The Global Warming Sceptic

The Global Warming Sceptic
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version 2.2 14 Feb 2009

Please take a step back, and stay cool for a moment. Shut your ears off from the deafening cries and shouts of the global warming advocates, and sharpen your mind. Try to answer the questions outlined in the papers given hereafter, and be open for good reasoning: these pages might make you think again, and wonder, if the mobiles of all these climate catastrophers are pure ....

Working for clean air and an unpolluted atmosphere is a laudable aim, but forgetting to compare the magnitude of man-made pollutants to the natural sources, or having an absolute faith in measurement data of often dubious origin, is unscientific at least, and foolish certainly. The climate is "the changing state of the atmosphere", so do not expect a steady state situation. Do not forget either that the sun is the engine which drives everything, and that the output of that engine is in constant change!

Previous page (up to 2008)	Climategate	"Quotes"	Hockey-Stick discussions	last update:22 Jan 2012
New Take on Impacts of Low Dose Radiation		LNT (linear non threshhold) hypothesis in nuclear radiation risk questioned again.
No global warming:		Interesting report by Ed Caryl showing no warming (except well known 60 years periodical change) in worldwide rural locations: Part 1 and Part 2. Read also Dr. Roy Spencer's comment on the results of 33 years satellite measurements.
The true failure of DURBAN		Read this lucid comment by Dennis R. Wingo and this excellent interview of UCL professor Ystvan Marko (in French).
Reducing the future to climate		Read this extraordinary article by Prof. Mike Hulme of UEA: "In this new mood of climate-driven destiny the human hand of climate change has replaced the divine hand of God as being responsible for the collapse of civilisations"
On the Cause of Ice Ages.		Read this classic paper by Hoyle & Wickramasinghe: Don't miss the introduction!
AGU Fall Meeting		AGU Fall meeting: videotaped sessions here!
Climategate 2		It was to be expected: Climategate #2 is here! Same people, same nastyness, but a glimp of hope: "Bradley: I’m sure you agree–the Mann/Jones GRL paper was truly pathetic and should never have been published. I don’t want to be associated with that 2000 year “reconstruction." .Look here and here for a start.
Scientific Heresy		A really great speech by Matt Ridley: "The alarmists have been handed power over our lives; the heretics have not*"... "By contrast scientists and most mainstream journalists risk their careers if they take a skeptical line, so dogmatic is the consensus view. It is left to the blogosphere to keep the flame of heresy alive and do the investigative reporting the media has forgotten how to do." Do not miss this!*
No globalwarming since 2003		SST (sea surface temperature) and upper OHT (ocean heat content) observations both show: no global warming since 2003 (despite a 5% atmospheric CO2 increase!)
Hormesis		New paper showing experimental verification of hormesis (= beneficial effects of low radiation doses) by Russo et al. (abstract). Read also a more cautious paper here (ht. N. Harpes)
Resignation letter of Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever		Nobel laureate (physics 1973) Ivar Giaever resigns from the APS because he can not accept the society's position on global warming!
Scientific heresy		A truly exceptional lecture given by Dr. Matt Ridley at the RSA (Royal Society of the Arts) in Edinburgh, 31 October 2011. The alarmists have been handed power over our lives; the heretics have not"
UK windfarm		paid more than 1 million £ for *NOT* producing power during 8 hours; this is more than 10 times the selling price had power been produced!
NIPCC versus IPCC		Update of the SEPP report by Prof. F. Singer: "...because of their chaotic character none of IPCC's climate models can be validated against observations and used to predict future temperatures"
IEA special report: Are we entering a Golden Age of Gas?		Read also this interview
Role of sulphuric acid, ammonia and galactic cosmic rays in atmospheric aerosol nucleation		Nature paper of J. Kirby et al. (63 authors!) on results from the CLOUD experiment: experiment shows climate effect by the solar modulation of cosmic galactic rays is possible (as suggested by H. Svensmark many years ago). Also here.
Solyndra US cylindrical GIGS solar cell manufacturer is bankrupt		1100 "green" jobs vaporize. This comes after closures of Evergreen and Spectrawatt. Read also this.
