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Post by dolphie on Jul 29, 2011 12:51:03 GMT -5
www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/29/polar-bear-researcher-under-investigation-for-integrity-issues/Polar Bear Researcher Suspended, Under Investigation for 'Integrity Issues' Published July 29, 2011 | FoxNews.com The polar bear has become the poster child for the global warming movement. In May 2008, the U.S. classified the polar bear as a threatened species, the first with its survival at risk due to global warming. A leading climate scientist whose report in 2006 of drowning polar bears in Arctic waters galvanized the global warming movement -- and were highlighted in Al Gore's Oscar-winning climate-change documentary -- has been suspended, possibly over the accuracy of his observations. Charles Monnett -- who manages as much as $50 million worth of climate research on Arctic wildlife and ecology -- was told on July 18 that he was being put on leave pending an investigation into "integrity issues," according to a letter posted online by the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which is questioning Monnett's suspension. The complaints against the Anchorage-based scientist with the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) remain unclear, and the connection to his seven-page 2006 peer-reviewed paper on the drownings are unknown, despite a months-long or longer investigation. PEER charges Monnett's suspension amounts to a witch hunt. "The quality and continuity of the scientific work he's overseeing is distinctly being jeopardized," Jeff Ruch, PEER's executive director, told FoxNews.com. His group alleges the Interior Department is violating its own rules and regulations, and that the ongoing investigation seems intended merely to disrupt Monnett's body of scientific work. "We assumed after the February interviews this would all be cleared up. Apparently not," Ruch said. Steve Hargrove, chief of staff for the office of the Inspector General, declined to comment on "an ongoing investigation," other than to tell FoxNews.com it's one of about 200 cases the agency works each year. Ruch said BOEMRE has barred Monnett from talking to reporters, and calls to his office and home were not answered. Myron Ebell, of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, could not speak directly to Monnett's case but said he believes the public has a right to be skeptical about scientific claims related to global warming. Even if every scientist is objective, "what we're being asked to do is turn our economy around and spend trillions and trillions of dollars on the basis of claims about what's going to happen to the climate," he said, adding later: "If global warming really takes hold here in the next few years and bad things start to happen, then we can act. But right now, I think we should just be sitting on our hands, observing." Documents provided by PEER indicate investigators are focusing on observations that Monnett and fellow researcher Jeffrey Gleason made in 2004, while conducting an aerial survey of bowhead whales. The report said they observed four dead polar bears floating in Arctic waters after a storm. They detailed their observations in an article published two years later in the journal Polar Biology; presentations also were given at scientific gatherings. In the peer-reviewed article, the researchers said they were reporting, to the best of their knowledge, the first observations of polar bears floating dead offshore and presumed drowned while apparently swimming long distances in open water -- suggesting "that drowning-related deaths of polar bears may increase in the future if the observed trend of regression of pack ice and/or longer open water periods continues." The article and presentations drew national attention and helped make the polar bear something of a poster child for the global warming movement. Al Gore's mention of the polar bear in his documentary on climate change, "An Inconvenient Truth," came up during investigators' questioning of Gleason in January. In May 2008, the U.S. classified the polar bear as a threatened species, the first with its survival at risk due to global warming. According to a transcription of a February 23 interview, investigator Eric May asked Gleason his thoughts on Gore referencing the dead polar bears. Gleason said none of the polar bear papers he has written or co-authored has said "anything really" about global warming. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Read more: www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/29/polar-bear-researcher-under-investigation-for-integrity-issuesedit: correct URL no content was edited or deleted.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 29, 2011 14:08:54 GMT -5
Don't look at me, I jumped off the global warming bandwagon a while back...
