December 29, 2004
Well grant the editorial staff at Nature this: They never are shy about printing really loosey-goosey stuff whenever the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) needs a boost or on the eve of another glitzy UN confab to discuss global climate change.
December 28, 2004
| Myron Ebell
This year's most politically incorrect book--and also the one likely to have the biggest impact on public opinion--is not by HUMAN EVENTS' Ann Coulter. Nor, surprisingly, is it by any other prominent conservative writer or talker. It's Michael Crichton's new novel, State of Fear.
December 27, 2004
Anyone who has the moral audacity to blame thousands of deaths caused by the Indian Ocean tsunamis on global warming is in grave contravention of well- known facts about changes in sea level in that region.
December 25, 2004
| Steven Milloy
"RealClimate.org" says JunkScience.com is guilty of distortion and data manipulation and, since they obviously need all the help they can get, we're proud to provide a medley of our recent climate meddling, where we manipulate (tabular) data (into graphical format) and willfully distort the global warming industry's scary message.
December 21, 2004
A team led by University of Maine scientists has reported finding a potential link between changes in solar activity and the Earth's climate. In a paper due to be published in an upcoming volume of the Annals of Glaciology, Paul Mayewski, director of UMaine's Climate Change Institute, and 11 colleagues from China, Australia and UMaine describe evidence from ice cores pointing to an association between the waxing and waning of zonal wind strength around Antarctica and a chemical signal of changes in the sun's output.
December 20, 2004
| Iain Murray
Michael Crichton's new blockbuster novel, State of Fear, begins with sex, violence, and oceanography. It's that sort of book all the way through, mixing the usual adventure novel clichs of beautiful young heroes, indestructible secret agents, and a plot to kill millions alongside hard science, including graphs, footnotes, and words like "aminostratigraphy."
December 16, 2004
| Steven Milloy
The international global warming worry-wart community is meeting in Buenos Aires this week to figure out how to get the U.S. to participate in the global economic suicide pact known as the Kyoto Protocol.
December 15, 2004
| Steven Milloy
The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report, then, was really all about laying the groundwork for the Inuits to sue the U.S. and U.S. companies! Moreover, U.S. taxpayers paid for the report, which will now be used as a basis to sue us!
December 15, 2004
Preliminary data indicate 2004 likely will register as the fourth-warmest year in the world's surface temperature record. Yet despite all the gloom-and-doom scenarios, we haven't experienced an all-time record-setter since the big El Nio back in 1998. Our planet may be warming, but not at a torrid clip.
December 13, 2004
The effects for Pennsylvania won't be all bad, according to research done by Shortle and his colleagues. "Climate change is likely to benefit our state's agriculture," he explains. "Higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere should stimulate photosynthesis and raise crop yields, while crops may also benefit from additional spring and summer rainfall and warmer temperatures."
December 10, 2004
| Steven Milloy
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) complained to the Washington Post in a published letter (Dec. 11) that too much space was given to the views of Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute in a Dec. 2 Post article on global warming. Lautenberg's letter is below. My comments are in bold and indented.
December 9, 2004
| Steven Milloy
As determined by NOAA Satellite-mounted MSUs
December 7, 2004
Researchers at North Carolina State University have shown that the amount of aerosols dust particles, soot from automobile emissions and factories, and other airborne particles in the atmosphere has a significant impact on whether the surface area below either absorbs or emits more carbon dioxide (CO2).
December 7, 2004
| Dr. John Christy
Global composite temp.: +0.15 C (about 0.27 degrees Fahrenheit) above 20-year average for November.
December 6, 2004
Key scientific questions remain unanswered.
December 1, 2004
A NASA study suggests changing winds and currents in the Indian Ocean during the 1990s contributed to the observed warming of the ocean during that period. The findings, published in a recent issue of Geophysical Research Letters, have potential implications for long- term regional climate variability.
November 30, 2004
| Richard S. Lindzen
Politicization of the global warming issue has rendered real communication almost impossible. First, it leads to a meaningless polarization associated with meaningless questions: Do you believe in global warming? Are you a skeptic or a believer?
November 30, 2004
November 29, 2004
A Northeastern University researcher today announced that he has found that the soil below oak trees exposed to elevated levels of carbon dioxide had significantly higher carbon levels than those exposed to ambient carbon levels. The findings are consistent with the hypothesis that elevated carbon dioxide levels are increasing carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems and slowing the build-up of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
November 29, 2004
This response to the contents of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) concerns alarmist and highly questionable conclusions about Arctic climate and its variability.
