US Senator Kent Conrad said that it would be a “distant hope” to expect the climate change plan to pass unless it includes help for industries that would be hit hard by limits on carbon emission production. Read more here.
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Sceptics Conference in New York, Day 2
James Taylor, in introducing the breakfast speakers, noted his regret that Mr Al Gore and Dr James Hansen had been unable to attend the conference. Read more from Bob Carter here.
Redefining the Limits of Global Warming
YESTERDAY, at the second International Conference on Climate Change in New York, Australian climatologist William Kininmonth explained that: The computer models on which the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change bases its projections significantly underestimate the rate of increase of evaporation with increasing temperature. As a consequence, Mr Kininmonth explained they grossly exaggerate the surface temperature increase from carbon dioxide. It follows that the suggestion that global temperature might pass a ‘tipping point’ and even go into a phase of ‘runaway global warming’ are not realistic because the oceans and the hydrological cycle are a natural constraint on anthropogenic global warming.
Skeptics Conference in New York, Session 1
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.
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.
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.