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April 14, 2010 10:07 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

IPCC AR4 Gets an 'F'

Posted By Dave Snope

PEER-REVIEWED LITERATURE CLAIM
The chairman of the IPCC has declared repeatedly that the report is based solely on peer-reviewed literature. (This means research papers that have been submitted to an academic journal, scrutinized by anonymous referees, and frequently altered in order to qualify for publication. Although the peer-review process does not guarantee accuracy, the fact that research findings have undergone this process promotes a feeling of confidence.)

This Citizen Audit focused its attention on the peer-reviewed literature claim. A team of 43 volunteers from 12 countries examined the list of references at the end of each chapter. We sorted these references into two groups - articles published in peer-reviewed academic journals and other references. (Non-peer-reviewed material is often called "grey literature".) Then we calculated the percentage of references that do, indeed, appear to be peer-reviewed.

In elementary schools in the United States, students are assigned grades ranging from an A to an F, based on the mark they've achieved out of 100 (see Wikipedia's table here). Most parents would be alarmed if their child brought home a report card similar to the one received by the IPCC.

21 out of 44 chapters contain so few peer-reviewed references that the IPCC received an F. The IPCC relied on peer-reviewed literature less than 60 percent of the time in these chapters.

5,587 references in the IPCC report were not peer-reviewed. Among these documents are press releases, newspaper and magazine articles, discussion papers, MA and PhD theses, working papers, and advocacy literature published by environmental groups.

http://www.noconsensus.org/ipcc-audit/findings-main-page.php

April 19, 2010 07:51 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Astrophysicist Speaks On Global Warming

Posted By Dave Snope

Astrophysicist and solar researcher Hilton Ratcliffe speaks on AGW and Gore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FZZxzB9-Qg&feature=player_embedded#!

May 10, 2010 05:10 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Billionairre Saves Planet

Posted By Dave Snope

This one was too priceless to pass up. Fertilizer, indeed! Hollywood meals to go, no less. Did the useful idiots fly them home? How unsustainable is that???


May 9th, 2010 - 4:23 pm ICT by ANI -

London, May 09 (ANI): Indian billionaire Radhika Oswal is set to open the world’s first restaurant that offers a menu aimed at saving the planet from climate change.

Otarian Restaurant, which will open in London next month, will have carbon footprint published, in the veg menu, alongside the price and carbon cost of the meat equivalent.

However, many feel it is a gimmick, since Oswal family’s business interests include Burrup Fertlisers, which produces liquid ammonium, a pollutant which is used as a base ingredient for the production of fertilisers and explosives.

“Highlighting the climate change impact of our unsustainable diet, especially meat eating, is laudable,” the Independent quoted Dan Welch, co-editor of Ethical Consumer magazine, as saying.

“But there’s a deep irony in the link to Burrup, one of the world’s major manufacturers of the feedstock of chemical fertilisers,” Welch added.

However, Radhika insists it is a positive effort.

She said: “It doesn’t mean that if you are doing something good that all parts of you have got to be good. I believe the world needs fertilisers to feed the population there is today.”

New York, April 16 (ANI): Indian-origin American billionaire Radhika Oswal marked the opening of her new vegetarian restaurant by throwing a grand party to a star-studded guest line-up.

The inauguration of the all-green eatery, Otarian, saw Oswal and “30 Rock” star Judah Friedlander munching on veg burgers, reports the New York Daily News.

Former “Ugly Betty” co-stars Mark Indelicato and Vanessa Williams also attended the bash, but opted to get their meals to go.

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/indian-billionaire-to-open-save-the-planet-restaurant-in-uk_100360979.html

May 13, 2010 12:51 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Mongolian Humanitarian Crisis

Posted By Dave Snope

As congress prepares to pass a global warming bill that will further stifle our jobs and economy, the Mongolians are facing a humanitarian crisis after suffering through their worst winter in 50 years.

Nearly 20 percent of Mongolia’s livestock has died as a result of one of the worst winters in 50 years, and the figure could double by the end of the year unless some $18 million in humanitarian funding is met, the United Nations said Wednesday.

“We are looking at a very serious loss of livelihood for the population,” Rana Flowers, a representative of the U.N. Children’s Fund in Mongolia who is also coordinating U.N. assistance in the country briefed reporters while in Geneva.

At least 8.1 million out of Mongolia’s 44 million cattle have perished this winter due to the extreme weather, locally known as a “Dzud”.

The phenomenon is characterized by dry summers followed by long, cold and snowy winters. Its impact on livestock is longer, as the following summer will be too short for the livestock to regain its strength before the next winter.

