A complete list of things caused by global warming
All on 0.006 deg C per year!
(30 Apr 08) The title says it all. Climate Change|Social Change If you ever had any doubt that the climate change debate has absolutely nothing to do with climate change and everything do with social change, this 8 minute series of vox/pops will confirm your suspicions and beliefs. As somebody once said “ Freeze or Fry, the problem is always International Capitalism and the solution is always International Socialism”. Note the Geelong school teacher, Sue Bull, filmed in the school ground from the immediate ambience and environment. What messages are being conveyed to your kids?? How are their minds being massaged and messed with??
The 'greatest scam in history'
(29 Apr 08) “....If you have friends and family concerned about global warming, have them watch this video from the founder of the Weather Channel. This guy has more experience and common sense than all the scientist in the IPCC put together. Here is the introduction to the video at The New American : "Many believe that global warming is one of the most critical challenges that face our planet today....” The 'greatest scam in history' “....According to the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, many scientists and most environmentalists and their allies in the media and academia, uncontrolled rising temperatures will cause more frequent droughts, food shortages, melting polar ice caps and coastal flooding, and the extinction of polar bears and many other species. They claim that modern, industrialized society is causing global warming, and they predict climatic calamity including frequent category five and numerous other severe storms resulting in great suffering. "After years of study, John Coleman is convinced that none of this is true. And thousands of scientists and other meteorologists hold this same dissenting view....”
Greenpeace founder now backs nuclear power
(26 Apr 08) “....Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore says there is no proof global warming is caused by humans, but it is likely enough that the world should turn to nuclear power.....The chemistry of the atmosphere is changing, and there is a high-enough risk that "true believers" like Al Gore are right that world economies need to wean themselves off fossil fuels... The only viable solution is to build hundreds of nuclear power plants over the next century, Moore told the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday.....” Greenpeace founder now backs nuclear power , Idaho Statesman.com “...There isn't enough potential for wind, solar, hydroelectric, and geothermal or other renewable energy sources...... uranium can be found within the United States and also comes in large quantities from Canada and Australia. Nuclear Power reduces the reliance on supplies in dangerous places including the Middle East.... He says his change of heart comes from his background in science and a different approach to sustainability. He sees a need for maintaining technologies that are not harmful while fixing or replacing those that are harmful.....”
Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh
(25 Apr 08) “.....The scariest photo I have seen on the internet is www.spaceweather.com, where you will find a real-time image of the sun from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, located in deep space at the equilibrium point between solar and terrestrial gravity. What is scary about the picture is that there is only one tiny sunspot. Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously..... It is generally not possible to draw conclusions about climatic trends from events in a single year, so I would normally dismiss this cold snap as transient, pending what happens in the next few years. This is where SOHO comes in. The sunspot number follows a cycle of somewhat variable length, averaging 11 years. The most recent minimum was in March last year. The new cycle, No.24, was supposed to start soon after that, with a gradual build-up in sunspot numbers..... The reason this matters is that there is a close correlation between variations in the sunspot cycle and Earth's climate. The previous time a cycle was delayed like this was in the Dalton Minimum, an especially cold period that lasted several decades from 1790. Northern winters became ferocious: in particular, the rout of Napoleon's Grand Army during the retreat from Moscow in 1812 was at least partly due to the lack of sunspots....” Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh , Phil Chapman geophysicist and astronautical engineer who lives in San Francisco. He was the first Australian to become a NASA astronaut. “....There is no doubt that the next little ice age would be much worse than the previous one and much more harmful than anything warming may do. There are many more people now and we have become dependent on a few temperate agricultural areas, especially in the US and Canada. Global warming would increase agricultural output, but global cooling will decrease it.....The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years.... Australia may escape total annihilation but would surely be overrun by millions of refugees. Once the glaciation starts, it will last 1000 centuries, an incomprehensible stretch of time..... All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead. It will be difficult for people to face the truth when their reputations, careers, government grants or hopes for social change depend on global warming, but the fate of civilisation may be at stake. In the famous words of Oliver Cromwell, "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken....."
Gore used fictional video to illustrate “Inconvenient Truth”
(23 Apr 08) Well, who would have thought. More fabrication and fiction discovered in An inconvenient Truth, (like the opening credits) Gore used fictional video to illustrate “Inconvenient Truth”
Beware the galloping imperialist judiciary
(23 Apr 08) “....Do not mistake the unseasonal rush of warmth over the weekend with global warming. Put it down to those advocating a charter of rights for Australia at the 2020 Summit in the nation's capital. Their aim is to bathe us in the warm language of human rights so that, ultimately, we will soporifically sign up to a new federal charter of rights. The heat will be cranked up over the next few years.... charter enthusiasts have finessed one heck of a sneaky strategy to seduce us. What is at stake is Australia's traditional democratic deal where parliaments make laws on behalf of the people and judges interpret those laws. Charter enthusiasts have a different post-democratic model in mind. This class of lawyers, human rights activists and academics distrust the people as too unenlightened to embrace their preferred social agenda. ...Hence they want to vest power to decide major social issues in an unelected group of guardians of the greater good: the judiciary.... Armed with a charter, these social engineers can seek out a sympathetic judge to legislate their agenda from the bench, unfettered by the messy business of taking their agenda to the people..... keep your eye on academic and Labor aspirant George Williams. Having slogged away at a charter for years, he oversaw Victoria's charter of rights. Ditto Hilary Charlesworth, another charter lover who chaired the ACT committee. If they pop up on the federal committee, I'll bet my house on the outcome.... In Britain, after enacting the Human Rights Act to much fanfare, former PM Tony Blair changed his tune, promising a battle with the judiciary when British courts put out the welcome mat to radical Muslims, using charter rights to ignore British immigration laws....” Beware the galloping imperialist judiciary , Janet Albrechtsen, The Australian “....Look to Canada, they say, where a special provision in their Charter of Rights and Freedoms allows governments to specifically exclude charter rights from a specific law if that is their intention. In other words, the power of parliament is preserved. Look a little closer at Canada, I say. This clause has never been used, not once since the charter was introduced more than 20 years ago. Yet, this clause was the clincher when the charter was being proposed to Canadians. Charter advocates in Canada said it would protect parliamentary sovereignty. Sound familiar? In fact, it has been politically untouchable for a government to draft legislation which apparently infringes the "rights" of Canadians in the charter. Williams knows that. He has written about it. And why do you suppose most Canadians now express a desire to elect their judges? The Canadian charter has siphoned power away from the people to unelected judges....These are not obtuse legal wrangles. They go to the heart of how Australia will be governed: by the people or by judges.... Charter devotees are all in favour of a galloping imperial judiciary; it is integral to their postmodern democratic model where power is stripped from politicians they regard as too stupid and too slow to mould the perfect world. Done under the guise of protecting human rights, this power play where the lawyer class triumphs over the masses is just the most recent reminder of H.L. Mencken's warning that the "urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule". Remember that when the charter bandwagon comes to a town near you....”
Climate Change - Has it been cancelled?
(22 Apr 08) Professor Bob Carter, James Cook University, interviewed on New ZealandOne Tonight Climate Change - Has it been cancelled?
2020 Summit
(21 Apr 08) Spend 2 mins and just look at the rubbish and rhetoric that was thrown up as part of the “Arts Stream” at the 2020 Summit. Peter Garrett explains in this clip , which also shows you exactly how empty and rent-seeking was the artists' session of the summit.
(21 Apr 08) Some revision: The Hockey Stick Graph, so relied upon by the IPCC and Al Gore was debunked quite some years ago. This brief article from 2004 gives some background.
“....In the scientific and political debate over global warming, the latest wrong piece may be the hockey stick, the famous plot (shown below), published by University of Massachusetts geoscientist Michael Mann and colleagues. This plot purports to show that we are now experiencing the warmest climate in a millennium, and that the earth, after remaining cool for centuries during the medieval era, suddenly began to heat up about 100 years ago--just at the time that the burning of coal and oil led to an increase in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide....” Global Warming Bombshell by Richard Muller, MIT Technology Review “...This method of generating random data is called Monte Carlo analysis, after the famous casino, and it is widely used in statistical analysis to test procedures. When McIntyre and McKitrick fed these random data into the Mann procedure, out popped a hockey stick shape! That discovery hit me like a bombshell, and I suspect it is having the same effect on many others. Suddenly the hockey stick, the poster-child of the global warming community, turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics....”
