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Written by SPPI
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Monday, 18 August 2008 06:37 |
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The scare: As the peer-reviewed literature is filled with a growing proportion of learned papers demolishing the imagined “consensus” that anthropogenic “global warming” will prove “catastrophic”, the less serious newspapers are looking for new scares to peddle to the feeble-minded. In mid-August 2008, The Guardian, Britain’s silliest newspaper, printed an article by Peter Tatchell suggesting that the world’s oxygen is running out because of humankind’s use of fossil fuels. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 18 August 2008 12:14 |
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Read more... [Oxygen Scarcity Threatens Humankind]
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Written by Staff
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 22:29 |
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The scare: In an official press release of the Royal Society, Britain’s oldest taxpayer-funded body, Martin Rees, its president, is quoted as saying: “The science of climate change is complex; however the weight of scientific evidence shows that ‘global warming’ caused by human actions is happening now …” |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 07 August 2008 22:30 |
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Read more... ['Global Warming' is happening now!" - Not!]
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Written by SPPI
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 15:53 |
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The scare: An article in the New York Times in late July 2008 by an author promoting a forthcoming book about “global warming” calls the Greenland ice-sheet “one of ‘global warming’s’ most disturbing threats”. The article says: “The vast expanses of glaciers — massed, on average, 1.6 miles deep — contain enough water to raise sea levels worldwide by 23 feet. Should they melt or otherwise slip into the ocean, they would flood coastal capitals, submerge tropical islands and generally redraw the world’s atlases. The infusion of fresh water could slow or shut down the ocean’s currents, plunging Europe into bitter winter.” |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 July 2008 16:03 |
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Read more... [Greenland’s “melting” ice sheets “will raise sea level 23 feet”]
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Written by Staff
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 14:05 |
The scare: The cult science-fiction magazine Scientific American, in a recent issue, advises readers to “add kidney stones to the growing list of possible consequences of global warming.”
It uncritically reports a “new study” published in the Proceedings of the Notional Academy of Sciences, another “global warming” propheteer, suggesting that as many as 2.3 million more people may develop mineral deposits in their kidneys by 2050 if the current global cooling stops. The pretext? “There's a greater risk that they will be subject to dehydration in more sultry climes, which is believed to be a major contributor to stone formation.” |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 17 July 2008 14:08 |
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Read more... [Global Warming Causes More Kidney-Stones]
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Written by Christopher Monkton
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Monday, 21 April 2008 09:08 |
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The scare: In an interview on 21 April 2008 with a passively acquiescent and incurious Clodagh Hartley in The Sun , Britain’s top-selling tabloid newspaper, Al Gore said recent opinion polls had found that, while people rate climate change as a “serious problem”, some rank it lower than clearing up dog mess. Gore said the situation is ever more urgent; that world leaders must change laws “to stop pollution pouring into the atmosphere and affecting the climate”; that the US is the “worst offender” in the “crisis” and has “failed to live up to the Kyoto Protocol”; that “the entire North Polar icecap is melting … and is going to imminently disappear”; and that “long-life light bulbs, recycling, window treatments and extra insulation … can all help”. The Sun added that some scientists expect sea level to rise up to 34 inches by 2100; and that cows and livestock contribute two-fifths of methane emissions. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 21 April 2008 09:14 |
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Read more... [Climate Change is more important than cleaning up dog-mess" - Gore]
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Written by SPPI
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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 10:49 |
The scares: The World Health Organization announced on 7 April 2008 that millions of Asians could face poverty, disease and hunger as a result of rising temperatures and increased rainfall. The WHO’s regional director for Asia said that malaria, diarrhea, malnutrition and floods cause an estimated 150,000 deaths annually in the region. A WHO adviser on malaria and other parasitic diseases added climate change in combination with unchecked human development has contributed to the problem. |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 13 April 2008 20:21 |
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Read more... ['Global Warming' is Causing Malaria, Floods and Malnutrition]
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Written by Christopher Monkton
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 07:13 |
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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Last Updated on Wednesday, 09 April 2008 10:59 |
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Read more... [“Climate Target is not radical enough”]
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Written by SPPI
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Saturday, 05 April 2008 07:11 |
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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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Last Updated on Monday, 07 April 2008 05:19 |
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Read more... [BBC ScareWatch - Global Temperatures Going Down Imply Temperatures Will Go Up]
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Written by SPPI
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 11:12 |
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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Last Updated on Monday, 07 April 2008 05:20 |
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Read more... [Turner: “‘Global warming’ will kill most of us, and turn the rest of us into cannibals”]
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Written by SPPI
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 11:06 |
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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Last Updated on Monday, 07 April 2008 05:20 |
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Read more... [Andrew Revkin: “There’s no Inuit word for ‘robin’”]
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