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When political correctness substitutes for science, the results are sure to be illogical. Global warming is an outcome in search of a cause — a solution in search of a problem. The pre-ordained outcome is government control and taxation of all industrial activity. So now, the search is on for any evidence, real or imaginary, that industrial activity is harmful to the environment. So far, the only "proof" of future warming has come from computer generated forecasts, which can be easily manipulated to show just about anything. It is my opinion, based on the material cited below, as well as my years of careful observation (of the news media, not the weather) that the entire "global warming problem" is a rather transparent hoax. The forces of nature are hundreds of times more powerful than the influence of human activity, so if there is to be any warming or cooling, it will almost certainly be the result of a change in solar activity, volcanic eruptions, or other natural phenomena. And whatever the cause, the amount of warming that has occurred is not enough to warrant any action, even if there were any action to take. The debate over global warming is driven by those who make their decisions based upon other people's emotional outbursts, TV sound bites and bumper stickers, rather than rational thinking. The people who are most upset about global warming are the people who don't believe that God created the heavens and the earth. (Ironically, these are some of the same people who teach "survival of the fittest" in the public schools.) The earth was designed and built by someone who still has his hand on the thermostat to this day. If that is not true, and we merely evolved into what we are today, then we have no choice but to continue evolving and adapting when the temperature goes up or down. The primary "greenhouse gases" are carbon dioxide and water vapor. CO2 is a nutrient, not a pollutant, and all living things benefit from having more of it. The same is true of water vapor. Carbon dioxide is actually good for the forests, grasslands and other vegetation. When plant-growers want to stimulate plant growth, they introduce more carbon dioxide. All life on earth is carbon-based and carbon dioxide is an essential ingredient in our environment. It is not a pollutant.  Without the greenhouse effect, the earth's average temperature would be below zero on the Fahrenheit scale. Several atmospheric gases are responsible for the greenhouse effect, not just CO2. Between 94 and 98 percent of the warming effect is due to ordinary water vapor, which comes from the oceans and lakes, and therefore cannot be controlled or regulated by any government action. Next in importance are carbon dioxide and methane. Man-made emissions are responsible for less than 3 percent of the total emissions, according to the US Energy Information Administration. (See page 18 of this document.) On the average, the earth radiates exactly as much energy out into space every night as it absorbed from the sun the previous day. The "greenhouse effect" keeps us from freezing at night and roasting during the day. The "greenhouse effect" is a wonderful thing, and I'm all for it. The output power of the sun — the source of almost all the earth's warmth — is variable. Variations in solar activity are generally proportional to both variations in atmospheric carbon dioxide and atmospheric temperature. To put it another way, rising Earth temperatures and increasing carbon dioxide may be effects and our own sun the cause. Occasionally you may hear of a press release declaring the previous year to be the "hottest year on record." The inept news media distribute these stories and the poorly-educated masses generally believe them. However, as most climatologists know, these reports generally are founded on ground-based temperature readings, which are misleading. The more meaningful and precise orbiting satellite data for the same period (which are generally not cited by the press) have shown no warming year after year. Accurate widespread temperature records at ground level have been kept for only about 100 years. Weather observations in most cities are made at the airport(s), where nobody lives, and where there is more concrete than grass, and generally no trees. One of the national news media's pet projects is the campaign to convince everyone that the Earth is warming up rapidly, that human activity is to blame, that a disaster is imminent, and that only the U.S. government can solve the problem by controlling every aspect of industry and transportation. So it's not about protecting the environment as much as it is about strengthening the grip of the federal government and alarming the public into greater dependence on both the news media and the federal government. More than that, it's about taxation. The government can go through the motions of "regulating" carbon dioxide emissions, but in reality it's just another tax. Hollywood "celebrities" occasionally make rash pronouncements about global warming and other environmental issues, but actors are not scientists, and their opinions should carry no more weight than anyone else's. If you spend ten minutes researching on the internet and another five minutes with a calculator (as I did), you'll discover that the energy received by the earth from the sun every day is 10,982 times greater than all the energy produced by man. The heat we generate is just a drop in a very large bucket. (Really? Yes.) The amount of solar energy received by the earth is 174 Petawatts, or 174 x 10^15 watts. There are 31,557,600 seconds in the average year (365.25 days x 86,400 seconds per day). Therefore the earth receives 5,491 x 10^21 joules per year from the sun. In 2005, total worldwide energy consumption was 5 x 10^20 Joules). That's a ratio of 10,982-to-1. Even if the dire predictions of one degree of warming per century are accurate, the most aggressive and costly proposals for limiting industrial carbon dioxide emissions would only have a negligible effect on the global climate. At the same time, they would collapse our economy and bring industrial activity to a halt. Temperatures rise and fall constantly, and all we can do is adapt. Spinoff pages and subcategories: Overviews of the Global Warming issue Global Cooling: Reports of record snowfall, unusual icing and brutally cold weather. The Gore Effect: Global warming conferences and protest marches always seem to coincide with massive blizzards, yet the alarmists can't take a hint. Global Warming has halted, at least temporarily. New: Evidence of a conspiracy to suppress the facts about global warming: ClimateGate. Carbon offsets, carbon credits, and emissions trading, also known as cap-and-trade. Global Warming is Blamed for Everything. One degree per century is not enough warming to cause any of the many crises that are being blamed on global warming. Conversely, everything causes global warming ... or so the news media would have you believe. Greenhouse Gases: Carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, and more. ... including assertions that cows and termites produce more CO2 than man, ... and so do volcanoes. New: Maybe there is no greenhouse effect after all. Silencing the Skeptics in the Global Warming Debate If someone make a statement and then declares "the debate is over", then it wasn't a debate. Solar Activity and Other Natural Causes of Global Warming ... including a section about simultaneous warming on Mars. Are 100-year forecasts possible when five-day forecasts are not? Many global warming alarmists are the same people who once predicted an ice age. Some people have to spread panic any way they can, hoping you will forget when they turn out to be wrong. One or two degrees of global warming would benefit everyone. More people die from the effects of cold weather than hot weather. Environmental Propaganda Movie Reviews — Happy Feet, Hoot, The 11th Hour, The Day After Tomorrow, and especially An Inconvenient Truth. Make no mistake about it -- these are propaganda films. The Political Opportunism and Irrational Zeal of global warming alarmists. The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act There is plenty of reasonable doubt about global warming. The general public is becoming more skeptical Czech President Vaclav Klaus is a notable dissenter. What consensus? Inaccurate measurements NASA has been cookin' the books! Flawed computer models Global Warming Subtopics and Sidetracks: Polar Bears Polar Ice Glaciers The Catlin Expedition Rising Sea Levels Hurricane numbers and intensity The coral reef scare Al Gore, Al Gore's Nobel Prize, Al Gore's testimony before Congress, Al Gore's Big Speech on July 17, 2008, Proposed solutions that are sure to be worse than the problem Other Global Warming Discussions that include the words hoax, fraud, swindle, scam, lies, scare tactic, myth, hype, and hysteria. Environmentalists Oppose Every Practical Source of Energy The United Nations IPCC Report on Global Warming The Kyoto Climate Control Protocol New: The Copenhagen Climate Conference of 2009 The Effects of Burning Hydrocarbon Fuels over the last 100 years: This is a guest editorial by Dennis Barr, who asserts that the burning of hydrocarbon fuels — not global warming — is the reason for the one-foot increase in the mean sea level over the last century. Dennis ran the numbers and calculated that the combustion of one gallon of octane produces one gallon of water — and it is water that did not previously exist. But wait -- there's more! Leftover Topics — Scraps, clutter and noise left over from this page, including a section about the hypocrisy of eco-celebrities.
- Genesis 8:22
