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Posted: Feb 1 2007, 08:19 PM

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Call Your U.S. Senator to oppose the Energy Tax Bill S. 1733 (Kerry-Boxer)

U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202)224-3121

Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates to Skyrocket" (Video) (3min)

Cap and Trade is a Massive Energy Tax (Video) (7min)

What is buried in the Cap and Trade Bill? (Video) (4min)

Obama Admin: Cap And Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 A Year (CBS News)

"Cap-and-Trade" Energy Tax Will Cost Each American Family Up to $3,100 Per Year

Duke Energy CEO: Cap-and-Trade Plan Would Raise Electric Rates 40% (The Wall Street Journal)

Australian Senate Rejects Cap and Trade (Bloomberg)

Waxman Clueless About His Cap and Trade Bill: "You�re asking me?!"

What You Can(�t) Do About Global Warming (Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Climatology)

H.R. 2454 (Waxman-Markey) Energy Tax Bill (GovTrack.us)

U.S. House of Representatives - Passed 219-212 (Jun 26, 2009)
U.S. Senate - Debate

The 8 cap-and-tax Republicans�and the 44 Democrats who voted no

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FACT: The temperature has only increased 0.6�C in the last 100 Years (IPCC)
FACT: 89% of U.S. temperature stations are biased by +1 to +5�C (SurfaceStations)

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT

20/20: Give Me a Break: Global Warming (Video) (8min)

Unstoppable Solar Cycles (Video) (10min)

With the release of Al Gore's propaganda movie 'An Inconvenient Truth' and with the help of the media the public has been driven into a mass hysteria based not on science but lies. You will learn that there is no empirical evidence that man-made CO2 is the primary cause of the mild 0.6c increase in temperature over the last 100 years, Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is not pollution, pollution has nothing to do with global warming, Al Gore and his movie are a fraud, there is no "consensus" on the cause of global warming, the earth has been warmer in the past then it is today, the land based temperature stations are biased and their temperature records have been "adjusted", Antarctica is not melting, Arctic sea ice cannot effect sea level, sea levels are rising millimeters not feet, computer climate models are worthless, polar bears are not endangered or dying, droughts and hurricanes are not caused or made worse by global warming and there is extensive evidence of natural causes for global warming such as increased solar activity and orbital variations.

The current man-made global warming hysteria is largely driven by the environmentalist movement in an attempt to reshape western society away from capitalism by implementing state control (socialism) over private energy usage (Carbon Taxes, Cap and Trade). These environmentalists wish to get rid of the suburbs, SUVs, single family homes and return western society to a neo-urbanistic state of living. This is because the current environmentalist movement is filled with ex-communists and neo-socialists who have long ago abandoned science and replaced it with their politically motivated environmental "religion". Don't believe me? Go ask any "environmentalist" - socialism or capitalism? No, not all scientists even those who support man-made global warming theory seek these politically motivated intentions but their position has been distorted and exaggerated for political gain by extremists. I have created this page to help shed light on what you have not been told.

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.�
- Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister

Obama:

Anita Dunn - Obama's Communications Director:
Anita Dunn: "I turn to Communist Killer Mao Tse-Tung as my Political Philosopher" (Video)

Carol Browner - Obama's Climate Czar:
Browner is an environmental radical � and a socialist (The Washington Examiner)
Browner: Redder than Obama Knows (FOX News)
Obama climate czar has socialist ties (The Washington Times)
Obama Climate Czarina Was Member of Socialist Group's Environmental Commission (FOX News)

John Holdren - Obama's Science Czar:
Obama's Science Czar Considered Forced Abortions, Sterilization as Population Growth Solutions (Fox News)
Obama's science czar suggested compulsory abortion, sterilization (The Washington Examiner)
Obama's Science Fiction 'Czar' (RealClearPolitics)
Obama Science Czar: Redistributionism as the cure for American exceptionalism (HotAir)
The Mad Scientist at the White House (Fox News)

Ron Bloom - Obama's Manufacturing Czar:
Ron Bloom: "I agree with Mao" (Video) (1 min)

Van Jones - Obama's Green Jobs Czar: (Resigned - September 5, 2009)
Van Jones, 'Green Jobs Czar', a self-described 'communist' (The Examiner)
Van Jones, 'Green Jobs Czar', wants eco-capitalism (Breitbart)
Green jobs czar signed 'truther' statement in 2004 (The Washington Times)

Obama to Declare Carbon Dioxide Dangerous Pollutant (Bloomberg)
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is Not Pollution (Popular Technology)

Obama Says He Will Control Your Thermostat (Video) (1min)
Big Brother to control thermostats in homes? (WorldNetDaily)

Videos:

20/20: Give Me a Break: Global Warming (Video) (8min)
Apocalypse? No! (Video) (1hr 26min)
Bullshit! - Environmental Hysteria (Video) (29min)
Bullshit! - Being Green (Video) (29min)
CBC: Doomsday Called Off (Video) (44min)
Climate Catastrophe Cancelled (Video) (25min)
Climate Chains (Video) (22min)
CNN: Exposed: Climate of Fear (Video) (42min)
George Carlin - 'Saving The Planet' (Video) (8min)
Policy Peril: Straight Talk About Global Warming (Video) (40min)
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Video) (1hr 14min)
Unstoppable Solar Cycles (Video) (10min)
What is Normal? A Critique of Catastrophic Man-Made Global Warming Theory (Video) (55min)

Bjorn Lomborg: Our priorities for saving the world (Video) (17min) (Bj�rn Lomborg, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics)
John R. Christy: Global Warming - What Do The Numbers Show? (Video) (65min) (John R. Christy, Ph.D. Professor of Atmospheric Sciences)
Patrick J. Michaels: Climate of Extremes (Video) (60min) (Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Climatology)
R. Tim Patterson: Global Warming - Some Real Science (Video) (33min) (R. Tim Patterson, Ph.D. Professor of Earth Science)
Richard S. Lindzen: Deconstructing Global Warming (Video) (55min) (Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT)
Robert M. Carter: Climate Change - Is CO2 the cause? (Video) (36min) (Robert M. Carter, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental and Earth Sciences)

* More Videos

AGW: (Anthropogenic [Man-Made] Global Warming)

"More informed respondents both feel less personally responsible for global warming, and also show less concern for global warming" - 2008 Texas A&M University Study

Don't Believe the Hype (Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT)
Global-Warming Myth (Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Climatology)
I Was On the Global Warming Gravy Train (David Evans, Ph.D. Carbon Accounting Modeller)
The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam (John Coleman, Founder of The Weather Channel)
The Case for Skepticism on Global Warming (Michael Crichton, A.B. Anthropology, M.D. Harvard)
The UN Climate Change Numbers Hoax (Canada Free Press)
What happened to global warming? (BBC)

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Guides:
A Global Warming Primer (PDF) (National Center for Policy Analysis)
A Skeptic�s Guide to Debunking Global Warming Alarmism (PDF) (US Senate Environment & Public Works Committee)
A Skeptical Layman's Guide to Anthropogenic Global Warming (PDF) (Climate Skeptic)
A Skeptic's Guide to An Inconvenient Truth (PDF) (Marlo Lewis Jr. Ph.D.)
Climate Issues and Questions - 3rd Edition (PDF) (The Marshall Institute)
Global Warming FAQ (PDF) (Competitive Enterprise Institute)
Global Warming Quiz (PDF) (Richard A. Keen, Ph.D. Professor of Climatology)
Journalist's Guide To Global Warming Experts (PDF) (The Heartland Institute)
Legislator's Guide to Global Warming Experts (PDF) (The Heartland Institute)
The Cocktail Conversation Guide to Global Warming (PDF) (The Marshall Institute)
The Skeptics Handbook (PDF) (Joanne Nova, Ph.D. Meteorology)

Myths:
Fallacies about Global Warming (PDF) (Science & Public Policy Institute)
Five Biggest Myths about Global Warming (The Washington Examiner)
Global Warming Economics: Facts vs. Myths (PDF) (Competitive Enterprise Institute)
Global Warming: Fact and Myth (S. Fred Singer, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science)
Global Warming: Science vs. Nonsense (PDF) (Executive Intelligence Review)
Global Warming Myths (Friends of Science)
Green Myths On Global Warming - Debunked (The Association of British Drivers, UK)
Heartland President Debunks Global Warming Myths (The Heartland Institute)
Myths and Facts About the Environment (National Center for Public Policy Research)
Myths of Global Warming (National Center for Policy Analysis)
The Global Warming Myth? (John Stossel, ABC News)
Top 10 Climate Myth-Busters for 2007 (Steve Milloy, B.A. Natural Science, M.S. Health Science)
Top 10 Environmental Myths (PDF) (U.S. Chamber of Commerce)
Top 10 'Global-Warming' Myths (Human Events)

Papers:
A Climate of Belief (PDF) (Patrick Frank, Ph.D. Chemistry)
A Natural Limit to Anthropogenic Global Warming (PDF) (William Kininmonth, M.Sc. Retired Head of the Australian National Climate Centre)
Anthropogenic Global Warming: A Skeptical Point of View (PDF) (Anthony R. Lupo, Ph.D. Professor of Atmospheric Science)
Carbon Dioxide is not the primary cause of global warming (PDF) (Allan M.R. MacRae, B.Sc., M.Eng.)
Carbon cycle modelling and the residence time of natural and anthropogenic atmospheric CO2 (PDF) (Tom V. Segalstad, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Geology)
Carbon Emissions Don�t Cause Global Warming (PDF) (David Evans, Ph.D. Carbon Accounting Modeller)
Climate Change: Driven by the Ocean not Human Activity (PDF) (William M. Gray, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science)
Climate Change is Nothing New (PDF) (Lance Endersbee, Professor Emeritus of Engineering)
Climate Change Re-examined (PDF) (Joel M. Kauffman, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Chemistry)
Climate Money: The Climate Industry: $79 billion so far � trillions to come (PDF) (Joanne Nova, Ph.D. Meteorology)
Climate Science: Climate Change and Its Impacts (PDF) (David R. Legates, Ph.D. Professor of Climatology)
Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer questions? (PDF) (Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT)
CO2: The Greatest Scientific Scandal of Our Time (PDF) (Zbigniew Jaworowski, M.D. Ph.D. D.Sc. Natural Sciences)
Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (PDF) (Arthur B. Robinson, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry)
Global Warming: Correcting the Data (PDF) (Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Climatology)
Global Warming: Experts� Opinions versus Scientific Forecasts (PDF) (Kesten C. Green, Ph.D., J. Scott Armstrong, Ph.D. MIT)
Global Warming - Is Carbon Dioxide Getting a Bad Rep? (PDF) (Joseph D�Aleo, M.S. Meteorology, CCM, AMS Fellow)
Global Warming Is Not Happening (PDF) (Christopher Monckton, Mathematician and Former Science Advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, UK)
Governments and Climate Change Issues: The case for rethinking (PDF) (David R. Henderson, Ph.D. Professor of Economics)
Is the Climate Really Changing Abnormally? (PDF) (Ross McKitrick, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics)
Is the Earth still recovering from the "Little Ice Age"? (PDF) (Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Geophysics)
Is the Sky Really Falling? A Review of Recent Global Warming Scare Stories (PDF) (Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Climatology)
Limits to existing quantitative understanding of past, present and future changes to atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration (PDF) (Richard S. Courtney, Expert Peer Reviewer, IPCC)
Low climate sensitivity and other inconvenient truths (PDF) (Lubo� Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physics)
Politics and the Greenhouse Effect (Hans Jelbring, Ph.D Climatology)
Pseudoscientific elements in climate change research (PDF) (Arthur R�rsch, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Molecular Genetics)
Satellite and Climate Model Evidence Against Substantial Manmade Climate Change (Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D. Meteorology, Former Senior Scientist for Climate Studies, NASA)
Taking Greenhouse Warming Seriously (PDF) (Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT)
The Acquittal of Carbon Dioxide (Jeffrey A. Glassman, Ph.D. Applied Physicist and Engineer)
The Global Warming Scam (PDF) (Vincent R. Gray, Ph.D. Physical Chemistry)
The Increase in Global Temperature: What it Does and Does Not Tell Us (PDF) (Robert C. Balling Jr., Ph.D. Professor of Climatology)
The Lynching of Carbon Dioxide - The Innocent Source of Life (PDF) (Martin Hertzberg, Ph.D. Physical Chemistry)
The Myth of Dangerous Human Caused Climate Change (PDF) (Robert M. Carter, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental and Earth Science)
The IPCC's dubious evidence for a human influence on climate (PDF) (John McLean, Climate Data Analyst)
The Missing Hotspot (PDF) (David Evans, Ph.D. Carbon Accounting Modeller)
The Science Isn't Settled - The Limitations of Global Climate Models (PDF) (Tim F. Ball, Ph.D. Climatology)
There Is No Evidence (PDF) (David Evans, Ph.D. Carbon Accounting Modeller)

Reports:
Civil Society Report on Climate Change (PDF) (Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change)
Climate Change Reconsidered (PDF) (NIPCC)
Global Warming Censored (PDF) (Business & Media Institute)
Independent Summary for Policymakers: IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (PDF) (The Fraser Institute)
Critical Topics in Global Warming: Supplementary Analysis of the Independent Summary for Policymakers (PDF) (The Fraser Institute)
Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable? (PDF) (The Heartland Institute)
Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate (PDF) (NIPCC)

Al Gore: "The Goracle"

"What a pompous jerk. ...it's time for Al Gore to get over himself." - Jack Cafferty, CNN, 2007

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Al Gore, B.A. in Government, Divinity and Law School Dropout (no science degree)
The Education of Al Gore (The Washington Times)

QUOTE (The Washington Times)

Mr. Gore's high school performance on the college board achievement tests in physics (488 out of 800 "terrible," St. Albans retired teacher and assistant headmaster John Davis told The Post) and chemistry (519 out of 800 "He didn't do too well in chemistry," Mr. Davis observed) suggests that Mr. Gore would have trouble with science for the rest of his life. At Harvard and Vanderbilt, Mr. Gore continued bumbling along.

As a Harvard sophomore, scholar Al "earned" a D in Natural Sciences 6 in a course presciently named "Man's Place in Nature." That was the year he evidently spent more time smoking cannabis than studying its place among other plants within the ecosystem. His senior year, Mr. Gore received a C+ in Natural Sciences 118.

At Vanderbilt divinity school, Mr. Gore took a course in theology and natural science. The assigned readings included the apocalyptic, and widely discredited "Limits to Growth," which formed much of the foundation for "Earth in the Balance." It is said that Mr. Gore failed to hand in his book report on time. Thus, his incomplete grade turned into an F, one of five Fs Mr. Gore received at divinity school, which may well be a worldwide record.

Gore's guru disagreed (Financial Post, Canada)
The Revelle-Gore Story: Attempted Political Suppression of Science (PDF) (Politicizing Science)

Drug Addict:
Dope-Smoking Al Gore Flunked Out of Grad School (NewsMax)
Gore Smoked Pot as Senator, Friend Charges (NewsMax)
'Gore Pressured Me to Lie About His Drug Habit,' Friend Claims (NewsMax)
Gore was avid pot smoker (The Guardian, UK)
Media Bury Gore�s Lies About Pot (Accuracy in Media)

Hypocrite:
Al Gore and Global Warming - Is He a Hypocrite? (Video) (10min)
Al Gore Takes Private Jet (Video) (7min)
Al Gore attends 'Green' Ball in SUV (Video) (TMZ)
Al Gore, Environmentalist and Zinc Miner (The Wall Street Journal)
- Zero on Zinc: The mining double standard (National Review Online)
Al Gore is No Conservationist (The Washington Post)
Al Gore, polluter? (WorldNetDaily)
Al Gore Refuses to Take Personal Energy Ethics Pledge (US Senate Environment & Public Works Committee)
Al Gore snubs Earth Hour (Watts Up With That)
Al Gore: Occidental Petroleum Connections (The Wall Street Journal)
Al Gore: The Other Oil Candidate (CorpWatch)
Al Gore's Inconvenient Stock Portfolio Exposed (The Earth Times)
Al Gore's Inconvenient Toxic Waste Dump (NewsMax)
Bush's Ranch House 'Far More Eco-Friendly' Than Gore's (CNSNews)
- George W. Bush's eco-friendly ranch compared to Al Gore's energy-expending mansion = True (Snopes)
Eco-warrior Al Gore serves up endangered fish at daughter's party (Daily Mail, UK)
Environmentalists Attack Gore's Dishonesty (NewsMax)
Gore and Enron: Controlling Hypocritical Authority (National Review Online)
Gore's Elk Hills/Occidental Oil Scandal: Bigger Than Teapot Dome (NewsMax)
Gore�s Entourage Lincoln Town Car Outside Global Warming Speech Idles w/ AC Cranking for 20 Minutes! (Canada Free Press)
Gore's Oil Money (The Nation)
Gore Hits the Waves with a Massive New Houseboat (Pajamas Media)
Gore's home energy use: more than 20 times the national average (Tennesse Center for Policy Research)
- Al Gore's Inconvenient Electric Bill (FOX News)
- Al Gore's residence uses considerably more energy than the average American home = True (Snopes)
Gore�s personal electricity consumption up 10%, despite "energy-efficient" home renovations (Tennesse Center for Policy Research)
- Al Gore's Epic Hypocrisy (FOX News)
- Gore's Mansion Uses More Energy After 'Going Green' (CNSNews)
Gore isn't quite as green as he's led the world to believe (USA Today)
Hypocrite Gore Should Practice What He Preaches (The Tech, MIT)
Integrity in the Balance: Al Gore's Record On the Environment (CorpWatch)
Meet the real Al Gore (WorldNetDaily)
Old-Growth Timber used to Rebuild the Veranda of the Vice Presidential Mansion (Newsweek)
Whose Ox Is Gored? The Former Vice President's Environmental Exaggerations and Hypocrisy (The Wall Street Journal)

Al Gore The Sage (Video) (7min)
Al Gore, Ethanol and the Food Crisis (Video) (7min)

Lies:
Gore�s 10 Errors Old and New (PDF) (Science & Public Policy Institute)
Lies, Damned Lies, and Al Gore on Climate (PDF) (Science & Public Policy Institute)
The Gore Lies (National Review Online)

Nobel 'Peace' Prize:
Gore Deserves Nobel Prize for Propaganda (CNSNews)
Nobel Committee Bypassed Holocaust Savior for Al Gore (NewsBusters)
The Science of Gore's Nobel (The Wall Street Journal)

Al Gore Pushes 'Pollution Tax' (NewsMax)
Gore Warns on 'Subprime Carbon' Industry (FOX News)

Profiteering:
Al Gore Gets Rich ($100 Million) After White House (ABC News)
Al Gore, $100,000 Man (The Smoking Gun)
Al Gore is criticised for lining his own pockets after �3,300 ($6,757) per-minute green speech (Daily Mail, UK)
Al Gore, Maurice Strong: Creators of carbon credit scheme cashing in on it (Canada Free Press)
Al Gore�s Carbon Empire: Cashing in on Climate Change (PDF) (Capital Research Center)
Al Gore's Fund to Close After Attracting $5 Billion (Bloomberg)
Cap-And-Trade: Al Gore's Cash Cow (Investor's Business Daily)
Gore-backed Hara sees profit from low-carbon economy (Reuters)
Gore's 'carbon offsets' paid to firm he owns (WorldNetDaily)
Gore Cashing in on $6 Trillion Energy Business (NewsMax)
Gore investment body closes $683m fund (Financial Times, UK)
Gore Invests $35 Million for Hedge Funds With EBay Billionaire (Bloomberg)
Gore makes sustainable investment his business (The Age, Australia)
Gore to Rake in IPO Millions (NewsMax)
Global Warming, Inc. (The Wall Street Journal)
Green firm Camco gets Blood and Gore investment (Reuters)
The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore�s Carbon Crusade (Human Events)

Will Not Debate:
Bj�rn Lomborg Challenges Al Gore to a Debate (The Wall Street Journal)
Chris Horner Challenges Al Gore to a Debate (The Heartland Institute)
Czech President Klaus ready to debate Gore on climate change (The Earth Times)
Dennis T. Avery Challenges Al Gore to a Debate (The Heartland Institute)
Lord Christopher Monckton Challenges Al Gore to a Debate (Center for Science and Public Policy)
- Monckton not allowed to debate with Gore (Watts Up With That?)
Ivy League Professor Bets Al Gore $10,000 He�s Wrong About Global Warming (NewsBusters)
Steve Milloy Challenges Al Gore to a Debate (The Heartland Institute)
Why Won�t Al Gore Debate? (The Heartland Institute)
Will Al Gore Melt? If not, why did he chicken out on an interview? (The Wall Street Journal)
Sign the Petition: Al Gore, Debate Global Warming (8000+ Signatures)

An Inconvenient Truth:

"I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it [global warming] is..." - Al Gore, 2006

Proof: 'An Inconvenient Truth' is Science Fiction (Video) (1min)

Debunked By Peer Review:
An Inconvenient Truth : a focus on its portrayal of the hydrologic cycle (David R. Legates, GeoJournal, Volume 70, Number 1, September 2007)
An Inconvenient Truth : blurring the lines between science and science fiction (Roy W. Spencer, GeoJournal, Volume 70, Number 1, September 2007)

Errors:
Al Gore's climate change film 'is propaganda' (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
UK Court finds 9 Inaccuracies in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (The New Party, UK)
- Al Gore's Convenient Untruths (FOX News)
- Al Gore's 'nine Inconvenient Untruths' (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
- Al Gore told there are nine inconvenient truths in his film (The Times, UK)
- An Inconvenient Lie (WorldNetDaily)
- Gore caught lying (WorldNetDaily)
- Gore�s Nine Lies (FrontPage Magazine)
- Judge attacks nine errors in Al Gore's 'alarmist' climate change film (Daily Mail, UK)
- Judge says Al Gore film has serious scientific inaccuracies (The Earth Times)
Schools must warn of Gore climate film bias (Daily Mail, UK)
- British Schools Ordered to Offer 'Balance' When Showing Al Gore's Global Warming Film (FOX News)
- So how did An Inconvenient Truth become required classroom viewing? (National Post, Canada)
- Propaganda-driven kids attack think tank (WorldNetDaily)
35 Inconvenient Truths: The errors in Al Gore�s movie (Science & Public Policy Institute)
25 Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore (The National Review Online)
20 More inaccuracies (PDF) (UKPRwire)
16 Errors in Al Gore�s An Inconvenient Truth (Science & Public Policy Institute)
8 Questions for Al Gore (Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D. Meteorology, Former Senior Scientist for Climate Studies, NASA)
6 Inconvenient Truths Indeed (Robert C. Balling Jr., Ph.D. Professor of Climatology)
75 Falsehoods in Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (Book) (Wm. Robert Johnston, B.A. Astronomy, M.S. Ph.D. Physics)

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Guides:
A Skeptic's Guide to An Inconvenient Truth (PDF) (Marlo Lewis Jr. Ph.D.)
A Skeptic�s Primer on Al Gores An Inconvenient Truth (PDF) (Marlo Lewis Jr. Ph.D.)
Some Convenient Distortions in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (PDF) (Marlo Lewis Jr. Ph.D.)
Unmasking "An Inconvenient Truth" (PDF) (William Kininmonth, M.Sc. Retired Head of the Australian National Climate Centre)

Al Gore 'Debates' Global Warming (Video) (9min)
Scare Tactics in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (Video) (8min)
Marlo Lewis Critiques Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" (Video) (1hr 2min)

Al Gore Is a Greenhouse Gasbag (Robert Giegengack, Ph.D. Professor of Earth and Environmental Science)
An Inconvenient Truth exaggerated sea level rise (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
An Inconvenient Truth Review (Black & White, Birmingham's City Paper)
Arctic Climate Expert: Gore's Film Is 'Science Fiction' (Dr. Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Ph.D. Founding Director International Arctic Research Center)
Climate Change Hysteria and Al Gore�s �Chicken Little� Scare Tactics (Frontiers of Freedom Institute)
CNN Meteorologist: 'Definitely Some Inaccuracies' in Gore Film (Business & Media Institute)
- CNN Meteorologist Applauds Criticism of 'Inconvenient Truth' (Video) (1min)
From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype (The New York Times)
Gore's Film Violates Oscar Academy Standards (CNSNews)
Inconvenient Truths (Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Climatology)
Inconvenient truths (David Deming, B.S. Geology, Ph.D. Geophysics)
The Truth About Al Gore's Film: An Inconvenient Truth (National Center for Policy Analysis)

The Day After Tomorrow:

"Climatologists will criticize the faulty science on which the film is based..." - Nature Scientific Journal, 2004

'Day After Tomorrow': A lot of hot air (Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Climatology)

Big-Budget Hollywood Movie Is a Science Travesty (Sallie Baliunas, Ph.D. Astrophysics)
Disaster Flick Exaggerates Speed Of Ice Age (Duke University)
Hollywood's religion -- fundamental environmentalism (The San Francisco Chronicle)
The Day After "The Day After Tomorrow" (Robert C. Balling Jr., Ph.D. Professor of Climatology)
'The Day After Tomorrow': Hollywood Fantasy and Kindergarten Science (The Heartland Institute)
These Hollywood special effects may cost the world $15 trillion (Bj�rn Lomborg, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics)

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Posted: May 29 2007, 05:53 AM

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Computer Climate Models:

"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality." - Nikola Tesla, 1934

Antarctic Temperatures Disagree With Climate Model Predictions (Ohio State University)
Are Existing Large-scale Simulations Of Water Dynamics Wrong? (Soil Science Society of America)
Climate models don't tell the full story (NWO - Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research)
Climate Models Overheat Antarctica, New Study Finds (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Dunes, Climate Models Don't Match Up With Paleomagnetic Records (University of Nebraska�Lincoln)
Global warming: Our best guess is likely wrong (Rice University)
Global Warming Predictions Are Overestimated, Suggests Study On Black Carbon (Cornell University)
New Study Increases Concerns About Climate Model Reliability (International Journal of Climatology)
Overconfidence Leads To Bias In Climate Change Estimations (Penn State)
Widespread 'Twilight Zone' Detected Around Clouds, Not Included In Most Climate Change Models (NASA)

Climate change: a model rooster-up (Spiked, UK)
Climate change forecasts are useless for policymaking (Canada Free Press)
Climate is too complex for accurate predictions (New Scientist)
Climate Model Problems in Representing Near-Surface Temperatures at Night (Climate Science)
Computer Models for Weather Forecasting Are Ridden With Errors; No Evidence for Global Warming (Insight on the News)
Dyson: Climate models are rubbish (The Register, UK)
Error strikes 'BBC climate model' (BBC)
Fossils leaves reveal climate model errors (New Scientist)
Garbage in, garbage out (WorldNetDaily)
Global Warming Computer Models Seriously Flawed, Studies Show (The Heartland Institute)
Global Warming Models Labeled 'Fairy Tale' By Team of Scientists (CNSNews)
Satellite observations suggest climate models are wrong on rainfall (BioEd Online)
The MIT modellers violated 49 principles of forecasting (Financial Post, Canada)
Those Darn Computer Models (AccuWeather)

Papers:
Climate Models: A Primer (PDF) (The Marshall Institute)
Computer Climate Models are the Heart of the Problem of Global Warming Predictions (PDF) (Tim F. Ball, Ph.D. Climatology)
Computer Climate Models: Voodoo for Scientists (PDF) (Executive Intelligence Review)
Global Climate Models and Their Limitations (PDF) (NIPCC)
Limitations of Climate Models as Predictors of Climate Change (PDF) (David R. Legates, Ph.D. Professor of Climatology)
Models simulating global climate don�t capture fine-scale ups and downs of temperature (PDF) (Nature)
Seductive Simulations? Uncertainty Distribution Around Climate Models (PDF) (Myanna Lahsen, Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology)
The Mathematical Reason Why Long-run Climatic prediction is Impossible (PDF) (Christopher Monckton, Mathematician and Former Science Advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, UK)
The Role of Models in Prediction for Decision (PDF) (Roger A. Pielke Jr. Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Studies)
The Science Isn�t Settled - The Limitations of Global Climate Models (PDF) (Tim F. Ball, Ph.D. Climatology)
Three Essays on Climate Models (PDF) (Hendrik Tennekes, Former Director of Research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute)
Validation Of Computer-based Climate Models (Vincent R. Gray, Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, Expert Reviewer, IPCC)
What�s wrong with global climate models? (PDF) (George E. Smith, B.Sc. Physics and Mathematics, Lecturer, University of Auckland)

Analyzing Quantitative Models (PDF) (J. Scott Armstrong, B.A. Applied Science, B.S. Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. MIT)
Empiricism Is Not a Matter of Faith (PDF) (Ted Pedersen, Ph.D. Professor of Computer Science)
The Chimera of Software Quality (PDF) (Les Hatton, Ph.D. Computational Fluid Dynamics)
Verification, Validation, and Confirmation of Numerical Models in the Earth Sciences (Science)

Failed Predictions:
Evaluating Jim Hansen�s 1988 Climate Forecast (Roger A. Pielke Jr. Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Studies)
- Temperature Trends 1990-2007: Hansen, IPCC, Obs (Roger A. Pielke Jr. Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Studies)

Falsification:
95% Confidence: IPCC Projections Overpredict Recent Warming (The Blackboard)
Climate Models -vs- Climate Reality: diverging or just a dip? (WattsUpWithThat?)
Do IPCC projections falsify? (Are Swedes Tall?) (The Blackboard)

Hindcasting:
Climate projections: Past performance no guarantee of future skill? (PDF) (Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 36, Issue 13, July 2009)

Scientists:
A Layman�s Explanation of Why Global Warming Predictions by Climate Models are Wrong (Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D. Meteorology, Former Senior Scientist for Climate Studies, NASA)
A Skeptical View of Climate Models (Hendrik Tennekes, Former Director of Research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute)
Climate Models and the National Assessment (David R. Legates, Ph.D. Professor of Climatology)
Climate models for monkeys (William J.R. Alexander, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Biosystems Engineering)
Climate Model Predictions and Adaptation (Roger A. Pielke Jr. Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Studies)
Completely inadequate IPCC models produce the ultimate deception about man made global warming (Tim F. Ball, Ph.D. Climatology)
Faith-Based Models (Peter Huber, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, MIT)
How Do Climate Models Work? (Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D. Meteorology, Former Senior Scientist for Climate Studies, NASA)
It's the Climate Warming Models, Stupid! (Gregory Young, Ph.D. Experimental Physicist)
Pondering Problems with Computer Climate Models (Michael Hammer, BE, MEngSc, Engineering Science)
Problems with the Climate Models (Michael R. Fox, Ph.D. Physical Chemistry)
Real Climate Misunderstanding Of Climate Models (Roger A. Pielke Sr. Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science)
- Comments On Real Climate�s Post �FAQ on climate models: Part II� (Roger A. Pielke Sr. Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science)
Real Climate Suffers from Foggy Perception (Hendrik Tennekes, Former Director of Research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute)
Seamless Prediction Systems by Hendrik Tennekes (Hendrik Tennekes, Former Director of Research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute)
The Consistent-With Game: On Climate Models and the Scientific Method (Roger A. Pielke Jr. Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Studies)
Why multiple climate model agreement is not that exciting (William M. Briggs, M.S. Atmospheric Science, Ph.D. Statistics)

"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Babbage," if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right "answers come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Charles Babbage, Computer Pioneer, 1864

Climate Modeling Errors:
- Clouds
- Convection
- Cosmic Rays
- Eastern Boundary Regions of the Oceans
- El Nino
- Evaporation
- Macroturbulence
- Mountain Range Circulation
- Multi-Decadal Variability
- Near-Surface Temperatures at Night
- Precipitation
- Regional Climate Change
- Seasonal Variability
- Spatial Variations in Geothermal Heat
- Stratosphere Climate Change
- Transfer of Solar Radiation in the Atmosphere
- Tropical Troposphere Temperatures
- Upper Tropospheric Humidity

"...all of our models have errors which mean that they will inevitably fail to track reality within a few days irrespective of how well they are initialized." - James Annan, William Connolley, RealClimate.org

"These codes are what they are - the result of 30 years and more effort by dozens of different scientists (note, not professional software engineers), around a dozen different software platforms and a transition from punch-cards of Fortran 66, to fortran 95 on massively parallel systems. [...] No complex code can ever be proven 'true' (let alone demonstrated to be bug free). Thus publications reporting GCM results can only be suggestive." - Gavin Schmidt, RealClimate.org

"Consensus":

"The debate on global warming is over." - Al Gore, 2006

NO 'Consensus' on "Man-Made" Global Warming (Popular Technology)

"Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus..."
- Michael Crichton, A.B. Anthropology, M.D. Harvard

31,478 Scientists Reject 'Global Warming' Agenda (Petition Project)
- Art Robinson Responds to Petition Slander (OISM)
- Art Robinson: A Scientist Finds Independence (American Spectator)
- Qualifications of Signers (Petition Project)
4000 Scientists sign 'The Heidelberg Appeal' (Science & Environmental Policy Project)
1500 Scholars, Policy Experts and Theologians sign the 'Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship' (Cornwall Allliance)
1100 Climate Realists sign 'The Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change' (ICSC)
700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims (US Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works)
- Morano responds to attacks on 650 Scientist Report (PDF)
500 Scientists with Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares (The Heartland Institute)
400 Scientists Dispute Man-Made Global Warming Claims (US Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works)
170 Scientists, Economists and Theologians sign an open letter to the signers of 'Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action' (Cownwall Alliance)
116 Scientists Rebuke Obama as 'Simply Incorrect' on Global Warming (Cato Institute)
105 Scientists sign 'The Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change' (Science & Environmental Policy Project)
100 Scientists sign an 'Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations' (National Post, Canada)
60 Scientists call on Harper to revisit the science of global warming (Financial Post, Canada)
47 Scientists sign the 'Statement by Atmospheric Scientists on Greenhouse Warming' (Science & Environmental Policy Project)
41 Scientists debunk global warming alert (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
35 Skeptical Scientists, 'The Deniers' (National Post, Canada)

Inconvenient Fact: ...only 51 individuals signed the IPCC Report released on February 2, 2007 (Institute for Canadian Values)

Papers:
Scientific Consensus on Climate Change? (PDF) (Energy & Environment)
Scientific Consensus on Global Warming (PDF) (The Heartland Insitute)

Scientist Polls/Surveys:
89% of state climatologists said that current science is unable to prove man-made global warming (National Center for Policy Analysis)
80% of IPCC Scientists said that human activity is not the principal driver of climate change (PR Newswire)
85% of AMS Certified Weathercasters do not agree that most of the warming since 1950 is very likely human-induced (PDF) (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)
69.9% of Climate Scientists agree climate change will have beneficial effects (PDF) (The Heartland Institute)
68% of Alberta Earth Scientists and Engineers Do Not Believe the Science is Settled on Climate Change (Edmonton Journal)
64.9% of Climate Scientists do not agree that science can predict the future climate (PDF) (The Heartland Institute)
56% of Climate Scientists do not agree that the scientific debate on climate change is over (PDF) (The Heartland Institute)
55% of Peer-Reviewed Papers Do Not Endorse Global Warming Theory (DailyTech)

Copenhagen Consensus 2004 (Copenhagen Consensus)

QUOTE (Copenhagen Consensus)

A panel of economic experts, comprising eight of the world�s most distinguished economists [...] looked at three proposals, including the Kyoto Protocol, for dealing with climate change by reducing emissions of carbon. The expert panel regarded all three proposals as having costs that were likely to exceed the benefits.

RE: �The scientific consensus on climate change� (Benny Peiser, Ph.D. Professor of Social Anthropology)

QUOTE (Benny Peiser)

Oreskes claims to have analysed 928 abstracts she found listed on the ISI database using the keywords "climate change". However, a search on the ISI database using the keywords "climate change" for the years 1993 - 2003 reveals that almost 12,000 papers were published during the decade in question. [...] ...she admitted that there was indeed a serious mistake in her Science essay. According to Oreskes, her study was not based on the keywords "climate change," but on "global climate change" [yet her paper is clearly titled: The scientific consensus on "climate change" not "global climate change"] Her use of three keywords instead of two reduced the list of peer reviewed publications by one order of magnitude (on the UK's ISI databank the keyword search "global climate change" comes up with 1247 documents) [...] The results of my analysis contradict Oreskes' findings and essentially falsify her study: Of all 1117 abstracts, only 13 (1%) explicitly endorse the 'consensus view'. [...] 34 abstracts reject or doubt the view that human activities are the main drivers of the "the observed warming over the last 50 years". 44 abstracts focus on natural factors of global climate change."

Benny Peiser's paper has NOT been refuted. Propaganda sites continue to intentionally distort Dr. Peiser's clear position on this:

"I have stressed repeatedly, Oreskes entire argument is flawed as the whole ISI data set includes just 13 abstracts (less than 2%) that explicitly endorse what she has called the 'consensus view'. In fact, the vast majority of abstracts do not mention anthropogenic climate change." - Benny Peiser

The fact remains that Oreskes deliberately and deceptively called a paper "The scientific consensus on climate change" while using the search term "global climate change" thus leaving out 11,000 papers! Oreskes cleary cherry picked papers. This alone debunks her study. Even still as a direct criticism, every part of Peiser's study stands except that when you criticize only Oreskes' cherry picked papers (928 not 12,000) the 34 papers Peiser found doubting AGW may not have been included in Oreskes' paper. No kidding! So he withdrew only this as a direct criticism of her paper. The rest of his criticism remains such as only 13 (1%) explicitly endorse the 'consensus view'. Removing the 34 papers is irrelevant as Peiser's study cleary shows that no consensus exists and Oreskes was not looking at all the papers (928 out of 12,000). Conclusion: Oreske's paper is debunked and worthless.

