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Written by Bob Carter
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Friday, 05 March 2010 07:05 |
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On June 23, 1988, a young and previously unknown NASA computer modeller, James Hansen, appeared before a United States Congressional hearing on climate change. On that occasion, Dr. Hansen used a graph to convince his listeners that late 20th century warming was taking place at an accelerated rate, which, it being a scorching summer's day in Washington, a glance out of the window appeared to confirm.
He wrote later in justification, in the Washington Post (February 11, 1989), that "the evidence for an increasing greenhouse effect is now sufficiently strong that it would have been irresponsible if I had not attempted to alert political leaders"
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Read more... [Lysenkoism and James Hansen]
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Written by by Philip J. Klotzbach, et al. (2009)
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 05:44 |
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This paper investigates surface and satellite temperature trends over the period
from 1979 to 2008. Surface temperature data sets from the National Climate Data
Center and the Hadley Center show larger trends over the 30-year period than the
lower-tropospheric data from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Remote
Sensing Systems data sets. The differences between trends observed in the surface and
lower-tropospheric satellite data sets are statistically significant in most comparisons,
with much greater differences over land areas than over ocean areas. These findings
strongly suggest that there remain important inconsistencies between surface and satellite
records.
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Read more... [An Alternative Explanation for Differential Temperature Trends at Surface & in the Lower Troposphere]
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Written by Nicola Scafetta
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 05:39 |
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This article discusses the limits of the Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory advocated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A phenomenological theory of climate change based on the physical properties of the data themselves is proposed. At least 60% of the warming of the Earth observed since 1970 appears to be induced by natural cycles which are present in the solar system. A climatic stabilization or cooling until 2030-2040 is forecast by the phenomenological model.
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Read more... [Climate Change and Its Causes, A Discussion About Some Key Issues]
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Written by Joe D'Aleo
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 05:25 |
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It has been a winter for many to remember (or forget). There are lots of reasons why. The sun is just coming out of a very long slumber for one. Let's look at some of the other factors likely at play.
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Read more... [Record Setting AO and SOI Combo Work with Other Factors to Create a Wild Winter]
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Written by Institute of Physics
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 11:12 |
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The Institute is pleased to submit its views to inform the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee’s inquiry, ‘The disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia’. The attached annex details our response to the questions listed in the call for evidence, which was prepared with input from the Institute’s Science Board, and its Energy Sub-group.
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Read more... [The Disclosure of Climate Data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia]
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Written by Robert Ferguson and the Washington Legal Foundation
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Monday, 01 March 2010 21:59 |
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Human exposure to mercury (Hg) emitted from utility units is not harmful. To become a potential human health hazard, mercury must undergo a complex chain of bioprocessing and reprocessing (biomethylation) into the compound methylmercury (MeHg), which must be ingested, primarily through fish, in a sufficiently large dose to cause harm.
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Read more... [State of New Jersey v. United States EPA on Utility Unit Mercury Emissions]
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Written by Robert Ferguson
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Monday, 01 March 2010 21:52 |
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This paper focuses on currently wide-spread and growing State fish consumption advisories. State notices are attributed to health concerns about “contaminants” such as traces of fish methylmercury (MeHg) in a wide range of aquatic systems including lakes, rivers, watershed basins and coastal zones. State issued advisories are in addition to – and sometimes conflict with – federal advisories.
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Read more... [How Safe Are We From The Fish We Eat? A Review of the Current Literature on Mercury, Fish and Human]
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Written by Roger Pielke, Jr.
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Monday, 01 March 2010 12:10 |
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A team of researchers under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization has published a new review paper in Nature Geoscience (PDF) updating consensus perspectives published in 1998 and 2006. The author team includes prominent scientists from either side of the "hurricane wars" of 2005-2006: Thomas R. Knutson, John L. McBride, Johnny Chan, Kerry Emanuel, Greg Holland, Chris Landsea, Isaac Held, James P. Kossin, A. K. Srivastava and Masato Sugi.
The paper reaches a number of interesting (but for those paying attention, ultimately unsurprising) conclusions.
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Read more... [Updated WMO Consensus Perspective on Tropical Cyclones]
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Written by Stephen McIntyre
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Monday, 01 March 2010 11:56 |
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Reconstructions of temperature over the past 1000 years have been an highly
visible part of IPCC presentations to the public. CRU has been extremely influential in
IPCC reconstructions through: coauthorship, the use of CRU chronologies, peer review
and IPCC participation. To my knowledge, there are no 1000-year reconstructions which
are truly “independent” of CRU influence.
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Read more... [The Disclosure of Climate Data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia]
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Written by Edward R. Long, Ph.D.
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 05:58 |
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The Goddard Institute for Space science (GISS), the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), and centers processing satellite data, such as the University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH), have published temperature and rate of temperature change for the Contiguous United States, or ‘Lower 48’. Both GISS and NCDC have been criticized for their station selections and the protocols they use for adjusting raw data.
