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http://www.dailyplanettv.net/vidpods/DPTV-172-2006-06-09.mov http://www.dailyplanettv.net/vidpods/DPTV-172-2006-06-09.wmv On Oct 30, 2006, at 8:36 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: > Majority Press Release > Contact: MARC MORANO (202) 224-5762 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), > MATT DEMPSEY (202) 224-9797 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Renowned Scientist Defects From Belief in Global Warming – Caps Year > of Vindication for Skeptics > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > October 17, 2006 > Washington DC - One of the most decorated French geophysicists has > converted from a believer in manmade catastrophic global warming to > a climate skeptic. This latest defector from the global warming camp > caps a year in which numerous scientific studies have bolstered the > claims of climate skeptics. Scientific studies that debunk the dire > predictions of human-caused global warming have continued to > accumulate and many believe the new science is shattering the media- > promoted scientific "consensus" on climate alarmism. > > Claude Allegre, a former government official and an active member of > France's Socialist Party, wrote an editorial on September 21, 2006 > in the French newspaper L'Express titled "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" > (For English Translation, click here: http://epw.senate.gov/fact.cfm? > party=rep&id=264835 ) detailing his newfound skepticism about > manmade global warming. See: > http://www.lexpress.fr/idees/tribunes/dossier/allegre/dossier.asp? > ida=451670 Allegre wrote that the "cause of climate change remains > unknown" and pointed out that Kilimanjaro is not losing snow due to > global warming, but to local land use and precipitation changes. > Allegre also pointed out that studies show that Antarctic snowfall > rate has been stable over the past 30 years and the continent is > actually gaining ice. > > "Following the month of August experienced by the northern half of > France, the prophets of doom of global warming will have a lot on > their plate in order to make our fellow countrymen swallow their > certitudes," Allegre wrote. He also accused proponents of manmade > catastrophic global warming of being motivated by money, noting > that "the ecology of helpless protesting has become a very lucrative > business for some people!" > > Allegre, a member of both the French and U.S. Academy of Sciences, > had previously expressed concern about manmade global warming. "By > burning fossil fuels, man enhanced the concentration of carbon > dioxide in the atmosphere which has raised the global mean > temperature by half a degree in the last century," Allegre wrote 20 > years ago. In addition, Allegre was one of 1500 scientists who > signed a November 18, 1992 letter titled "World Scientists' Warning > to Humanity" in which the scientists warned that global > warming's "potential risks are very great." See: > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~sai/sciwarn.html > > Allegre has authored more than 100 scientific articles, written 11 > books and received numerous scientific awards including the > Goldschmidt Medal from the Geochemical Society of the United States. > > Allegre's conversion to a climate skeptic comes at a time when > global warming alarmists have insisted that there is a "consensus" > about manmade global warming. Proponents of global warming have > ratcheted up the level of rhetoric on climate skeptics recently. An > environmental magazine in September called for Nuremberg-style > trials for global warming skeptics and CBS News "60 Minutes" > correspondent Scott Pelley compared skeptics to "Holocaust deniers." > See: http://www.epw.senate.gov/fact.cfm?party=rep&id=264568 & > http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2006/03/22/publiceye/entry1431768.shtml > In addition, former Vice President Al Gore has repeatedly referred > to skeptics as "global warming deniers." > > This increase in rhetorical flourish comes at a time when new > climate science research continues to unravel the global warming > alarmists' computer model predictions of future climatic doom and > vindicate skeptics. > > 60 Scientists Debunk Global Warming Fears > > Earlier this year, a group of prominent scientists came forward to > question the so-called "consensus" that the Earth faces a "climate > emergency." On April 6, 2006, 60 scientists wrote a letter to the > Canadian Prime Minister asserting that the science is deteriorating > from underneath global warming alarmists. > > "Observational evidence does not support today's computer climate > models, so there is little reason to trust model predictions of the > future…Significant [scientific] advances have been made since the > [Kyoto] protocol was created, many of which are taking us away from > a concern about increasing greenhouse gases. If, back in the mid- > 1990s, we knew what we know today about climate, Kyoto would almost > certainly not exist, because we would have concluded it was not > necessary," the 60 scientists wrote. See: > http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html? > id=3711460e-bd5a-475d-a6be-4db87559d605 > > "It was only 30 years ago that many of today's global-warming > alarmists were telling us that the world was in the midst of a > global-cooling catastrophe. But the science continued to evolve, and > still does, even though so many choose to ignore it when it does not > fit with predetermined political agendas," the 60 scientists > concluded. > > In addition, an October 16, 2006 Washington Post article > titled "Climate Change is Nothing New" echoed the sentiments of the > 60 scientists as it detailed a new study