August 2007 Archives
Global
Warming Consensus Nothing But Hot Air, Says NCPA - Literature Review
Reveals Changing Viewpoints, Little Agreement, Says NCPA's Burnett -
DALLAS, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Only seven percent of published
papers on climate change agree with the "consensus view" that
humans were having some effect on global climate change. In an updated
study of peer-reviewed works published between 2004 and 2007, 48 percent
of the papers were classified as "neutral," or refusing to
agree or disagree with the consensus. This lack of agreement falls in
line with previous polls that showed a similar reluctance to point the
finger at humans, according to H. Sterling Burnett, senior fellow with
the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA). "I've always argued
that 'consensus' is limited to a narrow scope," said Burnett. "The
only agreement is that the Earth is getting warmer." (08/31/07)
The Spoof
Study
Reveals Consensus on Lack of Global Warming Consensus - Experts
agree that they do not agree that global warming is mostly caused by
humans. HAMBURG, GERMANY (AP Newsliar) A recent survey conducted to
gage the opinions of climate researchers reveals there is now consensus
on the fact that there is no consensus on the question of whether global
warming is predominantly caused by human activity. (08/31/07)
New from the JunkMan
Runaway
Climate Captured? - By Steven Milloy - Runaway global warming, the
climate alarmist fantasy let loose on the public, has not yet been captured,
but it certainly appears to have at least been cornered by new data
from researchers at the University of Alabama-Huntsville (UAH). In a
study published in the American Geophysical Union's Geophysical Research
Letters on Aug. 9, the UAH researchers provide more real-world evidence
of the atmosphere's self-regulating nature. If this particular self-regulatory
mechanism is confirmed by additional research, it will represent yet
another deal-breaker for the scientific hypothesis that has propped
up climate alarmism thus far. (08/31/07)
Commentary:
Who is really warming the planet? - By Alice Larsen, For Record
Gazette - The eyes in the sky (satellites) do not see the so-called
greenhouse effect on global warming. They can see fires, hurricanes
and other disturbances on earth but they do not reveal evidence of problems
related to greenhouse gases. If green house gases were responsible for
global warming, some scientists say, there should be a marked increase
in CO2 in high latitudes, especially in the Artic and Antarctic. "But
satellites have measured temperatures up there and they don't see anything,"
says NASA scientist Robert Jastrow. "So greenhouse effect for some
reason is missing. And then the question arises, Okay, what did cause
global warming? ("Show ME God" by Fred Heeren) (08/31/07)
Boo
Hoo for the Global Warming Fairy Tale - By Dinesh D'Souza - NASA
gave a big boost to the global warming paranoia-mongers by declaring
that most of the hottest years on record occurred between 1990 and 2007.
Then a math major from Canada, Stephen MacIntyre, showed on his blog
that NASA's calculations were wrong. NASA hemmed and hawed, but finally
admitted that four of the hottest years on record were in the 1930s:
1934, 1931, 1938, and 1939. Turns out only three of the top 10 heat
waves occurred in the last decade and a half: 1998, 2006 and 1999. Several
years that had been given heat records by NASA, such as 2000, 2002,
2003, 2004 fell way down the list. Still, why should we let a few facts
get in the way of today's Great Liberal Scare? Pied Piper Al Gore, not
previously known for his climatological expertise, and his great following
of Hollywood imbeciles, had such a simple and beautiful story to tell.
It summarized American history over the past century in three words:
"Cool, Warm, Hot." Unfortunately this Canadian fellow has
completely spoiled the fairy tale. Now the U.S. temperatures must be
read this way, "Hot, Cool, Warm." Somehow the urgency is gone
when you put it that way. (08/31/07)
E-mail
heating up over global warming - By Randy Scholfield - Whew. It's
getting hot in here. My column last week asking
why people still question global warming brought a flood of response,
some of it heated, from people denying human-caused climate change is
occurring. Lots of folks, I discovered, are all too eager to hold forth
on why they aren't buying warming. And everyone, it seems, is a climate
scientist. Mostly, the responses only reinforced the points in my column
about why people deny the overwhelming science: Some dismissed it for
transparently political reasons -- anything Al Gore advocates they're
against. (Never mind President Bush, who recently accepted the reality
of human-caused climate change.) Others sent links to arguments "proving"
global warming is a hoax. Most of these arguments were familiar. As
I said in the column, most have been convincingly refuted by scientists.
But they keep circulating, like urban myths. Here are a few of the more
common denial talking points I received, along with some rebuttals I've
read from climate scientists: (08/31/07)
Let's
talk about global warming - By: The Mississauga News - Mississauga
collective Youth Troopers for Global Awareness (YTGA) are presenting
a series of short plays tomorrow that explore the multi-faceted and
fascinating lives of complex characters dealing with a variety of social
and political issues. Called No Man's Land, the plays are designed to
initiate dialogue on issues around global warming. "(The show's)
absolutely hilarious but addresses serious conflict to establish a channel
of communication," said YTGA founder Zehra Abbas. "We have
really let the creative juices flow and have come up with an abstract
form of political theatre. Expect to also meet phenomenal guest speakers
from Amnesty International and Sleeping Children Around The World that
will be joining us." The two-hour show happens at Streetsville
Memorial Park. Show time is 5:30 p.m. Admission is free. For more information,
e-mail zehra@ytga.com. (08/31/07)
Movies...
Global
Warming: Not So Hot - By Karlyn Bowman
Special to washingtonpost.com's Think Tank Town - Americans think
global warming is real and serious. Poll after poll shows that
there are not many climate skeptics left. The issue has received
an enormous amount of media attention over the past several years,
but it still doesn't rank at or near the top of issues people
want the president and Congress to address. [..] The power of
DiCaprio, one of the film's producers, has drawn a sizable array
of experts, from physicist Stephen Hawking to Kenyan activist
(and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner) Wangari Maathai. These talking
heads tackle the subject from every angle - scientific, political,
economic and social. They make the compelling and convincing case
that if we human beings don't change our ways soon, we're doomed.
As George Carlin once said, decrying the arrogance of the environmentalists'
motto "Save the Planet," "the planet isn't going
anywhere - we are." OK, I'm a liberal who agrees with everything
being said here. So why am I not moved by "The 11th Hour"?
Part of it is I'm not the audience that needs to be convinced.
But mostly it's because the movie is presenting its case in such
a uniformly insistent tone, as the directors pile on one voice
of doom after another. (08/31/07)
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Review:
'11th Hour' force-feeds us facts on global warming - By Sean
P. Means - The Salt Lake Tribune
The environmental documentary "The 11th Hour" presents
the dangers of global climate change like so much cinematic oatmeal:
nutritional, to be sure, but none too exciting to consume - even
with that dreamy Leonardo DiCaprio popping up looking all dreamy
and concerned.
Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen, the sisters who directed
the film, begin with the assumption that we've all seen Al Gore
in "An Inconvenient Truth." We need no more convincing
that global warming is real (anyone who thinks otherwise is
either dumb or on the oil industry's payroll), but "The
11th Hour" is determined to tell us how bad things are. (08/30/07)
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MarVista
wraps global warming doc - MarVista Entertainment in Los Angeles
has wrapped production on a new one-hour documentary to be sold
at Mipcom. "Global Warming: Our Searing Earth" was directed
by Richard Bluth of Bluth Enterprises and looks for the truth
behind the controversy, examining the current and future effects
of global warming on the planet. The one-off doc sets out to find
the people who are fighting global warming, exploring solutions
raised by new scientific evidence and advice proffered by leading
experts. "Global warming has become such a politically charged
topic. What we hope to show is the truth behind global warming
- without the politics," said Bluth. Antony Reeve-Crook
31 Aug 2007
© C21 Media 2007
(08/31/07)
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A GWHYPE reader e-mail
response to the Steve Outing article from H W
Maier Lynden WA
TO: Steve Outing, columnist @ E&P
RE: "Climate Change: Get Over
Objectivity, Newspapers" - Your referenced column is full of
more holes than a really bad slice of Swiss cheese. It is hard to believe
that someone would actually admit to such an abomination as using the
Main Stream Media as a propaganda mechanism. It is bad enough that the
MSM already has a 90% liberal bias in its news coverage. The greater
the bias the greater the denial has been my experience over the past
40 years. You, personally, must be a very left wing liberal, based on
what you wrote in this article as well as how you wrote it. Your bias
is very obvious. You most certainly should not have your extreme position
on AGW based on your admitted "I am thinking a lot about Global
Warming ...". A rational opinion should be based on extensive study
of Paleoclimatology; of which, I have been a student for the past 30
years. AGW is basically a technical subject, but Al Gore and the rest
of the alarmists have turned AGW is a political and even a religious
matter. If AGW "evidence is so overwhelming" then you should
have provided some of that evidence in your hit piece. There is no such
evidence and that is why you NEVER encounter any such evidence in ANY
article or opinion piece on Global Warming nor Climate Change. Consensus
(see article copied below) is not scientific evidence. All pro AGW is
based on the most basic instinct of humans; and that is FEAR. Every
article covers this or that disaster and always attribute it to Global
Warming, when in fact, they are really talking about weather extremes.
Mans knowledge and exposure to weather extremes is very, very limited
in geological time. Besides, there now are millions of humans where
there were none before. That alone will create disasters of monumental
proportions. You really need to educate yourself on this subject. CO2
caused global warming is the ONLY issue at stake here. There is NO possibility
of any human control over natural climate periods/cycles. ~ H W Maier
Lynden WA (08/30/07)
TODAY'S
LETTERS: Readers Respond to Outing's on Climate Change -- And a
Note from Whittaker Chambers' Grandson - By E&P Staff - NEW YORK
A recent column
by Steve Outing about how newspapers can address climate change sparked
heated letters that criticized newspaper objectivity and questioned
the concept of global warming. (08/30/07)
Deferred
Forecasts Of Global Warming - An Example Of The Misuse of Science
- A blatant example of masking an untested hypothesis as a scientific
paper has been published in Science. The paper is "Improved
Surface Temperature Prediction for the Coming Decade from a Global Climate
Model" Doug M. Smith, Stephen Cusack, Andrew W. Colman, Chris
K. Folland, Glen R. Harris, and James M. Murphy (10 August 2007) Science
317 (5839), 796. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1139540]. The abstract reads,
"Previous climate model projections of climate change accounted
for external forcing from natural and anthropogenic sources but did
not attempt to predict internally generated natural variability. We
present a new modeling system that predicts both internal variability
and externally forced changes and hence forecasts surface temperature
with substantially improved skill throughout a decade, both globally
and in many regions. Our system predicts that internal variability will
partially offset the anthropogenic global warming signal for the next
few years. However, climate will continue to warm, with at least half
of the years after 2009 predicted to exceed the warmest year currently
on record." (08/30/07)
2007
Hurricane Season: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Lion? - Husband David
Ridenour examines the 2007 hurricane season in light of environmentalist
claims about a link between hurricanes and global warming: Environmentalists
can't be very happy with the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane season so far.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) had predicted
an "above normal" hurricane season, but as we approach the
season's halfway mark, the hurricane season looks more like a lamb than
a lion. The Greens love to draw attention to hurricanes because weather-related
disasters make effective props for their campaign to regulate greenhouse
gas emissions. As Hurricane Dean was making its way toward the Gulf
Coast earlier this month, for example, Amanda Staudt of the National
Wildlife Federation wrote: "The big picture is that global warming
is putting hurricanes on steroids." Perhaps she's right, if she
was referring to one of the side effects of long-term steroid use...
impotency. Last year, we had just five Atlantic hurricanes - 17% less
than normal. So far this year, there's been just one Atlantic hurricane.
Since 1944, there's been an average of two hurricanes by this stage
of the season (August 30). That's right: We're at 50% the norm so far.
(08/30/07)
Yet this very same day we have this
nonsense from the propeller-heads and their computer models...
NASA
study predicts more severe storms with global warming - NASA scientists
have developed a new climate model that indicates that the most violent
severe storms and tornadoes may become more common as Earth's climate
warms. Previous climate model studies have shown that heavy rainstorms
will be more common in a warmer climate, but few global models have
attempted to simulate the strength of updrafts in these storms. The
model developed at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies by researchers
Tony Del Genio, Mao-Sung Yao, and Jeff Jonas is the first to successfully
simulate the observed difference in strength between land and ocean
storms and is the first to estimate how the strength will change in
a warming climate, including "severe thunderstorms" that also
occur with significant wind shear and produce damaging winds at the
ground. This information can be derived from the temperatures and humidities
predicted by a climate computer model, according to the new study published
on August 17 in the American Geophysical Union's Geophysical Research
Letters. It predicts that in a warmer climate, stronger and more severe
storms can be expected, but with fewer storms overall. (08/30/07)
More
Than Half of Analyzed Weather Stations Don't Meet Federal Guidelines
- By Noel Sheppard - As members of Congress debate sweeping legislation
to address climate change, shouldn't it be newsworthy that of the roughly
25 percent of the weather stations analyzed by independent, non-government
volunteers, more than half appear to not meet federal guidelines involving
their placement? Well, meteorologist Anthony Watts, the owner of Watts
Up With That, speaking at a climate
conference in Boulder, Colorado, on Tuesday, presented his findings
concerning the examination of some of the weather stations across America
that monitor the nation's temperatures, and the news was quite disturbing.
Yet, from what I can tell, outside of a newspaper in Northern California,
even as global warming matters are highlighted on a daily basis by a
sycophantic press, not one major media outlet thought this was newsworthy.
(08/30/07)
More rubbish from the science of
speculation crowd...
Global
Warming Might Spur Earthquakes and Volcanoes - By Andrea Thompson,
LiveScience Staff Writer - Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis
and landslides are some of the additional catastrophes that climate
change and its rising sea levels and melting glaciers could bring, a
geologist says. (08/30/07)
Consensus
Alert!
Survey: Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming
Theory - By Michael Asher - IPCC co-chairs for Netherlands and Sierra
Leone debate changes to the Report Summary. Comprehensive survey of
published climate research reveals changing viewpoints. In 2004, history
professor Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of research papers on climate
change. Examining peer-reviewed papers published on the ISI Web of Science
database from 1993 to 2003, she found a majority supported the "consensus
view," defined as humans were having at least some effect on global
climate change. Oreskes' work has been repeatedly cited, but as some
of its data is now nearly 15 years old, its conclusions are becoming
somewhat dated. Medical researcher Dr. Klaus-Martin Schulte recently
updated this research. Using the same database and search terms as Oreskes,
he examined all papers published from 2004 to February 2007. The results
have been submitted to the journal Energy and Environment, of which
DailyTech has obtained a pre-publication copy. The figures are surprising.
Of 528 total papers on climate change, only 38 (7%) gave an explicit
endorsement of the consensus. If one considers "implicit"
endorsement (accepting the consensus without explicit statement), the
figure rises to 45%. However, while only 32 papers (6%) reject the consensus
outright, the largest category (48%) are neutral papers, refusing to
either accept or reject the hypothesis. This is no "consensus."
(08/29/07)
Democrat
Bill In House: Anyone ?Harmed? By Global Warming Can Sue The Federal
Government - And then they can get their attorney fees paid for
even
if they don't win. One of the key issues that Congress will need
to address when it returns in September is legislation to restrict energy
production in the U.S. It's not framed that way, of course. The legislation
being considered is ostensibly supposed to help produce more energy,
but that's not the effect it will have. Among the myriad problems with
the House bill for example, is that it allows anyone "harmed"
by global warming to bring suit against any federal agency that fails
to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions as required in the legislation.
Plaintiffs are specifically authorized to recover $1.5 million, and
to be compensated for legal fees win or lose, as long as the court determines
it to be "appropriate." (08/29/07)
New
Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming Fears - By
Marc Morano - Washington DC -- An abundance of new peer-reviewed studies,
analysis, and data error discoveries in the last several months has
prompted scientists to declare that fear of catastrophic man-made global
warming "bites the dust" and the scientific underpinnings
for alarm may be "falling apart." The latest study to cast
doubt on climate fears finds that even a doubling of atmospheric carbon
dioxide would not have the previously predicted dire impacts on global
temperatures. This new study is not unique, as a host of recent peer-reviewed
studies have cast a chill on global warming fears. "Anthropogenic
(man-made) global warming bites the dust," declared astronomer
Dr. Ian Wilson after reviewing the new study which has been accepted
for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Another scientist
said the peer-reviewed study overturned "in one fell swoop"
the climate fears promoted by the UN and former Vice President Al Gore.
The study entitled "Heat Capacity, Time Constant, and Sensitivity
of Earth's Climate System," was authored by Brookhaven National
Lab scientist Stephen Schwartz. (08/29/07)
Trying
to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate Change - By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH
- EVER since "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore has been the
darling of environmentalists, but that movie hardly endeared him to
the animal rights folks. According to them, the most inconvenient truth
of all is that raising animals for meat contributes more to global warming
than all the sport utility vehicles combined. (08/29/07)
Melting
glaciers do not prove global warming claims - By: Chuck Armstrong
- It has been really hot these past few weeks. Some believe it is hot
because the climate fluctuates throughout the year - hotter during the
summer, colder during the winter. However, many individuals believe
the cause of this extreme heat we are experiencing can be summed up
in two words: global warming. One problem with the latter argument is
global warming actually is not global at all. According to a study by
Lubos Motl, a Harvard physicist, global warming is not affecting the
whole world. The study showed the southern hemisphere has been warming
0.05 degrees Celsius a decade since 1970. The physicist has stated the
measuring station at the South Pole actually has shown a distinctive
cooling trend in temperatures. Even with that fact presented, many people
who believe in the man-made myth that is global warming still argue
the temperatures we are experiencing are all-time highs. (08/29/07)
Not
So Hot - The latest twist in the global warming saga is the revision
in data at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, indicating that
the warmest year on record for the U.S. was not 1998, but rather 1934
(by 0.02 of a degree Celsius). (08/29/07)
LMAO!
Climate
change could be causing cougar attacks: expert - CanWest News Service
- A combination of warm winters and Alberta's population boom is causing
a recent jump in cougar attacks, says a spokesman for the government
agency that collects cougar-related data. The province's cougar population
has jumped this year because recent warm winters have pushed up the
population of deer, elk and moose -- the cougars' natural prey, said
Darcy Whiteside with Alberta Sustainable Resource Development. "These
are natural fluctuations," Whiteside said on Wednesday. "But
they're compounded by the fact that municipalities are expanding into
natural areas. A lot more people are living, camping and hiking in those
areas, too." (08/29/07)
Era
of global warming - ...For years, sceptics dismissed warnings of
global warming as scaremongering speculation - the sport of doomsayers.
Well, it appears these Cassandra voices were more or less on target
and we are moving into a new phase in which we are no longer dealing
with prognostications of future climate change but with empirical
evidence. Really? It should be
noted that this entire
letter did not cite one single piece of "evidence."
(08/29/07)
Oh yes, please run Al! And run on
your greenie global warming alarmist platform. I dare ya.
Earth
to Al Gore.... - by Jay Esbe - [Get your ass into the race for the
democratic nomination and then, take the Presidency.] Dear Al, I believe
in global warming. I believe we are either causing it, or at the very
least, contributing to it. We are already witnessing the effects. Virtually
anyone capable of logically processing the widely available and voluminous
information on the subject also believes this. And this is the point:
The people who do not believe it; They're never going to be convinced
of man's role in global warming. They're never going to be convinced
because like the people who believe the earth is only 6,000 years old,
and that Barney Rubble really lived with dinosaurs, these people do
not want to be convinced. These people do not achieve reality for a
reason Al. In fact, they're almost always the same people. They "fail"
because they and their "values" and beliefs are wholly incompatible
with what sane people consider "reality". They are simply
not educable. So here's the question: Are you? (08/29/07)
Climate
change can't bog down APEC - By Alan Wood, economics editor - A
leaked draft of the Sydney Declaration to be released at the end of
next week's APEC meeting speaks only of a long-term aspirational target
for emissions reductions. So presumably one of the early actions of
a Rudd government will be to withdraw from APEC, an institution with
little future. Or is Rudd just bluffing? His speech implies a readiness
to compromise his policy ideals. After all, as he says, a Labor government
helped create APEC. The ambiguity is typical of the approach to climate
change by all governments, for which we may be duly grateful when it
becomes apparent the planet isn't on the brink of becoming uninhabitable
without immediate, drastic action to stop global warming. The European
Union and the G8, Rudd's exemplars of climate action, fall decidedly
short when it comes to meeting commitments they have undertaken, notably
in the Kyoto treaty (the US, of course, never ratified it). And several
of the new eastern European members of the EU are refusing to accept
emissions caps imposed by Brussels, for the same reason China and India
don't want a bar of them: they inhibit economic and social development.
Yet on Monday, Rudd repeated that one of his first acts if he becomes
prime minister will be to ratify Kyoto. This is just one more illustration
of the fact that when deliberately created global warming hysteria takes
hold, silliness isn't far behind. Kyoto is dead. It was never going
to make any real difference to global warming anyway, and its most vociferous
supporters will miss their emissions reduction targets, or meet them
by fraud. (08/29/07)
Global
Warming, Engineers and "Moral Crusades" - If you've ever
suspected that the global warming news in the big newsweeklies has a
bias, then you need to see Robert
J. Samuelson's recent column on the topic. In an article titled,
"Greenhouse Simplicities," Samuelson attacks a recent Newsweek
cover story on global warming as "fundamentally misleading."
He goes on to slam it as "peripheral and highly contrived,"
adding that "self-righteous indignation can undermine good journalism."
So why is this unusual? Because Samuelson
is a contributing editor for Newsweek. What we have here is a valued
member of the Newsweek family biting a hand that feeds him. And Samuelson
isn't simply disagreeing with another editor's opinion; he's attacking
the truthfulness of the magazine's news. But, first, for those who haven't
seen the original Newsweek cover
story, let's stop here and explain. The original Newsweek cover
was billed as "The truth about denial." It described a so-called
"denial machine," reportedly funded by industry, trying to
obstruct those who are battling the global warming threat. The article
was an unveiled attempt to discredit certain scientists who don't view
global warming as a crisis. (08/28/07)
ABC
Weatherman Touts Rambling Tennis Star's Concern Over "Green Noise"
- By Scott Whitlock - On Tuesday's "Good Morning America,"
weatherman and liberal global warming activist Sam Champion featured
tennis star Billie Jean King in his latest attempt to hype the danger
of climate change. In a new segment entitled, "Just One Person,"
King vaguely described her new environmental charity, GreenSlam, in
such a way that it appeared to confuse GMA audience members standing
behind her. At Champion's prompting, she bemoaned all the "green
noise," a term she never explained, in today's society. Equally
confusing were her constant references to "green collar studies."
Most bizarre, however, was when the tennis star appeared to be distracted,
much in the way a five-year old would be upon seeing a butterfly. King
noticed a tennis ball wedged in an adjacent camera and fixated on it
as an example of recycling (as seen above). Apparently bewildering even
Champion, she rambled, "We want to use things again. Okay? You
see this tennis ball? You have one on your camera over there so that
you don't whack somebody. It's protection. There's one at the end of,
there's one at the end of the camera there. That's reusable. [Points
to GMA camera.] All these little things we can do. I'm taking shorter
showers. I'm worrying about the plastic bags now." (08/28/07)
Just as I predicted
in my comments preceding the article below, I was only a matter of minutes
before Noel Sheppard picked up this one and ran with it. He brilliantly
illustrates the stark contrast in philosophies regarding the objectivity
(or lack thereof) in the media today when it comes to the myth of global
warming.