Public Opinion Polls/Surveys:
Climate no longer top policy issue with Australians (Reuters)
84% of Congressional Republicans do not believe in "Man-Made" Global Warming (National Journal)
76% of Americans do not consider Al Gore a Global Warming Expert (Rasmussen Reports)
75% of Americans do not see Global Warming as an extremely important problem (Business & Media Institute)
71% think Global Warming has nothing to do with Man�s actions (Pocket Issue)
70% of Americans do not believe Global Warming is a top priority (Pew Research Center)
67% of Evangelical Christians do not view Global Warming as a "major" problem (The Christian Post)
66% of Americans do not believe Global Warming can be stopped (Rasmussen Reports)
65% of Americans reject spending even a penny more for gasoline in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (NCPPR)
64% of Americans do not believe there is solid evidence the earth is warming because of human activity (Pew Research Center)
60% of Britons agreed that 'many scientific experts still question if humans are contributing to climate change' (The Guardian, UK)
59% of Americans do not believe human activity is the cause of Global Warming (Pew Research Center)
59% of Britons do not accept as an established scientific fact that global warming is taking place and is largely man-made (The Times, UK)
59% of Americans Don't Believe Man Is Warming the Planet (Rasmussen Reports)
58% of Americans do not believe government action is needed on Global Warming (ABC News)
56% of Americans do not believe Global Warming is caused by human activities (Rasmussen Reports)
56% of Britons believe scientists are still questioning climate change (BBC)
52% of Americans think Terrorism is a More Serious Threat than Climate Change (FOX News)

Studies:
Despite Awareness Of Global Warming Americans Concerned More About Local Environment (University of Missouri)
Increased Knowledge About Global Warming Leads To Apathy, Study Shows (Texas A&M University)

Editorials:
A Treaty Built on Hot Air, Not Scientific Consensus (S. Fred Singer, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science, The Wall Street Journal)
Climate consensus and the end of science (National Post, Canada)
Consensus is Nonsensus in Scientific Matters (Michael R. Fox, Ph.D. Physical Chemistry)
Don't Believe the Hype - Al Gore is wrong. There's no "consensus" on global warming (Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT)
Global warming "consensus" continues to melt away (James Inhofe, B.A. Economics, Power Magazine)
Global Warming's Senseless Consensus (Steve Milloy, B.A. Natural Science, M.S. Health Science)
No consensus on IPCC's level of ignorance (John R. Christy, Ph.D. Professor of Atmospheric Science, BBC)
Proliferation of Climate Scepticism in Europe (TCSDaily)
Science is the pursuit of the truth, not consensus (Financial Times, UK)
The Dangers of Consensus Science (Benny Peiser, Ph.D. Professor of Social Anthropology)
The Myth of a Scientific Consensus on Climate Change (Benny Peiser, Ph.D. Professor of Social Anthropology)
They call this a consensus? (Financial Post, Canada)
You were saying something about a Global Warming Consensus? (American Thinker)

Papers:
"Consensus"? What "Consensus"? Among Climate Scientists, The Debate Is Not Over (PDF) (Science & Public Policy Institute)
Global Warming: The Origin and Nature of the Alleged Scientific Consensus (Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT)
Scientific Consensus on Global Warming (The Heartland Insitute)

Other Non "Consensus" Scientists:
Copernicus, Darwin, Einstein, Faraday, Galileo, Newton, Pasteur

Ecology:

Coral Reefs
Bikini Corals Recover From Atomic Blast (The University of Queensland, Australia)
Corals Can Reestablish Symbiosis With Algae From Their Environments After Bleaching (University at Buffalo)
Coral Reefs May Be More Resilient Than Expected (Florida Institute of Technology)
Coral Reefs May Be Protected By Natural Ocean Thermostat (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Global warming good news for coral reefs (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Great Barrier Reef could adapt to climate change, scientists say (The Australian)
Rare Corals Breed Their Way Out Of Trouble (ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies)
Reef boom beats doom (ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies)
Research: Coral Reefs� Decline Actually Began Centuries Ago (University of Florida)
Scientists Discover New Reefs Teeming With Marine Life In Brazil (Conservation International)
Stanford scientists find heat-tolerant coral reefs that may resist climate change (Stanford University)
Study Says Bleaching Could Be A Hidden Strength For Corals (Wildlife Conservation Society)
'Super Reefs' Fend Off Climate Change (Wildlife Conservation Society)

CO2, Global Warming and Coral Reefs: Prospects for the Future (PDF) (Craig D. Idso, M.S. Agronomy, Ph.D. Chairman, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change)

Dead Zones
Brown Scientist Finds Coastal Dead Zones May Benefit Some Species (Brown University)
'Dead Zone' Area Shrinking, Texas A&M Prof Says (Texas A&M University)
Warmer climate not the cause of oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea (University of Gothenburg)

Ocean Acidification
Here comes the "ocean acidification" scam, watch out! (I Love My Carbon Dioxide)
Not Enough CO2 in Fossil Fuels to Make Oceans Acidic (Ian R. Plimer, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences)
Ocean Acidification and Corals (Watts Up With That?)
Ocean acidification: Are oceans becoming more acidic and is this a threat to marine life? (J. Floor Anthoni, Ph.D. Director of the Seafriends Marine Conservation and Education Centre)
Study Sees an Advantage for Algae Species in Changing Oceans (The New York Times)
The Ocean Acidification Fiction (CO2 Science)

Rainforests
Amazon Forest Shows Unexpected Resiliency During Drought (University of Arizona)
Amazon Rainforest Greens Up In The Dry Season (PDF) (University of Arizona)
Ancient rainforests resilient to climate change (University of Royal Holloway London, UK)
Impact From Rainforest Greenhouse Gasses May Not Be As Great As Thought, Study Shows (Michigan State University)
Nitrogen Pollution Boosts Plant Growth In Tropics By 20 Percent (University of California)
No Convincing Evidence For Decline In Tropical Forests (University of Leeds, UK)
Restoration Of A Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystem Successful (Cornell University)

Myth: We Are Destroying Our Forests (ABC News)

- U.S. Forest land area increased from 747 million acres in 1997 to 749 in 2002 (U.S. Forest Service)
- Since the 1950s, timber growth has consistently exceeded harvest (U.S. Forest Service)
- Net Forest loss continues to decline globally and has been reversed in Asia (UN Food and Agriculture Organization)
- Net Deforestation in Brazil has fallen by two-thirds over the last four years (UN Food and Agriculture Organization)

Plants:
Antarctic Plants And Animal Life Survived Ice Ages (Science Daily)
Arctic Plants Have Adjusted to Climate Changes (The New York Times)
Carbon dioxide helps some plants survive cold weather, study finds (Cornell University)
CO2 increase in the atmosphere augments tolerance of barley to salinity (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Climate Change, Acid Rain Could Be Good For Forests (Michigan Technological University)
Climate Changes Creating Green And Flowering Mountains (Ume� University)
Climate change will boost farm output (Australian Farm Institute)
Duke Study Shows Carbon Dioxide Boosts Pine Tree Reproduction (Duke University)
Elevated Carbon Dioxide Changes Soil Microbe Mix Below Plants, May Help Plants Grow (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Greenhouse Gas Might Green Up The Desert (Weizmann Institute)
High Carbon Dioxide Boosts Plant Respiration, Potentially Affecting Climate And Crops (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
High Carbon Dioxide Levels Spur Southern Pines To Grow More Needles (Duke University)
High On Carbon Dioxide, Crops Of Tomorrow May Yield More Grain (Science Daily)
Increasing Carbon Dioxide Relieves Drought Stress In Corn, Researchers Say (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
More Carbon Dioxide May Help Some Trees Weather Ice Storms (Duke University)
New Satellite Study Shows Vegetation Increases In North America (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Open-Air Experiment Shows High CO2 Boosts Tree Growth (Duke University)
Report: High Carbon Dioxide Boosts Duke Forest Growth By 25 Percent (Duke University)
New study finds that some plants can adapt to widespread climate change (Syracuse University)
Study Shows Forests Thrive With Increased CO2 Levels (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Trees are growing faster and could buy time to halt global warming (The Daily Telegraph, UK)

Delay In Autumn Color Caused By Increased Carbon Dioxide Not Global Warming (Science Daily)
- Forests Could Benefit When Fall Color Comes Late (Science Daily)

Grasslands May Become Wetter As Temperatures Rise (Science Daily)

Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Increases Soil Carbon (Science Daily)
Agricultural Soil Erosion Not Contributing To Global Warming, Study Shows (Science Daily)
Damaged Land Can Restore Itself Through Spontaneous Revegetation (Science Daily)

Animals:
Brown Argus Butterfly Sees Positive Effects Of Climate Change (Science Daily)
'Early Birds' Adapt To Climate Change (Science Daily)
Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean Dolphin Populations Improving (Science Daily)
Fish growth enhanced by climate change (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia)
Reindeer thrive in warmer world (The Times, UK)
Wildlife thrives as climate warms (BBC)
Winter Moth Proves Able To Adjust To Climate Change (Science Daily)

Bird's eye views earth's magnetic lines (University of California at Irvine)
Migrating birds may "see" Earth's magnetic field (Reuters)

Migration:
Global Cooling Sends Gulls South (The Heartland Institute)

Historical Mountain Pine Beetle Activity (Canadian Forest Service)
History of Southern Pine Beetle Control 1705-Present (Bark and Wood Boring Beetles of The World)

QUOTE

Disastrous bark beetle outbreaks occurred in Germany during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. So severe was the problem that a special prayer for the protection of forests from wind and insects was included in a prayer book printed in 1705. Gmelin (1787) reported that over a million-and-a-half trees were killed in the Hercynian Mountains alone between 1781 and 1787.

Hockey Stick:

"Simulations with red noise do lead to hockey sticks. McIntyre and McKitrick�s criticism on the hockey stick from 1998 is entirely valid on this particular point." - Hans von Storch, Ph.D. Climate Statistics Specialist

What is the �Hockey Stick� Debate About? (PDF) (Ross McKitrick, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics, April 4, 2005)

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Hockey Stick - What is Normal? (Video) (8min)

Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years (PDF) (National Academy of Sciences, 2006)

QUOTE (National Academy of Sciences)

Even less confidence can be placed in the original conclusions by Mann et al. (1999) that "the 1990s are likely the warmest decade, and 1998 the warmest year, in at least a millennium" [...]

Prior to about 1600, ...periods of medieval warmth are seen in a number of diverse records, including historical information from Europe and Asia; cave deposits; marine and lake sediments; and ice cores from Greenland, Ellesmere Island, Tibet, and the equatorial Andes. [...]

Using proxies sensitive to hydrologic variables (including moisture-sensitive trees...) to take advantage of observed correlations with surface temperature could lead to problems [...]

For tree ring chronologies, the process of removing biological trends from ringwidth data potentially obscures information on long-term changes in climate. [...]

Large-scale surface temperature reconstructions yield a generally consistent picture of temperature trends during the preceding millennium, including relatively warm conditions centered around A.D. 1000 (identified by some as the �Medieval Warm Period�) and a relatively cold period (or �Little Ice Age�) centered around 1700. The existence and extent of a Little Ice Age from roughly 1500 to 1850 is supported by a wide variety of evidence including ice cores, tree rings, borehole temperatures, glacier length records, and historical documents. Evidence for regional warmth during medieval times can be found in a diverse ...set of records including ice cores, tree rings, marine sediments, and historical sources from Europe and Asia

FACT: All the NAS study concluded was that recent temperatures are warmer than the Little Ice Age. No kidding!

Von Storch, Zorita and Gonzalez-Raucen statement on the NAS Panel Report (Climate Audit, June 22, 2006)

QUOTE

We share the assessment of the NRC committee that the evidence for unprecedented warming of a single decade or even a single year in times prior to 1500, or so, is stretching the scientific evidence too far. However, this was the key claim made in the contested 1998-nature and 1999-GRL-papers by Mann et al.

With respect to methods, the committee is showing reservations concerning the methodology of Mann et al.. The committee notes explicitly on pages 91 and 111 that the method has no validation (CE) skill significantly different from zero. In the past, however, it has always been claimed that the method has a significant nonzero validation skill. Methods without a validation skill are usually considered useless. [...]

Thus, the public perception that the hockeystick as truthfully describing the temperature history was definitely false.

We find it disappointing that the method of Mann et al. was not sufficiently described in the original publication, and thus not peer-reviewed prior to publication, and that no serious efforts were made to allow independent researchers to check the performance of the methods and of the data used.

Spin can�t hide the facts concerning the hockey stick (PDF) (Stephen McIntyre, B.Sc. Mathematics, Ross McKitrick, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics, July 26, 2006)

Editorials:
The Hockey Stick scam that heightened global warming hysteria (Tim F. Ball, Canada Free Press, May 12, 2008)
The decay of the hockey stick (Hans von Storch, Eduardo Zorita, Climate Feedback, Nature, May 03, 2007)
Congressional Hearings Break 'Hockey Stick' (H. Sterling Burnett, The Heartland Institute, October 1, 2006)
Statisticians blast Hockey Stick (PDF) (Stephen McIntyre, Ross McKitrick, Financial Post, Canada, August 23, 2006)
Hockey sticks and hatchets (Financial Post, August 23, 2006)
Hockey Stick Hokum (The Wall Street Journal, July 14, 2006)
See the Truth on climate history (Financial Post, Canada, July 12, 2006)
Misled again: The Hockey Stick climate (Stephen McIntyre, Ross McKitrick, Financial Post, Canada, July 12, 2006)
Does the hockey stick "matter"? (Stephen McIntyre, Prometheus, November 14, 2005)
Why Does the Hockey Stick Debate Matter? (Ross McKitrick, Prometheus, November 14, 2005)
Re-visiting the Stick (Stephen McIntyre, National Post, June 17th, 2005)
Hockey Stick, 1998-2005, R.I.P. (World Climate Report, March 3, 2005)
Bring the Proxies Up to Date!! (Stephen McIntyre, February 20th, 2005)
In Climate Debate, The 'Hockey Stick' Leads to a Face-Off (The Wall Street Journal, February 20th, 2005)
Hockey Stick on Ice (The Wall Street Journal, February 18th, 2005)
Some Thoughts on Disclosure and Due Diligence in Climate Science (Stephen McIntyre, National Post, Canada, February 15th, 2005)
Global Warming Bombshell (MIT Technology Review, October 15, 2004)
Nature Admits Widely Cited Global Warming Graph Was Erroneous (The Hearland Institute, September 1, 2004)
The Broken Stick (Financial Post, Canada, July 13, 2004)
High-sticking the Senate (Patrick J. Michaels, The Heartland Institute, August 1, 2000)

Papers:
Hockey Stick? What Hockey Stick? (PDF) (Christopher Monckton, Mathematician, September 12, 2008)
The Revival of the Hockeystick Graph - a new Low in Climate Science (PDF) (Ernst-Georg Beck, M.Sc. Biology, September 4th, 2008)
How do we �know� that 1998 was the warmest year of the millennium? (PDF) (Stephen McIntyre, B.Sc. Mathematics, May 16, 2008)
Ad Hoc Committee Report on the 'Hockey Stick' Global Climate Reconstruction (PDF) (Wegman Report, July 14th, 2006)
- Response of Dr. Edward Wegman to Questions Posed by the Honorable Mr. Bart Stupak in Connection with Testimony to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (PDF)
Presentation to the National Academy of Sciences Expert Panel, "Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Past 1,000-2,000 Years." (PDF) (Stephen McIntyre, B.Sc. Mathematics, Ross McKitrick, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics, March 2, 2006)
- Supplementary Presentations to the National Academy of Sciences Panel (PDF) (April 3, 2006)
Huybers' and von Storch-Zorita Comments, and Our Replies (PDF) (Stephen McIntyre, B.Sc. Mathematics, Ross McKitrick, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics, November 2005)
More on Hockey Sticks: the Case of Jones et al (1998) (PDF) (Stephen McIntyre, B.Sc. Mathematics, Nov 14, 2005)
The Mann et al. Northern Hemisphere "Hockey Stick" Climate Index: A Tale of Due Diligence (PDF) (Ross McKitrick, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics, May 2, 2005)
Is Climate Really Changing Adnormally? (PDF) (Ross McKitrick, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics, April 1, 2005)
Kyoto Protocol Based On Flawed Statistics - Proof That Mankind Causes Global Warming Is Refuted (PDF) (Natuurwetenschap & Techniek, The Netherlands, February 2005)
Backgrounder for McIntyre and McKitrick "Hockey Stick Project" (PDF) (Stephen McIntyre, B.Sc. Mathematics, Ross McKitrick, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics, January 27 2005)
Breaking the "Hockey Stick" (PDF) (David R. Legates, Ph.D. Professor of Climatology, July 12, 2004)
The IPCC, the "Hockey Stick" Curve, and the Illusion of Experience (PDF) (Stephen McIntyre, B.Sc. Mathematics, Ross McKitrick, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics, November 18, 2003)
Lessons & Limits of Climate History: Was the 20th Century Climate Unusual? (PDF) (Sallie Baliunas, Ph.D. Astrophysics, Willie Soon, Ph.D., April 2003)
The 'Hockey Stick': A New Low in Climate Science (John L. Daly, B.Sc. Economics, November 12, 2000)

Resources:
Climate Audit, Hockey Stick Studies
Ross McKitrick, Annotated Index to My Publications and Papers
The M&M Project: Replication Analysis of the Mann et al. Hockey Stick

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Ice Sheets:

"What If All the Ice Melts?" Myths and Realities (Wm. Robert Johnston, B.A. Astronomy, M.S. Ph.D. Physics)

QUOTE

Arctic Ocean pack ice = 0.01% Fraction of world ice - The melting of floating ice will not change sea level: the mass of this ice is equal to that of the water it displaces (watch the water level in a cup of floating ice cubes as they melt).

QUOTE

Based on what we know now, in the next 100 years a rise in sea level of 0.1 meters (4 inches) would not be surprising; those predicting changes of 0.5-2 meters (1.5-7 feet) are using flawed models.

Antarctica

Antarctic Temperatures Disagree With Climate Model Predictions (Ohio State University)
Ice Core 'Dipstick' Indicates West Antarctic Ice Has Thinned Less Than Believed (University of Washington)
No Major Changes Seen In Stability Of Antarctic Ice Sheet (Ohio State University)
Pondering A Climate Conundrum In Antarctica; Unique, Distinct Cooling Trend Discovered On Earth's Southernmost Continent (National Science Foundation)
Scientists Detect Thickening Of West Antarctic Ice Sheet (University Of California Santa Cruz)
Scientists Rule Out One Threat Of Antarctic Collapse (Rice University)
The Antarctic deep sea gets colder (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
West Antarctic Ice Sheet May Not Be Losing Ice As Fast As Once Thought (The University of Texas at Austin)

"The Antarctic wintertime ice extent increased...at a rate of 0.6 percent per decade from 1979-2006" - Donald Cavalieri, Senior Research Scientist, NASA

Antarctic Ice Melt at Lowest Levels in Satellite Era (World Climate Report)
Antarctic ice sheet thickening, researcher says (Associated Press)
Antarctic Sea Ice at Record High (The Reference Frame)
Antarctic sea ice increasing: study (ABC News, Australia)
Antarctic Sea Ice Sets Records in October 2007 (The Heartland Institute)
East Antarctica's surface slowly rising (The New York Times)
Ice cover 'increasing in east Antarctica' (ABC News, Australia)
Ice 'thickens' in West Antarctica (BBC)
Researchers: Antarctica Ice Sheet Stable (ABC News)
Researchers find Antarctic ice is thickening (USA Today)
Revealed: Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking (The Australian)
Satellites Show Overall Increases In Antarctic Sea Ice Cover (NASA)
Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979 (DailyTech)
Snowfall-Driven Growth in East Antarctic Ice Sheet Mitigates Recent Sea-Level Rise (Science)
Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice Reaches "Unprecedented" Levels (Climate Audit)
Study: Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Thickening, Not Thinning (ABC News)
Study: West Antarctic Melt a Slow Affair (The New York Times)
The Antarctic Ice Sheet is Growing Thicker (Not by Fire but by Ice)

Antarctic Historic:
Antarctic Fossils Paint Picture Of Much Warmer Continent (National Science Foundation)
Snapshot Of Past Climate Reveals No Ice In Antarctica Millions Of Years Ago (Cardiff University)
Unique fossil discovery shows Antarctic was once much warmer (University of Leicester, UK)

Antarctic Ice Shelves:
Antarctic ice shelf collapse explained (Aberystwyth University, UK)
Antarctic Ice Shelf Retreats Happened Before (British Antarctic Survey)
Ice shelves stable over six years (The Australian)
Russian experts say collapse of ice shelf no cause for alarm (RIA Novosti)
The Wilkins Ice Shelf Con Job (Icecap)

Antarctic Natural Causes:
Geologists Find That Tides Control Flow Of Antarctic Ice Streams (Science Daily)
Tidal Motion Influences Antarctic Ice Sheet (Science Daily)

Antarctic Volcanic Activity:
2 Volcanoes Found in Antarctica (The New York Times)
First Evidence Of Under-ice Volcanic Eruption In Antarctica (British Antarctic Survey)
Map of Antarctic Volcanoes (ICECAP)
Protective Ice Flow in Antarctica Linked to Warmth of Volcanoes (The New York Times)
Scientists Discover Undersea Volcano Off Antarctica (National Science Foundation)
Scientists Find Active Volcano in Antarctica (The New York Times)

Arctic

2005 Arctic Winter Ice (NASA)
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2008 Arctic Winter Ice (NASA)
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Arctic Sea Ice Underestimated for Weeks Due to Faulty Sensor (Bloomberg)

Arctic Winter Ice 1979-2006 (Animation) (NASA)
Arctic Forecast: Nordic Sea Ice Expansion (World Climate Report)
Arctic ice refuses to melt as ordered (The Register, UK)
Arctic Sea Ice Re-Freezing at Record Pace (The Daily Green)
Arctic Sees Massive Gain in Ice Coverage (DailyTech)
'No concrete global warming proof in polar region' (The Local, Sweden)
North Pole Sea Ice twice as thick as expected (Canada Free Press)
Recent cold snap helping Arctic sea ice, scientists find (CBC News)
The Top of the World: Is the North Pole Turning to Water? (John L. Daly, B.Sc. Economics)

Arctic Historic:
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1987 - U.S. Navy

1922 - Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt (Monthly Weather Review, November 2, 1922)
1923 - Report the arctic is getting warmer (The New York Times, February 25, 1923)
1923 - Getting warmer in the arctic ocean (Chicago Tribune, March 1, 1923)
1932 - Soviet Ship Circles Franz Josef Land (The New York Times, December 5, 1932)
1940 - Ice In Arctic Melting Rapidly (The Hartford Courant, October 13, 1940)
1958 - Ice at the North Pole in 1958 and 1959 - not so thick (Watts Up With That?)
1969 - Expert Says Arctic Ocean Will Soon Be an Open Sea (The New York Times, February 20th, 1969)

Historical Ice Chart Archive (1553-2002) (ACSYS)
Arctic Historical Data Cast Doubt on Climate Change Theory (Associated Press)

"If you go back to the early 1700s you find that sea ice extent was about the same then as it is now" - Chad Dick

Explorers' logbooks offer insight into climate (Associated Press)

"With the charts and logbooks we can compare the ice edge as it was. ...but there has been a steady decrease of the ice starting long before the industrial age" - Terje Loyning

Bones Of Crocodile-Like Beasts Tell Tale Of Arctic Warming Millions of Years Ago (University Of Rochester)
Historic Variation in Arctic Ice (Watts Up With That?)
Less Ice In Arctic Ocean 6000-7000 Years Ago (Geological Survey of Norway)
Reports of Record Arctic Ice Melt Disgracefully Ignore History (NewsBusters)

Arctic Natural Causes:
A Warmer Arctic? Blame Mother Nature (National Post, Canada)
Arctic Ocean Circulation Does An About-Face (Science Daily)
North Atlantic Warming Tied To Natural Variability (Science Daily)

Arctic Northwest Passage:
1905 - Son of the Vikings Navigates the Northwest Passage (The New York Times, December 10, 1905)
1946 - Northwest Passage May Be Navigable for Ordinary Ships (Berkshire Eagle, October 16, 1946)
1954 - U.S. Ships Sail Northwest Passage (The New York Times, August 28, 1954)
1957 - U.S. Cutters Conquer Northwest Passage (The New York Times, September 25, 1957)
1969 - Northwest Passage Opened (The New York Times, September 15, 1969)

Arctic Volcanic Activity:
Arctic Volcanoes Found Active at Unprecedented Depths (National Geographic)
Hydrothermal Vents Found in Arctic Ocean (National Geographic)
Hotbed of Volcanic Activity Found Beneath Arctic Ocean (National Geographic)
Scientists Find Northernmost Arctic Hydrothermal Field Venting Water at 570 Degrees F (University Of Washington)
Under Icy Arctic Waters, A Fiery, Unexpected Find (The New York Times)

Arctic Winds:
Arctic Sea ice loss - "it�s the wind" says NASA (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist)
Scary Arctic Ice Loss? Blame the Wind (PDF) (Science)
Winds of Change Thinned The Arctic Ice (New Scientist)
Winds, Ice Motion Root Cause Of Decline In Sea Ice, Not Warmer Temperatures (University Of Washington)

Glaciers

Various glaciers worldwide have been in retreat since the 1800s or the end of the little ice age and thus cannot be caused by man-made CO2. Glacial melting is also a good thing because it increase the available amount of fresh water.

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Greenland lost an average of 195 cubic kilometres of ice per year between 2003 and 2008, which is enough to cause an annual increase in the global sea level of half a millimetre, or 5 cm (1.96 in) over the course of the next century

Current Melting of Greenland's Ice Mimics 1920s-1940s Event (Ohio State University)
ERS Altimeter Survey Shows Growth of Greenland Ice Sheet Interior (European Space Agency)
Fossil DNA Proves Greenland Once Had Lush Forests; Ice Sheet Is Surprisingly Stable (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Greenland's Glaciers Have Been Receding for 100 Years (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
Greenland Ice Sheet Changes Are Normal; No Evidence Of Long-Term Climate Changes (University Of Missouri-Columbia)
Greenland perhaps not headed down too slippery a slope (University of Washington)
Intensified Ice Sheet Movements Do Not Affect Rising Sea Levels (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Recent cooling in coastal southern Greenland and relation with the North Atlantic Oscillation (American Geophysical Union)

2008 - Deep Freeze in Western Greenland (Sermitsiaq, Greenland)
1817 - Dramatic Ice loss in the Greenland seas (A History of the Royal Society Archive)

Greenland�s Glaciers Take a Breather (The New York Times)
Greenland Temperatures Coldest in 60 Years (The Heartland Institute)
Is Greenland really melting? (Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Ecological Climatology)
Latest Scientific Studies Refute Fears of Greenland Melt (US Senate Environment & Public Works Committee)
Letter to the Editor: Greenland Ice Gain Since World War II (The Heartland Institute)
So Much For Flooded Cities: Greenland Ice Melt Not Increasing (DailyTech)
Study Shows Greenland�s Ice Growing (CO2 Science)
The Cold Truth about Greenland (Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Ecological Climatology)
The Ice in Greenland is Growing (Joseph D�Aleo, M.S. Meteorology, CCM, AMS Fellow)

Greenland Volcanic Activity:
Heat From Earth's Magma Contributing To Melting Of Greenland Ice (Ohio State University)

Icebergs

Reports of More Icebergs Are Misleading (S. Fred Singer, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science)
Better Detection, Not Global Warming, Behind Increase In Large Antarctic Icebergs (Science Daily)

Kilimanjaro:
Deforestation behind loss of Mt Kili snow (IPP Media)
Kilimanjaro, On Africa�s Roof, Still Crowned With Snow (The New York Times)
Kilimanjaro's ice set to linger (BBC)
The Woes Of Kilimanjaro: Don't Blame Global Warming (University of Washington)

Malaria:

Warming 'not spreading malaria' (BBC)

Climate Change and Mosquito-Borne Disease: Causal Link or Green Alarmism? (AEI)
Ecologists question effects of climate change on infectious diseases (Ecological Society of America)
First Global Malaria Map In Decades Shows Reduced Risk (Science Daily)
Global Warming Won�t Spread Malaria (PDF) (Paul Reiter, Professor of Medical Entomology, Pasteur Institute)
Link between climate and malaria broken (Nature)
Malaria Deaths Dropped To One Quarter Previous Level In Zanzibar, Tanzania (Science Daily)

Ozone Hole:

Five scientific questions on the CFC-Ozone Issue (S. Fred Singer, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science)
Freon Superstitions (The Washington Times)
Ozone: The Hole Truth (The Heritage Foundation)
The Case of Assessing Ozone Depletion Risk (S. Fred Singer, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science)

Banning Chemicals To Protect Ozone May Aggravate Global Warming, Atmospheric Scientist Says (Science Daily)
Chemists poke holes in ozone theory (Nature)
Ozone Pollution: Not Always Caused By Humans (Science Daily)

Huge 2004 Stratospheric Ozone Loss Tied To Solar Storms, Arctic Winds (University of Colorado at Boulder)
"Raining" Electrons Contribute To Ozone Destruction (PDF) (NASA)
Solar Storms, Arctic Winds Swirl In A Double Dip Cone Of Ozone Loss (NASA)
Solar Storms Destroy Ozone, Study Reconfirms (NASA)
Strong Winds Trigger Increases In Ozone Destroying Gases In Upper Stratosphere (University of Colorado at Boulder)

Future Volcanic Eruptions May Cause Ozone Hole Over Arctic (NASA)
Volcanic Aerosol Clouds And Gases Lead To Ozone Destruction (Science Daily)

Peer-Review:

"The peer review process assumes honesty and so was not designed to spot fraud" - Nature

Peer Review, Publication in Top Journals, Scientific Consensus, and So Forth (Robert Higgs, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Economics)

A peer review reality check (PDF) (Ross McKitrick, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics)
Check the Numbers: The Case for Due Diligence in Policy Formation (PDF) (Ross McKitrick, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics)
The Double Standard in Environmental Science (PDF) (Regulation, Volume 30, Number 2, pp.16-22, 2007)

British scientists exclude 'maverick' colleagues, says report (Cardiff University)

Nature, Science - Jan-Hendrik Schon: Scientific fraud found at Bell Labs (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Nature, Science - Luk Van Parijs: MIT Fires Professor Van Parijs for Using Fake Data in Papers (The Tech, MIT)
Science - Hwang Woo Suk: For Science's Gatekeepers, a Credibility Gap (The New York Times)

In Peer Review, Experts Often Skip Over Directions (The New York Times)
Free speech, peer review, and scientific scandals (Reason Magazine)
Many Scientists Admit to Misconduct (The Washington Post)
Mere Magazines (The Wall Street Journal)
Scandals Point to Weakness in Review Process (The New York Times)
Trial by peers comes up short (The Guardian)
When Peer Review Produces Unsound Science (The New York Times)

Penguins:

Antarctic Penguins Thrive In Ocean 'Oases' (Science Daily)
Of Antarctica and Penguins (World Climate Report)
Penguins and Climate Change (PDF) (Science & Public Policy Institute)
Penguins Seen Thriving Despite Rise in Sea Ice (L.A. Times)

Permafrost:

Are Siberian swamps a global threat? (RIA Novosti)
Arctic Permafrost May Not Hasten Global Warming, Study Says (Bloomberg)
Cooling the Permafrost Scare (World Climate Report)
Oldest ice in North America 'more resistant to climate change than thought' (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Permafrost May Survive Global Climate Change, New Evidence Suggests (The New York Times)

Polar Bears: (Ursus maritimus) "Maritime Bear" (definition) "Of the Sea"

"it is just silly to predict the demise of polar bears in 25 years based on media-assisted hysteria."
- Mitchell Taylor, Ph.D. Polar Bear Biologist, 2006

Polar bear expert barred by global warmists (The Daily Telegraph, UK)

Polar Bears & Global Warming (Video) (10min) (Mitchell Taylor, Ph.D. Polar Bear Biologist)
Polar Bear Scare (Video) (5min)
Polar Bear Politics (Video) (3min)

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Polar Bear Kills and Eats A Baby Seal (Video) (2min)
Polar Bear Attacks and Eats a Ring Seal (Video) (1min)

FACT: Polar Bears eat Baby Seals
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FACT: Polar Bears have been around for over 100,000 years
Ancient 110,000-130,000 Year Old Polar Bear Jawbone Found (BBC)

Federal Polar Bear Research Critically Flawed, Argue Forecasting Experts (The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)
Goose Eggs May Help Polar Bears Weather Climate Change (American Museum of Natural History)

A false mascot for climate change (National Post, Canada)
Are Polar Bears Really an Endangered Species? (The American)
Australian TV Exposes 'Stranded Polar Bear' Global Warming Hoax (NewsBusters)
- "Global Warming" Polar Bear Photo Hoax (Video) (3:43)
Are Polar Bears Dying? (The Heartland Institute)
Beaufort polar bears booming (Nunatsaiq News)
Bear litigation a ploy, say Inuit groups (Nunatsaiq News)
Bearing Up (The New York Times)
Bjorn Lomborg: Save polar bears by not shooting them (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Examining Threats and Protections for the Polar Bear (Ted Stevens, Senator Alaska)
Fears about Polar Bear Populations Are Refuted by Scientific Forecasting (Heartland Institute)
'GMA': It's All about Saving the Global Warming Mascot - The Polar Bears (Business & Media Institute)
Global warming won�t hurt polar bears, GN says (Nunatsaiq News)
On thin ice? Well it looks OK from here... Polar bear stands to attention for camera (Daily Mail, UK)
Polar Bear die-off unlikely: GN official (Nunatsaiq News)

QUOTE (Nunatsaiq News)

Fears that two-thirds of the world's polar bears will die off in the next 50 years are overblown, says Mitchell �Taylor, the Government of Nunavut's director of wildlife research. [...] While he agrees that seals are essential food for bears as they fatten up during the spring and summer months - seal blubber makes up half of the bears' energy intake - he also suspects bears will be able to supplement their diet with other foods, such as walrus. During the summer months polar bears may also forage on berries, sedges and other plants, as well as bird eggs, to supplement their diet. And Taylor also points out female polar bears go nine months without eating at all during pregnancy. Besides, Taylor says he and numerous Inuit hunters have seen bears catch seal without the presence of sea ice. Bears sometimes find a place on shore to pounce on seals swimming by. Or they may catch seals caught in tidal pools, or sneak up on their prey at night. Taylor even suggests polar bears may float still on the water to fool seals into thinking they are hunks of sea ice.

Polar Bear makes longest recorded swim (62 miles in 24hr) (World Wildlife Fund)
Polar Bear Melodrama (The Wall Street Journal)
Polar Bear Meltdown? (Steve Milloy, B.A. Natural Science, M.S. Health Science)
Polar Bear not threatened, Canadian panel finds (National Post, Canada)
Polar Bear numbers rising, Inuit elders tell wildlife board (CBC)
Polar Bear numbers up, but rescue continues (National Post, Canada)
Polar Bear Plunge (San Diego Zoo)
Polar Bear Pushback (Hugh Hewitt, Townhall)
Polar Bear Scare on Thin Ice (The Heartland Institute)
Polar bear threat �hysterical� Netser tells U.S. last week (Nunatsaiq News)
Polar Bear worries unproven, expert says (CBC News, Canada)
Polar Bears in danger? Is this some kind of joke? (The Times, UK)
Polar Bears: More Journalistic Malpractice (National Review Online)
Polar Bears not threatened: Nunavut (CBC News, Canada)
'Polars Bears on the brink? Don't you believe it' (Daily Mail, UK)
Polar Bears on Thin Ice, Not Really! (National Center for Policy Analysis)
Polar Bears 'thriving as the Arctic warms up' (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Role of Climate in Polar Bears' Fate Under Dispute (CNSNews)
Study shows polar bear increase in Davis Strait (Northern News Services)
The Good News Bears (The New York Times)
The polar bears are doing just fine (Financial Post, Canada)
Where Are All The Drowning Polar Bears? (World Climate Report)

U.S.: Drilling won't hurt polar bears (USA Today)

Papers:
Demographic and Ecological Perspectives on the Status of Polar Bears (PDF) (Mitchell Taylor, Ph.D. Polar Bear Biologist)
Polar Bear Politics: Underestimating the survival capacity of one popular bear (PDF) (Jennifer Marohasy, Ph.D. Biology)
Polar Bear Population Forecasts: A Public-Policy Forecasting Audit (PDF) (J. Scott Armstrong Ph.D., Kesten C. Green Ph.D., Willie Soon Ph.D.)

FACT: Polar Bears are NOT Endangered

"Our best estimate of the current size of the population does not show a statistically significant decline" - USGS, 2006

ESA Listing Not Needed for Polar Bears (The Heartland Institute)

QUOTE (The Heartland Institute)

Since the 1970s, while much of the world was warming, polar bear numbers increased dramatically, from roughly 5,000 to 25,000 bears, a higher polar bear population than has existed at any time in the twentieth century.

Polar Bear - Population & Distribution (World Wildlife Fund)

QUOTE (World Wildlife Fund)

There are believed to be at least 22,000 polar bears worldwide ... The general status of polar bears is currently stable,

Canada - Last stand of our wild polar bears (Mitchell Taylor, Ph.D. Polar Bear Biologist)

QUOTE (Dr. Mitchell Taylor)

Of the 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at present.

Canada - Conservation of Polar Bears in Canada (Environment Canada)

QUOTE (Environment Canada)

For most subpopulations, population counts over time suggest a slight increase in the last 10�25 years.

Greenland - Polar Bears (Greenland Home Rule)

QUOTE (Greenland Home Rule)

The polar bears in Greenland are already widely protected. The polar bear is not at risk and the quotas will be lower than the average catches (between 1993 and 2003). The quotas will be based on international agreements, scientific advice and traditional knowledge. The quotas for the trophy hunt will be within these quotas, so that there is absolutely no threat to the survival of the polar bear.

USA - Chukchi/Bering Seas Stock (PDF) (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)

QUOTE (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)

Polar bears in the Chukchi/Bering seas stock are not classified as �depleted� under the MMPA or listed as �threatened� or �;endangered� under the Endangered Species Act.

USA - Southern Beaufort Sea Stock (PDF) (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)

QUOTE (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)

The Southern Beaufort Sea Stock is not classified as "depleted" under the MMPA or listed as "threatened" or "endangered" under terms of the Endangered Species Act. This stock is assumed to be within optimum sustainable population levels.

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Pollution:

"CO2 for different people has different attractions. After all, what is it? - it�s not a pollutant, it�s a product of every living creature�s breathing, it�s the product of all plant respiration, it is essential for plant life and photosynthesis, it�s a product of all industrial burning, it�s a product of driving � I mean, if you ever wanted a leverage point to control everything from exhalation to driving, this would be a dream. So it has a kind of fundamental attractiveness to bureaucratic mentality." - Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT

"Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant but a naturally occurring, beneficial trace gas in the atmosphere. For the past few million years, the Earth has existed in a state of relative carbon dioxide starvation compared with earlier periods. There is no empirical evidence that levels double or even triple those of today will be harmful, climatically or otherwise. As a vital element in plant photosynthesis, carbon dioxide is the basis of the planetary food chain - literally the staff of life. Its increase in the atmosphere leads mainly to the greening of the planet. To label carbon dioxide a "pollutant" is an abuse of language, logic and science." - Robert M. Carter, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental and Earth Science

- Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is a natural part of Earth's Atmosphere (NASA)
- Carbon Dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere have risen from 0.028% to 0.038% (380ppm) over the past 100 years (IPCC)
- Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is not toxic until 5% (50,000ppm) concentration (Source)
- Any detrimental effects of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) including chronic exposure to 3% (30,000ppm) are reversible (Source)
- OSHA, NIOSH, and ACGIH occupational exposure standards are 0.5% (5,000 ppm) Carbon Dioxide (CO2) (Source)

The Kyoto Protocol is a treaty to regulate 'Greenhouse Gases' only:
- Carbon dioxide (CO2)
- Methane (CH4)
- Nitrous oxide (N2O) (Laughing Gas, Nitrous, NOS)
- Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
- Perfluorocarbons (PFCs)
- Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6)

Car Exhaust consists of:
Harmless:
- Carbon dioxide (CO2)
- Nitrogen (N2)
- Water vapor (H2O)
Some Pollutants:
- Carbon monoxide (CO) *
- Hydrocarbons or Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) *
- Nitric oxide (NO) *
- Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) *
- Particulate matter (PM-10) *
- Sulfur dioxide (SO2) *

* Your car's Catalytic Converter removes about 95% of these pollutants by converting them to Water and Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

Smog consists of:
- Ozone (O3) * (formed from the photochemical reaction of Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) + Hydrocarbons)
- Particulate matter (PM-10) *
- Sulfur dioxide (SO2) *

* Air Pollution is already regulated in the: 1970 Clean Air Act (Amended: 1977, 1990)

Air Quality in America (American Enterprise Institute)

- The United States has sharply reduced air pollution levels, despite large increases in nominally "polluting" activities
- Areas in the United States with the highest pollution levels have improved the most
- Air quality in the United States will continue to improve
- Regulators and environmental activists exaggerate air pollution levels and obscure positive trends in the United States
- Air pollution affects far fewer people, far less often, and with far less severity than is commonly believed.

Index of Leading Environmental Indicators: 2009 Report (Pacific Research Institute)
Index of Leading Environmental Indicators: 2008 Report (Pacific Research Institute)

- People around the world are becoming healthier, wealthier, better educated, more peaceful, and increasingly connected and they are living longer.
- Net forest loss continues to decline globally and has been reversed in Asia.
- Net deforestation in Brazil has fallen by two-thirds over the last four years.
- In the eastern United States, recent EPA data show a 60-percent reduction in sulfur-dioxide levels since the year 2000.
- In Los Angeles, air-quality regulators reported a significant decline in health risk from air pollution.
- The United States is now gaining wetlands.
- Rare fish species have been observed returning to the Detroit River for the first time in nearly a century.
- U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell by 1.5 percent in 2006.

Give a Hoot, Don't (Call It) "Pollute" (Robert C. Balling Jr., Ph.D. Professor of Climatology)
Arctic Atmosphere Very Clean This Year (2007) (Science Daily)
Coastal Waters Show Decline In Contaminants Over 20-Year Period (Science Daily)
Pesticide Concentrations Decreasing (Science Daily)
U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Fossil Fuels Declined By 1.3% In 2006 (Science Daily)
Worsening Urban Air Pollution Won't Increase Global Temperature Over Next 100 Years (Science Daily)

- Water Pollution is already regulated in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (Amended: - Clean Water Act of 1977, Water Quality Act of 1987)
- The Clear Skies Act of 2003 - Failed to Pass the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (Source)

Sea Level:

- Global mean sea level has risen only about 6 inches in the last 100 years. (Based on tidal gauge data) (IPCC)
- Global mean sea level rise is in the range of 1.0 to 2.0 mm/yr. (Based on tidal gauge data) (IPCC)
- No significant acceleration in the rate of sea level rise during the 20th century has been detected. (IPCC)
- "Computer Models" project a sea level rise of only 7-23 inches (0.18-0.59m) in the next 100 years. (IPCC)

Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud (PDF) (Nils-Axel M�rner, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor of Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics)
Sea-level Expert: It's Not Rising! (PDF) (Nils-Axel M�rner, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor of Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics)
Would CO2 Emission Cuts Save Arctic Ice and Reduce Sea-Level Rise? (PDF) (Science and Public Policy Institute)

The Past Half-Century of Sea Level Rise (Video) (3mn) (CO2Science)

Correlation of sunspots and sea level (The Reference Frame)
Incredible Sea Level Rise Is - Not Credible (Canada Free Press)
Mark of hot dispute (BBC)
- The 'Isle of the Dead' Revisited Part 1 (John L. Daly, B.Sc. Economics)
- The 'Isle of the Dead' Revisited Part 2 (John L. Daly, B.Sc. Economics)
'No acceleration' in Pacific sea rise (BBC)
Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told' (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Sea Level Has Not Risen for Three Years (Science and Public Policy Institute)

Global Sea-Rise Levels By 2100 May Be Lower Than Some Predict (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Snowfall-Driven Growth in East Antarctic Ice Sheet Mitigates Recent Sea-Level Rise (Science)
TOPEX/Poseidon Satellite Finds Global Sea Level Change During El Nino (The University of Texas at Austin)
West Antarctic Ice Sheet May Be A Smaller Source Of Current Sea-Level Rise (NASA)

Falling:
Arctic dips as global waters rise (BBC)
Falling sea level upsets theory of global warming (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Global Warming Can Make Sea Level Plunge (BBC)
Global Warming Will Lower Sea Levels (S. Fred Singer, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science)
Oceans to fall, not rise, over millions of years (Reuters)
Sea Levels Are Falling Over the Long Term Because of Lower Basins (The New York Times)

Bandladesh:
Bangladesh gaining land, not losing: scientists (AFP)
Global Warming as Seen From Bangladesh (Bj�rn Lomborg, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics)

Maldives:
Despite popular opinion and calls to action, the Maldives are not being overrun by sea level rise (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist)

New Jersey:
Future Sea Level Rise and the New Jersey Coast (PDF) (Princeton University)

QUOTE

Averaging the mean values from the tide-gauges provides an approximate 20th Century relative sea level rise trend of 3.53 mm/year, which is double the global-mean. This implies a local component of approximately 2 mm/year for the New Jersey coast which can be partially attributed to land subsidence and sediment compaction.