(21 Apr 08) “....There is no shortage of reasons to suspect the debate over manmade climate change has been woefully incomplete. After all, alarmists' primary response to critical components of their case disintegrating -- the "hockey stick" graph debunked , doomsday computer models exposed as farce , no actual temperature rise since 1998 -- has been to cackle condescendingly, emit ever-louder catcall comparisons to flat-earthers and Holocaust deniers, and respond to every call for debate with a declaration that...the debate is already over..... I didn't know what to expect, but I was pretty sure I would find at least a few top caliber scientists. I didn't expect to think, as I do now, that the majority of top scientists may be in the skeptic camp.....” A Time to Deny , Shawn Macomber, The American Spectatorb “.... The press has not been doing its job. Had it done even a minimal amount of fact checking and investigation it would have realized that the science is not settled.....Most of the scientists I profiled aren't interested in becoming campaigners on climate change. They aren't policy wonks. They just want to do their science.... I don't know what pathway they'll find to finally get through to society at large, but I have no doubt that they'll find it. Their ally, after all, is Truth , and that makes for a potent combination....If climate change science doesn't turn around and soon demonstrate concrete evidence of harm, the global warming issue might well just melt away. I have met very few people who have strong convictions about global warming. In their bones, they don't believe the end of the world is nigh....”
(16 Apr 08) “...When it comes to all things "green", common sense seems to have been abandoned. Our failure to think clearly about such matters would be amusing if the potential consequences were not so serious. Consider the recent " lights out " campaign that supposedly should energise the world about the problems of climate change by urging citizens in 27 big cities to turn out their lights for an hour. With scores of companies and municipalities signing up, and even the monarchies of Denmark and Sweden turning off the lights in their many palaces, the World Wildlife Fund quickly called it an amazing success.... Danish newspapers - coincidentally in the native country of the story of the Emperor's New Clothes - happily quoted the WWF regarding the event's overwhelming success..... Are pointless gestures really the way to secure a greener future? And what sort of message does turning out the lights send?.... As some conservative commentators like to point out, the environmental movement has indeed become a dark force, not metaphorically, but literally....” Lights Out, Bjorn Lomborg “....Unfortunately, the lights-out campaign exemplifies the state of much of our environmental debate. We are spoon fed stories that fit preconceived frameworks. For example, the recent breakup of a massive glacier in the Antarctic supposedly proves the mounting effects of global warming. But we don't hear that the area was ice-free, possibly just some 400 years ago, without the help of global warming. We don't hear that the Wilkins glacier makes up less than 0.01% of Antarctica. Nor do we hear that the Antarctic is experiencing record sea ice coverage since satellite measurements began. Likewise, we all heard Al Gore talking about the dramatic hurricane years of 2004 and 2005, but we've heard almost nothing about the lack of hurricane damage in 2006 and 2007..... We are endlessly presented with stories of soaring temperatures, but over the past year we've experienced the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, and it's been downward. In January, Hong Kong was gripped by its second-longest cold spell since 1885. This year's storms in central and southern China produced the worst winter weather in a half-century. Snow fell on Baghdad for the first time in living memory....”
Academic Cool on Global Warming
(11 Apr 08) The Climate Change debate is developing all the hallmarks of religion. Notice the language of the alarmists. Skeptics (realists) are tarred as the equivalent of “ holocaust deniers ”, “ heretics ”, and as you will see below “ face demonisation ” What are we dealing with here, The Salem Witch trials, The Spanish Inquisition ???
“....Respected academic Don Aitkin has seen the ugly side of the climate change debate after being warned he faced demonisation if he challenged the accepted wisdom that global warming poses a danger to humanity. Academic Cool on Global Warming , Brad Norington The Australian “...Professor Aitkin told The Australian yesterday he had been told he was "out of his mind" by some in the media after writing that the science of global warming "doesn't seem to stack up".
Good science isn't about consensus
(11 Apr 08) “....Australia is faced, over the next generation at least and almost certainly much longer, with two environmental problems of great significance. They are, first, how to manage water and, second, how to find acceptable alternatives to oil-based energy. Global warming is not one of those two issues, at least for me, and I see it as a distraction..... I am going against conventional wisdom in doing so. But Western societies have the standard of living, the longevity and the creativity we have because we have learned that conventional wisdom has no absolute status and that progress often comes when it is successfully challenged..... If you listen hard to the global warming debate you will hear people at every level tell us that they don't want to hear any more talk, they want action..... The story about anthropogenic global warming (AGW) doesn't seem to stack up as the best science, despite the supposed consensus about it among "thousands of scientists". Indeed, the insistent use of the word consensus should cause those who are knowledgeable about research to raise their eyebrows, because research and science aren't about consensus, they are about testing theories against data....” Good science isn't about consensus , DonAitkin, The Australian “....What I see, rather, is something that political theorist Paul Feyerabend wrote about a long time ago in Against Method (1975): the tendency of scholars to protect their theories by building defences around them, rather than being the first to try to demolish their own proposition. We seem to be caught up in what a pair of social scientists has called an "availability cascade": we judge whether or not something is true by how many examples of it we see reported.....Greens and environmentalists generally welcome the AGW proposition because it fits in with their own world-view, and they have helped to popularise it. Governments that depend on green support have found themselves, however willingly or unwillingly, trapped in AGW policies, as is plainly the case with the Rudd Government. The hardheads may not buy the story, but they do want to be elected or re-elected.....Intellectually, AGW is what is known in politics as a done deal. But on the evidence that is available, I think it has to be said that the assertion that the increase in carbon dioxide has caused the temperature to rise is no more than an assertion, however attractive or worrying the association may be. There is simply no evidence that this causal relationship exists....”
The BBC Changes News to Accommodate Activist
(9 Apr 08) “....I have been emailed the following correspondence, purportedly between an activist, Jo Abbess, and BBC Environment reporter Roger Harrabin. It would appear that the result of the email exchange between the activist and the reporter was that the BBC changed its story. “... The BBC Changes News to Accommodate Activist from Jennifer Marohasy “....In particular instead of reporting the story as received from the World Meteorological Organisation, the BBC modified the story as demanded by the activist who was concerned that in its original form it supported 'the skeptics' correct observation that there has been no warming since 1998....”
Dark Hour- a sign of the times
(6 Apr 08) "...Earth Hour" should be renamed "Dark Hour" during that consumers should also forgo the consumption of gasoline and diesel. Consumers should spend the hour they sit in the dark with no transport, air conditioning or hot coffee, remembering the contribution that carbon fuels have made to modern society.... The only thing that lifted mankind from the stone age was carbon energy from coal, oil and gas — for heating; for steam power; for electricity and water; for mining, smelting and refining of metals; for transport on land, sea and air; for lighting, heating, cooling and communications; for production of food and chemicals; and for power for processing and manufacturing....All of this comfort, safety, convenience and prosperity is now threatened by hysterical claims that man's carbon emissions can and should be stopped. Even though the weather records and the science deny the doomsday forecasts, the politicians, like lemmings, are leading us over the greenhouse cliff....Consumers need to learn a new vocabulary for these bad new times — load shedding, demand management, quota allocation, rolling blackouts, brownouts, emission permits, load prioritisation, interruptible customers, emergency customers, zone rota systems, power emergency declarations, priority lines, three-day-week rationing, power outages, grid instability, electricity rationing, operating reserve, maintenance shutdowns . . . . all the jargon of a power system in crisis, suffering from stagnant or falling capacity and growing demand....” Dark Hour- a sign of the times , Viv Forbes, BrookesNews.com “....The operating reserve margin in California is now about 5 per cent whereas 15 per cent is considered safe..... Then it was China's turn. The global cooling of 2007 plus insufficient generating capacity and inadequate coal stocks caused widespread power failures. Whole regions and millions of people were forced to cope with blizzards without power for days....Then one day in Texas recently, the wind dropped, the whirling blades stopped turning, power supply collapsed and load shedding commenced before the old reliables of coal, nuclear or gas could pick up the slack.. The aging European power grids are now also subject to similar disruptions....let us all in Australia and New Zealand spend our "Dark Hour" thinking on the realities of life — such as where we will get the electricity, motor fuel, food and jobs for our kids and grandkids if we allow the Deep Greens to destroy our backbone industries, on the false promise that our sacrifice will improve the future climate.....”
(30 Mar 08) Now that everyone's feeling a whole lot better after the big Earth Hour switch off on Saturday night, you might like to trouble yourself and apprise yourself of some very “inconvenient truths”. This link is to the transcript of the ABC's Radio National, Counterpoint interview last week between host Michael Duffy and biologist Jennifer Marohasy.