Are
Media Reporting Global Warming Too Objectively or Inhibiting Free Speech?
- By Noel Sheppard - n the past couple of days, there have been two
articles written about how the media are covering global warming. In
one, the author contended that the press are acting to inhibit free
speech by exclusively reporting one side of the climate change issue
as they castigate skeptics as deniers and operatives of the oil industry.
By contrast, another article suggested that the press in their attempts
to appear objective are not doing a good enough job stressing the dire
nature of global warming, and should be taking a much stronger position
as advocate for the supposed consensus. (08/28/07)
The following
article is a must read. I have included a brief response at the right
but I am not going to include it on the blog since I suspect it will
be blogged elsewhere to death, as it should! If you would like to write
your own rebuttal to this and e-mail it to me I would be happy to publish
it for you here.
Climate
Change: Get Over Objectivity, Newspapers - By Steve Outing
- NEW YORK (August 28, 2007) -- I've been thinking a lot about
climate change (aka, global warming) a lot lately. (Haven't you?)
Having kids, I'm concerned about what kind of world my generation
is leaving them, of course. And I'm mulling over what I can do,
to "do my part" (ride my bike to work more; my family
bought a hybrid car; teach my kids green habits; etc.). I've also
been thinking about the newspaper industry and global warming.
And frankly, I don't think newspapers are doing enough. Indeed,
newspapers' fabled commitment to "objectivity" has been
a detriment to efforts to combat global warming. The industry
still has a lot of power to influence people. How about if newspapers
abandon their old way of doing things when it comes to the issue
of global warming, and turn their influence to good? It just might
be that through this issue alone, newspapers revive themselves
to some extent. Editors are shirking their responsibility to improve
our world, in my view, so let's change that.
A Return to Advocacy
In recent decades, "advocacy journalism" has been relegated
to the alternative press, or in the mainstream press on editorial
or op-ed pages (and perhaps blogs, too). The news sections of
mainstream newspapers are still the realm of "objective journalism,"
where reporters hide (or purport to) their personal opinions and
biases, and try to present a balanced view of any issue. Advocacy
does not make it to the front page. I have no quibble with the
status quo when it comes to controversial issues where there is
a significant split of opinion. Outside of the opinion section,
most newspapers are not going to allow writers and editors to
express an opinion on hot debates like the right to abortion,
or public funding for stem cell research. There are sizable groups
of people lining up on both sides of those issues (not to mention
those who fall in between). It would be journalistic suicide to
take a mainstream paper and go on an advocacy tear about abortion,
for example. But advocacy in terms of encouraging people to act
to alleviate climate change is really a wholly different issue.
There's clearly scientific consensus that humans are altering
the planet's climate, and that the effect is accelerating. Stronger
hurricanes, melting glaciers and sea ice, worse wildfires and
longer fire seasons, more severe droughts and flooding, and more
frequent bizarre weather events overall. The few critics of the
consensus are a small and shrinking group, who to most observers
seem irrelevant. To the mainstream, they may as well be flat-earthers.
Why is it, then, that mainstream coverage of climate change is
still mired, too often, in he-said, she-said reporting where both
"sides" get their time? When the evidence is so overwhelming
to support the idea that humans are changing the climate, why
should the news industry give the tiny number of skeptics a higher
percentage of time within a news report on their viewpoint than
they deserve? It's probably not a perfect analogy, but with a
tiny number of people in the U.S. supporting polygamy (estimated
at 37,000 living in the Western U.S.), news organizations don't
tend to give a lot of space to polygamists explaining why their
lifestyle is a good thing and should be allowed. (Though polygamists
have gotten more press lately, since the hit HBO show "Big
Love." The Salt Lake Tribune even has a full-time reporter
on the polygamy beat.) At this point, global warming skeptics
have little credibility. [...]
The Origins of Objectivity The problem with that kind of coverage
is that it doesn't permit journalists to find the truth in an
issue, like global warming. Jay Rosen, associate professor of
journalism at New York University and a respected new media observer,
points out that journalistic objectivity first arose in the 1920s
and '30s -- following a period of sensational, "muckraking"
reporting by newspapers. "Part of the problem is that journalists
don't realize what objectivity was in the first place," says
Rosen. "From the beginning it was a way of limiting liability,
and allowing journalists to take a pass when it's hard to figure
out who's right and what's really going on. From the beginning
it was meant to dull the knife edge of the press. It was meant
to 'de-voice' or defang the individual journalist, so that more
people would be comfortable with the product. But the costs of
that system have built up over time... Read the entire
article. (08/28/07)
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Columnist Steve Outing
Photo - www.editorandpublisher.com
Unfortunately this is the
view of many elites in the media who think that the role of newspapers
is to persuade the public, rather than to inform it. The liberal
elites believe that they know what is best for us and that the
ends justify the means, even at the expense of objectivity. The
views in this article are really not all that shocking, but the
fact that Outing feels emboldened enough to write it is. The arrogance
of this man is apparent throughout this piece. Again we read the
constant drumbeat that there is no debate in regards to the human
cause of global warming which is nothing more than an attempt
to silence opposing views. The fact remains carbon dioxide
produced by humans is an insignificant source of global warming.
But advocates like Outing would have us believe that the scientific
community is in unison as to the cause of global warming being
man-made CO2. These people should be seen as what they are, advocates
for their cause, not journalists. Newspapers should continue to
report the news as responsibly and objectively as possible. The
front page is no place for opinion.
Outing says "the few
critics of the consensus are a small and shrinking group, who
to most observers seem irrelevant. To the mainstream, they may
as well be flat-earthers." Even if it was true, which it's
not, would that be justification for major newspapers to abandon
objectivity for advocacy?
Outing also claims that it
would be "journalistic suicide" to take on an issue
like "the right to abortion" but advocacy in terms of
encouraging people to act to alleviate climate change is really
a wholly different issue.
Different issue? How? If journalism
were to abandon objectivity for advocacy, who would decide what
issue(s) to advocate, and which side deserves advocacy and which
side deserves to be silenced (censored)?
The left always trumpets free
speech except when it poses a threat to their agenda. I don't
know about you but I'm tired of these self-absorbed yuppie ex-hippie
baby-boomer mother-fuckers that think they know what's best for
everyone. Just continue to write your op-eds and leave the rest
of us, and the news alone. ~ DEK
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Shipp:
Global warming 'debunked,' and a hot time at Leebern's birthday
- By Bill Shipp - This is a true story. Listen closely: In a mechanically
cooled conference room located about 100 miles north of the Fall Line,
a group of distinguished Georgia lawmakers sat down with a group of
"scientists" in August 2007 and decided global warming was
mostly bunk. They also determined they and their fellow humans weren't
responsible for fouling the atmosphere. (08/28/07)
Cellular
and wireless industry linked to Global Warming - Turning off Climate
Change - by John Staples, New Brunswick Editorialist - One day while
at the movies someone started shouting "Global Warming", "Climate
Changing", "Carbon Build-up", "Ice Caps Melting"and
"Oceans Rising". Well just about everyone panicked and started
running for the exits, people got stepped on, knocked over, even hurt
and authorities had no idea what to do about it. [...] We all need to
take a long hard look at how important wireless technology is and how
dangerous it is to use. I think
Mr. Staples should be more concerned about that tin-foil hat of his!
(08/28/07)
Professor
Singer Takes on Al Gore and Global Warming Alarmism - By Noel Sheppard
- For those that aren't familiar, S. Fred Singer is professor emeritus
of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, a research
professor at George Mason University, and president of the Science and
Environmental Policy Project. He is also one of the world's leading
anthropogenic global warming skeptics. With that in mind, he gave a
lecture concerning climate change at Hillsdale College on June 30 which
has been adapted as an article
at the Hillsdale Imprimis (h/t Marc Morano). (08/28/07)
Proposal's
message is clear Put up or shut up, Democrats - By H. Sterling Burnett
- WASHINGTON -- In a shot across the bow of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, senior
House member John Dingell, D-Mich., has proposed a bold plan to fight
global warming: an across-the-board carbon tax -- better known as a
universal energy tax. (08/28/07)
Taming
the Hurricane - By Patrick J. Michaels - SO WHY IS IT THAT PEOPLE
are wringing their hands about global warming causing more severe hurricanes
and deaths? The best computer estimate for future hurricanes was published
by Tom Knutson and Robert Tuleya in the Journal of Climate in 2004.
They calculated that maximum winds should increase by about 6% over
the next 75 years. Even this may be an overestimate because the method
used assumes carbon dioxide -- the main global warming emission -- is
increasing in the atmosphere about twice as fast as it actually is.
(08/28/07)
Excellent!
Leonardo
DiCaprio is depressed about global warming - Leonardo DiCaprio is
depressed and believes the planet is doomed, which was exactly how I
felt after witnessing his accent destroy 'Gangs of New York'. "We
find ourselves on the brink," he told The Ecologist magazine, which
now clearly has to resort to interviewing celebrities to sell copies.
"We face a very bleak future, and to avoid it we need dramatic
worldwide change." DiCaprio has produced a documentary a mere two
years after Al Gore first thought of the idea and 'The Eleventh Hour',
written and narrated by the actor, will highlight environmental issues.
So fret no more, the world is saved. Carbon footprints will be reduced
as people stay home in their droves, desperately trying to do something
other than be lectured to another twat of an actor. You
gotta love British Bluntness. (08/28/07)
Global
Warming, Atmospheric CO2 Increase, and Northeast China's Forest Carbon
Stocks - ...During a period of time when the "twin evils"
of the radical environmentalist movement - atmospheric temperature and
CO2 concentration - rose by amounts the world's climate alarmists claim
were unprecedented over the past thousand to a million or more years,
respectively, forest C stocks in northeast China rose ever higher with
each passing year. Clearly, something is drastically wrong with this
picture ... and it's not the real-world data. (08/28/07)
A
Denier's Confession - By BRET STEPHENS - The recent discovery by
a retired businessman and climate kibitzer named Stephen McIntyre that
1934 -- and not 1998 or 2006 -- was the hottest year on record in the
U.S. could not have been better timed. August is the month when temperatures
are high and the news cycle is slow, leading, inevitably, to profound
meditations on global warming. Newsweek performed its journalistic duty
two weeks ago with an exposé on what it calls the global warming
"denial machine." I hereby perform mine with a denier's confession.
I confess: I am prepared to acknowledge that Mr. McIntyre's discovery
amounts to what a New York Times reporter calls a "statistically
meaningless" rearrangement of data. But just how "meaningless"
would this have seemed had it yielded the opposite result? (08/28/07)
More absurdity...
For
20 bucks, combat global warming - ASPEN -- The city of Aspen, through
its Canary Initiative, will launch the first carbon-offsets program
of its kind in the country. The Canary Tag program, unveiled by Mayor
Mick Ireland during Saturday's ARE Day - American Renewable Energy Day
- gives both citizens and visitors a chance to mitigate their greenhouse
gas emissions. Aspen is the first city in the country to offer such
a program, according to Ireland. Canary Tags are available for sale
online at www.aspenzgreen.com and are specifically to offset greenhouse
gas emissions from home energy use, driving and air travel. The purchase
of one Canary Tag for $20 offsets one ton of greenhouse gases, according
to a city press release. (08/28/07)
Expo
focuses on dangers of global warming - Hyderabad, August 28: The
Students of Gitanjali Devshalala organised an exhibition recently to
highlight the serious issue of "global warming". Eminent scientist
and former Director of National Remote Sensing Agency Padmasri B. L.
Deekshitulu congratulated the students for choosing a theme relevant
to the times and incorporating simple solutions in their day-to-day
life to combat global warming. The students displayed working models,
presentations and skits depicting the causes, effects and solutions
for global warming like green house effect, ocean warming, depletion
of ozone layer, energy conservation, toxic effect of chemicals in day
to day life. Alternatives to minimise Global warming were also highlighted.
(08/28/07)
Global
Warming at Church: Religious Leaders Spread Word of the Gore - By
Noel Sheppard - There are many climate change skeptics around the world
who have suggested that global warming is a new religion being spread
by hysterical zealots like soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore. (08/28/07)
Global Warming
Noticed in Heartland? Hardly! - By Gary Benoit - "Has global
warming visited Iowa?" That was a question posed by National Wildlife
Federation activists - a month before NASA reported that the hottest
year on record in America is no longer 1998 but 1934. (08/28/07)
Intolerance
mars climate change debate - By CHRISTOPHER LINGLE, Special to The
Japan Times - NEW DELHI - What's up with journalists in the mainstream
media? In most cases, they tend to be unconditional supporters of free
expression and strive to report on controversial views. However, reporting
on issues relating to global warming has become strikingly one-sided.
With no need to persuade using rational argument, a new conventional
wisdom is being formulated that is beyond challenge by "sensible"
people. Creating group-think and mass behavior should be anathema to
honest journalists. Otherwise, reporters become opinion makers rather
than neutral observers. Along these lines, there are signs of a growing
intolerance in the debate on global climate change. Climate-change denial
has become a taboo that invites a sense of moral repugnance toward deniers.
(08/27/07)
New
Climate Change-Friendly Dish Introduced Called "The Al Gore"
- By Noel Sheppard - Better get all fluids away from your computer,
because a pair of caterers in Australia have created a new climate change-friendly
dish they call "The Al Gore" which is "an organic mix
of chunked mutton and aromatic root vegetables." (08/27/07)
Laurie
David Continues Her Global Warming Chicken Little Act - By P.J.
Gladnick - Storms! Floods! Riots! Looting! Blackouts! These are all
the things that Laurie David is back to warning us about in her latest
Huffington Post blog, "This is the Face of Global Warming":
(08/27/07)
IPCC
Member: NASA's Hansen Moving 'Dangerously Away From Scientific Discourse
to Advocacy' - By Noel Sheppard - NASA's James Hansen, whose work
is continually exposed as shoddy while he refuses to share data gathering
techniques and computer codes used for such things with others, has
been criticized by a contributing scientist to the United Nations' Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change as moving "dangerously away from scientific
discourse to advocacy." What has drawn the ire of Andrew Weaver,
a physicist at the University of Victoria who works on the dynamics
of the polar ice caps, are recent statements by the Goddard Institute
for Space Studies chief that oceans could rise as much as 82 feet in
the next hundred years due to global warming. Bear in mind that the
IPCC's most recent report downgraded its expectations for such sea level
increases to less than two feet. (08/27/07)
Letters:
Too much political rhetoric about global warming issue - I read
with interest the column by Cal Thomas in the Aug. 19 Sheboygan Press,
"Global warming is about really hot air." Finally someone
discusses and publishes a fair statement about the facts and reasons
behind the argument. I have been an Earth scientist for over 30 years
and am fully aware of climate changes that have occurred in the geologic
and historic past. It is very frustrating to hear people discuss "global
warming" as if it is a human inflicted one-time event that we can
change. These cycles have been repeated for eons, and are going to continue
as long as the planet is in existence. (08/27/07)
Too bad.
I was kind of rooting for this one to help illustrate the idiocy here
in Schwartzefornia.
Property value worries sink Santa Barbara art project - A plan to
paint waves at intersections to show where global warming could push
the sea level raises fears that the 'stigma' could affect real estate
sales.
By Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer - SANTA BARBARA --
Call it the Santa Barbara meltdown. Two of the city's great preoccupations
-- progressive politics and sky-high real estate values -- have collided
over the last couple of months, yielding high drama over an art project
that was to denote land imperiled by global warming with blue waves
painted on downtown intersections. "The community conversation
turned into a frenzy," said Mayor Marty Blum, one of the idea's
supporters. "I don't think I've ever seen anything like it."
Last week, the activist behind the city-backed wave project withdrew
his plan, abandoning for now the idea of vividly charting just what
would happen in Santa Barbara if Greenland's ice sheets turn to slush.
Opponents, who believed that the aptly named "lightblueline"
project would sink property values on the wrong side of the line, claimed
victory. "If you're below the line, there's a stigma," said
Jerry Beaver, a real estate developer who owns a warehouse and other
property that would be swamped if, as lightblueline predicts, the oceans
rise 23 feet over the course of time. Beaver, a self-described rabble-rouser,
said he had been preparing to sue the city over its approval of the
project, which would have spanned 68 blocks. (08/27/07)
The
real threat of global warming - By Walter Starck - Over the past
century CO2 in the atmosphere may have increased from around 3/100 of
1 per cent to about 4/100 of 1 per cent and average global temperature
may have increased by about 0.6C. I say "may have" because
both figures are derived from complex statistical treatment of thousands
to millions of individual measurements which are subject to both high
levels of natural variation and a variety of errors. (08/27/07)
What's
Really Heating Up the Planet? - Coal-mine fires in China and India
could be huge culprits in global warming. In China alone, up to 200
million tons of coal go up in flames each year - which may be equivalent
to America's total carbon-dioxide emissions from gasoline. India's mine
fires waste up to 10 million tons of coal annually. The pollution has
made land in both countries uninhabitable. And the problem is expected
to worsen. Now experts are asking if controlling mine fires in Asia
might be a key to reducing global warming. Economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth,
for one, argues that it would likely be more efficient than offsets
like planting trees or cleaning the ocean. So, what can be done? One
possible remedy being developed in the U.S. is a nitrogen-laced foam.
It was used recently to put out a mine fire in West Virginia. (Emissions
from coal-mine fires in the U.S. are a fraction of Asia's.) Deploying
such a successful foam in China and India - both of which would like
help - could drastically reduce damage from long-burning fires, which
are very difficult to extinguish fully. (08/26/07)
Global
Warming Ads From Al Gore Coming Soon - By Noel Sheppard - I guess
we should have expected this: Al Gore's Alliance
for Climate Change is about to spend $100 million a year advertising
global warming alarmism. I'm thanking God right now for a wonderful
invention called the DVR. How 'bout you? (08/26/07)
Begin "Looney Tunes" cartoon
music...
AT
WAR: FACING GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AS SECURITY THREAT - New efforts
are being encouraged to recategorize climate change, shifting public
focus away from science and shedding light on its vital importance by
comparing global warming to a global security threat. According to British
climate change ambassador John Ashton, there is a need to approach global
warming from a war stance. We are in a war, and our soldiers - people,
plants, animals, the very Earth itself - are down for the count. War?
Climate Change Ambassador? The Brits have lost all sense of sanity.
Isn't it the socialist left that repeatedly accuses the right of "manufacturing"
the war on terror. Ironically, it's the left that has manufactured the
"war on climate change." (08/26/07)
Ignore
The Global Warming Wackos - I always find it difficult to understand
why some fall for the hoax concerning the global warming. Then they
state for a fact that we are responsible for it and we can somehow stop
it from occurring. (08/26/07)
Green
party sees red - By DALE BASS - Controversial movies about global
warming enter schools - Adriane Carr, deputy leader of the federal Green
party, is perplexed as to why the Kamloops-Thompson school district
plans to show its secondary school students The Great Global Warming
Swindle. The documentary was made by Mark Durkin in response to An Inconvenient
Truth by former U.S. vice-president Al Gore. In it, Durkin talks with
groups and scientists who question the validity of global warming. "Why
confuse our youth with this, instead of teaching them ways of finding
concentrated ways to help solve the crisis?" Carr asked while visiting
Kamloops Thursday. "Why not solve the crisis rather than debate
the crisis?" Terry Sullivan, School District 73 superintendent,
said educators have a duty to present all sides of controversial issues.
While both documentaries are available, it will be up to teachers to
decide if they show one, both or neither. Sullivan said teachers are
being encouraged to show both films. However, parents will be advised
and can have their students excused for either film. "The best
of public education is when we look at a particular issue and explore
all sides of that issue," Sullivan said, noting global warming
remains a controversial topic... We
salute Superintendent Terry Sullivan for showing both films. Obviously
Sullivan believes that children should see both sides of the story and
trusts they are capable of deciding for themselves wheather the man-made
CO2 theory is just a bunch of gas. (08/26/07)
EXCELLENT!
The
liberals' war against liberalism: What is so scary about free thought?
- FRANK MIELE - Whatever happened to liberals? One thing I have learned
by writing columns on global warming the past two weeks is that liberals
are less interested in free expression of ideas than in total compliance
with their ideas, less interested in critical thinking than in being
critical, and less interested in the truth than in their truth. It wasn't
always so. [...] What I believe in is looking at the evidence for myself,
weighing it with the scales of logic and reason, and then making up
my own mind. I have been studying the evidence on global warming for
more than two years, and for all the reasons already listed the past
two weeks I am convinced that this is a manufactured crisis. (08/26/07)
Investors
pouring billions into green stocks - BY FRANK NORTON - Green is
good. At least that's the bet of an increasing number of investment
fund managers, retirees and armchair stock pickers who are pouring billions
into so-called green stocks, and not necessarily for the love of nature.
They're chasing lucrative returns from companies that promise new ways
to recycle, power automobiles and harness the wind and sun. Many have
had success. Green investment funds that have been around for at least
a year report double-digit gains for the past 12 months. The KDL Global
Climate 100 Index, which tracks companies working to offset global warming
or its effects, is up nearly 25 percent. (08/26/07)
Thou
shalt honor the green? - By Bronislaus B. Kush - Very soon, Vatican
City will officially become the world's first "carbon-neutral"
sovereign state. On behalf of the Holy See, an eco-restoration company
based in San Francisco, Planktos/KlimaFa, will begin creating a "climate
forest" in Hungary's Bükk National Park that will eventually
offset carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles traversing the busy 0.17-square-mile
area that makes up the seat of the Roman Catholic Church. Trees capture
carbon dioxide from the air through photosynthesis and store it in tissue
matter. "Not only is the Vatican steadily reducing its carbon footprint
with energy efficiency and solar power, its choice of new mixed-growth
forests to offset the balance of its emissions shows a deep commitment
to planetary stewardship as well," said Russ George, Planktos'
chief executive officer. "It eloquently makes the point that eco-restoration
is a fitting climate change solution for a culture of life." (08/26/07)
Global
Warming or Global Governance? (DVD) The Truth About Global Warming
- What you don't hear in the media! - The debate is still raging within
the scientific community. Sovereignty International has put together
interviews of climate scientists and biologists from numerous sources
who explain, step by step, why Al Gore and the global warming alarmists
are incorrect. In some cases, blatantly so. It also provides evidence
that the global warming agenda is being funded with tens of billions
of dollars as a mechanism to create global governance. (08/26/07)
Czech
Republic: President Says Freedom is Endangered, Not Climate - ...RFE/RL:
Thanks partly to your latest book "A Blue, Not A Green Planet"
you've become well-known abroad for your opinions on global warming.
Was this your intention, do you welcome this? Do you want to be an "anti"-Al
Gore?
Klaus: This issue has concerned me tremendously for a long time. I met
Al Gore in a television debate about this issue in New York some 15
years ago, so it's not a new thing that I've just discovered. I consider
it one of the most serious threats to freedom in the world, one of the
most serious threats to the normal development of humanity. Of course
not global warming itself, but the opinions that are being smuggled
in to us, thanks to the false threat of global warming, by people like
Al Gore and many others. The hysteria around this in Western Europe
and the U.S. is ridiculous and undignified and there's no doubt that
people in a few years' or decades' time will laugh at us and wonder
if we went mad in the first decade of the 21st century by betting on
this card. I think we should use all possible ways to break this hysteria
and one way of doing so is writing this book and traveling around the
world and giving lectures, talks, and interviews. I'm ready to go at
the end of September to New York, where the UN secretary-general is
organizing, a day before the General Assembly, a specific conference
on global warming, where it will be a gathering of all the "Gore-ites".
