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A full analysis of satellite-measured lower tropospheric temperatures indicates that none of the global temperature variations from 1978 to 2008 can be attributed to the effect of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. The record shows global climate oscillations with a period of three to five years and a peak-to-peak amplitude of 0.4 to 0.5 degrees Celsius about a common, fixed mean temperature that lasted from 1978 to 1997. Since this mean
temperature did not change for twenty years the late twentieth century warming touted by IPCC and others simply did not happen.
Originally posted by jdub297
In light of reports based on biased, flawed, incomplete or fabricated data and projections, from such reputed sources as IPCC, NOAA, Nature, the BBC, and others, several independent researchers have formed a loose collaboration called ICECAP.
ICECAP, International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, is the portal to all things climate for elected officials and staffers, journalists, scientists, educators and the public. It provides access to a new and growing global society of respected scientists and journalists that are not deniers that our climate is dynamic (the only constant in nature is change) and that man plays a role in climate change through urbanization, land use changes and the introduction of greenhouse gases and aerosols, but who also believe that natural cycles such as those in the sun and oceans are also important contributors to the global changes in our climate and weather.
Yes I read this on their website too, so should I just swallow that pill, but the people on the board are paid by big oil and energy. Look them up. There are some cool professors on there, and a few that have Emeritus, retired with no professional reputation at stake.
ICECAP is not funded by governments or corporations. Its funding comes from donations of people genuinely interested in the global environment and sound policy for dealing with climate changes; natural, man-made or otherwise.
Perhaps you should explain to me why i should take the word of the BLOG author, Arno Arrak. He reviews books for a living. How independant.
Perhaps a bit of independent thinking from unbiased and well qualified experts can assist all of us in OUR understanding of the nature of our climate and its effects upon humanity.
Contributors to ICECAP include:
Joseph D'Aleo, Executive Director, Certified Consultant Meteorologist;
Robert C. Balling Jr, Professor of Climatology, Arizona State University;
Balling has acknowledged that he had received $408,000 in research funding from the fossil fuel industry over the last decade (of which his University takes 50% for overhead). Contributors include ExxonMobil, the British Coal Corporation, Cyprus Minerals and OPEC. [1]
Sallie L. Baliunas, Astrophysicist;
seattlepi.nwsource.com...
The energy industry provides significant funding for groups that employ some of the authors or promote their new study. Soon's co-authors were Sallie Baliunas, also from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center; Sherwood Idso and his son, Craig Idso of Tempe, Ariz., who are the former president and the current president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change; and David Legates, a climate researcher at the University of Delaware.
Soon declined to say how much he is paid to serve as a "senior scientist" with the Marshall Institute. Both he and Baliunas have that title.
Thomas A. Birkland, Director of the Center for Policy Research in the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University of Albany;
THOMAS A. BIRKLAND a1
a1 Political Science, State University of New York at Albany
Reid Bryson, Ph.D. D.Sc. D.Engr., Global 500 Laureate, Senior Scientist, Center for Climatic Research, Emeritus Prof. of Meteorology, of Geography, and of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin;
www.wecnmagazine.com...
Some people are lucky enough to enjoy their work, some are lucky enough to love it, and then there’s Reid Bryson. At age 86, he’s still hard at it every day, delving into the science some say he invented.
Almost 40 years ago, Bryson stood before the American Association for the Advancement of Science and presented a paper saying human activity could alter climate.
Nah, not at all.
Robert Carter, Researcher, James Cook University, Australia;
"Professor Carter, whose background is in marine geology, appears to have little, if any, standing in the Australian climate science community."
Carter is a member of the right-wing think tank the Institute of Public Affairs [8], and a founding member of the Australian Environment Foundation, a front group set up by the Institute of Public Affairs.
He said the role of peer review in scientific literature was overstressed, and whether or not a scientist had been funded by the fossil fuel industry was irrelevant to the validity of research.
Hey its the crazy TV weatherman, I can dig it.
John Coleman, Founder of The Weather Channel, TV Meteorologist KUSI-TV, San Diego
Man I have actuallyseen Cottons power point display on GW, he actually highlites the correlation between what we put into the air and GW via GHG's.
William Cotton, Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University; and
Perhaps a bit of independent thinking from unbiased and well qualified experts can assist all of us
Originally posted by atlasastro
Originally posted by jdub297
I like to independently look at these BLOG sources myself. I suggest you do the same.
www.sourcewatch.org...
Originally posted by jdub297
ICECAP, International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, is the portal to all things climate for elected officials and staffers, journalists, scientists, educators and the public. It provides access to a new and growing global society of respected scientists and journalists that are not deniers that our climate is dynamic (the only constant in nature is change) and that man plays a role in climate change through urbanization, land use changes and the introduction of greenhouse gases and aerosols, but who also believe that natural cycles such as those in the sun and oceans are also important contributors to the global changes in our climate and weather.
A full analysis of satellite-measured lower tropospheric temperatures indicates that none of the global temperature variations from 1978 to 2008 can be attributed to the effect of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas...Since this mean temperature did not change for twenty years the late twentieth century warming touted by IPCC and others simply did not happen.
A direct comparison of these satellite data with ground-based measurements is also possible. Comparing satellite (UAH MSU LT) and land-based (HadCRUT3) data for the eighties and nineties gives HadCRUT3 a warming trend of 0.1 degrees Celsius per decade (one degree per century) while lower tropospheric satellite data show no warming at all. This is compounded by the fact that satellite measurements of midtropospheric temperature show a long-term cooling effect for this period. Looking for sources of error in ground-based data one is led to the usual suspect, the urban heat island effect.
Even if every disagreeable authority were to vanish from the record, it would not make such bogus hype as AGW any more real.
Man cannot change global weather, and imposing unrealistic "solutions" that serve more to line interested pockets than remedy, is unwarranted and counterproductive.
It provides access to a new and growing global society of respected scientists and journalists that are not deniers that our climate is dynamic (the only constant in nature is change) and that man plays a role in climate change through urbanization, land use changes and the introduction of greenhouse gases and aerosols
Originally posted by melatonin
You laid out their motivations and background as fair game, so don't complain.
Originally posted by jdub297
ICECAP, International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, is the portal to all things climate for elected officials and staffers, journalists, scientists, educators and the public. /
You know what? I'm just going to watch out my back door.
Your drivel will manifest itself, as it already has, in reality.
jw