(28 Mar 08) “.... Computer models used by environmentalists predict imminent and disastrous climate change. But actual temperature measurements by high-tech equipment show something completely different ..... An early scene in the sci-fi disaster flick "The Day After Tomorrow," showing what allegedly will happen to the planet if we continue to ignore Al Gore's warnings on global warming, shows three of the film's secondary characters at some kind of scientific station in Scotland... "I don't understand what's supposed to be going on," says one of the three, an oceanographer. Apparently neither do the film's creators, Gore or any of his climate-change cultists. For actual measurements of actual oceans by actual instruments have thrown cold water on the theory that such a scenario could ever occur or is in fact occurring now....As Lorne Gunter reported Monday in Canada's National Post, the first of 3,000 new automated ocean buoys were deployed in 2003.....” Buoy meets Gore , Investor's Business Daily “...They amounted to a significant improvement over earlier buoys that took their measurements mostly at the ocean's surface. The new buoys, known as Argos, drift along the oceans at a depth of about 6,000 feet constantly monitoring the temperature, salinity and speed of ocean currents.... The Argos buoys have disappointed the global warm-mongers in that they have failed to detect any signs of imminent climate change.... Climate-change promoters also are perplexed by the observations of NASA's eight weather satellites. In contrast to some 7,000 land-based stations, they take more than 300,000 temperature readings daily over the surface of the Earth. In 30 years of operation, the satellites have recorded a warming trend of just 0.14C — well within the range of normal variations.....If the Argos buoys and satellites had confirmed the greenie computer models and Gore hype instead of natural temperature variations, it would have been big news. The silence speaks volumes.....”
(23 Mar 08) “....Catastrophic predictions of global warming usually conjure with the notion of a tipping point, a point of no return.... Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril....Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth stillwarming?" She replied: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued.... Duffy : "Is this a matter of any controversy?" Marohasy: "Actually, no. The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued...” Climate facts to warm to , Christopher Pearson, The Australian “....Duffy then turned to the question of how the proponents of the greenhouse gas hypothesis deal with data that doesn't support their case. "People like Kevin Rudd and Ross Garnaut are speaking as though the Earth is still warming at an alarming rate.....These findings actually aren't being disputed by the meteorological community. They're having trouble digesting the findings, they're acknowledging the findings, they're acknowledging that the data from NASA's Aqua satellite is not how the models predict, and I think they're about to recognise that the models really do need to be overhauled and that when they are overhauled they will probably show greatly reduced future warming projected as a consequence of carbon dioxide."... If Marohasy is anywhere near right about the impending collapse of the global warming paradigm, life will suddenly become a whole lot more interesting....With catastrophe off the agenda, for most people the fog of millennial gloom will lift, at least until attention turns to the prospect of the next ice age....Penny Wong's climate mega-portfolio will suddenly be as ephemeral as the ministries for the year 2000 that state governments used to entrust to junior ministers. Malcolm Turnbull will have to reinvent himself at vast speed as a climate change sceptic and the Prime Minister will have to kiss goodbye what he likes to call the great moral issue and policy challenge of our times....”
(21 March 08) “....You didn't have to be a rocket scientist in the 1990s to figure that speculative investment in dot-coms with no revenues would be disastrous. The same goes for lenders giving mortgages to borrowers with no job, no income and no assets. So after surviving the tech bubble and while trying to extricate the economy from the housing bubble, why are we bent on heading into the global warming bubble?.....The EPA projects that, if the bill is enacted, the size of our economy as measured by its gross domestic product (GDP) would shrink by as much as $2.9 trillion by the year 2050. That's a 6.9 percent smaller economy than we might otherwise have if no action was taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions....And what would we get for such a massive self-inflicted wound? It ought to be something that is climatically spectacular, right? You be the judge..... Keeping in mind that the current atmospheric CO2 level is 380 ppm and the projected 2095 CO2 level is about 500 ppm, according to the EPA, what are the potential global temperature implications for such a slight change in atmospheric CO2 concentration? Not much, as average global temperature would only be reduced by a maximum of about 0.10 to 0.20 degrees Celsius, according to existing research ....Sacrificing many trillions of dollars of GDP for a trivial, 45-year-delayed and merely hypothetical reduction in average global temperature must be considered as exponentially more asinine than the dot-bombs of the late-1990s and the NINJA subprime loans that we now look upon scornfully....” The Global Warming Bubble by Steven Milloy, JunkScience.com “....So who in their right mind would push for this?....The audience -- a sold-out crowd of hundreds who had to apply to be admitted and pay a $3,500 fee -- consisted of representatives of the myriad businesses that seek to make a financial killing from climate alarmism... the vast majority of the audience was there to plot how they could lock-in profits from government mandates on taxpayers and consumers.... The only conclusion I could come to was that the audience is so steeped in anticipation of climate profiteering that there is no fact that will cause them to reconsider whether or not manmade global warming is a reality.....The callousness of their blind greed was also on display at the conference.... I was astounded by the double-speak practiced by the global warmers. Virtually every speaker at the conference professed that they were either in favor of free markets or that they supported a free-market solution to global warming. But invariably in their next breath, they would plead for government regulation of greenhouse gases and government subsidies for alternative energy. It's hard to conceive of any good coming from a public policy in which facts play no substantial role in its development and words have no meaning in its public debate.....”
(11 Nov 07) With out doubt this 4 part presentation by Professor Bob Carter from James Cook University , once and for all slays the dragon and the zealotry of the Global Warming religion. Even if you only view part one you'll see how Carter lifts the lid on the greatest scam of our time. Each Part runs 8 to 9 minutes
A review: Unstoppable Global Warming every 1,500 years
For the last 9 or 10 months I have been recommending this book, it totally and forensically demolishes the entire global warming fraud and of course the fraudsters...It is genuinely one of those books you can't put down..Its choc full of eye popping detail
(16 March 08) “.....With their new book, Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years , S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery skewer all the misinformation that has been used for so long in an attempt to convince society that mankind is the root cause of all global climate change....The book is truly amazing! It meticulously supports, with hundreds of detailed, published references, the clear facts and conclusions that the Earth's climate has been traveling a well-defined rollercoaster path of temperature change for at least 900,000 years.....Everyone reading this review should buy two copies of the book, keeping one in plain view at their home or office while sending one to a friend or government official who may be called upon to make a decision regarding CO2 emissions into our atmosphere..... In almost a point-by-point refutation of Al Gore's unsupportable rant that "the debate is over; man is warming the Earth," Singer and Avery explain technically but lucidly why nearly every cherry-picked fact in Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth" is contradicted by science,... In the opening chapter, "Is Humanity Losing the Global Warming Debate?" Singer and Avery explain how the ratio of two isotopes of oxygen allows us to date the age in which air bubbles were trapped in ice, and that with almost a million years of ice cores we can readily tell that periodic warming of the Earth has occurred persistently almost every 1,500 years..... Singer and Avery document the exhaustive data search they performed to confirm conclusively the existence of a 1,500-year warming cycle.....” A review: Unstoppable Global Warming every 1,500 years , By Dr Jay Lehr “....They grappled with the 100,000-year elliptical cycle of the Earth's orbit, the 41,000-year axial tilt cycle of the Earth, and the 23,000-year precession or wobble cycle.....In addition to those cycles, they thoroughly document the most influential cycle of all: the 1,500-year solar cycle that drives most of the Earth's climate cycle.....The authors shatter the greenhouse gas theory, making it clear humanity's modest addition to the atmosphere's small amount of carbon dioxide does not add up to a significant alteration in temperature..... With merciless precision and incontrovertible scientific proof, Singer and Avery show mankind need not fear there will be sea level surges, devastating floods, the mass extinction of species, famine, drought, barren soil, more frequent and fierce storms, death by warming, and then an eventual sharp turn to killer cold....The authors explain that most of the world's animal species evolved 600 million years ago, so we know most of today's species have successfully dealt with ice ages and global warming periods that have sent temperatures much higher and much lower than today's temperatures.... In addition to disassembling the absurd scenarios of the anti-human zealots, the authors calmly present the logical lessons from history that provide so much cause for optimism. A case in point:"Human food production historically has prospered during global warmings. ... Warming climates provide more of the things plants love: sunlight, rainfall, and longer growing seasons. During warmings there are less of the things plants hate: late spring frosts and early fall frosts that shorten the growing seasons, and hail storms that destroy fields of crops,"... From cover to cover, Unstoppable Global Warming is truly elegant reading....”
The evidence continues to pile up like a giant snowdrift: Global Warming is the hoax of the century
(14 March 08) “.....Never have so many otherwise balanced and rational people been so cowed and so completely sold a bill of goods than have those who have bought into to the Great Global Warming Hoax. As the scientific evidence continues to pile up that whatever warming has occurred over the last half century has nothing whatsoever to do with human CO2 emissions; nevertheless the same snake oil salesmen.... continue to preach the same tired "the end is nigh" prophecies of doom and gloom to keep their own sleazy "money train" coming in. Meanwhile real problems like cancer research, AIDS, drinking water and basic services for the third world continue to receive peanuts in comparison.
