Alarmist propagandist? I have been calling for careful rationale and responsible interpretation of evidence. I have been given sufficient indication that a consensus exists from multiple independent sources, which at the very least makes it reasonable to accept.
How can you ignore emails between researchers that are allegedly part of your claimed 97% that prove they are not in agreement and that the so-called consensus is a fallacious propagandistic claim used to attempt to create a false reality that will sound convincing enough to fool the masses?
Why is it that you eagerly will accept their doom and gloom scare tactics but you refuse to accept what they have said to each other, in what they thought would be private and nothing they discussed would ever be revealed to the public?
If at any time they would be their most honest when discussing in what was believed to be a safe and private way. So why will you refuse to accept what they discussed with each other and instead only believe what they decided among themselves to be revealed for public consumption?
It makes no sense whatsoever. It would be like if in the past people refused to believe what was heard said on Nixon's secret tapes and instead only believed what he claimed when giving a public speech or when questioned and knowing his answers would be made public.
31,487 American scientists have signed this petition,
including 9,029 with PhDs.
Alarmists try to portray the science of global warming as settled by the consensus. There may be a media-based political consensus, but there is much non-consensus in the scientific community but those who disagree do not get coverage, and in some cases get their funding cut off (which is why the most vocal group of critics of the anthropogenic theory is retired atmospheric science professors and researchers).
Nigel Calder, a former editor of New Scientist views CO2 as a symptom of global warming caused by the sun. [
http://www.business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1363818.ece ] He says:
[FONT="]Twenty years ago, climate research became politicised in favour of one particular hypothesis, which redefined the subject as the study of the effect of greenhouse gases[/FONT][FONT="]. As a result, the rebellious spirits essential for innovative and trustworthy science are greeted with impediments to their research careers[/FONT].
IPCC Cross-Examination
May, 2010: A cross-examination of the IPCC (referred to as the climate establishment) was conducted Jason Johnston of the University of Virginia School of Law [
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1612851##]
[FONT="]A review of the peer-edited literature reveals a systematic tendency of the climate establishment to engage in a variety of stylized rhetorical techniques that seem to
oversell what is actually known about climate change while concealing fundamental uncertainties and open questions regarding many of the key processes involved in climate change.
Fundamental open questions include not only the size but the direction of feedback effects that are responsible for the bulk of the temperature increase predicted to result from atmospheric greenhouse gas increases: while climate models all presume that such feedback effects are on balance strongly positive,
more and more peer-edited scientific papers seem to suggest that feedback effects may be small or even negative. The cross-examination conducted in this paper reveals many additional areas where the peer-edited literature seems to conflict with the picture painted by establishment climate science, ranging from the magnitude of 20th century surface temperature increases and their relation to past temperatures;
the possibility that inherent variability in the earths non-linear climate system, and not increases in CO2, may explain observed late 20th century warming; the ability of climate models to actually explain past temperatures; and, finally,
substantial doubt about the methodological validity of models used to make highly publicized predictions of global warming impacts such as species loss.[/FONT]
[FONT="]when one looks closely at the scientific literature, it turns out that some of the most crucial (and actually testable) predictions or assumptions underlying predictions of dangerous climate change are not in fact being confirmed by observations[/FONT]
The entire cross-examination is worth reading.
There was another claimed scientific consensus in the 70's. The scientists involved were as positive of their claims as the alarmists of today.
Do you remember this? I do.
The claim was made that;
[FONT="]The world could be as little as 50 or 60 years away from a disastrous new ice age."
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Alarmist scientists were incorrect then. So why would anyone be gullible enough to believe that alarmist scientists are correct now?[/FONT]
The alarmist fraud has taken advantage of a normal temperature change and attempted to blame it on man and make it sound like it would have catastrophic results. Was, for a period of time, the planet getting warmer? Of course it got warmer, it was undergoing a normalization process. It went up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because were coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because were putting more carbon dioxide into the air. The increase stopped in something like 1998 and since something like 2003 the temperature has been decreasing.
U.S. and global Temperatures are cooling
*October 2009 U.S. temperatures according to NOAA were the third coldest in 115 years of record keeping, 4 degrees below the average temperature for this month.
link October 2009 also had the most snow in the U.S. than has ever been recorded for that month.