They have, "by mistake", invited also me. And I'm going to
have to give a very tough speech. (08/26/07)
Global
warming just another scare tactic - By Brent Wheat - In the last
hour, the weather has been hot, cold, sunny, cloudy, raining, humid,
dry and wet. The crazy climate of today puts me in mind to step onto
the soapbox and discuss my current "conservation" hot button
issue: global warming. I find myself launching into a tirade anytime
there is a nearby comment about the impending doom of global warming.
After this brief written opinion, I'm sure my e-mail box will overflow
with vehement diatribes from hysterical "greenies" who believe
what they want to hear. I nearly burst an artery at the recent Global
Warming Issue of Backpacker magazine. Instead of gear tips and where-to-go
articles, it was filled with hand wringing about how everything we know
and love about the outdoors will be changed and destroyed because of
our ridiculous demands for televisions, hair care products and healthy,
inexpensive food. (08/26/07)
On
FNC, AccuWeather's Bastardi Argues Against Blaming Global Warming for
Hurricanes - By Brad Wilmouth - On the Tuesday August 21 The O'Reilly
Factor on FNC, AccuWeather senior meteorologist Joe Bastardi poured
water on claims that a global warming trend has been the cause of hurricanes
of increased intensity as he contended that the Northern Hemisphere
similarly saw periods of increased hurricane activity in past decades,
going back to the 1890s. Bastardi: "We're back in the '30's, '40's
and 50's. This back and forth cycle that occurs, we saw it in the 1890s
to 1910. ... And people are just getting carried away and fascinated
when, if they go back and look at what happened before, you can see
the similarities." (08/26/07)
Falsification
Of The Atmospheric Co2 Green house Effects Within The Frame Of Physics
- Gerlich, a proffessor of mathematical physics at the Technical University
Carolo-Wilhelmina in Germany and his colleague proffessor, Ralf D. Tscheuschner,
examined the so-called "greenhouse effect" and found it to
be pure fiction as an instrument of alledged global warming. In 114
pages laden with complicated equations, citations from the scientific
literature, examinations of various experiments and conclusions based
on physics and the laws of physics, the researchers expose the fraudulent
grounds upon which the global warming theory rests. "It is shown
that this effect neither has experimental nor theoretical foundations
and must be considered as fictitious," the report states, adding
that "the claim that Co2 emissions give rise to anthropogenic {
manmade} climate changes has no physical basis." View
the actual report. (08/25/07)
Nutcase warmist James Hansen is
at it again. Now he knows bettter than the UN. I guess the IPCC
is not "alarmist" enough for him any more.
Will
oceans surge 59 centimetres this century - or 25 metres? - By ZOE
CORMIER - LONDON -- When Al Gore predicted that climate change could
lead to a 20-foot rise in sea levels, critics called him alarmist. After
all, the International Panel on Climate Change, which receives input
from top scientists, estimates surges of only 18 to 59 centimetres in
the next century. But a study led by James Hansen, the head of the climate
science program at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's
Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and a professor at Columbia
University, suggests that current estimates for how high the seas could
rise are way off the mark - and that in the next 100 years melting ice
could sink cities in the United States to Bangladesh. "If we follow
'business-as-usual' growth of greenhouse gas emissions," he writes
in an e-mail interview, "I think that we will lock in a guaranteed
sea-level rise of several metres, which, frankly, means that all hell
is going to break loose." The scientific basis for this idea -
which Prof. Hansen and five co-authors gleaned from geological records,
ice core samples and analysis of the sea floor - is outlined in a recent
paper published by the British journal Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society. In stark contrast to estimates put forward by the
IPCC, Prof. Hansen and his colleagues argue that rapidly melting ice
caps in Antarctica and Greenland could cause oceans to swell several
metres by 2100 - or maybe even as much as 25 metres, which is how much
higher the oceans sat about three million years ago. (08/25/07)
To
combat global warming, catch them young ... Workshops to motivate students
to contribute towards saving the climate - NEW DELHI: The Worldwide
Fund for Nature has joined hands with Tetra Pak Industries to launch
the "Young Climate Savers" programme beginning next month
under which a series of workshops on climate change will be conducted
in schools across the country. The workshops are aimed at educating
and motivating students to contribute towards reducing global warming.
Students will be taught to promote energy-efficient lifestyles and eco-friendly
attitudes. (08/25/07)
Why
do some deny global warming? - Because
not all of us are as gullable as Mr. Scholfield. By Randy
Scholfield - The Earth might be having health problems these days, but
global warming denial is alive and well. Witness Cal Thomas' column
Wednesday in this space, which even by his overheated standards was
a doozy. Cal pronounced warming a hoax perpetrated by "global warming
jihadists." That's right -- jihadists. Climate scientists are the
new terrorist group! (08/25/07)
The
Truth Hurts - Global warming tale looking more like fictional movie than
fact - By Licia Corbella -
A new apocalyptic movie being filmed, in part, on the T'suu
Tina Nation reserve near Calgary claims to be fuelled by science.
It's a nice try, but this piece of fiction is fuelled by ... well,
fiction. Agee the actor polar bear will star as the world's last
polar bear on Earth in a made-for-TV movie set in the year 2075.
The idea for the film comes from the belief that polar bears are
on thin ice -- literally and figuratively -- as a result of man-made
global warming. Terry Marsh, president of Calgary-based Full Frontal
Films and this movie's production manager, wrapped up one-month
of filming in Calgary and area yesterday and was reached while
en route to the airport for Paris, where filming will continue.
"This movie is based on a United Nations report on global
warming," says Marsh. "It's a docu-drama -- which is
heavy on the drama. It's not a glitzy, Hollywood production about
climate change, it's a very serious look at what might actually
happen as a result of global warming." That's curious, says
I. I just read some reports by polar bear experts and despite
what many global warming alarmists claim, polar bears are not
dying and drowning, but surviving and thriving. "I have no
idea about that," says Marsh. "This is only a movie
and I'm a film maker, not a scientist."
GOOD POINT.
But, will the movie claim to be based on science? The answer to
that question, is, infuriatingly, "yes." In other words,
just like the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),
who's going to let a few facts get in the way of a good piece
of fiction or even a United Nations' report? Polar bears, in case
you haven't noticed yet, are the poster boy -- or is that, poster
bear? -- for proponents in the theory of man-made global warming.
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Virtually every news clip and certainly most documentaries about global
warming shows some beleaguered-looking polar bear perched perilously
on a small piece of ice apparently in grave danger of drowning. Here's
some more shocking news. Polar bears can swim! Last spring, Dr. Mitchell
Taylor, a wildlife biologist with the Government of Nunavut's Department
of Environment presented a 12-page report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, which was endeavouring to determine whether it should declare
the polar bear "threatened" under its Endangered Species Act.
Taylor's report showed that of the 13 populations of polar bears in
Canada's north -- all but two are increasing or remaining stable. According
to a Nunavut Department of Environment spokesman, Taylor is "out
in the field tagging polar bears" in the 140,000 sq.-km Davis Strait
area. Taylor has reported that in the mid-1980s there were just 850
bears in Davis Strait, whereas earlier this year there were 2,100. The
worldwide numbers are way up too. As he said at the time: "Scientific
knowledge has demonstrated that Inuit knowledge was right. There aren't
just a few more bears, there are a hell of a lot more bears." An
inconvenient truth for the prophets of global warming doom, to be sure,
but nothing that will stop them from needlessly alarming children about
disappearing polar bears. more...
(08/24/07)
Latest
Research Erodes CO2's Role in Global Warming - By Michael Asher
- Researchers on three different continents agree; CO2 is not the devil
we once thought -- Last week I reported on a new study by the Belgium
Royal Meteorological Institute that stated the effects of CO2 on world
temperatures had been "grossly overstated". The RMI's conclusion
is supported by a pair of recent papers, both of which severely downgrade
the warming effect of carbon dioxide. The first is by atmospheric scientist
Stephen Schwartz, of Brookhaven National Labs. Entitled, "Heat
Capacity, Time Constant, and Sensitivity of Earth's Climate System",
the paper is based on more accurate estimates of feedback processes
in the Earth's atmosphere. It concludes the IPCC estimate of 2 - 4.5C
degrees warming (from the anticipated 1900-2100 doubling of CO2 levels)
is much too high, and the actual figure should be closer to 1.1 degree.
The conclusion is very significant as we've already experienced some
0.7 degrees of that warming. That means over the next century, only
an additional 0.4 degrees warming is expected. And after that, the warming
effect will nearly vanish. (08/24/07)
Canadian
Opposition Party Threatens Fall Election Over Global Warming Policies
- By Noel Sheppard - If you had any question as to how hot the climate
change debate is getting in governments around the world, all you need
do is look at our neighbor to the north for answers. On Thursday, members
of Canada's Liberal Party threatened Prime Minister Stephen Harper with
a fall election if he didn't change course on his global warming policies.
(08/24/07)
UNBELIEVABLE! Texax A&M
Professor says "...in 50 to 100 years, most of the population won't
be alive."
SPE
study group gets lesson in global warming - Ruth Campbell, Midland
Reporter-Telegram - There is no question people -- and the output of
carbon dioxide -- are contributing factors to global warming. If nothing
is done, it's a "coin flip" on how it's going to turn out,
said Andrew E. Dessler, professor at the Texas A&M University College
of Geosciences. Dessler spoke to a group of 40 people at the Society
of Petroleum Engineers Environmental Study Group meeting Thursday at
the Advanced Technology Center. Most attending are in the environmental
side of the oil and gas industry. - His presentation, titled "An
Update on the Science of Climate Change: What We Know and Why You Should
Believe It," went through how scientific assessments are done.
"The future is hard to predict," Dessler said. "It is
certainly possible we'll see a warming" of 2 to 3 degrees Celsius,
which could be dangerous. "You never really know how it's going
to turn out, or if all your assumptions are right. The possible downside
of being wrong is enormous. The time horizon is such that ... in 50
to 100 years, most of the population won't be alive." (08/24/07)
This is by far the most ridiculous
"movie review" I have ever read. It amazes me that any publisher
would print it.
A
grim reminder that global warming is a catastrophe - By Wesley Morris,
Globe Staff - I don't know how things are in your life. But no matter
what's going on, this planet has got you beat. We've made it sick, and
it, in turn, is sick and tired of us. We have the floods, fires, droughts,
heat waves, melting ice caps, and endangered or extinct species to prove
it. "The 11th Hour," the exhaustively depressing documentary
(there's no dressing this up) that brings us this news, has the misfortune
to be yet another global warming warning. [....] More than once, we're
reminded that 99 percent of species that have ever appeared on this
planet in the last few billion years haven't lasted. Extinction is part
of life. So, hey Earth: Things might be looking up for you after all.
We won't be around to torture you much longer. Amen!
For the few of us that remain with our sanity intact, that day can't
come soon enough. (08/24/07)
Global
warming alarms not worth their salt - Marc Sheppard - Two years
ago scientists warned that the North Atlantic Ocean had become much
less salty over the past 50 years due to global warming. This year,
scientists warn that the North Atlantic Ocean has become more salty
over the past 50 years due to -- guess what? (08/24/07)
California Faces
Conundrum Over Global Warming - By Brian Farmer - A recent poll
indicates a majority of Californians claim to believe in global warming,
but that most in the state have no inclination to do anything about
it. (08/24/07)
IS
GLOBAL WARMING SERIOUS ENOUGH TO LIFT CALIF. BAN ON NUKE PLANTS?
- What if Californians considered the relative risks and rewards of
nuclear power vs. global warming, increased use of imported fossil fuels
and massive electricity rate hikes, and decided in favor of nuclear
power? The California Energy Independence and Zero Carbon Dioxide Emission
Electrical Generation Act slated for the June 2008 ballot will give
Californians that choice, says Chuck DeVore, a California state assemblyman
representing Orange County. The proposed initiative overturns California's
nuclear ban, enacts seismic and environmental restrictions that place
about 40 percent of the state off limits to nuclear power, and approves
on-site dry-cask storage of spent fuel as an acceptable storage method
for 100 years, says Devore. (08/24/07)
Environment
Canada's Climate Change Fiasco - Global Warming rivals Sponsorship Scandal
- By Dr. Tim Ball, Natural Resources Stewardship Project - Many years
ago, I warned Henry Hengeveld of Environment Canada (EC) that, if he
thought it was difficult to convince ministers and MPs that global warming
was due to human carbon dioxide (CO2) production, it would be twice
as difficult to change their minds once they were convinced. The theory
was, and still is, unproven of course, but by adopting it so completely
so early on, Hengeveld would find himself on a treadmill virtually impossible
to get off. After all, it would be very dangerous for a bureaucrat to
go back to those same politicians with the message that their political
positions were wrong because they were based on wrong information. (08/24/07)
Dennis Miller
Explains Why He Stopped Caring About Global Warming - Comedian Dennis
Miller used to be fairly liberal. However, in a recent interview with
Bill O'Reilly, he reveals that he's actually a pragmatist who has been
slammed for speaking his mind. Whatever your opinion of him, he did
explain his position on Global Warming. Here's a snippet from
the interview: (08/24/07)
Environmentalism:
Religion for the Godless - By Matthew Sheffield - In a time when
modern science and scholarship have begun to cast doubts on traditional
faith, many on the left, right, and center are increasingly abandoning
traditional religion. While most such people on the center-right are
content simply not to believe, many on the left continue to cling to
the salvationist ethos. In the past, that impulse was satiated with
communistic reveries. If religion was the opiate of the masses, socialism
was the heroin of the secular leftist. That no longer seems, at least
outwardly, to be the case. With a worldwide record of abject failure,
socialism lost its claim to the miraculous. Despite this, the left's
desire for cosmic justice remained unfilled; it was only a matter of
time before something stepped into the teleological breach. (08/24/07)
Oh no, not again!
Brown
mulls run for governor in 2010 - Attorney general says state's biggest
problem is global warming. - By Andy Furillo - Riding high on a
global warming action plan he wants to take statewide, California Attorney
General Jerry Brown said Wednesday he's thinking about running for governor
when the job opens up again in 2010. "The thought has certainly
crossed my mind, but I haven't really come to any conclusion,"
Brown said over coffee in a meeting with The Bee's Capitol Bureau staff.
GOD HELP US! (08/23/07)
Scary, but out here in Moonbeam's
wild wild west, anything is possible!
Today's
editorial: "All-time prescription for ultimate power" - If
government takes jurisdiction over vital atmospheric gases, what couldn't
it control? - An Orange County Register Editorial - The monumental
cost of California's highly touted Global Warming Solutions Act (Assembly
Bill 32) is coming into focus. Attorney General Jerry Brown and the
county of San Bernardino on Tuesday settled his lawsuit to force compliance
with AB32's regulations, which won't even exist for several more years.
County officials estimate paperwork costs to be more than $500,000.
Not to worry. Mr. Brown promised to help the county recoup that from
your taxes. The county agreed to inventory all "sources of greenhouse
gases in the county" existing today, that existed in 1990 and that
would exist in 2020 if no mitigation measures were taken. County officials
also agreed to adopt "feasible mitigations" by amending their
general plan to reduce greenhouse gases to 80 percent of 1990's level
by 2050... (08/23/07)
Story
Time with E: Global Warming - Just Another Tedious Religion - The
cover story of last week's Newsweek patriotically exposed the global
warming "denial machine," effectively branding global warming
doubters as heretics. This is the kind of thing that happens when lefties
find religion - they become as intolerably smug as right-wingers. (08/23/07)
FOX
Avoids Global Warming During Hurricane Season - Hurricane coverage
is serious business at FOX News but don't expect them to bring global
warming or climate change into their coverage.
That's because there is absolutely NO EVIDENCE to link hurricanes
to global warming. After Rupert Murdoch's recent expression
of environmental concern, one might expect this hurricane season to
be different. However, last night,8/21/08, Joe Bastardi once again appeared
on FOX News to talk about "hurricane cycles" just like he
did in 2006 and 2005. Maybe Bastardi never got Murdoch's memo. Then
again, maybe he did. Or maybe it's
because Bastardi is a professional, not a political hack like the weather
babe, "Dr." Heidi Cullen. (08/23/07)
A
Carbon Tax Would Be Cleaner - By NICOLE GELINAS - Though skeptics
may still grumble that the science isn't settled, some 84% of Americans
think humans are contributing to climate change, with 78% (and 60% of
Republicans) saying we should do something about it "right away,"
according to a recent poll. The political answer to all this anxiety
has arrived. Prominent politicians -- including first-tier Democratic
and Republican candidates -- are embracing a national "cap and
trade" program to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. Powerful corporate
leaders are right behind them; and even the Bush administration, led
by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, is reportedly considering the costs
and benefits of various cap and trade proposals after years of opposition.
The mechanics of such regulation are complex, but one result is certain:
It will exact a toll on our economy. (08/23/07)
This
just in!!! Breaking!!! Global Warming is caused by gassy moose!
- By Shea Gunther - I knew it! Global Warming is caused by burping and
farting Moose (Meese? Mooses? Meeses?). Let's get rid of 'em so we can
get back to driving our cars around. The poor old Scandinavian moose
is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming
that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of methane a year - equivalent
to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey. Now
poor moose are being blamed for global warming. Norway is concerned
that its national animal, the moose, is harming the climate by emitting
an estimated 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year through its belching
and farting. Norwegian newspapers, citing research from Norway's technical
university, said a motorist would have to drive 13,000 kilometers in
a car to emit as much CO2 as a moose does in a year. (08/22/07)
Is that Kumbaya I hear?
Global warming could be a friend - By McAvoy Layne - The Lake Tahoe
Forum of 2007 proved that concern for our environment can transcend
political divides. This leads me to suspect that global warming might
eventually align antagonistic nations and religions against a common
threat to our mutual survival. Could it be, after all, that global warming
might actually save us? Let's look at some of the possibilities... (08/22/07)
The
global warming crisis ... really? - By Craig Kincannon - So, the
science is settled. The scientific community has reached a consensus;
global warming is real and it is the result of our visit here on the
great ship mother earth. Only one problem I see with that: "Consensus"
has no place in science. And unless my Webster's New World dictionary
is wrong, consensus is simply "an opinion held by many or most."
While the opinion held by many is certainly a factual statement when
discussing the issue, once you've gotten past the hypothesis stage and
actually run tests, verifiable, repeatable tests, there is no longer
room for your opinion. The results should speak for themselves. (08/22/07)
Caution
urged on global warming - Legislators hear scientists say there
are causes beside humans. - By Brandon Larrabee, The Times-Union - ATLANTA
- Georgia lawmakers shouldn't overreact to the scientific consensus
that the world is getting warmer and humans are at least partly to blame,
a handful of scientists told a legislative panel Tuesday. The scientists,
some of whom cast doubt on the idea that the warming is mainly caused
by humans, appeared at a special hearing of the House Energy, Utilities
& Telecommunication called "Global Warming: Fact or Fiction?"
Rep. Jeff Lewis, R-White, said he called the meeting because of a recent
presentation at a national legislative conference that promoted the
idea of global warming and taking the steps needed to prevent it. "We
need to hear both sides," Lewis said [...]"No one here is
going to say CO2 has zero effect," said John Christy, director
of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
"It is going to have an effect on climate change in some way."
But he said the carbon dioxide-induced warming paled in comparison to
some natural causes. "Water vapor and clouds are the big story
here," he said. (08/22/07)
Man-Made
Global Warming Links Challenged - Many media outlets such as the
recent Newsweek magazine cover story, portray man-made global warming
as fact and those who deny it as conspirators. But skeptics are increasingly
certain that the scare is vastly overblown. A new study by Brookhaven
National Lab scientist Stephen Schwartz contends that the Earth's climate
is only about one-third as sensitive to carbon dioxide as the United
Nations' recent climate study claims. Schwarz's work will be published
in The Journal of Geophysical Research. The study is just one of several
peer-reviewed scientific studies challenging global warming alarmism.
The Belgian Weather Institute concludes that carbon dioxide does not
have a decisive role in global warming. A study by two Chinese scientists
says CO2's role in warming is "vastly exaggerated." (08/22/07)
Lawmakers
air out global warming - By Dave Williams - ATLANTA -- The threat
posed by global warming is being exaggerated by "alarmists,"
several scientists who have been criticized as "deniers" told
a Georgia House committee Tuesday. But even if the worst fears associated
with rising temperatures come to pass, there's little the current generation
of technology could do that would be worth the economic costs, a panel
of scientists associated with universities and think tanks testified
during a special hearing of the Energy, Utilities & Telecommunications
Committee. "This is not going to be something to cause major harm
to humankind," said Joel Schwartz, senior fellow and scientist
with the American Enterprise Institute. "But even if it was, the
cure would be worse than the disease." (08/21/07)
Coldest
August Day in NYC in Almost a Century - By Noel Sheppard - All you
global warming skeptics, deniers, and court jesters better stow your
potables, combustibles, and sharp objects safely from proximity of electronic
equipment, because it was absolutely a frigid August day in the Big
Apple Tuesday. HOW COLD WAS IT? Well, as reported by WCBSTV.com, this
is the coldest August day in New York City in almost a century. (08/21/07)
Excellent read
Silencing
global warming skeptics - Walter Williams - A minority view - ...Suppression
of ideas is far more dangerous to our civilization than manmade global
warming - real or imagined. Given the horrible history of brutal attempts
to silence people who have different ideas or dissent from the conventional
wisdom, those of us in the academic and scientific communities ought
to openly repudiate and condemn the efforts to silence global warming
skeptics. This is particularly so in light of the mounting evidence
that manmade CO2 emissions have little or nothing to do with climate
change. (08/21/07)
Calling
out the global warming alarmists - Christopher Alleva - Dr. Bob
Carter, a research professor at James Cook University (Queensland, Australia),
and Tom Harris, Executive Director of Canada's Natural Resources Stewardship
Project, have laid it on the line about global warming alarmists in
an article that appeared in the Canadian Free Press. Carter studies
ancient environments and climate. The Natural Resources Stewardship
Project has undertaken a project they call Understanding Climate Change.
Their article explored the shortcomings of the science that is so shaky
a school girl (albeit a rather precocious one) like Kristen Byrnes,
armed with a rudimentary knowledge of science and a small dose of courage,
can challenge the myriad investigators funded by federal and UN billions.
(08/21/07)
Skip
the global warming hype and live a cleaner life - The Earth is warming!
So what? The Earth only does one of two things -- warms or cools. Think!
It's never static. In the early 1300s, France imposed one of the first
tariffs. It was against cheap and popular English wine, which was costing
the French vineyards business. The point is England has been too cold
to grow any amount of wine for the past 500 years. Was Greenland named
that because Norse explorers were witty? No, it was a green land a thousand
years ago. They built settlements and then in later years were frozen
out because of global cooling. Were these and the other recorded swings
in global temperature caused by changes in the ratio of "Green"
Democrats to dirty Republicans or could it be some greater mechanism?
(08/21/07)
Moonbeam Update; A Double!
