17 July 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Carbon-Based
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Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
It's wrong to deny threat of global warming
Las Vegas Sun - Las Vegas,NV,USA
We have wrapped it in a blanket of carbon dioxide and other insulating gases by burning coal, gas, oil products and forests. The world is getting warmer ...
Could They Be Wrong On Anthropogenic Global Warming? - Right Wing ...
The report found that only about half of the warming that occurred during a natural climate change 55 million years ago can be explained by excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. What caused the remainder of the warming is a mystery. ...
Climate Model Problems, And The Other Hand
By The Green Man
For example, the pesticide sulfuryl fluoride, which Dow AgroSciences is seeking to spray on farmers' fields, is nearly 5000 times as potent a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide. When we talk about anthropogenic causes
of climate change, ...
Does a Bear Sleep* in the Woods? >> 2.0: blogmocracy.com
By tqcincinnatus
The report found that only about half of the warming that occurred during a natural climate change 55 million years ago can be explained by excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. What caused the remainder of the warming is a ... Maybe this is why thousands of scientists in the relevant fields of study have basically came out and said that anthropogenic global warming is “not supported by the scientific evidence”? It's time to revisit the
notion, first advanced by some ...
What happened 55 million years ago in global warming. | Ecopreneur ...
By Admin
This might sound like a worst-case situation for the current anthropogenic influences on climate, but it's actually an historic event that the public is generally unaware of: the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, ...
If there's a gap between the scientific community and the public when it comes to climate change, the PETM is pretty illustrative. While portions of the public are still arguing over whether changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide are likely to do ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources

Celsias -
DeSmog Blog -

Skeptical Sources

Watts Up With That? -
Climate Science Blog -
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog -

Balanced Sources

Global Warming Blog -
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] -
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) -
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) -
AccuWeather -
Science Daily -

Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.

There is No Evidence

By Dr. David Evans

Let’s break down the case for human-caused global warming logically:

1) There is plenty of evidence that global warming has been occurring recently.
2) There is ample evidence that carbon emissions causes warming and that the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing.
3) But there is no evidence that carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of the recent global warming.

The alarmists focus you entirely on the first two points, to distract you from the third. The public is increasingly aware of this misdirection. Yes, every emitted molecule of carbon dioxide (CO2) causes some warming - but the crucial question is how much warming do the CO2 emissions cause? If atmospheric CO2 levels doubled, would temperatures rise by 0.1, 1.0, or by 10.0C?

We go through the usual “evidence” offered by alarmists, and show that in each case either it:

• Is not evidence about what causes global warming. Proof that global warming occurred is not proof that CO2 was mainly responsible.
• Is not empirical evidence; that is, it is not independent of theory. In particular models are theory, not evidence.
• Says nothing about how much the temperature would rise for a given rise in CO2 levels.

Despite spending $50bn over the last 20 years looking for evidence of point (3) above, the alarmists have found none. In two instances they expected to find it, but in both cases they found only evidence of the opposite - and they have kept awfully quiet about those cases. If they just had some evidence of (3) they could just tell us what it was and end the debate.

We note that there used to be some supporting evidence, but better data later reversed that evidence. Instead there are now at least three independent pieces of evidence that the temperature rises predicted by the IPCC due to carbon dioxide emissions are exaggerated by a factor of between 2 and 10, primarily due to the assumption of overly positive water vapor feedback in the climate models. Finally, we discuss some examples of what would constitute evidence. The evidence must of course be empirical, meaning that it is independent of theory.

Typical Evidence
Typical Alarmist Offerings of “Evidence”: Polar Bears, Glaciers, Arctic Melt, Antarctic Ice Shelves, Storms, Droughts, Fires, Malaria, Snow Melt on Mt Kilimanjaro, Rising Sea Levels, Ocean Warming, Urban Heat Island Effect. Although each of these issues may say something about whether or not global warming is or was occurring, none of them say anything about the causes of global warming. It would make no difference to these issues if the recent global warming was caused by CO2 or by aliens heating the planet with ray guns.

The IPCC Said So

So what is their evidence? Chapter 9 of their latest Assessment Report 4 (2007), “Understanding and Attributing Climate Change”, contains no evidence. That CO2 is the main cause of the recent global warming is an assumption in much of what they say, and they find many ingenious ways of saying it and implying it using complex language. But repetition is not proof, and nowhere do they present any actual evidence. If you doubt me, read it yourself then say what the evidence is in your own words.

Often the assumption takes the form that nearly all the temperature rises since the start of industrialization are due to CO2 rises, or that there are no other possible significant causes of global warming.

Computer Models are Evidence
Computer models consist solely of a large number of calculations that, individually, you could do on a hand-held calculator. So models are theoretical, and cannot form part of any evidence.

Computer Models Incorporate a Lot of Sound Empirical Science
Yes they do. The climate models contain some well-established science that has been verified by empirical observations. But they also contain a myriad of:
• implicit and explicit assumptions
• omissions
• guesses
• gross approximations.
A single mistake in any one of these can invalidate the climate models. Typical engineering models that mimic reality closely contain no untested assumptions, material omissions, guesses, or gross approximations. They are the result of mature understanding of the reality being modelled, and have been tested ad nauseum in a wide range of circumstances. On the other hand, climate science is in its infancy, individual models routinely fail most tests, the climate models are riddled with untested assumptions and guesses, they approximate the atmosphere with cells a hundred kilometres square and hundreds of meters high, and they do not even attempt to model individual cloud formations or any feature smaller than the cell size. Don’t let the word “model” fool you into thinking climate models are better than they are.

Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

16 July 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
The Carbon Cap: The Newest Form of Taxation
Gold Seek - USA
Or, to be precise, anthropogenic global warming (AGW) – the kind caused by us puny ... through government auctions of the rights to emit greenhouse gases. ...
The Carbon Cap: The Newest Form of Taxation
By Paul Martin
It's possible that no concept in history has ever come so far, so fast, and with so little substance behind it, as “global warming.” Or, to be precise, anthropogenic global warming (AGW) – the kind caused by us puny humans rather than by that fireball that keeps the planet ... And he's promoting this as a good idea by suggesting that it will pour $646 billion into federal coffers between 2012 and 2019, through government auctions of the rights to emit greenhouse gases. ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Climate Feedback - UK low carbon drive: at last the right sounds; now let's see it happen
Climate Feedback - Indian Ocean: Gatekeeper to climate extremes?
Celsias -
The Daily Dose: Your Guide to the World Today – 16 July 09
Celsias - Californians Want to Know, How Do You Close a Park Anyway?
Celsias - Is the Climate Warming or Cooling?
DeSmog Blog - Farm Bureau President Bob Stallman Believes in Global Cooling
DeSmog Blog - Sarah Palin Wants to Be Poster Child of Anti-Science and GOP Fear Mongering
The Breakthrough Blog - Washington Post: Asia's Clean Tech Tigers Surging Ahead in Clean Energy Race
The Breakthrough Blog - 34 Nobel Prize Winners Write President Obama Urging Support for Clean Energy R&D

Skeptical Sources
the Air Vent - Denier’s — Raise Your Hands
Climate Skeptic - A Window Into the IPCC Process
Icecap - Jul 16, 2009
Warming Caused by Soot, Not CO2
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Saving Australia’s Forests for Carbon: Valid Science or Green Activism?
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - No Warming Until Maybe 2020
Climate Audit - Boundary Layer Clouds: IPCC Bowdlerizes Bony
Watts Up With That? - NCAR: Solar cycle linked to global climate
Watts Up With That? - CO2, Soot, Modeling and Climate Sensitivity
Watts Up With That? - Spy Sat Images of Arctic ice declassified
Climate Science Blog - LGA GW PROPAGANDA CONTINUES
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - The Warmest Day Ever (14 July 2009?)

Balanced Sources
Global Warming Blog - Greenland Warming Up
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Comments On The Current Record Global Average Lower TroposphereTemperatures
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) China » UK » America » - China Builds High Wall to Guard Energy Industry
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Warming Caused by Soot, Not CO2
AccuWeather - Hansen Response to Coal River Mountain Protest
Science Daily - Capturing Carbon Dioxide In Tiny Bowls: Global Warming Fix From Microbes?
Science Daily - Coral Reefs Exposed To Imminent Destruction From Climate Change
Science Daily - Summer Is Here And The Mercury Is Rising ... Literally
Science Daily - Solar Cycle Linked To Global Climate

Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.

There is No Evidence

By Dr. David Evans

Let’s break down the case for human-caused global warming logically:

1) There is plenty of evidence that global warming has been occurring recently.
2) There is ample evidence that carbon emissions causes warming and that the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing.
3) But there is no evidence that carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of the recent global warming.

The alarmists focus you entirely on the first two points, to distract you from the third. The public is increasingly aware of this misdirection. Yes, every emitted molecule of carbon dioxide (CO2) causes some warming - but the crucial question is how much warming do the CO2 emissions cause? If atmospheric CO2 levels doubled, would temperatures rise by 0.1, 1.0, or by 10.0C?

We go through the usual “evidence” offered by alarmists, and show that in each case either it:

• Is not evidence about what causes global warming. Proof that global warming occurred is not proof that CO2 was mainly responsible.
• Is not empirical evidence; that is, it is not independent of theory. In particular models are theory, not evidence.
• Says nothing about how much the temperature would rise for a given rise in CO2 levels.

Despite spending $50bn over the last 20 years looking for evidence of point (3) above, the alarmists have found none. In two instances they expected to find it, but in both cases they found only evidence of the opposite - and they have kept awfully quiet about those cases. If they just had some evidence of (3) they could just tell us what it was and end the debate.

We note that there used to be some supporting evidence, but better data later reversed that evidence. Instead there are now at least three independent pieces of evidence that the temperature rises predicted by the IPCC due to carbon dioxide emissions are exaggerated by a factor of between 2 and 10, primarily due to the assumption of overly positive water vapor feedback in the climate models. Finally, we discuss some examples of what would constitute evidence. The evidence must of course be empirical, meaning that it is independent of theory.

Typical Evidence
Typical Alarmist Offerings of “Evidence”: Polar Bears, Glaciers, Arctic Melt, Antarctic Ice Shelves, Storms, Droughts, Fires, Malaria, Snow Melt on Mt Kilimanjaro, Rising Sea Levels, Ocean Warming, Urban Heat Island Effect. Although each of these issues may say something about whether or not global warming is or was occurring, none of them say anything about the causes of global warming. It would make no difference to these issues if the recent global warming was caused by CO2 or by aliens heating the planet with ray guns.

The IPCC Said So

So what is their evidence? Chapter 9 of their latest Assessment Report 4 (2007), “Understanding and Attributing Climate Change”, contains no evidence. That CO2 is the main cause of the recent global warming is an assumption in much of what they say, and they find many ingenious ways of saying it and implying it using complex language. But repetition is not proof, and nowhere do they present any actual evidence. If you doubt me, read it yourself then say what the evidence is in your own words.

Often the assumption takes the form that nearly all the temperature rises since the start of industrialization are due to CO2 rises, or that there are no other possible significant causes of global warming.

Computer Models are Evidence
Computer models consist solely of a large number of calculations that, individually, you could do on a hand-held calculator. So models are theoretical, and cannot form part of any evidence.

Computer Models Incorporate a Lot of Sound Empirical Science
Yes they do. The climate models contain some well-established science that has been verified by empirical observations. But they also contain a myriad of:
• implicit and explicit assumptions
• omissions
• guesses
• gross approximations.
A single mistake in any one of these can invalidate the climate models. Typical engineering models that mimic reality closely contain no untested assumptions, material omissions, guesses, or gross approximations. They are the result of mature understanding of the reality being modelled, and have been tested ad nauseum in a wide range of circumstances. On the other hand, climate science is in its infancy, individual models routinely fail most tests, the climate models are riddled with untested assumptions and guesses, they approximate the atmosphere with cells a hundred kilometres square and hundreds of meters high, and they do not even attempt to model individual cloud formations or any feature smaller than the cell size. Don’t let the word “model” fool you into thinking climate models are better than they are.

Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

15 July 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
The Common Room: Global Warming/Climate Change- discussion from ...
By Headmistress, zookeeper
The fact that got to me was that greenhouse gases have been twenty times higher than today in earth's history. Scientists have reconstructed past GHG-levels (using polar ice samples) and temperatures using various surrogate measures. ... The current AGW excuse is that we are in for a “short” period of global cooling due to (insert BS reason here) but in 10-15 years the CO2 elevation takes over again AND THEN YOU'LL ALL BE SORRY YOU DIDN'T LISTEN TO US! NYAH! ...
small dead animals: The Sound Of Settled Science
By Kate
They should be consistent with a broad range of global warming projections based on increased concentrations of greenhouse gases. This range is variously cited as 1.4°C to 5.8°C by 2100, or 1.5°C to 4.5°C for a doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentration (otherwise known as the .....
Finally the main beneficiaries and biggest promoters of AGW are also the ones positioned to benefit through carbon markets, alternative energy subsidies, new bureaucracy and science grants....
Real Climate gives reason to cheer… « Watts Up With That?
By wattsupwiththat
As many WUWT have been urging, it is not the cold or the warm at the heart of our existence today, it is the falsity that human-origin CO2 or incorrectly labeled Greenhouse Gases (get rid of that term and people's confusion would lessen) has much of ..... Even with 10 years to back fit the data from 1997 / 1998 into the models, no indication of Global Cooling was shown to be happening, nor that Global Warming would not resume at its pre – 1997 rate until the year 2020. ...
Climate Change Fraud - Because the debate is not over - How Do ...
By info@climatechangefraud.com (Dr. Roy W. Spencer)
Anthropogenic Global Warming in Climate Models. Our addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels is estimated to have caused an imbalance of about 1.5 Watts per sq. meter between the 235 to 240 Watts per sq. ...
In Melbourne: Big Al, Small Protest, Updated by Richard Courtney ...
By Co2sceptic
In other words, these global warming propagandists have recognised that their climate change denial of the last decade is not sustainable anymore. So, they have abandoned any pretence that global warming exists at the moment, ... Importantly, there is no clear evidence in the data for the existence of anthropogenic (that is, man-made) global warming (AGW) induced by increases to atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations or anthropogenic
emissions of carbon dioxide. ...
“There appears to be something fundamentally wrong with the way ...
By wattsupwiththat
The fluctuation of temperature and climate change occurred 10 million years after the massive extinction occurred. As I have said in my previous post, the rise of carbon dioxide occurred millions of years after the warming started. .... That is that our earth can tell the difference between natural CO2 and anthropogenic CO2 and it will react differently to smit us for our evil ways. 14 07 2009. Leif Svalgaard (19:14:39) : If I didn't know any better, the conclusion one ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Climate Feedback - What the G8 target means
Celsias - The Daily Dose: Your Guide to the World Today – 15 July 09
Celsias - Are Microgrids the better solution for the energy crisis?
Celsias - Vertical Farming, Enough to Feed a Zoo
DeSmog Blog - Run! The Glaciers Are Coming!
More Grumbine Science - What is the future of weather?

Skeptical Sources
William M. Briggs, Statistician & Consultant - The strange insignificance of statistical significance
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Swanson’s AGW Song, or How At RealClimate, It’s Always Naivety Time…
the Air Vent - REGULARIZED LEAST SQUARES RECONSTRUCTION
the Air Vent - Effects of Surface Trends on Antarctic Reconstruction
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Hong Kong Cleans Up It’s Environment
Icecap - NOAA’S and GISS’s Hot Streaks Continue - Despite Clear Cooling

Climate Change by Erl Happ and Carl Wolk - How ENSO Influences Itself (Video)
Niche Modeling - Swanson’s PC Projection
Icecap - Jul 14, 2009
Say it ain’t so Joe!
Watts Up With That? - GISS: World’s airports continue to run warmer than ROW
Watts Up With That? - GISS for June – way out there
Climate Science Blog - MODERN KING CANUTES
Climate Science Blog - IMPORTANT POLL - VOTE NOW
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Faith-Based Research
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Pay Attention to Germany
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Mexico 2010
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Nevermind That Pesky Reality

Balanced Sources
The Blackboard - Channel 5 showing warming too.
The Blackboard - GISSTemp: Warmest June Since 1998.
Global Warming Blog - Chicken Little
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Recommended Reading Of the Weblogs Of Tom Fuller Of Examiner.Com
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Transcript of My Talk “Considering the Human Influence on Climate” At The George C. Marshall Institute
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - The Spectator Is Hot for Global Warming Denial
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - How Do Climate Models Work?
AccuWeather - Update on the Arctic Melt Season
Science Daily - Global Warming: Scientists' Best Predictions May Be Wrong
Science Daily - First Remote, Underwater Detection Of Harmful Algae, Toxins
Science Daily - Hurricane Carlos In 3D: Carlos Power Back Up To Hurricane Status

Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.

There is No Evidence

By Dr. David Evans

Let’s break down the case for human-caused global warming logically:

1) There is plenty of evidence that global warming has been occurring recently.
2) There is ample evidence that carbon emissions causes warming and that the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing.
3) But there is no evidence that carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of the recent global warming.

The alarmists focus you entirely on the first two points, to distract you from the third. The public is increasingly aware of this misdirection. Yes, every emitted molecule of carbon dioxide (CO2) causes some warming - but the crucial question is how much warming do the CO2 emissions cause? If atmospheric CO2 levels doubled, would temperatures rise by 0.1, 1.0, or by 10.0C?

We go through the usual “evidence” offered by alarmists, and show that in each case either it:

• Is not evidence about what causes global warming. Proof that global warming occurred is not proof that CO2 was mainly responsible.
• Is not empirical evidence; that is, it is not independent of theory. In particular models are theory, not evidence.
• Says nothing about how much the temperature would rise for a given rise in CO2 levels.

Despite spending $50bn over the last 20 years looking for evidence of point (3) above, the alarmists have found none. In two instances they expected to find it, but in both cases they found only evidence of the opposite - and they have kept awfully quiet about those cases. If they just had some evidence of (3) they could just tell us what it was and end the debate.

We note that there used to be some supporting evidence, but better data later reversed that evidence. Instead there are now at least three independent pieces of evidence that the temperature rises predicted by the IPCC due to carbon dioxide emissions are exaggerated by a factor of between 2 and 10, primarily due to the assumption of overly positive water vapor feedback in the climate models. Finally, we discuss some examples of what would constitute evidence. The evidence must of course be empirical, meaning that it is independent of theory.

Typical Evidence
Typical Alarmist Offerings of “Evidence”: Polar Bears, Glaciers, Arctic Melt, Antarctic Ice Shelves, Storms, Droughts, Fires, Malaria, Snow Melt on Mt Kilimanjaro, Rising Sea Levels, Ocean Warming, Urban Heat Island Effect. Although each of these issues may say something about whether or not global warming is or was occurring, none of them say anything about the causes of global warming. It would make no difference to these issues if the recent global warming was caused by CO2 or by aliens heating the planet with ray guns.

The IPCC Said So

So what is their evidence? Chapter 9 of their latest Assessment Report 4 (2007), “Understanding and Attributing Climate Change”, contains no evidence. That CO2 is the main cause of the recent global warming is an assumption in much of what they say, and they find many ingenious ways of saying it and implying it using complex language. But repetition is not proof, and nowhere do they present any actual evidence. If you doubt me, read it yourself then say what the evidence is in your own words.

Often the assumption takes the form that nearly all the temperature rises since the start of industrialization are due to CO2 rises, or that there are no other possible significant causes of global warming.

Computer Models are Evidence
Computer models consist solely of a large number of calculations that, individually, you could do on a hand-held calculator. So models are theoretical, and cannot form part of any evidence.

Computer Models Incorporate a Lot of Sound Empirical Science
Yes they do. The climate models contain some well-established science that has been verified by empirical observations. But they also contain a myriad of:
• implicit and explicit assumptions
• omissions
• guesses
• gross approximations.
A single mistake in any one of these can invalidate the climate models. Typical engineering models that mimic reality closely contain no untested assumptions, material omissions, guesses, or gross approximations. They are the result of mature understanding of the reality being modelled, and have been tested ad nauseum in a wide range of circumstances. On the other hand, climate science is in its infancy, individual models routinely fail most tests, the climate models are riddled with untested assumptions and guesses, they approximate the atmosphere with cells a hundred kilometres square and hundreds of meters high, and they do not even attempt to model individual cloud formations or any feature smaller than the cell size. Don’t let the word “model” fool you into thinking climate models are better than they are.

Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

14 July 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

>

Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
Global warming: Greek tragedy or preventable catastrophe? [Page 3.14]
ScienceBlogs - USA
Dyson's main premise for the suggestion is the basic observation that plants exchange carbon dioxide with the atmosphere more rapidly than any other entity. ...
Why we call them "denialists": a perfect illustration.
Nolan Chart LLC - Warrenton,VA,USA
There's thus an implicit insult in the adoption of "skeptic" by doubters of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) to set themselves ...
The Spectator Is Hot for Global Warming Denial
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Someone, somewhere at one time decided to claim that the carbon dioxide (CO2 -- our leading contribution to heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere) of ...
How Do Climate Models Work? « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.
By Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
Anthropogenic Global Warming in Climate Models. Our addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels is estimated to have caused an imbalance of about 1.5 Watts per sq. meter between the 235 to 240 Watts per .... In the end, many of the approximations in climate models will probably end up being not very important for forecasting climate change…but it takes only one critical process to be wrong for model projections of warming to be greatly in error. ...
Cooler Weather Coming — Peach Pundit
By Erick
The remaining 25% is attributed to anthropogenic changes in land use, which have the effect of reducing the net uptake of carbon dioxide. Anthropogenic changes in land use occur when forests are converted to rangelands, rangelands to ... John, Erick clearly doesn't care about facts. He confuses local weather patterns with global climate change. Anyone that can't see past his own backyard is not interested in science or little annoyances like evidence and facts. ...
CORRELATION OR CAUSE? « DUCKPOND
By wmmbb
Senator Field, Family First, doubts that the Earth is keeping warmer, and that greenhouse gases, in particular carbon dioxide, are the principle agencies for the increase in temperature. He points out the mean temperatures ... The answer to Steve Fielding seems to be that the observed increase in global mean temperatures cannot be explained by natural causes and it can be explained by anthropogenic causes, especially by means of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide. ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
The Breakthrough Blog - Snowy Mountain Scheme for the 21st century
Climate Feedback - Unknown climate culprit for Palaeocene-Eocene warming
More Grumbine Science - Communicating Science
Brave New Climate - Counterpoint – nuclear power and the low carbon economy
Open Mind - Warming, Interrupted?
Open Mind - Why should we make sacrifices? (Video)
Celsias - The Daily Dose: Your Guide to the World Today – 14 July 09
Celsias - What has climate change done to the seasons?
Celsias - Pro-Environmental Behavior; Everybody’s Doing it!
Celsias - NSIDC: Arctic “melt season in high gear”
DeSmog Blog -

Skeptical Sources
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - How Science Will Get Rid Of The AGW Dogma
The Reference Frame - Obama's science czar's plans for mass genocide
the Air Vent - COVARIANCE vs. CORRELATION
Niche Modeling - Smooth Operator
Jo Nova's Blog - A Climate Change Paradox (Part II)
Climate Resistance -
The Lady Doth Protest too Much…
Icecap - Longest streak of negative PDO since the Moon Landing
Icecap - Jul 14, 2009
The ‘Cap And Tax’ Dead End
Heliogenic Climate Change - Insanity -- green robbery
Heliogenic Climate Change - Greenpeace wants Europe to be dependent on Russia
Heliogenic Climate Change - Dems' election strategy?
Niche Modeling - Renewable Energy Uneconomic and Ecologically Dangerous
Watts Up With That? - Real Climate gives reason to cheer…
Watts Up With That? - The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation – not quite cool yet.
Watts Up With That? - Palin takes a stand in WaPo – blasts cap and trade
Watts Up With That? - Sea Surface Temperatures since 1996 – the movie
Watts Up With That? - NYC fails to reach 85°F in June – first time since 1916 (and that includes UHI)
Climate Science Blog - IMPORTANT POLL - VOTE NOW
Climate Science Blog - UK FAMILIES PAYING FOR CO2 REDUCTION
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - UK Energy Policy in the Doldrums? (Our energy future? I think maybe!)
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Monbiot Discovers Math, Puts it to Good Use
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Does NASA's James Hansen Still Matter in Climate Debate?

Balanced Sources
Rashid's Blog - Something about Earth Sciences, Planet Earth and Solar System.
Rashid's Blog - Increasing Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Linked To Ozone Hole
Global Warming Blog - More Perspective on The Real Climate Weblog By Kyle SwansonDavid Paul and the Global Warming Debate
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] -
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - The Challenge for Green Energy:
How To Store Excess Electricity
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - King Canute at the G-8
AccuWeather - A Voice Against the Climate Change Bill
Science Daily - Plants' Internal Clock Can Improve Climate Change Models
Science Daily - Cell Phone Towers Can Help Predict Big Floods
Science Daily - Global Warming: Our Best Guess Is Likely Wrong

Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.

There is No Evidence

By Dr. David Evans

Let’s break down the case for human-caused global warming logically:

1) There is plenty of evidence that global warming has been occurring recently.
2) There is ample evidence that carbon emissions causes warming and that the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing.
3) But there is no evidence that carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of the recent global warming.

The alarmists focus you entirely on the first two points, to distract you from the third. The public is increasingly aware of this misdirection. Yes, every emitted molecule of carbon dioxide (CO2) causes some warming - but the crucial question is how much warming do the CO2 emissions cause? If atmospheric CO2 levels doubled, would temperatures rise by 0.1, 1.0, or by 10.0C?

We go through the usual “evidence” offered by alarmists, and show that in each case either it:

• Is not evidence about what causes global warming. Proof that global warming occurred is not proof that CO2 was mainly responsible.
• Is not empirical evidence; that is, it is not independent of theory. In particular models are theory, not evidence.
• Says nothing about how much the temperature would rise for a given rise in CO2 levels.

Despite spending $50bn over the last 20 years looking for evidence of point (3) above, the alarmists have found none. In two instances they expected to find it, but in both cases they found only evidence of the opposite - and they have kept awfully quiet about those cases. If they just had some evidence of (3) they could just tell us what it was and end the debate.

We note that there used to be some supporting evidence, but better data later reversed that evidence. Instead there are now at least three independent pieces of evidence that the temperature rises predicted by the IPCC due to carbon dioxide emissions are exaggerated by a factor of between 2 and 10, primarily due to the assumption of overly positive water vapor feedback in the climate models. Finally, we discuss some examples of what would constitute evidence. The evidence must of course be empirical, meaning that it is independent of theory.

Typical Evidence
Typical Alarmist Offerings of “Evidence”: Polar Bears, Glaciers, Arctic Melt, Antarctic Ice Shelves, Storms, Droughts, Fires, Malaria, Snow Melt on Mt Kilimanjaro, Rising Sea Levels, Ocean Warming, Urban Heat Island Effect. Although each of these issues may say something about whether or not global warming is or was occurring, none of them say anything about the causes of global warming. It would make no difference to these issues if the recent global warming was caused by CO2 or by aliens heating the planet with ray guns.

The IPCC Said So

So what is their evidence? Chapter 9 of their latest Assessment Report 4 (2007), “Understanding and Attributing Climate Change”, contains no evidence. That CO2 is the main cause of the recent global warming is an assumption in much of what they say, and they find many ingenious ways of saying it and implying it using complex language. But repetition is not proof, and nowhere do they present any actual evidence. If you doubt me, read it yourself then say what the evidence is in your own words.

Often the assumption takes the form that nearly all the temperature rises since the start of industrialization are due to CO2 rises, or that there are no other possible significant causes of global warming.

Computer Models are Evidence
Computer models consist solely of a large number of calculations that, individually, you could do on a hand-held calculator. So models are theoretical, and cannot form part of any evidence.

Computer Models Incorporate a Lot of Sound Empirical Science
Yes they do. The climate models contain some well-established science that has been verified by empirical observations. But they also contain a myriad of:
• implicit and explicit assumptions
• omissions
• guesses
• gross approximations.
A single mistake in any one of these can invalidate the climate models. Typical engineering models that mimic reality closely contain no untested assumptions, material omissions, guesses, or gross approximations. They are the result of mature understanding of the reality being modelled, and have been tested ad nauseum in a wide range of circumstances. On the other hand, climate science is in its infancy, individual models routinely fail most tests, the climate models are riddled with untested assumptions and guesses, they approximate the atmosphere with cells a hundred kilometres square and hundreds of meters high, and they do not even attempt to model individual cloud formations or any feature smaller than the cell size. Don’t let the word “model” fool you into thinking climate models are better than they are.

Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

13 July 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
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Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist

Results From Today's Google Alert
There are no greenhouse gases - Topix
I think AGW Theory is fraudulent and the people who claim that AGW is factual ... Thus, the IPCC Guidelines do not deal with water vapour as an anthropogenic GHG." ... the role that Global Warming has played on each of these subjects! ...
The commissars of cool
Enter Stage Right - Sudbury,Ontario,Canada
Think about it: An American president is regulating and taxing carbon dioxide, the very thing we exhale, and the very thing that green plants on this planet ...
I Love CO2: Global Warming: The Precautionary Principle Backfires
By JC
Maybe a week later, I was convinced beyond that, that for sure there was no significant human-caused (anthropogenic) global warming (called AGW for short). That means, of course, that there would be no need for emissions trading schemes ... The global warming alarmists tell us that those who don't agree with their scare scenarios are 'climate change deniers'—but who are really the deniers here—the IPCC and its alarmist friends who seem to think that without humans the ...
boilingspot: Class struggle and ecology: An ecosocialist approach
By Awicaksono
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most important anthropogenic GHG (greenhouse gas). Its annual emissions have grown between 1970 and 2004 by about 80%, from 21 to 38 gigatonnes (Gt), and represented 77% of total anthropogenic GHG emissions in 2004… ... So while not even George Bush any longer denies anthropogenic climate change he, representing the United States' ruling class, in common with most business opinion, now insists it is best addressed through voluntary measures ...
Damned Global Warming Skeptics! - Right Wing News (Conservative ...
Well, except for those 32000 American scientists who have signed a petition saying they don't agree that anthropogenic, or man-made, global warming is threatening society as we know it. And now we have another one - another skeptical scientist who attempts to ... The global warming crowd is quick to blame the release of carbon dioxide thru the burning of fossil fuels, such as oil, gasoline, natural gas, and coal, for warming our climate and setting us on a path for doom . ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Bunzl's Blog - The Core Narrative of Climate Change – 5
The Blackboard - Thinking about uncertainty intervals for smoothed curves.
Icecap - Global Cooling Chills Summer 2009
Icecap - Put nuclear energy in the energy mix
Celsias - The Daily Dose: Your Guide to the World Today – 13 July 09
Celsias - Chasing a Legacy: NIMBY Opposition to Wind Power in the Northwest
Celsias - Rethinking Food Production for a World of Eight Billion
Celsias - Working on Wind, Part 3: Installing Electrical

Skeptical Sources
William M. Briggs, Statistician & Consultant - Hannah Arendt on global warming theory
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - There Is No Evidence
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - climate science: UK TO HOLD CLIMATE WEEK
Niche Modeling - Swanson and Tsonis 2009 on Regime-shifts
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - A Climate Change Paradox (Part 2)
Icecap - Global Cooling Chills Summer 2009
Icecap - Put nuclear energy in the energy mix
Icecap - Austin’s clean energy program costing more, selling less
Global Warming [Dr Roy Spencer's Blog] - How Do Climate Models Work?
Climate Observations - Animations of Weekly SST Anomaly Maps from January 3, 1996 to July 1, 2009
Climate Observations - Similarities of the Multiyear Periods Following Significant El Nino Events Since 1970
Climate Change by Erl Happ and Carl Wolk - Swanson’s Not-So-Novel Post at RealClimate
Heliogenic Climate Change - Last business to leave California turn out the lights
Heliogenic Climate Change - Laugh of the day
Heliogenic Climate Change - Enviro wacko misanthrope: "Every car trip is an incremental crime against nature"
Heliogenic Climate Change - Island nations demand climate gods revise their decree
Climate Audit - June 2009 and the Big Red Spot
Niche Modeling - Renewable Energy Uneconomic and Ecologically Dangerous
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - In Melbourne: Big Al, Small Protest
Watts Up With That? - 50 Grand tab for AB32 Global Warming Solutions Act – Nevada looking better and better.
Watts Up With That? - NOAA: June near average in the USA
Watts Up With That? - Record cold in Portland Maine in July
Watts Up With That? - Bill Gates to Control Hurricanes: DOH!
Climate Science Blog - DEJA VU - ALL OVER AGAIN?
Climate Science Blog - STATISTICS - HOW THEY CAN DECEIVE
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Two Decades of No Warming, Consistent With .

Balanced Sources
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - News Report On The Role of Landscape Processes On Weather and Climate
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) .continue » [the ideas] [videos] - Twenty ideas that could save the world
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Global Warming: The Precautionary Principle Backfires
AccuWeather - Sunspot Activity Update
Science Daily - Climate Change May Spell Demise Of Key Salt Marsh Constituent

Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.

There is No Evidence

By Dr. David Evans

Let’s break down the case for human-caused global warming logically:

1) There is plenty of evidence that global warming has been occurring recently.
2) There is ample evidence that carbon emissions causes warming and that the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing.
3) But there is no evidence that carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of the recent global warming.

The alarmists focus you entirely on the first two points, to distract you from the third. The public is increasingly aware of this misdirection. Yes, every emitted molecule of carbon dioxide (CO2) causes some warming - but the crucial question is how much warming do the CO2 emissions cause? If atmospheric CO2 levels doubled, would temperatures rise by 0.1, 1.0, or by 10.0C?

We go through the usual “evidence” offered by alarmists, and show that in each case either it:

• Is not evidence about what causes global warming. Proof that global warming occurred is not proof that CO2 was mainly responsible.
• Is not empirical evidence; that is, it is not independent of theory. In particular models are theory, not evidence.
• Says nothing about how much the temperature would rise for a given rise in CO2 levels.

Despite spending $50bn over the last 20 years looking for evidence of point (3) above, the alarmists have found none. In two instances they expected to find it, but in both cases they found only evidence of the opposite - and they have kept awfully quiet about those cases. If they just had some evidence of (3) they could just tell us what it was and end the debate.

We note that there used to be some supporting evidence, but better data later reversed that evidence. Instead there are now at least three independent pieces of evidence that the temperature rises predicted by the IPCC due to carbon dioxide emissions are exaggerated by a factor of between 2 and 10, primarily due to the assumption of overly positive water vapor feedback in the climate models. Finally, we discuss some examples of what would constitute evidence. The evidence must of course be empirical, meaning that it is independent of theory.

Typical Evidence
Typical Alarmist Offerings of “Evidence”: Polar Bears, Glaciers, Arctic Melt, Antarctic Ice Shelves, Storms, Droughts, Fires, Malaria, Snow Melt on Mt Kilimanjaro, Rising Sea Levels, Ocean Warming, Urban Heat Island Effect. Although each of these issues may say something about whether or not global warming is or was occurring, none of them say anything about the causes of global warming. It would make no difference to these issues if the recent global warming was caused by CO2 or by aliens heating the planet with ray guns.

The IPCC Said So

So what is their evidence? Chapter 9 of their latest Assessment Report 4 (2007), “Understanding and Attributing Climate Change”, contains no evidence. That CO2 is the main cause of the recent global warming is an assumption in much of what they say, and they find many ingenious ways of saying it and implying it using complex language. But repetition is not proof, and nowhere do they present any actual evidence. If you doubt me, read it yourself then say what the evidence is in your own words.

Often the assumption takes the form that nearly all the temperature rises since the start of industrialization are due to CO2 rises, or that there are no other possible significant causes of global warming.

Computer Models are Evidence
Computer models consist solely of a large number of calculations that, individually, you could do on a hand-held calculator. So models are theoretical, and cannot form part of any evidence.

Computer Models Incorporate a Lot of Sound Empirical Science
Yes they do. The climate models contain some well-established science that has been verified by empirical observations. But they also contain a myriad of:
• implicit and explicit assumptions
• omissions
• guesses
• gross approximations.
A single mistake in any one of these can invalidate the climate models. Typical engineering models that mimic reality closely contain no untested assumptions, material omissions, guesses, or gross approximations. They are the result of mature understanding of the reality being modelled, and have been tested ad nauseum in a wide range of circumstances. On the other hand, climate science is in its infancy, individual models routinely fail most tests, the climate models are riddled with untested assumptions and guesses, they approximate the atmosphere with cells a hundred kilometres square and hundreds of meters high, and they do not even attempt to model individual cloud formations or any feature smaller than the cell size. Don’t let the word “model” fool you into thinking climate models are better than they are.

Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

12 July 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
Independent Climate Skeptics - Well, Maybe not so Independent ...
Gather.com - Boston,MA,USA
... that prove that climate change is not real and/or a natural phenomenon that has nothing to do with anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. ...
Low-carbon strategy will raise household energy bills by £200 a year
Times Online - UK
So, now we have a cash amount of £200 of wasted money, per person, in trying to combat something that is NOT caused by Carbon Dioxide emissions (and, ...
Damage Limitation @ Jo Abbess
By Jo
Suggestion Number 2 : How about sending all Media journalists on a training course in Climate Change ? I can give you some phone numbers and web addresses to check. Suggestion Number 3 : Even if you don't believe that Carbon Dioxide ...
Jennifer Marohasy » Explaining the Protest against Al Gore: Leon Ashby
By jennifer
James Delingpole talks to Professor Ian Plimer, the Australian geologist, whose new book shows that 'anthropogenic global warming' is a dangerous, ruinously expensive fiction, a 'first-world luxury' with no basis in scientific fact. ... The final and crucial thing Gore says in the movie about this: “But there is one relationship that is far more powerful than all the others, and it is this: When there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the temperature gets warmer. ...

Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Real Climate - Warming, interrupted: Much ado about natural variability
Believer Sources
Climate Feedback - Ones that got away
Celsias - The Daily Dose: Your Guide to the World Today – 12 July 09
Celsias -
What's in the Air You're Breathing
Celsias - Post-Katrina Environmentalism in New Orleans: Can I Get An Organic Sno-Ball With That?
Celsias - A New Kind of Hybrid: Nano-scaled Device Combines Solar, Mechanical Energy Generation
Celsias - Subsidising the Climate Crash

Skeptical Sources
Climate Audit - HadISST- June 2009 Values
Heliogenic Climate Change - Boxer sounds desperate
Niche Modeling - A semi-empirical approach to sea level rise
Watts Up With That? - Ken Tapping: Still no sign of the next cycle
Watts Up With That? - How not to measure temperature, part 90
Climate Science Blog - AL GORE INVOKES CHURCHILL
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog -

Balanced Sources
The Blackboard - HadSST: Highest values since 1998
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Development Of The 2009 El Niño
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) -
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) -
AccuWeather -
Science Daily - Seals Quickly Respond To Gain And Loss Of Habitat Under Climate Change

Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.

There is No Evidence

By Dr. David Evans

Let’s break down the case for human-caused global warming logically:

1) There is plenty of evidence that global warming has been occurring recently.
2) There is ample evidence that carbon emissions causes warming and that the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing.
3) But there is no evidence that carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of the recent global warming.

The alarmists focus you entirely on the first two points, to distract you from the third. The public is increasingly aware of this misdirection. Yes, every emitted molecule of carbon dioxide (CO2) causes some warming - but the crucial question is how much warming do the CO2 emissions cause? If atmospheric CO2 levels doubled, would temperatures rise by 0.1, 1.0, or by 10.0C?

We go through the usual “evidence” offered by alarmists, and show that in each case either it:

• Is not evidence about what causes global warming. Proof that global warming occurred is not proof that CO2 was mainly responsible.
• Is not empirical evidence; that is, it is not independent of theory. In particular models are theory, not evidence.
• Says nothing about how much the temperature would rise for a given rise in CO2 levels.

Despite spending $50bn over the last 20 years looking for evidence of point (3) above, the alarmists have found none. In two instances they expected to find it, but in both cases they found only evidence of the opposite - and they have kept awfully quiet about those cases. If they just had some evidence of (3) they could just tell us what it was and end the debate.

We note that there used to be some supporting evidence, but better data later reversed that evidence. Instead there are now at least three independent pieces of evidence that the temperature rises predicted by the IPCC due to carbon dioxide emissions are exaggerated by a factor of between 2 and 10, primarily due to the assumption of overly positive water vapor feedback in the climate models. Finally, we discuss some examples of what would constitute evidence. The evidence must of course be empirical, meaning that it is independent of theory.

Typical Evidence
Typical Alarmist Offerings of “Evidence”: Polar Bears, Glaciers, Arctic Melt, Antarctic Ice Shelves, Storms, Droughts, Fires, Malaria, Snow Melt on Mt Kilimanjaro, Rising Sea Levels, Ocean Warming, Urban Heat Island Effect. Although each of these issues may say something about whether or not global warming is or was occurring, none of them say anything about the causes of global warming. It would make no difference to these issues if the recent global warming was caused by CO2 or by aliens heating the planet with ray guns.

