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» NBC Begins 'Green Week' With Energy Double Standard; Ironically Favors Coal Power in Dam Tear-Down Story
» Newsweek Admits 74 Percent of Gore Letters Are Critical, But Fails to Publish Any
» Al Gore Heckled During Global Warming Speech In Boca Raton
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» Matthews Belittles Climate Change Skeptics and Homeschoolers
» Surprise: ABC’s Sawyer Hits Gore on Profits From Global Warming, Plays Glenn Beck Attack
» Couric Glorifies Al Gore as 'Godfather of Green, the King of Conservation'
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» Not Finding Any, Gore Airbrushes Hurricanes For His New Book
» Climate Science Corrupted
» An Open Letter to the Council of American Physical Society
» Prince Charles Tries to Stamp Out Scientific Debate, Says SPPI
» Joe Romm's Vicious and Partisan Climate McCarthyism
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» Der Spiegel Online: stagnating temperatures a puzzle
» Breaking News Story: CRU has apparently been hacked – hundreds of files released
» NOAA: new ocean database spans to 1800
» The Climate Skeptics Party launch 4 television ads in Australia
» Not finding any, Gore airbrushes in hurricanes for his new book
» CO2 and ocean uptake – maybe slowing
» Wall Street Journal on McIntyre: Global warming’s most dangerous apostate
» Greening your mileage with better tires
» Climate Craziness of the Week: What’s more idiotic than holding a cylinder of CO2 for a photo op in the snow? – Calling it “art”.
» CO2 still going up, but temperature not following the same trend
» AMS TV weathercaster survey on climate raises eyebrows
» The Steel Greenhouse
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» Monckton climate change video goes viral
» Hall of record ratios
» Why NCAR’s Meehl paper on high/low temperature records is bunk
» More on the record high-low temperature debacle
» Northern Sierra Trees Falsify Claim of ‘Unprecedented’ Global Warming
» The Delayer in Chief? – Obama backs Copenhagen postponement
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» EPA lawyers: Cap-and-trade bill is “fatally flawed”
» All by her lonesome: Sen. Boxer and the empty chairs
» Barbara Boxer’s eco-power grab
» Schooling global warming blowhard John Kerry
» Tinker Bell coopted by U.N. eco-zealots
» Lord Monckton’s warning to America
» What did I tell ya? Lindsey Graham signs on to cap-and-tax
» Ugh: McCain & Company melting on cap-and-tax
» Stanford U. doesn’t want you to see this video
» The year of living eco-sanctimoniously
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» The Boxer-Kerry green boondoggle
» Cali’s man-caused drought: Senate rejects water restoration effort; Feinstein moans about “Pearl Harbor”
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» Will the Real Antarctica Please Stand Up?
» Global Warming May Decrease Hurricanes, Research Suggests
» Japanese Report Disputes Human Cause for Global Warming
» Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979
» A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the (Climate) Forum
» Climate Report Downgrades Ice Loss; Media Reports Opposite
» Princeton Physicist Calls Global Warming Science "Mistaken"
» Defying Predictions, Sea Level Rise Begins to Slow
» Electric Car Sales in Freefall; Industry Risks Collapse
» Glaciers in Norway Growing Again
» Global Warming Equals... More Sex?
» Deja Vu All Over Again: Blogger Again Finds Error in NASA Climate Data
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» Alaskan Glaciers Grow for First Time in 250 years
» Climate Change Report Calls for Mandatory Meat Rationing
» The Technology of Capitalism
» UN IPCC: Shun Meat to Stop Climate Change
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» U.S. Record Temperatures—A Closer Look
» Airborne Fraction of Human CO2 Emissions Constant over Time
» Another Normal Year for U.S. Temperatures?
» A Rational Look at Sea Level Rise
» Cato Journal
» “AP IMPACT: Statisticians reject global cooling”
» Baffling Island
» The Ups and Downs of Methane
» Antarctic Ice Melt at Lowest Levels in Satellite Era
» UNEP Report—Deception Starts with the Cover
» Possible Conspiracy To Falsify Temperature Data Uncovered
» Big Hack Attack: Global Warming Exposed as 'Globaloney'?
» Al Gore Proposes Using Supercomputer Projections to Scare People on Global Warming
» Al Gore Photoshops Hurricanes Into New Book's Cover
» Gainor Column: Ready to Pay Your $6 Trillion 'Climate Justice' Bill?
» Notable Quotables Comedy Show Bonus Footage!
» Al Gore Speech Venue Graffitied: 'Don't Buy False Solutions'
» Al Gore: Earth's Interior 'Extremely Hot, Several Million Degrees'
» NBC Begins 'Green Week' With Energy Double Standard; Ironically Favors Coal Power in Dam Tear-Down Story
» Newsweek Admits 74 Percent of Gore Letters Are Critical, But Fails to Publish Any
» Al Gore Heckled During Global Warming Speech In Boca Raton
» BREAKING: World Leaders Agree to Delay Global Warming Deal
» Another Palin Hit Job: Newsweek Cover Claims Former Alaska Governor 'Bad News' for Everybody
» Stephen King's New Thriller Scares Readers with Environmental Doom
» NBC Kicks Off Annual 'Green Week' with Primetime Climate Hype
» Chuck Norris: Obama Wants 'To Create a One World Order' at Copenhagen Climate Talks
» WaPo: EPA Forces Employees to Pull Down YouTube Video Critical of Cap-and-Trade
» Headline: 'Antarctica's Ice Loss Helps Offset Global Warming'
» EPA Threatens Own Lawyers Over Video Critical Of Cap and Trade
» Newsweek Notes Al Gore's Favorite New Quote, But Omits It Came From a Marxist
» CBS Claims Dogs Are Killing The Planet
» WaPo Environmental Reporter Married to Liberal Climate Lobbyist; Ombudsman Skims Over Conflicts
» Matthews Belittles Climate Change Skeptics and Homeschoolers
» Surprise: ABC’s Sawyer Hits Gore on Profits From Global Warming, Plays Glenn Beck Attack
» Couric Glorifies Al Gore as 'Godfather of Green, the King of Conservation'
» Not Finding Any, Gore Airbrushes Hurricanes For His New Book
» Climate Science Corrupted
» An Open Letter to the Council of American Physical Society
» Prince Charles Tries to Stamp Out Scientific Debate, Says SPPI
» Joe Romm's Vicious and Partisan Climate McCarthyism
» An Epidemic of OCD: Obsessive Carbon Dogma
» Scenes from the Climate Inquisition
» Cap-and-Trade Mirage
» NCAR US Temperature Record Facts or Deception?
» Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Ecosystems
» Comment On The Hacking Of The CRU Website
» Misrepresentation Of Scientific Consensus By The Leadership Of Professional Organizations
» Land Use As Climate Change Mitigation by Brian Stone
» Climate Change Survey Of Weathercasters
» Comments On Meehl Et Al 2009 On Trends In Record High And Low Temperatures
» Comment On James Annan’s Post “Klotzbach ad nauseam 2009″
» Further Comments On The Article “Clean the Air, Heat the Planet?” By Arneth Et Al 2009
» Bias In News Reporting
» Further Evidence In Support Of Klotzbach Et Al 2009
» New Paper Accepted “Temperature And Equivalent Temperature Over The United States (1979 – 2005) by Fall Et Al 2009
» Mike’s Nature trick
» CRU Correspondence
» WSJ Europe
» Der Spiegel Online: stagnating temperatures a puzzle
» Breaking News Story: CRU has apparently been hacked – hundreds of files released
» NOAA: new ocean database spans to 1800
» The Climate Skeptics Party launch 4 television ads in Australia
» Not finding any, Gore airbrushes in hurricanes for his new book
» CO2 and ocean uptake – maybe slowing
» Wall Street Journal on McIntyre: Global warming’s most dangerous apostate
» Greening your mileage with better tires
» Climate Craziness of the Week: What’s more idiotic than holding a cylinder of CO2 for a photo op in the snow? – Calling it “art”.
