http://www.drroyspencer.com/2009/10/an-expensive-urban-legend/
October 24th, 2009
About.com describes an “urban legend” as an apocryphal (of questionable authenticity), secondhand story, told as true and just plausible enough to be believed, about some horrific…series of events….it’s likely to be framed as a cautionary tale. Whether factual or not, an urban legend is meant to be believed. In lieu of evidence, however, the teller of an urban legend is apt to rely on skillful storytelling and reference to putatively trustworthy sources.
I contend that the belief in human-caused global warming as a dangerous event, either now or in the future, has most of the characteristics of an urban legend. Like other urban legends, it is based upon an element of truth. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas whose concentration in the atmosphere is increasing, and since greenhouse gases warm the lower atmosphere, more CO2 can be expected, at least theoretically, to result in some level of warming.
But skillful storytelling has elevated the danger from a theoretical one to one of near-certainty. The actual scientific basis for the plausible hypothesis that humans could be responsible for most recent warming is contained in the cautious scientific language of many scientific papers. Unfortunately, most of the uncertainties and caveats are then minimized with artfully designed prose contained in the Summary for Policymakers (SP) portion of the report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This Summary was clearly meant to instill maximum alarm from a minimum amount of direct evidence.
Next, politicians seized upon the SP, further simplifying and extrapolating its claims to the level of a “climate crisis”. Other politicians embellished the tale even more by claiming they “saw” global warming in Greenland as if it was a sighting of Sasquatch, or that they felt it when they fly in airplanes...
Friday, October 30, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Dr. Gerard Harbison: Global warming science questionable
http://www.dailynebraskan.com/opinion/harbison-global-warming-science-questionable-1.2042029#5
HARBISON: Global warming science questionableBy Dr. Gerard Harbison
Updated: Thursday, October 29, 2009
This month we’re going to ask if anthropogenic global warming is really settled science. To do that, we will divide the science of AGW into four parts: basic physics, the instrumental (thermometer) record, reconstructions of past climate from proxy data, and global climate models (GCMs). Let’s take them one by one.
The basic physics of greenhouse effect is a century old. The earth absorbs light from the sun. It then radiates the energy into space as heat. The two are in balance, so if we reduce the heat radiation, the earth will warm up, restoring the balance. The atmosphere acts like a blanket, blocking radiant heat and warming the earth. However, most of the atmosphere has no capacity to absorb radiant heat. Of the atmospheric components that can block heat, the most important are water vapor (H2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2).
Everyone, from Al Gore on down, focuses on CO2, because humankind has recently been pumping CO2 into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. Prior to 1800, the CO2 content of the atmosphere was about 280 parts per million (ppm). Now it’s 390 ppm and rising steadily. On the one hand, 390 ppm is not very much. On the other, it’s a 40 percent increase over 1800 levels.
Because of quantum mechanics, CO2 blocks radiant heat only in very specific and narrow energy bands. It blocks emission completely within those bands, but in the wide gaps between them, it is almost completely transparent. So if the atmosphere is a blanket, CO2 is like a fishing net. You can’t stay warm covered by a fishing net: Increasing CO2 by 30 percent blocks maybe 1 percent extra heat.
In contrast, H2O is a wonderful blanket. Although it traps heat only at specific energies, there are many more of those energies, and so much wider coverage. It’s also a much more intense absorber – think thicker blanket – and if it gets together with other molecules of water, in droplets or haze particles, its absorption smears out and covers most of the gaps. As a result, where the H2O content of the atmosphere is high – in the tropics – very little of the earth’s heat escapes...
HARBISON: Global warming science questionableBy Dr. Gerard Harbison
Updated: Thursday, October 29, 2009
This month we’re going to ask if anthropogenic global warming is really settled science. To do that, we will divide the science of AGW into four parts: basic physics, the instrumental (thermometer) record, reconstructions of past climate from proxy data, and global climate models (GCMs). Let’s take them one by one.
The basic physics of greenhouse effect is a century old. The earth absorbs light from the sun. It then radiates the energy into space as heat. The two are in balance, so if we reduce the heat radiation, the earth will warm up, restoring the balance. The atmosphere acts like a blanket, blocking radiant heat and warming the earth. However, most of the atmosphere has no capacity to absorb radiant heat. Of the atmospheric components that can block heat, the most important are water vapor (H2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2).
