2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved

Looking back over my columns of the past 12 months, one of their major themes was neatly encapsulated by two recent items from The Daily Telegraph.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/3982101/2008-was-the-year-man-made-global-warming-was-disproved.html

Facts melted by 'global warming'

Something very odd had happened to the daily updated graph on the official Nansen website last weekend, writes Christopher Booker.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3883550/Facts-melted-by-global-warming.html

Al Gore sued by over 30.000 Scientists for fraud

Stubborn glaciers fail to retreat, awkward polar bears continue to multiply

"Second only to the melting of the Arctic ice and those "drowning" polar bears, there is no scare with which the global warmists, led by Al Gore, more like to chill our blood than the fast-vanishing glaciers of the Himalayas, which help to provide water for a sixth of mankind. Recently one newspaper published large pictures to illustrate the alarming retreat in the past 40 years of the Rongbuk glacier below Everest. Indian meteorologists, it was reported, were warning that, thanks to global warming, all the Himalayan glaciers could have disappeared by 2035."

Yet:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/11/23/do2310b.xml

The price of dissent on global warming




http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0%2C25197%2C24700827-7583%2C00.html

Planet Has Cooled Since Bush Took Office’ - Gore Admits ‘I’ve failed badly’



http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/6416

Humans may have prevented super ice age




http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16026-humans-may-have-prevented-super-ice-age.html

BBC investigated after peer says climate change programme was biased 'one-sided polemic'



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1063110/BBC-investigated-peer-says-climate-change-programme-biased-sided-polemic.html

Why Scientists Succumb
To Political Correctness




http://www.rense.com/general83/subdv.htm

George Carlin - Saving the Planet

Will Media Report Cold Spells This Summer or Only the Heatwaves?

By Noel Sheppard

"Media have been falling all over themselves to report the recent heatwave in the East, but have been ignoring the cold spells happening in other parts of the country at virtually the same time.

For instance, did you know that the first week of June was the coldest in Seattle since 1891? Or that Aspen is actually re-opening this weekend to offer winter sports enthusiasts some rare June skiing in the area? Or how about the fact that unusually cold waters off of Nova Scotia are harming this year's lobster crop?

Aren't such unseasonal weather events just as newsworthy as heatwaves in summer? Or must they be ignored to fit the media's global warming template?

Assuming the latter, just to add some balance, let's first check in with the Seattle Times to see how Nobel Laureate Al Gore's bogeyman is impacting that part of the country (emphasis added in all subsequent articles):"

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/06/10/will-media-report-cold-spells-summer-or-only-heatwaves

John Coleman's Comments Before the San Diego Chamber of Commerce

Global Warming and the Price of a Gallon of Gas
by John Coleman
"I suspect you haven’t heard it because the mass media did not report it, but I am not alone on the no man-made warming side of this issue. On May 20^th, a list of the names of over thirty-one thousand scientists who refute global warming was released. Thirty-one thousand of which 9,000 are Ph.ds. Think about that. Thirty-one thousand. That dwarfs the supposed 2,500 scientists on the UN panel. In the past year, five hundred of scientists have issued public statements challenging global warming. A few more join the chorus every week. There are about 100 defectors from the UN IPCC. There was an International Conference of Climate Change Skeptics in New York in March of this year. One hundred of us gave presentations. Attendance was limited to six hundred people. Every seat was taken. There are a half dozen excellent internet sites that debunk global warming. And, thank goodness for KUSI and Michael McKinnon, its owner. He allows me to post my comments on global warming on the website KUSI.com. Following the publicity of my position form Fox News, Glen Beck on CNN, Rush Limbaugh and a host of other interviews, thousands of people come to the website and read my comments. I get hundreds of supportive emails from them. No I am not alone and the debate is not over." http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/19842304.html

$45 trillion needed to combat warming

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080606/ap_on_bi_ge/japan_iea_climate_change

By JOSEPH COLEMAN, Associated Press Writer Fri Jun 6, 7:06 AM ET

TOKYO - The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to an energy study released Friday.

