The Man-made Global Warming Hoax


What is true here? That we are introducing carbon that was dormant and now is participating in the biosphere is a fact! The long term affect of this is not known but is believed. Should one worry? An interesting question.

Are we going to get(or are getting)a new religion?:eusa_whistle:

"Dormant carbon"? WTF?

displacing would be a better term, displacing it from miles beneath the surface of the earth to our atmosphere

no one can explain the reason we're warming this rapidly, but "IF" CO2 is playing a part...

ya thousands of years ago CO2 lagged hundreds of years behind warming, which is backwards of what's happening, global weather weirding...

common sense and sustainability...

dude, you never, ever believed in agw, don't try to kid yourself, lame debate angle
 
no one can explain the reason we're warming this rapidly, but "IF" CO2 is playing a part...

ya thousands of years ago CO2 lagged hundreds of years behind warming, which is backwards of what's happening, global weather weirding...
And IF worms had machine guns, birds wouldn't fuck with them.

If CO2 levels didn't cause the warming over all those centuries, then it's safe to say that they're not the cause today.

dude, you never, ever believed in agw, don't try to kid yourself, lame debate angle
You know nothing about me, jibber.
 
Scientists using FUNDAMENTAL science, data, observation, logic, etc., come to a startlingly OBVIOUS and actually non-debatable conclusion.

Carbon dioxide in the air has historically had no observable correlation with global warming.

The basic premise of the AGW alarmists is revealed rapidly, starkly and irrefutably to be nothing more than dishonest propaganda. The very foundational premise of their quasi-religion is absolutely false.

:clap2:

Real, real stupid. Since that is exactly opposite to what scientists state. You are either a liar or damned stupid.

The Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect


Your post is the lie and you know it.

MANY REAL scientists actually disagree. And the REASON many real scientists disagree is because the "science" to support the AGW crap is itself pure crap.

By the way, "scientific concensus" is an oxyfuckinmoron. Science is not determined by a fucking vote, dipstick.
 
Scientists and even some Government employees suffer a penalty for speaking out against the science of Global-Warmng.

I remember back in 2004, a fellow named James Hansen spoke before a House or Senate Committee(s) (probably both) and even though at that moment in time he had made 1,400 speeches on the subject, warning of it’s imminent consequences, he took the time to charge the Bush Administration with trying to censor him and his free speech. He said The Administration was “fiddling” with the science. He was making these public appearances on government time while working for NASA. To accomplish his amazing record of speech giving he had to have made multiple speeches daily; all this while working for President Bush, and then claiming censorship. You will probably remember the Democrats in Congress had a lot of fun with this at the time.

The administration was pushed back with the help of the MSM, giving the Democrats a talking point, one the Obama team later picked up. So the Obama Administration, soon after taking office sent out a memo to agencies demanding a “new transparence in government and science” The EPA policy would be to “ensure EPA's efforts to address the environmental crises of today are rooted in three fundamental values: science-based policies and program, adherence to the rule of law, and overwhelming transparency." If you didn’t notice Obama took another over the shoulder shot at Bush, saying the “days of science taking a backseat to ideology are over”

So now comes a 35 year veteran of the EPA’s National Center for Environmental Economics, speaking up when the EPA prepared to approach the global warming in a new way, by finding that carbon is a pollutant, and thereby claiming the authority to regulate it,

This veteran, a physicist and economist named Alan Carlin and a colleague presented an analysis arguing the agency should take another look, saying that the science behind man-made global warming is inconclusive at best. Their analysis noted that global temperatures were on a downward trend, pointing out some problems with climate models. In their analysis they referred to new research that contradicts the worse scenarios. They said in their report that “Our concerns and reservations are sufficiently important to warrant a serious review of the science by EPA".

He soon got an email from his boss, telling him not to have "any direct communication" with anyone outside of his office with regard to his analysis. When he tried again to disseminate it, his boss informed him: "The administrator and the administration have decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision. . . . I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office." In another email he said "With the endangerment finding nearly final, you need to move on to other issues and subjects. I don't want you to spend any additional EPA time on climate change. No papers, no research etc, at least until we see what EPA is going to do with Climate."

