Technology is the Answer to Climate Change Print E-mail
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
Carbon caps or levies will throttle taxpayers

Last summer, China and the developing world announced the price for their cooperation on a global-warming treaty: up to 1% of the developed world's gross domestic product. For the U.S., this would mean sending $140 billion a year to China, Iran, North Korea and Cuba, among other countries. This is in addition to the $28 billion we already distribute each year in foreign aid.

For a U.S. family of four, China's demand comes to nearly $1,900 in yearly taxes. And that's just the beginning.

The tenor of international climate negotiations has emboldened the Indian government to claim in a February filing with the United Nations that the West owes it billions of dollars in compensation for climate change. These payments, it said, should be mandatory and not "subject to decisions of developed country governments and legislatures."
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Letter to Represenatives Ed Markey & Joe Barton Print E-mail
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
The Hon. Representative Ed Markey, and The Hon. Representative Joe Barton,
Committee on Energy and Commerce, US House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

Gentlemen,

Questions raised by the Subcommittee on Energy & Environment

I am most grateful for the fairness and good humor with which Chairman Markey conducted the hearing of 26 March 2009 on the question of adaptation to “global warming”. The calibre, commitment, and concern of Hon. Gentleladies and Gentlemen on both sides of the House were self-evident.

However, my notes of the hearing indicate that certain national and international executive agencies may have materially, serially, seriously, and successfully misled your Congress for several years about the imagined extent, anthropogenic component, and effects of “global warming”.
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Global Warming - A Classic Case of Alarmism Print E-mail
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
The global temperature has been rising at a steady trend rate of 0.5°C per century since the end of the little ice age in the 1700s (when the Thames River would freeze over every winter). On top of the trend are oscillations that last about thirty years in each direction.
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Climate Change, William Happer testimony to Senate Energy Committee on February 25, 2009 Print E-mail
Wednesday, 08 April 2009
Madam Chairman and members, thank you for the opportunity to appear before the Committee on Environment and Public Works to testify on Climate Change. My name is William Happer, and I am the Cyrus Fogg Bracket Professor of Physics at Princeton University. I am not a climatologist, but I don’t think any of the other witnesses are either. I do work in the related field of atomic, molecular and optical physics. I have spent my professional life studying the interactions of visible and infrared radiation with gases – one of the main physical phenomena behind the greenhouse effect. I have published over 200 papers in peer reviewed scientific journals. I am a member of a number of professional organizations, including the American Physical Society and the National Academy of Sciences. I have done extensive consulting work for the US Government and Industry.
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Your "Carbon Legacy" Print E-mail
Friday, 03 April 2009
Politicians who bow to the demands of the world's climate alarmists have long sought various means of reducing anthropogenic CO2 emissions. To date, the measures they have proposed have been rather mundane, focusing primarily on reducing emissions associated with one's household activities and transportation habits. For example, we have been encouraged to replace our incandescent light bulbs with more energy efficient ones. We've also been asked to participate in municipal recycling programs, to drive less, to car pool or to utilize public transportation. But the "rules of the road" will soon be become much more stringent, and you and I may be asked - if not mandated by law - to make an unprecedented lifestyle change that could dramatically curtail one of our most cherished personal freedoms, all in the name of "saving the planet."
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SPPI Monthly CO2 Report: March Print E-mail
Friday, 03 April 2009
Analysis for today's policy makers.
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Observed Climate Change & the Negligible Global Effect of Greenhouse Gas Emision in Iowa Print E-mail
Thursday, 19 March 2009
Summary for Policy Makers

The Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council was established in the Iowa legislative session of 2007 and charged “with identifying opportunities for Iowa to respond to the challenge of global climate change by becoming more energy efficient and energy independent while spurring economic growth.” In December of 2008, the Advisory Council submitted a proposal to Governor Chet Culver designed to meet the following requirements (as directed under Iowa Code section 455B.851):
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The Unwisdom of Solomon, Bad Logic, Bad Science and Bad Policies Print E-mail
Monday, 16 March 2009
Early in 2009, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published “Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions,” by Susan Solomon of NOAA and three colleagues. This lurid paper said that “the severity of damaging, human-induced climate change depends not only on the magnitude of the change but also on the potential for irreversibility,” and that “the climate change that takes place due to increases in CO2 concentration is largely irreversible for 1000 years after emissions stop.”

The Solomon paper talks of “irreversible impacts,” such as dry-season reductions in rainfall leading to “dustbowl” conditions in several regions, and “inexorable sea-level rise” of “several meters.” However, the paper is entirely predicated on two implicit but false assumptions: that the computer modeling on which all of its conclusions are based is competent to predict the state of the climate a millennium or more in the future; and that the effect of atmospheric carbon-dioxide enrichment on global mean surface temperatures will be substantial.
 
