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Monday, 08 June 2009 |
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Steven Chu, entertainingly described as an “Energy Secretary”, says we can Save the
Planet from “global warming” by painting our rooftops and roads white.
He says making roofs and roads paler would have the same effect as
taking every automobile in the world off the road for 11 years.
Rush Limbaugh, entertainingly as always, but pointedly, asks –
“Now, would somebody explain to me how he knows this? …
If we can do something that will effectively remove the carbon
emissions of every car on the road for 11 years, then why are we doing
anything else? Why are we doing cap and trade? Why are we getting rid
of SUVs? … How much paint is this going to take, by the way? How much of a footprint does paint manufacturing leave? … I
need a scientist to answer this for me. I understand how clouds at
altitude can help reflect the heat, but I want to know … where does
that reflected heat go? … Are we being told here that reflected heat is
not damaging at all, but direct heat is? It seems to me that, if we had
‘global warming’, wouldn’t we want dark roofs to absorb the heat?”
Christopher Monckton replies.
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Saturday, 06 June 2009 |
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Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson has been roundly criticized for insisting global warming is not an urgent problem, with many climate scientists dismissing him as woefully ill-informed. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Dyson explains his iconoclastic views and why he believes they have stirred such controversy.
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Friday, 05 June 2009 |
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Last year was an active tornado season, the most active this decade. When all was said and done, the calendar year delivered 1691 tornados, with tornados in all but 3 of the lower 48 states.
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Friday, 05 June 2009 |
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The day before yesterday they called it “global warming”. Yesterday they called it “climate change”. Today they call it “energy security”. Tomorrow they will call it what it is – absolute rubbish.
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Friday, 29 May 2009 |
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Summary for Policy Makers
In this report, we provide a review of Pennsylvania’s climate history and show that there is little 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. Instead of rising temperatures, the state’s annual average temperature has remained relatively unchanged over the past century.
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Thursday, 28 May 2009 |
In a paper recently published in Geophysical Research Letters,
Silverman et al. (2009) created a model of coral calcification based on
field observations of gross community calcification as a function of
aragonite saturation state (Ωarag), sea surface temperature (SST) and
live coral cover, after which they calculated calcification rates for
more than 9,000 reef locations using model values of Ωarag and SST at
different atmospheric CO2 concentrations, which exercise led them to
conclude that "by the time atmospheric partial pressure of CO2 will
reach 560 ppm, all coral reefs will cease to grow and start to
dissolve."
What's wrong with this picture?
For starters – and as actually acknowledged by the researchers
themselves – "coral reefs were exposed throughout their geological
history to higher temperatures and CO2 levels than at present and yet
have persisted," which is a pretty amazing admission for them to make,
in light of the fact that they have boldly declared that when the
atmosphere's CO2 concentration reaches 560 ppm in the not too distant
future, "all coral reefs will cease to grow and start to dissolve."
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Thursday, 28 May 2009 |
In 1996 the United Nations Interovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Second Assessment Report was released, and I was listed as one of approximately 3000 “scientists” who agreed that there was a discernable human influence on climate.
I was an invited reviewer for a chapter dealing with the economic impact of sea level rise on small island nations. In keeping with IPCC procedures, the chapter was written and reviewed in isolation from the rest of the report, and I had no input into the process after my review of the chapter draft. I was not asked if I supported the view expressed in my name, and my understanding at the time was that no evidence of a discernable human influence on global climate existed.
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009 |
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Originally we were warned about the "greenhouse effect"; then it was "global warming", followed in turn by "climate change". Now we talk about reducing the "carbon footprint". The light is dawning and 30 per cent of scientists are sceptics or deniers.
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009 |
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The Obama administration's decision this week to introduce stringent new fuel efficiency standards for the U.S. car industry is a testament to the power of climate change hysteria. The lobby goes unchallenged in the corridors of power and will likely incur a disastrous economic and human toll. It is also a means to gaining political power and, for the former vice president, personal riches.
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009 |
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Some business leaders are cozying up with politicians and scientists to demand swift, drastic action on global warming. This is a new twist on a very old practice: companies using public policy to line their own pockets.
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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 |
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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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Monday, 25 May 2009 |
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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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Tuesday, 19 May 2009 |
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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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Tuesday, 19 May 2009 |
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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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Tuesday, 19 May 2009 |
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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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Tuesday, 19 May 2009 |
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Lord Monckton’s response letter to Congressmen Barton and Upton on the central question of climate sensitivity.
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Monday, 18 May 2009 |
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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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Friday, 15 May 2009 |
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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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Friday, 15 May 2009 |
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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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Friday, 15 May 2009 |
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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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