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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's
Guide to Global Warming
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This is a resource against the "Man-Made" Global Warming Hysteria."There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT The Great Global Warming Swindle (Video) (1hr 14min) CBC: Documentary: Doomsday Called Off (Video) (44min) George Carlin - The Planet is Fine (Adults Only) (Video) (8min) More Videos and Podcasts (Videos)Climate chaos? Don't believe it ( Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley) Climate of Fear ( Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT) Don't Believe the Hype - Al Gore is wrong. There's no "consensus" on global warming ( Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT) Global Warming Myths ( Friends of Science) Milankovitch Cycles ( NASA) Milankovitch Cycles (Animation) The Deniers, Part I - XVI ( National Post, Canada) The Case for Skepticism on Global Warming ( Michael Crichton, M.D. Harvard) The Role of Science in Environmental Policy-Making (2005) ( Michael Crichton, M.D. Harvard) Why So Gloomy? ( Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT)  Al Gore "The Goracle" "I decided I just had to call because you've printed a picture of the Earth upside down" - Al Gore, Wasington Times, 1998  Al Gore only has a B.A. in Government ( no higher degree achieved, no science degrees) The Education of Al Gore ( The Washington Times)
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Mr. Gore's high school performance on the college board achievement tests in physics (488 out of 800 "terrible," St. Albans retired teacher and assistant headmaster John Davis told The Post) and chemistry (519 out of 800 "He didn't do too well in chemistry," Mr. Davis observed) suggests that Mr. Gore would have trouble with science for the rest of his life. At Harvard and Vanderbilt, Mr. Gore continued bumbling along.
As a Harvard sophomore, scholar Al "earned" a D in Natural Sciences 6 in a course presciently named "Man's Place in Nature." That was the year he evidently spent more time smoking cannabis than studying its place among other plants within the ecosystem. His senior year, Mr. Gore received a C+ in Natural Sciences 118.
At Vanderbilt divinity school, Mr. Gore took a course in theology and natural science. The assigned readings included the apocalyptic, and widely discredited "Limits to Growth," which formed much of the foundation for "Earth in the Balance." It is said that Mr. Gore failed to hand in his book report on time. Thus, his incomplete grade turned into an F, one of five Fs Mr. Gore received at divinity school, which may well be a worldwide record. |
| QUOTE (WorldNetDaily) |
| So, Gore's an environmentalist who pollutes the river in his own hometown. And he's the scourge of Big Oil who made his political career currying favor to a subversive oil baron. |
The Gore Lies ( National Review Online) Whose Ox Is Gored? ( The Wall Street Journal) Dennis T. Avery Challenges Al Gore to a Debate ( The Heartland Institute) Lord Christopher Monckton Challenges Al Gore to a Debate ( Center for Science and Public Policy) An Inconvenient Truth:"I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it [global warming] is..." - Al Gore, Grist, 2006 A Skeptic's Guide to An Inconvenient Truth (PDF) ( Mario Lewis Jr. Ph.D. Government, Harvard) Al Gore Is a Greenhouse Gasbag ( Robert Giegengack, Ph.D. Geology) An Inconvient Truth Review ( Black & White, Birmingham's City Paper) Arctic Climate Expert: Gore's Film Is 'Science Fiction' ( Dr. Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Ph.D. Founding Director International Arctic Research Center) From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype ( The New York Times) Gore's Film Violates Oscar Academy Standards ( CNSNews) Inconvient Truths ( Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Ecological Climatology) Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore - Moulins (Video) (2min) Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore - Hurricane Catarina (Video) (2min) Inconvenient Truths Indeed ( Robert C. Balling, Ph.D. Geography, University of Oklahoma) Questions for Al Gore ( Roy Spencer, Ph.D. Meteorology, University of Wisconsin) Scare Tactics in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (Video) (8min) So how did An Inconvenient Truth become required classroom viewing? ( National Post, Canada) "Consensus":" The debate on global warming is over." - Al Gore, NYU, 2006 17,000 scientists declare that global warming is a lie with no scientific basis whatsoever ( OISM) 77 Skeptical Scientists ( Business and Media Institute) "Aliens Cause Global Warming" ( Michael Crichton, M.D. Harvard)
