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Written by Russell Cook
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Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:05 |
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The collection of Original Papers at SPPI are authored by people with impressive credentials in science, or at least they have a demonstrated grasp of the various technical aspects of global warming theory through their history of writing on the subject. I must stress on no uncertain terms that I do not share those accomplishments, a fact that will no doubt delight believers of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and prompt them to read no further into this paper, but instead accuse SPPI of issuing papers written by people unqualified to speak about the subject. That would be unfortunate, as the evidence I present here and the questions I ask are things any unqualified, disinterested bystander might find and ask about. Indeed, believers of AGW could have posed the following to each other in order to see if their criticisms about skeptic scientists survive under hard scrutiny.
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Read more... [Are Skeptic Scientists Corrupt?]
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Written by Dennis Ambler
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Thursday, 17 February 2011 12:05 |
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Whilst the continual scientific rebuttals of the climate reports produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may make many people think that this charade cannot continue much longer, behind the scenes it is quite irrelevant; the long-term process marches relentlessly on as if there had never been any challenges at all. As the advocates throw in yet more spurious claims of the “hottest year on record”, or record cold caused by CO2 emissions, they occupy the debate, and determine the daily agenda in the media, whilst those who know that the claims are spurious, are driven to waste time, effort and resources on refuting them.
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Read more... [The United (Socialist) Nations - Progress on Global Governance via Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Bio-Diversity]
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Written by Robert Ferguson
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Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:00 |
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In this report, we review the long-term climate history of Utah and find little in the way of evidence that the greenhouse gas build-up in the atmosphere has much altered Utah’s climate. While statewide average temperatures have generally appeared to have risen in Utah over the past 100 years, they have fallen during the past 15 years. Further, there is evidence that the state’s temperature record contains non-climatic influences—such as land use changes, instrument changes, and improper instrument siting—which together add a warming bias to the state’s long-term temperature history, making it seem like the temperature has been increasing more than it actually has been.
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Read more... [Observed Climate Change and the Negligible Global Effect of Greenhouse-gas Emission Limits in the State of Utah]
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Written by Patrick Frank
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Monday, 14 February 2011 14:45 |
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ABSTRACT: Sensor measurement uncertainty has never been fully considered in prior appraisals of global average surface air temperature. The estimated average ±0.2 C station error has been incorrectly assessed as random, and the systematic error from uncontrolled variables has been invariably neglected. The systematic errors in measurements from three ideally sited and maintained temperature sensors are calculated herein. Combined with the ±0.2 C average station error, a representative lower-limit uncertainty of ±0.46 C was found for any global annual surface air temperature anomaly. This ±0.46 C reveals that the global surface air temperature anomaly trend from 1880 through 2000 is statistically indistinguishable from 0 C, and represents a lower limit of calibration uncertainty for climate models and for any prospective physically justifiable proxy reconstruction of paleo-temperature. The rate and magnitude of 20th century warming are thus unknowable, and suggestions of an unprecedented trend in 20th century global air temperature are unsustainable.
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Read more... [Uncertainty in the Global Average Surface Air Temperature Index: A Representative Lower Limit]
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Written by Staff
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Thursday, 10 February 2011 14:23 |
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The observations we have detailed herein illustrate that climate variability from year-to-year and decade-to-decade plays a greater role in Georgia’s climate than any long-term trends. Such short-term variability will continue dominating Georgia’s climate into the future.
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Read more... [Observed Climate Change and the Negligible Global Effect of Greenhouse-gas Emission Limits in the State of Georgia]
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Written by Staff
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Tuesday, 08 February 2011 13:45 |
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In this report, we provide a review of Illinois’ 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.
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Read more... [Observed Climate Change and the Negligible Global Effect of Greenhouse-gas Emission Limits in the State of Illinois]
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Written by Staff
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Tuesday, 08 February 2011 12:36 |
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The climate impact of the RGGI carbon dioxide emissions reduction plan is infinitesimal and inconsequential.
New Hampshire’s role in mitigating future climate change under RGGI is even less.
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Read more... [Impacts of the NE Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)]
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Written by Staff
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Friday, 04 February 2011 14:17 |
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In this report, we review New Mexico’s long-term climate history and find little in the way of evidence that greenhouse gas build-up in the atmosphere has altered New Mexico’s climate. Instead of long-term changes, short-term variability dominates the state’s average temperature, precipitation, and drought frequency. Current temperatures are not all that different than the ones observed at the beginning of the last century—100 years ago.
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Read more... [Observed Climate Change and the Negligible Global Effect of Greenhouse-gas Emission Limits in the State of New Mexico - 2011 Report]
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Written by Craig D. Idso and Sherwood B. Idso
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Wednesday, 02 February 2011 15:53 |
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As presently constituted, earth’s atmosphere contains just slightly less than 400 ppm of the colorless and odorless gas we call carbon dioxide or CO2. That’s only four-hundredths of one percent. Consequently, even if the air's CO2 concentration was tripled, carbon dioxide would still comprise only a little over one tenth of one percent of the air we breathe, which is far less than what wafted through earth’s atmosphere eons ago, when the planet was a virtual garden place. Nevertheless, a small increase in this minuscule amount of CO2 is frequently predicted to produce a suite of dire environmental consequences, including dangerous global warming, catastrophic sea level rise, reduced agricultural output, and the destruction of many natural ecosystems, as well as dramatic increases in extreme weather phenomena, such as droughts, floods and hurricanes.
As strange as it may seem, these frightening future scenarios are derived from a single source of information: the ever-evolving computer-driven climate models that presume to reduce the important physical, chemical and biological processes that combine to determine the state of earth’s climate into a set of mathematical equations out of which their forecasts are produced. But do we really know what all of those complex and interacting processes are? And even if we did -- which we don't -- could we correctly reduce them into manageable computer code so as to produce reliable forecasts 50 or 100 years into the future?
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Read more... [Carbon Dioxide and the Earth's Future, Pursuing the Prudent Path]
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