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Written by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 11:17 |
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After crunching data this week from two of our satellite-based microwave sensors, and from NOAA’s official sea surface temperature (SST) product ERSST v3b, I think the evidence is pretty clear:
The ERSST v3b product has a spurious warming since 1998 of about 0.2 deg. C, most of which occurred as a jump in 2001.
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Read more... [Spurious Warming in New NOAA Ocean Temperature Product: The Smoking Gun]
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Written by Joseph D'Aleo
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 11:00 |
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What will it take for the media to let go of their biases and begin doing their job, reporting the truth?
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Read more... [12 Facts about Global Climate Change That You Won’t Read in the Popular Press]
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Written by Marc Morano
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 10:47 |
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In 2009, a series of inconvenient developments for the promoters of man-made global warming fears continue unabated.
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Read more... [Series of Inconvenient Developments for Promoters of Man-made Global Warming Fears Continue Unabated]
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Written by Donna Laframboise
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 10:37 |
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DeSmogBlog describes itself as "the world’s number one source for accurate, fact based information regarding Global Warming misinformation campaigns." It takes the position that "An overwhelming majority of the world’s climate scientists agree that the globe is warming...and that the indiscriminate burning of fossil fuels is to blame." (Einstein didn't think majority opinion decided scientific disputes, but that's another discussion.)
DeSmogBlog alleges that those who doubt global warming theory are part of a "a well-funded and highly organized public relations campaign" that is "trying to confuse the public, to forestall individual and political actions that might cut into exorbitant coal, oil and gas industry profits."
In this comic-book view of the world, environmental issues aren't complex matters involving imperfect tradeoffs, limited resources, and inadequate technologies. Nor is it necessary to consider ideas from multiple perspectives in order to understand them thoroughly.
In the DeSmogBlog universe, good guys and bad guys are readily identifiable and the way forward is clear. Although DeSmogBlog implies that its concern is with industry lobbying efforts, in reality anyone who disagrees with its perspective gets slimed. Satirist Rex Murphy, for example, is called "resolutely stupid" because his bracing commentaries on global warming contrast with the DeSmogBlog point-of-view.
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Read more... [An All-Kidding-Aside Critique]
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Written by Marc Morano
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Monday, 31 August 2009 09:29 |
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A guest essay by Statistician Dr. Richard Mackey, who authored a 2007 peer-reviewed study which found that the solar system regulates the earth's climate. The paper was published August 17, 2007 in the Journal of Coastal Research - Excerpt: "According to the findings reviewed in this paper, the variable output of the sun, the sun's gravitational relationship between the earth (and the moon) and earth's variable orbital relationship with the sun, regulate the earth's climate. The processes by which the sun affects the earth show periodicities on many time scales; each process is stochastic and immensely complex."
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Read more... [Astronomers: Sun’s Output may Decline]
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Written by Robert Ferguson
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Monday, 31 August 2009 08:51 |
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So, if the orthodox climate science is wrong, what's the real motivation for action - the real agenda?
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Read more... [The Real Climate Agenda]
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Written by Cliff Ollier
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Monday, 31 August 2009 08:23 |
Graphs of sea level for twelve locations in the southwest Pacific show stable sea level for about ten years over the region. The data are compared with results from elsewhere, all of which suggest that any rise of global sea level is negligible. The Darwin theory of coral formation, and subsidence ideas for guyots would suggest that we should see more land subsidence, and apparent sea level rise, than is actually occurring. Sea level studies have not been carried out for very long, but they can indicate major tectonic components such as isostatic rebound in Scandinavia. Attempts to manipulate the data by modelling to show alarming rates of sea level rise (associated with alleged global warming) are not supported by primary regional or global data. Even those places frequently said to be in grave danger of drowning, such as the Maldives, Tuvalu and Holland, appear to be safe.
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Read more... [Sea Level in the Southwest Pacific is Stable]
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Written by Kimberley A. Strassel
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Monday, 31 August 2009 08:19 |
Wherever Jim Hansen is right now -- whatever speech the "censored" NASA
scientist is giving -- perhaps he'll find time to mention the plight of
Alan Carlin. Though don't count on it.
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Read more... [The EPA Silences a Climate Skeptic]
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Written by Roger Pielke Sr.
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Monday, 31 August 2009 08:16 |
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When I served on the committee that resulted in the CCSP (2006) report on reconciling the surface and tropospheric temperature trends, one of the issues I attempted to raise was a warm bias in the construction of long term surface temperature trends when near surface land minimum temperatures (and maximum temperatures when the atmospheric boundary layer remained stably stratified all day, such as in the high latitude winter) were used. This error will occur even for pristine observing sites. Tom Karl and his close associates suppressed this perspective as I document in: Pielke Sr., Roger A., 2005: Public Comment on CCSP Report “Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere: Steps for Understanding and Reconciling Differences“. 88 pp including appendices.
