From Marc_Morano@epw.senate.gov Mon Oct 20 14:59:41 2008
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:58:43 -0400
From: "Morano, Marc (EPW)" <Marc_Morano@epw.senate.gov>
To: "Morano, Marc (EPW)" <Marc_Morano@epw.senate.gov>
Subject: [UTF-8] Gore in Tin-Foil Hat? Warming Goes Poof! Scientific Malpractice at UN
Collapse of Environmentalism? Arctic Ice Up 31%! - Warming Bubble Round Up
Gore in Tin-Foil Hat? Warming Goes Poof!
Scientific Malpractice at UN
Environmentalism? Arctic Ice Up 31%! - Warming Bubble Round Up
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Sampling of articles in past few days October 20, 2008
Must see video: Al Gore Spoof Complete with Gore wearing Tin-Foil Hat! By impressionist
Frank Caliendo of Frank TV
Excerpt: Impressionist Frank Caliendo does his best Al Gore basically admitting that, "it's the sun,
stupid" - but Gore goes all alarmist, of course. [ ] We don't normally consider Al Gore a laughing
matter -- but what the heck else can you do with him? Frank TV: New Al Gore Movie - Supernova!
It's comin' y'all! - Impressionist Frank Caliendo does his best Al Gore basically admitting that, "it's
the sun, stupid" - but Gore goes all alarmist, of course.
http://www.climatechangefraud.com/content/view/2513/218/
Global Cooling? - 'Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof' - National Post October 20, 2008
Excerpt: In early September, I began noticing a string of news stories about scientists rejecting the
orthodoxy on global warming. Actually, it was more like a string of guest columns and long letters
to the editor since it is hard for skeptical scientists to get published in the cabal of climate journals
now controlled by the Great Sanhedrin of the environmental movement. Still, the number of climate
change skeptics is growing rapidly. Because a funny thing is happening to global temperatures -they're going down, not up. [ ] It may be that more global warming doubters are surfacing because
there just isn't any global warming.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/10/20/lorne-gunter-thirtyyears-of-warmer-temperatures-go-poof.aspx
UN IPCC = 'Worst case of scientific malpractice in history' says Climate Scientist Dr. Spencer
[ Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Roy W. Spencer, formerly a senior scientist for climate studies at
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center where he received NASA's Exceptional Scientific
Achievement Medal, is currently principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in
Huntsville. ]
Spencer Excerpt: I find it astounding that the IPCC has ignored the potential role of natural climate
variability in global warming. In any other realm of science we are careful to look for alternative
explanations for some phenomenon but today, mankind is the only allowable reason for climate
change.
I predict that the IPCC experience will end up being the worst case of scientific malpractice in
history. Not that the scientists are at fault, I think they have just been led around by some politically
savvy, almost charismatic, leaders.
http://thechillingeffect.org/2008/10/19/exclusive-bestselling-climate-conference-author-talks-withchilling-effect/
MIT Climate Scientist Exposes Corrupted Science in Devastating Critique - Sep 24, 2008
Excerpt: MIT Meteorology Professor Richard S. Lindzen, confirms how Al Gore and his minions
used Stalinist tactics to subvert, suborn and corrupt a whole branch of science, citing chapter and
verse in his report entitled Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer questions? His
answer: A resounding NO!
Detailing the corruption, he names a series of names. Until reading this I did not know that: For
example, the primary spokesman for the American Meteorological Society in Washington is
Anthony Socci who is neither an elected official of the AMS nor a contributor to climate science.
Rather, he is a former staffer for Al Gore. Page 5
Although a bit lengthy, this very important report is highly readable and revealing. While some of
the paragraphs are a bit technical, I encourage AT readers to wade through them because their
purpose is to provide specific examples of how a radical cabal is forcing scientists to ignore or
amend measurements that undermine the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming. Scientists are
literally forced to include sentences in their papers that indicate their support of AGW, even if these
sentences are non-sequiturs, or even if they conflict with the overall thrust of the paper. In this way,
Al Gore s uneducated political commissars are able to deliver the consensus he so craves.
How is this possible you might ask? Prof. Lindzen gives considerable background history. [ ] I
naively thought that the National Academy of Sciences could impose some quality-control on an
errant discipline. Prof. Lindzen notes that event this august body has been penetrated by ecoactivists by exploiting loopholes in its nominating procedures. Fortunately, in science truth will out
. The long term faith of the American public in science, a trust built up since WWI is at stake. Next
it will be important to see whether a prominent scientific journal publishes this revelation.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/corrupted_science_revealed.html
Full Lindzen paper here: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0809/0809.3762.pdf
New Paper: Global Warming was natural, not man-made! - New Paper from Roy Spencer: PDO and
Clouds Global Warming as a Natural Response to Cloud Changes Associated with the Pacific
Decadal Oscillation (PDO) - October 19, 2008
Key Quote: New evidence that most of the warming could actually be the result of a natural cycle
in cloud cover
[ By Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Roy W. Spencer, formerly a senior scientist for climate studies at
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center where he received NASA's Exceptional Scientific
Achievement Medal, is currently principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in
Huntsville. ]
Excerpt: For those who have followed my writings and publications in the last 18 months (e.g.
