The Realists Take on Climate Change

We had some fun in reading this from the BBC By Chris Bowlby, the trouble is we think they will try it, and at what cost!

It's the stuff of science fiction, but could mirrors in space or sea water sprayed in the air be shortcuts to halt global warming?

"It's Dr Strangelove. But it's the kind of Dr Strangelove you could see governments really using."

That's how one expert describes geo-engineering - the idea that we can use a kind of technical quick fix to cool the planet if global warming accelerates.

Plans for geo-engineering can sound bizarre.

From NothernSentinel.Com..

The global warming train has left the station here in B.C. Our provincial government has enacted a carbon tax and the cost paid by families and businesses for traditional energy sources will increase every year. Fortunately for taxpayers in other provinces, the debate continues. How has this happened? Mostly because global warming promoters have exaggerated the possible damage to Mother Earth, creating a hysteria that has shifted the global warming debate from an environmental possibility to a vote-getting tool. Politicians who clinging to fads that will have little, if any effect, on global temperatures, can appear to be "doing something" about the environment. Taxpayers need to insist that governments listen to all arguments in the climate change debate before spending billions of dollars on strategies that may do little or nothing 100 years from now.

The consequences of global warming are vastly overstated. For example, Al Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Truth," claims sea levels will rise by 20 feet over the next 100 years, flooding places like New York and Florida. In fact, the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the organization looked to by environmental groups such as the David Suzuki Foundation for their global warming data, claims sea levels will only rise by about one foot.

Tenerife News by Sally Whymark

Climate change isn’t happening was the main message of a course on the subject at the Universidad de Verano de Adeje (UVA) (Adeje summer university). A team of experts in various aspects of the subject , with the exception of one, agreed with this tenet.

The course was led by José Ramón Arévalo Sierra, Profesor of Ecology at the University of La Laguna, who refuted the usual claims that extreme weather conditions are already increasing, or that more forest fires were occurring.

Professor of Geography at the Madrid Complutense University, Maria Eugenia Peréz, spoke about the actual temperature measurements around the globe. She recalled that most temperatures are recorded in urban areas where microclimates can be warmer, and the reduction of the number of stations at high latitudes since the collapse of the USSR, both of which could bias data upwards. She also commented on the reliability of some data, and its short period of collection (some stations only for 50 years), but then showed that the general trend in the last 10 years has been slight cooling. This was after a cool period of around 1940-1970, which was followed by the rapid rise in temperatures to the end of the nineties which caused scientists to start thinking that global warming was happening. She warned against drawing conclusions about climate change from data sets of less than three sets of 30 years.

From Examiner.Com By Joseph D'Aleo

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Global Warming Committee chair Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., recently told students gathered at the U.S. Capitol that climate change caused Hurricane Katrina. "There now is no question that this harm is being caused by human activity. It's warming up the planet and melting the glaciers," he said. "The planet is running a fever."

Markey was not aware that global temperatures stopped warming in 1998 and since 2002 have been declining. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported that the 3,000 global ARGO diving buoys they deployed in 2003 have shown that the world's oceans have cooled, too.

This cooling has occurred even as CO2 increased 3.5 percent. A similar decoupling took place from the 1940s to the late 1970s, when temperatures fell as CO2 accelerated upwards into the post-war boom years. This on-again, off-again correlation suggests CO2 is not the primary driver of climate.

Written by Walter Cunningham, Launch Magazine

NASA has played a key role in one of the greatest periods of scientific progress in history. It is uniquely positioned to collect the most comprehensive data on our biosphere.

For example, recently generated NASA data enabled scientists to finally understand the Gulf Stream warming mechanism and its effect on European weather. Such data will allow us to improve our models, resulting in better seasonal forecasts.

NASA’s Aqua satellite is showing that water vapor, the dominant greenhouse gas, works to offset the effect of carbon dioxide (CO2). This information, contrary to the assumption used in all the warming models, is ignored by global warming alarmists.

Climate understanding and critical decision making require comprehensive data about our planet’s land, sea, and atmosphere. Without an adequate satellite system to provide such data, policy efforts and monitoring international environmental agreements are doomed to failure. Our satellite monitoring capability is being crippled by interagency wrangling and federal budget issues. As much as a third of our satellites need replacing in the next couple of years.

This is a MUST read to ALL CO2Sceptics.......

The Lavoisier Group 2008 Forum and AGM

The Solar System and Earth's Climate

A .pdf copy of my talk to the Lavoisier group AGM in Melbourne Australia on the 11th of July 2008 is available
at:

The Solar System and Earth's Climate

Cheers,

Dr. Ian Wilson

This is just in from the UN News Centre....No sign of any "Global Warming" here!

31 July 2008 – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has provided urgently needed medical supplies to poor farmers in the Peruvian highlands whose livestock are suffering as a result of a severe unseasonable cold spell, known locally as “El friaje.”

The antiparasitic medicines, antibiotics and vitamins are being used to treat some 18,000 alpacas in the country’s Pilpichaca en Huanvavelica district that have been weakened or fallen ill as a result of the unexpected cold snap.

The El friaje phenomenon involves a combination of unseasonable low temperatures, frosts, snow and hail that damages crops and the high-altitude pastures on which alpacas graze, according to Marc Vandersmissen, FAO’s Emergency Coordinator in Peru.

If Charles A Jenkins or someone could post his link we can use it.....This is from Business Gazette

Jenkins (R) believes that the Earth’s climate change is a result of the sun’s energy and heat, and has listed more than 40 articles and videos debunking global warming theory on his county government Web page.

Under the heading ‘‘A Skeptic’s Guide to the Myth of Man-Made Global Warming,” the title of each article and video is listed. Jenkins’ site also includes information about his transportation summit and the incinerator debate.

‘‘I can put whatever I want on the site,” Jenkins said. ‘‘And a lot of people buy into a lot of this junk science” regarding global warming.

Each of the five commissioners has a Web page. On his page, Commissioner John ‘‘Lennie” Thompson Jr. (R) lists accomplishments of his last 10 years in office; Board President Jan H. Gardner (D) lists her speeches and commentaries on government-related topics, such as managing growth.

From the BBC...

New research suggests Antarctica 40 million years ago had a warmer climate than previously thought with little or no ice.

Cardiff University researchers analysed fossils from sediments on a cliff in South Island, New Zealand.

New Zealand was around 1,100km further south 40 million years ago, so was much closer to Antarctica.

The surface sea temperature would have been around 23-25C (73-77F), higher than off the South African coast today.

The research has been published in the journal Geology this week by a team of scientists from the university.

From TheStar.Com

Michael Oliveira
THE CANADIAN PRESS

Many biologists who are studying the potential impacts of climate change on different species and the environment could be coming to faulty conclusions unless they widen the scope of their research, a new Canadian study suggests.

The report, published in the journal Global Change Biology, suggests biologists often use only one of the 31 different climate-change models provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Those models, while generally consistent at predicting climate, can differ significantly in providing data about how the living conditions for certain species are expected to change, the study found.