The Global Warming Reader - Pt. I: The Hysteria
Global Warming causes terrorism, suicide, nightmares, genocide... and probably male pattern baldness, too. I think it also had something to do with the Red Sox winning the '04 World Series.
Terrorism Linked to Global Warming
About.com: According to a report by the Military Advisory Board, a group of retired general officers from all branches of the U.S. military, there is a clear link between climate change and terrorism. (June 12, 2007)
Global warming possibly linked to an enhanced risk of suicide
Department of Psychology, University of Cagliari, Italy: The global increase in surface temperature (known as global warming) was found to impact on mortality through ill health, particularly among the elderly and in summer. This study sets out to explore the impact of global warming on suicide mortality, using data from Italy.
Global warming worries keeps children awake at night
GMTV: Half of young children are anxious about the effects of global warming, often losing sleep because of their concern, according to a new report today. A survey of 1,150 youngsters aged between seven and 11 found that one in four blamed politicians for the problems of climate change. (Mar 19, 2007)
Climate change behind Darfur killing
Breitbart: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be on the horizon. (Jun 16, 2007)
Worms are killing the planet, says top researcher
Materials Recycling Week: "Everybody loves them because they think they can do no harm but they contribute to global warming." (Jun 21, 2007)
Tourists cause global warming
News24: "Tourism is unfortunately one of the vectors of (climate) change at the moment and contributes, through its excesses, to the process of global warming," World Tourism Organisation (WTO) director general Francesco Frangialli told an international conference on meteorology in Madrid this week. (Mar 22. 2007)
Humans blamed for climate change
BBC: Climatic change is "very likely" down to human activities, the global body on climate science will say. (Feb 2, 2007)
France Tells U.S. to Sign Climate Pacts or Face Tax
President Jacques Chirac has demanded that the United States sign both the Kyoto climate protocol and a future agreement that will take effect when the Kyoto accord runs out in 2012. He warned that if the United States did not sign the agreements, a carbon tax across Europe on imports from nations that have not signed the Kyoto treaty could be imposed to try to force compliance. (Feb 1, 2007)
Gore says Bush administration paying scientists to dispute global warming
CNN: "They've lost the argument and they don't want to stop dumping all this pollution into the Earth's atmosphere," Gore said in a short interview. "The only thing they have left is cash and now they're offering cash for so-called skeptics who will try to confuse people about what the science really say." (Feb 6, 2007)
RFK Jr. rips President Bush for environmental policy
Roanoke.com: The crowd that nearly filled Virginia Tech's 3,000-seat Burruss Hall Auditorium to hear environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speak probably had an idea about what he thought of the Bush administration before he took the podium. "You can't talk honestly about the environment today ... without being critical of the president," he said. The university paid $20,000 for his visit. (Feb 27, 2007)
Dangerous denial
Frontline Magazine (India): If all the people of the world had the same living style as the average American, the holocaust would have already visited us. (Feb 24, 2007)
Global Warming: now it hits brothels
Metro.co.uk: Things Al Gore didn't tell you - global warming is harming Bulgaria's sex trade, according to brothel owners. (Mar 6, 2007)
Climate change blamed for cockroach migration
ABC (Australia): Climate change is being blamed for a changing of the guard among Sydneys cockroach population. (Mar 14, 2007)
Climate scientist sees cover-up
Washington Times: A NASA scientist who said the Bush administration muzzled him because of his belief in global warming yesterday acknowledged to Congress that he'd done more than 1,400 on-the-job interviews in recent years. (Mar 20, 2007)
Gore Implores Congress to Save Planet
AP: - Al Gore, who has reversed his political fortunes to become a potential contender in the 2008 presidential race, made an emotional return to Congress Wednesday in an appeal for an even more dramatic rescue - saving the planet. (Mar 21, 2007)
Global Warming Making Hurricanes Stronger
LiveScience: Is global warming making hurricanes more ferocious? New research suggests the answer is yes. Scientists call the findings both surprising and "alarming'' because they suggest global warming is influencing storms now -- rather than in the distant future. (Jul 31, 2005)
Global warming may spur wind shear, sap hurricanes
Reuters: Global warming could increase a climate phenomenon known as wind shear that inhibits Atlantic hurricanes, a potentially positive result of climate change, according to new research released on Tuesday. (Apr 17, 2007)
Pending doom: Global warming crisis
Portland Press Herald: A group of fourth-graders in Portland creates a list of priorities to stop global warming. "Our school study of global warming started with lots of questions. What is global warming? What is happening now? What might happen in the future? What can each of us do tohelp? Why should we care? What will the future look like? A small group of students at our school has been researching and studying the effects of global warming. The evidence and data we collected is so overwhelming that we have decided to write about this issue. " (Jun 14, 2007)
The Earth today stands in imminent peril
The Independent (UK) Six scientists from some of the leading scientific institutions in the United States have issued what amounts to an unambiguous warning to the world: civilisation itself is threatened by global warming. (Jul 1, 2007)
U.S. leg of Live Earth hits key notes
Newsday: It was nonmusicians at this concert who made the most passionate pleas about demanding action for the environment. "Get rid of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington, who are nothing more than corporate toadies," said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the environmentalist author, president of Waterkeeper Alliance and Robert F. Kennedy's son, who grew hoarse from shouting. "This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors." (Jul 1, 2007)
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The Global Warming Reader - Pt. III: The Debunking
The debate is over. If you ignore those who disagree, I mean.