The EPA is required to make public agency documents that pertain too the decision to allow public comment. Past Court rulings say rulemaking records must include “both the evidence relied on, and the evidence discarded” By refusing to allow Mr. Carlin’s study to be circulated, the EPA hid it from the record and from public view.

So much for the administrations highly touted standards of “science-based policies and program, adherence to the rule of law, and overwhelming transparency”
 
Any "consensus" is nothing but politics, it's not scientific, it's not even close to science, it's popularity and politics and nothing more.
 
no one can explain the reason we're warming this rapidly, but "IF" CO2 is playing a part...

ya thousands of years ago CO2 lagged hundreds of years behind warming, which is backwards of what's happening, global weather weirding...
And IF worms had machine guns, birds wouldn't fuck with them.

If CO2 levels didn't cause the warming over all those centuries, then it's safe to say that they're not the cause today.

dude, you never, ever believed in agw, don't try to kid yourself, lame debate angle
You know nothing about me, jibber.

Putting some one elses picture in your avatar says enough.
 
no one can explain the reason we're warming this rapidly, but "IF" CO2 is playing a part...

ya thousands of years ago CO2 lagged hundreds of years behind warming, which is backwards of what's happening, global weather weirding...
And IF worms had machine guns, birds wouldn't fuck with them.

If CO2 levels didn't cause the warming over all those centuries, then it's safe to say that they're not the cause today.

dude, you never, ever believed in agw, don't try to kid yourself, lame debate angle
You know nothing about me, jibber.

Putting some one elses picture in your avatar says enough.

Lame .... as usual.

So you believe that humans are influencing the global temperatures ... does it suck being stupid or naive?
 
What is true here? That we are introducing carbon that was dormant and now is participating in the biosphere is a fact! The long term affect of this is not known but is believed. Should one worry? An interesting question.

Are we going to get(or are getting)a new religion?:eusa_whistle:

"Dormant carbon"? WTF?

displacing would be a better term, displacing it from miles beneath the surface of the earth to our atmosphere

no one can explain the reason we're warming this rapidly, but "IF" CO2 is playing a part...

ya thousands of years ago CO2 lagged hundreds of years behind warming, which is backwards of what's happening, global weather weirding...

common sense and sustainability...

dude, you never, ever believed in agw, don't try to kid yourself, lame debate angle

I prefer dormant. In the past this carbon participated in the biosphere and was precipitated in the forms of coal and oil as the biosphere transformed itself. Now it is being rapidly reintroduced by the activities of Man.

The view we have of the past is assumed to be as the pressure and temperature we experience today. We in fact know little(nothing) about the past pressure and temperature systems that have evolved into our present system. That's the concern.
 
My, my, another infestation by the ignorant and stupid. Just because every Scientific Society, every Academy of Science, and every major University in the world states that global warming is happening, the primary cause is the burning of fossil fuels, and that there is a clear and present danger, is nothing to worry about, right? Dang, you fools get denser every day!

Please get off the partisan soapbox.

Tens of thousands of scientists claim that global warming is man made while tens of thousand of scientists claim that man has no bearing on the global climate change.

Would you like a link to a list of 30,000 scientists, with images of the petitions they signed, who do not believe that it is man made?

Global Warming Petition Project

Its very arrogant for any of us to claim to know what the difinitive truth is. If you are a climatologist then I will give you credit for your position, if your not then you shouldn't be claiming to know whats what. I dont claim to know if its real or not, i just say we should reduce pollution because it sucks and reduce using oil because we buy it from foreign nations exporting our wealth.

