Gib public lecture: Monckton attacks Gore’s ‘dodgy science’

Lord Monckton the visiting environmental sceptic and visiting Gibraltar as a climate science expert yesterday described Al Gore’s intervention at the Gibraltar Government’s Thinking Green event as a mishmash of “dodgy science” which had been sprinkled with “a long list of inadequacies, inaccuracies and a series of lurid TV clips of droughts, floods, fires and pestilence.”

The former advisor to Prime Minister Thatcher in Downing Street also accused Al Gore of “the fallacy of arguing from ignorance” when seeking to attribute extreme weather to climate change and of holding “an extremist but profitable position” on climate science.

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More turmoil at the American Physical Society over their statement on the global warming issues | Watts Up With That?

[Roger W. Cohen, Fellow, American Physical Society] Driven by concern over the Statement, in 2009 I joined a small team of APS members. We collected and submitted a petition signed by nearly 300 physicists calling for the Statement to be moderated. The signatures were gathered one-by-one and included nearly 100 Fellows of major scientific societies, 17 members of national academies, and two Nobel Laureates. A number had published major research on the global warming issue, authored books on the issue, or worked in contiguous areas of meteorology and climate. Nearly all had backgrounds in key science areas that underlie the global warming issue.

The APS response to the petition was the appointment of a committee that took months to review the 157-word Statement. Only one of the members was familiar with the climate science field, and more than one had a vested interest in continued climate alarm. The committee’s final report referred only to IPCC reports and its supporting material, and so we had the predictable outcome: not a single change to the original Statement. Thus, as is the practice of bureaucracies, a position once taken is rigidly adhered to, even when the process that produced it was flawed.

Heatwave kills thousands of birds — this was climate change in 1932 « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

There was a human toll from the heatwave too, more than a hundred people expiring.
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Lance finds many instances where newspaper describe record temperatures (121 – 126 F which is in the order of 50C+!) that don’t match current BOM data.