been no statistically-significant “global warming” for almost 15 years.
Arctic ice-cap: Senator Kerry said the Arctic ice-cap would vanish in summer by 2013 because of “global warming”. It will not, and, even if it does, “global warming” will not be the cause: there has been rapid global cooling for very nearly eight years.
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Read more... [Senator Kerry Misfires about Global Warming and National Security]
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Written by Joanne Nova
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009 00:23 |
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The US government has spent over $79 billion since 1989 on policies related to climate change, including science and technology research, administration, education campaigns, foreign aid, and tax breaks. Despite the billions: “audits” of the science are left to unpaid volunteers. A dedicated but largely uncoordinated grassroots movement of scientists has sprung up around the globe to test the integrity of the theory and compete with a well funded highly organized climate monopoly. They have exposed major errors.
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Read more... [Climate Money: The Climate Industry: $79 billion so far – trillions to come]
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Written by Dr. David Evans
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009 20:44 |
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"The alarmists claim the world is still warming, that heat is building up in the oceans, and that the ocean temperature is rising and rising fast. These claims implicitly depend on a time period to say what a "trend" is, because temperatures fluctuate. The alarmists provide the context by showing trends of 20 to 50 years. This is a clever trick to reframe the debate, and essential to their case."
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Read more... [Ocean Temperatures: The New Buff in Climate Temperatures]
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Written by Dr. David Evans
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Friday, 03 July 2009 08:23 |
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Despite spending $50bn over the last 20 years looking for evidence of point (3) above, the alarmists have found none. In two instances they expected to find it, but in both cases they found only evidence of the opposite—and they have kept awfully quiet about those cases. If they just had some evidence of (3) they could just tell us what it was—and end the debate.”
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Read more... [There is No Evidence]
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Written by Matthew Woessner, Ph.D.
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Thursday, 25 June 2009 06:03 |
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As the scientific community debates the probable impact of human industry on the Earth’s climate, many in the environmental lobby, determined to dominate the political debate, wage an effective public relations campaign in the public arena. Believing fervently in their version of the facts, they cleverly tailor their rhetoric to have the strongest possible impact on the political process, without regard for the ongoing scientific debate. It is quite ironic that, while those who argue that we face a “climate crisis” like to think of themselves as the advocates for science and reason, their tactics and rhetoric are often reminiscent of a sideshow, relying on hype and fear to capture the public’s imagination.
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Read more... [Global Warming Sideshow: Why Environmentalist Scare Tactics May Render Climate Research Irrelevent]
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Sunday, 07 June 2009 15:45 |
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Steven Chu, entertainingly described as an “Energy Secretary”, says we can Save the
Planet from “global warming” by painting our rooftops and roads white.
He says making roofs and roads paler would have the same effect as
taking every automobile in the world off the road for 11 years.
Rush Limbaugh, entertainingly as always, but pointedly, asks –
“Now, would somebody explain to me how he knows this? …
If we can do something that will effectively remove the carbon
emissions of every car on the road for 11 years, then why are we doing
anything else? Why are we doing cap and trade? Why are we getting rid
of SUVs? … How much paint is this going to take, by the way? How much of a footprint does paint manufacturing leave? … I
need a scientist to answer this for me. I understand how clouds at
altitude can help reflect the heat, but I want to know … where does
that reflected heat go? … Are we being told here that reflected heat is
not damaging at all, but direct heat is? It seems to me that, if we had
‘global warming’, wouldn’t we want dark roofs to absorb the heat?”
Christopher Monckton replies.
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Read more... [Global Warming," Painting Your Roof White, and the Chattanooga Chu-Chu]
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Written by Joseph D’Aleo
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Friday, 05 June 2009 10:22 |
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Last year was an active tornado season, the most active this decade. When all was said and done, the calendar year delivered 1691 tornados, with tornados in all but 3 of the lower 48 states.
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Read more... [Global Warming Brings More Tornadoes and also Less Tornadoes]
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Written by Staff
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Friday, 29 May 2009 06:32 |
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Summary for Policy Makers
In this report, we provide a review of Pennsylvania’s climate history and show that there is little observational evidence of unusual long-term climate changes taking place that could be linked to anthropogenic “global warming”—despite the frequent prognostications to the contrary, often accompanied by doom and gloom scenarios. Instead of rising temperatures, the state’s annual average temperature has remained relatively unchanged over the past century.
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Read more... [Observed Climate Change & Negligible Global Effect of Greenhouse-gas Emission Limits in Pennsylvania]
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