Friday, December 11, 2009

Times Online - Eureka Zone - WBLG: Fight Club Live [Debate: Lindzen vs Maslin]: Is mankind responsible for global warming?
Mark Maslin is a leading climatologist and director of the UCL environment institute. Maslin has a particular interest in past global and regional climates...

There is also, however, a small but powerful lobby that disputes the majority’s findings. Richard Lindzen is Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Answer to an environmental campaigner | The SPPI Blog
[Monckton] If, as a growing proportion of the papers on climate sensitivity in the literature suggest, the UN has indeed exaggerated the warming effect of CO2 many times over, we might have to shut down the world economy for 200 years just to forestall 1 C of warming.

I make no apology for having adopted a quantitative approach in this note. Mathematics is the language of science, and those who do not speak that language ought not – with all respect – to make pronouncements on scientific questions which, like “global warming”, depend crucially upon calculation.
Climate Curveball: Senate Bill Taps Negative Mood Toward Wall Street - Environmental Capital - WSJ
At 39 pages, the Cantwell-Collins bill is a lot easier to understand than the 1,400-page behemoth the House approved in June. It’s also a lot closer to the spirit of President Barack Obama’s campaign pledge, which called for “all pollution credits to be auctioned.”

But does that make it easier to pass? A big reason for giving away free allowances, after all, is to essentially buy the support of politically powerful industries. Or at least dampen their opposition.
STUDY: No Climate Change in Australia - associatedcontent.com
As established in the correlation study below, between 1995 and 2009, no statistically significant climate change occurred in Australia. Average daily temperatures in Perth and Sydney served as the supporting data for this study.
Cartoon Clicks: What won't stop global warming? - CNN.com

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