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We are extremely well informed by our news media of nationally important events such as the latest on Britney Spears and Anna Nicole Smith, but it would be nice to see educational information on the apparently more trivial issue of global warming. E. Thomas McClanahan, who admits to not being a scientist, authored an article in the Feb. 28 The Herald Bulletin ridiculing the idea of global warming. He points out that 60 Canadian “scientists” (a relatively small number) wrote to the Prime Minister to question the credibility of global warming. We hear of other “scientists” who also are doubtful,...

GLOBAL WARMING? SOME INCONVENIENT QUESTIONS Please explain the following: 1. Explain exactly how we can tell how much CO2 is pumped into the air: by man and how much is pumped into the air from other sources. 2. Explain exactly how we know that CO2 leads to global warning (and cite an empirical source, don't give the greenhouse gas theory without support).3. Explain how the are no error bars. 5. Explain how we estimate temperatures that are older than the last two centuries. 6. Explain what kind of temporal resolution we can get (for example, can we tell what the...

While global warming continues to gain widespread public awareness, a potentially more devastating environmental threat is only beginning to get noticed, reports Tony Russomanno with KPIX-TV, the CBS station in San Francisco. The threat is mass extinction, and scientists are taking it very seriously. There is widespread belief among scientists that current species of life are becoming extinct at a rate more than 1,000 times higher than normal. "We are at the precipice of the end of the world," said Chera Van Burg of Species Alliance. An asteroid caused the last mass extinction when it wiped out the dinosaurs 65...

'Global Warming Is Lies' Claims Documentary Sunday, 4th March 2007, 11:04 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Accepted theories about man causing global warming are "lies" claims a controversial new TV documentary. ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ - backed by eminent scientists - is set to rock the accepted consensus that climate change is being driven by humans. The programme, to be screened on Channel 4 on Thursday March 8, will see a series of respected scientists attack the "propaganda" that they claim is killing the world’s poor. Even the co-founder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, is shown, claiming African countries should be encouraged to burn...

Gore may get doctorateThe U is in the confidential stages of considering an honorary degree for Al Gore.By Elena Rozwadowskiformer Vice President Al Gore could pay a visit to the University in the near future to receive an honorary degree for his work in climatology. University President Bob Bruininks spilled the beans at the February Board of Regents meeting, saying that "two of our colleges are working with Vice President Gore to provide, we hope, an honorary doctorate." Gore has been in the news lately for his 2006 documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," about global warming. University spokesperson Daniel Wolter said...

The interests of the Mars Society—an organization with the overarching goal of colonizing Mars—tend to elicit snickers from non-space fans. Why talk about building homes on Mars when we have problems on Earth like war, bird flu, AIDS and global warming? To the Mars enthusiast, these scourges simply count among the reasons to ditch this rock and head for the Red Planet. Robert Zubrin, the founder of the Mars Society, likes to point out that Columbus encountered similar resistance from noobs when he pointed across the Atlantic. But Zubrin isn’t a seafarer—he's a scientist, with calculations that say people could...

LONDON - The Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) has said that young people are unaware of the fact that smoking could lead to blindness. The charity says that if the government were to fund a national campaign, then young people could give up smoking. For evidence, it cites an article in the British Journal of Ophthalmology, which found that the fear of blindness was more of a deterrent than anything else. The study surveyed around 250 clubbers in Winchester, Manchester and Southampton. All responders were aged between 16 to 18 years. On a scale of 5, most rated...

The more I think about “global warming”, in light of the most recent United Nations report, the more confident I become in averring that it is a fraud, a political stunt, a criminal imposture, that every intelligent journalist should be helping to expose. We need more reporting on the circular assumptions built into the IPCC’s ludicrous computer models, on their use of misleading and conveniently changing baseline years, and on the trends within their own trends. (For instance, they have quietly reduced their middle-range prediction of temperature rise in the coming century by more than one-third; their mean sea-level rise...

AMONG ITS other negatives, Valentine's Day has now been shown by thoughtful scientific research to cause global warming. I knew it. Environmentalists in Britain are mad that the flowers British women get for Valentine's Day are usually flown in to the country, typically as far as 33,800 miles, before reaching their destination. I have no idea where they got that number, which I admit sounds far-fetched. But I read it on the Drudge Report, which got the story from London's Telegraph newspaper, which proves it's true. The problem is, apparently, that Britain is cold in the winter, which makes it...