Fire and Ice

Journalists have warned of climate change for 100 years, but can’t decide weather we face an ice age or warming

http://businessandmedia.org/specialreports/2006/fireandice/fireandice_execsum.asp

"Thanks to the release of Al Gore’s latest effort on global warming – this time in book and movie form – climate change is the hot topic in press rooms around the globe. It isn’t the first time.

The media have warned about impending climate doom four different times in the last 100 years. Only they can’t decide if mankind will die from warming or cooling.

As the noise from the controversy has increased, it has drowned out any debate. Journalists have taken advocacy positions, often ignoring climate change skeptics entirely. One CBS reporter even compared skeptics of manmade global warming to Holocaust deniers."

Doubt is cast over global warming

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2238317.0.Doubt_is_cast_over_global_warming.php

HEAT OF THE MOMENT

Al Gore's global warming debunked – by kids!
Winners announced in 'The Sky's Not Falling' video-essay contest

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=62598

The first-place essay is titled "Al Gore Causes Global Warming in School Aged Brains" and is by Russell Young, of Minnesota:

If Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth," is suitable for teaching about climatology, then Alfred Hitchcock's film the "The Birds," is a good candidate for teaching ornithology.

"Wait a moment," you say. What does a horror film which has been characterized as "extremely disturbing," where hoards of normally skittish, but peaceable birds, inexplicably attack and terrorize humans, have to teach our children about science? The answer, of course is that it could be used to anesthetize them to the frightening scenarios presented in Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."

It's hard to decide which would be worse: frightening young students with scripted terror from a horror master, or frightening students with scripted propaganda from an environmental hypocrite. But think of the box office draw potential by making a double header out of these two movies. Plus, each film is steeped with enough gut wrenching scenes to keep even the most jaded students interested, making them a perfect antidote to typically boring science fare.

In "The Birds," one scene shows children helplessly driven to terrified flight as birds relentlessly descend upon them. A particularly graphic moment depicts a bird tearing at the face of a screaming boy of about 8 or 9 years of age. Such viewing should make an indelible impression upon the minds of our youth as to the importance of not interfering with nature.

In Gore's film we are treated to equally stomach turning cinematography as the director treats us to numerous close-ups of Gore, thus making it clear how serious minded he is about the environment. We know he is the man who can make a change because of the repeated shots showing adoring masses who seemingly follow him around the globe. Let's just hope they don’t all do it on their own personal jets.

All of this, however, got me to thinking. Maybe schools could begin to utilize more Hollywood offerings. Think about it. For only the cost of a Blockbuster rental our students minds could be opened up to myriad realms.

Here are just a few other films schools might use for their teaching curriculums. "The Polar Express" could be used for instruction on transportation systems. "Borat" is a perfect teaching tool for understanding how the Democratic Party uses focus groups. "Alien," could be used to teach students about anatomy and homeland security, all at the same time.

"Far fetched," you say. Maybe, but "Moby Dick" taught me all I ever needed to know about whales, and I'm a marine biologist.

Climate experts predict temperature drop

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/10/eaclimate110.xml

Inconvenient truths about Al Gore’s gift of the gab

http://blogs.ft.com/management/2008/04/10/inconvenient-truths-about-al-gores-gift-of-the-gab/

Ever since his Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore has been viewed as one of the world’s most persuasive public speakers. So when his new climate change lecture was premiered on Ted, a website dedicated to “inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers”, earlier this week, I decided to pick it apart to see how it worked.

Like many people, I was impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. I’d even stood in line to hear Mr Gore speak in New York last May (this was deeply hypocritical, given that I had jetted in from Paris for an emission-heavy long weekend in Manhattan - unless getting him to sign a DVD counted as a carbon offset).

It was my hope that a close analysis of his new slideshow might be useful to public speakers in the business world. Having viewed it three times - and watched An Inconvenient Truth yet again for context - I think I have been able to identify four key elements to the performance. But after studying his verbal and visual tricks in detail, I’m not sure I’d queue to see him again.

