http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alarmists/ en-us Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:07:09 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043644/posts “But we must have power, power to order all things as we will, for that good which only the Wise can see.” The power-corrupted Saruman of Many Colours declaiming in J. R. R. Tolkien’s masterpiece, The Fellowship of the Ring (1954, p. 272) The planet has warmed up since the Little Ice Age and it has warmed up relatively quickly between 1975 and 1998, so much so that we humans are becoming consumed with guilt and anxiety about our place on Earth. Our production of CO2 into the atmosphere is supposed to be the cause. I’ve set out elsewhere the... CO2Skeptics.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043644/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:07:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043628/posts Robert D. Brinsmead (A Series of 20 Short Essays) THE ENVIRONMENTAL OPTIMIST - 1 IS THE WORLD RUNNING OUT OF RESOURCES? Here is the fascinating story of two men – one an environmental pessimist, the other an environmental optimist. They went head to head in a very public and sometimes very acrimonious debate in the last quarter of the 20th century. Paul Ehrlich, professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford University, was the king of environmental pessimists. He became the darling of the environmental movement. He leapt into prominence with his book, The Population Bomb (1968). It highlighted an impending crisis... GreatNewStory.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043628/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:31:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041195/posts NASA scientist James Hansen, a high-ranking government employee, appeared in a Congressional committee meeting room June 23 to say CEOs of fossil energy companies “should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature.” Their crime: Disagreeing with him. No word on the form of energy he used to travel to the inquisition. Hansen further claimed that federal laws to mandate restrictions on U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have been “blocked by special interests, focused on short-term profits.” Um, no. Eleven Congresses -- five Democrat, six Republican -- have declined to limit greenhouse gas emissions since Hansen’s much-celebrated testimony before Colorado... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041195/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:40:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026426/posts “Bishop claims environment abusers as bad as sex,” colorfully declared the headline of the Birmingham (England) Post. The May 31 article began: “The Bishop of Stafford has compared people who ignore the effects of climate change to the Austrian child sex monster Josef Fritzl.” In all too common fashion for Global Warming alarmists, the Anglican bishop recently employed a pastoral letter to liken dissenters on Global Warming to Josef Fritzl, who fathered seven children by his daughter, who was locked up in the basement across two decades. Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026426/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:45:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017344/posts If the ‘progressives’ get their way on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it will be ordinary Americans who suffer, says John Entine Let’s call it the black box syndrome: making revolutionary changes or new products without any real handle on what has actually been created or the potential impact. No-one really knew what the risks were when the wizards of Wall Street launched the inscrutable credit products that led to the current financial bubble that is now imploding, rocking the world economy. Now we have something akin to that bubble building in the environmental arena, in the inflated rhetoric on... ClimateChangeCorp.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017344/posts#comment Sat, 17 May 2008 14:07:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013775/posts The alignment of the planets, and especially that of Jupiter and Saturn, control the climate on Earth.So explained Rhodes Fairbridge of Columbia University, a giant in science over much of the last century whose accomplishments are perhaps unsurpassed for their breadth, depth, and volume. This one man authored or co-authored 100 scientific books and more than 1,000 scientific papers, he edited the Benchmarks in Geology series (more than 90 volumes in print) and was general editor of the Encyclopaedias of the Earth Sciences. He edited eight major encyclopedias of specialized scientific papers in the atmospheric sciences and astrogeology; geomorphology;... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013775/posts#comment Fri, 9 May 2008 21:53:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012979/posts Thirty days after Steve McIntyre caught NASA cooking climate history again - this time in a feeble attempt to somehow conceal the alarmist-embarrassing  downward trend since 1998 -- Al Gore shamelessly portrayed Saturday's Myanmar cyclone catastrophe as a ‘consequence' of global warming.  A mere 16 days after NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation's cool phase shift would likely bring colder temperatures for as many as the next 20-30 years, Gore told NPR that the "trend toward stronger and more destructive storms appears to be linked to global warming and specifically to the impact of global... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012979/posts#comment Thu, 8 May 2008 13:13:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012049/posts 'Big Thaw,' a summertime spectacular in National Geographic magazine, provided awesome scenes of climate-change catastrophes.The glaciers are melting. The ice sheets are melting. They're sliding rapidly out to sea. More rapidly than anyone imagined. Look for the ice sheets to collapse. Look for sea levels to rise. Etc. Etc.National Geographic's breathless account, brilliantly illustrated with the stunning photography for which it is famous, won headlines around the world. It has been dramatized and magnified on nightly newscasts and blogs alike, and has become a staple in the popular imagination.But it won't happen, says Prof. Cliff Ollier of the University... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012049/posts#comment Tue, 6 May 2008 18:38:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010031/posts Vincent Gray has begun a second career as a climate-change activist. His motivation springs from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body that combats global warming by advocating the reduction of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Dr. Gray has worked relentlessly for the IPCC as an expert reviewer since the early 1990s.But Dr. Gray isn't an activist in the cause of enforcing the Kyoto Protocol and realizing the other goals of the worldwide IPCC process. To the contrary, Dr. Gray's mission, in his new role as cofounder of The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, is to... