This will be laughed out of court. Those are some dubious researchers: Chris de Frietus:
""Formerly one of the editors of a journal called "Climate Research," de Freitas was involved <http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=26&objectid=3516830> in a controversy surrounding a research article co-authored by Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon. The article reviewed previous scientific papers and came to the conclusion that climate hasn't changed in the last 2000 years. But 13 of the authors of the papers Baliunas and Soon cited refuted her interpretation of their work, and several editors of Climate Research resigned in protest at a flawed peer review process which allowed the publication. Among the sharp criticisms of the Climate Research paper was one from Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University. When von Storch, then the journal's editor, read Mann's critique, he said he realized his journal should never have accepted the study: "If it would have been properly reviewed, it would have been rejected on the basis of methodological flaws." Shortly after, Von Storch, along with two other members of the Climate Research editorial board resigned in protest <http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=4\ 361&method=full> - "they submitted flawed research," Von Stroch stated at the time."" http://www.desmogblog.com/node/1517 <http://www.desmogblog.com/node/1517> John McLean: ""Second, they (Mclean), mislead by giving the impression that 60% of the reviewers disagreed with the IPCC, but half of the comments (572 of them!) were made by Vincent Gray...McLean gives details in a piece published by the SPPI <http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/whytheipccshouldbedisbanded\ .html> (an oil industry funded think tank that apparently does not count as a vested interested to McLean). Scientists were declared to have a vested interest if they were an IPCC author, or an IPCC author of a previous assessment, or if any of their work was cited by the report, or if they worked for a government, or if they work for an organization that gets government funding, or if they have a "possible commercial vested interest in the claim of man-made warming". Basically that leaves amateurs like Gray and McKitrick. In one of his comments Gray asked them to cite one of his Energy and Environment papers. Fortunately it was rejected, or he would have been ruled out as well. "" ""John Mashey examined <http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/12/monckton_watch_2.php#comment-68\ 1752> McLean's background and it seems that while the National Post awarded him a PhD he actually has no scientific qualifications at all, just a Bachelor of Architecture." http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/12/john_mclean_and_the_nrsp.php <http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/12/john_mclean_and_the_nrsp.php> Bob Carter: ""Professor Robert (Bob) Carter, is "a researcher at the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University", Australia <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Australia> . [1] <http://myprofile.cos.com/glrmc> In a byline with an op-ed published in the Sydney Morning Herald in September 2005, he was described as an "experienced environmental scientist" [2] <http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2005/09/28/1127804546992.html> , but a March 2007 article in the same paper noted that "Professor Carter, whose background is in marine geology, appears to have little, if any, standing in the Australian climate science community." [3] <http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/minchin-denies-climate-change-ma\ nmade/2007/03/14/1173722560417.html> He is a well known climate change skeptic <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_warming_controversy> . "" ""He said the role of peer review in scientific literature was overstressed, and whether or not a scientist had been funded by the fossil fuel industry was irrelevant to the validity of research. 'I don't think it is the point whether or not you are paid by the coal or petroleum industry,' said Professor Carter. 'I will address the evidence.'" [7] <http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/minchin-denies-climate-change-ma\ nmade/2007/03/14/1173722560417.html> ""Carter is a member of the right-wing think tank <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Think_tank> the Institute of Public Affairs <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_of_Public_Affairs> [8] <http://newmatilda.com/home/articledetailmagazine.asp?ArticleID=1585&Hom\ epageID=142> , and a founding member of the Australian Environment Foundation <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Australian_Environment_Found\ ation> , a front group <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Front_group> set up by the Institute of Public Affairs <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_of_Public_Affairs> . "" Here is some credible proof though: ""Scientists have been able to say with virtual certainty for the first time that the climate change observed over the past four decades is man made and not the result of natural phenomena. "" "Authors of the study, published on Thursday in the peer-review journal Nature, examined a greater range of data than any other study so far. "Changes in natural systems since at least 1970 are occurring in regions of observed temperature increases, and these temperature increases at continental scales cannot be explained by natural climate variations alone, they say " http://benno.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/25/1607666-proof-found-of-man-ma\ de-climate-change <http://benno.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/25/1607666-proof-found-of-man-m\ ade-climate-change> And finally, the research you posted said there is global warming which was due to Pacific Ocean warming. Er...yup, oceans are warming...and guess why. I'm probably out of posts for the week. Have fun arguing with yourself about how you do not remotely understand greenhouse gases. OffWorld --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcg...@...> wrote: > > Peer-Reviewed Study Rocks Climate Debate! 