Overviews of the Global Warming issue Methane Madness. For decades now, alarmists have claimed that CO2 emissions are warming the earth past the "tipping point" and that only extreme reductions in the use of fossil fuels can avert catastrophe. Yet the earth today is less warm than it was in the middle ages, a period in which it cannot be claimed that human activity was contributing much, if anything, to global warming. ... Alarmists have been predicting catastrophe for over thirty years, yet the earth continues in natural cycles of warming and cooling, just as it has for eons. Global Warming as Climastrology. The real reason for "global warming" is now clear beyond any reasonable doubt. The reason is ten trillion dollars in taxpayer dough for politicians, transnational bureaucrats, and phony science types. Put away those old world records for the Great Train Robbery and Bernie Madoff. You can junk Bonnie and Clyde. The climate fraudsters have now set the biggest record for massive fraud in human history. Global Warming Update: [Scroll down] Mounting evidence of scientific fraud might make little difference in terms of the response to manmade global warming hysteria. Why? Vested economic and political interests have emerged where trillions of dollars and social control are at stake. Therefore, many people who recognize the scientific fraud underlying global warming claims are likely to defend it anyway. Global warming alarmism is an all-purpose tyranny. If government can assume authority over emissions of CO2 generated by everything from factories to vehicles to people exhaling, then government can control everything. The statist goal of overseeing all aspects of life advanced grotesquely with the quasiscience of global warming alarmism. It proved the all-encompassing excuse to regulate, to tax and to license greenhouse gas emissions under the pretense of saving the planet from rising temperatures. The climate emperors have no clothes. [Scroll down] The scoundrels in climatology told the politicians, in essence, that it was all science that "is invisible to anyone who is too stupid and incompetent to appreciate its quality." And so for 20 years now, I have heard from the believers in this junk that it is science and that I am too stupid and incompetent to appreciate its quality. ... But one by one, the calamities forecast by the IPCC are proving to be untrue. The President's Bogus Green Economics. [Scroll down slowly] Those are scary numbers, it's true. But how likely is it that human activities will cause the world to increase 9°C, when the total warming since the start of the Industrial Revolution has been about 0.7°C? As this graph from the IPCC's latest report shows — across three different emission scenarios and five different modeling teams — the probability of such a rapid warming is virtually zero. Once the government gets permission to transform entire sectors of the economy because of the dangers posed by extremely unlikely outcomes, the sky's the limit. A perfect storm is brewing for the IPCC. Put the errors together and it can be seen that one after another they tick off all the central, iconic issues of the entire global warming saga. Apart from those non-vanishing polar bears, no fears of climate change have been played on more insistently than these: the destruction of Himalayan glaciers and Amazonian rainforest; famine in Africa; fast-rising sea levels; the threat of hurricanes, droughts, floods and heatwaves all becoming more frequent. All these alarms were given special prominence in the IPCC's 2007 report and each of them has now been shown to be based, not on hard evidence, but on scare stories, derived not from proper scientists but from environmental activists. The Death of Global Warming: The global warming movement as we have known it is dead. ... The movement died from two causes: bad science and bad politics. After years in which global warming activists had lectured everyone about the overwhelming nature of the scientific evidence, it turned out that the most prestigious agencies in the global warming movement were breaking laws, hiding data, and making inflated, bogus claims resting on, in some cases, no scientific basis at all. Reaction to the article immediately above: The Death of Global Warming? Halting the global warming juggernaut, much less trying to throw it into reverse gear, will take an awful lot of work. Global warming is far from dead, but the fact that someone like Walter Russell Mead recognizes that its vital signs are dropping is good news indeed. The winter of global warming: [Scroll down] Like the Wicked Witch of Oz, the global-warming machine is melting into a wretched puddle. ... The alarmists also have taken to scolding skeptics who have pointed to this year's record snowfalls as dimwits who do not know the difference between weather and climate. This is choice — after all the years during which the global-warming believers pointed to every warm season, low-snowfall report and storm as proof that the "tipping point" was near. Liberals and the Scientific Method: The entire superstructure of climate alarmism rests on data that are doubtful and possibly fraudulent. The Science and Public Policy Institute has evaluated surface-temperature records and found, among other things, that 1) instrumental data from the pre-satellite era are virtually useless; 2) fewer than 25 percent of the 6,000 temperature stations that once existed are still operative; 3) comprehensive ocean data have been available only since 2003 and have shown no warming; and 4) higher altitude, higher latitude, and rural stations were the most likely to be lost, leading to a further serious overstatement of warming. Here comes the sun(spots). Global Warming theory is considered so sacred and settled that until recently any scientist who questioned the tenets of its conclusion that human activity is the primary driver of climate change were subject to all but ridicule and censure. Recent events, including the Climategate scandal and a series of years where global temperature has stayed about the same, have tempered this attitude. But now the sunspots come back and we, as junior scientists are presented with the opportunity to test the hypothesis. Climate turning against kooky alarmists. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said Himalayan glaciers would be gone in 25 years. Turns out there's no science to back that up. Another claim warned 40 percent of the Amazon rain forest is threatened by global warming. The London Times found that misrepresented the research. The latest revelation is that there's been no significant warming for 15 years. One prominent climate scientist has acknowledged the current warming period may be no hotter than the medieval warming era (800 to 1300 A.D.) when the world lived green with nary a SUV or industrial smokestack around. The War on Truth: What is the heart of the ugly "man-made global warming"? Its acolytes lie. Numbers, data, and other elements of knowledge are simply raw materials to construct a system of extracting power, money, prestige, and other goodies from a befuddled population. Truth is either an a priori given (not connected to scientific research) or an elastic concept which must fit the dictates of partisan whims. Science's Big Problem: Today in America, we have a climate science that plays second fiddle to climate politics. It is just a prop for the Al Gores and the environmentalists and their program of political power. It is disgraceful but true. Scientists today serve as loyal subalterns in the army of government power. The narrative of the disinterested scientist is a myth. Scientists get their money from government, and in return, they dance to the music of big government. Climateers Fight Back. I don't like climate change arguments for several reasons. One is that I hate being manipulated; another is that we cannot base political policies on computer simulations; another is that everyone should beware when climateers tell us no matter how many frauds there are, it doesn't alter the conclusions! And I cannot stand their attitude of totalitarianism for all who reject their ideas, and the way it translates into heavy taxation and hiked prices without good reason. Theories, Facts, and 'Denialism': [Scroll down slowly] Depending on the weather during a given year, we are either told that high temperatures are evidence of global warming or that low temperatures are evidence of global warming. (In logic, they call that a "tautology." In real life, they call that "having your cake and eating it, too.") New Warming Expected, An Obviously Unbiased Report. The most exalted of the world's eminent scientists — ever — are predicting a new warm period set to begin in the very near future, which could increase the the earth's temperature by as much as 60-70 degrees Celsius in some places. ... Vast amounts of ice and snow will melt quickly, creating a huge volume of run-off water that will overwhelm rivers and streams creating local flooding before eventually raising the levels of lakes and oceans. Much of the ice currently covering small lakes will also disappear. The event will be so dramatic that it requires a special scientific term. Called "summer" by top experts, it is expected to transform our daily lives. Anthropogenic Global Warming is Dead. According to Jonathon Petre reporter, Colleagues of Professor Phil Jones say that the reason Professor Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests to produce his data supporting the claims of man-made global warming is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers. Has the dog eaten the professor's papers? The only thing man-made about global warming is the science. Time to Turn Up the Heat on the Warmists. [Scroll down] Man has the capacity to worry, and worry he does. He worried about global cooling in the 1970s and then later about global warming. Then it became "climate change." He worried about causing rising seas, even though we know that the ocean around Florida was once 300 feet lower and at another time 100 feet higher. He worried that CO2 -- a naturally occurring gas necessary for life and conducive to plant growth (which is why botanists pump it into greenhouses) -- would spell our end. Never mind how it's said that C02-level changes follow temperature changes, not the reverse. A Conservative Manifesto: [Scroll down] Global warming has not only not been proven, but it has been revealed as false far too many times for the honest to ignore. Global temperatures have actually gone down since the high point in the early 1990's and several highly reputable climatologists believe that the earth may be entering another cooling period... But the validation of this theory could cost Al Gore money, and the liberal elite cannot let that happen. Climate-Research Controversies Create Opening for Critics. The spate of recent controversies about climate research has given fresh voice to a group of scientists who question the mainstream view that human activity is warming the planet to dangerous levels. The AGW Smoking Gun: A key component of the scientific argument for anthropogenic global warming (AGW) has been disproven. The results are hiding in plain sight in peer-reviewed journals. Politicians and scientists still cling to the same hypothesis: Increased emission of CO2 into the atmosphere (by humans) is causing the Earth to warm at such a rate that it threatens our survival. The reality of our global temperatures, the failure of these catastrophic predictions to materialize, and the IPCC scandals all continue to cast serious doubt on that hypothesis. Manipulating the Climate Numbers: [Scroll down] We've been given some clear answers that weren't serious, ranging from the famed "hockey stick" diagram, that entirely misrepresented planetary temperature trends; to smaller assertions such as, "all the glaciers in the Himalayas will have melted by the year 2035." This latter we now know was made up from whole cloth, like the polar bear die-off, and a great deal of nonsense about Arctic and Antarctic ice cover. To my survey, there is not a single aspect of the "anthropogenic global warming" hypothesis that has been left standing by recent revelations, and more shoes drop every day. The Great Unraveling. Professional global warming alarmists better think about looking for new jobs. It looks like they're in for a long, cold winter — and a frigid spring and summer as well. Those who've been spreading global-warming fears must be waking up each morning and asking themselves: What's going to happen today? A new revelation about the corruption of climate science has become almost a daily event. Climate Götterdämmerung: Exaggeration and alarmism have been a chronic