Warmists' Hysteria Fueled By Hot Air
V-for-Venereal
speaking out in opposition to former Vice President Al Gore, the
United Nations, and the media-driven "consensus" on man-made global
warming. In March, I released a report detailing scientists who were
former believers in catastrophic man-made climate change but who have
recently reversed themselves and are now skeptics.
I will also be releasing a list of the hundreds of scientists, many of
them affiliated with the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) process, who have spoken out recently to oppose climate
alarmism. It is ironic that the media's climate hysteria grows louder
as the latest scientific reports grow less and less alarming. Even the
alarmist UN has cut sea level rise estimates in half since 2001 and
has reduced man's estimated impact on the climate by 25%. Meanwhile, a
separate UN report found that cow emissions are more damaging to the
planet than all of the CO2 emissions from cars and trucks.
The New York Times is now debunking aspects of climate alarmism. An
April 3, 2008, article in the Times by Andrew Revkin stated: "few
scientists agree with the idea that the recent spate of potent
hurricanes, European heat waves, African drought and other weather
extremes are, in essence, our fault (a result of manmade emissions).
There is more than enough natural variability in nature to mask a
direct connection, [scientists] say." The Times is essentially
conceding that no recent weather events are outside of natural climate
variability. So all the climate doomsayers have to back up their
claims of climate fears are unproven computer models. Of course, you
can't prove a prediction of the climate in 2100 wrong today.
Climate models fallible
In fact, a prominent UN scientist questioned the reliability of such
climate models. In a recent candid statement, IPCC scientist Dr. Jim
Renwick—a lead author of the IPCC 4th Assessment Report—publicly
admitted that the computer models that predict a coming catastrophe
may not be so reliable after all. Renwick stated, "Half of the
variability in the climate system is not predictable, so we don't
expect to do terrifically well."
Let me repeat: a UN scientist admitted, "Half of the variability in
the climate system is not predictable."
A leading scientific skeptic, Dr. Hendrik Tennekes, former CEO of The
Netherlands' Royal National Meteorological Institute, recently took
the critique of climate computer models one step further. Tennekes
said in February 2008, "I am of the opinion that most scientists
engaged in the design, development, and tuning of climate models are
in fact software engineers. They are unlicensed, hence unqualified to
sell their products to society."
Yet the media insist that there is a "consensus" on global warming and
claim that the UN IPCC Summary for Policymakers is the voice of
hundreds or even thousands of the world's top scientists. But such
claims do not hold up to even the lightest scrutiny.
Numbers game
According to the Associated Press, during the IPCC Summary for
Policymakers meeting in Nov 2007, only 52 scientists were present.
Many of the so-called "hundreds" of scientists who have been
affiliated with the UN as "expert reviewers" are in fact climate
skeptics. Skeptics like Virginia State Climatologist Dr. Patrick
Michaels, Alabama State Climatologist Dr. John Christy, New Zealand
paleoclimatologist Dr. Vincent Gray, and former head of the Geological
Museum at the University of Oslo, Tom V. Segalstad, have served as
IPCC "expert reviewers" but were not involved in writing the alarmist
Summary for Policymakers.
In addition, we often hear how the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
and the American Meteorological Society (AMS) have issued statements
endorsing the so-called "consensus" view that man is driving global
warming. But what you don't hear is that both the NAS and AMS never
allowed member scientists to vote on these climate statements.
Essentially, only two dozen or so members on the governing boards of
these institutions produced the "consensus" statements. It appears
that the governing boards of these organizations buckled to pressure
from those promoting the politically correct view of UN and
Gore-inspired science.
Second opinion
Rank-and-file scientists are now openly rebelling. James Spann, a
certified meteorologist with the AMS, openly defied the organization
when he said in January that he does "not know of a single TV
meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype." In
February a panel of meteorologists expressed unanimous climate
skepticism, and one panelist estimated that 95% of his profession
rejects global warming fears.
Another question I frequently get asked is: Can you name a single
peer-reviewed study to counter the scary climate computer model
predictions of doom? I simply refer to the more than 100 scientific
studies with more than 300 coauthors cited in the new book Unstoppable
Global Warming Every 1500 Years by climate scientist Dr. Fred Singer
and Dennis Avery. The book details extensive research going back
decades to reveal how solar activity is linked to Earth's natural
temperature cycles. These peer-reviewed studies are just one component
of the "inconvenient truth" that the mainstream media does not want to
report. Fortunately, those interested in a rational scientific
approach to climate can bypass the media and go to the committee web
site at www.epw.senate.gov.
Lone Ranger
wrote:
>Another question I frequently get asked is: Can you name a single
>peer-reviewed study to counter the scary climate computer model
>predictions of doom? I simply refer to the more than 100 scientific
>studies with more than 300 coauthors cited in the new book 'Unstoppable
>Global Warming Every 1500 Years' by climate scientist Dr. Fred Singer
>and Dennis Avery. The book details extensive research going back
>decades to reveal how solar activity is linked to Earth's natural
>temperature cycles. These peer-reviewed studies are just one component
>of the "inconvenient truth" that the mainstream media does not want to
>report.
'Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years' by Dr. Fred Singer
and Dennis Avery? Oh dear!
The book 'Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years' isn't
just wrong - it's systematically dishonest! They are basically talking
about Dansgaard-Oeschger events. D-O events are rapid climate
changes observed in the northern hemisphere, especially in Greenland
ice core data, during the last ice age. These events seem to follow a
highly regular timing, as discussed by many researchers. So many
researchers have explored the nature of these events that it explains
how Avery and Singer were easily able to compile such a long list of
scientists who have discussed 'a natural moderate 1,500-year climate
cycle'. And now Avery and Singer claim that "hundreds of scientists"
either have refuted or are doubtful about man-made global warming.
That is a blatant misrepresentation and a cynical trashing of these
scientists' work.
Dansgaard-Oeschger events
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dansgaard-Oeschger_event
Unstoppable Hot Air
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/unstoppable-hot-air/
Avery and Singer: Unstoppable hot air
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/11/avery-and-singer-unstoppable-hot-air/
Unstoppable disinformation every 15 minutes from Fred Singer
http://climateprogress.org/2008/01/20/unstoppable-disinformation-every-15-minutes-from-fred-singer/
Climate-change quackery
http://blogs.chicagoreader.com/daily-harold/2007/01/29/climate-change-quackery/
New Scientist slamming the "skeptic scam"
http://www.desmogblog.com/new-scientsist-slamming-the-skeptic-scam
500 Scientists with Documented Doubts - about the Heartland Institute?
http://www.desmogblog.com/500-scientists-with-documented-doubts-about-the-heartland-institute
Outrage in the Climate Science Community Continues Over the
"500 Scientist" List
http://www.desmogblog.com/outrage-in-the-climate-science-community-continues-over-the-500-scientist-list
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V for Vendicar
"Lone Ranger" <snowba...@bigfoot.com.spamalamadingdong> wrote
> 'Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years' by Dr. Fred Singer
> and Dennis Avery? Oh dear!
<Smoking doesn't cause cancer> - Fred Singer
Oh dear.