Climate Change: The Deniers (Series)
The National Post's series on scientists who buck the conventional wisdom on climate science.
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Video)
YouTube: The Great Global Warming Swindle is a controversial documentary film by British television producer Martin Durkin, which argues against the scientific opinion that human activity is the main cause of global warming. The film showcases scientists, economists, politicians, writers, and others who are sceptical of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming. Publicity for the programme states that global warming is "a lie" and "the biggest scam of modern times.
Penn And Teller Get Hippies To Sign Petition To Ban Water (Video)
YouTube: Dihydrogen Monoxide is in our bodies, in our reservoirs, in our food... it's everywhere! Government needs to do something!!!.
Interview: Dr. S. Fred Singer
Nova/Frontline: He is an atmospheric physicist at George Mason University and founder of the Science and Environmental Policy Project, a think tank on climate and environmental issues. Singer has been a leading skeptic of the scientific consensus on global warming. He points out that the scenarios are alarmist, computer models reflect real gaps in climate knowledge, and future warming will be inconsequential or modest at most.
Kyoto accord protest quickening
Washington Times - S. Fred Singer: Happy Earth Day, Al Gore! Your much-touted "scientific consensus" on global warming has just been exposed as phony. An unprecedented number of American scientists—more than 15,000, including over 10,000 with advanced academic degrees—have now signed a petition against the climate accord adopted in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997. (Apr 22, 1998)
Global Warming Natural, May End Within 20 Years, Says Ohio State University Researcher
ScienceDaily: Global warming is a natural geological process that could begin to reverse itself within 10 to 20 years, predicts an Ohio State University researcher. (Jun 15, 2001)
There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998
Daily Telegraph: For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco. Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase (there was actually a slight decrease, though not at a rate that differs significantly from zero). (Sep 4, 2006)
Global Warming Bombshell
MIT Technology Review - Richard Muller: Progress in science is sometimes made by great discoveries. But science also advances when we learn that something we believed to be true isnt. When solving a jigsaw puzzle, the solution can sometimes be stymied by the fact that a wrong piece has been wedged in a key place. In the scientific and political debate over global warming, the latest wrong piece may be the hockey stick published by University of Massachusetts geoscientist Michael Mann and colleagues. This plot purports to show that we are now experiencing the warmest climate in a millennium, and that the earth, after remaining cool for centuries during the medieval era, suddenly began to heat up about 100 years ago--just at the time that the burning of coal and oil led to an increase in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide. I talked about this at length in my December 2003 column. Unfortunately, discussion of this plot has been so polluted by political and activist frenzy that it is hard to dig into it to reach the science. My earlier column was largely a plea to let science proceed unmolested. Unfortunately, the very importance of the issue has made careful science difficult to pursue. But now a shock: Canadian scientists Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick have uncovered a fundamental mathematical flaw in the computer program that was used to produce the hockey stick. (Oct 15, 2004)
The Real Inconvenient Truth: Greenhouse, global warming and some facts
JunkScience.com: Given the number of JunkScience.com readers expressing some confusion over the "greenhouse effect," carbon dioxide, global warming and climate change, we thought it might be a good idea to pull together a page of questions-and-answers, complete with a few nice little graphics explaining the facts. We thought that since there is long-standing, intense public interest in these topics and that vast sums of public and private monies are being thrown at the much-dreaded "problem" of "global warming," there should be a wealth of quality explanations and graphics to which we can point readers to alleviate their confusion. That was about the time that our quick project and quiet weekend went awry very quickly. Who would have thought so many "issue" sites, environment sites and, yes, government sites, could be hosting so much utter garbage on a topic subject to such intense scrutiny? Who could have imagined having to spend several hours wading through searches to find a few simple graphics correctly expressing the greenhouse effect? Who knew that so many blowhards are out there pontificating from complete ignorance? Some of the bad descriptions appear to be poor efforts at simplifying the material to suit grade school course work and the like, but that does not make them any more acceptable. Obviously a slight rethink of this project was necessary. We will now try to deliver an extremely simplified version of how this greenhouse thing actually works and some indication of what might be expected from what is known about the Earth and what has been measured, rather than simply guessed about. (Apr 21, 2006)
Scientists respond to Gore's Warnings of Climate Catastrophe