The worldwide purveyors of this "religous cult" have one overriding purpose, and that is to transform a sovereign, powerful United States into a funding mechanism (that means out of YOUR paychecks, folks..) for their bankrupt vision of World Socialism..... They want to generate enough hysteria and fear that these same "on the take" politicians will have the cover needed to sink hundreds of billions of YOUR money into unproven Green technologies (some, like Ethanol, which are already driving food prices through the roof).....” The evidence continues to pile up like a giant snowdrift: Global Warming is the hoax of the century, Global Group Blog “....If the scare-mongers' scheme succeeds, the result will be to further cripple our already stretched-to-the-limit economy, to send still greater numbers of American workers s to the unemployment lines (and thus making more citizens more dependent on their social programs and handouts--funded again, by higher taxes on YOU)...and ultimately to cede increasing amounts of American sovereignty to organizations like the utterly corrupt United Nations. And for what? The same "scientists" who can't tell you with accuracy what the temperature in one location is going to be exactly one week from today are pretending they have unassailable "models" ( which has flatly been proven to be complete fabrication ) that know what temperatures worldwide are going to be 100 years from now?.... Unfortunately for those who are on the receiving end of the Global Warming Church's "collection plates", real scientific evidence does continues to pile up --but against the poison they are peddling. Previous "true believers" have now turned into skeptics--esteemed scientists who now are treated as pariahs by their colleagues, who fear that if the truth does come out, all of their grants and funding will dry up. Which it probably would do... When will the madness end?...”
Scientists trash plastic bag ban
(10 March 08) Like the “non-debate” on global warming/climate change here's the “smoking gun” of yet another enviroswindle
“....Scientists and environmentalists have questioned the case against the use of plastic shopping bags as based on flawed science and misreporting.... And in a blow to Environment Minister Peter Garrett's plan to phase out plastic bags by January 1 next year, questions have also emerged over the accuracy of a claim in a report carried out for the Australian Government in 2002 which said plastic bags were responsible for the deaths of 100,000 animals a year..... The report, later amended but widely quoted by environmentalists, actually attributed the deaths to all plastic debris, including fishing nets and equipment....... The claim that the bags kill more than 100,000 marine mammals every year is based on a misinterpretation of a 1987 Canadian study in Newfoundland, which found that, between 1981 and 1984, more than 100,000 animals were killed by discarded nets. The Canadian study did not mention plastic bags.....” Scientists trash plastic bag ban , Matthew Franklin, The Australian “....However, in 2002, a report prepared for the Australian Government by Nolan-ITU in association with the RMIT Centre for Design and Eunomia Research and Consulting Ltd said the Newfoundland study attributed the deaths to "plastic bags".....according to the Australian Government's Environment Department website, the report was amended in 2006. The figure has often been used by conservationists as proof that the bags are killers.....in Britain, scientists, politicians and marine experts have attacked the British Government for joining an anti-bag "bandwagon" based on poor science. Lord Taverne, the chairman of Sense about Science, said: "The Government is irresponsible to jump on a bandwagon that has no base in scientific evidence. "This is one of many examples where you get bad science leading to bad decisions which are counter-productive. "Attacking plastic bags makes people feel good but it doesn't achieve anything."...It's very unlikely that many animals are killed by plastic bags," Dr Santillo said. "The evidence shows just the opposite. We're not going to solve the problem of waste by focusing on plastic bags. On a global basis plastic bags aren't an issue."
Cold Water on ‘Global Warming'
(2 March 08) “.....It has almost become something of a joke when some "global warming" conference has to be cancelled because of a snowstorm or bitterly cold weather..... But stampedes and hysteria are no joke — and creating stampedes and hysteria has become a major activity of those hyping a global warming "crisis." ....They mobilize like-minded people from a variety of occupations, call them all "scientists" and then claim that "all" the experts agree on a global warming crisis.....Their biggest argument is that there is no argument.... Those who bother to check the facts often find that not all those who are called scientists are really scientists and not all of those who are scientists are specialists in climate. But who bothers to check facts these days?.... new and very different conference on global warming will be held in New York City, under the sponsorship of the Heartland Institute, on March 2nd to March 4th — weather permitting..... It is called an "International Conference on Climate Change." Its subtitle is "Global Warming: Truth or Swindle?" Among those present will be professors of climatology, along with scientists in other fields and people from other professions....” Cold Water on ‘Global Warming' ...Thomas Sowell, Jewish World Review “...This will be one of the rare opportunities for the media to hear the other side of the story — for those old-fashioned journalists who still believe that their job is to inform the public, rather than promote an agenda.... The party line of those who say that we are heading for a global warming crisis of epic proportions is that human activities generating carbon dioxide are key factors responsible for the warming that has taken place in recent times.....The problem with this reasoning is that the temperatures rose first and then the carbon dioxide levels rose....this has long since become a crusade rather than an exercise in evidence or logic. Too many people are too committed to risk it all on a roll of the dice, which is what turning to empirical evidence is....”
Forget Global Warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age
(28 Feb 08) “.....Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966. The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average."... In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950. And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its "lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.,,,The ice is back.....” Forget Global Warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age , Lorne Gunter, National Post “.... Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year. And it's not just anecdotal evidence that is piling up against the climate-change dogma..... We missed what was right in front of our eyes," says Prof. Russell. It's not ice melt but rather wind circulation that drives ocean currents northward from the tropics. Climate models until now have not properly accounted for the wind's effects on ocean circulation, so researchers have compensated by over-emphasizing the role of manmade warming on polar ice melt....Kenneth Tapping of our own National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a long period of severely cold weather if sunspot activity does not pick up soon.The last time the sun was this inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about five centuries and ended in 1850. Crops failed through killer frosts and drought. Famine, plague and war were widespread. Harbours froze, so did rivers, and trade ceased....”.
(27 Feb 08) Baby it's cold outside by Clarice Feldman - American Thinker
"I don't know how much life is left in the global warming/aka climate change hoax, but this should -- if widely known -- help nail the first part of the coffin lid down on it:
Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years , with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota , Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia , Iran, Greece , South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on. .....No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously........A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here . The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out nearly all the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down. "
Put up a sticker and you've done your bit
(23 Jan 08) “....I have this visceral dislike of bumper-sticker moralisers. These are people who go out of their way to advertise what they take to be their own exalted moral sensibilities, but do so at no cost to themselves and without the messy business of having to weigh costs and benefits or to choose between stark alternatives where none is particularly pleasant or easy. It's all form and no substance for these people, and there's no shortage of them around.... what about many of those who announce that we should "Save Darfur"? Nowhere do they tell us how this is supposed to be accomplished. Through the UN, perhaps?....most people who put "Save Darfur" stickers on their cars would be horrified at the prospect of US military action. What they mean is that saving Darfur, in the abstract, as a general notion, as some warm, fuzzy abstraction, is a jolly fine idea. So count them in. But if it were to require making unpalatable choices - killing people, propping up the least bad alternatives and so on - well, then stop right there. This is about feeling good about oneself and showing that one cares.....” Put up a sticker and you've done your bit , James Allan, The Australian “...A study on the website American Thinker claims that in the seven years between the signing of Kyoto in 1997 and 2004, carbon emissions from countries that signed the treaty rose 21per cent, while among non-signers they rose 10per cent. And Australia, until recently a non-signatory, had a slower increase than Canada, a loud, vocal and proselytising signatory. If that's correct, then what exactly is the benefit of Kyoto?.. Has anyone else noticed that as soon as the Rudd Government ratified Kyoto and advertised its good intentions, all the heat (if you'll pardon the expression) went out of the issue. It's as though one has only somehow to signal one's on the side of the angels - or at least willing to talk the talk - and that's that.....If you are serious about cutting carbon dioxide emissions, you need to make them more expensive. So you can tax them or you can create a system to ration such emissions. Alas, rationing schemes not only discriminate against new entrants and provide rent-seeking opportunities to those operating the system, they don't really work. We don't set up a complicated alcohol or tobacco rationing system with tradable rights to drink or smoke. We tax these products. The EU carbon trading scheme hasn't worked and won't work. It's more of the form-over-substance charade.....”
Global Warmings is a hoax that has become a dogma
(21 Jan 08) “....Lately, it's been cold in Morgan Hill. And, the rain has been abundant. In fact, our seasonal average rainfall is from 98 percent to 120 percent depending on the area of Santa Clara County. As far as temperature, we seem to have experienced a fairly mild year. But, that wasn't the prediction. On Jan. 4, 2007, BBC News reported "2007 to be 'warmest on record.' "So, what happened? In South America, last year was one of the coldest ever observed. In Buenos Aires, it snowed for the first time in 89 years. Chile had the roughest winter, according to the agricultural minister, in the past 50 years. Most of Antarctica is actually getting colder. Now, it's even snowing in Baghdad!...I am not a "global warming" advocate. I believe climate is cyclical.I believe disastrous "global warming" is a hoax and has become a dogma resembling a "religious" faith.....” Global Warmings is a hoax that has become a dogma , by Burton Anderson “...Dr. Fred Singer, the inventor of the ozone measurement instrument, the most eminent environmental scientist of the last 40 years says, "The actual measurements (those instruments we have in the oceans and the heavens) taken with weather satellites, show conclusively that the climate is not warming." A Washington, D.C. resident John Lockwood was conducting research at the Library of Congress and came across an intriguing headline in the Nov. 2, 1922 edition of The Washington Post: Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt.".... "This was one of several such articles I have found at the Library of Congress for the 1920s and 1930s," says Mr. Lockwood. "I had read of the just-released NASA estimates, that four of the 10 hottest years in the U.S. were actually in the 1930s, with 1934 the hottest of all." Here we have a concept, "global warming," grabbed by "environmentalists" as their banner, to promote these revolutionary ideas, without any perusal or proof....”
