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Written by Christopher Monckton
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Thursday, 15 April 2010 08:48 |
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The authoritative Monthly CO2 Report for February 2010 reports on the attempts of the US Administration to legislate – via Congress, via the EPA, and via the UN – to stifle and destroy forever the freedom for which the Founding Fathers so valiantly strove. Editorial Comment: Page 3.
FEATURED: The Himalayan glaciers are doing just fine. Professor Cliff Ollier sends us a special report. Pages 4-9.
IPCC assumes CO2 concentration will reach 836 ppmv by 2100, but, for nine years, CO2 concentration has headed straight for only 570 ppmv by 2100. This factor alone almost halves all of the IPCC’s temperature projections. Pages 10-12.
Since 1980 global temperature has risen at only 2.5 °F (1.4 °C)/century, not 7 F° (3.9 C°) as IPCC predicts. Pages 13-15.
Sea level rose just 8 inches in the 20th century, and has been rising since 1993 at a very modest 1 ft/century. Page 16.
Arctic sea-ice extent is at a 10-year record for the time of year. In the Antarctic, sea ice extent reached a record high in 2007. Global sea ice extent shows little trend for 30 years. Pages 17-21.
Hurricane and tropical-cyclone activity is almost at its lowest since satellite measurement began. Pages 22-24.
Sunspot activity is back to normal: but, looking back it was a long – and cool – solar minimum. Pages 25-26.
The (very few) benefits and the (very large) costs of the Waxman/Markey Bill are illustrated at Pages 27-30.
Aswan damnation: This month’s Science Focus looks at how the Aswan High Dam is causing Sahelian drought. Page 31.
As always, there’s our “global warming” ready reckoner, and our monthly selection of scientific papers. Pages 32-37.
The medieval warm period was real, global, and warmer than the present, as our global map shows. Page 38.
And finally ... our very own Climate Codswallopometer: a Very Important Graph. Page 39.
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Read more... [SPPI Monthly CO2 Report: February 2010]
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Written by Richard S Courtney
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Wednesday, 07 April 2010 10:57 |
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The Climategate affair originated in November 2009 when files were hacked or leaked from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia (UEA) and were published on the internet at various places. These files – especially the emails they contained – provide prima facie evidence of scientific malpractice by climate scientists who call themselves the ‘Team’. Several investigations of the affair have been initiated and two of these are concluded. The concluded investigations were by Penn State University (PSU) and the UK Parliament’s House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology. Both these investigations have mostly exonerated the Team. But the findings of these investigations have been widely excoriated as being a ‘whitewash’.
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Read more... [Comments on the 8th Report of Session '09-'10 of UK's House of Commons Select Cmt. on Sci. & Tech.]
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Written by Ross McKitrick
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Wednesday, 07 April 2010 05:36 |
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This is the story of how I spent 2 years trying to publish a paper that refutes an important claim in the
2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The claim in question is not just
wrong, but based on fabricated evidence. Showing that the claim is fabricated is easy: it suffices merely
to quote the section of the report, since no supporting evidence is given. But unsupported guesses may
turn out to be true. Showing the IPCC claim is also false took some mundane statistical work, but the
results were clear. Once the numbers were crunched and the paper was written up, I began sending it to
science journals. That is when the runaround began.
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Read more... [Circling the Bandwagons: My Adventures Correcting the IPCC]
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Written by Jennifer M. Cohen, PhD.
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Tuesday, 06 April 2010 12:35 |
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This report compares the raw with the United States Historical Climatology Network Version 2 (USHCN V2) adjusted temperature records for the twenty-four USHCN listed temperature stations in the state of Pennsylvania. Averaging over the twenty-four stations the raw data yielded a small linear decline with temperatures trending -0.1 ± 0.1 ºC/century, while the U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USCHN) Version 2 adjusted data revealed an increase of 0.7 ± 0.1 ºC/century. Over the twelve year period 1998-2009 a drop in temperature was observed in both data sets with a raw trend of -0.75 ± 0.1 ºC/decade and an adjusted trend of -0.65 ± 0.1 ºC/decade.
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Read more... [A Review of the U.S. Historical Climatology Network Version 2: Adjusted Temperature Record for Penn.]
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Written by Willie Soon & David Legates
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Tuesday, 06 April 2010 12:26 |
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In December 2009, lawmakers and representatives from around the world,
along with scientists, numerous journalists, and various celebrities flew to
Copenhagen, Denmark. For the most part, their goal was to promote a
regulatory scheme aimed at controlling human carbon emissions by declaring
the element a tradable commodity and establishing laws and regulations to
govern the trade.
The proposed regulations were premised on the flawed notion, articulated
by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),1
that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations will change
climate dramatically and thereby cause major ecological and economic damage.
