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As the science scandals keep coming, the air has gone out of the climate-change movement

Margaret Wente

Published on Friday, Feb. 05, 2010 6:45PM EST

Last updated on Saturday, Feb. 06, 2010 4:15AM EST

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From The Sunday Times January 17, 2010



World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown

(Simon Fraser)



Jonathan Leake and Chris Hastings



A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.



Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the… Continue

Science News

No Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction in Past 160 Years, New Research Finds



ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) — 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.



However, some studies have suggested that the ability of oceans and plants to absorb carbon dioxide… Continue

According to NOAA two-thirds of the continental US had a white Christmas with an average depth of 7 inches of snow!

http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/index.html?region=National&year=2009&month=12&day=25&units=e



Automated Model Discussion:

December 25, 2009

Area Covered By Snow:… Continue

Environment

The Fiction Of Climate Science

Gary Sutton, 12.04.09, 10:00 AM EST

Why the climatologists get it wrong.





Many of you are too young to remember, but in 1975 our government pushed "the coming ice age."



Random House dutifully printed "THE WEATHER CONSPIRACY … coming of the New Ice Age." This may be the only book ever written by 18 authors. All 18 lived just a short sled ride from Washington, D.C. Newsweek fell in line and did a cover issue… Continue

Climate sceptics claim leaked emails are evidence of collusion among scientists



Hundreds of emails and documents exchanged between world's leading climate scientists stolen by hackers and leaked online



Leo Hickman and James Randerson guardian.co.uk, Friday 20 November 2009 18.15 GMT Article history

A researcher collects data from an electronic device to monitor climate change. Photograph: Vo Trung Dung/Corbis





Hundreds of private emails and documents… Continue

Climate sceptics claim leaked emails are evidence of collusion among scientists



Hundreds of emails and documents exchanged between world's leading climate scientists stolen by hackers and leaked online



Leo Hickman and James Randerson guardian.co.uk, Friday 20 November 2009 18.15 GMT Article history

A researcher collects data from an electronic device to monitor climate change. Photograph: Vo Trung Dung/Corbis





Hundreds of private emails and documents… Continue

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11/19/2009 03:47 PM

Stagnating Temperatures

Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out

By Gerald Traufetter



Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.



At least the weather in Copenhagen… Continue

What happened to global warming?



By Paul Hudson

Climate correspondent, BBC News



This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.



But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.



And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming… Continue

Earth approaching sunspot records



COREY JONES/THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL



Charlie Perry, a research hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Lawrence, sifts through graphs of data in explaining why he believes solar activity may have greater impacts on global temperatures than previously thought.

By Corey Jones

Created September 20, 2009 at 6:21pm



Updated September 21, 2009 at 12:50am

The average person may not associate coolness with the… Continue

Senate Democrats Push Back Climate Measure Schedule



By Daniel Whitten



Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- The chief Senate sponsors of a bill aimed at curbing global warming have pushed back its introduction from next week until later in September.



Democratic Senators Barbara Boxer of California and John Kerry of Massachusetts, in an e-mailed statement today, cited Kerry’s hip surgery this month, the death of Senator Edward Kennedy and the debate over health-care legislation… Continue

Drop in world temperatures fuels global warming debate



By Robert S. Boyd | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Has Earth's fever broken?



Official government measurements show that the world's temperature has cooled a bit since reaching its most recent peak in 1998.



That's given global warming skeptics new ammunition to attack the prevailing theory of climate change. The skeptics argue that the current stretch of slightly cooler temperatures means that costly… Continue

Posted by Henry Payne (The Detroit News) on Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:17 AM

Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Energy Leader (National Review, 08.10.09)



Detroit, Mich. - Michigan just experienced its coldest July on record; global temperatures haven't risen in more than a decade; Great Lakes water levels have resumed their 30-year cyclical rise (contrary to a decade of media scare stories that they were drying up due to global warming), and polls show that climate change doesn't even make a… Continue

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lawmakers' Global-Warming Trip Hit Tourist Hot Spots



Penguins, a Rocket-Propelled Airplane (and Tax Dollars) Also Involved



By BRODY MULLINS and T.W. FARNAM



WASHINGTON -- When 10 members of Congress wanted to study climate change, they did more than just dip their toes into the subject: They went diving and snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef. They also rode a cable car through the Australian rain forest, visited a… Continue

Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites



Geologist Ian Plimer takes a contrary view, arguing that man-made climate change is a con trick perpetuated by environmentalists



By Jonathan Manthorpe, Vancouver SunJuly 28, 2009



Ian Plimer has outraged the ayatollahs of purist environmentalism, the Torquemadas of the doctrine of global warming, and he seems to relish the damnation they heap on him.



Plimer is a geologist, professor of… Continue

Germany calls carbon tariffs "eco-imperialism"

Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:26am EDT





By Mia Shanley and Ilona Wissenbach



ARE, Sweden (Reuters) - Germany called a French idea to slap "carbon tariffs" on products from countries that are not trying to cut greenhouse gases a form of "eco-imperialism" and a direct violation of WTO rules.



The issue of greenhouse tariffs has met bitter opposition from developing countries such as China and India, who count on the… Continue

India widens climate rift with west

By James Lamont in New Delhi, Joshua Chaffin in Are and Fiona Harvey in London



Published: July 23 2009 22:05 | Last updated: July 24 2009 09:57



A split between rich and poor nations in the run-up to climate-change talks widened on Thursday.



India rejected key scientific findings on global warming, while the European Union called for more action by developing states on greenhouse gas emissions.



He dismissed… Continue

Science and Technology News



Government monopsony distorts climate science, says SPPI

The climate industry is costing taxpayers $79 billion and counting



Washington, DC 7/22/2009 09:12 PM GMT (TransWorldNews)







The Science and Public Policy Institute announces the publication of Climate Money, a study by Joanne Nova revealing that the federal Government has a near-monopsony on climate science funding. This distorts the science towards self-serving… Continue

'Global warming is baloney' signs put the heat on Burger King





Leo Hickman

guardian.co.uk,

Friday 5 June 2009 19.56 BST



A row between the fast food giant Burger King and one of its major franchise owners has erupted over roadside signs proclaiming "global warming is baloney".



The franchisee, a Memphis-based company called the Mirabile Investment Corporation (MIC) that owns more than 40 Burger Kings across Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi, has… Continue