Geez, are you really this ignorant? Here is the source of that worthless peice of shit;
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine - SourceWatch


In addition to the bulk mailing, OISM's website enables people to add their names to the petition over the Internet, and by June 2000 it claimed to have recruited more than 19,000 scientists. The institute is so lax about screening names, however, that virtually anyone can sign, including for example Al Caruba, a pesticide-industry PR man and conservative ideologue who runs his own website called the "National Anxiety Center." Caruba has no scientific credentials whatsoever, but in addition to signing the Oregon Petition he has editorialized on his own website against the science of global warming, calling it the "biggest hoax of the decade," a "genocidal" campaign by environmentalists who believe that "humanity must be destroyed to 'Save the Earth.' . . . There is no global warming, but there is a global political agenda, comparable to the failed Soviet Union experiment with Communism, being orchestrated by the United Nations, supported by its many Green NGOs, to impose international treaties of every description that would turn the institution into a global government, superceding the sovereignty of every nation in the world."

When questioned in 1998, OISM's Arthur Robinson admitted that only 2,100 signers of the Oregon Petition had identified themselves as physicists, geophysicists, climatologists, or meteorologists, "and of those the greatest number are physicists." This grouping of fields concealed the fact that only a few dozen, at most, of the signatories were drawn from the core disciplines of climate science - such as meteorology, oceanography, and glaciology - and almost none were climate specialists. The names of the signers are available on the OISM's website, but without listing any institutional affiliations or even city of residence, making it very difficult to determine their credentials or even whether they exist at all. When the Oregon Petition first circulated, in fact, environmental activists successfully added the names of several fictional characters and celebrities to the list, including John Grisham, Michael J. Fox, Drs. Frank Burns, B. J. Honeycutt, and Benjamin Pierce (from the TV show M*A*S*H), an individual by the name of "Dr. Red Wine," and Geraldine Halliwell, formerly known as pop singer Ginger Spice of the Spice Girls. Halliwell's field of scientific specialization was listed as "biology." Even in 2003, the list was loaded with misspellings, duplications, name and title fragments, and names of non-persons, such as company names. The current web page of the petition itself states "31,478 American scientists have signed this petition, including 9,029 with PhDs."[15]

OISM has refused to release info on the number of mailings it made. From comments in Nature:

"Virtually every scientist in every field got it," says Robert Park, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland at College Park and spokesman for the American Physical Society. "That's a big mailing." According to the National Science Foundation, there are more than half a million science or engineering PhDs in the United States, and ten million individuals with first degrees in science or engineering.
Arthur Robinson, president of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, the small, privately funded institute that circulated the petition, declines to say how many copies were sent out. "We're not willing to have our opponents attack us with that number, and say that the rest of the recipients are against us," he says, adding that the response was "outstanding" for a direct mail shot. [16]



Seriously we dont have difinitive proof either way so, like I said, why dont we try and reduce pollution/emissions anyway for other reasons such as a clean environment and national security.

If you think you have difinitive proof then re-read where i turned my previous post to red print.
 
Please get off the partisan soapbox.

Tens of thousands of scientists claim that global warming is man made while tens of thousand of scientists claim that man has no bearing on the global climate change.

Would you like a link to a list of 30,000 scientists, with images of the petitions they signed, who do not believe that it is man made?

Global Warming Petition Project

Its very arrogant for any of us to claim to know what the difinitive truth is. If you are a climatologist then I will give you credit for your position, if your not then you shouldn't be claiming to know whats what. I dont claim to know if its real or not, i just say we should reduce pollution because it sucks and reduce using oil because we buy it from foreign nations exporting our wealth.

Geez, are you really this ignorant? Here is the source of that worthless peice of shit;
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine - SourceWatch


In addition to the bulk mailing, OISM's website enables people to add their names to the petition over the Internet, and by June 2000 it claimed to have recruited more than 19,000 scientists. The institute is so lax about screening names, however, that virtually anyone can sign, including for example Al Caruba, a pesticide-industry PR man and conservative ideologue who runs his own website called the "National Anxiety Center." Caruba has no scientific credentials whatsoever, but in addition to signing the Oregon Petition he has editorialized on his own website against the science of global warming, calling it the "biggest hoax of the decade," a "genocidal" campaign by environmentalists who believe that "humanity must be destroyed to 'Save the Earth.' . . . There is no global warming, but there is a global political agenda, comparable to the failed Soviet Union experiment with Communism, being orchestrated by the United Nations, supported by its many Green NGOs, to impose international treaties of every description that would turn the institution into a global government, superceding the sovereignty of every nation in the world."