Armut für Millionen durch Biosprit		says NESTLE'S CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe
Forbush decreases – clouds relation in the neutron monitor era		New paper by Dragic et al. on the influence of CGRs variations on cloud formation: effect on DTR (diurnal temperature range) is statistical significant! Raed also comment here.
"So-called climate sensitivity"		Read Prof. R. Pielke's comment
Climate versus Climate Alarm		Presentation of Prof. Lindzen for the ACS, 28Aug2011
German Ausstieg: Report of the Bundesnetzagentur		"Nach derzeitigem Wissen sind die wesentlichen Extremsituationen für die Übertragungsnetze durch das vorhandene Eingreifsinstrumentarium der Ubertragungsnetzbetreiber und damit ohne Anordnung eines Reservekernkraftwerks gerade noch beherrschbar". Abstract and full text. Also here and this editorial.
IPPC Vice-President (and UCL professor) J-P. Van Ypersele censors climate conference!		How sure are climate alarmists of their case that they feel obliged to resort to such infantile actions?
On the Observational Determination of Climate Sensitivity and Its Implications		New important paper by Lindzen & Choi: Climate sensitivity as derived from observations very likely smaller than 1.2°C and feedbacks negative.
On the Misdiagnosis of Climate Feedbacks from Variations in Earth's Radiant Energy Balance		New paper by Spencer & Braswell: "atmospheric feedback diagnosis of the climate system remains an unsolved problem". Read also comments here and here.
30% of the world weather stations showed a cooling trend		Read this exciting analysis of Motl & Shawn using the most recent HadCRUT3 data. "The warming trends hugely depend both on the places as well as the months. The "error of the measurement" of the warming trend is 3 times larger than the result!" The last result is comparable to the conclusions of the paper of P. Frank on temperature uncertainty.
Atomausstieg: Die Illusion zerplatzt.		Read this article from "Die Zeit" on the consequences of Germany's "Ausstieg". (hat tip: C. L.)
The risks of radiation		Excellent article of Jan Willem Nienhuys in European Energy Review: "Safety rules should rely on realistic, scientifically-based assessments of the risks of radiation, rather than irrational fears based on ignorance." This article should be mandatory reading for politicians and environmentalists! Read also this comment.
Buy high, sell low		Read the story of Ontario's wind power. Feed-in tariff = $135, selling price ~ $22 (per MWh). Yet another story of costly surplus wind electricity. Here on a new report concluding that wind energy's carbon dioxide-cutting benefits are vastly overstated (abstract). Read also Spiegel-Online telling the same story back in 2009.
The future of solar heat storage ?		Carbon nanotubes thermo-chemical energy density similar to Li-Ion batteries (abstract).
Does The Sea Surface Temperature Record Support The Hypothesis Of Anthropogenic Global Warming?		No! shows Bob Tisdale.
Modeled Ocean temperatures 1850-2010.		by Dr Roy Spencer. Model suggest very low climate sensitivity of 1.1 °C (per doubling CO2)
Earth getting greener.		Discussion by Dr. Pat Michaels of new paper by Pan et al. in Science: "A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests" (paper paywalled)
Klimawandel		Climate change in RAP song ( by Kilez More in German, youtube; also here)
IMPOSED AND NEGLECTED UNCERTAINTY IN THE GLOBAL AVERAGE SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE INDEX		Dr. Pat Frank has written a new paper on total uncertainty in global temperature anomaly. He concludes that "... the global average surface air temperature trend is statistically indistinguishable from 0 C". (first paper on uncertainty here)
Der Grosse Solarschwindel		Absolutely must read (Welt Online 26Jun11).
Mark Lynas, environmental activist		"Greenpeace routinely inflates the death toll for the 1986 Chernobyl disaster by a factor of 1,000 (the true total is likely to have been less than 50) in order to stoke fears about atomic energy"
On the Hijacking of the American Meterological Society:		Excellent comment by Prof. Bill Gray.
