Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable? Print E-mail
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Global warming is one of the most serious issues of our times. Some experts claim the rise in temperature during the past century was “unprecedented” and proof that immediate action to reduce human greenhouse gas emissions must begin. Other experts say the warming was very modest and the case for action has yet to be made.

The reliability of data used to document temperature trends is of great importance in this debate. We can’t know for sure if global warming is a problem if we can’t trust the data.
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"'Unequivocal' 'Consensus' on 'Global Warming'" Print E-mail
Monday, 25 May 2009
Science is not, repeat not, done by “consensus”, though politics is. The IPCC process, which aims at and then falsely claims “consensus”, is an explicitly political process, and not a scientific one.
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Essential Readings on The Futility and Danger of CO2 Mitigation Schemes Print E-mail
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
A collection – including new papers – of essential readings on the policy, science and politics of CO2 mitigations schemes.  Particular focus on the Waxman-Markey legislation as currently being “marked up” in the House Energy and Commerce Committee.  None-the-less, the issues and conclusions are universal for any form of mitigation efforts:  futile, wasteful, costly and dangerous.
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Energy Myths and Realities: An Address to Utah Valley University Print E-mail
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
I’m going to try to do something that seems impossible these days – and that’s have an honest conversation about energy policy, global warming and what proposed “cap and trade” regulation means for you, the generation that will have to live with the consequences of the policy choices we make. My goal is to inform you with easily verifiable facts – not hype and propaganda – and to appeal to your common sense.
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Why Waxman/Markey Won't Work: A cost-effectiveness metric for CO2 mitigation policies Print E-mail
Monday, 18 May 2009
A simple, robust metric to analyze the cost-effectiveness of measures to mitigate anthropogenic CO2 emissions, expressed not – as now – in tonnes of CO2 emission foregone but in Kelvin degrees of warming prevented, is described, evaluated, and applied to various currently-proposed mitigation policies, all of which prove disproportionately costly and ineffective
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On the Central Question of Climate Sensitivity Print E-mail
Monday, 18 May 2009
Lord Monckton’s response letter to Congressmen Barton and Upton on the central question of climate sensitivity.
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Indiana Says 'No Thanks' to Cap and Trade Print E-mail
Monday, 18 May 2009
This week Congress is set to release the details of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act, a bill that purports to combat global warming by setting strict limits on carbon emissions. I'm not a candidate for any office – now or ever again – and I've approached the "climate change" debate with an open-mind. But it's clear to me that the nation, and in particular Indiana, my home state, will be terribly disserved by this cap-and-trade policy on the verge of passage in the House.
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Observed Climate Change & the Negligible Global Effect of Greenhouse-gas Limits in Mississippi Print E-mail
Friday, 15 May 2009
Summary for Policy Makers

In this report we provide a review of Mississippi’s climate history and show that there is no 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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Observed Climate Change & the Negligible Global Effect of Greenhouse-gas Emission Limits in Kentucky Print E-mail
Friday, 15 May 2009
Summary for Policy Makers

The observations detailed herein illustrate that climate variability from year-to-year and decade-to-decade plays a greater role in Kentucky’s climate than any long-term trends. Such short-term variability will continue dominating Kentucky’s climate into the future.
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The Non-Climatic Impacts of theWaxman-Markey Mitigation Bill Print E-mail
Friday, 15 May 2009
Editor Note: Using mainstream models and assumptions, Mr. Knappenberger finds that in the year 2050 with a 83% emissions reduction (the aspirational goal of Waxman-Markey, the beginning steps of which are under vigorous debate), the temperature reduction is nine hundredths of one degree Fahrenheit, or two years of avoided warming. A more realistic climate bill would be a fraction of this amount. The author will respond to technical questions on methodology and results and invites input on alternative scenarios and analyses.
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Observed Climate Change & the Negligible Global Effect of Greenhouse-gas Emission Limits in Indiana Print E-mail
Friday, 15 May 2009

There is little observational evidence of unusual long-term climate changes taking place that could be linked to anthropogenic “global warming.”

Any efforts to mitigate future climate change by legislation to curtail greenhouse gas emissions from Indiana are doomed to fail – no matter how great the proposed emissions reductions.

A complete cessation of all greenhouse gas emissions from Indiana – now and forever – would be totally subsumed by global emissions growth in only about three month’s time.

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Observed Climate Change and the Negligible Effect of Greenhouse Gas-Emission Limits in Georgia Print E-mail
Friday, 15 May 2009
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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Observed Climate Change and the Negligible Effect of Greenhouse-gas Emission Limits in Lousiana Print E-mail
Thursday, 14 May 2009

Summary for Policy Makers

In this report we provide a review of Louisiana’s climate history and show that Instead, of rising temperatures, the state’s annual average temperature has shown there is no observational evidence of unusual long-term climate changes that could be linked to anthropogenic “global warming”– despite the frequent prognostications of gloom and doom. No trend over the past century. Moreover, instead of an increasing frequency of drought, the state’s moisture conditions have improved over the long run. Instead of failing crops, the state’s agricultural yields have been increasing.