» CO2 still going up, but temperature not following the same trend
» AMS TV weathercaster survey on climate raises eyebrows
» The Steel Greenhouse
» Gore has no clue – a few million degrees here and there and pretty soon we’re talking about real temperature
» Monckton climate change video goes viral
» Hall of record ratios
» Why NCAR’s Meehl paper on high/low temperature records is bunk
» More on the record high-low temperature debacle
» Northern Sierra Trees Falsify Claim of ‘Unprecedented’ Global Warming
» The Delayer in Chief? – Obama backs Copenhagen postponement
» Winds of change – Gore gets booed – maybe they shouldn’t have billed him as “president of the planet”
» Lord Monckton’s Warning
» The Green Experiment
» Quote of the Day: The Daily Gut
» Van Jones Resigns
» Town Hall protest in Setaucket, New York
» Oh, come on, now!
» Ecoscience
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» The left attacks Harry Alford
» CTRL/ALT/DELETE
» Why Won’t Al Gore Debate?
» People-Hating, Godless U.N.
» Cap-and-Trade Is No Good for NYC
» Friedman embraces “E.T.” as solution to energy problems
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» Come to Your Consensus
» Pawlenty’s Flip-Flop
» Post Draws Line in the Wrong Place
» Mixing trade and global warming — a recipe for disaster
» A Climate Dictatorship?
» The global warming scandal of the century
» Fighting “climate change”…with free condoms
» EPA lawyers: Cap-and-trade bill is “fatally flawed”
» All by her lonesome: Sen. Boxer and the empty chairs
» Barbara Boxer’s eco-power grab
» Schooling global warming blowhard John Kerry
» Tinker Bell coopted by U.N. eco-zealots
» Lord Monckton’s warning to America
» What did I tell ya? Lindsey Graham signs on to cap-and-tax
» Ugh: McCain & Company melting on cap-and-tax
» Stanford U. doesn’t want you to see this video
» The year of living eco-sanctimoniously
» Apple’s eco-sanctimony
» The Boxer-Kerry green boondoggle
» Cali’s man-caused drought: Senate rejects water restoration effort; Feinstein moans about “Pearl Harbor”
» Will the Real Antarctica Please Stand Up?
» Global Warming May Decrease Hurricanes, Research Suggests
» Japanese Report Disputes Human Cause for Global Warming
» Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979
» A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the (Climate) Forum
» Climate Report Downgrades Ice Loss; Media Reports Opposite
» Princeton Physicist Calls Global Warming Science "Mistaken"
» Defying Predictions, Sea Level Rise Begins to Slow
» Electric Car Sales in Freefall; Industry Risks Collapse
» Glaciers in Norway Growing Again
» Global Warming Equals... More Sex?
» Deja Vu All Over Again: Blogger Again Finds Error in NASA Climate Data
» Sea Ice Growing at Fastest Pace on Record
» Alaskan Glaciers Grow for First Time in 250 years
» Climate Change Report Calls for Mandatory Meat Rationing
» The Technology of Capitalism
» UN IPCC: Shun Meat to Stop Climate Change
» A Melting Arctic: Happy News for Mankind
» Arctic Sees Massive Gain in Ice Coverage
» Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century
» How to Reduce Pollution by Drilling for Oil
» Experimental Link Found Between Sun and Climate
» Another Scientist Predicts Global Cooling
» British Schoolboy Convicted of Downloading Material from Internet
» Oxygen Depletion: The Next Great Environmental Scare
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Right now our sun is experiencing very mild solar activity, expect cooler temperatures! Near real time NASA image of the sun (SOHO MDI Latest Image).
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"The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite."
-- Dwight Eisenhower speech, 1961

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite."
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| » | Global Warming’s Blue Dress Moment? The CRU EMail Hack Scandal
The recent hacking of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) computer system h ... |
| » | October 2009 UAH Global Temperature Update +0.28 deg. C
YR MON GLOBE NH SH TROPICS 2009 1 +0.304 +0.443 +0.165 -0.036 200 ... |
| » | Some Comments on the Lindzen and Choi (2009) Feedback Study
I keep getting requests to comment on the recent GRL paper by Lindzen and Choi (2009), who computed ... |
| » | In Their Own Words: The IPCC on Climate Feedbacks
Despite the fact that the magnitude of anthropogenic global warming depends mostly upon the strength ... |
| » | An Expensive Urban Legend
About.com describes an “urban legend” as an apocryphal (of questionable authenticity), secondhand st ... |
| » | IPCC Crushes Scientific Objectivity, 91-0.
Unquestionably, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was formed to build the sc ... |
| » | Global Average SST Update to October 14
Since the global average sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies (departures from average) hit a pea ... |
| » | Hotspots and Fingerprints
It is claimed by the IPCC that there are ‘fingerprints’ associated with global warming which can be ... |
| » | September 2009 UAH Global Temperature Update +0.42 deg. C
YR MON GLOBE NH SH TROPICS 2009 1 +0.304 +0.443 +0.165 -0.036 200 ... |
| » | The Search for a Short Term Marker of Long Term Climate Sensitivity
[This is an update on research progress we have made into determining just how sensitive the climate ... |
Date published: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:17:16 +0000
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| » | Ocean Acidification and the Sagittal Otoliths of Marine Fish
A new study reveals how the former affects the latter in white sea bass, while we relay what the res ... |
| » | Medieval Warm Period Record of the Week
Was there a Medieval Warm Period? YES, according to data published by 765 individual scientists from ... |
| » | Dimethylsulfide -- Summary
What is it? ... where does it come from? ... and what does it do? |
| » | Plant Growth Data
This week we add new results of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from e ... |
| » | Trends in the Timing and Magnitude of Canadian Floods
What types of regimes have been developing over the past three decades? |
| » | The Medieval Warm Period in Southern Greenland
Was it an isolated occurrence? ... or part of a larger geographical and temporal pattern? |
| » | Global Warming and Local Marine Copepod Diversity
How would more of the former (if temperatures ever begin to rise again) affect the latter? |
| » | Africa's Vegetative Future in a CO2-Enriched and Warmer World
How will it differ from its current condition? |
| » | Wind-Driven Dispersal of Seeds and Pollen
How is the phenomenon affected by global warming? |
Date published: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:21:36 GMT
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| » | The Real Hockey Stick
From PHD Comics via Flowing Data, check out the lower left. |
| » | Climate Pentagon Papers
An interesting development you have probably seen at other climate sites already (I am pretty conser ... |
| » | Climate Presentation Slides
These are the Powerpoint slides for my Nov. 10 presentation in Phoenix. The slides are available for ... |
| » | Bummer. I Didn’t Make the List
From Grist: James Inhofe. Marc Morano. Richard Lindzen. Bjørn Lomborg. George W. Bush. Names of sham ... |
| » | Thanks
We had a really good crowd out last night for my lecture. I am currently working on publishing the ... |
| » | Posting Drought Over Soon
There is a lot going on that I should be posting about, but I am preparing for a new round of public ... |
| » | On the Radio Tonight
For those in Arizona, I will be on the Terry Gilberg show on 550 KFYI talking climate starting at 6: ... |
| » | Reminder: Tuesday, Nov 10 Presentation in Phoenix
If you are in the Phoenix area and interested in a scientific discussion of climate issues, and in p ... |
| » | Good Video
I enjoyed this video from CO2 Science and the Idso family. It has much more in-depth science than ... |
| » | Lindzen & Choi
In preparing for my climate presentation in Phoenix next week, I went back and read through Lindzen ... |
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| » | Not Finding Any, Gore Airbrushes Hurricanes For His New Book
Al Gore’s new book had a problem – no big hurricanes since Katrina to put in the book t ... |
| » | Climate Science Corrupted
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established under the sponsorship of the W ... |
| » | An Open Letter to the Council of American Physical Society
As physicists who are familiar with the science issues, and as current and past members of the Amer ... |
| » | Prince Charles Tries to Stamp Out Scientific Debate, Says SPPI
A climate lobby-group founded by Prince Charles to influence opinion in the world’s largest i ... |
| » | Joe Romm's Vicious and Partisan Climate McCarthyism
If you want to understand how it is that the debate over global warming policies became so shrill, ... |
| » | An Epidemic of OCD: Obsessive Carbon Dogma
From living in virtual darkness to minutely measuring their water-use, greens’ fixation with c ... |
| » | Scenes from the Climate Inquisition
On February 2, an AEI research project on climate change policy that we have been organizing was the ... |
| » | Cap-and-Trade Mirage
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| » | NCAR US Temperature Record Facts or Deception?