Apparent Sea-Level Rise Caused by Sediment Compaction (Geological Society of America)

QUOTE (Geological Society of America)

A tide gage embedded above compacting sediment loses elevation, producing a water level record that indicates apparent sea-level rise equal to the loss in gage elevation. The USGS monitors subsidence in the marsh behind Atlantic City using an extensometer that penetrates 320m of section. Between 1980 and 2000, this extensometer measured 29mm of vertical compaction (1.5mm/yr) at this site. The Atlantic City tide gage rests above the same sedimentary section, plus surface sands deposited in historic time. The compaction of buried and surficial clastic sediment is an explanation for high apparent rates of sea-level rise (about 4.0mm/yr) at Atlantic City, Sandy Hook, and Hampton. On the Atlantic side of Florida, apparent rates of sea-level rise are generally lower than those from the mid-Atlantic coast, probably because historically recent calcium carbonate deposition in clastic pore space strengthens the Florida sediment, reducing compaction.

Thermal Expansion
Thermal expansion of sea water associated with global warming (National Center for Atmospheric Research)

QUOTE (National Center for Atmospheric Research)

Our projections of greenhouse-gas induced sea-level rise due to thermal expansion between 1985 and 2025 are also relatively small, 4-8 cm

Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable? (PDF) (Anthony Watts, AMS Certified Meteorologist)
- How not to measure temperature (Anthony Watts, AMS Certified Meteorologist)
- Odd USHCN Weather Stations (Surface Stations)
- Comments On The NCDC Talking Point Response To The Report �Is The U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable?� By Anthony Watts (Roger Pielke Sr. Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science)
- The Talking Points Memo (Climate Audit)

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Fabricating Temperatures on the DEW Line (Anthony Watts, AMS Certified Meteorologist)
Snow job in Antarctica - digging out the data (Climate Audit)

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The Graph of Temperature vs. Number of Stations (Ross McKitrick, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics)
- GHCN Air Temperature Station Locations 1950-1996 (Animation) (University of Delaware)
- Historical Station Distribution (Climate Audit)

Adjustments:
An Interesting Source of Man-Made Global Warming (Coyote Blog)
NASA GISS: adjustments galore, rewriting U.S. climate history (Watts Up With That?)

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CO2 Lags Temperatures:
Ancient ice shows warming ahead of CO2 (UPI)
CO2 & temperature: ice core correlations (Lubo� Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physicist)

QUOTE (Lubo� Motl)

The temperatures and carbon dioxide concentrations have been correlated but we know for sure that the temperature was the cause and the concentration was its consequence, not the other way around. If you look carefully at the graphs, you will see that the carbon dioxide concentrations lag behind the temperature by 800 years.

Cold Weather Deaths:
95,000 Excess U.S. Deaths during the Cold Months Each Year (Indur M. Goklany, Ph.D. Science and Policy Analyst, U.S. Department of the Interior)
Cold weather may raise blood pressure in elderly (Reuters)
The Deadliest U.S. Natural Hazard: Extreme Cold (Cato Institute)
Thousands of elderly people die of cold each winter in a 'national scandal' (The Daily Telegraph, UK)

Historic:
1998 no longer the hottest year on record in USA (Anthony Watts, AMS Certified Meteorologist)

Ten Hottest Years (U.S.):
1. 1934
2. 1998
3. 1921
4. 2006
5. 1931
6. 1999
7. 1953
8. 1990
9. 1938
10. 1939

Little Ice Age:
Gulf Stream slowed 10 pct in Little Ice Age-study (Reuters)
Little Ice Age caused by dimmer sun, experts say (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Little Ice Age is still with us (National Post, Canada)
'Little Ice Age' hastened fall of Aztecs, Incas (MSNBC)
Marshes Tell Story Of Medieval Drought, Little Ice Age, And European Settlers Near NYC (NASA)
Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age and 20th Century Temperature Variability from Chesapeake Bay (USGS)
The Little Ice Age and Scotland (BBC)
The Sun's Chilly Impact on Earth (NASA)
Weather Eye: the days of the Little Ice Age (The Times, UK)

Medieval Warming Period:
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Medieval Warm Period Project (CO2 Science)
20th Century Climate Not So Hot (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Greenland's Ice Yields Further Clues About Climate Change (Science Daily)
Marshes Tell Story Of Medieval Drought, Little Ice Age, And European Settlers Near NYC (NASA)
Middle Ages Were Warmer Than Today, Say Scientists (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age and 20th Century Temperature Variability from Chesapeake Bay (USGS)
Tree Ring Evidence For A Medieval Warm Period In Columbia Bay, Alaska (The Geological Society of America)
Tree Rings Show a Period of Widespread Warming in Medieval Age (The New York Times)
Tree Rings show Earth was warm 800 years ago (USA Today)
Warmer Periods In Alaskan Area Not Confined To Modern Times (Science Daily)

Missing Data:
Global Warming ate my data (The Register, UK)
Ross McKitrick: Defects in key climate data are uncovered (National Post, Canada)
The Dog Ate Global Warming (Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Ecological Climatology)
Treemometers: A new scientific scandal (The Register, UK)

Past:
Antarctic Dinosaur Find Evidences A Warmer Past (The New York Times)
Antarctic dinosaurs come out of the cold (The Times, UK)
Antarctica had a warmer past (USA Today)
Ethiopia 27 million years ago had higher rainfall, warmer soil (Southern Methodist University)
Fossil DNA Proves Greenland Once Had Lush Forests; Ice Sheet Is Surprisingly Stable (Science Daily)
Fossils Point To Warmer UK Past (BBC)
Summers 9,500 years ago were warmer than today (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Unique Fossil Discovery Shows Antarctic Was Once Much Warmer (Science Daily)

Temperature Records:
"Global Warming" at a glance (Junk Science)
CRU (Climatic Research Unit)
GISTEMP (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies)
HADCRUT (Met Office Hadley Centre)
NCDC (NOAA)
RSS MSU (Remote Sensing Systems)
UAH MSU (University of Alabama in Huntsville)
- Accurate "Thermometers" in Space - The State of Climate Measurement Science (NASA)

Urban Heat Island:
Urban Heat Island (Berkeley National Laboratory)
Urban Heat Islands Make Cities Greener (NASA)

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The Planets:

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Top Global Warming Advocate: Jupiter & Saturn Closer To Sun Than Earth (Prison Planet)

- Carbon Dioxide is 95.3% of the atmosphere of Mars (NASA)
- Average Temperature on Mars is -80�F (NASA)

- Carbon Dioxide is 0.038% of the atmosphere of Earth (NASA)
- Average Temperature on Earth is 57�F (NASA)

Jupiter - New Storm on Jupiter Hints at Climate Change (Space.com)
Jupiter - Researcher Predicts Global Climate Change On Jupiter As Planet's Spots Disappear (Science Daily)
Jupiter - Turbulent Storms May Be Sign Of Global Climate Change (Science Daily)
Mars - Climate Change Hits Mars (The Times, UK)
Mars - Evidence Of Climate Change, Icy Region Observed On Mars (Science Daily)
Mars - Evidence for Recent Climate Change on Mars (Malin Space Science Systems)
Mars - Global Warming Hits Mars Too (Mars Daily)
Mars - Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says (Khabibullo Abdusamatov, Ph.D. Astrophysicist)
Mars - NASA's Global Surveyor Sees Possible Climate Change On Mars (Science Daily)
Neptune - Suggestive correlations between the brightness of Neptune, solar variability, and Earth's temperature (AGU)
Neptune Moon Triton - MIT researcher finds evidence of global warming on Neptune's largest moon (MIT)
Pluto - Global Warming on Pluto Puzzles Scientists (Space.com)
Saturn - Hot shot of Saturn's 'hot spot' (BBC)
Saturn Moon Enceladus - Saturn moon delights and baffles (BBC)
Uranus - Hubble Discovers Dark Cloud In The Atmosphere Of Uranus (Science Daily)
Uranus - Planet Uranus rings the changes (BBC)

Water:

United States Using Less Water Than 35 Years Ago (U.S. Department of the Interior)

Could Nuclear Power Be The Answer To Fresh Water? (Science Daily)
Desalination Can Boost US Water Supplies (Science Daily)

Cheap, Clean Drinking Water Purified Through Nanotechnology (Science Daily)
Converting Sewage Into Drinking Water: Wave Of The Future? (Science Daily)
Fresh Water For The World's Poorest (Science Daily)
New Desalination Technology Taps Waste Heat From Power Plants (Science Daily)
New Water Filtration Materials Help Assure Safe Drinking Water (Science Daily)
Possible New Approach To Purifying Drinking Water, Thanks To Genetic Tool (Science Daily)
Scrap Tires Can Be Used To Filter Wastewater (Science Daily)
Windmill With A Twist Can Provide Fresh Water From Seawater Directly (Science Daily)

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Weather:

Alarmists use weather to promote global warming hoax (Tim F. Ball, Ph.D. Climatology)
Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming 'Greatest Scam in History' (ICECAP)
- Glen Beck interviews Weather Channel Founder: John Coleman (Video) (5min)

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Droughts:
Australia's drought natural, researcher says (Reuters)
Drought 'natural process, not emissions' (The Age, Australia)
Global Warming Causing Fewer Droughts, Scientists Conclude (The Heartland Institute)
Scientists Link '88 Drought to Natural Cycle in Tropical Pacific (The New York Times)
Scientists Show That Vegetation Conditions Drive The North Africa Drought (Science Daily)
Sun's Magnetic Field May Impact Weather And Climate: Sun Cycle Can Predict Rainfall Fluctuations (Science Daily)

Droughts Historic:
Colorado River Streamflow History Reveals Megadrought Before 1490 (University of Arizona)
Droughts Like the Great Dust Bowl of the 1930s May Have Been Unexceptional in Prehistoric Times, New Study Suggests (Duke University)
Extreme Droughts Played Major Role In Tragedies At Jamestown, "Lost Colony" (College Of William And Mary)
Not To Worry - Geographer Says Heat, Drought Are Par For The Climatological Course (University At Buffalo)
Lessons Learned From Drought Deaths 40,000 Years Ago (Science Daily)
Marshes Tell Story Of Medieval Drought, Little Ice Age, And European Settlers Near NYC (Science Daily)
Past Droughts Geographically Widespread In The West, According To Tree-ring Data (University of Arizona)
Researchers Find Evidence Of 16th Century Epic Drought Over North America (University Of Arkansas)
Tree-ring Data Reveals Multiyear Droughts Unlike Any In Recent Memory (University of Washington)

Dustbowl:
NASA Explains �Dust Bowl� Drought (NASA)

Earthquakes:
Number of Earthquakes by Year (Wm. Robert Johnston, B.A. Astronomy, M.S. Ph.D. Physics)

El Ni�o:
El Ni�os are not caused by global warming (NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
El Ni�o, Global Warming Link Questioned (Texas A&M University)

Floods:
Experts Reject Notion that Global Warming Is Causing More Floods (The Heartland Institute)
Environmental Regulations Blamed for California Floods (The Heartland Institute)
Floods Ain't What They Used To Be; Study Shows Wing Dams Have Made Them Worse (Science Daily)
Floods in 2007 'not due to global warming' (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Lewis And Clark Data Show Narrower, More Flood-prone River (Science Daily)
Midwest Floods and Unjustified Climate Change Fear Mongering (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist)
No Connection Between Global Warming and North Dakota Floods (The Heartland Institute)
Spring Flooding In Mid-Western US Forecast, But People Still Build On Floodplains (Science Daily)
Why the current floods are not all caused by global warming (The Guardian, UK)

Hurricanes:
Global Warming Increases Wind Shear, Reduces Hurricanes, Climate Model Shows (Science Daily)
Global Warming Will Do Little To Change Hurricane Activity, According To New Model (Science Daily)
Increased Hurricane Losses Due To More People, Wealth Along Coastlines, Not Stronger Storms (Science Daily)
Monster Hurricanes: Study Questions Linkage Between Severe Hurricanes And Global Warming (Science Daily)
Natural Climate Changes Can Intensify Hurricanes More Efficiently Than Global Warming (Science Daily)
New Findings Blame Jump In Hurricane Toll On Coastal Growth, Not Climate Change (Science Daily)
Warmer Ocean Could Reduce Number Of Atlantic Hurricane Landfalls (Science Daily)

"A consensus of 125 of the world�s leading tropical cyclone researchers and forecasters says that no firm link can yet be drawn between ...climate change and variations in the intensity and frequency of tropical cyclones." - (WMO)

Global and Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Activity [still] lowest in 30-years (Florida State University)
Tropical cyclone activity at 30-year low in N. Hemisphere (USA Today)
2006 - What Hurricane Season? (FOX News)
2007 - Light Hurricane Season (American Thinker)
2008 - Hurricane History Lessons (World Climate Report)

Calmer Weather: The Spin on Greenhouse Hurricanes (Robert C. Balling Jr., Ph.D. Professor of Climatology)
Global warming 'not linked' to typhoons (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Hurricanes and Hot Air (William M. Gray, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science)
Hurricane Center: Global Warming Equals Fewer Storms (NewsMax)
Hurricane expert: Global warming not behind storms (USA Today)
Hurricane Hysteria (Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Ecological Climatology)
Record year for hurricanes part of a natural cycle (USA Today)
Recent Hurricanes Not Caused by Warming, Scientists Conclude (The Heartland Institute)
Scientist doubts warming-hurricane link (United Press International)
Scientists: Early Tropical Storm Not Due to Global Warming (FOX News)
Warming not behind hurricane activity: forecaster (Reuters)

Hurricane Katrina:
Hurricane Katrina Not Caused by Global Warming (Video) (3min)
Experts: Global Warming Didn't Cause Katrina (NewsMax)
What led to Katrina? Jury still out on global warming (USA Today)

Hurricane Papers:
Counting Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Back to 1900 (PDF) (Christopher W. Landsea Ph.D. Atmospheric Science, National Hurricane Center)

QUOTE (Christopher W. Landsee)

Researchers cannot assume that the Atlantic tropical cyclone database presents a complete depiction of frequency of events before the advent of satellite imagery in the mid-1960s. Moreover, newly available advanced tools and techniques are also contributing toward monitoring about one additional Atlantic tropical cyclone per year since 2002. Thus large, long-term �trends� in tropical cyclone frequency are primarily manifestations of increased monitoring capabilities and likely not related to any real change in the climate in which they develop.

Global Warming and Hurricanes (PDF) (William M. Gray, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science)

QUOTE

Global hurricane frequency and/or intensity has not been observed to undergo any significant trends as a result of the global warming of the last 30 years for frequency and for the last 20 years for intensity

Hurricanes and Climate Change: Assessing the Linkages Following the 2006 Season (PDF) (William M. Gray, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science)
The Deadliest, Costliest and Most Intense United States Tropical Cyclones From 1851 to 2006 (PDF) (Christopher W. Landsea Ph.D. Atmospheric Science, National Hurricane Center)
Tropical Cyclone Data Tape For the North Atlantic Basin, 1886-1983 (PDF) (NOAA)

QUOTE (NOAA)

...until organized reconnaissance began in 1944, the two major sources of information on tropical cyclones were land stations and ships at sea. Undoubtedly, during this early period some storms went undetected.

Tornadoes:
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Tornadoes not a sign of global warming (Tim F. Ball, Ph.D. Climatology)
Global warming 'not to blame' for Tornadoes (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Increasing tornadoes or better information gathering? (Anthony Watts, AMS Certified Meteorologist)
Tornadoes not Linked to Global Warming (Eugene Tackle, Ph.D. Professor of Atmospheric Science)
Senator Kerry Misinformed on Tennessee Storms (Science and Public Policy Institute)
Spinning the Tornado Story (Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Ecological Climatology)
The 25 Deadliest Tornadoes in the United States (infoplease)
2005 - Tornado numbers far below normal in '05 (USAToday)
2005 - NOAA Reports No Tornado Fatalities Since March, A Record (Science Daily)

Tsunami:
Researcher: Global Warming Not To Blame For Tsunami (Arizona State University)

Wildfires:
California Fire Smokescreen (Steve Milloy, B.A. Natural Science, M.S. Health Science)
Forest Fires May Lead To Cooling Of Northern Climate (Science Daily)
Historic Wildfires (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
Slow But Sure - Burned Forest Lands Regenerate Naturally (Science Daily)
Wildfires: Homes Fuel The Fires More Than Forests (Science Daily)

Weather Channel:
"The Weather Channel" Mess (James Spann, AMS Certified Meteorologist)
Glen Beck interviews James Spann (Video) (6min)

QUOTE (James Spann)

Well, well. Some �climate expert� on �The Weather Channel� wants to take away AMS certification from those of us who believe the recent �global warming� is a natural process. So much for �tolerance�, huh? I have been in operational meteorology since 1978, and I know dozens and dozens of broadcast meteorologists all over the country. Our big job: look at a large volume of raw data and come up with a public weather forecast for the next seven days. I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. I know there must be a few out there, but I can�t find them.

Whales:

Killer whales 'decimating harbour seal population' (The Independent, UK)
Japan Not Catching Endangered Whales (Scoop, New Zealand)
Save the Whalers (The Wall Street Journal)
Whale ban 'is cultural imperialism' (The Times, UK)

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Theories

Astronomical Theory:

Milankovitch Cycles and the Ice Ages (NASA)

Milankovitch Cycles (Video) (3min)

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Ancient Climate Excursion Linked To A Rare Anomaly In Earth's Orbit (University of California)
Antarctic Seafloor Core Suggests Earth's Orbital Oscillations May Be The Key To What Controlled Ice Ages (Ohio State University)
Astronomical theory offers new explanation for ice ages (University of California, Berkeley)
Earth's Orbit Creates More Than A Leap Year: Orbital Behaviors Also Drive Climate Changes, Ice Ages (Washington State University)
Long debate ended over cause, demise of ice ages � may also help predict future (Oregon State University)
New UNC-CH study explains variations in onset of ice ages (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Astronomical Influences Affect Climate More Than CO2, Say Experts (CNSNews)
Changes In Earth's Tilt Control When Glacial Cycles End (Space Daily)
Changing Orbit Explains Ice Ages, Scientist Says (Space.com)
Global wobbling may melt the ice (New Scientist)
Ice age wobbles shaped climate (NewsScientist)
Longterm Climate Change Due to Astronomical Cycles (The Daily Californian)
Other Planets Influence Earth's Climate, University Of Toronto Scientist Says (Science Daily)

Galaxy 'may cause ice ages' (BBC)

Extinction:
Wobbles may have shaped evolution (The San Francisco Chronicle)
Study Links Extinction Cycles to Changes in Earth's Orbit and Tilt (The New York Times)

Mars:
Mars, Like Earth, Has Cyclical Ice Ages, Study Says (National Geographic)
Martian 'wobbles' shift climate (BBC)
Climate Model For Earth Also Describes Changes On Mars (Science Daily)

1500-Year Climate Cycle:

The Physical Evidence of Earth's Unstoppable 1,500-Year Climate Cycle (National Center for Policy Analysis)

Carbon Dioxide Did Not End The Last Ice Age, Study Says (Science Daily)
Earth Cools In Persistent, 1,500-Year Rhythm, Say Columbia Scientists, Working From Sea Cores (Science Daily)
Global Warming Natural, May End Within 20 Years, Says Ohio State University Researcher (Science Daily)
Natural Climate Change May Be Larger Than Commonly Thought (Science Daily)
North Atlantic Warming Tied To Natural Variability (Science Daily)
Pacific Ocean Temperature Changes Point To Natural Climate Variability (Science Daily)
Solar cycle drives ocean temperatures, study says (USA Today)

Chaos:

"Irregular motion of a dynamical system that is deterministic, sensitive to initial conditions, and impossible to predict in the long term with anything less than an infinite and perfect representation of analog values"

Reponse to a November 4, 2005 post "Chaos and Climate" on RealClimate (Roger A. Pielke Sr., Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science)
Weather and Climatology: Mandelbrot's View (Climate Audit)
Weather, Chaos, and Climate Change (Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D. Meteorology, Former Senior Scientist for Climate Studies, NASA)
What is the Butterfly Effect? (Roger A. Pielke Sr., Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science)
More on the Butterfly Effect (Roger A. Pielke Sr., Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science)
The Real Butterfly Effect (Roger A. Pielke Sr., Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science)

Gore Effect:

Gore decries 'global warming' in bitterly cold NYC (WorldNetDaily, January 15, 2004)
Al Gore flies in to warn about global warming and Victoria gets snow in November (Herald Sun, Australia, November 17, 2006)
Global Warming Expedition to North Pole Cancelled Due to Cold and Frostbite (NewsBusters, March 12, 2007)
Group braves snow to raise awareness for environment (The Nashua Telegraph, March 17, 2007)
Skiers Protest Global Warming Hours Before Record Snowstorm Arrives (NewsBusters, April 14, 2007)
House hearing on 'warming of the planet' canceled after snow/ice storm (The Drudge Report, February 13, 2007)
British Yachtsman Who Counted On Global Warming to Cross Arctic Now Trapped by Ice (NewsBusters, September 4, 2007)
Global Warming Vote on Snowy Day in Washington (Business & Media Institute, December 5, 2007)
Global warming protest frosted with snow (The Baltimore Sun, January 17, 2008)
Arctic Sea Ice Traps Climate Tour Icebreaker (Watts Up With That, May 5, 2008)
AGW activists stuck in Arctic ice (The Reference Frame, September 3, 2008)
Gore effect comes to Harvard University (The Reference Frame, October 22, 2008)
Snow blankets London for Global Warming debate (The Register, UK, October 29, 2008)
Global Warming Protest cancelled due to Cold Summer Weather (The Daily Telegraph, Australia, November 23, 2008)
Gore Effect in Italy (Skeptics Global Warming, December 16, 2008)
How Al Gore Saved Christmas (Climate Audit, December 25th, 2008)
Obama Talks Global Warming to Shivering Crowd (American Thinker, January 17, 2009)
Gore to Turn Up Heat as Snow, Ice Hit Washington (Business & Media Institute, January 27, 2009)
Pelosi Snowed-Out of Global Warming Rally (CNS News, March 2, 2009)
Out With A Shiver: Global Warming Protest Frozen Out by Massive Snowfall (FOX News, March 2, 2009)
Explorers On Global Warming Expedition Stranded in North Pole by Cold Weather (FOX News, March 18, 2009)
Eco-sailors rescued by oil tanker (May 5, 2009)

Greenhouse Theory:

Cold Facts on Global Warming (Image Analysis and Measurement Lab)

QUOTE (IAML)

What is the contribution of anthropogenic carbon dioxide to global warming? This question has been the subject of many heated arguments, and a great deal of hysteria. ...we will consider a simple calculation, based on well-accepted facts, that shows that the expected global temperature increase caused by doubling atmospheric carbon dioxide levels is bounded by an upper limit of 1.4-2.7 degrees centigrade. This result contrasts with the results of the IPCC's climate models, whose projections are shown to be unrealistically high. [...] At the current rate of increase, CO2 will not double its current level until 2255.

Dynamics of greenhouse effect (Lubo� Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physicist)
Greenhouse Gas Facts and Fantasies (Tom Kondis, Retired Chemist)
Greenhouse molecules, their spectra and function in the atmosphere (PDF) (Energy & Environment, Volume 16, Number 6)
Some facts about greenhouse and global warming (Steve Milloy, B.A. Natural Science, M.S. Health Science)

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50 Years of CO2: Time for a Vision Test (Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D. Meteorology, Former Senior Scientist for Climate Studies, NASA)
180 Years of atmospheric CO2 Gas Analysis by Chemical Methods (Ernst-Georg Beck, M.Sc. Biology)

QUOTE

More than 90,000 accurate chemical analyses of CO2 in air since 1812 are summarised. The historic chemical data reveal that changes in CO2 track changes in temperature, and therefore climate in contrast to the simple, monotonically increasing CO2 trend depicted in the post-1990 literature on climate-change. Since 1812, the CO2 concentration in northern hemispheric air has fluctuated exhibiting three high level maxima around 1825, 1857 and 1942 the latter showing more than 400 ppm.

Carbon Dioxide:
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Greater 1.4 Billion Years Ago (Virginia Tech)
Carbon Dioxide Did Not End The Last Ice Age (University of Southern California)
Carbon dioxide not to blame in ice age mystery (ScienceNews)
Climate Change: Incorrect information on pre-industrial CO2 (Zbigniew Jaworowski, M.D. Ph.D. D.Sc. Natural Sciences)
Ice Core Data Show No Carbon Dioxide Increase (PDF) (Zbigniew Jaworowski, M.D. Ph.D. D.Sc. Natural Sciences)
CO2 Fairytales in Global Warming (Gregory Young, Ph.D. Experimental Physicist)
Measurement of Pre-Industrial CO2 Levels (PDF) (Tim F. Ball, Ph.D. Climatology)
Pre-industrial CO2 levels were about the same as today. How and why we are told otherwise? (Tim F. Ball, Ph.D. Climatology)
The Amount of Non-Fossil-Fuel CO2 in the Atmosphere (Tom V. Segalstad, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Geology)
U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Fossil Fuels Declined By 1.3 Percent In 2006 (Science Daily)

C02 Climate Sensitivity:
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Climate CO2 sensitivity (Lubo� Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physicist)
Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered (Christopher Monckton, Mathematician)
Limits on CO2 Climate Forcing from Recent Temperature Data of Earth (PDF) (David H. Douglass, Ph.D. Professor of Physics; John R. Christy, Ph.D. Professor of Atmospheric Science)
On Climate Sensitivity and why it is probably small (Nir J. Shaviv, Ph.D. Professor of Physics)

Clouds:
Cirrus Disappearance: Warming Might Thin Heat-trapping Clouds (Science Daily)
Has Global Warming Research Misinterpreted Cloud Behavior? (Science Daily)
Natural "Heat Vent" in Pacific cloud cover could diminish greenhouse warming (NASA)

Methane:
Global Halt To Major Greenhouse Gas Growth (CSIRO, Australia)
Level Of Important Greenhouse Gas Has Stopped Growing (University of California, Irvine)
Frozen methane chunks not responsible for abrupt increases in atmospheric methane (Penn State)
Greenland�s �good news� methane finding (CSIRO Australia)
No Methane 'Burp' Accelerating Climate Change (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Scientists Find Good News About Methane Bubbling Up From the Ocean Floor (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Study Rules Out Ancient �Bursts� of Methane From Seafloor Deposits (Oregon State University)

Venus:
Al Gore and Venus Envy (FOX News)

Water Vapor:
Is the atmosphere holding more water vapor? (Steve Milloy, B.A. Natural Science, M.S. Health Science)
Satellite Finds Warming "Relative" To Humidity (NASA)
The climatic effects of water vapour (Physics World)
The Greenhouse Effect - It's Mostly About Water (NASA)
Water Vapor Rules the Greenhouse System (Monte Hieb, P.E.)

Greenhouse Warming? What Greenhouse Warming? (Science and Public Policy Institute)
Increasing Atmospheric CO2: Manmade�or Natural? (Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D. Meteorology, Former Senior Scientist for Climate Studies, NASA)
More Trees, Less Global Warming, Right? -- Not Exactly (Scientific America)
Researcher: Basic Greenhouse Equations "Totally Wrong" (DailyTech)
Russian academic says CO2 not to blame for global warming (RIA Novosti)
The Acquittal of Carbon Dioxide (Jeffrey A. Glassman, Ph.D. Physics)
Tropical Trends Stir Warming Debate (World Climate Report)
U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell 1.5% in 2006 (USA Today)

The Sun:

"The sun is a nuclear reactor the size of a million Earths and burns 600 million tons of hydrogen a second"

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Some Planetary Perspective (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist)
Sun Goes Longer Than Normal Without Producing Sunspots (Montana State University)
How Low Can It Go? Sun Plunges Into The Quietest Solar Minimum In A Century (NASA)
Sun entering weakest cycle since 1928 (Science News)

Unstoppable Solar Cycles (Video) (10min)

Reply to Lockwood and Fr�hlich - The persistent role of the Sun in climate forcing (PDF) (The Danish National Space Center)

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Over the past 20 years the solar cycle remains fully apparent in variations both of tropospheric air temperature and of ocean subsurface water temperature. [...]

When the response of the climate system to the solar cycle is apparent in the troposphere and ocean, but not in the global surface temperature, one can only wonder about the quality of the surface temperature record. For whatever reason, it is a poor guide to Sun-driven physical processes that are still plainly persistent in the climate system. [...]

...one cannot distinguish between the effects of anthropogenic gases such as carbon dioxide and of natural greenhouse gases. For example, increased evaporation means that infrared radiation from water vapor, by far the most important greenhouse gas, will tend to provide positive feedback for any global warming, ... In any case, the most recent global temperature trend is close to zero. [...]

The continuing rapid increase in carbon dioxide concentrations during the past 10-15 years has apparently been unable to overrule the �attening of the temperature trend as a result of the Sun settling at a high, but no longer increasing, level of magnetic activity. Contrary to the argument of Lockwood and Fr�ohlich, the Sun still appears to be the main forcing agent in global climate change.

A Critique on the Lockwood/Frochlich Paper in the Royal Society Proceedings (PDF) (Science and Public Policy Institute)
Shining More Light on the Solar Factor (PDF) (Joseph D�Aleo, M.S. Meteorology, CCM, AMS Fellow)
The "unruly sunne" cannot be ruled out as a cause of recent climate variation (PDF) (Science and Public Policy Institute)

100,000-Year Climate Pattern Linked To Sun's Magnetic Cycles (Dartmouth College)
Breathing Cycles in Earth's Upper Atmosphere Linked to Solar Wind Disturbances (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Changes in Net Flow of Ocean Heat Correlate with Past Climate Anomalies (University of Rochester)
Changes In Sun�s Intensity Tied To Recurrent Droughts In Maya Region (University of Florida)
Evidence For Sun-climate Link Reported By UMaine Scientists (University of Maine)
Flares From Sun's Far Side May Affect Space Weather Of Inner Planets (Swedish Institute of Space Physics)
Greater Solar Activity May Bring United States More Gray Days (NASA)
Holes In Sun's Corona Linked To Atmospheric Temperature Changes On Earth (Long Island University)
NASA Finds Sun-Climate Connection in Old Nile Records (NASA)
NASA Study Finds Increasing Solar Trend That Can Change Climate (NASA)
New Analysis Shows Earth's Lower Stratosphere In Synch With Solar Cycle (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Northern Climate, Ecosystems Driven By Cycles Of Changing Sunlight (University Of Illinois)
Regional Variation In Warming From Sun During Solar Cycle Shown By Satellite (University of Colorado)
Scientists Determine Biological And Ecosystem Changes In Polar Regions Linked To Solar Variability (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Scientists discover surprise in Earth's upper atmosphere (UCLA)
Small Fluctuations In Solar Activity, Large Influence On Climate (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Solar Cycle Linked to Global Climate (National Science Foundation)
Sun's Direct Role In Global Warming May Be Underestimated, Duke Physicists Report (Duke University)
Sun's Magnetic Field May Impact Weather And Climate: Sun Cycle Can Predict Rainfall Fluctuations (University of New England, Australia)
Sun's Past Strength Took Toll On Tropical Glaciers, Worsens Today's Outlook (University of Alberta, Canada)
Surface Warming And The Solar Cycle (University of Washington)
The Sun's Chilly Impact On Earth (NASA)
The Sun Is More Active Now Than Over The Last 8000 Years (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research)

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Read the sunspots (R. Tim Patterson, Ph.D. Professor of Earth Science)
Solar Variability and Climate Change (Willie Soon, Ph.D. Astrophysicist)
The Sun Also Warms (Sallie Baliunas, Ph.D. Astrophysics, Willie Soon Ph.D. Astrophysicist)
Why So Hot? Don't Blame Man, Blame the Sun (Sallie Baliunas, Ph.D. Astrophysics)

Climate History and the Sun (PDF) (Sallie Baliunas Ph.D. Astrophysics, Willie Soon Ph.D. Astrophysicist)
Influence of Solar Activity Cycles on Earth�s Climate (PDF) (The Danish National Space Center)
Solar Cycles, Not CO2, Determine Climate (PDF) (Zbigniew Jaworowski, M.D. Ph.D. D.Sc. Natural Sciences)
The Varying Sun & Climate Change (PDF) (Sallie Baliunas, Ph.D. Astrophysics, Willie Soon Ph.D. Astrophysicist)

Another Possible Climate Culprit: the Sun (The New York Times)
Army: Sun, Not Man, Is Causing Climate Change (Wired)
Basic physics supports solar activity as cause of global warming (The Guardian, UK)
Bright sun, warm Earth. Coincidence? (National Post, Canada)
Brightening Sun is Warming Earth (Harvard University Gazette)
Calm Sun, Cold Earth (Canada Free Press)
Canadian Climatologist Says Sun Causing Global Warming (Dennis Avery, M.S. Agricultural Economics)
Evidence of a Lunisolar Influence on Decadal and Bidecadal Oscillations In Globally Averaged Temperature Trends (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist)
Evidence of a Significant Solar Imprint in Annual Globally Averaged Temperature Trends - Part 1 (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist)
Evidence of a Significant Solar Imprint in Annual Globally Averaged Temperature Trends - Part 2 (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist)
Evidence of sunspot involvement in climate change compelling (Engineering News)
First Eurocongress on the Solar Cycle and Terrestrial Climate (Willie Soon, Sallie Baliunas, Kirill Ya. Kondratyev, Sherwood B. Idso, Eric S. Posmentier)
Flickering sun switched climate (Nature)
Fluctuations in the Sun may be changing climate (The Times, UK)
Exploding Stars Influence Climate Of Earth (Space Daily)
Ice cores show sun, not humans, controlling Earth's climate (Dennis Avery, M.S. Agricultural Economics)
It's the Sun, Stupid (Steve Milloy, B.A. Natural Science, M.S. Health Science)
NASA Study Acknowledges Solar Cycle, Not Man, Responsible for Past Warming (Daily Tech)
Scientists blame sun for global warming (BBC)
Solar Activity: A Dominant Factor in Climate Dynamics (Dr. Theodor Landscheidt, Schroeter Institute for Research in Cycles of Solar Activity)
Solar blow to low cloud could be warming planet (Nature News)
Solar Changes and the Climate (Science & Public Policy Institute)
Solar cycle drives ocean temperatures, study says (USA Today)
Solar Wind Warming up Earth (RIA Novosti)
Sun more active than for a millennium (New Scientist)
Sun, Not Man, Main Cause of Climate Change, New Study Says (CNSNews)
Sun still main force in climate change (WorldNetDaily)
Sun to Blame for Global Warming (National Center for Public Policy Research)
Sun's Activity Increased in Past Century, Study Confirms (Space.com)
Sun's fickle heart may leave us cold (New Scientist)
Sun's Output Increasing in Possible Trend Fueling Global Warming (Space.com)
Sun's protective 'bubble' is shrinking (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Sun's warming influence 'under-estimated' (BBC)
Sunspots: correlations with temperature (Lubo� Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physicist)
The Deniers: Our spotless sun (Financial Post, Canada)
The Sun and Global Warming (NASA)
The truth is, we can't ignore the sun (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
The Solar to Global Warming Connection (Jim Goodridge, Retired State Climatologist)
The truth about global warming - it's the Sun that's to blame (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Variations in CO2 Growth Rate Associated with Solar Activity (Dr. Theodor Landscheidt, Schroeter Institute for Research in Cycles of Solar Activity)
Viewpoint: The Sun and climate change (BBC)
Warming points sunward (The Washington Times)
Water Experts Find Earth's Warming, Rainfall Linked to Sun (Dennis Avery, M.S. Agricultural Economics)

Cosmic Rays
Cosmoclimatology: A new theory emerges (PDF) (The Danish National Space Center)
Cosmic Rays and Climate (Nir J. Shaviv, Ph.D. Professor of Physics)
Cosmic Rays and Earth's Climate (Junk Science)
The Cosmic Climate Connection (Video) (1min)

Cosmic Rays detected deep underground reveal secrets of the upper atmosphere (National Centre for Atmospheric Science)
Cosmic Rays Linked To Global Warming (American Geophysical Union)
New Experiment To Investigate Effect Of Galactic Cosmic Rays On Clouds And Climate (CERN)

Sun's magnetic flip affects cosmic ray penetration (USA Today, April 10, 2001)
Report: Cosmic rays influence climate change (CNN, July 31, 2002)
Cosmic Rays 'Linked to Clouds' (BBC, October 19, 2002)
Global warming? It's in the stars, says scientist (WorldNetDaily, March 18, 2006)
Cosmic Rays Blamed for Global Warming (The Daily Telegraph, UK, October 4, 2006)
Cosmic Rays may solve global warming problem (The Daily Telegraph, UK, October 4, 2006)
Cosmic Rays Linked to Global Warming (FOX News, October 24, 2006)
Cosmic rays blamed for global warming (The Daily Telegraph, UK, February 11, 2007)
Cosmic rays may cause global warming (The Australian, February 12, 2007)
Correlation demonstrated between cosmic rays and temperature of the stratosphere (Watts Up With That? January 22, 2009)
Galactic Cosmic Rays May Be Responsible For The Antarctic Ozone Hole (Watts Up With That? March 26, 2009)

Various Theories:

If "global warming" is real, what could be causing it? (Steve Milloy, B.A. Natural Science, M.S. Health Science)

Cosmic Dust:
Cosmic dust may change climate (ABC, Australia)
Interplanetary Dust May Cause Climate Change, Gradual Extinction (Science Daily)

Land Cover Changes:
Land Cover Changes May Rival Greenhouse Gases As Cause Of Climate Change (Science Daily)
Land Cover Changes Affect U.S. Summer Climate (Science Daily)
NASA Research Shows Wetland Changes Affect Florida Freezes (Science Daily)

Chaos Theory:
Climate Change: Could It Be Random? (Science Daily)
Synchronized Chaos: Mechanisms For Major Climate Shifts (Science Daily)

Tunguska Meteorite:
Greenhouse Theory Challenged by Biggest Stone (University of Leicester, UK)

Winds:
Changes In Winds Could Have Been Cause Of Abrupt Glacial Climatic Change (Science Daily)

Bad Ideas:

Carbon Capture:
Burn and Bury? The stupidities of carbon geo-sequestration (Canada Free Press)
Carbon Dioxide Capture And Storage: Grasping At Straws In The Climate Debate? (Link�ping University, Sweden)
Carbon Disaster (Financial Post, Canada)

Geoengineering:
Geoengineering To Mitigate Global Warming May Cause Other Environmental Harm (Science Daily)

Iron Fertilizations:
Iron Fertilization To Capture Carbon Dioxide Dealt A Blow: Plankton Stores Much Less Carbon Dioxide Than Estimated (Science Daily)
Ocean Fertilization 'Fix' For Global Warming Discredited By New Research (Science Daily)

Stratospheric Injections:
Stratospheric Injections To Counter Global Warming Could Damage Ozone Layer (National Center for Atmospheric Research)

