Written by Luboš Motl, physicist, reference frame | 12 March 2010

Hadi Dowlatabadi

An interesting aspect is that Richard Lindzen, the skeptic, and Hadi Dowlatabadi, a consensus scientist, agreed about pretty much everything. The changes of the climate are unspectacular, the Earth has seen much bigger changes of temperature and CO2, 600 ppm of CO2 wouldn't do anything visible, and so on.

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Written by Eric Deggans, St. Petersburg Times | 12 March 2010

The question comes at Denis Phillips several times a day, delivered by e-mail from curious viewers struggling with the longest cold snap the Tampa Bay area has seen in a while.

From their end of the send button, it's a simple inquiry. But Phillips, chief meteorologist at Tampa ABC affiliate WFTS-Ch. 28, knows there is no such thing when the question involves whether global warming actually exists.

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Written by Paul Chesser, American Spectator | 12 March 2010

Stephen H. Schneider, King of Spin

Pity the poor Climategaters. The staid were played. Gentlepersons were violated. And the billion-dollar global warming science complex can't compete with spunky skeptics.

Those are some of the complaints registered in newly disclosed emails among members of the National Academy of Sciences, whose messages were mysteriously made public last week via the Washington Times. Some call it Climategate II; Whinergate is more apropos.

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Written by Christopher Monckton, PJTV | 12 March 2010

Where was Nature when James Hansen demanded climate-extremists be put on trial for “high crimes against humanity”

The once-respected science journal Nature recently published a whining editorial to the effect that climate scientists are not criminals, really; that attacks on them by increasingly-skeptical news media are soooo unfair; and that the fundamental science showing that the planet is doomed unless the economies of the West are shut down at once is unchallengeable.

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Written by Robert Felix, Ice Age Now | 10 March 2010

"Almost all of the ice-covered regions of the Earth are melting — and seas are rising," said Al Gore in an op-ed piece in the New York Times on February 27.

Both parts of Gore's statement are false.

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Written by Bob Ellis, Dakota Voice | 10 March 2010

By now virtually everyone on earth is aware of the hysteria being fostered by socialists over global warming.

Al Gore and his disciples claim that any planetary warming that is occurring must be caused by human beings.  After all, the West and America have been dominant for the last century or more, and that is when temperatures seem to have begun to rise (recently in history, that is), so it must be the evil capitalists and their SUVs and industry.

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Written by Climate Quotes | 09 March 2010

In a previous post I mentioned that the IPCC's claim of reduced tourism due to wildfires (section 14.2.7 of WGII) didn't match their source. They claimed there were millions of dollars in tourism losses, but their source did not make that claim. One of the reasons the claim was false was explained in their own source, a British Columbia Tourism newsletter. It said:

It is possible that the stronger performance of regions far from the fires is due to travellers who changed their plans to visit these regions instead of those heavily affected by the forest fires.

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Written by Thomas Fuller, SF Environmental Policy Examiner | 08 March 2010

Penguins playing on the Antarctic ice

Recent months have brought to light data that has (or should have) reduced fears about some of the dramatic effects of global warming. It seems we no longer have to worry about Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035--the IPCC just got it wrong. It appears that the Amazon, African agriculture, damages due to hurricanes and floods and the continued existence of the polar bear are also at lower risk due to global warming than previously thought. Hallelujah!

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Written by Chip Knappenberger, MasterResource | 08 March 2010

Another error in the influential reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports has been identified. This one concerns the rate of expansion of sea ice around Antarctica.

While not an issue for estimates of future sea level rise (sea ice is floating ice which does not influence sea level), a significant expansion of Antarctic sea ice runs counter to climate model projections. As the errors in the climate change “assessment” reports from the IPCC mount, its aura of scientific authority erodes, and with it, the justification for using their findings to underpin national and international efforts to regulate greenhouse gases.

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Written by Fiona Harvey, Financial Times | 08 March 2010

Every night, Anthony Watts blogs on developments in a climate change scandal that he helped uncover. The routine has made the Californian meteorologist one of the most followed global warming sceptics in the world.

“It’s busier than ever – it’s hard to keep up,” says Mr Watts, a TV weatherman for 25 years who now sells weather equipment. “I’ve been blogging every day and some days I wish I could take a vacation.”

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