Hmm: Climate Sceptic Murry Salby “was the subject of a long investigation by the US National Science Foundation” re: conflicts of interest, etc. Which alarmists have been the subject of similar investigations?

Hmm: Climate Sceptic Murry Salby “was the subject of a long investigation by the US National Science Foundation” re: conflicts of interest, etc. Which alarmists have been the subject of similar investigations?

http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/hmm-climate-sceptic-murry-salby-subject.html

Climate Sceptic Professor Sacked From Australian University Was Banned By National Science Foundation For “Deceptive Conduct” | DeSmogBlogDr Murry Salby, sacked in May by Macquarie University in Sydney, was the subject of a long investigation by the US National Science Foundation.Murry Salby: Galileo? Bozo? Or P.T.Barnum? | DeSmogBlogFederal court documentation offers useful insight into Salby’s behavior…

100th Anniversary Of The Hottest Day On Earth: ‘July 13th, 1913 reached 134F, the hottest shade temperature ever recorded on Earth’

100th Anniversary Of The Hottest Day On Earth

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/100th-anniversary-of-the-hottest-day-on-earth

July 13th, 1913 reached 134F, the hottest shade temperature ever recorded on Earth. That week was also the hottest week ever recorded on Earth. docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/050/mwr-050-01-0010.pdf Crack scientists at NASA now tell us that July, 1913 was globally the coldest July in the last 100 years. ‘ It makes perfect sense to the temperature fraud community […]…

Study: Trees using water more efficiently as atmospheric carbon dioxide rises

Study: Trees using water more efficiently as atmospheric carbon dioxide rises

http://junkscience.com/2013/07/10/study-trees-using-water-more-efficiently-as-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-rises

“Our analysis suggests that rising atmospheric carbon dioxide is having a direct and unexpectedly strong influence on ecosystem processes and biosphere-atmosphere interactions in temperate and boreal forests.” The media release is below. ### Trees using water more efficiently as atmospheric carbon dioxide rises DURHAM, N.H., July 10, 2013 – A study by scientists with the […]…

Oh Wait! Bricks and mortar will create warmer nights (weren’t we supposed to blame CO2 for that?)

Oh Wait! Bricks and mortar will create warmer nights (weren’t we supposed to blame CO2 for that?)

http://joannenova.com.au/2013/07/oh-wait-bricks-and-mortar-will-create-warmer-nights-werent-we-supposed-to-blame-co2-for-that/

I thought warmer nights were a fingerprint of CO2 induced warming? John Cook has claimed that at least five times on his blog:  The human fingerprint in the daily cycle. It’s also known as Diurnal Temperature Range, and the theory is that extra CO2 keeps us warm all night. Now Excellent (Alarmed) Climate System Experts are saying that UHI (Urban Heat Island) effects can cause warmer nights too, at least in the future. (Perhaps this only applies to future-bricks, not past ones — you think?) City expected to feel heat as it expands Ben Cubby Parts of Sydney will be up to 3.7 degrees hotter by the year 2050, as urban expansion spawns ever more asphalt and concrete, new research suggests. The ”urban heat island effect” – the build-up of heat in built-up areas – will amplify climate change, particularly in the outer fringes of Australian cities, according to University of NSW researchers. ”If you are living near the edge of a city today, you will notice the temperature change, mainly through the minimum temperature change at night,” said Daniel Argueso, the lead author of the study that was prepared at the Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science. ”There […]Rating: 10.0/10 (3 votes cast)…

A Fracking Revolution: U.S. Now Leads World In CO2 Emission Reductions

A Fracking Revolution: U.S. Now Leads World In CO2 Emission Reductions

http://www.c3headlines.com/2013/07/a-fracking-revolution-us-now-leads-world-in-co2-emission-reductions-.html

Fortunately, the U.S. did not sign the idiotic United Nation’s Kyoto Protocol that Democrats attempted to force on the U.S. And, thank goodness for common sense, most Americans did not swallow the incredibly lame global warming fear-mongering that is a……

Scientific Central Planning: Imperial College London forming ‘Earth League’

Scientific Central Planning: Imperial College London forming ‘Earth League’

http://junkscience.com/2013/07/10/scientific-central-planning-imperial-college-london-forming-earth-league

“… a voluntary alliance of leading scientists and institutions dealing with planetary processes and sustainability issues…” The recruiting paper for the Earth League begins: Humankind has become a quasi-geological force on Planet Earth. Our species is the most successful ever, still growing in numbers and absorbing more and more natural resources for its industrial metabolism, […]…

Eight questions to ask a climate activist about Eight questions to ask student activists about the fossil fuel divestment campaign

Eight questions to ask a climate activist

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/07/eight-questions-to-ask-climate-activist.html

Eight questions to ask any climate activist:
Eight questions to ask student activists about the fossil fuel divestment campaign

How colleges and universities can turn Fossil Free campaign meetings into teachable moments

By:

Tom Harris

A teachable moment is something all good educators welcome. It is a critical time during which learning about a particular topic or idea becomes easiest. In his 1998 book, Sequential Problem Solving: A Student handbook, American author Fredric B. Lozo defined a teachable moment as “that moment when a unique, high interest situation arises that lends itself to discussion of a particular topic.”

