December 10, 2009 by admin.

The current Climategate scandal and years of temperature-data fiddling by leading and controlling climatologists resulted in a clear demonstration that Michael Mann’s hockey stick graph was a fabrication that falsified the global temperature history for the past thousand years.

One of the most outstanding features of Michael Mann’s hockey-stick graph was that it attempted to eliminate a well-established historical fact, the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), a period of time when temperatures throughout the globe were substantially warmer and far more benign than they are now.

During the MWP the Vikings colonized Greenland, England had a substantial wine-production industry — based on vineyards grown as far north as Hadrian’s Wall — that successfully competed with that in France, and civilization throughout Europe grew and thrived.  All of that ended with the advent of the Little Ice Age, a period of time that brought much colder weather, crop failures, the burning of the witches and millions of deaths through the bubonic plague (a.k.a. the Black Death).

The Little Ice Age ended around 1850.  Climate alarmists, including the 15,000 or so meeting at the Copenhagen Climate-Jamboree, brand the slight warming we experienced from about 1850 to the end of the second millennium — with temperatures that are not even yet as high as those reached during the MWP, as something to be afraid of, harbingers of calamities that will bring about not only the end of civilization but the end of all life on Earth.

The climate alarmists, much like a surgeon calling for the amputation of an arm to cure a hangnail, call for futile measures that are far more drastic than the burning of the witches and so far brought nothing less than the doubling and tripling of food prices, spelling death for millions of the world’s poor at the edge of starvation. One third of arable land is now being used not to grow food for those who need it but to grow crops for bio-fuels for cars that don’t need bio-fuels.

Yet, the alarmism relating to the most recent global temperature rise, exaggerated as it is, is nothing but displaced, at best. Temperature trend hockey sticks abound throughout the long climate history of the world, with the current peak in the temperature trend being far from being the highest ever experienced during civilization’s relatively short history.  (See also climate histories in Greenland and in the Antarctic.)

With the current warm period being far from indicating anything special, it seems that the next ice age is just around the corner. Perhaps the arctic blast that will quite likely hit the Copenhagen Climate Jamboree this coming weekend will serve as a practical reminder of that.

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Baby, It’s Cold Outside

By Alan Caruba

One of the great ironies of the Climate Change Conference taking place in Copenhagen is that its focus is on “global warming” at a time when Planet Earth has been in a cooling cycle for the passed decade….(Full Story)

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December 3, 2009 by admin.

News from WeatherAction

WA News No 91 - 30th Nov 2009

WeatherAction releases free long range forecast for Copenhagen

Climate summit to be hit by blustery deluges, probably turning to snow or blizzards and icy blasts in the region at times - especially heavy when President Obama visits

Honest Greens called on to “Jump from the Titanic before you and what you stand for gets dragged down with it”….

(Full statement in WANews09No91 pdf)

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Note: Unsurpassed by any other weather-forecasting methods, the long-range forecasts by WeatherAction are on average 85% accurate.

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July 31, 2009 by admin.

By Dr. Roy Spencer

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Those who promote the theory that mankind is responsible for global warming have been working for the past 20 years on a revisionist climate history. A history where climate was always in a harmonious state of balance until mankind came along and upset that balance.

The natural climate cycle deniers have tried their best to eliminate the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age from climate data records by constructing the uncritically acclaimed and infamous “hockey stick” of global temperature variations (or non-variations) over the last one- to two-thousand years.

Before being largely discredited by a National Academies review panel, this ‘poster child’ for global warming was heralded as proof of the static nature of the climate system, and that only humans had the power to alter it….(Full Story)

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July 5, 2009 by admin.

World Climate Forecast

By Piers Corbyns

For the next 100 years

Issued on the 26th of June 2009

Piers Corbyns, of Weather Action, makes long range weather forecasts with exeptional accuracy.  He forecasts that global temperatures will drop untill about 2030 and then stay lower than current values, or recent values, for the next 100 years.

Piers Corbyns makes a presentation of his prediction that is accessible at YouTube.

The presentation concludes with: “General cooling until 2030, and staying generally cool — below current levels — for the following century.”

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June 22, 2009 by admin.

You may wish to bookmark the following link to help you to keep up-to-date on discussions of energy issues:

http://www.icecap.us/

Today, here are some of the articles that will probably interest you.Jun 21, 2009

The Wong-Fielding Meeting On Global WarmingBy David Evans on Joanne Nova’s blog

The article relates to a meeting between government officials and government-funded climate change alarmists on the one side, and reputable climate scientists in Australia who fall into the camp of the so-called climate-change “skeptics” on the other side.

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Jun 20, 2009 “World cooling has set in and it will stay colder for at least 100 years predicts scientist”

By Piers Corbyn, WeatherAction

Piers Corbyn is an astrophysicist-turned-weather-forecaster whose long-range weather forecasts - based on solar activity trends and their influence on Earth - are remarkably accurate.