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Read more... [Contiguous U. S. Temperature Trends Using NCDC Raw and Adjusted Data for One-Per-State Rural/Urban]
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Written by Lawrence Solomon
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 14:25 |
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For those of you who haven’t heard of Climategate, this was the release
– probably by a whistleblower – of some 3000 documents, many of them
emails between some of the most important promoters of the global
warming hypothesis. I call the “doomsayers,” not to be pejorative but
because that term, “doomsayer,” most accurately describes their message.
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Read more... [Climate Change: Is the Science Really Settled?]
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Written by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 07:00 |
As cooling continues, the extremists will not cool it
The authoritative Monthly CO2 Report for January 2010 reports on the political significance of a major shift in public opinion on “global warming”in Australia. Editorial Comment: Page 3.
- Joe Boston and Christopher Monckton explain why the world warmed from 1983-2001, and what it means. Pages 4-6.
- 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 7-9.
- 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 10-12.
- Sea level rose just 8 inches in the 20th century, and has been rising since 1993 at a very modest 1 ft/century. Page 13.
- Arctic sea-ice extent is normal for the time of year, 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 14-17.
- Hurricane and tropical-cyclone activity is almost at its lowest since satellite measurement began. Page 18.
- Sunspot activity is back to normal: but, looking back it was a long – and cool – solar minimum. Page 19.
- The (very few) benefits and the (very large) costs of the Waxman/Markey Bill are illustrated at Pages 20-23.
- Warming? What warming?: This month’s Science Focus looks at Tammanrasset, in the Sahara. Page 24.
- As always, there’s our “global warming” ready reckoner, and our monthly selection of scientific papers. Pages 25-31.
- The medieval warm period was real, global, and warmer than the present, as our global map shows. Page 32.
- And finally ... a cartoon that makes a sharp point about how little we humans can do to affect the climate. Page 33.
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Read more... [SPPI Monthly CO2 Report: January 2010]
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Written by Kimball Rasmussen
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010 12:43 |
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Recent public statements promote the American Clean
Energy and Security Act (ACES) as a way to create
millions of green jobs. But the esoteric definition of
green jobs may deliver employment far below what
these statements lead average Americans to expect.
The electric sector is likely to provide less than two or
three percent of these projections in terms of direct
employment. Furthermore, the net jobs creation is
even less if one considers the dampening affect on the
economy of higher energy costs and jobs displaced
by building wind projects rather than other types of
power projects. If net offsets are taken into account, an
aggressive build-out of renewable energy may actually
result in a decrease of jobs within the economy.
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Read more... [A Rational Look at Green Jobs]
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Written by Marc Sheppard
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010 08:57 |
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Unquestionably the world's final authority on the subject, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's findings and recommendations have formed the bedrock of literally every climate-related initiative worldwide for more than a decade. Likewise, virtually all such future endeavors -- be they Kyoto II, domestic cap-and-tax, or EPA carbon regulation, would inexorably be built upon the credibility of the same U.N. panel's "expert" counsel. But a glut of ongoing recent discoveries of systemic fraud has rocked that foundation, and the entire man-made global warming house of cards is now teetering on the verge of complete collapse.
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Read more... [IPCC: International Pack of Climate Crooks]
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Written by Indur M. Goklany
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010 08:46 |
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Professor Phil Jones unwittingly(?) reveals that the global warming emperor is, if not naked, scantily clad, vindicating key skeptic arguments.
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Read more... [Phil Jones Momentous Q&A with BBC Reopens the "Science is Settled" Issues]
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Written by Joanne Nova
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010 06:42 |
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You might think journalists at a popular science magazine would be able to investigate and reason.
In DenierGate, watch New Scientist closely as it does the unthinkable and tries to defend gross scientific malpractice by saying it’s okay because other people have done other things (that were not related) a little bit.
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Read more... [New Scientist becomes Non Scientist]
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Written by Dennis Ambler
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Friday, 12 February 2010 12:03 |
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In August last year, the National Resources Defense Council released a film “documentary” claiming that CO2 is turning the oceans to acid: It was funded by the Entertainment industry foundation1, and has the title, “Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification”. This is SPPI’s second published analysis.
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Read more... [Acid Seas, Back to Basic]
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Written by Peabody Energy Company
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Friday, 12 February 2010 08:18 |
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UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Docket No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0171
Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act 74 Fed. Reg. 66496 (Dec. 15, 2009)
PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION
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Read more... [Petition to the EPA: Your Agency Has No Legal Option But to Re-examine Its Endangerment Finding]
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Written by Peabody Energy Company
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Friday, 12 February 2010 07:59 |
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UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Docket No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0171
Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse
Gases under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act
74 Fed. Reg. 66496
(Dec. 15, 2009)
PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION
BY PEABODY ENERGY COMPANY
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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Read more... [EPA Must Reconsider Its Endangerment Finding]
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