Climate Facts to Fight the CON
Archive #13354547
I thought I'd start this WIKI as I need a place to find the references to GOOD SCIENCE to counter the Man Made Global Warmists.
I'll start with some Provided by Turbobloke.
PLEASE ADD anything you think will help argue the case that the Science IS NOT DONE!!
IPCC Reports being corrupted!!
http://www.tech-know.eu/uploads/Spinning_the_Clima...
Polar Bears
Professor J. Scott Armstrong of the Wharton School says, “To list a species that is currently in good health as an endangered species requires valid forecasts that its population would decline to levels that threaten its viability. In fact, the polar bear populations have been increasing rapidly in recent decades due to hunting restrictions. Assuming these restrictions remain, the most appropriate forecast is to assume that the upward trend would continue for a few years, then level off.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/08050...
Antarctic Polar Ice
Growing not shrinking (27 billion tonnes / year according to Joughin and Tulaczyk, also Wingham et al, in two separate studies).
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/17/revealed-ant...
Arctic Polar Ice
Growing not shrinking, arctic sea ice is increasing at a record rate.
http://www.eco-can.ca/eco-news/2009/1/5/arctic-ice...
Glaciers and icecaps not collapsing
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/OllierPaine-NoIceS...
The global warming doomsday writers claim the ice sheets are melting catastrophically, and will cause a sudden rise in sea level of many metres. This ignores the mechanism of glacier flow which is by creep: glaciers are not melting from the surface down, nor are they sliding down an inclined plane lubricated by meltwater. The existence of ice over 3 km thick preserving details of past snowfall and atmospheres, used to decipher past temperature and CO2 levels, shows that the ice sheets have accumulated for hundreds of thousands of years without melting. Variations in melting around the edges of ice sheets are no indication that they are collapsing. Indeed 'collapse' is impossible.
Carbon dioxide
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ef800581r
With the short (5−15 year) RT meaning CO2 residence time results shown to be in quasi-equilibrium, this then supports the (independently based) conclusion that the long-term (100 year) rising atmospheric CO2 concentration is not from anthropogenic sources but, in accordance with conclusions from other studies, is most likely the outcome of the rising atmospheric temperature, which is due to other natural factors. This further supports the conclusion that global warming is not anthropogenically driven as an outcome of combustion. The economic and political significance of that conclusion will be self-evident.
Falsification of the Impact of CO2!
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Falsification_of_C...
Sun and climate
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12316782.300...
A 22-YEAR cycle linked with changes in the Sun's activity has influenced trends in temperature this century more than any other factor. This is the conclusion of Nicholas Newell, a (MIT) scientist in Arlington, Massachusetts.
Recent paper: Mouel et al provide scientific evidence for the dominant role of solar activity and cosmic rays in natural climate change.
Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics - Jean-Louis Le Mouël, Elena Blanter, Mikhail Shnirman, and Vincent Courtillot: ‘Evidence for solar forcing in variability of temperatures and pressures in Europe.’
NASA Says "It's the Sun" AT LAST!
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/coolingt...
MORE SUN DATA
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/07/suns-magneti...
IMPACT ON USA!
http://westinstenv.org/wp-content/Solar_Arch_NY_Ma...
Floods
http://climateresearchnews.com/2009/11/normalized-...
No global warming signal in European floods - from a study of 31 countries over 37 years.
UK sporadic floods not linked to climate change - UK Centre for Ecology and Hrydrology. Example - lead author, Terry Marsh, comments: “The river floods of summer 2007 were a very singular episode, which does not form part of any clear historical trend or show consistency with currently favoured climate change scenarios.”
Sea Level changes
Convenient chart with appropriate timescale.
http://www.jennifermarohasy.com/blog/archives/sea%...
Carbon here's something on the realist positive side from Prof Brignell at Numberwatch.
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/Carbon.htm
Political Claptrap??
http://www.abd.org.uk/blair.htm
Problem of Venice Sinking!
http://venicexplorer.net/observer/images/maree-ven...
The Global Warming Policy Foundation
http://www.thegwpf.org/
The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is an all-party and non-party think tank and a registered educational charity.
Our main purpose is to bring reason, integrity and balance to a debate that has become seriously unbalanced, irrationally alarmist, and all too often depressingly intolerant.
The GWPF's primary purpose is to help restore balance and trust in the climate debate that is frequently distorted by prejudice and exaggeration.
Our main focus is to analyse global warming policies and its economic and other implications. Our aim is to provide the most robust and reliable economic analysis and advice.
We intend to develop alternative policy options and to foster a proper debate (which at present scarcely exists) on the likely cost and consequences of current policies.
We are funded entirely by voluntary donations from a number of private individuals and charitable trusts. In order to make clear its complete independence, it does not accept gifts from either energy companies or anyone with a significant interest in an energy company.
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carboniferous_cl...
History and info on Paleoclimates, CO2 concentrations and average temperatures.
" There has historically been much more CO2 in our atmosphere than exists today. For example, during the Jurassic Period (200 mya), average CO2 concentrations were about 1800 ppm or about 4.7 times higher than today. The highest concentrations of CO2 during all of the Paleozoic Era occurred during the Cambrian Period, nearly 7000 ppm -- about 18 times higher than today.
The Carboniferous Period and the Ordovician Period were the only geological periods during the Paleozoic Era when global temperatures were as low as they are today. To the consternation of global warming proponents, the Late Ordovician Period was also an Ice Age while at the same time CO2 concentrations then were nearly 12 times higher than today-- 4400 ppm. According to greenhouse theory, Earth should have been exceedingly hot. Instead, global temperatures were no warmer than today. Clearly, other factors besides atmospheric carbon influence earth temperatures and global warming."
