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ENVIRONMENTAL EXTREMISM
FACTS
What happened at the 2010 Copenhagen Climate
Summit? Practically nothing. Copenhagen had long been hyped as
the conference where a new set of stringent, binding, verifiable, and
internationally enforceable greenhouse gas emissions targets were to
be agreed upon for the decades ahead. The targets in the existing 1997
Kyoto Protocol--generally a 5 percent reduction below 1990 emissions
levels for developed countries--are scheduled to expire in 2012. And
in any event, global warming activists considered the Kyoto Protocol
too weak to save the planet.
The
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was forced to disavow
its claim that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035 and
acknowledge that it had no scientific basis.
The
Times Online
reported that Prof.
Chris Field, the new lead author of the IPCC’s climate-impacts team,
could find nothing in the IPCC report to support its claim that
”global warming could cut rain-fed north African crop production by up
to 50% by 2020, a remarkably short time for such a dramatic change.”
The QDR followed the IPCC on this error, too, claiming that climate
change will impact food security. More than 31,000 scientists signed a petition rejecting the theory of human-caused global warming. Numerous experts now claim the Earth is cooling. Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human
activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by
the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent
of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere. To assess whether
the airborne fraction is indeed increasing, Wolfgang Knorr of the
Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol reanalyzed
available atmospheric carbon dioxide and emissions data since 1850 and
considers the uncertainties in the data. In contradiction to some
recent studies, he finds that the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide
has not increased either during the past 150 years or during the most
recent five decades. QUOTES "One of
the elephants in the room here in Copenhagen has been
Climategate - the release of emails and other documents evidencing
gross misconduct amongst some of the key scientists involved in the
main United Nations scientific report that was to be relied upon here.
The fact that temperatures have been flat for over a decade only adds
to the justifiably growing public skepticism whether global warming
really is a crisis." "It is hard to do any more wrong by the American
people than cap and trade. Whether done by domestic legislation or
international treaty, significant reductions in carbon dioxide
emissions (like the 17 percent by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050 in the
House Waxman Markey bill which the Obama administration had hoped to
match at Copenhagen or get done at a subsequent UN global warming
treaty conference)
would raise gasoline prices by 58 percent by 2035, electric rates by
90 percent, impose nearly $3,000 in total annual costs on a household
of 4, and destroy over one million jobs." "But Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is
certainly trying to make a bad deal worse by pledging America’s
support for a massive foreign aid package in the name of helping
developing nations address global warming. ... By making such pledges
in Denmark, the Obama administration is making the same mistake Bill
Clinton and Al Gore did in 1997 - promising abroad what it can’t
deliver at home. Gore signed the Kyoto Protocol, the existing global
warming treaty whose expiring provisions were supposed to be extended
at Copenhagen, knowing full well that the Senate would never ratify
it. Now, this administration is making foreign aid promises in
Copenhagen that it can’t deliver in Washington. It is hard to imagine
the Congress signing off on such a massive aid package, especially
given the still lingering recession and growing public doubts about
global warming."
"Unscientific." "The assessments that the decade of the 1990s
was the hottest decade in a millennium and that 1998 was the hottest
year in a millennium cannot be supported. The paucity of data in the
more remote past makes the hottest-in-a-millennium claims essentially
unverifiable." "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
is not a scientific institution: it's a political body, a sort of
non-government organization of green flavor. It's neither a forum of
neutral nor a balanced group of scientists. These people are
politicized scientists who arrive there with a one-sided opinion and
one-sided argument." "After carefully digging into the evidence, I
realized that things are far more complicated than the story told to
us by many climate scientists or the stories regurgitated by the
media. Solar activity can explain a large part of the 20th century
global warming." "All four agencies that track the Earth's
temperature -- the Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain, the NASA
Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Christy group at
the University of Alabama, and Remote Sensing Systems Inc. in
California -- report that it cooled by about 0.7C in 2007. This is the
fastest temperature change in the instrumental record and it puts us
back where we were in 1930." "Since 2003, however, when the statistical
methods used to create the 'hockey stick' were first exposed as
fundamentally flawed by an expert Canadian statistician Steve
McIntyre, an increasingly heated battle has been raging between Mann's
supporters, calling themselves 'the Hockey Team,' and McIntyre and his
own allies, as they have ever more devastatingly called into question
the entire statistical basis on which the IPCC and CRU construct their
case." "There are three threads in particular in the
leaked documents which have sent a shock wave through informed
observers across the world. Perhaps the most obvious, as lucidly put
together by Willis Eschenbach (see McIntyre's blog Climate Audit and
Anthony Watt's blog Watts Up With That), is the highly disturbing
series of emails which show how Dr Jones and his colleagues have for
years been discussing the devious tactics whereby they could avoid
releasing their data to outsiders under freedom of information laws.
They have come up with every possible excuse for concealing the
background data on which their findings and temperature records were
based. This in itself has become a major scandal, not least Dr Jones's
refusal to release the basic data from which the CRU derives its
hugely influential temperature record, which culminated last summer in
his startling claim that much of the data from all over the world had
simply got "lost". Most incriminating of all are the emails in which
scientists are advised to delete large chunks of data, which, when
this is done after receipt of a freedom of information request, is a
criminal offence." "They have come up with every possible excuse
for concealing the background data on which their findings and
temperature records were based. This in itself has become a major
scandal, not least Dr Jones's refusal to release the basic data from
which the CRU derives its hugely influential temperature record, which
culminated last summer in his startling claim that much of the data
from all over the world had simply got "lost". Most incriminating of
all are the emails in which scientists are advised to delete large
chunks of data, which, when this is done after receipt of a freedom of
information request, is a criminal offence. But the question which
inevitably arises from this systematic refusal to release their data
is – what is it that these scientists seem so anxious to hide? The
second and most shocking revelation of the leaked documents is how
they show the scientists trying to manipulate data through their
tortuous computer programmes, always to point in only the one desired
direction – to lower past temperatures and to "adjust" recent
temperatures upwards, in order to convey the impression of an
accelerated warming. This comes up so often (not least in the
documents relating to computer data in the Harry Read Me file) that it
becomes the most disturbing single element of the entire story. This
is what Mr McIntyre caught Dr Hansen doing with his GISS temperature
record last year (after which Hansen was forced to revise his record),
and two further shocking examples have now come to light from
Australia and New Zealand." "The
third shocking revelation of these documents is the ruthless way in
which these academics have been determined to silence any expert
questioning of the findings they have arrived at by such dubious
methods – not just by refusing to disclose their basic data but by
discrediting and freezing out any scientific journal which dares to
publish their critics' work. It seems they are prepared to stop at
nothing to stifle scientific debate in this way, not least by ensuring
that no dissenting research should find its way into the pages of IPCC
reports." “A group called
GenderCC (Women for Climate Justice) rejects using distractions like
"numbers" and "target dates" to track and fight climate change, and
doesn't appear very interested in the environment itself. Instead, it
hopes to implement "gender-mainstreaming" and ensure that the U.N.
guarantees the fullest participation of "feminist scientists" at every
level.” ADDITIONAL READING: NOAA: Third Coldest October on Record Record low tied at Daytona Beach Global Warming Crowd Over-Reliant on Modeling Ozone hole 'smaller' in 2009 than 2008Policy expert: Government regulation, 'green' legislation fuel raging wildfires
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