Climate Town Hall! Scientists For Truth Hosts ‘Debunking Climate Change Myths’ in Springfield Missouri
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Clean Skies TV Features Climate Depot’s Morano on ‘Cash-for-Clunkers’
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Get the Popcorn and listen now! Climate Depot’s Morano featured on G. Gordon Liddy Show for Full Hour
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DC Examiner: Scientists urge Merkel to change global warming view
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Australian Sun Herald: ‘A consensus is growing’: German Scientists: Humans aren’t heating the planet
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Update: ‘Consensus’ Takes Another Hit! More than 60 German Scientists Dissent Over Global Warming Claims! Call Climate Fears ‘Pseudo ‘Religion’; Urge Chancellor to ‘reconsider’ views
[Update: August 9, 2009: Organizers released the names of 64 more scientists who endorse the Open Letter. This brings the total number of skeptical German scientists who signed the letter to over 130.]
More than 60 prominent German scientists have publicly declared their dissent from man-made global warming fears in an Open Letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The more than 60 signers of the letter include several United Nations IPCC scientists.
The scientists declared that global warming has become a “pseudo religion” and they noted that rising CO2 has “had no measurable effect” on temperatures. The German scientists, also wrote that the “UN IPCC has lost its scientific credibility.”
This latest development comes on the heels of a series of inconvenient developments for the promoters of man-made global warming fears, including new peer-reviewed studies, real world data, a growing chorus of scientists dissenting (including more UN IPCC scientists), open revolts in scientific societies and the Earth’s failure to warm. In addition, public opinion continues to turn against climate fear promotion. (See “Related Links” at bottom of this article for more inconvenient scientific developments.)
The July 26, 2009 German scientist letter urged Chancellor Merkel to “strongly reconsider” her position on global warming and requested a “convening of an impartial panel” that is “free of ideology” to counter the UN IPCC and review the latest climate science developments.
The scientists, from many disciplines, including physicists, meteorology, chemistry, and geology, explain that “humans have had no measurable effect on global warming through CO2 emissions. Instead the temperature fluctuations have been within normal ranges and are due to natural cycles.”
“More importantly, there’s a growing body of evidence showing anthropogenic CO2 plays no measurable role,” the scientists wrote. “Indeed CO2’s capability to absorb radiation is almost exhausted by today’s atmospheric concentrations. If CO2 did indeed have an effect and all fossil fuels were burned, then additional warming over the long term would in fact remain limited to only a few tenths of a degree,” they added.
“The IPCC had to have been aware of this fact, but completely ignored it during its studies of 160 years of temperature measurements and 150 years of determined CO2 levels. As a result the IPCC has lost its scientific credibility,” the scientists wrote.
“Indeed the atmosphere has not warmed since 1998 – more than 10 years, and the global temperature has …
Flashback: Moonwalkers Defy Claims That Climate Skeptics Are Akin To Those Who Believe Moon Landing was ‘Staged’
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Meteorologist Dan Satterfield Launches Assault on Skeptics! Declares claims are ‘laughable to anyone who understands science’
[Climate Depot Editor’s Note: Satterfield and other promoters of man-made climate fears are reaching desperation time as new peer-reviewed studies, the growing number of scientists, real world data and public opinion continue to turn against them. Satterfield is such a “believer” in man-made climate fears that he approvingly cites the works of Joe (global warming may have casued the Minnesota bridge collapse) Romm of Climate Progress and NASA’s James Hansen. It appears Satterfield has joined with other recent frustrated “believers” in man-made climate fears. See: ‘Find ways to exaggerate’: Nobel Prize-winning economist wishes for ‘tornadoes’ and ‘a lot of horrid things’ to convince Americans of global warming threat! – July 14, 2009 ]
Below are excerpts from The Denver Weather Examiner article about climate fear promoter Meteorologist Dan Satterfield of Alabama’s WHNT TV in Huntsville. Satterfield’s publicly available email is: [email protected]
An August 3, 2009 article by the Denver Weather Examiner’s Tony Hake titled “An example why global warming alarmists are losing ground,” details Satterfield’s climate views.
Excerpt: This past weekend alarmist, WHNT TV meteorologist Dan Satterfield, resorted to similar tactics by launching an insulting attack on one of his station’s viewers via Twitter. […] Twitter user ‘backscatter’ posted a link to one of [the Denver Weather Examiner’s articles discussing a new study that says nature is the primary driver behind climate change. Dan Satterfield, ‘danwhnt’ on Twitter, picked up on the link and immediately replied to backscatter saying, “That bastion of science the denver examiner [sic] – read the actual paper by chance? thought not.” […]
Satterfield pressed his attack saying that claims that are contrary to the theory of anthropogenic global warming are “laughable to anyone who understands science” and proceeded to insult backscatter’s education while touting his own. Backscatter as it turns out though holds a degree in electrical engineering so he would certainly be one who “understands science.”