of the earth's climate > history. The Washington Post article by reporter Christopher Lee > noted that Indiana University geologist Simon Brassell found climate > change occurred during the age of dinosaurs and quoted Brassell > questioning the accuracy of computer climate model predictions. > > "If there are big, inherent fluctuations in the system, as > paleoclimate studies are showing, it could make determining the > Earth's climatic future even harder than it is," Brassell said. See: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- > dyn/content/article/2006/10/15/AR2006101500672.html > > Global Cooling on the Horizon? > > In August, Khabibullo Abdusamatov, a scientist who heads the space > research sector for the Russian Academy of Sciences, predicted long- > term global cooling may be on the horizon due to a projected > decrease in the sun's output. See: > http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060825/53143686.html > > Sun's Contribution to Warming > > There have also been recent findings in peer-reviewed literature > over the last few years showing that the Antarctic is getting colder > and the ice is growing and a new 2006 study in Geophysical Research > Letters found that the sun was responsible for up to 50% of 20th- > century warming. See: > http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2006GL027142.shtml > > "Global Warming" Stopped in 1998 > > Paleoclimate scientist Bob Carter has noted that there is indeed a > problem with global warming – it stopped in 1998. "According to > official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the > University of East Anglia in the UK, the global average temperature > did not increase between 1998-2005. "…this eight-year period of > temperature stasis did coincide with society's continued power > station and SUV-inspired pumping of yet more carbon dioxide into the > atmosphere," noted paleoclimate researcher and geologist Bob Carter > of James Cook University in Australia in an April 2006 article > titled "There is a problem with global warming... it stopped in > 1998." See: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml? > xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/04/09/ixworld.ht > ml > > "Global?" Warming Misnamed - Southern Hemisphere Not Warming > > In addition, new NASA satellite tropospheric temperature data > reveals that the Southern Hemisphere has not warmed in the past 25 > years contrary to "global warming theory" and modeling. This new > Southern Hemisphere data raises the specter that the use of the > word "global" in "global warming" may not be accurate. A more apt > moniker for the past 25 years may be "Northern Hemisphere" warming. > See: http://motls.blogspot.com/2006/09/southern-hemisphere-ignores- > global.html > > Alaska Cooling > > According to data released on July 14, 2006 from the National > Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the January through > June Alaska statewide average temperature was "0.55F (0.30C) cooler > than the 1971-2000 average." See: > http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/releases2006/jul06/noaa06-065.html > > Oceans Cooling > > Another bombshell to hit the global warming alarmists and their > speculative climate modeling came in a September article in the > Geophysical Research Letters which found that over 20% of the heat > gained in the oceans since the mid-1950s was lost in just two years. > The former climatologist for the state of Colorado, Roger Pielke, > Sr., noted that the sudden cooling of the oceans "certainly > indicates that the multi-decadal global climate models have serious > issues with their ability to accurately simulate the response of the > climate system to human- and natural-climate forcings." See: > http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/09/ > > Light Hurricane Season & Early Winter > > Despite predictions that 2006 would bring numerous tropical storms, > 2006's surprisingly light hurricane season and the record early > start of this year's winter in many parts of the U.S. have further > put a damper on the constant doomsaying of the global warming > alarmists and their media allies. > > Droughts Less Frequent > > Other new studies have debunked many of the dubious claims made by > the global warming alarmists. For example, the claim that droughts > would be more frequent, severe and wide ranging during global > warming, has now being exposed as fallacious. A new paper in > Geophysical Research Letters authored by Konstantinos Andreadis and > Dennis Lettenmaier finds droughts in the U.S. becoming "shorter, > less frequent and cover a small portion of the country over the last > century." > http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2006/10/13/where-are-the- > droughts > > Global Warming Will Not Lead to Next Ice Age > > Furthermore, recent research has shown that fears that global > warming could lead to the next ice age, as promoted in the 2004 > Hollywood movie "The Day After Tomorrow" are also unsupportable. A > 2005 media hyped study "claimed to have found a 30 percent slowdown > in the thermohaline circulation, the results are published in the > very prestigious Nature magazine, and the story was carried > breathlessly by the media in outlets around the world…Less than a > year later, two different research teams present convincing evidence > [ in Geophysical Research Letters ] that no slowdown is occurring > whatsoever," according to Virginia State Climatologist Patrick > Michaels, editor of the website World Climate Report. See: > http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2006/10/13/overturning- > ocean-hype > > `Hockey Stick' Broken in 2006 > > The "Hockey Stick" temperature graph's claim that the 1990's was the > hottest