Canadian Free Press: "Gore's circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are pathetic. It is simply incredible that they, and his film, are commanding public attention." (Jun 12, 2006)
Questions for Al Gore
Patriot Post: "As a climate scientist myself -- you might remember me...I'm the one you mistook for your "good friend," UK scientist Phil Jones during my congressional testimony some years back -- I have a few questions that occurred to me while watching the movie..." (May 25, 2006)
The Gods Are Laughing
National Post: Albert Einstein once said, "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." While the gods must consider An Inconvenient Truth the ultimate comedy, real climate scientists are crying over Al Gore's new film. (Jun 7, 2006)
Don't Believe the Hype
Opinion Journal: Al Gore is wrong. There's no "consensus" on global warming. (Jul 2, 2006)
A Convenient Lie
RealClearPolitics - John Stossel: When he was in college, atmospheric-science professor John Christy was told, "it was a certainty that by the year 2000, the world would be starving and out of energy." That prediction has gone the way of so many others. But environmentalists continue to warn us that we face environmental disaster if we don't accept the economic disaster called the Kyoto treaty. Lawyers from the Natural Resources Defense Council (another environmental group with more lawyers than scientists) explain: "Sea levels will rise, flooding coastal areas." And Al Gore's new movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," depicts a future in which cities are submerged by rising sea levels. Wow. But many scientists laugh at the panic. Christy says, "Doomsday prophecies grabbed headlines but have proven to be completely false. Similar pronouncements today about catastrophes due to human-induced climate change sound all too familiar." But the media can't get enough of doomsday. (July 5, 2006)
Get Your Priorities Right Opinion Journal: A rationalist crusader does the math on global warming. (Jul 8, 2006)
Global warming boost to glaciers
BBC: Global warming could be causing some glaciers to grow, a new study claims. (Aug 24, 2006)
Global Warming:A Chilling PerspectiveMonte and Harrison Hieb: Earth's climate has been warming since the most recent in a series of Ice Ages ended 18,000 years ago (Aug 28, 2006)Climate Non-Conformity
Opinion Journal: Saving lives versus saving planet Earth. (Nov 2, 2006)
Hurricane Predictions Off Track As Tranquil Season Wafts Away
Tampa Bay Online: With cataclysmic predictions that hurricanes would swarm from the tropics like termites, no one thought 2006 would be the most tranquil season in a decade. (Nov 27, 2006)
A Skeptic's Guide to Debunking Global Warming Alarmism. Hot & Cold Media Spin Cycle: A Challenge To Journalists who Cover Global Warming.
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: The color glossy 68 page booklet -- previously was only available in hardcopy to the media and policy makers -- includes speeches, graphs, press releases and scientific articles refuting catastrophe climate fears presented by the media, the United Nations, Hollywood and former Vice President turned-foreign-lobbyist Al Gore. (Dec 8, 2006)
Days of Sunshine
John L. Daly: While there may have been some warming this century, it is unlikely to be as much as the half degree claimed. However, for the purposes of this discussion, it will be assumed there has been some global warming over the last 120 years, by an amount up to +0.5 deg.C, even though +0.25 deg.C would be a more realistic figure. Given that assumption, the question then arises as to what caused it. Was it just natural variation? Was mankind to blame due to greenhouse gases? Or, was it the primary engine of our warmth - the Sun?
Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore
Bjorn Lomberg: Cinemas everywhere will soon be showing former US Vice President Al Gore's film on global warming. "An Inconvenient Truth" has received rave reviews in America and Europe, and it will most likely gain a large worldwide audience. But, while the film is full of emotion and provocative images, it is short on rational arguments. (Jan 2007)
'Scientist' Group's Funding Comes with Liberal 'Strings Attached'
CNS News: At a time when the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is censuring free market organizations for accepting donations from ExxonMobil, critics have turned the spotlight back onto the UCS, its left-wing positions, and its own funding practices. The UCS receives substantial donations from liberal-leaning foundations, and a number of the donations are earmarked for specific studies, used to promote positions on issues including the environment, disarmament and criticism of missile defense initiatives. (Jan 23, 2007)
Al Gore Is a Greenhouse Gasbag
Philadelphia Magazine: Penn professor Bob Giegengack has a few quibbles with the former VP on this whole global warming thing. For decades, Giegengack was content to be a relatively obscure geologist who taught more than he published. Recently, though, he's stepped into the swirling tempest surrounding global warming, in part because he says it's not even one of the top 10 environmental problems we face. To make that point, he occasionally joins in a panel discussion, or gives a quote to a science writer. He's thinking about writing something for one of the smarty-pants magazines. "I've always been interested in this question," he says, "but when I first started working, no one cared -- you couldn't get an article published if you wanted to." Now, though, "The public appetite for all this crap seems to be insatiable." (Feb 2007)
The real deal?
