Quote:The warmists call themselves climatologists, but that term is a job description, not a degree. A better description would be calamitologist - one who envisions climate calamities.

Quote:On a walk through their plant to see how FLIR cameras are made, we asked them if - given global negotiations to regulate carbon dioxide – if anyone has requested a CO2 camera for commercial use.

"No one's asked us for one," said Benson.

Not yet, but global negotiations aiming to make it finally no longer free to put emit CO2 into the air may soon have FLIR's full attention.

Quote:SteveGinIL
Posted Mar 12, 2010 at 1:14 AM

Bishop Hill has this, plus he comments on this link:

11 March: Physics World: Concerns raised over Institute of Physics climate submission
by Michael Banks, news editor of Physics World
The hockey-stick graph, which is widely considered as a valid result in the climate-research community, was later included into the third assessment report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2001.
The “trick”, as mentioned by Jones in one of his e-mails to Mann, Bradley and Hughes, is a statistical method that is widely accepted in the climate community and is applied to proxy measurements in the years since 1960. It deals with the problem that some tree rings in certain parts of the world have stopped getting bigger since that time, when they ought to have been increasing in size if the world is warming.

Quote:Uniformitarianism, in the philosophy of naturalism, assumes that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now, have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere in the universe. It is frequently summarized as “the present is the key to the past,” because it holds that all things continue as they were from the beginning of the world.

Quote:The content of these a few personal emails has no impact what-so-ever on our overall understanding that human activity is driving dangerous levels of global warming.”

Quote:It’s been nearly two weeks since a scandal shook many people’s faith in the scientists behind global warming alarmism. The scandal forced the University of East Anglia (UK) to divulge that it threw away raw temperature data and prompted the temporary resignation of Phil Jones of the university’s Climate Research Unit.



Despite that resignation and calls by a U.S. senator to investigate the matter, ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news programming has remained silent – not mentioning a word about the scandal since it broke on Nov. 20, even as world leaders including President Barack Obama prepare to meet in Copenhagen, Denmark next week to promote a pact to reduce greenhouse gases.

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An examination of morning and evening news programs on ABC, CBS and NBC since Nov. 20 yielded zero mentions of the scandal, even in the Nov. 25 reports about Obama going to Copenhagen to discuss the need for emissions reductions. But during the same time period, the networks reported on pro-golfer Tiger Woods’ “minor” car accident at least 37 times. They also found time to report on an orphaned Moose and the meal selection at the president’s State Dinner.

Quote:The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" produced its "reporting" on Climate-gate Tuesday night, when Stewart quipped, "Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very Internet you invented. Oh, oh, the irony!"

Quote:In the spirit of "Tips & Notes to WUWT" -

As a layman regarding climate in general, but one who is observing articles here and on other "skeptical" sites, I'm aware of a number of different scientific discussions that do not lead to support of AGW.

However, I believe that various polls show that a majority of the "non-involved" folks are being led by what the main stream media world-wide carries and are not aware of the real lack of either consensus or agreement regarding the concept of climate change, either warming or cooling, being caused by humanity.

The other day I was in an automobile dealership in Florida and noticed a "Global Warming Rating" for the cars there. I jokingly said to the salesman that I wasn't going to buy a car there because they obviously supported the Global Warming concept especially since it hasn't been warming since 1988. He had no idea what I was talking about and was genuinely surprised (or thought I was crazy) when I explained to him that since the temperature high of 1998, we have not had higher temperatures, and recently the temps have actually been cooling slightly. In my opinion, he is typical of the majority of Americans (maybe even most folks world-wide) in that he sees, hears, and reads what the main stream media feeds him and from that one would think that warming is continuing every year and getting worse.

Therefore, one thing I believe all of us who do not support the Global Warming concept should constantly mention is this simple truth - we have not warmed since 1998. Sure we might begin warming again, but showing that we are being deceived now by the AGW crowd may plant doubt in the minds of those who are being led by the main stream media.

Quote:In a dramatic acceleration of forecasts for global warming, UK scientists say the global average temperature could rise by 4C (7.2F) as early as 2060.

The Met Office study used projections of fossil fuel use that reflect the trend seen over the last 20 years.

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Dr Betts and his colleagues emphasise the uncertainties inherent in the modelling, particularly the role of the carbon cycle.