weakness of environmentalism since it became an organized movement in the 1960s. Every ecological problem was instantly transformed into a potential world-ending crisis, from the population bomb to the imminent resource depletion of the "limits to growth" fad of the 1970s to acid rain to ozone depletion, always with an overlay of moral condemnation of anyone who dissented from environmental correctness. With global warming, the environmental movement thought it had hit the jackpot... Warmists' Stupefying Sense of Snow: Follow the Warmist logic: Absence of winter snow proves the existence of Anthropogenic Global Warming, and winter snowstorms prove its existence as well. Isn't science wonderful! Climate change (AGW) theory cannot be disproved... It is falsifiability-proof. Wheels fall off global-warming hysteria. I can't recall the wheels coming off the bus of any expert-driven hysteria as fast or as completely as they are now coming off the global-warming scare. ... News of the manipulations, distortions and frauds perpetrated to advance and preserve the environmentalists' cause celebre are so numerous and coming so fast, it's hard to keep up. The CFC Ban: Global Warming's Pilot Episode. Although it has been only a little over twenty years since the Montreal Protocol, which effectively created a global ban on chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), the interesting history of the ozone hole has slipped under the radar, largely eclipsed by the much greater story of the anthropogenic global warming fraud. It's interesting to revisit the CFC/ozone depletion scam and note the striking similarities to the current campaign against CO2. Global Warming Is Frozen Over. The main cause of unemployment and poverty is the lack of enough energy. Rather than expanding government to limit energy, we should be increasing the use of energy to eradicate hardship. Climate challenges. For the last several years, when people have instructed me that human activity was causing a dangerous increase in global temperatures, my response has been, "Then tell me, what should the temperature be?" ... This is what this whole discussion comes down to. In science only two conditions obtain. One is theory and the other is fact. The entire notion of human caused global warming is a theory based on computer models. None of it has been proven through rigorous empirical observation to be a fact. The Left's End Times. [Scroll down] Their chicken-littleism, preaching, and rants about global warming (or climate change, or whatever else they think helps sell the goods) is never portrayed as such — not, of course, by themselves or by a pliant establishment media. Theirs is "settled science," according to movement gurus, with Al Gore being the most conspicuous. If any of your friends still believe in AGW, make them read this letter. Lord Monckton has written a letter about AGW to Kevin Rudd, offering to give the Aussie premier a private briefing to correct a few misconceptions he may have on the subject. It's a corker. Climate change: proposed personal briefing. You say I am one of "those who argue that any multilateral action is by definition evil". On the contrary: my first question is whether any action at all is required, to which — as I shall demonstrate — the objective economic and scientific answer is No. Global warming and the 'settled science' baloney. To appreciate how unsettled global warming science really is, the book Unstoppable Global Warming, Every 1,500 Years, by S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery is an indispensible and relentless handbook. Published in 2007 and stuffed with over 500 references, it shatters almost every common global warming myth. ... In one of many startling conclusions in the book, Singer argues that increases in CO2 levels throughout recent geologic history, are the result of global warming not the cause. Increases in global temperatures (for extraneous reasons) cause CO2 to outgas from the oceans, increasing its concentration in the atmosphere. And there's much, much more debunking. The Scientific Technological Elite. We deniers are hidden in the background, wondering what would happen if "our" side is correct that we are more likely in an extended period of cooling (a far more disastrous prospect than global warming). What can man do to stop that? Must we start burning fossil fuels in the streets and chop down the trees? Does any intelligent human being believe that mankind could then warm the atmosphere by increasing the production of carbon dioxide? Sounds kind of silly, doesn't it? Evidences, Proofs & 'Climategate'. Unfortunately, Factcheck[.org] uses the word 'evidence' to imply proof. Evidence is only a piece of information that might count towards the validity (or not) of an hypothesis. It is not proof, which is a strong and conclusive statement. There is NOT "plenty of evidence" the earth is getting warmer. And there is certainly NO proof that humans are responsible. The Global Warming Religion: The very idea that mankind can make significant parametric changes to the Earth has to be the height of arrogance. How about a few questions because temperature is just one characteristic of the Earth. The Earth's orbit is another. If all 6.5 billion of us, all at once, started jumping up and down for a little while, do you think we'd change the Earth's orbit or rotation? Do you think mankind could change the direction and timing of the ocean's tides? Is there anything that mankind can do to stop or start a tsunami or hurricane? Watermelon Marxists. Global warming as a science is defunct. Evidence of scientific dishonesty abounds, and the recent e-mail revelations may be the last nail in the coffin. When all is said and done, temperatures are falling. But as a tool for watermelon Marxists — green on the outside and red on the inside — climate change orthodoxy represents an opportunity to achieve age-old dreams of communist wealth redistribution. Hurricane Expert Rips Climate Fears. There has been an unrelenting quarter century of one-sided indoctrination of the western world by the media and by various scientists and governments concerning a coming carbon dioxide (CO2) induced global warming disaster. These warming scenarios have been orchestrated by a combination of environmentalists, vested interest scientists wanting larger federal grants and publicity, the media which profits from doomsday scenario reporting, governmental bureaucrats who want more power over our lives, and socialists who want to level-out global living standards. The Man-Made Global Warming Hoax: Phase 4. [Scroll down] Now, rather than continue to point out what is becoming more and more obvious every day — that key scientists and their political/media supporters manipulated and lied about the "consensus" data that man was responsible for Global Cooling/Warming/Climate Change — I want to take a step back and talk instead about the ingredients that went into this deception. In effect, let's have a look at the building blocks of this dishonest house of cards to understand how we got to the point we are at today, and just as important, what it really means for all of us going forward. Who Needs Data? The average annual temperature in Memphis, Tennessee is 62.3°F. The temperature of Lexington, Kentucky is 54.9°F. That is a bigger difference than the IPCC's worst-case scenario. Could mankind handle that kind of adaptation — moving from Memphis to Lexington in the next 100 years? The "Science" Mantra. [Scroll down] "Global warming" hysteria is only the latest in this long line of notions, whose main argument is that there is no argument, because it is "science." The recently revealed destruction of raw data at the bottom of the global warming hysteria, as well as revelations of attempts to prevent critics of this hysteria from being published in leading journals, suggests that the disinterested search for truth — the hallmark of real science — has taken a back seat to a political crusade. Enviro-Marxists discover the real scourge of the planet: human beings. "Climate change," the scam formerly known as "global warming," has been exposed as the crypto-Marxist hoax many of us suspected for years that it was. In Copenhagen, at the ridiculous charade of a "summit" on the dangers of carbon emissions producing record carbon emissions, the lofty rhetoric about saving the planet and the long-suffering polar bears has been ripped down like a sheet covering an unfinished masterpiece. An even more Inconvenient Truth: The Myth of Man-Made Global Warming. [Scroll down] Human beings are merely spectators in the process of global climate change. Interested spectators yes, and spectators who can certainly affect isolated, highly focused environmental changes by building a dam here or setting off a nuclear bomb there, but a spectator nevertheless. One medium-sized volcanic eruption has more impact on the Earth's climate than a few million SUVs or a thousand or two rust-belt factories operating at full capacity, despite what little Johnny's teacher told him during last year's Earth-Day celebration. Obama Uses Global Warming To Destroy The US Economy. President Obama knows little and cares less about global warming or climate change. It's a means to a political end. He's an arsonist setting fires to save the country, but as it burns he uses extinguishers that we know don't work. He's pursuing a deeply entrenched ideology with help from those who advanced his career as a figurehead for socialism in America. We Don't Need No Stinkin' Evidence. The United States alone has spent over $30 billion on alarmist "climate science" over the past 20 years — plus another $35 billion on renewable energy — based on the banditos' tales of global warming catastrophe, if we don't slash fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide emissions. However, instead of solid, reproducible scientific evidence, the bandito scientists offered hypotheses, speculation, assumptions, assertions, "hockey stick" graphs, computer models and worst-case scenarios — purporting to demonstrate that CO2 causes planetary warming ... and the warming will be cataclysmic. Global warming just another statist hoax. [Scroll down] The global warming agenda has never been about science or health or human life. The global warming agenda is about stripping us of our freedom and redistributing our wealth. The only things truly endangered are our rights. The Compact Fluorescent — An Instrument of Tyranny! All we have to protect ourselves from the charlatan, the con man, a special interest group, or the government, is our intellect, our knowledge, logic and common sense. That's it. ... So let's apply our intellect, knowledge, logic and common sense to the assertion that man's emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are contributing to the alleged crisis of run-away global warming. Probably, the most illuminating piece of knowledge to the argument is the history of the Earth itself. Time for a Separation of Science and State. Even if anthropogenic global warming is proven to be complete bogus, its boosters will continue to hold onto it for dear life as the vast amounts of capital, both political and financial, that they've expended