The IPCC Said So

So what is their evidence? Chapter 9 of their latest Assessment Report 4 (2007), “Understanding and Attributing Climate Change”, contains no evidence. That CO2 is the main cause of the recent global warming is an assumption in much of what they say, and they find many ingenious ways of saying it and implying it using complex language. But repetition is not proof, and nowhere do they present any actual evidence. If you doubt me, read it yourself then say what the evidence is in your own words.

Often the assumption takes the form that nearly all the temperature rises since the start of industrialization are due to CO2 rises, or that there are no other possible significant causes of global warming.

Computer Models are Evidence
Computer models consist solely of a large number of calculations that, individually, you could do on a hand-held calculator. So models are theoretical, and cannot form part of any evidence.

Computer Models Incorporate a Lot of Sound Empirical Science
Yes they do. The climate models contain some well-established science that has been verified by empirical observations. But they also contain a myriad of:
• implicit and explicit assumptions
• omissions
• guesses
• gross approximations.
A single mistake in any one of these can invalidate the climate models. Typical engineering models that mimic reality closely contain no untested assumptions, material omissions, guesses, or gross approximations. They are the result of mature understanding of the reality being modelled, and have been tested ad nauseum in a wide range of circumstances. On the other hand, climate science is in its infancy, individual models routinely fail most tests, the climate models are riddled with untested assumptions and guesses, they approximate the atmosphere with cells a hundred kilometres square and hundreds of meters high, and they do not even attempt to model individual cloud formations or any feature smaller than the cell size. Don’t let the word “model” fool you into thinking climate models are better than they are.

Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

11 July 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

>

Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
Nonskeptical Skeptic Michael Shermer (Unwittingly) Disproves AGW ...
Jul 1, 2009 ... Then he goes on to the subject of AGW, and says something like: “However, man- made global warming is entirely different…” ...
FORCES Tavern :: View topic - The Best Global Warming Videos on ...
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:38 pm Post subject: agw, Reply with quote ...
Europe , which is always wailing away about greenhouse gases (GHG) and is making progress ... Don't like GHG emissions? Move to Haiti or Somalia. ...
about stopping global warming and fighting its causes and consequences. ...
The Global Warming Debate
KLFY - Lafayette,LA,USA
Is climate change real? Of course, the climate's been changing since the beginning of time. Are carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rising? ...
UN IPCC Scientist Says Global Warming Big Deception
Right Side News - Kennesaw,GA,USA
John R. Christy, Ph.D. Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alabama "Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant but a naturally occurring, ...
Skeptic's Corner: THE WEATHERMEN
By Jer
Tens of thousands American scientists don't agree that anthropogenic, or man-made, global warming is threatening society as we know it. A petition at www.petitionproject.com has the names of almost 32000 American scientists as this report was ... Let's start with the basics. Is climate change real? Of course, the climate's been changing since the beginning of time. Are carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rising? Yes, but they've been much higher at times in the past, ...
More Summer Science Reads — Sciencebase Science Blog
By David Bradley
Wallace Broecker, and co-author Robert Kunzig describe Earth's volatile history and the origins of anthropogenic climate change. Their solution to the imminent global catastrophe is to remove carbon waste from the atmosphere and in support of the concept, Broecker is backing the development of artificial trees that can sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. There are many such schemes around, whether we can offset the energy and resources to implement them on a ...
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » James Hansen: We Will Need A Lot ...
By Tim F.
The added emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide will set our Earth irreversibly onto a course toward an ice-free state, a course that will initiate a chain reaction of irreversible and catastrophic climate changes. Dr. Hansen proposes a series of .... I'll might take Anthropogenic Global Warming Climate Change seriously if alarmists like Ezra Klein and Glenn Greenwald stop flying to Brazil. 14. July 10th, 2009 at 5:01 pm Reply to
this comment. Davis X. Machina ...
Beyond Carbon Dioxide Growing Importance Of HydrofluorocarbonsHFCs ...
Edited May 15 2009 to correct percentage of anthropogenic contribution to model ... Climate Change Halving Carbon Dioxide Emissions By 2050 Could Stabilize ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Celsias - Trash Trip 2009
Celsias - Electrifying Africa – One LED-System at a Time

Skeptical Sources
Climate Audit - Sea Ice At Lowest Level In 800 Years
Icecap - Jul 11, 2009
Analysis: King Canute at the G8
Icecap - AMO, The Key Global Climate Indicator
Watts Up With That? - Cooler weather bringing the “luck of the Irish” to the USA
Climate Science Blog - UK TO HOLD CLIMATE WEEK
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Buy This Book
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Straight Talk

Balanced Sources
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) [Pro] [Con] - As the debate over the Waxman-Markey climate bill rages on, Harvard's top environmental economist sheds some light
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) continue » [riposte] - Meet the man who has exposed the great climate change con trick
AccuWeather -
Science Daily - Down Under Dinosaur Burrow Discovery Provides Climate Change Clues

Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.

There is No Evidence

By Dr. David Evans

Let’s break down the case for human-caused global warming logically:

1) There is plenty of evidence that global warming has been occurring recently.
2) There is ample evidence that carbon emissions causes warming and that the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing.
3) But there is no evidence that carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of the recent global warming.

The alarmists focus you entirely on the first two points, to distract you from the third. The public is increasingly aware of this misdirection. Yes, every emitted molecule of carbon dioxide (CO2) causes some warming - but the crucial question is how much warming do the CO2 emissions cause? If atmospheric CO2 levels doubled, would temperatures rise by 0.1, 1.0, or by 10.0C?

We go through the usual “evidence” offered by alarmists, and show that in each case either it:

• Is not evidence about what causes global warming. Proof that global warming occurred is not proof that CO2 was mainly responsible.
• Is not empirical evidence; that is, it is not independent of theory. In particular models are theory, not evidence.
• Says nothing about how much the temperature would rise for a given rise in CO2 levels.

Despite spending $50bn over the last 20 years looking for evidence of point (3) above, the alarmists have found none. In two instances they expected to find it, but in both cases they found only evidence of the opposite - and they have kept awfully quiet about those cases. If they just had some evidence of (3) they could just tell us what it was and end the debate.

We note that there used to be some supporting evidence, but better data later reversed that evidence. Instead there are now at least three independent pieces of evidence that the temperature rises predicted by the IPCC due to carbon dioxide emissions are exaggerated by a factor of between 2 and 10, primarily due to the assumption of overly positive water vapor feedback in the climate models. Finally, we discuss some examples of what would constitute evidence. The evidence must of course be empirical, meaning that it is independent of theory.

Typical Evidence
Typical Alarmist Offerings of “Evidence”: Polar Bears, Glaciers, Arctic Melt, Antarctic Ice Shelves, Storms, Droughts, Fires, Malaria, Snow Melt on Mt Kilimanjaro, Rising Sea Levels, Ocean Warming, Urban Heat Island Effect. Although each of these issues may say something about whether or not global warming is or was occurring, none of them say anything about the causes of global warming. It would make no difference to these issues if the recent global warming was caused by CO2 or by aliens heating the planet with ray guns.

The IPCC Said So

So what is their evidence? Chapter 9 of their latest Assessment Report 4 (2007), “Understanding and Attributing Climate Change”, contains no evidence. That CO2 is the main cause of the recent global warming is an assumption in much of what they say, and they find many ingenious ways of saying it and implying it using complex language. But repetition is not proof, and nowhere do they present any actual evidence. If you doubt me, read it yourself then say what the evidence is in your own words.

Often the assumption takes the form that nearly all the temperature rises since the start of industrialization are due to CO2 rises, or that there are no other possible significant causes of global warming.

Computer Models are Evidence
Computer models consist solely of a large number of calculations that, individually, you could do on a hand-held calculator. So models are theoretical, and cannot form part of any evidence.

Computer Models Incorporate a Lot of Sound Empirical Science
Yes they do. The climate models contain some well-established science that has been verified by empirical observations. But they also contain a myriad of:
• implicit and explicit assumptions
• omissions
• guesses
• gross approximations.
A single mistake in any one of these can invalidate the climate models. Typical engineering models that mimic reality closely contain no untested assumptions, material omissions, guesses, or gross approximations. They are the result of mature understanding of the reality being modelled, and have been tested ad nauseum in a wide range of circumstances. On the other hand, climate science is in its infancy, individual models routinely fail most tests, the climate models are riddled with untested assumptions and guesses, they approximate the atmosphere with cells a hundred kilometres square and hundreds of meters high, and they do not even attempt to model individual cloud formations or any feature smaller than the cell size. Don’t let the word “model” fool you into thinking climate models are better than they are.

Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

10 July 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

>

Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
G8 leaders claim historic breakthrough on new deal to tackle ...
Times Online - UK
All those (sadly majority) of posters saying AGW is a hoax - you really need to get ... The side that says that Global Warming and Greenhouse Gas is bunk is ...
Spectator recycles climate rubbish published by sceptic
guardian.co.uk - UK
Plimer's book, he says, is "going to change forever the way we think about climate change", as it demonstrates that anthropogenic global warming "is the ...
G8 leaders claim historic breakthrough on new deal to tackle ...
Times Online - UK
Read the science, it's loud and clear; anthropogenic climate change is here and it's dangerous. There's debate about the degree (pun intended), that's all. ...
Ozone hole shrinks atmospheric CO2 uptake in Southern Ocean
EUROPA - Brussels,Belgium
Human activities directly impact the levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere; in turn, these higher levels contribute to global warming. ...
Worrying About the Amazon | Climate Skeptic
By admin
The world's forests are an enormous carbon sink, meaning they absorb
massive quantities of carbon dioxide, through the processes of
photosynthesis and respiration. In normal years the Amazon alone absorbs three billion tons of carbon, ... As if that's not enough bad news, new research presented in March at a conference organized by the University of Copenhagen, with the support of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says that as much as 85 percent of the Amazon ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Climate Sight - The Last Minority
Brave New Climate - Climate update – ongoing decline in South-East Australian rainfall
Celsias - Climate Activism Can Be Good for Depression
Celsias - The 100th Coal Plant Milestone
Celsias - Climate Negotiations Stagnate at G8
DeSmog Blog - George Monbiot's Troll Problem (and Ours)
DeSmog Blog - Global Warming Deniers Part Ways: Australian Institute of Public Affairs Says Goodbye to Jennifer Marohasy
DeSmog Blog - Skeptics 51 -- Reality 49

Skeptical Sources
Icecap - Jul 10, 2009
Gore: U.S. Climate Bill Will Help Bring About ‘Global Governance’
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - The Double Hell Of Science-Led Policy
the Air Vent - Double O zero, Licensed to Speak
Heliogenic Climate Science - As Copenhagen nears the propaganda heats up (and the planet continues to cool)
Heliogenic Climate Science - Ilulissat panic
Global Warming: A Worn-Out Hoax - Windfarms: smaller is better
Global Warming: A Worn-Out Hoax - Frigid Summer in Chicago
Icecap - Jul 09, 2009
The Sierra Club versus Electricity
Climate Audit - Sea Ice - June 2009
Climate Audit - RSS June - "Worse Than We Thought"
Watts Up With That? - Study: Media and environmental doomsday – like peas and carrots
Watts Up With That? - Hansen unhinged on G-8 failure – “Waxman-Markey bill, a monstrous absurdity”
Watts Up With That? - Chicago – coolest July 8th in 118 years
Climate Science Blog - OCEAN HEAT SUMS DON'T ADD UP TO CO2 THEORY
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Gratz on July Hurricane Damage

Balanced Sources
The Blackboard - Smooth Fishhooks
Global Warming Blog - Arctic Sea Ice Collapse Beginning
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - What Is “Weather Noise”? Is This Concept Applicable To Assessing The Climate Change Metric of Global Warming?
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) continue » [more] [more] - Coral condemned to extinction by CO2 levels, warns Attenborough
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) -
Murdock: The chills of Global Cooling
AccuWeather - Satellites Indicate June 2009 was normal Globally
Science Daily - Ozone, Nitrogen Change The Way Rising Carbon Dioxide Affects Earth's Water
Science Daily - Methane-eating Microbes Can Use Iron And Manganese Oxides To 'Breathe'
Science Daily - Some Particles Cool Climate, Others Add To Global Warming
Science Daily -

Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.

There is No Evidence

By Dr. David Evans

Let’s break down the case for human-caused global warming logically:

1) There is plenty of evidence that global warming has been occurring recently.
2) There is ample evidence that carbon emissions causes warming and that the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing.
3) But there is no evidence that carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of the recent global warming.

The alarmists focus you entirely on the first two points, to distract you from the third. The public is increasingly aware of this misdirection. Yes, every emitted molecule of carbon dioxide (CO2) causes some warming - but the crucial question is how much warming do the CO2 emissions cause? If atmospheric CO2 levels doubled, would temperatures rise by 0.1, 1.0, or by 10.0C?

We go through the usual “evidence” offered by alarmists, and show that in each case either it:

• Is not evidence about what causes global warming. Proof that global warming occurred is not proof that CO2 was mainly responsible.
• Is not empirical evidence; that is, it is not independent of theory. In particular models are theory, not evidence.
• Says nothing about how much the temperature would rise for a given rise in CO2 levels.

Despite spending $50bn over the last 20 years looking for evidence of point (3) above, the alarmists have found none. In two instances they expected to find it, but in both cases they found only evidence of the opposite - and they have kept awfully quiet about those cases. If they just had some evidence of (3) they could just tell us what it was and end the debate.

We note that there used to be some supporting evidence, but better data later reversed that evidence. Instead there are now at least three independent pieces of evidence that the temperature rises predicted by the IPCC due to carbon dioxide emissions are exaggerated by a factor of between 2 and 10, primarily due to the assumption of overly positive water vapor feedback in the climate models. Finally, we discuss some examples of what would constitute evidence. The evidence must of course be empirical, meaning that it is independent of theory.

Typical Evidence
Typical Alarmist Offerings of “Evidence”: Polar Bears, Glaciers, Arctic Melt, Antarctic Ice Shelves, Storms, Droughts, Fires, Malaria, Snow Melt on Mt Kilimanjaro, Rising Sea Levels, Ocean Warming, Urban Heat Island Effect. Although each of these issues may say something about whether or not global warming is or was occurring, none of them say anything about the causes of global warming. It would make no difference to these issues if the recent global warming was caused by CO2 or by aliens heating the planet with ray guns.

The IPCC Said So

So what is their evidence? Chapter 9 of their latest Assessment Report 4 (2007), “Understanding and Attributing Climate Change”, contains no evidence. That CO2 is the main cause of the recent global warming is an assumption in much of what they say, and they find many ingenious ways of saying it and implying it using complex language. But repetition is not proof, and nowhere do they present any actual evidence. If you doubt me, read it yourself then say what the evidence is in your own words.

Often the assumption takes the form that nearly all the temperature rises since the start of industrialization are due to CO2 rises, or that there are no other possible significant causes of global warming.

Computer Models are Evidence
Computer models consist solely of a large number of calculations that, individually, you could do on a hand-held calculator. So models are theoretical, and cannot form part of any evidence.

Computer Models Incorporate a Lot of Sound Empirical Science
Yes they do. The climate models contain some well-established science that has been verified by empirical observations. But they also contain a myriad of:
• implicit and explicit assumptions
• omissions
• guesses
• gross approximations.
A single mistake in any one of these can invalidate the climate models. Typical engineering models that mimic reality closely contain no untested assumptions, material omissions, guesses, or gross approximations. They are the result of mature understanding of the reality being modelled, and have been tested ad nauseum in a wide range of circumstances. On the other hand, climate science is in its infancy, individual models routinely fail most tests, the climate models are riddled with untested assumptions and guesses, they approximate the atmosphere with cells a hundred kilometres square and hundreds of meters high, and they do not even attempt to model individual cloud formations or any feature smaller than the cell size. Don’t let the word “model” fool you into thinking climate models are better than they are.

Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

09 July 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
The Oil Drum | DrumBeat: July 8, 2009
By Leanan
But Europe is also unhappy with the Obama administration's reluctance to accept aggressive near-term goals for cutting greenhouse gases and its refusal so far to formally accept language that would limit the rise in global ... WASHINGTON — The Senate took up sweeping climate change legislation on Tuesday, with four Obama administration officials insisting that the measure is urgently needed to combat global warming, wean the U.S.
off imported oil and revitalize the ...
Class struggle and ecology
Socialist Resistance - London,Britain,UK
So while not even George Bush any longer denies anthropogenic climate change he, representing the United States? ruling class, in common with most business ...
Environmental Protection Agency Suppresses Dissent and Opinion on ...
By nhiemstra
Alan Carlin, a senior US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) research analyst, prepared a report on the science of climate change as comments on the EPA's endangerment analysis for greenhouse gases (GHG). This report was suppressed by EPA ... On April 24, 2009, the EPA issued an 'endangerment' finding on anthropogenic greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (CO2). It establishes that CO2 is a pollutant, and would thereby give the EPA the authority to regulate it. ...
THE RUFFINGTON POST: The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change
By noreply@blogger.com (HR)
... carbon dioxide emissions have also alleged major uncertainties in the science (2). Such statements suggest that there might be substantive disagreement in the scientific community about the reality of anthropogenic climate change. ...
Lorne Gunter: 'Real' scientists flee from evidence that challenges ...
By NP Editor
Still, if anything, the rhetoric of global warming and climate change has become even more frenzied since 2006, not less, even to the point where scientists skeptical of the warming theory are being gagged by the Obama administration and the UN. .... activity that pinning Carbon Dioxide as the dominating component is extremely ridiculous. The anthropogenic carbon cycle does play some role in the greenhouse affect, but water vapor is far more important in that system. ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
The Breakthrough Blog - Climate Bill Analysis Part 19: ACES Could Align Economic Interests to Weaken Climate Legislation
The economic incentives created by ACES may result in an alignment between financial, agriculture, and incumbent utility and fossil fuel firms to oppose or weaken measures that reduce carbon emissions in capped sectors, analysis by the Breakthrough Institute concludes.
The Breakthrough Blog - Radio Interview on Climate "Super Lobby" Analysis with Teryn Norris
The Breakthrough Blog - New Climate Bill Could Create "Super Lobby" Against U.S. Emissions Reductions
The American Clean Energy & Security Act (ACES) could create a powerful "super-lobby" of U.S. carbon offset producers, the financial industry, and utilities and fossil fuel companies to weaken or oppose measures to reduce emissions in capped U.S. sectors.
Common Tragedies - Senate Debate vs. House Debate
Common Tragedies - Desalination and Climate Change
Climate Feedback - Cross-posted from the Great Beyond
Climate Feedback - Time to shift gears on climate policy? Maybe not.
Climate Feedback - Interview: Lonnie Thompson
Climate Feedback - The greening of the pre-Cambrian
Celsias - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Decoder
Celsias - From Gulf War Syndrome to Green Surf Boards

Skeptical Sources
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - BBC’s Climate Thought Police In Action
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - At The BBC, Not Even Religious Programmes Are Sacred
The Reference Frame - Related posts from blogosphere
G8, err, G7 ban ice ages and order a global economic collapse
the Air Vent - Fantastic High Resolution Video of Sea Ice
niche modeling - Preprint on climatic regime shifts
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - The World in 2050: Nuclear Powered
Heliogenic Climate Change - If AGW fanatics ban Canadian oilsands oil China will be happy to take it
Icecap - Murdock: The chills of Global Cooling
Icecap - Hansen: “Obama’s ‘Counterfeit’ Climate Bill ‘a monstrous absurdity…less than worthless!”
Icecap - Jul 09, 2009
The Sierra Club versus Electricity
Climate Skeptic - Worrying About the Amazon
Icecap - Luetkemeyer Bill Would Save Taxpayers $12.5 Million, Denies Funding for UN's Junk Science
Icecap - Environmentalists unfurl banner on Mount Rushmore
Icecap - Jul 09, 2009
Snowplows out in Yonkers in July, First Ever July Frost in P.E.I.
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Noah’s Ark Revisited (Part 2)
Climate Audit - Rahmstorf Rejects IPCC Procedure
Watts Up With That? - NSF “blurring the lines between journalism and PR”
Watts Up With That? - NOAA announces the arrival of El Niño
Watts Up With That? - “…frost has never been reported before in July”
Watts Up With That? - G-8 Summit drops CO2 targets, keeps 2 degree temperature goal
Watts Up With That? - Greenpeace defaces Mount Rushmore
Watts Up With That? - The Medieval Warm Period linked to the success of Machu Picchu, Inca Empire
Climate Science Blog - OCEAN TEMPERATURES - THE NEW LITMUS TEST
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Breaking Romm's Rules
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Media Gatekeepers Protecting You From Dangerous Ideas
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Only 6% of Scientists Self-Identify as Republicans

Balanced Sources
The Blackboard - RSS Temperature Anomaly Down to 0.075C
The Blackboard - El Niño watch: July
Global Warming Blog - South Korea Lauches Green Growth Plan
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Guest Weblog By Andy Pitman
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) continue » [more] - Nasa satellites reveal extent of Arctic sea ice loss
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Could Human CO2 Emissions Cause Another PETM?
AccuWeather - Sea Ice Thinning and Volume Loss in the Arctic
Science Daily - Beyond Carbon Dioxide: Growing Importance Of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) In Climate Warming
Science Daily - Ice Volume Of Switzerland’s Glaciers Calculated
Science Daily - Media Tend To Doomsay When Addressing Environmental Issues

Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.