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Obama's Energy Triangulation Print E-mail
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Obama's Energy Triangulation
by Joel Kotkin | May 12, 2009

With the possible exception of health care reform, no major issue presents more political opportunities and potential pitfalls for President Barack Obama than energy. A misstep over energy policy could cause serious economic, social and political consequences that could continue over the next decade.

To succeed in revising American energy policy, the president will need to try to triangulate three different priorities: energy security, environmental protection and the need for economic growth. Right now, the administration would like to think it could have all three, but these concerns often collide more than they align.
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Chuck It Yet Again Schmidt! Print E-mail
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Yet again Gavin Schmidt, who writes the political RealClimate blog for “global-warming” alarmists that is promoted by two of the authors of the now-discredited “hockey-stick” graph falsely abolishing the medieval warm period, has inaccurately criticized me in his blog. This paper sets the facts straight.
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SPPI Monthly CO2 Report: April Print E-mail
Monday, 11 May 2009

Analysis for today's policy makers.

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Scare by Ravaging Science Redux Print E-mail
Friday, 01 May 2009
Journalists must separate the story. It makes for more copy when the reader’s eye wobbles over to another column space or the ear off into the increasing din of aural messaging surrounding us. By the time they get back to the original story the reader is ready for a detailed description of the coin’s other side, so to speak. It’s a trick journalists can always rely on. Journalism is “the wisdom of the ages,” wrote American author Stephen Crane in a poem (actually, Crane referred to the newspaper). We’ll forgive the “wisdom” reference here to Crane’s indulging in poetic license.
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Al Gore, Global Warming and Truth Print E-mail
Friday, 01 May 2009

Al Gore, Global Warming and Truth
by Thomas Fuller | April 27, 2009

I voted three times for Al Gore, twice for VP and once for President.  I don't regret the first two votes...

The former Vice President spoke before the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week. It was not his shining hour. Some of what he said was hyperbole. Some of what he said is just not true. And he, or one of his staff, should surely have known the limits he was transgressing.

For example, when speaking about Arctic ice, he said this:
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Dangerous Climate Change Is Coming Print E-mail
Thursday, 30 April 2009
“Dangerous Climate Change is Coming”
by Christopher Monckton | April 30, 2009

The Scare:
Two papers published in Nature in spring 2009 say that the rise in global temperature is unlikely to remain below the politically-defined threshold of “dangerous climate change”, if global economic growth continues at its current pace. The papers are based on computer simulations of the climate response to greenhouse-gas emissions.

Policymakers have adopted a goal of keeping the global rise in mean surface temperatures to no more than 2 C° (3.6 F°) above pre-industrial levels.

Myles Allen et al. simulate the mean “global warming” that would result from a given cumulative carbon emission. They conclude that a trillion tonnes of carbon emissions (about 3.7 trillion tonnes of CO2, roughly half of which has already been emitted) produces a “most likely” warming of 2 C° (3.6 F°).

Malte Meinshausen et al. take a slightly different tack by modelling the probability of global temperature rises across a range of greenhouse-gas emissions scenarios. They find that total emissions from 2000 to 2050 of about 1,400 gigatonnes of CO2 yields a 50% probability of exceeding 2 C° warming by the end of the 21st century. Emissions for the last seven years were almost 250 gigatonnes, implying that even without future increases in CO2 emissions the total emissions from 2000-2050 may well exceed this 50% probability.

The Truth:
Nature is one of many “scientific” journals that have openly declared an editorial prejudice in favor of a frankly alarmist viewpoint on the climate.
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Deliberate Misrepresentation Letter of formal complaint to Clark Hoyt, Esq. Public Editor of NYTimes Print E-mail
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
Clark Hoyt, Esq., Public Editor and Readers’ Representative, The New York Times.

Dear Mr. Hoyt,

Deliberate misrepresentation in a front-page article by Andrew Revkin on Friday, 24 April, 2009

The New York Times guidelines for staff writers on “Journalistic Ethics” begin by stating the principles that all journalists should respect: impartiality and neutrality; integrity; and avoidance of conflicts of interest. Andrew Revkin’s front-page article on Friday, 24 April, 2009, falsely alleging that a coalition of energy corporations had for many years acted like tobacco corporations, misrepresenting advice from its own scientists about the supposed threat of “global warming,” offends grievously against all of these principles.
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