Scientist e-mails raising serious factual concerns - The Arizona Republic

Over two dozen climate scientists, many them among those involved in the e-mail exchanges, just released a report arguing global warming has intensified in recent years. Already, global-warming skeptics are questioning whether their data are accurate. And, this time, they cannot simply be dismissed as cranks.

The next stage of global-policy debate is scheduled to continue in Copenhagen, Denmark, this month. World leaders already have begun ratcheting back expectations for the U.N. Climate Change Conference. The e-mail issue may dampen expectations further.

For the sake of the integrity of one of history's most important scientific inquiries, the East Anglia e-mails require serious, open investigation. And soon.

A global-warming view from MIT

On our cruise, we had a guest with a couple of Ph.D.s from MIT.

This speaker talked about global warming.
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One of the passengers asked a question we were all wondering about. What are we as humans contributing to this warming period?

His reply was quick and clear: Human contribution to global warming or cooling is negligible. - Jorge Landa, Goodyear

[A cure for climate change: Breathe slower]: Kevin Baldeosingh, Trinidad News

For example, in a newspaper interview last week, Caribbean environmentalist Dr John Agard, who may soon surpass his UWI colleague Prof Stephan Gift’s record for incredible scientific statements, said in a newspaper interview that the three Category Five hurricanes in 2008 were ’unprecedented, this has never happened on the planet before in recorded history.’

However, since the hurricane scale was developed only in 1971 by American civil engineer Herbert Saffir and meteorologist Bob Simpson, Agard will probably get the Physics, Chemistry and Peace Nobel Prizes to go with his IPCC one when he explains how he has measured the wind speed, barometric pressure and storm surge of pre-20th century hurricanes.

Letters: Climate change is a social justice issue | Environment | The Guardian

As faith leaders from a wide range of religious backgrounds, we are calling on the government to take a leading role in securing a fair, ambitious and binding climate deal (Countdown to Copenhagen, 3 December). A central tenet of all faiths is to act justly.

Buy time with two-track climate [swindle] pact-UK economist | Reuters

LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - A leading British economist said leaders at climate talks in Copenhagen next week should agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol without a U.S. commitment to cut its greenhouse gases.