Spencer et al., 2007), you know that we are finding satellite evidence that the climate system could
be much less sensitive to greenhouse gas emissions than the U.N. s Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) climate models suggest. To show that we are not the only researchers
who have documented evidence contradicting the IPCC models, I made the following figure to
contrast the IPCC-projected warming from a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide with the
warming that would result if the climate sensitivity is as low as implied by various kinds of
observational evidence. The dashed line represents our recent apples-to-apples comparison between
satellite-based feedback estimates and IPCC model-diagnosed feedbacks, all computed from 5-year
periods (Spencer and Braswell, 2008a): The discrepancy between the models and observations seen
in Fig. 1 is stark. If the sensitivity of the climate system is as low as some of these observational
results suggest, then the IPCC models are grossly in error, and we have little to fear from manmade
global warming. But an insensitive climate system would ALSO mean that the warming we have
seen in the last 100 years can not be explained by increasing CO2 alone. This is because the
radiative forcing from the extra CO2 would simply be too weak to cause the ~0.7 deg. C warming
between 1900 and 2000 there must be some natural warming process going on as well. Here I
present new evidence that most of the warming could actually be the result of a natural cycle in
cloud cover forced by a well-known mode of natural climate variability: the Pacific Decadal
Oscillation.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/10/19/new-paper-from-roy-spencer-pdo-and-clouds/
Update: Ice Reality Check: Arctic Ice Now 31.3% Over Last Year, plus Scientists Counter Latest
Arctic Record Warmth Claims as Pseudoscience 10-18-08
Excerpt: 10/17/2007 5,663,125 square kilometers - 10/17/2008 7,436,406 square kilometers - ice =
1,773,281
sqkm
or
31.3%
more
than
last
year
Source
data
here:
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/plot.csv (Excel file)
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/10/18/ice-reality-check-scientists-counter-latest-arctic-recordwarmth-claims-as-pseudoscience/
Scientists Counter Latest Arctic 'Record' Warmth Claims as 'Pseudoscience
Comprehensive
Arctic Data Round Up October 17, 2008
Excerpt: Arctic Reality Check: Why isn t the cooling Antarctic considered an indicator of what
might happen to the rest of the world?
By Climate Scientist Dr. Ben Herman.
Herman Excerpt: First of all, the Arctic sea ice is at its minimum in September, not October or
November as the scientists in the McClatchy article states. As Arctic ice experts, they certainly
should have known this. Another point is that the Arctic temperatures do not "naturally peak in
October or November". They peak in mid Aug ust generally. Also the article states that since the
world's climates are interconnected, what happens in the Arctic may be an indicator of what will
happen in the rest of the world. How about what happens in the Antarctic then? Since its ice area
has been increasing, is this also an indicator of what might happen in the rest of the world?
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Scientists_Counter_Latest_Arctic.pdf
Flashback: Alert: National Ice Center says satellites interpreting Arctic ice as open water! - By
Andrew Revkin - NY Times Dot Earth Blog - September 6, 2008
Excerpt: And one of the groups focusing most closely on possible Arctic shipping lanes, the
National Ice Center operated by the Navy and Commerce Department, says flatly that the satellites
are misreading conditions in many spots and that there is too much ice in a critical spot along the
Russian coast (highlighted in the smaller image above) to allow anything but ice-hardened ships to
get through. In an e-mail message Wednesday, Sean R. Helfrich, a scientist at the ice center, said
that ponds of meltwater pooling on sea ice could fool certain satellite-borne instruments into
interpreting ice as open water, suggesting areas that have substantial ice cover as being sea-ice free.
The highlighted area is probably still impassible ice, including large amounts of thick old floes, he
said. I sent the note to an array of sea-ice experts, and many, including Mark Serreze at the National
Snow and Ice Data Center, concurred.
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Scientists_Counter_Latest_Arctic.pdf
OBAMA S CARBON ULTIMATUM: "Would-be President intends to blackmail -- or rather,
greenmail -- Congress into falling in line with his climate agenda."
