http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/skeptics/ en-us Fri, 9 May 2008 21:53:59 GMT Focus Forum 15 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/1994123/posts In the 1970s, leading scientists claimed that the world was threatened by an era of global cooling.Based on what we've learned this decade, says George Kukla, those scientists - and he was among them -- had it right. The world is about to enter another Ice Age.Dr. Kukla, in 1972 a member of the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences and a pioneer in the field of astronomical forcing, became a central figure in convincing the United States government to take the dangers of climate change seriously. In January of that year, he and another geologist, Robert Matthews of Brown University,... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994123/posts#comment Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:08:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994037/posts Michael Griffin aired his doubts about climate-change politics on National Public Radio. Under a barrage of criticism, he recantedThe head of NASA -- the National Aeronautical and Space Association--is "an idiot" and "in denial." He is also "surprisingly naive" and "a fool." With his judgment and competence so lacking, demands abound for his resignation as head of the largest and most accomplished science agency in the world. Those comments and others in the past week have come from scientists shocked to learn that NASA chief Michael Griffin thinks differently than they about global warming. Among the most shocked is one... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994037/posts#comment Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:44:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993852/posts "Only an insignificant fraction of scientists deny the global warming crisis. The time for debate is over. The science is settled." S o said Al Gore ... in 1992. Amazingly, he made his claims despite much evidence of their falsity. A Gallup poll at the time reported that 53% of scientists actively involved in global climate research did not believe global warming had occurred; 30% weren't sure; and only 17% believed global warming had begun. Even a Greenpeace poll showed 47% of climatologists didn't think a runaway greenhouse effect was imminent; only 36% thought it possible and a mere... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993852/posts#comment Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:46:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993044/posts Germany's Hans von Storch, one of the world's leading climate scientists, believes that climate change is for real and that humans are responsible. He also believes that we shouldn't fear climate change, that predictions of doom are "hysterical" when they aren't "completely idiotic and dubious," and that many of the science establishment's pronouncements on climate change are bereft of scientific merit."Theories of global warming have left laboratories far behind. Now, they are the stuff of Hollywood," he wrote in Der Spiegel, in an article that castigated global warming alarmists for debasing scientific inquiry and intimidating those who would challenge... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993044/posts#comment Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:02:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993006/posts If you're the type of person who sets aside money today for the university education of your great-great-great grandchildren, even if it means that you may not be able to afford university tuition for your own children, you may think it sensible for society to invest now in major measures to stop global warming.If you're not this type -- and who in his right mind is -- you should forget about Kyoto-like greenhouse-gas reduction targets and the crash programs that would be required to meet them. Doing so would not only be economically prudent, it would be -- by... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993006/posts#comment Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:38:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992495/posts President George Bush meets Pope Benedict in June. Some Vatican authorities are lobbying the Pope to press the U.S. administration to act on global warming."It's not for me to say what the Pope and President Bush should discuss, but certainly they will discuss current issues and therefore I imagine and I hope they will [discuss climate change]," said Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, the Vatican organization charged with developing policy for the environment and social issues.Cardinal Martino spoke at the start of "Climate Change and Development," a Vatican study seminar two weeks... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992495/posts#comment Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:07:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992468/posts Once upon a time, and for millennia before then, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were low and stable. Then came the industrial revolution and CO2 levels began to rise. The more man industrialized, the more that CO2 -- and the temperature -- rose. In the last half century, with industrialization at unprecedented levels, CO2 reached levels unprecedented in the human history. This is the story of global warming.This story is a fable, says Zbigniew Jaworowski, past chairman of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, a participant or chairman of some 20 Advisory Groups... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992468/posts#comment Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:35:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992180/posts In the history of the global-warming movement, no scientist is more revered than Roger Revelle of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Harvard University and University of California San Diego. He was the co-author of the seminal 1957 paper that demonstrated that fossil fuels had increased carbon-dioxide levels in the air. Under his leadership, the President's Science Advisory Committee Panel on Environmental Pollution in 1965 published the first authoritative U.S. government report in which carbon dioxide from fossil fuels was officially recognized as a potential global problem. He was the author of the influential 1982 Scientific American article that elevated global... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992180/posts#comment Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:30:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992136/posts Of all the scientists who are labelled "deniers" because they don't support the orthodoxy of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, none comes in for more vilification than Eigil Friis-Christensen. For understandable reasons.Dr. Friis-Christensen questions the very premise that man-made activities explain most of the global warming that we see, and through his work he has convinced much of an entire scientific discipline to explore his line of inquiry. With his 1991 paper in Science, showing a startling correlation between global warming and the activities of the sun, Dr. Friis-Christensen unleashed a wave of related research by solar... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992136/posts#comment Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:14:19 GMT