Archive for the Global Warming Category
Nick Gillespie talks Bulb Ban on Stossel
Posted in Brown Shirts, control, Global Warming, Liberty on December 12, 2011 by spikestlMOB MENTALITY!!
Posted in control, Cool Beans, Global Warming, Health Control, Racism on September 2, 2011 by spikestl
Green Agenda~ The Future for Monster Trucks
Posted in Cool Beans, FAIL, Global Warming on August 24, 2011 by spikestl
“Gov. Christie to pull NJ out of cap-and-trade energy program”
Posted in Cool Beans, Global Warming, politics on May 26, 2011 by spikestlMichael Moore: Obama Should Use Power Over Auto Companies To Kill Cars, Replace With Mass Transit
Posted in FAIL, Global Warming on May 25, 2011 by spikestl{EAV_BLOG_VER:09130eb3bb0606fc}
Stewart Varney grills Dale Bryk of the NRDC
Posted in FAIL, Global Warming, Liberty on May 19, 2011 by spikestlDale Bryk of the Natural Resources Defence council discusses the governments push for more efficient lighting.
I love her quote at the 3:22 mark “You poor citizens are going to have all the choices that you have now, Except, you’re going to be Required to save about $200 a year.”
Gulf Oil Rigs Struggle From Lack of Permits
Posted in Clowerd and Piven "collapse the system", Global Warming, politics with tags Big Government, Global Warming, Stupid on September 27, 2010 by spikestlTop Gear; BMW M3 gets better gas mileage than Toyota Prius.
Posted in Cool Beans, FAIL, Global Warming with tags BMW M3, Top Gear, Toyota Prius on August 5, 2010 by spikestlLord Monckton v. Al Gore: Doubling Down On Global Warming
Posted in Cool Beans, Global Warming with tags Fraud, Global Warming, hoax, loser on March 3, 2010 by spikestlWorld may not be warming, say scientists
Posted in FAIL, Global Warming with tags Fraud, Global Warming, hoax on February 16, 2010 by spikestlFrom The U.K. Sunday Times February 14, 2010
Jonathan Leake
The United Nations climate panel faces a new challenge with scientists casting doubt on its claim that global temperatures are rising inexorably because of human pollution.
In its last assessment the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the evidence that the world was warming was “unequivocal”.
It warned that greenhouse gases had already heated the world by 0.7C and that there could be 5C-6C more warming by 2100, with devastating impacts on humanity and wildlife. However, new research, including work by British scientists, is casting doubt on such claims. Some even suggest the world may not be warming much at all.
“The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change,” said John Christy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
These stations, they believe, have been seriously compromised by factors such as urbanisation, changes in land use and, in many cases, being moved from site to site.
Christy has published research papers looking at these effects in three different regions: east Africa, and the American states of California and Alabama.
“The story is the same for each one,” he said. “The popular data sets show a lot of warming but the apparent temperature rise was actually caused by local factors affecting the weather stations, such as land development.”
The IPCC faces similar criticisms from Ross McKitrick, professor of economics at the University of Guelph, Canada, who was invited by the panel to review its last report.
The experience turned him into a strong critic and he has since published a research paper questioning its methods.
“We concluded, with overwhelming statistical significance, that the IPCC’s climate data are contaminated with surface effects from industrialisation and data quality problems. These add up to a large warming bias,” he said.
Such warnings are supported by a study of US weather stations co-written by Anthony Watts, an American meteorologist and climate change sceptic.
His study, which has not been peer reviewed, is illustrated with photographs of weather stations in locations where their readings are distorted by heat-generating equipment.
Some are next to air- conditioning units or are on waste treatment plants. One of the most infamous shows a weather station next to a waste incinerator.
Watts has also found examples overseas, such as the weather station at Rome airport, which catches the hot exhaust fumes emitted by taxiing jets.
In Britain, a weather station at Manchester airport was built when the surrounding land was mainly fields but is now surrounded by heat-generating buildings.
Terry Mills, professor of applied statistics and econometrics at Loughborough University, looked at the same data as the IPCC. He found that the warming trend it reported over the past 30 years or so was just as likely to be due to random fluctuations as to the impacts of greenhouse gases. Mills’s findings are to be published in Climatic Change, an environmental journal.
“The earth has gone through warming spells like these at least twice before in the last 1,000 years,” he said.