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Poor Form—Comments on the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse E-mail
Written by Robert Ferguson   
Thursday, 09 August 2007

Apparently, some people know no boundaries for indecency. Take Joseph Romm for instance. Romm, a former member of the Clinton administration, claimed Monday that global warming might have played a factor in the collapse of the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis last week.

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The “Unruly Sunne” cannot be ruled out as a Cause of Recent Climate Variation E-mail
Written by SPPI   
Thursday, 09 August 2007

On July 10, 2007, the Royal Society, one of the oldest scientific institutions in the world, published Recent oppositely-directed trends in solar climate forcings and the global mean surface air temperature by Lockwood and Frohlich . In the web-page of the journal (Fig. 1), the Society calls the paper “The truth about global warming!” and says, “The sun is not a factor in recent climate change!”

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Shining More Light on the Solar Factor: A discussion of Problems with the Royal Society E-mail
Written by Dr. Joseph D’Aleo   
Friday, 20 July 2007

When Lockwood and Froehlich go on to say that the intensification of solar activity seen in the past hundred years has now ended, we don't disagree with that. We part company only when they say that temperatures have gone on shooting up, so that the recent rise can't have anything to do with the Sun, or with cosmic rays modulated by the Sun.

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The Myth of Dangerous Human Caused Climate Change E-mail
Written by Bob Carter   
Thursday, 19 July 2007

 

Whether dangerous human-caused climate change is a fact, possibly a fact or a fabrication depends on who you choose to believe. Many of us line up somewhere between probable and possible on this spectrum.
 
John Roskam – Director, Institute of public Affairs, Melbourne, Australia

 


 

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Current issues in Climate Science: Focus on the Poles E-mail
Written by Robert Ferguson   
Friday, 13 July 2007
After a much publicized rapid retreat during the period 2002 through 2005, Greenland’s Helheim glacier,
has stabilized and begun advancing. The restabilization of the Helheim glacier alone could be responsible
for a reduction in excess of 10 percent of the current mass loss from Greenland.


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