Sunday, February 14, 2010

EU Referendum: Against the grain
Still in statistical territory, Michael Beenstock and Yaniv Reingewertz from the Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Israel, in a little-discussed paper in Nature, amplified in a powerpoint presentation delivered by the pair, have re-evaluated methods used to show a relationship between CO2 levels and temperature rises.

Writing under the formidable title, "Polynomial Cointegration Tests of the Anthropogenic Theory of Global Warming", they find that the wrong statistical methods are being used, showing up a "spurious correlation". Using more sophisticated procedures, they find that there is no relation between the two. "AGW is refuted," they say.
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In a third paper, accepted for publication by the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Climatology, three scientists – two Australians and one American, revisit data on upper-atmospheric humidity. The three are Garth Paltridge, Albert Arking and Michael Pook, and they have found that, contrary to climate model predictions, water vapour in the upper atmosphere is acting as a brake on global warming.
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This, they say, implies that "long-term water vapour feedback is negative - that it would reduce rather than amplify the response of the climate system to external forcing such as that from increasing atmospheric CO2." This, in one fell swoop, challenges the central premise of the warmists that, once CO2 reaches a certain level, we experience runaway global warming.
EPA creates real pollution
Obama’s EPA – increasing air pollution in the form of particulate matter to chase the CO2 bogeyman (and increasing starvation through reduced global food availability).
Snowstorms do not prove global warming is true
First, single weather events cannot be construed as having anything at all to do with climate trends. Ever. Period. Every reputable scientist will look you straight in the eye and say this loudly and clearly.
[Do NOT miss this one]: ‘Global Warming’ Really Means ‘Cooling,’ or maybe ‘Climate Change’ - Big Journalism
...he appends a few media stories that I just thought might interest you
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But the figures from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, too, show 1990 as the warmest ever, with an average temperature of 59.8 degrees Fahrenheit, again about 0.09 degrees above 1988 [59.71degrees Fahrenheit].
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The U.N. agency reported that the global combined sea surface and land surface temperature for the January-October 2009 period is estimated at 0.44 degrees C (0.79 degrees F) above the 1961-1990 annual average of 14.00 degrees C (57.2 degrees F), with a margin of error of plus or minus 0.11 degrees C. Final data will be released early in 2010. [57.99 degrees Fahrenheit]

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