require that they do so. The end is near. The great global warming scare is over — it is well past its peak, very much a spent force, sputtering in fits and starts to a whimpering end. You may not know this yet. Or rather, you may know it but don't want to acknowledge it until every one else does, and that won't happen until the press, much of which also knows it, formally acknowledges it. New Scientific Study Could Destroy Global Warming Theory. A newly released scientific study published by MIT climate scientist Richard Lindzen has the potential of destroying one of the fundamental underpinnings of global warming theorists. The study collected 15-years of long wave radiation measurements from a satellite orbiting the earth. The study correlates the change in the earth's surface temperature with the change in outgoing long wave radiation. Lindzen's study shows that as the earth warms, the amount of radiation being bounced-back into outer space actually increases. Climate Sensitivity Estimates: Heading Down, Way Down? MIT climate scientists Richard Lindzen and collaborator Yong-Sang Choi soon-to-be published paper (Geophysical Research Letters, American Geophysical Union) pegs the earth's "climate sensitivity" — the degree the earth's temperature responds to various forces of change — at a value that is about six times less than the "best estimate" put forth by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The smaller the climate sensitivity, the less the impact that rising carbon dioxide levels will have on the earth's climate. The less the impact that CO2 emissions will have on the earth's climate, the less the "problem" and ability to reverse the "problem." The Ghost of Lysenko. Science is supposed to be the impartial blend of data with theory that allows human knowledge to go wherever the evidence leads. Serious science must be firmly grounded in moral absolutes. This sounds untrue to modern ears because we have been indoctrinated with a false history of science. Without faith in an ordered universe according to discoverable principles, science cannot exist. ... Those who hijack science, however, are not interested in truth. Save the Planet by Banning Ice Cream. If you believe the global warming crowd, then you must believe that we have to minimize our energy consumption. Are you willing to wear the same clothes for years to forgo the energy needed to produce new ones? Are you willing to live without cars, air conditioning, television, heat, holiday dinners, computers, and ovens? If this seems extreme, consider their premise: Our use of energy, in any amount, takes us that much closer to destruction, therefore any reduction must be good. Climate change emails row deepens as Russians admit they DID come from their Siberian server. [Scroll down] For example, some suggest that the 'medieval warm period', the 350-year era that started around 1000, when red wine grapes flourished in southern England and the Vikings tilled now-frozen farms in Greenland, was considerably warmer than even 1998. Of course, this is inconvenient to climate change believers because there were no cars or factories pumping out greenhouse gases in 1000AD — yet the Earth still warmed. I Pledge Allegiance to Global Warming. The concept of scientists — or journalists, or artists — signing a petition is ludicrous. The idea is that they are lending their authority to whatever cause the petition represents — but in fact they are undermining that authority, which is based on the presumption that they think for themselves. Orwellian Nightmare: Science Is Whatever 'the Party' Says It Is. The Party — the political class of the world — does not want God to exist. Therefore, if the laws of physics and the laws of mathematics say He does, then the laws of physics and the laws of mathematics must be changed to whatever the Party wants. Therefore, God does not exist. He must not be mentioned, must not be prayed to in class. The Party wants the Earth to be warming, so that its members can establish their power over every aspect of our lives. The Earth has not warmed in a decade, in fact it has gotten colder. But the Party says warmer, and further, says that the warming is due to human addition of CO2 to the atmosphere. Anatomy of an Apocalypse. Most people, having absorbed the climate data, have quietly stopped talking about global warming. Instead, they now warn about climate change. Why? Because it seemed every time someone would organize a conference to bemoan the dangers of global warming, the event would get snowed out. So most politicians have given up on "warming" and have embraced "change." More nebulous but somehow less embarrassing. Alarmism Is Underpinned by Fraud. In the geological past, there have been six major ice ages. During five of these six ice ages, the atmospheric carbon dioxide content was higher than at present. It is clear that the colorless, odorless, non-poisonous gas called carbon dioxide did not drive past climates. Carbon dioxide is plant food, not a pollutant. Humans have adapted to live on ice sheets, deserts, mountains, tropics, and sea level. History shows that humans and other organisms have thrived in warm times and suffered in cold times. It's the Totalitarianism, Stupid. The most important take home lesson is that global frauding was the clear and conscious work of a political machine aiming to steal your money, your liberties, and your country. It was a massive, worldwide attempt at a coup d'etat, and the victims were going to include all the free and prosperous peoples of the world. Hitler had his Reichstag fire. Today's transnational left had its global warming fraud. The political goal was exactly the same: maximum power through maximum fear. Global warming industry becomes too big to fail. [Andrew] Manning and the warming crowd benefit from a beautiful feedback loop: The more governments, businesses, and media outlets you can convince that man-made global warming is a serious threat, the more these institutions will invest in climate change studies, solutions, and policies. And the more they invest in combating global warming — whether it's a newspaper hiring a climate reporter, a company buying emissions credits and alternative energy sources, or a government building a climate lab — the less willing they are to tolerate dissent on the issue. Time for Inaction on Global Warming. So what would we have to do get back to 1977 emission levels and meet the Boxer-Kerry requirement? First, car and truck miles travelled would have to be reduced by one-third... Next, the amount of coal burned to generate electricity would have to be cut in half. So we would close more than 200 of our coal-fired power plants, and as [Steven] Hayward says that would reduce our electricity supply by some 800 million megawatts. ... It would take 97 years to make up for the shutdown of 200 coal-fired plants. CO2's Political Fingerprint. The Senate's Kerry-Boxer and the House's Waxman-Markey global warming bills could not have been better designed to inflict more pain on the states that swung red in the last election than on those that went blue, says the Heritage Foundation. Global Warming: Our Best Guess is Likely Wrong. No one knows exactly how much Earth's climate will warm due to carbon emissions, but a new study this week suggests scientists' best predictions about global warming might be incorrect. Ask Not if the Science of Global Warming is True? "The idea of climate change," [Mike] Hulme writes, "should be seen as an intellectual resource around which our collective and personal identities and projects can form and take shape. We need to ask not what we can do for climate change, but to ask what climate change can do for us." In other words, socialists like Hulme can frame the global warming issue to achieve unrelated goals such as sustainable development, income redistribution, population control, social justice and many other items on the liberal/socialist wish list. The Science of Global Warming: Saving the World or Hunting for Ghosts? [Scroll down] All of the talk about "healing the planet" shouldn't be fooling anyone. Global warming science is mostly about grant money, about keeping the myth alive, about buying fancy new equipment to prove that there really are ghosts ... er ... global warming. All of this talk of global warming isn't about healing anything. It is about stretching out the process of proving the unprovable and getting paid for it — as long as the public can be suckered into coughing up the money for the ongoing studies. It's never been about global warming. Anyone who believes that the Kyoto Accord and all the subsequent meetings spearheaded by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is actually about global warming or climate change, would be well advised to submit a wish list to Santa Claus in care of the North Pole. Chances of having jolly St. Nick deliver what's on that list are better than the chances of stopping global warming. That's because global warming has already stopped with no help from Al Gore and his friends. Pulling back the curtain on global warming. [Scroll down] The real torture is watching the "settled science" crowd push levers and manipulate data in an effort to keep people scared with smoke and thunderous noise even after their Wizard of Oz "doom machine" has been exposed. Time and time again in the past several years, the curtain has been drawn back to reveal global-warming hysteria as nothing more than a politically motivated scheme to push social policy leftward. So what about the science? Lack of Understanding Exploited to Perpetuate Climate Science Falsehoods. Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory focuses on two issues, atmospheric CO2 levels and global temperatures. The claim is both are at the highest levels ever and CO2 drives temperature. Normally a peer review of a new theory occurs similar to that for individual academic papers. This didn't happen with AGW. The real climate change catastrophe. The Climate Change Bill laid down that, by 2050, the British people must cut their emissions of carbon dioxide by well over 80 percent. Short of some unimaginable technological revolution, such a target could not possibly be achieved without shutting down almost the whole of our industrialised economy, changing our way of life out of recognition. Resisting climate hysteria: The notion of a static, unchanging climate is foreign to the history of the earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope. The fact that the developed world went into hysterics over changes in global mean temperature anomaly of a few tenths of a degree will astound future generations. Such hysteria simply represents the scientific illiteracy of much of the public, the susceptibility of the public to the substitution of repetition for truth, and the exploitation of these weaknesses by politicians, environmental promoters, and, after 20 years of media drum beating, many others as well. Green Jobs and a Green Economy Will Fail Like Van Jones. Van Jones perpetuated the view that environment and climate change are ideal vehicles for advancing total government control. In 1993 former Senator Timothy Wirth, now Director of the UN Foundation, said, "We've got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing, in terms of economic policy and environmental policy." Italics in original. Global Warming: First, nonscientists generally do not want to bother with understanding the science. Claims of consensus relieve policy types, environmental advocates, and politicians of any need to do so. … Secondly, given that the question of human attribution largely cannot be resolved, its use in promoting visions of disaster constitutes nothing so much as a bait-and-switch scam. That is an inauspicious beginning to what Mr. Gore claims is not a political issue but a "moral" crusade. Lastly, there is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition. After Global Warming: Make no mistake: the big bad wolf of truth is about to blow the straw house of global warming to bits. This is why there was a sudden shift, in the last nine months, from the use of "man made global warming" to "climate change" by the proponents of the theory. The scientific tug of war over whether or not the planet is heating or cooling has been going on for over 100 years. The difference between the past and our current situation is that governments around the world are passing (or attempting to pass) draconian laws and enforcing (or attempting to enforce) authoritarian treaties in order to "regulate" the planet's temperature. My Global Warming Epiphany: How do you take all the temperature readings from all the thermometers and all the days and hours that temperatures were read, and get a single number? ... How do you compare temperatures over time? Weren't thermometers added, thermometers replaced, and whole new stations included? ... How do you know any given temperature reading reflects real climate, and not just what's happening near that temperature station? That is, do parking lots, buildings, air conditioners, etc. have a significant impact on thermometer readings? A Real Choice on Climate Change: Do Nothing. There is ample evidence that the benefits of economic growth unhindered by costly emissions controls surpass the deleterious effects of global warming. According to World Bank estimates, nearly 2 billion people in developing countries rely on dung, wood and charcoal to heat their homes and cook their food. For the impoverished, a coal-fired power plant giving them access to affordable energy would be a blessing. We can afford to let the climate be. Just another myth used to steal your taxes. The reality is that folks are catching on to the fact that man-made global warming is a hoax, an inconvenient truth attested to by more and more scientists. Like any good con man, Obama wants to hurry the shakedown before his mark figures out his game. Democrats actually said that "if we do not act now, the climate will soon be out of our control." This, of course, raises the question: Just when was the climate ever under our control? Meet the man who has exposed the great climate change con. Imagine how wonderful the world would be if man-made global warming were just a figment of Al Gore's imagination. No more ugly wind farms to darken our sunlit uplands. No more whopping electricity bills, artificially inflated by EU-imposed carbon taxes. No longer any need to treat each warm, sunny day as though it were some terrible harbinger of ecological doom. And definitely no need for the $7.4 trillion cap and trade (carbon-trading) bill — the largest tax in American history — which President Obama and his cohorts are so assiduously trying to impose on the US economy. Imagine no more... Obama as the Wizard of Oz. Even as Science magazine is hastily backing off on the media fraud of "global warming," Obama's Medi-Scare Campaign is using precisely the same fear tactics perfected by climate fraud peddlers to take over American medical care. ... But neither climate fraud nor Medi-Scare do anything to fix the dire "emergency" they are trying to scare us about. There is no emergency: There is no global warming doom coming up, and there no crisis in American medicine. Good Questions. [#12] Over 1.5 billion people in China, India and Africa still do not have electricity, for even a light bulb or tiny refrigerator. Almost 2.5 billion people around the world live on less than $2 a day. Millions die every year from diseases that would be largely eradicated with electricity for refrigeration, sanitation, clinics, and industries that generate greater health and prosperity. How can you justify telling them that global warming is the biggest threat they face, and that they need to get by on wind and solar power, and give up their dreams of better lives, because you are worried about global warming? A Global Warming Primer. Numerous charts and graphs. Well worth reading. Excellent: Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts? Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn't exist. And I am not the only one trying to make people open up their eyes and see the truth. But few listen, despite the fact that I was the first Canadian Ph.D. in Climatology and I have an extensive background in climatology. … Believe it or not, Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). This in fact is the greatest deception in the history of science. We are wasting time, energy and trillions of dollars while creating unnecessary fear and consternation over an issue with no scientific justification. 'Global warming' isn't about global warming. 'Global warming' has nothing to do with climate change; at least not as practiced by politicians, would be entrepreneurs and the global elite. Environmentalism is now the home of socialists, ex-communists and anti-Americans. ... [The trillion-dollar financial] "crisis" should serve as a good primer for the worst scam perpetrated on the world in history — the "global warming" crisis and the need to save the planet from ourselves. In Search of an Intelligent Energy Policy. No responsible energy policy can go forward that is rooted in the belief that man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions significantly contribute to global warming or "climate change" as it is now called. This article will address data from the historical temperature record as well as climate models that refute the theory that CO2 causes or to a large extend amplifies climate change. Based on the following data it appears that the only thing consistent about the climate is that it is always changing. Global Warming, Global Myth. During the 20th century, the earth warmed 0.6° Celsius (1° Fahrenheit), but that warming has been wiped out in a single year with a drop of 0.63°C. (1.13°F.) in 2007. A single year does not constitute a trend reversal, but the magnitude of that temperature drop — equal to 100 years of warming — is noteworthy. Of course, it can also be argued that a mere 0.6° warming in a century is so tiny it should never have been considered a cause for alarm in the first place. But then how could the idea of global warming be sold to the public? In any case, global cooling has been evident for more than a single year. Global temperature has declined since 1998. Meanwhile, atmospheric carbon dioxide has gone in the other direction, increasing 15-20%. We are not about to fry. The professional purveyors of panic in the Global Warming Industry continue to scare impressionable children and politicians with tall tales. Their most gruesome story is that earth is about to reach a tipping point, causing runaway warming, after which we all fry. There is no evidence to support such scare mongering. Lovely Organic Oil. I was speaking with an acquaintance recently and was struck by the number of people she knew that called themselves "environmentalists", and as such were wedded to the prevailing global warming rhetoric. It is hard to come to terms with the pervasive laziness of such people who are probably otherwise very nice upstanding citizens. Is man-made global warming real? After the Narnian winter we've just had, a reasonable person could easily agree with controversial Friends of Science spokesman Dr. Tim Ball on this much: Global warming is just another unfulfilled government promise. So, why are we still preparing to spend money on it? The Cuban Diet. The global warming scare isn't about the environment as much as it is about smothering capitalism and forcing Americans to change their lifestyles. A report out of Great Britain confirms this. This sums it up pretty well... Baby, Baby It's a Cold World. Global warming has nothing to do with climate or science. What it is all about is the great, historic class struggle between working people and the ruling classes. Global warming is a great excuse for a massive expansion of government power. That, not science, is why the overlords, from the New York Times to the United Nations to Al Gore, so heartily embrace it. The U.N. thinks global warming is a perfect reason for the U.N. to be transformed into a world government. Top 10 dud predictions: Global warming preachers have had a shocking 2008. So many of their predictions this year went splat. Here's their problem: they've been scaring us for so long that it's now possible to check if things are turning out as hot as they warned. The Nonsense of Global Warming: The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels — the essence of the Greens' theory of global warming — has about as much basis in science as Marxism and Freudianism. Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules. Those who buy in to global warming wish to drastically curb human economic and industrial activities, regardless of the consequences for people, especially the poor. Five Reasons the EPA Should Not Attempt to Deal with Global Warming. On April 17, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an endangerment finding, saying that global warming poses a serious threat to public health and safety. Thus, almost anything that emits carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases could be regulated under the Clean Air Act. This is the first official action taken by the federal government to regulate carbon dioxide. The endangerment finding is the initial step in a long regulatory process that could lead to the EPA requiring regulations for almost anything that emits carbon dioxide. Automobiles would likely be the first target, but subsequent regulations could extend to a million or more buildings and small businesses, including hospitals, schools, restaurants, churches, farms, and apartments. Global warming jihadists. Some of my friends on the left who are in the science/medical area, have been demanding more reliance on science in making government policy and less on religion. In particular, anger was directed at the Bush Administration and its policy on embryonic stem cell research ... . In my view, the attachment by many on the left and in the environmental movement to the entirely speculative theory of global warming falls into the category of religion, and not science. And it is a fundamentalist religion — unwilling to consider other explanations, or criticism, and closed off to the possibility that the theory is false. 