Everyone, from Al Gore on down, focuses on CO2, because humankind has recently been pumping CO2 into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. Prior to 1800, the CO2 content of the atmosphere was about 280 parts per million (ppm). Now it’s 390 ppm and rising steadily. On the one hand, 390 ppm is not very much. On the other, it’s a 40 percent increase over 1800 levels.
Because of quantum mechanics, CO2 blocks radiant heat only in very specific and narrow energy bands. It blocks emission completely within those bands, but in the wide gaps between them, it is almost completely transparent. So if the atmosphere is a blanket, CO2 is like a fishing net. You can’t stay warm covered by a fishing net: Increasing CO2 by 30 percent blocks maybe 1 percent extra heat.
In contrast, H2O is a wonderful blanket. Although it traps heat only at specific energies, there are many more of those energies, and so much wider coverage. It’s also a much more intense absorber – think thicker blanket – and if it gets together with other molecules of water, in droplets or haze particles, its absorption smears out and covers most of the gaps. As a result, where the H2O content of the atmosphere is high – in the tropics – very little of the earth’s heat escapes...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Must Be One Of Those Terrible Deniers! LOL
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Russian Scientist: ‘We should fear a deep temperature drop—not catastrophic global warming
’Warming had a natural origin...CO2 is ‘not guilty’
Reprint of new scientific paper: (Full pdf paper available here.)
THE SUN DEFINES THE CLIMATE
By Habibullo Abdussamatov, Dr. Sc. - Head of Space research laboratory of the Pulkovo Observatory
Key Excerpts: Observations of the Sun show that as for the increase in temperature, carbon dioxide is “not guilty” and as for what lies ahead in the upcoming decades, it is not catastrophic warming, but a global, and very prolonged, temperature drop. [...] Over the past decade, global temperature on the Earth has not increased; global warming has ceased, and already there are signs of the future deep temperature drop. [...] It follows that warming had a natural origin, the contribution of CO2 to it was insignificant, anthropogenic increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide does not serve as an explanation for it, and in the foreseeable future CO2 will not be able to cause catastrophic warming. The so-called greenhouse effect will not avert the onset of the next deep temperature drop, the 19th in the last 7500 years, which without fail follows after natural warming. [...] We should fear a deep temperature drop—not catastrophic global warming. Humanity must survive the serious economic, social, demographic and political consequences of a global temperature drop, which will directly affect the national interests of almost all countries and more than 80% of the population of the Earth. A deep temperature drop is a considerably greater threat to humanity than warming. However, a reliable forecast of the time of the onset and of the depth of the global temperature drop will make it possible to adjust in advance the economic activity of humanity, to considerably weaken the crisis...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Russian Scientist: ‘We should fear a deep temperature drop—not catastrophic global warming
’Warming had a natural origin...CO2 is ‘not guilty’
Reprint of new scientific paper: (Full pdf paper available here.)
THE SUN DEFINES THE CLIMATE
By Habibullo Abdussamatov, Dr. Sc. - Head of Space research laboratory of the Pulkovo Observatory
Key Excerpts: Observations of the Sun show that as for the increase in temperature, carbon dioxide is “not guilty” and as for what lies ahead in the upcoming decades, it is not catastrophic warming, but a global, and very prolonged, temperature drop. [...] Over the past decade, global temperature on the Earth has not increased; global warming has ceased, and already there are signs of the future deep temperature drop. [...] It follows that warming had a natural origin, the contribution of CO2 to it was insignificant, anthropogenic increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide does not serve as an explanation for it, and in the foreseeable future CO2 will not be able to cause catastrophic warming. The so-called greenhouse effect will not avert the onset of the next deep temperature drop, the 19th in the last 7500 years, which without fail follows after natural warming. [...] We should fear a deep temperature drop—not catastrophic global warming. Humanity must survive the serious economic, social, demographic and political consequences of a global temperature drop, which will directly affect the national interests of almost all countries and more than 80% of the population of the Earth. A deep temperature drop is a considerably greater threat to humanity than warming. However, a reliable forecast of the time of the onset and of the depth of the global temperature drop will make it possible to adjust in advance the economic activity of humanity, to considerably weaken the crisis...
