A UN IPCC Scientist’s New Study! ‘Global Warming Sparks Fistfights & War, Researchers Say’: ‘Will systematically increase the risk of many types of conflict ranging from barroom brawls & rape to civil wars & international disputes’ — Climate Depot Responds

Statement by Climate Depot Publisher Marc Morano on new global warming/violence study: “Instead of looking at temperature data or other climate metrics to prove or disprove man-made global warming claims, the global warming activists have now shifted the playing field so rape and murder statistics are now used as some sort of ‘proof’ of man-made global warming.  Global  warming science has truly morphed to modern witchcraft!’

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Can a carbon tax prevent YOU from being MURDERED?! UN IPCC’s Prof. Hsiang’s new study ‘could go a long way toward convincing people that climate change can directly affect their lives. We just need to make it all about us, and our unwillingness to get murdered’

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Read full Bloomberg News on new study in journal Science: ‘Climate change will probably trigger more human conflict, according to an article in the journal Science. An examination of 60 separate studies, including one stretching back to 10,000 B.C., found that individuals, groups and nations are “substantially” more likely to become involved in physical conflict in hot weather and heavy rain. Climate change is expected to drive up temperatures in many regions, which will “systematically increase the risk of many types of conflict” ranging from barroom brawls and rape to civil wars and international disputes, according to the article.’

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‘Civilization as we know it may even be at risk’: With the US murder rate on track to be the lowest in a century, warmists suggest that CO2 causes ‘increased murder’ — Reality Check: May 2012: ‘The US Murder Rate Is on Track to Be Lowest in a Century’

Crime in the United States – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: ‘In the long term, violent crime in the United States has been in decline since colonial times’

Oct. 2012: U.S. violent crime down for fifth straight year – CNN.com: ‘Violent crime in the United States fell for the fifth consecutive year in 2011 with murder, rape and robbery all going down’

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UN IPCC Lead Author Dr. Richard Tol has ‘massive criticism’ for new paper — German newspaper Der Spiegel takes apart global warming/violence paper: Accuses ‘authors of gross errors and a distorted selection of data’ — ‘Global Warming: Study on Climate Change/War Met With Fierce Criticism’ — Der Spiegel ‘then writes that Oslo economist Halvard Buhaug is quoted saying that Hsiang and his team ‘ignored data’. Worse, Buhang says that the ‘authors …

Skeptics blast Interior Sec. Jewell’s comments as ‘scientific cleansing’: Climate Depot’s Morano: ‘It’s a way for the Obama administration to silence any internal critics’

Skeptics blast Jewell’s comments as ‘scientific cleansing’

Laura Petersen, E&E reporter

[Complete article available from E&E Greenwire – August 1, 2013 – subscription required]

Published: Thursday, August 1, 2013

Some observers are outraged over comments made yesterday by Interior Secretary Sally Jewell when she said she hoped there are “no climate change deniers” at her agency.

Jewell made the statement yesterday during a sweeping town hall address to Interior employees in which she discussed the budget, resources, youth outreach programs, water, tribal relations and other topics. The agency is poised to take substantive action on climate change, she said, adding that doing so is not only a privilege but a moral imperative (E&ENews PM, July 31).

But the comments have drawn outrage from observers who are skeptical that climate change is caused by humans. The blog JunkScience.com posted a story about the comments under the headline “Scientific Cleansing.”

“It’s a way for the Obama administration to silence any internal critics,” said Marc Morano, publisher of the blog Climate Depot and a former Republican staffer on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. “If you are a scientist, engineer or bureaucrat and you don’t buy the party line of a man-made climate crisis, this is a message you better keep your mouth shut or your career is going to be impacted.”

Marlo Lewis, a Competitive Enterprise Institute senior fellow, expressed similar concerns about the “chilling effect” Jewell’s comments could have on the agency.

“Only a few months on the job and Jewell already behaves like a self-righteous bully,” he wrote in a post on GlobalWarming.org. “A good swift dose of congressional oversight is in order. It might just keep the thought police from harassing climate dissenters at DOI.”

Environmental groups, however, welcomed the statement.

“It’s great to have a secretary of Interior who recognizes the challenges ahead of us and wants to have an agency using the best science available and making progress in solving these problems,” said Josh Saks, legislative director at the National Wildlife Federation.

And Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonpartisan alliance that represents environmental watchdogs and whistle-blowers within government agencies, said it was unalarmed by Jewell’s statement.

While PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch said that “typically, the private views of employees should be beyond the purview of the secretary,” he did not think she was out to purge the agency of climate change …

Record Slow Arctic Ice Area Loss At The End Of July: ‘Blew away all records for slow ice area loss, with less than 1/20th the loss that occurred in 1985’

Record Slow Arctic Ice Area Loss At The End Of July

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/record-slow-arctic-ice-area-loss-at-the-end-of-july

The last week in July blew away all records for slow ice area loss, with less than 1/20th the loss that occurred in 1985. arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.anom.1979-2008 Last week, NSIDC said : Back when the sea was thick and lasted for years, cyclones tended to spread the ice out and actually increase its extent, said Julienne Stroeve […]…