Questioning  Climate
3-1-2010
EXCERPT:
Day after day we are bombarded with images of polar bears on ice bergs and collapses of ice sheet
into the ocean with apocalyptic headlines that the Arctic ice will vanish within a few years. It is of
particular interest that, according to Dr. Vicky Pope, head of Climate Change at the UK Met Office,
“Recent headlines have proclaimed that Arctic summer sea ice has decreased so much in the past
few years that it has reached a tipping point and will disappear very quickly. The truth is that …

JoNova
Posted on February 18th, 2010
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David Lappi is a geologist from Alaska who has sent in a set of beautiful graphs–including an especially prosaic one of the last 10,000 years in Greenland–that he put together himself (and which I’ve copied here at the top).
If you wonder where today’s temperature fits in with the grand scheme of time on Earth since the dinosaurs were wiped out, here’s the history. We start with the whole 65 million years, then zoom in, and zoom in again to the last 12,000 from both ends of …

American Thinker
February 25, 2010
By Alan Siddons
EXCERPT:
Insulated by an outer crust, the surface of the earth acquires nearly all of its heat from the sun. The only exit for this heat to take is through a door marked “Radiation.” And therein lies a tale…
Recently, I chanced upon an Atmospheric Science Educator Guide [PDF] published by NASA. Aimed at students in grades 5 through 8, it helps teachers explain how so-called “greenhouse gases” warm our planet Earth.
These guides are interesting on a number of levels, so I recommend that you look them over. But what caught my eye was this:

Question: …

Hello readers,
I learned through my forum members,that a pretty girl was visible and not my blog and forum,and that they were jealous about it.
Was it because I was now into women and planned a change from the boring Global Warming Skeptics forum and Blog,to photos of women?
Could it be because a good reason actually exist,to justify shocking you with a woman holding books and be modest the whole time?
Or could it be because the domain name expired and that is why the server host punishes people with a pretty girl …

JoNova
February 4th, 2010
EXCERPT:
Last week a paid public servant spoke untruths, but instead of being exposed by the media, he was aided by our taxpayer-funded public broadcast network. Andy Pitman spoke about the socio-economic position of a group he avoids, and let down UNSW, abused the title “Professor”, and misled the public.
The journalists allowed the baseless smears to be broadcast without question, not just once, but twice.
Professor Andy Pitman on ABC Radio: Sarah Clark interview Andy Pitman on glaciers.
Robin Williams thought it was so “useful” he rebroadcast the same factually incorrect, …

April Baby’s California Life
February 02, 2010
EXCERPT:
This letter represents how clueless and addled brain many politicians are. Does Senator Feinstein believe the crap she had some lackey write? Does she think I believe the sewage she’s slinging in this form letter? Does she think I’m stupid and this will appease me?

And these sort of out-of-touch politicians wonder why they’re getting run out of office…

Dear Mrs. Gardiner:
Thank you for writing to express your concern about reports that climate scientists manipulated data and suppressed opinions questioning the science of …

Climategate
January 28, 2010
contributed by John O’Sullivan
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Yesterday the London Times broke the latest news on the fate of disgraced British climatologist Phil Jones, of the University of East Anglia (UEA). Jones breached the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by refusing to comply with requests for data concerning claims by its scientists that man-made emissions were causing global warming. The Times reports that the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) decided that the UEA failed in its duties under the Act but said that it could not prosecute those involved because the …

Times Online
January 28, 2010
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The university at the centre of the climate change row over stolen e-mails broke the law by refusing to hand over its raw data for public scrutiny.
The University of East Anglia breached the Freedom of Information Act by refusing to comply with requests for data concerning claims by its scientists that man-made emissions were causing global warming.
The Information Commissioner’s Office decided that UEA failed in its duties under the Act but said that it could not prosecute those involved because the …

Objectivist Individualist
22 December 2009
EXCERPT:
Using data downloaded from NASA GISS and picking rural sites near, but not too near, to urban sites, a comparison has been made of the temperature trend over time of the rural sites compared to those of the urban sites.  28 pairs of sites across the U.S. were compared.  The paired rural site is from 31 to 91 km from the urban site in each pair.  The result is that urban and rural sites were similar in 1900, with the urban sites slightly higher.  The urban sites …

The Daily Bayonet
EXCERPT:
A Miss World wants us all to go vegan, a city in the north of England may be hugely improved by global warming and the Met Office explains how it ensures the world is always warmer.
But first, a correction from last week, when I suggested the Doomsday Clock had moved forward.  it didn’t, it went backward.  But I’m still right twice daily.
Part One: Al Gore & Friends
Font-tastic!  Not only did Al Gore’s latest book bring us photo-shopped doom on the cover, it also needed a whole new font.  …

