"CLIMATE - THE COUNTER CONSENSUS" - by ICSC science advisor, Professor Robert M. Carter, Australia
THE ICSC CLIMATE SCIENTISTS' REGISTER
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UN SECRETARY GENERAL PROMOTES TRANSPARENCY BUT IGNORES SCIENTISTS' REQUEST FOR DATA SHARING |
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March 11, 2010: "U.N. launches review of criticized climate panel", by Louis Charbonneau, Reuters, as reported in the Internet edition of Malaysia's most widely-read English-language daily newspaper, The Star. Read whole piece in The Star. In his news conference on the subject UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said: "We need to act based on the best possible science. We need to ensure full transparency, accuracy and objectivity, and minimize the potential for any errors going forward...We must be clear about what we know and also about where there is uncertainty. We must communicate transparently and debate intelligently." Yet the Secretary General has yet to even acknowledge the December 2009 Copenhagen Climate Challenge asking the UN to share the observational evidence supporting their claims that "The earth's climate systems are warming above and beyond natural variability", to quote Ban in his remarks to the media today. This Challenge was submitted to the UN as an open letter and has now been signed by 166 leading climate experts from many countries. Similarly, the Secretary General never responded to the open letter sent to him two years earlier, signed by more than 100 specialists from around the world, many of whom are leading figures in their fields, from climate science to economics to biology which concluded "Attempts to prevent global climate change from occurring are ultimately futile, and constitute a tragic misallocation of resources that would be better spent on humanity's real and pressing problems."
Read UN Secretary General's remarks to the media. Watch the comments of both the Secretary General and the IPCC Chair, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri. |
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OPEN LETTER TO EU CHAIRMAN ABOUT CLIMATE POLICY |
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October 27, 2009 (date of first endorsement): "Rethink climate policy! Open letter to the EU Chairman, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt" "There is still no scientific basis for linking the contribution of carbon dioxide to a decisive impact on the climate. New research, based on actual observations rather than models, further weakens the foundation of previous hypotheses in this direction." Read overview of project. Read open letter to EU President. See list of endorsers to date. Read references. See list of past petitions and open letters countering the UN climate mitigation initiatives. |
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IPCC EXCUSES MISS THE POINT - FLAWS ONLY TIP OF ICEBERG |
February 27, 2010: "A perfect storm is brewing for the IPCC - the emerging errors of the IPCC's 2007 report are not incidental but fundamental, says Christopher Booker", "The chief defence offered by the warmists to all those revelations centred on the IPCC's last 2007 report is that they were only a few marginal mistakes scattered through a vast, 3,000-page document. ... But this completely misses the point. Put the errors together and it can be seen that one after another they tick off all the central, iconic issues of the entire global warming saga." Read whole piece. |
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CLIMATEGATE II - U.S.A. VERSION |
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March 30, 2010: "NASA Data Worse Than Climate-Gate Data, Space Agency Admits", by Blake Snow, FOXNews.com "E-mail messages obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that NASA concluded that its own climate findings were inferior to those maintained by both the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) -- the scandalized source of the leaked Climate-gate e-mails -- and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center." Read whole piece. |
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NEWS RELEASE - LEADING EXPERTS RAPIDLY ENDORSING 'CLIMATE SCIENTISTS' REGISTER' |
Carbon dioxide NOT causing a climate crisis, say scientists
Ottawa, Canada, June 30, 2010 – The Climate Scientists’ Register, started one month ago by International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), has just passed its first 100 expert endorsers – see here. By allowing their names to be added to the signatory list, these scientists are endorsing the following physical science statement:
“We, the undersigned, having assessed the relevant scientific evidence, do not find convincing support for the hypothesis that human emissions of carbon dioxide are causing, or will in the foreseeable future cause, dangerous global warming."
“Unlike most other public declarations about climate, The Register only includes the endorsements of individuals who have significant expertise in understanding the causes of climate change”, explains ICSC Executive Director
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. “By ensuring that the Register statement is apolitical and non-commercial, it is attracting support from scientists across the political spectrum, an important objective if public policy is to be based on the best in non-partisan science.”
“Contrary to the common assumption that only ‘outliers’ and unqualified researchers disagree with the theory of carbon dioxide-induced climate disaster, The Register demonstrates that many leading experts contest this hypothesis”, said Register endorser Dr. Tim Patterson, ICSC Chair and Professor of Earth Sciences at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). "Many in the Earth Sciences community in particular have trouble with the concept that today’s climate change is in any way unusual or driven by human activity. Climate has always changed, at times far faster than we are witnessing today, and it will continue to change no matter what we do.”
Fellow endorser and ICSC science advisor, Dr. Robert M. Carter, Professor at the Marine Geophysical Laboratory of James Cook University (Townsville, Australia) elaborates: "Many researchers recognize that the already weak case for dangerous man-made global warming is getting weaker still as the science matures. With the admission of Dr. Mike Hulme (Reference 1, below), a prominent climate scientist and UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) insider, that “only a few dozen experts in the specific field of detection and attribution studies”, not thousands as is commonly asserted by the IPCC and others, “reached a consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the climate”, the quickly achieved 127 current endorsers to the Register should provide an incentive for media and the public to reassess popular but misguided beliefs about what scientists who study the causes of climate change are actually concluding.”
ICSC Policy Advisory Board member Climate Data Analyst John McLean of Melbourne, Australia explains that, “of the roughly 2,500 independent reviewers of the latest IPCC report, only 61 commented, and not all of them in agreement, on the critical Chapter 9 of the Working Group I contribution to the IPCC. This was the chapter that attempted to attribute warming to human activity on the basis of climate models that elsewhere the IPCC report shows cannot be accurate. It is clear that the InterAcademy Council currently reviewing IPCC processes needs to include among their recommendations that the IPCC must be more honest in its claims about the magnitude of the consensus, better yet, any mention of consensus should be banned because scientific truth is not determined by the number of people supporting a notion.”
To view the list of current endorsers of The Climate Scientists’ Register or to learn more about the project, visit http://www.climatescienceinternational.org or contact:
Tom Harris, B. Eng., M. Eng. (Mech. - thermo-fluids)
Executive Director
International Climate Science Coalition
P.O. Box 23013
Ottawa, Canada
K1A 4E2
613-728-9200
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Reference 1: see p. 10, 11 of Hulme’s April 12, 2010 paper in “Progress in Physical Geography” at http://tinyurl.com/2b3cq3r.
The International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) is an apolitical association of independent scientists, economists and energy and policy experts who have joined together to promote better public understanding of climate science and policy worldwide. We wish to help create an environment in which a more rational, open discussion about climate issues emerge, thereby helping move the debate away from implementation of costly and ineffectual ‘climate control’ measures. |
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