According to this Senate report, over 400 prominent scientists disputed man-made global warming claims this year.
From the introduction:
Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called “consensus” on man-made global warming. These scientists, many of whom are current and former participants in the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), criticized the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore.
The new report issued by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s office of the GOP Ranking Member details the views of the scientists, the overwhelming majority of whom spoke out in 2007.
Meanwhile, Democrats have been using the politics of fear to increase regulations of all kinds in the name of the environment, like banning incandescent light bulbs.
Tags: Al Gore, Climate Change, global warming, IPCC
December 20th, 2007
You’ll first note that the “tags” on this entry include both “global warming” and “climate change”. The reason for this is because the global warming business is in the process of re-branding itself as the “climate change” industry - this because “climate change” is entirely non-specific and can be used to say that anything happening is the dire result of insenstive, greedy, racist, corrupt, sexist, imperialistic and homophobic (and necessarily American) action in the world. In other words, you can jam a lot more leftwing BS into “climate change” than you can into “global warming” - especially as there hasn’t been any increase in global mean temperatures for nearly a decade now.
Anyways, there is the new IPCC report out which re-hashes all the usual nonsense about global warming - this news story has a rundown of the “key findings”…among these findings, I found this one very interesting:
Global warming is “unequivocal.” Temperatures have risen 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 100 years. Eleven of the last 12 years are among the warmest since 1850. Sea levels have gone up by an average seven-hundredths of an inch per year since 1961.
So, we’re in a tizzy over, what? The prosepct of another 1.3 degrees over the next century? Or is it that we’re worried that by 2107 sea levels will have risen 7 inches?
To add a bit of kick to the report, they claim that between 20 and 70% of all species on earth will become extinct if we don’t act now to reverse this - as if they (a) know how many species there are on earth, (b) really know how much the temperature will increase, (c) know how even 1% of the world’s species will react to higher temperatures. The only thing we can be certain about is that environmentalist whackos won’t become extinct.
UPDATE: Scrappleface completely disposes of the climate change alarmism.
Tags: Climate Change, Environmentalism, global warming, IPCC, U.N.
November 18th, 2007
My earlier post on the Democrats’ war on science sparked some interesting debate on the three issues I highlighted where Democrats ignore science in favor of ideology.
Well, here’s the latest contribution to the argument over the alleged “consensus” in the scientific community over global warming:
A new survey of American members of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggests that there is not firm scientific consensus on global warming, as proponents of swift action to curb carbon emissions have suggested.
DemandDebate.com, a Web site skeptical of global warming “alarmism” that advocates more debate on the topic, released the results of its poll on Nov. 8. The group attempted to survey the 345 American scientists affiliated with the IPCC.
And yes, the survey size was small, but that’s hardly reason to dismiss the data:
While the survey’s size was small, Milloy said, “I certainly think that it’s large enough to indicate that the IPCC members really ought to be probed as to what they think.”
There’s also another interesting nugget of information worth mentioning here.
The issue over global warming sparked a typical debate of the the legitimacy of sources. Naturally, liberals think any source cited by a conservative is flawed, while theirs is treated gospel. Of course, the IPCC’s latest report was cited as ironclad evidence of global warming’s existence and that it is man-made. However, the results of the aforementioned survey clearly challenge the claim of global warming alarmists that there is a scientific consensus on global warming. The story also made this interesting point:
The 2007 IPCC Assessment Report, published in three sections by three separate working groups, is written by selected IPCC members. Some members who have criticized the reports complain that their objections to some of its claims are ignored.
“There’s reason to ask these people more questions,” Milloy said. “I don’t think the debate is over. Al Gore is rushing to close the debate because the more data we get … the flimsier the science gets.”
There have been plenty of rebuttals to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, but these criticisms are coming from scientists associated with the IPCC. If liberals want to play the sources game, then they have to give equal scrutiny and even skepticism of the sources they cite too.
Tags: global warming, IPCC, war on science
November 15th, 2007
