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Chapter 6 compares observations regarding the fate of terrestrial animals to projections made by the IPCC. The IPCC assumes temperatures will rise so rapidly that many animal species will not be able to migrate poleward in latitude or upward in elevation rapidly enough to avoid extinction. New research and observational data ...

Chapter 4 reports the latest observations on changes in the cryosphere, oceans, precipitation, and rivers and streamflow, comparing those observations to projections made by the IPCC. The new research finds less melting of ice in the Arctic, Antarctic, and on mountaintops than previously feared, no sign of acceleration of sea ...

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), already under severe criticism for violating the requirements of academic peer review and relying on secondary sources, comes under attack again in a new report co-produced by three nonprofit research organizations. According to the new report, “natural causes ...

Appendix 2 of Climate Change Reconsidered 2011 Interim Report provides brief bios for the three lead authors and titles and affiliations of eight contributors to the report. ...

Chapter 2 summarizes the latest research on what is known about forcings and feedbacks. While rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) would increase global temperatures through its thermal radiative properties, all else being equal, all else is not equal. More CO 2 promotes more plant growth both on land and throughout ...

Chapter 10 presents data on the economic effects of the global warming of the twentieth century, errors in how the IPCC conducts its impact analyses, and recent studies concerning biofuels and the relationship between climate and war and social unrest. It finds decades-long empirical trends of improving human well-being according ...

Chapter 3 reviews the latest research on paleoclimatology and recent temperatures, finding new evidence that the Medieval Warm Period of approximately 1,000 years ago, when there was about 28 percent less CO 2 in the atmosphere than there is currently, was both global and warmer than today’s world. Research also reveals a significant ...

Chapter 8 examines research on the effects of rising temperature and atmospheric CO 2 concentrations on aquatic life. While some corals exhibit a propensity to bleach and die when sea temperatures rise, others exhibit a positive relationship between calcification, or growth, and temperature. The latest research suggests corals and ...

This document is the forward, preface, table of contents, and executive summary of Climate Change Reconsidered 2011 Interim Report. This 400-page compilation of new research on the causes, extent, and consequences of climate change was written and edited by Craig D. Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer and published by ...

Appendix 1 of Climate Change Reconsidered 2011 Interim Report is a four-page list of acronyms that appear in the body of the report. ...

Chapter 1 of Climate Change Reconsidered 2011 Interim Report describes problems that may be intrinsic to the global climate modeling exercise, followed by more detailed documentation of model shortcomings involving precipitation, temperature, El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and soil moisture. We find evidence that the models ...

Chapter 9 finds global warming is more likely to improve rather than harm human health because rising temperatures lead to a greater reduction in winter deaths than the increase they cause in summer deaths. The result is a large net decrease in human mortality. Climate plays a relatively small role in the spread of viral ...

Transformational Innovation in K-12 Education: Achieving More, Spending Less in Schools, Districts, and States is an edited and revised version of a publication prepared for the Center on Innovation & Improvement, for which author Herb Walberg, chairman of The Heartland Institute's board of directors, serves as chief scientific ...

In November 2010, voters around the United States demanded change in Washington. For the third time in as many election cycles, Americans kicked out people in power and replaced them with new, often untested elected leaders. Two months later, in January 2011, many men and women came to Washington having campaigned on promises ...

Rarely have more people in the United States been so deeply concerned about the direction of their country as right now, in 2010. During the past two years, millions of men and women have literally marched in the streets for political change, and surveys show their views are supported by the great majority of other Americans ...

Earlier this year, Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed into law the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” The act’s supporters said it would achieve the long-sought goal of universal health insurance while preserving the high quality and freedom of choice that are the hallmarks of America’s health care ...

For the last half century, higher spending and many modern reforms have failed to raise the achievement of students in the United States to the levels of other economically advanced countries. A possible explanation, says Herbert Walberg, is that much current education theory is ill informed about scientific psychology, often ...

“At least seven theories of climate change enjoy some support in the scientific community. With the anthropogenic global warming theory now in disrepute, it is a good time to review the other six …” This booklet identifies seven theories, anthropogenic global warming (AGW) plus six others that do not claim man-made emissions ...

Walter Cunningham has enjoyed careers in the United States Marine Corps, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and private industry, including 12 years as a venture capitalist. He is best known as the pilot of Apollo 7, the first manned test flight of the Apollo Program to land a man on the Moon. He writes, "Global ...

This 880-page rebuttal of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), three years in the making, was released in June 2009 by The Heartland Institute. Coauthored and edited by S. Fred Singer, Ph.D., and Craig Idso, Ph.D. and produced with contributions and reviews by an international ...