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Issue #67: More Studies Find Temperatures Were Warmer in Past
James M. Taylor, J.D.... prior studies indicating temperatures during the Medieval Warm Period and Roman Warm Period were at least as warm as temperatures in the current warm period. Scandinavian scientists examined dozens of temperature... millennia and found “a well-defined Medieval Warm... ...
Reconstructing Climatic and Environmental Changes of the Past 1000 Years: A Reappraisal
Dr. Willie Soon, Dr. Sallie Baliunas, Craig Idso, Sherwood Idso and David R. Legates... the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period as climatic anomalies with world-wide... warmest nor a uniquely extreme climatic period of the last millennium, although it is clear that human activity has significantly impacted some local environments.... ...
Examining the Hockey Stick Controversy
Dr. Jay GulledgeThe science of climate change is an extroadinary example of a theory-driven, data-rich scientific paradigm, the likes of which, arguably, has not ocurred since the development of quantum mechanics in the first half of the twentieth century. (...read more) ...
What's Going On With The Artic
George TaylorGeorge Taylor is the State Climatologist for Oregon. This article is the text of his 2005 presentation to the George Marshall Institute's Washington Roundtable on Science and Public policy and is based on his research for a large comprehensive paper on Arctic climate, an invited paper for Climatic Research. ...
Issue #65: Antarctic Sea Ice Defies Alarmist Climate Models
James M. Taylor, J.D.... debunked … Crab populations will benefit from warming temperatures … Scandinavian summers are cooler than Medieval Warm Period GORE PRESENTS ALTITUDE CONSPIRACY THEORY Global warming conspiracy theorist Al Gore expanded his... for worry than other debunked global warming scares, explain scientists... ...
Petition to EPA for Reconsideration of its CO2 Endangerment Finding
Peabody Energy Company... in the IPCC reports that current warming is unprecedented and man-made now... with any level of certainty that warming has even been occurring. Among other... data over a 1,000-year period, they suppressed contrary information, and they... exposed by the lack of current warming is so fundamental--and... ...
Climategate: A Step by Step Analysis
John P. CostellaA painstakingly detailed review of the Climategate e-mails bolsters the picture they paint of deliberate data manipulation by " scientists" bent on blaming mankind for climate change." Climategate Analysis," published by the nonprofit Science & Public Policy Institute, presents all the leaked e-mails from the University of East Anglia ...
Climategate Analysis
John P. CostellaThe most difficult thing for a scientist in the era of Climategate is trying to explain to family and friends why it is so distressing to scientists. Most people don t know how science really works: there are no popular television shows, movies, or books that really depict the everyday lives of real scientists; it just isn ...
20th Century Warming Not Unprecedented, Experts Testify
David Wojick... some important questions: Was twentieth century warming unusual? Could it have been natural... record was like. Mann: Twentieth Century Warming Unprecedented The fight is over the so-called Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and Little Ice Age (LIA... The debate turns on whether the Medieval Warm... ...
A Science-Based Rebuttal to the Testimony of Al Gore before the United States Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
Craig Idso... Committee on the subject of global warming. We have analyzed Mr. Gore s... contradict the essence of his global warming thesis.... ...
The Science of Climate Change: Statement By Senator James M. Inhofe Chairman, Committee on Environment and Public Works
Senator James M. InhofeAs chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, I have a profound responsibility, because the decisions of the committee have wide-reaching impacts, infuencing the health and security of every American. That's why I established three guiding principles for all committee work: it should rely onthe most objective science ...
Issue #21: Alarmists ‘Find’ Conveniently Missing Heat
James M. Taylor, J.D.A new paper produced by global warming alarmists at the National Center for... has been an embarrassment to global warming alarmists for many years. Recent peer... to assume a small amount of warming due to an increase in atmospheric... that humans are causing a global warming crisis. In response, global... ...
Scientists Behaving Badly
Steven F. Hayward... been going out of the global warming balloon. Global temperatures stopped rising a... public belief in human-caused global warming. The climate campaigners continue to insist... international political action to combat global warming--there was considerable disagreement, confusion, doubt... circle has played in the... ...
The Vectorial Capacity of Malaria Mosquitoes
Craig Idso... to do... Read More The Late Medieval Warm Period at Switzerland’s Seebergsee (6 November... that the peak warmth of the Medieval Warm Period was likely significantly greater than that of the Current Warm Period has been to date... Read More... brought the entire globe the... ...
EPA Testimony GHG Migration
Michael R. Fox Ph.D....The scientific case against man-made global warming has collapsed. A number of recent analyses of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), its science, its computer models, its review processes including the dubious selections of reviewers, have been shown to be mortally flawed. As Christopher Monckton recently... ...
Climate Change in the Classroom Education or Indoctrination? Part 2: Scientific Critiques of Global Warming Alarmism
Heartland Research & Commentary... provide scientific critiques of the global warming alarmism that appears in Al Gore... James Taylor, Scientific Consensus on Global Warming, The Heartland Institute (April 2007).... ...
Climate History and the Sun
Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon... especially well the early 20th Century warming trend, which cannot have much human contribution. Drs. Baliunas and Soon present their latest findings on the relationship between the Sun's varying energy output and climate change on Earth.... ...
Comments of The Heartland Institute in Response to Proposed Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases
Maureen Martin... EPA s contentions that the global warming of the twentieth century was caused... that human emissions will cause future warming are undermined by an extensive body... sufficiently large to entirely explain the warming of the twentieth century or to... to support its claim that the warming of the twentieth... ...
Climate Chaos? Don't Believe It
Christopher Monckton... and social effects of unchecked global warming. In what many will see as a highly controversial polemic, Christopher Monckton disputes the 'facts' of this impending apocolypse and accuses the UN and it's scientists of distorting the truth.... ...
Comments of The American Farm Bureau Federation, Deseret Power Electric Cooperative and Sunflower Electric Power Corporation on EPA’s Proposed Endangerment Finding
The American Farm Bureau Federation, Deseret Power Electric Cooperative, and Sunflower Electric Power Corporation argue that the Endangerment Finding and supporting technical documents are arbitrary and capricious and violate the Information Quality Act because they present an incomplete and imbalanced science discussion, ignoring literally ...