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Archives for December 2009

Cash for Carbon in Copenhagen

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Barun Mitra, director of an Indian NGO attending the Copenhagen negotiations and representative of the Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change (www.csccc.info), stated today:

“Today’s G77 walkout at the Copenhagen climate conference is purely a negotiating tactic because there’s so much money at stake. Copenhagen is no longer about climate – it’s about cash and corruption, both for poor and wealthy countries. By accepting restrictions on carbon emissions in exchange for cash, the world’s poorest countries are offering to prevent growth and perpetuate poverty. Ultimately, this could be a tragic repeat of the aid industry in the 1960s and 70s, when the leaders of some of the poorest countries stuffed their Swiss bank accounts – all in the name of the poor.”

Introducing Andrei Illarionov’s Blog

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Dear colleagues,

Some of you may find interesting pieces on Climte Change that I posted recently in my blog.
In most cases text is in Russian, in few – in English.
But charts and pictures are mostly in English.
You may use them as you find suitable.

Best regards,
Andrei Illarionov

Blog:
www.aillarionov.livejournal.com

Texts:
Cyclical Fluctuations of Arctic Climate
http://aillarionov.livejournal.com/143833.html

How “Melts” Ice on the Planet
 http://aillarionov.livejournal.com/143516.html

A Few Notes on Climate Change
http://aillarionov.livejournal.com/143137.html

How “Melts” Arctic Ice
http://aillarionov.livejournal.com/142912.html

Index of Green Madness
http://aillarionov.livejournal.com/142774.html

ClimatGate’s Further Evolution: Scandal in Copenhagen http://aillarionov.livejournal.com/141551.html

Tim Ball on ClimateGate
http://aillarionov.livejournal.com/138601.html

Lysenko-ism on March
http://aillarionov.livejournal.com/137513.html

Vaganov’s File: a New Computer Game
http://aillarionov.livejournal.com/136606.html

Birth and Death of the Hockey Stick
http://aillarionov.livejournal.com/136432.html

Is This a Plateau? Or is it Already Cooling?
http://aillarionov.livejournal.com/135801.html

On the Recent Rate of Warming
http://aillarionov.livejournal.com/135662.html

ClimateGate. Lord Lawson Calls for Public Inquiry http://aillarionov.livejournal.com/134798.html

ClimateGate. Selected Excerpts from the Emails Exchange http://aillarionov.livejournal.com/134798.html

Global Scandalling
http://aillarionov.livejournal.com/134249.html

Scientific-type BS arrived
http://aillarionov.livejournal.com/132129.html

Good-bye, Global Warming! Cycles and Institutions http://aillarionov.livejournal.com/72302.html

Nominate a Best Blog Post

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“Best Blog Posts ‘09 is up and running … Posted by Ken Parish on Wednesday, December 2, 2009… For four years now (ages in blogosphere terms) Club Troppo and On Line Opinion have sponsored a showcase of Australian independent blogging, which we call ‘Best Blog Posts of <year>’…
http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/12/02/best-blog-posts-09-is-up-and-running/ 

Hi Ken/Graham, 

I’ve never been good with forms so I was going to just post my nominations for best blogs for 2009 at Ken’s site.  Then I remembered that I am banned from his site – I think for suggesting in a comment that he was a Labor party man who really knew very little about climate change – after he accused me of being a lackey for the right.

Anyway,  my nominations are following and I hope that even though they have been penned by sceptics, they will be given a fair reading.

Cheers,   Jennifer Marohasy

Warnings about Bushfire Warnings
By Roger Underwood
https://jennifermarohasy.com.dev.internet-thinking.com.au/blog/2009/08/warnings-about-bushfire-warnings/

Hot City or Global Warming?
By Michael Hammer
https://jennifermarohasy.com.dev.internet-thinking.com.au/blog/2009/06/hot-city-or-global-warming/

Why I am an Anthropogenic Global Warming Sceptic
by Michael Hammer
https://jennifermarohasy.com.dev.internet-thinking.com.au/blog/2009/09/why-i-am-an-anthropogenic-global-warming-sceptic-michael-hammer/ 

Defining the Sceptics (Part 5)
by Raymond Harvey
https://jennifermarohasy.com.dev.internet-thinking.com.au/blog/2009/06/defining-the-sceptics-part-5/

The Little Ice Age Thermometers Project

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THE Little Ice Age Thermometers project is an attempt to compile instrumental readings from 1660 that predate the era of modern ‘global temperatures’ as recorded by the Climate Research Unit (CRU)/ Hadley Centre in the UK since 1850 and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) since 1880. 

The project demonstrates that climate variability prior to the modern era is much greater than officially recognised, and that global records are measured from troughs of the little ice age and should therefore cause no surprise when they subsequently rise.

Context to past temperatures that predate instrumental records can be found by examining the various articles within this web site regarding the warmer Medieval warm period (MWP) and Roman warm optimum and the world wide impacts of these- and other- warm and cold events. There are also many links to other web sites contaning invaluable information.

Modern warming – where it exists- often appears to be an artefact of the way temperatures are compiled, or represent very real warming caused locally by the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. UHI is poorly calculated in correction factors used in the global temperature datasets although they themselves are a reflection of the dramatic urbanisation of the world during the past fifty years.

This web site therefore exists primarily as the means to examine historic aspects of climate change in the belief this will help to put the modern era into context, as merely a continuation of what has occurred in the past.

http://climatereason.com/LittleIceAgeThermometers/

Tony Brown
tony AT thefamilybrown.freeserve.co.uk

Recent Papers at ‘Science and Public Policy Institute’

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Climategate: Caught Green-Handed!                     
Written by Christopher Monckton 
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/climategate.html

 Climategate: Is Peer-Review in Need of Change?                       
Written by Chip Knappenberger 
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/commentaries_essays/climategate_peer_review.html

A Simple Proof that Global Warming is not Man-made                    
Written by Dr. David Evans
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/reprint/simple_proof.html

Climate Change: This is the Worst Scientific Scandal of Our Generation                
Written by Christopher Booker
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/commentaries_essays/worst_scandal.html

In Praise of CO2: ‘Earth is the Greenest its been in Decades, Perhaps in Centuries’           
Written by Marc Morano
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/blog_watch/co2_praise.html

Climate Challenges                    
Written by Representative John Linder
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/commentaries_essays/climate_challenges.html

Global Warming’s New Clothes                  
Written by Rosslyn Smith
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/commentaries_essays/new_clothes.html

The Climate Science Isn’t Settled                     
Written by Richard S. Lindzen
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/commentaries_essays/science_isnt_settled.html

Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme                     
Written by Senator Steve Fielding
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/commentaries_essays/carbon_scheme.html

Copenhagen Climate Concerns                   
  Produced by Sherwood, Keith and Craig Idso
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/commentaries_essays/copenhagen_climate_concerns.html

Three Speeches by Michael Crichton                    
By the late Michael Crichton
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/commentaries_essays/crichton_three_speeches.html

Climate Conspiracy                    
Written by Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/commentaries_essays/c_conspiracy.html

My Top 10 Annoyances in the Climate Change Debate                     
Written by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/blog_watch/top_10.html

What is the ‘Hockey Stick’ Debate About?                      
Written by Ross McKitrick 
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/reprint/hockey_debate.html

Extreme Heat vs. Extreme Cold, Which is the Greatest Killer?                  
Written by Sherwood, Keith and Craig Idso
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/commentaries_essays/greatest_killer.html

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Robert Ferguson, President
Science and Public Policy Institute
www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org