Archive | February, 2010

The Hidden Flaw in Greenhouse Theory

By Alan Siddons Insulated by an outer crust, the surface of the earth acquires nearly all of its heat from the sun. The only exit for this heat to take is through a door marked “Radiation.” And therein lies a tale…  Recently, I chanced upon an Atmospheric Science Educator Guide [PDF] published by NASA. Aimed at students in grades […]

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Rajendra Pachauri to defend handling of IPCC after climate change science row

Rajendra Pachauri, the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will defend his handling of a crisis that has shaken the world’s faith in his organisation at a meeting of environmental leaders in Bali. By Geoffrey Lean He will try to save his job and shore up support for the IPCC in the […]

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Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Releases Report on CRU (Climategate) Controversy

Senator Inhofe Intruduces Report to EPW Committee The Minority Staff of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works released a report today titled, “‘Consensus’ Exposed: The CRU Controversy.” The report covers the controversy surrounding emails and documents released from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU). It examines the extent to which […]

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Iceberg Ahead

Climate scientists who play fast and loose with the facts are imperiling not just their profession but the planet By Fred Guterl One of the most impressive visuals in Al Gore’s now famous slide show on global warming is a graph known as the “hockey stick.” It shows temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rising slowly […]

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Texas to Challenge US Greenhouse Gas Rules

Texas suit one of several to challenge EPA By Ed Stoddard Texas and several national industry groups on Tuesday filed separate petitions in federal court challenging the government’s authority to regulate U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Texas, which leads U.S. states in carbon dioxide emissions due to its heavy concentration of oil refining and other industries, […]

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The Continuing Climate Meltdown

More embarrassments for the U.N. and ‘settled’ science Wall Street Journal Editorial It has been a bad—make that dreadful—few weeks for what used to be called the “settled science” of global warming, and especially for the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that is supposed to be its gold standard. First it turns out that […]

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WCCO Radio Discussion of Global Warming & GlobalClimateScam.com

I was a guest on the Michele Tafoya Show on Twin Cites News Talk station, WCCO 830 AM on Tuesday to discuss global warming and our website, GlobalClimateScam.com. Michele wanted to get both sides of the global warming debate represented in the discussion, so her first guest was Jay Drake-Hamilton, science policy director for Fresh […]

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Defections Shake Up Climate Coalition

By Stephen Power And Ben Casselman Three big companies quit an influential lobbying group that had focused on shaping climate-change legislation, in the latest sign that support for an ambitious bill is melting away. Oil giants BP PLC and ConocoPhillips and heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. said Tuesday they won’t renew their membership in the three-year-old […]

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Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995

Data for vital ‘hockey stick graph’ has gone missing There has been no global warming since 1995 Warming periods have happened before – but NOT due to man-made changes By Jonathan Petre The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that […]

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How Met Office blocked questions on its own man's role in 'hockey stick' climate row

By David Rose The Meteorological Office is blocking public scrutiny of the central role played by its top climate scientist in a highly controversial report by the beleaguered United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Professor John Mitchell, the Met Office’s Director of Climate Science, shared responsibility for the most worrying headline in the 2007 […]

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