National Post: All we have on which to pin the blame on greenhouse gases, says Dr. Nir Shaviv, is "incriminating circumstantial evidence," which explains why climate scientists speak in terms of finding "evidence of fingerprints." Circumstantial evidence might be a fine basis on which to justify reducing greenhouse gases, he adds, "without other 'suspects.' " However, Dr. Shaviv not only believes there are credible "other suspects," he believes that at least one provides a superior explanation for the 20th century's warming. "Solar activity can explain a large part of the 20th-century global warming," he states, particularly because of the evidence that has been accumulating over the past decade of the strong relationship that cosmic- ray flux has on our atmosphere. So much evidence has by now been amassed, in fact, that "it is unlikely that [the solar climate link] does not exist." (Feb 2, 2007)
I vote for global warming
Jack Kelly: As evidence mounts that it is the sun and not man that is responsible for global warming, the alarmists grow more strident and try to stifle debate. (Feb 4, 2007)
What's so hot about fickle science?
Mark Steyn: From the "Environmental News Network": "Science Is Solid on Climate Change, Congress Told." "The science is solid," says Louise Frechette, deputy secretary-general of the United Nations. "The science is solid," says Sen. Dianne Feinstein. "The science is really solid," says TV meteorologist Heidi Cullen. "The science is very solid." And at that point, on "Larry King Live" last week, Richard Lindzen, professor of atmospheric science at MIT, remarked: "Heidi says the science is solid and I can't criticize her because she never says what science she's talking about." (Feb 5, 2007)
Climate of Opinion
Opinion Journal: While everyone concedes that the Earth is about a degree Celsius warmer than it was a century ago, the debate continues over the cause and consequences. We don't deny that carbon emissions may play a role, but we don't believe that the case is sufficiently proven to justify a revolution in global energy use. The economic dislocations of such an abrupt policy change could be far more severe than warming itself, especially if it reduces the growth and innovation that would help the world cope with, say, rising sea levels. There are also other problems--AIDS, malaria and clean drinking water, for example--whose claims on scarce resources are at least as urgent as climate change. (Feb 5, 2007)
Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?
Canada Free Press - Timothy Ball: Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn't exist. And I am not the only one trying to make people open up their eyes and see the truth. But few listen, despite the fact that I was one of the first Canadian Ph.Ds. in Climatology and I have an extensive background in climatology, especially the reconstruction of past climates and the impact of climate change on human history and the human condition. Few listen, even though I have a Ph.D, (Doctor of Science) from the University of London, England and was a climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg. For some reason (actually for many), the World is not listening. Here is why. (Feb 5, 2007)
Global warming debate spurs Ore. title tiff
KGW.com: In the face of evidence agreed upon by hundreds of climate scientists, George Taylor holds firm. He does not believe human activities are the main cause of global climate change. Taylor also holds a unique title: State Climatologist. His opinions conflict not only with many other scientists, but with the state of Oregon's policies. So the governor wants to take that title from Taylor and make it a position that he would appoint. (Feb 8, 2007)
Cosmic rays blamed for global warming
Daily Telegraph: Scientists say that cosmic rays from outer space play a far greater role in changing the Earth's climate than global warming experts previously thought. (Feb 11, 2007)
An experiment that hints we are wrong on climate change
The Times (UK): When politicians and journalists declare that the science of global warming is settled, they show a regrettable ignorance about how science works. We were treated to another dose of it recently when the experts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued the Summary for Policymakers that puts the political spin on an unfinished scientific dossier on climate change due for publication in a few months' time. They declared that most of the rise in temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to man-made greenhouse gases. The small print explains "very likely" as meaning that the experts who made the judgment felt 90% sure about it. Older readers may recall a press conference at Harwell in 1958 when Sir John Cockcroft, Britain's top nuclear physicist, said he was 90% certain that his lads had achieved controlled nuclear fusion. It turned out that he was wrong. More positively, a 10% uncertainty in any theory is a wide open breach for any latterday Galileo or Einstein to storm through with a better idea. That is how science really works. (Feb 11, 2007)
Inconvenient Kyoto Truths
Newsweek - George Will: Was life better when a sheet of ice a mile thick covered Chicago? Was it worse when Greenland was so warm that Vikings farmed there? (Feb 12, 2007)
Plus Ça (Climate) Change
Opinion Journal - Pet Du Pont: When Eric the Red led the Norwegian Vikings to Greenland in the late 900s, it was an ice-free farm country--grass for sheep and cattle, open water for fishing, a livable climate--so good a colony that by 1100 there were 3,000 people living there. Then came the Ice Age. By 1400, average temperatures had declined by 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, the glaciers had crushed southward across the farmlands and harbors, and the Vikings did not survive. Such global temperature fluctuations are not surprising, for looking back in history we see a regular pattern of warming and cooling. From 200 B.C. to A.D. 600 saw the Roman Warming period; from 600 to 900, the cold period of the Dark Ages; from 900 to 1300 was the Medieval warming period; and 1300 to 1850, the Little Ice Age. During the 20th century the earth did indeed warm--by 1 degree Fahrenheit. But a look at the data shows that within the century temperatures varied with time: from 1900 to 1910 the world cooled; from 1910 to 1940 it warmed; from 1940 to the late 1970s it cooled again, and since then it has been warming. Today our climate is 1/20th of a degree Fahrenheit warmer than it was in 2001. (Feb 21, 2007)
