Express.co.uk
Tuesday August 31,2010
By Donna Bowater
EXCERPT:

THE world’s leading climate change body has been accused of losing credibility after a damning report into its research practices.

A high-level inquiry into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found there was “little evidence” for its claims about global warming.
It also said the panel had emphasised the negative impacts of climate change and made “substantive findings” based on little proof.
The review by the InterAcademy Council (IAC) was launched after the IPCC’s hugely embarrassing 2007 benchmark climate change report, …

Warning Signs
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
By Alan Caruba
EXCERPT:
The headlines report the way the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been lying and some, myself included, are calling for an end to this snakes’ nest of global deception.
I keep waiting for some environmental group to announce that the Earth is running out of oxygen. It’s the kind of huge lie that environmentalists of every description engage in. There’s plenty of oxygen and, despite the latest lies about carbon dioxide (CO2), the great oceans of the world …

On Line Opinion
By Mark S. Lawson – posted Wednesday, 1 September 2010
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In late 2009 the UK Meteorological office solemnly warned the world that it expected 2010 to be warmer than 1998, the hottest on the instrument record. (“Climate could warm to record levels in 2010”, Met Office, December 10, 2009)
A bastion of global warming theory, the Met Office went on to say that a record warm year is “not a certainty”, as the el Niño cycle then developing in the Pacific may give out …

The Resilient Earth
Submitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Thu, 08/26/2010
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Much concern has been raised by climate scientists regarding ice loss from the world’s two remaining continental ice sheets. Rapid loss of ice-mass from the glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica are cited as proof positive of global warming’s onslaught. The latest measurements involve the use of satellite gravimetry, estimating the mass of terrain beneath by detecting slight changes in gravity as a satellite passes overhead. But gravity measurements of ice-mass loss are complicated by glacial …

Hello Readers,
Yeah the Blog was down for two + days.
I apologize for the shocking change.
For some reason one little spot in the wordpress files went bad while I was upgrading the Forum software.But I have a back up of the data and help from the founder of this Blog.Steve LeMaster who fixed the problem.
We still do not know why it happened,but that it happens for no obvious reason still did not damage anything.It simply fails to work because of a missing configuration file.
There is a good reason why regular back …

Canada Free Press
By Dr. Tim Ball
Monday, August 23, 2010
EXCERPT:
Moonlight is not light generated by the moon, but reflected sunlight. First astronauts on the moon were amazed by the brightness of Earth when it appeared over the lunar horizon. What they saw was Earthlight, which is also reflected sunlight. It’s sunlight that does little to heat the Earth because it goes directly back out to space. The amount reflected varies with changes to the surface and atmosphere. These changes are significant yet poorly …

Watts Up With That?
August 24, 2010
EXCERPT:
For those who don’t know, William Connolley, a Real Climate founding contributor, has been the most prolific climate information gatekeeper at Wikipedia, and was the subject of this Lawrence Solomon article:
Wikibullies at work. The National Post exposes broad trust issues over Wikipedia climate information
Given the volume of his volunteer Wiki output, one wonders how he supports himself with regular work.
Bishop hill reports today:
A correspondent writes to tell me that Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee are currently examining the conduct of people involved in …

CO2 Science
25 August 2010
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In a paper recently published in AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, Mulder et al. (2010) assess the connection between water and energy production by conducting a comparative analysis for estimating the energy return on water invested (EROWI) for several renewable and non-renewable energy technologies using various Life Cycle Analyses. This approach mirrors the energy return on energy investment (EROEI) technique that has been used to determine the desirability of different forms of alternative energy, with the technique’s most …

ICECAP
By Walter Cunningham
8/24/2010
EXCERPT:
The subjects and style of my writing attracts rebuttals. I usually resist the temptation to respond, but the article by Robert Curl, Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences Emeritus at Rice University and Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry is just too good to resist. His article is typical of academics with all those advanced degrees, and who know what is best for the rest of us – if we would just listen. In typical global warming alarmist fashion, it attacks …

NewsBusters
Wed, 08/25/2010 – 00:42 ET
By Noel Sheppard
EXCERPT:

E-mail messages obtained by NewsBusters refute claims that multi-millionaire filmmaker James Cameron cancelled a debate with prominent global warming skeptics because they weren’t as famous as he is.
As NewsBusters reported Monday, a debate had been scheduled and placed on the program for last weekend’s AREDay summit in Aspen, Colorado, featuring internet publisher Andrew Breitbart, Sen. James Inhofe’s (R-Okla.) former communications director Marc Morano, and documentarian Ann McElhinney.
Within the past 36 hours, event organizers have absurdly claimed that since …

