Harvard Physicist, Experts Blast Manmade Climate Change Claims As ‘Activist’, ‘Error-Prone’
Harvard Physicist, Experts Blast Manmade Climate Change Claims As “Activist”, “Error-Prone”, “Rodomontade”!
An open letter about climate politics from seven distinguished climate researchers and friends of science follows: ============================================= Some 375 political activists attached to the National Academy of Sciences, supporting the totalitarian view on the climate question, have issued an open letter saying we “caused most of the historical increase in atmospheric levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases”. Harvard astrophysicist Willie Soon slams activist open letter issued by 375 NAS scientists, calling it a science “totalitarian view”. Soon has been viciously attacked by environmentalists groups and environmentalist media. Image: Heartland Institute. Global warmists making outlandish and absurd claims… We influence climate by returning to the air carbon dioxide that was there before. But so do termites, by emitting more methane than all the world’s farm animals combined. So do plants, by breathing carbon dioxide and returning oxygen to the air. So does the Sun, by supplying the Earth’s radiant energy. So do volcanoes, by ejecta that shade the Earth from the Sun. So do the oceans, by helping to keep the Earth’s temperature extraordinarily stable for more than 800,000 years. The activists say we are warming the oceans. But even the worst assessment says this is just 1 degree Celsius every 430 years. The activists say we are warming the lower atmosphere. Yet all data shows the atmosphere is warming at less than half the rate originally predicted by the error-prone Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The activists say the oceans are “acidifying”. The truth is that we have no idea whether or at what rate the oceans are “acidifying”. What is known, however, is that the oceans are pronouncedly alkaline and are so powerfully buffered that alkaline they must remain. The activists say our influence on climate is evident in “altered rainfall patterns”: but there is little or no evidence of a link between our industries and enterprises on the one hand and global rainfall patterns on the other. The activists say we are to blame for retreating Arctic sea ice. But Arctic sea ice variations, if objectively quantified with proper error estimates, are fully within the large natural range of changes that have no need of any unique explanation by rising atmospheric carbon dioxide. In addition Antarctic sea ice, which they forget, has largely offset the loss of Arctic ice. Failed predictions mean bad science The activists …
‘Hide The Decline’ Unveiled: 50 Non-Hockey Stick Graphs Quash Modern ‘Global’ Warming Claims
‘Hide The Decline’ Unveiled: 50 Non-Hockey Stick Graphs Quash Modern ‘Global’ Warming Claims
We are told the globe is rapidly and dangerously warming, and that this rapid and dangerous warming has been predominantly caused by the steep rise in anthropogenic CO2 emissions that began about the mid-1940s. We even have a widely-recognized “hockey stick” graph of the Northern Hemisphere — created by Michael Mann in the late 1990s and popularized by the IPCC (2001) — to “prove” that modern warming has been synchronously global in scale, as well as rapid, dangerous, and perhaps even unprecedented (“the warmest on record”). There is a problem with this paradigm, however. An enormous problem. That is, when scientists reconstruct sea surface temperatures (SST) and land surface temperatures and deep ocean heat content from the paleoclimate record (hundreds to thousands of years ago) using existing physical proxy evidence, and when they use this same physical evidence to reconstruct the modern temperatures, the rapid and dangerous warming trend that mysteriously forms a hockey stick shape for recent decades seems to just simply . . . disappear. In its place is a modern record of temperatures from locations all over the world that looks like anything but a rapidly warming, dangerous, and unprecedented hockey stick. Instead, the paleoclimate record reveals the opposite: large regions of the Earth were significantly warmer than they are now for most of the last several thousand years. Below is a compilation of 50 temperature graphs from peer-reviewed scientific papers. Some graphs indicate that (a) post-1940s temperatures actually declined slightly many regions of the world rather than rose rapidly — the opposite of what climate models had predicted. All the graphs show that (b) modern (post-1940s) temperatures aren’t any warmer than the decades and centuries and millennia prior to the steep increase in anthropogenic CO2 emissions, and in some locations even the Little Ice Age temperatures (1400s to 1800s AD) were warmer than modern. Finally, these 50 graphs clearly show that (c) the conceptualization of global-scale warming, or a globally synchronous rise in temperatures for the vast majority of the Earth’s land and oceanic locations in modern times . . . is not scientifically supportable. In many parts of the world, today’s temperatures are still among the coldest they’ve been in the last several thousand years according to these graphs. Sea levels, in turn, are at some of the lowest levels of the last 8,000 …
Inconvenient: Record Arctic Sea Ice Growth In September
Inconvenient: Record Arctic Sea Ice Growth In September
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/09/27/inconvenient-record-arctic-sea-ice-growth-in-september
History Keeps Proving Prophets Of Eco-Apocalypse Wrong Source data: ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/ Since hitting its earliest minimum extent since 1997, Arctic sea ice has been expanding at a phenomenal rate. Already it is greater than at the same date in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015. Put another way, it is the fourth highest extent in the […]
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Leonardo DiCaprio Set To Speak With President Obama About Climate Change
Leonardo DiCaprio Set To Speak With President Obama About Climate Change
‘Exciting news’
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5th-grader launches ‘youth ambassador program’ to teach kids about ‘global warming’
Via: http://woodtv.com/2016/09/26/boy-starts-site-to-teach-other-kids-about-global-warming/
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A West Michigan 11-year-old is taking his knowledge of global climate change beyond the classroom.
