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Climate Change Reconsidered: The Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC)

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This 880-page rebuttal of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), three years in the making, was released in June 2009 by The Heartland Institute. Coauthored and edited by S. Fred Singer, Ph.D., and Craig Idso, Ph.D. and produced with contributions and reviews by an international coalition of scientists, it provides an independent examination of the evidence available on the causes and consequences of climate change in the published, peer-reviewed literature examined without bias and selectivity. It includes many research papers ignored by the IPCC plus additional scientific results that became available after the IPCC deadline of May 2006.

Chapter 1 describes the limitations of the IPCC s attempt to forecast future climate with computer models. The IPCC violates many of the rules and procedures required for scientific forecasting, making its projections of little use to policymakers.

Chapter 2 describes feedback factors that reduce the earth s sensitivity to changes in atmospheric CO2. Scientific studies suggest the model-derived temperature sensitivity of the earth for a doubling of the pre-industrial CO2 level is much lower than the IPCC s estimate.

Chapter 3 reviews empirical data on past temperatures. We find no support for the IPCC s claim that climate observations during the twentieth century are unprecedented or provide evidence of an anthropogenic effect on climate.

Chapter 4 reviews observational data on glacier melting, sea ice area, variation in precipitation, and sea level rise. We find no evidence of trends that could be attributed to the supposedly anthropogenic global warming of the twentieth century.

Chapter 5 summarizes the research of a growing number of scientists who say variations in solar activity, not greenhouse gases, are the true driver of climate change. We describe the evidence of a solar-climate.

Chapter 6 investigates and debunks the widespread fears that global warming might cause more extreme weather. The IPCC claims global warming will cause (or already is causing) more droughts, floods, hurricanes, storms, storm surges, heat waves, and wildfires. We find little or no support in the peer-reviewed literature for these predictions and considerable evidence to support an opposite prediction: That weather would be less extreme in a warmer world.

Chapter 7 examines the biological effects of rising CO2 concentrations and warmer temperatures. This is the largely unreported side of the global warming debate, perhaps because it is unequivocally good news. Rising CO2 levels increase plant growth and make plants more resistant to drought and pests. It is a boon to the world s forests and prairies, as well as to farmers and ranchers and the growing populations of the developing world.

Chapter 8 examines the IPCC s claim that CO2-induced increases in air temperature will cause unprecedented plant and animal extinctions, both on land and in the world s oceans. We find there little real-world evidence in support of such claims and an abundance of counter evidence that suggests ecosystem biodiversity will increase in a warmer and CO2-enriched world.

Chapter 9 challenges the IPCC s claim that CO2-induced global warming is harmful to human health. The IPCC blames high-temperature events for increasing the number of cardiovascular-related deaths, enhancing respiratory problems, and fueling a more rapid and widespread distribution of deadly infectious diseases, such as malaria, dengue and yellow fever. The peer-reviewed scientific literature reveals that further global warming would likely do just the opposite and actually reduce the number of lives lost to extreme thermal conditions.

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Author:	S. Fred Singer
Paperback:	880 pages
Publisher:	The Heartland Insitute
Publication Date:	June 01, 2009
ISBN:	1934791288
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Climate Change Reconsidered Feb 05, 2010
Beyond all of the controversy, so-called "agreed-to science",politics, financially-driven scams, internatioal intrigue and power plays, and outright
massive fraud, and dire forecasts on future catastrophe for mankind,---all relating to Climate Change and man-made climate warmig---this compilation
of peer-reviewed papers by eminent climatology and physical scientists on the real state of science on climate change reveal all of the flawed and
recently discovered distortions and conspiracies on the subject. For example, man-made ( anthropologenic) CO2 actually has exceedingly little
effect on climate .

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Man-Made Global Climate Change: Not so Fast! Nov 24, 2009
Unfortunately, politics has taken center stage in this issue. S. Fred Singer writes: "We regret that many advocates in this debate have chosen to give up debating the science and focus almost exclusively on questioning the motives of `skeptics', name-calling, and ad hominem attacks. We view this as a sign of desperation on their part, and a sign that the debate has shifted toward climate realism." (p. vii).

A petition rejecting the Kyoto accords and challenging the manmade-global-warming-is-proven-fact dogma has been signed by 12,711 scientists, including 3,803 scientists trained in atmospheric science and related fields. (p. 739-on). (Have they all been "bought off by corporations"?)

This scholarly collection of works specifically challenges many media-propagated notions on this subject, while including the latest views of those who defend these notions. Each chapter ends with a URL that can be visited for more information and for papers that have come out since this book was published.

Some of the questions raised in this one-volume encyclopedic work are: Do computer models adequately predict future climate? How reliable are long-term forecasts--even by experts? Is the "hockey stick" valid? Is the "iris effect" (negative feedback) caused by clouds overrated or underrated? How can the alleged man-caused global warming be said to be unprecedented when comparable episodes of warming occurred not only in the distant past, but also in the recent past? How can the rise in CO2 be blamed for global warming when there was a period of considerable warming only a thousand years ago (the Medieval Warm Period)--when CO2 was lower, and human industrialization was essentially nonexistent? What about the proven effect of solar variability on global climate? Is the decline and imminent disintegration of polar ice caps a reality? What about satellite climatic data? Is weather all over the earth actually getting more and more extreme?

Other questions deal with the biological effects of potential global warming. Are corals and polar bears really as fragile as they have been made out to be? Would warmer temperatures necessarily cause the spread of malaria? Why are plants and animals threatened by global warming when they have already successfully gone through many cycles of comparable warming and cooling since they appeared on our planet? And much, much more...

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Excellent Nov 08, 2009
If you want to learn what the skeptics are saying about "global warming", this book is for you.

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Rebuttal to global warming alarmists Nov 08, 2009
This compendium arms one with all the up-to-date information needed to show, unequivocally, that global warming and cooling are natural, solar-driven processes that occur over millenial time scales, independent of human activity. Omissions, inaccuracies and distortions in the IPCC reports are catalogued and refuted. This is an excellent resource for anyone seeking to explore and understand the science behind the natural climate cycles that the planet experiences.

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A scholarly book Oct 28, 2009
About nine years ago I blindly believed in the anthropogenic global warming idea. It was then that I was invited to a TV debate on global warming and I went deeper on this issue, trying to find information about the thermal properties of the carbon dioxide. This way, I realized that everything which I was ready to say before millions of spectators, which I have taken from the IPCC reports, was not true. If I only would have had this helpful book, written by honest scientists who really know about the science of climate, things would have been easier.