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http://www.dailytech.com/Myth+of+Consensus+Explodes+APS+Opens+Global+Warming+Debate/article12403.htm
Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming debate
"The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming "incontrovertible."
"The APS is opening its debate with the publication of a paper by Lord Monckton of Brenchley, which concludes that climate sensitivity -- the rate of temperature change a given amount of greenhouse gas will cause -- has been grossly overstated by IPCC modeling. A low sensitivity implies additional atmospheric CO2 will have little effect on global climate.
Larry Gould, Professor of Physics at the University of Hartford and Chairman of the New England Section of the APS, called Monckton's paper an "expose of the IPCC that details numerous exaggerations and "extensive errors"
In an email to DailyTech, Monckton says, "I was dismayed to discover that the IPCC's 2001 and 2007 reports did not devote chapters to the central 'climate sensitivity' question, and did not explain in proper, systematic detail the methods by which they evaluated it. When I began to investigate, it seemed that the IPCC was deliberately concealing and obscuring its method."
http://www.dailytech.com/Europes+Wa...eaner+Air+Not+Climate+Change/article12371.htm
Europe's Warming attributed to Cleaner Air, not Climate Change
A graph showing 20 years of decreasing atmospheric aerosols in Europe. The portion in red is the increase from the Mt. Pinatubo eruption.
Clean air legislation has an ironic side-effect
When the effects of global warming are discussed, Europe is often the focus. While many parts of the Earth have seen little or no warming in the past two decades, Europe has seen a rapid temperature increase of one full degree Centigrade. The rise has been a contributing factor in at least one deadly heat wave in recent years.
A new study suggests much of that warming isn't due to global warming at all, but rather a decrease in atmospheric pollution as a result of clean air legislation. The cleaner air has fewer small particles known as aerosols, which tend to block sunlight from reaching the Earth's surface. A reduction in aerosols leads to an effect known as "solar brightening," which increases surface warming.
http://www.dailytech.com/Australian+Researchers+Warn+of+Global+Cooling/article12250.htm
Australian Researchers Warn of Global Cooling
A 2005 prediction of solar activity. The sunspot number should now stand close to 100, instead it is zero.
"Spin-orbit coupling" to blame; effects could last decades.
A new paper published by the Astronomical Society of Australia is warning of upcoming global cooling due to lessened solar activity. The study, written by three Australian researchers, has identified what is known as a "spin-orbit coupling" affecting the rotation rate of the sun. That rotation, in turn, is linked to the intensity of the solar cycle and climate changes here on Earth.
The study's lead author, Ian Wilson, explains further, "[The paper] supports the contention that the level of activity on the Sun will significantly diminish sometime in the next decade and remain low for about 20 - 30 years."
According to Wilson, the result is a strong, rapid pulse of global cooling, "On each occasion that the Sun has done this in the past the Worlds mean temperature has dropped by ~ 1 - 2 C."
A 2 C drop would be twice as large as all the warming the earth has experienced since the start of the industrial era, and would be significant enough to impact global agriculture output
http://www.dailytech.com/Greenpeace+Sued+Over+False+Global+Warming+Claims/article12070.htm
Greenpeace Sued over False Global Warming Claims
The image at the heart of the lawsuit
Altered Photographs of Sea Level Rise to Blame
A group of Spanish homeowners and real estate developers have filed suit against Greenpeace for its global warming campaign, which they say has caused a steep decrease in the price of their beachfront properties.
The suit -- which the developers plan to present unless Greenpeace agrees to a settlement of nearly $50M -- is over resort properties in La Manga del Mar Menor, in Southwest Spain. Greenpeace, in their recent book Photoclima, prominently featured digitally altered photographs of the resort, with only the tops of apartment buildings, hotels, and palm trees barely visible above a flooded sea. The book also showed before-and-after photos of Spain's lush lemon and orange growing region of Valencia, transformed into an arid desert. "We want[ed] to create alarm and a call to action", said Juan Lopez de Uralde, Greenpeace's director in Spain.
The photos created a sense of alarm in La Manga, with property values dropping by 50 percent after the book appeared. Jose Angel Abad, an attorney representing the property owners, says "Greenpeace manipulated the expected rise [to] cause alarm. It has sunk the real estate market: no one is buying and everyone has put their apartments up for sale". The UN IPCC predicts a 30 cm increase in sea level over the next century, a rise far smaller than the vast degree of flooding depicted in the book.
Why did Greenpeace lie? Why did the IPCC doctor data? What's in it for them and all the other organizations that depend on the Myth of Man-Made Global Warming?
Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming debate
"The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming "incontrovertible."
"The APS is opening its debate with the publication of a paper by Lord Monckton of Brenchley, which concludes that climate sensitivity -- the rate of temperature change a given amount of greenhouse gas will cause -- has been grossly overstated by IPCC modeling. A low sensitivity implies additional atmospheric CO2 will have little effect on global climate.
Larry Gould, Professor of Physics at the University of Hartford and Chairman of the New England Section of the APS, called Monckton's paper an "expose of the IPCC that details numerous exaggerations and "extensive errors"
In an email to DailyTech, Monckton says, "I was dismayed to discover that the IPCC's 2001 and 2007 reports did not devote chapters to the central 'climate sensitivity' question, and did not explain in proper, systematic detail the methods by which they evaluated it. When I began to investigate, it seemed that the IPCC was deliberately concealing and obscuring its method."
http://www.dailytech.com/Europes+Wa...eaner+Air+Not+Climate+Change/article12371.htm
Europe's Warming attributed to Cleaner Air, not Climate Change
A graph showing 20 years of decreasing atmospheric aerosols in Europe. The portion in red is the increase from the Mt. Pinatubo eruption.
Clean air legislation has an ironic side-effect
When the effects of global warming are discussed, Europe is often the focus. While many parts of the Earth have seen little or no warming in the past two decades, Europe has seen a rapid temperature increase of one full degree Centigrade. The rise has been a contributing factor in at least one deadly heat wave in recent years.
A new study suggests much of that warming isn't due to global warming at all, but rather a decrease in atmospheric pollution as a result of clean air legislation. The cleaner air has fewer small particles known as aerosols, which tend to block sunlight from reaching the Earth's surface. A reduction in aerosols leads to an effect known as "solar brightening," which increases surface warming.
http://www.dailytech.com/Australian+Researchers+Warn+of+Global+Cooling/article12250.htm
Australian Researchers Warn of Global Cooling
A 2005 prediction of solar activity. The sunspot number should now stand close to 100, instead it is zero.
"Spin-orbit coupling" to blame; effects could last decades.
A new paper published by the Astronomical Society of Australia is warning of upcoming global cooling due to lessened solar activity. The study, written by three Australian researchers, has identified what is known as a "spin-orbit coupling" affecting the rotation rate of the sun. That rotation, in turn, is linked to the intensity of the solar cycle and climate changes here on Earth.
The study's lead author, Ian Wilson, explains further, "[The paper] supports the contention that the level of activity on the Sun will significantly diminish sometime in the next decade and remain low for about 20 - 30 years."
According to Wilson, the result is a strong, rapid pulse of global cooling, "On each occasion that the Sun has done this in the past the Worlds mean temperature has dropped by ~ 1 - 2 C."
A 2 C drop would be twice as large as all the warming the earth has experienced since the start of the industrial era, and would be significant enough to impact global agriculture output
http://www.dailytech.com/Greenpeace+Sued+Over+False+Global+Warming+Claims/article12070.htm
Greenpeace Sued over False Global Warming Claims
The image at the heart of the lawsuit
Altered Photographs of Sea Level Rise to Blame
A group of Spanish homeowners and real estate developers have filed suit against Greenpeace for its global warming campaign, which they say has caused a steep decrease in the price of their beachfront properties.
The suit -- which the developers plan to present unless Greenpeace agrees to a settlement of nearly $50M -- is over resort properties in La Manga del Mar Menor, in Southwest Spain. Greenpeace, in their recent book Photoclima, prominently featured digitally altered photographs of the resort, with only the tops of apartment buildings, hotels, and palm trees barely visible above a flooded sea. The book also showed before-and-after photos of Spain's lush lemon and orange growing region of Valencia, transformed into an arid desert. "We want[ed] to create alarm and a call to action", said Juan Lopez de Uralde, Greenpeace's director in Spain.
The photos created a sense of alarm in La Manga, with property values dropping by 50 percent after the book appeared. Jose Angel Abad, an attorney representing the property owners, says "Greenpeace manipulated the expected rise [to] cause alarm. It has sunk the real estate market: no one is buying and everyone has put their apartments up for sale". The UN IPCC predicts a 30 cm increase in sea level over the next century, a rise far smaller than the vast degree of flooding depicted in the book.
Why did Greenpeace lie? Why did the IPCC doctor data? What's in it for them and all the other organizations that depend on the Myth of Man-Made Global Warming?