Excerpt: The coming offer you won't be able to refuse. Liberals pretend that only President Bush is
preventing the U.S. from adopting some global warming "solution." But occasionally their mask
slips. As Barack Obama's energy adviser has now made clear, the would-be President intends to
blackmail -- or rather, greenmail -- Congress into falling in line with his climate agenda. [ ]
Normally a democracy reaches consensus through political debate and persuasion, but apparently
for Mr. Obama that option is merely a nuisance. It's another example of "change" you'll be given no
choice but to believe in.
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=1
ac2500f-802a-23ad-4029-39982b1b8ba0
Paper: 'The next commodity to collapse will be mass-marketed environmentalism' National Post
October 17, 2008
Excerpt: The next commodity to collapse will be mass-marketed environmentalism, which will
come to be disdained - Stock market indexes have plummeted from their inflated peaks. Oil and
other commodities have likewise plummeted. The next commodity to tumble from unsustainable
peak levels: environmentalism. In part, I am making this prediction because, in my 30 years as an
environmentalist, I have never seen so many governments and so many corporations so profusely
espousing so many environmental causes. Where promoting environmentalism was once seen as
daring and counter-cultural, today it has become banal, no longer the exclusive preserve of a Body
Shop chain, but of every retailer down to Wal-Mart. For the same reason that clothes go out of
fashion after the masses embrace them, mass-marketed environmentalism will come to be
disdained. [...] A third reason for my prediction that environmentalism has peaked is the instinct for
self-preservation among the political leadership. Thinking they could raise revenues while
appearing green, opportunistic politicians have been promoting environmental taxes without having
a credible case to make. The result, increasingly, is political ruin.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2008/10/17/wal-martenvironmentalism.aspx
Global Warming Bubble? Investment guru sees a bubble forming around global warming - By
Self-described "Internet tycoon" and venture capitalist Bob Metcalfe
Excerpt: In energy, government mandates favored the production of corn ethanol, which has created
a food versus fuel debate that has brought criticism of biofuels. "When you muck with fuel markets,
you are mucking with feeds and fuels also, we just found out," he said. With the influx of venture
capital going to fund clean, or green, tech start-ups, many people are concerned that there is an
investment bubble. Metcalfe sees a bubble forming around global warming, where there is a
movement of consumers and businesses to address the problem. But bubbles are a good thing,
Metcalfe said. "From Internet history, we know that bubbles are normal. Bubbles are an accelerator
of technology progress. Bubbles go against the status quo. We should encourage bubbles," he said.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10070107-54.html
Brazilian Meteorologist Scoffs at Notion Mankind impacts climate more than Sun and Oceans
Excerpt: On the same day (Sept. 5) that areas of southern Brazil were recording one of their latest
winter snowfalls ever and entering what turned out to be their coldest September in a century,
Brazilian meteorologist Eugenio Hackbart explained that extreme cold or snowfall events in his
country have always been tied to "a negative PDO" or Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Positive PDOs -El Ninos -- produce above-average temperatures in South America while negative ones -- La Ninas
-- produce below average ones. Dr. Hackbart also pointed out that periods of solar inactivity known
as "solar minimums" magnify cold spells on his continent. So, given that August was the first
month since 1913 in which no sunspot activity was recorded -- none -- and during which solar
winds were at a 50-year low, he was not surprised that Brazilians were suffering (for them) a brutal
cold snap. "This is no coincidence," he said as he scoffed at the notion that manmade carbon
emissions had more impact than the sun and oceans on global climate.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/10/20/lorne-gunter-thirtyyears-of-warmer-temperatures-go-poof.aspx
UK Scientist: Climate change is governed by hundreds of factors, or variables Not Just CO2!
By UK Professor Emeritus of Biogeography Philip Stott of the University of London
Excerpt: As I have said, over and over again, the fundamental point has always been this: climate
change is governed by hundreds of factors, or variables, and the very idea that we can manage
climate change predictably by understanding and manipulating at the margins one politicallyselected factor is as misguided as it gets. I wonder if we are witnessing the beginning of the end of
the global warming nonsense? I really do hope so, although I could do without a cold phase to
prove it.
http://web.me.com/sinfonia1/Global_Warming_Politics/A_Hot_Topic_Blog/Entries/2008/8/27_Wo
t%21_No_Sunspots_At_All%21.html
Oops! Propagandists at RealClimate.org Let Truth Slip Out! The actual temperature rise is an
emergent property resulting from interactions among hundreds of factors September 20, 2008
Excerpt: The Physics of Global Warming is Complicated: Physicist and historian, Spencer R.
Weart, recently penned an article for the popular blog RealClimate.org in which he explained:
Physics is rich in phenomena that are simple in appearance but cannot be calculated in simple terms.
