Courts confront climate change

The Washington Times ^ | January 24, 2008 | S. Fred Singer

[xsysmgr]

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Central to the court's ruling was the claim that NHTSA ... had ignored the benefits of reducing emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2).

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The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) points to glacial melting, shrinking sea ice, and other consequences of global warming. But such "evidence" doesn't tell us whether the causes are natural or manmade. Other evidence, such as the claimed correlation between temperature and CO2, is circumstantial; during much of the 20th century the climate was cooling while CO2 levels were rising.

A forthcoming report by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), of which I am the editor, may provide needed balance. An independent organization, not sponsored by the United Nations, national governments, or industry, NIPCC — which includes many IPCC authors and expert reviewers — was created to provide a second opinion on the IPCC's official findings, much as a physician's diagnosis may warrant a second opinion.

Drawing on peer-reviewed publications in major scientific journals, NIPCC examined the data used in IPCC's May 2007 climate-change assessment, as well as research ignored in the IPCC report or published subsequent to its release. NIPCC concludes that "evidence" to support public hysteria about human-caused greenhouse warming does not hold up to scrutiny. Among the findings, expected to be published early this spring:

• Human activities — such as transportation and industrial production — contribute little to global warming.

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• The leading cause of observed climate warming appears to be variability of solar emissions and solar magnetic fields. The U.N. panel ignored substantial recent research on the effects of solar activity on climate change. This evidence suggests climate changes are essentially unstoppable and cannot be influenced by controlling CO2 emissions.

[xsysmgr]

S. Fred Singer is research fellow at the Independent Institute, Oakland, Calif. (www.independent.org), professor emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia, and founder and president of the Science & Environmental Policy Project. He is the author of "Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate."

"A forthcoming report by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change..."

Finally, some real science.

[Question Liberal Authority]

The leading cause of observed climate warming appears to be variability of solar emissions and solar magnetic fields.

Right. But why is the Sun so out of control? Because it received a huge tax cut from George W. Bush.

[freddy2008]

no no no... it’s all the SUV’s...

[rfp1234]

The leading cause of observed climate warming appears to be variability of solar emissions and solar magnetic fields. Right. But why is the Sun so out of control? Because it received a huge tax cut from George W. Bush.

Exactly. And the Sun has --- gasppppp ---- NUCLEAR reactions going on inside it! Bush gave tax cuts to a deadly, heat-producing, climate-changing, polar-bear-killing, nuclear power plant in the sky!

[Deut28]

Congress needs to act and get some regulations around Solar behaviour.

[Question Liberal Authority]

Let’s not forget that the Sun was built using a no-bid contract with Halliburton.

[GloriaJane]

I’d like to see gore try to control the sun. Might get a little warm for him if he did.

[rfp1234]

The models are wrong.

B-b-b-b-b-ut...they're dressed up for a warmer climate, how could they be wrong?

[xcamel]

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[Question Liberal Authority]

It would probably be prudent to buy Solar Offset Credits from Al Gore. Anyone in, say, Arizona who feels guilty about their Solar Footprint can give money to Al Gore, and a portion of the proceeds will go to a person in a really cloudy place, like Seattle or Portland.

Of course, clouds are made from condensed water vapor and water vapor is a greenhouse gas far more potent than Carbon Dioxide, but we'll ignore that inconvenient truth for the moment.

[Sudetenland]

9th Circuit Court alert. This will be reversed.

[xsysmgr]

9th Circuit Court alert. This will be reversed.

No doubt. They so often are. What I find so interesting is that there will be, at long last, a report that challenges the "consensus" on global warming.

[BeAllYouCanBe]

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[steelyourfaith]

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