A new paper that is soon to appear in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds that across the ... |
| » | Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Ecosystems
Comments related to EPA’s April 15, 2009 Notice of Data Availability (NODA) on Ocean Acidific ... |
Date published: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:38:19 +0100
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| » | Top 10 Things I liked about Prometheus
A Guest Post by Sharon Friedman 1. We could keep up with the latest in the “big” c ... |
| » | Beaming Out
As of today, my new blog is ready for visitors. Besides the usual topics I’ve written about h ... |
| » | Research Takes First Step on Tolerance of Nanoparticles
The Scientist has a capsule review of a 2007 research article on the ability of mice to purge themse ... |
| » | UK Petition Pushes Linear Model to the Extreme
There is a custom in the U.K. to submit petitions to the Prime Minister’s residence, 10 Downin ... |
| » | UK Backs Away from a Bibliometric Research Assessment Exercise
According to ScienceInsider (and Times Higher Education), the planned shift of the U.K. Research Ass ... |
| » | Bioethics Panel Dismissed; Obama Panel Will Be More Policy Oriented
Per the New York Times, the President’s Council on Bioethics has been given its walking papers ... |
| » | NASA Human Spaceflight Review Meets Today
Technology Review reports in advance of today’s meeting of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flig ... |
| » | Business Methods Patents to Receive Scrutiny
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case regarding the validity of business method patents (H/T W ... |
| » | FutureGen Clean Coal Plant May Get New Life
Wired notes that the FutureGen clean coal plant, which had been shuttered in part due to perceived c ... |
| » | Some Changes to Announce
There are some changes to announce. Prometheus is going to be retired. It has been a while in com ... |
Date published: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:38:48 +0000
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| » | Global carbon emissions 1960-2008 and economic events
Fluctuations in global economic activity are clearly imprinted on the carbon emissions timeseries. ... |
| » | BoM forgets Darwin history
I have just seen this BoM media release trumpeting “Warmest month on record in Darwin”. ... |
| » | “…I finished .. about 8 o’clock that night and there had been no reports at that stage of casualties…”
To give us some comprehension of the magnitude of the breakdown in functions of the Victorian fire b ... |
| » | The BoM is a national disgrace
In Canberra we are on pretty strict water restrictions, water bills are sky-high yet the BoM can not ... |
| » | How quickly BoM weather model predictions implode
On 23 October the BoM published this map of rain predictions for the 3 months November 2009 – ... |
| » | Kev747 attacks climate sceptics
Puzzling that the Australian Prime Minister Mr Kevin Rudd, would waste his precious time slagging of ... |
| » | New paper on historical carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere accepted for conference
Accurate estimation of CO2 background level from near ground measurements at non-mixed environments ... |
| » | What has killed the cotton giant – Cubbie Station ?
“Drought beats cotton giant Cubbie” So says the ABC - full article below too. But when I ... |
| » | How reliable are Australian Govt claims about rising sea levels ?
We have all seen the news lately about the threat to coastal properties by “climate changeR ... |
| » | Vote on “climate change is caused by humans”
The Science Museum in the UK has on online poll running. It is easy to vote so click on this link a ... |
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Denny
20 Nov : 12:17
Oh my! You need to read Climate Audit but you need to go thru Climate Depot to get there. I've email Admin. wondering what happened to our connection to Climate Audit.
Oh my! The hackers have done
20 Nov : 12:00
now. I can't wait for the media spin on this one. this should be really good, especially for the politicos.
Denny
20 Nov : 01:18
WCK, Good night! Hey, it's just another day of "Climate Change".
Windy City Kid
20 Nov : 01:16
I got in earlier but the CRU article wasn't up yet. I have quickly scanned the 140+ responses about 5 minutes ago and most of the memos are what I have already read elsewhere. I will check back later today when more comes out. I'm afraid I'll have nightmares about flesh eating climate scientist zombies but I'm going to bed anyway.LOL Good night Denny.
Denny
20 Nov : 00:50
WCK, have you been over to CA? It's really hard to get in! I was wondering whether I was having computer problems....I got thru and I saw why!
Denny
20 Nov : 00:48
WCK, I don't know for sure but for what I've seen so far...It looks very real to me...There's really no way to change all of this info...Yes, one has to be skeptical of some possible implants but overall from what I just read...Wow!
Windy City Kid
20 Nov : 00:37
Well if these memos are the real deal, there are some real activist scumbags pretending to be climate scientists. I'm hoping they are fake as this would destroy the last shred of faith in humanity that I have.
Windy City Kid
19 Nov : 21:44
Denny and admin disregard my previous post. I see you already are aware of the situation and have a link. Thanks!
Windy City Kid
19 Nov : 21:28
Denny and or Admin. There was a smoking gun at another blog with a link to over 1,000 memos implicating HadCRUT and others in a cabal to supress climate data. The link was removed for fear of legal reprise as it is suspected that the HadCrut computers had been hacked into. Is there any other news or has anyone made copies of the memos.
ron
19 Nov : 05:17
Usually, the stock retort was that AGW skeptics were funded by "big oil". When it turns out that we aren't, then we're not "well organized." Well, science doesn't hinge on whether we have a secret handshake or a patch for our jacket. Science is simply there. You're statement implies that AGW believers are organized and that somehow makes you more right. Why? Because you are organized and have rehearsed rhetoric? I'm still waiting on a scientific debate.
ron
19 Nov : 04:51
And yeah, I know more science than the president, which is not saying a lot, and I can recite it without a tele-prompter. And a scientific fact is valid regardless of what party you vote for. The government doesn't decide what science is.
ron
19 Nov : 04:49
Hmmm, you should listen to how political and unscientific you sound. So, you think scientific validity is based on "credibility" based on where they have the chatbox? Or that skeptics don't have an "organised" opposition and you do, I suppose? Not once in you reply did you even rely on science. Instead, your points are made with political terms. Science is science, whether it is politically popular or not. We don't define a science by voting on it or how well we "package it" to the voting electorate.
Hmmm
19 Nov : 04:28
If I were you, and if I wanted my site to have any credibility, I would remove this chat section from the front page as it reduces your valid scientific arguments to a lot of chitchat between disaffected youths with nothing better to do than sit on the internet all day. Unless this is that kind of site, I would hide this section. The president comes here to see what you are up to you say? I bet he is laughing also, since he certainly doesn't have top worry about any organised opposition.
Denny
18 Nov : 20:20
Anonymous, we have 450 papers in the "Latest Forum Post Section" on this site!Do you have anything more specific???
