Tag Archive | "Climate change"
Paul Sheehan: Beware the climate of conformity
What I am about to write questions much of what I have written in this space, in numerous columns, over the past five years. Perhaps what I have written can withstand this questioning. Perhaps not. The greater question is, am I – and you – capable of questioning our own orthodoxies and intellectual habits? Let’s [...]
Continue reading...Harold Ambler: Mr. Gore: Apology Accepted
Published Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 11:17 am
The Huffington Post has published a stunningly detailed rebuttal to Al Gore’s “Climate Crisis” alarmism hysteria, by Talking About The Weather‘s Harold Ambler: Mr. Gore has stated, regarding climate change, that “the science is in.” Well, he is absolutely right about that, except for one tiny thing. It is the biggest whopper ever sold to [...]
Continue reading...Bjorn Lomborg: Hot air from Obama
Published Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 3:09 pm
IN one of his first public policy statements as America’s president-elect, Barack Obama focused on climate change, and clearly stated both his priorities and the facts on which these priorities rest. Unfortunately, both are weak, or even wrong. Full article
Continue reading...Perhaps The Climate Change Models Are Wrong
Published Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 10:58 pm
When they were first deployed in 2003, the Argos were hailed for their ability to collect information on ocean conditions more precisely, at more places and greater depths and in more conditions than ever before. No longer would scientists have to rely on measurements mostly at the surface from older scientific buoys or inconsistent shipboard [...]
Continue reading...Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age
Published Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 11:24 pm
And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its “lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past. The ice is back. Gilles [...]
Continue reading...Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
Published Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold [...]
Continue reading...Carleton University professor: CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet’s climate on long, medium and even short time scales
Published Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 10:56 pm
R. Timothy Patterson, professor of geology and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center of Canada’s Carleton University, says that “CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet’s climate on long, medium and even short time scales.” Rather, he says, “I and the first-class scientists I work with are consistently finding excellent correlations between the regular [...]
Continue reading...William Gairdner: Global warming in a nutshell
Published Friday, January 18, 2008 at 11:50 pm
The debate over so-called “global warming” is frustrating. I am far from an expert, although I do read a fair amount of the science on this topic, and have kept a sizeable file on the pros and cons over the years. My main concerns are the following. I think a good deal of the science [...]
Continue reading...Jeff Jacoby: Br-r-r! Where did global warming go?
Published Monday, January 7, 2008 at 10:51 pm
THE STARK headline appeared just over a year ago. “2007 to be ‘warmest on record,’ ” BBC News reported on Jan. 4, 2007. Citing experts in the British government’s Meteorological Office, the story announced that “the world is likely to experience the warmest year on record in 2007,” surpassing the all-time high reached in 1998. [...]
Continue reading...UN climate conference taking the World in entirely the wrong direction, say 100 scientists in open letter to UN Secretary General
Published Monday, December 17, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Dec. 13, 2007 His Excellency Ban Ki-Moon Secretary-General, United Nations New York, N.Y. Dear Mr. Secretary-General, Re: UN climate conference taking the World in entirely the wrong direction It is not possible to stop climate change, a natural phenomenon that has affected humanity through the ages. [...]
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 9:23 am
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