decade of the last 1000 years was found to be unsupportable > by the National Academy of Sciences and many independent experts in > 2006. See: http://www.epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm? > party=rep&id=257697 > > Study Shows Greenland's Ice Growing > > A 2005 study by a scientist named Ola Johannessen and his colleagues > showed that the interior of Greenland is gaining ice mass. See: > http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/articles/V8/N44/C1.js > p Also, according to the International Arctic Research Institute, > despite all of the media hype, the Arctic was warmer in the 1930's > than today. > > Polar Bears Not Going Extinct > > Despite Time Magazine and the rest of the media's unfounded hype, > polar bears are not facing a crisis, according to biologist Dr. > Mitchell Taylor from the Arctic government of Nunavut. "Of the 13 > populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in > number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at > present," Taylor wrote on May 1, 2006. See: > http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer? > pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1146433819696&cal > l_pageid=970599119419 > > Media Darling James Hansen Hypes Alarmism > > As all of this new data debunking climate alarmism mounts, the > mainstream media chooses to ignore it and instead focus on the dire > predictions of the number-one global warming media darling, NASA's > James Hansen. The increasingly alarmist Hansen is featured > frequently in the media to bolster sky-is-falling climate scare > reports. His recent claim that the Earth is nearing its hottest > point in one million years has been challenged by many scientists. > See: > http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/articles/V9/N39/EDITB > .jsp Hansen's increasingly frightening climate predictions follow > his 2003 concession that the use of "extreme scenarios" was an > appropriate tactic to drive the public's attention to the urgency of > global warming. See: http://naturalscience.com/ns/articles/01- > 16/ns_jeh6.html Hansen also received a $250,000 grant form Teresa > Heinz's Foundation and then subsequently endorsed her husband John > Kerry for President and worked closely with Al Gore to promote his > movie, "An Inconvenient Truth." See: > http://www.heinzawards.net/speechDetail.asp?speechID=6 & > http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/dai_complete.pdf > > American People Rejecting Global Warming Alarmism > > The global warming alarmists may have significantly overplayed their > hand in the climate debate. A Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll this > August found that most Americans do not attribute the cause of any > recent severe weather events to global warming, and the portion of > Americans who believe that climate change is due to natural > variability has increased over 50% in the last five years. > > Senator Inhofe Chastises Media For Unscientific & Unprincipled > Climate Reporting > > Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) Chairman of the Environment and > Public Works Committee, commented last week on the media's unfounded > global warming hype and some of the recent scientific research that > is shattering the so-called "consensus" that human greenhouse gas > emissions have doomed the planet. > > "The American people are fed up with media for promoting the idea > that former Vice President Al Gore represents the > scientific `consensus' that SUV's and the modern American way of > life have somehow created a `climate emergency' that only United > Nations bureaucrats and wealthy Hollywood liberals can solve. It is > the publicity and grant seeking global warming alarmists and their > advocates in the media who have finally realized that the > only "emergency" confronting them is their rapidly crumbling > credibility, audience and bottom line. The global warming alarmists > know their science is speculative at best and their desperation > grows each day as it becomes more and more obvious that many of the > nations that ratified the woeful Kyoto Protocol are failing to > comply," Senator Inhofe said last week. See: > http://www.epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=264616 > > "The mainstream media needs to follow the money: The further you get > from scientists who conduct these alarmist global warming studies, > and the further you get from the financial grants and the > institutions that they serve the more the climate alarmism fades and > the skepticism grows," Senator Inhofe explained. > > Eco-Doomsayers' Failed Predictions > > In a speech on the Senate floor on September 25, 2006, Senator > Inhofe pointed out the abject failure of past predictions of > ecological disaster made by environmental alarmists. > > "The history of the modern environmental movement is chock-full of > predictions of doom that never came true. We have all heard the dire > predictions about the threat of overpopulation, resource scarcity, > mass starvation, and the projected death of our oceans. None of > these predictions came true, yet it never stopped the doomsayers > from continuing to predict a dire environmental future. The more the > eco-doomsayers' predictions fail, the more the eco-doomsayers > predict," Senator Inhofe said on September 25th. See: > http://epw.senate.gov/speechitem.cfm?party=rep&id=263759 > > Related Links: > > For a comprehensive review of the media's embarrassing 100-year > history of alternating between promoting fears of a coming ice age > and global warming, see Environment & Public Works Chairman James > Inhofe's September 25, 2006 Senate floor speech debunking the media > and climate alarmism. 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