12 Facts about Global Climate Change That You Won't Read in the Popular Press. [1] Temperatures have been cooling since 2002, even as carbon dioxide has continued to rise. [2] Carbon dioxide is a trace gas and by itself will produce little warming. Also, as CO2 increases, the incremental warming is less, as the effect is logarithmic so the more CO2, the less warming it produces. [3] CO2 has been totally uncorrelated with temperature over the last decade, and significantly negative since 2002. [4] CO2 is not a pollutant, but a naturally occurring gas. Together with chlorophyll and sunlight, it is an essential ingredient in photosynthesis and is, accordingly, plant food. Global warming word games. Fact is, we have no "natural" climate against which climate "change" or, more accurately, "anthropogenic climate change" can be measured. The only climate we have is the one we influence, and yet the climate would keep changing even if all of us disappeared tomorrow, or if mankind had never existed at all. An open letter to Senator John McCain about Climate Science and Policy. I begin with a geological and historical perspective on global mean surface temperature that your advisors seem to have withheld from you. For most of the past 600 million years, the mode of temperature — the temperature that most often prevailed globally — is thought to have been 12.5 °F higher than today's temperature: for today's temperature, in the perspective of the long recent history of our planet, is unusually low. During each of the last four interglacial periods over the past half-million years, temperature was 5 to 8 °F warmer than the present (Petit et al., 1999). Cooling Down. During economic boom times, developed and developing nations have the luxury to indulge in meaningless gestures, such as the trendy campaign to beat global warming. But when the economy slows and energy costs increase, the people in those nations become a bit more focused and find that environmental issues might not be as important as they thought. The High Cost of Saving ANWR: The Hadley Center for Climate Prediction charts the global temperature falling 0.4 degrees from 1988 to 1992, then rising 0.8 degrees from 1992 to peak in 1998, then falling 0.7 degrees by January 2008. The climate has been changing as long as there has been a climate. It's not our fault, and we can't stop it. Man-Made Global Warming: 10 Questions. The subject of man-made global warming is almost impossible to discuss without a descent into virulent name-calling (especially on the Internet, where anonymity breeds a special kind of vicious reaction to almost any social or political question), but I'll try anyway. I consider myself to be relatively well-read on the matter, and I've still come down on the skeptical side, because there are aspects of the issue that don't make a lot of sense to me.  This graph shows the temperature changes of the lower troposphere from the surface up to about 8 km as determined from the average of two analyses of satellite data. The best fit line from January 2002 to June 2008 indicates a decline of 0.27° Celsius/decade. The Sun's activity, which was increasing through most of the 20th century, has recently become quiet, causing a change of trend. The green line shows the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, as measured at Mauna Loa, Hawaii. The 23 Smoking Guns of Global Warming: Before you read this essay, I ask you to forget everything you have learned about global warming. Imagine that you are a science teacher and a student just handed you a research project. Your job is to review the study with unbiased eyes, and grade the project based upon how sound the science is supporting the conclusion. Global Warming's Inconvenient Truths — an Interview with Fred Singer. In the great, never-cooling debate over the causes and consequences of global warming, it's always clear whose side Fred Singer is on: not Al Gore's. Singer, who was born in Vienna in 1924, was a pioneer in the development of rocket and satellite technology and holds a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton. Now president of the Science and Environmental Policy Project research group, his latest book (with Dennis Avery) is "Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1,500 Years." Global Warming Myths vs Facts: Myth 1: Global temperatures are rising at a rapid, unprecedented rate. Fact: Accurate satellite, balloon and mountain top observations made over the last three decades have not shown any significant change in the long term rate of increase in global temperatures. Average ground station readings do show a mild warming of 0.6° to 0.8°C over the last 100 years, which is well within the natural variations recorded in the last millennium.  A Reminder: There is no mechanism that has been proven, or even credibly identified, for increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere to "change the climate" or cause extreme weather without first causing warming. ... I feel the need to say this, because alarmists (including Gore) have adopted the tactic of saying that climate change is accelerating, or that they see the signs of accelerating climate change everywhere. But for the last 10 years, we have not seen any warming. Frequently Asked Questions About Global Warming. Is global warming catastrophic? Far from it. Given that the current upward trend in temperatures is not unprecedented, it stands to reason that minor warming will not lead to unprecedented catastrophes, and scientific evidence confirms this. According to recent research, the planet and its inhabitants are much more resilient to temperature variability than had been previously assumed. "Global Warming" at a glance: The world's temperature is a difficult metric to capture. After all, there is no convenient 'magical site' to sample that will give us the answer we seek and, by the time we have sampled and collated sufficient data points to try to work it out, that isn't the temperature any more. We can, of course, sample enough sites to garner an indication, as does our near real-time global thermometer. What is a "Normal" Temperature? Normal temperatures, which are calculated by the National Climatic Data Center for locations across the country, are quality-controlled, smoothed 30-yr-average temperatures. They are used in many facets of media, industry, and meteorology, and a given day's normal maximum and minimum temperatures are often used synonymously with what the observed temperature extremes "should be." EPA Tilt on Global Warming: The best available data, from weather satellites and weather balloons, do not detect any appreciable atmospheric warming. Nor did the 20th century show unusually high temperatures. [Also,] carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. On the contrary, it makes crops and forests grow faster. Economic analysis has demonstrated that more CO2 and a warmer climate will raise GNP and therefore average income. A Looming Policy Disaster. As with all policy decisions, the choice between combating climate change or continuing the current greenhouse gas emissions trend is a choice between different sets of risks, costs and benefits. Yet, the debate offers little discussion of the benefits of warming or the costs of trying to slow climate change. Perspective on Temperature Increase: If Global Warming were a stock, and you bought it in 1979 at zero (par) and decided to sell it this month to buy a house, 29 years later you aren't very happy with your investment. At it's peak in 1998, the temperature only went to a 0.8° increase, and in April it dipped to very nearly unchanged. What We Know about Global Warming: Is the climate really warming? Weather satellites measuring atmospheric temperatures day in and day out from pole to pole report only a minute rise that extrapolates to about half a degree Centigrade by 2100. Is this rise caused by human activities, like the burning of coal, oil, and gas? That's difficult to tell — climate varies naturally both up and down, so it could be partly non-human. Is the observed warming significant? That's a matter of judgment, but half a degree is barely detectable and not likely to have an impact. Donald Kennedy and the Corruption of Science Magazine. Science magazine has been stewing so long in the global warming bouillabaisse that its very brains are beginning to smoke. That may be because its august editor-in-chief Donald Kennedy (until last year) was a dedicated warm-monger. Science is the flagship journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the political lobby for Big Science in Washington, D.C. Warming Up to the Truth: The Real Story About Climate Change. The United States is a leader in studying the subject [of global warming]. The U.S. has invested some $45 billion in research funding on this question over the past 10 years. Ten Things To Know About the Climate and Weather. Facts About Global Warming: Fact #1: Most scientists do not believe human activities threaten to disrupt the Earth's climate. Fact #2: The Most Reliable Temperature Data Show No Global Warming Trend. Fact #3: Global computer models are too crude to predict future climate changes. Fact #4: The IPCC did not prove that human activities are causing global warming. Fact #5: A modest amount of global warming, should it occur, would be beneficial to the natural world and to human civilization. Fact #6: Quickly reducing our greenhouse gas emissions would be costly and would not stop global warming. Fact #7: The best strategy to pursue is one of "no regrets." Are 100-year forecasts possible when five-day forecasts are not? Long-range weather forecasting is impossible. There is no reason to believe that global weather trends can be predicted years or decades in advance when regional and local weather cannot be accurately forecast more than two or three days in advance. Television meteorologists brazenly predict the local high and low temperatures as much as a week into the future, but their estimates are notoriously inaccurate. Weather develops at random in complex patterns, and it cannot be predicted even with the most powerful computers in the world. Next time you see a weather "expert" predicting the path of a hurricane, you'll see what I mean. Hurricanes are the most intensely studied and carefully measured storms on Earth; but beyond the 72 hour forecast, a hurricane's path is anyone's guess. Err Temperatures. Rain or shine, you can bet that five-day forecast is usually wrong. A [New York] Post survey of the four leading local networks found their 11 p.m. newscast meteorologists were off an average of 5 degrees in both high and low predictions for extended forecasts. Climate Misinformation and Contradictions Continue. [The United Kingdom Meteorological Office] is among the most useless weather bureaus in the world because of totally failed forecasts and blind adherence to false science. This was supposed to be a mild winter. Last summer was supposed to be a "barbecue summer", and in the previous summer they were equally 100% wrong. Now they lecture us on the meaning of current conditions. It's no secret — the weathermen are just guessing. Do our television weathermen appear to you a little more camp than they used to be? There's a certain lascivious flourish of the hand when they herald an area of low pressure over Daventry, and a voice which is