There is No Evidence

By Dr. David Evans

Let’s break down the case for human-caused global warming logically:

1) There is plenty of evidence that global warming has been occurring recently.
2) There is ample evidence that carbon emissions causes warming and that the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing.
3) But there is no evidence that carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of the recent global warming.

The alarmists focus you entirely on the first two points, to distract you from the third. The public is increasingly aware of this misdirection. Yes, every emitted molecule of carbon dioxide (CO2) causes some warming - but the crucial question is how much warming do the CO2 emissions cause? If atmospheric CO2 levels doubled, would temperatures rise by 0.1, 1.0, or by 10.0C?

We go through the usual “evidence” offered by alarmists, and show that in each case either it:

• Is not evidence about what causes global warming. Proof that global warming occurred is not proof that CO2 was mainly responsible.
• Is not empirical evidence; that is, it is not independent of theory. In particular models are theory, not evidence.
• Says nothing about how much the temperature would rise for a given rise in CO2 levels.

Despite spending $50bn over the last 20 years looking for evidence of point (3) above, the alarmists have found none. In two instances they expected to find it, but in both cases they found only evidence of the opposite - and they have kept awfully quiet about those cases. If they just had some evidence of (3) they could just tell us what it was and end the debate.

We note that there used to be some supporting evidence, but better data later reversed that evidence. Instead there are now at least three independent pieces of evidence that the temperature rises predicted by the IPCC due to carbon dioxide emissions are exaggerated by a factor of between 2 and 10, primarily due to the assumption of overly positive water vapor feedback in the climate models. Finally, we discuss some examples of what would constitute evidence. The evidence must of course be empirical, meaning that it is independent of theory.

Typical Evidence
Typical Alarmist Offerings of “Evidence”: Polar Bears, Glaciers, Arctic Melt, Antarctic Ice Shelves, Storms, Droughts, Fires, Malaria, Snow Melt on Mt Kilimanjaro, Rising Sea Levels, Ocean Warming, Urban Heat Island Effect. Although each of these issues may say something about whether or not global warming is or was occurring, none of them say anything about the causes of global warming. It would make no difference to these issues if the recent global warming was caused by CO2 or by aliens heating the planet with ray guns.

The IPCC Said So

So what is their evidence? Chapter 9 of their latest Assessment Report 4 (2007), “Understanding and Attributing Climate Change”, contains no evidence. That CO2 is the main cause of the recent global warming is an assumption in much of what they say, and they find many ingenious ways of saying it and implying it using complex language. But repetition is not proof, and nowhere do they present any actual evidence. If you doubt me, read it yourself then say what the evidence is in your own words.

Often the assumption takes the form that nearly all the temperature rises since the start of industrialization are due to CO2 rises, or that there are no other possible significant causes of global warming.

Computer Models are Evidence
Computer models consist solely of a large number of calculations that, individually, you could do on a hand-held calculator. So models are theoretical, and cannot form part of any evidence.

Computer Models Incorporate a Lot of Sound Empirical Science
Yes they do. The climate models contain some well-established science that has been verified by empirical observations. But they also contain a myriad of:
• implicit and explicit assumptions
• omissions
• guesses
• gross approximations.
A single mistake in any one of these can invalidate the climate models. Typical engineering models that mimic reality closely contain no untested assumptions, material omissions, guesses, or gross approximations. They are the result of mature understanding of the reality being modelled, and have been tested ad nauseum in a wide range of circumstances. On the other hand, climate science is in its infancy, individual models routinely fail most tests, the climate models are riddled with untested assumptions and guesses, they approximate the atmosphere with cells a hundred kilometres square and hundreds of meters high, and they do not even attempt to model individual cloud formations or any feature smaller than the cell size. Don’t let the word “model” fool you into thinking climate models are better than they are.

Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

08 July 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
Stop Global Warming - Change.org: Inhofe Watch: Senator Demands ...
By Emily Gertz
has called for a criminal investigation into charges that the Environmental Protection Agency squelched employees who disagreed with its endangerment finding: that human-caused carbon dioxide as the primary cause of climate change. Sen. Inhofe, a long-time denier ... When I first realized that this thing was a hoax and I made the statement that the notion that man-made gases, anthropogenic gases, CO2 cause global warming, it is probably the greatest hoax ever perpetrated. ...
Green Technology -Environmental Challenge: Reduce 10 Percent of ...
By Krithi
Official claim that more than 100 scientists specializing in climate
change, the environment and ecology attended the Summit. They extended their unstinting support for the cause and expressed willingness to offer real time ... Incidentally , CFL's also help save the environment by emitting less mercury than traditional incandescent light bulbs because coal based electricity generation is the single largest source of anthropogenic mercury emissions and CFLs use at least 70 ...
Don Surber » Blog Archive » What happened to global warming?
By donsurber
Yeah,yeah,yeah, sure long term trends are less variable, but why can't they forsee lulls in global warming if their models are so infaliable, and why did they have to wait for “man made climate change” to stop in 2001 before arguing .... Roger Pielke Jr has said he agrees with the present scientific consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming. In particular, he agrees with the IPCC report: “The IPCC has concluded that greenhouse gas
emissions resulting from human activity ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Real Climate - Two degrees
Believer Sources
Open Mind - Vapor Lock
Real Climate - ‘Unscientific America’: A Review
Celsias - Summer Sports with Lighter Carbon Footprints
Celsias - Roadsters Embrace Green Racing
Celsias - China Sets 15% Renewable Energy Target, Ups Ante on U.S.
DeSmog Blog - Valley of Death for Big Coal?
DeSmog Blog - U.S. Auto Industry Finally Succumbs to Inevitable Defeat on California Emissions Standards

Skeptical Sources
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Calls For AGW Skeptics To Be Silenced (Or Worse) In The USA Are Unconstitutional
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - A Plea To The (Almighty) G8 Group
the Air Vent - Off the Deep End
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Latest Global Average Tropospheric Temperatures
Heliogenic Climate Change - Obama goes nuclear to sweeten Ration and Tax
Heliogenic Climate Change - Chu delusional -- must hear audio
Heliogenic Climate Change - Enviro wacko catch of the day
Heliogenic Climate Change - Jeff Id is mad as hell
Climate Resistance - Ho Ho Ho Green Giantz
Climate Observations - Comparison of El Nino Modoki Index and NINO3.4 SST Anomalies
Climate Audit - Your Portfolio is "Better than You Thought"
Icecap - Jul 08, 2009
Three Interviews Worth a Read or Listen
Watts Up With That? - EPA’s Jackson and Energy Sec. Chu on the Senate hot seat
Watts Up With That? - Climate projections: Past performance no guarantee of future skill?
Climate Science Blog - ONE GREEN JOB FOR EVERY 2.2 LOST
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog -

Balanced Sources
The Blackboard - Climate Change Affects Sasquatch too!
The Blackboard - Interesting Quote from GRL Paper
Rashid's Blog - Great Barrier Reef will be gone in 20 years
Global Warming Blog - Dawn Age Reptiles
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Comments On A Nature News Article By Olive Heffernan “UK Climate Effects Revealed In Finest Detail Yet”
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - THE PHYSICS THAT WE KNOW
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - My Nobel Moment
AccuWeather - Plants Kept the Earth from Freezing Over
Science Daily - Protecting Polar Bears With New Tracking Methods
Science Daily - Amazon River Is 11 Million Years Old, Drilling Study Finds
Science Daily - Media Tend To Doomsay When Addressing Environmental Issues


Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.

There is No Evidence

By Dr. David Evans

Let’s break down the case for human-caused global warming logically:

1) There is plenty of evidence that global warming has been occurring recently.
2) There is ample evidence that carbon emissions causes warming and that the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing.
3) But there is no evidence that carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of the recent global warming.

The alarmists focus you entirely on the first two points, to distract you from the third. The public is increasingly aware of this misdirection. Yes, every emitted molecule of carbon dioxide (CO2) causes some warming - but the crucial question is how much warming do the CO2 emissions cause? If atmospheric CO2 levels doubled, would temperatures rise by 0.1, 1.0, or by 10.0C?

We go through the usual “evidence” offered by alarmists, and show that in each case either it:

• Is not evidence about what causes global warming. Proof that global warming occurred is not proof that CO2 was mainly responsible.
• Is not empirical evidence; that is, it is not independent of theory. In particular models are theory, not evidence.
• Says nothing about how much the temperature would rise for a given rise in CO2 levels.

Despite spending $50bn over the last 20 years looking for evidence of point (3) above, the alarmists have found none. In two instances they expected to find it, but in both cases they found only evidence of the opposite - and they have kept awfully quiet about those cases. If they just had some evidence of (3) they could just tell us what it was and end the debate.

We note that there used to be some supporting evidence, but better data later reversed that evidence. Instead there are now at least three independent pieces of evidence that the temperature rises predicted by the IPCC due to carbon dioxide emissions are exaggerated by a factor of between 2 and 10, primarily due to the assumption of overly positive water vapor feedback in the climate models. Finally, we discuss some examples of what would constitute evidence. The evidence must of course be empirical, meaning that it is independent of theory.

Typical Evidence
Typical Alarmist Offerings of “Evidence”: Polar Bears, Glaciers, Arctic Melt, Antarctic Ice Shelves, Storms, Droughts, Fires, Malaria, Snow Melt on Mt Kilimanjaro, Rising Sea Levels, Ocean Warming, Urban Heat Island Effect. Although each of these issues may say something about whether or not global warming is or was occurring, none of them say anything about the causes of global warming. It would make no difference to these issues if the recent global warming was caused by CO2 or by aliens heating the planet with ray guns.

The IPCC Said So

So what is their evidence? Chapter 9 of their latest Assessment Report 4 (2007), “Understanding and Attributing Climate Change”, contains no evidence. That CO2 is the main cause of the recent global warming is an assumption in much of what they say, and they find many ingenious ways of saying it and implying it using complex language. But repetition is not proof, and nowhere do they present any actual evidence. If you doubt me, read it yourself then say what the evidence is in your own words.

Often the assumption takes the form that nearly all the temperature rises since the start of industrialization are due to CO2 rises, or that there are no other possible significant causes of global warming.

Computer Models are Evidence
Computer models consist solely of a large number of calculations that, individually, you could do on a hand-held calculator. So models are theoretical, and cannot form part of any evidence.

Computer Models Incorporate a Lot of Sound Empirical Science
Yes they do. The climate models contain some well-established science that has been verified by empirical observations. But they also contain a myriad of:
• implicit and explicit assumptions
• omissions
• guesses
• gross approximations.
A single mistake in any one of these can invalidate the climate models. Typical engineering models that mimic reality closely contain no untested assumptions, material omissions, guesses, or gross approximations. They are the result of mature understanding of the reality being modelled, and have been tested ad nauseum in a wide range of circumstances. On the other hand, climate science is in its infancy, individual models routinely fail most tests, the climate models are riddled with untested assumptions and guesses, they approximate the atmosphere with cells a hundred kilometres square and hundreds of meters high, and they do not even attempt to model individual cloud formations or any feature smaller than the cell size. Don’t let the word “model” fool you into thinking climate models are better than they are.

Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

07 July 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

>

Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
Peoples Press Collective » Global Warming: Won't get fooled again
The issue is rather whether the GHG/CO2/AGW hypothesis meets the ultimate ... that the hypothesis that greenhouse gases and CO2 are causing warming “fails a ...
Environmental Challenge: Reduce 10 Percent of CO2 Emissions by 2010
TMCnet - USA
Now, 57 years later they realize that something drastic must be done about the carbon dioxide levels. Nobody is dying – yet. ...
Environment Illinois Report Suggests Global Warming Will Cost ...
Chicago Press Release Services (press release) - Chicago,Illinois,USA
The analysis considers the combined effect of increasing temperatures and increasing levels of carbon dioxide but assumes that crops get sufficient water ...
Roger Pielke Sr. wades into the deep end : The Island of Doubt
By James Hrynyshyn none@example.com
He accepts that humans are contributing to climate change, but is concerned that the general focus on carbon dioxide as the primary forcing of greenhouse warming is misguided and overlooks other, natural and anthropogenic factors. ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
The Breakthrough Blog - Road to Copenhagen: The Need for a New Framework
On the road to Copenhagen, international climate negotiations remain plagued by the same (intractable?) challenges they have faced for decades. Will negotiators and nations find a new framework that can break old impasses and pave the way for global cooperation before it's too late?
The Breakthrough Blog - South Korea to Invest $85b in Green New Deal
Building on the $30b down payment made in their stimulus, South Korea plans to surge ahead in the clean energy race with a $85 billion, five year public investment in clean energy technology and innovation.
The Breakthrough Blog - With $17.6b Project, China Surges Forward on Wind
China's massive public investments in wind and other renewable energy technologies are edging the rapidly developing nation into the lead in the global clean energy race.
Real Climate - Science at the bleating edge
Climate Feedback - Big Al speaks on climate (and neuroscience)
Climate Feedback - Climate equity with an economic twist
Celsias - The Daily Dose: Your Guide to the World Today – 7 July 09
Celsias - Going Local In An Era Of Globalization (+ Video)
Celsias -
More than Half of Leading U.S. Supermarkets Show Progress in Latest Greenpeace Sustainable Seafood Scorecard
Celsias -
Water for Energy, the Bad Bet for Biofuels
DeSmog Blog -

Skeptical Sources
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Feeling Like A Bee…
The Reference Frame - Polar bear experts face extinction
The Reference Frame - UAH: June 2009: anomaly near zero
the Air Vent - Area Weighted TPCA Check
Climate Observations - Here’s An Odd Effect Created By EXCEL
Icecap - Environment Agency sets up green police
Icecap - The Unwisdom of Solomon (and NOAA and Volvo)
Climate Audit - Rahm-Centering: Enhancing "Successful" Prediction
Heliogenic Climate Change - Latest idiotic geoengineering scheme: dump lime into the oceans
Heliogenic Climate Change - What would alarmists do without words like "unprecedented", "accelerating", "dramatic", and "rapid"?
Heliogenic Climate Change - PopularTechnology.net on RealClimate.org
Heliogenic Climate Change - Ration and Tax kills their jobs then pays them three years of welfare
Heliogenic Climate Change - Enviro wacko catch of the day
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - No Solar: A Note from Viv Forbes
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Defining the Scientific Sceptics (Part 7)
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Not Real Climate
Watts Up With That? - Gore and Nazis
Watts Up With That? - UAH global temperature anomaly – hitting the slopes
Watts Up With That? - El Nino – same but different
Watts Up With That? - More on RC Misinformation from Pielke Sr.
Watts Up With That? - The success penalty
Climate Science Blog - ROYAL SOCIETY, - WE NEED MUCH DEARER ENERGY
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - How to Get Climate Policy Back on Course

Balanced Sources
Short Sharp Science - G8 emissions pledge is 'scientifically illiterate'
Global Warming Blog - Sea Ice July 2009
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - New Paper “Global And Regional Comparison Of Daily 2m And 1000 hPa Maximum And Minimum Temperatures In Three Global Re-analyses” By Pitman and Perkins 2009 Raises Questions On The Skill Of Global Multi-Decadal Climate Models To Predict Surface Air Temperatures
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) continue » [more] [more] - Climate Threat to Polar Bears:
Despite Facts, Doubters Remain
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - The EPA Silences a Climate Skeptic
AccuWeather - Plants Kept the Earth from Freezing Over
Science Daily - Close Relationship Between Past Warming And Sea-level Rise (Is this one of those: DUH, articles?)
Science Daily - Athletes, Spectators Faced Unprecedented Air Pollution At 2008 Olympic Games

Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.

There is No Evidence

By Dr. David Evans

Let’s break down the case for human-caused global warming logically:

1) There is plenty of evidence that global warming has been occurring recently.
2) There is ample evidence that carbon emissions causes warming and that the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing.
3) But there is no evidence that carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of the recent global warming.

The alarmists focus you entirely on the first two points, to distract you from the third. The public is increasingly aware of this misdirection. Yes, every emitted molecule of carbon dioxide (CO2) causes some warming - but the crucial question is how much warming do the CO2 emissions cause? If atmospheric CO2 levels doubled, would temperatures rise by 0.1, 1.0, or by 10.0C?

We go through the usual “evidence” offered by alarmists, and show that in each case either it:

• Is not evidence about what causes global warming. Proof that global warming occurred is not proof that CO2 was mainly responsible.
• Is not empirical evidence; that is, it is not independent of theory. In particular models are theory, not evidence.
• Says nothing about how much the temperature would rise for a given rise in CO2 levels.

Despite spending $50bn over the last 20 years looking for evidence of point (3) above, the alarmists have found none. In two instances they expected to find it, but in both cases they found only evidence of the opposite - and they have kept awfully quiet about those cases. If they just had some evidence of (3) they could just tell us what it was and end the debate.

We note that there used to be some supporting evidence, but better data later reversed that evidence. Instead there are now at least three independent pieces of evidence that the temperature rises predicted by the IPCC due to carbon dioxide emissions are exaggerated by a factor of between 2 and 10, primarily due to the assumption of overly positive water vapor feedback in the climate models. Finally, we discuss some examples of what would constitute evidence. The evidence must of course be empirical, meaning that it is independent of theory.

Typical Evidence
Typical Alarmist Offerings of “Evidence”: Polar Bears, Glaciers, Arctic Melt, Antarctic Ice Shelves, Storms, Droughts, Fires, Malaria, Snow Melt on Mt Kilimanjaro, Rising Sea Levels, Ocean Warming, Urban Heat Island Effect. Although each of these issues may say something about whether or not global warming is or was occurring, none of them say anything about the causes of global warming. It would make no difference to these issues if the recent global warming was caused by CO2 or by aliens heating the planet with ray guns.

The IPCC Said So

So what is their evidence? Chapter 9 of their latest Assessment Report 4 (2007), “Understanding and Attributing Climate Change”, contains no evidence. That CO2 is the main cause of the recent global warming is an assumption in much of what they say, and they find many ingenious ways of saying it and implying it using complex language. But repetition is not proof, and nowhere do they present any actual evidence. If you doubt me, read it yourself then say what the evidence is in your own words.

Often the assumption takes the form that nearly all the temperature rises since the start of industrialization are due to CO2 rises, or that there are no other possible significant causes of global warming.

Computer Models are Evidence
Computer models consist solely of a large number of calculations that, individually, you could do on a hand-held calculator. So models are theoretical, and cannot form part of any evidence.

Computer Models Incorporate a Lot of Sound Empirical Science
Yes they do. The climate models contain some well-established science that has been verified by empirical observations. But they also contain a myriad of:
• implicit and explicit assumptions
• omissions
• guesses
• gross approximations.
A single mistake in any one of these can invalidate the climate models. Typical engineering models that mimic reality closely contain no untested assumptions, material omissions, guesses, or gross approximations. They are the result of mature understanding of the reality being modelled, and have been tested ad nauseum in a wide range of circumstances. On the other hand, climate science is in its infancy, individual models routinely fail most tests, the climate models are riddled with untested assumptions and guesses, they approximate the atmosphere with cells a hundred kilometres square and hundreds of meters high, and they do not even attempt to model individual cloud formations or any feature smaller than the cell size. Don’t let the word “model” fool you into thinking climate models are better than they are.

Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

06 July 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
Jennifer Marohasy » A Climate Change Paradox
By Michael Hammer
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their 4th assessment report (summary for policy makers) claim (page 12, 4th bullet point) that “…..global average surface warming following a doubling of carbon dioxide concentrations. It is likely to be in the range 2 to 4.5C with a best estimate ... What the Minister's own data shows is that the oceans have only absorbed between about 9 and 14 percent of the excess anthropogenic global warming energy implied by IPCC data. ...
The antidote to 150 million quadrillion joules | JoNova
By Michael
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their 4th assessment report (summary for policy makers) claim (page 12, 4th bullet point) that “…..global average surface warming following a doubling of carbon dioxide concentrations. It is likely to be in the range 2 to ... What the Minister's own data shows is that the oceans have only absorbed between about 9 and 14 percent of the excess anthropogenic global warming energy implied by IPCC data. Yet they claim the ocean ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Reality Check - Singer Resigns from Environmental Geology Board
Real Climate -
Science at the bleeding edge
Rabett Run - As the world wobbles
Climate Sight - Paul Krugman Says it Best
Climate Feedback - Rewind emissions to save reefs
Bunzl's Blog - The Core Narrative of Climate Change – 4
Celsias -
The Daily Dose: Your Guide to the World Today – 6 July 09
Celsias - Dr. James Hansen is a Hero
Celsias - If the U.S. Won’t Ban Dangerous Pesticides in Our Markets, It’s Up to Us to Ban Them from Our Homes
Celsias - Millions Face Climate-Related Hunger as Seasons Shift and Change

Skeptical Sources
the Air Vent - tAV to REALCLIMATE: YOU CAN’T GET THERE FROM HERE
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Please Move To Costarica (And It Won’t Be Enough…)
Jo Nova's Blog - Goldilocks Graphs: Not to close, not too far
Heliogenic Climate Change - ITCZ moved southward from the Medieval Warm period to the Little Ice Age
Heliogenic Climate Change - Ration and tax: Wealth transfer from middle class to "poor"
Heliogenic Climate Change - Greenshirts descend on Britain
Heliogenic Climate Change - Use less, pay more
Global Warming: A Worn-Out Hoax - Clouds, Climate, and Cosmic Rays
Climate Skeptic - Bad Legislation
Climate Resistance - Science-Based Catchphrase-Making
Climate Observations - There Is Nothing New About The El Nino Modoki
Icecap - Open letter to Senator Mark Begich
Icecap - Jul 06, 2009
The Risk of Impacts from Climate Change is Growing
Icecap - Real Climate Permits The Continued Presentation Of Misinformation
Icecap - The EPA Silences a Climate Skeptic
Icecap - June Global Temperatures Drop Again, 8 Year Downtrend Continues
Icecap - Jul 05, 2009
Solar Power - a Subsidised Appendage
Watts Up With That? - Quote Of The Week #13
Watts Up With That? - Pielke Sr. on RC – continued misinformation
Watts Up With That? - Pielke Sr. responds to NCDC’s “Talking Points” about surfacestations.org
Climate Science Blog - US CLIMATE BILL TO RAISE PRICES AND ENCOURAGE IMPORTS
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Hurricane Damage by ENSO Flavor
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - The Cost of Cap and Trade
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Does Bad Legislation Ever Get Better? Predicting the Waxman-Markey Vote and the Limits of Political Science
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog -

Balanced Sources
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Real Climate Permits The Continued Presentation Of Misinformation Part II
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Real Climate Permits The Continued Presentation Of Misinformation (The food fight continues, but Dr P clearly has the high ground and has taken the HIGH ROAD!)
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - Grassoline: Biofuels beyond Corn
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - The Great American Bubble Machine
AccuWeather - El Nino Modoki, A New Version of El Nino?
Science Daily - Super-size Deposits Of Frozen Carbon In Arctic Could Worsen Climate Change
Science Daily - Hand-held Aerosol Sensors Help Fill Crucial Data Gap Over Oceans

Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.

There is No Evidence

By Dr. David Evans

Let’s break down the case for human-caused global warming logically:

1) There is plenty of evidence that global warming has been occurring recently.
2) There is ample evidence that carbon emissions causes warming and that the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing.
3) But there is no evidence that carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of the recent global warming.

The alarmists focus you entirely on the first two points, to distract you from the third. The public is increasingly aware of this misdirection. Yes, every emitted molecule of carbon dioxide (CO2) causes some warming - but the crucial question is how much warming do the CO2 emissions cause? If atmospheric CO2 levels doubled, would temperatures rise by 0.1, 1.0, or by 10.0C?

We go through the usual “evidence” offered by alarmists, and show that in each case either it:

• Is not evidence about what causes global warming. Proof that global warming occurred is not proof that CO2 was mainly responsible.
• Is not empirical evidence; that is, it is not independent of theory. In particular models are theory, not evidence.
• Says nothing about how much the temperature would rise for a given rise in CO2 levels.

Despite spending $50bn over the last 20 years looking for evidence of point (3) above, the alarmists have found none. In two instances they expected to find it, but in both cases they found only evidence of the opposite - and they have kept awfully quiet about those cases. If they just had some evidence of (3) they could just tell us what it was and end the debate.

We note that there used to be some supporting evidence, but better data later reversed that evidence. Instead there are now at least three independent pieces of evidence that the temperature rises predicted by the IPCC due to carbon dioxide emissions are exaggerated by a factor of between 2 and 10, primarily due to the assumption of overly positive water vapor feedback in the climate models. Finally, we discuss some examples of what would constitute evidence. The evidence must of course be empirical, meaning that it is independent of theory.

Typical Evidence
Typical Alarmist Offerings of “Evidence”: Polar Bears, Glaciers, Arctic Melt, Antarctic Ice Shelves, Storms, Droughts, Fires, Malaria, Snow Melt on Mt Kilimanjaro, Rising Sea Levels, Ocean Warming, Urban Heat Island Effect. Although each of these issues may say something about whether or not global warming is or was occurring, none of them say anything about the causes of global warming. It would make no difference to these issues if the recent global warming was caused by CO2 or by aliens heating the planet with ray guns.

The IPCC Said So

So what is their evidence? Chapter 9 of their latest Assessment Report 4 (2007), “Understanding and Attributing Climate Change”, contains no evidence. That CO2 is the main cause of the recent global warming is an assumption in much of what they say, and they find many ingenious ways of saying it and implying it using complex language. But repetition is not proof, and nowhere do they present any actual evidence. If you doubt me, read it yourself then say what the evidence is in your own words.

Often the assumption takes the form that nearly all the temperature rises since the start of industrialization are due to CO2 rises, or that there are no other possible significant causes of global warming.

Computer Models are Evidence
Computer models consist solely of a large number of calculations that, individually, you could do on a hand-held calculator. So models are theoretical, and cannot form part of any evidence.

Computer Models Incorporate a Lot of Sound Empirical Science
Yes they do. The climate models contain some well-established science that has been verified by empirical observations. But they also contain a myriad of:
• implicit and explicit assumptions
• omissions
• guesses
• gross approximations.
A single mistake in any one of these can invalidate the climate models. Typical engineering models that mimic reality closely contain no untested assumptions, material omissions, guesses, or gross approximations. They are the result of mature understanding of the reality being modelled, and have been tested ad nauseum in a wide range of circumstances. On the other hand, climate science is in its infancy, individual models routinely fail most tests, the climate models are riddled with untested assumptions and guesses, they approximate the atmosphere with cells a hundred kilometres square and hundreds of meters high, and they do not even attempt to model individual cloud formations or any feature smaller than the cell size. Don’t let the word “model” fool you into thinking climate models are better than they are.

Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

05 July 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
Global warming whodunit
Daily Camera - CO,USA
Certain molecules in the atmosphere, such as water, carbon dioxide (CO2), and methane (CH4), absorb infrared energy radiated by the earth and reradiate it ...
Incoming
By John Phipps
And we could do it cheaply: $100 billion could reverse anthropogenic
climate change entirely, and some experts suspect that a hundredth of that sum could suffice. To stop global warming the old-fashioned way, by cutting carbon emissions, ... Dyson's early geo-engineering vision addressed a central, and still daunting, problem: neither sulfur-aerosol injection nor an armada of cloud whiteners nor an array of space-shades would do much to reduce carbon-dioxide levels. ...
Political Truth and Fact: Saturday's Web
By Norman Bishop
According to the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, a research wing of the Department of Energy, only 3.2 percent of that thin atmospheric component is created by anthropogenic emissions. The earth's temperature has only risen 1 degree ... Anthropogenic global warming is a myth, and therefore there is no need for the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. Climate change is simply an excuse for another massive government attempt at control and giveaways. ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources

Brave New Climate - El Niño and sunspots return, sea ice doesn’t
Celsias - The Daily Dose: Your Guide to the World Today – 5 July 09
Celsias - Ocean Renewable Energy Has Huge Potential But Not Without Giant Hurdles
Celsias - Shell Climate Crimes Exposed in New Report
Celsias - Kunstler: Stop calling Americans “consumers”
DeSmog Blog -

Skeptical Sources

Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Sceptics Versus Actorvists
Climate Audit - NCAR and Year 2100
Watts Up With That? -
Climate Science Blog - BROWN IN BID TO "SAVE THE PLANET"
Climate Science Blog - RUSSIA SETS SOFT CLIMATE GOALS
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog -

Balanced Sources

Global Warming Blog -
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] -
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) -
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) -
AccuWeather - Auto Emissions Standards
Science Daily - Desert Dust Alters Ecology Of Colorado Alpine Meadows

Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.

There is No Evidence

By Dr. David Evans

Let’s break down the case for human-caused global warming logically:

1) There is plenty of evidence that global warming has been occurring recently.
2) There is ample evidence that carbon emissions causes warming and that the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing.
3) But there is no evidence that carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of the recent global warming.

The alarmists focus you entirely on the first two points, to distract you from the third. The public is increasingly aware of this misdirection. Yes, every emitted molecule of carbon dioxide (CO2) causes some warming - but the crucial question is how much warming do the CO2 emissions cause? If atmospheric CO2 levels doubled, would temperatures rise by 0.1, 1.0, or by 10.0C?

We go through the usual “evidence” offered by alarmists, and show that in each case either it:

• Is not evidence about what causes global warming. Proof that global warming occurred is not proof that CO2 was mainly responsible.
• Is not empirical evidence; that is, it is not independent of theory. In particular models are theory, not evidence.
• Says nothing about how much the temperature would rise for a given rise in CO2 levels.

Despite spending $50bn over the last 20 years looking for evidence of point (3) above, the alarmists have found none. In two instances they expected to find it, but in both cases they found only evidence of the opposite - and they have kept awfully quiet about those cases. If they just had some evidence of (3) they could just tell us what it was and end the debate.

We note that there used to be some supporting evidence, but better data later reversed that evidence. Instead there are now at least three independent pieces of evidence that the temperature rises predicted by the IPCC due to carbon dioxide emissions are exaggerated by a factor of between 2 and 10, primarily due to the assumption of overly positive water vapor feedback in the climate models. Finally, we discuss some examples of what would constitute evidence. The evidence must of course be empirical, meaning that it is independent of theory.

Typical Evidence
Typical Alarmist Offerings of “Evidence”: Polar Bears, Glaciers, Arctic Melt, Antarctic Ice Shelves, Storms, Droughts, Fires, Malaria, Snow Melt on Mt Kilimanjaro, Rising Sea Levels, Ocean Warming, Urban Heat Island Effect. Although each of these issues may say something about whether or not global warming is or was occurring, none of them say anything about the causes of global warming. It would make no difference to these issues if the recent global warming was caused by CO2 or by aliens heating the planet with ray guns.

The IPCC Said So

So what is their evidence? Chapter 9 of their latest Assessment Report 4 (2007), “Understanding and Attributing Climate Change”, contains no evidence. That CO2 is the main cause of the recent global warming is an assumption in much of what they say, and they find many ingenious ways of saying it and implying it using complex language. But repetition is not proof, and nowhere do they present any actual evidence. If you doubt me, read it yourself then say what the evidence is in your own words.

Often the assumption takes the form that nearly all the temperature rises since the start of industrialization are due to CO2 rises, or that there are no other possible significant causes of global warming.

Computer Models are Evidence
Computer models consist solely of a large number of calculations that, individually, you could do on a hand-held calculator. So models are theoretical, and cannot form part of any evidence.

Computer Models Incorporate a Lot of Sound Empirical Science
Yes they do. The climate models contain some well-established science that has been verified by empirical observations. But they also contain a myriad of:
• implicit and explicit assumptions
• omissions
• guesses
• gross approximations.
A single mistake in any one of these can invalidate the climate models. Typical engineering models that mimic reality closely contain no untested assumptions, material omissions, guesses, or gross approximations. They are the result of mature understanding of the reality being modelled, and have been tested ad nauseum in a wide range of circumstances. On the other hand, climate science is in its infancy, individual models routinely fail most tests, the climate models are riddled with untested assumptions and guesses, they approximate the atmosphere with cells a hundred kilometres square and hundreds of meters high, and they do not even attempt to model individual cloud formations or any feature smaller than the cell size. Don’t let the word “model” fool you into thinking climate models are better than they are.

Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

04 July 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist

Email From Climate Sceptic

Climate Sceptics News alert.

Hi Readers,

The four independant scientists working with Senator Fielding have replied to Penny Wongs with a 48 page document (see info attached) dissecting the governments position on the science of climate change.

This is an important moment in Politics. Letters to newspapers would be most welcome to demonstrate that the government should address the fact no conclusive evidence can be provided by the Governments scientific advisors.

The major conclusions of the science audit team were:



• Global temperatures have remained steady since 1998, despite a 5% increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide

• No strong evidence exists that human carbon dioxide emissions are causing, or are likely to cause, dangerous warming on top of natural trends

• No scientific consensus exists

The country should be in uproar. Your voice to various newspapers would be good to reflect that.
Melbourne Educational Protest Mon 13th July
Below is part of an email sent to the media regarding the Educational Protest in Melbourne. The top graph is one of the four we will have displayed on banners.
Please consider being there if you can. Al Gores breakfast begins at 7am at Docklands Peninsula. Those attending will meet at southern cross station at 6.15 am

The reality is political parties will not change their positions on the ETS much until politicians see public opinion changing. Public opinion will not change with out ordinary people getting involved in activities that shows they are highly concerned.
We encourage you to do what you can. The next few months are crucial before the Senate votes on the ETS.
Anyone needing a ride from SA or Western Vic, to get to the protest - There is some room in a couple of cars coming.

Cheers
Leon Ashby

Al Gore will be in Melbourne speaking on Monday 13th July to 1,000 invited guests. And has been approached to debate Professor Bob Carter while in Australia, but no reply has been received. An educational Protest will therefore occur outside where Al Gore will speak. Here are two of the seventeen Questions we believe Al Gore should answer (along with graphs we will display at the protest). Since 1998 global temperatures have been flat or decreasing slightly while CO2 increases rapidly. This temperature stasis is not what Al Gores movie predicted. So why be concerned about CO2 if global warming is not occurring by temperature records? Since 1980 Satellites have recorded the amount of Ice cover over the north pole. While Ice cover has varied, the latest ice cover (2009) is identical to 1980`s amount of ice cover. Also the median Ice cover from 1979 to 2000 is much the same as this years amount. Al Gores movie predicted the Arctic ice cover would diminish. Since Ice cover this year is not any less than in 1980, why is there any concern CO2 will make the Arctic Ice cap disappear? From National Snow and Ice data Centre, Boulder CO



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EPA Dept. Director Kills Report and Author Warned "Stop Talking ...
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The issue is rather whether the GHG/CO2/AGW hypothesis meets the ultimate scientific ... Unfortunately this has not happened in the global warming debate, ...
On climate tinkers: Australian Senator Responded 2
By Clothcap
The evidence is thus very strong that the post-1850 warming trend is
primarily caused by the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere due to human activities. The reason that the post-1850 warming trend is ... Before human-caused global warming can become an economic problem, it first has to be identified by scientific study as a dangerous hazard for the planet, distinct from natural climate change. This notwithstanding, a number of distinguished ...
AccuWeather.com: Global Warming News, Science, Myths, Articles
Jul 2, 2009 ... AccuWeather.com's global warming center offers a daily blog of news related to the ... It it's been moving for 300 years, AGW couldn't be the cause. ... "GHG, mainly water vapor, greatly affect the temperature of the Earth; ... The findings suggest "that increasing greenhouse gases could potentially ...
Close-Minded Environmental AGW Lawyer Plays The Bait « The ...
I used to believe in anthropogenic global warming until I started ...
5 Climate Studies That Don't Live Up to the Hype
FOXNews - USA
The Fallout: We know that methane is a far more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, so the suggestion that it comes from plants led to a blizzard ...
Week in Review
Seed Magazine - New York,NY,USA
If there will be any positive effect of the book's publication, however, it will be Plimer's assertions that proponents of anthropogenic climate change are ...
Worst. Rant. Ever. James Inhofe on Global Warming
Daily Kos - Berkeley,CA,USA
What gets obscured in the global warming debate is the fact that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. It is necessary for life. Numerous studies have shown ...
Green-industrial complex gets rich from carbon laws
The Australian - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
You know, although I do feel the current evidence *does* support the theory of Anthropogenic climate change, I do *not* believe that an emissions trading ...
Climate Change Fraud - Because the debate is not over - 5 Climate ...
By info@climatechangefraud.com (Popular Mechanics)
The Fallout: We know that methane is a far more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, so the suggestion that it comes from plants led to a blizzard of headlines suggesting that trees could be contributing to global warming. The Truth : The researchers balked ... Rather, if plants do give off methane, they've been doing it since long before humans were on the scene and their emissions aren't connected to today's anthropogenic climate
change. Schmidt says the findings ...

Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Celsias - Responsible Electronics Recycling: Turning Policy into Practice
Celsias - Media Conservatives Continue to Push Widely Disputed Spanish Study on Green Jobs
DeSmog Blog - "Supressed" Climate Report Cribbed From Patrick Michaels?

Skeptical Sources
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Richard Black Sees The Light
Icecap - Jul 04, 2009
Another Moonwalker Dissents: NASA Astronaut Dr. Buzz Aldrin rejects global warming fears
Icecap - There is No Evidence (I plan on putting this report up as a permanent entry along with the graphs.)
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Rational Advice on ‘Carbon Act’ Censored (Part 2)
Watts Up With That? - How not to measure temperature, part 89 – “surface temperature”
Watts Up With That? - The Sun puts on some fireworks for the 4th of July
Watts Up With That? - Apollo moonwalker Dr. Buzz Aldrin announces his climate skepticism
Climate Science Blog - SCOTLAND TO CUT CO2 EMISSIONS BY 42% BY 2020
Climate Science Blog - MORE PROPAGANDA TO STOP NEW COAL POWER STATION
William M. Briggs, Statistician & Consultant - Do NOT smooth time series before computing forecast skill

Balanced Sources

Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - The least sea ice in 800 years (Candidate for the most misleading headline for today. Its based upon proxy data and covers a small patch of ice near Greenland.)
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) (PDF) - There is No Evidence (The paper from which the Icecap article above was drawn.)
AccuWeather -
Science Daily -

Today's Interesting Finds
I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

03 July 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
How Can Kids/teens Get Involved To Help Against Climate Change ...
By admin
Here we have a mechanism which is a far better explanation to variations in global climate than the attempts by IPCC to blame it all on anthropogenic input of greenhouse gases.” Germany: Paleoclimate expert Augusto ...
Britain: Dr. Richard Courtney, a UN IPCC expert reviewer and a UK-based climate and atmospheric science consultant: “To date, no convincing evidence for AGW (anthropogenic global warming) has been discovered. And recent global climate behavior is not ...
Alan Carlin, EPA Economist and AGW - JREF Forum
Both GHG emissions reductions and solar radiation management need to be ...
Reducing emissions of greenhouse gases may be well intentioned and even helpful. ... sound like the crackpot "Humans are not causing global warming" position. ...
The Lesser Evil: Nuclear or Coal? § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
By boustead@seedmediagroup.com
But with a new administration ready to tack a new course during a crucial time in our response to climate change, the decision is real. Which do you think is the lesser of the two evils, and why? Do you see a way out of this devil's choice? .... The cost of such measures for nuclear power (including enhanced protection against terrorist attacks) and coal (including full capture of carbon dioxide and other hazardous emissions) would make these options even less competitive ...
Tom Nelson
By Tom
The report argues that Europe's leadership is "primarily evident" in its climate change commitments. But in order to continue attracting investment and businesses, greater efforts must be made to promote innovation and energy efficiency, ... Congress and the President are rushing in, ostensibly to do something about anthropogenic carbon dioxide. Never mind the fact that the more the details are examined, the weaker the arguments get for blaming any possible global warming ...
Is cap-and-trade opposition based on politics? | WE Blog | Wichita ...
By Phillip Brownlee
“The Environmental Protection Agency may have suppressed an internal
report that was skeptical of claims about global warming, including whether carbon dioxide must be strictly regulated by the federal government, according to a series ..... Faith in Anthropogenic Warming is based in the work and teaching of Dr. James Hansen and former Vice President Al Gore (The GORACLE.) In this way, Warmers declare not to be distinguished by its faith, but by the object of its faith, ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Rabett Run - Science lurches forward again
Only In It For The Gold - Inexcusable Austin/Singer/Lindzen Letter
Celsias - The Daily Dose: Your Guide to the World Today – 3 July 09
Celsias - Reporting on Possibly "Suppressed" EPA Document, CBS Suppressed Actual Climate Science
Celsias - Climate Change Causes Sheep Shrinkage
U.S. Top Polluter Per Capita, G8 Survey Says
Celsias -