(30 Dec 07) “....To finish out 2007, we shall examine carbon, mostly in the form of carbon dioxide—a gas second to oxygen in importance to all life on earth—so that anyone can understand the insanity of being told that carbon dioxide will bring about a massive “global warming” unless all forms of human activity are severely curtailed. It helps to understand that all life on earth exists because of the protection afforded by the earth's atmosphere. It is composed of 78% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.038% carbon dioxide, with trace amounts of other gases and a variable amount of water vapor. Environmentalists refer to it as “greenhouse gases” while the rest of us call it “air.”... The Shakespeare of Science , Alan Caruba “....Nature both initiates and takes life, and carbon reflects this duel character. There are two prominent oxides of carbon. One is the silent killer while the other is the giver of life. They are carbon monoxide , a common cause of death by poisoning and carbon dioxide , the sole source of the food chain. Every item of nutrition you consume started out as atmospheric carbon dioxide.”.... The self-appointed chief inquisitor of the atom in question is Al Gore. Armed with a towering disregard of reason, truth or evidence, he preaches the coming Armageddon with all the fervor of an Old Testament prophet.”.....Before carbon was turned into a bugaboo for purposes of religious propaganda, school children learned about the carbon cycle. Carbon moves continuously between four reservoirs—the biosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere....”
Man-Made Global Warming: 10 Questions
(23 Dec 07) 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. Though I confess to have written none-to-reverentially on the subject, I want to try to put all that aside and ask ten serious questions to which I have been unable to find definitive answers: What is the perfect temperature ? Just what is the average temperature of the earth? What factors have led to global warming in the past, and how do we know they aren't the causes of the current warming trend ? Why is there such a strong effort to stifle discussion and dissent? Man-Made Global Warming: 10 Questions by Pat Sajak
(20 Dec 07)“.....When the story of our time is written -- as soon as future historians can stop laughing -- Al Gore will be Exhibit #1 for the unprecedented nuttiness of our politics.... In Florida in 2000, Al Gore just knew he was destined to win the presidency, just like Mom and Dad told him all those years ago. The Big Media were actually convinced that Gore had won before the votes came in, based on their usual dubious polls... In Bush v Gore the US Supreme Court finally decided enough was enough, by a vote of 7-2. You don't get to replay the game until you win....If you're allowed to deal the deck over and over again until you win, you're not playing poker, but some sort of childish game of self-delusion... The trouble is that Algorism has now invaded science.... “ The Al-Gorism of Global Doom by James Lewis, American Thinker “...Science Magazine just published another Global Doom Scenario . This one predicts for the nth time that Australia's Great Barrier Reef is really, really doomed for sure this time. Where have we heard this before? There are now more than twenty Global Warming models -- we never hear about the ones that don't predict Global Doom, because Science magazine isn't interested.... Global Dooming has a very simple explanation. There's nothing new about it. It is just the human desire to create a millenarian narrative that fits our political biases, whipped on by the Politically Correct elites of this world, fed by a huge infusion of money into climate modeling and other dubious science, plus unprecedented media hype, and finally, the intimidation of thousands of rational skeptics.... In real science the deck is never stacked against the skeptics....this is not a scientific debate any more. Like the real estate bubble, the sub-prime mortgage bubble, the Year 2000 bubble and all the rest, there are billions of dollars riding on the outcome of the Global Doom scenarios...”
Science, Corrupt new religion called environmentalism
(20 Dec 07) “....I have been witness to the complete subversion of science in the service of an utterly corrupt new religion called environmentalism....In the Middle Ages the Church determined what “truth” was. Today the Green Church seeks the same power. From the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Renaissance in the 15th century, civilization experienced a period of ignorance and superstition. Globally, via the media and the classroom, a distorted and debased science is being used to advance the fraud of global warming....The challenge is to say “no” when everyone else is saying “yes” to global warming.... climatologists will tell you that CO2 increases follow, not precede, warming cycles. They are not a trigger. They are a response .... A science that can barely predict the weather next week is being perverted for purely political purposes….” Science, Corrupt new religion called environmentalism by Alan Caruba, Canada Free Press “…An Associated Press report said that the draft and coming IPCC report “is intended to launch a political process on international cooperation to control global warming.” How do you control something that is not happening? Why do all of the proposed controls aim at crippling the industrial advances that underwrite the success of Western nations in particular and improvement of human civilization everywhere? If I were to devise a plan to destroy the greatest economy, creator of wealth, center of innovation, and exemplar of individual liberty that has ever existed in human history, I would patiently create fear of a global disaster involving the one thing over which humans never had and never will have control, the earth's climate. I would then propose a “solution” that would cost that economy billions in “carbon credits” to keep it from occurring….What the former Soviet Union and its failed Communist system could not achieve in some 45 years of the Cold War, the environmental movement is seeking to achieve in its place….”
Climate Change/ Global Warming
(21 Nov 07) The most comprehensive site yet on the Climate Change/ Global Warming
Global warming' shocker – Who's minding thermometers
(19 Nov 07) “…Dire "global warming" predictions are based on bad science from the very start, says a veteran meteorologist who found surface temperatures recorded throughout the U.S. are done so with almost no regard to scientific standards. As a result of his shocking initial findings that temperature monitoring stations were constructed and placed without regard to achieving accurate recordings of natural temperatures, Anthony Watts set out to investigate the facilities used by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…” Global warming' shocker – Who's minding thermometers ? “… To qualify as a properly maintained temperature station, sensors must be placed in elevated, slatted boxes on flat ground surrounded by a clear surface on a slope of less than 19 degrees with surrounding grass and vegetations ground cover of less than 10 centimeters high. The sensors must be located at least 100 meters from artificial heating or reflecting surfaces, such as buildings, concrete surfaces and parking lots. Watts ' concerns about the temperatures being used to gauge whether global warming is actually taking place began when he read a 1997 study by the U.S. National Research Council that concluded the consistency and quality of temperature stations was "inadequate and deteriorating." Meanwhile, he learned, the U.S. Historical Climatological Network, responsible for maintaining the stations, was doing nothing to address the problems….”
Interactive representation of sea levels around Australia
(16 Nov 07) This is an absolutely fascinating link. It presents an interactive representation of sea levels around Australia over the last 100000 years . Have a tool around
Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming Greatest Scam in History
(9 Nov 07) “…John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, has written an article in which he calls the idea of man-made global warming 'a scam:" It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM…Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create in [sic] allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the "research" to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims…Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going….” Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming Greatest Scam in History , American Thinker “….Soon they claimed to be a consensus. Environmental extremists, notable politicians among them, then teamed up with movie, media and other liberal, environmentalist journalists to create this wild "scientific" scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming unless we adhere to their radical agenda….Now their ridiculous manipulated science has been accepted as fact and become a cornerstone issue for CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic Political Party, the Governor of California, school teachers and, in many cases, well informed but very gullible environmental conscientious citizens….There is no run away climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril. I am incensed by the incredible media glamour, the politically correct silliness and rude dismissal of counter arguments by the high priest of Global Warming. In time, a decade or two, the outrageous scam will be obvious….”