Anonymous
18 Nov : 20:02
hi im doing a research paper on facts that say global warming is a hoax...any ideas?
ron
18 Nov : 05:01
I read it. Even though some may poop on the algebra, the principle is the same as what I have been saying. CO2 cannot have the conscious ability to direct its re-emission only toward the ground. It will happen in all directions. So, heat radiates away like it always has, maybe more effciently, Maybe just the same, regardless. And CO2, like any gas, transfers its to any cooler gas or area or substance as soon as it encounters it. Basic physics. It's why your air conditioner works. And that's why I say that CO2 can't hold in anything. It merely changes slightly the heat exchange rate, and that is only at 2.5 and 15.7 microns.
Denny
17 Nov : 21:06
ron, have you seen this paper yet?
Denny
17 Nov : 20:50
ron, yea, all we get here is one sentence remarks from the Alarmists!Except, I have noticed that more People requesting info on AGW from our site....which is good! Mostly students so they claim...
ron
17 Nov : 19:41
And, as I have predicted here and on other blogs and chats, not one AGW alarmist can answer my challenge other than repeating the catechism of St. Gore, as was evidenced by the few here that at least came up with something in the name header. They simply reiterated. Not one could explain how they expect CO2 to re-emit it's IR at 2.5 and 15.7 microns (and any stratospheric cooling is at 6.5 microns, which is water vapor) only at the surface at the planet. To be fair, it can't. No gas can do that. But I was willing to see if any one would be as silly as Akers was in his debate with Piers Corbyn, when he was about to say that it was silly that plants needed CO2, when the host cut it short. But no takers, so far. ho hum ...
ron
17 Nov : 19:34
Thanks, Denny. I saw Lord Monckton's mathematical gauntlet, which states even more clearly what the article was stating, which is what I have been saying all along. First, the earth is not a closed system. The atmosphere, with varying layers of density, is not a closed system. But even if it were, like a framed and enclosed hothouse, it would still radiate heat away at a certain temperature that establishes equilibrium between inside and outside. However, our atmosphere, containing no such hard metal layer, convects more rapidly and easily. Prof is shown by Prof. Lindzen.
Denny
17 Nov : 17:48
ron, very interesting article! Monckton even posted there with a question!! That site is covered by a lot of people!
Denny
17 Nov : 17:23
ron, check out the latest post on WUWT. Willis Eschenbach is giving His view on the "Greenhouse Effect".
Denny
17 Nov : 17:12
Anonymous person who fails at, could you more explicit? This Site has it all! Just gotta know where to look! If you need help, let Us know..or go to the "Main Menu" and click on "Videos, Forums, Newsfeeds, Links, etc.. Plenty of info there plus we now have 450 Peer Reviewed Papers posted. Any subject cover there in AGW Realist arsenal.
Denny
17 Nov : 17:05
DonnieRonnie, here's a start with Prof. Lindzen:
Next is Dr. Spencer:

Both of these denouce CO2 causing AGW! Let Us know if you need more help! Thanks for stoping by!. Oh, one more thing.,. If you go to the "Latest Forum Posts" section in the middle of this site, click on the 450 Peer Reviewed Papers for Sceptics. It's broke down into 3 parts. It covers numerous subjects!
SFM
17 Nov : 16:36
It depends. If her teacher has been brainwashed and she wants to make an A she should just make up facts and figures showing how man is evil and wants to melt all the ice, kill all the polar bears, flood all the coastal cities, starve people in poor countries and cause endless hurricanes and droughts. If her teacher wants the truth send your sister here.
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The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScD
In this paper, former NASA Senior Research Scientist Leonard Weinstein, ScD uses the melting of Arctic and Greenlandish ice to show how CO2 can not cause catastrophic melting in the future. In fact, both areas are well within the norm of natural variation.
One of the issues most harped upon by the media and the focus of Dr. Weinstein's analysis is the melting of the polar ice caps in relation to atmospheric CO2 content. Dr. Weinstein analyzes and deflates each claim using proven scientific data from the area and focused reasoning instead of taking it at face value from the feeding hand of the societal grapevine. He reinserts many intentionally forgotten variables and factors into the hackneyed mass ice-melting formula we are all familiar with such as the reflectivity of the snow-cover, the axial tilt of the Earth, the emissivity of water, and other melt(and hysteria)-damping factors that are often swept from the public's view.
There is an interesting story going around that Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is resulting in unusual melting of the polar and near polar ice caps, especially the Arctic sea ice and Greenland ice cap, and this is going to contribute to the Earth’s problems in a big way (flooding, feedback temperature increase, etc.). In order to understand the issue, a few simple facts and recent observations need to be shown. The following discussion is restricted to the Arctic and Greenland, since these are the main regions of contention. It should be noted that the Antarctic is presently cooling (and has been for several years) and sea ice extent is expanding.
We first need to examine the external energy balance for the Arctic. Due to the axial tilt of the Earth, the Arctic is in full dark about half of the year, and in partial to full Sunlight about half of the year. The maximum Sun angle at the North Pole is about 24 degrees above the horizon. This angle only occurs for a relatively short time, and smaller angles occur most of the daylight time. The maximum Solar insolation from this (due to the angle and atmospheric absorption) is about 400 W/m2. The high reflectivity of clean snow (always present on ice) results in only about 40 W/m2 being absorbed into the ice. The maximum air temperature near the surface is just a small amount above freezing, so the maximum thermal heat transfer from air to ice is generally just a few 10’s of W/m2. The ice (or snow) gray-body emissivity (about 0.9) is much higher than the low absorption (about 0.1) at the short wavelengths of Sunlight, so the reemitted long wavelength radiation is about 280 W/m2. The result is that solid ice cannot normally melt from Solar radiation plus air warming from the top, even at peak summer. The rest of the year has even less energy input, so ice is strongly cooled all year long.
The actual cause of the significant melting of summer ice has been shown to not be possible from the top. However, there is considerable summer melting. It is clear from the physics that the summer melting has to have been caused by water flowing under the ice. The water flows from lower latitudes, so has a higher temperature than the ice. If the water is warm enough it melts the ice from below. However, if the ice is cold enough and the water cool enough, this flow will freeze and add thickness of solid ice to the underside. This is the source of new solid ice. Snow on the top also adds to the thickness, but is not solid ice.
The summer melting can result in some Arctic open water. Open water can absorb much more of the Solar insolation than ice or snow, but even at the maximum summer level, absorbs only about 350 W/m2 near the pole. The water emissivity is slightly higher than ice, and radiates about 300 W/m2. These result in a maximum excess of absorption in open water of only about 50 W/m2 for a very short part of the peak of summer, and a large net cooling over the full year. Thus to claim that a temporary full melting of Arctic ice (from underneath) will keep the ice from reforming is incorrect based on Solar insolation and reasonable air temperature variations.
The following figure is show as an example of the very rapid temperature rise experienced at the Artic in recent years. This is supposed to prove the model predictions of unusual temperature rise rates are valid, and that we are heading for big problems:

The figure shows a rise rate about 0.25C per decade. This looks scary. However if we look at records back to 1880, we get a different story altogether:

This longer time scale gives about 0.09C per decade if we use the starting and stopping points. However, it is clear that a straight line fit is a ridicules choice, as the temperature actually went up and down. In fact, the highest level occurred around 1940, not the present. It is also true that the temperature has been flat for several years after 2002, and has been falling for the last 2 or so years. The largest jump in temperature occurred from 1915 to 1940. This period predated most of the recent CO2 increase, and even the AGW advocates agree this period was driven by natural forces, not CO2. This demolishes the significance of the claim of the recent rise as proving anything.