just that little bit overfamiliar, laced with a flamboyance that, I'm sure, never used to be present. EPA and global warming. If the self-styled climate experts cannot develop a model for such an observable, measurable, short lived event such as a hurricane, how can we believe they can forecast decades in advance an event (global warming) that as such a myriad of detectable and undetectable causes? I say they can't and this entire exercise is a fraud with some ulterior motive yet to be determined. Study of Gravity Exposes Weakness of Alarmist Global Warming Theories. The amazing history of our understanding of gravity, which still remains quite incomplete, cannot help but make one recognize the total absurdity of the flawed mathematical models claiming to understand all-but-unknowable relationships between various complex physical aspects of our planet and, at the same time, predict global temperatures decades away when we have not mastered local temperatures a week away. Take dire global warning outlooks with a grain of salt. Regarding all this hoo ha over "global warming" that we're hearing this week, there's just one question: Why should we believe all these dire predictions when they can't even get the five-day forecast right? Can Scientists Really Predict a Global Climate Catastrophe? Seasonal predictions are also challenging for scientists, which might help explain why we have been consulting a groundhog for so long. I live in Buffalo, and when scientists try to forecast our summer or winter weather, they are rarely accurate. Although scientists have sophisticated maps and models and cutting-edge technology, my own predictions based on intuition and conjecture would probably be just as accurate — if not more so. Even the next day's weather forecasts are a formidable task for scientists. Hurricane seasonal warnings almost useless, experts say. Each April, weather wizard William Gray emerges from his burrow deep near the Rocky Mountains to offer his forecast for the six-month hurricane season that starts June 1. And the news media are there, breathlessly awaiting his every word. It's a lot like Groundhog Day -- and the results are worth just about as much. U.S. All but Spared by Hurricanes in 2007. Despite alarming predictions, the U.S. came through a second straight hurricane season virtually unscathed, raising fears among emergency planners that they will be fighting public apathy and overconfidence when they warn people to prepare for next year. Hurricane predictions miss the mark. Two years ago, way under. Last year, way over. This year, still not right. It's been a stormy few years for William Gray, Philip Klotzbach and other scientists who predict total hurricane activity before each season begins, which raises fundamental questions as the 2007 season draws to an end on Friday: Why do they bother? And given the errors — which can undermine faith in the entire hurricane warning system — are these full-season forecasts doing more harm than good? What Hurricane Season? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's prediction for the 2006 hurricane season was about as wrong as wrong can be. NOAA predicted only a 5 percent chance of a below-normal hurricane season — but a below-normal season is precisely what happened. If NOAA's experts can be so wrong about an imminent hurricane season, why have any confidence in far more complex predictions of climate change 100 years into the future? Hurricane Scientists Flubbed Forecasts for Two Years. Hurricane researchers, who forecast seven more storms this season, have flubbed the past two annual estimates because of unusual El Niño and La Niña weather phenomena in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Report: Some damage from climate change irreversible. Many damaging effects of climate change are already basically irreversible, according to a new study led by Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Solomon, a researcher with NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory, and her co-authors warn that even humans manage to completely stop emitting carbon, temperatures around the globe will remain high until at least the year 3000. The study appears in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Editor says... This is some kind of record: A forecast for the next 991 years, brought to you by the people who can't accurately forecast next week's weather. Weather Malarkey. I have never been able to figure out why people who know that the forecast for the local weather is likely to be wrong by the afternoon of the same day or within 48 hours still believe that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can accurately predict what it will be ten, twenty or fifty years from now. Energy Sec. Chu claims he knows 'what the future will be 100 years from now'. President Obama's Energy Secretary Steven Chu is at it again. Fresh off his declarations in May claiming computer model predictions as evidence of a certain climate catastrophe, he has now gotten more bold, confidently predicting a certain climate catastrophe by the year 2109. (When he and everyone who hears his warning today will be unable to verify his predictions because they will be conveniently DEAD!) A time of universal deceit. Back in 2003, writer/physician Michael Crichton pointed out, in a speech he gave at the California Institute of Technology, how common sense was being violated in the research allegedly showing that human activity was causing the Earth's climate to warm irreversibly. "Nobody believes a weather prediction 12 hours ahead. Now we're asked to believe a prediction that goes 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that prediction? Has everyone lost their minds?" Obama's National Climate Disservice: Under the pretext that "Americans are witnessing the impacts of climate change in their own backyards," and that they "increasingly are asking the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for information about climate change in order to make the best choices for their families, communities and businesses," this week the Obama administration unveiled its National Climate Service (NCS). Though we can't rely on a weather forecast that extend more than a few days, the National Climate Service is going to help us plan for micro-changes in climate decades and more into the future. Many global warming alarmists are the same people who once predicted an ice age. Why climate change is hot hot hot. According to the CIA's analysis, "detrimental global climatic change" threatens "the stability of most nations." And, alas, for a global phenomenon, Canada will be hardest hit. The entire Dominion from the Arctic to the 49th parallel will be under 150 feet of ice. Oh, wait. That was the last "scientific consensus" on "climate change," early seventies version, as reflected in a CIA report from August 1974, which the enterprising author Maurizio Morabito stumbled upon in the British Library the other day. Climate of Fear: From Nuclear Winter to Global Warming. Before there was Global Warming Theory to scare the public into rash action, there was Nuclear Winter Theory. The two theories are contradictory, but both were peddled by the political left, and both used some similar rhetorical and political tactics. Fire and Ice. The media have warned about impending climate doom four different times in the last 100 years. Only they can't decide if mankind will die from warming or cooling. As the noise from the controversy has increased, it has drowned out any debate. Journalists have taken advocacy positions, often ignoring climate change skeptics entirely. One CBS reporter even compared skeptics of manmade global warming to Holocaust deniers. Climate of Fear: Over the years, the alarmists have veered from an obsession with lethal global cooling around the turn of the 20th century to lethal global warming a generation later, back to cooling in the 1970s and now to warming once again. You don't have to be a scientist to realize that all these competing narratives of doom can't be true. Or to wonder whether any of them are. Perhaps that is why most Americans discount the climate-change fear-mongering that is so fashionable among journalists and politicians. They've got that global warming thing down cold. Yes, back in the days of disco, the news media echoed with predictions of the world's imminent demise from ice rather than fire. Newsweek warned that temperatures had already dropped "a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average." By 1985, Life declared, "air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching the earth by one half." When the Inmates are in Charge: The really neat thing about making catastrophic predictions is that they always take place way into a future. In 1986, [John] Holdren was predicting that global warming would cause the deaths of one billion people by 2020. This is eight years beyond 2012 when devotees of the ancient Mayan calendar predict the end of the world will occur. Neither are likely to occur. In 1998 Holdren warned that we just can't go on using energy fuels like oil, natural gas, and coal that represent nearly one hundred percent of everything we and everyone else use now and will into the future. Senate floor speech delivered Monday September 25, 2006, by Senator James Inhofe Hot & Cold Media Spin: A Challenge To Journalists Who Cover Global Warming. I am going to speak today about the most media-hyped environmental issue of all time, global warming. I have spoken more about global warming than any other politician in Washington today. My speech will be a bit different from the previous seven floor speeches, as I focus not only on the science, but on the media's coverage of climate change. … Since 1895, the media has alternated between global cooling and warming scares during four separate and sometimes overlapping time periods. From 1895 until the 1930's the media peddled a coming ice age. Note: If you have any trouble downloading the full report, click here. [PDF, 2.31 Megabytes.] Reaction to the item above Cooling Down The Climate Scare. While Al Gore drifts into deeper darkness on the other side of the moon, propelled by such revelations as cigarette smoking is a "significant contributor to global warming," Sen. James Inhofe is becoming a one-man myth-wrecking crew. Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, took to the Senate floor two days last week to expose the media's role in the global warming hype. This is a man who more than three years ago called the global warming scare "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people" and has made a habit of tweaking the left-leaning environmental lobby. 
