Deniers Popping Up Everywhere

The list of scientists, experts, and governments now lining up as skeptics on global warming/climate change, is growing. The central issue is this: 1) man is causing global warming (primarily through the use of fossil fuels), 2) carbon is the cause of global warming . Actually, carbon accounts for only .003% of our atmosphere, carbon's contribution, if any, is minuscule and irrelevant. But true, born again environmentalists have for decades sought ways to limit growth, reduce the use of carbon based fuels, and get man to live more caveman like; you know, stop using air conditioning, build smaller homes, drive less, fly less, eat less...well, you get the idea.

But despite Al Gore's absurd declaration that "the debate is over," ever increasing numbers of scientists, experts and governments, not to mention the general public, are fighting back and showing how silly this whole global warming thing really is. And if you're a meteorologist, the notion that man can affect the weather is quite silly.

Here is a partial list of the new "deniers:"
1. In April, the Polish Academy of Sciences published a document challenging man-made global warming.
2. the Czech Republic, where President Vaclav Klaus remains a leading skeptic, today only 11% of the population believes humans play a role.
3. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to tap Claude Allegre to lead the country's new ministry of industry and innovation. Twenty years ago Mr. Allegre was among the first to trill about man-made global warming, but the geochemist has since recanted.
4. New Zealand last year elected a new government, which immediately suspended the country's weeks-old cap-and-trade program.
5. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. -- 13 times the number who authored the U.N.'s 2007 climate summary for policymakers.
6. Joanne Simpson, the world's first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak "frankly" of her nonbelief.
7. Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming "the worst scientific scandal in history."
8. Norway's Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it as the "new religion."
9. A group of 54 noted physicists, led by Princeton's Will Happer, is demanding the American Physical Society revise its position that the science is settled. (Both Nature and Science magazines have refused to run the physicists' open letter.)
10. Dr. Ian Plimer, a well-known Australian geologist. Earlier this year he published "Heaven and Earth," a damning critique of the "evidence" underpinning man-made global warming.
11. Paul Sheehan, a noted Australian columnist -- and ardent global warming believer -- in April humbly pronounced it "an evidence-based attack on conformity and orthodoxy, including my own, and a reminder to respect informed dissent and beware of ideology subverting evidence."

The collapse of the "consensus" has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth's temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon.

This information came from an editorial by KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL, in the Wall Street Journal.

Global Climate is NOT Changing

The new federal report on climate change gets a withering critique from Dr. Roger Pielke Jr., who says that it misrepresents his own research and that it wrongly concludes that climate change is already responsible for an increase in damages from natural disasters.

Dr. Roger Pielke, is a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado, and he sends a blistering criticism of the IPCC, and the White House position on Climate Change.

Dr. Pielke contrasts these reports’ conclusions about trends in natural disasters with the some quite different findings last year by the federal Climate Change Science Program. Dr. Pielke summarizes some of its less sensational conclusions:

1. Over the long-term, U.S. hurricane landfalls have been declining.
2. Nationwide there have been no long-term increases in drought.
3. Despite increases in some measures of precipitation . . . there have not been corresponding increases in peak streamflows (high flows above 90th percentile).
4. There have been no observed changes in the occurrence of tornadoes or thunderstorms
5. There have been no long-term increases in strong East Coast winter storms (ECWS), called Nor’easters.
6. There are no long-term trends in either heat waves or cold spells, though there are trends within shorter time periods in the overall record.

Do those benign trends seem surprising to you? “Until the climate science community cleans up its act on this subject it will continue to give legitimate opportunities for opponents to criticize the climate science community.”

Record Low Highs in West

The Western United States is experiencing an extended period of record low, high temperatures. Temperatures in Utah are ten degrees, or more, below normal, and have been for the past three weeks. It's the middle of June, and temperatures, statewide (all western states are experiencing similar, cooler temperatures) are unseasonably cool. Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Wyoming, Montana and other areas of the west are experiencing unusually cool temperatures for this time of year. This, in view of the fact that last year in Utah, the winter and spring experienced record cold.

The global warming alarmists are so far off the mark, it's difficult to give them any credibility at all. Temperatures, currently, are tracking at the 1980 level, not the record warm temperatures projected by popular computer models, which have proven to be totally worthless, and way, way off the mark.