Global Warming as Pathological Science
(4 Nov 07) “… Trofimko Lysenko is not a household name; but it should be, because he was the model for all the Politically Correct "science" in the last hundred years. Lysenko was Stalin's favorite agricultural "scientist," peddling the myth that crops could be just trained into growing bigger and better . You didn't have to breed better plants over generations, as farmers have been doing for ages. It was a fantasy of the all-powerful Soviet State . Lysenko sold Stalin on that fraud in plant genetics, and Stalin told Soviet scientists to fall into line --- in spite of the fact that nobody really believed it. Hundreds of thousands of peasants starved during Stalin's famines, in good part because of fraudulent science….Freeman Dyson, one of the great physicists alive today, put it plainly enough in his autobiography: "...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..”…When the scientific establishment starts to peddle fraud, we get corrupt science. The Boomer Left came to power in the 1970s harboring a real hatred toward science. They called it "post-modernism," and "deconstructionism" --- and we saw all kinds of damage as a result…. Pathological science kills people and ruins lives. Such fake science is still peddled by the PC establishment in Europe and America ….” Global Warming as Pathological Science , James Lewis, American Thinker “…Global Warming is only the most recent case. Rachel Carson's screed against DDT caused malaria to re-emerge in Africa , killing hundreds of thousands of human beings. Those human-caused disasters have never been discussed honestly in the media, and rarely if ever in science journals. The DDT scandal is still suppressed….Pathological science has erupted most often in the last hundred years in the field of education, where "whole-word reading" fraud undermined the reading abilities of whole generations of American kids. Young adults can no longer tell the difference between "it's" and "its," even though their grandparents learned it in grammar school. The field of education is gullible and fad-prone, and is very unhealthy as a result. That's why new teachers are taught to peddle PC --- ideology is all they have…. Modern science fraud seems to come from the Left, which makes it especially weird because the Left claims to be all in favor of science. Marxism itself was a scientific fraud, of course. In 1848 Marx and Engels claimed to have a "scientific" ( wissenschaftlich ) theory of history. They predicted that communism would first arise in England , because it was the most advanced capitalist nation. ( Not ) They predicted that centralized planning would work. ( Not ) They predicted that the peasants and workers would dedicate their lives to the Socialist State , and stop caring about themselves and their families. ( Not ). They predicted that sovietization would lead to greater economic performance. ( Not ). And then, when seventy years of Soviet, Chinese, Eastern European, and North Korean history showed Marx's predictions to be wrong, wrong and wrong again , they still claimed to be "scientific." That's pathological science --- fraud masquerading as science…When the truth-tellers in society begin to sell out and tell lies for some ideological goal, people end up dying…”
Mother Nature's Inconvenient Truths
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite data we analyse at the University of Alabama in Huntsville does show modest warming: about 1.4C a century, if warming trends of 0.14C a decade continue.
(4 Nov 07) “….I've had a lot of fun recently with my tiny (and unofficial) slice of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But, though I was one of thousands of IPCC participants, I don't think I will add "0.0001 Nobel laureate" to my resume. The other half of the prize was awarded to former US vice-president Al Gore…I'm sure the majority (but not all) of my IPCC colleagues cringe when I say this, but I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see. Rather, I see a reliance on climate models (useful but never proof) and the coincidence that changes in carbon dioxide and global temperatures have loose similarity over time….As we build climate data sets from scratch and look into the guts of the climate system, however, we don't find the alarmist theory matching observations….I see jump-to-conclusions advocates and, unfortunately, some scientists who see in every weather anomaly the spectre of a global warming apocalypse. Explaining each successive phenomenon as a result of human action gives them comfort and an easy answer….Sea levels rise and fall continually….” Mother Nature's Inconvenient Truths, John Christy, (IPCC Scientist) “…The Arctic icecap has shrunk before. One millennium there are hippos swimming in the Thames, and a geological blink later there is an ice bridge linking Asia and North America….The recent CNN report Planet in Peril, for instance, spent considerable time discussing shrinking Arctic Sea ice cover. CNN did not note that winter sea ice around Antarctica last month set a record maximum for coverage since aerial measurements started… California and some northeastern US states have decided to force their residents within the next decade to buy cars that average 18km a litre. Even if you applied this law to the entire world, the net effect would reduce projected warming by about 0.03C by 2100, an amount so minuscule as to be undetectable. Global temperatures vary more than that from day to day….Bjorn Lomborg's Copenhagen Consensus 2004, a cost-benefit analysis of health issues by leading economists (including three Nobel laureates), calculated that spending on health issues such as micronutrients for children, HIV-AIDS and water purification has benefits 50 to 200 times those of attempting to marginally limit "global warming"….Given the scientific uncertainty and our relative impotence regarding climate change, the moral imperative here seems clear to me….”
Today's Forecast: Yet Another Blast of Hot Air
(24 Oct 07) “….Am I worried about man-made global warming? The answer is “no” and “yes”. No, because the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction has come up against an “inconvenient truth”. Its research shows that since 1998 the average temperature of the planet has not risen, even though the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has continued to increase. Yes, because the self-proclaimed consensus among scientists has detached itself from the questioning rigours of hard science and become a political cause…I am happy to be branded a heretic because throughout history heretics have stood up against dogma based on the bigotry of vested interests. But I don't like being smeared as a denier because deniers don't believe in facts. The truth is that there are no facts that link the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide with imminent catastrophic global warming. Instead of facts, the advocates of man-made climate change trade in future scenarios based on complex and often unreliable computer models…” Today's Forecast: Yet Another Blast of Hot Air , David Bellamy, TIMESONLINE “….The last peak global temperatures were in 1998 and 1934 and the troughs of low temperature were around 1910 and 1970. The second dip caused pop science and the media to cry wolf about an impending, devastating Ice Age. Our end was nigh! Then, when temperatures took an upward swing in the 1980s, the scaremongers changed their tune. Global warming was the new imminent catastrophe….In the Sixties I used to discuss climate change with my undergraduates at Durham University . I would point to the plethora of published scientific evidence that showed the cyclical nature of change – and how, for instance, the latest of a string of ice ages had affected the climate, sea levels and tree lines around the world….Despite the $50 billion spent on greenwashing propaganda, the sceptics and their inconvenient questions are beginning to make their presence felt….Yes, melting sea ice around Greenland has recently opened up the fabled North West passage. And, yes, the years 2006 and 2007 have seen massive flooding in Europe . However, a quick dip into the records of the Royal Society – which ranked alongside Dr Lovelock as arch doomsters, before his change of mind – shows that dramatic fluctuations happened long before the internal combustion engine began spewing out carbon dioxide…”
35 Errors discovered Al Gore's Film
(24 Oct 07) “…A few weeks ago, a British judge cited nine errors in the film . Team Gore responded Thursday in a rebuttal published at the Washington Post's Fact Checker blog….Now, famed climate change skeptic Christopher Monckton, in a detailed report published by the Science and Public Policy Institute , not only refuted Gore's defense of the movie's contents, but also listed a total of 35 errors in the award-winning abomination responsible for most of the global warming hysteria sweeping the planet…The judge concentrated only on nine points which even the UK Government, to which Gore is a climate-change advisor, had to admit did not represent mainstream scientific opinion….Each of the nine “errors” which he identified had been admitted by the UK Government to be inconsistent with the mainstream of scientific opinion….Readers are strongly encouraged to review the entire report , as well as all 35 errors chronicled by Monckton….” 35 Errors discovered Al Gore's Film , Noel Sheppard “…Your attention is critical, for Gore's film, though powerfully and convincingly presented, is indeed a work of fiction, and its veracity should be questioned with every conceivable opportunity. Any other conclusion is facile and devoid of logic. Make no mistake: as was clearly intended by the film's producers, its star, and our woefully biased media, this celluloid canard has provoked tremendous international alarm concerning global warming that is neither warranted nor beneficial….The alarmism running through society concerning this issue, and being flamed by Gore and his sycophant cadre in the media and Hollywood, clearly carries risks that an obedient and complicit press ignore…If you don't think one movie can cause this much political and economic upheaval, please recall what "The China Syndrome" did to catalyze the No Nukes movement in the '80s, and how America is still suffering from the hysteria it provoked 28 years ago. The only remaining question is whether we are going to learn from this horrendous past mistake, or once again allow our economic and energy policies to be controlled by misplaced and erroneous environmental alarmism….”
(7 Oct 07) “…The front-runners for this year's Nobel Peace Prize are a couple of global warming alarmists. With dozens of wars raging, the committee couldn't find a single person labouring honourably for peace?... Since 1990, winners include terrorist Yasser Arafat, fraud Rigoberto Menchu, foreign-policy incompetents Jimmy Carter and Kofi Annan, unreconstructed communist Mikhail Gorbachev and the useless Mohamed ElBaradei….Later this week, say reports, it will name as this year's co-winners Al Gore and Sheila Watt-Cloutier, a Canadian who has drawn attention to what she believes are climate change's effects on Arctic communities. It will be interesting to see how those two will be linked to anything resembling the promotion of peace…. Gore, Watt-Cloutier and their eco-activist allies have created a divide where none should exist…. it would be hard to find a less deserving recipient than Gore, a man who has: Lied repeatedly about the existence of a scientific consensus that man's emissions of greenhouse gases are warming the Earth…Made a propaganda film about climate change that a British court has deemed to be so biased that teachers there who show it must warn students about its subjectivity… Possibly been driven to his climate alarmism because of something called Narcissistic Personality Disorder…” Al Gore, Ignoble Laureate , Editorial, Investors.com “…Does the Nobel committee really need to stoke the fires of his vanity even more? (Gore has) Continued to duck invitations to debate his theory. "We have tried, repeatedly, to contact Gore directly, with registered letters and calls to his office, and have never received a reply… Does Gore know what so many have missed in their environmental zealotry — that his theory's many flaws cannot be defended? Is he aware that the errors of his global warming ideas would be quite easily exposed by a knowledgeable skeptic? Just what the Nobel committee really needs — another fraud in its pantheon of laureates. If Gore wins the prize as expected, it will mark another step in the long, politicized decline of a once highly regarded international award..”
