Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: A Summary of Richard Tol's look at IPCC AR4 WGIII
In sum, the review process of the IPCC failed miserably. AR4 of WG3 substantially and knowingly misrepresents the state of the art in our understanding of the costs of emission reduction. It leads the reader to the conclusion that emission reduction is much cheaper and easier than it will be in real life.
Econometrics vs Climate Science | The Resilient Earth
When asked how long a period of cooling global temperatures would be necessary for him to reconsider the AGW paradigm, NASA's Gavin Schmidt replied: “Long term trends from the forcing are expected to be around 0.2 - 0.3 deg/decade. Therefore you need to be able to get uncertainties down to well below those values in order to find a clear discrepancy. Judging from the last thirty years, that period is around a decade.” So a decade's reversal of the previously observed warming trend should give global warming supporters pause.

Dr. Phil Jones, former head of CRU, has publicly admitted that in the last 15 years there had been no “statistically significant” warming. Even when judged by its ardent supporters' own standards, anthropogenic global warming is failing. The only thing that can save climate science from itself is a paradigm shift—a revolutionary change in the basic assumptions within its ruling theory. The theory of AGW will not go without a fight, but go it will—Viva La Revolución!
What you must believe to be afraid of climate change « ClimateQuotes.com
This isn't an exhaustive list and there may be some who fear climate change who don't hold all four of these tenets. However, if you throw out any one point then fearing climate change makes little sense. If CO2 doesn't drive temperature change, then increasing CO2 isn't a problem. If there are no positive feedbacks, then the minimal rise in temperature from CO2 isn't a threat. If you don't believe the temperature record, then there is absolutely no observational evidence for the AGW theory. If you believe that life on planet earth is sufficiently adaptable, then an increase in temperature isn't something to fear.
Russian weatherman strikes blow for climate change lobby by announcing winter in Siberia may be coldest on record | Mail Online
In a new blow to the climate change lobby, Russia's top weatherman today announced that the winter now drawing to a close in Siberia may turn out to be the coldest on record.

'The winter of 2009-10 was one of the most severe in European part of Russia for more than 30 years, and in Siberia it was perhaps the record breaking coldest ever,' said Dr Alexander Frolov, head of state meteorological service Rosgidromet.

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