When questioned in 1998, OISM's Arthur Robinson admitted that only 2,100 signers of the Oregon Petition had identified themselves as physicists, geophysicists, climatologists, or meteorologists, "and of those the greatest number are physicists." This grouping of fields concealed the fact that only a few dozen, at most, of the signatories were drawn from the core disciplines of climate science - such as meteorology, oceanography, and glaciology - and almost none were climate specialists. The names of the signers are available on the OISM's website, but without listing any institutional affiliations or even city of residence, making it very difficult to determine their credentials or even whether they exist at all. When the Oregon Petition first circulated, in fact, environmental activists successfully added the names of several fictional characters and celebrities to the list, including John Grisham, Michael J. Fox, Drs. Frank Burns, B. J. Honeycutt, and Benjamin Pierce (from the TV show M*A*S*H), an individual by the name of "Dr. Red Wine," and Geraldine Halliwell, formerly known as pop singer Ginger Spice of the Spice Girls. Halliwell's field of scientific specialization was listed as "biology." Even in 2003, the list was loaded with misspellings, duplications, name and title fragments, and names of non-persons, such as company names. The current web page of the petition itself states "31,478 American scientists have signed this petition, including 9,029 with PhDs."[15]

OISM has refused to release info on the number of mailings it made. From comments in Nature:

"Virtually every scientist in every field got it," says Robert Park, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland at College Park and spokesman for the American Physical Society. "That's a big mailing." According to the National Science Foundation, there are more than half a million science or engineering PhDs in the United States, and ten million individuals with first degrees in science or engineering.
Arthur Robinson, president of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, the small, privately funded institute that circulated the petition, declines to say how many copies were sent out. "We're not willing to have our opponents attack us with that number, and say that the rest of the recipients are against us," he says, adding that the response was "outstanding" for a direct mail shot. [16]



Seriously we dont have difinitive proof either way so, like I said, why dont we try and reduce pollution/emissions anyway for other reasons such as a clean environment and national security.

If you think you have difinitive proof then re-read where i turned my previous post to red print.

Or ... we could use the money wasted on something we can't change and instead spend it on ... oh I don't know ... fixing the problems we CAN fix to keep our species alive in spite of the obvious changes nature has decided to go through? .... just a thought ... :eusa_whistle:
 
Scientists and even some Government employees suffer a penalty for speaking out against the science of Global-Warmng.

I remember back in 2004, a fellow named James Hansen spoke before a House or Senate Committee(s) (probably both) and even though at that moment in time he had made 1,400 speeches on the subject, warning of it’s imminent consequences, he took the time to charge the Bush Administration with trying to censor him and his free speech. He said The Administration was “fiddling” with the science. He was making these public appearances on government time while working for NASA. To accomplish his amazing record of speech giving he had to have made multiple speeches daily; all this while working for President Bush, and then claiming censorship. You will probably remember the Democrats in Congress had a lot of fun with this at the time.

The administration was pushed back with the help of the MSM, giving the Democrats a talking point, one the Obama team later picked up. So the Obama Administration, soon after taking office sent out a memo to agencies demanding a “new transparence in government and science” The EPA policy would be to “ensure EPA's efforts to address the environmental crises of today are rooted in three fundamental values: science-based policies and program, adherence to the rule of law, and overwhelming transparency." If you didn’t notice Obama took another over the shoulder shot at Bush, saying the “days of science taking a backseat to ideology are over”

So now comes a 35 year veteran of the EPA’s National Center for Environmental Economics, speaking up when the EPA prepared to approach the global warming in a new way, by finding that carbon is a pollutant, and thereby claiming the authority to regulate it,

This veteran, a physicist and economist named Alan Carlin and a colleague presented an analysis arguing the agency should take another look, saying that the science behind man-made global warming is inconclusive at best. Their analysis noted that global temperatures were on a downward trend, pointing out some problems with climate models. In their analysis they referred to new research that contradicts the worse scenarios. They said in their report that “Our concerns and reservations are sufficiently important to warrant a serious review of the science by EPA".