| QUOTE (Michael Crichton) |
| Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus... |
| QUOTE (Heartland Institute) |
| A survey of 530 climate scientists from 27 different countries determined there is no consensus regarding the causes of the modern warming period, how reliable predictions of future temperatures can be, and whether future global warming would be harmful or beneficial. Assertions that “the debate is over” are certainly not supported by the survey results. Two-thirds of the scientists surveyed (65.9 percent) disagreed rising CO2 is causing climate change and 72.6% did not agree we could predict what the climate will do 100 years from now. |
RE: “The scientific consensus on climate change” ( Benny Peiser, The letter Science Magazine refused to publish)
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| The results of my analysis contradict Oreskes' findings and essentially falsify her study: Of all 1117 abstracts, only 13 (1%) explicitly endorse the 'consensus view'. However, 34 abstracts reject or question the view that human activities are the main driving force of "the observed warming over the last 50 years" |
| QUOTE (DailyTech) |
| Medical researcher Dr. Klaus-Martin Schulte recently updated this research. Using the same database and search terms as Oreskes, he examined all papers published from 2004 to February 2007. Of 528 total papers on climate change, only 38 (7%) gave an explicit endorsement of the consensus. If one considers "implicit" endorsement (accepting the consensus without explicit statement), the figure rises to 45%. However, while only 32 papers (6%) reject the consensus outright, the largest category (48%) are neutral papers, refusing to either accept or reject the hypothesis. This is no "consensus." In fact of all papers published in this period (2004 to February 2007), only a single one makes any reference to climate change leading to catastrophic results. |
Temperatures:"A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable.” - The New York Times, 1975  1998 no longer the hottest year on record in USA ( Anthony Watts, Meteorologist) Accurate "Thermometers" in Space - The State of Climate Measurement Science ( NASA)
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| Unlike the surface-based temperatures, global temperature measurements of the Earth's lower atmosphere obtained from satellites reveal no definitive warming trend over the past two decades. |
Climate Change: New Antarctic Ice Core Data ( Jean Robert Petit, Ph.D. Paleoclimatology, University of Grenoble)  CO2 & temperature: ice core correlations ( Luboš Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physicist, Harvard)
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| The temperatures and carbon dioxide concentrations have been correlated but we know for sure that the temperature was the cause and the concentration was its consequence, not the other way around. If you look carefully at the graphs, you will see that the carbon dioxide concentrations lag behind the temperature by 800 years. |
Southern hemisphere ignores global warming ( Luboš Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physicist, Harvard) Antartic Temperatures Disagree with Climate Model Predictions ( Ohio State University) Another Unbalanced News Reporting On A Research Paper on Predicted Heat Waves In The Future ( Roger A. Pielke, Ph.D. Meteorology, Penn State) Researchers Question Validity Of A 'Global Temperature' ( Science Daily) Bad Paint Job = Rising Surface Temperatures? ( Anthony Watts, Meteorologist) A test of wood surface temperatures related to paint ( Anthony Watts, Meteorologist) How not to measure temperature, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 ( Anthony Watts, Meteorologist)  The Graph of Temperature vs. Number of Stations ( Ross McKitrick, Ph.D. Economics)  GHCN Air Temperature Station Locations 1950-1996 (Animation) ( University of Delaware) Urban Heat Island ( Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Berkeley National Laboratory) Urban Heat Islands Make Cities Greener ( NASA)  The Sun:"The sun is a nuclear reactor the size of a million Earths and burns 600 million tons of hydrogen a second." Cosmoclimatology: A new theory of climate change ( Henrik Svensmark, Solar System Physics, Danish National Space Center) Cosmic rays blamed for global warming ( Telegraph.co.uk) Sun's Output Increasing in Possible Trend Fueling Global Warming ( Space.com) NASA Study Finds Increasing Solar Trend That Can Change Climate ( NASA) Read the sunspots ( Tim Patterson, Ph.D. Professor of Geology, Carleton University, Canada) Sunspots: correlations with temperature ( Luboš Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physicist, Harvard)  The Sun and Global Warming ( NASA) The Sun Is More Active Now Than Over The Last 8000 Years ( Science Daily) The truth about global warming - it's the Sun that's to blame ( Telegraph.co.uk) The Planets:"The polar icecaps of Mars are receding at several miles a year, much faster than ours and that the moons of Saturn and Jupiter are melting, in fact several of their moons were ice and are now liquid seas - how are SUV's causing that David Rothschild?" - Alex Jones "Because those planets are closer to the sun, my friend." - David de Rothschild, Author '77 Essential Skills to Stop Climate Changes' Mars ( NASA)
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Carbon dioxide makes up 95.3% of the gas in the atmosphere of Mars. (Earth: 0.038%)
The average temperature on Mars is about -80°F. (Earth: 57°F) |
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| for three Mars summers in a row, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near Mars' south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in progress. |
| QUOTE (Wm. Robert Johnston) |
| Arctic Ocean pack ice = 0.01 % Fraction of world ice - The melting of floating ice will not change sea level: the mass of this ice is equal to that of the water it displaces (watch the water level in a cup of floating ice cubes as they melt). |
| QUOTE (Wm. Robert Johnston) |
| Based on what we know now, in the next 100 years a rise in sea level of 0.1 meters (4 inches) would not be surprising; those predicting changes of 0.5-2 meters (1.5-7 feet) are using flawed models. |
Antartica - On Thin Ice? (PDF) ( Scientific America)
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| Improved measurements of the motion of the Ross ice streams have confirmed that new snowfall is generally keeping pace with ice loss in this sector, meaning that almost no overall shrinkage is occurring at present. And by late 2001 most Antarctic scientists—including both of us—could finally agree that the Ross ice streams are not causing the ice to thin at this time. Variations in snowfall versus ice discharge over the past millennium seem to have averaged out—a sign that the ice sheet is less likely to make sudden additions to rising seas than some investigators had expected. |
| QUOTE (Robert Bindschadler) |
| The portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet we have focused on for the past ten years appears to be in a stage of near-zero retreat now |
| QUOTE (NewsBusters) |
| "record low" ice levels are based on a satellite record which began in 1979, while routine monitoring of the region started in 1972. [...] Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer who successfully navigated the Northwest Passage on August 26, 1905. [...] Between 1940 and 1942 St. Roch navigated the Northwest Passage, arriving in Halifax harbor on October 11, 1942. |
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| Researchers have utilized more than a decade's worth of data from radar altimeters on ESA's ERS satellites to produce the most detailed picture yet of thickness changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet. A Norwegian-led team used the ERS data to measure elevation changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2003, finding recent growth in the interior sections estimated at around six centimeters per year during the study period. |
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| Greenland was about as warm or warmer in the 1930’s and 40’s, and many of the glaciers were smaller than they are now. |
| QUOTE (National Geographic) |
| Icebergs have been common in the North Atlantic since the early days of ocean travel, long before global warming was an issue. And Antarctica’s ice sheets have been observed retreating and advancing as far back as 1841. Icebergs won’t cause sea levels to rise. Because they were part of ice that was floating to begin with, they will not add volume once separated. |