Global warming is like that. People may yearn for a short, clear way to predict how much warming
we are likely to face. Alas, no such simple calculation exists. The actual temperature rise is an
emergent property resulting from interactions among hundreds of factors. People who refuse to
acknowledge that complexity should not be surprised when their demands for an easy calculation go
unanswered. This is an admission that we are nowhere near a scientifically proven result with
regard to the effect of CO2 on our climate.
http://jennifermarohasy.com/blog/2008/09/the-physics-of-global-warming-is-complicated-barrymoore/
MIT Scientist s study finds: Data may be insufficient to compute mean sea level trends - Decadal
Trends in Sea Level Patterns: 1993-2004 - By Dr. Carl Wunsch, MIT et al. in Journal of Climate October 12, 2008
Excerpt: Conclusion: At best, the determination and attribution of global mean sea level change lies
at the very edge of knowledge and technology. The most urgent job would appear to be the accurate
determination of the smallest temperature and salinity changes that can be determined with
statistical significance, given the realities of both the observation base and modeling
approximations. Both systematic and random errors are of concern, the former particularly, because
of the changes in technology and sampling methods over the many decades, the latter from the very
great spatial and temporal variability. It remains possible that the database is insufficient to compute
mean sea level trends with the accuracy necessary to discuss the impact of global warming - as
disappointing as this conclusion may be. The priority has to be to make such calculations possible in
the future.
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/decadal_trends_in_sea_level_patterns_19932004
Scientist shows Medieval Warm Period warmer than 20th-century temperatures
Excerpt: Also in September, American Craig Loehle, a scientist who conducts computer modelling
on global climate change, confirmed his earlier findings that the so-called Medieval Warm Period
(MWP) of about 1,000 years ago did in fact exist and was even warmer than 20th-century
temperatures. Prior to the past decade of climate hysteria and Kyoto hype, the MWP was a given in
the scientific community. Several hundred studies of tree rings, lake and ocean floor sediment, ice
cores and early written records of weather -- even harvest totals and censuses --confirmed that the
period from 800 AD to 1300 AD was unusually warm, particularly in Northern Europe. But in order
to prove the climate scaremongers' claim that 20th-century warming had been dangerous and
unprecedented -- a result of human, not natural factors -- the MWP had to be made to disappear. So
studies such as Michael Mann's "hockey stick," in which there is no MWP and global temperatures
rise gradually until they jump up in the industrial age, have been adopted by the UN as proof that
recent climate change necessitates a reordering of human economies and societies. Dr. Loehle's
work helps end this deception.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/10/20/lorne-gunter-thirtyyears-of-warmer-temperatures-go-poof.aspx
Prominent Geologist: It's practically a slam dunk that we are in for about 30 years of global cooling
Excerpt: Dr. Don Easterbrook, a geologist at Western Washington University, says, "It's practically
a slam dunk that we are in for about 30 years of global cooling," as the sun enters a particularly
inactive phase. His examination of warming and cooling trends over the past four centuries shows
an "almost exact correlation" between climate fluctuations and solar energy received on Earth,
while showing almost "no correlation at all with CO2." An analytical chemist who works in
spectroscopy and atmospheric sensing, Michael J. Myers of Hilton Head, S. C., declared, "Manmade global warming is junk science," explaining that worldwide manmade CO2 emission each
year "equals about 0.0168% of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration ... This results in a 0.00064%
increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. This is an insignificantly small number." Other
international scientists have called the manmade warming theory a "hoax," a "fraud" and simply
"not credible."
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/10/20/lorne-gunter-thirtyyears-of-warmer-temperatures-go-poof.aspx
Prominent Climate Scientists: Variations in global temperatures since 1978 ... cannot be attributed
to carbon dioxide
Excerpt: While not stooping to such name-calling, weather-satellite scientists David Douglass of the
University of Rochester and John Christy of the University of Alabama at Huntsville nonetheless
dealt the True Believers a devastating blow last month. For nearly 30 years, Professor Christy has
been in charge of NASA's eight weather satellites that take more than 300,000 temperature readings
daily around the globe. In a paper co-written with Dr. Douglass, he concludes that while manmade
emissions may be having a slight impact, "variations in global temperatures since 1978 ... cannot be
attributed to carbon dioxide." Moreover, while the chart above was not produced by Douglass and
Christy, it was produced using their data and it clearly shows that in the past four years -- the period
corresponding to reduced solar activity -- all of the rise in global temperatures since 1979 has
disappeared.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/10/20/lorne-gunter-thirtyyears-of-warmer-temperatures-go-poof.aspx
EU climate change push in disarray - Countries rebel against costly plans
Excerpt: Europe s commitment to ambitious green goals became the latest victim of the global
financial crisis yesterday when a growing number of EU countries rebelled, claiming that the plans
were now too expensive. Plans for binding European legislation by December were dropped as the
EU watered down the carbon dioxide blueprint that it had announced with a fanfare 18 months ago.
