By the time Antarctic land mass becomes ice-free, The Ocean levels will rise by about 80 feet.!! Half of America, India, Africa and China will be sunk under the Sea.!!
off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:26:30 -0000
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Renowned Scientist Defects From Belief in Global Warming
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Renowned Scientist Defects From Belief in Global Warming
I presume then that you and your crowd will refuse to benefit from the
massive acreage increase and resources that become available when the Antarctic land mass becomes ice-free.
OffWorld
massive acreage increase and resources that become available when the Antarctic land mass becomes ice-free.
OffWorld
shempmcgurk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:36:46 -0000
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Renowned Scientist Defects From Belief in Global Warming
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Renowned Scientist Defects From Belief in Global Warming
Majority Press Release
Contact: MARC MORANO (202) 224-5762 (marc_morano@ epw.senate. gov),
MATT DEMPSEY (202) 224-9797 (matthew_dempsey@ epw.senate. gov)
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-4db87559d60 5
"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.washingt onpost.com/ wp-
dyn/content/ article/2006/ 10/15/AR20061015 00672.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/ 2006/2006GL02714 2.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.telegrap h.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.publicaf fairs.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.worldcli matereport. 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.worldcli matereport. com/index. php/2006/ 10/13/overturnin g-
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.co2scien ce.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=114643381969 6&cal
l_pageid=9705991194 19
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.co2scien ce.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://naturalscien ce.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.heinzawa rds.net/speechDe tail.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. Go to: (epw.senate. gov/speechitem. cfm?
party=rep&id= 263759)
To read and watch Senator Inhofe on CNN discuss global warming go
to: (http://www.epw. senate.gov/ pressitem. cfm?party= rep&id=264308 )
To Read all of Senator Inhofe's Speeches on global warming go to:
(http://epw.senate. gov/speeches. cfm?party= rep)
"Inhofe Correct On Global Warming," by David Deming geophysicist, an adjunct scholar with the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
(ocpathink.org) , and an associate professor of Arts and Sciences at
the University of Oklahoma. (http://epw.senate. gov/fact. cfm?
party=rep&id= 264537)
# # # # #
Contact: MARC MORANO (202) 224-5762 (marc_morano@ epw.senate. gov),
MATT DEMPSEY (202) 224-9797 (matthew_dempsey@ epw.senate. gov)
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-4db87559d60 5
"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.washingt onpost.com/ wp-
dyn/content/ article/2006/ 10/15/AR20061015 00672.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/ 2006/2006GL02714 2.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.telegrap h.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.publicaf fairs.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.worldcli matereport. 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.worldcli matereport. com/index. php/2006/ 10/13/overturnin g-
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.co2scien ce.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=114643381969 6&cal
l_pageid=9705991194 19
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.co2scien ce.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://naturalscien ce.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.heinzawa rds.net/speechDe tail.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. Go to: (epw.senate. gov/speechitem. cfm?
party=rep&id= 263759)
To read and watch Senator Inhofe on CNN discuss global warming go
to: (http://www.epw. senate.gov/ pressitem. cfm?party= rep&id=264308 )
To Read all of Senator Inhofe's Speeches on global warming go to:
(http://epw.senate. gov/speeches. cfm?party= rep)
"Inhofe Correct On Global Warming," by David Deming geophysicist, an adjunct scholar with the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
(ocpathink.org) , and an associate professor of Arts and Sciences at
the University of Oklahoma. (http://epw.senate. gov/fact. cfm?
party=rep&id= 264537)
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