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The CO2 Lie

January 5, 2010

Investor’s Business Daily | Jan. 5, 2010

A new study shows that Earth’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide from all sources, including man, has remained unchanged for 160 years. As it turns out, there may be no carbon to offset.

A major tenet of the global warming religion, straight from the Book of Gore, has been that the ability of the earth to handle increasing CO2 emissions is finite and that once the “tipping point” is reached, the earth will warm uncontrollably. Well, another climate domino has fallen — the myth that man-made CO2 is leading to climate catastrophe. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Environment, Global Cooling?, Global Warming?, Junk science

Global Warming, Who are They Kidding?

January 4, 2010

Drudge Report | Jan. 4, 2010

Here are the top weather stories around the world from Drudge Report today:
Winter Could Be Worst in 25 Years for USA – 3 Deaths Due To Cold in Memphis – Gas Supplies Running out in UK – Vermont sets ‘all-time record for one snowstorm’ – Iowa temps ‘a solid 30 degrees below normal’ – Seoul buried in heaviest snowfall in 70 years – Historic ice build-up shuts down NJ nuclear power plant – Beijing, coldest in 40 years – Miami shivers from coldest weather in decade [Read more...]

Filed Under: Global Cooling?, Global Warming?, Junk science

Climate Change is Natural: 100 Reasons Why

December 15, 2009

Daily Express | by Dan Parkinson | Dec. 15, 2009

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Here are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European Foundation, why climate change is natural and not man-made:

1) There is “no real scientific proof” that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from man’s activity.

2) Man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history constitute less than 0.00022 percent of the total naturally emitted from the mantle of the earth during geological history.

3) Warmer periods of the Earth’s history came around 800 years before rises in CO2 levels.

4) After World War II, there was a huge surge in recorded CO2 emissions but global temperatures fell for four decades after 1940. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Environment, Global Warming?, Science

The Hockey Stick vs. Ice Core Data

December 15, 2009

The new and improved hockey stick. Looking at the ice core data in Greenland, it turns out that there has been warming lately, but it’s not nearly what it has been in the past. This video puts the climate data in a proper perspective. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Environment, Global Warming?, Videos

Hockey stick observed in NOAA ice core data

December 11, 2009

Watts Up With That? | by John Griffing | Dec. 12, 2009

One thing that Climategate does is give us an opportunity to step back from the details of the AGW argument and say, maybe these are heat-of-the-moment stuff, and in the long run will look as silly as the Durants’ allergy to Eisenhower. And perhaps, if we can put climate arguments in perspective, it will allow us to put the much smaller nano arguments (pun intended) into perspective too. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Global Cooling?, Global Warming?, Science

Gore Wrong on Snows of Kilimanjaro

December 4, 2009

More proof that AlGore is spreading lies and misinformation about the affects of “global warming” caused by human created CO2. Let’s see if Al has the character and courage to admit he’s wrong.
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PajamasMedia | by Leon de Winter | Dec. 3, 2009

Professor Sinninghe Damste’s research, as discussed on the site of the Dutch Organization of Scientific Research (DOSR) — a governmental body — shows that the icecap of Kilimanjaro was not the result of cold air but of large amounts of precipitation which fell at the beginning of the Holocene period, about 11,000 years ago.

The melting and freezing of moisture on top of Kilimanjaro appears to be part of “a natural process of dry and wet periods.” The present melting is not the result of “environmental damage caused by man.” [Read more...]

Filed Under: Environment, Global Warming?, Junk science

Researcher: NASA hiding climate data

December 3, 2009

The Washington Times | by Stephen Dinan | Dec. 3, 2009

The fight over global warming science is about to cross the Atlantic with a U.S. researcher poised to sue NASA, demanding release of the same kind of climate data that has landed a leading British center in hot water over charges it skewed its data.

Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said NASA has refused for two years to provide information under the Freedom of Information Act that would show how the agency has shaped its climate data and would explain why the agency has repeatedly had to correct its data going as far back as the 1930s. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Environment, Global Warming?, Science

Climate change data dumped

November 28, 2009

Times UK | by Jonathan Leake | Nov. 29, 2009

Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.

It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Fraud, Global Warming?, Junk science

ClimateGate and the EP: Wagon hitched to the wrong horse?

