1. Scientist who warned of coming ice age in the 1970’s is still standing behind global cooling prediction
Excerpt: ‘Thanks to new evidence that Dr. Kukla only recently published, he now knows that global warming always precedes an ice age. That makes the current period of global warming a mere blip that constitutes additional indication of the ice age to come.’
2. Another Scientist predicts cooling:
Solar output drives climate change: ‘We should prepare now for dangerous global cooling’
Climate scientist claims new research is shattering 'myths' about global warming
3. Report: Global Warming: Forecasts by Scientists versus Scientific Forecasts
‘We have been unable to find a single scientific forecast to support the currently widespread belief in dangerous, human-caused “global warming”.
http://www.nzclimatescience.org/images/PDFs/warmaudit31.pdf
4. Al Gore Gets Rich After White House - ‘Former Vice President Is Worth at Least $100 Million, Thanks to Smart Business Ventures’
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3281925
5. Environmental toilet water flow restrictions in Australia necessitate using toilet brush and flushing twice
‘Toilets that don't do what toilets are supposed to do. Famous 19th-century British pioneer of sanitary plumbing, Thomas Crapper, would be rolling in his grave.’
6. Environmental group reports U.S. leading world in toilet paper use
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5142
7. Update: Worldwide reaction teaches fourth-graders who wrote global warming report a lesson on free-speech
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=115838&ac=PHedi
8. Flashback: Maine fourth-graders issue climate report: 'Global warming is a huge pending global disaster'
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=113600
9. CLIMATE: Silly science of fourth-grade climate report - Paper: Fourth-grader's 'fed propaganda masquerading as science'
‘America's schoolchildren are being fed propaganda masquerading as science, and as it is with the global-warmists' computer models, it's garbage in, garbage out.’
http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=25817
10. Left-winger counters global warming hysteria
http://info.detnews.com/weblog/index.cfm?blogid=10038
11. President of Czech Republic: 'Do you really 'see' any damage caused by current warming?'
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e9df7200-19c7-11dc-99c5-000b5df10621.html
12. Terrorism Fears Surpass Global Warming in U.S.
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/16199
13. Hold the Line on Global Warming
http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20070618.html
14. BBC’s Hypocritical Analysis of its Own Global Warming Coverage
15. Survey finds most Americans back a $10 monthly global warming tax
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0620-climate_poll.html or alternate article: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/june20/warming-062007.html
16. Climate change movie "The Tipping Point" begins production
17. Going Green: The Media Reveal a Major Color Scheme
Journalists lose their jaded attitudes and embrace an environmental pallet for just about everything.
http://www.businessandmedia.org/commentary/2007/20070620155029.aspx
18. Too Busy Admiring Greens to Notice What They're Really About
Environmentalists want to limit our society and your behavior, but you won't hear that from the media.
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2007/20070620135046.aspx
18. Farming the oceans to combat global warming
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/6823/
19. An American company wants to seed the oceans with iron, helping to grow plankton, and fight global warming.
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/6823/
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Thanks Marc Morano for all these links.
Happy reading.
I'm off to Noosa for the weekend.
You're right Ian. I'd never accuse you of being a fuckwit
Hope Gerry hands around - he slagged us ALL off -WOW - how cool is that! (Betcha it's a GWB sock puppet.
Of course he has great insight into simulation modelling. Has been compared to onanistic behaviour - an essentially pleasant and harmless activity for the idle but not be confused with the real thing (That's a joke Joyce).
However I would add that the great climatologist Samuel Johnson once said that for the real thing the expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.
Sid - what utter drivel - seasonal forecasts like this have nothing to do with AGW. It would be a probabilistic seasonal forecast - could be (a) wrong or (b) minority odds. Not AGW related.
Close to 50% chance has been used for decades on rainfall in a totally non AGW context. Psychologically most people see this as no forecast skill - i.e. can go either way. 50% below is the same but cognitively perceived as lower.
Get fair dinkum and stop being such a bigot. Not everything is AGW Sid. I can accept a serve on not reporting record low temps if that occurs - but your bigotry is now verging on ridiculous. Which is which denialists can't be trusted.
Incidentally Sid if you want to some quality science check out the latest two RC posts - excellent primer on radiative physics - possibly a bit much for yourself and Ian though. Plus puts the boot into a few contrarian try-on myths. Oh dear ! You'll need a Bex and a good lie down after reading.
Ian's just having a big sook coz he doesn't like the Irwin's position on wildlife conservation and land clearing, and the fact that is resonates so well with the Australian and American public. All the concerned parenting stuff is shrill crocodile (!!) tears. Get over it - they're worth more than you are, so on your criteria of success in life drop and give them 20 and a heap of respect. Actually make it 40 for being rude about it, and send some flowers with an apology note too.
I've read this comment thread, right through, having gotten on the boat in the middle of the ocean. (Did not know who the cast of characters were, the 15 year old girl, etc.) Since it reminded me of many others like it (polemic, name-calling, rampant hubris, moral sloth, etc), I made a conscious effort to put aside the object being contested (though something about the environment (change - probably warming) was involved.
Now this has been a pretty long thread, so there is lots of evidence. To wit: most of you are cracked pots - both sides. You also seem to enjoy wasting time, your own and of others.
General age/maturity estimation, about 18, sex, mostly all male (from voicing, sentence construction, and general pissing in public, which females usually avoid.)
Nothing here will be settled, it's just an old male one-up-man-ship game, played nearly universally. All around, I'd say the term 'wankers' applies (ie. masturbaters) to almost all of you.
Just so you know that someone cares.
Jennifer, in relation to items 1 & 2 of this thread, above, I believe that with reason and common sense, anyone should be aware of the fact that a general fall in world temperatures would be far more damaging then a rise in temps. Further, the refusal of government agencies in this country, (not to mention the IPCC), to address this wider issue, (in their obsession with promoting AGW), could be seen as an abrogation of their responsibilities.
The BoM is so obsessed with this AGW Belief, that it colours just about every utterence they make on matters climate.
Today, on ABC Country Hour, a typical example of this was heard. At 12.42pm a Bureau officer was giving a forecast on temps. through to the spring. (IN May they forecast a winter of above average temps. and June has blown a hole in that!) Well, still sticking to the profession of faith, she (the officer) announced that July and August would see above average temps. and ditto the coming spring. Some of what was said was useful, as well as being well qualified as usual.
An example of 'BoM Speak'.-
BoM Speak: "Close to 50% chance of above average temps. for NSW". (Gotta avoid that nasty word 'below')
Translated into plain english: "Above 50% chance of below average temps. for NSW.
Further to our discussion on "Irwin International Inc", I draw readers attention to todays news that Terri Irwin received a substantial sum of money for her appearance on the US ABC.
For the record, Bindi's father died on the 4th September and his daughter was sold in a media exclusive on the 27th September, just three weeks later, for a "substantial sum of money".
Note that Paris Hilton was recently offered $1 million for a similar exclusive and she didn't even do us the courtesy of departing this mortal coil. So was the Irwin International Inc payment more, or less than $1 million?
And how much did Irwin International Inc receive for all the other appearances?
So pack up your high dudgeon and moralistic pronunciamentos, punters, your portrayal of a multinational commercial juggernaught as some sort of variation on a Bambi theme won't cut the mustard here. On ya bike, punks.