Inconvenient Truths: Novel science fiction on global warming
National Review - Patrick J. Michaels: When it comes to global warming, apparently the truth is inconvenient. And it's not just Gore's movie that's fiction. It's the rhetoric of the Congress and the chief executive, too. (Feb 23, 2007)
Greenhouse sceptics to congregate
TheAge.com.au: Environmentalism has largely superseded Christianity as the religion of the upper classes in Europe and to a lesser extent in the United States... It is a form of religious belief which fosters a sense of moral superiority in the believer, but which places no importance on telling the truth. (Feb 28, 2007)
Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says
National Geographic: Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural -- and not a human-induced -- cause, according to one scientist's controversial theory. (Feb 28, 2007)
'Global Warming Is Lies' Claims Documentary
LifeStyleExtra (UK): Accepted theories about man causing global warming are "lies" claims a controversial new TV documentary. 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' - backed by eminent scientists - is set to rock the accepted consensus that climate change is being driven by humans. (Mar 4, 2007)
Polar bears 'thriving as the Arctic warms up'
Daily Telegraph: Pictures of a polar bear floating precariously on a tiny iceberg have become the defining image of global warming but may be misleading, according to a new study. A survey of the animals' numbers in Canada's eastern Arctic has revealed that they are thriving, not declining, because of mankind's interference in the environment. (Mar 9, 2007)
Global Warming Is Not a Crisis
ABC News: From the Babylon of Gilgamesh to the post-Eden of Noah, every age has viewed climate change cataclysmically, as retribution for human greed and sinfulness. In the 1970s, the fear was "global cooling." The Christian Science Monitor then declaimed, "Warning: Earth's climate is changing faster than even experts expect," while The New York Times announced, "A major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable." Sound familiar? Global warming represents the latest doom-laden "crisis," one demanding sacrifice to Gaia for our wicked fossil-fuel-driven ways. (Mar 9, 2007)
Researchers Question Validity Of A 'Global Temperature'
ScienceDaily: Discussions on global warming often refer to 'global temperature.' Yet the concept is thermodynamically as well as mathematically an impossibility, says Bjarne Andresen, a professor at The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, who has analyzed this topic in collaboration with professors Christopher Essex from University of Western Ontario and Ross McKitrick from University of Guelph, Canada. (Mar 18, 2007)
Czech leader Klaus fights global warming 'religion'
Reuters: Czech President Vaclav Klaus said on Wednesday that fighting global warming has turned into a a 'religion' that replaced the ideology of communism and threatens to clip basic freedoms. (Mar 21, 2007)
What Al Gore Really Wants
Real Clear Politics - Robert Tracinski: Al Gore made his triumphant return to Washington on Wednesday to give testimony before Democrat-controlled committees in the House and Senate. He returned, not as a failed presidential candidate, but as an environmentalist prophet. As Senator Barbara Boxer gushed, "You have acted for us. You have acted more than anyone else." Gore's transformation is remarkable. The stilted, insincere candidate from the 2000 election campaign is gone. The new Gore believes in global warming the way the pope believes in Catholicism--indeed, possibly more so--and he comes across as sincere and impassioned. While the sincerity may be doubtful (as we shall see below) the passion is definitely real. But what is it a passion for? (Mar 23, 2007)
Gore's Faith Is Bad Science
Real Clear Politics - Michael Barone: Al Gore likes to present himself as a tribune of science, warning the world of imminent danger. But he is more like an Old Testament prophet, calling on us to bewail our wrongful conduct and to go and sin no more. He starts off with the science. The world's climate, he reports, is getting warmer. This accurate report is, however, not set in historic context. World climate has grown warmer and cooler at various times in history. Climate change is not some unique historic event. It is the way the world works. Not this time, Gore says. What's different is that climate change is being driven by human activity -- to wit, increasing carbon dioxide emissions. Which means, he says, that we have to sharply reduce those emissions. But what the scientists tell us is that some proportion of climate change is caused by human activity and some proportion by natural causes -- and that they can only estimate what those proportions are. The estimates they have produced have varied sharply. The climate change models that have been developed don't account for events of the recent past, much less predict with precision events in the future. To which the prophet replies, with religious intensity, that all debate should be over. Those scientists with inconvenient views should be defunded and silenced. We should replace scientific inquiry with faith. We should have faith that climate change -- "global warming" -- is caused primarily by human activity. And we should have faith that the effects will be catastrophic, with rising oceans flooding great cities and pleasant plains and forests broiled by a searing sun. (Mar 26, 2007)