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010031/posts#comment Fri, 2 May 2008 01:45:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009254/posts Antarctica -- a vast territory whose sea-ice growth in winter effectively doubles its size to envelop an area three times that of Canada -- is the world's coldest continent by far, its permanent ice sheet regulating the Antarctic atmosphere. It is also the world's windiest and driest continent by far, and its highest by far, with a mean elevation of 2,300 metres.It is also the world's most remote continent, its least explored and least understood.Not until 1998, with the advent of new technologies and improved scientific understanding, did human knowledge "allow the question of the global relevance of Antarctica... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009254/posts#comment Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:53:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005812/posts To save the planet from global warming -- a looming catastrophe many believe we can no longer prevent -- could require that China stop building the equivalent of a new 1000 megawatt coal plant every five days, and India the same equivalent every two weeks. It could also require that the rest of the developing world slows its economic growth, for the good of humanity. And it could require us, in the rich countries, to dramatically curtail our air and auto travel, and other greenhouse gas producing activities, even if it means plunging ourselves into recession if not depression.Or,... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005812/posts#comment Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:16:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005732/posts Ideologies: Once in a while the truth accidentally tumbles out on global warming activists' real agenda. That's exactly what happened at the U.N., when Bolivia's leader called for ending capitalism to save the planet. Delivering the keynote address at the United Nations forum on Indigenous People on Monday, Bolivia's President Evo Morales told the adoring crowd that "if we want to save our planet earth, to save life, to save mankind, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system."Morales elaborated on that by calling for an end to "unbridled industrial development, extraction of natural resources, excessive... INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005732/posts#comment Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:07:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005711/posts The last few years have witnessed an Internet-stock bubble and a real-estate bubble. Could we be approaching the bursting point of the climate-change bubble? The intensity of the current climate crusade, Al Gore’s $300 million ad campaign, and Time’s fifth panicky global-warming cover in three years (“Be Worried, Be Very Worried” read the 2006 cover) are all good contrary indicators suggesting that the hysteria is reaching its terminal stage. Like mortgage-backed securities dealers, the climate campaigners are in a panic because the public isn’t buying what they’re selling. The latest annual Gallup survey on the environment shows that only 37... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005711/posts#comment Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:21:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004880/posts Want to talk about really inconvenient truths? Well, despite Nobel Laureate Al Gore's massive campaign to scare the world into thinking the planet is facing imminent doom at the hands of global warming, Americans don't seem to be buying it.In fact, a new Gallup poll released moments ago revealed, "a little more than a third say they worry about [global warming] a great deal, a percentage that is roughly the same as the one Gallup measured 19 years ago."Hehehehehe.Here are the exquisitely delicious details (emphasis added): Despite the enormous attention paid to global warming over the past several years, the... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004880/posts#comment Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:31:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004803/posts Stephen Schwartz knows as much about the effects of aerosols on climate change as anyone in the world, and he's worried. He believes climate change is so massive an economic issue that we face costs "in the trillions if not quadrillions of dollars." He thinks a Herculean effort and great sacrifice is required to get the world down to zero net increase in carbon dioxide concentrations, an effort he compares to that which the Allies undertook in their all-out war against Nazi Germany and Japan."Recall World War II, where everyone was making a sacrifice: gas rationing, tire rationing, no... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004803/posts#comment Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:28:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004134/posts Iceland is shrouded in a permanent low-pressure system. Far to the south, the Azores are shrouded in permanent highs. Both pressure systems rock, from east to west and with ever-changing intensity, in the process controlling the North Atlantic's westerly winds. When the westerlies are strong, Europe's summers are cool, its winters are mild and rain is frequent. When westerlies are weak, rainfall decreases and temperatures become extreme, leading to summer heat waves and winter deep freezes.These year-to-year variations in the North Atlantic are known as the North Atlantic Oscillation. Though in many ways mysterious, their effects are quite predictable... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004134/posts#comment Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:45:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004057/posts He's called the world's most famous hurricane expert, not because he likes to fly into hurricanes to experience them up close -- which he does -- but because of what he's learned from them, up there, buffeted by the fury of nature. William Gray has developed an intuitive sense when it comes to understanding the atmosphere in its infinite complexity. This intuition rooted in experience allowed him to pioneer the science of hurricane forecasting more than two decades ago, and subsequently to practice his craft with an unprecedented precision that he keeps refining year after year. He and his... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004057/posts#comment Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:13:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003936/posts Bob Carter, a professor at James Cook University (Queensland) and the University of Adelaide (South Australia), is a paleontologist, a stratigrapher, and a marine geologist.He has been chair of the National Marine Science and Technologies Committee, director of the Australian Office of the Ocean Drilling Program, and chair of the Earth Sciences Discipline Panel of the Australian Research Council.He is Cambridge educated.And he is an outspoken global-warming skeptic.Most global-warming skeptics criticize the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on limited grounds -- they might view the science put forth by the IPCC to be at odds with science... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003936/posts#comment Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:07:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003925/posts We are doomed, say climate change scientists associated with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations body that is organizing most of the climate change research occurring in the world today. Carbon dioxide from man-made sources rises to the atmosphere and then stays there for 50, 100, or even 200 years. This unprecedented buildup of CO2 then traps heat that would otherwise escape our atmosphere, threatening us all."This is nonsense," says Tom V. Segalstad, head of the Geological Museum at the University of Oslo and formerly an expert reviewer with the same IPCC. He laments... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003925/posts#comment Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:34:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002122/posts He's the world's most cited climatologist, according to an analysis in the journal of the British Institute of Geographers. He's also the fifth-most-cited physical geographer in the world, and the 11th most cited among all geographers.He has written some 230 articles and five books, including in such fields as geology, limnology, meteorology and archeology.He has twice seen his papers in Environmental Conservation awarded prizes for being "best paper of the year," and he's a member of the United Nations Global 500 Roll of Honour, created to recognize "outstanding achievements in the protection and improvement of the environment."He's Dr. Reid Bryson,... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002122/posts#comment Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:47:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002101/posts Lawrence Solomon's series becomes a book, providing heft to the claim that climate science is not settledGlobal warming has become a question for citizens, and not only scientists. Citizens must decide how serious the threat is and what to do about it, which cures make sense, and which might be worse than the disease. Alas, the answers to these questions depend on scientific issues of fierce complexity that few laymen are capable of confronting directly. So what are we to do? Al Gore has an answer, and in some ways it is a very sound answer. Mr. Gore says, essentially,... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002101/posts#comment Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:18:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000923/posts There’s broad agreement that America should reduce its dependence on imported oil, but far less agreement on why. Are we combating global warming, or are we distancing ourselves from hostile and unstable regimes? The popular reply is that it hardly matters — we need to do both and the goals reinforce each other. But these two national energy goals are not only different but frequently in conflict, and effective policy will not be forged until those conflicts are addressed. Meanwhile, we ’ll continue to see watered down legislative efforts similar to the Energy Act of 2007 and its predecessors. When dependence... Hoover Institution Policy Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000923/posts#comment Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:13:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000502/posts Over the past half-century, we have become used to planetary scares. In the late Sixties, we were told of a population explosion that would lead to global starvation. Then, a little later, we were warned the world was running out of natural resources. By the Seventies, when global temperatures began to dip, many eminent scientists warned us that we faced a new Ice Age. But the latest scare, global warming, has engaged the political and opinion-forming classes to a greater extent than any of these. The readiness to embrace this fashionable belief has led the present Labour Government, enthusiastically supported... Science & Public Policy Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000502/posts#comment Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:23:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999774/posts Acne, agricultural land increase, Africa devastated, African aid threatened,  air pressure changes, Alaska reshaped, allergies increase, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream end,  amphibians breeding earlier (or not),  anaphylactic reactions to bee stings,  ancient forests dramatically changed, animals head for the hills, Antarctic grass flourishes, Antarctic ice grows, Antarctic ice shrinks, Antarctic sea life at risk,   anxiety treatment, algal blooms, archaeological sites threatened, Arctic bogs melt, Arctic in bloom, Arctic ice free, Arctic lakes disappear, Arctic tundra to burn, Atlantic less salty, Atlantic more salty,   atmospheric circulation modified, attack of the killer jellyfish, avalanches reduced, avalanches increased, ... Number Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999774/posts#comment Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:23:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999486/posts Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing on the implications of climate change for human health. Malaria will top the menu, but so will ignorance and disinformation.The lead witness will be Dr. Jonathan Patz of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has suggested that U.S. energy policy may be "indirectly exporting diseases to other parts of the world." Dr. Patz, the World Health Organization (WHO) and others claim that global warming is now spreading disease and may be the cause of some 160,000 deaths a year.In 2007, for example, WHO pointed to rising temperatures... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999486/posts#comment Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:36:31 GMT