Rana said that one-third of Mongolia’s population, or nearly 180,000 households, are dependent on herding for their livelihoods.

So far, the United Nations estimates that 30,000 households have seen at least half of their livestock perish, and a further 9,000 families lost all of their animals.

May 14, 2010 07:48 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Burt Rutan Weighs on on CAGW

Posted By Dave Snope


An Engineer's Critique of Global Warming Science

http://rps3.com/Files/AGW/EngrCritique.AGW.Science.3.pdf

May 22, 2010 10:48 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

German Scientists Sign AGW Letter to Merkel

Posted By Dave Snope

77 scientists wrote a letter to Angela Merkel. The list of signatures continues to grow. Key statements are:

A real comprehensive study, whose value would have been absolutely essential, would have shown, even before
the IPCC was founded, that humans have had no measurable effect on global warming through CO2 emissions...

there's a growing body of evidence showing anthropogenic CO2 plays no measurable role. Indeed
CO2's capability to absorb radiation is almost exhausted by today's atmospheric concentrations. If CO2 did
indeed have an effect and all fossil fuels were burned, then additional warming over the long term would in fact
remain limited to only a few tenths of a degree.

The IPCC had to have been aware of this fact, but completely ignored it during its studies of 160 years of temperature
measurements and 150 years of determined CO2 levels. As a result the IPCC has lost its scientific credibility.

...
In the meantime, the belief of climate change, and that it is manmade, has become a pseudo-religion. Its proponents,
without thought, pillory independent and fact-based analysts and experts, many of whom are the best and
brightest of the international scientific community. Fortunately in the internet it is possible to find numerous scientific
works that show in detail there is no anthropogenic CO2 caused climate change. If it was not for the internet,
climate realists would hardly be able to make their voices heard. Rarely do their critical views get published.



German letter with over 300 signatures:
http://www.eike-klima-energie.eu/news-anzeige/klimawandel-offener-brief-an-kanzlerin-merkel-temperaturmessungen-ab-1701-widerlegen-anthropogen-verursachte-temperaturschwankungen/

English translation
http://www.eike-klima-energie.eu/uploads/media/Merkelbrief_Englisch_-1.pdf

May 23, 2010 04:09 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Greenland Ice Sheet Grows 60cm Thicker

Posted By Dave Snope

That is a 60cm INCREASE in thickness over 11 years. And they point out that the only areas losing ice are coastal areas, and that is due to normal ocean warm oscillation cycles. But since the coastal phenomenon is all you will read about in the major newspapers and hear about on the major networks, most of the world will remain uninformed.

Averaged over the study area, the increase is 5.4 T 0.2 cm/year, or
È60 cm over 11 years, or È54 cm when corrected for isostatic uplift.


http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~wsoon/MattCronin-Mar21-07-d/Johannessenetal05-GreenlandIceFinal.pdf

May 23, 2010 08:15 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Barbarians At The Gates

Posted By Dave Snope

Aaaah, the sophisticated scientific professionals that brought us CAGW have had their efforts documented in list form.

I'm sure that the list could be much longer if you included all the "lesser" university researchers who borrow bad data as foundation for their studies, or who simply write opinion pieces and pass it off as science and manage to get it published in sympathetic journals. Nevertheless, for you amusement is a list of climate -gates compiled at P Gosselin.


Anyway, that said, here's my abridged list of gates in climate science for your future reference. There's something there for everyone! We now got:

1. Africa-gate
2. AIT-gate
3. Amazon-gate
4. Antarctic sea-gate
5. Bangladesh-gate
6. Boot-cleaning manual-gate
7. China-gate and here
8. Climate Camp-gate
9. Climate-gate
10. CRU data deletion-gate
11. Dog-ate it-gate
12. Discernable influence-gate
13. Drought-gate
14. Five-star WWF-gate
15. Finland-gate
16. Flooded house-gate
17. FOI-gate
18. Fungus-gate
19. Gatekeeping-gate
20. GISS Metar-gate
21. Gore private jet-gate
22. Greenpeace-gate
23. Hansen 1930s hot-gate
24. Hansen stagecraft-gate
25. Himalayas-gate
26. Hockey-stick-gate and here and here WCR
27. Hollywood hypocrites-gate and Dave Matthews
28. Hurricane-gate
29. Jesus Paper-gate
30. Kilimanjaro-gate
31. Malaria-gate
32. Mega-mansion-gate
33. Met Office computer-gate
34. NASA/NCDC bad data-gate and here
35. New Zealand-gate
36. NOAA adjustment-gate and here, and here
37. NOAA/GISS data selection-gate and here
38. NYT alarmism-gate and here
39. Overpeck get rid of MWP-gate
40. Oxbourgh-gate and here (bishop hill)
41. Pachauri-gate and here
42. Peer-review-gate 1
43. Peer-review-gate 2
44. Polar bear-gate and here
45. Porn(soft)-gate
46. Rahmstorf-gate
47. Revelle-gate
48. Russia-gate
49. Solar-gate
50. Sting-gate
51. Student dissertation-gate
52. Surface stations-gate and here
53. Toad-gate
54. UNEP-gate
55. UN natural disasters-gate
56. Ursus-gate
57. Yamal-gate

