Muslim scholars name climate change as dire threat: ‘Human beings could cause the ending of life on the planet’

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The views of the scholars – some of the strongest yet expressed on climate from within the Muslim community – are contained in a draft declaration on climate change to be launched officially at a major Islamic symposium in Istanbul in mid-August.

Allah, says the declaration, created the world in mizan (balance), but through fasad (corruption), human beings have caused climate change, together with a range of negative effects on the environment that include deforestation, the destruction of biodiversity, and pollution of the oceans and of water systems.

 

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German Geologist: ‘Sea Level Rise Lagging Behind Projections’…No Detectable Acceleration!

German Geologist: “Sea Level Rise Lagging Behind Projections” …No Detectable Acceleration!

http://notrickszone.com/2015/07/14/german-geologist-sea-level-rise-lagging-behind-projections-no-detectable-acceleration/

Over the last couple of days at their Die kalte Sonne blog Geologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning and professor of chemistry Fritz Vahrenholt have focused their attention on sea level rise. On Monday they wrote a piece titled: “Sea level rise lagging behind expectations: Now only ‘data massaging’ helps“. In their post the two authors present a number of charts and cite many papers. In the end they conclude that sea level rise has not accelerated at all, despite what the media and a few alarmist scientists may otherwise claim. Lüning and Vahrenholt write that sea level acceleration is the result only when one dubiously fudges the data: What would you think if a soccer game ended with a score of 3:1, but the result later changed to 3:3?” Today Lüning and Vahrenholt followed with another post on sea level rise, which shows that the methodology used at times by scientists to compute and project sea level rise leaves little to be desired. ======================================== What climate models have not taken into consideration up to now: Up to one third of the sea level rise traced back to ocean salinity By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt [Translated/ edited by P Gosselin] For over one hundred years there has been a network of coastal tide gauges around the world that serve to measure the sea level. The hard data that is recorded play a decisive role in determining sea level rise. Because some coastal locations are rising and some are sinking, the corresponding vertical movement has to subtracted from or added to the tide gauge readings respectively. Using satellite measurements, today this can be corrected with reasonable accuracy. In March 2014 in a paper in the Geophysical Research Letters a team of scientists led by Guy Wöppelmann conducted a global revision of all GPS corrected coatal tide gauge measurements for the 20th century. The result is interesting: While sea level rose an average of 2.0 mm per year in the northern hemisphere, it was only about half as much in the southern hemisphere: 1.1 mm/year. What follows is the paper’s abstract: Evidence for a differential sea level rise between hemispheres over the 20th century Tide gauge records are the primary source of sea level information over multi-decadal to century timescales. A critical issue in using this type of data …

Which country has the most skeptics? Australia tops name-calling, limited, biased, ambiguous survey!

Which country has the most skeptics? Australia tops name-calling, limited, biased, ambiguous survey!

http://joannenova.com.au/2015/07/which-country-has-the-most-skeptics-australia-tops-name-calling-limited-biased-ambiguous-survey/

Graham Readfearn, at Ecowatch, thought the USA would top the list. He was wrong: Published in the journal Global Environmental Change, the study found that 17 percent of Australians were “climate skeptics.” Norwegians come in second at 15 percent, followed by New Zealanders at 13 percent and then Americans at 12 percent. The UK tied for fifth with Sweden and Finland, where 10 percent of people were skeptics. The lowest ranked country for climate skepticism was Spain, where only two percent of people were classified as climate skeptics. The real number of skeptics is much higher. A better, more accurate survey in Australia showed that about 53% of the Australian population are skeptical; I note they stopped that annual survey after getting these clear results. This survey of surveys were more ambiguous than usual — “rising temperatures” from any cause is now man-made. The surveyors merely asked if you thought “rising temperatures” (magnitude unspecified) were “dangerous” , and so you know what to say, they added “for the environment”. All spin and attitude, otherwise meaningless. This is all so horribly confounded: While the survey did not directly ask people if they accepted the science linking climate change to human activities, […]Rating: 10.0/10 (8 votes cast)