End Theories

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Chief of Staff Group: Admin Posts: 7,836 Member No.: 1 Joined: 17-November 04	Global Cooling: Fire and Ice (Business & Media Institute) Scientists: Global Cooling is Here (Don J. Easterbrook, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Geology) Global warming freeze? (David Deming, Ph.D. Professor of Geology and Geophysics) Read the sunspots: Prepare now for dangerous global cooling (R. Tim Patterson, Ph.D. Professor of Earth Science) Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh (Philip K. Chapman, B.S. Physics and Mathematics, M.S., Ph.D. Instrumentation, MIT) The Coming Ice Age (David Deming, Ph.D. Professor of Geology and Geophysics) There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998 (Robert M. Carter, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental and Earth Science) While the sun sleeps (Henrik Svensmark, Ph.D. Director of the Center for Sun-Climate Research, Danish National Space Center) World is getting colder (David J. Bellamy, B.Sc. Ph.D. C.Biol. FIBiol. Professor of Botany) Year of Global Cooling (David Deming, Ph.D. Professor of Geology and Geophysics) Historic: 1895 - Prospects of another Glacial Period (PDF) (The New York Times) 1912 - Sees Glacia Era Coming; Prof. Schmidt Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age (The New York Times) *"A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable."* - The New York Times, 1975 1969 - New Ice Age Threat Seen (St. Petersburg Times, January 15, 1969) 1969 - Worrying About a New Ice Age (The New York Times, February 23, 1969) 1969 - Ice Age Biggest Threat According to Archeologist (The Hartford Courant, November 21, 1969) 1970 - Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age - Scientists See Ice Age In the Future (The Washington Post, January 11, 1970) 1970 - Is Mankind Manufacturing a New Ice Age for Itself? (L.A. Times, January 15, 1970) 1970 - Pollution Could Cause Ice Age, Agency Reports (St. Petersburg Times, March 4, 1970) 1970 - Pollution Called Ice Age Threat (St. Petersburg Times, June 26, 1970) 1971 - U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming (The Washington Post, July 9, 1971) 1971 - Ice Age Around the Corner (Chicago Tribune, July 10, 1971) 1971 - New Ice Age Coming - It's Already Getting Colder (L.A. Times, October 24, 1971) 1972 - Air pollution may cause ice age (Free-Lance Star, February 3, 1972) 1972 - Scientist Says New ice Age Coming (The Ledger, February 13, 1972) 1972 - Scientist predicts new ice age (Free-Lance Star, September 11, 1972) 1972 - Ice Age Begins A New Assault In North (The Age, September 12, 1972) 1972 - British climate expert predicts new Ice Age (The Christian Science Monitor, September 23, 1972) 1972 - Scientist Sees Chilling Signs of New Ice Age (L.A. Times, September 24, 1972) 1972 - Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine, November 13, 1972) 1973 - Weather-watchers think another ice age may be on the way (The Christian Science Monitor, December 11, 1973) 1974 - New evidence indicates ice age here (Eugene Register-Guard, May 29, 1974) 1974 - Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine, June 24, 1974) 1974 - 2 Scientists Think 'Little' Ice Age Near (The Hartford Courant, August 11, 1974) 1974 - Ice Age, worse food crisis seen (The Chicago Tribune, October 30, 1974) 1974 - Believes Pollution Could Bring On Ice Age (Ludington Daily News, December 4, 1974) 1975 - Climate Changes Called Ominous (PDF) (The New York Times, January 19, 1975) 1975 - Climate Change: Chilling Possibilities (Science News, March 1, 1975) 1975 - B-r-r-r-r: New Ice Age on way soon? (The Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1975) 1975 - The Ice Age cometh: the system that controls our climate (The Chicago Tribune, April 13, 1975) 1975 - The Cooling World (Newsweek, April 28, 1975) 1975 - Scientists Ask Why World Climate Is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead (PDF) (The New York Times, May 21, 1975) 1975 - In the Grip of a New Ice Age? (International Wildlife, July-August, 1975) 1976 - Worrisome CIA Report; Even U.S. Farms May be Hit by Cooling Trend (U.S. News & World Report, May 31, 1976) 1976 - The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? (Book, 1976) 1977 - The Big Freeze (Time Magazine, January 31, 1977) 1977 - The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age (Book, 1977) 1978 - The New Ice Age (Book, 1978) 1978 - Winters Will Get Colder, 'we're Entering Little Ice Age' (Ellensburg Daily Record, January 10, 1978) 1978 - Believe new ice age is coming (The Bryan Times, March 31, 1978) 1978 - The Coming Ice Age (In Search Of - TV Show, Season 2, Episode 23, May 1978) 1978 - An Ice Age Is Coming Weather Expert Fears (Milwaukee Sentinel, November 17, 1978) 1979 - New ice age almost upon us? (The Christian Science Monitor, November 14, 1979) Global Warming Alarmist Appeared in 1978's 'The Coming Ice Age' (NewsBusters) 1994 - Tree Ring Studies Suggest Trend of Global Cooling Since 4800 BC (L.A. Times) 2003 - The Big Chill (BBC) 2003 - Central Rockies struggle under up to 7 feet of snow; storm called worst since 1913 (Associated Press, March 20, 2003) 2005 - Hundreds of Children May Have Died in Afghanistan's Extreme Cold (The New York Times, February 18, 2005) 2005 - Cold, snow, rain, avalanches kill more than 1,000 in Asia (USA Today, February 23, 2005) 2005 - Global warming or global cooling? (The Times of India, February 27, 2005) 2005 - Boston Endures Record Cold From Frigid North Atlantic (Bloomberg, May 25, 2005) 2005 - Record Cold From Montana To Texas (CBS News, December 7, 2005) 2006 - Japan Had Coldest December in 20 Years, Record Snow (Bloomberg, January 5, 2006) 2006 - Delhi gets its coldest day in over 70 years (The Times of India, January 8, 2006) 2006 - Cold wave in north India kills over 150 (The Times of India, January 9, 2006) 2006 - Record-Low Temperatures Sweep Across Russia (NPR, January 20, 2006) 2006 - Russia Weathering Deadly Cold Spell, At Least 31 Dead (CBS News, January 20, 2006) 2006 - Record cold has killed 49 so far this winter in Mexico (The Miami Herald, January 21, 2006) 2006 - Jack Frost cripples Europe with minus 33 (The Age, January 22, 2006) 2006 - 123 Die in Russia's Bitter Cold (Reuters, January 23, 2006) 2006 - Cold weather death toll rises to 150 in Poland (AFP, January 23, 2006) 2006 - Polish Hall Roof Collapses Under Snow, Killing 66 (Bloomberg, January 29, 2006) 2006 - Earth in for another "ice age" in mid-century - scientist (RIA Novosti, February 6, 2006) 2006 - Record cold snap killed 738 people in Ukraine (The Independent, UK, February 7, 2006) 2006 - A Record Snow: 26.9 Inches Fall in New York City (The New York Times, February 13, 2006) 2006 - Moscow Market Roof Collapses Under Snow, Killing 56 (The New York Times, February 24, 2006) 2006 - There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998 (The Daily Telegraph, UK, April 9, 2006) 2006 - Russian Scientist Issues Global Cooling Warning (RIA Novosti, August 25, 2006) 2006 - Snow in Sept: Freak weather continues (The Times of India, September 3, 2006) 2006 - Short-Term Ocean Cooling Suggests Global Warming 'Speed Bump' (NASA, September 21, 2006) 2006 - Cold weather's 25,000 deaths toll is scandal, say charities (The Guardian, UK, October 28, 2006) 2006 - Snow falls in central Florida as state endures unusual Nov. cold snap (USA Today, November 22, 2006) 2006 - Record cold in Salt Lake City (Deseret News, November 29, 2006) 2006 - The Coldest Year In The Last Five Years (The Reference Frame, December 16, 2006) 2006 - Cold spell drops SoCal temps to record levels (The San Diego Union-Tribune, December 19, 2006) 2007 - Denver Breaks 1894 Record For Snowfall On Christmas Day (The Denver Channel, December 25, 2007) 2007 - Indian Cold Wave Death Toll Hits 90 (Arab News, January 4, 2007) 2007 - Record cold snap for the nation's hottest town (The Australian, January 05, 2007) 2007 - Death toll climbs to 16 as winter blast grips East, Midwest (USA Today, January 8, 2007) 2007 - Record cold seen for rest of week (The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 14, 2007) 2007 - Freezing temperatures destroy most of California citrus crop (International Herald Tribune, January 16, 2007) 2007 - Thousands Shiver As Storm Toll Hits 54 (CBS News, January 17, 2007) 2007 - Winter Hits With A Vengeance; 7 Dead (CBS News, February 6, 2007) 2007 - Snow Records Fall As N.Y. Towns Dig Out of 12 Feet Of Snow (CBS News, February 12, 2007) 2007 - The Coming Global Cooling? (World Climate Report, March 16, 2007) 2007 - Spring reverts to winter weather (The Seattle Times, April 9, 2007) 2007 - Record cold takes a toll on crops (USA Today, April 9, 2007) 2007 - Read the sunspots: Prepare now for dangerous global cooling (Financial Post, Canada, June 20, 2007) 2007 - Canadian Professor: Prepare for Global Cooling (NewsMax, June 21, 2007) 2007 - Is 'global cooling' the real threat? (The Washington Times, June 24, 2007) 2007 - It's Global Cooling, and It's Deadly (NewsMax, June 27, 2007) 2007 - Haryana, Punjab record cold temperatures (The Hindu, November 3, 2007) 2007 - Year of Global Cooling (The Washington Times, December 19, 2007) 2007 - Get Ready for Global Cooling (NewsMax, December 19, 2007) 2007 - Snow storms in US claim 22 lives (BBC, December 25, 2007) 2008 - Cold Weather Kills 38 in Northern India (FOX News, January 2, 2008) 2008 - Indian cold wave toll kills 90 (The Earth Times, January 3, 2008) 2008 - A cold spell soon to replace global warming (RIA Novosti, January 3, 2008) 2008 - Cold Stretches Throughout East; Flurries Reported in Florida (FOX News, January 3, 2008) 2008 - Br-r-r! Where did global warming go? (The Boston Globe, January 6, 2008) 2008 - Snow, winds close highways, collapse roofs in Wash. (USA Today, January 8, 2008) 2008 - First snow for 100 years falls on Baghdad (AFP, January 11, 2008) 2008 - Saudi Arabia covered with snow in coldest winter for 20 years (RIA Novosti, January 11, 2008) 2008 - Russian scientist says Earth could soon face new Ice Age (RIA Novosti, January 22, 2008) 2008 - China battles "coldest winter in 100 years" (Reuters, February 4, 2008) 2008 - Solar Cycle 24 Could Be 13 Years Long � Cooler Times Ahead? (Watts Up With That?, February 6, 2008) 2008 - Canadian Scientists Fear Global Cooling (NewsBusters, February 8, 2008) 2008 - Solar Activity Diminishes; Researchers Predict Another Ice Age (DailyTech, February 9, 2008) 2008 - Record Cold for Northern Minn.: 40 Below (Associated Press, February 11, 2008) 2008 - Madison breaks its record for winter snowfall (USA Today, February 12, 2008) 2008 - China's freak cold weather killed 107 (Reuters, February 13, 2008) 2008 - Record cold kills cattle and rice in Vietnam (The Earth Times, February 13, 2008) 2008 - Freezing weather kills over 900 people in Afghanistan (RIA Novosti, February 16, 2008) 2008 - Cold weather kills 60,000 cattle in Vietnam (China Daily, February 18, 2008) 2008 - 4 sources say "globally cooler" in the past 12 months (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, February 19, 2008) 2008 - ISRAEL: Cold weather kills 14 homeless people (Reuters. February 21, 2008) 2008 - Global Cooling: Amazing pictures of countries joining Britain in the big freeze (Daily Mail, UK, February 21, 2008) 2008 - Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age (National Post, Canada, February 25, 2008) 2008 - Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling (DailyTech, February 26, 2008) 2008 - Global warming sceptics buoyed by record cold (The Daily Telegraph, UK, February 26, 2008) 2008 - Cold kills 1,300 in Afghanistan (RIA Novosti, February 27, 2008) 2008 - Record snow smothers New England (USA Today, February 28, 2008) 2008 - Coldest Winter in Memory (NewsMax, March 4, 2008) 2008 - Globe may be cooling on Global Warming (Scripps Howard News Service, March 5, 2008) 2008 - Layers of snow cause 5 roofs to collapse (Forbes, March 5, 2008) 2008 - Extreme cold kills 1,000 Tibetan gazelles (China Daily, March 7, 2008) 2008 - Coolest Winter Since 2001 For U.S., Globe, According To NOAA Data (Science Daily, March 15, 2008) 2008 - It was the coldest Easter for more than 40 years (Daily Mail, UK, March 25, 2008) 2008 - The Oceans Have Stopped Warming! (Canada Free Press, March 26, 2008) 2008 - Global temperatures 'to decrease' (BBC, April 4, 2008) 2008 - No Global Warming Since 1998 As Planet Cools Off (Prison Planet, April 4, 2008) 2008 - Global Warming? Northeast Skies Through a Snowy Season (The New York Sun, April 4, 2008) 2008 - Global warming? Scotland sees its best snow in a decade (The Times, UK, April 19, 2008) 2008 - The Antarctic deep sea gets colder (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, April 21, 2008) 2008 - Glacier resumes growing in Mount St. Helens crater (The Seattle Times, April 21, 2008) 2008 - Sunspots and a possible new ice age (American Thinker, April 22, 2008) 2008 - Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh (The Australian, April 23, 2008) 2008 - Global warming may 'stop', scientists predict (The Daily Telegraph, UK, April 30, 2008) 2008 - Global warming could stop NATURALLY for ten years,' say scientists (Daily Mail, UK, May 1, 2008) 2008 - May Day storm brings snow to Colorado mountains (USA Today, May 1, 2008) 2008 - New Jason Satellite Indicates 23-Year Global Cooling (Hawaii Reporter, May 7, 2008) 2008 - U.S. Has 36th Coolest Spring on Record (NOAA, June 6, 2008) 2008 - Global Temperature Also Cooler in May (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, June 6, 2008) 2008 - Global Warming Movement Turns Cool (James Spann, AMS Certified Meteorologist, June 22, 2008) 2008 - Warming on 11 year hiatus? How about cooling? (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, June 23, 2008) 2008 - Astronomical Society of Australia publishes new paper warning of solar quieting and global cooling (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, June 28, 2008) 2008 - Australian Researchers Warn of Global Cooling (DailyTech, July 1, 2008) 2008 - Charlotte temperature hits 123-year low (The Charlotte Observer, July 2, 2008) 2008 - UAH Global Temperatures, June 2008 still low (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, July 2, 2008) 2008 - Glaciers on California's Mt. Shasta keep growing (USA Today, July 8, 2008) 2008 - Four scientists: Global Warming Out, Global Cooling In (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, July 12, 2008) 2008 - Shifting of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation assures global cooling for the next 3 decades (Watts Up With That?, July 20, 2008) 2008 - Anchorage�s record setting cold summer (Anchorage Daily News, July 24th, 2008) 2008 - More Global Cooling Ahead, Study Says (The Heartland Institute, August 1, 2008) 2008 - Could the Earth be cooling its heels? (Delta Farm Press, August 7, 2008) 2008 - Solar radio waves could signal global cooling (Financial Post, Canada, August 11, 2008) 2008 - Is there a cold future just lying in wait for us? (Belfast Telegraph, UK, August 13, 2008) 2008 - Decade has had fewest 90-degree days since 1930 (Chicago Tribune, August 13, 2008) 2008 - Dearth Of Sunspot Activity To Herald New Ice Age? (Prison Planet, August 14, 2008) 2008 - Hadley Climate Center Data shows global cooling in the last year (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, August 15, 2008) 2008 - Mexican scientist warn Earth will enter 'Little Ice Age' for up to 80 Years Due to decrease in solar activity (Right Side News, August 19, 2008) 2008 - Global cooling gains momentum among scientists (Delta Farm Press, August 25, 2008) 2008 - Former head of CSIRO�s division of space science says global cooling may be on the way (Canberra Times, Australia, August 26, 2008) 2008 - 'Snowfall' shocks Kenyan village (BBC, September 3, 2008) 2008 - Global Warming�s Kaput; 2008 Coolest in 5 Years (NewsMax, September 8, 2008) 2008 - Old Farmers Almanac: Global cooling may be underway (USA Today, September 9, 2008) 2008 - NAS reports: 50 million year cooling trend (The Christian Science Monitor, September 25, 2008) 2008 - Global cooling sign: Solar winds at 50-year-low (Financial Post, Canada, September 28, 2008) 2008 - Ireland: Coldest September for 14 years (The Press Association, October 1, 2008) 2008 - Boise gets earliest snow on record (The Idaho Statesman, October 11, 2008) 2008 - Alaskan Glaciers Grow for First Time in 250 years (DailyTech, October 16, 2008) 2008 - Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof (National Post, Canada, October 20, 2008) 2008 - Chill in the air: record low temps in 10 states (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, October 26, 2008) 2008 - London has first October snow in over 70 years (The Guardian, UK, October 29, 2008) 2008 - Tibet's 'worst snowstorm ever', 7 killed (Xinhua, October 30, 2008) 2008 - NOAA: U.S. breaks or ties 115 cold and sets 63 new snowfall records (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, October 30, 2008) 2008 - Global Cooling is Here (Global Research, November 2, 2008) 2008 - Alarmists Still Heated Even As World Cools (Investors Business Daily, November 04, 2008) 2008 - Third building collapses under weight of snow (Ottawa Citizen, November 10, 2008) 2008 - Bitter cold shatters record (The Charlotte Observer, November 19, 2008) 2008 - UK brought to standstill as five inches of snow falls (The Daily Telegraph, UK, November 25, 2008) 2008 - Glaciers in Norway Growing Again (DailyTech, November 27, 2008) 2008 - Early Snowfalls In Europe Hit 'Historic Levels' (Ski Report Europe, December 3, 2008) 2008 - Rare 50 year Arctic Blast Sets Sights On Southern California (Ontario Weather Service, December 8, 2008) 2008 - Oscillation Rules as the Pacific Cools (NASA, December 9, 2008) 2008 - Global warming freeze? (The Washington Times, December 10, 2008) 2008 - Houston ties earliest snowfall record (Houston Chronicle, December 10, 2008) 2008 - Rare snow falls in south Louisiana, Miss., Alabama (ABC News, December 11, 2008) 2008 - Worst ice storm in decade hits New England (Nashua Telegraph, December 12, 2008) 2008 - Cold weather sets records in several cities (Great Falls Tribune, December 14, 2008) 2008 - Denver breaks 107 year old record (Thornton Weather, December 15, 2008) 2008 - Dangerously cold temperatures set records in Denver (Thornton Weather, December 15, 2008) 2008 - Record low temperature set this morning in Seattle (The Seattle Times, December 15, 2008) 2008 - Northeast Siberia braces for extreme cold of -60C (RIA Novosti, December 15, 2008) 2008 - Record cold chills out Colorado (The Gazette, December 15, 2008) 2008 - Record cold grips southern Alberta (The Lethbridge Herald, Canada, December 15, 2008) 2008 - Record snow hits Nanaimo in British Columbia, Canada (Times Colonist, Canada, December 15, 2008) 2008 - Record setting cold continues for Thornton and Denver (Thornton Weather, December 16, 2008) 2008 - This year is coolest since 2000 (BBC, December 16, 2008) 2008 - St. Cloud, Minnesota Records fall to weather system (St. Cloud Times, December 17, 2008) 2008 - The Cause of Cold Weather Is Global Warming? (FOX News, December 18, 2008) 2008 - Global cooling is here (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 18, 2008) 2008 - Record snow fall paralyzing Spokane (The Seattle Times, December 18, 2008) 2008 - Frigid Storm Closes California Freeways, Drops Snow in Malibu (FOX News, December 18, 2008) 2008 - Las Vegas gets heaviest snow fall in 30 years (The Daily Telegraph, UK, December 18, 2008) 2008 - Carports collapse under heavy snow (Las Vegas Sun, December 18, 2008) 2008 - Bihar cold wave death toll rises to 24 (The Bihar Times, India, December 19, 2008) 2008 - The Alps have best snow conditions 'in a generation' (The Daily Telegraph, UK, December 19, 2008) 2008 - Global cooling brings early white Christmas (Ventura County Star, December 20, 2008) 2008 - Albany Breaks 1887 Snow Record (North County Gazette, December 21, 2008) 2008 - The Spotless Sun Continues as Global Cooling Arrives (Joseph D�Aleo, M.S. Meteorology, CCM, AMS Fellow, December 21, 2008) 2008 - Beijing's coldest December day in 57 years (Danwei, Hong Kong, December 22, 2008) 2008 - 40-Year Record Snow Buries Portland Area (The Oregonian, December 22, 2008) 2008 - Heavy snow causes a roof to collapse in Portland (The Oregonian, December 22, 2008) 2008 - Record amount of snow on the ground in Calgary (Financial Post, Canada, December 22, 2008) 2008 - Snow causes roof collapse at Calgary Soccer Centre (Calgary Herald, Canada, December 22, 2008) 2008 - Snow causes roof collapse at Marysville business (The Seattle Times, December 22, 2008) 2008 - Cold weather kills 10 in Maryland since October (The Baltimore Examiner, December 23, 2008) 2008 - It's Cold Outside, But Global Warming Industry Still Hard At Work (Human Events. December 23, 2008) 2008 - An inconvenient truth: The Earth is cooling (The Baltimore Examiner, December 23, 2008) 2008 - Snow, again? Vegas sets another record this morning (Las Vegas Sun, December 23, 2008) 2008 - Deep freeze, heavy snows blast US; holiday travel snarled (AFP, December 23, 2008) 2008 - Record snow buries Beaver Creek, Colorado (Vail Daily, December 24, 2008) 2008 - Half of the USA is covered in snow (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, December 25, 2008) 2008 - San Juan County, New Mexico experiences rare white Christmas (The Daily Times, December 25, 2008) 2008 - Canadians get first national white Christmas in nearly four decades (The Canadian Press, December 25, 2008) 2008 - For the First Time in Years, Western Part of Lake Superior Freezes Over (ICECAP, Wisconsin, December 26, 2008) 2008 - Green Bay snowfall breaks 1887 record for December (Green Bay Press-Gazette, December 26, 2008) 2008 - Heavy snow causes roof collapse at Olympia high school (The Seattle Times, December 26, 2008) 2008 - Snowfall immobilizes rural communities in eastern, central Turkey (Todays Zaman, December 26, 2008) 2008 - Spokane sets snow record, tops 45 inches (Yakima Herald-Republic, December 26, 2008) 2008 - Two Flagstaff strip malls closed after roofs collapse due to heavy snow (The Arizona Daily Sun, December 26, 2008) 2008 - Cold creates record energy demand (Great Falls Tribune, December 27, 2008) 2008 - Thousands trapped in -15 degree snowstorm in Sikkim, India (The Times of India, December 27, 2008) 2008 - White Christmas in Hawaii (Big Island Video News, December 27, 2008) 2008 - Olympia Horse-arena roofs collapse under snow (The Seattle Times, December 28, 2008) 2008 - Record-breaking cold descends on Switzerland (Swissinfo, Switzerland, December 28, 2008) 2008 - Ice age on its way (The Arizona Republic, December 28, 2008) 2008 - It's official: Snowfall record for single month tumbles (Wisconsin State Journal, December 29, 2008) 2008 - Snowfall amounts set records across North Dakota (Associated Press, December 30, 2008) 2008 - Record December snow at Grand Forks (Associated Press, December 30, 2008) 2008 - Spokane digs out from record-breaking snow (Associated Press, December 30, 2008) 2008 - 1958 Parry Sound Canada snow record broken (Parry Sound North Star, December 31, 2008) 2008 - 48 inches of snow in Fox Valley Wisconsin buries previous record set in 1968 (Appleton Post-Crescent, December 31, 2008) 2008 - Spokane roofs collapse under record snow (The News Tribune, December 31, 2008) 2008 - Arctic Sea Ice Ends 2008 at Same Level as 1979 (DailyTech, January 1, 2009)

Andrew	Posted: Oct 6 2007, 06:39 AM
Chief of Staff Group: Admin Posts: 7,836 Member No.: 1 Joined: 17-November 04	2009 - Record cold wind chills of -50 C recorded overnight in Saskatchewan (Canadian Press, January 4, 2009) 2009 - Coldest start to the New Year for seven years (The Daily Telegraph, UK, January 5, 2009) 2009 - Forget warming, greenhouse gases may trigger ice age (The Times of India, January 5, 2009) 2009 - London colder than Antarctica (The Daily Telegraph, UK, January 5, 2009) 2009 - Poor burn books to stay warm in chilly India, 55 dead (Reuters, January 5, 2009) 2009 - Rochester sees snowiest winter in six years, record snow in December (Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, January 5, 2009) 2009 - Cold streak breaks 1892 record, Saskatoon experiences 24 consecutive days of -25 C (The StarPhoenix, January 6, 2009) 2009 - Record cold weather payouts triggered as temperature hits -11C (The Times, UK, January 6, 2009) 2009 - Record-breaking cold -37 in Moose Jaw, Canada (The Moose Jaw Times Herald, Canada, January 6, 2009) 2009 - NCDC’s own graphic shows decadal cooling trend (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, January 6, 2009) 2009 - Global Warming is Really Global Cooling (Right Side News, January 6, 2009) 2009 - Schools remain closed amid freeze (BBC, January 7, 2009) 2009 - Spokane, Wash., residents cope with record snow (FOX News, January 7, 2009) 2009 - 12 deaths blamed on snow, cold across Europe (International Herald Tribune, January 7, 2009) 2009 - Deadly cold, heavy snow grip Europe (National Post, January 8, 2009) 2009 - Minn. sled race canceled because of heavy snow (USA Today, January 8, 2009) 2009 - Extreme Alaska cold 60 below grounds planes, disables cars (CNS News, January 8, 2009) 2009 - Record snow takes toll on Great Falls plowing budget, crews (Montana News Network, January 9, 2009) 2009 - Life At Negative 78 Degrees In Alaska (NPR, January 9, 2009) 2009 - Britain in grip of longest cold snap for 10 years (The Daily Telegraph, January 10, 2009) 2009 - Polar Sea Ice Changes are Having a Net Cooling Effect on the Climate (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, January 10, 2009) 2009 - Slovenia with record low temperature -49 (Montenegrin News Agency, January 11, 2009) 2009 - Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age (Pravda, Russia, January 11, 2009) 2009 - Global Cooling Headed Our Way (Newsmax, January 13, 2009) 2009 - Record cold hits eastern ND (The Daily News, January 13, 2009) 2009 - Biting cold hits Northeast, keeps even skiers home (ABC News, January 14, 2009) 2009 - Flint's 95-year-old record low falls as 19 below zero hits city (The Flint Journal, January 14, 2009) 2009 - Record snow lands on Bismarck-Mandan again (The Bismark Tribune, January 14, 2009) 2009 - Shocking cold wave drops temps to 40 below zero (Breitbart, January 14, 2009) 2009 - Dutch canals freeze over for the first time in 12 years (The New York Times, January 15, 2009) 2009 - On the Brink of Climatic Disaster: the Coming Ice Age (The John Birch Society, January 15, 2009) 2009 - The Ice Age Cometh: Experts Warn of Global Cooling (Business & Media Institute, January 15, 2009) 2009 - Americans suffer record cold as temperatures plunge to -40C (Daily Mail, UK, January 16, 2009) 2009 - Arctic front freezes US, Canada in record cold snap (AFP, January 16, 2009) 2009 - Cold pierces record in Sioux Falls, South Dakota (Argus Leader, January 16, 2009) 2009 - Heavy snow causes 6,000 traffic accidents, 24 deaths in Moscow (RIA Novosti, January 16, 2009) 2009 - Iowa Endures Record-Breaking Cold (KCRG-TV, January 16, 2009) 2009 - Record-breaking cold chills Western Massachusetts (The Republican, January 16, 2009) 2009 - Record cold in Detroit as deep freeze continues (The Examiner, January 16, 2009) 2009 - Cold snaps 124-year-old record in Fredericton, Canada (The Daily Gleaner, January 17, 2009) 2009 - Record Cold Chills North Country, New York (North Country Gazette, January 17, 2009) 2009 - Today’s sub-zero cold sets new record in Binghamton, New York (Star-Gazette, January 17, 2009) 2009 - Low temperature ties 1951 record in Hawaii (The Maui News, January 20, 2009) 2009 - Oceans are cooling according to NASA (The Baltimore Weather Examiner, January 21, 2009) 2009 - UAE mountain covered in rare snow (AFP, January 25, 2009) 2009 - 8 found dead in Michigan cold since Jan. 17 (The Chicago Tribune, January 28, 2009) 2009 - Two Fairfield, Illinois businesses collapse under snow, ice (Evansville Courier & Press, January 28, 2009) 2009 - Ice storm cuts power to 870,000 in Midwest (Reuters, January 28, 2009) 2009 - Docks Collapse Under Weight of Snow, Sleet and Ice (Ozarks First, January 29, 2009) 2009 - Global Cooling Under-reported (Science & Public Policy Institute, January 29, 2009) 2009 - Snow Storm Sweeps Northeast From Texas; at Least 23 Are Dead (The New York Times, January 29, 2009) 2009 - World is getting colder (The Washington Times, January 30, 2009) 2009 - Saginaw Michigan breaks 1947 snowfall record for a calendar year (The Saginaw News, February 02, 2009) 2009 - Heaviest Snow in 18 Years Brings Much of Europe to a Halt (FOX News, February 02, 2009) 2009 - 75 inches of January snow sets Juneau record (Anchorage Daily News, February 3, 2009) 2009 - Slippery Slope: Ice Age Cometh in Five Years (NewsMax, February 3, 2009) 2009 - Recent cold snap in Mount Airy, NC shatters 1982 record (Mount Airy News, February 4, 2009) 2009 - Six die in snow roof collapse in Morocco (afrol News, February 5, 2009) 2009 - Hamilton, Ontario Canada broke a 28-year record low temperature (The Hamilton Sectator, February 6, 2009) 2009 - Ice, snow collapse several Anna, Illinois buildings (The Southern, February 6, 2009) 2009 - Record Cold Weather in Western Cuba (Prensa Latina, February 6, 2009) 2009 - Vail, Colorado set record for January snow (Vail Daily, February 6, 2009) 2009 - Record-breaking cold -50�F temperature reached in Maine (NOAA, February 10, 2009) 2009 - Snow storms force German motorists to sleep in cars (The Earth Times, February 11, 2009) 2009 - Worry about global cooling (Daily Breeze, February 14, 2009) 2009 - Snowstorms wreak havoc in the Balkans (The Earth Times, February 19, 2009) 2009 - Little ice age may be on the way (Lincolnshire Echo, UK, February 20, 2009) 2009 - GUINEA: Record cold snap destroys crops, kills hundreds of animals (Reuters, February 20, 2009) 2009 - Ice Age or global warming? (Reuters, February 24th, 2009) 2009 - 'Snow bomb' brings record snowfall across New Brunswick (CBC News, February 24, 2009) 2009 - Global Cooling Continues (The Hearland Institute, March 1, 2009) 2009 - Joy in NYC: Kids get first snow day in five years (USA Today, March 2, 2009) 2009 - Providence sets record; Coventry tops RI for snowfall (The Providence Journal, March 2, 2009) 2009 - Record breaking snowfall in Milwaukee (WKOW, March 2, 2009) 2009 - Ferocious storm dumps heavy snow on East Coast (ABC News, March 3, 2009) 2009 - Lynchburg Virginia breaks 84-year cold record (Lynchburg News and Advance, March 3, 2009) 2009 - 84-year-old cold temperature record falls in Baltimore (Baltimore Sun, March 3, 2009) 2009 - 1925 Low-temperature record shattered in Salisbury, MD (Delmarva Daily Times, March 4, 2009) 2009 - Senators Debate Global Warming Policy Despite Global Cooling Evidence (CNSNews, March 4, 2009) 2009 - Late snowfalls in Britain bring chaos to roads and rail (The Earth Times, March 5, 2009) 2009 - Blizzard blasts northern Plains, upper Midwest (USA Today, March 10, 2009) 2009 - Saskatoon ties 1951 record cold -36.1 C Wednesday; records set across province (The StarPheonix, March 11, 2009) 2009 - It wasn't just cold, it was record cold in Yakima, Washington (Yakima Herald Republic, March 12, 2009) 2009 - Record-brrrrrrrrreaking cold -34.8 C in Regina, Canada (CBC News, March 12, 2009) 2009 - Edmonton Canada bests all time record low by -12 degrees (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, March 15, 2009) 2009 - Snowy 1st Day Of Spring For Some Northeast Towns (Associated Press, March 20, 2009) 2009 - Shocker: 'Global warming' simply no longer happening (WorldNetDaily, March 22, 2009) 2009 - Calgary pounded by record-breaking snow (The Vancouver Sun, March 23, 2009) 2009 - New Report Predicts "New Global Ice Age" (Reuters, March 23, 2009) 2009 - Blizzard Punishes Several States (The New York Times, March 24, 2009) 2009 - Crashes injure 15 as blizzard blasts Colo., Wyo. (USA Today, March 26, 2009) 2009 - Blizzard Hits Southern Plains (The New York Times, March 27, 2009) 2009 - Southwest, central N.D. hit by blizzard conditions (USA Today, March 30, 2009) 2009 - Spokane records snowiest winter ever (The Seattle Times, March 30, 2009) 2009 - Late March 17.1 Inch Snowfall Breaks Bismarck, North Dakota Record (Associated Content, March 31, 2009) 2009 - Cold winters may be new trend; this winter 10th coldest on record (Arrow Lakes News, March 31, 2009) 2009 - Juneau snowfall fourth highest on record (Anchorage Daily News, April 1, 2009) 2009 - International Falls sets winter snowfall record (Duluth News Tribune, April 2, 2009) 2009 - 3,500 cows died in blizzard (Amarillo.com, April 2, 2009) 2009 - RSS MSU: 0.06 �C month-on-month cooling (The Reference Frame, April 3, 2009) 2009 - A rare April blizzard warning issued in Forest City Iowa (Britt News Tribune, April 4, 2009) 2009 - Satellite Data Shows Arctic Cooling in February and March (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, April 4, 2009) 2009 - All-time Snow Records Tumbling Again for the Second Straight Year (Joseph D’Aleo, M.S. Meteorology, April 5, 2009) 2009 - Spring snowstorm keeps some western schools closed (Omaha World-Herald, April 6, 2009) 2009 - Blizzard leaves Kivalina, Alaska residents feeling ‘buried alive’ (The Arctic Sounder, April 9, 2009) 2009 - GISS Global temperature anomaly - coldest March since 2000 (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, April 14, 2009) 2009 - Kotzebue, Alaska seeks disaster funding after record snowfall (Daily News Miner, April 16, 2009) 2009 - Global Warming Strikes Again: Up To 36 Inches Of Snow In Colorado (KXNet.com, April 17, 2009) 2009 - Record snowfall (102 inches) a concern in Kotzebue, Alaska (Siku News, April 17, 2009) 2009 - Colorado Hit With 41 Inches Of Snow - Record Snowfall With More On The Way (The Post Chronicle, April 18, 2009) 2009 - Revealed: Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking (The Australian, April 18, 2009) 2009 - Overnight snow pushes area to 3rd snowiest winter on record (Green Bay Press-Gazette, April 21, 2009) 2009 - Scientists baffled by Quiet Sun... ice age coming? (MINA, April 22, 2009) 2009 - The Next Ice Age (American Thinker, April 22, 2009) 2009 - Spring puts on brakes as record highs turn into blizzard in Montana (Great Falls Tribune, April 24, 2009) 2009 - Goodbye Global Warming, hello to the Ice Age! (Scoop, New Zealand, April 24, 2009) 2009 - Record-cold temperatures in Saskatchewan (The StarPhoenix, April 24, 2009) 2009 - Global Cooling Earth's Little-Known Threat (CBN News, April 25, 2009) 2009 - Blizzard closes schools, brings good and bad (Great Falls Tribune, April 28, 2009) 2009 - Blizzard conditions seen across Montana (Great Falls Tribune, April 28, 2009) 2009 - New Australian continent wide low temperature record set for April (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, April 29, 2009) 2009 - Storm breaks Great Falls snowfall record (Great Falls Tribune, April 29, 2009) 2009 - Scientists Expect Global Cooling to Start Soon (Russia-IC, April 29, 2009) 2009 - Australian Ski Resort has it's earliest start to the season in the resort's 45-year history (ABC News, April 30, 2009) 2009 - Record snow continues, Breaks 1913 Record (Great Falls Tribune, April 30, 2009) 2009 - Spring blizzard destroys Calgary Zoo's endangered whooping crane eggs (Calgary Herald, April 30, 2009) 2009 - RSS MSU: 2nd coldest April since 1999 (The Reference Frame, May 2, 2009) 2009 - Sun Oddly Quiet - Hints at Next "Little Ice Age"? (National Geographic, May 4, 2009) 2009 - Quiet Sun May Trigger Global Cooling (FOX News, May 5, 2009) 2009 - NOAA: April Temperatures Slightly Cooler Than Average for U.S. (NOAA, May 8, 2009) 2009 - Record snowfall taxed budget and nerves (Langley Times, Canada, May 8, 2009) 2009 - Snow in Saudi Arabia in May? (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, May 12, 2009) 2009 - Pouring cold water on global warming (The Belfast Telegraph, UK, May 13, 2009) 2009 - The Coming Ice Age (American Thinker, May 13, 2009) 2009 - Geologist forecasts global cooling (ABC, Australia, May 15, 2009) 2009 - Summer haze has a cooling effect in southeastern United States, says new study (University of California Berkeley, May 18, 2009) 2009 - Weekend snow sets record in International Falls (Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 18, 2009) 2009 - Another record-setting cold morning in Austin breaks 109 year old record (The Austin American-Statesman, May 19, 2009) 2009 - Baltimore Morning cold breaks record (The Baltimore Sun, May 19, 2009) 2009 - Record cold on the coast of South Carolina (The State, May 19, 2009) 2009 - Record cold hits Far North breaks 113 year record in the Cooktown region (The Cairns Post, May 23, 2009) 2009 - Record cold morning for Perth (The West Australian, May 25, 2009) 2009 - Canada Has a Frigid May after a Cold Winter (Joseph D’Aleo, M.S. Meteorology, May 27, 2009) 2009 - Cooler decades ahead, researcher says (SitNews, May 28, 2009) 2009 - Still More on Diminished Solar Activity and Global Cooling (Dakota Voice, May 30, 3009) 2009 - Red Centre shivers in record cold (ABC News, Australia, June 1, 2009) 2009 - Record cold in May and more chill to come (TVNZ, New Zealand, June 3, 2009) 2009 - Isn't this June? Snow sticking around on Pikes Peak (The Gazette, June 5, 2009) 2009 - RSS Global Temperature Anomaly also down in May, halving the April value (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, June 5, 2009) 2009 - Alberta, Saskatchewan get snow in June (Calgary Herald, June 6, 2009) 2009 - Snow falls in western ND, in June, first time in 60 years (KXNet.com, June 6, 2009) 2009 - Abominable as snow hits Britain (Daily Star, UK, June 8, 2009) 2009 - Cold weather record set in Flathead (Montana's News Station, June 9, 2009) 2009 - Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age (DC Weather Examiner, June 29, 2009) 2009 - July Opens with Near-Record Cold (TMJ4 News, July 1, 2009) 2009 - Global Cooling: Bad News For Global Warming Alarmists (Right Side News, July 6, 2009) 2009 - Chicago has its coolest July 8 in 118 years (The Chicago Tribune, July 9, 2009) 2009 - The chills of Global Cooling (Scripps News, July 9, 2009) 2009 - RSS Global Temperature for June 09, also down (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, Jul 10, 2009) 2009 - Cooler weather bringing the “luck of the Irish” to the USA (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, Jul 11, 2009) 2009 - Record Cold in Regina and Estevan Canada: Beats 92-Year-Old Record Low (CKOM News, July 11, 2009) 2009 - 113-Year Record Cold in Pittsburgh, 27 in MI (AccuWeather, July 14, 2009) 2009 - West Michigan record cold (Grand Rapids Weather Examiner, July 18, 2009) 2009 - Record low temperatures across Mississippi, this morning (Jackson Weather Examiner, July 19, 2009) 2009 - Cold front brings Alabama record lows (Tuscaloosa News, July 21, 2009) 2009 - Coldest July 21 In Nashville, Tennessee Since 1877 (The Post Chronicle, July 22, 2009) 2009 - Argentina's Electricity Demand Breaks Record On Cold Weather (The Wall Street Journal, July 23, 2009) 2009 - Historic snow event in South America (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, July 23, 2009) 2009 - Worry about global cooling, not warming (Kennebec Journal, July 23, 2009) 2009 - Cool summer disappoints tourists, delays crops (Associated Press, July 25, 2009) 2009 - Global cooling hits Al Gore's home (The Daily Telegraph, UK, July 25, 2009) 2009 - So where's that global cooling alert? (The Globe and Mail, Canada, July 27, 2009) 2009 - Record setting cool weather hits Denver and brings snow to the mountains (Denver Weather Examiner, July 30, 2009) 2009 - Antarctic air flow brings record snow fall to the Falkland Islands (MercoPress, August 1, 2009) 2009 - Coldest July ever for Grand Rapids, Michigan (Grand Rapids Weather Examiner, August 1, 2009) 2009 - Coldest July on Record for Huntington, West Virginia (WOWK-TV, August 1, 2009) 2009 - Coolest July Ever for Fort Wayne, Indiana (Indiana's NewsCenter, August 1, 2009) 2009 - July was coldest on record for International Falls, Minnesota (FOX 21 News, August 1, 2009) 2009 - That was the coldest July in Dubuque, Iowa Ever (Dubuque Telegraph Herald, August 1, 2009) 2009 - Media blames record cold on nature, warming on man (Energy Publisher, August 3, 2009) 2009 - Global cooling blamed as bikini record attempt falls flat (National Post, Canada, August 04, 2009) 2009 - Scientific evidence now points to global cooling, contrary to U.N. alarmism (The Washington Examiner, August 4, 2009) 2009 - July sets record for cold 1,100 new low temperatures set (Ravenna Record Courier, August 4, 2009) 2009 - Falling Temperatures Confound Alarmists (The Heartland Institute, September 1, 2009) 2009 - Record-setting cold weekend (The Daily Journal, September 3, 2009) 2009 - Record snowfall for Cardrona, New Zealand (Otago Daily Times, September 7, 2009) 2009 - Summer Temperature Below Average for U.S. (NOAA, September 10, 2009) 2009 - Scientists see signs of global cooling (Belfast Telegraph, UK, September 21, 2009) 2009 - Planet Cooling Down Amid Global Warming Madness (NewsMax, September 23, 2009) 2009 - Forecast: A cooling trend on climate change (Canada Free Press, September 29, 2009) 2009 - Storm brought record cold in six areas in Utah (Deseret News, ‎October 1, 2009‎) 2009 - Cold spell brings record low temperatures to Southern California (Los Angeles Times, ‎October 6, 2009‎) 2009 - October off to record cold start in Grand Junction, Colorado (Grand Junction Sentinel, October 6, 2009) 2009 - Shocker! Ice melt lowest in 30 years (WorldNetDaily, October 8, 2009) 2009 - What happened to global warming? (BBC, October 9, 2009) 2009 - Biggest news you’ve never heard: Earth isn’t warming (The Christian Science Monitor, October 10, 2009) 2009 - Record cold kills NL playoff game (Daily Mail, Charleston, October 10, 2009) 2009 - Record snowfall, cold hit Central Nebraska (Grand Island Independent, October 10, 2009) 2009 - Chilly weather follows record early snowfall in Des Moines, Iowa (The Des Moines Register, October 11, 2009) 2009 - Denver breaks 104 year old cold temperature record as Arctic chill sets in (Denver Weather Examiner, October 11, 2009) 2009 - It was cold enough to break a record in Wyoming (Gillette News Record, October 11, 2009) 2009 - B.C. Interior hit with record-breaking cold snap (CTV British Columbia, October 12, 2009) 2009 - Bellingham, Washington sets cold record (Bellingham Herald, October 12, 2009) 2009 - Cold sets record lows Sunday in Pendleton, Oregon (East Oregonian, ‎October 12, 2009‎) 2009 - Early winter arrival with record lows and snow in Baltimore (Baltimore Weather Examiner, October 12, 2009) 2009 - Kalispell, Montana hits new cold record (Daily Inter Lake, October 12, 2009) 2009 - Iowa sees record cold (Chicago Tribune, October 12, 2009) 2009 - Record cold, early snow grip Prairies on Thanksgiving (CBC News, October 12, 2009) 2009 - Record cold hits Wenatchee, Washington; snow on the way (The Wenatchee World Online, October 12, 2009) 2009 - Sioux Falls sets record with 0.6 inch of snow (Sioux Falls Argus Leader, ‎October 12, 2009‎) 2009 - Three Decades Of Global Cooling (Investors Business Daily, October 12, 2009) 2009 - Winter hits Calgary roads after record cold (Calgary Herald, October 12, 2009) 2009 - Good snow spells a record year for New Zealand ski fields (Reuters, October 13, 2009) 2009 - Monday snowfall breaks record in Southern Minnesota (Austin Herald, October 13, 2009) 2009 - Austria gets record October snow (Radio Netherlands, October 14, 2009) 2009 - Central Europe hit by heavy snow, high winds (Reuters, October 14, 2009) 2009 - Early start to winter ≈20% of USA is covered in snow already (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, October 14, 2009) 2009 - October Cold Snap Sets 82-Year Record in Chicago (CBS2 Chicago, October 14, 2009) 2009 - Record-setting cold in Laurel, Montana (Laurel Outlook, October 14, 2009) 2009 - Whatever happened to global warming? (Daily Mail, UK, October 14, 2009) 2009 - European cold snap kills 4 in Poland, cuts power (Reuters, October 15, 2009) 2009 - Record cold day ties 1874 record in Baltimore (Baltimore Weather Examiner, October 15, 2009) 2009 - Earliest snow on record blankets Poconos, Penn State (Philadelphia Inquirer, October 16, 2009‎) 2009 - Early snow sets record for Ithaca, New York (The Ithaca Journal, October 16, 2009) 2009 - Record-Breaking Early Snowfall In New York, New Jersey (The Huffington Post, October 16, 2009) 2009 - October bringing record cold to Topeka, Kansas (Topeka Capital Journal, October 17, 2009) 2009 - North-central China staggers under early snow; 40 die, 9,000 buildings collapse (Associated Press, November 18, 2009)

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Cap and Trade: (Emissions Trading, Carbon Trading)

Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates to Skyrocket" (Video) (3min)
'Cap and Trade' Would Bankrupt the Coal Industry (Video) (9min)

Cap-and-Trade Could Cost Average Family $10,800 in Lost Income (US Newswire)
Cap and Trade to Cost the Average Household More than $3,900 Per Year (MIT)
Climate plans could cost families $1,600 (The Washington Times)
Duke Energy CEO: Cap-and-Trade Plan Would Raise Electric Rates 40% (The Wall Street Journal)
Waxman-Markey Bill Would Raise Electricity Prices $846 Billion (The Heartland Institute)
Why the Dems' "Cap-and-Trade" Energy Tax Will Cost Each American Family Up to $3,100 Per Year (Office of the House Republican Leader)

Zogby poll: only 30% of Americans support cap and trade (Watts Up With That?)