He soon got an email from his boss, telling him not to have "any direct communication" with anyone outside of his office with regard to his analysis. When he tried again to disseminate it, his boss informed him: "The administrator and the administration have decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision. . . . I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office." In another email he said "With the endangerment finding nearly final, you need to move on to other issues and subjects. I don't want you to spend any additional EPA time on climate change. No papers, no research etc, at least until we see what EPA is going to do with Climate."

The EPA is required to make public agency documents that pertain too the decision to allow public comment. Past Court rulings say rulemaking records must include “both the evidence relied on, and the evidence discarded” By refusing to allow Mr. Carlin’s study to be circulated, the EPA hid it from the record and from public view.

So much for the administrations highly touted standards of “science-based policies and program, adherence to the rule of law, and overwhelming transparency”

There was a strong attempt on the part of the Bush Administration to censor Dr. Hansen. That is a fact attested to by many sources.

James Hansen and Mark Bowen on Censored Science : NPR

OpEdNews » The late Clair Patterson, Dr. James Hansen and the Need for more Scientific Heroes across the Globe

Censoring Science: Inside The Political Attack On Dr. James Hansen And The Truth Of Global Warming | SEJ

Rewriting The Science - 60 Minutes - CBS News

NASA acknowledges case of censoring Jim Hansen communication (posting from Climate Science Watch)
 
Geez, are you really this ignorant? Here is the source of that worthless peice of shit;
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine - SourceWatch


In addition to the bulk mailing, OISM's website enables people to add their names to the petition over the Internet, and by June 2000 it claimed to have recruited more than 19,000 scientists. The institute is so lax about screening names, however, that virtually anyone can sign, including for example Al Caruba, a pesticide-industry PR man and conservative ideologue who runs his own website called the "National Anxiety Center." Caruba has no scientific credentials whatsoever, but in addition to signing the Oregon Petition he has editorialized on his own website against the science of global warming, calling it the "biggest hoax of the decade," a "genocidal" campaign by environmentalists who believe that "humanity must be destroyed to 'Save the Earth.' . . . There is no global warming, but there is a global political agenda, comparable to the failed Soviet Union experiment with Communism, being orchestrated by the United Nations, supported by its many Green NGOs, to impose international treaties of every description that would turn the institution into a global government, superceding the sovereignty of every nation in the world."

When questioned in 1998, OISM's Arthur Robinson admitted that only 2,100 signers of the Oregon Petition had identified themselves as physicists, geophysicists, climatologists, or meteorologists, "and of those the greatest number are physicists." This grouping of fields concealed the fact that only a few dozen, at most, of the signatories were drawn from the core disciplines of climate science - such as meteorology, oceanography, and glaciology - and almost none were climate specialists. The names of the signers are available on the OISM's website, but without listing any institutional affiliations or even city of residence, making it very difficult to determine their credentials or even whether they exist at all. When the Oregon Petition first circulated, in fact, environmental activists successfully added the names of several fictional characters and celebrities to the list, including John Grisham, Michael J. Fox, Drs. Frank Burns, B. J. Honeycutt, and Benjamin Pierce (from the TV show M*A*S*H), an individual by the name of "Dr. Red Wine," and Geraldine Halliwell, formerly known as pop singer Ginger Spice of the Spice Girls. Halliwell's field of scientific specialization was listed as "biology." Even in 2003, the list was loaded with misspellings, duplications, name and title fragments, and names of non-persons, such as company names. The current web page of the petition itself states "31,478 American scientists have signed this petition, including 9,029 with PhDs."[15]

OISM has refused to release info on the number of mailings it made. From comments in Nature:

"Virtually every scientist in every field got it," says Robert Park, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland at College Park and spokesman for the American Physical Society. "That's a big mailing." According to the National Science Foundation, there are more than half a million science or engineering PhDs in the United States, and ten million individuals with first degrees in science or engineering.
Arthur Robinson, president of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, the small, privately funded institute that circulated the petition, declines to say how many copies were sent out. "We're not willing to have our opponents attack us with that number, and say that the rest of the recipients are against us," he says, adding that the response was "outstanding" for a direct mail shot. [16]



Seriously we dont have difinitive proof either way so, like I said, why dont we try and reduce pollution/emissions anyway for other reasons such as a clean environment and national security.