Saturday, October 24, 2009
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2009/10/where-are-hurricanes-mr-gore_23.html
Where are the Hurricanes, Mr. Gore?
By Alan Caruba
That god among men and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Al Gore, told us in “An Inconvenient Truth”, his Oscar-winning documentary, that we had to brace for increasing numbers of hurricanes as the result of global warming.
So, where are the hurricanes of 2009, Mr. Gore?
The hurricane season that runs from June through November is about to end with nothing more than one weak to borderline moderate tropical storm that hit Florida’s panhandle, but there have been NO hurricanes; at least none that made landfall.
So, where are the hurricanes of 2009, Mr. Gore?
Trying to predict how many hurricanes there will be each year is probably fun, but is a highly risky undertaking. I have a lot of friends among the meteorological and climatological community, men of science, but I always cross my fingers for them when they take a run at it.
This year, Bill Gray of Colorado State, perhaps the best known among the hurricane forecasters, thought there would be at least 7 hurricanes of which 3 would be major. Weather Services Inc. agreed with Dr. Gray and, over at Accuweather, the prediction was for 8 hurricanes of which 2 would be major.
NOAA and the National Weather Service do not predict hurricanes, but as political as well as scientific entities they have a very bad track record of trying to confirm Al Gore’s global warming claims.
In March, William J. Broad, reporting in The New York Times, noted that Gore’s “scientific audience is uneasy” in the wake of his global warming documentary. “These scientists argue that some of Mr. Gore’s central points are exaggerated and erroneous. They are alarmed, some say, at what they call his alarmism.”
In Great Britain, a judge ruled that the documentary could not be shown in the schools unless teachers read a long list of its erroneous claims.
Since an increase in hurricanes was one of his dramatic claims along with rising sea levels and disappearing polar bears, Gore is batting zero these days. The sea levels have been rising a few inches every century for millennia and it is generally conceded that the polar bear population since the 1950s has been thriving.
In May, hurricane specialist Chris Landsea of the National Hurricane Center in Miami disputed theories that “global warming” has caused more hurricanes. His study was published in The Journal of Climate.
Landsea, like all meteorologists who haven’t been in a coma since the 1980s, knows that the Earth has been in a cooling cycle since 1998. Thus, the warmth that feeds hurricanes has diminished and is likely to stay that way for decades to come.
Landsea’s research showed that, since the mid-1990s, the average number of hurricanes per year had almost doubled what it was during the few prior decades, about on par with hurricane activity in the early 20th century. “It’s busy, yes, but not anything we haven’t seen before,” said Landsea while attending the Florida Governor’s Hurricane Conference in May.
For the non-scientist, that should confirm that hurricanes are governed by natural cycles, not some non-existent, dramatic increase called “global warming.”
Though what I know about hurricanes would fit comfortably in a bug’s ear, I am nonetheless tempted to suggest that the cooling cycle the Earth entered in 1998 may be a contributing factor to why this year’s hurricane season is, at this writing, minus any hurricanes.
So, where are the hurricanes of 2009, Mr. Gore?
Known as “the Gore factor”, it is the irony of blizzards or severe snow storms that seem to follow him around whenever he delivered one of his “global warming” speeches.
It is my profound prayer that, in December when the United Nations climate conference convenes to issue an international treaty based on the Great Global Warming Lie, that the city of Copenhagen gets hit by a blizzard so great that the delegates cannot leave their plush hotels for days.
Where are the Hurricanes, Mr. Gore?
By Alan Caruba
That god among men and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Al Gore, told us in “An Inconvenient Truth”, his Oscar-winning documentary, that we had to brace for increasing numbers of hurricanes as the result of global warming.
So, where are the hurricanes of 2009, Mr. Gore?
The hurricane season that runs from June through November is about to end with nothing more than one weak to borderline moderate tropical storm that hit Florida’s panhandle, but there have been NO hurricanes; at least none that made landfall.
So, where are the hurricanes of 2009, Mr. Gore?
