Archive for May, 2013

Excerpt: Climate Depot's Morano called the event 'refreshing.' 'When actual debate occurs like we saw at the hearing, we see just how much of man-made climate fears are based on 'projections,' 'predictions' and 'maybes,'' Morano said. He pointed out that scientists on the panel did not agree on several key points. 'Team global warming had a scientific civil war going on during the debate about whether there was a current global warming signal in our global average [temperatures] or even weather,' he said.'

'In the peer-reviewed journal 'International Journal of Modern Physics B' (link) Q.-B. LU from the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Departments of Biology and Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada has detailed a research paper:  'Conventional thinking says that the emission of human-made non-CFC gases such as carbon dioxide has mainly contributed to global warming. But we have observed data going back to the Industrial Revolution that convincingly shows that conventional understanding is wrong,' said Qing-Bin Lu. (link)

Rep. McKinley: 'The discussion yesterday reinforced that the science is not settled on the role of humans in climate change. There is no reason to put our economy at risk for the sake of an ideological agenda. Congress cannot let President Obama do this by acting unilaterally on climate change.'

The main takeaway points:

• Popular scare stories that weather extremes – hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, floods — are getting worse are not based on fact.
• In the U.S., high temperature records are not becoming more numerous.
• Climate models significantly overestimated warming during the past 15 years.
• Even if climate models were correct, a 50% reduction in U.S. CO2 emissions by 2050 would avert only 0.07°C of warming by 2100.
• If a policy is not economically sustainable, it’s not politically sustainable.
• The climate change impact of enhancing CO2 concentrations has so far been small compared to the public health and biospheric benefits provided by affordable, carbon-based energy.

Morano to the U.S. Congress: 'The scientific reality is that on virtually every claim — from A-Z — the claims of the promoters of man-made climate fears are failing, and in many instances the claims are moving in the opposite direction. The global warming movement is suffering the scientific death of a thousand cuts.' 

'Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) — not carbon emissions — are the real culprit behind global warming, claims a  new studyout of the University of Waterloo. “Conventional thinking says that the emission of human-made non-CFC gases such as carbon dioxide has mainly contributed to global warming. But we have observed data going back to the Industrial Revolution that convincingly shows that conventional understanding is wrong,” said Qing-Bin Lu, a science professor at the University of Waterloo and author of the study. “In fact, the data shows that CFCs conspiring with cosmic rays caused both the polar ozone hole and global warming,” Lu said.'

'Dr. John Christy, professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, who joined the summit via video conferencing, told the audience that high-temperature records are not becoming more numerous in the United States. He said current climate models can be very wrong statistically.'

Climate Change Panel Discussion Hosted in Fairmont