Telegraph.co.uk
By Christopher Booker
Published: 5:44PM GMT 23 Jan 2010
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I can report a further dramatic twist to what has inevitably been dubbed “Glaciergate” – the international row surrounding the revelation that the latest report on global warming by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) contained a wildly alarmist, unfounded claim about the melting of Himalayan glaciers. Last week, the IPCC, led by its increasingly controversial chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, was forced to issue an unprecedented admission: the statement in its 2007 report that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by …

There is No Frakking “Scientific Consensus” on Global Warming
1-21-2010
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In Dec. 2009 Time magazine ran an article titled “The Tragedy of the Himalayas.” The article is built around Syed Iqbal Hasnain – the glacier researcher now at the center of a controversy over how quickly the Himalayan glaciers are melting.
BACKGROUND
While the glacier story has been percolating for some time, four days ago a report in the Times of London afforded it prominent media coverage. The Times says that a claim in the 2007 United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) …

Watts Up With That?
1-24-2010
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All the years I’ve been in TV news, I’ve observed that every story has a tipping point. In news, we know when it has reached that point when we say it “has legs” and the story takes on a life of it’s own. The story may have been ignored or glossed over for weeks, months, or years until some new piece of information is posted and starts to galvanize people. The IPCC glacier melt scandal was the one that galvanized the collective voice that has been saying …

Weatheraction.com
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From Piers Corbyn +44(0)7958713320 or office above, piers@WeatherAction.com
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17th Jan 2010
Roger,
You write in the article

Met Office’s debate over longer-term forecasts
By Roger Harrabin
Environment analyst, BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8462890.stm

….And many other meteorologists mistrust Mr Corbyn himself because he refuses to publish his
scientific methods. I have been asking him for several months to offer independent
corroboration of his forecasting successes but none has been supplied. …..

I find that what you write is a LIE.
I have referred you to plenty of independent corroboration* of our forecast …

ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009)
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Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere.
However, some studies have suggested that the ability of oceans and plants to absorb carbon dioxide recently may have begun to decline and that the airborne fraction of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions is therefore beginning to increase.
LINK
Sunsettommy comments:
There are over two dozen peer reviewed published science papers since the …

New York Times
December 31, 2009
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
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The unusual pattern of atmospheric high and low pressure over and around the Arctic that has contributed to the recent snow and cold from Alabama to Washington, to East Anglia, England (and rain and warmth along the west coast of Greenland) is also an important influence on the shifting sheath of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean.
Several specialists studying Arctic sea ice told me that there’s a good chance that, if current conditions persist, the ice this spring …

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, December 17, 2009
EXCERPT:
The latest installment of Jesse Ventura’s highly successful Conspiracy Theory show exposed millions of viewers on national TV last night to the climate change fraud, blowing a giant hole in the global warming scam by exposing how its adherents comprise wealthy industrialists making billions in profits by fearmongering about the environment.
Ventura and his team attempted to track down the key architects of the scheme, a search which led them to Beijing China and the heavily guarded residence of global warming pioneer …

Herald Sun

Andrew Bolt
Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 08:45am
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Lawrence Soloman on how the Climategate scientists hijacked Wikipedia to preach warming and censor sceptics:

As we now know from the Climategate Emails, this band [of Climategate scientists] saw the Medieval Warm Period as an enormous obstacle in their mission of spreading the word about global warming. If temperatures were warmer 1,000 years ago than today, the Climategate Emails explain in detail, their message that we now live in the warmest of all possible times would be undermined…
With the help …

SPPI Blog
From The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley in Copenhagen
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The mountains shall labor, and what will be born? A stupid little mouse. Thanks to hundreds of thousands of US citizens who contacted their elected representatives to protest about the unelected, communistic world government with near-infinite powers of taxation, regulation and intervention that was proposed in early drafts of the Copenhagen Treaty, there is no Copenhagen Treaty. There is not even a Copenhagen Agreement. There is a “Copenhagen Accord”.
The White House spinmeisters spun, and their official press release proclaimed, with more than usual …

Pajamas Media
December 17, 2009 – by Joseph D’Aleo
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The Russian paint-by-numbers data. The CRU data matching NOAA and NASA. What’s left?
As James Delingpole, in the Telegraph, noted Wednesday:
Climategate just got much, much bigger. And all thanks to the Russians who, with perfect timing, dropped this bombshell just as the world’s leaders are gathering in Copenhagen to discuss ways of carbon-taxing us all back to the dark ages.

On Tuesday, we heard via the Ria Novosti agency that the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center …