A complete list of things caused by global warming
(26 Sept 07) ‘It's all them atom bombs what's doing it.' That is what the old dears used to say in the event of unusual weather when I was growing up in the back streets of Tottenham in north London . There is something deep in the human psyche that requires a cause to be identified for every effect. Presumably this has an evolutionary advantage: man the toolmaker was able to turn abstract concepts, such as consequence and purpose, to his benefit.
Scroll down the page of this link to see A complete list of things caused by global warming
Al Gore Snowjob A 5 min YouTube video presentation
Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory
(2 Sept 07) Some consensus!!!
“…In 2004, history professor Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of research papers on climate change. Examining peer-reviewed papers published on the ISI Web of Science database from 1993 to 2003, she found a majority supported the "consensus view," defined as humans were having at least some effect on global climate change…. Medical researcher Dr. Klaus-Martin Schulte recently updated this research. Using the same database and search terms as Oreskes, he examined all papers published from 2004 to February 2007. The results have been submitted to the journal Energy and Environment , of which DailyTech has obtained a pre-publication copy. The figures are surprising…. Of 528 total papers on climate change, only 38 (7%) gave an explicit endorsement of the consensus. If one considers "implicit" endorsement (accepting the consensus without explicit statement), the figure rises to 45%. However, while only 32 papers (6%) reject the consensus outright, the largest category (48%) are neutral papers, refusing to either accept or reject the hypothesis. This is no "consensus."… Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory , US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works “… of all papers published in this period (2004 to February 2007), only a single one makes any reference to climate change leading to catastrophic results…. Schulte's survey contradicts the United Nation IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report (2007), which gave a figure of "90% likely" man was having an impact on world temperatures. But does the IPCC represent a consensus view of world scientists? Despite media claims of "thousands of scientists" involved in the report, the actual text is written by a much smaller number of "lead authors." The introductory "Summary for Policymakers" -- the only portion usually quoted in the media -- is written not by scientists at all, but by politicians, and approved, word-by-word, by political representatives from member nations. By IPCC policy, the individual report chapters -- the only text actually written by scientists -- are edited to "ensure compliance" with the summary, which is typically published months before the actual report itself….”
Gore's Hot Air: Climate numbers used by environmentalists not accurate
(24 Aug07) “…One of the most frequent - and most convincing - arguments made by the global warming scaremongers has been the claim that humans must be responsible because nine of the 10 hottest years on record have occurred during the last decade….If you've seen Al Gore's propaganda movie, An Inconvenient Truth, you'll already know that the great self-serving global warming guru himself gravely repeats that statistic. And he adds that 1998 was the hottest year ever, period….Now, it seems, the worm has turned. Thanks to the work - and the healthy scepticism - of former mining executive Stephen McIntyre, author of a blog called ClimateAudit.org, we now know this oft-repeated claim, like so much of Gore's work, is false. Not true, period…A few days later, NASA quietly revised its list of the all-time hottest years and - guess what? - not only was 1998 not the hottest year ever, 1934 was, but instead of nine of the 10 hottest years occurring in the last decade, only three have….” Gore's Hot Air: Climate numbers used by environmentalists not accurate , The Sudbury Star “…What's more, four of the hottest years were in the 1930s, long before the claim that man-made carbon dioxide is overwhelmingly responsible for pretty well everything that is currently bad in the world…."the 15 hottest years since 1880 are spread over seven decades. Eight occurred before atmospheric carbon dioxide began its recent rise…the environmental fear mongers are doing their best to downplay their mistake. Even NASA officials dismiss the changes as "trivial," since they result in a reduction of just 0.15 degrees Celsius in the mean U.S. "temperature anomalies" for the years 2000 to 2006…Look at it this way. When the numbers were reported as 0.15 degrees Celsius higher than they actually were, this was enough of a difference for Gore and his fellow travellers to warn us all that we were headed down the road to environmental hell. If it created a disaster one way, how can it be just "trivial" the other way?... “
Warming debate: Scene 1, take 2
(23 Aug07) “…If there's anything climate-change crusaders are adamant about, it is that the science of the matter is settled. That greenhouse gases emitted through human activity…But as with other claims Gore has made over the years ("I took the initiative in creating the Internet"), this one doesn't mesh with reality.Scientists and other "serious people" who question the global warming disaster narrative are not hard to find. Last year 60 of them sent a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada , urging him to undertake "a proper assessment of recent developments in climate science" and disputing the contention that "a climate catastrophe is looming and humanity is the cause." The letter cautioned that "observational evidence does not support today's computer climate models"…In 2003, environmental scientists Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch surveyed 530 of their peers in 27 countries on topics related to global warming. One question asked: "To what extent do you agree or disagree that climate change is mostly the result of anthropogenic causes?...." Warming debate: Scene 1, take 2 by Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe “….On a scale of 1 (strongly agree) to 7 (strongly disagree), the average score was 3.62, reflecting no clear consensus….take the discovery this month that 1934, not 1998, was the hottest year in the continental United States since record-keeping began. NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies quietly changed its ranking after a Canadian statistician discovered an error in the official calculations. Under the new data, five of the 10 hottest US years on record occurred before 1940…The latest issue of Science magazine notes that many researchers are only beginning to factor the planet's natural climate variations into their calculations. "Until now," reports Science, "climate forecasters who worry about what greenhouse gases could be doing to climate have ignored what's happening naturally. . . . In this issue, researchers take their first stab at forecasting climate a decade ahead with current conditions in mind."….Their first stab, please note, not their last. The science of climate change is still young and unsettled. Years of trial and error are still to come. Al Gore notwithstanding, the debate is hardly over….”
(5Aug07) I have often made the case that it seems to me that the Berlin Wall didn't so much come down (and the associated ideology of The Soviet Union collapse) as just mover further west. This article further advances that argument.
“…The most remarkable aspect of the man-made global warming claim is the lack of solid scientific evidence for it. Yet there are those whose apparent goal it is to advance this theory at all costs. Blatant in their disregard of the facts , they try to convince as many as would believe of the real nature of this alleged danger. But since this activism does not rest on scientific evidence or hard facts, it must be driven by motives other than those publicly stated. This much at least should be obvious, but sadly far too many people have failed to make this inference….To see just what those motives may be, we need to go no further than Mikhail Gorbachev whose remarkable political transformation offers a striking insight into the true character of the man-made global warming movement. Formerly leader of the Soviet Union , Mikhail Gorbachev is now one of the world's most vocal global warming activists. This is an unlikely role indeed for a man who during his years in power showed no inclination to address environmental issues….The question is how we are to reconcile Gorbachev's past behavior of environmental destructiveness with his present-day activism….” Unmasking Global Warming , The Case of Mikhail Gorbachev by Vasko Kohlmayer “…We would do well to ponder this, because the answer sheds light not only on a wily personal reinvention, but also on the motives of those responsible for the creation and spreading of the global warming hysteria…Gorbachev has not changed his basic ideological convictions. In other words, this life-long party apparatchik remains an unrepentant communist to this day…To remain credible, Gorbachev had to look for a more respectable platform from which to continue his efforts. This he quickly found in environmentalism and less than two years after his fall from power he founded Green Cross International , a Geneva-based eco lobby group….while even the most basic forms environmentalism have proven themselves to be a potent vehicle for advancing socialist ideals, the potential of global warming has exceeded almost all expectations in this regard…It is precisely for these reasons that the idea of man-made global warming so appeals to Mikhail Gorbachev who never did anything for the environment when he was in the position to do so…”
(6July07) “…Politicians and environmentalists these days convey the impression that climate-change research is an exceptionally dull field with little left to discover. We are assured by everyone from David Suzuki to Al Gore to Prime Minister Stephen Harper that "the science is settled."….. Climate stability has never been a feature of planet Earth. The only constant about climate is change; it changes continually and, at times, quite rapidly. Many times in the past, temperatures were far higher than today, and occasionally, temperatures were colder. As recently as 6,000 years ago, it was about 3C warmer than now. Ten thousand years ago, while the world was coming out of the thou-sand-year-long "Younger Dryas" cold episode, temperatures rose as much as 6C in a decade -- 100 times faster than the past century's 0.6C warming that has so upset environmentalists. Climate-change research is now literally exploding with new findings. Since the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the field has had more research than in all previous years combined and the discoveries are completely shattering the myths….” Read the Sun Spots Timothy Patterson is professor and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University . “…I and the first-class scientists I work with are consistently finding excellent correlations between the regular fluctuations in the brightness of the sun and earthly climate….Using various coring technologies, we have been able to collect more than 5,000 years' worth of mud in these basins, with the oldest layers coming from a depth of about 11 metres below the fjord floor. Clearly visible in our mud cores are annual changes that record the different seasons….Ours is one of the highest-quality climate records available anywhere today and in it we see obvious confirmation that natural climate change can be dramatic. For example, in the middle of a 62-year slice of the record at about 4,400 years ago, there was a shift in climate in only a couple of seasons from warm, dry and sunny conditions to one that was mostly cold and rainy for several decades….Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe solar cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth. Beginning to plan for adaptation to such a cool period, one which may continue well beyond one 11-year cycle, as did the Little Ice Age, should be a priority for governments. It is global cooling, not warming, that is the major climate threat to the world, especially Canada….Meantime, we need to continue research into this, the most complex field of science ever tackled, and immediately halt wasted expenditures on the King Canute-like task of "stopping climate change."