Business of Global Warming Feels a Lot Like Inquisition
Real Clear Politics - William F. Buckley: Back in the 15th century, the question was: Do you believe in Christ? It was required in Spain by the Inquisition that the answer should be affirmative, leaving to one side subsidiary specifications. It is required today to believe that carbon-dioxide emissions threaten the basic ecological balance. The assumption then is that inasmuch as a large proportion of the damage is man-made, man-made solutions are necessary. But it is easy to see, right away, that there is a problem in devising appropriate solutions, and in allocating responsibility for them. (Apr 3, 2007)
A CEO With A Spine
The New York Sun: The New York Coal Trade Association, headquartered in New York City, recently held its 94th annual banquet and meeting at the New York Hilton. One of the guest speakers was Bob Murray, founder and CEO of Murray Energy Corporation and probably one of the few CEOs brave enough to challenge the militant climate control movement that threatens the future of America's economy. In his speech, he dared to say that he regards Al Gore as the shaman of global doom and gloom. He is not joking when he says, "He is more dangerous than his global warming." (Apr 3, 2007)
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Real Clear Politics - Robert Tracinski: One of the most appalling recent trends is the way in which certain media outlets, such as the New York Times, have begun referring to carbon dioxide--one of the basic constituents of the atmosphere and a substance we all constantly exhale--as a "pollutant." By that standard, everything is a pollutant. And that is, in fact, precisely the view that has now been endorsed by a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court. In Monday's ruling in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency (available in PDF format here), the court held that the EPA is obliged to treat every substance on earth as a pollutant to be regulated, unless it can demonstrate why that substance is not a pollutant. (Apr 5, 2007)
Global Warming To Wipe Out All Life On Earth Within 20 Years; Women, Minorities Hardest Hit
Ace of Spades: I like this quote especially: "There was little doubt about the science, which was based on 29,000 sets of data, much of it collected in the last five years. 'For the first time we are not just arm-waving with models,' Martin Perry, who conducted the grueling negotiations, told reporters." So, let me get this straight: For the past ten or fifteen years, you were "just arm-waving with models," right? (Apr 6, 2007)
Forecaster Blasts Gore on Global Warming
AP: A top hurricane forecaster called Al Gore "a gross alarmist" Friday for making an Oscar-winning documentary about global warming. "He's one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things. I think he's doing a great disservice and he doesn't know what he's talking about," Dr. William Gray said in an interview with The Associated Press at the National Hurricane Conference in New Orleans, where he delivered the closing speech. (Apr 7, 2007)
Media Bias: How It Works
Power Line: The Associated Press, like nearly all mainstream media outlets, runs interference for the global warming hysterics by misrepresenting the nature of the debate, misrepresenting the positions of those who oppose the hysteria, and subtly (or perhaps not so subtly) suggesting that all who question the anthropogenic global warming theorists can safely be dismissed as cranks. (Apr 7, 2007)
There's No Such Thing As a 'Perfect' Temperature
Newsweek - Richard S. Lindzen: Judging from the media in recent months, the debate over global warming is now over. There has been a net warming of the earth over the last century and a half, and our greenhouse gas emissions are contributing at some level. Both of these statements are almost certainly true. What of it? Recently many people have said that the earth is facing a crisis requiring urgent action. This statement has nothing to do with science. There is no compelling evidence that the warming trend we've seen will amount to anything close to catastrophe. What most commentators -- and many scientists -- seem to miss is that the only thing we can say with certainly about climate is that it changes. The earth is always warming or cooling by as much as a few tenths of a degree a year; periods of constant average temperatures are rare. Looking back on the earth's climate history, it's apparent that there's no such thing as an optimal temperature -- a climate at which everything is just right. The current alarm rests on the false assumption not only that we live in a perfect world, temperature-wise, but also that our warming forecasts for the year 2040 are somehow more reliable than the weatherman's forecast for next week. (Apr 16, 2007)
Scientist: Warming not caused by humans
The Huntsville Times: Roy Spencer is speaking up about his belief that Earth is not headed toward a global warming disaster. Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and former NASA scientist, said he knows he's in the minority with his opinions, but he doesn't believe manmade influences are causing catastrophic climate changes. (Apr 19, 2007)
Environmental Alarmists Have It Backwards
Real Clear Politics - John Stossel: If anything imperils the earth it is ignorant obstruction of science and progress. ... That technology provides the best option for serving human wants and conserving the environment should be evident in the progress made in environmental improvement in the United States. Virtually every measure shows that pollution is headed downward and that nature is making a comeback. (Apr 25, 2007)
Earth's Climate Is Seesawing, According To Climate Researchers