This collection of essays is in direct response to, and sound refutation of, the Susan Solomon paper. It is intended for state and federal policy makers and the public which elects them. No public policy, reardless of how small or large in scope, could wisely be based on the Solomon paper, or any similary speculative claims. 

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“‘Global warming’ will kill 6 billion” Print E-mail
Monday, 16 March 2009
The scare: In March 2009, Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber, director of a grand-sounding pressure-group called the “Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research”, said that “global warming” of 7 Fahrenheit degrees would wipe out all but 1 billion of Earth’s 7 billion human population.

Mr. Schellnhuber said, “In a very cynical way, it’s a triumph for science, because at last we have stabilized something – namely the estimate of the carrying capacity of the planet – fewer than 1 billion people.” The planet, of course, is somehow currently carrying seven times that number. The previous month, Dr. James Hansen of NASA had predicted that “global warming” would raise sea level by 75 meters – equivalent to 246 feet.
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Climate Change Challenge Print E-mail
Thursday, 12 March 2009
Lord Christopher Monckton issues global warming debate challenge to Senator John Kerry (D-Mass).
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SPPI Monthly CO2 Report: February Print E-mail
Thursday, 05 March 2009
Edited by Christopher Monckton

Analysis for Today's Policymakers
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Global Warming Is Not Happening Print E-mail
Friday, 27 February 2009
The “global warming apocalypse” scare has the potential greatly to enrich scientists, academics, industrialists, and politicians willing to take unscrupulous advantage of it. However, we should do some due diligence before we join in reaping the considerable but short-lived rewards available to those who parrot the scientifically-baseless orthodoxy.
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The John Galt Effect Print E-mail
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
A hidden effect of the November 4 elections and the national events that preceded them during this past year is perhaps best called the “John Galt Effect” in honor of Ayn Rand’s famous character in Atlas Shrugged.  It is occurring to a very significant extent.

Our technological civilization stands upon the shoulders of many generations of free Americans and the great accomplishments that they bequeathed to us. Among those Americans and their counterparts in other countries have been a small special group of people whose unusual genius, work ethic, and love for their specialties were especially outstanding.
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“Cracked earth may cause ‘global warming’” Print E-mail
Saturday, 21 February 2009
The scare: In mid-February 2009, Discovery News announced that “a new study” had found that cracks in dry soil exhale large quantities of gas, “perhaps enough to affect ‘global warming’”.

Noam Weisbrod of Ben Gurion University of the Negev and a team of researchers monitored a crack about 6 ft 6 in long and a yard deep for two years in the Negev Desert is Israel. Each night, they watched as warm air in the crack drew water vapor out of the surrounding rock, and lifted it into the cold evening air.
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Eco-Colonialism Degrades Africa Print E-mail
Sunday, 15 February 2009
Sub-Saharan Africa remains one of Earth’s most impoverished regions. Over 90% of its people still lack electricity, running water, proper sanitation and decent housing. Malaria, malnutrition, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and intestinal diseases kill millions every year. Life expectancy is appalling, and falling.
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“Dangerous and growing threat of climate crisis” A response to Al Gore’s Senate testimony Print E-mail
Saturday, 14 February 2009
“Al Gore, testifying before a Senate Committee on a bitterly cold, snowy late January day in 2009, said the “global community” was facing “the dangerous and growing threat of the climate crisis”. He used the words “climate crisis” eight times in his short written testimony.  But what are the science-based facts?  What is the reality?”
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Peerless refutation of scientifically-unjustifiable Scaremongering about “global warming” Print E-mail
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
In Roman face, we reproduce, paragraph by paragraph, a typical scaremongering article about “global warming” that was published in The Guardian in London on 9 February 2008.

In bold face, we show, paragraph by paragraph, how easy it would be for a correctly-informed and unprejudiced journalist to write a true story that reached accurate conclusions diametrically opposite to those of The Guardian.

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Reviewed or Not Reviewed? Print E-mail
Monday, 09 February 2009
Responses to some Readers’ Enquiries about the Scientific Paper Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered (Physics & Society, July 2008)

A personal statement by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley

SEVERAL readers have written to me to enquire why the July 2008 edition of Physics and Society carries a disclaimer saying that my scientific paper Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered, published in that edition, was “not peer-reviewed”. This memorandum tells the strange story of how this mendacious disclaimer came to appear above my paper some days after publication. Annex 1 reveals the reviewer’s comments on the paper, in full.
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Sea Level Rise Print E-mail
Monday, 09 February 2009

The scare: An article published in early February 2009 by Jonathan Leake, the environment editor of The Times of London, said “The ice caps are melting so fast that the world’s oceans are rising more than twice as fast as they were in the 1970s.”
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A Storm of Errors Print E-mail
Friday, 06 February 2009
A scientific and socio-economic analysis of multiple errors of science, fact, and data in the “science” chapter of the final report of the Arkansas Governor’s Commission on “global warming”
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