The argument for the part of the Greenland icecap that is fully on land and at reasonable altitude has an even stronger argument as to why it will not melt. There is no water to melt the ice from below, and the cooling always exceeds the warming for solid ice at reasonable altitude. Since Greenland is at lower latitude than the pole, the Solar insolation can be significantly higher. If a strong enough warmer wind blows in from the sea, the sea ice and lower altitude edge of the Greenland ice sheet may melt, and has melted many times before (why do you think it is called Greenland). Ice melting at the very edge has led to scare scenes of massive melting, but it cannot happen at the higher altitudes (where almost all of the ice volume is located) at temperature variations that are happening, or that are even projected to occur by the scare models. The following is a temperature record over the last 11,000 years made from a typical ice core from the peak of the Greenland ice cap.

The temperature variations are shown relative to the temperature during 2000. The temperature has been as much as 2C higher than at present, and the last several years have a dropping temperature. The zero line actually corresponds to –30C, so even a temperature rise of 10C or even 20C would not even start to melt the ice.
The result is a clear demonstration that the present models and scare claims are not valid, and that using a short selected time history can give a very misleading indication of longer trends.
Click here for a brief Bio of Leonard Weinstein, ScD
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One of the issues most harped upon by the media and the focus of Dr. Weinstein's analysis is the melting of the polar ice caps in relation to atmospheric CO2 content. Dr. Weinstein analyzes and deflates each claim using proven scientific data from the area and focused reasoning instead of taking it at face value from the feeding hand of the societal grapevine. He reinserts many intentionally forgotten variables and factors into the hackneyed mass ice-melting formula we are all familiar with such as the reflectivity of the snow-cover, the axial tilt of the Earth, the emissivity of water, and other melt(and hysteria)-damping factors that are often swept from the public's view.
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice
Leonard Weinstein, ScD
May 21, 2009
Leonard Weinstein, ScD
May 21, 2009
There is an interesting story going around that Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is resulting in unusual melting of the polar and near polar ice caps, especially the Arctic sea ice and Greenland ice cap, and this is going to contribute to the Earth’s problems in a big way (flooding, feedback temperature increase, etc.). In order to understand the issue, a few simple facts and recent observations need to be shown. The following discussion is restricted to the Arctic and Greenland, since these are the main regions of contention. It should be noted that the Antarctic is presently cooling (and has been for several years) and sea ice extent is expanding.
We first need to examine the external energy balance for the Arctic. Due to the axial tilt of the Earth, the Arctic is in full dark about half of the year, and in partial to full Sunlight about half of the year. The maximum Sun angle at the North Pole is about 24 degrees above the horizon. This angle only occurs for a relatively short time, and smaller angles occur most of the daylight time. The maximum Solar insolation from this (due to the angle and atmospheric absorption) is about 400 W/m2. The high reflectivity of clean snow (always present on ice) results in only about 40 W/m2 being absorbed into the ice. The maximum air temperature near the surface is just a small amount above freezing, so the maximum thermal heat transfer from air to ice is generally just a few 10’s of W/m2. The ice (or snow) gray-body emissivity (about 0.9) is much higher than the low absorption (about 0.1) at the short wavelengths of Sunlight, so the reemitted long wavelength radiation is about 280 W/m2. The result is that solid ice cannot normally melt from Solar radiation plus air warming from the top, even at peak summer. The rest of the year has even less energy input, so ice is strongly cooled all year long.
The actual cause of the significant melting of summer ice has been shown to not be possible from the top. However, there is considerable summer melting. It is clear from the physics that the summer melting has to have been caused by water flowing under the ice. The water flows from lower latitudes, so has a higher temperature than the ice. If the water is warm enough it melts the ice from below. However, if the ice is cold enough and the water cool enough, this flow will freeze and add thickness of solid ice to the underside. This is the source of new solid ice. Snow on the top also adds to the thickness, but is not solid ice.
The summer melting can result in some Arctic open water. Open water can absorb much more of the Solar insolation than ice or snow, but even at the maximum summer level, absorbs only about 350 W/m2 near the pole. The water emissivity is slightly higher than ice, and radiates about 300 W/m2. These result in a maximum excess of absorption in open water of only about 50 W/m2 for a very short part of the peak of summer, and a large net cooling over the full year. Thus to claim that a temporary full melting of Arctic ice (from underneath) will keep the ice from reforming is incorrect based on Solar insolation and reasonable air temperature variations.
The following figure is show as an example of the very rapid temperature rise experienced at the Artic in recent years. This is supposed to prove the model predictions of unusual temperature rise rates are valid, and that we are heading for big problems:

The figure shows a rise rate about 0.25C per decade. This looks scary. However if we look at records back to 1880, we get a different story altogether:

This longer time scale gives about 0.09C per decade if we use the starting and stopping points. However, it is clear that a straight line fit is a ridicules choice, as the temperature actually went up and down. In fact, the highest level occurred around 1940, not the present. It is also true that the temperature has been flat for several years after 2002, and has been falling for the last 2 or so years. The largest jump in temperature occurred from 1915 to 1940. This period predated most of the recent CO2 increase, and even the AGW advocates agree this period was driven by natural forces, not CO2. This demolishes the significance of the claim of the recent rise as proving anything.
The argument for the part of the Greenland icecap that is fully on land and at reasonable altitude has an even stronger argument as to why it will not melt. There is no water to melt the ice from below, and the cooling always exceeds the warming for solid ice at reasonable altitude. Since Greenland is at lower latitude than the pole, the Solar insolation can be significantly higher. If a strong enough warmer wind blows in from the sea, the sea ice and lower altitude edge of the Greenland ice sheet may melt, and has melted many times before (why do you think it is called Greenland). Ice melting at the very edge has led to scare scenes of massive melting, but it cannot happen at the higher altitudes (where almost all of the ice volume is located) at temperature variations that are happening, or that are even projected to occur by the scare models. The following is a temperature record over the last 11,000 years made from a typical ice core from the peak of the Greenland ice cap.

The temperature variations are shown relative to the temperature during 2000. The temperature has been as much as 2C higher than at present, and the last several years have a dropping temperature. The zero line actually corresponds to –30C, so even a temperature rise of 10C or even 20C would not even start to melt the ice.
The result is a clear demonstration that the present models and scare claims are not valid, and that using a short selected time history can give a very misleading indication of longer trends.