Science Daily: During the last 10,000 years climate has been seesawing between the North and South Atlantic Oceans. Cold periods in the north have corresponded to warmth in the south and vice versa. These results imply that Europe may face a slightly cooler future than predicted by IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (Apr 30, 2007)
Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now SkepticsU.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: ollowing the U.S. Senate's vote today on a global warming measure it is an opportune time to examine the recent and quite remarkable momentum shift taking place in climate science. Many former believers in catastrophic man-made global warming have recently reversed themselves and are now climate skeptics. The names included below are just a sampling of the prominent scientists who have spoken out recently to oppose former Vice President Al Gore, the United Nations, and the media driven “consensus” on man-made global warming. (May 15, 2007)Global warming debunked
The Timaru Herald (NZ): Climate change will be considered a joke in five years time, meteorologist Augie Auer told the annual meeting of Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers in Ashburton this week. Man's contribution to the greenhouse gases was so small we couldn't change the climate if we tried, he maintained. "We're all going to survive this. It's all going to be a joke in five years," he said. A combination of misinterpreted and misguided science, media hype, and political spin had created the current hysteria and it was time to put a stop to it. (May 19, 2007)
Top NASA Official Doubts Global Warming
ABC News: NASA administrator Michael Griffin continues to draw the ire of preeminent climate scientists inside and outside of NASA, as well as members of Congress, after apparently downplaying the need to combat global warming. (Jun 1, 2007)
Helping along global warming
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Anthony Watts of Chico, Calif., suspects NOAA temperature readings are not all they're cracked up to be. As the former TV meteorologist explains on his sophisticated, newly hatched Web site surfacestations.org, he has set out to do what big-time armchair-climate modelers like Hansen and no one else has ever done - physically quality-check each weather station to see if it's being operated properly. (Jun 17, 2007)
High price for load of hot air
The Courier-Mail (Australia): There is every doubt whether any global warming at all is occurring at the moment, let alone human-caused warming. For leading politicians to be asserting to the contrary indicates something is very wrong with their chain of scientific advice, for they are clearly being deceived. That this should be the case is an international political scandal of high order which, in turn, raises the question of where their advice is coming from. (Jun 18, 2007)
Global warming: truth or propaganda?
Financial Times: Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, argues that ambitious environmentalism is the biggest threat to freedom and democracy. (Jun 21, 2007)
Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny
Chicago Sun-Times - James M. Taylor: In his new book, The Assault on Reason, Al Gore pleads, "We must stop tolerating the rejection and distortion of science. We must insist on an end to the cynical use of pseudo-studies known to be false for the purpose of intentionally clouding the public's ability to discern the truth." Gore repeatedly asks that science and reason displace cynical political posturing as the central focus of public discourse. If Gore really means what he writes, he has an opportunity to make a difference by leading by example on the issue of global warming. A cooperative and productive discussion of global warming must be open and honest regarding the science. Global warming threats ought to be studied and mitigated, and they should not be deliberately exaggerated as a means of building support for a desired political position. (Jun 30, 2007)
The real cure for global warming
Las Vegas Review-Journal - Vin Suprynowicz: There are some who, lacking the ecstatic thrill of any other faith-based religion, wish to believe that the Earth is in the early stages of an unprecedented climatic change which will see temperatures soar, the polar ice caps melt, rising sea levels flood our coastal cities -- general devastation on the biblical model -- all because we insist on driving petroleum-fueled private automobiles and using electricity generated by burning coal. Burning that stuff releases into the atmosphere large amounts of carbon dioxide, you see, a "greenhouse gas" that contributes to the ongoing warming of the planet. Now, this is almost entirely fantastic nonsense. The planet is currently warming at a rate of perhaps one degree a century, part of an ongoing cycle of global warming and cooling which (ice cores and other fossil records tell us) has been ongoing for millions of years. This is caused not primarily by CO2 levels -- changes in atmospheric CO2 loading actually trail temperature shifts by decades or even centuries -- but rather by fluctuating solar activity. Even if CO2 were a factor, most of the CO2 in the atmosphere comes from volcanoes and the natural processes of the oceans, not from man-made sources. Since wiping out mankind would have a minimal impact on climate, what good do you think a few rich folk switching to "hybrids" will do? If warming continues at the present rate, the most significant impact is likely to be a small increase in the amount of previously frozen ground on which people could grow wheat. (Jul 1, 2007)
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The Global Warming Reader - Pt. IV: The Purge
If you can't beat 'em, silence 'em. Hey, it worked with Galileo, right? And besides, all religions - even moonbat cults like the Church of Global Warming - can benefit from a good inquisition and subsequent excommunication of heretics.
