Richard S. Lindzen … delivered a biting attack on what he called the “climate alarm movement.” … Dr. Lindzen also criticized widely publicized assertions by other skeptics that variations in the sun were driving temperature changes in recent decades. Read more here in the New York Times. Bob Carter’s report on Session 1 is here.
Archives for March 2009
Bob Carter’s Report on the First Session at the Climate Conference in New York
Folks,
You may be interested in my reports from the NY climate conference which are being posted by Quadrant Online.
In my report on session one I comment that:
President Vaclav Klaus reports latest poll from the Czech Republic shows only 11% of people believe that man has a significant influence in warming the climate.
West Australian Joanne Nova’s Climate Skeptics Handbook launched, and a 150,000 print run announced.
“We will win this debate”, says Dr Richard Lindzen, “for we are right and they are wrong”.
More here:
http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2009/03/heartland-2-session-one
Bob Carter
New York
9th March, 2009
It’s Just Not Possible to Forecast Climate
CLIMATE is complex and represents exactly the kind of system that cannot be modeled with any accuracy. At least that is according to Kesten Green, a forecasting expert at Monash University, Australia. Dr Green argues that a key question when trying to predict future climate is to ask: Can we do better than assume future temperatures will be the same as current temperatures?
In the following paper, based on a presentation to be given at the second international Climate Conference in New York later today, Dr Kesten explains that there is no scientific basis for the United Nation’s International Panel on Climate Change forecasts of global warming.
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Conference Delegates Described as Deniers
UK Guardian reports on Climate Conference in New York and argues “climate change denial, although the view of a minority, has damaged efforts to introduce policies to address the changes.” Read more here.
European Union President to Open Skeptics Conference
THE President of the Czech Republic and the current president of the European Union, Vaclav Klaus, will give the keynote address this evening at the opening of the second international Conference on Climate Change – billed as the world’s largest-ever gathering of global warming skeptics.
The President is expected to be blunt when he addresses the 400 strong-audience who have flown in from around the world.
The theme of the conference is “Global warming: was it ever really a crisis?”
President Klaus has remarked that there is no climate crisis, but the consequences of a belief in “the crisis” are indeed frightening.
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Steig’s Antarctic Heartburn
For those who enjoy the technical, there is more on Antarctic temperatures, with information on the reconstruction by Eric Steig, at Anthony Watt’s blog, click here.
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.