Click here for a brief Bio of Leonard Weinstein, ScD
Reprinted here with the permission of Leonard Weinstein, ScD
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The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDwhat_harm_to_be_cautious? |28 May : 17:02 | |
| Guest Reply to this | I am not a scientist and my first glimmer of climate change came in 1998 when there was a heat wave. I lived in the tropics of Qld, Australia on an island surrounded by inshore coral reefs. Over the next two years many of these inshore reefs began to bleach and crumble. Once dead, algae and sea weed took hold. What was left (particularly in the shallower waters) was quickly suffocated by the sea weed and turned into muddy slush when the sea weed forest that fed off it ran out of fuel. I watched this happen with my own eyes (over two to 4 years) and decided to try and understand why it was happening. It was not confined to any one particular beach but all of them (even the ones with no continual human occupation). I learned back then about global warming and climate change. I want a future for my children. What harm is there to TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION NOW? What harm (apart from loss of income to multi-national corporations) will become of us if we move AWAY from polluting industries and INTO a clean energy future? Whether the climate change/global warming scientists are all full of hot air, or the ones who have been gathered here are big industry paid liars, there will be NO HARM to humanity if we clean up our act now. |
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The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDtarunkjuyal |02 Jun : 01:13 | |
| Guest Reply to this | great article |
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDdrew_ |02 Jun : 10:02 | |
| Guest Reply to this | The harm in taking action now would be excise tax on CO2 (cap and trade) with would be passed to the consumer. (cig taxes is an example) The tax would cause your energy cost to quadruple. This would make it increasingly difficult for middle class families to survive without the government subsidizing. In addition the job loss seen from the energy sector would likely rival that of todays 16000 a day from other failing sectors. So yes there would be devistating harm be addressing the issue and would simply be an excellent way to tax middle class families without taxing middle class families. Very simply, go read 1984 by george orwell, and open your eyes to the oppressive government you pushed for! |
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDken |07 Jun : 23:57 | |
| Guest Reply to this | Simply don't waste money on foolishness, which is what man-made global warming is. |
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDAnonymous |08 Jun : 20:53 | |
| Guest Reply to this | What everyone misses in all of this is that the planet is in no danger. The planet can take care of itself - has done for millions of years, and will do for countless more million years. What is in danger is our tiny insignificant little snapshot of time. The earth may or may not be warming (there is as much evidence proving this as there is proof that shares will be higher or lower tomorrow than they are today), but for man to claim responsibility for causing the earth to warm up? Get real.... Consider this: if the earth were actually cooling, even heading towards another ice age, would man be able to warm it up, to turn back the ice? I don't think so. The only inconvenient truth is that some people are getting very rich from the GW bandwagon. The smart thing is to make sensible, sustainable decisions. Our resources are limited and if we want to maintain our lifestyles, and those of our children, then we have to switch to renewable options. it makes no difference if the planet is warming or not. |
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDbig_man |16 Jun : 16:08 | |
| Guest Reply to this | Wake! up! you have been blindsided!! by generic science! GLOBAL WARMING = MONEY! MONEY!= GREED!!=LIES!! DAH? |
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The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDanonymous |19 Jun : 14:54 | |
| Guest Reply to this | where was this article origionally published? |
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The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDobviously |22 Jun : 05:00 | |
| Guest Reply to this | Since the climate is cyclical, then at some point it should get back to 100 [degrees] C, like it was before abiogenesis occurred. We would all be dead if that happened, by the way. Oh, and also, before abiogenesis, there were no plants to absorb all the CO2. Then, within a short time, geologically speaking (quite possibly less than 1000 years) various complex molecules (chemicals) were turned to ozone, stopping ultraviolet light and allowing more complex forms of life to grow, then releasing oxygen into the air via photosynthesis, along with TAKING THE CO2 OUT. Although at the very start, the main source of energy would probably have been chemical energy (ie said 'molecules'). Then, BANG. After most ofthe CO2 was gone, we had temperatures that were a lot warmer then the current temperature, due to more carbon being in the carbon cycle. Then the floods/etc that actually made fossil fuels occurs, and the carbon in the form of trees/dinosaurs/anything else organic that was 'buried' is removed from the carbon cycle. So the temperature goes down even further. Then, after that, after a couple of million years, humans have evolved, and we start digging it up, releasing that carbon back into the carbon cycle. Now we're going to watch the temperatures go up. By the way, I forget the exact percentage, but the carbon in our atmosphere is something like 0.3% - pretty far gone from >50%, like it would be if there weren't any plants/other forms of life. Also, cutting down half our rainforests doesn't hel either. |
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The reason I do not agree with The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDAnonymous |24 Jun : 16:53 | |
| Guest Reply to this | It's a fact that ice sheet does reflect most of the solar radiation (short wavelength such as UV radiation) back into the atmosphere. The reradiated radiation is trapped inside the atmosphere. This is when greenhouse effect, a effect that no one would or should argue or doubt about, kick in. The mathematical equation list above is simple and do not demonstrate the effect of synergistic reaction. The assumption based is seemingly different from those of global warming theory. More than offen, assumption is based different on different model. But how can anyone denie the shrinking of the ice-sheet shown by the solid satelite photo region of the polar and greenland icesheet. The thermograph of the core temperature change over the past few decades? The 1000ppm CO2 level is way before human time scale. The truth is the changing of temperature is so rapid in the past century even when you are comparing it to the events before. In case you don't know, which you probably don't. The majority of opponent of global climate change are the non renewable energy producer and consumer. Former president George Bush is in fact less known for his environmental nonfriendly and gobal warming non-supporting policy. During his adminstration, US never join the major world effort for fighting global warming. For the industries to fight the global warming, they have to invest trillions and trillions of money into their system. As an alternative, they employ 'scientists' to look for objective evident on the issue. Just like picking a few words out of a book to form whatever sentance you like. The government funded, published or even related research are full of words like possibilities, likely because of its caution natur. By saying 5 %, citizens would more likely to thing of 'very less likely' instead of its actuate meaning 'Very likely' since it's supposed to happen 5 times in every 100 times (a million times daily?). Big money? From who? To who? Researchers? Very least likely. It's much difficult to obtain 'enough' funding from government than from the industries, in an exchange that they can filter and alter the way it present. Little of the big money would actuallty go into the pocket of researcher, especially those of independent research. Most of the people saw those well known, rich research and ignore tons and tons of dedicate, true intelligent researcher that got so little or nothing. |
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDelrond11 |26 Jun : 14:48 | |
| Guest Reply to this | There are some great points here about being environmentally responsible. Also, in developing cleaner forms of energy. Those are definitely goals we should be setting for the future of this world. However, we should not be doing it based on the arguments of the fear mongers who purport man-made climate change. Their calls for immediate action will only bankrupt governments and put a huge financial burden on the people of this world. We need to move forward with being more sensitive to our environment but not in a knee jerk fashion. These environmental alarmist like Al Gore want immediate action because they do have a huge financial stake in all this. It is time we silence them and their rhetoric and move on in a reasonable fashion towards being more environmental responsible. |
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The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDC02_and_the_"blanket_effect" |27 Jun : 04:31 | |
| Guest Reply to this | C02 makes up such a small part of our atmosphere, it is impossible that it could cause climate change. There would have to be an actual change in atmospheric pressure in order to make a "heavier blanket" around the earth to trap heat. I don't think the blanket is getting heavier. No one is claiming that the atmospheric pressure is rising, which would indicate a change in mass. You kool-aid drinkers have all been duped! |
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The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDLeonard_Weinstein |29 Jun : 07:12 | |
| Guest Reply to this | To Anonymous, Please read the following two URL's and tell me how you can refute them. Don't use the claim of authority and consensus as proving anything. There are about as many real scientists that dispute the position of AGW (not GW) than agree, but many have not published on the topic because no one publishes a non problem. It was the large number of people claiming a problem that made them come out with responses. Also using misinformation by a few persons (common on both sides of the issue) does not disqualify the truth. (Limitations on AGW) (Disproving AGW Problem) |