The Fossil Free divestment campaign at post secondary institutions across North America provides superb teachable moments for educators to help students improve their research and critical thinking skills. In this article I discuss one way that university and college administrators can take advantage of the strong personal engagement student activists feel towards climate change and energy to transform confrontational meetings into teachable moments.

Last November, the climate activist group 350.org began the Fossil Free divestment campaign. It encourages university and college students to pressure their schools into divesting their endowments of 200 companies that 350.org considers the main threat to the climate due to their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Over 300 campuses in the United States and Canada now have student-led divestment campaigns and a handful of small colleges in New England have even committed to 100 percent divestment.

Instead of quickly yielding to student pressure, or immediately rejecting their demands, academic leaders must motivate young people to learn more about the issues at hand, think critically, and come to their own conclusions based on the evidence they find. Students should be encouraged to free themselves from politically correct ‘group think’ and put aside the simplistic, and often wrong, talking points provided by professional activists. After all, progressive universities and colleges want students to be fearless intellectual explorers, not mere followers of contemporary fashion. Later in their lives, many will work for organizations that demand unthinking conformity, so now is the time to learn to think for themselves.

The contentious and complex climate change issue is ideal for such exploration. As the 1,500 Carleton University students who took my courses in climate science know, I like to challenge young people with questions, including, and some would say especially, politically incorrect ones…questions they may have …

Review of new skeptical book: Bob Carter, John Spooner: Taxing Air

Bob Carter, John Spooner: Taxing Air

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LuboMotlsReferenceFrame/~3/pvQO_lJXmvw/bob-carter-john-spooner-taxing-air.html

Previous related article: Bob Carter’s job not renewed

I just received my copy of the paperback edition of cartoonist John Spooner’s and geologist Bob Carter’s new book, Taxing Air. The Kindle edition may be bought from amazon.com here (icon on the left side); go to TaxingAir.COM for the book’s web page and options to buy it for $30.

The book immediately impressed me by the colorful illustrations on pretty much every page. They’re playful, witty, full of colors and life, and they also quickly convey some key ideas.

Perhaps because it seems easier to read a 280-page book whose significant portion is filled with similar pictures, I couldn’t resist and immediately started to read the book. Let me say in advance that about one-half of the pictures are jokes, often with alarmists’ and (mostly Australian) politicians’ faces; the other half are graphs and diagrams that explain serious scientific concepts and the cold hard data.

Now some facts. The book wasn’t written “just” by Carter and Spooner. There are four other co-authors, economist Martin Feil and three others, who are co-responsible for the full content of the book. The authorship of individual sections isn’t specifically mentioned but the preface explains what the other co-authors may have contributed.

At the very beginning, there is a page “Did you know that?” with some trivia that everyone should know – not only in Australia – except that it’s normal for many people who are loud in the climate change debate to be ignorant about these basics of the interdisciplinary discipline.

Some pages with a praise follow, and so does the table of contents. The preface by the authors occupies two pages.

The first substantial chapter-like passage is the Introduction – answering the question how a cartoonist got his idea. We’re told that Spooner would also believe various things we used to be told. But a turning point was Martin Durkin’s The Great Global Warming Swindle documentary six years ago. Spooner understood that the hysterical reaction by the alarmists – that played a key role in the introduction of words such as “deniers” to the debate – had to have a reason. Spooner understood that the scientific consensus was being referred to by the activists exactly because the actual scientific evidence didn’t work and doesn’t work for them. He spends some time by analyzing how bad it is …

CO2-induced worldwide natural catastrophe spike update: $45 billion in losses in the first half of 2013, well below the 10-year average of $85 billion

CO2-induced worldwide natural catastrophe spike update: $45 billion in losses in the first half of 2013, well below the 10-year average of $85 billion

http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/co2-induced-worldwide-natural.html

Floods top 2013 world disaster bill so far: Munich ReAltogether, natural catastrophes — also including earthquakes, tornados and heat waves — caused $45 billion (35 billion euros) in losses in the first half of 2013, well below the 10-year average of $85 billion….”The central states of the USA have the highest tornado risk in the world,” said Hoeppe. “Altogether, however, the US tornado season has been below average so far: by the end of June, 625 tornadoes had occurred, compared with the longer-term average of 1,075.”

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July 11 report from warmists in the overheated Arctic: “Flurries are on the table…Ice still blocks our route ahead”

July 11 report from warmists in the overheated Arctic: “Flurries are on the table…Ice still blocks our route ahead”

http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/july-11-report-from-warmists-in.html

Cabin Fever – MainStream Last FirstThe weather report indicates an improving trend but we’re still to expect 20KN northerlies though tomorrow with a sharp drop in temperature. Flurries are on the table….Ice still blocks our route ahead and a strong blow is exactly what’s needed to break things up.…