The revolt by eight countries, led by Italy and Poland, left the EU s self-proclaimed mission to
shape a global, postKyoto agreement on greenhouse gases in disarray. President Sarkozy of France,
which holds the rotating EU presidency, led the way in appealing to all 27 countries to stick to their
targets. But tempers flared at the quarterly European Council in Brussels, with Silvio Berlusconi,
the Italian Prime Minister, clearly furious at the pressure being applied. During a stand-up row
behind the scenes, he told Mr Sarkozy that the targets would crucify Italian industry. Our
businesses are in absolutely no position at the moment to absorb the costs of the regulations that
have been proposed, Mr Berlusconi said later.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4957408.ece
Global warming leads India tigers to village attacks
Excerpt: KOLKATA (Reuters) The number of tiger attacks on people is growing in India's
Sundarban islands as habitat loss and dwindling prey caused by climate change drives them to
prowl into villages for food, experts said on Monday. Wildlife experts say endangered tigers in the
world's largest reserve are turning on humans because rising sea levels and coastal erosion are
steadily shrinking the tigers' natural habitat.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081020/india_nm/india360510
LCV s Environmental Scorecard Marred by Partisan Politics, Inhofe Says October 17, 2008
Excerpt: .S. Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and
Public Works Committee, today commented on the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) 2008
National Environmental Scorecard. "The LCV is one of the most liberal partisan special-interest
groups that make up the Democratic Party," Senator Inhofe said. "It should come as no surprise that
I and many fellow Republicans have never received high marks from this Washington, D.C., liberal
special-interest group. LCV simply measures the greenness of politicians by how many federal laws
they impose on the American people.
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=0
beb0325-802a-23ad-4d7f-9eba79eeff5b
Russia skeptical that carbon trading will slow climate change Greenwire - October 20, 2008
Excerpt: Russia doubts carbon trading will solve global climate woes because recent swings in
stocks and commodities markets show the volatility of global markets amid the current financial
crisis, according to an official Russian document. The document, outlining views on a new U.N.
climate pact to be adopted in December 2009, also expressed skepticism at the tough international
targets for greenhouse gas emissions reductions, saying any deal should not punish violators.[ ]
"The latest events in the global stock market or food market show that we have not entered yet an
era when the global market can become a reliable regulative mechanism of the international efforts
in answering global challenges of ... mankind." Many industrialized nations are having second
thoughts about costly commitments to fight climate change amid the global financial crisis. Many
countries view carbon trading as a cornerstone to a future treaty.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2008/10/20/6 (subscription required)
Another Dissenter: Ecologist says CO2 revealing close to zero correlation with temperature October 18, 2008
By Dr John R Etherington, formerly Reader in Ecology at the University of Wales. B.Sc.,
A.R.C.S., Ph.D., D.I.C.
Excerpt: Ian Baxter cites the Nasa temperature record in accusing me of propagating a myth of no
recent global temperature increase. (Letters October 15).
The Meteorological Office's Hadley Centre data show that from 2002 to 2007, the annual anomaly
versus the long-term average has been about plus 0.4C with no statistical trend. This is only a few
years and no conclusion could be drawn about temperature trend, but what Mr Baxter ignores is that
carbon dioxide, supposedly the major driver of man-made climatic warming, has inexorably and
uniformly risen in concentration for every one of these years, with close to zero correlation with
temperature. The previous three years 1998-2000 also show no temperature correlation with change,
but 1998 was an atypically warm El Niño year. We are making some of the most expensive global
decisions ever, on the basis of what atmospheric physicist James Peden has described as
"computerized tinker toys with which one can construct any outcome he chooses".
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Climate-debate-hots-up.4605439.jp
Cold Reality: 'Warm mongers are rapidly losing credibility' Investor s Business Daily - October
17, 2008
Excerpt: But unlike climate projection models, which are often wrong but endlessly thrown in our
faces as examples of hard science, they are real world events wholly contrary to the story the
alarmists have been spreading. Global warm mongers are rapidly losing credibility. Mainstream
journalists will still believe them because climate change fits the narrative they've so carefully
nurtured. But eventually the error will have to admitted. It won't happen publicly, though, because
by the time they come to their senses, the issue will have been long forgotten by the public.