Peer Review And ‘Pal Review’ In Climate Science		Excellent article by Pat Michaels on "Pal Peer Review" in climate science: "...in the intellectually inbred, filthy-rich world of climate science, where billions of dollars of government research money support trillions of dollars of government policy, peer review has become anything but that [double blind peer review]"
Out-going Longwave Radiation and the Greenhouse Effect		Very clear paper by Ken Gregory showing the the normalized greenhouse factor, as calculated from observational data, has not much changed since 1960. Read also the referred paper of Miscolszi (beware: heavy maths!)
Big Drop in coming solar activity (cycle #25)		Are we on the way to a cooling period (e.g. Dalton minimum)?
Abstracts of the Joint IPCC Expert Meeting on Geoengineering in Lima (8th June 2011)		Shudder!
Three NASA astronauts on AGW: Harrisson, Aldrin and Cunnigham		Read these statements!
A Climate Change Dissenter Who Has Left His Mark on U.S. Policy		well written comment on Richard Lindzen in the New York Times (06Jul11)
Rettet die Welt vor den Weltrettern!		Absolutely must-read!
EHEC from biogas plants?		"Climate-friendly" biogas plants comes under increasing attack: after possible contamination with botulism spores, biogas fertilizer could be the harbinger of the deadly EHEC poisening in Germany. Also here.
Future Perfect		Excellent article by Pat Frank: . Real data suggest that climate sensitivity is 0.09°C/Wm^-2
EU ONLINE data viewer		The European Environment Agency (EEA) has an online data-viewer covering the ETS (European Emissions Trading System). Even if you do not buy into the climatic relevance of this scheme, the viewer is interesting to consult.(manual here). Divide scale in "1000 emissions unit" by 1 million to get Gt-CO2eq
About Greenhouse Gases		An absolute must-read article by Prof. William Happer, Princeton University: The Truth . The dubious science of the climate crusaders. "A major problem has been the co-opting of climate science by politics, ambition, greed, and what seems to be a hereditary human need for a righteous cause." Read also here.
GCR and climate connection		New research from Aarhus University supports cosmic rays climate impact theory! Read also Nigel Calder on this here and Dr. Roy Spencer's exhaustive comment.
Payed for not producing		Scottish windfarms paid £900000 for NOT producing energy! Read also here (in German) on EEX paying for stopping the wind turbines and this slide from Prof. H. Alt.
Die herzliche Oekodiktatur		Harsh words of the FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemenine Zeitung) on the dangerous evolution of German green power. As says Carl-Christian von Weizsäcker "Zwangsernährung mit ökologisch korrekten Produkten"
Real Wind Energy in Ireland		Windy Ireland has 1425 MW of wind turbines installed; click to see the real power produced, and divide this power by 1425 to obtain the instantaneous capacity factor. 29 March 2011 noon: ~ 7%. Stunning! Average capacity factor for full year 2010: < 21%. Maximum error of predicted power is 1215 MW ! Read this EER review: "Ireland's daring wind energy experiment". Read also this editorial in POWER: Spanish Wind Revisited.
Ambient air radioactivity in Diekirch and Luxembourg		Visitors who want to check ambient air radioactivity should look at the Live weather page or click here and here. Normal level (= dose-rate) is approx. 80 to 300 nSv/h, the higher readings in Diekirch happen when air temperature goes up. Remember that dose-rates in the nSv/h range are extremely small and that the dose-rate from the natural occurring K40 isotope in your body is about 50 nSv/h. Previous day readings from the official Luxbg. stations are here. More explanations here and here!
Interview		.. with Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, now an outspoken critic of Greenpeace, a skeptic of AGW and (horribile est dictu!) a supporter of nuclear energy! Read also here.
"We should stop running away from radiation"		... says nuclear and medical physicist Prof. Wade Allison from Oxford University Look also here. Read also here (from EER) what French Prof. Foos says about nuclear energy and reactor safety.