Brown
criticizes refinery plans - Contra Costa officials voice intent
to comply with emissions law - By Lisa Vorderbrueggen, STAFF WRITER
- California Attorney General Jerry Brown, who sued San Bernardino
County for failing to factor in greenhouse gas emissions in its
general plan, is turning his attention to Contra Costa County
and its two refinery expansion proposals. Brown has submitted
critical comments to Richmond planners as part of the city's environmental
analysis of a Chevron project and appealed the county Planning
Commission's approval of a ConocoPhillips Rodeo refinery upgrade
on the grounds that it has failed to mitigate the impacts on global
warming. The attorney general personally called all five members
of the county's Board of Supervisors, who will vote on the appeal,
and met in San Francisco last week with supervisors Gayle Uilkema
and John Gioia, who sit on the Bay Area Air Quality Management
District. The enigmatic Brown, who could not be reached for comment,
has also scheduled a meeting this week in Contra Costa County
with local union leaders whose members work in the refineries.
(08/21/07)
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Emissions
pact near in San Bernardino County -
Board of supervisors meets today to vote on settling the state's
emissions-related lawsuit, which was a factor in budget stalemate.
- By Margot Roosevelt - San Bernardino County is expected today
to approve a "unique and very powerful plan to combat global
warming," state Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown said Monday. The county
Board of Supervisors will meet in closed session to vote on the
settlement of a lawsuit that Brown filed in April to force the
county to account for greenhouse gas emissions in its 10-year
growth plan. San Bernardino County, the largest county by acreage
in the lower 48 states, has been growing at breakneck speed in
a sprawl pattern that has drawn sharp criticism from environmental
planners. More than 500,000 new residents are expected to move
into the county by 2030, bringing its population to 2.5 million.
Although the outcome of the lawsuit is not final until today,
Brown said he had met with the county board chairman, vice chairman
and general counsel and that "they took it very seriously.
There were proposals back and forth. What we have now is the product
of genuine cooperation." (08/21/07)
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Over at Arianna's place, Mooney
wonders how we can tie Hurricane Dean to global warming without actually
tieing Hurricane Dean to global warming. Make sense?
What
We Can and Can't Say About Global Warming and Hurricane Dean - By
Chris Mooney - Now we see why the ancient Mayans built their cities
inland from the coasts. Early this morning, Hurricane Dean slammed the
Yucatan as a still-intensifying Category 5 storm with sustained winds
upwards of 165 miles per hour. Dean required some troubling readjustments
of our hurricane records, and as a result, we may hear some serious
chatter today about the relationship between these intense storms and
global warming. For that reason, the purpose of this post is to lay
out what we can and can't reliably say about Hurricane Dean. The upshot
is this: We have to be careful what we claim and how we claim it, but
even so, Dean fits into a worrisome pattern. (08/21/07) But
here is the extended version for The Daily Green by Chris Mooney, "The
Storm Pundit"
Hurricane
Dean: 1 Of 10 Most Intense Atlantic Hurricanes Ever Measured - ...Dean
was officially the most powerful hurricane that we've seen globally
so far in 2007, and was by far the strongest at landfall. It was also
the first Category 5 Atlantic hurricane seen in the since the record-setting
Hurricane Wilma of October 2005. In fact, Dean set some records of its
own. Its pressure was the ninth lowest ever measured in the Atlantic,
and the third lowest at landfall. Indeed, there hasn't been a full Category
5 landfall in our part of the world since 1992's Hurricane Andrew. Dean
was in all respects a terrifying storm, and we can only hope that the
damage will somehow be less than expected as it tears across the peninsula
and then, after crossing the Bay of Campeche, moves on to a presumed
second Mexican landfall. (08/21/07)
Buddhadeb
blames US for global warming - KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Monday accused the US of being "largely
responsible for global warming". His comments come at a time when
the CPIM leadership has locked horns with the Congress-led UPA government
over the controversial Indo-US nuke deal. (08/21/07)
Another junk article by greenie
John Sibley suggests skeptics be ignored by using the "Exxon-Mobil"
tag.
Global
warming: Don't take skeptics at face value - By JOHN SIBLEY - ...It
will be important to the success of the public conversation for the
committee to be sure that the overwhelming weight of scientific analysis
- as typified by the IPCC reports - is fully and fairly presented. The
well-organized deniers certainly have a point of view to add, but they
should be recognized for whom they are and not treated as if they represent
the mainstream. It appears that this first hearing is heavily overweighted
in their favor. (08/21/07)
Heathrow
protesters ignore evidence against global warming - Sir - Last week
rain fell not only on the rag-bag of climate-change activists camped
outside Heathrow, it also poured on the whole global-warming parade.
First, new research indicates that our climate may be only one third
as sensitive to C02 as has been assumed. Secondly, corrected temperature
figures for America from Nasa indicate that the hottest year in the
20th century was 1934, not in the 1990s. Thirdly, recent satellite figures
from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration demonstrate
no mean global warming since 1998. Indeed, the curve has flattened to
below 1998 levels. And finally, our British weather continues to contradict
all predictions. When will our politicians, especially David Cameron,
recognise that carbon claptrap, not global warming, is the danger for
our economic future? ~Philip Stott, Emeritus Professor
of Biogeography in the University of London, Gravesend, Kent~
(08/21/07)
Propaganda
as Journalism - By Michael J. Economides - One of the vilest, most
venomous pieces of writing masquerading as journalism was the Newsweek
cover story on August 13, 2007. (08/20/07)
Sizzling
study concludes: Global warming 'hot air' - A major new scientific
study concludes the impact of carbon dioxide emissions on worldwide
temperatures is largely irrelevant, prompting one veteran meteorologist
to quip, "You can go outside and spit and have the same effect
as doubling carbon dioxide." That comment comes from Reid Bryson,
founding chairman of the Department of Meteorology at the University
of Wisconsin, who said the temperature of the earth is increasing, but
that it's got nothing to do with what man is doing. (08/20/07)
Answers
or hot air on global warming? - Debate in Congress over government
regulations on carbon dioxide emissions is starting to heat up. Sam
Eaton reports on the differing views on a carbon tax and "cap and
trade." (08/20/07)
"Today"
Profiles Global Warming Alarmist - By Geoffrey Dickens - On Monday's
"Today" show, NBC's Bob Dotson profiled Will Steger, a polar
explorer who is indoctrinating America's youth about "collapsing"
ice shelves and global warming. Dotson never doubted the explorer's
theories, instead he chose to portray Steger's work as nothing short
of much needed charity work: (08/20/07)
New
Study Recommends Against Burning Biofuels to Solve Global Warming
- By Noel Sheppard - A new study published in the journal Science last
Friday concluded that the continued burning of oil-related energy products
combined with the planting of additional forests is better for the environment
than the manufacture and use of biofuels such as ethanol. In fact, the
authors suggested that governments across the globe move away from biofuels
as a global warming solution completely, and instead focus moneys and
energies on reforestation and increasing the efficiencies involved with
the burning of fossil fuels. (08/20/07)
Bush
Administration claims: flooding in England not global warming; merely
glaciers attempting to illegally immigrate - London, England - Bush
administration officials finally released a comment regarding the massive
flooding in central England this summer, blaming it not on the increasing
signs all pointing to global warming but glaciers attempting to illegally
immigrate into England. They are even suggesting that England should
adopt a policy toward illegal immigration similar to its humane one
as well to prevent further illegal crossings of undocumented glaciers.
(08/20/07)
Excellent letter!
Global
warming activists biased - Your report (Aug. 14) that carbon dioxide
is the major cause of global warming leaves many scientists cold. The
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says there's more water
vapor than any other greenhouse gas. Wikipedia says 66-85 percent of
the greenhouse effect is from water vapor and clouds and that natural
and man-made carbon dioxide causes only 9-26 percent. I wonder how an
atmospheric physicist would understand these out-of-context claims.
Non-scientists, e.g., Al Gore, John Bullard, and Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change bureaucrats, don't understand them. The current Newsweek
reports $3 billion in industry financing for global warming "skeptics"
but doesn't discuss the $50 billion in government and environmentalist
financing of global warming believers. Scientist Steven Schneider, in
"Global Warming," says scientists must "decide what the
right balance is between being (politically) effective and being honest."
Many teachers require children, without years of rigorous scientific
training, to memorize, without understanding, very abstract, pro-global
warming, scientific conclusions, and also to be politically active.
Leading pro-global warming scientist James Hansen says environmentalism,
politics and religion have been used by both sides to interpret science.
(08/20/07)
Global
Warming Bureaucrat Hansen Lashes Out at Critics - By Christopher
Alleva - Ward Churchill could tell NASA's James Hansen what it is like
when your work goes under a microscope. Churchill ended up losing his
job over the academic misconduct that was uncovered. The intemperate
response Hansen has displayed toward his critics begs for an explanation..
Will the global warming game be over if the scrutiny goes too deep?
(08/20/07)
Warming
Will Exacerbate Global Water Conflicts - By Doug Struck - Washington
Post Staff Writer - "Global warming will intensify drought,"
he says. "And it will intensify floods." But
really, why stop there? Fires will be hotter, water will be wetter,
dirt will be dirtier...Just a reminder: Our friend John Brignell over
at Number
Watch has a laundry list
of the "perils" caused by global warming. It's called the
Warmlist.
It's well worth regular visits. (08/20/07)
Legal
mechanism required to counter global warming: Teri director - Tata
Energy Research Institute (TERI) Director General R K Pachauri today
called upon the law-makers to create a legal mechanism to fight challenges
of climate change and global warming. Delivering the convocation address
at the 15th Annual Convocation of the National Law School of India here,
he stressed the need to address the problem of climate change on an
equitable and ethically fair basis. Who
decides what's equitable and ethical in India? Lawyers do, just like
here. "Though the people and the political class are
clamouring for a solution to the menace of global warming and impending
climate change, there is no legal mechanism by which a global agreement,
such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC)
can be given adequate teeth for compliance or a system to penalise those
flouting such agreements," Dr Pachauri noted. He said it was time
for the legal profession to turns its attention to protect the lives
of those affected by the impact of climate change. (08/20/07)
Global
Warming: the first genocide of the 21st century - How about Global
Warming being the cause behind our planet's violence season? - No one
wants to accept responsibility for the first genocide of the 21st century:
the tragedy that is occurring in Darfur, in Sudan. The Sudanese government
won't accept responsibility for the crisis occurring within its borders,
while the United Nations won't accept blame for the role they've played
in allowing hundreds of thousands to die. Now it seems a new culprit
has entered the debate on the true source of the conflict, and the blame
is now being shifted to...global warming. (08/20/07)
Global
warming, Iran and more - The Northern Hemisphere maybe warming slightly
(unless you take the urban heat islands, Russia's and China's effort
to change the climate, the clear cutting in Africa and India, etc.."
But the Southern Hemisphere has been cooling slightly (the propagandist
from the Socialist Church of Holy Global warming may disagree, but the
facts are facts- yes most of the antarctic has cooling since humans
arrived in 1957 (unlike ice-cores which may be off many degrees . What
does that mean, I don't know, but global means the Southern and Northern
Hemisphere. (08/20/07)
But I just want a cup of black coffee...
Cafe
aims to cool global warming - By Dave Moller - Talking about global
warming is one thing, but the patrons of the Climate Change Cafe Sunday
at the Nevada City City Hall were geared to do something about it. (08/20/07)
NASA's
Hansen Quotes Thomas Jefferson to Incite Global Warming Hysteria
- By Noel Sheppard - Well, it only took a week for NASA's James Hansen
to formally address the changes
made to the United States historical climate record by the agency
he oversees. When he finally got around to it, Hansen actually quoted
from a letter Thomas Jefferson sent to James Madison in 1789 to suggest
that the Founding Father would have been a global warming alarmist,
while castigating today's skeptics as court jesters employed by oil
companies. Oddly, Hansen's statement didn't appear at the Goddard Instititute
For Space Studies website, but instead cropped up unceremoniously at
Slashdot
Friday morning. (08/19/07)
Hot
tempers and global warming - FRANK MIELE - It used to be said that
there were two things you should not talk about at the dinner table
- religion and politics - in order to avoid unpleasant disagreements.
To that we may now add global warming, a topic which certainly leads
to hotter tempers if not always rising temperatures. Last week, I wrote
about Newsweek's recent cover story about global warming, and noted
that it was more of an effort to belittle and besmirch critics of global
warming dogma than a serious news story. Well, to be accurate, it was
not even an unserious news story; it was commentary without an appropriate
label. (08/19/07)
Today's
Know-Nothings - The "false consensus effect" is a scientific
term explaining the behavior of people who believe that the collective
opinion of their own group matches that of the larger population. Psychologists
believe the condition arises from a subconscious bias in which an individual's
preferences affect his beliefs in an optimistic direction, one favoring
his own payoff. In public life, few politicians are immune to occasional
bouts of this normally innocuous phenomenon. In the hands of the political
left, however, the "false consensus effect" has been developed
into something much more pernicious: a public-relations tool used to
bludgeon skeptics and sway a largely uninformed public. (08/19/07)
Global
warming as a con - I'm not part of a conspiracy. The oil companies
are not writing me checks. I'm just an American speaking my mind. And
I think man-made global warming is a crock. Worse, I think it's a fraud
perpetrated on the developed world by an anarchist cult that wraps itself
in liberalism and environmentalism. But global warming isn't about the
environment, it is about a new slavery. This is a slavery that seeks
to take away the economic freedom and prosperity of men and nations.
(08/19/07)
Anxiety
over global warming is unfounded - There you go again, editorial
writers ["Warming warning," Aug. 15], demanding we do much
more to curb global warming. The editorial adds national parks to a
long list of asserted victims if warming continues. Won't you ever acknowledge
that cooling has exacted a much greater toll on human lives than warming?
Besides, whatever we do about warming might well be totally ineffectual,
because the Earth has been going through hot-cold cycles for thousands
of years. (08/19/07)
Global
Warming Litigation Coming? - A little birdie recently chirped about
some usual-suspect state attorneys general preparing a litigation strategy
document for/with environmental pressure groups, providing a roadmap
for cooperatively replicating the tobacco litigation of a decade ago
in the "global warming" context, substituting that projected
catastrophe for cancer and "big energy" for tobacco companies.
(08/19/07)
Scientific
secrecy is a danger to all - By Boston Herald editorial staff -
The latest wrinkle in the global-warming controversy finds the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration quietly correcting its historical
data to compensate for an earlier error, a correction that should deflate
some of the recent panic-mongering about an apparently warming Earth.
The correction reduced the average temperatures for 2000-2006 in the
continental United States by about 0.27 degrees Fahrenheit (with many
stations showing lower readings and many showing readings much above
average). That dethroned 1998 as the hottest year on record, a distinction
in the NASA data set that now belongs to 1934 (by an insignificant margin
over 1998). Several other recent hot years were moved down in the rankings,
and the 1930s now account for four of the top 10. The number changes
don't greatly affect worldwide averages - but they reveal a disturbing
arrogance among scientists in the community of global-warming true believers.
(08/19/07)
Warming
debate: Scene 1, take 2 - By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist - IF THERE'S
anything climate-change crusaders are adamant about, it is that the
science of the matter is settled. That greenhouse gases emitted through
human activity are causing the planet to warm dangerously, they say,
is an established fact; only a charlatan would claim otherwise. In the
worlds of Al Gore, America's leading global warming apostle: "There's
no more debate. We face a planetary emergency.... There is no more scientific
debate among serious people who've looked at the evidence." But
as with other claims Gore has made over the years ("I took the
initiative in creating the Internet"), this one doesn't mesh with
reality. (08/19/07)
California's
Global Warming Watchdog Owns Oil, Coal and Utility Stocks - By Noel
Sheppard - Here's a headline you'd never expect to see: Global Warming
Watchdog Invests in Oil, Coal, Utilities. Think I'm kidding? Well, check
the link.
(08/18/07)
Kyoto
Goes Dodo As APEC Says No-no to Carbon Emissions Targets - By Noel
Sheppard - Some extraordinary statements concerning global warming have
been made in the past couple of days by a key member of the Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation forum that could signal the end of the Kyoto Protocol
as we know it. Of course, you likely didn't hear about this, for even
though America is part of APEC, our media seemed thoroughly disinterested.
(08/18/07)
Greenpeace
News: 600 strip naked on glacier in global warming protest
- Chilling message from wear-nothing activists to do-nothing politicians
- or, Idiotic stunt by no-nothing
nudes to polititions who couldn't and shouldn't care less.
- Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland -- An emergency provokes extreme
responses: human beings in danger will abandon social niceties,
etiquette, and the norms of acceptable behaviour to raise an alarm
any way they can when lives are in danger. Today, six hundred
people shed their clothes on a glacier in the Swiss Alps to bodily
cry out for help against a planetary emergency: global warming.
(08/18/07)
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Pie
in the sky - By Lindy McDowell - Things I can't stand about eco-warriors.
The face paint. The fairy wings. The clown outfits. But, above all,
the pompous, obnoxious, holier-than-thou attitude. Not that this is
unique, of course, to the eco-protesters. Whether they're trying to
save the planet, save animals or save our souls, there's a breed of
people out there who a) think they know better than the rest of us and
b) have taken it upon themselves to shove their views down everyone
else's throats - whatever it takes. The eco-warriors, as they like to
call themselves, aren't a whole lot different from those annoying wee
men you used to see on street corners preaching fire and brimstone and
wearing sandwich boards warning that the wages of sin was death. Except
that today we're promised the wages of air pollution is global annihilation.
Which is much the same thing as the sandwich board promised only super-sized.
(08/18/07)
Global-warming
report mailed to Utahns - But U. scientist, Sierra Club dispute
its findings - Of course they do!
The Sutherland Institute, a conservative think tank based in Salt Lake
City, is mailing a global-warming report to 10,000 Utahns that contends
scientists disagree about the phenomenon. But a University of Utah scientist
and the Sierra Club say the information in the pamphlet is outdated,
and the world's scientists and governments agree that humans burning
fossil fuel is causing global warming. (08/18/07)
Sarah
Silverman's Plan on Global Warming (from Jimmy Kimmel Live)
Source - http://sarahsilvermanonline.com/globalwarming.html
Hilarious!
Global
Warming Protesters 'As Thick As Pig-Shit' - BRIGHTON (Defecated
News) - a large group of climate change protesters embarrassed themselves
beyond measure today. So much so, that some of their own people had
to ask them to leave. (08/17/07)
Tobacco
road By - Chris Horner - A little birdie recently chirped about
some usual-suspect state attorneys general preparing a litigation strategy
document for/with environmental pressure groups, providing a roadmap
for cooperatively replicating the tobacco litigation of a decade ago
in the "global warming" context, substituting that projected
catastrophe for cancer and "big energy" for tobacco companies.
(08/17/07)
Global
Climate Models Fail Yet Another Reality Check - By Marc Sheppard
- Once again, computer-driven climate simulations have fallen short
when measured against real-world scientific observations. That's right
-- the very same climate models that warming "experts" the
likes of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and
NASA's GISS base their catastrophic projections on have proven utterly
unreliable once more. In a piece
entitled Trouble in Climate-Model Paradise, Sherwood, Keith and Craig
Idso over at CO2 Science tell the fascinating story of a recent attempt
to harmonize the model / reality relationship that, instead, yielded
"embarrassing results" for the researchers[...]
The Doctors Idso agreed, adding: "And until these 'enormous
impact questions' are settled, we wonder how anyone could conceivably
think of acting upon the global energy policy prescriptions of the likes
of Al Gore and James Hansen, who speak and write as if there was little
more to do in the realm of climate-change prediction than a bit of fine-tuning."
(08/17/07)
Climate
change moral failings are cowardice and ignorance, not inaction
- By Professor Bob Carter & Tom Harris, Natural Resources Stewardship
Project - Virtually overnight, Portland (Oregon) High School student
Kristen Byrnes has become a climate change sensation and a role model
for freethinking young people everywhere. As an extra credit project
for an earth science course, she created "Ponder
the Maunder", an attractive website designed to demonstrate
"that the Earth's warming climate is a result of natural variance
and that man-made changes in the warming climate in the last 40 years
are negligible at best." After being highlighted in a number of
articles in two local newspapers and on several prominent Web sites,
"Ponder the Maunder" attracted over 500,000 hits in May. (08/17/07)
Global
Warming Update - How many of you people have seen Algore's movie?
We talked about this, by the way, before the movie came out. This mysterious
current, the Gulf Stream and other related currents in the Atlantic,
and they cycle warm water up north, and they keep Britain moderately
temperate. The climate is moderate. It doesn't get too cold, doesn't
get too hot, and if this current ever stopped, why, it could wreak havoc
on Britain. Of course, in the Gore movie, this current is stopping,
and it's slowing down, and it may be disappearing, and this is because
of global warming. But we have new information, ladies and gentlemen...
(08/17/07)
Can
Energy Saving Software Reverse Global Warming? -
Software Initiative Seeks Government, Corporate, Media and Non-Profit
Support To Help Reverse Global Warming - Today, South Beach Software
is please to announce the launch of the Save Our Planet Software Initiative.
Save Our Planet is a software initiative to get 100 million people worldwide
to conserve energy on a daily basis using the Save Our Planet software.
We believe that 100 million people conserving energy on a daily basis
will be a major influence on the other 6 billion people on this earth.
This action should move the trend from people generally ignoring the
global warming problem, to a broad cross-section of people taking action
to conserve energy. So what is Save Our Planet? Save Our Planet is a
software program that provides tools and strategies to help consumers
conserve energy at home and work on a daily basis. The software lets
consumers monitor their daily energy conservation activities through
a daily home, work, transportation, recycling and shopping checklist.
Save Our Planet also lets users perform their own energy audits, create
a monthly energy conservation budget and monitor and track their efforts
to reduce their energy related expenses. In addition, the software provides
energy saving ideas and encourages users to brainstorm new energy saving
ideas on a daily basis. (08/17/07)
Nuclear
reactor shut down...because of global warming? - By Kevin Spiess
- Global warming becoming a bit of a bother - The humid, sub-tropical
climate of Tennessee is even a little hotter than usual this summer:
a scorching heat-wave has struck the south-eastern United States for
the last 10 days. 37 deaths have been attributed to this recent heat
wave; and, it seems that the latest causality of this heat wave includes
a nuclear reactor. The Tennessee Valley Authority has shutdown the Browns
Ferry reactor due to the rising temperature of the Tennessee River.
The river surpassed the 90 degree mark over the last 24 hours -- a temperature
record that is not great for fish, nor for cooling nuclear reactors.
"It's the hottest in 20 years," said John Moulton, spokesman
of the utility company, in reference to the heat wave. "We don't
believe we've ever shut down a nuclear unit because of river temperature,"
he went on to say, presumably, while sweating profusely. (08/17/07)
NYT:
Leonardo DiCaprio Trying to Save the World, But No One's Listening
- By Clay Waters - Reliably liberal New York Times movie critic Manohla
Dargis lauded activist-actor Leonardo DiCaprio's "The 11th Hour,"
the latest documentary of environmental apocalypse. "To judge from
all the gas-guzzlers still fouling the air and the plastic bottles clogging
the dumps, it appears that the news that we are killing ourselves and
the world with our greed and garbage hasn't sunk in. That's one reason
'The 11th Hour,' an unnerving, surprisingly affecting documentary about
our environmental calamity, is such essential viewing. It may not change
your life, but it may inspire you to recycle that old slogan-button
your folks pinned on their dashikis back in the day: If you're not part
of the solution, you're part of the problem." (08/17/07)
Science
says the Gulf Stream's not slowing - Tom Spears, CanWest News Service;
Ottawa Citizen - A major study is throwing cold water on the idea that
global warming is already slowing down the Gulf Stream, which supplies
much of western Europe's warmth. (08/17/07)
Maybe they can get Professor Gore
to teach it!
