Articles Tagged "Madhav L Khandekar"

CLICK to see 'Global warming no threat to humanity' by Madhav L. Khandekar - epaper from Hindustantimes.com

Today’s informative and provocative article addresses what is perhaps the primary driving force behind the global warming scares, the claims of imminent planetary disaster, the demands that we funnel billions to climate researchers and renewable energy developers – the insistence that we redistribute hundreds of billions annually from rich nations to poor countries, to atone for our carbon dioxide “sins” and help poor countries cope with the ravages of climate change that we have supposedly caused.

That driving force is computer models – which climate alarmists claim PROVE manmade global warming disasters are “real” … and which they insist can accurately predict the “catastrophic” future that awaits us, if we don’t change our evil ways.

Thank you for considering it for publication – and hopefully giving your readers some new perspectives on what climate computer models can and cannot do. A lot is at stake in Cancun. Perhaps this informative article will help bring some common sense to the proceedings.

All the best,

Paul

False prophecies beget faulty policies

Computer models cannot forecast 2030 Indian summer monsoons

by Willie Soon and Madhav Khandekar

Introduction

Among the extreme weather events of summer 2010, the extensive floods in Pakistan and their widespread impacts garnered maximum attention in the media as well as in the scientific community.

Several climate scientists expressed concern about such weather extremes becoming more common with future climate change, while the WMO (World Meteorological Organization) issued a statement that the weather related cataclysms of July and August ( 2010) fit patterns predicted by climate scientists.

The extensive damage due to floods and plight of thousands of people marooned over waterlogged areas were graphically covered in heart-wrenching details by most newspapers and TV news stories in Canada. Per latest estimates, the floods have claimed over 1500 human fatalities so far and over two million more have been rendered homeless. From a personal perspective, the TV footage of women & children in knee-deep water brought back poignant memories of a similar situation I witnessed in Pune, my former home-town (a city 200 km southeast of Mumbai, the largest Indian city on the west coast) in July 1961 when incessant monsoon rains in the first week of July 1961 led to the breaking of a dam resulting in massive flooding of the city, destroying hundreds of homes and drowning dozens of people living along the riverside.