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Written by Willie Soon & David Legates
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Tuesday, 06 April 2010 12:26 |
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In December 2009, lawmakers and representatives from around the world,
along with scientists, numerous journalists, and various celebrities flew to
Copenhagen, Denmark. For the most part, their goal was to promote a
regulatory scheme aimed at controlling human carbon emissions by declaring
the element a tradable commodity and establishing laws and regulations to
govern the trade.
The proposed regulations were premised on the flawed notion, articulated
by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),1
that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations will change
climate dramatically and thereby cause major ecological and economic damage.
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Read more... [Avoiding Carbon Myopia: 3 Considerations for Policy Makers Concerning Man-Made Carbon Dioxide]
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Written by Luboš Motl
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Friday, 02 April 2010 07:36 |
There exists no climate threat and there exists no empirically rooted evidence that the human impact on the climate deserves the attention of anyone except for a few excessively specialized experts who should investigate such speculative questions. All opinions that the climate change is dangerous, man-made, or even relevant for policymaking are based on the irrational attitude, cherry-picking, intimidation, censorship, and the general sloppiness of the kind that Mr Cook has shown us once again.
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Read more... [John Cook: Skeptical Science]
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Written by J. McLean, C.R. de Freitas, and R.M. Carter
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 10:36 |
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Science is best progressed by open and free discussion in which all participants have equal rights of contribution. This is especially the case when a scientific issue is related to a matter of high public controversy - such as the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming.
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Read more... [Censorship at AGU: Scientists Denied the Right of Reply]
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Written by Joanne Nova
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 09:46 |
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This is yet another example of things that don’t add up in the world of GISS temperatures in Australia.
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Read more... [Is There Any Unmassaged Data Out There?]
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Written by Lee Gerhard
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 09:34 |
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As science progresses, most scientists change their views based on new knowledge. Those who will not recognize new information and theory have often staked their reputations and careers upon out-of-date science. So it is with climate science today.
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Read more... [Academic Statements Should Reflect Data and Knowledge, Not Bias and Beliefs]
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Written by C. Wang and R. G. Prinn
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 09:19 |
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Meeting future world energy needs while addressing
climate change requires large-scale deployment of low
or zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emission technologies such
as wind energy. The widespread availability of wind power
has fueled substantial interest in this renewable energy source
as one of the needed technologies.
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Read more... [Potential Climatic Impacts & Reliability of Very Large-Scale Wind Farms]
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Written by Edward R. Long, Ph.D.
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 08:27 |
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The existence of UHIE is well established for even the EPA acknowledges its existence. The heat of the matter, perhaps a pun intended, is whether or not there is an associated climate warming effect.
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Read more... [An Inspection of the Urban Heat Island Effect & NCDC's Temperature Adjustments for the State of Utah]
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Written by Willis Eschenbach
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Monday, 29 March 2010 18:21 |
Science is what we use to explain anomalies, to elucidate mysteries, to
shed light on unexplained occurrences. For example, once we understand
how the earth rotates, there is no great need for a scientific
explanation of the sun rising in the morning. If one day the sun were to
rise in the afternoon, however, that is an anomaly which would
definitely require a scientific explanation. But there is no need to
explain the normal everyday occurrences. We don’t need a new
understanding if there is nothing new to understand.
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Read more... [Congenital Climate Abnormalities]
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Written by Glenn R. Schleede
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 06:33 |
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During a forum at the University of Charleston, West Virginia the Forum, Robert Kennedy, Jr. made many statements about wind energy that are false or misleading and should not be allowed to stand without challenge.
It’s unclear from the transcript whether Mr. Kennedy has been misled by the wind industry, whether he really believes all that he said about wind energy, or whether he was merely hoping that no one listening to the forum or reading the transcript would challenge his false and misleading claims.
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Read more... [Evaluation of Kennedy Jr's Statement in West VA about Wind Energy, Deluded Delusional or Dishonest?]
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Written by Arthur Robinson, Ph.D.
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 04:41 |
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As the alternative media fill with news of "Climategate" and other scientific scandals, people ask: "What has happened to science? Has it been corrupted as have the Congress, the presidency, the media, and many of our other institutions? Can we no longer depend upon even our scientists to tell the truth?"
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Read more... [How Government Corrupts Science]
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Written by Malcolm Roberts
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Friday, 12 March 2010 21:20 |
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The following conclusions are obtained from examining this catalogue’s list of UN IPCC misrepresentations of science. We are now seeing publicly what eminent UN IPCC scientists have been saying since the UN IPCC ’s second report in 1995—the UN IPCC peddles bogus science for political objectives.