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The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDron
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Registered: 14 Jun : 21:02 Reply to this | You forgot Galileo, who was excommunicated for his scientific views, and vilified, made a persona non grata. Charles Darwin, to received, skepticism. FitzGerald and Lorentz were phycisists, with degrees and everything, who believed in an aether. Einstein came along and said there was no aether, based on the Michelson-Morley experiment but he used their math, anyway. Untie that knot. And the thousands of scientists who think are in support of AGW are the listed authors and reviewers of the IPCC. If you pay attention to the words of John Cristy, original lead author of the IPCC, not only are most of the authors not directly involved in climatology, but many have withdrawn their support and have to fight the IPCC and threaten legal action to get their names taken off the "consensus." |
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDAnonymous |15 Jul : 20:29 | |
| Guest Reply to this | Hello all. Well I'm no ph.D. Chemistry, I'm just a regular middle class working stiff. I don't pretend to know all the ways of the world. There may well be global warming. I just want someone to prove it before forcing me to hand over my hard earned money in the form of massive energy rate hikes (cap and trade). I honestly don't understand how you can have such an excellent education and still be so willing to hand over your money while the guy telling you to drink the cool-aid lives in an energy gulping mansion. The argument that always stands out in my less than Ph.D. educated mind is how do climate trends from the last hundred years prove squat when the earth is millions of years old? I guess the point i'm trying to make is how difficult it is to get people on board the global warming train with such massive holes in the argument. And by the way, when a person claims to have personally witnessed the effects of global warming, they generally get the eye roll from anyone with a decent sense of humor. Just giving you the heads up in case anyone was planning on using that in public I have to agree that global warming is easily understood when you follow the money.H.S. Diploma Ventura High School '98 |
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The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDarber |22 Jul : 03:45 | |
| Guest Reply to this | Back in 1919 started a extraordinary winter warming. The Arctic got warmer over two decades until app. 1940. This can be establish with precision and certainty (see Part C at: . The warming period from 1919-1939 was followed by a cooling for more than three decades. Despite this facts the IPCC Assessment 2007 says: Arctic temperatures have high decadal variability, and a warm period was also observed from 1925 to 1945. (Ref: Instead to learn from this warming period to understand the current situation thus notions are not correct and useless. Although the warming had been already discussed in the 1930s, by Scherhag, Brooks et al (http://www.arctic-warming.com/how-was-the-warming-discussed-in-the-1930s.php ) recent scientific papers have little more to say as, for example : “Natural variability is the most likely cause” (Lennart Bengtsson, Vladimir A. Semenov, Ola M. Johannessen, The Early Twentieth-Century Warming in the Arctic—A Possible Mechanism, Journal of Climate, October 2004, page 4045-4057) (see: op.cit.). Recent papers pay little attention to the fact that the warming could be observed only during the winter season when any direct influence of the sun was inexistent or low. The pay little, if any attention to the sea ice conditions. By a thorough analysis of all prevailing circumstances it is possible to identify that the conditions off the west coast of Spitsbergen has been the location that generated and sustained the Arctic warming from 1919 to 1939, due to conditions of the West Spitsbergen Current, which brings warm and saline Atlantic Water to the Arctic Ocean. (see Ch.7 at: ). Calling nowadays the early warming (1919-1939) in the Arctic as: “one of the most puzzling climate anomalies of the 20 th century”[7], (Bengtsson, op.cit) is of little help. It is possible to do better. |
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDAnonymous |24 Jul : 05:12 | |
| Guest Reply to this | Just stating what I heard... The Earth is in fact going through a natural cycle. Where I live in Alaska, there has be proof found that it used to be tropical.However, it's been reported that CO2 is speeding up the natural cycle. So even if we went all green, the earth would be warming anyway. I don't know what is causing it and i don't claim any side, but I do know our snow level has dropped, and tropical fish have been found in our waters. Just food for thought. |
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDcoxanator |27 Jul : 08:13 | |
| Guest Reply to this | when the heads of the g8 state that they have agreeded to not let the earth temperture rise more than 3 degrees I then realized it was a scam. To think that man can influence the climate is the most ridiculous thing i ever heard. |
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDstudent |28 Jul : 14:52 | |
| Guest Reply to this | Our reliance on fossil fuels will have to end regardless of their supposed connection to the idea of "global warming." They're going to run out eventually, so it would be intelligent to master certain alternatives. Everyone can agree that pollution is something we should work against, so why fight about what it does or doesn't cause? It's truly egotistical to think that the human race is solely responsible for something on this large a scale. Since when did the sun become perfect? Since when did gases that "trap" sunlight cease to reflect it? I admit that I'm no scientist, but anyone can see that there's a lot of time and energy devoted to this mysterious issue when there are other more prevalent issues to be explored. We might as well argue about when a large meteor will strike our planet, or when Yellowstone will erupt. I think that natural cataclysmic events will change our climate much more drastically than we ever could. It's sad to see so many intelligent people overlook real issues that need to be solved right now instead of over the next few centuries. |
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDR-Mib |02 Aug : 17:13 | |
| Guest Reply to this | OK, now for some real quotes and sites to visit and be awakened. Jacques Chirac, EU environment minister, said back in 2000 : "Cap and trade is the first component of an authentic global governance". He also admitted that the global version of cap and trade is: "About the economy and leveling the playing field for big businesses worldwide". "Warming fears are the worst scientific scandal in history...When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists." - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist The EPA breaks the law getting "the administration ordered results" into report to Congress and Senate on Cap and Trade bill. ![]() Rahmstorf Rejects IPCC Procedure: seeming unawareness of what the smoothing did; incorrect disclosure; unattractive properties of the triangular filter; the enhancement of "successful" prediction; opportunistic policy changes. ![]() Source of fishy odor confirmed: Rahmstorf did change smoothing: ![]() So much for the Science used behind the reports from the IPCC, entrepreneurs Al Gore and friends...... Maybe if Obama used the smoothing filter from Rahmstorf and applied to an economic forecast there might be a big up tick in the economy coming, somewhere down the road? |
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDdseutter |09 Aug : 11:09 | |
| Guest Reply to this | One question, what was the average temperature of the Earth in the 1200's? Another question Why were they talking about using the Global Warming issue to bring about Global Goverment in the early 90's. Question #3 Why do 35,000 scientists dispute the global warming issue? Question #4, Why are top scientists sometimes the head of their departments being removed from their jobs when they dispute the global warming issue? Do the research and you may find that there is more to the global warming issue than you know. Do not be a lemming. Try looking at the actual global temperatures around the world for the last ten years and not some figures that someone has hyped. Isn't it interesting that the temperatures have been going down sense 98. Please try to do your own research and try to stop believing all the hype. From one who has been following this issue from the early 90's |
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDMk |18 Aug : 21:53 | |
| Guest Reply to this | Me as well, I am NO scientist, but from common sense and knowing history and just looking at life in general...it goes through phases. This "hot topic" of Global Warming is just absurd. I do believe we can better our ways in life and not waste so much, but I do not see how any of this is partially our fault. The sun goes through it's phases just as the earth goes thru its phases. I do know the Sun controls everything in our Universe and if the Sun is going through its changes, so will the Earth in response for survival. So, how is, for example, this "Cash for Clunkers" really going to improve our Earth and this "Global Warming"? It's more of a waste in my eyes. Some of us humans think we can control the Earth, when we can't. What we should do, is listen to our earth and go along with it. How is that so hard and why should that even cost us? Thanks for listening. Again, I am no expert, I just speak from what is common sense to me and with nature. |
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The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDsan_quintin |20 Aug : 09:25 | |
| Guest Reply to this | There are some pretyy stupid views here. The sceptic view goes like this: "I don't understand climate change, but dealing with it might affect my lifestyle. So, therefore, climate change must be a hoax". Pretty illogical to me. makes some of you sound like flat-earthers. Guess what....climate change is happening, most of it is caused by humans, and the effects are likely to be severe. If you disagree then do some science and show that the scientists are wrong. None of you will....and the sceptics haven't ever achieved this. By the way, I have a PhD in a climate science, and am a professor at a leading university. And, finally, I don't make money out of it! If climate change wasn't happening/caused by humans I would still have tenure! |
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The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDAnonymous |20 Aug : 16:44 | |