UMUC
one of first colleges to offer global warming concentration - bBy
Kelsey Volkmann, The Examiner - BALTIMORE - Baltimore, Annapolis, Chesapeake
Bay wetlands and other low-lying regions flood. Malaria and yellow fever
abound. Plants and animals die. To train people how to tackle these
problems and others, University of Maryland, University College, has
launched one of the nation's first concentrations in global warming.
(08/17/07)
Global
warming measure divides - By CHRIS ENGLISH, Bucks County Courier
Times - Global warming has one Middletown supervisor hot under the collar,
in more ways than one. Diane Marseglia was so infuriated by the board's
failure at Tuesday night's meeting to adopt a set of goals designed
to reduce global warming, she left the room for two or three minutes
after voicing her displeasure. (08/17/07)
Journalists
should not portray global warming as a morality tale - By Robert
J Samuelson - We in the news business often enlist in moral crusades.
Global warming is among the latest. Unfortunately, self-righteous indignation
can undermine good journalism. A recent Newsweek cover story on global
warming is a sobering reminder. It's an object lesson of how viewing
the world as "good guys vs bad guys" can lead to a vast oversimplification
of a messy story. Global warming has clearly occurred; the hard question
is what to do about it. (08/17/07)
NASA
Flacks for Global Warming and Skirts Scientific Ethics - As pointed
out in these pages, NASA has yet to own up fully to its historic error
in misinterpreting US surface temperatures to conform to the Global
Warming hypothesis, as discovered by Stephen McIntyre at ClimateAudit.org.
This is not the first major error discovered by McIntyre and his coworker,
Canadian economist Ross McKintrick, who previously uncovered the fatally
flawed "hockey stick" climate curve, used to justify Global
Warming alarmism by the 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Here is the official ethics statement on scientific errors and the need
for public correction from the American Physical Society, the national
society of research physics:
"It should be recognized that honest error is an integral part
of the scientific enterprise. It is not unethical to be wrong, provided
that errors are promptly acknowledged and corrected when they are detected."
(08/17/07)
Excellent!
Sunny
Brook Greentree and Global Warming - By Abel Keogh - We're here
today with Sunny Brook Greentree, the all-wise and all-knowing environmental
guru who answers questions about the state of our planet. Today we tackle
the topic of global warming. (08/16/07)
Gotta
love that raindeer meat.
Global Warming is Here - Sure
it is! KANCHALAN, Northeast Russia - It is summer in this
reindeer-herding village in northern Russia and with not an iceberg
in sight, residents are acquiring a taste for bathing in the local river.
"We used to have ice on the river all year round. The warming process
is speeding up," said the worried head of the state-controlled
reindeer company at Kanchalan, Arkady Makhushkin. "The reindeers'
health is suffering. Their meat isn't so tasty," he said, explaining
that the animals had to be herded greater distances to find cooler grazing
grounds in upland areas. As he tries to work out the effects of rising
temperatures on his 32,000 reindeer, questions are being asked about
global warming across northern Russia, from Chukotka region in the east,
where Kanchalan is located, to Murmansk in the west. While there are
fears for wildlife, there is growing optimism about the Arctic maritime
passage that runs across the top of Russia from the Bering Straits to
the north Atlantic. In May, President Vladimir Putin called for greater
attention to this passage, which is known as the Northern Sea Route
and now operates only piecemeal. It could potentially cut thousands
of kilometers off sea travel between Europe and Asia. In an address
on a nuclear ice-breaker in Murmansk, he urged more effort in the area
to secure Russia's "strategic, economic, scientific and defence
interests." In Chukotka, regional governor Roman Abramovich, the
oil tycoon and owner of Britain's Chelsea football club, has given at
least symbolic backing to this goal. He sponsored a successful search
for the steamship Chelyuskin, which sank off Chukotka's coast in 1933
while trying to prove the viability of the Northern Sea Route. In addition,
explorer and parliament member Artur Chilingarov is leading a survey
of the Arctic seabed this summer, with a view to extending Moscow's
territorial claims and developing new energy deposits. Referring to
prospects for the Northern Sea Route, Chilingarov told AFP: "No
one except Russia can do this... We have our own ice-breakers. We had
a system in Soviet times. We need to restore it." A British
yachtsman, Adrian Flanagan, is due shortly to head off from Chukotka
to attempt the first solo sail through the Northern Sea Route. While
one Chukotka port official described this as "kamikaze," Flanagan
too is optimistic. Contacted by AFP he said that the ice looked set
to recede at least as far as in 2005, which was a record year. But while
some see opportunities, others are already counting the costs of climate
change. Good luck! (08/16/07)
Global
Warming Already Cited in Hurricane Dean Story - By P.J. Gladnick
- It has been less than a day since Tropical Storm Dean has developed
into a hurricane and already global warming is being mentioned in a
news story about this weather development. Credit for the first known
citing of global warming in a Hurricane Dean story goes to The Daily
Green. Correspondent Chris Mooney starts out by giving his story, Nothing
But Land to Stop Hurricane Dea...or Supertyphoon Sepat, an authentic
all caps touch with this weather advisory from the National Hurricane
Center... (08/16/07)
Watts
Rattles Global Warming Theologians - By Bill Steigerwald - Big things
happen when you're discovered by the Drudge Report. Ask Anthony Watts.
He's the veteran meteorologist from Chico, Calif., who was featured
in the June 17 edition of this column because of his project to quality-check
the 1,221 official weather stations used to take the country's average
surface temperature. (08/16/07)
Junkscience
in Global Warming Theory? - Let's Count the Ways - By Michael
R. Fox Ph.D. - In spite of what some call a national debate on global
warming, there really hasn't been one. There has been name calling,
personal attacks, calls for defunding the skeptics, calls for Nuremburg
trials, muzzling the critics. This isn't debate, this is not a discussion,
this isn't consensus, and it isn't science. It is bullying and thuggery,
and reminiscent of remedial behavior classes. Significantly, as the
numbers of scientists grow increasingly appalled with the unscientific
bullying and are becoming skeptics themselves, massive re-examination
of the entire global warming effort and the purported evidence is taking
place. For scientists the findings thus far are worse than imagined.
Much of the evidence put forth by the warmers for their theory is either
exaggerated, wrong, or being fudged. (08/16/07)
Kids
urged to take state's global warming challenge - Youths and their
families can take action at home to combat global warming by participating
in the New Jersey Global Warming Summer Challenge. The goal of the challenge
- sponsored by the New Jersey Department of Environmental (DEP) Protection
and Liberty Science Center, in cooperation with the Board of Public
Utilities - is to increase understanding of global warming and to have
people commit to reducing energy use at home, according to a press release
from the DEP's communications office. In
other words, the "goal" is to further the indoctrination of
our children into the global warming alarmist religion. (08/16/07)
Chicago
Mayor Is Scolded for Global Warming Hypocrisy - By James M. Taylor
- Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) was slammed on Capitol Hill June
20 for being all talk and no action regarding greenhouse gas emissions.
Daley told the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global
Warming that the City of Chicago is leading by example on global warming
issues. Daley criticized the federal government for failing to do the
same. (08/16/07)
Global
warming scientists fudge data - By Klaus Rohrich - The Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body pushing for laws that would
limit man-made carbon emissions through a series of ultra-draconian
regulations aimed primarily at developed nations, has a dirty little
secret: its scientists have fudged their data to make the global warming
picture look worse than it actually is. That's what Douglas J. Keenan,
an obvious global warming denier who bothered to check the documentation
used by the IPCC's chief climatologist, Dr. P. D. Jones in the IPCC's
latest report. (08/16/07)
Criminalizing
Global Warming Dissent? - Anthropogenic global warming is a scientific
hypothesis, not an article of religious or ideological dogma. Skepticism
and doubt are entirely appropriate in the realm of science, in which
truth is determined by evidence, experimentation, and observation, not
by consensus or revelation. Yet when it comes to global warming, dissent
is treated as heresy ? as a pernicious belief whose exponents must be
shamed, shunned, or silenced. (08/16/07)
NBC
Nightly News Joins Newsweek in Smearing Global Warming 'Deniers'
- By Brent Baker - Only days after Newsweek was embarrassed when its
own columnist, Robert Samuelson, excoriated the magazine for a "fundamentally
misleading" and "highly contrived" cover story meant
to defame the global warming "denial machine," Wednesday's
NBC Nightly News aired an equally distorted story which smeared "deniers,"
a term no doubt meant to conjure a similarity to dishonorable Holocaust
deniers. Reporter Anne Thompson began her crusading piece with "In
Denial" on screen over video of the Cato Institute's Patrick
Michaels. She fretted about "interest groups fueled by powerful
companies, including oil giant ExxonMobil." Citing the far-left
Union of Concerned Scientists, she highlighted their claim that "ExxonMobil
gave almost $16 million over seven years to denier groups, including
the Competitive Enterprise Institute." But as Marc Morano, of the
minority staff of the Senate's Committee on Environment and Public Works,
disclosed in a posting, "proponents of man-made global warming
have been funded to the tune of $50 BILLION in the last decade or so,"
not even counting the impact of one-sided media reporting, "while
skeptics have received a paltry $19 MILLION." (08/16/07)
Well. it didn't take long...
Is
global warming to blame for all the rain? - Na,
it's really George Bush's fault. With unseasonably wet and
chilly weather causing people to flock to foreign destinations in order
to get a bit of sunshine, this summer has been one of the worst that
many people can remember. Can we blame the rain showers and cold spells
experienced during the summer of 07 on shifting weather patterns or
is this one of the effects of global warming? In the first world we
have been warned for years about the effect our actions are having on
the planet. But so far we have done little to reverse the damage already
done. (08/16/07)
Global
Warming and James Hansen's Hacks - By Michael Fumento - If you follow
the global warming debate, you "know" that nine of the ten
warmest years recorded in the U.S. lower 48 since 1880 have occurred
since 1995, with the very hottest being 1998. But whaddya know! Those
figures are wrong. Data from NASA's Goddard
Institute for Space Studies (GISS) now show the hottest year since
1880 was 1934. Nineteen-ninety-eight dropped to second, while the third
hottest year was way back in 1921. Indeed, four of the 10 hottest years
were in the 1930s, while only three were in the past decade. (08/16/07)
In
global warming, all research is local - Regional or local conditions
can change, even reverse, expectations based solely on world studies.
- By Robert C. Cowen - Ozone is a tricky gas. In the stratosphere, it
shields us from the sun's ultraviolet radiation. But it's an obnoxious
pollutant at ground level. Now research tells us that it also impairs
the ability of plants to absorb the global-warming gas carbon dioxide
(CO2). That dampens the hopeful assumption that plants will take enough
CO2 out of the air to partly offset the emission of that gas from burning
fossil fuels. It also highlights a significant weakness in scientists'
ability to assess global-warming climate change. Various types of air
pollution can change the way planetwide average warming affects local
or regional climates. Thus local circumstances can reduce, or even reverse,
expectations based solely on global studies. The new ozone study, led
by Stephen Sitch with England's Hadley Center for Climate Change, illustrates
this. (08/16/07)
Violins please...
Grower:
Heat wave is proof global warming is here - Drivers whizzing along
the 10200 block of Liberty Road may think the bright orange-and-white
sign in front of George's Greenhouse is just a humorous comment on the
region's recent heat wave and drought. But owner George Peach isn't
kidding with his giant "Global Warming Sale" sign. Peach said
the past months of hot, dry weather haven't only taken a toll on this
summer's crop of flowering plants, shrubs, trees and vegetables. He
said it's an obvious sign that global warming is here - and it's very
serious. "I can't believe people are still denying global warming,"
said Peach, who has been growing and selling all things green for 15
years at the Randallstown location. "The heat is brutal. I've never
seen anything like this." Really?
It's called summer! (08/15/07)
Thomas:
Logic of global warming jihadists: So much hot air - By Cal Thomas
- In every child's life there comes a time when childhood fantasies
are shattered and he or she is forced to accept reality - there is no
Santa Claus or tooth fairy; parents don't always mean it when they promise
to stay married until parted by death. Grown-up scientists, theologians,
historians, archaeologists and others who pursue facts and objective
truths are rooted in reality and constantly adjusting their conclusions,
theories and hypotheses when new information comes to light. Those who
ignore facts and cling to outdated information, or outright falsehoods,
can quickly embrace fanaticism. So it is with ''global warming,'' the
secular religion of our day that even has a good number of adherents
among people of faith. Having decided to focus less on the eternal and
whether anyone dwells there, global warming fundamentalists are pushing
planet worship on us in a manner that would make a jihadist proud. (08/15/07)
From
Hippies to Hedge Fund Operators: The Case of Jeff Skoll - by Harley
Schlanger - The evolution of Jeff Skoll from a tech entrepreneur to
a leading figure in promoting the anti-science global warming hoax pushed
by the racist from Tennessee, Al Gore, provides a textbook case in how
the degeneration associated with the domination of our culture by Baby
Boomers has brought civilization to a moment of a final, existential
reckoning. (08/15/07)
Global
Warming Lawsuits Impacting Climate Change Debate - By Noel Sheppard
- As climate change legislation hopefully gets bogged down in a do-nothing
Congress that continually punts on major issues of the day - keep your
fingers crossed! - America's courts are likely to become the real battleground
where the war over anthropogenic global warming is waged. With this
in mind, all eyes are on a United States district court in Mississippi
where a class
action lawsuit was filed last year against most of America's oil,
coal, and electric power companies claiming that their actions which
exacerbate global warming were responsible for Hurricane Katrina and,
therefore, plaintiffs' physical and monetary damages caused by that
tropical storm. (08/15/07)
NBC
News Declares Global Warming Debate Over - By Jake Gontesky - Following
in the footsteps
of Newsweek Magazine, and CNN's Miles O'Brien's recent claim that
the debate
is over, NBC News further degraded the global warming debate this
evening. In a report on global warming "deniers", Ann Thompson
declared the debate over anthropogenic global warming "over".
In a segment that was spun against skeptics from the start (including
the requisite repeated referral to those who question the human impact
on climate change by using the
derogatory and historically-loaded "deniers" label), Patrick
Michaels was given just a few seconds of air time to point out a primary
tenet of skeptics: while the Earth is indeed likely warming, the human
connection cannot be quantified. But from there, the segment took the
usual left turn, immediately vilifying the "deniers". (08/15/07)
Magazine
Finds 'Eco-Friendly' Woman to Have the Largest Carbon Footprint
- By Paul Detrick - Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who's got the lowest
carbon footprint of them all? The "eco-conscious" one, says
Marie Claire magazine. An "urban hipster," a "mountain
maven" and a "globe-trotter" competed to see who "[was]
earth-friendly and whose carbon footprint [was] to blame for drowning
polar bears and worse" in the September 2007 issue of Marie Claire.
The article, entitled, "Whose Carbon Footprint is the Smallest,"
found that globe-trotter "Josie," who "considers herself
more eco-conscious than most people," had the largest carbon footprint.
(08/15/07)
Magazine:
'We'll See You in Carbon-Emissions Hell' - By Paul Detrick - When
Marie Claire magazine isn't busy making women feel like they are too
old or too fat, they are telling women who drive SUVs they'll be heading
to "carbon emissions hell." The September 2007 issue of Marie
Claire features a sidebar in their "McBulletin" section entitled
"Highway to Heaven." "Consult our quick guide to fuel-efficient
cars, then cruise through the tollbooth at the pearly green gates,"
the tag line explained, nestled between a scale of "good"
and "evil" signs. (08/15/07)
Consumers
Not Buying Gore's '10 Myths' on Environment, But Media Keeps Selling
Them, Anyway - By Craig Bannister - So, a new survey shows that
only 22% of consumers think they can make a difference regarding the
environment - and that they're far more knowledgeable on the subject
than typically thought. You'd think that'd be news, given the way the
mainstream media seems to love proclaiming man's suicidal assault on
Mother Earth. Apparently not, if you trust Lexis or Google News to track
media coverage. So, why haven't the left-wing media's Big Guns been
reporting the story? Perhaps, it's because the findings suggest that
consumers aren't as "green" (in either sense) as they'd like
the public to believe. (08/15/07)
A
Really Inconvenient Truth: Kyoto Protocol Destroying Ozone Layer
- By Noel Sheppard - Here's something the mainstream media are guaranteed
to ignore: "The biggest emissions-cutting projects under the Kyoto
Protocol on global warming have directly contributed to an increase
in the production of gases that destroy the ozone layer, a senior U.N.
official says." Didn't hear about this? Well, how could you, for
although Reuters published its article on the subject Monday, no other
mainstream press outlet thought it was newsworthy. (08/15/07)
Russians
laud global warming - By Alastair Gee | New York Times News Service
- MOSCOW - Global climate change means "we'll spend less on fur
coats," Russian President Vladimir Putin quipped in 2003. But increasingly,
Russia's official stand on global warming seems to be: Why worry? While
global concerns over climate change conjure images of melting ice caps
and submerged cities, some Russian experts are hailing it as the answer
to Russia's prayers. (08/15/07)
Global
warming: Who is to blame? - The
evil United States, of course! ...The world's largest polluter,
America has backed out of pollution treaties to reduce car emissions
or petrol consumption. The United States alone accounted for 36.1 per
cent of worldwide greenhouse emissions in 1990. (08/15/07)
1922
Media Mislead on Global Warming too! - By Jim Wrenn - Evidence showed
global warming melting polar ice-caps with seals becoming extinct in
1922. - John McCaslin brings to light incontrovertible proof of how
easily the "entightened" people in charge of the "mainstream"
media are guiled by "scientific" theories adorned more by
political attractiveness than by the rigors of science. What's the proof?
One of McCaslin's reliable sources unconvered a 1922 Washington Post
article reciting "scientific" evidence then claimed to be
proof that the "melting" of the polar ice-caps was imminent
as well as consequential environmental catastrophes such as the extinction
of seals being imminent. McCaslin's entire article with supporting links
is here, and the "print" link for the article is here. (08/15/07)
Hot
tempers on global warming - By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist - First
of two parts - INTRODUCING Newsweek's Aug. 13 cover story on global
warming "denial," editor Jon Meacham brings up an embarrassing
blast from his magazine's past: an April 1975 story about global cooling,
and the coming ice age that scientists then were predicting. Meacham
concedes that "those who doubt that greenhouse gases are causing
significant climate change have long pointed to the 1975 Newsweek piece
as an example of how wrong journalists and researchers can be."
But rather than acknowledge that the skeptics may have a point, Meacham
dismisses it. "On global cooling," he writes, "there
was never anything even remotely approaching the current scientific
consensus that the world is growing warmer because of the emission of
greenhouse gases." Really? Newsweek took rather a different line
in 1975. Then, the magazine reported that scientists were "almost
unanimous" in believing that the looming Big Chill would mean a
decline in food production, with some warning that "the resulting
famines could be catastrophic." Moreover, it said, "the evidence
in support of these predictions" -- everything from shrinking growing
seasons to increased North American snow cover -- had "begun to
accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep
up with it." (08/15/07)
Global
Warming Simplicities - By Robert J. Samuelson - We in the news business
often enlist in moral crusades. Global warming is among the latest.
Unfortunately, self-righteous indignation can undermine good journalism.
A recent Newsweek
cover story on global warming is a sobering reminder. It's an object
lesson on how viewing the world as "good guys vs. bad guys"
can lead to a vast oversimplification of a messy story. Global warming
has clearly occurred; the hard question is what to do about it. (08/15/07)
NASA's
global warming misinformation needs full retraction - By Christopher
Alleva - The news blackout on the erroneous NASA temperature data has
been partially
lifted by the Toronto Star. More than anything their story was driven
by home pride in a local man, Steve McIntyre, who single-handedly exposed
the vaunted American Space agency's mistakes and errors. Drudge is linking
this story so more pressure is building on the media to lift
the blackout. NASA quietly corrected the data last week. The media
blackout has been going on for the better part of 5 days. Expect the
blackout to continue for sometime to come. Many reporters and editors
are on vacation. Global warming stories written before they left to
take advantage of the heat of August have probably been shelved for
the time being. (08/15/07)
Global
warming 'masked'? - By James Lewis - Hear that trumpet call? It's
New Scientist magazine sounding "Retreat!" on global warming,
like Custer's cavalry when all those screaming Sioux warriors came charging
over the hill. Charge!! Backward! With NASA suddenly erasing that magical
0.15 degrees (C) of temperature jump in 1998, the upward trend of surface
warming, once the staple of Global Warming alarmism, has been totally
erased. Nineteen thirty-four, of Dust Bowl fame, is now the hottest
year on record. NASA is trying to pretend it is just a trivial change.
They are wrong. (08/15/07)
Irrigation
Counteracts Global Warming - By Andrea Thompson, LiveScience Staff
Writer - Irrigation can counteract global warming on a local scale,
a new study shows, but increasing demand for water is likely to curb
that influence in the future, scientists predict. Scientists from the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California showed that there
was an irrigation-induced cooling in agricultural areas, based on observations
of temperature and irrigation
trends throughout California. In highly irrigated regions of the
San Joaquin Valley, daytime temperatures have cooled by 1.8 to 3.2 degrees
Celsius since the introduction of irrigation in 1887, as compared to
low-irrigated areas. (08/15/07)
'Green'
allies see environmental value in logging - By CHRIS McGANN - OLYMPIA
-- Environmentalists and leading Democrats are advancing a new way to
"green up" the state's portfolio by setting aside $70 million
of state money to buy forestland for logging. That may seem odd, but
global warming has been redefining the rules of nature -- and politics,
too. Environmentalists and their political allies say in the long run,
logging is better for the planet than unchecked development. That's
causing timberlands and forestry to be seen in a whole new light. (08/14/07)
Global
warming and empty calories - One of the silver linings of climate
change, some have argued, is that high carbon dioxide levels will mean
increased crop yields, which will, in turn, be good for combating global
hunger (the logic, I suppose, being that if we're frying fifty years
from now, at least we won't be hot and hungry). But some underpublicized
studies, reported this month in Nature, cast a long shadow on this
sunny assertion. (Sorry! It looks like the the article is subscription
only, so I'll be as descriptive as possible.) In the 1980s, Bruce Kimball,
a soil physicist with the USDA in Arizona, began conducting scientific
experiments simulating a high-CO2 environment (using a system called
"free air carbon dioxide enrichment," or FACE). He found that
crop yields were elevated -- plants imbibing large quantities of CO2
had more starch and more sugar in their leaves than those on a normal
carbon diet. But because they also took up less nitrogen from the soil,
they made less protein. What a bunch
of crap! Why must we always do a "study" to find an elaborate
explanation to replace the obvious? It's called soil depletion and it's
nothing new. And if you accelerate growth (yield) within a finite amount
of soil, it stands to reason that the soil has a finite amount of nutrients
available to be absorbed by more plants. Besides, who cares how much
protein a plant makes? When I want protein, I eat meat!
(08/14/07)
Positive
Feedback: Have We Been Fooling Ourselves? - By Roy Spencer - There
are three main points/opinions/issues I'd like to explore, which are
all interrelated:
1. The traditional way in which feedbacks have been diagnosed from observational
data has very likely misled us about the existence of positive feedbacks
in the climate system.
2. Our new analyses of satellite observations of intraseasonal oscillations
suggest negative cloud feedbacks, supporting Lindzen's Infrared Iris
hypothesis.
3. I am increasingly convinced that understanding precipitation systems
is the key to understanding climate sensitivity.