World Climate Report
August 19,2010
EXCERPT:
Last week we presented our analysis of the causes behind this summer’s record-breaking heat wave in western Russia.
We summarized the situation thus:
But global warming theory doesn’t come anywhere close to explaining why it’s so darn hot this summer in Moscow.
Long-term observations suggest a more basic cause—an unusual and unprecedented (at least since 1950) confluence of several naturally-occurring atmospheric circulation patterns that together combined to set the stage for extreme warmth. Add to that urbanization, changing forestry practices, and perhaps throw …

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My Forum is back online and working normally.It has been upgraded to meet the changes made by the server.
Take a look and see for yourself.
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Climate Realists
August 18,2010
by John O’Sullivan
EXCERPT:
Respected American physicist, Dr Charles R. Anderson has waded into the escalating Satellitegate controversy publishing a damning analysis on his blog.
In a fresh week of revelations when NOAA calls in their lawyers to handle the fallout, Anderson adds further fuel to the fire and fumes against NOAA, one of the four agencies charged with responsiblity for collating global climate temperatures. NOAA is now fighting a reargaurd legal defense to hold onto some semblance of credibility with growing evidence …

The Hockey Schtick
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
EXCERPT:
Climate scientist Roger Pielke, Sr has noted that land surface temperature records (which comprise the vast majority of temperature records prior to the satellite era (1979-)) are unreliable due to land use changes and urban heat island effects, and that we should therefore look to ocean heat content changes as the most reliable metric for assessing global heating and cooling. The oceans cover 71% of the global surface area and hold at least 1000 times more heat than the atmosphere. Many have …

JoNova
August 18,2010
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Are the small islands of the South Pacific in danger of disappearing, glug, under the waves of the rising ocean? Will thousands of poor inhabitants be forced to emigrate, as desperate refugees, to Australia and New Zealand? Has any of this got anything to do with man-made emissions of CO2?
By looking closely at the records, it turns out that the much advertised rising sea levels in the South Pacific depend on anomalous depressions of the ocean during 1997 and 1998 thanks to an …

Watts Up With That?
August 19,2010
Guest post by Bob Tisdale
EXCERPT:
The Liu and Curry (2010) paper has been the subject of a number of posts at Watts Up With That over the past few days. This post should complement Willis Eschenbach’s post Dr. Curry Warms the Southern Ocean, by providing a more detailed glimpse at the availability of source data used by Hadley Centre and NCDC in their SST datasets and by illustrating SST anomalies for the periods used by Liu and Curry. I’ve …

Climate Realists
by Dan Pangburn P.E. guest post at Climate Realists
August 11,2010
EXCERPT:
Since 2001 the atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased by 20% of the total increase from 1800 to 2001 while average global temperature (agt) has not increased significantly and in fact the agt for the nine years from 2001 through 2009 shows a decline of 0.5C per century. This is outside of the ‘limits’ asserted by the ‘Consensus’ of the Climate Science Community.
So how did the Consensus get it so wrong?
The scientists in the …

The Hockey Schtick
Saturday, August 14, 2010
EXCERPT:
A paper published yesterday in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, confirms other studies of tide gauge records which show that there has been no statistically significant acceleration in sea level rise over the past 100+ years, in contrast to statements of the IPCC and Al Gore. Sea levels have been rising naturally since the peak of the last major ice age 20,000 years ago, and the rate of rise began to decelerate about 8,000 years ago:
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, …

The Observatory
Sunday, 15 August 2010 16:39 Indur M. Goklany
EXCERPT:
A Primer on the Global Death Toll from Extreme Weather Events — Context and Long Term (1900–2008) Trends
Background

Based on 2000–08 data, extreme weather events are responsible for about 0.05% of all global deaths (31,700 deaths vs. 58.8 million, annually). That is, despite the media attention to such events, extreme weather events have a minor impact on global public health.
Long term (1900–2008) data show that average annual deaths and death rates from all such events declined …

Canada Free Press
August 13,2010
Dianna Cotter
EXCERPT:
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for years has been predicting the greenhouse effect can spin out of control. They claim that there exists a scientific consensus that CO2 is pushing the planet into an unrestrained greenhouse effect, that it’s raising global temperatures and it must be stopped. IPCC was created in the 1980s by the United Nations.
They have released findings that say that carbon-based emissions released into the atmosphere by humans, mostly in wealthy, Western countries, must be reduced, or a …