Climate change is naturally occuring event

http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2008/04/11/opinion/letters/134558_64.txt

Relax, the planet is fine

http://www.lindafrum.com/NewsDetail.aspx?newsid=74

Money is partly to blame for the global warming hysteria, Professor Richard Lindzen says

19,000 Scientists Reject Global Warming

http://oism.org/pproject/

The Mystery of Global Warming's Missing Heat

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88520025

Global Warming Skeptics Insist Humans Not at Fault

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/03/AR2008030302781.html?hpid%3Dsec-nation&sub=AR

TWC founder and global warming skeptic advocates suing Al Gore to expose 'the fraud of global warming.'

Weather Channel Founder Blasts Network; Claims It Is 'Telling Us What to Think'

http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080303175301.aspx

Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling

"Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on."

article continues:

http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

Alaska town sues energy firms over global warming

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5573280.html

Sun Spots and 'dramatic' climate changes

The Sun Also Sets

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Climate Change: Not every scientist is part of Al Gore's mythical "consensus." Scientists worried about a new ice age seek funding to better observe something bigger than your SUV — the sun.

http://ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287279412587175

Refuting Gore's 'Manmade global warming religion'

http://thenewamerican.com/node/7009#SlideFrame_1

So it appears that Arctic ice isn't vanishing after all

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml%3Bjsessionid%3DZCURBJ1YZXNEFQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2008/02/03/nbook103.xml

HOW THE ENVIRONMENTAL EXTREMISTS MANIPULATE THE MASSES

http://www.newswithviews.com/Williams/carole7.htm

"Last March, global warming fanatic Al Gore used a picture of two polar bears purportedly stranded on melting ice off the coast of Alaska as a visual aide to support his claim that man-made global warming is doing great harm to Mother Earth. The one he chose, but didn’t offer to pay for right away, turned out to be a photo of a polar bear and her cub out doing what healthy, happy polar bears do on a wave-eroded chunk of ice not all that far from shore in the Beaufort Sea north of Barstow, Alaska.

The picture, wrongly credited to Dan Crosbie, an ice observer specialist for the Canadian Ice Service, was actually taken by Amanda Byrd while she was on a university-related research cruise in August of 2004, a time of year when the fringe of the Arctic ice cap normally melts. Byrd, a marine biology grad student at the time, was gathering zooplankton for a multi-year study of the Arctic Ocean."

Crosbie, who was also on the trip, pilfered the polar bear photo from a shared computer onboard the Canadian icebreaker where Ms. Byrd downloaded her snapshots; he saved it in his personal file. Several months later, Crosbie, who is known as an avid photographer, gave the photo to the Canadian Ice Service, which then allowed Environment Canada to use it as an illustration for an online magazine.

Today that photo, with credit given to photographer Dan Crosbie and the Canadian Ice Service, can be found all over the Internet, generally with the caption “Two polar bears are stranded on a chunk of melting ice”.

Russian scientist says Earth could soon face new Ice Age

http://en.rian.ru/science/20080122/97519953.html

ST. PETERSBURG, January 22 (RIA Novosti) - Temperatures on Earth have stabilized in the past decade, and the planet should brace itself for a new Ice Age rather than global warming, a Russian scientist said in an interview with RIA Novosti Tuesday.

The Inconvenient Truth:The Sun Varies in Intensity

"For the last twenty days there have been no sunspots (January 1 to 20 2008). Ultraviolet radiation has dropped to extremely low ratings and coronal holes have opened sending high levels of solar winds and making the aurora borealis larger. Siberia is suffering a cold snap and in a few weeks Canada may become colder than it has been in decades. Global Warming?

There are articles by meteorologists who write the "Hockey Stick Graph" Al Gore used in "An Inconvenient Truth" does not include the severe coldness of the mini-ice age of 1650 to 1720 when few sun spots were seen and Europe suffered under prolonged winters. For a number of years there were no summers. The age of European colonization may have been assisted by hunger.

Also missing from the graph is the period of global warming roughly 900 to 1400 when Greenland was green and grass covered Mongolia. It was warmer then than the present day when we have been told carbon dioxide emissions is the cause of higher temperatures. The Vikings did not burn oil to sail the North Atlantic and the Mongols did not drive SUVs to the outskirts of Vienna."

Article continues:

http://educate-yourself.org/zsl/inconvenienttruth20jan08.shtml

Here comes the Sun...

http://blog.sunvalleyonline.com/index.php/2008/01/05/here-comes-the-sun/