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AGW Myths

from Hot Air, What the mainstream media wont tell you about global warming by Jeff Dunetz excerpt: 4) There is not ONE climate computer model that has accurately connected CO2 to climate change. In fact CO2 is at its highest levels in

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Unwarranted Climate Predictions

From The Weekly Standard, The Party of Reason, by Jeff Bergner Excerpt: Unrepeatable events like the evolution of the world’s species and the evolution of the world’s climate are inherently difficult to explain, and their future course is even harder to

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Sensitivity to Contradiction

from The Global Warming Statistical Meltdown by Judith Curry in The Wall Street Journal Excerpts: Human-caused warming depends not only on increases in greenhouse gases but also on how “sensitive” the climate is to these increases. Climate sensitivity is defined

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Nasty Little Tyrants

From National Review, Robert Kennedy Jr., Aspiring Tyrant by Charles Cooke Excerpts: Those who contend that global warming “does not exist,” Kennedy claimed, are guilty of “a criminal offense — and they ought to be serving time for it.” Kennedy’s

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Enforced Orthodoxy

Outside the ‘Consensus’–Notes of a Climate Change ‘Denier’ –  by Peter Wood excerpts: That diversity, of course, is nearly unheard of in the academy itself, where a hardened orthodoxy is enforced with increasing determination. The enforcement itself tells a story. No

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Scratching the Instincts

In The American Spectator Online THE PEOPLE AND THE EXPERTS The hollowness at the core of liberalism today. By William Murchison Excerpts: The lack of a coherent, understandable goal. What would Climate Reform look like, once accomplished? Would all regions

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Consensus is a Political Act- Not a Scientific Act

Outside the ‘Consensus’–Notes of a Climate Change ‘Denier’ –  by Peter Wood excerpts: In time, scientific controversies get resolved, often by the emergence of new kinds of evidence that no one originally imagined. Views that are maintained, to some degree, by

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97% Bullshit

That’s a 0.3% consensus, not 97% by Joanne Nova Excerpt: We’ve already found enough flaws, but Christopher Monckton analyzes John Cook’s 97% consensus paper and sharpens the scythe. He finds: It should never have been done, it’s an unscientific method

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Science is Not a Democracy

from Popular Technology. Net 97% Study Falsely Classifies Scientists’ Papers, according to the scientists that published them Shaviv: “Science is not a democracy, even if the majority of scientists think one thing (and it translates to more papers saying so),

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Embracing Skepticism

from A Change fo Climate by Mark Steyn: “Climate Change Not A Top Worry In US,” reports Gallup, deadpan. Washington’s Potemkin parliament can hold as manypajama parties as it wants, but Big Climate absolutism is going nowhere, and the savvier scientists –

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Genghis Khan and AGW

  From The National Review Online, Alec Torres writes  Global Warming & the Mongolian Empire’s Rise: Now a recent study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences argues that there is a correlation between increasing global temperatures and the rise of the Mongolian

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The Need to Validate the Models

from Investors Business Daily, Democrats, NASA Scientists And Global Warming: Rather than bash deniers, or fence them into some lepers ghetto as Apple CEO Tim Cook and Virgin CEO Richard Branson seem to want, the senators should have invited the

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The Data Doesn’t Matter

From American Thinker, The Dead Parrot of Climate Change Said shopkeeper is exemplified in real life by Prof. Chris Folland, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research: “The data doesn’t matter. We’re not basing our recommendations on the data. We’re

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Oversold Certainty

From Patrick Michaels atForbes Will The Overselling Of Global Warming Lead To A New Scientific Dark Age? Excerpts: Science changed dramatically in the 1970s, when the reward structure in the profession began to revolve around the acquisition of massive amounts

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“The Perils of Extrapolation”

Andrew Stuttaford write Our Climate Change Cathedral in the National Review. Excerpts: Inevitably, Darwall is unable to resist mentioning earlier doomsayers that have got it spectacularly wrong. These include old Thomas Malthus, the Nixon era’s Club of Rome, and William

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Notes on The Global Warming Contest

When climatologists such as John Coleman debunk AGW, the believers contest that he is not the right kind of scientist to dispute the “science”.  He is after all “just a weatherman”. Al Gore is certainly no scientist and has less

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