Skeptical Sources
the Air Vent - Unprecidented Again
Niche Modeling - Rahmstorf 2007 Discredited
Jo Nova's Blog - Scientists call for Royal Commission* into Climate Change Science
Global Warming [Dr Roy Spencer's Blog] - June 2009 Global Temperature Anomaly Update: 0.00 deg. C
Climate Resistance - A Big Fuss About Small Change
Climate Observations - Hurricane Breeding Grounds SST Anomalies at the Start of the 2009 Season
Climate Audit - The Secret of the Rahmstorf "Non-Linear Trend Line"
Icecap - The Wong Fielding Meeting on Global Warming — Documents (A key conclusion of one of the papers - We add, with respect to (iii) [iii = use a commission to study the issue], that the
scientific community is now so polarised on the controversial issue of dangerous global warming
that proper due diligence on the matter can only be achieved where competent scientific
witnesses are cross-examined under oath and under strict rules of evidence.)
Heliogenic Climate Change - Government killing jobs with taxes and regulations
Watts Up With That? - Spencer on Waxman-Markey’s Cap and Trade
Climate Science Blog - AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT EXPERTS QUESTIONED OVER GW
Climate Science Blog - MORE ON THE MYSTIC MET OFFICE PREDICTIONS

Balanced Sources
The Blackboard - UAH anomaly down but not negative!
Global Warming Blog - Zai Holes
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Gavin Schmidt’s Interview On Media Hype On Climate Science Issues
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Roger A. Pielke Sr. Comments On The NCDC Talking Point Response To The Report “Is The U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable?” By Anthony Watts
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) [riposte] - Bubkes
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - No climate debate? Yes, there is (Is th4e MSM slowly starting to catch on? -- What if enacting cap-and-trade means incurring excruciating costs in exchange for infinitesimal benefits?)
AccuWeather - Five Overhyped Climate Studies
Science Daily - New Type Of El Nino Could Mean More Hurricanes Make Landfall
Science Daily - Small Heat-Shielded Habitats Could Help Threatened Species Survive Climate Change

Today's Interesting Finds
I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

02 July 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
PoliGazette » Anthropogenic Global Warming Still Debatable
By Jason Arvak
Writing in the Boston Globe, conservative columnist Jeff Jacoby nails the biggest hole in the insistent lobby that demands all debate about anthropogenic global warming (AGW) be ended:. .... The report contained several inconvenient conclusions regarding the recent EPA declarations of their intent to regulate greenhouse gases. Carlin works specifically at the EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), he prepared a report that is highly critical of this ...
Climate Skeptic: "I Was Hoping People At EPA Would Pay Attention ...
By Zachary Roth
Carlin: If food so called AGW hypothesis is correct. That you would think temperatures would be going out to right right right and don't think so here are the temperatures from 202. -- 208. And they're both going down a little beyond and. .... Do they deny the increase in greenhouse gases? If not, there's no basis for denial in general. Dispute specific predictions, and whether specific phenomena are caused by global warming, fine, but anthropogenic global warming can't ...
Cap-and-Trade Means Regulate and Subsidize
American Thinker - Bellevue,WA,USA
According to the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, ... Climate change is simply an excuse for another massive government attempt at control and ...
Today in Bad Government
Motley Fool - USA
Such statements suggest that there might be substantive disagreement in the scientific community about the reality of anthropogenic climate change. ...
47 groups urge Obama to endorse 2-degree C warming threshold
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA
Scenarios that stabilize carbon dioxide below 450 ppm offer an increased chance of avoiding dangerous climate change.” Our landmark US environmental laws ...
Did the EPA deliberately keep information from congress ahead of vote?
Examiner.com - USA
... itself broad powers to regulation carbon dioxide only deepens such concerns. ... on climate change and the report was therefore not to be distributed. ...
State government promotes P4 model
Times of India - New Delhi,India
... a protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ... commitments for the reduction of four greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, ...
Government: Guided by lunacy
Casper Star-Tribune Online - Casper,WY,USA
Climate change?! Are you kidding me? What is next, pass legislation to ... We also know that at the time of the dinosaurs, carbon dioxide levels were three ...
Global warming: a failed communications strategy threatens ...
Examiner.com - USA
Since they are the ones who want us all to change our lives, emit less CO2 and bear the cost of removing carbon dioxide from our economy, one would think ...
Climate Change Fraud - Because the debate is not over - Cap and ...
By Dr. Roy W. Spencer
But there are two practical problems with the theory of anthropogenic global warming: (1) global warming is (or at least was) likely to be a mostly natural process; and (2) even if global warming is manmade, it will be immensely difficult to ... Under cap-and-trade, the government institutes “caps” on how much carbon dioxide can be emitted, and then allows companies to “trade” carbon credits so that the market rewards those companies that find ways to produce less CO2. ...
Is A Half-Assed Climate Bill Worth Supporting? Probably ...
By Brad Plumer
Among people who think we need strong, rapid action to curb greenhouse-gas emissions and avoid dangerous climate change—and I'm one of them—there's been a great deal of hand-wringing over whether or not to support the House climate .... ad hominem is used to conceal the ideologues' staggering ignorance on the issues (ignorance of the sort that President Obama revealed with his recent claim that carbon dioxide
"contaminate[s] the water we drink and pollute[s] the air we ...
Letter from Green Groups to Obama « The Dernogalizer
By Matt Dernoga
... objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: achieving stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. ... Scenarios that stabilize carbon dioxide below 450 ppm offer an increased chance of avoiding dangerous climate change.” Our landmark U.S. environmental laws are founded on the best science and the pragmatic goal of designing ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Real climate - More bubkes
Climate Feedback - Plant power
Celsias - Carbon Convergence? Australia, U.S. Weigh Cap and Trade
Celsias -
Los Angeles Mayor Vows to Eliminate the Use of Coal by 2020
DeSmog Blog - The XX in Exxon = "Fingers Crossed"
Climate Sight - Being Wrong

Skeptical Sources
Heliogenic Climate Change - ITCZ has been moving northward since the Little Ice Age
Heliogenic Climate Change - CAFE is killing Detroit
Heliogenic Climate Change - Dr. Albrecht Glatzle debunks livestock emissions scare
Heliogenic Climate Change - Svensmark's new paper
Heliogenic Climate Change - Free trade is the newest enemy of the carbon cult
Icecap - CBO Grossly Underestimates Costs of Cap and Trade
Climate Audit - Increased Atlantic hurricane landfalls from a new form of El Nino?
Climate Audit - Rahmsmoothing and the Canadian GCM
Climate Audit - Opportunism and the Models
Watts Up With That? - Bubkes II – RC’s “rush hour”
Watts Up With That? - Arctic temp above 80N parallel still below freezing – trend flat
Watts Up With That? - Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade Bill: The next step – your chance for input
Watts Up With That? - Another paper showing evidence of a solar signature in temperature records
Climate Science Blog - US THREATENS TRADE WAR OVER EMISSIONS
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog -

Balanced Sources
EU Referendum - Watch the video ...
The Blackboard - Channel5 July Average
Global Warming Blog - Saharan Mega Solar
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Response By Roger A. Pielke Sr. To The Real Climate Weblog “More Bubkes”
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Article in Ski Area Management By Allen Best Titled “Slightly Skeptical Look At Global Warming”
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - Sea level rise: It's worse than we thought
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Opportunity knocks, again, in the Andes
AccuWeather - ITCZ Creeping Northward over the Past 300 Years
Science Daily - Plants Save The Earth From An Icy Doom

Today's Interesting Finds
I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

01 July 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist
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Climate Sceptic News 01/07/09
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Hi everyone - In this edition we are announcing an Educational protest in Melbourne at Al Gores "safe Climate" breakfast on July 13th See below for more details
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Penny Wong Has posted this reply to Senator Stephen Fieldings questions
http://www.environment.gov.au/minister/wong/2009/tr20090624c.html
Then Scientists Matthew England and Bill Kinimonth debated the data - The exchange is most enlightening
http://joannenova.com.au/england-and-kininmonth-exchange-emails/
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The number of skeptics is swelling everywhere.

Steve Fielding recently asked the Obama administration to reassure him on the science of man-made global warming. When the administration proved unhelpful, Mr. Fielding decided to vote against climate-change legislation.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124597505076157449.html
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House narrowly passes major energy-climate bill

In a triumph for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed sweeping legislation Friday that calls for the nation's first limits on pollution linked to global warming and aims to usher in a new era of cleaner, yet more costly energy.The vote was 219-212, capping months of negotiations and days of intense bargaining among Democrats.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090626/ap_on_go_co/us_climate_bill
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James Hansen says Organizations Supporting Waxman-Markey Bill Guilty of Stupidity

In a profile in the current issue of the New Yorker magazine, Hansen has some choice words for any group that supports the Climate Bill tax being shoved down America's collective throat.

http://www.climatechangefraud.com/home/33-enviro-extremists/4392-james-hansen-says-organizations-supporting-waxman-markey-bill-guilty-of-stupidity
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CEI Releases Global Warming Study Censored by EPA

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is today making public an internal study on climate science which was suppressed by the Environmental Protection Agency.

http://cei.org/news-release/2009/06/25/cei-releases-global-warming-study-censored-epa
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Polar bear expert barred by global warmists

One of the world's leading experts on polar bears, Dr Mitchell Taylor has been told to stay away from this week's meeting of the Polar Bear Specialist Group in Copenhagen specifically because his views on global warming do not accord with those of the rest of the group.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5664069/Polar-bear-expert-barred-by-global-warmists.html
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The 'Global Warming Three' are on thin ice

The only problem with a project to prove that Arctic ice is disappearing is the fact that it is actually getting thicker.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5028380/The-Global-Warming-Three-are-on-thin-ice.html
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EPA May Have Suppressed Report Skeptical Of Global Warming

The Environmental Protection Agency may have suppressed an internal report that was skeptical of claims about global warming, including whether carbon dioxide must be strictly regulated by the federal government, according to a series of newly disclosed e-mail messages.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/06/26/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5117890.shtml
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Cap-and-Trade Bill U.S. Senate Vote Mid-September?

The focus on climate change legislation now shifts to the Senate, where Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada wants to bring a bill to the floor by mid-September. They need at least 60 votes for the bill to pass.

http://www.asmainegoes.com/content/cap-and-trade-bill-us-senate-vote-mid-september
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News about The Climate Sceptics
Educational protest against Al Gore on 13th July - Melbourne

All members of the community sceptical that CO2 causes climate change are most welcome to join in an "Educational protest" outside where Al Gore will be giving a speech at Docklands peninsula on Monday 13th July.
Four Graphs will be paraded as part of the educational protest to say the evidence CO2 causes climate change is false.

If you are interested in attending the protest and want more info, email info@climatesceptics.com.au
Billets are available for anyone travelling to this event.

We will meet at the southern end of Southern Cross station at 6.15 am to get organised for a 6.30 am start.
Please bring a placard. Try to be humourous as well as educational.
T shirts saying "Global warming? CRAP Carbon Aint Really Pollution" will be available to buy & wear.
Leaflets with 17 questions for Al Gore will be supplied for several of us to hand out to those attending Al Gores Breakfast to 1,000 specially invited guests.
The protest event will go from 6.30 am to 7.30 am (including a few speeches from 7 am as the breakfast is beginning )
We will then have a cuppa afterwards at Southern Cross Station to debrief.
The event will be videoed and put on Youtube.

This event will be an important one in convincing the media there is a growing number of people sceptical CO2 caused Global Warming. We need to be visible and in numbers. In years to come you may like to say you were there. Forward this info as you see fit.

Looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible.

Cheers

Leon Ashby
info@climatesceptics.com.au

Results From Today's Google Alert
Open letter to Jeanette Fitzsimons
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - Wellington,New Zealand
Considering the massive implications the current 'global warming/climate change' ... particularly carbon dioxide, heating up the atmosphere and leading to a ...
Thune, Inhofe Call for Investigation of EPA Report Coverup
Dakota Voice - Rapid City,SD,USA
From Fox News: The 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin, pushed back on the prospect of regulating gases like carbon dioxide as a way to ...
EPA suppresses report calling into question global warming science
Examiner.com - USA
... theory of manmade climate change. The 98-page report, submitted to agency leaders just prior to it recommending regulation of carbon dioxide emissions, ...
'Okie' on the Lam » Blog Archive » “Hey, people deserve to know ...
By 'Okie'
The AGW-hypothesis asserts that increased greenhouse gases (GHG's) –
notably carbon dioxide – in the atmosphere will cause the globe to warm (global warming: GW) and that anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide are increasing the carbon dioxide in the air with ... In June 2000 he was one of 15 scientists invited from around the world to give a briefing on climate change at the US Congress in Washington DC, and he then chaired one of the three briefing sessions. ...
CO2: A bane and a boon to Wyo energy - Carbon Offsets Daily
By Krithi
This build-out could eventually allow Wyoming to capture anthropogenic CO2
from coal-plant smokestacks for geologic sequestration. For now, nearly all industrial sources of CO2 in Wyoming are spoken for, and the industry is eagerly ... State officials say capturing carbon dioxide — the main greenhouse gas contributing to global warming — is key to preserving Wyoming's coal industry. And they say they're beginning to see results in efforts to push carbon capture and ...
When You Want “Settled Science” Simply Ban Opposing Views : Black ...
By Tom Remington
Intelligent people have known for some time that the whole notion of global warming being caused by man-made carbon dioxide is a farce, embedded in politics and driven by greed and the desire to capitalize on a faux crisis to make gobs of money. To justify the actions of those ... He also was one of 500 scientists who signed the Manhattan Declaration, a statement presented by 500 scientists from around the world willing to publicly state that climate change is natural. ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Climate Sight - No Title?
Climate Feedback - Q&A: Observing the scars of the Arctic thaw
Brave New Climate - Brave new power for the world
Celsias - A Town With No Cars
Celsias - The Daily Dose: Your Guide to the World Today – 30 June 09
Celsias - Economy Too Big For Its Biosphere

Skeptical Sources
World Climate Report - The Risk of Impacts from Climate Change is Growing
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Nonskeptical Skeptic Michael Shermer (Unwittingly) Disproves AGW – Plus Bonus From Scientific American
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - If Waxman-Markey Went Global…
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Harbingers Of A Climate Dictatorship
Jo Nova's Global Warming Blog - Ocean temperatures: The new bluff in alarmism
Global Warming: A Worn-Out Hoax - Obama Suppresses Science
Global Warming [Dr Roy Spencer's Blog] - Cap and Trade and the Illusion of the New Green Economy
Climate Observations - Part 3 of Comparison of GISTEMP and UAH MSU TLT Anomalies
Climate Change by Erl Happ and Carl Wolk - The Southern Oscillation. The young persons guide to climate change.
Icecap - Jul 01, 2009
The Suspicious Science Behind Man-Made Global Warming
Icecap - Jul 01, 2009
Sunspot Minimum Moves to At Least December; June in Northeast like 2008 in UK
Icecap - Climatologist slams RealClimate.org: Rebuts Myths On Sea Level, Oceans and Arctic Ice
Heliogenic Climate Change - California reaps the whirlwind -- GM quits the state
Heliogenic Climate Change - Cosmic rays and climate -- the CERN CLOUD experiment
Heliogenic Climate Change - The buying of the Ration and Tax bill -- naked corruption
Heliogenic Climate Change - Ocean flow and secular varation of geomagnetism -- connection?
Icecap - (PDF) Evidence for a solar signature in 20th-century temperature
data from the USA and Europe
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Harsh Words for ‘Deniers’ from Nobel Laureate
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - New Marine Data Website
Heliogenic Climate Change - From bad to worse for California
Heliogenic Climate Change - Solar forcing of climate
Watts Up With That? - New Sea Ice Video – this time watch the Antarctic
Watts Up With That? - Message in the CLOUD for Warmists: The end is near?
Watts Up With That? - Roger Pielke Senior on Real Climate claims: “bubkes”
Watts Up With That? - McIntyre on USHCN2’s “warmer” trend treatment of Orland
Watts Up With That? - Tropical Tropospheric Amplification – an invitation to review this new paper
Climate Science Blog - WORST HOTEL - GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - The Rightful Place of Science? Within the Bosom of the Democratic Party
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Tropical Cyclone Damages in China

Balanced Sources
The Blackboard - Cold Start to Chicago July:
Ring of Fire in Forecast.
EU Referendum - Green dole
The Blackboard - More Fishy: How would you use Mannian Minimum Roughness to guess future data to “test” projections?
Global Warming Blog - Food Futures
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] -
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) [more] - Report Gives Sobering View Of Warming’s Impact on U.S.
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) [riposte] [counter riposte] - Banned by the EPA
AccuWeather - The State of Climate Science from Four Experts
Science Daily - Sea Ice At Lowest Level In 800 Years Near Greenland
Science Daily - Rising Acidity Levels Could Trigger Shellfish Revenue Declines, Job Losses
Science Daily - Study Advises Chinese Government To Change Fuel In Millions Of Households
Science Daily - World's Largest Aerosol Sensing Network Has Leafy Origins

Today's Interesting Finds
I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

30 June 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
EPA, Obama ignore science to pass tax hike « America, You Asked ...
By John Allison, III
... rather the relative ease with which major holes have been found in the GHG/CO2/AGW argument.” He concludes the EPA's choice to depend on third-party research based on questionable science to stake its position on global warming is a mistake. ... of ignoring other “major potential causes” of Global Warming in models the EPA depends on to support its position, stating that said practice likely overstates the importance of the impact of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. ...
Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age
Examiner.com - USA
Most of the long-term climate data collected from various sources also shows ... began promoting the theory that 'greenhouse gasses' such as carbon dioxide, ...
Cap and Trade; a Solution to a Non-existent Problem with ...
Canada Free Press - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
A scientific definition of carbon dioxide (CO2) is; a colorless, odorless gas ... of European objectives [on climate change] and the implications for jobs. ...
Would Obama and His Ilk Lie?
Agoravox - Paris,France
Knowing that current scientific research disproves the anthropogenic ...
that shows rather clearly that human activity is a minor factor in climate change, ...
Climate Change Fraud - Because the debate is not over - Cap and ...
By Dr. Tim Ball, Canada Free Press
Witness Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) advocate James Hansen's
involvement with Greenpeace protesters on trial in the UK for damaging a coal burning plant. Recently he was arrested protesting a coal processing plant in Southern ... scientific definition of carbon dioxide (CO2) is; a colorless, odorless gas produced by burning carbon and organic compounds and by respiration. So basically carbon is a solid and CO2 is a gas. They claim CO2 can slow heat escape from the ...
COACHEP » Blog Archive » Obama's EPA Quashes Climate Change Science
By admin
From Powerline: The Competitive Enterprise Institute has obtained an EPA
study of the “endangerment” to human well-being ostensibly caused by
carbon dioxide emissions, together with a set of EPA emails indicating that the study, which concludes that ... Knowing that current scientific research disproves the anthropogenic global warming theory, the U.N. ordered that no recent research be considered in the IPCC report. This is a scandal of which too few people are aware. ...
I Love CO2: Cap and Trade; a Solution to a Non-existent Problem ...
By JC
A scientific definition of carbon dioxide (CO2) is; a colorless, odorless gas produced by burning carbon and organic compounds and by respiration. So basically carbon is a solid and CO2 is a gas. They claim CO2 can slow heat escape from the atmosphere and an ... Philippe Herzog, a French economist and founder of Confrontations Europe said, “We have not found a balance yet between the definition of European objectives [on climate change] and the implications for jobs. ...
Climate Change Truth — The New Clarion
By Bill Brown
It was a last-minute attempt to inject some caution into the incautious process by which the EPA was going to officially declare carbon dioxide a pollutant. After an online blizzard of indignation curiously absent from the media, ... These two recent episodes are but the latest in a long series of denying dissent by the proponents of anthropogenic global warming (AGW). Spend any time online researching global warming and you'll quickly discover countless more examples of ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources

More Grumbine Science - Statiscal significance of 150 years of data over 4.5 billion years
Celsias -
Crash! Why Our Farming Practices Aren't Sustainable
Celsias - The Daily Dose: Your Guide to the World Today – 29 June 09

Skeptical Sources
Climate Audit - Hurricane watch 2009: scraping the bottom
Climate Audit - Names That Cannot Be Said
Climate Audit - Orland CA and the New Adjustments
Watts Up With That? - 10.7 solar radio flux, then and now
Climate Science Blog - UK GOVERNMENT IN MASSIVE LEAFLET CAMPAIGN ON GW
Climate Science Blog - REAL CLIMATE SCIENCE IGNORED IN FAVOUR OF CO2 RELIGION
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Does Henry Waxman Understand Offsets?
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Senator Inhofe Takes What is Given

