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Monday, 30 November 2009 |
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As legions of scientists, activists, journalists, bureaucrats and politicians prepare to embark for Copenhagen, a predictable barrage of climate horrors has been unleashed, to advance proposals to slash hydrocarbon use and carbon dioxide emissions, restrict economic growth, and implement global governance and taxation.
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Saturday, 28 November 2009 |
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On Friday, November 20, the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) acknowledged to the BBC that its email account had been hacked.
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Tuesday, 24 November 2009 |
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Saturday, 21 November 2009 |
How many times have you heard or read words to the effect that 4000
scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC)
supported the claims about a significant human influence on climate? I
think I've seen it on television, radio and the Internet and I know
that politicians at national levels have quoted such figures. There's
no question whatsoever. It's utterly wrong.
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Friday, 20 November 2009 |
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Al Gore’s new book had a problem – no big hurricanes since Katrina to put in the book to look “threatening” to the USA. Any imagined link between hurricanes and global warming has evaporated.
Solution: the artists airbrush.
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Friday, 20 November 2009 |
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established under the sponsorship of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The UNEP's belief in manmade warming in the late 1970's led to a stage-managed conference in Villach in 1985, which in turn led to the political decision to form the IPCC.
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Friday, 20 November 2009 |
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As physicists who are familiar with the science issues, and as current and past members of the American Physical Society, we the undersigned urge the Council to revise its current statement* on climate change as follows, so as to more accurately represent the current state of the science:
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Friday, 20 November 2009 |
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A climate lobby-group founded by Prince Charles to influence opinion in the world’s largest insurance market has tried – and failed – to stifle scientific debate on “global warming” in one of the industry’s foremost academic journals, says SPPI.
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Friday, 20 November 2009 |
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If you want to understand how it is that the debate over global warming policies became so
shrill, consider the recent pattern of behavior by the country's second-most blogger, Joe Romm.
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Friday, 20 November 2009 |
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Writing in Environmental Health Perspectives (2005), Booth and Zeller [hereafter BZ05] embark on the
highly ambitious task of applying ecosystem modeling to the difficult problem of tracing the flow of
methylmercury (MeHg) - the biologically active, potentially toxic form of mercury - in the Faroe Island marine
ecosystem as changing functions of both fish mortality (commercial catch rates) and climate. The paper further
attempts to estimate weekly MeHg intake by the Faroese from consumption of mainly pilot whale meat and cod
fish - two key sources of MeHg exposures in Faroese diets. BZ05 displays the risk inherent in favoring computer
modeling results over real world data. Such an exercise, increasingly common and problematic in climate
science, often produces tenuous outcomes. More specifically, Booth and Zeller, with their minimal “what if”
modeling efforts, cobble together a grab-bag of speculative assertions, problematic statements, harm attributions
and over-reaching conclusions.
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
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From living in virtual darkness to minutely measuring their water-use,
greens’ fixation with carbon counting is verging on a mental illness.
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
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On February 2, an AEI research project on climate change policy that we have been organizing was the target of a journalistic hit piece in Britain's largest left-wing newspaper, the Guardian. The article's allegation--that we tried to bribe scientists to criticize the work of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)--is easy to refute. More troubling is the growing worldwide effort to silence anyone with doubts about the catastrophic warming scenario that Al Gore and other climate extremists are putting forth.
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
A new paper that is soon to appear in the journal Geophysical Research
Letters finds that across the U.S. daily record high temperatures are
being set at about twice the frequency of daily record low temperatures
and that this ratio—number of record highs to the number of record
lows, has been growing larger over the past 50 years.
The popular press seems to be particularly taken with this finding,
although headline proclamations fail to disclose important details of
the actual findings reported by the National Center for Atmospheric
Research’s (NCAR) Gerald Meehl and colleagues.
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 |
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Comments related to EPA’s April 15, 2009 Notice of Data Availability (NODA) on Ocean Acidification and Marine pH Water Quality Criteria.
Submitted by Craig Idso and Robert Ferguson
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Monday, 16 November 2009 |
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Andrew at Popular Technology has taken the time (quite a bit of it) to compile a list of papers that have skeptical views. It is reproduced in full here. My thanks to him for doing this.
– Anthony
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Monday, 16 November 2009 |
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Monday, 16 November 2009 |
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At first I was concerned about this poll and the language involved. Now from comments I’m seeing a number of people whom aren’t worried and see an opportunity to voice their opinion. I’ll leave it up to the reader to decide if they wish to participate. – Anthony
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Monday, 16 November 2009 |
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd spewed out a rhetorical barrage on climate skeptics worldwide. See: Australian PM warns skeptics 'are too 'dangerous to ignore' and are 'holding the world to ransom' – November 6, 2009.
Also see: here and here for more coverage of Rudd's speech.
Climate Depot has undertaken a point by point rebuttal to Rudd's claims. The full text of Rudd's speech is available here.
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Monday, 16 November 2009 |
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Two years ago, in Scenes from the Climate Inquisition1 , my colleague Steve Hayward and I observed that climate alarmists were growing ever more incendiary in their criticism of people who disagree with them. And these disagreements were not simply about the science, but about the favored policy choices of leftist environmentalists, many of whom had no training in public policy or economics.
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