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NEW CLIMATE PAPER SHOWS HOW "UNSETTLED" THE SCIENCE IS |
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June 8, 2013: "Global Warming Caused by CFCs, Not Carbon Dioxide, Researcher Claims in Controversial Study", Science Daily, Rockville, Maryland, U.S.A.
"Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are to blame for global warming since the 1970s and not carbon dioxide, according to a researcher from the University of Waterloo in a controversial new study published in the International Journal of Modern Physics B this week."
Read whole piece.Read paper abstract.Read University of Waterloo media reales on paper.
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ICSC SCIENCE ADVISOR: PREPARE FOR COOLING, NOT WARMING |
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June 6, 2013: "Cooling Looms as Earth’s True Climate Calamity", by ICSC Science Advisory Board member and Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr, Ph.D. (ground water hydrology, University of Arizona), originally published on June 1 in the Orange County Register, Santa Ana, Cailifornia, U.S.A.
"...it is likely we will soon need to take a long, hard look at adjustments in behavior based not on warmth, which, by and large, results in good things, but, rather, on cold, which creates endless problems for both individuals and society. Scientists from Pulkovo Observatory in St. Petersburg, Russia, stated in the Voice of Russia on April 22, that solar activity is waning to such an extent that the global average yearly temperature will soon begin to decline."
Read whole piece.
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HOW TO TALK TO A STUDENT CLIMATE ACTIVIST |
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June 3, 2013: "Fossil fuel divestment is counterproductive", letter to the editor from ICSC Executive Director Tom Harris, published in The Stanford Daily, Stanford University, California, U.S.A.
The interesting thing about the letter is not its content, which is generally self-evident, but the outcome of the discussion with one of the student activists that followed. Compare the tone of "Capt. Kidd's" (also labled "CK") attacks at the start of the discussion with his respect by the end, though still in disagreement. This is a first step to bringing alarmists over to a more realitic perspective on climate change.
Read the letter and the follow-up discussion.
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SCIENTISTS DISCOVER THE OBVIOUS - CARBON DIOXIDE IS PLANT FOOD |
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June 1, 2013: "Elevated carbon dioxide making arid regions greener", American Geophysical Union media release, Washington DC, U.S.A.
"Scientists have long suspected that a flourishing of green foliage around the globe, observed since the early 1980s in satellite data, springs at least in part from the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere. Now, a study of arid regions around the globe finds that a carbon dioxide “fertilization effect” has, indeed, caused a gradual greening from 1982 to 2010."
Read whole release.
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ENERGY COMPANIES MUST HANG TOGETHER TO FIGHT BIG GREEN MACHINE, OR HANG SEPARATELY |
May 20, 2013: "Lighting Big Green's match to burn King Coal - Energy suppliers must quit collaborating with renewable-power enemies", by Tom Harris and Dr. Tim Ball, published in the Washington Times, Washington DC, U.S.A.
"a kind of civil war rages within the energy industry where large power companies in oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear and hydro often work to discredit their competitors in an attempt to gain an advantage for short term profit. All the while, their real enemy, and indeed the enemy of us all—aggressive environmentalism—continues its long campaign to dismantle the western world’s primary energy sources."
Read whole piece on the Times' Website.
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ICSC MEDIA RELEASE - ICSC CALLS FOR OPEN DEBATE ABOUT THE CAUSES OF CLIMATE CHANGE |
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Attention: News Editors, Political, Science and Environment Reporters
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT SHOULD IGNORE GREENHOUSE GAS IMPACTS IN ENERGY POLICY FORMULATION
Pretending that climate science is settled, as authors of new open letter do, deceives the public
Ottawa, Canada, May 9, 2013: "Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver should reject the pleas of twelve climate scientists, economists and policy experts who signed an open letter urging him to make greenhouse gas impacts “a central consideration” of Canada’s hydrocarbon resources development,” said Tom Harris, executive director of the Ottawa-based International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC). “Energy plans should be restricted to addressing only the environmental concerns we know to be real, such as air, land and water pollution. The linkage between energy usage and climate is far too tenuous to be included in any serious national discussions about energy.”
“It is utter nonsense to say, as the open letter signers did, that ‘the responsibility for preventing dangerous climate change rests with today’s policymakers,’” said ICSC Science Advisory Board member, Dr. Tim Ball, former University of Winnipeg climatology professor. “We can’t even properly forecast global climate, let alone control it. The open letter’s advocacy of “avoiding 2?C of global warming” by altering our energy policy is ridiculous when cooling is more probable, and may have already started.”
Read whole media release.
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