If you think you have difinitive proof then re-read where i turned my previous post to red print.

Or ... we could use the money wasted on something we can't change and instead spend it on ... oh I don't know ... fixing the problems we CAN fix to keep our species alive in spite of the obvious changes nature has decided to go through? .... just a thought ... :eusa_whistle:

Sounds like an Idea i could support
 
Scientists and even some Government employees suffer a penalty for speaking out against the science of Global-Warmng.

I remember back in 2004, a fellow named James Hansen spoke before a House or Senate Committee(s) (probably both) and even though at that moment in time he had made 1,400 speeches on the subject, warning of it’s imminent consequences, he took the time to charge the Bush Administration with trying to censor him and his free speech. He said The Administration was “fiddling” with the science. He was making these public appearances on government time while working for NASA. To accomplish his amazing record of speech giving he had to have made multiple speeches daily; all this while working for President Bush, and then claiming censorship. You will probably remember the Democrats in Congress had a lot of fun with this at the time.

The administration was pushed back with the help of the MSM, giving the Democrats a talking point, one the Obama team later picked up. So the Obama Administration, soon after taking office sent out a memo to agencies demanding a “new transparence in government and science” The EPA policy would be to “ensure EPA's efforts to address the environmental crises of today are rooted in three fundamental values: science-based policies and program, adherence to the rule of law, and overwhelming transparency." If you didn’t notice Obama took another over the shoulder shot at Bush, saying the “days of science taking a backseat to ideology are over”

So now comes a 35 year veteran of the EPA’s National Center for Environmental Economics, speaking up when the EPA prepared to approach the global warming in a new way, by finding that carbon is a pollutant, and thereby claiming the authority to regulate it,

This veteran, a physicist and economist named Alan Carlin and a colleague presented an analysis arguing the agency should take another look, saying that the science behind man-made global warming is inconclusive at best. Their analysis noted that global temperatures were on a downward trend, pointing out some problems with climate models. In their analysis they referred to new research that contradicts the worse scenarios. They said in their report that “Our concerns and reservations are sufficiently important to warrant a serious review of the science by EPA".

He soon got an email from his boss, telling him not to have "any direct communication" with anyone outside of his office with regard to his analysis. When he tried again to disseminate it, his boss informed him: "The administrator and the administration have decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision. . . . I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office." In another email he said "With the endangerment finding nearly final, you need to move on to other issues and subjects. I don't want you to spend any additional EPA time on climate change. No papers, no research etc, at least until we see what EPA is going to do with Climate."

The EPA is required to make public agency documents that pertain too the decision to allow public comment. Past Court rulings say rulemaking records must include “both the evidence relied on, and the evidence discarded” By refusing to allow Mr. Carlin’s study to be circulated, the EPA hid it from the record and from public view.

So much for the administrations highly touted standards of “science-based policies and program, adherence to the rule of law, and overwhelming transparency”

Interesting enough, Alan Carlin works as an economist, not a climatologist, or any other kind of scientist. And his report was not part of his job. Here is a critique of it;


Climate Change Denier Red Meat Turns Out to be Tofu | CFRB
Climate Change Denier Red Meat Turns Out to be Tofu
Wed, 2009-07-01 06:53.
John Moore
I would say that the Internet is a twitter with new evidence of climate change being a hoax except that it's a somewhat limited corner of the Internet that is abuzz. This week Drudge linked to a Fox News report that the American EPA had suppressed a report that questioned climate change. Sounded intriguing. So I went on a hunt to get the real story.