(17July07) From a listener pointing out the nonsense and absurdity of the CO2 debate
"I regret I must advise the world of a new and major threat to human survival, namely Global Rusting Let me explain: Since the beginning of the iron age (circa 1200 BC), humans have been increasingly converting harmless iron ore into dangerous iron and steel. Both iron and steel have a high propensity to rust – a process which takes oxygen out of the atmosphere. If this is allowed to continue unabated, it is only a matter of time before oxygen levels are depleted to levels where we, and all other animals, will suffocate."
Up against the warming zealots
(22July07)“…The ABC studio assault, led by Tony Jones, was so vitriolic it appears to have backfired…Why are the global warmers so zealous? After a year of arguing with people about this, I am convinced that it's because global warming is first and foremost a political theory. It is an expression of a whole middle-class political world view. This view is summed up in the oft-repeated phrase " we consume too much". I have also come to the conclusion that this is code for " they consume too much"….this backward-looking bigotry has found perfect expression in the idea of man-made climate disaster. It has cohered a bunch of disparate reactionary prejudices (anti-car, anti-supermarkets, anti-globalisation) into a single unquestionable truth and cause. So when you have a dig at global warming, you commit a grievous breach of social etiquette. Among the chattering classes you're a leper…” Up against the warming zealots , by Martin Durkin, The Australian “…Billions of dollars of public money have been thrown at global warming, yet the hypothesis is crumbling around their ears. To the utter dismay of the global warming lobby, the world does not appear to be getting warmer. According to their own figures (from the UN-linked Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), the temperature has been static or slightly declining since 1998….The satellite data confirms this. This is clearly awkward…In a humiliating climb down, the IPCC has had to drop the hockey stick from its reports, though it can still be seen in Gore's movie…The whole damned theory is in tatters. No wonder they're defensive…There are scientists and journalists (a surprising number) who have built careers championing the cause. There's more money going into global warming research than there is chasing a cure for cancer. Many important people and institutions have staked their reputations on it. There's a lot riding on this theory. And it has bugger-all to do with sea levels…”
(30June07)“…How curious it is that the massive effort to protect the Earth against catastrophic climate change should be targeted against carbon–the basic building block of life! And specifically against the CO 2 that constitutes a mere 0.038% of Earth's atmosphere, about 380 parts per million (ppm)….. While the talk is about limiting emissions , the goal is to “stabilize” atmospheric content of CO 2 at pre-industrial levels…..This assumes that (1) the level was previously stable; (2) CO 2 content was optimal before the Industrial Revolution; (3) man has the ability to change the CO 2 concentration significantly; (4) the only or best way to change the level is by reducing or capturing emissions from hydrocarbon fuels….Of course, it is also assumed that increased atmospheric CO 2 is the cause of global warming–an assertion disproved by definitive evidence ( CDP , March 2007 ) but nonetheless widely believed…..” Why Target Carbon , Physcians for Civil Defense “…There are five reservoirs of carbon on earth that are biologically accessible on a short time scale, all of comparable size: the atmosphere (the smallest, containing about 750 gigatons carbon, GtC), land plants, topsoil, the surface layer of the oceans, and proven reserves of hydrocarbon fuels (some 4,000 GtC). Human beings are said to release about 5.5 GtC per year through combustion of fuels and cement production, and 1.1 GtC by other means such as deforestation…..In the summer of 2003, retreating perennial ice of the Schnidejoch in the Swiss Alps uncovered a 4,700-year-old archer's quiver. Subsequent finds revealed that there had been four periods warmer than today during the past 5,000 years (Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder, The Chilling Stars–a New Theory of Climate Change )….6,000 years ago, the warmest period in the interglacial era, rock paintings in the Sahara showed herds of cows and giraffes…. Insurance is designed to pay you money after a loss; it does not prevent a loss. The valid comparison, writes Orson Scott Card, is to protection money. “That's what the global-warming protection racket is about: Hey, we can't prove anything is happening, but look how many people we've got to agree with us! You'd better make a whole bunch of sacrifices [that], by coincidence, exactly coincide with the political agenda of the anti-Western, anti-industrial religion of ecodeism–or global warming will get you...”
The Nonsense That is Global Warming
(17June07) “….Some years ago a British newspaper arranged a square-off between a meteorologist, an astrologer and a woman with corns, to see who could best predict the weather. The woman with corns won… In almost every newspaper around the world and at least once a week, some report surfaces suggesting we stay worried in the light of latest figures and analyses. Not only is Global Warming occurring, we are assured, but it is now accelerating at some alarming rate and pretty soon the poles will have all melted, the sealevels will have risen and all low-lying atolls and seaside villages will be covered over with this calamitous rising tide. And apparently this gigantic catastrophe is due to human behaviour…. We are informed that if our wicked CFC and CO2-producing ways continue, we will be doomed as a civilisation. Today we are so buffeted by what is put forth as irrefutable evidential science as to the nature of the so-called problem, that we don't even think to question it on any basic level… The result is that the picture many now have is of the Earth heating up and hotter now than it has ever been. But... 1999 was cooler than the year before and since 1998 the world has been cooling. The hottest day in all recorded history was at Al Azizah in Libya back in 1922. There was warming from the 1880s to the 1940s, then a cooling for the next 40 years… Look outside. Do you see any global catastrophe? Point to an ocean that is rising. Point to a methane cloud….” The Nonsense That is Global Warming “….Demonstrate in any lab how CO2 could rise past a few hundred feet of what we used to call haze, or significantly increase in the atmosphere and therefore be harmful… Fact: CO2 occupies 0.035% of the atmosphere. If it doubled it would only be 0.07%. We can all live with that. 99.9% of all the world's CO2 is at ground level or below, 71% being dissolved in the oceans….. Fact: Like CO and N2O, CO2 is heavier than air. By how much? The molecular weight of air is 29, that of CO2 is 44, nearly double. CFCs have a MW of 100. It is therefore utterly impossible for these super-heavy gases to rise to form a 'greenhouse cover.' Wind and diffusion can transport gases but that is to do with mother nature, not man, and the warmers are claiming a rising of gases is taking place due purely to humans and quite apart from wind, thermals, tornadoes and whatever else the processes of nature will do. Our question is, what can possibly make heavier than air gases rise 20 miles to get above 99% of the atmosphere and significantly increase the constant water-vapor-dominated greenhouse cover that enables life to continue to thrive at an average temperature of 13-15degC on the surface of this planet? CO2 does not rise. If it did, fire extinguishers wouldn't work. A party balloon blown up with the breath would fly straight upwards as if it was filled with helium…”
Freedom, not climate is at risk
(15June07) “…W e are living in strange times. One exceptionally warm winter is enough – irrespective of the fact that in the course of the 20th century the global temperature increased only by 0.6 per cent – for the environmentalists and their followers to suggest radical measures to do something about the weather, and to do it right now…..The dictates of political correctness are strict and only one permitted truth, not for the first time in human history, is imposed on us. Everything else is denounced. The author Michael Crichton stated it clearly: “the greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda”. I feel the same way, because global warming hysteria has become a prime example of the truth versus propaganda problem…” Freedom, not climate is at risk by Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic “…As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism. This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning……Does it make any sense to speak about warming of the Earth when we see it in the context of the evolution of our planet over hundreds of millions of years? The issue of global warming is more about social than natural sciences and more about man and his freedom than about tenths of a degree Celsius changes in average global temperature….”
(24May07) “…A few weeks ago in a column I wrote about David Suzuki's rudeness and hypocrisy I admitted that similar to that green guru, I too love this planet and try to have as small a negative environmental impact as possible but unlike him, I don't believe that human-made CO2 is the main driver of global warming…. Yesterday, world renowned paleoclimatologist and geology professor at Carleton University in Ottawa , Dr. Tim Patterson, was in Calgary to pass that basic message on. (that the cause of warming is the sun)…” Sun of a Gun by Licia Corbella “…Though his message was rather technical. He brought reams of proof, scientific studies, graphs and the like to back up his claims. Indeed, one of the more interesting, if not alarming statements Patterson made before th