From electricity exporter to importer		Shut domestic nuclear production off, and import French and Czech nuclear electricity instead. The German way to heaven! Read also this Washington Times editorial: "Spooked by nukes" and this blog an April 2011 statistics
A Primer on Natural Resources and the Environment		Paper by Prof. G. Reisman at the Ludwig von Mises Institute: "...The notion that production and economic activity are harmful to the environment rests on the abandonment of man and his life as the source of value in the world."
Climate models go cold		Outstanding article by David Evans: "There are now several independent pieces of evidence showing that the earth responds to the warming due to extra carbon dioxide by dampening the warming"
Not more floodings during the last 50 years!		Poster of Bouziotas et al. showing that flooding decreased! (download the PDF and zoom in)
Afraid of shale gas fracking?		Look-up here all chemicals used at a specified US well! read also this comment from Energy Tribune.
Presentation by Prof. Vincent Courtillot		Extraordinary lucid and clear presentation by Prof. Vincent Courtillot (EIKE, 3. Internationale Energie- und Klimakonferenz, 3-4 Dec. 2010, Berlin): "In the last 20 years there has to been much too much on the numerical side and absolutely not enough on observation"
Molten Salt Thorium Reactor		Can Nuclear energy be used in better and more secure ways as by BWR's and PWR's? (read also here and here ) and about the Pebble Bed Reactor (first developed and abandoned in Jülich).
Europe's unconvential gas		approx. 170 Tm³ (2009 LNG imports were 0.060 Tm³). Read also this WEF report "A New Era for Gas" and the CERA report on liquid fuels discovery and production.
"Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power"		... writes famous green environmentalist George Monbiot from The Guardian. Also: "Generating solar power in the UK involves a spectacular waste of scarce resources". This man is British, not Deutsch!
Small is better		Read this article on the new planned small nuclear reactors.
Das schmutzige Geheimnis der Wind- und Sonnenkraftnutzung		Interesting article discussing efficiency of power generation. Look here for live information on Ireland's wind energy production. Total installed capacity is 1425 MW; Compute the capacity factor by dividing power delivered by 1425.
Die Mär vom Prima-Klima-Sprit		Is E10 dead-born?
Verantwortung der Forschung im 21. Jahrhundert		Read this great speech of ex-chancellor Helmut Schmidt at the Max Planck Gesellschaft.
Rußpartikel schädigen Klima schwer		New paper says black carbon (soot) is responsible for more than 50% of the observed Arctic warming. Paper by Shindell et al.: "During 1976-2007, we estimate that aerosols contributed 1.09+/-0.81 °C to the observed Arctic surface temperature increase of 1.48+/-0.28 °C". Is CO2 not the bad guy anymore?
Energy Outlook 2030		Download this 80 page booklet by BP (January 2011)
Physical and Economic Consequences of Climate Change in Europe		New PNAS paper: Link is to full paper, shorter comment here: "projected impact negligible"
Recovery mechanisms of Arctic summer sea ice		Will there be an Arctic Ice tipping point? No says this new paper by Tietschet et al.(link to abstract).Maybe said a workshop on Climate Tipping Points from July 2010.
The Controversy over Global Warming and Bangladesh		Very critical long paper presented at the Klima2010 conference by Prof. Shafi, University of Dakar.
Foresight report : The Future of Food and Farming		How to feed 9 billion people in 2050?
Wind turbines must be spaced farther apart.		John Hopkins & KUL study: Distance between wind turbines must be increased for better efficiency.
Five Myths and a Menace		Masterly exposé by Lord Nigel Lawson.
25 Jahre - das vergebliche Warten auf die Klimakatastrophe.		Comment by meteorologist Dr.Wolfgang Thüne (in German)
Cold times ahead?		Are we entering a repeat of the Dalton minimum? Read also here, here and here.
Uncertainty in the Global Surface Air Temperature Index		Patrick Frank shows global warming is buried in statistical noise and can not be known. Outstanding paper (published in E&E, full text here, courtesy www.multi-science.co.uk)
Burt Rutan on AGW		Burt Rutan, engineer extraordinaire and cofounder of The Spaceship Company has several excellent presentations on his views on Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). An absolute must read (PDF or PPT)
A case against precipitous climate action		New excellent article by Prof. Richard Lindzen (MIT): "...for more serious leaders, the need to courageously resist hysteria is clear". An absolute must read!
