Michael R. Fox: The 2nd International Conference on Global Warming: An Intellectual Feast

As it stands now there is little scientific support for the man-made global warming hypothesis. The AGW hypothesis has major scientific weaknesses and it angry promoters have lost huge amounts of credibility. As Dr. Richard Lindzen said, “Its game, set, and match”.

Tim Ball: Statistics in modern society

Most people think the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes predictions of future climate. They don’t, they produce what they call “scenarios”. These are a series of possible future trends in climate tempered by what the world economy is going to do. Through this approach they manage to combine all the most serious limitations of statistics by a severe lack of data. Worse, they combine the supposedly precise statistics of the natural sciences with the vague application of the Social Sciences. They assume human produced CO2 is causing global warming and the amount will increase as economies develop. This means that all the scenarios trend up. Presumably the lowest scenario trend is if we reduce CO2 production by legislation, but what if it reduces because the current recession becomes a depression?