16 Prominent Scientists Declare: 'No Need to Panic About Global Warming': 'There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy'

'Alarmism also offers an excuse for governments to raise taxes, taxpayer-funded subsidies for businesses that understand how to work the political system, and a lure for big donations to charitable foundations promising to save the planet. Lysenko[of Soviet Union] and his team lived very well, and they fiercely defended their dogma and the privileges it brought them'

Edward David, NAE & NAS; William Happer, Princeton; Michael Kelly, U. of Cambridge, U.K.; William Kininmonth, Aussie Bureau of Met; Richard Lindzen,MIT; James McGrath, VA Tech U.; Rodney Nichols, fmr CEO NY Academy of Sciences; Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer, designer of Voyager & SpaceShipOne; Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut; Nir Shaviv, Hebrew U.; Henk Tennekes, fmr. dir, Royal Dutch Met Service; Antonio Zichichi, pres of World Fed of Scientists'

'A show of hands beforehand revealed that '90% of the crowd favored statement that human activities are not the main cause of global warming' -- 'Three Oregon-based panelists -- physicist Gordon Fulks, meteorologist Chuck Wiese and former Oregon state climatologist George Taylor -- used long- and short-term temperature measurements and other data to bolster their case'

Latest EU satellite measurements puts sea rise at meager 2.7 inch rate by 2100 and NOAA can't find global warming in the oceans

Dr. David Evans: 'There are literally thousands of feedbacks, each of which either reinforces or opposes direct warming effect of extra CO2. Almost every long-lived system is governed by net feedback that dampens its response to a perturbation...The earth's climate is long-lived and stable— it has never gone into runaway greenhouse, unlike Venus — which strongly suggests that the feedbacks dampen temperature perturbations such as that from extra CO2'

Rebuttal to Emanuel: 'Emanuel should have disclosed his various insurance company connections (all of them), and at least permit the Nature editors to decide the matter. Are we really to believe that the 'board has not discussed climate change,' especially with the alarmist Emanuel sitting on it?'

NASA's Warmist James Hansen says skeptics guilty of 'crimes against humanity and nature' james.e.hansen@nasa.gov

U.S. Government Employee Hansen: 'Our children and grandchildren will judge those who have misled the public, allowing fossil fuel emissions to continue almost unfettered, as guilty of crimes against humanity and nature'

Analysis 'If you torture the data enough it will confess...So the moral of the story is, if the data simply won't agree with your rigid global warming narrative, just widen the error bars until they do'

'The reality is, the flattening of the Global OHC anomaly data was not anticipated by those who created the models'

Plimer: 'If we have dangerous warming and the global temperature has increased by 0.8°C since the Little Ice Age, does this mean that the ideal temperature for life on Earth is that of the Little Ice Age?' -- 'During the Little Ice Age, people died like flies and it was really not a good time to be on Earth. Besides the cold, there were crop failures, famine, cannibalism and disease'

'Al [Gore], James [Hansen] and Kevin [Trenberth] are headed to the Antarctic summer, to showcase melting winter ice. Temperatures in Antarctica have been consistently running about 10C below normal for several weeks' (For more on 'Gore Effect' see here.)

'London-based Barclays determined the US carbon market, currently comprised of a handful of states, is too small to justify the expense of a dedicated trading desk in New York...Barclays was a major player in US greenhouse-gas trading programs on the East and West coasts and remains active in Europe's carbon market, the largest in the world...'That is not good news for carbon-dioxide trading, especially not in the US'

Flashback 2010: Demoted: UN officially throws global warming under the bus: UN now says case for saving species 'more powerful than climate change'

Demoted: UN officially throws global warming under the bus: UN now says case for saving species 'more powerful than climate change'

IN THE EYE OF THE $TORM: 'In February last year, Dr Emanuel was playing the same 'Republican scientist who believes in global warming' message in a radio interview for NPR. He brought in the usual mantras about the tobacco industry and a campaign of disinformation funded by vested interests, but failed to mention his own vested interest in the disaster insurance business'

Even among energy & environmental issues, global warming is dead last! 52% rate 'Dealing with the nation's energy problem' -- 43% 'Protecting the environment' -- 25% 'Dealing with global warming' -- 'A quarter of Americans now find climate change a top concern, down from almost 4 in 10 in 2007'

Harvard Prof. Mankiw: 'Driving your car is associated with various adverse side effects...these include traffic congestion, accidents, local pollution and global climate change. If the tax on gasoline were higher, people would alter their behavior to drive less...Economists who have added up all the externalities associated with driving conclude that a tax exceeding $2 a gallon makes sense'

'Normal solar cycles are 11 years long, but the current one (cycle 24) is shaping up to be 17 years (unusually long), and using historical data from the US, David predicts a 2.1°C decline over Solar Cycle 24 followed by a further 2.8°C over Solar Cycle 25. That adds up to a whopping 4.9°C fall in temperate latitudes over the next 20 years. We can only hope he's wrong'

Flashback 2010: Fmr. GM executive Bob Lutz called global warming a 'crock of sh*t'

'The sex trade is happening due to thousands of victims in need of natural resources like food, water and trees...The livelihoods of most families that live in rural villages are affected by the changes brought on by climate change in that area. According to UN, women feel these affects the most. UN's UNEP reports that, 'Lifestyle and well being of women is put in greater danger by climate change, associated with a high rate of human trafficking'

'For as much as Obama complains about the bad economy that he inherited, he sure seems to be enjoying the inherited boom in U.S. oil and gas production on private and state lands'

' – that's why he was touting oil and natural gas so much in his State of the Union address tonight...[But] his global warming agenda is the ultimate goal – it's just that now he intends to achieve through regulations what he could not achieve through legislation'

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Souweine: 'It's well known that large numbers of meteorologists are climate change deniers...Forecast the Facts defines a denier as anyone who expressly refutes the overwhelming scientific consensus about climate change'

Left-wing warmist PZ Myers weighs in: Climate realist TV weathermen are allegedly 'conspiracy nuts' pzmyers@gmail.com

Myers: 'I think we can safely say that no Republican should be allowed anywhere near the reins of government. They're anti-science through and through'