*Germany recorded in 2009 its lowest October temperature in history
link. New Zealand had record low October temperatures and record late snows
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Siberia may have had its coldest winter in history in 2009-2010
link European and Asian temperatures in the winter 2009-2010 were well below normal
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*According to the NCDC U.S. temperatures in October 2009 was on average the third coldest in 116 years, November was the 4th coldest, and February 2010 was the 29th coldest. U.S. temperatures December '09 - February '10 were well below normal
link. UK experiences coldest May temps in 15 years
link , October '09 through March '10 was the snowiest on record in the northern hemisphere
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*In the U.S. temperatures cooled in five of the last seven decades even though CO2 levels increased steadily throughout this period.
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*In February 2010, the Northern Hemisphere had the second largest area of snow coverage ever recorded
link and North America had the most snow cover ever recorded. Snow coverage in the Northern hemisphere has been growing since 1998. Snow in areas where it usually does not snow can only be because temperatures are colder, and not from global warming. The additional snow was not because of higher levels of humidity, according to NCDC February '10 was the 47th driest in 116 years.
July 2010, South America experiences historic cold weather
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Argentina experiences coldest winter in 40 years
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Summer 2010, record cold in Australia
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Cold weather kills 600 rare Penguins in South Africa
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In spite of all the hot weather of late, according to NOAA 62% of the continental U.S. had below normal temperatures January-July 2010
August 2010, hundreds die in Peru from record cold
link October 2010, hundreds of thousands of sheep die in New Zealand from winter weather
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Early December 2010, snow impacts millions in Europe
link Denmark experiences coldest November 2010 temps in 131 years
link Sweden braces for coldest November 2010 temperatures in over 100 yearsl
link UK midlands expect coldest November temps in 134 years
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December 2010, The central England temperature record in early December was the second coolest since records began in 1649, UK experiences coldest December in history
link UK is paralyzed by blizzards. Only essential travel allowed.
Near record cold in Europe, India, and Asia
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January 2011, 7,000 buffaloes die from cold in Vietnam
link Bitter cold sets records in Korea
link 800,000 animals lost from cold in Mongolia
link Snow flattens 100,000 homes in China
February 2011, Moscow has coldest winter in 100 years
link. Record low temperatures in San Francisco and Spokane
link Link Minneapolis has most snow emergency days in city's history
link New York City and Philadelphia shatter snowfall records
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Winter 2010-2011 in the US, 39th coldest in 113 years of records.
link link Temperatures are dropping an average of 4.1 deg F per decade
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Coldest
March ('11) in Australia history
link Global temperatures in first 3 months of '11 are the coolest in the past decade
link May '11 Australian ski slopes to open early with early cold
link Seattle has coldest April in history in 2011
link Darwin Austalia has coldest May and June 2011 temps in history
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Northern Australia has coolest
May in history
link Record 2011 US snowpacks threaten western states
link Record Sierra Mtn snowfall
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Record 2011 snowpack in Rockies
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July 2011, South America gripped by brutal winter
link July 2011 New Zealand sets record for coldest day ever
link Unusual snows hit South Africa in late July 2011
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August 2011, Auckland New Zealand has coldest temperature in history, and first snow since 1939
link New Zealand worst blizzards in 50 years
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Sept '11 Minnesota has record low temperatures and tie earliest snow record
linkParts of the UK have the coolest summer in 20 years, butterfly population suffers
link Switzerland has record September snows
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October '11, extremely rare early snow in Germany
link Earliest snows in Ireland since 1964
link New York City has largest October snow since the Civil War
link Many records set for earliest snow and most snow in the northeast USA for October, millions without power
link Many snow records broken in New England.
link Colorado ski resorts have ealiest season opening in history
link 80% of Australia cooler than normal in first ten months of 2011
link Record 2011 snow in U.S.
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November '11 British Columbia ski resort has earliest opening in its history
link record Alaska snow
link Russia south hit with record low temps
link Northern Hemisphere has record snow cover extent for this date
link Fairbanks Alaska has record low temps of -41F, 39 degrees below avg temp.