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Read more... [Significant Error in the Global Surface Temperature Trend Analyses of NCDC]
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Written by Christopher Monckton
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Monday, 31 August 2009 08:01 |
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The Earth has been warming not for 150 years but for 300. Bristlecone pines are unreliable sources of data on temperature because tree-ring width is influenced less by temperature than by rainfall and, more recently, by CO2 fertilization.
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Read more... [A Climate Science Brief]
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Written by Peter Hannaford
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Thursday, 20 August 2009 11:05 |
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America's "mainstream" media missed it, but April 17 was a red-letter day for its Deep Ecologists. Red letter because it was the day the Obama Administration declared that carbon dioxide and five other gases emitted by industry threaten "the health and welfare of current and future generations." This opens the door to regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency to "cap" emissions. The Deep Ecologists see this as the path to their cherished dream of a less populous nation with greatly reduced industrial production. It will also lead to a poorer (they would call it "simpler") standard of living.
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Read more... [Run Silent, Run Deep]
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Written by Richard S. Lindzen & Yong-Sang Choi
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Wednesday, 19 August 2009 04:59 |
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Climate feedbacks are estimated from fluctuations in the outgoing radiation budget from the latest version of Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) nonscanner data. It appears, for the entire tropics, the observed outgoing radiation fluxes increase with the increase in sea surface temperatures (SSTs). The observed behavior of radiation fluxes implies negative feedback processes associated with relatively low climate sensitivity. This is the opposite of the behavior of 11 atmospheric models forced by the same SSTs. Therefore, the models display much higher climate sensitivity than is inferred from ERBE, though it is difficult to pin down such high sensitivities with any precision. Results also show, the feedback in ERBE is mostly from shortwave radiation while the feedback in the models is mostly from longwave radiation. Although such a test does not distinguish the mechanisms, this is important since the inconsistency of climate feedbacks constitutes a very fundamental problem in climate prediction.
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Read more... [On the Determination of Climate Feedbacks from ERBE Data]
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Written by SPPI Staff
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Monday, 17 August 2009 04:13 |
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The Science and Public Policy Institute’s authoritative Monthly CO2
Report for July 2009 announces
the publication of amajor peer-reviewed paper by Professor Richard
Lindzen of MIT, demonstrating by directmeasurement that outgoing
long-wave radiation is escaping to space far
faster than the UN predicts, and proving that the UN has exaggerated global warming 6-fold.
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Read more... [The Science is in: Global Warming Will Not be Catastrophic Says SPPI]
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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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Thursday, 13 August 2009 05:20 |
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UN exaggerated warming 6-fold: the scare is over
SPPI’s authoritative Monthly CO2 Report for July 2009 announces the
publication of a major paper by Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT,
demonstrating by direct measurement that outgoing long-wave radiation
is escaping to space far faster than the UN predicts, showing that the
UN has exaggerated global warming 6-fold.Report, page 3.
Lindzen’s paper on outgoing long-wave radiation shows the “global
warming” scare is over. Thanks to recent peer reviewed papers that have
not been mentioned in the mainstream news media, we now know that the
effect of CO2 on temperature is small, we know why it is small, and we
know that it is having very little effect on the climate. Page 3.
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Read more... [SPPI Monthly CO2 Report: July]
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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 Michael Egnor
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009 07:17 |
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In case you were wondering about that radicalism of Global Warming Climate Change fundamentalists, the President’s new science czar John Holdren made some recent assertions that should put your doubts to rest.
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Read more... [Science Czar John Holdren Is Unsure About Placing People Who Fund 'Climate Change Denial' on Trial]
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Written by Willie Soon and David R. Legates
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009 07:12 |
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We wonder why it is so difficult for straight answers to be given to a few simple and direct questions. The regular scientific obfuscation that occurs regarding global warming issues is surely a major reason for the confusion that exists on the issue amongst public and politicians alike.
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Read more... [Answering Three Simple Questions]
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Written by Marc Morano
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009 07:07 |
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Desperation time has arrived for the promoters of man-made global
warming fears. As the science of man-made climate fears continues to
collapse, new tactics are being contrived to try to drum up waning
public support.
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Read more... [Climate Depot's Inconvenient Rebuttal to 'National Security' Climate Argument]
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Written by Peter C. Glover and Michael Economides
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009 07:01 |
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Over the last two decades, US taxpayers have subsidized the American climate change industry to the tune of $79 billion. That’s the headline from Climate Money, a report published last month by the Science and Public Policy Institute.
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Read more... [The Global Warming Science Machine: $79 Billion and Counting]
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