Unfortunately, the three of these represents too much material to present
today. Since the second (Infrared Iris) results were just published
by us in GRL (August 9, 2007), it would seem to be the logical one for
me to discuss before the others. But the first issue is, in some sense,
much more important and fundamental, and will help us put the newly
published results in a more meaningful context. (08/14/07)
Man's
affect on global warming ... small compared to nature's work - Today's
concerns about global warming should be seen in the light of the climate
around 1000 AD. Vikings were farming Greenland. The climate of England
permitted vineyards. But there are no indications that populated lands
were experiencing alarming rising sea levels at that time. (08/14/07)
Proposed
cure for global warming could cause problems - Proposed geoengineering
schemes to reduce global warming may do more harm than good, warns a
new study published in Geophysical Research Letters. (08/14/07)
Global
Warming Said to Cause My Six Month Dry Spell - "I haven't gotten
laid in six months, and Global Warming apparently is to blame,"
say local scientists. "Hey we know that climate affects mating
habits," said local scientist Mo Filby (disclosure: Mr. Filby is
also my cousin). "And what else could possibly explain a dry spell
like that?" (08/14/07)
Twisted
Science: Bullies of the Beltway - By Michael R. Fox Ph.D. - The
complexities of global warming, (renamed as climate change) should be
the domain of scientific discussions. Such discussions should be held
within the constraints of science, the scientific methods, the careful
collection, management, and analyses of the climate data. There should
include careful resolutions and explanations of conflicting data, replication,
and passing the essential demands of explaining the observations of
the climate data. (08/14/07)
Gore's
'truth' not only one: objector - Katie Rook, National Post - A retired
Calgary teacher is sponsoring a downtown billboard that decries the
greenhouse effect as a "huge hoax" after he was criticized
for denying that humans are responsible for global warming. Oswald Czolgosz,
who believes environmental activists such as Al Gore are suppressing
debate about global warming, spent about $3,000 to have a dissenting
perspective publicized last week. "I am just an individual citizen.
I am not a member of any organization, any political party. I just like
to read up on the facts and be informed and I got the feeling that my
sources of information were being stifled," he said. (08/14/07)
Global
warming theories leave dissident MPs cold - By Stephanie Peatling
- A GROUP of Government backbenchers is disputing the science that says
humans are responsible for global warming, likening it to other historic
claims that were later found to be incorrect. The Liberal MPs Dennis
Jensen, Danna Vale and Jackie Kelly and the Country Liberal MP David
Tollner issued a dissenting report yesterday to a Government committee
investigation into the viability of geosequestration - the storage of
carbon dioxide - as a solution to climate change. (08/14/07)
NUIG
DOCTOR SAYS SMOG CAN BLOCK GLOBAL WARMING - A Doctor at NUIGalway
has discovered that the haze of smog which hangs over many cities could
actually help fight the affects of global warming. (08/14/07)
'Cool
farms' mask the extent of global warming - Catherine Brahic - You've
heard of urban heat islands. Now researchers have confirmed the existence
of their opposite: cool farm patches. (08/14/07)
TalkBack:
A new source for ethanol: Coal - Will still cause global warming
- The carbon that is in coal, like the carbon that is in oil, is currently
safely sequestered underground. Using that carbon to make ethanol will
release that carbon into the atmosphere, exacerbating the existing global
warming problem. Using plant-based ethanol production does not contribute
to global warming, because the plants remove carbon dioxide from the
air, convert it into sugars and starches, which are then further converted
to ethanol and burned for fuel, thus completing the carbon cycle. Using
carbon from fossil fuels for this purpose will dump NEW CO2 into the
atmosphere. In short: A BAD IDEA! (08/13/07)
Global
Warming Debate Turns Uglier - There should include careful resolutions
and explanations of conflicting data, replication, and passing the essential
demands of explaining the observations of the climate data. (08/13/07)
Shattered
Consensus: True State of Global Warming
Book Review - By Michael R. Fox Ph.D. - This book - Shattered Consensus:
True State of Global Warming - was edited by Patrick Michaels and Reviewed
by Michael R. Fox Ph.D. The new research findings in climate science
are advancing rapidly. Much of this appears in the scientific literature.
Other science media include some excellent books now being published.
Michaels' book appeared in 2005 and was among the first to simplify
and distill much of the new information. (08/13/07)
Educate
yourself about climate change - By Tom Harris and Ian Clark - Climate
change hysteria has finally hit main street America. Once merely the
rallying cry of environmentalist extremists, calls to "save the
planet from climate catastrophe" has become de rigueur for celebrities,
media commentators and even Fortune 500 CEOs seeking to enhance their
green credentials. That few of them have even the slightest idea what
they are talking about does not make a difference. It's official: "stopping
climate change" is "in". (08/13/07)
Cool
It - Interview with Bjorn Lomborg - By Bill Steigerwald - Cool
It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming by Bjorn
Lomborg (Knopf) -- "Cool It" is not the first book Denmark's
Bjorn Lomborg has written about global warming. Lomborg's heretical
2001 best-seller, "The Skeptical Environmentalist," drew a
firestorm of nasty criticism and unveiled hatred from environmentalists
and the global warming crowd because it said most of the bad effects
of climate change have been grossly exaggerated. Named one of Time magazine's
100 most influential people in 2004, Lomborg -- a statistician by training
-- believes global warming is occurring. But he also believes we should
approach the problem rationally -- which means not wasting all our energy
and resources today on global warming's long-run effects when there
are more-pressing human-killing problems like malaria and malnutrition
we should be addressing. (08/13/07)
Leaked
Document Shows Britain Can't Meet EU's Renewable Energy Targets
- By Noel Sheppard - As Congress debates ways to combat climate change,
a leaked internal briefing to officials in Great Britain (PDF
available here) showed members of that government backtracking on
renewable energy targets set forth by the European Union and agreed
upon by former Prime Minister Tony Blair. (08/13/07)
CBS's
Julie Chen Endorses Leonardo DiCaprio's Alarmist Film - By Justin
McCarthy - Julie Chen followed Barbara Walters' lead in endorsing a
global warming alarmist film, this time on Leonardo DiCaprio's upcoming
documentary, "The 11th Hour." The August 13 edition of "The
Early Show" ran an unchallenged piece on DiCaprio's film, then
this exchange between co-hosts Harry Smith and Julie Chen. (08/13/07)
Seven
Astronauts' Lives Hang in Global Warming Balance - By Mithridate
Ombud - The screaming left is always going on about the lives that will
be lost from the global warming boogeyman, yet I can't find a single
newspaper willing to confront the seven lives that may
be lost on Wednesday because of it. You may
recall how Clinton/Gore EPA regulations forced
NASA to switch to a freon-free foam, one that doesn't stick to the
tanks, one that causes up to 11 times more damage to the life-saving
thermal tiles, all in an effort to make the libs feel better about flying
their personal jets across the globe. Ever since then we've had scare
after tragedy every time a Shuttle launches. (08/13/07)
NASA
Scientist James Hansen Places Foot in Mouth on Global Warming? -
Hansen Compounds Error at GISS - Dr. James Hansen, head of the NASA
Goddard Institute for Space Sciences (GISS), has criticized the Bush
administration in the past for alleged censorship of the scientific
community. With the recent discover in the US temperature averages prepared
by GISS, Dr. Hansen made the corrections and hastily posted an email
to several journalists. (08/13/07)
How
Important Was NASA's Change to Historical Climate Data Last Week?
- By Noel Sheppard - Last week's revelation
by Climate Audit's Steve McIntyre of a serious mistake and subsequent
changes made by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in the temperature
history of America has created quite a debate in the new media. While
conservative bloggers were quick to point out the hypocrisy regarding
the lack of an official announcement from GISS chief James Hansen as
well as the possible significance to the entire global warming debate,
alarmists such as RealClimate
and TNR's
The Plank viewed McIntyre's discovery and GISS's alterations less
than earth shattering. (08/13/07)
Man-Made
Global Warming? Scientists are Starting to Doubt It - By Candace
Talmadge - The crashing sounds reverberating throughout the globe aren't
solely from melting glaciers smashing into warming seas. They're also
the reverberations of scientists all over the world dropping their belief
in the greenhouse gases theory of climate change. (08/13/07)
Putting
Global Warming on Ice - By Bill Steigerwald - Big things happen
when you're discovered by the Drudge Report. Ask Anthony Watts. He's
the veteran meteorologist from Chico, Calif., who was featured in the
June 17 edition of this column because of his project to quality-check
the 1,221 official weather stations used to take the country's average
surface temperature. In the hours after DrudgeReport.com posted The
Pittsburgh Tribune's "scoop" about Watts, his Web
site Watt's Up With That? (norcalblogs.com/watts)
was visited by 20,000 people. Normally it gets 3,000 hits a month. [...]
A responsible scientist, Watts won't draw any conclusions from his research
yet. But one top climate scientist -- NASA's James Hansen, the patron
saint of the apocalyptic global warming movement -- apparently doesn't
think Watts' dogged pursuit of scientific certainty matters much. I
asked Hansen by e-mail last week "How important is the data from
these (1,221 ground) weather stations in your climate modeling?"
"It has no effect on modeling," Hansen replied. "Of course
we compare modeling results with observed temperatures. But the observational
analysis is based mainly on measurements at places remote from human
influence." Really? How can
anyone believe anything Hansen says anymore? (08/13/07)
UK
set to hit aviation with more taxes in global warming fight - By
Aimée Turner - The UK's efforts to gauge whether aviation meets
the true cost of its effect on global warming could lead not only to
a political move to keep the controversial air passenger duty, but could
also lead to further charges and taxes - on top of emissions trading
costs. (08/13/07)
Scientists:
Newsweek Erred in Global Warming Coverage - Newswise -- A recent
Newsweek magazine cover story on global warming contained significant
errors and used outdated scientific material in its representation of
global climate data collected by satellites, according to the scientists
who maintain that dataset at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
(08/13/07)
Moonbeam Update
Today's
editorial: Jerry Brown's crystal ball - The attorney general wants
compliance with regulations before they're written. Hyperbole in Sacramento
is distorting an entirely reasonable argument. Sen. Bob Dutton, R-Rancho
Cucamonga, believes the government shouldn't be allowed to sue to force
compliance with rules that don't yet exist. After all, how can anyone
comply with rules that don't exist? How would anyone know whether he
or she is breaking the law? (08/13/07)
more Moonbeam...
Jerry
Brown's latest battle : GLOBAL WARMING, STATE BUDGET AT CENTER OF FIGHT
- By Steve Geissinger, MediaNews Sacramento Bureau - SACRAMENTO - Jerry
Brown, ever the political lightning rod, is once again in the spotlight,
this time at the center of a strange battle over global warming and
the state's stalled budget. It may seem odd that Brown, who as attorney
general doesn't have any say in the budget deliberations, has become
the Senate Republicans' public enemy No. 1 in the budget showdown. But,
then, this is Jerry Brown. "Brown has a unique talent for turning
every job into an attention magnet," said Jack Pitney, a political
science professor at Claremont McKenna College. "Decades ago, before
he was governor, he turned the obscure post of secretary of state into
a major player in campaign finance reform. It's not surprising he's
joining the battle on global warming."[...] The 14 Republican senators
blocking passage of the budget are demanding Brown and others not be
allowed to add global warming as an issue covered under the act. No
deal on CEQA, no budget. And no way, say Democrats who believe the Republicans
essentially want CEQA suspended for some undetermined time frame. "It
is an outrage," Brown said, "that a small group of Republican
senators would gut California's Environmental Quality Act as the price
of their voting on this year's budget." (08/13/07)
Claim that
Vista DRM causes full CPU load and global warming debunked! - Peter
Gutmann - A security researcher at the University of Auckland New Zealand
- has become one of the most cited "experts" on the evils
of Vista DRM despite the fact that he never touched the Operating System
at the time he wrote "A cost analysis of Vista content protection"
(which he has since modified several times). He's cited by a number
of folks like security researcher Bruce Schneier and has appeared on
Steve Gibson's podcast raising concerns about Windows Vista DRM. There's
just one little problem: Gutmann's theories are unsubstantiated and
they're all wrong. (08/13/07)
Global
warming? Look at the numbers - Lorne Gunter, National Post - In
his enviro-propaganda flick, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore claims nine
of the 10 hottest years on record have occurred in the last decade.
That's been a common refrain for environmentalists, too, and one of
the centrepieces of global warming hysteria: It's been really hot lately
-- abnormally hot -- so we all need to be afraid, very afraid. The trouble
is, it's no longer true. Last week, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space
Studies -- whose temperature records are a key component of the global-warming
claim (and whose director, James Hansen, is a sort of godfather of global-warming
alarmism) -- quietly corrected an error in its data set that had made
recent temperatures seem warmer than they really were. (08/13/07)
Australian
Legislators Reject Theory of Global Warming - Associated Press --
CANBERRA, Australia - Four Australian governing Liberal Party lawmakers
on Monday rejected the idea that humans are causing global warming,
the conclusion reached by their colleagues on a parliamentary committee.
The 11-member multiparty committee had examined the potential of geosequestration
- the experimental process of burying carbon, emitted by burning coal,
to keep it out of the atmosphere. The majority report found that cost
was the greatest obstacle to the commercial application of carbon capture
and storage in Australia, the world's largest exporter of coal. (08/13/07)
Global
Warming Uncertainties - And Response - So one thing you can say
for sure, it is hot in Chattanooga. So why is it so hot right now? Is
it global warming? Is it just the cycle that weather goes through? Not
only do global warmers claim that temperatures are going up, but that
there are supposed to be more storms like hurricanes. I noticed that
NOAA has lowered the predicted number of storms for 2007 twice already.
I am not sure I am qualified to answer these questions or be able to
explain the storm discrepancies, but I can look at facts and maybe they
can help find the answer. It is supposed to be around 98 degrees today
in Chattanooga. That is not a record by the way. If you are a global
warming advocate, then we should see records being broken left and right
this year in the Tennessee Valley. Global warming should also tell us
that the last 10 or 15 years should be record numbers as well, but again
the facts do not show that either. In the month of August here are the
decades that hold daily record temperatures for Chattanooga.
1900's has 1 record
1930's hold 7 record days
1940's hold 2 records
1950's 4 records hot days
1960's 2 records
1980's 8 record hot days
1990's 6 records
2000's only 1 record hot day (08/12/07)
Paralyzing
fog of certainty on climate - Debra J. Saunders - NEWSWEEK's global-warming
cover story purports to reveal the "well-coordinated, well-funded
campaign by contrarian scientists, free-market think tanks and industry"
which for the last two decades "has created a paralyzing fog of
doubt around climate change." It's the same story run repeatedly
in mainstream media: the overwhelming majority of scientists believe
the debate on global warming is over -- but if there are any dissenting
scientists left, they've been bought. Here's the rub: If dissent is
so rare, why do global-warming conformists feel the strong need to argue
that minority views should be dismissed as nutty or venal? Why not posit
that there is such a thing as honest disagreement on the science? (08/12/07)
Global
Warming Update (XXXIV) - A recent Washington Post article which
was reprinted in the Seattle Times argues that recent weather events
are consistent with predictions of global warming science!
temperate zones, such as Europe and the United States, are likely
to become more prone to flooding and areas closer to the equator will
experience more drought.
On the other hand, the recent unusually heavy floods in Arizona, Oklahoma
and Texas are not consistent with the prediction of "an Imminent
Transition to a More Arid Climate in Southwestern North America".
Nor are unusually heavy floods in India, Bangladesh, the Maldives and
Sudan consistent with these predictions of "a significant drying
of areas in the northern subtropics, including the US southwest and
the Mediterranean". The convenient thing about global warming
science is that there are so many predictions and so many observations
that it's easy to cherry-pick observations that appear to fit the predictions.
(08/12/07)
24
hours to save the planet - Jack Bauer's new target is global warming.
Leonardo DiCaprio's latest film is eco-conscious. David Smith reports
on the greening of Hollywood. Climate change awareness is the height
of Hollywood fashion, earning comparison with past causes that saw stars
rally in support of the Second World War, protest against the Vietnam
War and draw attention to the plight of HIV/Aids sufferers. Driving
a hybrid Toyota Prius is now so de rigueur that it was recently reported
Hollywood has a nine-month waiting list for them. But the town is hiding
an inconvenient truth: last year an academic study found that the film
and television industry comes second only to oil refineries in fuelling
the smog above the Hollywood hills. (08/12/07)
Newsweek
Editor Calls Global Warming Cover Story "Fundamentally Misleading"
- By Noel Sheppard - It appears hell hath frozen over, for a Newsweek
contributing editor published an article
Saturday extraordinarily critical of his magazine's cover
story last week about "global-warming deniers" being funded
by oil companies in an organized scam to thwart science. In fact, Robert
J. Samuelson accurately noted how "self-righteous indignation can
undermine good journalism," and that this disgraceful article was
"an object lesson of how viewing the world as 'good guys vs. bad
guys' can lead to a vast oversimplification of a messy story."
(08/12/07)
Global Warming - BY DAVID TEWES, VICTORIA ADVOCATE - There is no question
(really?) that the culprit
causing the flooding, heavy rainfall and other weather disasters is
global warming, said Luke Metzger, director with Environment Texas,
a statewide environmental advocacy group. "It's all part of the
trend we're seeing in the erratic weather," he said. "It's
the things scientists are saying have already happened and are likely
to happen." While scientists can't link a single weather disaster
to global warming, there are plenty of examples showing the trend,
Metzger said. The U.S. National Climatic Data Center reported that
the summer of 2006 and the entire year were the second warmest on record
for the lower 48 states. More
misinformation. Appearantly, Mr. Tewes didn't get the memo.
(08/12/07)
Greenhouse
Simplicities - By Robert J. Samuelson, Newsweek - We in the news
business often enlist in moral crusades. Global warming is among the
latest. Unfortunately, self-righteous indignation can undermine good
journalism. Last week's NEWSWEEK cover story on global warming is a
sobering reminder. It's an object lesson of how viewing the world as
"good guys vs. bad guys" can lead to a vast oversimplification
of a messy story. Global warming has clearly occurred; the hard question
is what to do about it. (08/11/07)
Michael
Crichton Praises "Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global
Warming" - By Noel Sheppard - Best-selling science fiction
author Michael Crichton has penned a glowing
review of Bjorn Lomborg's soon to be released book "Cool It:
The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming." For
those unfamiliar, Lomborg is an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen
Business School and former director of the Environmental Assessment
Institute. Although he believes in anthropogenic global warming, his
controversial view is that there are far more serious problems facing
the planet that governments should spend time and money solving. As
a result, his "Skeptical Environmentalist" series of books
continually evoke great debate internationally. (08/11/07)
Global
warming hysteria is new eugenics - By Henry Lamb - Gore's global
warming religion is reminiscent of the eugenics phenomenon in the 20th
century. The elite of the scientific community, and well-to-do of the
social set, embraced eugenics as the enlightened way to the perfect
society. Skeptics were ridiculed, denounced and pointed to as the kind
of scum that would be eliminated if eugenics became the official policy
of government. (08/11/07)
Excellent!
Global
warming - the new way to turn relationships cold - By Richard Glover
- 'WOMEN feel the cold more than men. It's a biological fact."
Jocasta is standing in the middle of the kitchen, first thing in the
morning, giving me a glacial stare. She wants to know who turned off
the heater before we went to bed. "Studies have proved" -
she spits the words out as if trying to warm up her own lips - "that
women feel 3.74 degrees colder than men. It's all to do with protecting
our babies in the womb." Where does Jocasta get these studies?
Why do they always have figures exact to the second decimal place? And
how come they always seem to involve the womb? I amble over to the heater
and switch it on. (08/11/07)
The
Heretical Freeman Dyson - "Big-thinker Freeman Dyson has written
a new essay in which he points out the need for heretics in science,
and goes on to gore some sacred cows, including global climate change:
'My first heresy says that all the fuss about global warming is grossly
exaggerated ... There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting
warmer, but the warming is not global ... When I listen to the public
debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in
our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality
of our theories ... All our fashionable worries and all our prevailing
dogmas will probably be obsolete in fifty years. My heresies will probably
also be obsolete. It is up to [the people of 2070] to find new heresies
to guide our way to a more hopeful future.'" (08/11/07)
Twisting
Science to Fit the Global Warming Template - By James Lewis - The
global warming crowd does not take kindly to being contradicted, either
by critics or data. Of course, critics can be defamed and data can be
skewed. But unless the critics can be silenced, they can fight back
and expose phony data. When it begins to look like predictions of doom
are not turning out sufficiently catastrophic, a full Orwell is called
for. The media mobilize their templates to completely re-cast the information.
(08/10/07)
My
Turn: Wright is wrong on H.520 - By Mark Shepard - In advocating
for yet another reason and avenue to tax Vermonters, Steve Wright, in
his July 2 commentary "Climate change bad for state's hunting,
fishing," ignores scientific data while touting the global warming
alarmists' mantra. Not long ago these alarmist types were making similar
dire predictions about global cooling. (08/10/07)
Yahoo
News Documents Global Warming / Massive Flooding ... From 10,000 Years
Ago - By Jason Aslinger - We've all heard the familiar global warming
hysteria. As the earth's temperature increases, glaciers will melt thereby
causing the world's seas to rise. Some global warming alarmists have
gone so far as to describe how Florida, Manhattan, and England (among
other places) will all eventually be under water. Under these scenarios,
the cause of global warming is consistently attributed to man's use
of fossil fuels. But what would happen if we had evidence of glaciers
melting and massive flooding that occurred 10,000 years ago - long before
man burned fossil fuels to any significant degree ? Such evidence would
certainly be considered evidence that global warming is a natural phenomenon
- as opposed to man-made. Well - this evidence actually exists and was
reported in a Yahoo News article (via LiveScience.com) titled "Stone
Age Settlement Found Under English Channel." And how did the
article handle the obvious global warming implications ? The answer
is that the global warming angle was ignored altogether (see also Lynn
Davidson's prior post). The article itself is very interesting in
that it details how archaeologists have found an estimated 8,000 year
old human settlement under the English Channel. (08/10/07)
Cloudy
forecast for global warming - How clouds react to a warming world
remains one of the great unknowns in climate change research. In fact,
the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change's report earlier this year noted that cloud
behavior is the biggest source of physical uncertainty in climate projection.
Another salvo in this debate was fired this week by John Christy and
Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama-Huntsville. Their study, published
in Geophysical
Research Letters, found that instead of creating more clouds, their
research found a decrease in the coverage of heat-trapping cirrus clouds
(above). Christy and Spencer have both been outspoken in their skepticism
about human influence on global climate change. (08/10/07)
Blogger
Finds Bug in NASA Global Warming Study? - "According to an
article at DailyTech, a blogger has discovered a Y2K bug in a NASA climate
study by the same writer who accused the Bush administration of trying
to censor him on the issue of global warming. The authors have acknowledged
the problem and released corrected data. Now the study shows the warmest
year on record for the contiguous 48 states as being 1934, not 1998
as previously reported in the media. In fact, the corrected study shows
that half of the 10 warmest years on record occurred before World War
II." (08/10/07)
Newsweek's
McCarthyism on Global Warming Skeptics - By Jay Ambrose, Scripps
Howard News Service - Newsweek magazine, which tells us in a recent
edition about a "well-funded," global-warming "denial
machine," is itself something of a trashing machine, a journalistic
pretender that mistakes smear for substance. The stumbling, bumbling
exercise in ad hominem McCarthyism takes it as an unchallengeable truth
that global warming is a human-induced catastrophe that could be readily
prevented, and concludes there is just one way to explain the "naysayers"
to this holy writ: They are part of a "well-coordinated,"
heavily financed scheme cooked up by self-serving corporate interests
to dupe the public and confuse or buy off politicians. (08/10/07)
Do you smell something?
