RSS His Excellency Ban Ki Moon
Secretary-General, United Nations
New York, NY
United States of America
8 December 2009
Dear Secretary-General,
Climate change science is in a period of ‘negative discovery’ – the more we learn about this exceptionally complex and rapidly evolving field the more we realize how little we know. Truly, the science is NOT settled.
Therefore, there is no sound [...]
A commentary in the journal Nature (12/02/09) concludes with the following paragraph:
“When scientists are silenced by colleagues,
administrators, editors and funders who think
that simply asking certain questions is inappropriate,
the process begins to resemble religion
rather than science. Under such a regime, we
risk losing a generation of desperately needed
research.”
Unfortunately, it apparently is only meant to apply to scientific [...]
Roger Pielke Sr has an interesting post on his Climate Science blog entitled, ‘Protecting The IPCC Turf – There Are No Independent Climate Assessments Of The IPCC WG1 Report Funded And Sanctioned By The NSF, NASA Or The NRC.’
Do read it all, but Pielke Sr concludes:
As it stands now, there are no independent climate assessments [...]
Over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe challenged man-made global warming claims made by the United Nations Intergovernemntal Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice President Al Gore. This new 231-page U.S. Senate Minority Report report — updated from 2007’s groundbreaking report of over 400 scientists who voiced skepticism about the so-called global [...]
According to The Guardian, IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri has stated that the IPCC will not be influenced by new research. In a remarkable response to leading climate alarmist James Hansen’s claim that the lPCC AR4 report is two years out of date, Pachauri is reported to have said that this is “not a valid position.” [...]
The two papers we had submitted to Geophysical Research Letters have both been rejected, with instructions to not resubmit either one. The first paper showed how none of 18 IPCC climate models, in over 1,000 years of global warming simulations, ever exhibits the negative feedback we have measured from global satellite data.
The second paper revealed [...]
On November 3rd 2008, two technical papers that Dr Roy Spencer had recently submitted to the journal Geophysical Research Letters were outright rejected in back-to-back emails and on the same day all 78 reviews of his book ‘Climate Confusion’ on Amazon.com were removed from that website. Ironically, this coincides with the publication of his Journal [...]
A new paper has been published:
Spracklen, D.V., Bonn, B., Carslaw, K.S. (2008), Boreal Forests, Aerosols and the Impacts on Clouds and Climate, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 366, doi:10.1098/rsta.2008.0201.
The Abstract states:
Previous studies have concluded that boreal forests warm the climate because the cooling from storage of carbon in vegetation and soils is cancelled [...]
A new paper published in Nature Geoscience is being touted as ‘proof,’ by some sections of the media, that polar warming is being caused by humans. For a change, the BBC was a little more conservative about the claims in its reporting, if not the headline, stating that the study “suggests for the first time [...]
Another new study has been published that fails to support alarmism about hurricane activity and ‘global warming.’ The ‘in press’ paper is entitled: ‘Multi-decadal variability of Atlantic hurricane activity: 1851-2007,’ by Petr Chylek and Glen Lesins, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres (doi:10.1029/2008JD010036) (2008).
The Abstract states:
An analysis of Atlantic hurricane data (HURDAT), using a hurricane activity index that integrates [...]
New Booker Book: The Real Global Warming Disaster
Christopher Booker has a new book out entitled: The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is The Obsession With `Climate Change` Turning Out To Be The Most Costly Scientific Blunder In History?
Available from Amazon UK here:
More from Booker himself here. (1)
Why the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are Not Collapsing
Read the AIG News paper here. (1)
Global Warming Ate My Data
We’ve lost the numbers: CRU responds to FOIA requests.
The Register (3)
Climate Depot's Arctic Fact Sheet
Climate Depot Arctic Fact Sheet (for additional updates on the Arctic see new articles tagged Arctic) (0)