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Jun 22, 2009 United States, Great Britain and Russia Climate Action In the News

Obama Gives Green Light to Canadian Oil Sands

Climatico, 21 June 2009

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Britain Green Suicide Note: 5,000 Pound Power

By Louise Barnett, Consumer Editor

That will be the combined costs of electricity and natural (or city-) gas by 2020.  Costs are projected to go up by as much as 42% a year.
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Jun 21, 2009 Appeal to Authority

By Norm Kalmanovitch

From the article:

See large image here.

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Jun 20, 2009 A Move to Put the Union Label on Solar Power Plants

By Todd Woody, New York Times Business

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June 13, 2009 by admin.

It is very odd that the mainstream media in North-America is not covering this critical issue, either in part or in detail.

Well, at least one major newspaper in the U.K. did; via a journalist who, as usual, writes objectively and realistically about the climate, its trends and consequences.

Telegraph.co.uk

June 13, 2009

Crops under stress as temperatures fall

Our politicians haven’t noticed that the problem may be that the world is not warming but cooling, observes Christopher Booker.

For the second time in little over a year, it looks as though the world may be heading for a serious food crisis, thanks to our old friend “climate change”. In many parts of the world recently the weather has not been too brilliant for farmers. After a fearsomely cold winter, June brought heavy snowfall across large parts of western Canada and the northern states of the American Midwest. In Manitoba last week, it was -4ºC. North Dakota had its first June snow for 60 years.

There was midsummer snow not just in Norway and the Cairngorms, but even in Saudi Arabia. At least in the southern hemisphere it is winter, but snowfalls in New Zealand and Australia have been abnormal. There have been frosts in Brazil, elsewhere in South America they have had prolonged droughts, while in China they have had to cope with abnormal rain and freak hailstorms, which in one province killed 20 people….(Full Story)

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June 12, 2009 by admin.

Weather data have been kept at local weather stations all over the world for quite some years.

There are some problems with those data.  The data for rural areas generally show no or insignificant warming trends over time, while some formerly rural stations are gradually being encroached upon by urbanization.  Many of those former rural stations and those that were all along in or near urban centres do show warming trends over the years.  There is such a thing as the Urban Heat Island effect, markedly elevated temperatures in any given urban location (even in small towns) as compared to surrounding rural locations.

Aside from that, one would expect that by inspecting historical weather data and the cries about the global warming crisis promoted by global warming alarmists, first and foremost by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), there should now be a good number of locations in the world that show definitive evidence of pronounced local warming.  It appears that such evidence of a global-warming “crisis” does not exist.

I just spent a few hours checking historical weather data for many locations throughout the world and cannot, for the life of me, detect any signs of problems at any locations.  Pronounced local warming trends at any of the many locations I checked are conspicuously absent.  If anything, there appears to be some cooling instead at many of the locations I looked at.

Give it a try.  Check http://www51.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weather+Edmonton

Substitute your location of choice for “Edmonton” in the preceding URL or in the web page that will be displayed when clicking on that URL. You will most likely be able to see historical weather data for your location or one near you.

Send a line if your location shows a definite warming trend over the years.

So far, I wonder.  The provincial Government of Alberta recently had to make severe budget cuts to various social programs, such as health care.  Still, it earmarked and kept reserved $2 billion for a program of carbon capture and sequestration, so as to help save the globe from going up in flames due to man-made global warming. Where is the fire?

Our elected officials are chasing after the wrong problem.  It is time to put someone interested in real problems into the driver seat.  Enough of the global-warming scam already.

Update 2009 06 13: The following article sheds more light on the futile attempts to influence climate trends through carbon capture and burial (a.k.a. carbon capture and sequestration).

“Carbon Capture and Burial – a Stupid Answer to a Silly Question.”

May 18th, 2009 by Warwick Hughes By Viv Forbes, Chairman of the Carbon Sense Coalition.

7th May 2009

The Carbon Sense Coalition today called on the Australian Federal Parliament to stop playing Global Warming politics and focus instead on the irresponsible damage being contemplated by the Cap-N-Tax promises.

In testimony this week to the New Zealand Parliamentary Enquiry into the ETS, the Chairman of Carbon Sense, Mr Viv Forbes, said that it was impossible to achieve the gigantic cuts in carbon dioxide emissions suggested by various western governments without a crash program of Carbon Capture and Burial (CCB). He expanded on those comments today (quote): (Full Story)

What comes to mind is Sir Christopher Monckton of Brenchley’s admonition, which calls the alarmist climate hype “the most lavishly-funded propaganda campaign by the classe politique since Goebbels tried to make Nazism look good,” and states:

If you wish to raise excessive revenue, be honest about it. Say that you intend to tax and tax and tax again. But desist from claiming that you are raising the revenue with the aim of preventing “climate crisis”.

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