NEW GATES COMING IN!
1. EPA-gate h/t Climate Depot
2. Meat-gate h/t Catalina
3. Spain solar-gate


Each -gate is linked to an article at http://pgosselin.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/gate-blowup-come-on-in-gate-lovers/

May 24, 2010 02:00 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Another List

Posted By Dave Snope

A complete list of things caused by global warming

Acne, agricultural land increase, Afghan poppies destroyed, African holocaust, aged deaths, poppies more potent, Africa devastated, Africa in conflict, African aid threatened, African summer frost, aggressive weeds, Air France crash, air pressure changes, airport farewells virtual, airport malaria, Agulhas current, Alaskan towns slowly destroyed, Al Qaeda and Taliban Being Helped, allergy increase, allergy season longer, alligators in the Thames, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream end, amphibians breeding earlier (or not), anaphylactic reactions to bee stings, ancient forests dramatically changed, animals head for the hills, animals shrink, Antarctic grass flourishes, Antarctic ice grows, Antarctic ice shrinks, Antarctic sea life at risk, anxiety treatment, algal blooms, archaeological sites threatened, Arctic bogs melt, Arctic in bloom, Arctic ice free, Arctic ice melt faster, Arctic lakes disappear, Arctic tundra lost, Arctic warming (not), a rose by any other name smells of nothing, asteroid strike risk, asthma, Atlantic less salty, Atlantic more salty, atmospheric circulation modified, attack of the killer jellyfish, avalanches reduced, avalanches increased, Baghdad snow, Bahrain under water, bananas grow, barbarisation, bats decline, beer and bread prices to soar, beer better, beer worse, beetle infestation, bet for $10,000, big melt faster, billion dollar research projects, billion homeless, billions face risk, billions of deaths, bird distributions change, bird loss accelerating, bird strikes, bird visitors drop, birds confused, birds decline (Wales), birds driven north, birds face longer migrations, birds return early, birds shrink(Aus), birds shrink (USA), bittern boom ends, blackbirds stop singing, blackbirds threatened, Black Hawk down, blizzards, blood contaminated, blue mussels return, borders redrawn, bluetongue, brain eating amoebae, brains shrink, bridge collapse (Minneapolis), Britain one big city, Britain Siberian, Britain's bananas, British monsoon, brothels struggle, brown Ireland, bubonic plague, Buddhist temple threatened, building collapse, building season extension, bushfires, butterflies move north, butterflies reeling, carbon crimes, camel deaths, cancer deaths in England, cannibalism, caterpillar biomass shift, cave paintings threatened, childhood insomnia, Cholera, circumcision in decline, cirrus disappearance, civil unrest, cloud increase, coast beauty spots lost, cockroach migration, cod go south, coffee threatened, coffee berry borer, coffee berry disease, cold climate creatures survive, cold spells (Australia), cold wave (India), cold weather (world), computer models, conferences, conflict, conflict with Russia, consumers foot the bill, coral bleaching, coral fish suffer, coral reefs dying, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink, coral reefs twilight, cost of trillions, cougar attacks, crabgrass menace, cradle of civilisation threatened, creatures move uphill, crime increase, crocodile sex, crops devastated, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, curriculum change, cyclones (Australia), danger to kid's health, Dartford Warbler plague, deadly virus outbreaks, death rate increase (US), deaths to reach 6 million, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, depression, desert advance, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, dig sites threatened, disasters, diseases move north, dog disease, dozen deadly diseases - or not, drought, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, earlier pollen season, Earth axis tilt, Earth biodiversity crisis, Earth dying, Earth even hotter, Earth light dimming, Earth lopsided, Earth melting, Earth morbid fever, Earth on fast track, Earth past point of no return, Earth slowing down, Earth spins faster, Earth to explode, earth upside down, earthquakes, earthquakes redux, El Niño intensification, end of the world as we know it, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis, English villages lost, equality threatened, Europe simultaneously baking and freezing, eutrophication, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (human, civilisation, koalas, logic, Inuit, smallest butterfly, cod, penguins, pikas, polar bears, possums, walrus, tigers, toads, turtles, plants, ladybirds, rhinoceros, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, a million species, half of all animal and plant species, mountain species, not polar bears, barrier reef, leaches, salamanders, tropical insects) experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, fading fall foliage, fainting, famine, farmers benefit, farmers