Polar Bears: (Ursus maritimus) "Maritime Bear" ( definition) " Of the Sea" " ...it is just silly to predict the demise of polar bears in 25 years based on media-assisted hysteria." - Dr. Mitchell Taylor, Polar Bear Biologist, 2006  Polar Bear Kills Seal Pup (Video) (2min) Polar Bear Attacks Seal (Video) (1min) Australian TV Exposes 'Stranded Polar Bear' Global Warming Hoax ( NewsBusters) Polar Bear makes longest recorded swim (47-62 miles in 24hr) ( World Wildlife Fund) Polar Bear - San Diego Zoo ( San Diego Zoo) Role of Climate in Polar Bears' Fate Under Dispute ( CNSNews) Polar Bears not threatened: Nunavut ( CBC News, Canada) Polar Bears 'thriving as the Arctic warms up' ( Telegraph.co.uk) ESA Listing Not Needed for Polar Bears ( The Heartland Institute)
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| Since the 1970s, while much of the world was warming, polar bear numbers increased dramatically, from roughly 5,000 to 25,000 bears, a higher polar bear population than has existed at any time in the twentieth century. |
Polar Bears Not Going Extinct ( Dr. Mitchell Taylor, Polar Bear Biologist, Department of the Environment)
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| Of the 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at present. |
Southern Beaufort Sea Stock (PDF) ( U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
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| The Southern Beaufort Sea Stock is not classified as "depleted" under the MMPA or listed as "threatened" or "endangered" under terms of the Endangered Species Act. This stock is assumed to be within optimum sustainable population levels. |
Chukchi/Bering Seas Stock (PDF) ( U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
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| Polar bears in the Chukchi/Bering seas stock are not classified as “depleted” under the MMPA or listed as “threatened” or “endangered” under the Endangered Species Act. |
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| The polar bears in Greenland are already widely protected. The polar bear is not at risk and the quotas will be lower than the average catches (between 1993 and 2003). The quotas will be based on international agreements, scientific advice and traditional knowledge. The quotas for the trophy hunt will be within these quotas, so that there is absolutely no threat to the survival of the polar bear. |
Weather:" On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Babbage," if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right "answers come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Charles Babbage, Computer Pioneer, 1864  Hurricanes - Chris Landsea Leaves IPCC ( Christopher W. Landsea Ph.D. Atmospheric Science) Hurricanes - Counting Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Back to 1900 (PDF) ( Christopher W. Landsea Ph.D. Atmospheric Science)
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| Researchers cannot assume that the Atlantic tropical cyclone database presents a complete depiction of frequency of events before the advent of satellite imagery in the mid-1960s. Moreover, newly available advanced tools and techniques are also contributing toward monitoring about one additional Atlantic tropical cyclone per year since 2002. Thus large, long-term ‘trends’ in tropical cyclone frequency are primarily manifestations of increased monitoring capabilities and likely not related to any real change in the climate in which they develop. |
| QUOTE (William M. Gray) |
| Global hurricane frequency and/or intensity has not been observed to undergo any significant trends as a result of the global warming of the last 30 years for frequency and for the last 20 years for intensity |
| QUOTE (WMO - 2006) |
| A consensus of 125 of the world’s leading tropical cyclone researchers and forecasters says that no firm link can yet be drawn between human-induced climate change and variations in the intensity and frequency of tropical cyclones. |
| QUOTE (FOXNews) |
| Eighteen tropical storms and four hurricanes have formed in May since 1851, and six storms have formed before the June 1 start since 1951. |
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| ...until organized reconnaissance began in 1944, the two major sources of information on tropical cyclones were land stations and ships at sea. Undoubtedly, during this early period some storms went undetected. |
| QUOTE (James Spann) |
| Well, well. Some “climate expert” on “The Weather Channel” wants to take away AMS certification from those of us who believe the recent “global warming” is a natural process. So much for “tolerance”, huh? I have been in operational meteorology since 1978, and I know dozens and dozens of broadcast meteorologists all over the country. Our big job: look at a large volume of raw data and come up with a public weather forecast for the next seven days. I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. I know there must be a few out there, but I can’t find them. |
