December 20, 2007 by mr_flood.

Well, Senator Inhofe has gone and done it. Compiled a list of 400 scientists with published views skeptical of AGW.

The distinguished scientists featured in this new report are experts in diverse fields, including: climatology; oceanography; geology; biology; glaciology; biogeography; meteorology; oceanography; economics; chemistry; mathematics; environmental sciences; engineering; physics and paleoclimatology. Some of those profiled have won Nobel Prizes for their outstanding contribution to their field of expertise and many shared a portion of the UN IPCC Nobel Peace Prize with Vice President Gore.

Heh.

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December 18, 2007 by mr_flood.

A nice article from WCR highlighting a new entry in the International Journal of Climatology. In it we learn, surprise surprise, that climate models are unreliable.

Even juicier, they state “On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations that indicate that, since 1979, there is no significant long-term amplification factor relative to the surface. If these results continue to be supported, then future projections of temperature change, as depicted in the present suite of climate models, are likely too high.”

As many have already stated, AGW is politics in the guise of science, they have no use for facts unless they bolster their political position.

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December 10, 2007 by mr_flood.

A new study was just published where they compared current temperatures with those predicted by the most popular climate models. I bet you can’t guess what they found!

We examine tropospheric temperature trends of 67 runs from 22 Climate of the 20th Century model simulations and try to reconcile them with the best available updated observations (in the tropics during the satellite era). Model results and observed temperature trends are in disagreement in most of the tropical troposphere, being separated by more than twice the uncertainty of the model mean. In layers near 5 km, the modelled trend is 100 to 300% higher than observed, and, above 8 km, modelled and observed trends have opposite signs. These conclusions contrast strongly with those of recent publications based on essentially the same data. Copyright © 2007 Royal Meteorological Society

Wow, what a surprise.

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December 7, 2007 by mr_flood.

Excellent article describing how we can attribute the supposed rise in global temperatures to contaminated data, not greenhouse gases.

Scientists who attribute warming to greenhouse gases argue that their climate models cannot reproduce the surface trends from natural variability alone. They then attribute it to greenhouse gases, since (they assume) all other human influences have been removed from the data by the adjustment models. If that has not happened, however, they cannot claim to be able to identify the role of greenhouse gases. Despite the vast number of studies involved, and the large number of contributors to the IPCC reports, the core message of the IPCC hinges on the assumption that their main surface climate data set is uncontaminated. And by the time they began writing the recent Fourth Assessment Report, they had before them a set of papers proving the data are contaminated.

Which, of course, they proceeded to ignore. They then go on to admit, that yes, they can see the bias in the record but it’s just coincidence and with the some hand-waving, poof!, the issue is resolved. They have shown themselves to be the true denialists, as the article states.

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December 3, 2007 by mr_flood.

Once again we’re confronted with the fact that it’s the Dems who are the fascists. On display in this article from ABC news is their penchant for proscribing upon you how you need to spend your money, and if not done in the way they’ve proscribed, well then, they’ll just take it from you and spend it on your behalf. How special. How caring. How progressive.

If a person did not meet his or her monthly financial obligation for a set period of time (perhaps a year, perhaps longer) the Edwards plan would empower the federal government to garnish an individual’s wages for purposes of collecting “back premiums with interest and collection costs.”

Mr. Edwards can take his fascism and shove it up his arse.

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