November 25, 2009

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American Orthodox Institute | by Fr. Johannes Jacobse | Nov. 25, 2009

A scandal in global warming research is unfolding that isn’t going away. Internal correspondence from the Climate Reseach Unit (CRU), the research center and ground zero for global warming advocacy, was released that reveals that the top global warming scientists hid data that proves the earth has been cooling for the last ten years, conspired against colleagues that were global warming skeptics, and cooked the numbers to keep the lucrative grants coming. It is taking time to digest all the facts but you can read some preliminary conclusions here: London Telegraph, Pajamas TV, Fox News, Washington Times, (Google “climategate” for more).

Global warming was of course the centerpiece of the Ecumenical Patriarch’s pastoral message to America during his trip to the United States a few weeks back. The Green Patriarch embraced the Progressive environmentalist agenda, so much so that he lent the full weight of his office to urge the passage of political legislation such as the Copenhagen Protocols that global warming advocates argued was needed to stop imminent environmental catastrophe. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Fraud, Global Warming?, Orthodox Christianity

Climategate: Alarmism Is Underpinned by Fraud

November 25, 2009

Pajamas Media | by Ian Plimer | Nov. 25, 2009

Files from the UK Climatic Research Unit were hacked. They show that data was massaged, numbers were fudged, diagrams were biased, there was destruction of data after freedom of information requests, and there was refusal to submit taxpayer-funded data for independent examination.

Data were manipulated to show that the Medieval Warming didn’t occur, and that we are not in a period of cooling. Furthermore, the warming of the 20th century was artificially inflated. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Fraud, Global Warming?, Junk science, Leftism

Global Warming Fraud by Hadley CRU Exposed

November 20, 2009

Telegraph Media Group | by James Delingpole | Nov. 20, 2009

The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)

When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realise just why the boffins at Hadley CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be “the greatest in modern science”. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Fraud, Global Warming?, Junk science, Leftism

A Lesson in Biofuels from Tennessee

November 11, 2009

American Thinker | by Jeffrey Folks | Nov. 11, 2009

In 2007, to great fanfare and amid ever-greater expectations, a large-scale demonstration project was initiated to turn switchgrass into biofuel. For an investment of $70 million, the taxpayers of the state of Tennessee were promised a lucrative new industry that would benefit farmers and create thousands of other “green jobs.” The project, which was expected to produce five million gallons of biofuel from switchgrass within two years, would soon be fiscally self-sustaining and afford a “significant return” on investment. As the largest switchgrass demonstration project in the country, it was to have been the foundation for a whole new industry. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Global Warming?, Government Incompetence, Junk science

Russian Research Forecasts Global Cooling

October 29, 2009

WorldNetDaily | by Jerome R. Corsi | Oct. 27, 2009

In a sharp rebuke to climate alarmists who believe human-generated carbon dioxide is responsible for causing catastrophic global warming, a Russian scientist has issued what amounts to a news flash announcing, “Sun Heats Earth!”

Habibullo Abdussamatov, the head of space research at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, has published a paper in which he tracks sunspot activity going back to the 19th century to argue that total sun irradiance, or TSI, is the primary factor responsible for causing climate variations on Earth, not carbon dioxide. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Environment, Global Cooling?, Global Warming?, Science

Climate Chains, Environmental Alarmists Threaten Our Freedoms

October 26, 2009

An epic debate is underway in our country. Proposed climate legislation would have a far-reaching impact on our standard of living and give government a portal into every aspect of our lives. The affordable, dependable and abundant energy upon which any great civilization is built is about to be rationed. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Global Warming?, Junk science, Leftism, Videos

Everyone Stop Breathing

October 19, 2009

BreakPoint | by Chuck Colson | Oct. 16, 2009

OK, global warming is no laughing matter. But it is also not a scientific fact, as the new movie Not Evil Just Wrong makes clear. But that’s not stopping leaders in wealthy Western nations from pushing radical “solutions” to this dubious problem.

Not Evil Just Wrong does a great job of clearing the air over some contentious issues. Take the hysteria over CO2 emissions, for example. CO2 is not a pollutant. It’s an odorless gas that every living being gives off when he or she exhales. As Patrick Moore, once a founder of Greenpeace, says in the film, “Anybody who knows anything about biology knows that carbon dioxide is the most important nutrient of all of life. It is the currency of life.” [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Environment, Global Warming?, Junk science