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Alaskan Glaciers Grow for First Time in 250 years

2008-11-19T05:18:00Z

High snowfall and cold weather to blame. A bitterly cold Alaskan summer has had surprising results. For the first time in the area's recorded history, area glaciers have begun to expand, rather than shrink. Summer temperatures, which were some 3 degrees below average, allowed record levels of winter snow to remain much longer, leading to the increase in glacial mass. "In mid-June, I was surprised to see snow still at sea level in Prince William Sound", said glaciologist Bruce Molnia. "In general,...(read more)

Eco Fundamentalism

2008-11-14T23:35:00Z

The Scientific Alliance Newsletter, November 14, 2008 Like any movement which inspires belief in its values, environmentalism also fosters a proportion of fundamentalists. One who attracted some media attention in the UK this week was a lady called Joan Pick, who has taken energy saving about as far as its possible to go in a modern society, and then a bit further. Hailed as an “eco-heroine”, the 67 year old has avoided all use of energy she considers unnecessary for the last 36 years. Her car has...(read more)

We are actually heading towards a new Ice Age, claim scientists

2008-11-14T01:29:00Z

It has plagued scientists and politicians for decades, but scientists now say global warming is not the problem. We are actually heading for the next Ice Age, they claim. British and Canadian experts warned the big freeze could bury the east of Britain in 6,000ft of ice. A taste of the future: Plunging temperatures around Britain created dramatic 2-ft icicles over Sleightholme River in County Durham Most of Scotland, Northern Ireland and England could be covered in 3,000ft-thick ice fields. The expanses...(read more)

More Errors in NASA Climate Data

2008-11-12T21:30:00Z

Amateur team finds NASA error similar to one they discovered a year ago. GISS's October Data. The large reddish-brown area in Russia is actually September readings. NASA'S Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) is one of the world's primary sources for climate data. GISS issues regular updates on world temperatures based on their analysis of temperature readings from thousands of monitoring stations over the globe. GISS’ most recent data release originally reported last October as being extraordinarily...(read more)

New Report Calls into Question ‘Man-Made’ Climate Change

2008-08-27T02:44:00Z

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 By Kevin Mooney, Staff Writer (CNSNews.com) – New scientific evidence suggests there is a stronger link between solar activity and climate trends on Earth than there is with greenhouse gases, Fred Singer, an atmospheric and space physicist, told CNSNews.com . The new data call into question whether scientific evidence shows that global warming is a man-made phenomenon and suggests that natural forces, as opposed to human activity, may drive global climate change. Singer is...(read more)

Global warming inconvenient questions

2008-08-24T22:57:00Z

Sampling of Inconvenient Questions for Climate Fear Promoters A list but by no means comprehensive How do you explain that global temperatures according to UN data have not increased since 1998 and there has been no significant warming since 1995? (See: MIT Climate Scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen’s March 2008 presentation of data from the Hadley Centre of the UK Met Office found the Earth has had “no statistically significant warming since 1995.”- (LINK Here and Here ) Are you aware that even the UN...(read more)

July 2008 Global Temperatures

2008-08-22T22:44:00Z

Written by Niche Modeling - Wednesday, 20 August 2008 Much ado has been made about global warming stopping since 2001 , since 1998 or not increasing in the last decade . Here is more grist to the skeptic mill. The analysis below shows the global temperature has not increased significantly since 1979! Data are from the TLT Sellite measurements of the Earth’s lower troposphere at RSS MSU . When you calculate the global surface temperatures from July to July 1979-2008, the earth has warmed the grand...(read more)

Lord Monckton Thrashes DeSmog Blog Editor in High-Profile Global Warming Debate

2008-08-19T02:37:00Z

DeSmog Blog editor Richard Littlemore concedes defeat. Lord Christopher Monckton, a global warming expert and former senior policy advisor to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has an outstanding challenge to Al Gore and other ardent proponents of the theory that humans are causing a global warming crisis to publicly debate the issue. While Al Gore and most other prominent proponents of alarmist global warming theory refuse to publicly debate or defend their claims, Richard Littlemore, editor...(read more)

The Creation According To Saint Albert

2008-06-29T18:27:00Z

Genesis, Chapter One 1:1 In the beginning Saint Albert, The Goracle of Music City, created The Book. 1:2 And The Book was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the Book. And the editors of the Book moved upon the pages of it, to give it form and substance . 1:3 And The New York Times said, "Let there be sales:" and there were sales of The Book . 1:4 And Saint Albert saw the sales, and that they were good: and he said "There could be profit and sustenance in this, both for me and...(read more)

That almost looks like a........HOCKEY STICK!

2008-06-29T18:01:00Z

Click here for a larger view Except that the "business end" of this hockey stick is pointing in the other direction than Gore's was pointing. It's going almost straight down, baby - and Viagra isn't going to help. The staff here at GL took the liberty of slightly altering Dr. Roy Spencer's graph here of his UAH Globally Averaged Satellite-Based Temperature of the Lower Atmosphere (Jan. 1979-May 2008). Dr. Spencer highlighted the Mt. Pinatubo cooling and the 1998 El Nino warming, and our graphics...(read more)

Gore Lied People Died!

2008-06-29T16:59:00Z

It’s an inconvenient truth that across the world valuable cropland is being converted from growing food to growing biofuel. The croplands are being converted with government subsidies, and we are about to learn a very harsh lesson . In Egypt we have breadlines , in Pakistan and India soaring flour prices, and in the rest of the subcontinent we have rice shortages. Lester Brown, director of the Earth Policy Institute in Washington, said yesterday that land turned to biofuels in the US alone in the...(read more)

Australian astronomical Society warns of global COOLING as Sun’s activity ‘significantly diminishes’

2008-06-29T14:37:00Z

By EPW Blog Sunday, June 29, 2008 See also: Sun: Still quiet, over two months since a cycle 24 spot seen Australian astronomical Society warns of global COOLING as Sun’s activity ‘significantly diminishes’ A new paper published by the Astronomical Society of Australia has a warning to global warming believers not immediately obvious from the summary: Based on our claim that changes in the Sun’s equatorial rotation rate are synchronized with changes in the Sun’s orbital motion about the barycentre,...(read more)

Britons fear the carbon cops are coming

2008-06-25T17:22:00Z

LONDON (Reuters) - First there were the thought police, then the surveillance society, now Britons fear the carbon cops are coming to ensure compliance with climate change legislation, a survey showed on Wednesday. And with warnings of global catastrophe ringing in their ears some people fear that failure to cut personal carbon emissions will eventually result in enforced carbon behaviour re-education, the Energy Saving Trust said. Read more here :...(read more)

Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist

2008-06-23T13:24:00Z

James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer. Hansen will use the symbolically charged 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking speech (pdf) to the US Congress - in which he was among the first to sound the...(read more)

Most Britons doubt cause of climate change

2008-06-22T19:50:00Z

Juliette Jowit Sunday June 22, 2008 The majority of the British public is still not convinced that climate change is caused by humans - and many others believe scientists are exaggerating the problem, according to an exclusive poll for The Observer. The results have shocked campaigners who hoped that doubts would have been silenced by a report last year by more than 2,500 scientists for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which found a 90 per cent chance that humans were the...(read more)