The Fraser Institute: New Report Details Over-Looked Scientific Evidence Against Simplistic Climate Alarmism

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - April 21, 2009) - A 110-page report by an international team of climate experts published today by the independent Fraser Institute examines critically-important scientific evidence that has been overlooked or omitted in government reports that blame climate change on carbon dioxide emissions.

The report, Critical Topics in Global Warming, supplements the Fraser Institute's Independent Summary for Policymakers, a 2007 analysis of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report.

The new peer-reviewed report's seven chapters investigate published scientific literature on issues such as the effects of ocean oscillations and solar variations on climate, historical climate variability, statistical challenges in climate analysis, uncertainties in climate modeling, and quality problems in temperature measurement systems. The report leaves no doubt that the science is far from "settled" on climate change.

Nicholas Stern: We must not give in to pessimism | Environment | guardian.co.uk

In the Q&A at the end of Stern's talk, the Guardian blogger Ed Gilespie asked him how he could be optimistic in the face of contradictory policies by the UK government. Stern confessed that sometimes he could not help focussing on the negatives: "The Russians will cheat, the Americans are not going to give up their SUVs, the Chinese don't care anyway and the Brits are too lazy to do anything. I can sit in a bar and tell these stories – and I have done – but that doesn't mean that they are a good basis for action," he said.

But if we give in to pessimism then we have already failed to solve the climate crisis, he said. "What's the alternative to optimism? Unless we act as if we can sort this out you might as well just get a hat and some sun tan lotion and write a letter of apology to your grandchildren. The only way we can think of going forward is to try to make the best of a bad starting point."

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