Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Why we must repeal the Climate Change Act | Roger Helmer MEP

Climate Change is a threat to humanity first and foremost because of the vast economic damage which our responses to it will do.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Another death blow to the Hockey Stick: New paper finds many tree-ring analyses to be highly biased

Paging Michael Mann: A paper published this week finds that many tree-ring proxy studies are highly biased and calls for "great caution in the interpretation of historical growth trends from tree-ring analyses." The authors find that "big tree selection bias" resulted in a fictitious "doubling in growth rates over recent decades." Consequently, tree-ring analyses claiming to link growth rates to historical temperatures would show a fictitious large 'hockey stick' increase in temperature over recent decades.

White House rejected State of the Union box seating for Solyndra | JunkScience.com

White House staff knew enough about Solyndra’s troubles in January 2011 to dismiss talk of inviting the company’s executives into President Barack Obama’s special State of the Union box, internal emails released Friday show.

Oops! Accidental admission conditions only returning to those of earlier in the Holocene | JunkScience.com

But this whitebark-beetle cycle is not new. Sediments from a much warmer climatic period 8,000 to 10,000 years ago show beetles infecting whitebark trees. As the climate slowly cooled the whitebark trees moved to higher elevations where beetles were scarce.

“Things were drier and warmer in Alberta then,” said Esch, who wondered if we are once again destined to return to that climatic period.”

Hot March Days Are A Thing Of The Past In Ohio | Real Science

Eight of the twelve hottest March days in Oberlin, Ohio occurred between 1905 and 1910. Two of them occurred in 1945.

Climate morons say that the midwest is having historic heat in 2012, because they don’t know anything about history.

Greenland Nearly Cut Off By Ice | Real Science

It appears that total ice area is now nearly identical to 1983, which makes me suspect that UIUC measurements have been incorrect since their 2008 eye elevation change.

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