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Post by dolphie on Aug 8, 2011 14:01:34 GMT -5
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Post by dolphie on Aug 24, 2011 12:05:34 GMT -5
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-iceland-current-could-sway-n-atNew Iceland current could sway N. Atlantic climateA newly discovered deep, cold current flowing off Iceland's coast may reveal that the North Atlantic is less sensitive to climate change than previously thought, researchers reported Sunday. | August 21, 2011 | 39 By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A newly discovered deep, cold current flowing off Iceland's coast may reveal that the North Atlantic is less sensitive to climate change than previously thought, researchers reported Sunday. The new current, the North Icelandic Jet, feeds the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a giant pattern known as the "great ocean conveyor belt," or by the disconcerting acronym AMOC. Because this pattern is critically important for regulating Earth's climate, including European and North American climates, any strong influences on it, and their response to a warming Earth, are of keen scientific and practical interest. The "conveyor belt" current, introduced to movie-goers in the Al Gore environmental film "An Inconvenient Truth," carries warm surface water from the tropical Atlantic toward the Arctic. In the process, the water warms the air in high latitudes, then cools, sinks and returns toward the equator, flowing as a deep stream at lower ocean depths. Climate specialists reckoned that most of the cold water that made up that deep south-flowing stream came from off the Greenland coast and was made up of fresh glacier-melt water, produced by new warmth in glacier-covered Greenland. Because fresh water freezes at a higher temperature than salt water, these specialists suggested that this fresh water from glaciers and other warming-related phenomena would get into the North Atlantic, where it could freeze and prevent the water from sinking to make up the bottom of the conveyor belt. AMOC RUNNING AMOK? If that happened, and the AMOC was disrupted or slowed at the place in the far north where the warm water at the surface cools and sinks -- called the overturning -- it could eventually lead to a colder Northern Hemisphere. However, the newly confirmed North Icelandic Jet appears to contribute more to the deeper part of the AMOC than the Greenland current does, according to research published in the journal Nature Geoscience. (For a graphic, see: link.reuters.com/qev33s)"Present thinking contends that increased fresh water delivered to the North Atlantic, due to melting ice and increased precipitation under a warming climate, will slow down or halt the overturning" of the AMOC, said study co-author Robert Pickart of Woods Hold Oceanographic Institution. This might not be the case if the overturning occurs in the interior of the Iceland Sea, which feeds the North Icelandic Jet, Pickart said in an email interview from Reykjavik. "It is not inconceivable that this open-ocean process is less sensitive to fresh water forcing than the presently accepted mechanism ... which might lead one to speculate that the deepest part of the overturning may be less sensitive to climate change," he said. The existence of the NIJ was suspected for decades but was only confirmed recently by Icelandic researchers using underwater velocity measurements taken from a ship. The NIJ current can't be seen by satellites or detected by its temperature or salinity, but it does move a bit faster than the surrounding water, Pickart said. Pickart and researchers from Norway and Iceland don't know whether the North Icelandic Jet flows year round or how it varies with time. They are beginning a research voyage this week to deploy oceanographic instruments to directly measure the NIJ over the course of a full year to try to figure out where and how this current forms. (Editing by Paul Simao)
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Post by dolphie on Aug 29, 2011 15:18:59 GMT -5
Past Alarmism and the Future of Manmade Global Warming
Researchers identify 26 past scares analogous to the global warming alarm.August 28, 2011 - 12:00 am - by Dr. Kesten C. Green and Tom Harris Page 1 of 2 Polls show that roughly one person in two is concerned about manmade global warming. Why? Because vivid, alarming forecasts, even those based on weak foundations, are persuasive. For a while at least. We’ve seen this many times before. Take the alarm over mercury in fish: in 2004, an Environmental Protection Agency employee warned that 630,000 babies per year were born at risk of brain and nervous system damage due to “unsafe” levels of mercury in their mothers’ blood. Expectant mothers were discouraged from eating fish. Japan consumes a lot of fish, and the supposedly unsafe levels cited by the EPA are exceeded by 74% of women of childbearing age there. Yet there is no evidence that their children are mentally deficient. In fact, only benefits have been reported from high levels of fish consumption, including good brain function and improved intelligence at age four. The alarming forecast of harm from mercury in fish was derived by extrapolating known bad effects from high doses of mercury to incorrectly predict toxic effects from even very low levels — without bothering to check for evidence. This poorly founded forecast resulted in mothers and their children avoiding a healthy food, to their detriment. Working with Professor J. Scott Armstrong of the University of Pennsylvania and others, Dr. Kesten Green identified 26 previous alarms that are analogous to the dangerous manmade global warming scare. Besides the alarm over mercury, the 26 alarms include familiar ones like electromagnetic