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Read more... [Avoiding Carbon Myopia: 3 Considerations for Policy Makers Concerning Man-Made Carbon Dioxide]
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Written by Luboš Motl
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Friday, 02 April 2010 07:36 |
There exists no climate threat and there exists no empirically rooted evidence that the human impact on the climate deserves the attention of anyone except for a few excessively specialized experts who should investigate such speculative questions. All opinions that the climate change is dangerous, man-made, or even relevant for policymaking are based on the irrational attitude, cherry-picking, intimidation, censorship, and the general sloppiness of the kind that Mr Cook has shown us once again.
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Read more... [John Cook: Skeptical Science]
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Written by J. McLean, C.R. de Freitas, and R.M. Carter
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 10:36 |
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Science is best progressed by open and free discussion in which all participants have equal rights of contribution. This is especially the case when a scientific issue is related to a matter of high public controversy - such as the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming.
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Read more... [Censorship at AGU: Scientists Denied the Right of Reply]
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Written by Joanne Nova
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 09:46 |
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This is yet another example of things that don’t add up in the world of GISS temperatures in Australia.
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Read more... [Is There Any Unmassaged Data Out There?]
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Written by Lee Gerhard
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 09:34 |
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As science progresses, most scientists change their views based on new knowledge. Those who will not recognize new information and theory have often staked their reputations and careers upon out-of-date science. So it is with climate science today.
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Read more... [Academic Statements Should Reflect Data and Knowledge, Not Bias and Beliefs]
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Written by C. Wang and R. G. Prinn
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 09:19 |
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Meeting future world energy needs while addressing
climate change requires large-scale deployment of low
or zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emission technologies such
as wind energy. The widespread availability of wind power
has fueled substantial interest in this renewable energy source
as one of the needed technologies.
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Read more... [Potential Climatic Impacts & Reliability of Very Large-Scale Wind Farms]
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Written by Edward R. Long, Ph.D.
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 08:27 |
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The existence of UHIE is well established for even the EPA acknowledges its existence. The heat of the matter, perhaps a pun intended, is whether or not there is an associated climate warming effect.
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Read more... [An Inspection of the Urban Heat Island Effect & NCDC's Temperature Adjustments for the State of Utah]
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Written by Willis Eschenbach
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Monday, 29 March 2010 18:21 |
Science is what we use to explain anomalies, to elucidate mysteries, to
shed light on unexplained occurrences. For example, once we understand
how the earth rotates, there is no great need for a scientific
explanation of the sun rising in the morning. If one day the sun were to
rise in the afternoon, however, that is an anomaly which would
definitely require a scientific explanation. But there is no need to
explain the normal everyday occurrences. We don’t need a new
understanding if there is nothing new to understand.
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Read more... [Congenital Climate Abnormalities]
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Written by Glenn R. Schleede
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 06:33 |
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During a forum at the University of Charleston, West Virginia the Forum, Robert Kennedy, Jr. made many statements about wind energy that are false or misleading and should not be allowed to stand without challenge.
It’s unclear from the transcript whether Mr. Kennedy has been misled by the wind industry, whether he really believes all that he said about wind energy, or whether he was merely hoping that no one listening to the forum or reading the transcript would challenge his false and misleading claims.
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Read more... [Evaluation of Kennedy Jr's Statement in West VA about Wind Energy, Deluded Delusional or Dishonest?]
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Written by Arthur Robinson, Ph.D.
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 04:41 |
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As the alternative media fill with news of "Climategate" and other scientific scandals, people ask: "What has happened to science? Has it been corrupted as have the Congress, the presidency, the media, and many of our other institutions? Can we no longer depend upon even our scientists to tell the truth?"
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Read more... [How Government Corrupts Science]
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Written by Malcolm Roberts
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Friday, 12 March 2010 21:20 |
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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.
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Read more... [Two Dead Elephants in Parliament]
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Written by Minority Staff of the Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works
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Friday, 12 March 2010 21:11 |
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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).
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Read more... [United States Senate Report, 'Consensus Exposed:' The CRU Controversy]
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Written by Joanne Nova
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Friday, 12 March 2010 20:58 |
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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.
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Read more... [The Money Trail]
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Written by Bill Gray
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Friday, 12 March 2010 20:53 |
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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.
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Read more... [Rebuttal Comments to Boston Globe's Op/Ed Piece "Climate Changes are Proven Fact]
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Written by Lee Gerhard
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Friday, 12 March 2010 20:36 |
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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.
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Read more... [Climategate" and the Ethics of Science]
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Written by Paul Driessen
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 11:07 |
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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.
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Read more... [Pursuing Justice Through Affordable Energy for Utahans]
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