Trying to predict how many hurricanes there will be each year is probably fun, but is a highly risky undertaking. I have a lot of friends among the meteorological and climatological community, men of science, but I always cross my fingers for them when they take a run at it.
This year, Bill Gray of Colorado State, perhaps the best known among the hurricane forecasters, thought there would be at least 7 hurricanes of which 3 would be major. Weather Services Inc. agreed with Dr. Gray and, over at Accuweather, the prediction was for 8 hurricanes of which 2 would be major.
NOAA and the National Weather Service do not predict hurricanes, but as political as well as scientific entities they have a very bad track record of trying to confirm Al Gore’s global warming claims.
In March, William J. Broad, reporting in The New York Times, noted that Gore’s “scientific audience is uneasy” in the wake of his global warming documentary. “These scientists argue that some of Mr. Gore’s central points are exaggerated and erroneous. They are alarmed, some say, at what they call his alarmism.”
In Great Britain, a judge ruled that the documentary could not be shown in the schools unless teachers read a long list of its erroneous claims.
Since an increase in hurricanes was one of his dramatic claims along with rising sea levels and disappearing polar bears, Gore is batting zero these days. The sea levels have been rising a few inches every century for millennia and it is generally conceded that the polar bear population since the 1950s has been thriving.
In May, hurricane specialist Chris Landsea of the National Hurricane Center in Miami disputed theories that “global warming” has caused more hurricanes. His study was published in The Journal of Climate.
Landsea, like all meteorologists who haven’t been in a coma since the 1980s, knows that the Earth has been in a cooling cycle since 1998. Thus, the warmth that feeds hurricanes has diminished and is likely to stay that way for decades to come.
Landsea’s research showed that, since the mid-1990s, the average number of hurricanes per year had almost doubled what it was during the few prior decades, about on par with hurricane activity in the early 20th century. “It’s busy, yes, but not anything we haven’t seen before,” said Landsea while attending the Florida Governor’s Hurricane Conference in May.
For the non-scientist, that should confirm that hurricanes are governed by natural cycles, not some non-existent, dramatic increase called “global warming.”
Though what I know about hurricanes would fit comfortably in a bug’s ear, I am nonetheless tempted to suggest that the cooling cycle the Earth entered in 1998 may be a contributing factor to why this year’s hurricane season is, at this writing, minus any hurricanes.
So, where are the hurricanes of 2009, Mr. Gore?
Known as “the Gore factor”, it is the irony of blizzards or severe snow storms that seem to follow him around whenever he delivered one of his “global warming” speeches.
It is my profound prayer that, in December when the United Nations climate conference convenes to issue an international treaty based on the Great Global Warming Lie, that the city of Copenhagen gets hit by a blizzard so great that the delegates cannot leave their plush hotels for days.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Study: model in good agreement with satellite temperature data – suggest cooling
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/20/study-model-in-good-agreement-with-satellite-temperature-data-suggest-cooling/#more-11900
TREND ANALYSIS OF SATELLITE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE DATA
Craig Loehle
National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc.
Reprint available from NCASI (PDF)
Abstract
Global satellite data is analyzed for temperature trends for the period January 1979 through June 2009. Beginning and ending segments show a cooling trend, while the middle segment evinces a warming trend. The past 12 to 13 years show cooling using both satellite data sets, with lower confidence limits that do not exclude a negative trend until 16 to 22 years. It is shown that several published studies have predicted cooling in this time frame. One of these models is extrapolated from its 2000 calibration end date and shows a good match to the satellite data, with a projection of continued cooling for several more decades...
TREND ANALYSIS OF SATELLITE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE DATA
Craig Loehle
National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc.
Reprint available from NCASI (PDF)
Abstract
Global satellite data is analyzed for temperature trends for the period January 1979 through June 2009. Beginning and ending segments show a cooling trend, while the middle segment evinces a warming trend. The past 12 to 13 years show cooling using both satellite data sets, with lower confidence limits that do not exclude a negative trend until 16 to 22 years. It is shown that several published studies have predicted cooling in this time frame. One of these models is extrapolated from its 2000 calibration end date and shows a good match to the satellite data, with a projection of continued cooling for several more decades...
