Again this time, the deniers are professional scientists more than 650 strong. More than 400 scientists spoke out officially last year and within the next day or so, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works will release a new report.
Get this… The Sun is involved!
From the committees Minority page…
The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland is about to face a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore. Set for release this week, a newly updated U.S. Senate Minority Report features the dissenting voices of over 650 international scientists, many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN.
Quite a few interesting quotes, here are some for ya, courtesy Copious Dissent.
“I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” – Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.
“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical.” – Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.”
Read both posts.
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Peer-reviewed study: Half of recent warming was solar! – December 10, 2008
Excerpt: In this dose of peer-reviewed skeptical climatological literature, we follow Climate Research News. The blog was intrigued by a new article in Geophysical Research Letters that was accepted on Friday, December 5th. Eichler, A., S. Olivier, K. Henderson, A. Laube, J. Beer, T. Papina, H. W. Gäggeler, and M. Schwikowski: Temperature response in the Altai region lags solar forcing – Recall that the Siberian Altai Mountains are found at the intersection of Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan. The authors looked at 750 years worth of the local ice core, especially the oxygen isotope. They claim to have found a very strong correlation between the concentration of this isotope (i.e. temperature) on one side and the known solar activity in the epoch 1250-1850. Their data seem to be precise enough to determine the lag, about 10-30 years. It takes some time for the climate to respond to the solar changes. It seems that they also have data to claim that the correlation gets less precise after 1850. They attribute the deviation to CO2 and by comparing the magnitude of the forcings, they conclude that “Our results are in agreement with studies based on NH temperature reconstructions [Scafetta et al., 2007] revealing that only up to approximately 50% of the observed global warming in the last 100 years can be explained by the Sun.” Well, the word “only” is somewhat cute in comparison with the “mainstream” fashionable ideology. The IPCC said that they saw a 90% probability that “most” of the recent warming was man-made. The present paper would reduce this figure, 90%, to less than 50% because the Sun itself is responsible for 1/2 of the warming and not the whole 50% of the warming could have been caused by CO2 because there are other effects, too.
Update: Sister Toldjah is on it and Gateway Pundit has more.
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Our Star, SOL known as THE SUN our closest star at
Diameter 870,000 miles
Mass 330,000 times more than Earth
Density 1.41 (Water = 1)
Temperture at the Core 22 Million Degrees F
Temperture at Surface 9,932F
Rotational Period at
North and South Plole 35 days
Equatorial Rotaiton 25 Days
Luminosity 390 Billion Billion Megawatts
Yes its Billion Billion!
The sun converts 400 million tons of hydrogen to helium every second
I would have to say that with something this large, this powerful that I can not even wrap my mind around all of this. The Sun has, will, and always have some huge influence on the earth. How could it not?
The earth rotates around the sun at a distance of 91,000,000 miles to 93,000,000 miles… believe it or not we here in the Northern Hemisphere are closer to the sun in Winter than we are in the Summer months.
Not only does the sun produce light, but it produces Gamma Rays, Xrays, Infrared, ultraviolet light, microwaves, radiowaves, when the sun burps we here are on earth are all affected.
When I heard Jim read these quotes on the radio, I literally shouted "HOORAY!" to the dismay of people in the hall. A hall festooned, I might add, with "research" posters by students in ecology courses parroting the opinions of their liberal professors.
This is all you need to know: “Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical.”
The bottom line IS the bottom line. Scientists are dependent on government funding to survive, and if scientific illiterates like Al Gore are running the show, they have to kowtow to their "learned" experience to get the money.
The auto companies should take note.
Oh yeah. Read Crighton's "State of Fear." 'nuff said!
But wait, Saint Al the Goron told us it's all our fault. Did he neglect to consider that the sun may actually influence world climate?
Who would think,,,,the sun is involved? Amazing! Meanwhile, the temperatures this year are the coolest in something like a decade.
Just think of how much "global warming" would be reduced if we eliminated most of the hot air generated about this so-called problem.
There is also considerable scientific evidence that the earth has been significantly warmer and significantly colder at times in our past.
Science?