Biofuels drive up food prices		From the hauntingthelibrary blog.
Pfusch auf spanischen Sonnendächern		TAZ article (in German)
10.6 M$/day		That's how much do the USA do spend on Climate Change!
The x billion European Carbon fraud		Read Europol and comment.
Shale gas		Is it the energy source of the 21th century?
850 pier reviewded papers not supporting AGW		huge list with links from Popular Technology
The Decline Effect		Does the "decline of illusion" also show up in Climate Research?
The great HFC-23 scam:		Mindblowing! "The CDM has made destruction of HFC-23 so valuable that, at least for some manufacturers, it has become the product, not the by-product"(EurActiv). Also here and here.
Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past		CRU prediction in 2000: "Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past...Children just aren't going to know what snow is.." Trust them!
On the recovery from the Little Ice Age		By Prof. Akasofu in Science Research. Also this paper on recent energy balance by Knox & Douglass.
Do clouds cause a positive or negative feedback?		Lindzen and Spencer showed it being negative, Dessler has a new paper using the same data and concludes the feedback is probably slightly positive. Read also Spencer's and Dessler's comments on this most important parameter.
The songs of the Minnesotans for Global Warming (M4GW)		Xmas chuckle with the M4GW's (Minnesotans for Global Warming) songs: here, here, here and here (first to latest)
Renewables Won't Keep the Lights On		Article by John Constable in "Standpoint" magazine: "No one knows whether there is a green low-carbon economy waiting for us in the more distant future, but we can be confident that the current policies — the EU Renewables Directive, the Renewables Obligation, the Feed-In Tariff and the Green Deal — are most unlikely to deliver such an outcome. Indeed, they are probably counterproductive, since they insulate nascent technologies from competition and thus infantilise them."
Sea Level Could Rise in South, Fall in North		Sea level rise: not so simple! From Spiegel Online. Read slso here! Most recent graph.
The Chigaco Climate Exchange (CCX) closes down		Is this the end of the CO2 bubble? Also here. and absolutely must read here!
Hearing at the U.S. House of Representatives		"A Rational Discussion of Climate Change". Testimonies of Richard Lindzen, Patrick Michaels and Judith Curry. Entry page to all hearings is here.
Scientific American incovenient poll		Results of a poll the Scientific American made among its readers on the state of climate science. Probably SciAm regrets having launched this!
Recent Energy Balance of the Earth		New paper by Knox & Douglass on the evolution of the ocean heat content anomaly as measured by the Argos floats. Trend is slightly negative from 2003 to 2008.
Resignation letter to the APS		Physics professor Harold Lewis from University of California ( a student of Robert Oppenheimer) resigns from the American Physical Society after 67 years of membership, because he can not bear anymore the APS's official position on climate change: "...the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist". Strong words, more in his letter!
First do the research, then make deep carbon cuts		by Björn Lomborg (The Australian, 14Oct2010)
Le changement climatique		Report of the French Académie des Sciences (in French, with comments/highlights by F.Massen). Read also here (Vincent Courtillot's comment), here, here, here and here.
Let’s make the ‘human footprint’ even bigger		Remarkable speech by Brendan O'Neill, editor of spiked, on environmentalism and human footprint.
Climate Change, a summary of the science		Report by the Royal Society has released it's updated report ". While still very pro-warming, the tone is much more sober and uncertainties more outspoken. Read the full report, not just the summary. Also this critique here and here.
No pressure		Climate skeptics, be prepared! Watch the famous video of the exploding kids from the activist 10:10 organization: How to cut carbon emissions (also titled: No Pressure). Attention: this video is not for the faint of heart!
Sauberer Strom schwachprozentig ?		Short article (in German) in the daily newspaper "Luxemburger Wort" on the capacity factor (load factor) of renewable energy suppliers in the region of Trier (Germany)
Climate Change Assessments		Full IAC (InterAcademy Council) report on the IPCC here. Executive Summary here (jump to page 13 of the pdf file). Read Christopher Booker's comment here.