Czech president Vaclav Klaus has criticized the UN panel on global warming, claiming that it was a political authority without any scientific basis. In an interview with "Hospodárské noviny", a Czech economics daily, Klaus answered a few questions: Q: IPCC has released its report and you say that the global warming is a false myth. How did you get this idea, Mr President?• A: It's not my idea. Global warming is a false myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the U.N. panel. IPCC is not a scientific institution: it's a...

The debate over global warming has turned hysterical in the wake of the Democratic takeover of Congress and the most recent United Nations report asserting a 90% likelihood of human-caused climate change. And anybody who disagrees had better be prepared for attacks on their scientific credentials, their honesty, and even their right to speak out. Case in point — the singularly nasty attack by the left-wing Guardian newspaper of England a week or so ago attacking a distinguished American think tank, the American Enterprise Institute of Washington, D.C., for soliciting scholarly papers that might disagree with the so-called global warming...

The melting of Greenland's glaciers can slow as rapidly as it can accelerate, making the ice's effect on rising sea levels tough to forecast, a study says.

The European Commission has sought to step up punishment of environmental crimes, with plans for criminal penalties, including jail sentences, across the European Union. Currently, member states define what is a crime against the environment, but the European Union's executive arm considers that sanctions vary too much and that many are too lax. "The proposed directive is crucial to avoid criminals profiting from the existing discrepancies in member states' criminal law systems which damage the European environment," said EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini on Friday. "We cannot allow safe-havens of environmental crime inside the EU," he added. Under the proposals,...

Ex-US vice president Al Gore's global warming documentary will be shown at public schools across Portugal as part of a campaign to tackle climate change, Prime Minister Jose Socrates said. "I think the duty of a politician is to divulge a political message so that all citizens are more aware of what they can do to solve this global problem," Socrates, a former environment minister, said after meeting with Gore. Gore's Oscar-nominated film, "An Inconvenient Truth," warns that urgent action is needed to reduce carbon emissions soon or else the planet will suffer disastrous consequences from climate change. Last month...

As Manhattan enjoyed an unseasonable 72-degree winter day on January 6, news media quickly claimed that the weather inspired fears of “the end of the world.” But as the thermometer dipped into extreme cold, the rhetoric of human-caused global warming has not cooled off. “Do people here [South Beach, Fla.] know that very likely in the next – well several decades – all of this is going to be underwater?” asked CBS “Early Show” anchor Harry Smith during an interview with author Carl Hiaasen. Smith injected the topic of global warming into his interview about the appeal of Miami on...

Dire warnings from top scientists that mankind is to blame for global warming set off alarm bells everywhere -- but many of the world's churches have already "gone green" in the race to save the planet. For Christians, Jews and Muslims, the message is the same -- mankind has "stewardship" of the earth which it has a duty to protect for future generations. And environmentalists hailed churches for stepping up to the plate with a real sense of urgency. "Caring for the environment is a key part of many religions. Any contribution which highlights and tackles issues such as climate...

POLL: Only 13% Of Congressional Republicans Believe Global Warming Caused By Man. See the PDF report linked here.

The White House yesterday embraced a new international report faulting humans for global warming, marking the furthest President Bush has gone in placing blame. But administration officials again rejected the Kyoto-style caps on carbon emissions that have been the preferred solution of European nations. The report, released in Paris by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the fact that the Earth is now warming "is unequivocal," and said it is "very likely" that human activity is responsible for many of the changes. "Human activity is contributing to changes in our Earth's climate, and that issue is no longer...

The Polar Bear Pic They Won't Show You h/t Instapundit - Ann Althouse calls attention to an image of Polar Bears making the rounds, again - it was allegedly taken by Dan Crosbie in 2004 and is currently number one on Yahoo's photo list. The image I have up at right also involves Dan Crosbie from the same period in 2004 during a scientific trip during which they carried rifles to run off polar bears while planting equipment in the ice - ice that was much thicker than they expected it to be. (pertinent excerpted text at bottom) But...

Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts? By Timothy Ball Monday, February 5, 2007 Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn't exist. And I am not the only one trying to make people open up their eyes and see the truth. But few listen, despite the fact that I was the first Canadian Ph.D. in Climatology and I have an extensive background in climatology, especially the reconstruction of past climates and the impact of climate change on human history and the human condition.“Few listen, even though I have...