Cap & Trade Is Not A Market Solution (Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D. Economics)
Cap and Trade; a Solution to a Non-existent Problem with Devastating Consequences (Tim F. Ball, Ph.D. Climatology)
Cap-and-Trade: All Cost, No Benefit (Martin Feldstein, Professor of Economics)
Cap and Trade and the Illusion of the New Green Economy (Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D. Former Senior Scientist for Climate Studies, NASA)
"Cap and Trade" -- A Radical Environmentalist's Dream Come True (Walter E. Williams, Ph.D. Professor of Economics)
Cap-and-Trade-War (Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Ecological Climatology; Sallie James, Ph.D. Agricultural Economics)
Cap-and-Trade: What's Next? (Sen. James Inhofe, B.S. Economics)
Is Cap-And-Trade Just Political Posturing? If Not, It Could Mean Economic Suicide (Guy Sorman, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Economics)
Supply-Side Environmentalism (Deroy Murdock, MBA)
The Cap & Trade Charade (Steve Forbes, CEO, Forbes)
The Climate-Industrial Complex (Bjorn Lomborg, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics)
The Costs of Carbon Legislation (Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D. Economics)

Ron Paul on Cap and Trade (Video) (5min)
Warren Buffett Slams "Cap and Trade" as a Regressive Tax on All Americans (Video) (2min)

Cap and Charade (The Wall Street Journal)
Cap and Trade Doesn't Work (The Wall Street Journal)
Reckless 'Endangerment' - The Obama EPA plays 'Dirty Harry' on cap and trade (The Wall Street Journal)
The Cap and Tax Fiction (The Wall Street Journal)
Waxman-Markey would hurt the economy--and the public (Forbes)
Who Pays for Cap and Trade? (The Wall Street Journal)

Beware of Cap and Trade Climate Bills (The Heritage Foundation)
Beware the Eco-Industrial Complex (FOX News)
Cap & Trade: Why It's Tax and Spend (The New York Post)
Cap-And-Trade Would Have Varying Effect on S&P 500 (Reuters)
Cap and Trade: A Bad Trade-off for the Economy and Company Earnings (Free Enterprise Education Institute)
Cap-and-Trade Delusions (Reason)
Cap-and-Trade: Obama's 'Economic Dagger' (The DC Examiner)
Cap and trade or Smoot-Hawley? (The Denver Post)
Cap-and-Trade Scheme Would Deepen Economic Downturn (Competitive Enterprise Institute)
Carbon Trading Proposal May Put Mature Tropical Forests At Risk, Scientists Warn (Science Daily)
CBO Grossly Underestimates Costs of Cap and Trade (The Heritage Foundation)
CBO Lowballs Waxman-Markey Cost (Investor's Business Daily)
Behind the Cap-and-Trade Curtain (National Review Online)
Democrats Admit That Their Cap and Trade Bill Is a Job Killer (U.S. News & World Report)
Dunce Cap-and-Trade (National Review Online)
Energy Price Deceit: Congress tries to hide its cap-and-trade energy price increases (Reason Magazine)
Enron Sought Global Warming Regulation, Not Free Markets (Competitive Enterprise Institute)
EPA: Cap-and-Trade Bill Could Hurt U.S. Manufacturing, Send Factory Jobs Overseas (CNSNews)
Global Warming Bill Could Cost Every U.S. Man, Woman and Child Up to $494 Annually (Business & Media Institute)
Greenspan Has 'Grave Doubts' about 'So-Called Cap-and-Trade System on CO2 Emissions' (Business & Media Institute)
Industry warns EU on CO2 proposals (Financial Times, UK)
Killing Cap & Trade (The Washington Times)
NBC: Cap-and-Trade System Would Magically Make Unaffordable Energy Affordable (Business & Media Institute)
Next Bernie Madoff? Emissions Cap-and-Trade Aids the Corrupt, Hurts the Little Guy (U.S. News & World Report)
No CO2 Cap and Trade Bills Please (Hawaii Reporter)
Obama's $646 Billion Cap-And-Trade Green Tax (U.S. News & World Report)
Obama�s 'Cap and Trade' Plan Imposes Huge Tax (Human Events)
Obama climate plan could cost $2 trillion (The Washington Times)
Potential Costs to America From Cap-and-Trade (Human Events)
Propagreenda: Cap and trade not central planning (Canada Free Press)
Stop 'Cap and Trade' (Human Events)
Study: Cap and trade would hurt economy (The Washington Times)
Study Finds Even Climate 'Alarmed' Americans Don't Want Cap-and-Trade (American Thinker)
The Great Cap-And-Trade Scam (Canada Free Press)
The High Cost of Cap and Trade (The New American)
The Problem With a �Cap-and-Trade� System (The American)
Trading Hot Air? (FOX News)
The rise of the carbon oligarchs (The Washington Times)
US cap and trade scheme could cost billions: ATA (Air Transport Intelligence news)
Waxman-Markey: An Exercise in Unreality (Energy Tribune)
Why cap and trade could backfire (The Christian Science Monitor)

An unnecessary burden (Joe Wilson, U.S. Representative from South Carolina)
"Cap and Trade" will Cost American Families Thousands (Steve Scalise, U.S. Representative from Louisiana)
'Cap-and-trade' bill will cripple economy (Paul Broun, U.S. Representative from Georgia)
Cost of cap-and-trade bill would trickle down to consumer (John Culberson, U.S. Representative from Texas)
Indiana Says 'No Thanks' to Cap and Trade (Mitch Daniels, Governor of Indiana)
Obama's cap-and-trade plan a wolf in sheep's clothing (John Ensign, U.S. Senator from Nevada)

Cap-and-trade like Soviet-style central planning (Video) (6min)

Europe:
Cap and Trade Doesn't Work (The Wall Street Journal)
Carbon trade scheme 'is failing' (BBC)
Europe's Problems Color U.S. Plans to Curb Carbon Gases (The Washington Post)
Germany Abandons Cap and Trade for Major Industries (The Weekly Standard)

Australia faces growing opposition to carbon trade law (Reuters)
Emission trading suffers as carbon prices plummet (Green Business News)
History Shows Carbon Caps a Failed Policy (The Heartland Institute)
Truth about Kyoto: huge profits, little carbon saved (The Guardian, UK)

Papers:
Cap and Trade: A Bad Trade-off for the Economy and Company Earnings (PDF) (Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D. Economics)
Cap and Trade Is Genocide (PDF) (21st Century Science and Technology)
Cap and Trade Primer: Eight reasons why cap and trade harms the economy and reduces jobs (PDF) (Institute For Energy Research)
Impact on the Economy of the Climate Provision in the Obama Administration�s FY 2010 Budget Proposal (PDF) (CRA International)
The Adverse Economic Impacts of Cap-and-Trade Regulations (PDF) (Arthur Laffer, Ph.D. Economics)
The Cost of Climate Regulation for American Households (PDF) (The Marshall Institute)
The Economic Impact of Waxman�Markey (PDF) (The Heritage Foundation)
Son of Waxman-Markey: More Politics Makes for a More Costly Bill (PDF) (The Heritage Foundation)
The Economic Effects of Proposed Cap-and-Trade Legislation (The Beacon Hill Institute)
Who Pays for Climate Policy? New Estimates of the Household Burden and Economic Impact of a U.S. Cap-and-Trade System (PDF) (Tax Foudnation)

Carbon Allowances:

Personal carbon quotas considered (BBC, July 2, 2005)
CO2: This time it's personal (BBC, November 29, 2005)
Every adult in Britain should be forced to carry 'carbon ration cards', say MPs (Daily Mail, UK, May 27, 2007)
Everyone in Britain could be given a personal 'carbon allowance' (The Daily Telegraph, UK, November 9, 2009)

Carbon Credits: (Offsets)

How to profit from global warming (The Times, UK)

Carbon Credits - Carbon Credit - The Latest Greenie Trend (NewsMax)
Carbon Credits - Industry caught in carbon �smokescreen� (Financial Times)

Carbon Offsets - Behind the feel-good hype of carbon offsets, some of the deals don't deliver (BusinessWeek)
Carbon Offsets - Carbon Offsets - Buyer Beware (Steve Milloy, B.A. Natural Science, M.S. Health Science)
Carbon Offsets - Gore's 'carbon offsets' paid to firm he owns (WorldNetDaily)

Carbon Taxes:

Al Gore Pushes 'Pollution Tax' (NewsMax)
Global Carbon Tax Urged at UN Climate Conference (US Senate Environment & Public Works Committee)

Air passengers face push for green taxes to help fight climate change (Daily Mail, UK)
- Brown doubles tax on flights in effort to combat global warming (Daily Mail, UK)
Americans Would Prefer Gov't Regulation to CO2 Tax or Trading, Poll Finds (CNSNews)
As President, Would You Back a Carbon Tax? (CNSNews)
Baby tax needed to save planet, claims expert (News Limited, Australia)
Congressman John Dingell Proposes 50-cent Gas Tax Hike to Fight Global Warming (FOX News)
Democrat Wants Higher Gas Taxes, New Carbon Fees (CNSNews)
'Green tax' hikes could leave families �1,000 ($2,047) worse off (Daily Mail, UK)
Green taxes 'are making billions' (BBC)
Mayor Bloomberg Proposes Pollution Tax (The New York Sun)
New green law could ration flights and raise fuel prices (Daily Mail, UK)

QUOTE (Daily Mail UK)

One method could be personal carbon-allowances, where everyone is given a fixed amount of carbon to use each year. Each time they travel in a plane, buy petrol, go shopping or eat out would be recorded on a plastic card. The more frugal could sell spare carbon to those who want to indulge themselves. But if you were to run out of your carbon allowance, you could be barred from flying or driving.

New Jersey governor signs toughest U.S. carbon law (Reuters)
Public 'wary of green tax motives' (Daily Mail, UK)
Quebec Sets Carbon Tax on Energy Cos. (FOX News)
Report: Chirac Eyes Carbon Tax for U.S. (FOX News)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy backs carbon tax, EU levy on non-Kyoto imports (AFP)
Sen. Chris Dodd: Tax 'Greenhouse Gas' Emissions (NewsMax)
State (WA) fuel efficiency tax proposed to fight global warming (The News Tribune)

Censorship:

Global Warming Censored (PDF) (Business & Media Institute)

Climate change skeptics say it's hard to get heard (Reuters)
Death Threats for man-made-global-warming-doesn't-exist scientist (Canada Free Press)
Eco-Censorship (The New Atlantis)
Environmental Group President Threatens To Destroy Career of Global Warming Skeptic (NewsBusters)
Leading scientific journals 'are censoring debate on global warming' (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Liberal �Scientists� Lead Jihad Against Global-Warming Skeptics (Human Events)
The Global Warming Inquisition and the Suppression of "Skeptic" Heresy (American Policy Center)

Cognitive Dissonance:

Global Warming and Cognitive Dissonance Theory

QUOTE

When discomfirmatory (contrary) evidence is presented, Festinger found one condition that often determined whether the belief is discarded or maintained with new fervor by belief with a strongloy held belief. That was whether or not the individual believer has social support. It is unlikely that one isolated believer could withstand strong discomfirming evidence. If, however, the believer is a member of a group of convinced persons who can support one another, you might expect the belief to be maintained and the believers to attempt to proselytice or persuade non-members that the belief is correct even in the face of data suggesting otherwise.

Cognitive Dissonance

QUOTE

Festinger first developed this theory in the 1950s to explain how members of a cult who were persuaded by their leader, a certain (Al Gore), that the earth was going to be destroyed. The dissonance of the thought of being so stupid was so great that instead they revised their beliefs to meet with obvious facts: that (Al Gore) had, through their concern for the cult, saved the world instead.

Delayer:

1975 - The Cooling World (Newsweek)

QUOTE (1975 Newsweek Global Cooling)

The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality

Andrew

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IPCC: (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)

Digging up the roots of the IPCC (Spiked, UK)

Papers:
Independent Summary for Policymakers: IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (PDF) (Fraser Institute)
Critical Topics in Global Warming: Supplementary Analysis of the Independent Summary for Policymakers (PDF) (The Fraser Institute)
Climate Change Reconsidered (PDF) (NIPCC)
Inadequacies and criticisms of the IPCC (PDF) (Robert M. Carter, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental and Earth Science)
IPCC Fourth Assessment Report 2007 Analysis and Summary (PDF) (Science & Public Policy Institute)
Has the IPCC inflated the feedback factor? (PDF) (Science & Public Policy Institute)
Peer Review? What Peer Review? Failures of scrutiny in the UN's Fourth Assessment Report (PDF) (Science & Public Policy Institute)
What is Wrong with the IPCC? (PDF) (Science & Public Policy Institute)
Why the IPCC should be disbanded (PDF) (Science & Public Policy Institute)
Working Group (WG) I�s Contribution to the IPCC�s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4): A Critique (PDF) (The Marshall Institute)
Working Group (WG) II�s Contribution to the IPCC�s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4): A Critique (PDF) (The Marshall Institute)
Working Group (WG) III�s Contribution to the IPCC�s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4): Be Sure to Read the Fine Print (PDF) (The Marshall Institute)

"Radiative Forcing (RF) is a modeling concept that attempts to summarize the climatic effect of diverse changes in the environment. It is not directly measured, nor is it related to the greenhouse effect and overall remains poorly quantified." - Independent Summary for Policy Makers

A Major Deception on Global Warming (Frederick Seitz, Ph.D. Physics, The Wall Street Journal)
Bitten by the IPCC (National Post, Canada)
Chris Landsea Leaves IPCC (Christopher W. Landsea Ph.D. Atmospheric Science)
IPCC report criticized by one of its lead authors (The Heartland Institute)
IPCC: the dangers of enforcing �consensus� (Spiked, UK)
IPCC: separating fact from fright (Spiked, UK)
IPCC too blinkered and corrupt to save (Financial Post, Canada)
Misplaced Trust - Inconvenient truths about the UN�s global warming panel (The Wall Street Journal)
The IPCC Should Leave Science to Scientists (American Thinker)
U.N. Report Is Biased (PDF) (Ross McKitrick, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics)

IPCC REPORT DEFINITIONS (What they really mean):
virtually certain = more than 99%
extremely likely = more than 95%
very likely = more than 90%
likely = more than 60%
more likely than not = more than 50%
unlikely = less than 33%
very unlikely = less than 10%
extremely unlikely = less than 5%

Expert Reviewer:

Appendix A to the Principles Governing IPCC Work (PDF)

4.2.4.1 First Review (by Experts)

First draft Reports should be circulated by Working Group/Task Force Bureau Co-Chairs for review by experts selected by the Working Group/Task Force Bureau and, in addition, those on the lists provided by governments and participating organizations, noting the need to aim for a range of views, expertise, and geographical representation. The review circulation should include:

- Experts who have significant expertise and/or publications in particular areas covered by the Report.
- Experts nominated by governments as Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead Authors, contributing authors or expert reviewers as included in lists maintained by the IPCC Secretariat.
- Expert reviewers nominated by appropriate organizations.

Expert reviewers should provide the comments to the appropriate Lead Authors through the relevant Working Group/Task Force Bureau Co-Chairs with a copy, if required, to their Government Focal Point.

Kyoto:

"We will not submit this [Kyoto Protocol] for ratification until there's meaningful participation by key developing nations."
- Al Gore, 1997

The Truth about Al Gore and Kyoto (Video) (2min)
Economist Bjorn Lomborg: Global warming is not a priority (Video) (17min)

Emissions Irrelevant To Future Climate Change? (Science Daily)

The Kyoto Protocol is a treaty to regulate 'Greenhouse Gases' only:
- Carbon dioxide (CO2)
- Methane (CH4)
- Nitrous oxide (N2O) (Laughing Gas, Nitrous, NOS)
- Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
- Perfluorocarbons (PFCs)
- Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6)

137 'Developing Countries' are Exempt from Kyoto, including:
- Brazil (pop: 198,739,269)
- China (pop: 1,338,612,968)
- India (pop: 1,166,079,217)

APEC unlikely to accept binding gas targets in climate change fight (Herald Tribune)
Australia rejects Kyoto pact (BBC)
- Kevin Rudd recoils from climate change pledge (Herald Sun, Australia)
Canada joins anti-Kyoto bloc (National Post, Canada)
- Canada alarmed over Kyoto costs (BBC)
- Canada report defends saying no to Kyoto target (Reuters)
China rejects binding targets on greenhouse emissions (Forbes)
- Alarming Growth In Expected Carbon Dioxide Emissions In China, Analysis Finds (Science Daily)
- China On Carbon Tariffs: Drop Dead (Energy Tribune)
- China surpasses United States in emissions (United Press International)
- China tells rich nations to cut emissions by 40 percent (Reuters)
- 750,000 a year killed by Chinese pollution (Financial Times, UK)
Greece fails on Kyoto targets (Kathimerini, Greece)
India rejects greenhouse gas limits (Herald Sun, Australia)
- India says it cannot accept a cap on development (Business Standard)
Italy breaks EU ranks on Kyoto (The Parliament)
Japan emissions to rise, reaching Kyoto goals hard (Reuters)
- Japan's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rise 6.4% From 1990 Levels (Bloomberg)
- Japan plans to buy carbon credits from Hungary to achieve Kyoto Treaty goal (Herald Tribune, Australia)
Lithuania decides to take EU to court over CO2 cut (Reuters)
New Zealand - NZ to bring in carbon trading, but still lag Kyoto (Reuters)
Spain Lags Behind in Kyoto Protocol Compliance (Tierramerica)
Turkey rejects Kyoto (Today's Zaman, Turkey)
UK Revealed: cover-up plan on energy target (The Guardian. UK)
- UK public rejects Kyoto Protocol (International Policy Network)
US Senate Rejects Kyoto 95-0 (Byrd-Hagel Resolution, 1997)
- Bill Clinton 'Signed' Kyoto in 1998 (CNN)
- Ex-Clinton aides admit Kyoto treaty flawed (USA Today)
- George Bush rejects mandatory limits on emissions (The Times, UK)
- UPI Poll: Don't ratify Kyoto treaty (NewsDaily)
- U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Fossil Fuels Declined By 1.3% In 2006 (EIA)
- U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell 1.5% in 2006 (USA Today)
- 2008 U.S. Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions See Biggest Drop in Nearly 30 Years (Reuters)

Carbon Dioxide Emission Reduction Assumptions Overly Optimistic, Study Says (Science Daily)
Global Warming not a Cost-effective Target (Competitive Enterprise Institute)
Greens Admit Kyoto Protocol Will Not Affect 'Global Warming' (NewsMax)
Kyoto Count Up! (Junk Science)
Kyoto projects harm ozone layer: U.N. official (Reuters)
Kyoto would cost a million Euro jobs, 80 billion euros by 2010 (National Business Review)
Kyoto's Global Warming Controls Could Harm Forests (Science Daily)
Lessons of Kyoto (Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Ecological Climatology)
The Fatal Conceit of Kyoto (The Frasier Institute)
The Kyoto Protocol and Global Warming (PDF) (Sallie Baliunas, Ph.D. Astrophysics, Harvard)

QUOTE (Sallie Baliunas)

a worldwide 5% cut in carbon dioxide emissions from 1990 levels, would reduce temperatures an insignificant 0.06�C

The Kyoto Protocol is Dead (Reason Magazine)
The Press Gets It Wrong - Our report doesn't support the Kyoto treaty (The Wall Street Journal)
Truth about Kyoto: huge profits, little carbon saved (The Guardian, UK)

Lawsuits:

Judge Dismisses Claims CO2 Emissions Caused Hurricane Katrina (NewsBusters)
Judge tosses California global warming lawsuit against automakers (Associated Press)

Obama:

Hot air from Obama (The Australian)
Job Losses From Obama Green Stimulus Foreseen in Spanish Study (Bloomberg)
Obama Climate Plan Could Cost $2 Trillion (The Washington Times)
Obama Is Still Pushing Green Snake Oil (Reason)
Obama Should Forget About Energy Independence (The Wall Street Journal)
Obama tries to hide the costs of his global warming solution (Reason)
Obama's Bad Green Deal (FOX News)
Obama's Looming Energy Disaster (The American Spectator)
President-elect Barack Obama proposes economic suicide for US (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
The First Green President (FOX News)
Why Obama�s �Green Jobs� Plan Won�t Work (The American)

Browner is an environmental radical � and a socialist (seriously) (The Washington Examiner)
Obama Climate Czarina Was Member of Socialist Group's Environmental Commission (FOX News)
Our Socialist Energy Czar (The Heritage Foundation)

Flawed Science Advice for Obama? (The New York Times)
Holdren's Hysterical Quotes (CEI)

Political:

"I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue." - Al Gore, 2006

A green snag they emitted to mention (The Times, UK)
A Quick Comparison of Each Presidential Candidate's Record and Plan for Global Warming
Climate Bills Are Self-defeating (Steve Milloy, B.A. Natural Science, M.S. Health Science)
Dems: Use intelligence funds to study warming (Washington Times)
Global warming watchdog invests in oil, coal, utilities (San Francisco Chronicle)
President of Czech Republic Calls Man-Made Global Warming a 'Myth' (NewsBusters)
Senate Defeats Climate Change Measure (Forbes)

"We can't -- drive our SUVs and you know, eat as much as we want and keep our homes on you know, 72 degrees at all times, and whether we're living in the desert or we're living in the tundra, and then just expect that every other country's going say OK." - Barrack Obama, 2008

Hillary Clinton - Hillary Clinton backs cap-and-trade (VNUnet)
James Hansen - NASA, James Hansen, and the Politicization of Science (DailyTech)
John McCain - McCain and Lieberman Push for New Anti-Global Warming Legislation (The National Center for Public Policy Research)
John McCain - McCain Pushes 'Cap-And-Trade' Plan to Fight Global Warming (Business & Media Institute)
John McCain - Senators McCain and Lieberman Propose Energy Tax (The National Center for Public Policy Research)
Newt Gingrich - Newt Gingrich on the Environment (The National Center for Public Policy Research)
Newt Gingrich - Newt Gingrich Out-Greens Al Gore? (FOX News)

Poverty:

Oil sands get nod from U.S. anti-poverty group (Financial Post, Canada)
Poor people can't worry about global warming (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Poverty fears over wind power (BBC)
We Don't Need a Climate Tax on the Poor (The Wall Street Journal)

Public Transportation:

5 Myths About Suburbia and Our Car-Happy Culture (Reason Magazine)
Dispelling Transit Myths (Cato Institute)
Infrastructure Gridlock (Cato Institute)
Let the Market Free Up Transportation in U.S. (Cato Institute)
Light Rail Doesn't Work (Cato Institute)
Rail Transit Just Isn't Trying to Improve Fuel Efficiency (Cato Institute)
When Government Plans, It Usually Fails (Cato Institute)

Papers:
A Desire Named Streetcar: How Federal Subsidies Encourage Wasteful Local Transit Systems (Cato Institute)
Does Rail Transit Save Energy or Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions? (Cato Institute)
False Dreams and Broken Promises: The Wasteful Federal Investment in Urban Mass Transit (Cato Institute)

Precautionary Principle:

Precautionary Tale (Reason)

Can the Precautionary Principle Manage Risks Effectively? (PDF) (Indur M. Goklany, Ph.D. Science and Policy Analyst, U.S. Department of the Interior)
Discounting the Future (PDF) (Indur M. Goklany, Ph.D. Science and Policy Analyst, U.S. Department of the Interior)
The Paralyzing Principle (PDF) (Cass R. Sunstein, Professor of Environmental Law)
The Perils of the Precautionary Principle: Lessons from the American and European Experience (PDF) (John D. Graham, Ph.D. Dean of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University)

Religion:

Climate change belief given same legal status as religion (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Environmentalism as Religion (Michael Crichton, A.B. Anthropology, M.D. Harvard)

Environmentalism as a Religion (Video) (4min) (Michael Crichton, A.B. Anthropology, M.D. Harvard)
Environmentalism Is the New Religion (Video) (5min) (Ian R. Plimer, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences)

Church of Green (National Review Online)
Gore's Global Warming Religion (Ann Coulter, Human Events)

The 'Green' Bible (WorldNetDaily)

Al Gore's Amen Corner (FrontPage Magazine)
Gore's Faith Is Bad Science (RealClearPolitics)
Is Global Warming a Sin? (Counterpunch)
The false religion of global warming (WorldNetDaily)
The New Religion is Global Warming (Capitalism Magazine)
The New Religion is Global Warming (Hawaii Reporter)

Gore to recruit 10m-strong green army (The Guardian, UK)
Gore Uses Religion to Attract 'Global Warming' Converts (CNSNews)
Confession box for 'eco-sinners' (Metro.co.uk)
Prayer to End Climate Change (ABC News)

1500 Religious Leaders sign 'The Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship' (Cornwall Alliance)
170 Scientists, Economists and Theologians sign An Open Letter to the Signers of 'Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action' (Cownwall Alliance)

Baptist adds caution over global warming (Baptist Press)
Baptists question human role in global warming (USA Today)
Cardinal George Pell: Keeping a cool head amid warming hysteria (Sunday Telegraph, Australia)
Catholic Cardinal and Bishop Condemn Climate Change Extremism, Radical Environmentalism (LifeSiteNews)
Climate change question not proven, says bishop (Religious Intelligence, UK)
Evangelical Leaders Warn Against Christian Involvement in �Climate Change� Hysteria (LifeSiteNews)
'Global warming' fooling the faithful (Jerry Falwell, WorldNetDaily)
Priest Says Beware of Science Experts Quoting Statistics and Saying Sky is Falling (LifeSiteNews)
Interfaith Alliance Downplays Fears of Climate Change (The Washington Post)
Seminary student's climate change project is not SBC's (Baptist Press)
The Bible and 'global warming' (WorldNetDaily)
The Pope condemns the climate-change scaremongers (Daily Mail, UK)
The Pope warns against alarmist science (The Register)

"...this means avoiding needlessly alarming predictions when these are not supported by sufficient data or exceed science�s actual ability to predict." - Pope Benedict XVI

Marriage: Eco-friendlier than divorce? (USA Today)
- A Really Inconvenient Truth: Divorce Is Not Green (Science Daily)

Socialism:

"Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible." - Gus Hall, National chairman of the Communist Party USA, 1972

"The Communist Party USA's environmental program "presents a viable plan to carry out on the long march to socialism." - Havel Wolf, Seattle Audubon Society, 1998

"The answer to global warming is in the abolition of private property and production for human need. A socialist world would place an enormous priority on alternative energy sources. This is what ecologically-minded socialists have been exploring for quite some time now." - Louis Proyect, Columbia University, 2004

Global Warming: Socialism�s Trojan Horse (LewRockwell)
Socialism's Trojan horse (WorldNetDaily)

Czech Republic President V�clav Klaus: Global Warming and Communism (Video) (10min)

Chernobyl and Communism�s Revenge (Intellectual Conservative)
Communism, Capitalism, and Environment (Lubo� Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physicist)
Czech prez: Environmentalism is new communism (WorldNetDaily)
Global Warming as European Imperialism (American Thinker)
Global Warming Equals Socialism (NewsMax)
Green and communist propaganda: comparison (Lubo� Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physicist)

Earth Day:

FACT: The First Earth Day; April 22, 1970 was the 100th Anniversary of the Communist Mass Murderer Vladimir Lenin's Birthday (April 22, 1870)

Earth Day - Communist Propaganda! (Canada Free Press)
Earth Day Going from Red to Green (FrontPage Magazine)

QUOTE (FrontPage Magazine)

Might it be mere coincidence that Earth Day [April 22] falls on Lenin�s Birthday? No, this link was apparently intended from the beginning. Sincere environmentalists who objected that Lenin�s Soviet Union was a despoiler of the natural ecology of Russia, a dammer of rivers and polluter of ecosystems, have been ignored or silenced.

Earth Day Is Lenin's Birthday: Coincidence or Communism? (Capitalism Magazine)
Happy Earth Day, Vladimir Ilyich (The American Spectator)
This Earth Day Celebrate Vladimir Lenin's Birthday! (Capitalism Magazine)
The Earth Day Before Yesterday (Patriot Post)

Earth Day - The Perfect Time to Celebrate Capitalism (FOX News)
Happy Earth Day? Thank Capitalism (The Cato Institute)

Sustainability:

'Sustainable development' is just dangerous nonsense (Philip Stott, Professor Emeritus of Biogeography, University of London)

Sovietizing America: How Sustainable Development Crushes the Individual (The Objectivist Center)
Sustainable Development A Dubious Solution in Search of a Problem (Cato Institute)
"Sustainable Development" Privileges the Few (Morgan J. Poliquin, B.A.Sc. Geological Engineering, M.Sc. Geology)
Sustainable silliness (The Heartland Institute)
The "Sustainable Development" Scam (The Freemarket)
Logging: An essential part of sustainable forestry (Hal Salwasser, Ph.D. Professor of Forest Resource Science, Oregon State University)

The Stern Review:

A Critique of the Stern Report (PDF) (Robert O. Mendelsohn, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics)
Britain's Stern Review on Global Warming: It Could Be Environmentalism's Swan Song (George Reisman, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Economics)
Global warming: the bogus religion of our age (Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT)
Stern Review: The dodgy numbers behind the latest warming scare (Bj�rn Lomborg, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics)

Urban Sprawl: (open space)

Myth - Urban Sprawl Is Ruining America (John Stossel, ABC News)

- Only 3% of the land in the United States is Urban (USDA)
- Only 6% of the land in the United States is Developed (NRI)

Urban = All Cities and Towns pop: 2500+ (Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Roads, Airports, Parks)
Developed = All Urban and Rural Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Roads, Airports and Parks

2003 National Resources Inventory Land Use Report (PDF) (NRI)

Debunking Friday the 13th: 13 Myths of Urban Sprawl (The Heartland Institute)
EPA Funds Anti-Sprawl Politics with Tax Dollars (Cato Institute)
How Government Highway Policy Encourages Sprawl (Cato Institute)
Is Urban Sprawl an Urban Myth? (Discovery Magazine)
Paying the Planning Tax (Cato Institute)
Seven myths about sprawl (The Heartland Institute)
Sprawl and the Federal Government (Cato Institute)

Papers:
Critiquing Sprawls's Critics (Cato Institute)
Smart Growth at the Federal Trough: EPA's Financing of the Anti-Sprawl Movement (Cato Institute)
Urban Sprawl (PDF) (Competitive Enterprise Institute)

War:

No Connection Between Environmental Crises And Armed Conflict, New Study Argues (Science Daily)

WMO: (World Meteorological Organization)

Theft and Mismanagement Charged at U.N. Weather Agency (The New York Times, 2005)
Leaked report details corruption allegations at U.N. weather agency (International Herald Tribune, 2007)
Swiss launch corruption probe at U.N. weather body (Reuters, 2007)

