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Petition to EPA for Reconsideration of its CO2 Endangerment Finding
Peabody Energy CompanyPeabody Energy Company has petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its December 2009 finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health or welfare. The basis for Peabody s 238-page petition are the emails exchanged by scientists in the United Kingdom and the United States who authored, edited, and ...
Petition for Reconsideration of Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Finding for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act
Greg AbbottTexas petitions EPA to reconsider its Endangerment Finding, relying on the CRU emails and other data calling the finding into question. Texas notes EPA regulation of greenhouse gases would impact 3,800 farms and 28,000 cattle operations that will need permits just to continue operating. It may also jeopardize 375,000 Texans who ...
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 ...
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 ...
Issue #68: Michael Mann Falsely Claims He Was Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
James M. Taylor, J.D.Michael Mann was never awarded the Nobel Peace... of the Nobel Institute says, despite Mann’s public claims that he was... in connection with a defamation suit, Mann claims he was “awarded the Nobel... the Nobel Institute, pointing out how Mann claims to be a Nobel Prize winner. Richard asked if... ...
Chairman Barton's Letter to Michael E. Mann
Chairman Joe BartonQuestions have been raised, according to a February 14, 2005 article in the Wall Street Journal, about the significance of methodological flaws and data errors in your studies of the historical record of temperatures in climate change. (... read more) ...
Issue #27: Temperatures Flat Despite Record Rise in Emissions
James M. Taylor, J.D.... EPA administrator commits defamation while defending Mann? … ClimateWiki update MULLER ADMITS HE WAS... EPA ADMINISTRATOR COMMITS DEFAMATION WHILE DEFENDING MANN? U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson... Act request for records related to Michael Mann’s research while he was a professor there. Mann... ...
An Update on the Science of Climate Change
Senator James M. InhofePopular author Dr. Michael Crichton, who has questioned the wisdom of those who trumpet a scientific consensus, released a new book called State of Fear , which is premised on the global warming debate. The book reached #3 on the New York Times bestseller list. In this January 2005 speech, Senator James M. Inhofe, chairman... ...
The Mother of All Scares
Christopher Booker... 2001 adopting as its supreme icon Michael Mann s hockey stick, the graph which... Despite the tireless efforts of Dr. Mann, the evidence that the world was... Steve McIntyre yet again tearing apart Mann s latest bid to resurrect his... 1990s. Despite the best efforts of Mann and Professor Steig... ...
Climate Change Weekly - New Data Support Cosmic Ray Theory
James M. Taylor... seeking access to documents related to Michael Mann’s research conducted under taxpayer-funded... regarding former University of Virginia professor Mann’s alarmist global warming claims. Mann, who left the University of Virginia... scientist Tim Ball after Ball said Mann “should be in the State Pen... ...
Understanding the Climategate Inquiries
Ross McKitrickNews broke on or around 19 November 2009 that a large archive of emails and files from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in the UK had been released on the Internet. The contents of the files were sufficiently disconcerting to the public, governments, and university administrations that a number of inquiries were established ...
The Climategate Inquiries
Andrew MontfordA detailed assessment of the Climategate inquiries set up by the University of East Anglia and others which finds that they avoided key questions and failed to probe some of the most serious allegations. The report The Climategate Inquiries , written by Andrew Montford and with a foreword by Lord (Andrew) Turnbull, finds that ...
2004 Index of Leading Environmental Indicators - Ninth Edition
Steven F. HaywardEnvironmental politics in an election year take on an especially furious tone. Activists are busy attacking George Bush's policies, in terms virtually identical to the criticism of Ronald Reagan 20 years ago. ...
Climategate: A Scandal that Won't Go Away
Christopher Booker... of these graphs, of course, was Michael Mann's " hockey stick" , comprehensively discredited by... on different tree rings, produced by Mann's close allies at the CRU... Dr Keith Briffa, copied from Mike Mann's own " hockey stick" , was simply... by the bizarre methods used by Mann himself to construct... ...
Issue #29: Climategate 2 Reveals More Destruction of Evidence, Scientific Flaws
James M. Taylor, J.D.... not be causing a climate crisis. Michael Mann (at left), for example, brags to... The new Climategate emails also reveal Mann recruiting fellow alarmists to pressure Harvard... Briffa and Wigley chastise fellow alarmist Mann … Wigley acknowledges IPCC errors … Hulme asserts... IPCC authors can “get away... ...
Stephen McIntyre Comments on the Proposed Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases
Stephen McIntyre1. The Proposed Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act (the Finding) and its associated Technical Support Document (TSD) are highly influential scientific assessments and are therefore required to comply with section III of the OMB Peer Review Guidelines and ...
Issue #55: Michael Mann Presentation Illustrates Flawed Warming Claims
James M. Taylor, J.D.Climategate central figure Michael Mann gave a talk in Orange County... further their agenda. Before his presentation, Mann reportedly objected strenuously to skeptical scientists... His easily debunked presentation indicates why Mann did not want an objective scientist... on the panel. The final slide in... ...
Issue #83: CO2 Keeps Rising but Temperatures Refuse to Follow
James M. Taylor, J.D.... SOURCE: Forbes.com IN THIS ISSUE Michael Mann caught doctoring data again … Scientists debunk... Virginia touts new ‘Open Science Center’ MICHAEL MANN CAUGHT DOCTORING DATA AGAIN Prominent global warming alarmist Michael Mann misrepresented data in a public presentation... models. Scientist/mathematician... ...
Michael E. Mann's Response to Chairman Joe Barton
Michael E. MannYour letter lays out a number of " concerns" about the research my colleagues and I have conducted about global warming. Your letter also inquires about the role I played in the preparation of the United Nations Integovernmental Panel on Climate Change Third Assessment Report (the so-called " TAR" ). (... read more) ...
Issue #30: Durban Climate Talks Follow Predictable Path
James M. Taylor, J.D.... warming as much as models predicted … Michael Mann plays the victim in WSJ letter... SOURCE: Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. MICHAEL MANN PLAYS THE VICTIM IN WSJ LETTER... Penn State University researcher and Climategate figure Michael Mann claimed this week in a letter... on climate... ...