The President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, spoke yesterday at the Mont Pelerin Society meeting here in Tokyo. He is a well known global warming skeptic and author of a ‘Blue Planet in Green Shackles’. In the book's introduction, the … [Read more...] about Blue Planet in Green Shackles: A Book by Vaclav Klaus
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Not Much Ice at the Arctic in 1818
Dear Jennifer As any internet search confirms, climate change doomsayers use Greenland as a key indicator of "global warming". At least some of the phenomena they observe are clearly not the effect of greenhouse gases. Take for example the … [Read more...] about Not Much Ice at the Arctic in 1818
Sea Levels Can’t Rise by MORE than 2 Metres by 2100
In 2006, in his famous documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore claimed sea levels would rise by 20 feet (six metre). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is more conservative, suggesting a rise of no more than 0.60m by … [Read more...] about Sea Levels Can’t Rise by MORE than 2 Metres by 2100
Bill Kininmonth Requests Explanation of the Greenhouse Effect
Bill Kininmonth knows a lot about climate science, he is a meteorologist and he was the head of Australia’s National Climate Centre from 1986 to 1998. He is also a well known global warming skeptic and is particularly critical of the idea that the … [Read more...] about Bill Kininmonth Requests Explanation of the Greenhouse Effect
Second Attempt to Deny the Medieval Warm Period: New Paper by Michael Mann
In yesterday’s The Australian science writer Leigh Dayton claims that the northern hemisphere is hotter now than at any time in the past 1500 years. The article qualified her comment with this is “according” to the most comprehensive reconstruction … [Read more...] about Second Attempt to Deny the Medieval Warm Period: New Paper by Michael Mann
The Earth’s Climate is Tracking into Uncharted Territory: A Note from Andrew Glikson
Studies of Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles based on sediments and ice cores back to 640 000 years (640 kyr) document abrupt initiation of global warming and cooling events over short time scales of decades to a few years, implying extreme … [Read more...] about The Earth’s Climate is Tracking into Uncharted Territory: A Note from Andrew Glikson