Warming
will pause then full steam ahead, scientists contend - By Tom Spears,
CanWest News Service - OTTAWA -- Global warming will slow briefly in
the next year or two but then charge ahead, making at least half of
the years after 2009 warmer than any time in recorded history, British
scientists claim. Their new method of predicting the climate claims
to use more actual measurements and fewer estimates, especially in ocean
temperatures. This allows scientists to predict shorter periods, not
just an general warming trend. And while most climate predictions forecast
what Earth will be like 50 to 100 years from now, Britain's Met Office
(weather centre) says it can now look at 10-year chunks and even some
single years, starting now. It says the middle of the next decade (around
2014) will be about 0.3 Celsius degrees warmer than the middle of the
current one. Anyone wanna bet?
(08/10/07)
Global
warming critic hot under the collar - By Andrew Bolt - I AGREE completely
with global warming alarmist Robyn Williams. The ABC would indeed be
"verging on the irresponsible" to air something "demonstrably
wrong". And so the ABC should get a new host for its Science Show,
if Demonstrably Wrong Williams won't correct himself. Of course, Williams
wasn't asking for the sack when he told the ABC to keep the fact-challenged
off the air. He was just telling the ABC to scrap a documentary in which
climate experts said global warming wasn't man-made. But I see Williams
now devotes a page of Cosmos to explain why he told a "notorious
newspaper columnist" that global warming could make the seas rise
100m by 2100. Williams is cross that I've since publicised that absurd
claim. But facts are facts: Even the United Nations' Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change - the temple of global warming activists - predicts
the seas will rise at most by 59cm. (08/10/07)
Newsweek
Burns Truth in Global Warming Story - By Roger Aronoff - The extremists
committed to the man-made global warming theory?that humans are causing
the world to get hotter and that we have to drastically raise taxes
and/or ration energy in response?are on the run. How else does one explain
the sensational Newsweek cover story with the provocative headline,
"Global Warming is a Hoax,*" over a photo of a boiling sun?
Newsweek, a Washington Post property, claims to be telling us "The
Truth About Denial," and to make sure everyone gets the point,
it uses some form of the word "denial" 20 times, including
"denial machine" 14 times. (08/10/07)
From the JunkMan...
Junk
Science: New Science Challenges Climate Alarmists? - By Steven Milloy
- "People like to complain about the weather," goes the old
saw. This is especially true nowadays as bad weather becomes an excuse
for the climate alarmist-friendly media to trot out its manmade global
warming boogeyman. (08/09/07)
Real Peer
Review - Global Warming promoters make a great hullabaloo over peer-review.
For example, whenever a "denier"
challenges Global Warming ecophobia, censure comes pouring out in the
form of personal attacks, such as castigating the critic's CV or his
donors. The actual content of the critic's charge is often brushed off
without the serious back and forth that is expected when science comes
under scrutiny; the excuse being that the science has already been peer-reviewed,
so any criticism of it must be baseless. (08/09/07)
Did
Media Or NASA Withhold Climate History Data Changes From The Public?
- By Noel Sheppard - A change in climate history data at NASA's Goddard
Institute for Space Studies recently occurred which dramatically alters
the debate over global warming. Yet, this transpired with no official
announcement from GISS head James Hansen, and went unreported until
Steve McIntyre of Climate
Audit discovered it Wednesday. For some background, one of the key
tenets of the global warming myth being advanced by Hansen and soon-to-be-Dr.
Al Gore is that nine of the ten warmest years in history have occurred
since 1995. McIntyre has been crunching
the numbers used to determine such things as published by GISS,
and has identified that the data have recently changed such that four
of the top ten warmest years in American history occurred in the 1930s,
with the warmest now in 1934 instead of the much-publicized 1998. As
McIntyre wrote
Wednesday:
"There has been some turmoil yesterday on the leaderboard of
the U.S. (Temperature) Open and there is a new leader. [...] Four of
the top 10 are now from the 1930s: 1934, 1931, 1938 and 1939, while
only 3 of the top 10 are from the last 10 years (1998, 2006, 1999).
Several years (2000, 2002, 2003, 2004) fell well down the leaderboard,
behind even 1900.
Most importantly, according to the GISS, 1998 is no longer the warmest
year in American history. That honor once again belongs to 1934.
(08/09/07)
Blogger
Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data - Years of bad data corrected;
1998 no longer the warmest year on record - My earlier
column this week detailed the work of a volunteer team to assess
problems with US temperature data used for climate modeling. One of
these people is Steve McIntyre, who operates the site climateaudit.org.
While inspecting historical temperature graphs, he noticed a strange
discontinuity, or "jump" in many locations, all occurring
around the time of January, 2000. (08/09/07)
Confirming
Limbaugh's Prediction, CBS Ignores Study Casting Doubt on Global Warming
- By Brent Baker - Two nights after NBC blamed hot summer temperatures
on global warming, and on the very day a new scientific report cast
doubt on a key assumption behind global warming forecasts, CBS on Thursday
evening held global warming culpable for "oppressive August heat"
that killed a man in East St. Louis. For an expert assessment, CBS reporter
Kelly Cobiella turned only to the Weather Channel climatologist who
last year suggested the American Meteorological Society should withhold
credentials from any member who dares doubt the man-made global warming
mantra: "Dr. Heidi Cullen is a climatologist for the Weather Channel,
and sees a definite connection to global warming." Cullen maintained:
"The heat wave that we're seeing now is completely consistent with
what we expect in a warmer world because all of our models show us that
heat waves will become intense, more frequent, and they'll last longer."
The CBS Evening News skipped, as Rush Limbuagh predicted the media would,
a new study in which, as outlined in a press release, "the widely
accepted (albeit unproven) theory that manmade global warming will accelerate
itself by creating more heat-trapping clouds is challenged this month
in new research from the University of Alabama in Huntsville."
The posting on the university's site summarized the study published
in a scientific journal: "Instead of creating more clouds, individual
tropical warming cycles that served as proxies for global warming saw
a decrease in the coverage of heat-trapping cirrus clouds, says Dr.
Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist in UAHuntsville's Earth
System Science Center." (08/09/07)
A
Dispatch from Roy Spencer - RUSH: I got a note here from our official
climatologist Roy Spencer, University of Alabama at Huntsville. He is
a genuine scientist and has been doing some research and he released
the research today in Geophysical Research Letters. He has had no inquiries
on this from anybody in the Drive-By Media. The research is actually
very interesting. "The widely accepted (albeit unproven) theory
that manmade global warming will accelerate itself by creating more
heat-trapping clouds is challenged this month in new research from The
University of Alabama in Huntsville. (08/09/07)
Did
Global Warming Cause NYC Tornado? - By DAVID B. CARUSO - NEW YORK
-- Flooded subways? A tornado in Brooklyn? It was tempting to blame
it all on global warming. Plenty of public officials were doing just
that in the aftermath of a short but violent thunderstorm that paralyzed
the nation's largest mass transit network and tore the roofs off limestone
townhouses. But in reality, it is not quite that simple, weather and
climate experts say. The storm, which gathered strength over Pennsylvania,
drenched New Jersey and then pounded the city at sunrise Wednesday was
strong but not particularly rare for a hot summer day, said Jeff
Warner, a meteorologist at Pennsylvania State University. Climate scientist
James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies,
agreed: "You cannot blame a single specific event, such as this
week's storm, on climate change," he said. What?
James "Chicken Little" Hansen said that? Amazing!
(08/09/07)
Put
up or shut up on global warming - Dingell puts a fair price tag on the
high cost of saving energy - The Detroit News - Fighting global
warming isn't so much fun now, is it? When the battle targeted almost
exclusively Detroit's auto industry, volunteers were falling all over
themselves to sign up. But now it's about to hit closer to home for
most Americans. U.S. Rep. John Dingell, the Dearborn Democrat who chairs
the Energy and Commerce Committee, is proposing a 50-cent tax on a gallon
of gasoline and suspension of mortgage deductions for what he calls
McMansions -- homes over 3,000 square feet. (08/09/07)
Moonbeam Update
Jerry
Brown tangles with GOP in global warming campaign - By Daniel Weintraub
- Jerry Brown, who has been confounding California Republicans for more
than 30 years, is at it again. The Democratic attorney general - who
served as governor in the 1970s and 1980s, led the California Democratic
Party, ran for president and then served as mayor of Oakland - now is
in the middle of a dispute that has been blamed for blocking passage
of the state budget more than six weeks after it is due. (08/09/07)
Global
Warming Coordinated? - As NewsBusters reported Sunday, Newsweek's
current issue featured a cover story blasting anthropogenic global warming
skeptics as "deniers," and pointing fingers at companies like
ExxonMobil as participating in a coordinated misinformation campaign
akin to the tobacco industry misleading citizens about the dangers of
cigarette smoking. (08/09/07)
A
productive global warming propaganda factory - By Christopher Alleva
- Last week I wrote an article exposing the way the Society of Environmental
Journalists (SEJ) pre-packages templates for stories on the environment.
At time I wrote it, I vowed to revisit the issue from time to time to
see if the templates are being used. Well, I didn't have wait very long.
Wednesday's Washington Post had a front page story on how global warming
is drawing the faithful in into the fold. And by faithful, they don't
mean global warming believers, they're talking about that oldtime religion,
Christianity. (08/09/07)
Youngsters
Unaware About Global Warming Issues
Arab News - RIYADH, 9 August 2007 - Global warming is a hot topic
these days, but not so much in Saudi Arabia. Maybe
that's because it's a non-issue that will never affect the lives of
the typical Saudi. In fact, according to a recent report
in a local newspaper, Arab youth - particularly Saudi youth - are given
so little information about human being's effect on the environment
that they either have no interest whatsoever, or rely on outside information
they find on their own. "I try to minimize the use of air-conditioning,"
said Muhammad, a 19-year-old private university student, who adds that
he has tried to convince his family to spend more time together in one
room of the house and just to cool that room. Unfortunately, he says,
most of the time he gets mocked by his friends for his mission: "They
think that individuals can't make a difference, but I disagree."
Talal, 17, says her environmental awareness comes mainly from Western
media and not from anything inside Saudi Arabia. And when she wants
to do something, she says she is frustrated by the lack of environment-friendly
options. (08/09/07)
Paper Uses
Global Warming Activist's Press Release as News Story - The Palm
Beach Post was caught in a bit of deception by one of its readers over
the weekend. At issue was another globaloney alarmist story the paper
printed on July 25th, titled "This century hotter than last, group
finds," supposedly by Post writer Dara Kam. Unfortunately for the
reputation of Dara Kam and that of the paper, this "article"
was merely a rewording of the press release of an environmentalist group
calling themselves, Environment Florida. An alert reader who wrote in
calling them on it also exposed several other papers across the country
that did the very same thing. (08/09/07)
Global Warming 8000 years ago?
Stone
Age Settlement Found Under English Channel - By Heather Whipps,
Special to LiveScience - Erosion on the floor of the English Channel
is revealing the remains of a busy Stone Age settlement, from a time
when Europe and Britain were still linked by land, a team of archaeologists
says. The site, just off the Isle of Wight, dates back 8,000 years,
not long before melting glaciers filled in the Channel and likely drove
the settlement's last occupants north to higher ground. (08/09/07)
Global
Warming Consensus Alert: Flaming, Earth-Crushing Death! - Remember
the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia and Sri Lanka? I distinctly remember people
making jokes about how they'd find a way to blame the whole catastrophe
on global warming. Note to self: climate
change hype is beyond parody: (08/08/07)
Al
Gore's head in wrong kind of clouds - By Judi McLeod - Bubba's buddy
Al Gore's got his head in the wrong kind of clouds. While Gore works
to rid the world of Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb, while leaving
his well-lighted Tennessee mansion looking like the proverbial you-know-what,
a giant toxic cloud in Asia may bring floods and droughts to some two
billion people. (08/08/07)
Scholastic
Accused of Indoctrinating Kids on Global Warming - World Ahead Media
- Los Angeles, CA (Aug. 8, 2007) - Scholastic, the venerable children's
publisher and the U.S. company behind Harry Potter, has published books
for school children for generations. But the publishing company's forthcoming
book on global warming may have crossed the line from information into
manipulation. That's the warning being issued by Eric M. Jackson, president
of World Ahead Media, following the publication of an interview with
Scholastic author Laurie David in Publishers Weekly last week. David,
a Hollywood activist who produced Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient
Truth," is the co-author of a book entitled "The Down-to-Earth
Guide to Global Warming" that Scholastic is publishing next month.
"In her jaw-dropping interview, Laurie David makes it clear that
her book has been written specifically to indoctrinate children,"
asserts Jackson. Last week Publishers Weekly quoted David as saying,
"Kids also are the number one influence on their parents, so if
you want to reach the parents, go to the kids." (08/08/07)
Satire
Global
Warming Will End This Week - Mount Palomar, California (IP) - Global
warming will end abruptly this week as Earth will once again leave its
orbit and will wander through the solar system. This event happens on
a regular basis every 30,000 years and is responsible for the recurring
cycle of ice ages and rewarming periods. (08/08/07)
Satire
GIANT MAGNIFYING GLASS REVEALED AS CAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING - SCIENTISTS
have discovered a giant magnifying glass above the Earth which they
think is the main cause of the global warming the planet is experiencing
today. The enormous lens is floating in space some 45 million miles
from our planet and is heating up the Earth by focusing the Sun's rays
on its surface. (08/08/07)
Sci
Am Worried Newsweek's "Global Warming Is A Hoax*" Headline
is Misleading - By Noel Sheppard - I received an e-mail message
from a global warming skeptic yesterday suggesting that Newsweek's disgraceful
article about climate change "deniers" could backfire given
the facetious headline "Global Warming Is A Hoax*" on the
cover. The thinking was that since far more people would see the magazine
at the newsstands than would actually buy it and read the article, a
much larger number of people would think Newsweek was indeed claiming
global warming was a hoax, and would never understand the sarcasm. (08/08/07)
Bullshit headline for a bullshit
article.
Newsweek
denies the existence of global warming - Maybe it's because I don't
have the faith in people that I should, but I find this Newsweek cover
really irresponsible. Actually, it's due to the polls cited in the article--and
those I have seen elsewhere--that suggest that the American public thinks,
among other things, that scientists are still trying to determine if
global warming is for real and that it's a major issue in the upcoming
Presidential election. Sure, the cover is provocative and gripping,
but it also may be doing a disservice to the general public and the
people working hard to develop new ways to combat what is realistically
the greatest threat to our livelihood: climate change. In fact, global
warming isn't just a threat. Combating it will require us to dramatically
change the way we live. (But, you've heard this all before.) Yes,
we hear this kind of nonsense from environmental nuts every day.
(08/08/07)
Washington
Post Cheerleads Conversion of a Few Evangelicals to Global Warming Activism
- By Amy Ridenour - Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post had a worthy
entry in the category of wishful-thinking opinion-newswriting on page
A1 of the Washington Post Wednesday, with her story "Warming Draws
Evangelicals Into Environmentalist Fold." Based on the content
of the piece, it might better have been titled, "Assiduous Environmentalist
Lobbying Draws a Mere Handful of Evangelicals into Environmentalist
Fold," but that doesn't have the pro-environmentalist cheerleading
quality the Post goes for in these pieces. (08/08/07)
Warming
Draws Evangelicals Into Environmentalist Fold - By Juliet Eilperin,
Washington Post Staff Writer - LONGWOOD, Fla. -- At 8 on a Saturday
morning, just as the heat was permeating this sprawling Orlando suburb,
Denise Kirsop donned a white plastic moon suit and began sorting through
the trash produced by Northland Church. She and several fellow parishioners
picked apart the garbage to analyze exactly how much and what kind of
waste their megachurch produces, looking for ways to reduce the congregation's
contribution to global warming. (08/08/07)
Warming
plan unveiled: Dingell would raise gas taxes, cut deductions - By
Tina Lam, Detroit Free Press - ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Rep. John Dingell
revealed Tuesday details of his plan to cut global warming, including
adding a 50-cents-a-gallon tax on gasoline and ending the mortgage
tax deduction on what he called "McMansions" - homes larger
than 3,000 square feet. (08/08/07)
Silencing
Dissent - By Walter E. Williams - Global warming has become a big-ticket
item in the eyes of its supporters. At stake are research funds, jobs
and the ability to control lives all over the globe. Most climatologists
agree that over the last century, the Earth's average temperature has
risen about one degree Celsius. One
degree? Oh no! (08/08/07)
The
fact and fiction behind global warming - The best way to stop global
warming is to destroy the sun (wink, wink) ["Much hot air on melting
glaciers," Opinion, Aug. 6]. Otherwise, let's acknowledge that
the sun and volcanoes cause way more warming than mankind does. According
to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the meat industry
causes more warming than all of mankind's other activities combined.
Furthermore, if we reduce CO2 gas, we cause trees to die, since trees
need CO2. It's amazing that tree huggers favor actions that cause trees
to die. (08/08/07)
Global
warming shows signs of risky business - By Leon Gettler - LAST week's
announcement of the Australian Securities Exchange's updated guidelines
are, to an extent, acknowledgement of one of the big sleepers in corporate
governance. The guidelines require companies to disclose whether they
have policies to manage risks that might include environmental and sustainability
issues. However, companies don't have to tell the market what they are
doing. That might be a problem because global warming has all the signs
of turning into a nightmare liability issue for companies, insurers
and directors. (08/08/07)
New
Scandal Erupts over NOAA Climate Data - Weather station data hidden
from public; scientists allege government cover-up - The theory
of global warming began to explain one simple set of factsm-- surface
temperature monitoring stations have shown a roughly one degree rise
over the past century. But just where does these temperature readings
come from? Most are reported by volunteer stations, usually no more
than a thermometer inside a small wooden hut or below a roof overhang.
In the US, 1,221 such stations exist, all administered by the National
Climatic Data Center, a branch of the NOAA. (08/07/07)
In
Two Segments, CBS's Harry Smith Raises Global Warming Alarm - By
Justin McCarthy - CBS's Harry Smith led the charge against "global
climate change," first with billionaire airline founder and activist
Richard Branson and then in the health segment. On the August 7 edition
of "The Early Show" at 7:49 AM, Harry Smith hosted the health
segment on how to handle the heat with the current heat wave that is
affecting much of the eastern half of the United States. With many Americans
baking in the hot conditions, Smith appealed to their emotions with
this editorial comment: "Before we do anything else, there is in
fact, global climate change. It really affects some climates much more
than others, and it's really caused some real serious problems."
(08/07/07)
$100,000
Offered to Prove Global Warming: Can You Save Al Gore? - By Noel
Sheppard - As soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore continues to duck
every person on the planet willing to debate him about his unproven
anthropogenic global warming theories, one well-known skeptic has put
his money where his mouth is. On Monday evening, the website JunkScience.com,
owned and managed by Steven Milloy, announced The
Ultimate Global Warming Challenge. As laid out in this video,
entrants are asked the following in order to receive $100,000 while,
at the same time, saving Al Gore from looking like one of the biggest
charlatans to ever walk the face of the planet. (08/07/07)
Junk
Science Behind Global Warming Myth - From 1979 to the present there
has been a large disparity between surface thermometers, which show
a fairly strong warming and independent temperature reading of satellites
and balloons, which show little warming trend. This is a scientific
finding based on solid scientific research. (08/07/07)
Chilling
Effect - Environment: Newsweek equates global warming skeptics with
Holocaust deniers and accuses reputable scientists of being paid to
create confusion in the face of consensus. Galileo is once again on
trial. (08/07/07)
Global
Warming Update - RUSH: I got a Global Warming Stack. Let me just
titillate you with one of the stories in the stack here. This is from
The Times of London. I'll just give you a quote. Let me give you the
headline then an excerpt of the story. "Walking to the shops 'damages
planet more than going by car.'" That's what it says right here.
I'm holding this story in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. (08/07/07)
The
Great Global Warming Swindle - This morning, reader Don Hagen sent
me an e-mail asking me to watch a movie on the topic of global warming
as well as comment on the movie aptly named, The Great Global Warming
Swindle. I usually don't talk about global warming because I think it
is pointless to do so. The fact of the matter is that climate change
is normal (remember the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age?).
(08/07/07)
Effect
of global warming not so conspicuous on India: expert - CHENNAI:
The effect of global warming on the climate of India is not so conspicuous,
Y.E.A. Raj, Director, Regional Meteorological Centre, said on Monday.
At a seminar on climate change, he said an analysis of the data for
over 100 years revealed that there was no significant trend in the rainfall.
As for surface temperature, a very mild trend was perceptible. (08/07/07)
The
Global Warming Train Has Left Sanity Station - Indeed some Global
Warming alarmists think it is too late to stop the effects of man on
our atmosphere and that these adverse effects will cause the onset of
these massive storms, freak weather and catastrophic occurances. In
order to control and avoid the effects of global warming we must first
be in agreement with a fact that it is happening, and take some action
to end or even reduce it. Is Global Warming real? Indeed some people
believe Global Warming is a lot of rubbish and others will have you
to believe the sky is falling down tomorrow. We all know of the doom
and gloom predictions of Global Warming and Climate Change with higher
sea levels, massive storms and it all sounds like a lot of trouble we
will potentially be in? (08/07/07)
Ex-Clinton
Official Ties Minneapolis Bridge Collapse To Global Warming - By
Noel Sheppard - A former member of the Clinton administration, and current
Senior Fellow at the virtual Clinton think tank the Center for American
Progress, claimed Monday that global warming might have played a factor
in the collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis last week. (08/07/07)
Polluters
finance research to cast doubt on global warming theories, Gore says
- SINGAPORE: Research aimed at disputing the scientific consensus on
global warming is part of a huge public misinformation campaign funded
by some of the largest carbon polluters in the world, former U.S. Vice
President Al Gore said Tuesday. Yet
hundreds of millions in grant $ are spent by governments to use climate
change as a means to redistribute global wealth! (08/07/07)
Guilt
relief in global warming - Carbon offsets, or paying others to fight
climate change, are still in doubt. Who checks up on these programs?
A new trend is to become a zero-sum contributor of greenhouse gases
("carbon neutral"). Some people avoid the lifestyle change,
however, and instead purchase "offsets." But do
such buy-offs really make a difference? (08/07/07)
CO2
isn't causing global warming - Greenhouse warming proponents correctly
state that a warm body's surface temperature rises when increasingly
blanketed by heat- trapping greenhouse gases. The blanket's colder temperature,
however, will rise faster. Computerized climate models simulate these
warming dynamics using CO2's theoretical greenhouse contribution. Accordingly,
the simulated CO2-laden lower atmospheric blanket warms faster than
the earth's surface. The real world's warming dynamics however is the
opposite. Fifty-five years of weather balloon and 35 years of satellite
data say the insulating lower atmosphere's temperature is rising much
slower than the earth's surface temperature. Scientists know this fact
(and many others) directly contradicts assertions that CO2's greenhouse
contribution is the primary cause of global warming. Real data trumps
simulated data. (08/06/07)
Green
Fakers: Why eco-hypocrisy matters - By Jeff Bercovici - A few weeks
ago, I wrote an item about Barbra Streisand, who was on tour in England.