Balanced Sources
Global Warming Blog - Climate Pinata
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] -
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - Climate Bill Ignores Our Biggest Clean Energy Source
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Polar bear expert barred by global warmists
AccuWeather -
Combined Particulate Pollution and Soot Impacts
Science Daily - Particulate Pollution Combined With Airborne Soot Adds To Global Warming
Science Daily - First Successful Use Of New Ocean Observation Technology – Investigation Of Ocean Acidification In The Baltic Sea
Science Daily - Desert Dust Alters Ecology Of Colorado Alpine Meadows
Science Daily - Particulate Pollution Combined With Airborne Soot Adds To Global Warming

Today's Interesting Finds
I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

29 June 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
AGW Today: Losers, Compromise, And Censored EPA Report - Right ...
The issue is rather whether the GHG/CO2/AGW hypothesis meets the ultimate scientific test--conformance with real world data. What these comments show is that it is this ultimate test that the hypothesis fails; this is why EPA needs to .... a limited number of tradable instruments in the nature of emission allowances and requires that sources within its jurisdiction surrender such tradeable instruments for each unit of greenhouse gases emitted during a compliance period. ...
Voluntary Serfdom Captured on C-Span Live
Lew Rockwell - Burlingame,CA,USA
Anthropogenic global warming was, this time, the crisis-opiate that girded our loins and softened ... life-sustaining carbon dioxide a "poisonous pollutant. ...
What is the point of cap and trade?
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
The vilification of people who deny climate change is like respectable ... Some basics: Carbon dioxide is not evil, is not toxic, is not poisonous. ...
The perils of climate change
The News International - Karachi,Pakistan
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the impact of climate change and global warming are also devastating for human health. This anthropogenic ...
Obama's EPA Quashes Climate Change Science
Power Line - Minneapolis,MN,USA
... that carbon dioxide is not a significant cause of climate change, ... Knowing that current scientific research disproves the anthropogenic global ...
THE “FIELDING” REBUTTAL « DUCKPOND
By wmmbb
Cognisant of these facts, Senator Steve Fielding has posed three direct questions to the Minister for Climate Change, Senator Penny Wong, in order to clarify whether or not evidence exists that human carbon dioxide emissions are causing dangerous global warming, as alleged by the UN's ..... In essence, to now acknowledge that there is significant internal variability to the climate system is to destroy the plausibility of anthropogenic global warming alarmism. REFERENCES ...
Marginal Revolution: The new Smoot-Hawley?
By Tyler Cowen
Climate change is a big problem. It will eventually require a big solution. My understanding is that the polling suggests that people don't like it when you tell them this is a big problem and they don't want to be convinced that they ..... This has to be made known to the general public who is unaware of the alternative for taking action to lower the anthropogenic spewing of CO2. This transformation to nuclear energy will probably rake place when oil reserves dwindle ...
Liberally Conservative » Blog Archive » Would Obama and His Ilk Lie?
By Liberally Conservative
Knowing that current scientific research disproves the anthropogenic global warming theory, the U.N. ordered that no recent research be considered in the IPCC report. Carlin and Davidson recite the scientific work that shows rather clearly that human activity is a minor factor in climate change, which has been occurring from the beginning of Earth's history to the present. Obama's EPA suppressed the Carlin/Davidson report and tried to keep it secret for political reasons. ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Only In It For The Gold - Manzi's Folly and Economics in General
Only In It For The Gold - For Those Who Underestimate Climatology
The Breakthrough Blog - Rep. Waxman Responds to Breakthrough Institute, Criticizing Public Investment and Praising Offsets
On a morning radio show, Congressman Waxman responded directly to the Breakthrough Institute. His response raises concerns about whether ACES can be significantly strengthened in the Senate.
Bunzl's Blog - A Moment Worthy of Reflection
Celsias - Green Bang for Your Buck (and Better Health): Eco-Friendly Fireworks
Celsias - Trade vs Climate Change: What Should Developing Countries Be Asked to Do?

Skeptical Sources
William M. Briggs, Statistician & Consultant - Paul Krugman drags out the “T” word again
The Reference Frame - Transition to El Nino becomes official
the Air Vent - Inhofe Got the Message – EPA Busted
the Air Vent - It’s Simple
niche modeling - Cap-and-trade legislation
Heliogenic Climate Change - Great Barrier Reef coral alarmism debunked
Climate Skeptic - Willful Blindness
Climate Skeptic - Take A Deep Breath…
Climate Audit - The Talking Points Memo
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Clive Crook on Cap and Trade
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Q&A with Tom Fuller (Read this one! Especially look at answer #3)
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Top 10 Things I liked about Prometheus
niche modeling - Recent Climate Observations: Disagreement With Projections
Icecap - Sarychev Peak Volcano Eruption Earlier This Month Affecting Sunsets (and Weather?)
Icecap - Funding cut for UK climate research
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Rational Advice on ‘Carbon Act’ Censored
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Defining the Sceptics (Part 5)
Climate Audit - USHCN V2 Deletions and Additions
Watts Up With That? - NASA GISS: adjustments galore, rewriting U.S. climate history
Watts Up With That? - UK’s Met Office loses 25% of its funding
Climate Science Blog - EXPERT SCIENTIST SIDE-LINED FOR CLIMATE VIEWS
Climate Science Blog - ECO TERRORISM ON THE INCREASE


Balanced Sources
The Blackboard - Source of fishy odor confirmed:
Rahmstorf did change smoothing.
Global Warming Blog - Opening Obama's Eyes
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Weblog On The Resilient Earth Titled “Seven Climate Models, Seven Different Answers” By Doug J. Hoffman
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Recommended Weblog By Tom Fuller “Next Generation Questions For Global Warming”
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) [more] - Betraying the Planet
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) [riposte] - EPA May Have Suppressed Report Skeptical Of Global Warming
AccuWeather - Rapid Retreat of Ice Sheet Can occur Again
Science Daily - QuikScat Finds Tempests Brewing In 'Ordinary' Storms

Today's Interesting Finds

Today's Quote

From Roger Pielke Jr's site we have this:

3. Who in the debate is playing fairly and who is not? (I have not yet gotten a complete answer to this question from your father, Stephen Schneider or Bjorn Lomborg--maybe you'll be the first...)

I’m not sure I understand this question, but I'll give it a go.

Many people, on all sides of the climate debate are very sincere in their views and work hard to express them as best they can. But among many, especially in the blogosphere where differences in perspectives are magnified and common courtesies seem to be forgotten, there is too often little willingness to accept the fact that different people have legitimately different views. People often forget that it is OK to agree to disagree. At the same time there are of course people on all sides of the debate who misrepresent information deliberately, attack people’s character, and worse. Having been on the receiving end of some of these tactics I guess I’d say if you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. But we should all try to elevate the quality of debate.

As far as playing “fair” in my experience in the blogosphere there are (remarkably) only two websites that have refused to allow me to comment on their site, even when they are discussing my work, and those sites are run by Joe Romm (Climate Progress) and Gavin Schmidt (Real Climate). They can run their sites as they wish, of course, but their actions speak loudly. Why are these guys afraid of open discussion?

More broadly and significantly, I have little sympathy for those who use legitimate processes such as journal peer review and government advisory reports to advance personal or political agendas. This is a failure of process and those in leadership positions who oversee those processes. The systematic misrepresentation of my research in climate science reports provides a troubling example of this sort of failure.

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!



From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

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28 June 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
Gerald Warner: Fear the unanimity in our Wee Scotch Senate
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
Stewart Stevenson, the Minister for Climate Change and Candle-Powered Kettles, ... the unscientific demonising of carbon dioxide, the patronage practised by ...
India resists pressure on emission norms
Khabrein.info - New Delhi,Delhi,India
... carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. ... of the climate system", and concluded that "increases in anthropogenic ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Celsias - The Oil Intensity of Foods
Celsias - Climate Debate Overlooks Small Businesses
Celsias - James Lovelock's Final Warning (+ Video)

Skeptical Sources
niche modeling - Proof of AGW
Icecap - EPA May Have Suppressed Report Skeptical Of Global Warming
Icecap - Mad radical leftists win in the U.S. House
Icecap - Jun 28, 2009
Why Barack Obama’s Climate Bill is Bad for Canada
Heliogenic Climate Change - Willis Eschenbach on negative feedback and "The Thermostat Hypothesis"
Heliogenic Climate Change - The "final straw" on the Steig paper
Heliogenic Climate Change - Another heretic burned at the stake
Heliogenic Climate Change - Ration and Cap means more fuel imports, layoffs
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Worrying About Small Changes
Watts Up With That? - An Australian look at USHCN: 20th century trend is largely if not entirely an artefact arising from the “corrections”
Watts Up With That? - RELEASED The censored EPA CO2 endangerment document – final report
Climate Science Blog - US CLIMATE BILL PASSES CONGRESS, JUST
Climate Science Blog - REAL CLIMATE DEBATE IN OZ AND USA
Climate Science Blog - PLOTS AND PROPAGANDA AT THE EPA
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Who Cares About Integrity of Process When There are Political Points to Score?

Balanced Sources

Global Warming Blog -
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] -
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) -
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) -
AccuWeather -
Science Daily -

Today's Interesting Finds
I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

27 June 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
The Washington Monthly
By Steve Benen
The centerpiece of the legislation is a provision that aims to cut
America's production of greenhouse gases by 17 percent by 2020 and 83 percent by midcentury -- the minimum reductions scientists say are necessary to avert the worst ..... I support Waxman-Markey, despite those defects, because GHG-induced global warming might be happening, because imported oil is becoming very expensive (buying it arms enemies who are fighting or preparing to fight against us, ...
Polish Academy of Sciences Report Slams Global Warming Spin
Dakota Voice - Rapid City,SD,USA
The climate change of our planet, which can be observed more frequently in ... quantities there are carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and ozone. ...
One Country Wakes Up To “Climate Change Hoax”: Kudos To Australia ...
By romanticpoet
Moreover, despite rising carbon dioxide concentrations, global warming seems to have taken a holiday…. With public perceptions changing so dramatically and quickly it is little wonder Ian Plimer's latest book, Heaven and Earth, ... The public is receptive to an exposé of the many mythologies and false claims associated with anthropogenic global warming and are welcoming an authoritative description of planet Earth and its ever-changing climate in readable language. ...
GREENIE WATCH
By JR
The legislation would require the U.S. to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020 and by about 80 percent by mid-century. That was slightly more aggressive than Obama originally wanted , .... This is a story that offers hope to defenders of industrial civilization - and a warning to American environmentalists that the climate change they should be afraid of just might be a shift in the intellectual climate. ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Celsias - The Daily Dose: Your Guide to the World Today – 27 June 09
Celsias - China Heating Up Competition for Solar
Open Mind - Breaking Records

Skeptical Sources
The Reference Frame - Mad radical leftists win in the U.S. House
My Climate Buzz - AIR CON: Part 1 (Longish video)
My Climate Buzz - Trouble for America
Icecap - The politics, if not the science, is settled at the EPA. Alan Carlin, global warming and trouble
Icecap - Some Select EPA endangerment comments
Icecap - Jun 27, 2009
Bill’s Passage Represents “nothing more than raw political power, arm-twisting and intimidation”
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - US ‘Cap n Trade’ Carbon Act Passes First Major Hurdle
Watts Up With That? - New paper – Global dimming and brightening: A review
Watts Up With That? - Warmists deny Copenhagen access to polar bear scientist
Climate Science Blog -
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog -

Balanced Sources
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - When The Great Global Warming Swindle was first broadcast, climate deniers thought that at last they had the definitive polemic to beat back the forces of science and reason (You tube video)
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument)(PDF) - US government’s climate con-job

Today's Interesting Finds
I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

26 June 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
Could Australia Blow Apart the Great Global Warming Scare? « An ...
By honestclimate
This is a story that offers hope to defenders of industrial
civilization—and a warning to American environmentalists that the climate change they should be afraid of just might be a shift in the intellectual climate. ... The public is receptive to an exposé of the many mythologies and false claims associated with anthropogenic global warming and are welcoming an authoritative description of planet Earth and its ever-changing climate in readable language. ...
Individual Liberty — Individual Responsibility
By Perri Nelson
This is most likely due to propagandized “education” about
anthropogenic global warming, or the more politically correct term these days “climate change,” which can even cover the possibility of global cooling. ... Are we really alarmed by graphs that show exaggerated rises in the concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, when the real rate of increase is so small as to practically be insignificant? We're still only talking about a few hundred parts per million ...
Write on Nevada: Australia on the verge of rejecting cap and trade
By Victor Joecks
The public is receptive to an exposé of the many mythologies and false claims associated with anthropogenic global warming and are welcoming an authoritative description of planet Earth and its ever-changing climate in readable language. One Australian Senator has a particularly interesting ... He said scientists at the conference had advanced other explanations, such as the relationship between solar activity and solar energy hitting
the Earth to explain climate change. ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
The Breakthrough Blog - Too many to list
Climate Sight - A Retraction?
Open Mind - Embarrassing Questions
Climate Feedback - Ministry of Defence withdraws Met office climate funding
Celsias - Keeping the Pressure On: Ban on Amazon Cattle Products Grow
Celsias - Are President Obama's Ecopolitical Convictions Wavering?
Celsias - Up To 95% of Sugar in U.S. Genetically Modified
DeSmog Blog - Merkel Greeted On U.S. Trip by Dancing Green Hard Hats Demanding Strong Climate Action
More Grumbine Science - First ARCUS summary of 2009

Skeptical Sources
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Scientists: Mediterranean Sea “Not Warming”
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Somebody Please Help Me Find BBC Non-Warmist Biases And Errors
the Air Vent - RegEM weight calculation – a different approach
the Air Vent - Anti-Science, Supression of Speech – Bush’s Fault?
the Air Vent - istoric Hockey Stick – Pt 2 Shock and Recovery
Jo Nova's blog - Global politics is being influenced by the climate fawners
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - How the US Temperature Record is Adjusted
Global Warming [Dr Roy Spencer's Blog] - EPA Endangerment Finding: My Submitted Comments
Climate Observations - Part 2 of Comparison of GISTEMP and UAH MSU TLT Anomalies
Climate Observations - Part 1 of Comparison of GISTEMP and UAH MSU TLT Anomalies
Climate Observations - Mid-June 2009 NINO3.4 SST Anomaly Update
niche modeling - R code for SSA example
niche modeling - Another Copenhagen Synthesis Report Error?
My Climate Buzz - truth about Climate Change
My Climate Buzz - Russia Playing Others For The Fools They Are
Icecap - Jun 26, 2009
The Climate Change Climate Change - The number of skeptics is swelling everywhere.
Heliogenic Climate Science - Armageddon -- House Democrats vote for economic suicide
Heliogenic Climate Science - Democrats in denial of the laws of economics
Heliogenic Climate Science - Ration and Tax -- man-made disaster
Heliogenic Climate Science - EPA censors science, puts politics first -- the fix is in
Watts Up With That? - Climate Bill Passes in House
Watts Up With That? - The Waxman-Markey pre-vote count – where you can help
Watts Up With That? - CARBONGATE – Global Warming Study Censored by EPA (For all the posturing that skeptics are in a war on science, its not them?)
Climate Science Blog - MASSIVE RISE IN UK FUEL BILLS
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - For Those of You Interested in the W-M Vote

Balanced Sources

The Blackboard - Hacking is non-partisan.
Global Warming Blog - Thought Experiment on Gravity Sensing Device
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Potential Climatic Impacts Of Vegetation Change: A Regional Modeling Study By Copeland Et Al 1996
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) [Also, offshore wind.] - Kites flying in high-altitude winds could provide clean electricity
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Tilting at Green Windmills
AccuWeather - Is the Temperature Record in the U.S. Reliable?
Science Daily - Climate Change: Some Winds Decreasing Across United States
Science Daily - Ancient Climate Change: When Palm Trees Gave Way To Spruce Trees
Science Daily - How Aerosols Contribute To Climate Change
Science Daily - Ice Sheets Can Retreat 'In A Geologic Instant,' Study Of Prehistoric Glacier Shows
Science Daily - Space Shuttle Science Shows How 1908 Tunguska Explosion Was Caused By A Comet
Science Daily - First Global Map Of Ammonia Emissions Measured From Space Reveals New Hotspots
Science Daily - Corals Stay Close to Home
Science Daily - Hurricanes: Increased Technology Offers Better Ways For Officials And Public To See The Storm Ahead
Science Daily - Large 2009 Gulf Of Mexico 'Dead Zone' Predicted

Today's Interesting Finds
I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

25 June 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
The EPA suppresses dissent and opinion, and apparently decides ...
By wattsupwiththat
The EPA apparently doesn't care about any negative comment of their GHG Endangerment findings, even internally, so the exercise in Democracy we did yesterday apparently was for naught. “The time for such discussion of fundamental issues ..... Why is anyone shocked about dishonesty in the AGW debate? This scam has been a fraud since its inception. What we are witnessing is a slow motion rape of our sensibilities, science, and industry. We are nothing more than “denialists” ...
Scientists mostly right
TheReporter.com - Vacaville,CA,USA
The author mentioned the recent annual Conference on Climate Change, ... to create "carbon-eating trees" within the next 50 years and "the carbon dioxide in ...
YID With LID: Australia Tables Cap & Trade Because Not Enough ...
By Sammy Benoit
The public is receptive to an exposé of the many mythologies and false claims associated with anthropogenic global warming and are welcoming an authoritative description of planet Earth and its ever-changing climate in readable language. ... To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable—human-induced CO2—is not science. To try to predict the future based on just one variable (CO2) in extraordinarily complex natural systems is ...
Official House Energy & Commerce Committee Summary of H.R. 2454 ...
By staff
In the past two and half years, the Committee has held dozens of hearings on energy and climate change policy and has built a detailed factual record
on the need for legislation in this area. The nation's dependence on
foreign oil ..... trifluoride. The Administrator may designate additional anthropogenic greenhouse gases by rule. Section 712, Carbon Dioxide Equivalent Value of Greenhouse Gases: Lists carbon dioxide equivalents for each gas. Requires periodic review of ...
Guyana_forests CLIMATE CHANGE AND LOWCARBON DEVELOPMENT
The result of the increasing amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is an enhanced greenhouse effect and subsequently climate change While CO2 is only ...
Climate ball up in the air
The Australian - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Even if global warming is real (and I think the jury is out on that one), ... It seems like a very complex way to tackle greenhouse gases which will result ...
Half Sigma: Creationism and global warming
Jun 21, 2009 ... I'd place the definition of AGW as "global climate change caused by .... are worried about GreenHouse Gases (GHG) not just carbon dioxide. ...
Scientist: People Being Conned on Emissions Bill
Dakota Voice - Rapid City,SD,USA
He said the use of the term “carbon dioxide'' to indicate a pollutant was not correct in language, logic or science. And “climate change'' was a tautology, ...
It's all about energy - COP15 United Nations Climate Change ...
One of the adverse effects is that combustion of fossil fuels is the
largest source of carbon dioxide emissions. Fossil energy use is
responsible for about 85 percent of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions
produced annually. ...
Estimate of US Natural-gas Reserves Jumps 35 Percent | LNGpedia
By Yoga
... in truth, began melting long before increased levels of carbon
dioxide), because I'm asking for proof that carbon dioxide is causing any warming. The “scientists” of the International Panel on Climate Change have no answer. ... Mr. Gore , Mr. Hansen, President Obama, Senator Reid, Congresswoman Pelosi, show us the evidence that carbon dioxide is causing global warming, or be honest and admit that fictional “anthropogenic global warming” is merely an excuse for a tax on ...
The International Conference on Climate Change - Part V ...
By Skanderbeg (Profile)
What had started out as “anthropogenic global warming” had become
“climate change,” and was now (once again) being re-branded as….
“energy security.” Lord Monckton suggested that we just re-re-brand it as “absolute rubbish” and be done with it. ... Second, it is becoming abundantly clear that even in the “modeling” of the IPCC, any increased warming due to an increase in carbon dioxide alone is simply far too small to have any impact beyond the most trivial; big, ...
Climate change fantasies - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
By By Paul Krugman
If it's really true that a family of 4 would owe fewer than $300 a year (or fewer than $25/month) to reduce greenhouse gases, that headline should be ubiquitous throughout all forms of media. Most people were spending more than that a month last ... But as of today, the vast majority of climate scientists are of the view that global warming is happening, and that we the people are contributing to it in a significant way. You can always dig
up a paper here and there, ...
Inaction is Inexcusable « Climate Change
By chriscolose
Greenhouse gases will continue to rise substantially over the century unless widespread implementation of renewable energy, management of biological systems (e.g., reforestation), and wise policy action. There is no longer any reasonable doubt of the strong impact of GHG's on global climate. The Copenhagen synthesis report uses a standard +2 C temperature anomaly as a guard-rail for dangerous anthropogenic interference, and warns of the prospect of not-well-understood ...
Reader's view: No evidence carbon dioxide a driver of temperature
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA
We would do well to quash any scheme to reduce carbon dioxide emissions or tax ... by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is wrong. ...
Estimate of Natural-gas Reserves Jumps 35 Percent
The New American - USA
The “scientists” of the International Panel on Climate Change have no answer. ... show us the evidence that carbon dioxide is causing global warming, ...
Lovelock's dire vision « BraveNewClimate.com
By Barry Brook
At the heart of this system is a complex series of interactions which have carbon dioxide (CO2) at their core. In 2004, Lovelock realised that our disturbance of this system, by burning fossil fuels, had set us upon a deadly path, ... That is also the amount of alkaline earth silicate that, similarly suspended, would deal with a week's anthropogenic CO2 dumping. If Lovelock is right, we still don't have to have a Mad Max movie, don't have to have a Mad Nanook of the North ...
Jennifer Marohasy » Legislating on the Basis of a Scientific Theory
By jennifer
The legislation is based on the theory of anthropogenic global warming. The vote of Family First Senator, Steve Fielding, is considered crucial. The Senator claims Australia's Minister for Climate Change, Penny Wong, has not answered key questions from him concerning the science in particular: Is it the case that carbon dioxide increased by 5 percent since 1998 whilst global temperature cooled over the same period? The Minister's advisors have apparently argued with ...
Guest commentary: A response to a climate change commentary
Naples Daily News - Naples,FL,USA
However, several of those past climate “drivers,” such as continental drift, tectonic release of carbon dioxide, etc., are thousands, if not millions of ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer SourcesOpen Mind - Key Messages
Real Climate - A warning from Copenhagen
Climate Feedback - Police pinch protesting Hansen in climate change kerfuffle
Brave New Climate - Lovelock’s dire vision
Celsias - Too many to list