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December '11, Australia has coolest start to summer in 50 years, Brisbane coldest temps in 126 years
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The best and most accurate way to measure global temperatures are from satellites that measure atmospheric temperatures. See how atmospheric temperatures have changed since the start of measurement in 1979
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Total global polar sea ice extent is largely unchanged over the past 30 years
*When adding the sea ice volumes at both poles there is about the same ice as 30 years ago
link. Antarctica has 90% of the world's ice and had the most sea ice ever recorded at the end of 2008, over one million square kilometers above the average maximum. The global sea ice extent today (combined sea ice at both Poles) is nearly the same as the average of the last 30 years according to NASA and NSIDC
link link View today's Antarctic sea ice extent compared to the 1979-2007 average (National Snow and Ice Data Center)
link link While it is true Arctic sea ice volumes have been overall slightly less today than the average of the last 30 years the ice there has been growing the past several years and as of mid September 2009 there was 24% more ice than just two years earlier, which is over 1 million square kilometers of new ice since 2007. There is also substantially more multi year ice in the Arctic in 2009 than just one year earlier
link Antarctic sea ice extent in September 2009 is also growing and is 1 million square kilometers more than the previous year. In 2009 the Antarctic had the most Summer ice ever recorded
link. The 2010 Arctic sea ice melt has started later than at any time ever recorded. Arctic ice volumes in April 2010 are the largest in nine years and are now close to the average of the last 30.View today's Arctic sea ice extent, AMSR-E
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2010 Antarctic ice extent was the third largest ever recorded. Average snowfall in Antarctica was the most ever recorded
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See current ice conditions in the Northern Hemisphere
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Ocean temperatures are cooling*NSIDC/NASA AMSR-E also shows that the overall trend of ocean temperatures since 2002 is one of cooling in spite of a recent short lived El Nino warming event
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The oceans have been cooling which is contrary to climate model predictions
link See how Argo is measuring ocean temperatures throughout the globe
link Argo research (with its 3,300 ocean buoys) has found ocean temperatures are cooler.
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The PDO (Pacific) is moving towards a cool period (La Nina). See current ocean surface temperatures from the NOAA
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Track mid Atlantic storm formation here, NOAA
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Global storms and their intensity are in decline
*The trend for violent tornadoes is in decline in the US
link. U.S. landfall hurricanes are less numerous and powerful than decades ago. Global hurricane, typhoon, and cyclone activity are nearing 50 year lows according to Florida State University
link Deaths from severe weather events are in decline
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Global cyclone activity is at 33 year lows at the end of the 2010 hurricane season. Pacific storms lowest since recording began in 1945.
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There have been few hurricanes to reach US shores in the past three years which is highly unusual
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Global hurricane (tornado) activity in 2010 was at the lowest level in three decades even though 2010 was a warm year overall
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Polar Bear populations are of record size
Some say Polar Bears are threatened but there are more polar bears today than ever recorded, an increase of 300%+ since the 1950s.
link link The scientific name for Polar bears is Ursus Maritimus, which means sea bear. Polar Bears are excellent swimmers and can swim 200 miles or more
link. A Polar Bear with a radio tracking collar swam over 400 miles in 9 days and without rest
link Polar bears have survived periods when the Arctic melted completely in the past (they moved to land). Polar bear face bright future
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Solar activity is lower. This has led to cooler temperatures in the past
So what has changed? CO2 concentrations continue to increase yet temperatures have been falling since 2002? Polar ice is growing. Storm intensity is in decline. One reason may be that solar activity is at the lowest level in almost a Century.
link link link See what the sun looks like with and without sunspots
link In the past periods with fewer sunspots and lower solar activity were ones with cooler temperatures. It is believed by some scientists that lower solar activity increases cloud formation and this has a cooling effect. If the past is a predictor of the future, these changes in solar activity will cause a 30 year period of cooling temperatures on earth and in fact it appears that this has already begun. See solar activity charts here
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See the combined impact of ocean and solar cycles on global temperatures
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Europe, North America and many other areas of the Earth have recently experienced a score of unusually low temperatures. So where is the global warming that we are preparing for? 
. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria and FAO, Rome, Italy.