go under, farm output boost, farming soil decline, fashion disaster, fever, figurehead sacked, fir cone bonanza, fires fanned in Nepal, fish bigger, fish catches drop, fish downsize, fish deaf, fish get lost, fish head north, fish shrinking, fish stocks at risk, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, flesh eating disease, flies on Everest, flood patterns change, floods, floods of beaches and cities, flood of migrants, flood preparation for crisis, flora dispersed, Florida economic decline, flowers in peril, fog increase in San Francisco, fog decrease in San Francisco, food poisoning, food prices rise, food prices soar, food security threat (SA), football team migration, forest decline, forest expansion, foundations threatened, frog with extra heads, frosts, frostbite, frost damage increased, fungi fruitful, fungi invasion, games change, Garden of Eden wilts, geese decline in Hampshire, genetic changes, genetic diversity decline, gene pools slashed, geysers imperiled, giant icebergs (Australia), giant oysters invade, giant pythons invade, giant squid migrate, gingerbread houses collapse, glacial earthquakes, glacial retreat, glacier grows (California), glaciers on Snowden, glacier wrapped, global cooling, glowing clouds, golf course to drown, golf Masters wrecked, grain output drop (China), grain output stagnating (India), grandstanding, grasslands wetter, gravity shift, Great Barrier Reef 95% dead, Great Lakes drop, great tits cope, greening of the North, Grey whales lose weight, Gulf Stream failure, habitat loss, haggis threatened, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, health affected, health of children harmed, health risks, health risks (even more), heart disease, heart attacks and strokes (Australia), heat waves, hedgehogs bald, hibernation affected, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, homeless 50 million, hornets, human development faces unprecedented reversal, human fertility reduced, human health risk, human race oblivion, hurricanes, hurricane reduction, hurricanes fewer, hurricanes more intense, hurricanes not, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice age, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, icebergs, illness and death, inclement weather, India drowning, infrastructure failure (Canada), indigestion, industry threatened, infectious diseases, inflation in China, insect explosion, insect invasion, insurance premium rises, Inuit displacement, Inuit poisoned, Inuit suing, invasion of alien worms, invasion of Antarctic aliens, invasion of Asian carp, invasion of cats, invasion of crabgrass, invasion of herons, invasion of jellyfish, invasion of king crabs, invasion of lampreys, invasion of midges, invasion of slugs, island disappears, islands sinking, Italy robbed of pasta, itchier poison ivy, Japan's cherry blossom threatened, jellyfish explosion, jet stream drifts north, jets fall from sky, Kew Gardens taxed, kidney stones, killer cornflakes, killing us, kitten boom, koalas under threat, krill decline, lake and stream productivity decline, lake empties, lake shrinking and growing, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, large trees decline, lawsuits increase, lawsuit successful, lawyers' income increased (surprise surprise!), lawyers want more, legionnaires' surge, lives lost, lives saved, Loch Ness monster dead, locust plagues suppressed, low oxygen zones threaten sea life, lush growth in rain forests, Lyme disease, Malaria, malnutrition, mammoth dung melt, mango harvest fails, Maple production advanced, Maple syrup shortage, marine diseases, marine food chain decimated, Meaching (end of the world), Meat eating to stop, Mediterranean rises, megacryometeors, Melanoma, Melanoma decline, mental illness, methane emissions from plants, methane burps, methane runaway, melting permafrost, Middle Kingdom convulses, migration, migratory birds huge losses, microbes to decompose soil carbon more rapidly, minorities hit, monkeys at risk, monkeys on the move, Mont Blanc grows, monuments imperiled, moose dying, more bad air days, more research needed, mortality increased, mosquitoes adapting, mountain (Everest) shrinking, mountaineers fears, mountains break up, mountains green and flowering, mountains taller, mortality lower, murder rate increase, musk ox decline, Myanmar cyclone, narwhals at risk, National Parks damaged, National security implications, native wildlife overwhelmed, natural disasters quadruple, new islands, next ice age, NFL threatened, Nile delta damaged, noctilucent clouds, no effect in India, Northwest Passage opened, nuclear plants bloom, oaks dying, oaks move north, oblivion, ocean acidification, ocean acidification faster, ocean dead spots, ocean dead zones unleashed, ocean deserts expand, ocean salt extremes, ocean waves speed up, Olympic Games to end, opera house to be destroyed, outdoor hockey threatened, oxygen depletion zones, ozone repair slowed, ozone rise, penguin chicks frozen, penguin chicks smaller, penguins replaced by