'Nature not man responsible > for recent global warming...little or none of late 20th century warming > and cooling can be attributed to humans' > 'Surge in global temps since 1977 can be attributed to a 1976 climate > shift in the Pacific Ocean' > Wednesday, July 22, 2009By Marc Morano > <http://www.climatedepot.com/contact.asp> Climate Depot > <http://www.climatedepot.com> > A new peer-reviewed climate study is presenting a head on challenge to > man-made global warming claims. The study by three climate researchers > appears in the July 23, 2009 edition of Journal of Geophysical Research. > (Link to Abstract > <http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2008JD011637.shtml> ) > > Full Press Release and Abstract to Study: > > July 23, 2009 > > Nature not man responsible for recent global warming > > Three Australasian researchers have shown that natural forces are the > dominant influence on climate, in a study just published in the > highly-regarded Journal of Geophysical Research. According to this study > little or none of the late 20th century global warming and cooling can > be attributed to human activity. > > The research, by Chris de Freitas, a climate scientist at the University > of Auckland in New Zealand, John McLean (Melbourne) and Bob Carter > (James Cook University), finds that the El Niño-Southern Oscillation > (ENSO) is a key indicator of global atmospheric temperatures seven > months later. As an additional influence, intermittent volcanic activity > injects cooling aerosols into the atmosphere and produces significant > cooling. > > "The surge in global temperatures since 1977 can be attributed to a 1976 > climate shift in the Pacific Ocean that made warming El Niño > conditions more likely than they were over the previous 30 years and > cooling La Niña conditions less likely" says corresponding author de > Freitas. > > "We have shown that internal global climate-system variability accounts > for at least 80% of the observed global climate variation over the past > half-century. It may even be more if the period of influence of major > volcanoes can be more clearly identified and the corresponding data > excluded from the analysis." > > Climate researchers have long been aware that ENSO events influence > global temperature, for example causing a high temperature spike in 1998 > and a subsequent fall as conditions moved to La Niña. It is also well > known that volcanic activity has a cooling influence, and as is well > documented by the effects of the 1991 Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption. > > The new paper draws these two strands of climate control together and > shows, by demonstrating a strong relationship between the Southern > Oscillation and lower-atmospheric temperature, that ENSO has been a > major temperature influence since continuous measurement of > lower-atmospheric temperature first began in 1958. > > According to the three researchers, ENSO-related warming during El > Niño conditions is caused by a stronger Hadley Cell circulation > moving warm tropical air into the mid-latitudes. During La Niña > conditions the Pacific Ocean is cooler and the Walker circulation, west > to east in the upper atmosphere along the equator, dominates. > > "When climate models failed to retrospectively produce the temperatures > since 1950 the modellers added some estimated influences of carbon > dioxide to make up the shortfall," says McLean. > > "The IPCC acknowledges in its 4th Assessment Report that ENSO conditions > cannot be predicted more than about 12 months ahead, so the output of > climate models that could not predict ENSO conditions were being > compared to temperatures during a period that was dominated by those > influences. It's no wonder that model outputs have been so inaccurate, > and it is clear that future modelling must incorporate the ENSO effect > if it is to be meaningful." > > Bob Carter, one of four scientists who has recently questioned the > justification for the proposed Australian emissions trading scheme, says > that this paper has significant consequences for public climate policy. > > "The close relationship between ENSO and global temperature, as > described in the paper, leaves little room for any warming driven by > human carbon dioxide emissions. The available data indicate that future > global temperatures will continue to change primarily in response to > ENSO cycling, volcanic activity and solar changes." > > "Our paper confirms what many scientists already know: which is that > no scientific justification exists for emissions regulation, and that, > irrespective of the severity of the cuts proposed, ETS will exert no > measurable effect on future climate." > > -- > > McLean, J. D., C. R. de Freitas, and R. M. Carter (2009), Influence of > the Southern Oscillation on tropospheric temperature, Journal of > Geophysical Research, 114, D14104, doi:10.1029/2008JD011637. > > This figure from the McLean et al (2009) research shows that mean > monthly global temperature (MSU GTTA) corresponds in general terms with > the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) of seven months earlier. The SOI is > a rough indicator of general atmospheric circulation and thus global > climate change. The possible influence of the Rabaul volcanic eruption > is shown. > > Excerpted Abstract of the Paper appearing in the Journal of Geophysical > Research: > > Time series for the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) and global > tropospheric temperature anomalies (GTTA) are compared for the > 1958-2008 period. GTTA are represented by data from satellite > microwave sensing units (MSU) for the period 19802008 and from > radiosondes (RATPAC) for 19582008. After the removal from the data > set of short periods of temperature perturbation that relate to > near-equator volcanic eruption, we use derivatives to document the > presence of a 5- to 7-month delayed close relationship between SOI and > GTTA. Change in SOI accounts for 72% of the variance in GTTA for the > 29-year-long MSU record and 68% of the variance in GTTA for the longer > 50-year RATPAC record. Because El Niño-Southern Oscillation is > known to exercise a particularly strong influence in the tropics, we > also compared the SOI with tropical temperature anomalies between > 20°S and 20°N. The results showed that SOI accounted for 81% of > the variance in tropospheric temperature anomalies in the tropics. > Overall the results suggest that the Southern Oscillation exercises a > consistently dominant influence on mean global temperature, with a > maximum effect in the tropics, except for periods when equatorial > volcanism causes ad hoc cooling. That mean global tropospheric > temperature has for the last 50 years fallen and risen in close accord > with the SOI of 57 months earlier shows the potential of natural > forcing mechanisms to account for most of the temperature variation. > > Received 16 December 2008; accepted 14 May 2009; published 23 July 2009. > [End Abstract Excerpt] > > Related Links: > > More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global > Warming Claims > <http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&Conten\ \ > tRecord_id=10fe77b0-802a-23ad-4df1-fc38ed4f85e3> > > Study shakes foundation of climate theory! 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