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Written by Christopher Monkton
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
Nasa scientist warns the world must urgently make huge CO2 reductions
Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, Monday, 7 April, 2008. Commentary by Christopher Monckton
The scare: One of the world's leading climate scientists warns today that the EU and its international partners must urgently rethink targets for cutting carbon dioxide in the atmosphere because of fears they have grossly underestimated the scale of the problem. In a startling reappraisal of the threat, James Hansen, head of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, calls for a sharp reduction in CO2 limits. |
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Written by Nigel Lawson
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
Over the past half-century, we have become used to planetary scares. In the late Sixties, we were told of a population explosion that would lead to global starvation. Then, a little later, we were warned the world was running out of natural resources. By the Seventies, when global temperatures began to dip, many eminent scientists warned us that we faced a new Ice Age.
But the latest scare, global warming, has engaged the political and opinion-forming classes to a greater extent than any of these. |
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Written by SPPI
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Saturday, 05 April 2008 |
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The scare: The BBC published an article by its “environment analyst”, commenting on an announcement by the World Meteorological Organization that 2008 was likely to be the tenth successive year in which global temperatures had not risen. The BBC’s story stressed that the stasis in global temperatures was only temporary and that anthropogenic “global warming” would inexorably resume. |
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Written by Christopher Monkton
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Friday, 04 April 2008 |
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Climate alarmists are alarmed, scaremongers scared, for their predictions of catastrophe are not coming true. "Global warming" has stopped. For 10 years, average temperatures on earth have not risen. For seven years, the trend has been downward. The fall between January 2007 and January 2008 was the biggest since records began in 1880. |
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Written by SPPI
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 |
The scare: Ted Turner, founder and chairman of the “United Nations Foundation,” said in a television interview April 1 (though he was trying to be serious), “We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years, and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals...
The truth: “Global warming” stopped in 1998. From late 2001 onwards, global mean surface temperatures actually fell at a mean rate equivalent to 0.4 degrees Kelvin (almost 1 degree F) per decade. None of the UN’s vaunted computer models... |
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Written by SPPI
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 |
The scare: Andrew Revkin, an environment writer at the New York Times, reported in 2004 that Senator John McCain, to illustrate his concern at the rapid pace of warming in the Arctic, had said...
The truth: In 1953 Laurence Irving, of the Arctic Health Research Center of the U.S. Public Health Service in Anchorage, Alaska, spent a season living among the Nunamiut Inuits in the Brooks Range of Northern Alaska, comparing the English and Inuit names for the 103 bird species he saw. He reported his belief that... |
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Written by SPPI
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 |
The scare: “A 13,680-square-kilometer (5,282-square-mile) ice shelf, part of the Wilkins Ice Shelf, has begun to collapse because of rapid climate change in the fast-warming Antarctic Peninsula. The Wilkins is one of a string of ice shelves that...
The truth: The Wilkins Ice Shelf, like many of the ice shelves surrounding the Antarctic Peninsula, was not there in the mediaeval warm period, and may also have been absent in the Roman warm... |
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Written by SPPI
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 |
The scare: Al Gore launched his $300 million “global warming” ad campaign on 30 March 2008. Lesley Stahl sycophantically described him as the “PR agent for the planet” during a CBS 60 Minutes interview in which he suggested that warmer weather was an urgent problem for the world....
The truth: Warmer weather caused by greenhouse-gas enrichment of the atmosphere does not threaten our “survival”. It probably doesn’t threaten any harm at all. And... |
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Written by Dr. Robert Carter
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 |
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A main function of the news media is to inform the public about local and world affairs. Another main function, of course, is to make money for the owners and shareholders. From time to time, like every day, these two functions conflict. |
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Written by Ronald J. Rychlak, J.D.
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Saturday, 29 March 2008 |
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With a lack of traditional science, partisans on both sides, and enormous consequences depending on popular opinion and political will, it is important that people understand the evidence in the debate over global warming. Unfortunately, most people do not have the time, desire, or ability to undertake an independent study of the issues. Recognizing this, advocates have “packaged” their evidence with charts, graphs, and other visual exhibits designed to have maximum impact with minimal effort on the part of the public. These displays, while appearing to present hard facts, are often misleading. |
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Written by Robert Ferguson
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Saturday, 13 October 2007 |
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Despite the lack of any trends in hurricane landfalls along the U.S. and Florida coasts, or damage to U.S. coastlines when population demographics are taken into account, the impact from a single storm can be enormous. The massive population and infrastructure build-up of the US coastline has vastly raised the potential damage that a storm can inflict. It is stunningly dishonest and irresponsibly dangerous to insinuate, let alone assert, that CO2 mitigation policies could cage the destructiveness of nature, particularly in hurricane-prone Florida.