End Politics and Religion

Andrew	Posted: Nov 17 2007, 07:22 AM
Chief of Staff Group: Admin Posts: 7,836 Member No.: 1 Joined: 17-November 04	History: A Major Deception on Global Warming (Frederick Seitz, Ph.D. Physics, Professor Emeritus of Physics, President Emeritus of Rockefeller University, President Emeritus of the National Academy of Sciences, Wall Street Journal, June 12, 1996) The Revelle-Gore Story: Attempted Political Suppression of Science (PDF) (S. Fred Singer, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science, Politicizing Science, 2003) Historical and philosophical context of the climate change debate (Tim F. Ball, Ph.D. Climatology, Canada Free Press, January 21, 2008) How the world was misled about global warming and now climate change (Tim F. Ball, Ph.D. Climatology, Canada Free Press, April 21, 2008) How UN structures were designed to prove human CO2 was causing global warming (Tim F. Ball, Ph.D. Climatology, Canada Free Press, April 30, 2008) Wreaking Havoc on Global Economies (Tim F. 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Alexander, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Biosystems Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa William M. Briggs, B.S. Meteorology and Math, M.S. Atmospheric Science, Ph.D. Statistics, USA William M. Gray, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, USA Willie Soon, Ph.D. Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA Wm. Robert Johnston, B.A. Astronomy, M.S. Ph.D. Physics, USA Wolfgang Th�ne, Ph.D. Geography, Germany Zachary W. Robinson, B.S. Chemistry, Professor of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, USA Zbigniew Jaworowski, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc. Natural Sciences, Poland Meteorologists: *"Scientists that study the earth's atmosphere, climate, and weather"* - Wordsmyth Dictionary A.J. Colby, B.S. Atmospheric Science, AMS Certified, Meteorologist WKYC-TV, USA Andre Bernier, B.S. Meteorology, Meteorologist WJW-TV, USA Anthony Watts, AMS Certified, Chief Meteorologist KPAY-AM, USA Arlo Gambell, AMS Certified, Meteorologist, USA Art Horn, B.S. Meteorology, Meteorologist WVIT-TV, USA Arthur T. Safford III, Retired Meteorologist USAF, USA Asmunn Moene, Former Chief Meteorologist, Oslo, Norway Austin W. Hogan, AMS Certified, Meteorologist, USA Bill Meck, Chief Meteorologist WLEX-TV, USA Bill Steffen, B.S. Meteorology and Physical Geography, Chief Meteorologist WOOD-TV, USA Bob Breck, B.S. Meteorology & Oceanography, Chief Meteorologist WVUE-TV, USA Brad Sussman, Meteorologist, USA Brian Sussman, Meteorologist, USA Bruce Boe, Director of Meteorology Weather Modification Inc., USA Bruce Schwoegler, B.S. Meteorology, USA Chad Myers, B.S. Meteorology. AMS Certified, Meteorologist CNN, USA Christopher Plonka, Meteorologist USAF, USA Craig James, B.S. Meteorology, Chief Meteorologist WOOD-TV, USA Dan Maly, Retired Meteorologist WOIO-TV, USA David Aldrich, B.S. Meteorology, Meteorologist WTXF-TV, USA Dick Goddard, Chief Meteorologist WJW-TV, USA Don Webster, Retired Meteorologist WEWS-TV, USA Douglas Leahey, Meteorologist, Canada Drew Lerner, Senior Agricultural Meteorologist, World Weather Inc., USA Elliot Abrams, M.S. Meteorology, AccuWeather Chief Forecaster, USA Eugenio Hackbart, Chief Meteorologist MetSul Meteorologia Weather Center, Brazil Grant Dade, Meteorologist KLTV, USA H. Michael Mogil, M.S. Meteorology, AMS Certified, Consulting Meteorologist, USA Herb Stevens, Meteorologist WNYT-TV, USA James Spann, AMS Certified, Chief Meteorologist WCFT-TV, WJSU-TV, USA Jason Russell, Meteorologist, WTEN-TV, USA Jeff Halblaub, B.S. Atmospheric Science, Meteorologist, USA Jerry Lettre, Senior Meteorologist, WSI, USA Jim Clarke, B.S. Meteorology, Meteorologist WZVN-TV, USA Joe Bastardi, B.S. Meteorology, Expert Senior Forecaster AccuWeather, USA John Coleman, Meteorologist, Founder of 'The Weather Channel', Chief Meteorologist KUSI-TV, USA Jon Loufman, Meteorologist WOIO-TV, USA Joseph E. Luisi, Former Chief Meteorologist Delta Airlines, USA Justin Berk, B.S. Meteorology, AMS Certified, Meteorologist WMAR-TV, USA Jym Ganahl, B.A. Climatology, AMS Certified, Chief Meteorologist WCMH-TV, USA Karl Bohnak, B.S. Meteorology, AMS Certified, Meteorologist WLUC-TV, USA Kevin Lemanowicz, B.S. Meteorology, Chief Meteorologist WFXT-TV, USA Kevin Williams, B.S. Meteorology, Chief Meteorologist WHEC-TV, USA Keith Eichner, Meteorologist WIVB-TV, USA Lee Eddington, Meteorologist Geophysics Branch, U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, USA Mark Koontz, Meteorologist WFMJ-TV, USA Mark Breen, B.S. Meteorology, Senior Meteorologist Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, USA Mark Johnson, AMS Certified, Chief Meteorologist, WEWS-TV, USA Mark Scirto, B.S. Meteorology, AMS Certified, Chief Meteorologist KLTV, USA Morgan Palmer, AMS Certified, Meteorologist KLTV, USA Nick Morganelli, Free-Lance Meteorologist, USA Paul Cousins, B.S. Meteorology and Geophysics, AMS and NWA Certified, Founder AtmosForecast, USA Peter McGurk, Senior Meteorologist, WSI, USA Randy Baker, B.S. Atmospheric Science, Senior Meteorologist UPS Airlines, USA Randy Mann, AMS Certified, Meteorologist KREM-TV, USA Richard (Rich) Apuzzo, Chief Meteorologist Skyeye Weather, USA Roy Leep, B.S. Meteorology, Meteorologist WTVT-TV, USA Sally Bernier, B.S. Meteorology, Meteorologist WJW-TV, USA Shane Hollett, Meteorologist WMJI-FM, USA Steven Nogueira, NWS Senior Meteorologist, USA Terry Eliasen, B.S. Meteorology, Meteorologist WBZ-TV, USA Thomas B. Gray, M.S. Meteorology, USAF, USA Tim Kelley, B.S. Meteorology, Meteorologist NECN, USA Tom Chisholm, B.S. Atmospheric Science, Chief Meteorologist WMTW-TV, USA William Kininmonth, B.Sc., M.Sc., Retired Head of the Australian National Climate Centre, Australia Social Scientists: *"The assessment of regional environmental and social impacts is a multidisciplinary task that involves natural and social scientists working in tandem with policy makers."* - American Meteorological Society Alan Carlin, B.S. Physics, Ph.D. Economics, Senior Economist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USA Alan Moran, Ph.D. Economics, Director of the IPA's Deregulation Unit, Australia Alex MacMillan, Ph.D. Professor of Economics and Finance (Retired), Queen's University, USA Alex Robson, Ph.D. Economics, Irvine, USA Alister McFarquhar, Ph.D. Economics, UK Andrei Illarionov, Ph.D. Economics, Russia Andrew N. Kleit, Ph.D. Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics, Pennsylvania State University, USA Andrew P. Morriss, Ph.D. Economics, MIT, USA Aynsley Kellow, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Policy, University of Tasmania, Australia Art Carden, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Rhodes College, USA Ben Stein, B.S. Economics, USA Benny Peiser, Ph.D. Professor of Social Anthropology, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Bj�rn Lomborg, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics, Former Director of the Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark Brent L. Sohngen, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics, The Ohio State University, USA Bruce D. McCullough, Ph.D. Professor of Decision Sciences, Drexel University, USA Bruce Yandle, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Economics, Clemson University, USA Carl P. Close, M.A. Economics, USA Cass R. Sunstein, Professor of Environmental Law, Harvard Law School, USA Craig S. Marxsen, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, University of Nebraska Kearney, USA Daniel J. Mitchell, Ph.D. Economics, USA Daniel K. Benjamin, Ph.D. Economics, USA Daniel R. Simmons, B.A. Economics, USA Daniella Markheim, M.A. Economics, USA David A. Ridenour, B.A. Political Science, USA David Almasi, B.A. Political Science, USA David R. Henderson, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Naval Postgraduate School, USA David Kreutzer, Ph.D. Economics, USA Dennis T. Avery, M.S. Agricultural Economics, USA Don Aitkin, Ph.D. Political Science, Australia Donald I. Hertzmark, M.S. Ph.D. Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics, USA Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D. Economics, USA Douglas Southgate, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics, The Ohio State University, USA Edwin J. Feulner, M.B.A. Ph.D. Economics, USA Frank Milne, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Queen's University, Canada G. Cornelis van Kooten, Ph.D. Professor of Agricultural & Resource Economics, Univeristy of Victoria, Canada Gabriel Calzada, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain Gary M. Galles, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Pepperdine University, USA George F. Will, Ph.D. Political Science, USA George Reisman, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Economics, Pepperdine University, USA Ian Castles, BCom Commerce, Former Vice President of the Academy of the Social Sciences, Australia Ingemar Nordin, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy, Link�ping University, Sweden J. Huston McCulloch, Ph.D. Professor of Economics and Finance, The Ohio State University, USA James Johnson, M.A. Ph.D. Economics, USA James Inhofe, B.A. Economics, USA Jean-Luc Migue, PhD Economics, Canada Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. Political Science, USA Jerry Taylor, B.A. Political Science, USA John Br�tland, Ph.D. Senior Economist, U.S. Department of the Interior John D. Graham, Ph.D. Dean of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University John J. Ray, Ph.D. Psychology, Mensa Member, Australia John Richard Lott Jr., Ph.D. Economics, USA John Stossel, B.A. Psychology, USA Julian Morris, M.A. Economics, M.Sc. Environment and Resource Economics, M.Phil. Land Economics, UK Junsoo Lee, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, University of Alabama, USA Kendra Okonski, B.A. Economics, USA Kenneth W. Chilton, Ph.D. Director of the Institute for Study of Economics and the Environment, Lindenwood University, USA Karen Campbell, Ph.D. Economics, USA Kesten C. Green, Ph.D. Management Science, New Zealand Margo Thorning, Ph.D. Economics, USA Marlo Lewis, B.A. Political Science, Ph.D., USA Mark C. Strazicich, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Appalachian State University, USA Michael S. Rozeff, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Finance And Managerial Economics, University of Buffalo, USA Molly Espey, Ph.D. Professor of Applied Economics & Statistics, Clemson University, USA Myron Ebell, M.Sc. Economics, USA Nicolas Loris, M.A. Economics, USA Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby, B.A. Economics, UK Paul E. Godek, Ph.D. Economics, USA Peter V. Bias, Ph.D. Professor of Business and Economics, Florida Southern College, USA Randall G. Holcombe, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Florida State University, USA Randy T. Simmons, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Utah State University, USA Richard W. Rahn, Ph.D. Business Economics, USA Rob Blackstock, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, The College of Business, USA Robert L. Bradley Jr., M.A. Economics, Ph.D. Political Economy, USA Robert Higgs, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Economics, USA Robert J. Michaels, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, California State University, USA Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D. Economics, USA Roland Granqvist, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Dalarna University, Sweden Ronad Rychlak, Professor of Environmental Law, University of Mississippi School of Law, USA Ross McKitrick, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Guelph, Canada Roy E. Cordato, M.A. Ph.D. Economics, USA Stephan Wilksch, Dr-Ing Professor of Economic Science, University of Technolgy and Economics Berlin, Germany Terry L. Anderson, Ph.D. Economics, USA Thomas A. Birkland, Ph.D. Political Science, USA Thomas Gale Moore, M.A., Ph.D. Economics, USA Thomas Sowell, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Economics, UCLA, USA Timothy D. Terrell, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Wofford College, USA Vaclav Klaus, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, President of the Czech Republic Walter E. Williams, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, George Mason University, USA Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D. Economics, USA William Evans, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Notre Dame, USA William Junga, Ph.D. Economics, USA William L. Anderson, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Frostburg State University, USA William D. Nordhaus, Ph.D. Economics, MIT, USA William W. Beach, M.A. Economics, USA Wolfgang Kasper, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of New South Wales, Australia Yaron Brook, B.Sc. Civil Engineering, M.B.A. Ph.D. Finance, USA Deceased: *"Some of this noise won't stop until some of these scientists are dead"* - James Hansen, 2006 Aaron Wildavsky, Ph.D. Political Science, USA (Died: September 4, 1993) Adrian H. Gordon, Meteorologist, University of South Australia, Australia (Died: April 12, 2000) August H. Auer Jr., Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, USA (Died: June 10, 2007) Chauncey Starr, Ph.D. Physics, USA (Died: April 17, 2007) Duwayne M. Anderson, Professor Emeritus of Geology, Texas A&M University, USA (Died: October 4, 2002) Frederick Seitz, Ph.D. Physics, President Emeritus, Rockefeller University, President of the National Academy of Sciences 1962-1969, USA (Died: March 2, 2008) George H. Sutton, Professor Emeritus of Geophysics, University of Hawaii, USA (Died: January 25, 2004) Heinz Lettau, Professor Emeritus of Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, USA (Died: August 4, 2005) Helmut Metzner, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Botany, University of Tubingen, Germany (Died: September 20, 1999) James P. Lodge Jr., Ph.D. Consultant in Atmospheric Chemistry, USA (Died: December 14, 2001) John L. Daly, B.Sc Economics, Australia (Died: January 29, 2004) John Maddox, Editor of Nature (22 years), Lecturer in Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester, UK (Died: April 12, 2009) John R. Apel, Ph.D. Physics, USA (Died: August 16, 2001) Julian Simon, B.A. Psychology, Ph.D. Economics, USA (Died: February 8, 1998) Lance Endersbee, M.E. Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Monash University, Australia (Died: October 1, 2009) Larry H. Brace, B.S. Physics, USA (Died: August 28, 2005) Marcel Leroux, Professor Emeritus of Climatology, University of Lyon, France (Died: August 12, 2008) Michael Crichton, A.B. Anthropology, M.D. Harvard, USA (Died: November 4, 2008) Michael J. Higatsberger, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Experimental Physics, University of Vienna, Austria (Died: January 7, 2004) Norman Borlaug, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of International Agriculture, Texas A&M University, Nobel Peace Prize 1970, USA (Died: September 12, 2009) Paul Handler, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Illinois, USA (Died: January 24, 1998) Reid A. Bryson, B.A. Geology, Ph.D. Meteorology, USA (Died: June 11, 2008) Rhodes Fairbridge, Ph.D. Geology, Australia (Died: November 8, 2006) Robert E. Stevenson, Ph.D. Oceanography, USA (Died: August 12, 2001) Robert Jastrow, Ph.D. Theoretical Physics, USA (Died: February 8, 2008) Roland (R.A.D.) Byron-Scott, Senior Lecturer Emeritus of Meteorology, Flinders University, Australia (Died: January, 2004) Thomas Gold, Sc.D. Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Cornell University, USA (Died: June 22, 2004) Tor Ragnar Gerholm, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Stockholm, Sweden (Died: June 27, 2007) William (Bill) A. Nierenberg, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, USA (Died: September 10, 2000) William Mitchell, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Oxford, UK (Died: October 30, 2002) Skeptical Scientific Organizations: American Association of Petroleum Geologists (31,000+ Members) American Association of State Climatologists American Geological Institute American Institute of Professional Geologists Geological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences Japan Society of Energy and Resources (1791 Members) Russian Academy of Sciences Skeptical Organizations: Abundant Wildlife Society of North America, USA Accuracy In Media, USA AccuWeather, USA Acton Institute, USA Adam Smith Institute, UK Advancement of Sound Science Center, USA Advocates for Self Government, USA Air Quality Standards Coalition, USA Alabama Policy Institute, USA Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, USA Alternate Solutions Institute, Pakistan America's Future Inc., USA American Conservative Union, USA American Council on Science and Health, USA American Enterprise Institute, USA American Institute for Economic Research, USA American Land Rights Association, USA American Legislative Exchange Council, USA American Policy Center, USA American Spectator Foundation, USA Americans for Limited Government, USA Americans for Prosperity, USA Americans for Prosperity Foundation, USA Americans for Tax Reform, USA Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy, USA Annapolis Institute, USA Argentinean Foundation for a Scientific Ecology (FAEC), Argentina Arizona State University Office of Cimatology, USA Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University, USA Asociaci�n de Consumidores Libres, Costa Rica Association for Liberal Thinking, Turkey Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, USA Association of British Drivers, UK Atlas Economic Research Foundation, USA Australian APEC Study Centre, Australia Australian Libertarian Society, Australia Ayn Rand Institute, USA Blue Ribbon Coalition, USA Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy, USA Bureaucrash Foundation, USA Business & Media Institute, USA Canada Free Press, Canada Capital Research Center (CRC), USA Carbon Sense Coalition, Australia Cascade Policy Institute, USA Cathay Institute of Public Affairs, China Cato Institute, USA CEDICE LIBERTAD, Venezuela Centro de Innovaci�n y Desarrollo Humano, Uruguay CEPOS, Denmark CEPPRO, Paraguay Center for Freedom and Prosperity, USA Center for Global Food Issues, USA Center for Science and Public Policy, USA Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets (CAEM), USA Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, USA Center for the Dissemination of Economic Information, Venezuela Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, USA Center for the Study of Popular Culture, USA Centre for Independent Studies, Australia Centre for Policy Studies (CPS), UK China's Research Center for Economic Transition, China CIEN, Guatemala CIIMA-ESEADE, Argentina Citizens Against Government Waste, USA Citizens for the Environment and CFE Action Fund, USA Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change, International Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, USA Claremont Institute, USA Clean Water Industry Coalition, USA Club For Growth, USA Coalition for Affordable American Energy (CAAE), USA Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, USA Committee for Economic Development, USA Competitive Enterprise Institute, USA Concerned Women for America, USA Congress for Racial Equality (CORE), USA Cooler Heads Coalition, USA Cornwall Allliance, USA DCI Group, USA Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP), USA Discovery Institute, USA Eagle Forum, USA Environmental Conservation Organization (ECO), USA Environment Probe, Canada European Center for Economic Growth, Austria Family Research Council, USA Federalist Society, USA Federazione Ambiente Agricoltura, Italy FORCES International, USA Foundation for American Communications, USA Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), USA Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE), USA Fraser Institute, Canada Free Congress Foundation, USA Free Enterprise Education Institute, USA Free Enterprise Institute, USA Free Market Foundation, South Africa FreedomWorks, USA Friends of Science, Canada Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP), Canada Frontiers of Freedom Institute, USA Fundacion Atlas 1853, Argentina Fundacion Libertad, Panama Future of Freedom Foundation, USA George C. 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Friedman Foundation, USA Minimal Government Thinkers, Philippines Montreal Economic Institute, Canada National Anxiety Center, USA National Center for Policy Analysis, USA National Center for Public Policy Research, USA National Chamber Foundation (NCF), USA National Motorists Association, USA National Taxpayers Union, USA Natural Resources Stewardship Project, Canada New Coalition for Economic and Social Change New Hope Environmental Services, USA New Zealand Business Roundtable, New Zealand New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, New Zealand Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, USA Pacific Legal Foundation, USA Pacific Research Institute, USA Polyconomics Institute, USA Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), USA Property Rights Foundation of America, USA Reason Foundation, USA Reason Public Policy Institute, USA Rockford Institute, USA Schiller Institute, USA Science & Environmental Policy Project, USA Science & Public Policy Institute, USA Scientific Alliance, UK Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, USA Sovereignty International, USA St. Lawrence Institute, Canada State Policy Network, USA Sustainable Development Network, UK TaxPayer's Alliance, UK Tennessee Center for Policy Research, USA The 60 Plus Association, USA The Atlas Society (TAS), USA Thoreau Institute, USA Tropical Meteorology Project, USA TSAugust, USA Urban Renaissance Institute, Canada U.S. Chamber of Commerce, USA Washington Policy Center, USA Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy, USA Alarmists: (Since some like to dispute what credentials entitle you to be able to give an opinion on Global Warming I would like to provide you with the other side's credentials) Celebrities: Al Gore, B.A. Government, Divinity and Law School Dropout (no science degree) Bill Maher, B.A. English (no science degree) Bill McKibben, B.A. (no science degree) Daryl Hanna, B.F.A. Theater (no science degree) Edward Norton, B.A. History (no science degree) Oprah Winfrey, B.A. Speech and Drama (no science degree) Prince Charles of Wales, B.A. (no science degree) Sheryl Crow, B.A. Music Education (no science degree) ABC - Bob Woodruff, J.D. Law (no science degree) ABC - Sam Champion, B.A. Broadcast News (no science degree, not a meteorologist) CBS - Harry Smith, B.A. Communications and Theater (no science degree) CBS - Katie Couric, B.A. English (no science degree) CBS - Scott Pelley, College Dropout CNN - Miles O'Brien, College Dropout FOX - Shepard Smith, College Dropout MSNBC - Keith Olbermann, B.S. Communication Arts (no science degree) NBC - Ann Curry, B.A. Journalism (no science degree) NBC - Anne Thompson, B.A. American studies (no science degree) NBC - Matt Lauer. B.A. Communications (no science degree) NBC - Meredith Vieira, B.A. English (no science degree) Al Sharpton, College Dropout Alanis Morissette, High School Diploma Alicia Keys, College Dropout Alicia Silverstone, High School Dropout Art Bell, College Dropout Ben Affleck, College Dropout Ben Stiller, College Dropout Billy Jean King, College Dropout Bono (Paul Hewson), High School Diploma Brad Pitt, College Dropout Britney Spears, High School Dropout Bruce Springsteen, College Dropout Cameron Diaz, High School Dropout Christie Brinkley, High School Diploma Cindy Crawford, College Dropout Diane Keaton, College Dropout Drew Barrymore, High School Dropout Ed Begley Jr., High School Diploma George Clooney, College Dropout Gwyneth Paltrow, College Dropout Jackson Browne, High School Diploma Jason Biggs, College Dropout Jennifer Connelly, College Dropout Jessica Simpson, High School Dropout Jon Bon Jovi (John Bongiovi), High School Diploma John Travolta, High School Dropout Joshua Jackson, High School Dropout Julia Louis-Dreyfus, College Dropout Julia Roberts, College Dropout Kanye West, College Dropout Keanu Reeves, High School Dropout Kevin Bacon, High School Dropout Kiefer Sutherland, High School Dropout Leonardo DiCaprio, High School Dropout Lindsay Lohan, High School Dropout Ludacris (Christopher Bridges), College Dropout Madonna (Madonna Ciccone), College Dropout Matt Damon, College Dropout Matthew Modine, College Dropout Michael Moore, College Dropout Nicole Richie, College Dropout Neve Campbell, High School Dropout Olivia Newton-John, High School Dropout Orlando Bloom, High School Dropout Paris Hilton, High School Dropout Pierce Brosnan. High School Dropout Queen Latifah (Dana Elaine Owens), College Dropout Richard Branson, High School Dropout Robert Redford, College Dropout Rosie O'Donnell, College Dropout Sarah Silverman, College Dropout Sean Penn, College Dropout Sienna Miller, High School Diploma Ted Turner, College Dropout Terri Hatcher, College Dropout Tommy Lee (Thomas Lee Bass), High School Dropout Uma Thurman, High School Dropout Willie Nelson, High School Dropout Politicians: John McCain, B.S. (graduated 894th out of 899 in his class) Newt Gingrich, Ph.D. Modern European History (no science degree) (hypocrite) Pat Robertson, M.A. Divinity (no science degree) Meghan McCain, B.A. Art History (no science degree) (Meghan McCain Says She Voted For Gore in 2000, When She Was Too Young to Vote) Robert F. Kennedy Jr, J.D. Law (no science degree) ('recovered' heroin addict) Scientists: Bill Nye, B.S. Mechanical Engineering (Bill Nye the Science Guy) Chris Field, Ph.D. Biology (IPCC Co-chair of Working Group 2) Gavin Schmidt, Ph.D. Applied Mathematics (NASA GISS, RealClimate.org) George Monboit, B.Sc. Zoology (Guardian Columnist) James Hansen, Ph.D. Physics (NASA GISS) James Lovelock, Ph.D. Medicine Joe Romm, Ph.D. Physics John Holden, Ph.D. Theoretical Plasma Physics Kerry Emanuel, Ph.D. Meteorology Lonnie Thompson, Ph.D. Geological Science Michael Mann, Ph.D. Geology (RealClimate.org) Michael Oppenheimer, Ph.D. Chemical Physics Michael Tobis, Ph.D. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Rajendra Pachauri, Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (IPCC Chairman, 2007-Present) Richard Alley, Ph.D. Geology Richard C. J. Somerville, Ph.D. Meteorology Robert Watson, Ph.D. Chemistry (IPCC Chairman, 1997-2002) Steven Schneider, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering and Plasma Physics Susan Solomon, Ph.D. Chemistry Tom Chalko, Ph.D. Laser Holography Social Scientists: Alden Meyer, B.A. Political Science, M.A. Human Resources Lord Nicholas Stern, Ph.D. Economics Mark Lynas, B.A. History and Politics Ronald Bailey, B.A. Philosophy and Economics (Science Correspondent, Reason Magazine) Steve Rayner, Ph.D. Anthropology End

Andrew	Posted: Jan 14 2008, 10:32 AM
Chief of Staff Group: Admin Posts: 7,836 Member No.: 1 Joined: 17-November 04	Books: Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know (2009) Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Climatology ; Robert C. Balling, Ph.D. Professor of Climatology A Primer on CO2 and Climate, 2nd Edition (Howard C. Hayden, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Physics, 2008) A Climate Crisis a la Gore: The real profit pushing the perception of manmade global warming (Paul Spite, 2008) A Layman's Guide to Understanding the Global Warming Hoax (Leo Johnson, 2008) Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming (Ian Wishart, 2009) An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming (Nigel Lawson, 2008) Carbon Folly (Donn Dears, 2008) Catastrophe? A New Theory As To The Cause of Global Warming (Keith Foster, 2006) Chicken Little Agenda: Debunking "Experts'" Lies (Robert G. Williscroft, 2006) Climate Change: A Natural Hazard (William Kininmonth, M.Sc. Retired Head of the Australian National Climate Centre, 2004) Climate Change Policy: Challenging the Activists (Colin Robinson, 2008) Climate Change Reconsidered (S. Fred Singer, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science; Craig D. Idso, Ph.D. Chairman, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, 2009) Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry about Global Warming (Thomas Moore, 1998) Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Leads to Bad Science, Pandering politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor (Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D. Former Senior Scientist for Climate Studies, NASA, 2008) Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know (Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Climatology; Robert C. Balling, Ph.D. Professor of Climatology, 2009) CO2, Global Warming and Coral Reefs (Craig D. 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FACT: Only Computer Illiterates believe in "Man-Made" Global Warming (Popular Technology)

What people do not understand is that there is no proof of "Man-Made" Global Warming without using irrelevant computer models. Yes computer models have a place in engineering but are utterly useless at fortune telling, I mean "climate prediction". With engineering you can build and test in the real world to confirm the computer model's accuracy. You can do no such thing with the planet Earth and it's climate. You cannot build a planet and it's atmosphere to "test" your computer climate model.

I am a computer analyst and can program a computer model to do whatever I want. If you program a computer model so that X amount of CO2 increase "forces" X amount of temperature increase then it will happen, this does not make this true in the real world.

Virtual reality can be whatever you want it to be and computer climate models are just that, they are the code based on the subjective opinions of the scientists creating them. The real world has no such bias.

"...all of our models have errors which mean that they will inevitably fail to track reality within a few days irrespective of how well they are initialised." - James Annan, William Connolley, RealClimate.org

GIGO: Garbage in = Garbage out

Computers need exact information and the exact procedures to process that information to get accurate answers, without that you get useless results, period. There is no way around this. Computers cannot fill in the blanks for you like nature does when you do an experiment in the real world. With computers everything must be programmed into them from the beginning and everything that is programmed into them must be 100% understood and 100% accurate. Even the most advanced and expensive computer climate models include various approximations known as 'parametrizations'. These "guesses" include:

- Cloud Cover
- Convection
- Hydrology
- Transfer of Solar Radiation in the Atmosphere

The existence of parametrizations (approximated assumptions) means that various calculations are not fully resolved to scale and thus the models are flawed by design. You have results based on estimated calculations and thus worthless results. No hand waving can change this. Any computer code that is not 100% perfect will produce meaningless results with scientific and math calculations.

Fundamental Computer Science - if a Computer Model includes merely one approximation for what latter dependent calculations or data are derived from then the output of the model is useless. This is Computer Science 101.

Computing incomplete, biased or flat out wrong data (guesses and assumptions) based on poorly understood climate physics in a "model" will give you useless output. But since these models have been "tuned" (guesstimated or deliberately altered to get the results they want) they get results that "seem" likely or even convincing to the average computer illiterate, yet they are absolutely meaningless for prediction. What the modelers do is they keep playing with the numbers until they think they guess right, a useless exercise. Technically they are mathematically adjusting various climate related equations based on theoretical assumptions.

Question: Would you use a mathematically broken calculator?

Nothing is emotional about computers they are pure logical machines, 1 + 1 must = 2. Imagine trying to use a mathematically broken calculator based on poorly understood arithmetic to get a correct answer but you have no way to confirm that "correct answer" except to wait 50-100 years. Sound crazy? Welcome to Global Climate Modeling. Yes the models have to be exact to give any sort of relevant results. That is like saying a calculator does not have to be based on accurate arithmetic to be a useful tool in mathematics - utter propaganda.

Weather vs. Climate

Computer models are used to predict your weather and you know how accurate they are. But Al Gore and Gavin Schmidt can certainly tell your what the climate will be 50-100 years from now. Give me a break! Don't be fooled that the basic principles of how computers work changes whether you are modeling the climate or the weather. Nor is one more accurate than the other long term. Computer code is computer code no matter what name you give it and how a computer works does not change because you change the name you call the code. You cannot simply excuse away missing data, substitute mathematically created observations, parametrize what you are unable to model and then run the model over a longer time and think your results have any remote relation to reality.

The Myth of Testing

Testing a model against past climate is an advanced exercise in data fitting, nothing more and proves absolutely nothing. What this means is you are attempting to have your model's output match the existing historical output that has been recorded. For example matching the global mean temperature curve over 100 years. Even if you match this temperature curve with your model it is meaningless. Your model could be using some irrelevant calculation that simply matches the curve but does not relate to the real world. With a computer model there are an infinite number of ways to match the temperature curve but only one way that represents the real world. It is impossible for computer models to prove which combination of climate physics correctly matches the real world. Do not be fooled this logic is irrefutable by anyone who understands computer science and computer modeling.

"These codes are what they are - the result of 30 years and more effort by dozens of different scientists (note, not professional software engineers), around a dozen different software platforms and a transition from punch-cards of Fortran 66, to fortran 95 on massively parallel systems." - Gavin Schmidt, RealClimate.org

Computer Science vs. Natural Science

To make matters worse it is not computer scientists creating these models but natural scientists coding them using Fortran. These natural scientists do not even begin to have the basic understanding of computer science or proper coding practices. Their code is not 100% available publicly and you do not have independent auditing or code validation. Sloppy and buggy code is very likely littered inside these climate model programs yet there is next to no accountability for any of this. How do you separate a programming error from a temperature anomaly? How can you replace observational data with a complex mathematical equation? You can't.

How many of the models used by the IPCC have had ANY bug fixes or code changes since the most recent IPCC report? If they have had ANY - all previous model run results become null and void based on simple logic thus easily invalidating the ridiculous conclusions of the IPCC report.

"No complex code can ever be proven 'true' (let alone demonstrated to be bug free). Thus publications reporting GCM results can only be suggestive." - Gavin Schmidt, RealClimate.org

Alarmism

Alarmist scientists presenting their "predictions" as fancy graphs or nicely colored renderings does nothing for the accuracy of their predictions. They like to use colors such as yellow, orange and red to have an emotional effect for worthless computer generated results. You can have a change in temperature of only a fraction of a degree yet since it's percentage change compared to a previous value might be high they will make it bright red. Disingenuous tricks like these are intended to alarm. Caution needs to be taken when reading any graphical depiction of temperature changes.

Conclusion:

All the computer illiterates are convinced that because something is done on a "super computer" that costs "millions of dollars" it is infallible. The more complex the model, the more "mysterious" it seems to the average person. The public gives computer climate models this mystical aura because they are largely computer illiterate about how they actually work and when they hear the term "computer" they do not want to sound or feel stupid, so they nod their heads and go along with it.

Why are we not turning to models to predict the future for everything? Because they can't, not even remotely. Some of them work "sort of" for the weather in very, very short term results (1-3 days) until all the data they are processing that is wrong combined with all the data they are missing and the millions of variables they are not accounting for start to kick in and grow exponentially the farther out the model runs and wham - the model is wrong. No kidding, there are simply way too many variables that they cannot account for and the computer power necessary to even start to take these variables into account does not exist.

The sheer ignorance of the scientists creating these models is astounding. The fact that they have absolutely no scientific understanding of computer systems in any remote way is appalling. They instead rely on the computer illiteracy of the general public and their perceived standing as "intellectuals" to get away with this fraud.

You are expected to believe that they can "model" the climate 50-100 years in the future when they cannot even give you accurate weather 3 days out? Don't be fools, I do this for a living, Computer Models cannot predict the future with anything as complex as the Earth's climate.

Addendum:

Dyson: Climate models are rubbish (The Register, UK)

QUOTE (Freeman Dyson - Professor Emeritus of Physics - Princeton University)

My first heresy says that all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated. Here I am opposing the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens who believe the numbers predicted by the computer models. [...] But I have studied the climate models and I know what they can do. The models solve the equations of fluid dynamics, and they do a very good job of describing the fluid motions of the atmosphere and the oceans. They do a very poor job of describing the clouds, the dust, the chemistry and the biology of fields and farms and forests. They do not begin to describe the real world that we live in. The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand. It is much easier for a scientist to sit in an air-conditioned building and run computer models, than to put on winter clothes and measure what is really happening outside in the swamps and the clouds. That is why the climate model experts end up believing their own models.

Faith-Based Models (Peter Huber, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, MIT)

Fighting climate 'fluff' (National Post, Canada)

QUOTE (Freeman Dyson - Professor Emeritus of Physics - Princeton University)

Prof. Dyson explains that the many components of climate models are divorced from first principles and are "parameterized" -- incorporated by reference to their measured effects.

"They are full of fudge factors that are fitted to the existing climate, so the models more or less agree with the observed data. But there is no reason to believe that the same fudge factors would give the right behaviour in a world with different chemistry, for example in a world with increased CO2 in the atmosphere," he states.

Prof. Dyson learned about the pitfalls of modelling early in his career, in 1953, and from good authority: physicist Enrico Fermi, who had built the first nuclear reactor in 1942. The young Prof. Dyson and his team of graduate students and post-docs had proudly developed what seemed like a remarkably reliable model of subatomic behaviour that corresponded with Fermi's actual measurements. To Prof. Dyson's dismay, Fermi quickly dismissed his model.

"In desperation, I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, 'How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?' I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, 'Four.' He said, 'I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann [the co-creator of game theory] used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.' With that, the conversation was over."

Prof. Dyson soon abandoned this line of inquiry. Only years later, after Fermi's death, did new developments in science confirm that the impressive agreement between Prof. Dyson's model and Fermi's measurements was bogus, and that Prof. Dyson and his students had been spared years of grief by Fermi's wise dismissal of his speculative model. Although it seemed elegant, it was no foundation upon which to base sound science.

Independent Summary for Policymakers: IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (PDF) (Fraser Institute)

QUOTE (Fraser Institute)

Arguments for the hypothesis rely on computer simulations, which can never be decisive as supporting evidence. The computer models in use are not, by necessity, direct calculations of all basic physics but rely upon empirical approximations for many of the smaller scale processes of the oceans and atmosphere. They are tuned to produce a credible simulation of current global climate statistics, but this does not guarantee reliability in future climate regimes. And there are enough degrees of freedom in tunable models that simulations cannot serve as supporting evidence for any one tuning scheme, such as that associated with a strong effect from greenhouse gases.

Real vs Virtual Reality:

"Laboratory" Real World = Everything 100% Real
"Laboratory" Virtual World = Everything Not 100% Real

Experiment - "Laboratory" Real World = Experiment will behave 100% according to all natural laws. Possibility exists for accurate experiment.
Experiment - "Laboratory" Virtual World = Experiment will not behave 100% according to all natural laws. No possibility exists for accurate experiment.

Logically only a Real World experiment has any possibility of accuracy. This is irrefutable.

Challenges:

- Name one automobile approved safe by the NHTSA based on computer models
- Name one drug approved safe by the FDA based on computer models
- Name one weapon approved by the U.S. Military based on computer models

Andrew	Posted: Apr 1 2008, 09:46 PM
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A doubling in snow accumulation in the western Antarctic Peninsula since 1850
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- Peter T. Doran et al.

First survey of Antarctic sub–ice shelf sediments reveals mid-Holocene ice shelf retreat
(Geology, Volume 29, Number 9, pp. 787-790, September 2001)
- Carol J. Pudsey, Jeffrey Evans

Orbitally induced oscillations in the East Antarctic ice sheet at the Oligocene/Miocene boundary
(Nature, Volume 413, Number 6857, pp. 719-723 , October 2001)
- Tim R. Naish et al.

Past and Future Grounding-Line Retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
(Science, Volume 286. Number 5438, pp. 280-283, October 1999)
- H. Conway, B. L. Hall, G. H. Denton, A. M. Gades, E. D. Waddington

Snowfall-Driven Growth in East Antarctic Ice Sheet Mitigates Recent Sea-Level Rise
(Science, Volume 308, Number 5730, pp. 1898-1901, June 2005)
- Curt H. Davis, Yonghong Li, Joseph R. McConnell, Markus M. Frey, Edward Hanna

Arctic:

Actual and insolation-weighted Northern Hemisphere snow cover and sea-ice between 1973–2002
(Climate Dynamics, Volume 22, Issue 6-7, pp. 591-595, June 2004)
- Roger A. Pielke Sr., G. Liston, W. Chapman, D. Robinson

Accounts from 19th-century Canadian Arctic Explorers' Logs Reflect Present Climate Conditions
(Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Volume 84, Issue 40, pp. 410-412, 2003)
- James E. Overland, Kevin Wood

Arctic sea ice thickness remained constant during the 1990s
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 28, Issue 6, pp. 1039-1042, March 2001)
- P. Winsor

Has Arctic Sea Ice Rapidly Thinned? (PDF)
(Journal of Climate, Volume 15, Issue 13, pp.1691-1701, July 2002)
- Greg Holloway,Tessa Sou

Historical variability of sea ice edge position in the Nordic Seas
(Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 111, Issue C1, January 2006)
- Dmitry V. Divine, Chad Dick

Holocene fluctuations in Arctic sea-ice cover: dinocyst-based reconstructions for the eastern Chukchi Sea
(Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 45, Number 11, pp. 1377-1397, November 2008)
- J.L. McKay et al.

Sea-ice decline due to more than warming alone
(Nature, Volume 450, Issue 7166, pp. 27, November 2007)
- Julia Slingo, Rowan Sutton

Solar Arctic-Mediated Climate Variation on Multidecadal to Centennial Timescales: Empirical Evidence, Mechanistic Explanation, and Testable Consequences (PDF)
(Physical Geography, Volume 30, Number 2, March-April 2009)
- Willie H. Soon

Variable solar irradiance as a plausible agent for multidecadal variations in the Arctic-wide surface air temperature record of the past 130 years (PDF)
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 32, Issue 16, August 2005)
- Willie H. Soon

Variations in the age of Arctic sea-ice and summer sea-ice extent
(Geophyscial Research Letters, Volume 31, Issue 9, May 2004)
- Ignatius G. Rigor, John M. Wallace

Clouds:

Cloud and radiation budget changes associated with tropical intraseasonal oscillations
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, Issue 15, August 2007)
- Roy W. Spencer, William D. Braswell, John R. Christy, Justin Hnilo

Does the Earth Have an Adaptive Infrared Iris? (PDF)
(Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 82, Issue 3, pp. 417-432, March 2001)
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ming-Dah Chou, Arthur Y. Hou

- Comment on "No Evidence for Iris" (PDF)
(Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 83, Issue 9, pp. 1345–1349, September 2002)
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ming-Dah Chou, Arthur Y. Hou

- Reply to: "Tropical cirrus and water vapor: an effective Earth infrared iris feedback?" (PDF)
(Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 99-101, May 2002)
- Ming-Dah Chou, Richard S. Lindzen, Arthur Y. Hou

- Comments on "The Iris Hypothesis: A Negative or Positive Cloud Feedback?" (PDF)
(Journal of Climate, Volume 15, Issue 18, September 2002)
- Ming-Dah Chou, Richard S. Lindzen, Arthur Y. Hou

- Reply to Comment on "Does the Earth Have an Adaptive Infrared Iris?" (PDF)
(Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 83, Issue 4, pp. 598-600, April, 2002)
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ming-Dah Chou, Arthur Y. Hou

Radiative effect of cirrus with different optical properties over the tropics in MODIS and CERES observations (PDF)
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 33, Issue 21, November 2006)
- Yong-Sang Choi, Chang-Hoi Ho

Validation of the cloud property retrievals from the MTSAT-1R imagery using MODIS observations (PDF)
(International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2009)
- Yong-Sang Choi, Chang-Hoi Ho

CO2 lags Temperature changes:

Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration Across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition
(Science, Volume 324, Number 5934, pp. 1551-1554, June 2009)
- B�rbel H�nisch, N. Gary Hemming, David Archer, Mark Siddall, Jerry F. McManus

QUOTE

The lack of a gradual decrease in interglacial PCO2 does not support the suggestion that a long-term drawdown of atmospheric CO2 was the main cause of the climate transition

Atmospheric CO2 Concentration from 60 to 20 kyr BP from the Taylor Dome ice core, Antarctica (PDF)
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 27, Issue 5, March 2000)
- Andreas Inderm�uhle, Eric Monnin, Bernhard Stauer, Thomas F. Stocker

QUOTE

The lag was calculated for which the correlation coefficient of the CO2 record and the corresponding temperatures values reached a maximum. The simulation yields a lag of (1200 � 700) yr.

Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations over the Last Glacial Termination
(Science, Volume 291. Number 5501, January 2001)
- Eric Monnin, Andreas Inderm�hle, Andr� D�llenbach, Jacqueline Fl�ckiger, Bernhard Stauffer, Thomas F. Stocker, Dominique Raynaud, Jean-Marc Barnola

QUOTE

The start of the CO2 increase thus lagged the start of the [temperature] increase by 800 � 600 years.

Ice core records of atmospheric CO2 around the last three glacial terminations
(Science, Volume 283, Number 5408, pp. 1712-1714, March 1999)
- Hubertus Fischer, Martin Wahlen, Jesse Smith, Derek Mastroianni, Bruce Deck

QUOTE

High-resolution records from Antarctic ice cores show that carbon dioxide concentrations increased by 80 to 100 parts per million by volume 600 � 400 years after the warming of the last three deglaciations.

Southern Hemisphere and Deep-Sea Warming Led Deglacial Atmospheric CO2 Rise and Tropical Warming
(Science, Volume 318, Issue 5849, September 2007)
- Lowell Stott, Axel Timmermann, Robert Thunell

QUOTE

Deep sea temperatures warmed by ~2C between 19 and 17 ka B.P. (thousand years before present), leading the rise in atmospheric CO2 and tropical surface ocean warming by ~1000 years.

The phase relations among atmospheric CO2 content, temperature and global ice volume over the past 420 ka (PDF)
(Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 20, Issue 4, pp. 583-589, February 2001)
- Manfred Mudelsee

QUOTE

Over the full 420 ka of the Vostok record, CO2 variations lag behind atmospheric temperature changes in the Southern Hemisphere by 1.3�1.0 ka

Timing of Atmospheric CO2 and Antarctic Temperature Changes Across Termination III
(Science, Volume 299, Number 5613, March 2003)
- Nicolas Caillon, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, Jean Jouzel, Jean-Marc Barnola, Jiancheng Kang, Volodya Y. Lipenkov

QUOTE

The sequence of events during Termination III suggests that the CO2 increase lagged Antarctic deglacial warming by 800 � 200 years and preceded the Northern Hemisphere deglaciation.

Coral Reefs:

A critique of a method to determine long-term decline of coral reef ecosystems (PDF)
(Energy & Environment, Volume 18, Number 6, pp. 783-796, November 2007)
- Peter V. Ridd

Bikini Atoll coral biodiversity resilience five decades after nuclear testing (PDF)
(Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 56, Issue 3, pp. 503-515, March 2008)
- Zoe T. Richardsa, Maria Begerd, Silvia Pincae, Carden C. Wallace

Coral reef calcification and climate change: The effect of ocean warming (PDF)
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 31, Number 22, November 2004)
- Ben I. McNeil, Richard J. Matear, David J. Barnes

- Reply to comment by Kleypas et al. on "Coral reef calcification and climate change: The effect of ocean warming" (PDF)
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 32, Issue 8, April 2005)
- Ben I. McNeil, Richard J. Matear, David J. Barnes

Reef corals bleach to survive change
(Nature, Volume 411, Issue 6839, pp. 765-766, June 2001)
- Andrew C. Baker

Deaths:

Changing Heat-Related Mortality in the United States (PDF)
(Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 111, Number 14, pp. 1712-1718, November 2003)
- Robert E. Davis, Paul C. Knappenberger, Patrick J. Michaels, Wendy M. Novicoff

Cold—an underrated risk factor for health
(Environmental Research, Volume 92, Issue 1, pp. 8-13, May 2003)
- James B. Mercer

Decadal changes in heat-related human mortality in the eastern United States (PDF)
(Climate Research, Volume 22, Number 2, pp. 175-184. September 2002)
- Robert E. Davis, Paul C. Knappenberger, Wendy M. Novicoff, Patrick J. Michaels

Global Health Threats: Global Warming in Perspective (PDF)
(Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Volume 14, Number 3, pp. 69-75, 2009)
- Indur M. Goklany

Heat related mortality in warm and cold regions of Europe: observational study
(British Medical Journal, Volume 321, Number 7262, pp. 670-673, September 2000)
- W. R. Keatinge et al.

Seasonality of climate–human mortality relationships in US cities and impacts of climate change (PDF)
(Climate Research, Volume 26, Number 1, pp. 61-76, April 2004)
- Robert E. Davis, Paul C. Knappenberger, Patrick J. Michaels,
Wendy M. Novicoff

Temperature-related mortality in France, a comparison between regions with different climates from the perspective of global warming
(International Journal of Biometeorology, Volume 51, Number 2, November 2006)
- Mohamed Laaidi, Karine Laaidi, Jean-Pierre Besancenot

U.S. Trends in Crude Death Rates Due to Extreme Heat and Cold Ascribed to Weather, 1979-97
(Technology, Volume 7S, pp. 165-173, 2000)
- Indur M. Goklany, Sorin R. Straja

Was the 2003 European summer heat wave unusual in a global context? (PDF)
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 33, Issue 23, December 2006)
- Thomas N. Chase, Klaus Wolter, Roger A. Pielke Sr., Ichtiaque Rasool

Floods:

Claim of Largest Flood on Record Proves False
(Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Volume 84, Number 12, pp. 109-109, 2003)
- N. A. Sheffer et al.

Floods, droughts and climate change
(South African Journal of Science, Volume 91, Number 8, pp. 403-408, August 1995)
- W.J.R. Alexander

Human Factors Explain the Increased Losses from Weather and Climate Extremes (PDF)
(Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 81, Issue 3, pp.437-442, March 2000)
- Stanley A. Changnon, Roger A. Pielke Jr., David Changnon, Richard T. Sylves, Roger Pulwarty

Nine Fallacies of Floods (PDF)
(Climatic Change, Volume 42, Number 2, June 1999)
- Roger A. Pielke Jr.

No upward trends in the occurrence of extreme floods in central Europe
(Nature, Volume 425, Issue 6954, pp. 166-169, September 2003)
- Manfred Mudelsee, Michael B�rngen, Gerd Tetzlaff, Uwe Gr�newald

Palaeoclimatic and archaeological evidence for a 200-yr recurrence of floods and droughts linking California, Mesoamerica and South America over the past 2000 years
(Holocene, Volume 13, Number 5, pp. 763-778, 2003)
- Amdt Schimmelmann, Carina B. Lange, Betty J. Meggers

Glaciers:

Kilimanjaro Glaciers: Recent areal extent from satellite data and new interpretation of observed 20th century retreat rates (PDF)
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 33, Issue 16, August 2006)
- Nicolas J. Cullen et al.

