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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Challenge to Scientific Consensus on Global Warming
2007-09-13
Analysis Finds Hundreds of Scientists Have Published Evidence Countering Man-Made Global Warming Fears

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new analysis of peer-reviewed literature reveals that more than 500 scientists have published evidence refuting at least one element of current man-made global warming scares. More than 300 of the scientists found evidence that 1) a natural moderate 1,500-year climate cycle has produced more than a dozen global warmings similar to ours since the last Ice Age and/or that 2) our Modern Warming is linked strongly to variations in the sun's irradiance. "This data and the list of scientists make a mockery of recent claims that a scientific consensus blames humans as the primary cause of global temperature increases since 1850," said Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Dennis Avery.

Other researchers found evidence that 3) sea levels are failing to rise importantly; 4) that our storms and droughts are becoming fewer and milder with this warming as they did during previous global warmings; 5) that human deaths will be reduced with warming because cold kills twice as many people as heat; and 6) that corals, trees, birds, mammals, and butterflies are adapting well to the routine reality of changing climate.
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#7  Please embed links. See this page if you don't know how that works - it's very straight forward.
Posted by: lotp   2007-09-13 17:41  

#6  red dog, if you're a diver... check this out
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Acid_Rain_Has_a_Disproportionate_Impact_on_Coastal_Waters_999.html
Posted by: Skunky Elmavise4463   2007-09-13 14:52  

#5  re: corals

I've done my share of diving Hawaii, Mexico, South America, Caribbean, North Africa, but many folks have done lots more..

Some of the inane arguments, supposedly scientific which state that the great Barrier Reef will fold when the ocean surface TEMP goes up 2 more degrees by Year _________!

DOOM.

Green Wieners.

Corals have been around allot longer than Man has. Check!

Therefore Coral has been subject to a few thousand more extreme Tempature shifts over the millenia [or milleniaS?], certainly more than any of the those shifty Gore relatives.

Identical Corals grow from different Island chains sometimes thousands of miles apart.

Well guess what, sometimes the Temps are cooler or hotter thousands of miles away, I hope you're sitting down now, more than 2 degrees even, respectively.

Corals adapt in many ways. gawd i'm schmart!!

Growing deeper or closer to the surface. Brace yournself, Sometimes they just plain tolerate higher TEMPS.

Course I hope you've all heard we are about to enter a period called Neukular Winter!

No sh$T!
Posted by: Red Dawg   2007-09-13 14:33  

#4  "There may have been a consensus of guesses among climate model-builders," says Singer.

Me? I attribute it their sniffing copious amounts of climate model glue.
Posted by: eLarson   2007-09-13 10:00  

#3  Whatever the result, it is a fascinating exercise in taking the oracle from the high priests and turning it over to the people.

Now you know why one of the major first acts with great impact of the Reformation was to translate the Bible in to the local language of the people.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-09-13 09:46  

#2  Fascinating stuff going on at http://www.climateaudit.org/

Steve McKintyre has forced Hansen to disgorge the code which calculates the global mean temperature and hence the amount of warming that is happening (or not).

An open source movement is underway to reproduce his results using clean, well understood code and high quality weather stations.

Whatever the result, it is a fascinating exercise in taking the oracle from the high priests and turning it over to the people. Could well be the most important internet phenomena we have ever seen.
Posted by: phil_b   2007-09-13 08:15  

#1  The supporters of the MMGW theory intentionally try to confuse global warming, which actually may be happening, with mankind's ability to cause or mitigate it, which is very debatable.

So every time it is argued, the two things have to be separated as distinct things. From that point, there is a new argument.

If the tiny, marginal contribution that people make to the world's atmosphere is enough to change it, then all that is needed is a tiny bit of mitigation--not broad, sweeping economic adjustment and impoverishment.

And if that contribution and its mitigation are within natural variation of several major parts of the global heating and cooling system, then any efforts humans could make are futile.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-09-13 00:30  

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