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Written by Dr. Robert Carter
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Thursday, 27 March 2008 |
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A soprano thrillingly hits her top-A, sighs with relief at achieving the desired effect, and moves on. But not the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) whose climate alarmism started to crescendo in 2001 in the Third Assessment Report (3AR) with the statement that “most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely (>66% probable) to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations”. |
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Written by Anthony Watts
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Thursday, 27 March 2008 |
This is the city. Los Angeles, California. I study weather stations here. I carry a thermometer. My name’s Anthony. The story you are about to see is true; the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
The day was Monday, March 24th, four days after the vernal equinox. It started out like any other day, with a bad cup of coffee and a stack of reports on scumbags your normally wouldn’t give the time of day to. But then, just as I was about to down that last gulp of coffee, a tip came in on the email hotline. It was Goetz, and his side kick Foutch. They said there has been a heist of a weather station on the southeast side. It had been moved, and then it mysteriously showed up on the campus of USC. |
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Written by John Brignell
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
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Every age has its dominant caste. This is the age of the zealot. Twenty years ago they were dismissed as cranks and fanatics, but now they are licensed to interfere in the every day lives of ordinary people to an unprecedented degree. When Bernard Levin first identified the new phenomenon of the SIFs (Single Issue Fanatics) many of us thought it was a bit of a joke or at most an annoyance. Now the joke is on us. In that short time they have progressed from being an ignorable nuisance to what is effectively a branch of government. They initiate legislation and prescribe taxation. |
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Written by Roger Pielke, Sr.
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Thursday, 27 December 2007 |
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This study assesses near surface lapse rates and temperatures over the past decade at two heights from the Oklahoma Mesonet. A statistically significant change in lapse rate was detected of _0.21 ± 0.09_C (10 m)_1 per decade. The trend of nighttime lapse rate was about three times larger than the magnitude of trend of the daytime lapse rate. The lapse rate trends at the time of the daily maximum and minimum temperatures were larger during calm conditions.... |
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Written by Roger Pielke, Sr.
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Saturday, 29 December 2007 |
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This paper documents various unresolved issues in using surface temperature trends as a metric for assessing global and regional climate change. A series of examples ranging from errors caused by temperature measurements at a monitoring station to the undocumented biases in the regionally and globally averaged time series are provided.... |
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Written by Klaus-Martin Schulte
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Monday, 24 March 2008 |
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FEAR of anthropogenic “global warming” can adversely affect patients’ well-being. Accordingly, the state of the scientific consensus about climate change was studied by a review of the 539 papers on “global climate change” found on the Web of Science database from January 2004 to mid-February 2007, updating research by Oreskes (2004), who had reported that between 1993 and 2003 none of 928 scientific papers on “global climate change” had rejected the consensus that more than half of the warming of the past 50 years was likely to have been anthropogenic. In the present review, 31 papers (6% of the sample) explicitly or implicitly reject the consensus. Though Oreskes said that 75% of the papers in her sample endorsed the consensus, fewer than half now endorse it. Only 6% do so explicitly. Only one paper refers to “catastrophic” climate change, but without offering evidence. There appears to be little evidence in the learned journals to justify the climate-change alarm that now harms patients. |
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Written by Jennifer Marohasy
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Saturday, 22 March 2008 |
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Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril. |
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Written by Peter Glazer
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Saturday, 22 March 2008 |
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I am Peter Glaser, a partner in the law firm of Troutman Sanders LLP. I have an active Clean Air Act (CAA) practice and have been involved in greenhouse gas (GHG) legal issues for more than a decade. I represented clients in all phases of the Massachusetts v. EPA litigation, including filing comments in the original 1999 rulemaking and amicus briefs before the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. I have written and spoken about the decision on a number of prior occasions. |
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