Modern Glacier Retreat on Kilimanjaro as Evidence of Climate Change: Observations and Fact (PDF)
(International journal of climatology, Volume 24, Number 3, pp. 329-339, March 2004)
- Georg Kaser et al.

Recent glacier advances in Norway and New Zealand: A comparison of their glaciological and meteorological causes
(Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography, Volume 87, Issue 1, pp. 141-157, March 2005)
- T. Chinn et al.

The Shrinking Glaciers of Kilimanjaro: Can Global Warming Be Blamed?
(American Scientist, Volume 95, Number 4, pp. 318-325, July 2007)
- PW Mote, G Kaser

Very high-elevation Mont Blanc glaciated areas not affected by the 20th century climate change
(Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 112, Issue D9, May 2007)
- C. Vincent, E. Le Meur, D. Six, M. Funk, M. Hoelzle, S. Preunkert

Greenland:

Global Warming and the Greenland Ice Sheet (PDF)
(Climatic Change, Volume 63, Numbers 1-2, pp. 201-221, March 2004)
- Petr Chylek, Jason E. Box, Glen Lesins

Greenland warming of 1920–1930 and 1995–2005
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 33, Issue 11, June 2006)
- Petr Chylek, M. K. Dubey, G. Lesins

Rapid Changes in Ice Discharge from Greenland Outlet Glaciers
(Science, Volume 315, Number 5818, pp. 1559-1561, March 2007)
- Ian M. Howat, Ian Joughin, Ted A. Scambos

Recent cooling in coastal southern Greenland and relation with the North Atlantic Oscillation
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 3, pp. 32-1, February 2003)
- Edward Hanna, John Cappelen

Recent Ice-Sheet Growth in the Interior of Greenland
(Science, Volume 310, Number 5750, pp. 1013-1016, November 2005)
- Ola M. Johannessen, Kirill Khvorostovsky, Martin W. Miles, Leonid P. Bobylev

Gulf Stream:

Gulf Stream safe if wind blows and Earth turns
(Nature, Volume 428, Issue 6983, April 2004)
- Carl Wunsch

Hockey Stick: (MBH98)

Corrections to the Mann et al (1998) Proxy Data Base and Northern Hemisphere Average Temperature Series (PDF)
(Energy & Environment, Volume 14, Number 6, pp. 751-771, November 2003)
- Stephen McIntyre, Ross McKitrick

The M&M Critique of the MBH98 Northern Hemisphere Climate Index: Update and Implications (PDF)
(Energy & Environment, Volume 16, Number 1, pp. 69-100, January 2005)
- Stephen McIntyre, Ross McKitrick

Hockey sticks, principal components, and spurious significance (PDF)
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 32, Issue 3, February 2005)
- Stephen McIntyre, Ross McKitrick

QUOTE

Their method, when tested on persistent red noise, nearly always produces a hockey stick shape...

- Reply to comment by Huybers on "Hockey sticks, principal components, and spurious significance" (PDF)
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 32, October 2005)
- Stephen McIntyre, Ross McKitrick

- Reply to comment by von Storch and Zorita on "Hockey sticks, principal components, and spurious significance" (PDF)
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 32, October 2005)
- Stephen McIntyre, Ross McKitrick

Highly variable Northern Hemisphere temperatures reconstructed from low- and high-resolution proxy data (PDF)
(Nature, Volume 433, Issue 7026, pp. 613-617, February 2005)
- Anders Moberg, Dmitry M. Sonechkin, Karin Holmgren, Nina M. Datsenko and Wibj�rn Karl�n

Comment on "The Spatial Extent of 20th-Century Warmth in the Context of the Past 1200 Years"
(Science, Volume 316, Number 5833, pp. 1844, June 2007)
- Gerd B�rger

Bias and Concealment in the IPCC Process: The "Hockey-Stick" Affair and Its Implications
(Energy & Environment, Volume 18, Numbers 7-8, pp. 951-983, December 2007)
- David Holland

A mathematical analysis of the divergence problem in dendroclimatology (PDF)
(Climatic Change, Volume 94, Numbers 3-4, pp. 233-245, June 2008)
- C. Loehle

Proxy inconsistency and other problems in millennial paleoclimate reconstructions (PDF)
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 106, Number 6, February 2009)
- Stephen McIntyre, Ross McKitrick

Hurricanes:

Are there trends in hurricane destruction? (PDF)
(Nature, Volume 438, Number 7071, pp. E11, December 2005)
- Roger A. Pielke Jr.

Can We Detect Trends in Extreme Tropical Cyclones? (PDF)
(Science, Volume 313, Number 5786, pp. 452-454, July 2006)
- Christopher W. Landsea, Bruce A. Harper, Karl Hoarau, John A. Knaff

Causes of the Unusually Destructive 2004 Atlantic Basin Hurricane Season (PDF)
(Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 87, Issue 10, October 2006)
- Philip J. Klotzbach, William M. Gray

Comments on "Impacts of CO2-Induced Warming on Simulated Hurricane Intensity and Precipitation: Sensitivity to the Choice of Climate Model and Convective Scheme"
(Journal of Climate, Volume 18, Issue 23, December 2005)
- Patrick J. Michaels, Paul C. Knappenberger, Christopher Landsea

Counting Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Back to 1900 (PDF)
(Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Volume 88, Number 18, pp. 197, May 2007)
- Christopher W. Landsea

Hurricanes and Global Warming (PDF)
(Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 86, Issue 11, November 2005)
- Roger A. Pielke Jr., Christopher W. Landsea, M. Mayfield, J. Laver, R. Pasch

- Reply to "Hurricanes and Global Warming—Potential Linkages and Consequences" (PDF)
(Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 87, Issue 5, May 2006)
- Roger A. Pielke Jr., Christopher W. Landsea, M. Mayfield, J. Laver, R. Pasch

Hurricanes and Global Warming (PDF)
(Nature, Volume 438, Number 7071, pp. E11-E12, December 2005)
- Christopher W. Landsea

Landscape and Regional Impacts of Hurricanes in New England
(Ecological Monographs, Volume 71, Number 1, pp. 27-48, February 2001)
- Emery R. Boose, Kristen E. Chamberlin, David R. Foster

Normalized Hurricane Damages in the United States: 1925–95 (PDF)
(Weather and Forecasting, Volume 13, Issue 3, September 1998)
- Roger A. Pielke Jr., Christopher W. Landsea

Normalized Hurricane Damage in the United States: 1900–2005 (PDF)
(Natural Hazards, Volume 9, Issue 1, pp. 29-42, February 2008)
- Roger A. Pielke Jr., Joel Gratz, Christopher W. Landsea, Douglas Collins, Mark A. Saunders, Rade Musulin6

Sea-surface temperatures and tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 33, Issue 9, May 2006)
- Patrick J. Michaels, Paul C. Knappenberger, Robert E. Davis

Simulated reduction in Atlantic hurricane frequency under twenty-first-century warming conditions
(Nature Geoscience, Volume 1, Number 6, pp. 359-364, June 2008)
- Thomas R. Knutson et al.

Trends in global tropical cyclone activity over the past twenty years (1986–2005) (PDF)
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 33, Issue 11, May 2006)
- Philip J. Klotzbach

Tropical Cyclones and Global Climate Change: A Post-IPCC Assessment (PDF)
(Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 79, Issue 1, January 1998)
- A. Henderson-Sellers, H. Zhang, G. Berz, K. Emanuel, W. Gray, C. Landsea, G. Holland, J. Lighthill, S.-L. Shieh, P. Webster, K. McGuffie

Malaria:

Climate Change and Mosquito-Borne Disease (PDF)
(Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 109, Supplement 1, March 2001)
- Paul Reiter

From Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria in England in the Little Ice Age (PDF)
(Emerging Infectious Diseases, Volume 6, Number 1, January–February 2000)
- Paul Reiter

Global warming and malaria: a call for accuracy
(Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 4, Issue 6, pp. 323-324, June 2004)
- Paul Reiter, C. Thomas, P. Atkinson, S. Hay, S. Randolph, D. Rogers, G. Shanks, R. Snow, A. Spielman

Global warming and malaria: knowing the horse before hitching the cart
(Malaria Journal, Volume 7, Supplement 1, December 2008)
- Paul Reiter

Malaria and Global Warming in Perspective? (PDF)
(Emerging Infectious Diseases, Volume 6, Number 4, pp. 438-9. July-August 2000)
- Paul Reiter

Medieval Warming Period - Little Ice Age:

A 700 year record of Southern Hemisphere extratropical climate variability
(Annals of Glaciology, Volume 39, Number 1, pp.127-132, June 2004)
- P.A Mayewski et al.

Caribbean sea surface temperatures: Two‐to‐three degrees cooler than present during the Little Ice Age
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 27, Issue 20, pp. 3365-3368, Octonber 2000)
- Amos Winter, Hiroshi Ishioroshi, Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Tadamichi Oba, John R. Christy

Coherent High- and Low-Latitude Climate Variability During the Holocene Warm Period
(Science, Volume 288, Number 5474, pp. 2198-2202, June 2000)
- Peter deMenocal, Joseph Ortiz, Tom Guilderson, Michael Sarnthein

Evidence for a 'Medieval Warm Period' in a 1,100 year tree-ring reconstruction of past austral summer temperatures in New Zealand
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 29, Number 14, pp. 1-4, July 2002)
- E. R. Cook, J. G. Palmer, R. D'Arrigo

Evidence for a warmer period during the 12th and 13th centuries AD from chironomid assemblages in Southampton Island, Nunavut, Canada
(Quaternary Research, Volume 72, Issue 1, pp. 27-37, July 2009)
- Nicolas Rolland et al.

Evidence for the existence of the medieval warm period in China
(Climatic Change, Volume 26, Numbers 2-3, pp. 289-297, March 1994)
- De'Er Zhang

Glacial geological evidence for the medieval warm period (PDF)
(Climatic Change, Volume 26, Numbers 2-3, pp. 143-169, March 1994)
- Jean M. Grove, Roy Switsur

Late Holocene surface ocean conditions of the Norwegian Sea (V�ring Plateau)
(Paleoceanography, Volume 18, Number 2, June 2003)
- Carin Andersson, Bj�rg Risebrobakken, Eystein Jansen, Svein Olaf Dahl

Low-Frequency Signals in Long Tree-Ring Chronologies for Reconstructing Past Temperature Variability
(Science, Volume 295, Number 5563, pp. 2250-2253, March 2002)
- Jan Esper, Edward R. Cook, Fritz H. Schweingruber

Medieval climate warming and aridity as indicated by multiproxy evidence from the Kola Peninsula, Russia
(Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 209, Issues 1-4, pp. 113-125, July 2004)
- K. V. Kremenetski, T. Boettger, G. M. MacDonald, T. Vaschalova, L. Sulerzhitsky, A. Hiller

Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age and 20th century temperature variability from Chesapeake Bay
(Global and Planetary Change, Volume 36, Issues 1-2, pp. 17-29, March 2003)
- T. M. Cronin, G. S. Dwyer, T. Kamiya, S. Schwede, D. A. Willard

Reconstructing Climatic and Environmental Changes of the Past 1000 Years: A Reappraisal (PDF)
(Energy & Environment, Volume 14, Numbers 2-3, pp. 233-296, May 2003)
- Willie H. Soon, Sallie L. Baliunas, Sherwood B. Idso, Craig Idso, David R. Legates

QUOTE

Many records reveal that the 20th century is likely not the warmest nor a uniquely extreme climatic period of the last millennium.

The Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period in the Sargasso Sea
(Science, Volume 274, Number 5292, pp. 1503-1508, November 29, 1996)
- Lloyd D. Keigwin

The Little Ice Age and Medieval Warming in South Africa
(South African Journal of Science, Volume 96, Number 3, pp. 121-126, 2000)
- P. D. Tyson, W. Karl�n, K. Holmgren and G. A. Heiss

The Little Ice Age as Recorded in the Stratigraphy of the Tropical Quelccaya Ice Cap
(Science, Volume 234, Number 4774, pp. 361-364, October 1986)
- L.G. Thompson, E. Mosley-Thompson, W. Dansgaard, P.M. Grootes

The 'Mediaeval Warm Period' drought recorded in Lake Huguangyan, tropical South China
(Holocene, Volume 12, Number 5, pp. 511-516, 2002)
- Guoqiang Chu, Jiaqi Liu, Qing Sun, Houyuan Lu, Zhaoyan Gu, Wenyuan Wang, Tungsheng Liu

The Medieval Warm Period in the Daihai Area
(Journal of Lake Sciences, Volume 14, Number 3, pp. 209-216, September 2002)
- Z. Jin, J. Shen, S. Wang, E. Zhang

Time scales and trends in the central England temperature data (1659–1990): A wavelet analysis
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 24, Issue 11, pp. 1351-1354, June 1997)
- Sallie Baliunas, Peter Frick, Dmitry Sokoloff, Willie Soon

Tornetr�sk tree-ring width and density ad 500–2004: a test of climatic sensitivity and a new 1500-year reconstruction of north Fennoscandian summers
(Climate Dynamics, Volume 31, Numbers 7-8, December 2008)
- H�kan Grudd

Tree-ring and glacial evidence for the medieval warm epoch and the little ice age in southern South America
(Climatic Change, Volume 26, Numbers 2-3, March 1994)
- Ricardo Villalba

Was the Medieval Warm Period Global? (PDF)
(Science, Volume 291, Number 5508, pp. 1497-1499, February 2001)
- Wallace S. Broecker

QUOTE

The Little Ice Age and the subsequent warming were global in extent. Several Holocene fluctuations in snowline, comparable in magnitude to that of the post-Little Ice Age warming, occurred in the Swiss Alps. Borehole records both in polar ice and in wells from all continents suggest the existence of a Medieval Warm Period. Finally, two multidecade-duration droughts plagued the western United States during the latter part of the Medieval Warm Period. I consider this evidence sufficiently convincing to merit an intensification of studies aimed at elucidating Holocene climate fluctuations, upon which the warming due to greenhouse gases is superimposed.

Ocean Acidification:

Elevated water temperature and carbon dioxide concentration increase the growth of a keystone echinoderm
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 106, Issue 23, pp. 9316-9321, June 2009)
- Rebecca A. Gooding, Christopher D. G. Harley, Emily Tang

Modern-age buildup of CO2 and its effects on seawater acidity and salinity
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 33, Number 10, May 2006)
- Hugo A. Lo�iciga

QUOTE

This paper's results concerning average seawater salinity and acidity show that, on a global scale and over the time scales considered (hundreds of years), there would not be accentuated changes in either seawater salinity or acidity from the observed or hypothesized rises in atmospheric CO2 concentrations.

Phytoplankton Calcification in a High-CO2 World
(Science, Volume 320, Number 5874, pp. 336-340, April 2008)
- M. Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez et al.

Permafrost:

Ancient Permafrost and a Future, Warmer Arctic
(Science, Volume 321, Number 5896, pp. 1648, September 2008)
- Duane G. Froese, John A. Westgate, Alberto V. Reyes, Randolph J. Enkin, Shari J. Preece

QUOTE

We report the presence of relict ground ice in subarctic Canada that is greater than 700,000 years old, with the implication that ground ice in this area has survived past interglaciations that were warmer and of longer duration than the present interglaciation.

Near-surface permafrost degradation: How severe during the 21st century?
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, Issue 9, May 2007)
- G. Delisle

QUOTE

Based on paleoclimatic data and in consequence of this study, it is suggested that scenarios calling for massive release of methane in the near future from degrading permafrost are questionable.

Polar Bears:

Polar bears of western Hudson Bay and climate change: Are warming spring air temperatures the “ultimate” survival control factor? (PDF)
(Ecological Complexity, Volume 4, Issue 3, pp. 73-84, September 2007)
- M.G. Dyck, W. Soon, R.K. Baydack, D.R. Legates, S. Baliunas, T.F. Ball, L.O. Hancock

- Reply to response to Dyck et al. (2007) on polar bears and climate change in western Hudson Bay by Stirling et al. (2008)
(Ecological Complexity, Volume 5, Issue 4, pp. 289-302, December 2008)
- M.G. Dyck, W. Soon, R.K. Baydack, D.R. Legates, S. Baliunas, T.F. Ball, L.O. Hancock

Polar Bear Population Forecasts: A Public-Policy Forecasting Audit (PDF)
(Interfaces, Volume 75, April 2008)
- J. Scott Armstrong, Kesten C. Green, Willie H. Soon

Sea Level:

Estimating future sea level changes from past records (PDF)
(Global and Planetary Change, Volume 40, Issues 1-2, pp. 49-54, January 2004)
- Nils-Axel M�rner

- Comment on comment by Nerem et al. (2007) on “Estimating future sea level changes from past records” by Nils-Axel M�rner (2004)
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Geocentric sea-level trend estimates from GPS analyses at relevant tide gauges world-wide (PDF)
(Global and Planetary Change, Volume 57, Issues 3-4, pp. 396-406, June 2007)
- G. W�ppelmann, B. Martin Miguez, M.-N. Bouin, Z. Altamimi

New Perspective on Global Warming & Sea Level Rise: Modest Future Rise with Reduced Threat (PDF)
(Energy & Environment, Volume 20, Number 7, pp. 1067-1074, November 2009)
- Madhav L. Khandekar

New perspectives for the future of the Maldives (PDF)
(Global and Planetary Change, Volume 40, Issue 1-2, pp. 177-182, January 2004)
- Nils-Axel M�rner, Michael Tooley, Goran Possnert

- Reply to the comment of P.S. Kench et al. on "New perspectives for the future of the Maldives" by N.A. Morner et al.
(Global and Planetary Change, Volume 47, Issue 1, pp. 70-71, February 2005)
- Nils-Axel M�rner, Michael Tooley

Snowfall-Driven Growth in East Antarctic Ice Sheet Mitigates Recent Sea-Level Rise
(Science, Volume 308, Number 5730, pp. 1898-1901, June 2005)
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Sea Level Changes and Tsunamis, Environmental Stress and Migration Overseas: The Case of the Maldives and Sri Lanka (PDF)
(International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Volume 38, Number 3–4, pp. 353–374, November 2007)
- Nils-Axel M�rner

The Maldives project: a future free from sea-level flooding
(Contemporary South Asia, Volume 13, Number 2, pp. 149-155, June 2004)
- Nils-Axel M�rner

Species Extinctions:

Dangers of crying wolf over risk of extinctions
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Riding the Wave: Reconciling the Roles of Disease and Climate Change in Amphibian Declines
(PLoS Biology, Volume 6, Number 3, pp. 441-454, March 2008)
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Storms:

Changes in Global Monsoon Circulations Since 1950
(Natural Hazards, Volume 29, Number 2, pp. 229-254, June 2003)
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Changing storminess? An analysis of long-term sea level data sets (PDF)
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Characteristics of long-duration precipitation events across the United States
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- David M. Brommer, Randall S. Cerveny, Robert C. Balling Jr.

Climate change and extratropical storminess in the United States: An assessment?
(Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Volume 35, Number 6, pp. 1387-1398, December 1999)
- Bruce P. Hayden

Comment on WMO Statement on Extreme Weather Events
(Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, Volume 84, Issue 41, pp. 428-428 , February 2003)
- Madhav L. Khandekar

Compilation and Discussion of Trends in Severe Storms in the United States: Popular Perception v. Climate Reality
(Natural Hazards, Volume 29, Number 2, pp. 103-112, June 2003)
- Robert C. Balling Jr., Randall S. Cerveny

Extreme Weather Trends Vs. Dangerous Climate Change: A Need for Critical Reassessment
(Energy & Environment, Volume 16, Number 2, pp. 327-332, March 2005)
- Madhav L. Khandekar

Indian Monsoon Variability in a Global Warming Scenario
(Natural Hazards, Volume 29, Number 2, pp. 189-206, June 2003)
- R. H. Kripalani, Ashwini Kulkarni, S. S. Sabade, M. L Khandekar

North American Trends in Extreme Precipitation
(Natural Hazards, Volume 29, Number 2, pp. 291-305, June, 2003)
- Kenneth E. Kunkel

Scandinavian storminess since about 1800
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 31, Issue 20, October 2004)
- Lars B�rring, Hans von Storch

Seasonal, interannual, and decadal variability of storm surges at Tauranga, New Zealand
(New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, Volume 34, Number 3, pp. 419-434, September 2000)
- W. P. De Lange, J. G. Gibb

Surges, atmospheric pressure and wind change and flooding probability on the Atlantic coast of France
(Oceanologica Acta, Volume 23, Number 6, pp. 643-661, November 2000)
- P.A. Pirazzoli

Trends in precipitation on the wettest days of the year across the contiguous USA?
(International Journal of Climatology, Volume 24, Number 15, pp. 1873-1882, December 2004)
- Patrick J. Michaels, Paul C. Knappenberger, Oliver W. Frauenfeld, Robert E. Davis

Twentieth-Century Storm Activity along the U.S. East Coast (PDF)
(Journal of Climate, Volume 13, Issue 10, pp. 1748-1761, May 2000)
- Keqi Zhang, Bruce C. Douglas, Stephen P. Leatherman

Tornadoes:

Normalized Damage from Major Tornadoes in the United States: 1890–1999 (PDF)
(Weather and Forecasting, Volume 16, Issue 1, pp. 168-176, February 2001)
- Harold E. Brooks, Charles A. Doswell III

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(PDF) (Climate Research, Volume 10, Number 2, pp. 155�162, August 1998) - Vincent Gray The IPCC: Structure, Processes and Politics Climate Change - the Failure of Science (Energy & Environment, Volume 18, Numbers 7-8, pp. 1073-1078, December 2007) - William J.R. Alexander The UN IPCC's Artful Bias: Summary of Findings: Glaring Omissions, False Confidence and Misleading Statistics in the Summary for Policymakers (Energy & Environment, Volume 13, Number 3, pp. 311-328, July 2002) - Wojick D. E. Kyoto Protocol: A 2004 View of the Kyoto Protocol (Energy & Environment, Volume 15, Number 3, pp. 505-511, July 2004) - S. Fred Singer After Kyoto: A Global Scramble for Advantage (PDF) (The Independent Review, Volume 4, Number 1, pp. 19-40, 1999) - Bruce Yandle Australia's Role in International Climate Negotiations: Kyoto and Beyond (Energy & Environment, Volume 19, Number 1, pp. 43-54, January 2008) - Aynsley Kellow Climate Change: Beyond Kyoto (Energy & Environment, Volume 16, Number 5, pp. 763-766, September 2005) - Anne, Lauvergeon Climate policy and uncertainty (Energy & Environment, Volume 12, Numbers 5-6, pp. 415-423, November 2001) - Catrinus J. Jepma Clouds Over Kyoto (PDF) (Regulation, Volume 21, Number 1, pp. 57-63, 1998) - Jerry Taylor The Role of the IPCC is To Assess Climate Change Not Advocate Kyoto (Energy & Environment, Volume 15, Number 3, pp. 369-373, July 2004) - Ian Castles Time to ditch Kyoto (Nature, Volume 449, Issue 7165, pp. 973-975, October 2007) - Gwyn Prins, Steve Rayner Socio-Economic: Best practices in prediction for decision-making: Lessons from the atmospheric and earth sciences (PDF) (Ecology, Volume 84, Number 6, pp. 1351-1358, June 2003) - Roger A. Pielke Jr., Richard T. Conant Calling the Carbon Bluff: Why Not Tie Carbon Taxes to Actual Levels of Warming? Both Skeptics and Alarmists Should Expect Their Wishes to Be Answered (PDF) (Energy & Environment, Volume 19, Number 5, pp. 707-711, September 2008) - Ross McKitrick Climate Change 2007: Lifting the taboo on adaptation (Nature, Volume 445, Issue 7128, pp. 597-598, February 2007) - Roger A. Pielke Jr, Gwyn Prins, Steve Rayner, Daniel Sarewitz Climate Change and Food Production (Energy & Environment, Volume 20, Number 7, pp. 1099-1116, November 2009) - T.R.C. Curtin Climate change and the world bank: Opportunity for global governance? (Energy & Environment, Volume 10, Number 1, pp. 27-50, January 1999) - Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen Climate Policy : Quo Vadis? (Energy & Environment, Volume 20, Numbers 1-2, pp. 207-213, January 2009) - Hans Labohm Climate Vulnerability and the Indispensable Value of Industrial Capitalism (Energy & Environment, Volume 20, Number 5, pp. 733-745, September 2009) - Keith H. Lockitch Discounting the Future (PDF) (Regulation, Volume 32, Number 1, pp. 36-40, 2009) - Indur M. Goklany Environmentalism in the light of Menger and Mises (PDF) (Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Volume 5, Number 2, pp. 3-15, June 2002) - George Reisman Free speech about climate change (Society, Volume 44, Number 4, May 2007) - Christopher Monckton Global Warming and Its Dangers (PDF) (The Independent Review, Volume 8, Number 4, 2004) - Jeffrey R. Clark, Dwight R. Lee Global Warming, the Politicization of Science, and Michael Crichton's State of Fear (PDF) (Journal of Scientific Exploration, Volume 19, Number 2, pp. 247-256, 2005) - David Deming Global Warming: The Social Construction of A Quasi-Reality? (Energy & Environment, Volume 18, Number 6, pp. 805-813, November 2007) - Dennis Ambler Governments and Climate Change Issues: The case for a new approach (Energy & Environment, Volume 17, Number 4, pp. 619-632, July 2006) - David R. Henderson Governments and Climate Change Issues: The case for rethinking (World Economics Journal, Volume 8, Issue 2, April 2007) - David R. Henderson How Serious is the Global Warming Threat? (Society, Volume 44, Number 5, pp. 45-50, September 2007) - Roy W. Spencer Integrated strategies to reduce vulnerability and advance adaptation, mitigation, and sustainable development (PDF) (Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Volume 12, Number 5, pp. 755-786, June 2007) - Indur M. Goklany Is a Richer-but-warmer World Better than Poorer-but-cooler Worlds? (Energy & Environment, Volume 18, Numbers 7-8, pp. 1023-1048, December 2007) - Indur M. Goklany Is Climate Change the "Defining Challenge of Our Age"? (PDF) (Energy & Environment, Volume 20, Number 3, pp. 279-302, July 2009) - Indur M. Goklany Making the Polluters Pay, in Theory and Practice (PDF) (Energy & Environment, Volume 20, Number 5, pp. 747-762, September 2009) - Matthew Sinclair Managing Planet Earth; Adaptation and Cosmology (PDF) (The Cato Journal, Volume 19 Number 1, pp. 69-83, 1999) - Curtis A. Pendergraft Mitigation versus compensation in global warming policy (PDF) (Economics Bulletin, Volume 17, pp. 1-6, December 2001) - Ross McKitrick Relative Contributions of Global Warming to Various Climate Sensitive Risks, and their Implications for Adaptation and Mitigation (PDF) (Energy & Environment, Volume 14, Number 6, pp. 797-822, November 2003) - Indur M. Goklany Rolling the DICE: William Nordhaus�s Dubious Case for a Carbon Tax (PDF) (The Independent Review, Volume 14, Number 2, 2009) - Robert P. Murphy Science and Environmental Policy-Making: Bias-Proofing the Assessment Process (PDF) (Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 53, Number 4, pp. 275-290, December 2005) - Ross McKitrick Scientific Shortcomings in the EPA's Endangerment Finding from Greenhouse Gases (PDF) (The Cato Journal, Volume 29 Number 3, pp. 497-521, 2009) - Patrick J. Michaels, Paul C. Knappenberger Should We Have Acted Thirty Years Ago to Prevent Climate Change? (PDF) (The Independent Review, Volume 11, Number 2, 2006) - Randall G. Holcombe Strategies to Enhance Adaptability: Technological Change, Economic Growth and Free Trade (PDF) (Climatic Change, Volume 30, pp. 427-449, 1995) - Indur M. Goklany The Eco-Industrial Complex in USA - Global Warming and Rent-Seeking Coalitions (Energy & Environment, Volume 19, Number 7, pp. 941-958, December 2008) - Ivan Jankovic The evolution of an energy contrarian (Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, Volume 211, pp. 31-67, November 1996) - Henry R. Linden The Government Grant System: Inhibitor of Truth and Innovation? (PDF) (Journal of Information Ethics, Volume 16, Number 1, Spring 2007) - Donald W. Miller The Politicised Science of Greenhouse Climate Change (Energy & Environment, Volume 15, Number 5, pp. 853-860, September 2004) - Garth Paltridge The Real Climate Change Morality Crisis: Climate change initiatives perpetuate poverty, disease and premature death (Energy & Environment, Volume 20, Number 5, pp. 763-777, September 2009) - Paul Driessen Turning the big knob: An evaluation of the use of energy policy to modulate future climate impacts (Energy & Environment, Volume 11, Number 3, pp. 255-275, May 2000) - Roger A. Pielke Jr., R. Klein, D. Sarewitz) When scientists politicize science: making sense of controversy over The Skeptical Environmentalist (PDF) (Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 7, Issue 5, pp. 405-417, October 2004) - Roger A. Pielke Jr. Stern Review: Climate Science and the Stern Review (PDF) (World Economics, Volume 8, Number 2, April�June 2007) - Robert M. Carter, C. R. de Freitas, Indur M. Goklany, David Holland, Richard S. Lindzen The Stern Review: A Dual Critique (PDF) (World Economics, Volume 7, Number 4, pp. 165-232, October�December 2006) - Robert M. Carter, C. R. de Freitas, Indur M. Goklany, David Holland, Richard S. Lindzen, Ian Byatt, Ian Castles, Indur M. Goklany, David Henderson, Nigel Lawson, Ross McKitrick, Julian Morris, Alan Peacock, Colin Robinson, Robert Skidelsky - Response to Simmonds and Steffen (PDF) (World Economics, Volume 8, Number 2, April�June 2007) - David Holland, Robert M. Carter, C. R. de Freitas, Indur M. Goklany, Richard S. Lindzen Is Stern Review on climate change alarmist? (Energy & Environment, Volume 18, Number 5, pp. 521-532, September 2007) - S. Niggol Seo The Stern Review on Climate Change: Inconvenient Sensitivities (Energy & Environment, Volume 20, Number 5, pp. 779-798, September 2009) - Sergey Mityakov, Christof R�hl Paper Count: 464 Journal Citation List: AAPG Bulletin Advances in Global Change Research Advances in Space Research Ambio Annales Geophysicae Annals of Glaciology Annual Review of Energy and the Environment Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics Astronomical Notes Astronomy & Geophysics Astrophysics and Space Science Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences Central European Journal of Physics Chemical Innovation Climate Dynamics Climate of the Past Climate Research Climatic Change Comptes Rendus Geosciences Contemporary South Asia Earth and Planetary Science Letters Ecological Complexity Ecological Monographs Ecology Economics Bulletin Emerging Infectious Diseases Energy & Environment * Energy Fuels Energy Sources Energy The International Journal Environmental Geology Environmental Geosciences Environmental Health Perspectives Environmental Research Environmental Science & Policy Environmental Science and Pollution Research Environmental Software Environmetrics Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union Futures Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography GeoJournal Geology Geomagnetism and Aeronomy Geophysical Research Letters Geoscience Canada Global and Planetary Change GSA Today Holocene Hydrological Sciences Journal Il Nuovo Cimento C Interfaces International Journal of Biometeorology International Journal of Climatology International Journal of Environmental Studies International Journal of Forecasting International Journal of Global Warming International Journal of Modern Physics International Journal of Remote Sensing International Quarterly for Asian Studies Irish Astronomical Journal Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics Journal of Climate Journal of Coastal Research Journal of Fusion Energy Journal of Geophysical Research Journal of Information Ethics Journal of Lake Sciences Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics Journal of Scientific Exploration Journal of the American Water Resources Association Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Journal of the Italian Astronomical Society Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering Lancet Infectious Diseases Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences Malaria Journal Marine Geology Marine Pollution Bulletin Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics Meteorologische Zeitschrift Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change Natural Hazards Review Nature Nature Geoscience New Astronomy New Concepts In Global Tectonics New Phytologist New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research Norwegian Polar Institute Letters Oceanologica Acta Paleontological Journal Paleoceanography Physical Geography Physical Review Letters Physics Letters A Planetary and Space Science PLoS Biology Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Proceedings of the Royal Society Progress in Physical Geography Public Administration Review Pure and Applied Geophysics Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Quarterly Journal of the Hungarian Meteorological Service Quaternary Research Quaternary Science Reviews Regulation * Russian Journal of Earth Sciences Science Science of the Total Environment Science, Technology & Human Values Social Studies of Science Society Solar Physics South African Journal of Science Space Science Reviews Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy Surveys in Geophysics Technology The Cato Journal * The Independent Review The Open Atmospheric Science Journal Theoretical and Applied Climatology Topics in Catalysis Weather Weather and Forecasting World Economics Journal Journal Count: 135 * Energy & Environment is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal (ISSN: 0958-305X) - Indexed in Compendex, EBSCO, Environment Abstracts, Google Scholar, Ingenta, JournalSeek and Scopus - Found at 39 libraries worldwide, at universities and the library of congress. Including an additional 71 in electronic form. - Clearly lists "Refereed Papers" - EBSCO; Energy & Environment: Peer-Reviewed - Yes, Academic Journal - Yes (PDF) * Regulation is a peer-reviewed academic journal (ISSN: 0147-0590) - EBSCO; Regulation: Peer-Reviewed - Yes, Academic Journal - Yes - iCONN; Regulation: Peer-Reviewed - Yes (PDF) - ProQuest; Regulation: Peer-Reviewed - Yes * The Cato Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal (ISSN: 0273-3072) - EBSCO; Cato Journal: Peer-Reviewed - Yes, Academic Journal - Yes (PDF) - iCONN; Cato Journal: Peer-Reviewed - Yes (PDF) - ProQuest; Cato Journal: Peer-Reviewed - Yes Notes - The papers support skepticism of "man-made" global warming or the environmental or economic effects of. Comments, Erratum, Replies, Responses and Submitted papers are not included in the peer-reviewed paper count. EBSCO has been around for over 60 years and their services are used by Colleges, Universities, Hospitals, Medical Institutions, Corporations, Government Institutions, K-12 Schools and Public Libraries. Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) is owned by the Thomson Reuters corporation and offers commercial database services similar to other companies services such EBSCO's "Academic Search" and Elsevier's Scopus. Journal Citation Reports is a commercial product of the Thomson Reuters corporation and uses a subjective ranking system. Impact Factor is a subjective determination of popularity not scientific validity, Show Me The Data (The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 179, Number 6, pp. 1091-1092, December 2007) - Mike Rossner, Heather Van Epps, Emma Hill Irreproducible results: a response to Thomson Scientific (The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 180, Number 2, pp. 254-255, January 2008) - Mike Rossner, Heather Van Epps, Emma Hill

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An updated comparison of model ensemble and observed temperature trends in the tropical troposphere (PDF)
(arXiv:0905.0445v1, May 2009)
- Stephen McIntyre, Ross McKitrick

Atmospheric hypotheses� of Earth�s global warming (PDF)
(arXiv:physics/0510042, March 2006)
- Vladimir Shaidurov

Climate Change: The Sun's Role
(arXiv:0706.3621, June 2007)
- Gerald E. Marsh

Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer questions? (PDF)
(arXiv:0809.3762v3, November 2008)
- Richard S. Lindzen

Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered
(Physics & Society, Volume 37, Number 3, July 2008)
- Christopher Monckton

- Letter from Lord Monckton to APS President, Paper was Peer-Reviewed (PDF)
- Statement by The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (PDF)

Does human activity widen the tropics?
(arXiv:0803.1959v1, March 2008)
- Katya Georgieva, Boian Kirov

Galactic Cosmic Rays and Insolation are the Main Drivers of Global Climate of the Earth
(arXiv:hep-ph/0506208, June 2005)
- V.D. Rusov, I.V. Radin, A.V. Glushkov, V.N. Vaschenko, V.N.Pavlovich, T.N. Zelentsova, O.T. Mihalys, V.A.Tarasov, A. Kolos

Galactic Cosmic Rays - Clouds Effect and Bifurcation Model of the Earth Global Climate. Part 1. Theory
(arXiv:0803.2765, March 2008)
- V. Rusov, A. Glushkov, V. Vaschenko, O. Mihalys, S. Kosenko, S. Mavrodiev, B. Vachev

Global Warming: the Sacrificial Temptation
(arXiv:0803.1239v1, March 2008)
- Serge Galam

Global warming: What does the data tell us?
(arXiv:physics/0210095v1, October 2002)
- E. X. Alban, B. Hoeneisen

The Antarctic climate anomaly and galactic cosmic rays
(arXiv:physics/0612145, December 2006)
- Henrik Svensmark

Impact Factor:

EASE statement on inappropriate use of impact factors (PDF) (European Association of Science Editors)

Citation Impact Discerning Self-citations
SCImago
Scopus Journal Analyzer

Alarmist Papers:

Consistency of modelled and observed temperature trends in the tropical troposphere - Santer et al 2008

- David Douglass' Comments (Climate Audit, May 1st, 2008)
- Santer et al 2008 (Climate Audit, October 16th, 2008)
- Replicating Santer Tables 1 and 3 (Climate Audit, October 22th, 2008)
- Does the Endpoint of Santer H2 "Matter"? (Climate Audit, October 23th, 2008)
- Santer Method Applied Since Jan 2001: Average trend based on 38 IPPC AR4 models rejected (The Blackboard, October 23, 2008)
- This Gets Even More Amusing (Climate Audit, October 25th, 2008)
- Santer Refuses Data Request (Climate Audit, November 10th, 2008)
- Santer and the 4 NOAA Coauthors (Climate Audit, November 10th, 2008)
- Glenn McGregor: Data Archiving not required by the International Journal of Climatology (Climate Audit, December 28th, 2008)

Examining the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change - Doran 2009

- 7054 scientists did not reply to the survey
- 567 Scientists Surveyed do not believe man is causing climate change
- The "97%" is only 75 out of 77 "specialists" out of the 3146 who participated in the survey out of the 10,257 Earth Scientists who were sent an invitation.

Recent Climate Observations Compared to Projections (PDF) - Rahmstorf 2007

- Recent climate observations disagreement with projections (PDF) (Energy & Environment, Volume 20, Number 4, 2009)

- Rahmstorf Rejects IPCC Procedure (Climate Audit)

QUOTE

Instead of simply complying with standard IPCC procedures, Rahmstorf used a filter procedure described only in the AGU newspaper - the triangular filter properties of which were not described in the original article and indeed the authors say that they unaware of this defect at the time.

Rahmstorf changed smoothing policy not just once, but twice. First, in Rahmstorf 2007, he abandoned IPCC policy in favor of an article in the AGU newspaper; then he changed accounting parameters in the Copenhagen Report - all without explicitly stating that he had changed policy from the IPCC report and accompanying the change notice with an explicit accounting of the impact of the change.

Rahmstorf can no longer assert that observations are in the "upper" part of models, with the implication that things are "worse than we thought".

- Fishy odors surrounding Figure 3 from "The (Copenhagen) Synthesis Report" (The Blackboard, June 23, 2009)
- Source of fishy odor confirmed: Rahmstorf did change smoothing (The Blackboard, June 29, 2009)
- Recent Climate Observations: Disagreement With Projections (Niche Modeling., June 29, 2009)
- More Fishy: How would you use Mannian Minimum Roughness to guess future data to "test" projections? (The Blackboard, June 30, 2009)
- Opportunism and the Models (Climate Audit, July 1, 2009)
- Rahmsmoothing and the Canadian GCM (Climate Audit, July 2, 2009)
- Rahmstorf 2007 Discredited (Niche Modeling., July 3, 2009)
- The Secret of the Rahmstorf "Non-Linear Trend Line" (Climate Audit, July 3, 2009)
- Rahm-Centering: Enhancing "Successful" Prediction (Climate Audit, July 7, 2009)
- Your Portfolio is "Better than You Thought" (Climate Audit, July 8, 2009)

Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year - Steig et al 2008

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In this Letter, we use statistical climate-field-reconstruction techniques to obtain a 50-year-long, spatially complete estimate of monthly Antarctic temperature anomalies. In essence, we use the spatial covariance structure of the surface temperature field to guide interpolation of the sparse but reliable 50-year-long records of 2-m temperature from occupied weather stations. Although it has been suggested that such interpolation is unreliable owing to the distances involved, large spatial scales are not inherently problematic if there is high spatial coherence, as is the case in continental Antarctica.