http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=309135716
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We still have a blank sun AccuWeather.com - October 20, 2008
Excerpt: We still have a blank sun. Image from earlier today, courtesy of SOHO. As you can see
from the image above, the sun remains very inactive in terms of sunspot activity. This has been a
common image of the sun for quite some time now. The chart below shows the individual years
over the past century with the highest total of spotless days. This particular chart was dated in late
September, so 2008 in now solidly in fifth place all by itself.
http://global-warming.accuweather.com/2008/10/the_quiet_sun_and_some_great_p.html
UK Climate Researcher Lord Monckton urges candidate to abandon 'scientifically discredited'
global warming views American Thinker - October 18, 2008
Excerpt: At both Poles, it was warmer only half a century ago than it is today. For temperatures in
the Arctic, see Soon et al. (2004). For the Antarctic, see Doran et al. (2002). During the Maunder
Minimum, a period of more than half a century ending in 1700 when there were no sunspots
on20the surface of our Sun, a Little Ice Age occurred all over the world (Hathaway, 2004). In 1700
there began a recovery in solar activity that has continued ever since, culminating in the 70-year
Solar Grand Maximum that seems recently to have ended. During the Grand Maximum, the Sun
was more active, and for longer, than during almost any previous similar period in the past 11,400
years (Solanki et al., 2005; and see Usoskin et al., 2003; and Hathaway, 2004). A symposium of the
International Astronomical Union [2004] concluded that it is the Sun that was chiefly responsible
for the warming of the late 20th century.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/an_open_letter_from_the_viscou_1.html
Danish Alarmist asked to apologize for using incorrectly using Greenland glacier as proof of
global warming October 17, 2008
Excerpt: Connie Hedegaard (Danish Climate minister) was asked to apologise to the 21 world
leaders she "tricked" into believing that the gletcher retreat was caused by AGW, but she says she
will carry on showing the "effects of global warming". From Nature.Com Published online: 28
September 2008: Acceleration of Jakobshavn Isbræ triggered by warm subsurface ocean waters by
David M. Holland1, Robert H. Thomas2, Brad de Young3, Mads H. Ribergaard4 & Bjarne
Lyberth5 Observations over the past decades show a rapid acceleration of several outlet glaciers in
Greenland and Antarctica1. One of the largest changes is a sudden switch of Jakobshavn Isbræ, a
large outlet glacier feeding a deep-ocean fjord on Greenland's west coast, from slow thickening to
rapid thinning2 in 1997, associated with a doubling in glacier velocity3...........Here we present
hydrographic data that show a sudden increase in subsurface ocean temperature in 1997 along the
entire west coast of Greenland, suggesting that the changes in Jakobshavn Isbræ were instead
triggered by the arrival of relatively warm water originating from the Irminger Sea near Iceland.
http://co2sceptics.com/news.php?id=1967
Solar activity the primary driver of global temperature rise By Dr. Kelvin Kemm, formerly a
scientist at South Africa's Atomic Energy Corporation - October 17, 2008
Excerpt: The period of global warming that we have experienced on our planet over the last century,
which has seen a rise in temperature of some 0,6 oC, does not correlate at all with a rise in the
concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), but is does correlate with solar activity.
Indications are that solar activity is the primary driver of the variation in global temperature. Even
more compelling is the fact that there exists a well-documented Roman Warm period from the time
of the Roman Caesars, and a Medieval Warm Period, both of which correlate with solar activity, but
certainly can have nothing whatever to do with CO2 produced by any human industrial activities.
http://co2sceptics.com/news.php?id=1965
Church of Global Warming: Hydro-climatologist accuses scientists of making 'spectacular leaps of
faith' for 'doctrine of climate change' Hydro-climatologist Stewart - September 12, 2008
By Hydro-climatologist Stewart Franks, an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering at
the University of Newcastle in Australia whose research has focused flood and drought risk and
seasonal climate prediction. Franks is president-elect of the International Commission on the
Coupled Land - Atmosphere System. Franks is featured in the U.S. Senate report of over 400 now
over 500 and growing dissenting scientists More than 10 times number of UN IPCC scientists who
worked
on
Summary
for
Policy
Makers
See:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.SenateReport ]
Excerpt: Numerous politicians, environmentalists and especially scientists have made spectacular
leaps of faith in their adherence to the doctrine of climate change over recent years, too many to
document here. However, the most literally fantastic claim on climate change must go to Kevin
Rudd, who has guaranteed that rainfall will decline over coming decades; one can only assume he's
based his view on deficient climate models and bad advice. [ ] Given the uncertainty of El Nino
and La Nina behaviour, one clearly cannot predict the future. There is no direct evidence of CO2
impacts on the drought, nor is there any rational basis for predicting rainfall in 30 years time. One
just hopes that sensible and sustainable management from our leaders will enable struggling rural
communities to weather the vagaries of climatic and political extremes.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24331854-7583,00.html
Skeptical AUSTRALIAN CLIMATE SCIENCE COALITION LAUNCHES
Excerpt: AUSTRALIAN CLIMATE SCIENCE COALITION LAUNCHES Announcing the
official launch of the Australian Climate Science Coalition (ACSC). Over the weekend, guests at
the Australian Environment Foundation s (AEF s) third Annual Conference were among the first to
be introduced to the newly formed coalition.