Climate Variance No Crisis, Says Senate Committee Chair. Alarmism over climate variance is unsupported by the weight of scientific evidence, and proposals by environmental activists to impose a drastic climate variance prevention program are unwarranted, said Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, speaking on the Senate floor September 26. Inhofe Speech Ignites a Media Firestorm. U.S. Sen. James Inhofe attracted media criticism, especially from a CNN reporter, for his September 26 remarks on climate science. Inhofe stood his ground, saying, "this issue is too important … to allow distortions and media propaganda to derail the economic health of our nation." One or two degrees of global warming would benefit everyone. Truth is Conveniently Missing from Global Warming Debate. [Al] Gore and other global warming alarmists insist increased global temperatures are bad. On the contrary, a warmer earth would be a net benefit to us all. Uninhabitable and inarable land could become suitable for living and farming. More carbon dioxide in the air means healthier plants and trees. Better agriculture raises living standards and reduces poverty. Warmer temperatures reduce energy bills, as savings on heating costs are estimated to exceed added cooling costs. Additionally, cold causes twice as many deaths as heat, worldwide; seven times as many in Europe. Warming is positive and shouldn't be feared. Climate-change alarmism runs into a reality check. A moderately warmer and wetter world, natural or man-made, coupled with the carbon dioxide fertilization effect on plants and agriculture, has distinct benefits, not just costs. As a climate specialist at the U.S. Department of Interior has calculated, a 600-fold increase in carbon dioxide emissions in the last two centuries has accompanied an eight-fold increase in population, a 75-fold rise in manufacturing and a 60-fold increase in global economic output. Testimony on the Health Effects of Global Warming. I assert that people suffer more from cold than from hot around the globe and in the United States and the evidence is unequivocal. Daily change in temperature in any location on the planet is more than even the most exaggerated warming projection changes of the IPCC: Any discussion of human health effect should start first with the concept that the human species has a wonderful ability to adapt to temperature change. In a year the adaptation in temperate climes is 100°F. or more. Will Global Warming Save Lives? A study done for the British government says that global warming will kill thousands. It also says lives will be saved due to warmer winters. OK, which is it? Or is it neither? Will Global Warming Harm Human Health? This week committees in both the Senate and House of Representatives will be holding hearings on whether global warming will cause future harm to human health. As they examine this question, the Competitive Enterprise Institute urges them to consult the extensive statistical evidence that warmer temperatures and climates are overwhelmingly safer and healthier. Carbon copies: The smart money is now riding on about 3°.F of warming this century. It's worth noting that the 20th century saw about half of that warming, along with a doubling of life expectancy in the industrialized world, and an approximately ten-fold increase in real personal wealth. Warming warnings get overheated. The bottom line is that benefits from global warming right now outweigh the costs (the benefit is about 0.25% of global GDP). Global warming will continue to be a net benefit until about 2070, when the damages will begin to outweigh the benefits, reaching a total damage cost equivalent to about 3.5% of GDP by 2300. This is simply not the end of humanity. If anything, global warming is a net benefit now; and even in three centuries, it will not be a challenge to our civilisation. Global Warming: a Natural Cycle. In 2006, Al Gore warned the world about a global warming disaster. He failed to mention that until 1850, the world felt the effects of the Little Ice Age and so did the Vikings. Vikings, habitants of Greenland, thrived in the country's moderate climate in 1100 A.D. A few hundred years later, their animals froze to death; then the Vikings starved or left their homeland, according to Rie Oldenberg, curator at Narsaq Museum in Greenland. The Real News About Mann-Made Global Warming. What the media didn't notice … is that the 1,000 year figure that was central to the whole hockey stick debate had now been replaced in the report by a figure of 400 years. Since most of the last 400 years was dominated by the "Little Ice Age," the warming during the 20th century should be welcomed by humanity. How the global warming industry is based on one MASSIVE lie. Those of you who saw An Inconvenient Truth may remember, if you weren't asleep by that stage, the key scene where big green Al deploys his terrifying graph to show how totally screwed we all are by man-made global warming. This graph — known as the Hockey Stick Curve — purports to show rising global temperatures through the ages. In the part representing the late twentieth century it shoots up almost vertically. ... [But] the graph — devised in 1998 by a US climatologist called Dr Michael Mann — is based on a huge lie, as Sceptics have been saying for quite some time. Treemometers: A new scientific scandal. At issue is the use of tree rings as a temperature proxy, or dendrochronology. Using statistical techniques, researchers take the ring data to create a "reconstruction" of historical temperature anomalies. But trees are a highly controversial indicator of temperature, since the rings principally record CO2, and also record humidity, rainfall, nutrient intake and other local factors. Picking a temperature signal out of all this noise is problematic, and a dendrochronology can differ significantly from instrumented data. Climategate reveals 'the most influential tree in the world'. Coming to light in recent days has been one of the most extraordinary scientific detective stories of our time, bizarrely centred on a single tree in Siberia dubbed "the most influential tree in the world". On this astonishing tale, it is no exaggeration to say, could hang in considerable part the future shape of our civilisation. Health Effects of Temperature – Hot vs. Cold – in South America. Climate alarmists claim that global warming will lead to an increase in human death rates. But cold weather is much more deadly than hot weather, as has been demonstrated by numerous scientific studies. Analysis: Recent Global Warmth Is Natural and Benefits Humans. Regarding natural climate variability, it should be noted that the nineteenth century was the end of a well-documented, centuries-long cold period in many areas of the world. Hence, the period of unusual cold at the start of the instrumental record may bias the casual observer to believe the second half of the nineteenth century displayed "normal" temperature, and the twentieth century is "abnormal" in warmth. Global Warming: Not an Immediate Problem. A layer of atmospheric gases (primarily water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane) encircles the earth and serves as a protective blanket or insulator retaining warmth from the sun; hence the term "greenhouse effect." Without this natural process, large areas of our planet would be so cold as to be uninhabitable. Global Warming Would Be Beneficial To Human Civilization. Warmer winters would mean longer growing seasons and less stress on most plants and wildlife, producing a substantial benefit for the global ecosystem. Global Warming a Boon for Greenland's Farmers. Known for its massive ice sheets, Greenland is feeling the effects of global warming as rising temperatures have expanded the island's growing season and crops are flourishing. For the first time in hundreds of years, it has become possible to raise cattle and start dairy farms. The Greening of Alaska: Global warming phobics continue their handwringing about the plight of Alaskans, but what they ignore (or don't know) is that the primary reason for the higher temperatures isn't an enhanced greenhouse effect, for the most part, but the Great Pacific Climate Shift in 1976. We, on the other hand, note the positive effects of those higher temperatures. Study Claims Global Warming Helped US Avert Deeper Recession: Climatologist Stanley Changnon, a professor of geography at the University of Illinois, was commissioned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to look at the economic impact resulting from the fourth warmest winter on record. War Over The Climate Heats Up Even As Climate Itself Cools Down. [Scroll down] Global warming, whether natural or human-induced, may be good for you. Economists tell us that a modest warming would improve agriculture and forestry and increase GNP. And historical evidence backs their studies. In any case, the climate has been mildly cooling for the past decade and may continue to cool for another decade or more — even while CO2 levels keep rising — causing much suffering around the world. Global warming will save millions of lives. Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heatwave: 25,000 to 50,000 people each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across Europe, there are six times more cold-related deaths than heat-related deaths. We know this from the world's biggest cross-national, peer-reviewed studies under the aegis of Professor William Keatinge of the University of London. Lovely Organic Oil. You see, 18,000 years ago the spot where I am seated was covered with a thick layer of ice; but over time that ice has receded and what has followed is beautiful landscapes, copious amounts of fresh water and abundant resources. Thanks to global warming, North America is a very prosperous and pleasant place to live. Hold on you say, the glaciers are disappearing at an alarming rate and so on and so forth.... Ok, but why get excited now? Warmists and a wave of disease. One overlooked aspect of the climate change argument is the link between climate and disease. Contrary to the fear mongering of the warmist con game, we have a lot more to fear from global cooling than global warming, when it comes to disease. Extreme Heat vs. Extreme Cold: Which is the Greatest Killer? Hypocrisy in high places is nothing new; but the extent to which it pervades the Climategate Culture — which gave us the hockeystick history of 20th-century global warming — knows no bounds. Hard on the heels of recent revelations of the behind-the-scenes machinations that led to the IPCC's contending that the current level of earth's warmth is the most extreme of the past millennium, we are being told by Associated Press "science" writer Seth Borenstein (25 November 2009) that "slashing carbon dioxide emissions could save millions of lives." Climate Deranged — and How to Cope. I've lost track of whether Washington has already beat the record snowfall of 1898, or is just edging up on it. But if carbon emissions will warm this scene, we're ready to exhale and switch on all the lights. Other internet resources: The Cooler Heads Coalition: formed May 6, 1997 to dispel the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis. Excellent! Global Warming Information Center. A huge collection of information about global warming. Derica Lorraine. Global Warming Hoax. Trailer for an upcoming movie: Not Evil, Just Wrong. Still Waiting for Greenhouse: A Lukewarm View of Global Warming, from Tasmania. Junk Science dot com. "The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants." Back to the Environmental Issues Page Jump to the Kyoto Protocol Jump to the Greenhouse Gases Section Back to the Home page 
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