Skeptical Sources
Icecap - Too many to list
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Cattle as Part of the Australian Landscape
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Defining the Sceptics (Part 4)
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Keeping Carbon Dioxide in the Soda – or Not
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Defining the Sceptics (Part 3)
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Legislating on the Basis of a Scientific Theory
Heliogenic Climate Change - Too Many to list
Climate Audit - Speaking of Attribution
Climate Audit - Climate Audit Submission to EPASay My Name - Watts Remix
Climate Audit -
Watts Up With That? - Too many to list
Climate Science Blog - Too many to list

Balanced Sources
The Blackboard - Too many to list
Global Warming Blog - CO2 Removal
Global Warming Blog - CO2 Removal from the Atmosphere
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Too many to list
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - Too many to list
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - too many to list
AccuWeather - Impacts of Man-Made CO2 Emissions are Benign, NIPCC
AccuWeather - NASA GISS Head Arrested at Coal Protest
AccuWeather - How Much will that Climate Change Bill Cost Your Family?
AccuWeather - Global Temperatures So Far this Year

Today's Interesting Finds
I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

21 June 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
I'll be gone for the next few days, so please continue to use and enjoy the links. Be back Thur. or Fri.

Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
FORCES Tavern :: View topic - The Best Global Warming Videos on ...
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:38 pm Post subject: agw, Reply with quote ... Europe , which is always wailing away about greenhouse gases (GHG) and is making progress ... Don't like GHG emissions? Move to Haiti or Somalia. ... about stopping global warming and fighting its causes and consequences. ...
EPA comment period closes Tues. | Grizzly Groundswell
By dajjal
There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's ... change is solar-magnetic activity, yet the solar flux is completely omitted as an influence on climate in all four IPCC assessments and in the Obama administration's new “Climate Change Impacts in the United Sates” report. ...
Historic parallels in our time: the killing of cattle -vs- carbon ...
By wattsupwiththat
Thus, anger and hostility arise when it is pointed out to those afflicted with CD that the planet's temperature has been declining even as carbon dioxide levels steadily rise — thereby falsifying the central, core belief of the AGW .... As a professional historian, I must disagree with your basic premise comparing the 19th century Xhosa with the 21st century climate change advocates. The key difference that you gloss over is the degree of cultural powerlessness and ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Celsias - Watershed: The Burdens of Our Consumption of Bottled Water
Celsias - The 300 year colonial adventure is over at last, which is why Britain is in political crisis.
Celsias - Focus on Innovators, Not Polluters, for Climate Solutions

Skeptical Sources
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Meat Free Mondays
Watts Up With That? - Getting crabby – another missing NASA GISS station found, thanks to a TV show
Climate Science Blog -
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - Schmidt et al. 2009 Replication of Pielke et al. 2008

Balanced Sources
Science Daily - Banning Certain Fishing Gear Can Help Save Reefs From Climate Change
Science Daily - Beating The Radar: Getting A Jump On Storm Prediction

Today's Interesting Finds
I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

20 June 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
Carroll: Skeptical of climate alarmists
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
Those who dispute a human role in climate change can be equally critical. ... in carbon dioxide supposedly necessary to halt warming — no hope, that is, ...
frogblog » Climate science - another missing link is found
By frog
It is the primary cry of the deniers and the false sceptics - “There is no definitive link between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperature.” (I leave the genuine, scientific sceptics out - those who play a constructive role in challenging the ... CCR is also likely to be a useful concept for climate change mitigation and policy; by combining the uncertainties associated with climate sensitivity, carbon sinks and climate–carbon feedbacks into a single quantity, ...
Study: Capturing Carbon Dioxide From Existing Coal Plants Key To ...
... magnetic flux, earth's wobbling on it's axis and changes in the ocean's currents all contribute to global climate change. And be aware that less than 20% of CO2 additions to the pre-industrial baseline of 288 ppm is anthropogenic. ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Celsias - Urban Agriculture as a Career Path
Celsias - Non-CO2 Agents Are Key Targets in Climate Change Fight

Skeptical Sources
Climate Audit - The US Synthesis Report and the Search for Climate WMD
Icecap - "World cooling has set in and it will stay colder for at least 100 years predicts scientist in forecast breakthrough by Piers Corbyn astrophysicist of WeatherAction.com
Icecap - Historic Variation in Arctic Ice
Icecap - Jun 20, 2009
A Move to Put the Union Label on Solar Power Plants
My Climate Buzz - Nansen: The Documentary
Watts Up With That? - http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/20/historic-parallels-in-our-time-the-killing-of-of-cattle-vs-carbon/
Watts Up With That? - Hansen’s at it again
Watts Up With That? - Historic Variation in Arctic Ice
Watts Up With That? - The Met Office brings doom to a place near you
Climate Science Blog - WISE WORDS FROM CARBON SENSE COALITION CHAIRMAN
Prometheus -

Balanced Sources
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) [more] [more] - The outlook for the rest of the century: 40C summer days
Official report predicts impact of climate change on British weather
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) [book] - Sustainable Energy – without the hot air, is a remarkable book that reveals the facts about sustainable energy and punctures many green myths
Science Daily - Some Particles Cool Climate, Others Add To Global Warming

Today's Interesting Finds
I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

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19 June 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
Bob Carter, David Evans, Stewart Franks and Bill Kininmonth | June ...
The Australian - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Human-induced global warming will go down at the greatest swindle in ...... how the measured increase in greenhouse gases emitted from anthropogenic sources ...
The Sureness of Global Warming Skeptics
Washington Post Blogs - Washington,DC,USA
Rohrabacher also asserted that the specter of anthropogenic climate change was to stampede the public and elected officials to accept the "biggest power ...
Climate Change Fraud - Because the debate is not over - Lies ...
By info@climatechangefraud.com (Peter C Glover,...
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is reported by the BBC as a 'pollutant' and thus all exhaling humans are 'toxic'. Faith, not science, now prophesies that 'higher CO2 emissions cause global warming' - even though the actual data reveals global ... This June, in the wake of Japanese scientists disputing the UN IPCC's anthropogenic warming orthodoxy (which, needless to say, the BBC didn't report), the Japanese Government put forward what the BBC's
Environment Correspondent Richard ...
Aerosol cooling overestimated, says new study - physicsworld.com
In its report of 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated that the direct aerosol effect has a radiative forcing, or net cooling, of -0.5 Wm-2, which would offset warming due to anthropogenic carbon dioxide ...
Airline Industry Takes a Dive - Last News from Earth-Stream.com ...
It's not surprising that aviation, which is responsible for 3.5 percent of anthropogenic (man-made) climate change, has taken a nosedive during the current recession. People simply have less money and inclination to fly. Many environmental advocates are silently cheering this devel. ... The federal government today unveiled its proposed new tire label that would give consumers information about a tire s effect on fuel economy and carbon
dioxide emissions reduction. ...
Ice Ages or 20th Century Warming, It All Comes Down to Causation ...
By Co2sceptic
Assuming that these estimates really are what they are claimed to be, what can they tell us — if anything — about the role of carbon dioxide in climate change? First off you need to realize there has been a long history of debate in the .... If they did, they would have to admit they have no clue how much warming in the last 50 years is natural versus anthropogenic. Fears of substantial manmade warming are critically dependent upon the
assumption that the climate system ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
The Breakthrough Blog - Climate Bill Analysis Part XIV: Waxman-Markey Puts Ratepayers at Risk
According to a new analysis by Public Citizen, Waxman-Markey (W-M) climate legislation would inadequately protect American consumers from electricity price increases, despite claims by the bill's authors that the value of the free pollution allowances allocated to utilities would be returned to consumers.
Believer Sources
http://commontragedies.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/a-primer-on-allowance-distribution-in-waxman-markey/ - A Primer on Allowance Distribution in Waxman-Markey
Climate Feedback - Cautious response to UK climate projections
Brave new Climate - Why is the US ignoring the Integral Fast Reactor?
Celsias - he Daily Dose: Your Guide to the World Today – 19 June 09
Celsias - Bigger Isn't Better
Celsias - Driving Unsustainability: How GM planned for Obsolescence
Celsias - Earth 2100: Is This the Final Century of our Civilization? (+ Video)
Celsias - The UK Gets Ready for Climate Change
Celsias - Global warming leading to fewer species
DeSmog Blog - Republicans Cribbing from Big Coal?
DeSmog Blog - The Climate Change Hangover
DeSmog Blog - Art appraiser puts principle ahead of profit

Skeptical Sources
the Air Vent - Explaining Ice Core CO2 Lag
Jo Nova's Blog - The Wong-Fielding Meeting On Global Warming
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Mutant Climate Debate
Climate Skeptic - GCCI #11: Changing Wet and Dry Weather
Climate Skeptic - GCCI #10: Extreme Example of Forcing Observation to Fit the Theory
Climate Skeptic - GCCI #9: Forcing Observation to Fit the Theory
Climate Skeptic - GCCI #8: A Sense of Scale
Icecap - Jun 19, 2009
Scientist: Obama’s climate report ‘would make Pravda editors blush with envy
Jennifer Marohasys Blog - In Defence of ‘Heaven and Earth’ (Part 2)
Jennifer Marohasys Blog - Fielding the Hard Questions on Climate Change (Part 4)
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Defining the Greens (Part 15)
Watts Up With That? - This is your Honolulu Temperature. This is your Honolulu Temperature on ASOS. Any questions?
Watts Up With That? - More on NOAA’s FUBAR Honolulu “record highs” ASOS debacle, PLUS finding a long lost GISS station
Climate Audit - The UK Met Office Deepens The Moat
Climate Science Blog - POLITICIANS MEET WITH OPPOSING CLIMATE SCIENTISTS IN OZ

Balanced Sources
The Blackboard - Experiment for Patrick Cyclonebuster
Global Warming Blog - Coral Reefs Flattened
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Influence Of Landscape Structure On Local And Regional Climate by Pielke and Avissar 1990
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - ENERGY FROM NORTH AFRICA
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - NOAA PROVES AN OUTLIER AGAIN IN MAY
AccuWeather - CO2 Levels are Highest in 2.1 Million Years
Science Daily - Sudden Collapse In Ancient Biodiversity: Was Global Warming The Culprit?
Science Daily - Polar Bear And Walrus Populations In Trouble, Stock Assessment Report Suggests
Science Daily - Protecting Polar Bears With New Tracking Methods
Science Daily - Carbon Dioxide Higher Today Than Last 2.1 Million Years
Science Daily - Sunspots Revealed In Striking Detail By Supercomputers

Today's Interesting Finds
I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

18 June 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
The June 23rd EPA CO2 endangerment public comment deadline looms ...
By wattsupwiththat
Please find the following comments related to EPA's April 24, 2009 Proposed Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act (EF). These comments also address issues in the ..... A change in atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns could easily accomplish this with a small change in low cloud cover over the ocean. In simple terms, global warming might well be mostly
the result of a natural cycle. 17 06 2009 ...
Lies, Damned Lies and BBC Climate Reports
American Thinker - Bellevue,WA,USA
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is reported by the BBC as a 'pollutant' and thus all exhaling ... as Dr Richard North's excellent 2006 report 'The BBC's Climate Change ...
Why I believe...
ScienceBlogs - USA
See this post at Real Climate for more details. The physical reality that carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases reradiate infrared heat, ...
Climate Change Fraud - Because the debate is not over - Remove the ...
By info@climatechangefraud.com (Chip Knappenberger...
All are treated as equal, primary culprits in the anthropogenic enhancement of the earth's greenhouse effect, and thus the EPA proposes to find that they “endanger the public health and welfare of current and future generations. ... Interestingly, not only does carbon dioxide make plants grow better and be more productive, but it makes them more resistant to other environmental stressors. More CO2 reduces the negative impacts on plants from air pollution including ...
Ice Ages or 20th Century Warming, It All Comes Down to Causation ...
By Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
... of the 400000 year Vostok record of retrieved temperature and CO2 content. Assuming that these estimates really are what they are claimed to be, what can they tell us — if anything — about the role of carbon dioxide in climate change? .... If they did, they would have to admit they have no clue how much warming in the last 50 years is natural versus anthropogenic. Fears of substantial manmade warming are critically dependent upon the assumption that the climate system ...
Blue Sky Sunshine's Blog » Global Warming Consensus Challenged ...
By BlueSkySunshine
Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful. The proposed agreement we have very .... Dr . Robinson directed the Petition Project,which has obtained the support and signatures of more than 19000 American scientists for a petition opposed to the hypothesis of anthropogenic global warming. Dr. Noah Robinson is also professor ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Stoat - Sea ice: how to describe the possibility of a record?
The Breakthrough Blog - Innovation Economics Can Fight Global Warming
Robert Atkinson argues in BusinessWeek that both neoclassical and Keynesian economics are misguided on climate policy -- innovation economics and public investments in technology should lead the way.
Climate Feedback - AGU Chapman Conference: "They walked away"
Celsias - Airline Industry Takes a Dive
Celsias - Lessons my Father Taught Me (And What I'm Trying To Teach Him)

Skeptical Sources
Climate Audit - A New Sea Ice Thread
the Air Vent - What’s to Say
Icecap - Jun 18, 2009
Taxpayers Question Use of Public Funds for “Western Climate Initiative”
Climate Skeptic - GCCI #7: A Ridiculously Narrow Time Window - The Sun
Climate Skeptic - GCCI #6: A Ridiculously Narrow Time Window - Glaciers
Climate Skeptic - Update on GCCI Post #4: Grid Outage Chart
Watts Up With That? - NOAA: FUBAR high temp/climate records from faulty sensor to remain in place at Honolulu
Watts Up With That? - Solar Cycle 24 lack of sunspots caused by “sluggish solar jet stream” – returning soon?
Climate Science Blog - BBC FAILS TO SCRUTINISE MINISTER ON CLIMATE DATA
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - UK Climate Change Act Paper Now Published

Balanced Sources
Rashid's Blog - Scientists Debate Shading Earth As Climate Fix
Global Warming Blog - Obama Dreams of New Regulation
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Influence On Severe Storm Development Of Irrigated Land By Pielke And Zeng 1989
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) [report] [riposte] - Report on Warming Offers New Details
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Junk Science Week: MIT’s unscientific, catastrophic climate forecast
AccuWeather - Impacts in the United States

Today's Interesting Finds
I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

17 June 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
FORCES Tavern :: View topic - The Best Global Warming Videos on ...
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:38 pm Post subject: agw, Reply with quote ...
Europe , which is always wailing away about greenhouse gases (GHG) and is making ...
Pourrons nous survivre à l'« Anthropocène » ? (Paul J Crutzen ...
Contre Info - Paris,France
Indeed, at its current pace, anthropogenic soil erosion would fill the Grand ... latest estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), ...
Carbon market updater - May 2009
Linex Legal - London,UK
UK The Budget and implications for green investment and climate change in .... set their own “carbon budgets” by predicting their carbon dioxide emissions ...
Jennifer Marohasy » Fielding the Hard Questions on Climate Change ...
By jennifer
Yes, carbon dioxide levels have been rising over the last decade, but global temperatures haven't been increasing. Indeed, since 2003 it appears that even the oceans have started to cool. This does not accord with anthropogenic global ... (This one is worth following)
Climate Observations: The USGCRP Report “Global Climate Change ...
By Bob Tisdale
They acknowledged that ENSO is independent of anthropogenic influence. That's significant. On page 17, in the text of the comparative graph of “Global Temperature and Carbon Dioxide”, they wrote, “These year-to-year fluctuations in ...
Just Average American » Blog Archive » The Last To Know
By Jerry Pomeroy
Human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the gas of concern in most plans to curb climate change, appear to have little effect on global climate, he said. 'I think the proof in the pudding, based on what (media and governments) are .... We can say that the question of anthropogenic modification of the climate is an important question — too important to ignore. However, it has now become a media free-for-all and a political issue more than a scientific problem,' Bryson ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Climate Feedback - AGU Chapman: Could seafloor vents control atmospheric CO2?
Climate Feedback - Europe looks to draw power from the Sahara
Celsias - The Daily Dose: Your Guide to the World Today – 17 June 09
Celsias - Storm Brewing Over Controversial Gas Recovery Process
Celsias - Cows on Diet Less Farty?
Celsias - EU Grid Not Fit for Renewables
DeSmog Blog -

Skeptical Sources
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Close-Minded Environmental AGW Lawyer Plays The Bait
the Air Vent - Historic Variation in Arctic Ice – Tony B
Global Warming [Dr Roy Spencer's Blog] - Ice Ages or 20th Century Warming, It All Comes Down to Causation
Climate Skeptic - GCCI #5: The Dog That Didn’t Bark
Climate Skeptic - GCCI #4: I Am Calling Bullsh*t on this Chart
Climate Skeptic - GCCI Report #3: Warming and Feedback
Climate Skeptic - GCCI Report #2: Climate Must Be Dead Stable Without Man
Climate Skeptic - GCCI Report #1: Overall Tone
Climate Skeptic - Re-Energized
Global Warming: A Worn-Out Hoax - Lower Temperatures Stress Crops
Icecap - Mystery of the Missing Sunspots, Solved?
Icecap - NOAA a Major Outlier Again (Link to article is bad so here is a link to the site)
Climate Audit - Today's GISS Conundrum
Icecap - Jun 17, 2009
‘Scaremongering’: Scientists Pan Obama Climate Report
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Fielding the Hard Questions on Climate Change (Part 3)
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Scared Silly Over Climate Change
Watts Up With That? - The climate science elephant footprint in the room
Watts Up With That? - The June 23rd EPA CO2 endangerment public comment deadline looms
Watts Up With That? - Bob Tisdale on NCDC’s USGRP report
Watts Up With That? - How not to measure temperature, part 88 – Honolulu’s Official Temperature ±2
Climate Science Blog - THIS BLOG CLEARED - "IT'S NOT SPAM"
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - Systematic Misrepresentation of the Science of Disasters and Climate Change

Balanced Sources
Rashid's Blog - Rise Of Oxygen Caused Earth’s Earliest Ice Age
The Blackboard - Hadley May Anomaly Rose 0.002C from April.
The Blackboard - US Climate Change Report Shows Surface Temperatures Lower Than Projected.
Global Warming Blog - Climate Pact Thoughts
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - The Impact Of Crop Areas In Northeast Colorado In Midsummer Mesoscale Thermal Circulations By Segal Et Al. 1989
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - Slamming the Climate Skeptic Scam
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Seven Climate Models, Seven Different Answers
AccuWeather - A Follow Up on that CO2 and Temperature Study
Science Daily - Climate Change Already Having Impact On U.S., Expected To Worsen

Today's Interesting Finds
I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......