Monday, October 19, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
ANDRILL finds warm history in Antarctica
http://scarlet.unl.edu/?p=4527
BATON ROUGE, La. – Researchers with the UNL-based Antarctic Geological Drilling Program found unexpected evidence of a remarkably warm period in Antarctica 15.7 million years ago.
The evidence includes fossils of marine algae and pollen of woody plants indicating that land temperatures reached a January (austral summer) average of 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit) while estimated sea surface temperatures ranged between zero and 11.5 degrees Celsius (32 to 53 degrees Fahrenheit)...
BATON ROUGE, La. – Researchers with the UNL-based Antarctic Geological Drilling Program found unexpected evidence of a remarkably warm period in Antarctica 15.7 million years ago.
The evidence includes fossils of marine algae and pollen of woody plants indicating that land temperatures reached a January (austral summer) average of 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit) while estimated sea surface temperatures ranged between zero and 11.5 degrees Celsius (32 to 53 degrees Fahrenheit)...
Lets Fake It!
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/political-climate
Oct 14, 2009
Hansen Still Embarrassing NASA After 2 Decades
By Michael Goldfarb, Heartland Institute
It’s been more than 20 years since James Hansen first warned America of impending doom. On a hot summer day in June 1988, Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, announced before a Senate committee that “the greenhouse effect has been detected and it is changing our climate now.”
The greenhouse effect would have looked obvious enough to anyone watching on television. The senators conducting the hearing, including Al Gore, had turned the committee room into an oven. That day it was a balmy 98 degrees, and as former Colorado Sen. Timothy Wirth later revealed, the committee members “went in the night before and opened all the windows. And so when the hearing occurred, there was not only bliss, which is television cameras and [high ratings], but it was really hot.”...
Oct 14, 2009
Hansen Still Embarrassing NASA After 2 Decades
By Michael Goldfarb, Heartland Institute
It’s been more than 20 years since James Hansen first warned America of impending doom. On a hot summer day in June 1988, Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, announced before a Senate committee that “the greenhouse effect has been detected and it is changing our climate now.”
The greenhouse effect would have looked obvious enough to anyone watching on television. The senators conducting the hearing, including Al Gore, had turned the committee room into an oven. That day it was a balmy 98 degrees, and as former Colorado Sen. Timothy Wirth later revealed, the committee members “went in the night before and opened all the windows. And so when the hearing occurred, there was not only bliss, which is television cameras and [high ratings], but it was really hot.”...
Whatever happened to global warming? How freezing temperatures are starting to shatter climate change theory
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1220052/Austria-sees-earliest-snow-history-America-sees-lowest-temperatures-50-years-So-did-global-warming-go.html
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 7:59 AM on 14th October 2009
Snowfall: Two mongrels enjoy today's fresh snow in Austria - the earliest snow since records began
In the freezing foothills of Montana, a distinctly bitter blast of revolution hangs in the air.
And while the residents of the icy city of Missoula can stave off the -10C chill with thermals and fires, there may be no easy remedy for the wintry snap's repercussions.
The temperature has shattered a 36-year record. Further into the heartlands of America, the city of Billings registered -12C on Sunday, breaking the 1959 barrier of -5C.
Closer to home, Austria is today seeing its earliest snowfall in history with 30 to 40 centimetres already predicted in the mountains.
Such dramatic falls in temperatures provide superficial evidence for those who doubt that the world is threatened by climate change.
But most pertinent of all, of course, are the growing volume of statistics...
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 7:59 AM on 14th October 2009
Snowfall: Two mongrels enjoy today's fresh snow in Austria - the earliest snow since records began
In the freezing foothills of Montana, a distinctly bitter blast of revolution hangs in the air.
And while the residents of the icy city of Missoula can stave off the -10C chill with thermals and fires, there may be no easy remedy for the wintry snap's repercussions.
The temperature has shattered a 36-year record. Further into the heartlands of America, the city of Billings registered -12C on Sunday, breaking the 1959 barrier of -5C.
Closer to home, Austria is today seeing its earliest snowfall in history with 30 to 40 centimetres already predicted in the mountains.
Such dramatic falls in temperatures provide superficial evidence for those who doubt that the world is threatened by climate change.