With its mission to promote open scientific debate on the causes of climate change, the ACSC has
been formed by a group of professional people interested in encouraging continued scientific
research into the world s climate and, in particular, into the effects of increased concentrations of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
http://www.auscsc.org.au/images/PDF/climatesciencelaunch.pdf
R.I.P. carbon tax, a bad idea badly sold - The Hill Times, October 20th, 2008
Excerpt: Carbon tax anyone? It was a bad idea and badly sold - Yet newsroom enthusiasts promoted
the carbon tax with platitudes plucked from campaign literature. As backdrop there was global
warming and 'catastrophic predictions from a sometimes hysterical mass media,' as The Mennonite
Brethren Herald put it. Displaying start of article containing 959 words - R.I.P. carbon tax, a bad
idea badly sold. It is in the graveyard of doomed political schemes alongside national daycare (died
in 2006), Senate reform (1993) and tax-deductible mortgages (1980). With Stéphane Dion as its
spokesman it never had a chance. "The man has the charisma of Jell-O," sighed The Chatham Daily
News.
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/members/login.php?fail=2&destination=/html/index.php?display=story
&full_path=2008/october/20/korksi/&c=2
Seattle to Fund Climate Change Art October 20, 2008
Excerpt: What a waste of cash. I hope all the residents of Seattle call your mayor about this one.
The city of Seattle s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, in conjunction with Seattle Public Utilities, is
hosting a competition for artists in Washington state to submit art to bring attention to global
warming and its effects on water supply and drainage utilities. From the Seattle Office of Arts &
Cultural Affairs web page: in 2007, the city invested nearly $1.7 million to support 243 artists and
cultural organizations. So the city would rather spent your tax money on starving artists to create
scenes of doom-and-gloom instead of spending the cash on something that may solve the problem if
it even exists? That, my friends, is a government that has stretched its tentacles too far into your
lives.
http://www.skepticsglobalwarming.com/global-warming-myth/government-intervention/seattlefund-climate-change-art
Carbon Dioxide Regulation Under the Clean Air Act Heartland Institute
Excerpt: At time when the financial markets are crashing and a downturn in the economy looms,
this plan will end free enterprise as we know it. It is bad for American taxpayers and a blow to
democracy.
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Carbon_Dioxide_Regulation_Under_the_Clean_Air_Act.pdf
Mind-Reader Morano [Edward John Craig] - Monday, October 20, 2008 - National Review's Planet Gore
Excerpt: I was just about to post another National Post item this one, from Lorne Gunter when it
popped in from Marc Morano. An excerpt below . . . [ ]Don Easterbrook, a geologist at Western
Washington University, says, It s practically a slam dunk that we are in for about 30 years of global
cooling, as the sun enters a particularly inactive phase. His examination of warming and cooling
trends over the past four centuries shows an almost exact correlation between climate fluctuations
and solar energy received on Earth, while showing almost no correlation at all with CO2.
http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzE0NzczMzY0NDg0ZGVkZmQ0OGQ0M2Q2Mz
kzNzQwYzU=
Our Orwellian Future? - Meteorologist Art Horn on Icecap.US
Excerpt: Barack Obama has let it be known that he will allow the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) to regulate carbon Dioxide as a dangerous pollutant if elected president. Last years supreme
court ruling makes this possible. The court ruled that the EPA may use the Clear Air Act of 1990 to
regulate carbon dioxide as pollution . This was of course a terrible ruling. Carbon dioxide is
essential for life on earth as we know it. If carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere fall below about
200 parts per million trees stop growing and agriculture grinds to a halt. Carbon dioxide is plant
food. If you own a greenhouse and you want your plants to glow faster you pump in three times as
much carbon dioxide as exists in the air, up to 1000 parts per million. Something in the air that
brings life to the world is not pollution.