Monday, Bryce Madder of Ada announced the launch of Polar Army, a nonprofit website to teach children about the impact global warming has on polar bears.
Bryce, a fifth-grader, spoke at the Grand Rapids Children’s Museum, announcing that kids of all ages can now be a part of the Polar Army by posting pictures and paintings of polar bears.
“I first learned about global warming about a year ago. I was in school and I found out by 2040, all the world’s sea ice will disappear. By 2050, we could actually lose two-thirds of polar bears, and that just really bothered me,” Bryce said.
Founded by 11 year old, Bryce Madder, Polar Army is an educational Non-Profit Company for kids dedicated to saving polar bears. Polar Army aims to educate children about global warming, its impact on the Arctic, and ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. It does this through a global art initiative, youth ambassador program, school partnerships, brand/corporate sponsors, and business collaborations.
Founded by 11 year old, Bryce Madder, Polar Army is an educational Non-Profit Company for kids dedicated to saving polar bears. Polar Army aims to educate children about global warming, its impact on the Arctic, and ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. It does this through a global art initiative, youth ambassador program, school partnerships, brand/corporate sponsors, and business collaborations.
Boy starts site to teach other kids about global warming
http://woodtv.com/2016/09/26/boy-starts-site-to-teach-other-kids-about-global-warming/
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Republicans Demand PROOF From Obama That Global Warming Is A National Security Threat
Republicans Demand PROOF From Obama That Global Warming Is A National Security Threat
‘There is not enough evidence at present…’
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Nature Study: 2 Million Years of Proxy Data Show Warming No Big Deal
Nature Study: 2 Million Years of Proxy Data Show Warming No Big Deal
http://junkscience.com/2016/09/nature-study-2-million-years-of-proxy-data-show-warming-no-big-deal/
Read it and weep, warmists. Planet cooling overall. Any warming not at unnatural level. Abstract and key graph from new Nature paper below.
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‘Trump Is Right on Climate Change. Dems and GOP Must Follow Him’
Trump Is Right on Climate Change. Dems and GOP Must Follow Him
http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com/2016/09/trump-is-right-on-climate-change-dems.html
Tom HarrisICSC Executive DirectorOriginally published on PJ MediaNever before has a presidential election seen a greater contrast in the attitudes of the major candidates towards climate change.Hillary Clinton told delegates at July’s Democratic National Convention that man-made climate change is “an urgent threat and a defining challenge of our time.” Yet Donald Trump calls Clinton’s approach an “extreme, reckless anti-energy agenda,” and he told Fox News on July 26 that man-made climate change “could have a minor impact, but nothing, nothing [comparable] to what they’re talking about.”To determine which position is most reasonable, and what — if any — climate change mitigation policy is needed, we need a way of properly assessing the overall risk of man-made climate change. It is not enough to simply say that the consequences of catastrophic climate change would be so dire that any and all actions to avert it are justified. We need to actually take into account the probability of such events occurring in the foreseeable future.We conduct risk assessment in everyday life, of course. Yet for some reason, we don’t conduct it on this issue.When we go for a walk, we risk being hit by a truck, a falling tree, or lightning, events that would obviously be personally catastrophic if they actually came about. But we judge that — if normal safety precautions are taken — the likelihood of these things happening is so low that we have no qualms about leaving home.The same approach should obviously apply to public policy formulation. If risk assessment only involved responding to possible outcomes, then the nations of the world would be building an asteroid defense system. After all, a large asteroid impact could destroy all life on Earth, perhaps even shatter the planet itself, a far worse scenario than even the most extreme global warming forecasts.But scientists judge that the likelihood of a significant impact in the foreseeable future is far too small to justify spending trillions of dollars on the issue.So — while we do watch the skies for possible cosmic threats — we dedicate the majority our security dollars to dealing with known, more immediate problems such as crime, terrorism, and local pollution.Dealing with the possibility of catastrophic human-caused climate change should result in a similar analysis as that of a possible asteroid strike. Here’s why: The portion of climate change that is …
Nature paper pushes wild exaggeration of 7-13C “climate sensitivity”! Even Gavin Schmidt calls them out.
Nature paper pushes wild exaggeration of 7-13C “climate sensitivity”! Even Gavin Schmidt calls them out.
Lordy. Lordy. How did Snyder 2016 get past rigorous peer review and into a supposed “top” journal like Nature? Carolyn Snyder did a 2 million year temperature reconstruction then assumed that all the warming in the whole record was caused by CO2, she then carried that correlation right through to reach the absurd conclusion that climate sensitivity is not 2 – 4C, but 7 to 13 freaking degrees. (Did she study climate science by watching Al Gore?) Normally we’d expect a climate expert to know that orbital mechanics drive most of the changes. Don’t look now, but Gavin Schmidt has done the right thing and pointed out a very silly conclusion that Nature and all their reviewers missed. This obvious mistake was also missed by The ABC, The Conversation, Andrew Glikson etc etc. (If Nature had even asked bloggers to review it…). The Daily Mail (UK) published a version by Associated Press, and they at least asked Michael Mann and Jeremy Shakun, who respectively said they “remain skeptical”, and it “seems too high”. Though they buried those warnings and still went with the apocalyptic headline: Earth is warmer that it has been in 120,000 years – and is ‘locked in’ […]Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast)
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While Media Focused On Debates, EPA Quietly Passed Two Global Warming Regs
While Media Focused On Debates, EPA Quietly Passed Two Global Warming Regs
‘I’m especially excited’
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