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Read more... [Two Dead Elephants in Parliament]
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Written by Minority Staff of the Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works
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Friday, 12 March 2010 21:11 |
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In this report, Minority Staff of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works examine key documents and emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU).
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Read more... [United States Senate Report, 'Consensus Exposed:' The CRU Controversy]
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Written by Joanne Nova
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Friday, 12 March 2010 20:58 |
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Somehow the tables have turned. For all the smears of big money funding the "deniers", the numbers reveal that the sceptics are actually the true grassroots campaigners, while Greenpeace defends Wall St. How times have changed.
Sceptics are fighting a billion dollar industry aligned with a trillion dollar trading scheme. Big Oil's supposed evil influence has been vastly outdone by Big Government, and even those taxpayer billions are trumped by Big-Banking.
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Read more... [The Money Trail]
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Written by Bill Gray
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Friday, 12 March 2010 20:53 |
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Comment by Bill Gray, Professor Emeritus, Colorado State University on Kerry Emanuel’s Boston Globe (15 February 2010) Op/Ed piece titled “Climate Changes Are Proven Fact.”
This piece has many inaccuracies, and in my view, is not a positive contribution to the global warming debate for the reasons I present in my rebuttal of various Emanuel statements.
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Read more... [Rebuttal Comments to Boston Globe's Op/Ed Piece "Climate Changes are Proven Fact]
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Written by Lee Gerhard
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Friday, 12 March 2010 20:36 |
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Dishonesty in science can harm people.
Over the last century science has played an ever increasing role in the lives of all people, particularly so in the western hemisphere and in Europe and Asia. Science, and its resulting technology, the applications of science to practical problems, has increased life expectancy, improved our standard of living, dramatically speeded communications, and made us a space-faring people, to cite only a few examples. Our ability to feed a rapidly growing global population and to make their lives easier and more productive both stem from advances in science.
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Read more... [Climategate" and the Ethics of Science]
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Written by Paul Driessen
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 11:07 |
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Alleged threats of global warming disaster must not hobble justice and civil rights.
Endangerment rules and cap-and-trade laws threaten jobs, opportunity and justice in Utah.
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Read more... [Pursuing Justice Through Affordable Energy for Utahans]
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Written by Bob Carter
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Friday, 05 March 2010 07:05 |
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On June 23, 1988, a young and previously unknown NASA computer modeller, James Hansen, appeared before a United States Congressional hearing on climate change. On that occasion, Dr. Hansen used a graph to convince his listeners that late 20th century warming was taking place at an accelerated rate, which, it being a scorching summer's day in Washington, a glance out of the window appeared to confirm.
He wrote later in justification, in the Washington Post (February 11, 1989), that "the evidence for an increasing greenhouse effect is now sufficiently strong that it would have been irresponsible if I had not attempted to alert political leaders"
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Read more... [Lysenkoism and James Hansen]
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Written by by Philip J. Klotzbach, et al. (2009)
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 05:44 |
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This paper investigates surface and satellite temperature trends over the period
from 1979 to 2008. Surface temperature data sets from the National Climate Data
Center and the Hadley Center show larger trends over the 30-year period than the
lower-tropospheric data from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Remote
Sensing Systems data sets. The differences between trends observed in the surface and
lower-tropospheric satellite data sets are statistically significant in most comparisons,
with much greater differences over land areas than over ocean areas. These findings
strongly suggest that there remain important inconsistencies between surface and satellite
records.
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Read more... [An Alternative Explanation for Differential Temperature Trends at Surface & in the Lower Troposphere]
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Written by Nicola Scafetta
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 05:39 |
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This article discusses the limits of the Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory advocated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A phenomenological theory of climate change based on the physical properties of the data themselves is proposed. At least 60% of the warming of the Earth observed since 1970 appears to be induced by natural cycles which are present in the solar system. A climatic stabilization or cooling until 2030-2040 is forecast by the phenomenological model.
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Read more... [Climate Change and Its Causes, A Discussion About Some Key Issues]
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Written by Joe D'Aleo
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 05:25 |
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It has been a winter for many to remember (or forget). There are lots of reasons why. The sun is just coming out of a very long slumber for one. Let's look at some of the other factors likely at play.
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Read more... [Record Setting AO and SOI Combo Work with Other Factors to Create a Wild Winter]
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