James Spann on Glen Beck (Video) (6min) Oceans:"In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish." - Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day, 1970 Observed Changes in Sea Level ( IPCC)
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| Based on tide gauge data, the rate of global mean sea level rise during the 20th century is in the range 1.0 to 2.0 mm/yr. No significant acceleration in the rate of sea level rise during the 20th century has been detected. |
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| Averaging the mean values from the tide-gauges provides an approximate 20th Century relative sea level rise trend of 3.53 mm/year, which is double the global-mean. This implies a local component of approximately 2 mm/year for the New Jersey coast which can be partially attributed to land subsidence and sediment compaction. |
Global Warming Will Lower Sea Levels ( Fred Singer, Ph.D. Physics, Princeton University) Mark of hot dispute ( BBC)
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| It shows an Ordnance Survey Bench Mark engraved into a rock face on a little island near Port Arthur, Tasmania. It was put there in 1841 by the famous Antarctic explorer Captain Sir James Clark Ross and amateur meteorologist Thomas Lempriere to mark mean sea level. What is so fascinating is that the mark appears to some to be 30 centimetres above the current mean sea level. |
| QUOTE (National Center for Atmospheric Research) |
| Our projections of greenhouse-gas induced sea-level rise due to thermal expansion between 1985 and 2025 are also relatively small, 4-8 cm |
| QUOTE (Sallie Baliunas) |
| A climate simulation including the effect of the as yet unimplemented Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in 1997 and calling for a world-wide 5 per cent cut in carbon dioxide emissions from 1990 levels, would reduce that increase approximately to 0.94°C - an insignificant 0.06°C averted temperature increase. |
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Biofuels:"There is no sound public policy reason for mandating the use of ethanol.” - Hillary Clinton, 2002 Alternative Fuels Comparison Chart (PDF) ( Popular Mechanics) Biofuels could lead to mass hunger deaths: U.N. envoy ( Reuters) Carbon Mitigation by Biofuels or by Saving and Restoring Forests? ( Science)
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| The carbon sequestered by restoring forests is greater than the emissions avoided by the use of the liquid biofuels. |
| QUOTE (Science Daily) |
| Turning plants such as corn, soybeans and sunflowers into fuel uses much more energy than the resulting ethanol or biodiesel generates, according to a new Cornell University and University of California-Berkeley study. |
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| Diesel = 128,000-130,000 BTUs, Gasoline = 109,000-125,000 BTUs, Ethanol = 80,000 BTUs |
| QUOTE (Science Daily) |
| EU legislation to promote the uptake of biodiesel will not make any difference to global warming, and could potentially result in greater emissions of greenhouse gases than from conventional petroleum derived diesel. |
| QUOTE (Environmental Science and Technology) |
| New research predicts that E85 vehicle emissions could cause just as many deaths as gasoline, or more. |
| QUOTE (BusinessWeek) |
| Ethanol can't travel in pipelines along with gasoline, because it picks up excess water and impurities. Also, ethanol contains less energy than gas. That means drivers have to make more frequent trips to the pump. |
| QUOTE (USAToday) |
| Ethanol is far from a cure-all for the nation's energy problems. It's not as environmentally friendly as some supporters claim and would supply only 12 percent of U.S. motoring fuel even if every acre of corn were used. |
| QUOTE (Consumer Reports) |
| E85, which is 85 percent ethanol, provides fewer miles per gallon, costs more, and is hard to find outside the Midwest. |
Carbon - Credits - Offsets - Trading:"It is the nature of civilization to use energy and it’s the nature of liberalism to feel bad about it." - Robert Bryce Behind the feel-good hype of carbon offsets, some of the deals don't deliver ( BusinessWeek) Beware the Eco-Industrial Complex ( Steven Milloy, FOXNews) Carbon Credit - The Latest Greenie Trend ( NewsMax) Carbon Offsets - Buyer Beware ( Steven Milloy, FOXNews) | |