I'll start with some Provided by Turbobloke.
PLEASE ADD anything you think will help argue the case that the Science IS NOT DONE!!
IPCC Reports being corrupted!!
http://www.tech-know.eu/uploads/Spinning_the_Clima...
Polar Bears
Professor J. Scott Armstrong of the Wharton School says, “To list a species that is currently in good health as an endangered species requires valid forecasts that its population would decline to levels that threaten its viability. In fact, the polar bear populations have been increasing rapidly in recent decades due to hunting restrictions. Assuming these restrictions remain, the most appropriate forecast is to assume that the upward trend would continue for a few years, then level off.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/08050...
Antarctic Polar Ice
Growing not shrinking (27 billion tonnes / year according to Joughin and Tulaczyk, also Wingham et al, in two separate studies).
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/17/revealed-ant...
Arctic Polar Ice
Growing not shrinking, arctic sea ice is increasing at a record rate.
http://www.eco-can.ca/eco-news/2009/1/5/arctic-ice...
Glaciers and icecaps not collapsing
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/OllierPaine-NoIceS...
The global warming doomsday writers claim the ice sheets are melting catastrophically, and will cause a sudden rise in sea level of many metres. This ignores the mechanism of glacier flow which is by creep: glaciers are not melting from the surface down, nor are they sliding down an inclined plane lubricated by meltwater. The existence of ice over 3 km thick preserving details of past snowfall and atmospheres, used to decipher past temperature and CO2 levels, shows that the ice sheets have accumulated for hundreds of thousands of years without melting. Variations in melting around the edges of ice sheets are no indication that they are collapsing. Indeed 'collapse' is impossible.
Carbon dioxide
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ef800581r
With the short (5−15 year) RT meaning CO2 residence time results shown to be in quasi-equilibrium, this then supports the (independently based) conclusion that the long-term (100 year) rising atmospheric CO2 concentration is not from anthropogenic sources but, in accordance with conclusions from other studies, is most likely the outcome of the rising atmospheric temperature, which is due to other natural factors. This further supports the conclusion that global warming is not anthropogenically driven as an outcome of combustion. The economic and political significance of that conclusion will be self-evident.
Falsification of the Impact of CO2!
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Falsification_of_C...
Sun and climate
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12316782.300...
A 22-YEAR cycle linked with changes in the Sun's activity has influenced trends in temperature this century more than any other factor. This is the conclusion of Nicholas Newell, a (MIT) scientist in Arlington, Massachusetts.
Recent paper: Mouel et al provide scientific evidence for the dominant role of solar activity and cosmic rays in natural climate change.
Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics - Jean-Louis Le Mouël, Elena Blanter, Mikhail Shnirman, and Vincent Courtillot: ‘Evidence for solar forcing in variability of temperatures and pressures in Europe.’
NASA Says "It's the Sun" AT LAST!
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/coolingt...
MORE SUN DATA
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/07/suns-magneti...
IMPACT ON USA!
http://westinstenv.org/wp-content/Solar_Arch_NY_Ma...
Floods
http://climateresearchnews.com/2009/11/normalized-...
No global warming signal in European floods - from a study of 31 countries over 37 years.
UK sporadic floods not linked to climate change - UK Centre for Ecology and Hrydrology. Example - lead author, Terry Marsh, comments: “The river floods of summer 2007 were a very singular episode, which does not form part of any clear historical trend or show consistency with currently favoured climate change scenarios.”
Sea Level changes
Convenient chart with appropriate timescale.
http://www.jennifermarohasy.com/blog/archives/sea%...
Carbon here's something on the realist positive side from Prof Brignell at Numberwatch.
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/Carbon.htm
Political Claptrap??
http://www.abd.org.uk/blair.htm
Problem of Venice Sinking!
http://venicexplorer.net/observer/images/maree-ven...
The Global Warming Policy Foundation
http://www.thegwpf.org/
The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is an all-party and non-party think tank and a registered educational charity.
Our main purpose is to bring reason, integrity and balance to a debate that has become seriously unbalanced, irrationally alarmist, and all too often depressingly intolerant.
The GWPF's primary purpose is to help restore balance and trust in the climate debate that is frequently distorted by prejudice and exaggeration.
Our main focus is to analyse global warming policies and its economic and other implications. Our aim is to provide the most robust and reliable economic analysis and advice.
We intend to develop alternative policy options and to foster a proper debate (which at present scarcely exists) on the likely cost and consequences of current policies.
We are funded entirely by voluntary donations from a number of private individuals and charitable trusts. In order to make clear its complete independence, it does not accept gifts from either energy companies or anyone with a significant interest in an energy company.
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carboniferous_cl...
History and info on Paleoclimates, CO2 concentrations and average temperatures.
" There has historically been much more CO2 in our atmosphere than exists today. For example, during the Jurassic Period (200 mya), average CO2 concentrations were about 1800 ppm or about 4.7 times higher than today. The highest concentrations of CO2 during all of the Paleozoic Era occurred during the Cambrian Period, nearly 7000 ppm -- about 18 times higher than today.
The Carboniferous Period and the Ordovician Period were the only geological periods during the Paleozoic Era when global temperatures were as low as they are today. To the consternation of global warming proponents, the Late Ordovician Period was also an Ice Age while at the same time CO2 concentrations then were nearly 12 times higher than today-- 4400 ppm. According to greenhouse theory, Earth should have been exceedingly hot. Instead, global temperatures were no warmer than today. Clearly, other factors besides atmospheric carbon influence earth temperatures and global warming."