Archive for January 28th, 2009
No Scientific Forecasts to Support Global Warming
Posted by jennifer, January 28th, 2009 - under News, Opinion.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, People
Comments: 116
YESTERDAY, a former chief at NASA, Dr John S. Theon, slammed the computer models used to determine future climate claiming they are not scientific in part because the modellers have “resisted making their work transparent so that it can be replicated independently by other scientists”. [1]
Today, a founder of the International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of [...]
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Pesticide Ban to ‘Wipe Out’ Carrot Crop
Posted by jennifer, January 28th, 2009 - under News.
Tags: Food & Farming, Pesticides & Other Chemicals
Comments: none
DESPITE intense opposition from farmer groups and scientists, the European Parliament voted last week to approve new regulations that could ultimately outlaw up to one-quarter of the pesticides on the European market. Read more here. [Subscription only.]
Iron Sulphate to be Dumped in Southern Ocean
Posted by jennifer, January 28th, 2009 - under News.
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GERMANY gave the green light on Monday to a controversial plan with India to drop six tons of iron dust into the Antarctic Ocean. The experiment is the biggest trial ever of iron fertilization, a technology which could stop global warming at very little cost. Read more here. I have previously suggested that your concept of nature [...]
Former NASA Boss Declares Himself a Sceptic and Slams Climate Models
Posted by jennifer, January 28th, 2009 - under News.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, People
Comments: 101
IT used to be common for global warming activists to claim that anyone who disagrees with them must be in the pay of “big oil” – remember Al Gore said this in his documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. More recently the accusation has been that anyone who disagrees with them doesn’t understand the science and therefore [...]