Though she's a big backer of environmental causes, and even offers tips
for low-carbon living on her personal website, she was busted by the
British press for touring in a private jet with a massive entourage
that required 13 trucks and vast amounts of laundry - in other words,
for sponsoring a traveling CO2 extravaganza. I e-mailed my item to an
editor at Grist, a popular environmental website and blog. The editor
promptly sent back a sarcastic reply accusing me of "trolling for
links by carrying right wing water." In his view, only conservative
blogs would be interested in a snarky item about a liberal totem like
Streisand; left-leaning sites protect their own. And here I thought
hypocrisy was a non-partisan punch line. (08/06/07)
The
Hypocrisy of Celebrity Environmentalists - By David Frum - Readers
of Hollywood news already know that Laurie David has filed for divorce
from her husband, Larry David, the creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm and
co-creator of Seinfeld. Mrs. David's papers cited "irreconcilable
differences" as the reason for the split. This past Sunday, the
New York Post cast some light on the nature of those differences. Over
the past year, neighbours have seen Mrs. David in a variety of amorous
postures with a younger man, "her hottie but dumb building contractor,"
as one of those neighbours describes him. OK, stop right there--this
is the National Post, not the National Enquirer. Why would we reprint
salacious allegations of middle-aged romance? Well, actually, there
is a serious political point to make here amidst the hanky-panky. Maybe
Larry David put it best. Asked by reporters for reaction to the divorce,
he answered, "I went home and turned all the lights on." Remember
Ted Haggard? The Colorado preacher who championed traditional marriage--and
was then caught buying sex-enhancing drugs from a gay prostitute? You've
also probably heard a great deal about David Vitter, the socially conservative
U.S. Senator from Louisiana whose name showed up on a Washington, D.C.
escort service's client list? It seems almost an iron law: Sexual moralists
get hoisted by their own petard. (08/06/07)
Al
Gore Challenged To Debate Global Warming By Best-selling Author
- By Noel Sheppard - Well, sports fans, the list of folks challenging
soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore to put up or shut up continues to grow, of course,
with little notice from an adoring media. Next up wanting to take shots
at the Global Warmingist-in-Chief is best-selling author Dennis Avery.
(08/06/07)
Russia
Welcomes Global Warming as Answer to All Its Prayers - By Noel Sheppard
- Here's a side of global warming the shills
at Newsweek and alarmists such as Al Gore don't want to address:
there are actually countries and peoples on the planet who would welcome
a less frigid climate. Take for example Russia, where a little warming
would help such industries as agriculture, oil drilling, and tourism,
while obviously cutting down on the number of cold-related deaths each
winter. (08/06/07)
Global
Warming at Odds With Science - By Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com - Global
warming fanatics insist that "the science is settled" regarding
this contentious issue and they're right - two German scientist have
settled it once and for all by proving conclusively that there is no
such thing as a "greenhouse effect" in global climate. They've
also proven that there can be no way of accurately measuring average
global temperature in the way it is now done. CO2 cannot play the role
attributed to it by the supporters of the global warming theory, and
the very idea violates the laws of thermodynamics. (08/06/07)
Senator's
Office Objects To Disgraceful Newsweek Global Warming Article -
By Noel Sheppard - As NewsBusters reported,
Newsweek published an absolutely disgraceful cover-story Saturday calling
manmade global warming skeptics "deniers" funded by oil companies
and other special interests making them as bad as folks who misled people
about the dangers of cigarette smoking. In fact, the article was so
thoroughly offensive that it has received an angry response from Sen.
James Inholfe's (R-Oklahoma) communications director. Writing at the
Senate Environment & Public Works minority blog, Marc Morano made
his objections
to this article early and often (08/06/07)
Newsweek's
Attack Job on "Global Warming Deniers" - By Amy Ridenour
- Kudos to Marc Morano of the Senate's Environment and Public Works
Minority Staff (and former staffer for Rush Limbaugh) for surrendering
several hours of his life in
the cause of debunking an incredibly, almost jaw-droppingly bad
article, "Global-Warming
Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine" (by Sharon Begley with Eve
Conant, Sam Stein, Eleanor Clift and Matthew Philips) in the August
13 Newsweek. (08/06/07)
Newsweek's
Global Warming Blunder - By Marc Morano - Newsweek magazine's cover
story of Aug. 13, 2007 entitled, "The Truth About Denial"
contains very little that could actually be considered balanced, objective
or fair by journalistic standards. The one-sided editorial, masquerading
as a news article, was written by Sharon Begley with Eve Conant, Sam
Stein and Eleanor Clift and Matthew Philips and purports to examine
the "well-coordinated, well-funded campaign by contrarian scientists,
free-market think tanks and industry has created a paralyzing fog of
doubt around climate change." The only problem is - Newsweek knew
better. Reporter Eve Conant, who interviewed Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla.,
the ranking member of the Environment & Public Works Committee,
was given all the latest data proving conclusively that it is the proponents
of man-made global warming fears that enjoy a monumental funding advantage
over the skeptics. (A whopping $50 billion to a paltry $19 million for
skeptics - yes, that is billion to million - see below. ) This week's
"news article" in Newsweek follows the magazine's Oct. 23,
2006 article which admitted the error of their ways in the 1970s when
they predicted dire global cooling. (08/06/07)
The
enemies of free speech are on the march--Part 8
Start thinking the way we order you to--or else - By Wes Vernon
- The president of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)
has written a threatening letter to a scholar at the Competitive Enterprise
Institute (CEI) warning him to stop publicly criticizing the theory
that global warming is a threat to the planet, or risk the end of his
reputation. Implicit in the message: Shut up or you will be destroyed.
(08/06/07)
Lefties
cloud warming - By Dimitri Vassilaros, TRIBUNE-REVIEW - MoveOn.org
and other leftist groups are making misleading statements about the
Fox News Channel making misleading statements.
Liberal activists have started a campaign to dissuade Fox advertisers
from buying more airtime, according to The Associated Press. Brave New
Films, maker of anti-Fox videos, claims it has 8,000 volunteers to identify
all national and local Fox sponsors, said Jim Gilliam, vice president
of media strategy, when we spoke by telephone last week. (08/06/07)
Palm
Beach Post: Using Global Warming Activist's Press Release as News Story
- By Warner Todd Huston - The Palm Beach Post was caught in a bit of
deception by one of its readers over the weekend. At issue was another
globaloney alarmist story the paper printed on July 25th, titled "This
century hotter than last, group finds," supposedly by Post
writer Dara Kam. Unfortunately for the reputation of Dara Kam and that
of the paper, this "article" was merely a rewording of the
press release of an environmentalist group calling themselves, Environment
Florida. An alert reader who wrote in calling them on it also exposed
several other papers across the country that did the very same thing.
(08/06/07)
Blame
the media for climate woes: analysis - By Mike De Souza, CanWest
News Service - OTTAWA -- Mainstream U.S. media are to blame for stalled
international efforts to reach an agreement to fight climate change,
according to a new analysis released by a media watchdog group. The
report, in the latest edition of a magazine published by Fairness and
Accuracy in Reporting, said there are multiple examples of major American
media organizations watering down recent warnings from peer-reviewed
scientific literature about the consequences of global warming and the
human-produced pollution that is causing it. If
the mainstream media wouldn't hype up the non-issue of supposed man-made
global warming in the first place nobody would give a shit in the first
place!. (08/06/07)
PCRM
Overkill: Blames Low-Carb Meat Eaters For Global Warming - I've
seen some pretty extreme stuff from vegetarian activist groups like
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and their front group
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) since I've been
blogging about livin' la vida low-carb these past couple of years. For
those of you unfamiliar with PCRM and their unscrupulous attempts to
discredit the late great Dr. Robert C. Atkins and his healthy low-carb
diet, they are the ones who bankrolled and fully supported that sue-happy
opportunist Jody Gorran who claimed the Atkins diet nearly killed him.
He pushed this ridiculous lawsuit against Atkins Nutritionals hard and
got lots of positive press in the media for several years because of
it spouting such things as the Atkins diet "could kill you"
and other such hyperbole and conjecture. These vegetarian radicals certainly
show their true colors from time to time and the desperate attempts
at spreading their anti-meat propaganda know no bounds. Even still,
have you heard about the latest attempt by these people to keep people
from eating meat? Eating "green" is eco-friendly and prevents
global warming! (08/06/07)
Jack
Bauer, the hero of '24', takes on global warming - By Stephen Foley
- The battle against climate change has just got its toughest new recruit:
Jack Bauer, hero of the TV show 24. The programme's creators, Fox, are
promising their next series will introduce a host of environmentally-friendly
production measures, as the industry gropes for ways to make carbon
neutral television. (08/06/07)
Don't
fly too high or you may get the heat! - NEW DELHI: With the aviation
sector experiencing a phenomenal growth rate especially in Asia-Pacific
region and more importantly in India and China, environmentalists point
out that the industry is becoming the fastest growing contributor to
global warming. Airline manufacturers however refute the charge. (08/06/07)
Pennsylvania
County Considers Floating Global Warming Bonds - By Noel Sheppard
- If you had any questions concerning the future financial potential
of selling global warming alarmism, an idea being researched by a Pennsylvania
county will provide all the answers you need. (08/05/07)
Newsweek
Disgrace: "Global-Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine"
- By Noel Sheppard - Manmade global warming alarmism took a disgraceful
turn for the worse this weekend when Newsweek published a lengthy cover-story
repeatedly calling skeptics "deniers" that are funded by oil
companies and other industries with a vested interest in obfuscating
the truth. In fact, the piece several times suggested that publishing
articles skeptical of man's role in climate change is akin to misleading
Americans about the dangers of smoking. Despicably titled "Global-Warming
Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine," the article painted a picture
of an evil cabal whose goal is to thwart science at the detriment of
the environment and the benefit of their wallets. Worse still, the piece's
many authors painted every skeptical scientific report they referred
to as being part of this cabal while including absolutely no historical
temperature data to prove that today's global temperatures are in any
way abnormal. (08/05/07)
New from the JunkMan
Junk
Science: How Now Brown Cloud? - By Steven Milloy - Himalayan glaciers
are melting - but not nearly as fast as the fanciful notion of global
warming will have you believe. A new study in the Aug. 2 issue of the
British science journal Nature found that the solid particles suspended
in the atmosphere (called "aerosols") that make up "brown
clouds" may actually contribute to warmer temperatures - precisely
the opposite effect heretofore claimed by global warming alarmists.
"These findings might seem to contradict the general notion of
aerosol particles as cooling agents in the global climate system ...,"
concluded the Nature news article summing up the study. (08/05/07)
Stop
global warming - How? - If all goes as organizers hope, a global
warming march that began Wednesday in Nashua will arrive in Concord
today. The goal of what is being called the March to ReEnergize New
Hampshire is to focus attention on the need to reduce carbon emissions.
The problem is that there is little "focus" on how. (08/05/07)
Natural
forces behind global warming - I'd like to say a few words about
the so-called "global warming". It really irks me that men
like David Suzuki and Al Gore dare to go around and talk such a nonsense
about global warming, especially Suzuki's speech on TV about a month
ago. It was finally comparable to the blood-thirstiest bolshevik speeches
against the rich and educated. This phenomena has no connection whatsoever
to today's pollution. Our "greenhouse" gases and cars and
planes are affecting maybe something, but this climate change cycle
has been going on from ancient times without any exhaust gases. (08/04/07)
New
combustion technology to dramatically reduce global warming emissions
- Washington, Aug 4 : US scientists have designed an experimental gas
turbine simulator that is equipped with an ultralow-emissions combustion
technology, called the Low Swirl Injector (LSI), and which uses pure
hydrogen as a fuel. Researchers say this is a milestone that indicates
a potential to help eliminate millions of tons of carbon dioxide and
thousands of tons of NOx from power plants each year. (08/04/07)
Greenhouse
Gas Emissions Stickers Coming For Autos - ALBANY -- Legislation
designed to increase consumer awareness about greenhouse gas emissions
is now law and requires that automobile manufacturers affix a "global
warming index" sticker to new cars and passenger trucks beginning
in the 2010 model year, detailing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse
gas emissions. (08/03/07)
Global
Warming Skeptics Advance, Says Inhofe - By Katherine Poythress,
CNSNews.com Correspondent - (CNSNews.com) - Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.),
ranking member on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW),
told approximately 400 conservative students Thursday morning that despite
attempts to silence global warming critics, the ground of the climate
change debate is starting to shift their way, giving their views more
exposure and effect. (08/03/07)
Global
Warming Myth Exposed: Soot From Cooking Fires Melting Himalayan Glaciers
- By Noel Sheppard - Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
at UC San Diego published a paper in the journal Nature Thursday which
put a huge hole in the manmade global warming theory espoused by soon-to-be-Dr.
Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (08/03/07)
Global
Warming Propaganda Factory - By Christopher J. Alleva - I have often
wondered how the media are in such lock step on Global Warming. Well,
I wonder no more. Recently, I came across a website for the Society
of Environmental Journalists (SEJ). http://www.sej.org/ This website
is veritable tool box for any budding reporter assigned to the global
warming beat. If you're an editor at the Palookaville Post, all you
have to do is send your cub reporters to this site and they'll have
everything they need to write an article that fits the template and
action line perfectly. (08/02/07)
Global
warming is the villain in mushy 'Tale' - By Jame Verniere - Too
didactic and schoolmarmish by half, the live-action "Arctic Tale"
gives us a newborn polar bear and a walrus cub instead of penguins,
Queen Latifah instead of Morgan Freeman and Harvard graduate Kristin
Gore, whose previous credits include the cult hit TV series "Futurama,"
among the writers. This perhaps explains why "Arctic Tale,"
a National Geographic production, comes across as "An Inconvenient
Truth for Polar Bears and Walruses: Or Our World Is Melting.' (08/02/07)
Global
Warming Causes Drop in Supply of Bulgarian Prostitutes - By Noel
Sheppard - There appears to now be a double-secret, international competition
to figure out new planetary ills that can somehow be tied - regardless
of the seeming inanity - to manmade global warming. This announcement
out of Toronto could be the best yet: a warmer climate is causing stray
cats - no, not Brian Setzer and the boys - to mate more frequently thereby
resulting in an explosion in furry, feral felines. On the other hand,
the frontrunner has to be brothels in Bulgaria that are having a hard
time finding employees because "the best prostitutes have moved
to ski resorts, where they entertain tourists who cannot ski because
of a lack of snow." You really can't make this stuff up. (08/02/07)
Warming:
The Debate is Settled, Now Pay Up - Farmers are having a rough time
of this summer in southern Maryland, watching their crops and hay die
off due to drought. Global warming, no doubt to blame. So we should
be seeing the suit against the local utilities or American automakers
any day now. (08/02/07)
Statement
On Global Warming - WASHINGTON - AUGUST 2 -Senator Bernie Sanders
called a blueprint for legislation on global warming laid out today
by Senators Joseph Lieberman and John Warner a positive step, but Sanders
said the peril to our planet from greenhouse gas emissions calls for
a more aggressive approach to stop climate change. (08/02/07)
U.N.
climate chief skeptical about global carbon tax - By Deborah Zabarenko,
Environment Correspondent - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A top U.N. climate
change official voiced doubt on Wednesday about a global tax on carbon,
but said national taxes were possible and laws to cap global warming
emissions were better for business. "I personally am skeptical
on the notion of global carbon taxes," said Yvo de Boer, who heads
the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. (08/02/07)
Global Warming Police?
Thirty
grand gesture for global warming - SALFORD City Council want to
employ an officer for climate change and pay them more than £30,000
per year. The new officer will have some responsibility for setting
the targets for the reduction in carbon emissions across the city, but
will not be held accountable. In
other words, a politician! (08/02/07)
Global
warming and stylish cows - By J.D.Mullane - There was a press conference
by PennEnvironment in Philadelphia about the danger global warming poses
to Pennsylvania. I went to see when the Commonwealth will be plunged
into the apocalypse. The environmental people said if trends continue,
in 50 years, Pennsylvania will have the weather of Alabama. I had no
urge to speed home to change out my planet-killing incandescent light
bulbs for planet-saving fluorescent bulbs. This is because I am not
sure what Alabama weather is like, although I think the state has palm
trees on its Gulf Coast. I like palm trees. They remind me of Puerto
Rico. Now, if PennEnvironment had said that in 50 years Pennsylvania
will have the weather of Puerto Rico, I would rush to buy twin V-8 Hummers
and switch to coal-fired heat, just to accelerate global warming. (08/02/07)
Satire
Crunchy
Leaves In July Evidence Of Global Warming - A noted scientist in
the West Midlands has, what he calls, indisputable and irrefutable proof
that the Earth's climate is changing. Dr Paul H Geissler, an eminent
local quack, says that a chance discovery whilst out walking in the
park with his 5-year-old daughter provides conclusive evidence that
the climatic cycle is accelerating, and 'flummoxing' Mother Nature in
the process. (08/02/07)
'Sunshade'
for global warming could cause drought - Catherine Brahic - Pumping
sulphur particles into the atmosphere to mimic the cooling effect of
a large volcanic eruption has been proposed as a last-ditch solution
to combating climate change - but doing so would cause problems of its
own, including potentially catastrophic drought, say researchers. Sulphur
"sunshades" are just one example of a "geo-engineering"
solution to climate change. Such solutions involve artificially modifying
our climate to counteract the effects of human greenhouse gas emission.
Geo-engineering huh? I'd call it
something else. (08/02/07)
Indian
Ocean pollution causes most global warming
Malaysia Sun - A new study suggests that pollution over the Indian Ocean
is causing as much warming as greenhouse gas released by human activity.
(08/02/07)
Stray
cat explosion joins list of evils blamed on global warming - James
Cowan, CanWest News Service - An explosion in Toronto's stray cat population
is the latest phenomenon being blamed on global warming, joining a growing
list of evils that includes increases in hay fever and seal mating as
well as decreases in the supply of maple syrup and Bulgarian prostitutes.
(08/01/07)
Science:
Physicist says humans cause global warming -
HEIDELBERG, Germany -- A German physicist said a statistical analysis
has strengthened the evidence that human activities are causing global
temperatures to rise. Funny how the
warmists quickly chastise any skeptic physicist as not being credible
unless since they are not "climatologists." But if you are
a faithfull follower of the global warming religion, you are "credible."
(08/01/07)
NBC:
Garden for Global Warming - By Julia A. Seymour - Are you getting
sick of all those global warming reports on the network news? Well,
now on NBC you'll know when to change the channel. During global warming
reports "NBC Nightly News" changes the color of the signature
peacock logo to green. That's the color it was during the "fresh"
urban garden segment on July 31. "Finally tonight, a small solution
being offered up in the fight against climate change - something you
can do in your own backyard or at least very close to home," said
anchor Brian Williams. (08/01/07)
Companies
Get Scored On Global Warming - "Global warming is real. We
have 10 years to do something significant about it, and we can,"
said Gary Hirshberg, the chairman of ClimateCounts and chief executive
of organic yogurt maker Stonyfield Farm in Londonderry. "Business
must play a significant role in stopping global warming, and we believe
the key to influencing companies lies in the hands of the consumer."
Really? 10 years? I thought the U.N
said 8 years. Do we need to start the clock over? Did we just get
a 2-year reprieve? (08/01/07)
Follow the oil money but what about
the grant money?
Funding
boost for global warming campaign - Climate Concern has received
a £2,700 grant towards its campaign to make people aware of the
dangers of global warming. The National Lottery Awards for All grant
will boost the campaign's bid to bring home to everyone the urgency
of the situation, by persuading as many people as possible to see the
Al Gore environmental film An Inconvenient Truth. (08/01/07)
Genie
Out of the Bottle: 'U.N. Climate Change Meeting Aims at Rich Countries'
- By Noel Sheppard - Climate change alarmism met the infamous Oil for
Food scam at the United Nations Tuesday. As a result, if you had any
questions regarding why the U.N. has been the point-man on driving global
warming hysteria throughout America and around the world, they were
all answered. In fact, the genie was let out of the proverbial bottle
by this Reuters headline: "U.N. Climate Change Meeting Aims at
Rich Countries." As Jeffrey Jones was fond of saying in the movie
"Amadeus" while playing the part of Emperor Joseph II, "Well,
there it is." (08/01/07)
Another
perspective on the global warming debate - We all want to protect
our planet. We all wish to have an environmentally friendly lifestyle.
This is vitally important for us, our children and their children. We
all abhor the exhaustion of the earth's natural resources, the uncontrolled
population growth in some nations and the extinction of numerous species
of flora and fauna.
We can all agree that even if we are not Greenpeace supporters, we are
still very much concerned about the fate of our beautiful Blue Planet,
as Earth is often referred to. We shudder, when we view swathes of Rain
Forest in South America being chopped down to allow a couple of years
of limited farming. We want world organisations to do something significant
about that phenomenon... (08/01/07)
Ignoring
the meat of the global warming issue - By NEIL REYNOLDS - We all
emit greenhouse gases simply by breathing - one kilogram of carbon dioxide
a day, on average, per person. Since there are six billion of us, we
collectively emit more than two trillion kilograms of carbon dioxide
a year. Scientists don't hold these emissions against us. What public
policy options, after all, exist? Breath control? All animals emit greenhouse
gases and by comparison, humans are relatively restrained respirators.
The planet's livestock animals alone, for example, breathe out three
billion tonnes of CO{-2} a year. Livestock, indeed, emit more GHG into
the atmosphere than all of the cars, freight trucks, railways, airplanes
and container ships in the entire world. (08/01/07)
Un-friggin-believable!
Global
warming presents "opportunities" for dairy - By Dairy
Herd staff - Since California is often on the vanguard of societal issues,
a new effort to encourage the state's farmers to reduce greenhouse-gas
emissions bears watching. The California Climate Action Registry, a
public/private partnership created by the state legislature in 2000,
has initiated voluntary reporting of greenhouse-gas emissions from farms.
The plan would be to reward farms with "greenhouse-gas credits"
if those farms were able to show that they reduced greenhouse gases
through the use of methane digesters or other technology. The credits
could then be traded on the Chicago Climate Exchange, thus providing
the farms with an economic incentive. Farms would first have to establish
a "baseline" emissions rate, and then show they were able
to reduce emissions through technology. "The process is cumbersome,
there's no question about it," says Paul Martin, director of environmental
services for Western United Dairymen. But Martin and others see it as
a potential opportunity - especially in light of global-warming concerns.
Now that the public has become concerned about global warming, public
funds may be allocated to greenhouse-gas reductions at the farm level.
Last week, the California State Board of Food and Agriculture held a
public hearing on climate change and addressed some of these issues.
Scientists testified that global warming is real and could pose severe
threats to California&'s agriculture. Dennis Baldocchi, professor of
biometeorology at the University of California-Berkeley, said milder
winters - specifically, less winter chill and winter dormancy - is
affecting the state's fruit trees, and that could lead to a reduction
in fruit and nut production. Less
winter chill? Didn't California just lose a shit-load of grapes, nuts
and citrus, and especially oranges to a winter freeze? But less winter
chill is a bad thing? (08/01/07)
Oxley
has right direction - By Terry McCrann - TRADE expert Alan Oxley
makes some basic but fundamentally important points about any proposals
to cut global greenhouse gas emissions. In sum, that it could only be
done by a multi-track approach. And one that was built on pro-growth
emission reduction, not the 'Green' anti-growth way. And would also
have to include helping countries live with climate change effects.
In his latest APEC Study Centre newsletter Oxley starts with the obvious
that it required a global consensus. And then the brutal truth: "there
is none". (08/01/07)
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