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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Climate Change Reconsidered |
| 2009-06-18 |
| On June 2, as Congress debated global warming legislation that would raise energy costs to consumers by hundreds of billions of dollars, the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) released an 880-page book challenging the scientific basis of concerns that global warming is either man-made or would have harmful effects. In “Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC),” coauthors Dr. S. Fred Singer and Dr. Craig Idso and 35 contributors and reviewers present an authoritative and detailed rebuttal of the findings of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), on which the Obama Administration and Democrats in Congress rely for their regulatory proposals. The scholarship in this book demonstrates overwhelming scientific support for the position that the warming of the twentieth century was moderate and not unprecedented, that its impact on human health and wildlife was positive, and that carbon dioxide probably is not the driving factor behind climate change. The authors cite thousands of peer-reviewed research papers and books that were ignored by the IPCC, plus additional scientific research that became available after the IPCC’s self-imposed deadline of May 2006. The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) is an international panel of nongovernment scientists and scholars who have come together to understand the causes and consequences of climate change. Because it is not a government agency, and because its members are not predisposed to believe climate change is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, NIPCC is able to offer an independent “second opinion” of the evidence reviewed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). NIPCC traces its roots to a meeting in Milan in 2003 organized by the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), a nonprofit research and education organization based in Arlington, Virginia. SEPP, in turn, was founded in 1990 by Dr. S. Fred Singer, an atmospheric physicist, and incorporated in 1992 following Dr. Singer’s retirement from the University of Virginia. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 Along the lines, was out golfing last night. Weather report said no rain till maybe this weekend, yet any local knew that the afternoon heat would fire up storms. Only the hard core delusional showed up and got 1 hole in before skampering to safety from the lightning. Now, I know there is a difference between micro and macro forecasting, but I was part of the few who said damn the obvious I'm sticking to the forecast model and hoping for golf. Wow was I wrong. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2009-06-18 19:24 |
| #1 The scholarship in this book demonstrates overwhelming scientific support... My god, Galileo, don't you understand, the serfs aren't ready for real science. We must have a couple |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-06-18 18:19 |