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/our_orwellian_future/
Advocacy Journalism! - Green Journalism At Society of Environmental Journalists Conventions
Excerpt: The Society of Environmental Journalists conducts its annual conference this week in
Roanoke, Va., and the best thing that can be said about it is that this bunch won't be on the beat
somewhere trying to report something -- especially about global warming. But then again these
journalists couldn't call it that since the planet's mean surface temperature has not increased over the
last eleven years. Instead they've adopted the catchall identifier used by their fellow alarmism
activists: "climate change." It's all over SEJ's web page for members, which they call "A guide to
the information and disinformation." This is allegedly where they tell their members how to do a
fair and balanced job.
http://www.spectator.org/archives/2008/10/16/green-journalism
More Skeptics Speaking Out Almost Daily - Officials Should Look Deeper At Climate Change
October 17, 2008
Excerpt: Number of Dissenting Scientists Rapidly Increases As Earth Fails To Warm! For sampling
of recent views of man-made global warming dissenters also see this October 2008 report: More
Skeptics
Speaking
Out
Almost
Daily
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/More_Skeptics_Speaking_Out_Almost_Daily.pdf
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/More_Skeptics_Speaking_Out_Almost_Daily.pdf
1) Another Prominent Dissenter: 'Earth has Cooled Since 1998' - 'in defiance of the predictions by
the UN-IPCC'
October 14, 2008 (Climatologist Dr. Richard
Keen) (LINK
<http://climatesci.org/2008/10/14/dr-richard-keens-global-warming-quiz> )
2) Another Dissenter: Finnish Scientist who was former Greenpeace member says no proof CO2 is
driving global temps! October 10, 2008
http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/no-significant-global-warming-since-1995/
&
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5582
3) Another Dissenter: Chemist declares himself skeptic
No uncontrolled, runaway greenhouse
effect has occurred in the last half billion years June 2008
Chemist Dr. Kenneth Rundt, a bio-molecule researcher and formerly a research assistant and
teacher at Abo Akademi University in Finland
http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/global-warming-man-made-or-naturalm/
4) Another Dissenter: We 'do not know enough about the atmospheric changes' to 'draw any
conclusions about global warming' says Prof. Hocking
[ University of Western Ontario physics professor Wayne Hocking heads the Atmospheric
Dynamics Group and co-editor of the 1990 book The Earth's Middle Atmosphere"
http://communications.uwo.ca/com/western_news/stories/global_warming_change_part_of_bigger_
picture_20081009442923
5) Scientist: Climate fear promoters 'woefully misinformed' September 27, 2008
[ Walter Starck is one of the pioneers in the scientific investigation of coral reefs. He grew up in the
Florida Keys and received a PhD in marine science from the University of Miami in 1964
http://www.newsweekly.com.au/articles/2008sep27_g.html#
<http://www.newsweekly.com.au/articles/2008sep27_g.html>
6) New Study: Algerian Scientist: We think that natural climatic oscillations contribute more to
earth climatic disturbances Presented July 2008 at the Global Conference On Global Warming,
July 6-10, 2008 in Istanbul, Turkey - By Prof. Ahmed Boucenna of the Physics Department and
Science Faculty at Ferhat Abbas University in Setif, Algeria
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0808/0808.0897.pdf
7) Another Dissenter: Atmospheric Scientist says It does not follow logically that CO2 emissions
drive a warming trend October 6, 2008
Charles Clough is an atmospheric scientist and was Chief of the Atmospheric Effects Team with the
Department of the Army at Aberdeen Proving Ground from 1982 until 2006. Air Force serving as a
meteorologist. He retired from the position as Chief of the Aberdeen Test Center Meteorology
Team
http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/columns/guestcolumnists/Officials_should_look_deeper_at_cl
imate_change.html
For a full report on the growing dissent see 2007/2008 U.S. Senate Report on over 400 (now 500
and
growing)
skeptics.
See:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.SenateReport ]
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CLIMATE SCIENCE IN AN ERA OF NEGATIVE DISCOVERY - PRESENTATION
October 7, 2008 (uploaded to ICSC site 20/10/08): Hear ICSC Executive Director Tom Harris'
presentation at the 13th Annual Arkansas Governor s Conference on Waterborne Transportation
(read excerpts from program). View slides shown during the talk.
http://www.climatescienceinternational.org
Scientist develops software to understand aliens from outer space! October 20, 2008
Excerpt: Alien Life Form is a software package that compares alien language sounds with those of
60 human languages in the hope that there is a common thread. John Elliott of Leeds Metropolitan
University said his software will decipher the structure of their language and be the first step in
understanding what any space creatures are saying.His theory is that even an alien language far
removed from any on Earth is likely to have recognizable patterns that could help reveal how
intelligent the life forms are.
http://www.itexaminer.com/scientist-develops-software-to-understand-aliens.aspx
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Marc Morano
Communications Director
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) Inhofe Staff
202-224-5762
202-224-5167 (fax)
marc_morano@epw.senate.gov
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