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Written by Christopher Monckton
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 15:00 |
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The scare: At the December 2008 UN climate conference at Poznan, held during the coldest commencement of the European winter in 30 years, former vice-president Al Gore said that the human species had arrived at yet another “moment of fateful decision”, because “our home, Earth, is in danger”. He said he would state “a few facts, if only to underscore the urgency of our task”, and “we cannot negotiate with the facts”, the first of which was the “unrestrained dumping of 70 million tons of ‘global warming’ pollution into the thin shelf of atmosphere surrounding our planet every 24 hours”. Scientists had “for several years now warned us that we are moving dangerously close to several so-called tipping points that could within less than 10 years make it impossible to avoid irretrievable damage to the planet's habitability”. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 05 January 2009 11:05 |
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Read more... [Yet another “moment of fateful decision”]
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Written by Christopher Monckton
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Monday, 05 January 2009 10:21 |
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The scare: On 2 January 2009, the Wall Street Journal wrote one of a series of articles apparently co-ordinated throughout the generally alarmist news media throughout the holiday season, trying to overcome the problem posed for “global warming” alarmists by the fact that global mean surface temperatures have been on a downtrend for eight straight years (Figure 1): |
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Last Updated on Friday, 09 January 2009 10:50 |
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Read more... [Global Cooling is really Global Warming]
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Written by Christopher Monckton
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 08:55 |
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The scare: The Guardian, one of the two UK newspapers most prone to write unverified and scientifically-inaccurate stories about the consequences of “global warming”, published an article on 10 December 2008, intended to influence delegates at the UN’s Poznan conference on the climate. The article listed a series of alleged climate catastrophes all round the world, saying that “millions … are feeling the force of a changing climate. … |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 11 December 2008 09:00 |
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Read more... [“Wilder and wetter everywhere”]
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Written by Christopher Monckton
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 07:31 |
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The scare: In early December 2008, The Guardian, a newspaper of the British Left and an unquestioning true-believer in the catastrophist version of climate alarm, quoted Professor Myles Allen, a physicist at Oxford University, as saying computer models such as one that he has developed can now ascribe individual extreme-weather events to anthropogenic “global warming”, allowing environmental pressure groups to sue the corporations they believe are to blame for the catastrophic heating of the planet. Professor Allen joked, “We are starting to get to the point that when an adverse weather event occurs we can quantify how much more likely it was made by human activity. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 11 December 2008 07:33 |
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Read more... [“Companies could be sued over climate change”]
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Written by Christopher Monckton
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Sunday, 07 December 2008 13:31 |
The scare: Bank of America has issued a “Policy On Climate Change” that says –
The truth: Bank of America has no business taking sides on the political issue of climate change, and still less business taking the scientifically-baseless side. “Global climate change” has been occurring for billions of years. Life has thriven. The climate has been warming for 300 years for natural reasons. But, for the last 13 years, it has not been warming at all. Therefore there will be no “important impacts on present and future generations” – except the heavy and expensive impacts of the diversion of investors’ and taxpayers’ funds from solving the world’s real environmental problems to addressing the non-problem of “global warming”. For fully seven years before Bank of America issued its “Policy on Climate Change”, the planet had been cooling. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 December 2008 11:52 |
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Read more... [Withdraw your savings from Bank of America!]
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Written by Christopher Monckton
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Sunday, 07 December 2008 13:15 |
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The scare: In early December 2008, The Guardian, the newspaper of Britain’s public-sector elite, finally admitted to its readers that “global warming” has been replaced by global cooling, saying that 2008 would be the “coolest year of the decade”, one-seventh of a degree Celsius below the average for the past ten years. However, the paper said, “Cooler temperature is not evidence that ‘global warming’ is slowing.” The paper quoted Dr. Peter Stott, the “manager of understanding and attributing climate change” at the Met Office, as saying... |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 December 2008 21:00 |
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Read more... [Coolest year for a decade means more ‘global warming’ to come]
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Written by SPPI
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Saturday, 15 November 2008 06:17 |
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The scare: The Times of India reported in the autumn of 2008 that James H. Diaz, program director for environmental and occupational health at Louisiana State University, had said that as international travel increased and climate patterns changed the US was becoming a more stable ecosystem for malaria mosquitoes. Diaz said that warm, dry summers followed by heavy rain caused mosquitoes to rush their breeding and to seek out more blood meals, which in turn bred more mosquitoes in less time. He added that warmer climate in major US cities with heavy international air traffic, such as New York and Los Angeles, seemed to have created an environment in which infected mosquitoes could survive. |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 15 November 2008 06:17 |
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Read more... [“Global warming spreads malaria”]
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Written by SPPI
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Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:18 |
The scare: Jonathan Leake, in The Times of London on 26 October 2008, says:
1. The Arctic icecap is “shrinking at record rates” even in the winter;
2. “The period in which the ice renews itself has become much shorter”;
3. The “even more alarming” cause of the thinner ice is warmer seas rather than warmer air;
4. “The Arctic is likely to melt much faster than had been thought”;
5. “The summer icecap could vanish within a decade”, according to unnamed “experts”;
6. The Northwest Passage was open in the summer of 2008 for the first time in 30 years;
7. Arctic sea ice is half of its 1976 thickness;
8. “Now the ice is just collapsing”. as shown by “satellite-based observations”;
9. In September 2007 the Arctic icecap had “lost an extra 1.1 million square miles;
10. The icecap was “43% smaller than it was in 1979, when satellite observations began”;
11. Less ice means less sunlight reflected harmlessly back to space and so more warming;
12. “The process accelerates until there is no more ice to melt”; and
13. A scientist has said: “This is one of the most serious problems the world has ever faced”. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:28 |
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Read more... [Artic Icecap is Melting, Even in Winter]
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Written by SPPI
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Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:14 |
The scare: On September 23, 2008, The Independent wrote yet another in its series of articles predicting that “global warming” will produce what has become known as a “methane burp” as vast reserves of the gas locked in Northern-Hemisphere permafrost are released by “global warming”.
Methane, in a given concentration, is 23 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:15 |
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Read more... [The Methane Time Bomb]
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Written by SPPI
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 08:27 |
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The scare: In the late summer of 2008, the once-serious Washington Post published a joint op-ed article by the president of the formerly-prestigious Brookings Institute and a foreign-policy wonk who works there. The article, entitled “Seven Years To Climate Midnight”, took a now-traditional form, claiming that we have only x years (x being declared equal to 7 in the present instance) to avert irreversible climatic catastrophe “within decades”. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 September 2008 09:30 |
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Read more... [“X years to Climate Catastrophe”]
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