But most pertinent of all, of course, are the growing volume of statistics...
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Gore Just Doesn't Like Anyone Who Disagrees With Him
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/article_dacf39c7-c2f8-5718-a5a0-d0cfb39f80bc.html
Gore upbeat on climate bill
By MATTHEW DeFOUR mdefour@madison.com 608-252-6144
Posted: Saturday, October 10, 2009 7:55 am
...an Irish filmmaker who asked Gore to address nine errors in his film identified by a British court in 2007.
Gore responded that the court ruling supported the showing of his film in British schools. When McAleer tried to debate further, his microphone was cut off by the moderators...
Gore upbeat on climate bill
By MATTHEW DeFOUR mdefour@madison.com 608-252-6144
Posted: Saturday, October 10, 2009 7:55 am
...an Irish filmmaker who asked Gore to address nine errors in his film identified by a British court in 2007.
Gore responded that the court ruling supported the showing of his film in British schools. When McAleer tried to debate further, his microphone was cut off by the moderators...
Friday, October 09, 2009
If the Data Doesn't Fit Then Just Destroy It!
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog
Friday, October 09, 2009
Govt-Funded Research Unit Destroyed Original Climate Data
By Christine Hall
October 5, 2009
CEI Petitions EPA to Reopen Global Warming Rulemaking
Washington, D.C., October 6, 2009 - In the wake of a revelation by a key research institution that it destroyed its original climate data, the Competitive Enterprise Institute petitioned EPA to reopen a major global warming proceeding.
In mid-August the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) disclosed that it had destroyed the raw data for its global surface temperature data set because of an alleged lack of storage space. The CRU data have been the basis for several of the major international studies that claim we face a global warming crisis. CRU’s destruction of data, however, severely undercuts the credibility of those studies.
In a declaration filed with CEI’s petition, Cato Institute scholar and climate scientist Patrick Michaels calls CRU’s revelation “a totally new element” that “violates basic scientific principles, and “throws even more doubt” on the claims of global warming alarmists...
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Svensmark: “global warming stopped and a cooling is beginning” – “enjoy global warming while it lasts”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/10/svensmark-global-warming-stopped-and-a-cooling-is-beginning-enjoy-global-warming-while-it-lasts/
UPDATED: This opinion piece from Professor Henrik Svensmark was published September 9th in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Originally the translation was from Google translation with some post translation cleanup of jumbled words or phrases by myself. Now as of Sept 12, the translation is by Nigel Calder. Hat tip to Carsten Arnholm of Norway for bringing this to my attention and especially for translation facilitation by Ágúst H Bjarnason – Anthony
Translation approved by Henrik Svensmark
While the Sun sleeps
Henrik Svensmark, Professor, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen
“In fact global warming has stopped and a cooling is beginning. No climate model has predicted a cooling of the Earth – quite the contrary. And this means that the projections of future climate are unreliable,” writes Henrik Svensmark.
The star that keeps us alive has, over the last few years, been almost free of sunspots, which are the usual signs of the Sun’s magnetic activity. Last week [4 September 2009] the scientific team behind the satellite SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) reported, “It is likely that the current year’s number of blank days will be the longest in about 100 years.” Everything indicates that the Sun is going into some kind of hibernation, and the obvious question is what significance that has for us on Earth.
If you ask the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which represents the current consensus on climate change, the answer is a reassuring “nothing”. But history and recent research suggest that is probably completely wrong...
UPDATED: This opinion piece from Professor Henrik Svensmark was published September 9th in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Originally the translation was from Google translation with some post translation cleanup of jumbled words or phrases by myself. Now as of Sept 12, the translation is by Nigel Calder. Hat tip to Carsten Arnholm of Norway for bringing this to my attention and especially for translation facilitation by Ágúst H Bjarnason – Anthony
Translation approved by Henrik Svensmark
While the Sun sleeps
Henrik Svensmark, Professor, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen
“In fact global warming has stopped and a cooling is beginning. No climate model has predicted a cooling of the Earth – quite the contrary. And this means that the projections of future climate are unreliable,” writes Henrik Svensmark.
