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Archives for June 22, 2007

Some Weekend Reading from Marc Morano

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1. Scientist who warned of coming ice age in the 1970’s is still standing behind global cooling prediction

Excerpt: ‘Thanks to new evidence that Dr. Kukla only recently published, he now knows that global warming always precedes an ice age. That makes the current period of global warming a mere blip that constitutes additional indication of the ice age to come.’

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/comment/story.html?id=bdc24964-7f82-4f7a-863c-f0ff43010278

2. Another Scientist predicts cooling:

Solar output drives climate change: ‘We should prepare now for dangerous global cooling’

Climate scientist claims new research is shattering ‘myths’ about global warming

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/comment/story.html?id=597d0677-2a05-47b4-b34f-b84068db11f4&p=4

3. Report: Global Warming: Forecasts by Scientists versus Scientific Forecasts

‘We have been unable to find a single scientific forecast to support the currently widespread belief in dangerous, human-caused “global warming”.

http://www.nzclimatescience.org/images/PDFs/warmaudit31.pdf

4. Al Gore Gets Rich After White House – ‘Former Vice President Is Worth at Least $100 Million, Thanks to Smart Business Ventures’

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3281925

5. Environmental toilet water flow restrictions in Australia necessitate using toilet brush and flushing twice

‘Toilets that don’t do what toilets are supposed to do. Famous 19th-century British pioneer of sanitary plumbing, Thomas Crapper, would be rolling in his grave.’

http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/flushed-with-the-best-intentions/2007/06/20/1182019196282.html?page=fullpage

6. Environmental group reports U.S. leading world in toilet paper use

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5142

7. Update: Worldwide reaction teaches fourth-graders who wrote global warming report a lesson on free-speech

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=115838&ac=PHedi

8. Flashback: Maine fourth-graders issue climate report: ‘Global warming is a huge pending global disaster’

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=113600

9. CLIMATE: Silly science of fourth-grade climate report – Paper: Fourth-grader’s ‘fed propaganda masquerading as science’

‘America’s schoolchildren are being fed propaganda masquerading as science, and as it is with the global-warmists’ computer models, it’s garbage in, garbage out.’

http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=25817

10. Left-winger counters global warming hysteria

http://info.detnews.com/weblog/index.cfm?blogid=10038

11. President of Czech Republic: ‘Do you really ‘see’ any damage caused by current warming?’

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e9df7200-19c7-11dc-99c5-000b5df10621.html

12. Terrorism Fears Surpass Global Warming in U.S.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/16199

13. Hold the Line on Global Warming

http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20070618.html

14. BBC’s Hypocritical Analysis of its Own Global Warming Coverage
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0620-climate_poll.html or alternate article: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/june20/warming-062007.html

16. Climate change movie “The Tipping Point” begins production

http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070620-14430600-bc-britain-climatemovie.xml

17. Going Green: The Media Reveal a Major Color Scheme

Journalists lose their jaded attitudes and embrace an environmental pallet for just about everything.

http://www.businessandmedia.org/commentary/2007/20070620155029.aspx

18. Too Busy Admiring Greens to Notice What They’re Really About

Environmentalists want to limit our society and your behavior, but you won’t hear that from the media.

http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2007/20070620135046.aspx

18. Farming the oceans to combat global warming

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/6823/

19. An American company wants to seed the oceans with iron, helping to grow plankton, and fight global warming.

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/6823/

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Thanks Marc Morano for all these links.
Happy reading.
I’m off to Noosa for the weekend.

Fish, Mud and Global Cooling

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In 1998 Timothy Patterson from the Department of Earth Sciences at Carlton University, Canada, was funded to determine if there were regular cycles in West Coast fish productivity. The government was looking to establish appropriate fishing quotas including for species of anchovies, herring known to have “wide swings” in populations abundance.

Patterson writes in an article for the Financial Post entitled ‘Read the Sunspots’:

“In one season there would be abundant stock and broad harvesting would be acceptable; the very next year the fisheries would collapse. No one really knew why or how to predict the future health of this crucially important resource.”

He goes on to explain how in a search for a predictor of climate over thousands of years as a predictor of fish abundance his research team began collect and analyze core samples from the bottom of deep Western Canadian fjords.

The subtitle of the article is “solar output drives climate change – and we should prepare now for dangerous global cooling.”

I really like the opening paragraph:

“Politicians and environmentalists these days convey the impression that climate-change research is an exceptionally dull field with little left to discover. We are assured by everyone from David Suzuki to Al Gore to Prime Minister Stephen Harper that “the science is settled.” At the recent G8 summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel even attempted to convince world leaders to play God by restricting carbon-dioxide emissions to a level that would magically limit the rise in world temperatures to 2C.”

And midway through the piece there is a list of the two dozen or so article in the series on the ‘Deniers’ : The National Post’s series on scientists who buck the conventional wisdom on climate science.

Read more here: http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/comment/story.html?id=597d0677-2a05-47b4-b34f-b84068db11f4&p=4