fields (EMF) and cancer, and DDT and cancer. A 1979 American Journal of Epidemiology article linked exposure to weak EMF from electrical wiring with childhood leukemia. Media and scientists followed, making shrill claims of widespread and diverse harm including headaches and depression. In response, the U.S. government adopted exposure limits and other regulations that World Health Organization researchers estimated impose a $1 billion annual cost on the economy. But the authors of the journal article that raised the alarm did not actually measure exposure to EMF. Tens of thousands of articles have been published since, and the conclusion is that there is no link between weak EMF and human health. Rachel Carson raised alarm over the insecticide DDT in her 1962 book Silent Spring, claiming that it caused cancer. There was no good evidence for this assertion, and there still isn’t. The EPA nevertheless banned DDT in 1972, and Europe and Africa, under pressure from international agencies, followed. The main consequence of the ban is that millions of people have died needlessly from mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria. All of the analogous 26 alarms analyzed by Green and Armstrong turned out to be false, either completely or to such an extent that actions intended to be remedial caused greater harm than the supposed problem. See www.PublicPolicyForecasting.com for descriptions of some of the other 26 analogies: because media report alarms enthusiastically but not their demise, many readers will be surprised to find that alarms they still believe to be true have now been debunked. pajamasmedia.com/blog/past-alarmism-and-the-future-of-manmade-global-warming/
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Post by EscapeHatch on Sept 8, 2011 14:29:06 GMT -5
Does it seem warm to anyone?
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Post by Turk on Sept 8, 2011 15:16:13 GMT -5
Does it seem warm to anyone? Gorebull warming is hotter than hell.
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Post by EscapeHatch on Sept 8, 2011 15:41:44 GMT -5
Does it seem warm to anyone? Gorebull warming is hotter than hell.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2011 17:19:20 GMT -5
Maybe instead of calling Global Climate Scam Thread Just add Al Gore Global Climate Scam! Just a thought!
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Post by dolphie on Sept 14, 2011 23:09:28 GMT -5
www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/14/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-resigns-from-top-physics-group-over-global/Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global WarmingPublished September 14, 2011 | FoxNews.com NASA The global warming theory left him out in the cold. Dr. Ivar Giaever, a former professor with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday, Sept. 13, from the premier physics society in disgust over its officially stated policy that "global warming is occurring." The official position of the American Physical Society (APS) supports the theory that man's actions have inexorably led to the warming of the planet, through increased emissions of carbon dioxide. Giaever does not agree -- and put it bluntly and succinctly in the subject line of his email, reprinted at Climate Depot, a website devoted to debunking the theory of man-made climate change. "I resign from APS," Giaever wrote.Giaever was cooled to the statement on warming theory by a line claiming that "the evidence is inconvertible."" In the APS it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible?" he wrote in an email to Kate Kirby, executive officer of the physics society. " The claim … is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degree Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this 'warming' period," his email message said. A spokesman for the APS confirmed to FoxNews.com that the Nobel Laureate had declined to pay his annual dues in the society and had resigned. He also noted that the society had no plans to revise its statement. The use of the word "incontrovertible" had already caused debate within the group, so much so that an addendum was added to the statement discussing its use in April, 2010. " The word 'incontrovertible' ... is rarely used in science because by its very nature, science questions prevailing ideas. The observational data indicate a global surface warming of 0.74 °C (+/- 0.18 °C) since the late 19th century." Giaever earned his Nobel for his experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in superconductors. He has since become a vocal dissenter from the alleged “consensus” regarding man-made climate fears, Climate Depot reported, noting that he was one of more than 100 co-signer of a 2009 letter to President Obama critical of his position on climate change. Public perception of climate change has steadily fallen since late 2009. A Rasmussen Reports public opinion poll from August noted that 57 percent of adults believe there is significant disagreement within the scientific community on global warming, up five points from late 2009. The same study showed that 69 percent of those polled believe it’s at least somewhat likely that some scientists have falsified research data in order to support their own theories and beliefs. Just just 6 percent felt confident enough to report that such falsification was "not at all likely." Read more: www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/14/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-resigns-from-top-physics-group-over-global======================== [The science community has sold out horribly and as such has lost credibility. Do they not comprehend that now everything they present will be viewed with intense skepticism and disbelief as opposed to wonder and awe.]