The star that keeps us alive has, over the last few years, been almost free of sunspots, which are the usual signs of the Sun’s magnetic activity. Last week [4 September 2009] the scientific team behind the satellite SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) reported, “It is likely that the current year’s number of blank days will be the longest in about 100 years.” Everything indicates that the Sun is going into some kind of hibernation, and the obvious question is what significance that has for us on Earth.
If you ask the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which represents the current consensus on climate change, the answer is a reassuring “nothing”. But history and recent research suggest that is probably completely wrong...
Scientist: Carbon Dioxide Doesn’t Cause Global Warming
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog
Oct 08, 2009
Scientist: Carbon Dioxide Doesn’t Cause Global Warming
By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers
A noted geologist who coauthored the New York Times bestseller Sugar Busters has turned his attention to convincing Congress that carbon dioxide emissions are good for Earth and don’t cause global warming. Leighton Steward is on Capitol Hill this week armed with studies and his book Fire, Ice and Paradise in a bid to show senators working on the energy bill that the carbon dioxide cap-and-trade scheme could actually hurt the environment by reducing CO2 levels...
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza by Pablo Picasso
Oct 08, 2009
Scientist: Carbon Dioxide Doesn’t Cause Global Warming
By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers
A noted geologist who coauthored the New York Times bestseller Sugar Busters has turned his attention to convincing Congress that carbon dioxide emissions are good for Earth and don’t cause global warming. Leighton Steward is on Capitol Hill this week armed with studies and his book Fire, Ice and Paradise in a bid to show senators working on the energy bill that the carbon dioxide cap-and-trade scheme could actually hurt the environment by reducing CO2 levels...
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza by Pablo Picasso
Sunday, October 04, 2009
Prologue to Copenhagen
http://www.icecap.us/
Oct 04, 2009
Prologue to Copenhagen
By Chris de Freitas
...The US federal government has spent 80 billion US dollars on climate research on the assumption that human caused rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a problem. Despite this, no one has yet found even a shred of objective scientific evidence that humans are causing damaging global climate change...
Oct 04, 2009
Prologue to Copenhagen
By Chris de Freitas
...The US federal government has spent 80 billion US dollars on climate research on the assumption that human caused rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a problem. Despite this, no one has yet found even a shred of objective scientific evidence that humans are causing damaging global climate change...
Thursday, October 01, 2009
C.R.O.C.
Take a look at this for some comical relief.
http://www.thecroc.org/?gclid=CP_ut8itnJ0CFZJM5Qodhlg_3A
http://www.thecroc.org/?gclid=CP_ut8itnJ0CFZJM5Qodhlg_3A
Gore and Google: Pants on Fire
Notice in Gore's video he mentions the West Antarctic ice sheet but nothing about the East Antarctic ice sheet. Why? Because "East Antarctica is four times the size of west Antarctica and parts of it are cooling." This would blow the Gore theory clean out of the water if he stated the facts.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/gore_and_google_pants_on_fire.html
Earth's self-anointed global warming czar, Al Gore, has teamed up with his business partners at Google (he's an Advisory Board member) to make the latest pitch for a planet that is about to burst into a bag of Flamin' Hot Cheetos. Together they have created an internet video which heralds Google's entrance into the world of climate forecasting.
The video champions Google's new mapping tool which simulates a 3D map of the world predicting the effects of climate change through the year 2100. They claim their data is provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. According to Google, the mapping tool was introduced in partnership with the Danish Government ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Convention in December. In otherwords, this is a visual ruse to scare the hell of out of the uninformed masses...
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/gore_and_google_pants_on_fire.html
Earth's self-anointed global warming czar, Al Gore, has teamed up with his business partners at Google (he's an Advisory Board member) to make the latest pitch for a planet that is about to burst into a bag of Flamin' Hot Cheetos. Together they have created an internet video which heralds Google's entrance into the world of climate forecasting.
The video champions Google's new mapping tool which simulates a 3D map of the world predicting the effects of climate change through the year 2100. They claim their data is provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. According to Google, the mapping tool was introduced in partnership with the Danish Government ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Convention in December. In otherwords, this is a visual ruse to scare the hell of out of the uninformed masses...
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