Sir David King's Queenie Fit
National Review Online: The scene was a scientific workshop set up to discuss the science of global warming. It took place in a non-Western country and was convened by the country's Academy of Sciences. Delegates came from all over the world. Yet the delegation from one major Western power behaved in a most undiplomatic fashion. The way the science was being presented was inconvenient to their political agenda, so they tried to get the scientists they disagreed with silenced. (Jul 23, 2004)
Climate of Fear
Opinion Journal: Global-warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence. Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or worse. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science that supposedly is their basis. (Apr. 12, 2006)
"I don't like the word 'Balance'"- Says ABC News Global Warming Reporter
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: ABC News Reporter Bill Blakemore declared "I don't like the word 'balance' much at all" in global warming coverage at a journalism conference in Vermont over the weekend. Blakemore, who reported on August 30, 2006, "After extensive searches, ABC News has found no such [scientific] debate" on global warming, said he rejects 'balance' in order to justify excluding any skeptics of manmade catastrophic global warming from his reporting. (Oct 30, 2006)
Con job at The Weather Channel
WorldNetDaily: Far-left political ideologies are being promulgated through ever-increasing mediums, and recently I noticed that a once-vaunted American television network, The Weather Channel, had succumbed to the cancerous spread of liberalism. (Jan 5, 2007)
Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: The Weather Channel's most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming. This latest call to silence skeptics follows a year (2006) in which skeptics were compared to "Holocaust Deniers" and Nuremberg-style war crimes trials were advocated by several climate alarmists. (Jan 17, 2007)
"The Weather Channel" Mess
James Spann: "I have been in operational meteorology since 1978, and I know dozens and dozens of broadcast meteorologists all over the country. Our big job: look at a large volume of raw data and come up with a public weather forecast for the next seven days. I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype." (Jan 18, 2007)
Del. global warming skeptic stands pat
Delaware Online: Delaware's state climatologist has found himself in the middle of a political squall after taking skeptical stands on global warming and climate change -- in one case directly contradicting the state's own policy. (Feb 1, 2007)
The First Church of Fundamentalist Climate Change
Big Lizards: It evidently matters little how well qualified a meteorologist or climatologist is, or what relevant academic position he holds, or how much original scientific research he has done, or how many papers he has published, or how many other climatologists, meteorologists, and atmospheric scientists cite those papers: If he comes to a conclusion different from that dictated by the IPCC via the AMS -- then he should be disbarred, or whatever the heck the world society of climate luminaries, sages, and soothsayers call it when they summon a climatologist into a circle to publicly rip off his epaulets. (Feb 2, 2007)
Minner directs Legates not to use his title when speaking on climate change
DelMarVA.com Daily Times: Gov. Ruth Ann Minner has directed Delaware's state climatologist to stop using his title in public statements on climate change, citing a clash of views on global warming and confusion over the position's ties to the administration. "Your views on climate change, as I understand them, are not aligned with those of my administration," Minner wrote. (Feb 23, 2007)
Scientists threatened for 'climate denial'
Daily Telegraph: Scientists who questioned mankind's impact on climate change have received death threats and claim to have been shunned by the scientific community. They say the debate on global warming has been "hijacked" by a powerful alliance of politicians, scientists and environmentalists who have stifled all questioning about the true environmental impact of carbon dioxide emissions. (Mar 11, 2007)
Climate change skeptics say it's hard to get heard
Reuters: Scientists who doubt the scope and cause of climate change have trouble getting funding and academic posts unless they conform to an "alarmist scenario," said Roger Helmer, a British member of the European Parliament, at a panel discussion on appropriate responses to rising global temperatures. (Apr 18, 2007)
Film on Global Warming Is Challenged
AP: A group of British climate scientists is demanding changes to a skeptical documentary about global warming, saying there are grave errors in the program billed as a response to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. "This is a contemptible, weasel-worded attempt to gag scientific criticism, and it won't work," director Mark Durkin said. "I don't believe they're interested in quality control when it comes to the reporting of science -- so long as it's on their side." (Apr 25, 2007)
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