NASA's view.
Posted on 09/06/2007 6:00:26 AM PDT by period end of story
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Leaders at an Asia-Pacific summit appeared deadlocked on Thursday over what their "Sydney Declaration" on climate change and cutting greenhouse gas emissions should say.
China's President Hu Jintao gave only qualified support to Australia's initiative on climate change, while some developing nations criticized Australian and U.S. moves to put climate change at the top of the agenda of the APEC gathering in Sydney.
President George W. Bush raised climate change with Hu during a bilateral in Sydney and said he would support a strong climate statement by the 21 leaders and urged Hu to do the same.
"They concluded the importance of addressing this pressing problem cooperatively and responsibly ... and in a manner that did not stall or stunt economic growth," said Dan Price, Bush's deputy national security adviser for international economic development.
Bush indicated the U.S. would support a "strong leaders' declaration on climate change" and encouraged the Chinese leader to do likewise, as well as consider eliminating tariffs on environmental and clean energy technologies, said Price.
In a rare news conference after meeting Australian Prime Minister John Howard, Hu said he preferred the U.N. framework for handling climate change proposals.
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NASA's view.
Could I suggest letters along the following lines:
Dear Congressman/Senator,
As you are aware NASA and NOAA are both predicting that man made global warming (AGW) will resulting a cataclysmic future for the world. You may also be aware that an individual by the name of Steve McIntyre (www.climateaudit.org) has found a significant error in the reporting of temperatures in North American for the past decade forcing NASA to restate it’s assessment such that temperatures for the current decade are no more than they were in the 1930s.
Steve McIntyre has tried fruitlessly to acquire the software used to produce the numbers the NASA and NOAA present for their case. Mr. McIntyre is forced to try to reverse engineer the work of NASA for no sound reason. If that weren’t enough NASA chief scientists have verbally assailed Mr. McIntyre in contradiction to the fact that he uncovered this significant flaw.
One could say that global warming is the mother of all Public Health issue. But unlike any other Public Health issue the researchers are the auditors. Could you imagine Boeing or some pharmaceutical company saying they don’t need to prove their work because their drinking buddies (peer review) agreed with it. And unlike other industries this one is run by our government.
I am asking you to help force NASA to become accountable. They need to be transparent on this issue. There are no state secrets. There are no technologies here that would make the US vulnerable. All that is requested is that the software that was used to come with the results be provided for public scrutiny.
Your office can help by either support withholding funding to these organizations, or specifically require that they make available this information or help me file a Freedom of Information Act request.
Thank you for your time and all your hard work
Does that mean that this clear corelation is the basis of man-caused global warming by the nut case James Hansen (the space cadet?)
No. The graph shows that the cycles of solar activity and temperature are nearly identical.
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