Ocean Currents Control CO2 « Musings from the Chiefio

But what caught my eye the most about the graph is just how much CO2 levels Have Changed Historically. Where were the SUVs and jet airplanes in 1700 during that dramatic rise? How about in 600 AD? It simply says that there are fairly large swings of CO2 based on things unrelated to fossil fuels.

Canadian Senate Testimony – Skeptic side now being heard in Canadian politics | Watts Up With That?

The video link provided is two hours of testimony before a Canadian Senate Committee from December 15, 2011. Most who have a skeptical viewpoint will have already heard of some or all of the four presenters.

The presentations and follow-up questions are both excellent! Interesting to note the avoidance of some of the alarmist bullying seen in some of the U.S. Senate hearings from the likes of Clinton and Boxer. Of course, you’ll see the odd Liberal senator make the typical noxious commentary around thousands of scientists and ‘consensus’ but it doesn’t matter, they are  only looking increasingly foolish.

Articles: Fake! Fake! Fake! Fake!

[Fred Singer] But I do claim that the commonly reported and accepted warming between 1978 and 2000 is based only on thermometers from land surface stations and is not supported by any other evidence that I could find.  Specifically, ocean data (from 71% of the earth's surface) and global atmospheric data (as recorded by satellites and independent balloon-borne radiosondes) do not show such a warming at all.  In addition, most proxy data, from non-thermometer sources such as tree rings, ocean sediments, ice cores, stalagmites, etc., show no warming during this same crucial period.  (One has to be careful in this analysis since the year 1998 shows a major warming spike caused by a Super-El Niño.  But by 1999 and 2000, temperatures had returned to pre-1998 values.)

New Speculation on Who Leaked Climate-Change E-Mails - NYTimes.com

[Leslie Kaufman] It set off six separate official inquiries, all of which cleared the researchers of scientific misconduct.

...Kert Davies, the research director of the environmental group Greenpeace, suggested that the note was “a strong clue on the predisposition of the hacker.”

“It smells a lot like a certain quadrant of the denier community,” he said. “They pretend to be concerned that we are impeding development in poor countries. Only certain think tanks think that way and play that way” — mostly in Europe, he said.

...“It seems to me the authorities wouldn’t have acted without some actionable intelligence,” said Michael Mann, a scientist at Pennsylvania State University who specializes in climate modeling and whose messages came in for particular scrutiny in 2009. “They must know something that we don’t yet know.”