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500 sign petition to Smithsonian in defense of Dr. Willie Soon – Guess Smithsonian’s answer

500 sign petition to Smithsonian in defense of Dr. Willie Soon – Guess Smithsonian’s answer

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/07/17/500-sign-petition-to-smithsonian-in-defense-of-dr-willie-soon-guess-smithsonians-answer/

Guest essay by H. Sterling BurnettMore than 500 scientists, colleagues, and friends of Willie Soon, Ph.D. signed a letter sent, along with accompanying supporting documents, to the Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents defending the award-winning solar physicist against false allegations he failed to disclose conflicts of interest in publications requiring such admissions. The letter notes…

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Science trumps politics and patronage: Al Gore is ‘losing the bet’ against scientific forecasting

Science trumps politics and patronage: Al Gore is ‘losing the bet’ against scientific forecasting

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/07/18/science-trumps-politics-and-patronage-al-gore-is-losing-the-bet-against-scientific-forecasting

Guest essay by Kesten C. Green Global warming is a forecasting problem. The claim of the IPCC and sympathetic alarmists is that if we don’t stop emitting carbon dioxide, the Earth will be dangerously warmer in the future. How can they know that? To put it another way, given the state of knowledge, are the […]

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Arctic sea ice at highest extent for the date in last five years

Arctic sea ice at highest extent for the date in last five years

http://iceagenow.info/2015/07/arctic-sea-ice-at-highest-extent-for-the-date-in-last-five-years/

Meanwhile, Antarctic sea ice is at the 4th highest ever measured. The Denmark meteorological institute is showing Arctic sea ice at its highest extent for the date in the last five years, and it falls within the norm, one standard deviation. http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php This holds true despite all of those failed predictions over the past decades that the Arctic would become ice free. Total global sea ice seems equally resistant to following alarmist predictions with the 20th highest ever measured, while Antarctic sea ice is at the 4th highest ever measured. https://sunshinehours.wordpress.com/ Thanks to J Bird for these links “Collapse of public belief in the AGW theory is gaining ever greater momentum,” says J Bird. “Will it last until the big meeting in December?” The post Arctic sea ice at highest extent for the date in last five years appeared first on Ice Age Now.

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Global Cooling…Current 2011-2020 Decade Running Colder Than Previous 2001-2010 Decade

Global Cooling…Current 2011-2020 Decade Running Colder Than Previous 2001-2010 Decade

http://notrickszone.com/2015/07/19/global-cooling-current-2011-2020-decade-running-colder-than-previous-2001-2010-decade/

So, where’s the warming? Robin Pittwood at the New Zealand Kiwi Thinker here has posted an update on the climate bet for charity that NoTricksZone and its readers entered with a gaggle of global warming cultists, among them Dana Nuccitelli and Rob Honeycutt. So far we are 4.5 years into the current decade and Robin tells us that it is running cooler using RSS and UAH satellite data, which Messieurs Honeycutt and Nuccitelli agreed to use. Source: Kiwi Thinker. Awhile back in comic fashion devout anthropogenic global warming believer William Connelly even demanded the terms of the bet be changed. So clearly we see panic setting in. At his latest July 18 Saturday Summary here, Joe Bastardi presented the latest NCEP global temperature chart for the past 10 years, and here more confirmation that the globe has cooled off a bit. Image cropped from Weatherbell Analytics Saturday Summary. It really is tough to find warming anywhere outside of models. Joe, as polite as he is, is unable to hold back his ridicule of the warming claims. Of course this year is an El Niño year and so we are going to see the gap close somewhat, or perhaps even see the current decade become a bit warmer than the last – for a little while. But as many readers here are familiar, cool La Niñas typically follow El Niños. Moreover the North Atlantic has turned cool and that will make the battle that much tougher for those betting on a warmer current decade. Even if the warmists somehow did manage to pull it off, the trend would end up being far below what the models predicted and so it would be a very hollow victory that we could all live with.

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