GORE LIED: Western green intentions go astray on "eco-village" plan in China

Four years later, the completed homes have cosmetic flaws and are not up to the envisioned green standards. Only one unit has a solar panel, and each home contains a storage unit or garage in a village where few people have cars. And because construction costs soared to between $6,000 and $10,000 a home, they are out of reach for most villagers.

"It became apparent that it wasn't cost effective to do solar panels in a rural village," says Joe Marcotte, program manager for the China-U.S. Center. "To this day, we don't know what the accurate cost of the homes are."

Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on Earth's Climate

Because of what their analysis revealed, the two researchers concluded that "climate models may therefore lack -- or incorrectly parameterize -- fundamental processes by which surface temperatures respond to radiative forcings," which is a conclusion with which all of the world's "climate skeptics" would probably agree, and which should give all of the world's "climate alarmists" pause to consider the rationality of their calls for dramatic worldwide curtailment of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. To promote such unprecedented and coercive measures on the basis of model scenarios that "lack -- or incorrectly parameterize -- fundamental processes by which surface temperatures respond to radiative forcings" would appear to us to be the height of folly.

More Evidence for Solar-Driven Climate Change

Shaviv (2008) begins a most intriguing paper by noting, as background material, that "climatic variations synchronized with solar variations do exist, whether over the solar cycle or over longer time-scales," citing numerous references in support of this fact, many more of which can be found under the general heading of Solar Effects in our Subject Index. However, it is difficult for certain people (such as climate alarmists) to accept the logical derivative of this fact, i.e., that solar variations are driving major climate changes, the prime problem being that measured or reconstructed variations in total solar irradiance seem far too small to be able to produce the observed climatic changes.