| Guest Reply to this | Maybe someone can help me out with something: Frederick Seitz and William Nuremberg were hired in 1984 by the George C. Marshall Institute to discredit the link between carbon dioxide and global warming using many of the arguments we use today (there's so little of it in the atmosphere that it can't possibly have that much of an affect; temperature decreased during post world war economic boom; environmental change should be subject to economic mechanisms), yet the same men were used by RJ Reynolds to discredit the link between tobacco use and cancer. Now I know what you're thinking: "SO WHAT?! This doesn't mean they were wrong." You can't come to a reasonable conclusion simply by refusing someone else's claim, and yet that is all I see coming from people who don't believe in global warming. I don't think we are in any imminent threat from global warming, but how can you refuse to acknowledge that things are getting worse? Besides, I thought we were past the point of aurguing IF it exists and moved on to if the causes are man-made? With that said, Please stop with the half-assed metaphors like "drinking the cool aid" to validate your claims. From a PR stand point, all they do is take away from a reasonable argument. I wouldn't call anyone in here stupid. I just think they have their priorities and are keener to information that's validating. Otherwise, these people would be like chickens with their heads cut off. Oh crap! broke my own rule. |
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDAnonymous |07 Sep : 13:48 | |
| Guest Reply to this | Why so many uses of the word "about" - "The maximum Solar insolation from this (due to the angle and atmospheric absorption) is about 400 W/m2. The high reflectivity of clean snow (always present on ice) results in only about 40 W/m2 being absorbed into the ice." "but even at the maximum summer level, absorbs only about 350 W/m2 near the pole. The water emissivity is slightly higher than ice, and radiates about 300 W/m2." to highlight four. If this is a scientific paper why not use the recoded figures with referenced sources instead of "about"? This would never have pased under peer review and places question marks over the robustness of your argument |
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDAnonymous |09 Sep : 15:14 | |
| Guest Reply to this | Maybe if Obama used the smoothing filter from Rahmstorf and applied to an economic forecast there might be a big up tick in the economy coming, somewhere down the road? buy cialis |
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDAnonymous |11 Sep : 10:18 | |
| Guest Reply to this | I agree that "global warming" is in fact an over-hyped, media enhanced public scare tactic, with perhaps some underlying political agendas. I do, however, believe that global climate change is occuring and that it is a natural cycle that has been substantiated by evidence from ice and sediment core data (as well as tree rings). An anthropogenic component is certainly a plausible theory given the body of evidence put forth from the scientific community. Yes, I realize that many of you believe that said scientists are fear-mongering puppets dancing to the tune of substantial funding opportunities. I can verify that this belief is not entirely true as I have had the opportunity to work with said "evil scientists". Malcolm Hughes, a researcher at the University of Arizona's Tree Ring Laboratory was among the original scientists to produce the fabled/infamous hockey stick image. His work, as well as those of his colleges, was so controversial at the time that a government panel was created to examine his claims. He was called on to defend his data, and while he did admit (and explained clearly in his paper) that there were limitations to his study, the image held up to peer review, the panel, and even subsequent research. In my opinion, and yes it is an opinion, the government would not fund research that could ultimately cost them (and not to mention the automotive and oil companies) MORE money. I realize most people don't tend to trust ideas and theories that are constantly changing, but that's what science is folks. It's the continual search for a better understanding of the world, which is a highly complex system that no single man can fully grasp. I agree that the Earth will live on no matter what we do. The issue at stake is not only the quality of our own lives (the lives of our species), but what WE do also affects processes throughout the world. In essence, we aren't the only species affected by our actions. Life is a cycle, and what we put into that cycle will come out elsewhere. With knowledge comes responsibility. Maybe it is our responsibility to use our knowledge to positively contribute to our world, our environment. |
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDAnonymous |15 Oct : 10:46 | |
| Guest Reply to this | hopefully, soon people will realize that global warming, climate change, national health care and whatever agenda the current 'leaders' are pushing is not to benefit the people of the world. nor, do i believe that the world leaders care about its populous. after money, the next drug of choice for ego maniacs is power. power and control is the most intoxicating high i know of. lucifer tried to overthrow God in Heaven to acquire power. it's that sick and twisted. the overwhelming majority of the people have been lulled and convinced that global warming/climate change exists because we hear it enough everywhere. it is reinforced constantly because it is a discussion topic and all forms of media (especially those that profit from it) love this. well, the world leaders love it even more. we are believing our own lies to be enslaved by false beliefs. we, as people, are generally good. most of us dont want to hurt and kill. most of us want to feel special and unique in the world. we all want to contribute and stand out as special...even if it is just slightly. we, as humans, inherently also want control. with control comes stability. and with stability comes comfort. and with comfort, comes peace of mind. thus, what better way to create discomfort than by upsetting the things that disturb our stability? the beauty of global warming/climate change is that it claims to be 'man made'. because it is man made, we, the people, can 'control' it. WE can make a difference. each and every one of us. we can each contribute and be special. and by doing so, we the humans, have yet created another tier system of humanity. those who believe and defend global warming will 'judge' those who do not do as much as them. they will 'fight' those who do not believe like they do. why? to feel superior and unique. global warming/climate control believers (along with others who believe that globalization of all economies) are helping power crazy politicians inadvertently forward their agenda. being a globalist has never been so easy. they figured that using scared, weak and insignificant people to do their work for them is much more effective, efficient with far more penetrating results. all this would not be possible with the creation and streamlining of the internet. everyone connected, including me, now have a voice. nothing makes a weak/insecure nobody feel more empowered and motivated than by others reading what 'they' wrote and having people respond to it with positive or negative statements. thus, all this is not about repairing global warming/climate change or bettering humanity. initially, it is a way of acquiring wealth, immense wealth, from people via guilt and shame. wealth is necessary for power to be effective. power is inherently tied to wealth. power needs wealth to be successful. once wealth and power is locked in place, control takes its rightful place. control of everything would be the ultimate high. just ask lucifer. |
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDGUEST |16 Oct : 08:39 | |
| Guest Reply to this | JUST ONE QUESTION IF ALL THIS ICE HAS MELTED WHERE HAS IT GONE? THE SEA SHORE HASN'T GOT ANY CLOSER TO THE BEACH HOUSES |
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDguest |21 Oct : 21:40 | |
| Guest Reply to this | Just a quick question. When I was in grade school it was the all about the huge hole in the ozone layer, and how we were all about to die of cancer. What happened to the hole? Havent heard a word about it since about 1994. |
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The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDnigel |04 Nov : 16:27 | |
| Guest Reply to this | Is this guy mentally deficient or simply deceptive? Do tell. He claims His temperature / time series fom 1880 to present shows the early part of the 20th century as warmer than currently. His graph appears to be for the USA only, so is not global, so means nothing. I wont be reading any more of his nonsensework and only an idiot would. |
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDsiteyourfacts |10 Nov : 11:41 | |
| Guest Reply to this | In relation to the above article greenland was named greenland when discovered by the vikings so that people would move there and has nothing to do with the fact that it was once green, because it wasn't. Below greenlands ice is rock, so even if it did melt it wouldn't be green, it would look much like northern Canada. In refrence to the scientific part of the above article I believe that any person planning on reading this article and believing every word should also read articles from other people(http://www.countercurrents.org/burbeck100108.htm). Do not read one article and take it bas the whole truth. This makes you no better than the global warming "sheep" that are so commonly criticized on this site. PS this site seams to have a lot of articles by Leonard Weinstein and none by any of the other scientists who supposedly deny global warming, if some of there articles could be added it would be greatly appreciated. |
The Truth About Arctic and Greenland Ice - by Leonard Weinstein, ScDSam |13 Nov : 01:18 | |
| Guest Reply to this | Just a note: A simple click on the "short Bio" of this "ScD" will raise a red flag. I'm sure this man is smart, because he has a ScD in Endineering. But unfortunately, engineering is not Climatology. I don't believe this is his field... Look at what the Climatologists say, all of you who claim you know exactly what's going on. Why are you wasting your time reading an essay on climate change from an engineer? you wouldn't go to a psychologist for advice on your car's engine. You would go to a mechanic. Sure he has a doctorate or whatever, but he has no authority to speak on global warming. Actually, I've seen less tpyos and mechanical errors in high school essays. Was this essay even published in any legitimate scientific journal? or at all? |
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