- Antarctica - digging out the data (Climate Audit)
- Antarctica warming? An evolution of viewpoint (Watts Up With That?, January 21, 2009)
- Antarctic Warming? Part 2 - A letter from a meteorologist on the ground in Antarctica (Watts Up With That?, January 22, 2009)
- Steig's "Corrections" (Climate Audit, February 6, 1009)
- Redoing Steig et al, with simple data regrouping, gives half the warming result in Antarctica (Watts Up With That?, February 15, 1009)
- Steig 2009's Non-Correction for Serial Correlation (Climate Audit, February 26, 1009)

- Antarctic Volcanoes
- UAH MSU Southern Polar Monthly Mean Lower-Troposphere Temperature Anomalies
- UAH MSU Southern Polar Monthly Mean Mid-Troposphere Temperature Anomalies

- Scientists, Data Challenge New Antarctic �Warming� Study (U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works)
- "We must get rid of Antarctica" (Greenie Watch)

"I remain somewhat skeptical� It is hard to make data where none exist." - Dr. Kevin Trenberth, IPCC lead author

"One must be very cautious with such results because they have no real way to be validated. In other words, we will never know what the temperature was over the very large missing areas that this technique attempts to fill in so that it can be tested back through time," - John R. Christy, Ph.D. Professor of Atmospheric Science

"In terms of the significance of their paper, it overstates what they have obtained from their analysis. In the abstract they write, for example, 'West Antarctic warming exceeds 0.1C per decade over the past 50 years.' However, even a cursory view of Figure 2 shows that since the late 1990s, the region has been cooling in their analysis in this region. The paper would be more balanced if they presented this result, even if they cannot explain why," - Roger A. Pielke Sr. Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science

- Climate scientists blow hot and cold (Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Climatology, The Guardian, UK)
- "Warming freezes the Southern Ocean" (PDF) (Christopher Monckton, Mathematician)

Position Statements:

"...we often hear how the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS) have issued statements endorsing the so-called "consensus" view that man is driving global warming. But what you don't hear is that both the NAS and AMS never allowed member scientists to vote on these climate statements. Essentially, only two dozen or so members on the governing boards of these institutions produced the "consensus" statements. It appears that the governing boards of these organizations buckled to pressure from those promoting the politically correct view of UN and Gore-inspired science." - James Inhofe, B.A. Economics

Council Sizes:

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

27 Members

American Meteorological Society (AMS)

21 Members

Joint Science Academies (JSA)

11 Members

Highlights from Position Statements:

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (31,000+ Members)

QUOTE (American Association of Petroleum Geologists - 2007)

...the AAPG membership is divided on the degree of influence that anthropogenic CO2 has on recent and potential global temperature increases [...]

Geologists study the history of the earth and realize climate has changed often in the past due to natural causes. The Earth�s climate naturally varies constantly, in both directions, at varying rates, and on many scales. In recent decades global temperatures have risen. Yet, our planet has been far warmer and cooler than today many times in the geologic past, including the past 10,000 years.

...the current climate warming projections could fall within well-documented natural variations in past climate and observed temperature data. ... To be predictive, any model of future climate should also accurately model known climate and greenhouse gas variations recorded in the geologic history of the past 200,000 years. [...]

...emission reduction has an economic cost, which must be compared to the potential environmental gain

American Association of State Climatologists

QUOTE (American Association of State Climatologists - 2001)

...Climate prediction is complex with many uncertainties � The AASC recognizes climate prediction is an extremely difficult undertaking. For time scales of a decade or more, understanding the empirical accuracy of such predictions � called �verification� � is simply impossible, since we have to wait a decade or longer to assess the accuracy of the forecasts.

Climate prediction is difficult because it involves complex, nonlinear interactions among all components of the earth�s environmental system. These components include the oceans, land, lakes, and continental ice sheets, and involve physical, biological, and chemical processes. The complicated feedbacks and forcings within the climate system are the reasons for the difficulty in accurately predicting the future climate. The AASC recognizes that human activities have an influence on the climate system. Such activities, however, are not limited to greenhouse gas forcing and include changing land use and sulfate emissions, which further complicates the issue of climate prediction. Furthermore, climate predictions have not demonstrated skill in projecting future variability and changes in such important climate conditions as growing season, drought, flood-producing rainfall, heat waves, tropical cyclones and winter storms. These are the type of events that have a more significant impact on society than annual average global temperature trends.

Policy responses to climate variability and change should be flexible and sensible � The difficulty of prediction and the impossibility of verification of predictions decades into the future are important factors that allow for competing views of the long-term climate future. Therefore, the AASC recommends that policies related to long-term climate not be based on particular predictions, but instead should focus on policy alternatives that make sense for a wide range of plausible climatic conditions regardless of future climate. Climate is always changing on a variety of time scales and being prepared for the consequences of this variability is a wise policy.

American Geophysical Union: (AGU)

QUOTE (American Geophysical Union - 2007)

With such projections, there are many sources of scientific uncertainty...

AGU Climate Consensus Statement: 9 Speak for 50,000? (The Politics and Environment Blog)

QUOTE

The AGU Board issued a statement on climate change without putting it to a vote of the group's more than 50,000 members. Its sweeping claims, drafted by nine committee members, rely heavily on long term computer model projections, cherry-picking of data and a one-sided view of recent research. As with the recent statements by the AMS and the NAS, this is the product of a small circle of scientists who all share the same point of view, and who failed to put their statement to a vote of the AGU members on whose behalf they now claim to speak. As such it amounts to nothing more than a restatement of the opinion of a small group, rather than a consensus document.

CO2 Science Challenges AGU�s Official Position on Global Warming (Canada Free Press)
Position Statement of the AGU On "Meeting The Challenges Of Natural Hazards" (Roger Pielke Sr. Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science)

QUOTE

As has been recognized, this Statement was prepared and approved by only a very limited number of AGU members, and was not put to a vote for approval by the AGU membership

American Meteorological Society:

QUOTE (American Meteorological Society - 2007)

...All these reports recognize the uncertainties in climate projections, [...]

...members offered alternative views on climate change or put quite different emphases on the uncertainties of climate projections. ...The scientific process of debate and investigation is the lifeblood of science; this essential process must continue. [...]

...the East Antarctic ice sheet and the Greenland interior appear to be gaining mass. ...little or no annual temperature change in the southeast U.S. in recent decades. [...]

Climate has changed throughout geological history, for many natural reasons such as changes in the sun�s energy received by Earth arising from slow orbital changes, or changes in the sun�s energy reaching Earth�s surface due to volcanic eruptions. [...]

Changes in the land surface also change the surface water and energy budgets act to redirect the incoming solar energy. Humans alter land surface characteristics through irrigation practices, removal and reintroduction of forests, agricultural changes to vegetative cover, reduction of soil water recharge by soil compaction, and modification of heat storage by cities and reservoirs. Many of these lead to changes in the reflectivity of the surface. ...such changes can have significant effects on regional and local climate patterns.

The interaction of all these effects on climate is complex. ...the east�west difference in U.S. temperature trends may be tied to the spatial patterns of global ocean warming, ...or to natural climate variations. [...]

Changes in the means and extremes of temperature and precipitation in response to increasing greenhouse gases can be projected over decades to centuries even though the timing of individual weather events cannot be projected. Unlike daily weather forecasts, there is limited historical basis of experience on which to judge the accuracy of climate projections. [...]

Weather predictions beyond a few days are nowadays based on ensembles of simulations that estimate the range of probable outcomes. The same ensemble concept is used for projections of climate change, where uncertainty arises from the limitations of models and from the emission scenarios used to represent the effects of human activity. Model limitations include uncertainties in the way in which processes that operate at scales smaller than the resolved scale of the model are represented, as well as those that arise from components of the Earth system not currently included in models. Among the most important uncertainties are changes in clouds, which can either cool or warm the climate. ...The emission scenarios used to drive the climate model projections are uncertain since they depend on socioeconomic responses to climate change; [...]

...considerable uncertainty still exists in the degree to which the land will warm more than the oceans, and this contributes significantly to uncertainties in future projections of global sea level rise. [...]

...There is evidence ...against the existence of a detectable anthropogenic signal in the tropical cyclone climate record to date. Though hurricanes are projected to intensify with further warming of sea surface temperatures, significant uncertainty remains as to how other influences on hurricane strength will change in the future. [...]

...On the other hand, longer growing seasons and CO2 fertilization enhancing plant growth may potentially lead to some benefits. [...]

The Earth system is highly interconnected and complex, with many processes and feedbacks that are just beginning to be detected and understood. [...]

...Policy decisions are seldom made in a context of absolute certainty. Some continued climate change is inevitable, and the policy debate should also consider the best ways to adapt to climate change.

QUOTE (American Meteorological Society - 2003)

...but we cannot rule out that some significant part of these changes is also a reflection of natural variability. [...]

...it is proving difficult to achieve national and international consensus as to what should and could be done to address the issues. [...]

...natural processes such as solar variability and volcanic outgassing were the dominant forcing factors producing long-term climate changes over periods of decades, centuries, and millennia. [...]

The nature of science is such that there is rarely total agreement among scientists. [...]

While significant progress has been made toward a better understanding and improved projection of climate change and its impacts, uncertainty remains regarding the magnitude, timing, and regional distribution of anticipated changes. [...]

...most of the data that have been used for climate purposes were and still are obtained from observation systems designed for other purposes (e.g., weather prediction). These data are often inadequate for the analysis and description of climate change because of the higher accuracy requirements for observations used to detect very low amplitude climate changes over long time periods. [...]

The Earth's climate system is tightly coupled and awe inspiring in its complexity. Understanding and modeling the myriad physical, chemical, and biological forcing, interactions, and feedbacks of the system is a daunting task that will continue to occupy researchers for the foreseeable future. [...]

Land-use change is another important human-induced regional forcing factor, but accurate histories of land-use change are spotty and estimates of future land-use changes are very difficult. [...]

Cloud feedback may also be very important, but its magnitude and even its sign remain uncertain. Climate-induced changes of the land surface may in turn feed back on the climate itself. Many processes are involved, including changes in soil characteristics (e.g., soil moisture, holding capacity), vegetation, radiative characteristics (e.g., albedo), and surface-atmosphere exchanges of water vapor, other gases (e.g., CO2), particulates (e.g., dust) and momentum. Some of these processes remain poorly understood and difficult to measure and model, and thus require continued research. The full suite of potentially important feedback processes is yet to be adequately understood and quantified. For example, although observations of global mean temperatures indicate that the surface has warmed by about 0.6�C over the past 100 years, the mean tropospheric temperature trends, for which we have observations only over the past 40 years or so, are more complex and not well understood. Although there remains significant observational uncertainties, global mean tropospheric temperatures warmed faster in the 1960s and 1970s, and slower in the 1980s and 1990s, than the global mean surface temperature. These differences indicate the need for research into feedback processes that might explain this reversal in tropospheric temperature trends. Additional poorly understood feedbacks of potential importance are carbon cycle feedback, due to warming-induced changes in the land and ocean carbon reservoirs; atmospheric chemistry feedback, due to chemical interactions affecting ozone concentrations, aerosol formation, and atmospheric heating profiles; and ocean circulation feedback, arising from ocean circulation changes that affect ocean-atmosphere heat and freshwater exchange. [...]

The relatively short instrumental time series, generally less than a century in length, is often too short to adequately characterize longer-term variability. [...]

...many crucial details of magnitude, timing, and specific regional responses-especially for hydrological variables, such as precipitation-are still very much in doubt. The uncertainties arise due to incomplete identification and understanding of processes significant in future climate, and their necessary approximations in models. [...]

The assessment of regional environmental and social impacts is a multidisciplinary task that involves natural and social scientists working in tandem with policy makers. [...]

...climate models will never be perfect. Only a portion of natural climate variability is predictable, and the inherent degree of predictability is not yet well understood. [...]

Risk cannot be assessed with absolute certainty. [...]

Extensive multidisciplinary research is needed to narrow the many formidable knowledge gaps.

Joint Science Academies:

QUOTE (Joint Science Academies - 2005)

There will always be uncertainty in understanding a system as complex as the world�s climate. [...]

The existence of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is vital to life on Earth � in their absence average temperatures would be about 30 centigrade degrees lower than they are today. [...] the Earth�s surface warmed by approximately 0.6 centigrade degrees over the twentieth century. [...]

The projected changes in climate will have both beneficial and adverse effects at the regional level, [...]

The task of devising and implementing strategies to adapt to the consequences of climate change will require worldwide collaborative inputs from a wide range of experts, including physical and natural scientists, engineers, social scientists, medical scientists, those in the humanities, business leaders and economists.

Russian Academy of Sciences:

Russian scientists still negative about Kyoto protocol

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Russian academicians are still negative about the Kyoto protocol to the UN convention on climate change, a leading scientist told a Friday news conference.

Academician Yury Izrael, who chairs the Russian Academy of Sciences' council-seminar on the Kyoto protocol, said the council had confirmed its position on climate change remained the same. [...]

Izrael said Russian Academy of Sciences President Yury Osipov's signature on the document was "a misunderstanding."

Izrael said the document had been discussed collectively only at today's seminar. Russian academicians asked Osipov to recall his signature. [...]

Russian scientists said they still considered the Kyoto protocol was scientifically ungrounded, and would be an ineffective way to try to achieve the aim of the UN convention on climate change. They also said it was harmful for the Russian economy

Anti-Bush gibe by Royal Society sparks climate change row (The Times, UK)
Should Scientific Societies Issue Position Statements? (Ross McKitrick, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Economics)

Andrew

Posted: Jul 28 2008, 07:22 AM

Chief of Staff

Group: Admin
Posts: 7,836
Member No.: 1
Joined: 17-November 04

Humor:

A complete list of things caused by global warming (Number Watch)
Anthropogenic Continental Drift (The People's Cube)
Is Going Green Making You Crazy? It's Time for Eco-Therapy (FOX News)
Psychiatrists have detected the first case of "climate change delusion" (Watts Up With That)

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Al Gore's Penguin Army (Video) (2min)
Back in Black: Earth Day - YouTube (Video) (4min)
Dennis Miller on Global Warming Alarmism (Video) (3min)
Drew Carey on Global Warming (Video) (2min)
George Carlin - The Planet is Fine (Adults Only) (Video) (8min)
Imagine There's No Global Warming (Video) (3min)
Jim Carrey - Environmental Guy (Video) (4min)
Penn And Teller Get Hippies To Sign Water Banning Petition (Video) (3min)
South Park - Season 10 Episode 6 - ManBearPig Ft. Al Gore (Video) (22min)
South Park - Season 9 Episode 8 - Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow (Video) (22min)
The Colbert Report - The Environmental Lobby (Video) (7min)
Firefox Causes Global Warming (Video)

Global Warming Editorial Cartoons (Buuuuurrrrning Hot)

British Yachtsman Who Counted On Global Warming to Cross Arctic Now Trapped by Ice (NewsBusters)
Cold Irony: Arctic Sea Ice Traps Climate Tour Icebreaker (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist)

29 Ways To INCREASE Global Warming (MetroSpy)
Addressing Climate Crisis, Bush Calls For Development Of National Air Conditioner (The Onion)
Al Gore Caught Warming Globe To Increase Box Office Profits (The Onion)
Al Gore's MySpace Page (MySpace)
CarbonCreditKillers.com (Website)
Climate Change Scenarios Scare, and Motivate, Kids (The Washington Post)

QUOTE (The Washington Post)

The boy has drawn, in his third-grade class, a global warming timeline that is his equivalent of the mushroom cloud. Alex Hendel of Arlington County is talking about the end of life on our beleaguered planet. Looking up to make sure his mother is following along, he taps the final stripe, which is so sparsely dotted it is almost invisible. "In 20 years," he pronounces, "there's no oxygen." Then, to dramatize the point, he collapses, "dead," to the floor.

Climate change 'to destroy Opera House' (National Nine News, Australia)
Dennis Miller: Gore had 'such a stick up his a--' (Dennis Miller)
Did Climate Change Contribute To The Minneapolis Bridge Collapse? (Climate Progress)
"Eat whale and save the planet" - Norwegian lobby (Reuters)
Eco-friendly kangaroo farts could help global warming: scientists (AFP)
Environmentalists Seek to Wipe Out Plush Toilet Paper (The Washington Post)
Eva Longoria's Bikini is Causing Global Warming (Egotastic)
Fever claim on global warming (Herald Sun, Australia)
Fur 'eco-friendly,' says new ad campaign (CBC News)
Global warming concerns are keeping children awake at night (GMTV)
Goracle’s book replaces Bible in green spa (Hot Air)
Hearing on Global Warming Cancelled due to Ice Storm (Drudge Report)

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If you want to save the planet, drive a diesel and don’t turn the air-con on (The Times, UK)
Mammoth dung, prehistoric goo may speed warming (Reuters)
Smoking Weed Warms Mother Earth (Daily Nexus)
Stray cat explosion joins list of evils blamed on global warming (National Post, Canada)
Sen. Barbara Boxer Sees Global Warming Up Close (NewsBusters)
The downfalls of global warming
The Earth fights back (The Guardian, UK)
UFOs to halt climate change? (News24)
Walking to the shops ‘damages planet more than going by car’ (The Times, UK)
Whites more to blame for 'global warming'? (WorldNetDaily)
When Did Nature Get So Whiney? (Dennis Miller)

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Michael Mann:

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The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations) Scientific Method:

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Population Reduction:

Eco-Extremist Wants World Population to Drop below 1 Billion (Business & Media Institute)
Group Calls for Population Control to Stop Global Warming (CNSNews)
Having large families ‘is an eco-crime’ (The Times, UK)
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (Website)
Woman Aborts Child To Help 'Save' the Planet (FOX News)

Apparel:

T-Shirts:
Al Gore: Global Warm-monger
An Inconvenient Youth
Global Warming Brought To You By The SUN
Global Warming is a Myth
Global Warming is an Atmospheric Condition Caused by the Release of Hot Air From the Mouth of Al Gore
Global Warming is Awesome!
GloBULL Warming
I Love Global Warming
I Love My Carbon Footprint
Stop Global Whining
The Warmin' Church

Merchandise: (Hated by environmentalists)

Chevron Merchandise
ConocoPhillips Merchandise
Exxon Mobile Merchandise

Andrew	Posted: Aug 6 2008, 07:40 PM
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Andrew

Posted: Sep 15 2008, 07:24 AM

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Smear Sites:

Science of The Smear (Herald Sun, Australia)

The following websites are widely used to smear Scientists and Sources Skeptical of "Man-Made" Global Warming:

DenialismBlog

Run by the world renowned "Climate Experts":

- Mark Hoofnagle, PhD Physiology
- Chris Hoofnagle, An Attorney
- Peter A. Lipson, A Practicing Internist

DeSmogBlog

$$$ Funded by James Hogan (James Hoggan & Associates) and John Lefebvre (Former President of Netseller Group)

- Who is James Hoggan? (Financial Post, Canada)

QUOTE

So who is James Hoggan? He's a public relations man, based in Vancouver. His firm, James Hoggan and Associates, is positioned as a feel-good local operation with clients in all the "right" public and private sectors. He also sits on the board of the David Suzuki Foundation.

One of his side efforts is a blog operated out of Hoggan and Associates. Funded by retired Internet bubble king John Lefebvre, the blog has one full-time and three part-time staff. They spend their time tracking down and maliciously attacking all who have doubts about climate change and painting them as corporate pawns.

There has been no mention on the blog, nor on The Fifth Estate, of James Hoggan's client list. They include or have included the National Hydrogen Association, Fuel Cells Canada, hydrogen producer QuestAir, Naikun Wind Energy and Ballard Fuel Cells. Mr. Hoggan, in other words, benefits from regulatory policy based on climate change science.

But it is as a climate commentator that Mr. Hoggan gets carried away. On The Denial Machine, Mr. Hoggan is allowed to go on at some length about how climate skeptics are not true scientists, are not qualified, or have no expertise.

That takes some gall. Here's a totally unqualified small-town PR guy making disparaging comments about scientists he says are unqualified while he lectures the rest of us on the science. "If you look in the scientific literature, there is no debate," he tells Mr. McKeown. It doesn't seem to bother Mr. McKeown that Mr. Hoggan has no expertise. It is also a little rich to have a member of the Suzuki Foundation board pronounce other scientists unfit and unqualified for climate assessments, while geneticist David Suzuki roams the world issuing barrages of climate change warnings at every opportunity.

- Multi-billion-dollar charges for B.C. man (The Vancouver Sun, Canada)

QUOTE

Lefebvre, 55, was arrested by FBI agents at his Malibu home and charged with conspiring to promote illegal gambling by transferring billions of dollars of cyberspace bets placed by U.S. citizens with offshore gaming companies.

- Blog Funder Guilty of Money-Laundering (Heartland Institute)

QUOTE

John Lefebvre, the top financial benefactor of the DeSmog Blog, is facing substantial prison time after pleading guilty to federal money-laundering charges. The DeSmog Blog is operated by a small group of public relations people who specialize in attempting to discredit respected scientists and policy analysts who disagree with alarmist global warming theory. Ironically, DeSmog Blog's favorite tactic is to claim scientists and policy analysts who disagree with alarmist global warming theory are funded by "dirty money." The revelation of the blog's major source of funding as a convicted money launderer may undermine DeSmog's attempts to smear the integrity of respected, law-abiding scientists who disagree with them.

Exxon Secrets

$$$ Funded by Greenpeace

- Greenpeace (Discover the Networks)

QUOTE

Founded in 1970 as a loose assortment of Canadian anti-nuclear agitators, American expatriates, and underground journalists calling themselves the "Don't Make a Wave Committee," Greenpeace is today the most influential group of the environmental Left. [...]

In the early 1990s, the organization turned its attention to the purported threat that chlorine posed to the world's water supplies. At the time, Greenpeace asserted that it would accept nothing less than the blanket prohibition of the element. "There are no uses of chlorine which we regard as safe," declared Greenpeace activist Joe Thornton, [...]

Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore left the organization and� now laments that the group has become "dominated by leftwingers and extremists who disregard science in the pursuit of environmental purity."

According to a December 20, 2005 New York Times report, "the F.B.I. investigated possible financial ties between [Greenpeace] members and militant groups like the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front." [...]

An expose of Greenpeace's fundraising practices� carried out in 2003 by Public Interest Watch (PIW), a nonprofit watchdog group, led to a report disclosing that Greenpeace uses its Greenpeace Fund, a tax-exempt entity debarred from engaging in political advocacy and lobbying by the IRS tax code, to illegally direct funds to Greenpeace Inc., a tax-exempt organization permitted to engage in lobbying and advocacy but not to accept tax-deductible funds. PIW calculated that in 2000, $4.25 million was provided by the Greenpeace Fund in this way.

Greenpeace is heavily funded by many foundations, among which are the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Bauman Family Foundation, the Blue Moon Fund, the Columbia Foundation, the Compton Foundation, the Minneapolis Foundation, the Nathan orgasmings Foundation, the Scherman Foundation, Ted Turner's Turner Foundation. The organization has also drawn support from numerous celebrities, including singers Sting, Tom Jones, and Elton John, who have sponsored its "save the rainforest" campaigns. In 2004, Greenpeace received $15,844,752 in grants, and held net assets of $1,893,548. That same year, the Greenpeace Fund received grants totaling $6,866,534 and held net assets of $7,532,018.

- Greenpeace (Activist Cash)

QUOTE

Greenpeace was originally the brainchild of the radical �Don�t Make a Wave Committee,� a group of American draft-dodgers who fled to Vancouver in 1969 and, supported by money from anti-war Quaker organizations, got into the business of forcibly blocking American nuclear tests. Over the years the group has loudly made its feelings known on a variety of issues (nuclear testing, whaling, and global warming, for instance), and its Amsterdam-based activist moguls pull the strings on what is estimated to be a $360 million global empire.

Here in the United States, however, Greenpeace is a relatively modest activist group, spending about $10 million per year. And the lion�s share of that budget in recent years has gone to outrageous attempts to smear agricultural biotech products and place doubts about the safety of genetically improved foods in the minds of American consumers. [...]

Patrick Moore was one of a dozen or so activists who founded Greenpeace in the basement of a Unitarian Church in Vancouver. Within 7 years, the organization had footholds in over two dozen countries and a $100 million budget. As eco-activists in general found themselves suddenly invited into the meeting-places of business and government, Greenpeace made the decision to take even more extreme positions, rather than being drawn in to collaboration with their former enemies.

Moore broke with his comrades during this period, and has emerged as an articulate critic of his former brainchild. Referring to Greenpeace�s �eco-extremism� in March 2000, he described the group in Oregon Wheat magazine as �Anti-human�; �antitechnology and anti-science�; �Anti-organization� and �pro-anarchy�; �anti-trade�; �anti-free-enterprise�; �anti-democratic�; and �basically anti-civilization.�

Writing in Canada�s National Post in October 2001, Patrick Moore offered the following critique: �I had no idea that after I left in 1986 they would evolve into a band of scientific illiterates�. Clearly, my former Greenpeace colleagues are either not reading the morning paper or simply don't care about the truth.�

Greenpeace "Officers":

- Charles Margulis, Professional Baker (Genetic Engineering Specialist)
- Mike Roselle, High-School Dropout (Forest Campaign Coordinator)

Grist Magazine

$$$ Funded by V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation - $3,406,000

- V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation (Activist Cash)

RealClimate.org

Hosted by - Environmental Media Services

Admin Organization: Environmental Media Services

- Environmental Media Services (EMS) (Discover the Networks)

QUOTE

EMS's founder and President was Arlie Schardt, who also served as the National Press Secretary for Al Gore's 1988 presidential campaign, and as Gore's Communications Director during his 2000 bid for the White House. [...]

EMS officially served as the "scientific" branch of the leftist public-relations firm Fenton Communications; both companies shared the same Washington, D.C. address and office space. For more than a decade, David Fenton (CEO of Fenton Communications) used EMS to run negative media campaigns against a wide variety of targets, including biogenetic foods, America's dairy industry, and President George W. Bush. [...]

EMS also produced many stories condemning the Bush administration's environmental policies. Among these titles were: "Bush Administration Obscures Truth About Toxic Cleanups"; "President Bush Signs Fatally Flawed Wildfire Bill"; "Earth Day Event To Highlight Bush Administration Assault On Environment, Public Health"; "Bush Administration Report Card: 'F' on Protecting Children"; and "National Environmental Groups Launch Campaign to Defeat President Bush." EMS claimed that the data contained in its press releases constituted "the latest and most credible information" provided by "top scientists, physicians, and other experts." These "experts" included officials of Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the World Wildlife Fund, and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

- Environmental Media Services (EMS) (Activist Cash)

QUOTE

EMS is the communications arm of leftist public relations firm Fenton Communications. Based in Washington, in the same office suite as Fenton, EMS claims to be "providing journalists with the most current information on environmental issues." A more accurate assessment might be that it spoon-feeds the news media sensationalized stories, based on questionable science, and featuring activist "experts," all designed to promote and enrich David Fenton's paying clients, and build credibility for the nonprofit ones. It's a clever racket, and EMS & Fenton have been running it since 1994. [...]

It's called "black marketing," and Environmental Media Services has become the principal reason Fenton Communications is so good at it. EMS lends an air of legitimacy to what might otherwise be dismissed (and rightly so) as fear-mongering from the lunatic fringe. In addition to pre-packaged "story ideas" for the mass media, EMS provides commentaries, briefing papers, and even a stable of experts, all carefully calculated to win points for paying clients. These "experts," though, are also part of the ruse. Over 70% of them earn their paychecks from current or past Fenton clients, all of which have a financial stake in seeing to it that the scare tactics prevail. It's a clever deception perpetrated on journalists who generally don't consider do-gooder environmentalists to be capable of such blatant and duplicitous "spin."

- Fenton Communications (Discover the Networks)

QUOTE

Foremost public relations firm of the political left. Past clients have included Marxist dictatorships in Central America. Represents environmentalist groups, pro-Democratic political action committees, labor unions, and the anti-war movement.

Founded in 1982 by activist and public relations veteran David Fenton, Fenton Communications (FC) is the leading advertising and public relations firm for advocacy groups on the political left, with locations in Washington DC, New York, and San Francisco.

FC serves as an "umbrella" for "three independent nonprofit organizations" which it co-founded. These include: Environmental Media Services, which manages publicity efforts for environmental groups; New Economy Communications, a social justice group; and the Death Penalty Information Center, an anti-death penalty lobby.

FC expressly refuses to represent "clients and projects that we don't believe in ourselves." Among the clients and projects that FC has worked for are Marxist-Leninist regimes in Central America and Africa, environmental groups, labor unions, and anti-war organizations. In addition, FC has offered its services to pro-Democrat political action committees and law firms, as well as to political campaigns against the death penalty and gun-ownership rights. [...]

Equally noteworthy has been FC's business partnership with environmental groups. In 1988 and 1989, FC helped one such organization, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), promote misleading claims about the dangers of Alar, a pesticide then in use by the apple industry. On the basis of NRDC's study of Alar, itself based on exaggerated probabilities rather than concrete empirical data, FC launched a media campaign that stoked consumers' fears and captured the interest of television news programs, daily newspapers and daytime talk shows, fueling a backlash against apple growers. By some estimates, the apple industry suffered $200 million in lost revenue as a result of the FC campaign.

By contrast, FC and its client prospered. David Fenton subsequently boasted that his firm had "designed" the media campaign "so that revenue would flow back to NRDC from the public," noting that FC had gained "$700,000 in net revenues from it." Fenton Communications today cites the Alar campaign as a significant contribution to the "national debate" on pesticides. [...]

Joining forces with the Environmental Working Group, FC has also engineered media campaigns exaggerating the dangers posed by pesticides in tap water and baby food.

In 2003 FC created an ad campaign targeting the automotive industry for the Evangelical Environmental Network. The controversial ads alleged that consumers who bought sport utility vehicles were, in effect, supporting terrorism by using large amounts of fuel imported from the Middle East. [...]

Arlie Schardt, a senior consultant at Fenton Communications and Chairman of Environmental Media Services, served as Al Gore's national press secretary during his first presidential campaign.

- David Fenton (ActivistCash)

QUOTE

David Fenton has turned leftist activism into big business with his firm Fenton Communications, the single most easily identifiable nexus of anti-consumer activism in Washington, DC. Fenton and his staff masterminded the mad cow scare campaign, the organic marketing craze, the phony Alar-on-apples food scare, and more. He�s very good at what he does, and groups like the Center for Food Safety, Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Organic Consumers Association, and SeaWeb are all happy to pony up big bucks to give their radical messages the Fenton touch.

Fenton started out in the music biz, directing public relations for Rolling Stone. He entered the activist fray in the anti-nuclear movement of the late 1970s, co-producing the 1979 �No Nukes� concerts headlined by Bruce Springsteen and Bonnie Raitt. From there, he went on to found his own activism-centered PR empire, Fenton Communications, in 1982. Within that umbrella are �three independent nonprofit organizations� all co-founded by Fenton: the Death Penalty Information Center, New Economy Communications (an anti-globalism outfit), and Environmental Media Services.

- Fenton Communications Launches Green-Tech Division (Reuters)

QUOTE

Fenton Communications has been deeply involved in environmental issues since its founding in 1982. The firm publicized the first reports of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, helped environmental NGOs at the Kyoto Global Warming Summit, and worked with Vice-President Al Gore to publicize the issues.

A Little Testy at RealClimate (Roger A. Pielke Jr. Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Studies)
Is Gavin Schmidt Honest? (Climate Audit)
RC Rejects
RealClimate's Touchy Censors (National Center for Public Policy Research)
Rebuttals to RealClimate (Climate Science)
Trying to post at realclimate (Climate Audit)

Skeptical Science

$$$ Funded by John Cook

QUOTE

I'm not a climatologist or a scientist but a self employed cartoonist - John Cook, Skeptical Science

Sourcewatch

$$$ Funded by The Center for Media and Democracy

- Sourcewatch (Discover the Networks)

QUOTE

These "exposes," which tend to be critical of their subjects, deal predominantly with conservative entities... [...]

As with the online reference Wikipedia, the contents of SourceWatch are written and edited by ordinary Web users. Says SourceWatch: "You don't need any special credentials to participate -- we shun credentialism along with other propaganda techniques." While stating that it seeks to maintain fairness in the profiles and articles appearing on its website, SourceWatch does acknowledge that "ignoring systemic bias and claiming objectivity is itself one of many well-known propaganda techniques." [...]

...The perspectives are mostly leftist; the entries rely heavily on leftist and far-leftist sources.

- Center for Media and Democracy (Discover the Networks)

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An anti-capitalist, anti-corporate organization that seeks to expose right-wing "public relations spin and propaganda".

In CMD's view, capitalism generally, and corporations in particular, are the principal root causes of societal ills in the U.S. and abroad. The Capital Research Center, which rates the ideological leanings of nonprofit organizations, places CMD near the extreme far left of the spectrum. The website ActivistCash, which provides "information about the funding source[s] of radical anti-consumer organizations and activists," characterizes CMD as "a counterculture public relations effort disguised as an independent media organization." [...]

CMD was founded by the leftist writer and environmental activist John Stauber, who continues to serve as the Center's Executive Director. Stauber began his activism in high school when he organized anti-Vietnam War protests and early Earth Day events. The co-author (with SourceWatch founder Sheldon Rampton) of six books, Stauber created the now-defunct website Vote2StopBush.org.� He is also an unpaid advisor to several organizations, including the Action Coalition for Media Education, the Center for Food Safety, the Liberty Tree Foundation, the Media Education Foundation, and the Organic Consumers Association.

The aforementioned Sheldon Rampton currently serves as CMD's Research Director. A graduate of Princeton University, Rampton was formerly an outreach coordinator for the Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua, a group established in 1984 to oppose President Reagan's efforts to stop the spread of Communism in Central America, and currently dedicated to promoting a leftist vision of "social justice in Nicaragua through alternative models of development and activism."

An April 2001 commentary in the liberal publication Village Voice said of Rampton and Stauber: "These guys come from the far side of liberal."

- Center for Media & Democracy (Activist Cash)

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The Center for Media & Democracy (CMD) is a counterculture public relations effort disguised as an independent media organization. CMD isn�t really a center it would be more accurate to call it a partnership, since it is essentially a two-person operation.

Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber operate, as do most self-anointed progressive watchdogs, from the presumption that any communication issued from a corporate headquarters must be viewed with a jaundiced eye. In their own quarterly PR Watch newsletter, they recently referred to corporate PR as a propaganda industry, misleading citizens and manipulating minds in the service of special interests. Ironically, Rampton and Stauber have elected to dip into the deep pockets of multi-million-dollar foundations with special interest agendas of their own.

Tobacco Documents

$$$ Funded by Smokescreen Corporation

- Michael Tacelosky, Smokescreen Corporation - Donated $3000 to the DNC
- Keith Ivey, Smokescreen Corporation - Donated $600 to John Kerry, $300 to Barrack Obama

Union of Concerned Scientists

$$$ Funded by Various Funds

- Union of Concerned Scientists (Discover the Networks)

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The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization with more than 100,000 members.� Seeing its mission as building a "cleaner, healthier environment and a safer world," ... It opposes genetically engineered foods, condemns SUV vehicles, and proposes measures aimed at combating what it deems the imminent dangers of global warming. It also opposes the vast majority of American foreign policy decisions, and calls for a unilateral reduction in U.S. nuclear weapons stockpiles. UCS disseminates to lawmakers and news outlets its opinions about each of these matters, with the intent of ultimately influencing public policy.

Students and faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology founded UCS in 1969. "Through its actions in Vietnam, our government has shaken our confidence in its ability to make wise and humane decisions," reads the UCS founding document. That sentiment continues to this day, with UCS condemning American efforts in the War on Terror and the 2003 War in Iraq.

UCS typically minimizes threats posed by foreign rogue regimes, and challenges U.S. assertions about the intentions and military capacities of those governments. In 1998, for instance, UCS assured the public that American analysts had exaggerated North Korea's ability to produce nuclear weapons, and that the Pyongyang regime was still many years away from being able to develop such an arsenal.

UCS vigorously opposes America's development of a missile defense system. It also calls for the "adoption of a U.S. nuclear no-first-use policy"; "a U.S. rejection of rapid-launch options, and a change in deployment practices to provide for the launch of U.S. nuclear forces in hours or days rather than minutes"; "the elimination of all U.S. 'tactical' nuclear weapons, intended for use on the battlefield"; "verified unilateral reductions to a total of 1,000 strategic warheads (including deployed and stored), accompanied by warhead dismantlement"; and "a commitment to further reductions in the number of nuclear weapons, on a negotiated and verified multilateral basis."

UCS admonishes American corporations such as McDonald's and Burger King, asserting that the presence of antibiotics in meat used by fast-food companies contributes to large-scale antibiotic resistance. In 2003, bills based on UCS research aimed at prohibiting the use of eight classes of antibiotics in livestock used by fast-food producers were introduced in both the U.S. House and Senate. Soon after, UCS admitted that the majority of its claims were speculative. UCS has also warned of the alleged dangers of genetically modified food.

Another issue of concern to UCS is that of global warming. The organization circulated a petition that drew the signatures of some 1,600 scientific experts demanding that the United States ratify the Kyoto Protocol.

A Union of Concerned Scientists declaration, entitled "Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policy Making," charges that the Bush administration "has continued to distort and suppress science in pursuit of its political goals � despite a plea from top U.S. scientists to restore scientific integrity to the policy-making process." According to UCS President Kevin Knobloch, "We found a serious pattern of undermining science by the Bush administration, and it crosses disciplines, whether it's global climate change or reproductive health or mercury in the food chain or forestry -- the list goes on and on." The signers of this document portrayed themselves as objective scientists with no political agenda. But in truth, over half of them were financial contributors to the Democratic Party, Democratic candidates, or a variety of leftist causes. [...]

UCS is a member of the Save Our Environment Action Center, a leftist coalition that describes itself as "a collaborative effort of the nation's most influential environmental advocacy organizations harnessing the power of the internet to increase public awareness and activism on today's most important environmental issues."

UCS has received funding from the Beldon Fund, the Compton Foundation, the Educational Foundation of America, the J.M. Kaplan Fund, the Scherman Foundation, the Blue Moon Fund, the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Energy Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Turner Foundation, and Pew Charitable Trusts.

- Union of Concerned Scientists (Activist Cash)

Wikipedia

The Faith-Based Encyclopedia (Robert McHenry, Former Editor in Chief, the Encyclopedia Britannica)

Wikipedia's Zealots (Financial Post, Canada)
- The Real Climate Martians (Financial Post, Canada)
- The Opinionator (Financial Post, Canada)
Wikipropaganda On Global Warming (CBS News)

The Anti Wikipedia Resource

Biased Sites:

BBC

BBC heats up the climate news (Financial Post, Canada)
- The BBC Changes News to Accommodate Activist (The Politics and Environment Blog)
- BBC Article: Global temperatures 'to decrease' (Before and After) (Google Cache)
- Origin - BBC : Balance Restored (Campaign against Climate Change, UK Activist Portal)

BBC report finds bias within corporation (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Bias and the Beeb (Financial Times, UK)
Bias at the Beeb - official (The Times, UK)
BBC confesses bias on religion, politics (WorldNetDaily)
BBC investigated after peer says climate change programme was biased 'one-sided polemic' (The Daily Mail, UK)
BBC network admits it: We're biased toward left (WorldNetDaily)
BBC report damns its �culture of bias� (The Times, UK)
BBC viewers angered by its 'innate liberal bias' (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Confessions of a BBC liberal (The Times, UK)
Facebook reveals the BBC as a liberal hotbed (The Daily Mail, UK)
The BBC's commitment to bias is no laughing matter (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
The Beeb's Bias (The Wall Street Journal)
We are biased, admit the stars of BBC News (Daily Mail, UK)
Why saving Earth is not the BBC's job (Daily Mail, UK)

CBS

CBS 60 Minutes Got it Wrong - Again (Video) (5min)
CBS 'Global Warming Special' Host Likened Warming Skeptics to Holocaust Deniers (NewsBusters)
CBS News sinks to new low; publishes crackpot global warming story, attributes it to AP, kills it with no retraction (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist)
CBSNews.com Pulls Story Making Quake/Climate Link Claim (Business & Media Institute)
In Alarmist Report, CBS's Scott Pelley Ignores Scientist's Key Findings (NewsBusters)

MSNBC

MSNBC Finds Penguins at North Pole... But Penguins Don't LIVE at North Pole (NewsBusters)
MSNBC.com Misquotes Evangelical Leader on Global Warming (NewsBusters)
MSNBC.com Pumps Up Bias, Shows Gas Price 21 Percent Above Average (NewsBusters)

NBC

'Today' show embarrassed by 'video stunt' (WorldNetDaily)
- Michelle Kosinski rowing a canoe in a "flood" (Video)

The New York Times

Former NY Timesman Chris Hedges Admits He Is a Socialist (NewsBusters)
"Global Warming" Bias Even Planted in the House & Home Section (Times Watch)
NYT Gettleman: Blame Global Warming for Fighting in Darfur (Times Watch)
NY Times' Tom Friedman to Obama: Time to Go 'Radical' on the Environment! (Newsbusters)
New York Times: Reporter Committed 'Journalistic Fraud' (FOX News)

The Washington Post

WaPo Environmental Reporter Married to Liberal Climate Lobbyist (NewsBusters)

The Weather Channel

Con job at The Weather Channel (WorldNetDaily)
Weather Channel Politics: Admit Man Causes Global Warming Or Else (The National Ledger)
"The Weather Channel" Mess (James Spann, AMS Certified Meteorologist)
The Weather Channel's 'One Degree' of Propaganda (Business & Media Institute)
Weather Channel's Cullen Hopes to Push Global Warming Agenda on Weather.com (Business & Media Institute)
Weather Channel 'likes to call Gore President-elect' (WorldNetDaily)

Time Magazine

What on EARTH Are We Doing? (Time Magazine, 1989)
Endangered Earth Update U.S. Agenda Consumers It's Not Easy Being Green "Waste (Time Magazine, 1989)
Endangered Earth Update U.S. Agenda Businesses Scrub That Smokestack (Time Magazine, 1989)
Endangered Earth Update the Fight to Save the Planet (Time Magazine, 1989)
Endangered Earth Update Now Wait Just a Minute (Time Magazine, 1989)
Endangered Earth Update Is the Planet on the Back Burner? (Time Magazine, 1990)

Alarmists:

David Suzuki

The Sad Legacy Of David Suzuki (Tim F. Ball, Ph.D. Climatology)
Jail politicians who ignore climate science: Suzuki (National