Satterfield’s Twitter message: “just what is your background- I hv a BS Metr. and MS Earth Sci.” – wrote WHNT Meteorologist Dan Satterfield touting his credentials while questioning those of someone who disagrees with him.
When the Denver Weather Examiner picked up on the debate, we sent a tweet drawing attention to it without offering any commentary. Satterfield then turned his fire to us saying, “I could care less about the politics but if you are going to publish junk that …
Professor William Calvin Unhinged! Calls on scientists to use ‘interventional activism’ to combat global warming!
[Climate Depot Editorial Note: Dr. Calvin should consider heeding the wisdom of Dr. Richard Lindzen. See: MIT Climate Scientist Lindzen: ‘Ordinary people see through man-made climate fears — but educated people are very vulnerable’ – July 6, 2009 ]
By William Calvin, Neuroscientist at the University of Washington School of Medicine; Author of “A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change.” Calvin’s essay was posted online by The Edge as part of their “World Question Center 2009” series. Calvin also writes for the left-wing website DailyKos.com. Calivn’s full bio here and here. Dr. Calvin’s publicly available email address is : [email protected]
Dr. Calvin excerpts: (emphasis added) Climate will change our ways of doing science, making some areas more like medicine with its combination of science and interventional activism, where delay to resolve uncertainties is often not an option. Few scientists are trained to think this way — and certainly not climate scientists, who are having to improvise as the window of interventional opportunity shrinks. […]
Climate will, at times, force a hiatus on doing science as usual, much like what happened during World War II when many academics laid aside their usual teaching and research interests to intensively focus on the war effort. The big working models of fluid dynamics used to simulate ocean and atmospheric circulation will themselves be game-changing for other fields of dynamics, such as brain processing and decision making. […]
Long-term thinking can be dangerous if it causes us to neglect the short term hazards. A mid-century plan for emissions reduction will be worthless if the Amazon rain forest burns down during the next El Niño. [End excerpt of Dr. Calvin’s essay.]
For Dr. Calvin’s full essay see here.
[ Climate Depot Editorial Note: Kudos to Dr. Calvin for restraining himself and not following in the footsteps of Nobel-Prize Winning Economist Thomas Schelling who wished death and destruction on Americans in order to convince them man-made global warming was a threat.
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Media Spin: New York Times Blames 2009’s Record Cold on Natural Factors — But Blamed Record Warmth in 2000 on Man-Made Global Warming!
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The media and climate fear promoters appear to be in overdrive trying to spin recent global cooling and particularly the “year without a summer” in many parts of the U.S. [See: Earth’s ‘Fever’ Breaks! Global temperatures ‘have plunged .74°F since Gore’s film released and Climate Fear Promoters Try to Spin Record Cold and Snow: ‘Global warming made it less cool’ ]
The New York Times reports that the record cold of 2009 is due to natural variations and even warned skeptics of man-made global warming not to be “buoyed” by the brutal cold.
The New York Times’ remarkable front page article on July 31, 2009 titled “In New York, It’s the Summer That Isn’t” by reporter Sam Roberts detailed the record breaking cold summer in New York. The article warned “this could be the coolest summer on record” and “this will have been the coolest June and July since either 1903 or 1881.”
But the 2009 article explained “this summer’s unusually mild temperatures should not buoy global warming skeptics.”
Why? The Times has the answer, noting “a persistent high-level jet stream has sent cooler air streaming from the north and northwest.”
Ok. Fair enough, “natural variations” caused a record cold breaking summer in 2009, according to the Times. But the question looms, how did the paper explain record warmth nearly a decade ago? Surely, if natural variations in climate can cause a record-breaking cold summer, then it would stand to reason that record breaking warmth would have a natural cause as well?
Not exactly. The Times effortlessly attributed record warmth back in 2000 to man-made global warming, noting the warm temperatures were “consistent” with model predictions. [Climate Depot Editor’s Note: At least NYT is light years ahead of the BBC, which in true “climate astrology” fashion, blamed “intense” deadly cold on global warming! See: BBC: ‘250 children under the age of 5 died’ due to freezing temps in Peru — ‘Experts blame climate change for the early arrival of intense cold’ – July 12, 2009]
A March 11, 2000 New York Times article by reporter William K. Stevens entitled “U.S. Sets Another Record for Winter Warmth” had no hesitation in blaming record warmth on man-made global warming.
The article from 9 years ago noted: “Shorter and milder winters are consistent with a century-long global warming trend that mainstream scientists believe has been at …