UN Climate Conference Politics are Showing

However, expect the UN to never give up. Ban Ki-Moon, like a sales pitch on a late-night TV informercial, is keeping up the pressure saying, “If we take action today it may not be too late. But if we take action tomorrow, we may have to regret it for not only us, but for coming generations and even for planet Earth.”
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On the U.S. Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works website there is a post entitled “UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims,” by Marc Morano. It’s interesting to check out. He cites scientists, using quotes, who dissent from the UN’s global-warming position. He examines faulty analysis and shoddy record keeping.

For example, did you know that weather reporting stations are down in number, from 15,000 in 1970 to 5,000 by the year 2000? And many of those left out were from the Soviet Union, particularly Siberia, leaving the coldest places on the planet from being part of the average global temperature equation.

Some bloggers have done a pretty good job as well, offering links with accompanying snippets on their blogs, doing the research work for you so you can just sit and click. One is Thomas Nelson. His blog links are worth checking out. Co2 Skeptics is another with some amusing stories and commentary, much of it well-documented.

Why is It So Cold When Global Warming is Such a Hot Topic? | An Inconvenient Blog

Based on the work of a colleague of mine which will be published next year, the average person is becoming more sensitive to cooler temperatures because our DNA is rapidly adjusting to the rising temperatures. By 2020, he predicts that temperatures of 75°F will elicit a response by the average human’s body that is comparable to the response temperatures of 50°F would have elicited in 2005.

The Cooling Anomaly of 2008 as my scientists are calling it is therefore not so much a real cooling but the climate taking a breather before the IPCC climate models resume. I am told that a new model being published in the Journal of Climate Change Science in February 2009 will show that the cooling of 2008 was completely expected.

Science Must Evolve to Tackle Global Warming: Scientific American

The need is urgent, Overpeck said, particularly given climate-induced changes already underway. The United States is drying out, with fewer days of rainfall in most regions as compared with decades past. And the Pacific Ocean could lap the streets of Sacramento, California's inland capital, if the sea rises two meters - a possible scenario for the coming century, he said.