jellyfish, personal carbon rationing, pest outbreaks, pests increase, phenology shifts, pines decline, pirate population decrease, plankton blooms, plankton wiped out, plants lose protein, plants march north, plants move uphill, polar bears aggressive, polar bears cannibalistic, polar bears deaf, polar bears drowning, polar tours scrapped, popcorn rise, porpoise astray, profits collapse, psychiatric illness, puffin decline, pushes poor women into prostitution, rabid bats, radars taken out, railroad tracks deformed, rainfall increase, rape wave, refugees, reindeer endangered, reindeer larger, release of ancient frozen viruses, resorts disappear, rice threatened, rice yields crash, rift on Capitol Hill, rioting and nuclear war, river flow impacted, rivers raised, road accidents, roads wear out, robins rampant, rocky peaks crack apart, roof of the world a desert, rooftop bars, Ross river disease, ruins ruined, Russia under pressure, salinity reduction, salinity increase, Salmonella, salmon stronger, satellites accelerate, school closures, sea level rise, sea level rise faster, seals mating more, seismic activity, sewer bills rise, severe thunderstorms, sex change, sexual disfunction, sexual promiscuity, shark attacks, sharks booming, sharks moving north, sheep change colour, sheep shrink, shop closures, short-nosed dogs endangered, shrimp sex problems, shrinking ponds, shrinking sheep, shrinking shrine, Sidney Opera House wiped out, ski resorts threatened, slavery, slow death, smaller brains, smelt down, smog, snowfall decrease, snowfall increase, snowfall heavy, snow thicker, soaring food prices, societal collapse, soil change, songbirds change eating habits, sour grapes, space problem, spectacular orchids, spiders getting bigger, spiders invade Scotland, squid larger, squid population explosion, squid tamed, squirrels reproduce earlier, stingray invasion, storms wetter, stratospheric cooling, street crime to increase, subsidence, suicide, swordfish in the Baltic, Tabasco tragedy, taxes, tectonic plate movement, terrorists (India), thatched cottages at risk, threat to peace, ticks move northward (Sweden), tides rise, tigers eat people, tomatoes rot, tornado outbreak, tourism increase, toxic seaweed, trade barriers, trade winds weakened, traffic jams, transportation threatened, tree foliage increase (UK), tree growth slowed, tree growth faster, trees in trouble, trees less colourful, trees more colourful, trees lush, trees on Antarctica, treelines change, tropics expansion, tropopause raised, truffle shortage, truffles down, turtles crash, turtle feminised, turtles lay earlier, UFO sightings, UK coastal impact, UK Katrina, Vampire moths, Venice flooded, violin decline, volcanic eruptions, volcanoes awakened in Iceland, walrus pups orphaned, walrus stampede, wars over water, wars sparked, wars threaten billions, wasps, water bills double, water scarcity (20% of increase), water shortage to increase vegetarianism, wave of natural disasters, waves bigger, weather out of its mind, weather patterns awry, weather patterns last longer, Western aid cancelled out, West Nile fever, whale beachings, whales lose weight, whales move north, whales wiped out, wheat yields crushed in Australia, wildfires, wind shift, wind reduced, winds stronger, winds weaker, wine - Australian baked, wine - harm to Australian industry, wine industry damage (California), wine industry disaster (US), wine - more English, wine - England too hot, wine -German boon, wine - no more French , wine passé (Napa), wine - Scotland best, wine stronger, winters in Britain colder, winter in Britain dead, witchcraft executions, wolverine decline, wolves eat more moose, wolves eat less, workers laid off, World at war, World War 4, World bankruptcy, World-famous places threatened, World in crisis, World in flames, Yellow fever, zebra mussel threat, zoonotic diseases.

and all on 0.006 deg C per year!

http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm

May 27, 2010 06:36 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

CEI Files Suit Against NASA GISS

Posted By Dave Snope

This morning in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the Competitive Enterprise Institute is filing suit against NASA, calling the erstwhile space agency to account for its nearly three-year stonewall of access to internal documents exposing an abuse of taxpayer funds to advance the global warming agenda.
Gavin Schmidt

Along the way to this point, we have begun revealing how NASA is running a third-party advocacy website out of NASA facilities, at taxpayer expense, to assail “skeptics” and promote the highly suspect basis for a specific policy agenda.

This campaign also helped to elevate the particular fiefdom in question (James Hansen’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, or GISS) in terms of budget and stature. It has also elevated the scientists involved, professionally, at the expense of the taxpayer they are working to stick with the biggest economic intervention in our history


H/T WUWT