A Google query revealed the usual suspects: denier websites, the barking mad Michelle Malkin, the usual independent basement bloggers and NewsMax. But of course that's because for the mainstream media climate change is a religion that leads to our cherished goal of one world government. Naturally the dreaded MSM is going to suppress the story and leave the field open to the liberty loving mavericks. A bit more research reveals what really happened.

Here's the story as it is told: A 98 page report co-authored by Alan Carlin complained that climate scientists are working with outdated figures for their models and they they have failed to take into account that the world has stopped warming and studies on sunspots. The report was suppressed by the EPA because it departs from orthodoxy and puts into question the whole theory of climate change.

And here's the real story: Carlin has a degree in physics but is actually an economist by profession. His report is largely a self contradictory cobbling together of denier arguments, doctored evidence and out and out howling nonsense. He prepared it on his own time and submitted it without being asked. The panel drafting a new policy on CO2 reviewed the report, found it to be unsound and told Carlin to get back to doing his real job. The website RealClimate, established by genuine climate experts (in place of the usual collection of retired structural engineers, economists and weathermen) reviewed the report and characterized it as "a ratbag collection of un-peer reviewed web pages, an unhealthy dose of sunstroke, a dash of astrology and more cherries than you can poke a cocktail stick at."

The deniers are in overdrive because the Obama administration has finally joined the rest of the world in tackling climate change. It's getting harder and harder to float denier arguments so something sexy like a suppressed report is what's needed now to draw attention. Never mind that during the eight years of the Bush administration legitimate, commissioned and scientifically sound reports were routinely edited by officials appointed from the oil industry to oversee environmental and climate policy. A study published in 2007 by the Union of Concerned Scientists and The Government Accountability Project revealed that about half of the federal employees working on climate and environmental issues had felt pressure from the Bush Administration to edit their work. 43% reported having their work edited for them.

Deniers are also excited about a recent Wall Street Journal Column by Kimberly Strassel which was reprinted in The National Post. This offering is peppered with the usual tropes about sunspots, warming having ended and the suggestion that the whole house of cards is about to come tumbling down. In truth it amounts to a single study by The Polish Academy of Sciences, a public opinion poll in the Czech Republic and the fact that a climate denier is being considered for a job in the French Government.

I appreciate that the sceptics are so vested in their denial that they'll respond to this posting with hysterical essays about the "hockey stick", the fact that global warming stopped in 1998 (a complete lie) and the fact that Al Gore is fat. They'll also accused me of being inflexible for failing to consider the validity of provably wrong arguments.

I talk and blog about the issue not for them but for those of you who don't have enough time to keep up with the viral e-mails you probably recieve under the subject line "See, I told you. "global warming" IS a hoax". Climate denial isn't about proving the case it's about sowing confusion to delay policy change.
 
26 June 2009
Bubkes
Filed under: Climate Science Greenhouse gases— gavin @ 8:00 AM - ()
Some parts of the blogosphere, headed up by CEI (”CO2: They call it pollution, we call it life!“), are all a-twitter over an apparently “suppressed” document that supposedly undermines the EPA Endangerment finding about human emissions of carbon dioxide and a basket of other greenhouse gases. Well a draft of this “suppressed” document has been released and we can now all read this allegedly devastating critique of the EPA science. Let’s take a look…


First off the authors of the submission; Alan Carlin is an economist and John Davidson is an ex-member of the Carter administration Council of Environmental Quality. Neither are climate scientists. That’s not necessarily a problem – perhaps they have mastered multiple fields? – but it is likely an indication that the analysis is not going to be very technical (and so it will prove). Curiously, while the authors work for the NCEE (National Center for Environmental Economics), part of the EPA, they appear to have rather closely collaborated with one Ken Gregory (his inline comments appear at multiple points in the draft). Ken Gregory if you don’t know is a leading light of the Friends of Science – a astroturf anti-climate science lobbying group based in Alberta. Indeed, parts of the Carlin and Davidson report appear to be lifted directly from Ken’s rambling magnum opus on the FoS site. However, despite this odd pedigree, the scientific points could still be valid.