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Post by dolphie on Sept 27, 2011 17:29:17 GMT -5
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Post by dolphie on Nov 22, 2011 13:54:08 GMT -5
BREAKING!!! Climategate II, 5,000 New Emails Released Detailing Climate Change Hoax..." yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2011/11/climategate-ii-5000-new-emails-relased.htmlNo you are not experiencing deja vu. Do not adjust your television set, it is neither the Twilight Zone or the Outer Limits, it really is happening again. Another 5,ooo emails from the University of East Angola have been placed upon an Russian Server to be shared with the public. And just like the last time, the emails are very damaging. These emails must be from around the same time as the first set, two years ago, because they feature the same cast of Scientists such as Michael Mann, Phil Jones, Ben Santer, Tom Wigley, Kevin Trenberth, Keith Briffa admitting the same sort of thing, that the evidence behind man made global warming is paper thin, and it is being pushed for political rather than environment reasons. The whistleblower who posted the emails calls himself 'FOIA 2011' introduced the emails with: <clip - go to site and the other sites listed below - These emails are currently housed on a Russian server> There is much more to be found on sites such as Tallbloke and Climate Depot, the bottom line is that these emails are another nail in the coffin of the climate change hoax. In the meantime go out and buy the large popcorn and keep your eyes on this site. Its going to be fun.
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Post by Tired in CV on May 13, 2012 2:47:45 GMT -5
The Global Climate scam is about creating a new industry and getting rich. It is also about various scientists who have little to do attempting to move money in their direction to fund research that they don't have to provide verifiable results! Now a group is working on real problems that scientists CAN help resolve and it is much more REAL and CRITICAL than global warming! Scientists urge action on world's biggest problemsLONDON (Reuters) - Scientists from 15 countries are calling for a better political response to the provision of water and energy to meet the challenge of feeding a world of 9 billion people within 30 years. The joint statement by some of the world's leading science academies was issued on Thursday ahead of the G8 summit in the United States. It is part of the annual lobbying effort aimed at focusing the attention of world leaders on issues the scientific community regards as crucial. For the first time, the scientists argue that looming shortages in water and energy supplies should be treated as a single issue. "Major stresses on availability of energy and water are already being felt in many countries and regions and more are foreseeable," the joint statement said. <clip> news.yahoo.com/scientists-urge-action-worlds-biggest-problems-185547818.html
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Post by jdredd on Mar 5, 2013 22:40:10 GMT -5
I've figured out what's causing global warming! Too many warm bodies!
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Post by jdredd on Apr 1, 2014 16:23:55 GMT -5
Meanwhile, while the right obsesses on Obamacare and Benghazi (Ben who?), because they are sure they can win harping on those in November, those wacky delusional scientists with an agenda keep warning us about that big scam, global warming. Heck, no on has ever won an election on environmental issues and I don't expect anybody to win elections on it now. Let's just keep wishing global warming away, it makes things so much easier.
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