Their main points are nicely summarised thus: a) the science is so rapidly evolving that IPCC (2007) and CCSP (2009) reports are already out of date, b) the globe is cooling!, c) the consensus on hurricane/global warming connections has moved from uncertain to ambiguous, d) Greenland is not losing mass, no sirree…, e) the recession will save us!, f) water vapour feedback is negative!, and g) Scafetta and West’s statistical fit of temperature to an obsolete solar forcing curve means that all other detection and attribution work is wrong. From this “evidence”, they then claim that all variations in climate are internal variability, except for the warming trend which is caused by the sun, oh and by the way the globe is cooling.

Devastating eh?

One can see a number of basic flaws here; the complete lack of appreciation of the importance of natural variability on short time scales, the common but erroneous belief that any attribution of past climate change to solar or other forcing means that CO2 has no radiative effect, and a hopeless lack of familiarity of the basic science of detection and attribution.

But it gets worse, what solid peer reviewed science do they cite for support? A heavily-criticised blog posting showing that there are bi-decadal periods in climate data and that this proves it was the sun wot done it. The work of an award-winning astrologer (one Theodor Landscheidt, who also thought that the rise of Hitler and Stalin were due to cosmic cycles), a classic Courtillot paper we’ve discussed before, the aforementioned FoS web page, another web page run by Doug Hoyt, a paper by Garth Paltridge reporting on artifacts in the NCEP reanalysis of water vapour that are in contradiction to every other reanalysis, direct observations and satellite data, a complete reprint of another un-peer reviewed paper by William Gray, a nonsense paper by Miskolczi etc. etc. I’m not quite sure how this is supposed to compete with the four rounds of international scientific and governmental review of the IPCC or the rounds of review of the CCSP reports….

They don’t even notice the contradictions in their own cites. For instance, they show a figure that demonstrates that galactic cosmic ray and solar trends are non-existent from 1957 on, and yet cheerfully quote Scafetta and West who claim that almost all of the recent trend is solar driven! They claim that climate sensitivity is very small while failing to realise that this implies that solar variability can’t have any effect either. They claim that GCM simulations produced trends over the twentieth century of 1.6 to 3.74ºC – which is simply (and bizarrely) wrong (though with all due respect, that one seems to come directly from Mr. Gregory). Even more curious, Carlin appears to be a big fan of geo-engineering, but how this squares with his apparent belief that we know nothing about what drives climate, is puzzling. A sine qua non of geo-engineering is that we need models to be able to predict what is likely to happen, and if you think they are all wrong, how could you have any faith that you could effectively manage a geo-engineering approach?

Finally, they end up with the oddest claim in the submission: That because human welfare has increased over the twentieth century at a time when CO2 was increasing, this somehow implies that no amount of CO2 increases can ever cause a danger to human society. This is just boneheadly stupid.

So in summary, what we have is a ragbag collection of un-peer reviewed web pages, an unhealthy dose of sunstroke, a dash of astrology and more cherries than you can poke a cocktail stick at. Seriously, if that’s the best they can do, the EPA’s ruling is on pretty safe ground.

If I were the authors, I’d suppress this myself, and then go for a long hike on the Appalachian Trail….

Bubkes | RealClimate
 
Rep. Poe Falsely Claimed EPA Economist Is "A 35-Year Veteran Scientist"
8 hours and 19 minutes ago
In a floor speech on July 9, 2009, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) perpetuated the myth that the EPA suppressed a report produced by a "veteran scientist" named Alan Carlin. But in reality, Carlin is an economist with no expertise in climate science, and his "report" was rejected because it was full of previously discredited, unoriginal research.
http://mediamattersaction.org/factcheck/200907090001
 
The man has a lot of books behind him, so he must know what he's talking about!
Wow, the man wrote books.
It's amazing that all these men have British accents, but all those who distrust anything "foreign" take their word as authority. Notice they gave no scientific evidence against global warming....only saying that earth climate changes.
 
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