Wind falters while Nuclear surges		Excellent article by D.L. Hoffman with many links to others (like the IEEE article: After soaring, wind glides). Read also the very complete and damning 3 part article on wind energy by Kent Hawkins: Wind is not power at all. (link to part 3, contains links to part 1 and 2). For the moment, the best comment in this ongoing debate seems to be given in the last lines of the IEEE article: "All this is just a reminder that while wind is going to be a big part of the answer to future green energy needs, it will not be the whole answer" (personally I would omit the qualifier "big"). Read also this WSJ article by R. Bryce: Wind power won't cool down the planet.
The attribution of the present-day total green-house effect		Interesting new paper from Gavin Schmidt et al. on the respective influence of water vapour, clouds and CO2 on the current greenhouse effect. Their modeling suggests that "given the uncertainties, ... water vapour is responsible for just over half, clouds around a quarter and CO2 about a fifth of the present-day total greenhouse effect" (link to draft)
The Climategate Inquiries		Report by Andrew Montford (GWPF) on the inquiries around the climategate scandal. Foreword by Lord Turnbull. "We have to take a self-critical view of what happened. Nothing ought to be swept under the carpet. Some of the inquiries - like in the UK - did exactly the latter." Hans von Storch
Climate policy and Corporate Behaviour		Very interesting paper by Commins et al. on the influence of climate policy (=energy taxes) on EU corporate behavior: "On the whole, energy taxes increased total factor productivity and returns to capital but decreased employment...While energy taxes create jobs, more jobs are destroyed... for the EU ETS the effect on productivity and profits are negative, while the effect on labour and investment are insignificant". Aviation seems to be the big overall loser.
Global Convergence in the Temperature Sensitivity of Respiration at Ecosystem Level		A new paper by Mahecha et al. on the temperature sensitivity of plant CO2 outgassing: it is practically independent from temperature (another nail in the alarmist coffin)! (also here and here)
What the Earth knows		Extraordinary article of Stanford professor Robert B. Laughlin, physics nobelist 1998.
Estimation of climate sensitivity based on top-of-atmosphere radiation imbalance		A new paper on climate sensitivity by Lin et al. Read also Prof. Pielke's comment on this paper.
Profits of Doom		Very interesting article in the Times Higher Education (29 Jul 2010)
Climate change: a collective flight from reality.		Washington Times comment by Roger Helmer (08Jul10)
Interview with former physics profesor Denis Rancourt (Uni. Ottawa)		"Global warming is strictly an imaginary problem of the First World middleclass... it is as much a psychological and social phenomenon as anything else." (youtube)
Rückkehr zur rationalen Energiepolitik:		Energie Streitgespräch der Wirtschaftswoche mit Claudia Kemfert (DIW) und Manuel Frondel (RWI)
Empirical evidence for a celestial origin of the climate oscillations and its implications		New important paper of Dr. N. Scafetta: "The partial forecast indicates that climate may stabilize or cool until 2030-2040...The significant warming of the Earth predicted by the IPCC [2007] and by other AGWT advocates to occur in the following decades is unlikely. In fact, the above findings clearly suggests that the IPCC has used climate models that greatly overestimate the climate sensitivity to anthropogenic GHG increases. Therefore, the IPCC’s projections for the 21st century are not credible."
Global Warming Advocacy Science: a Cross Examination		Very interesting new research paper (80 pages) by J.S.Johnston from UPenn.
Testimony		of Prof. Christy at the IAC in Montreal (Jun2010)
Neuer Anlauf in der Klimapolitik		Absolutely must see video from German ZDF. (BMF report here)
History Lesson on oil independance		Something to chuckle!
Predictions Of Global Mean Temperatures & IPCC Projections		by Girma Orssengo, B. Tech, MASc, PhD
Take back climate science		Intertview with Dr. Willie Soon from Havard University
Prof. Henk Tennekes, first Dutch CO2 exile
Potential climatic impacts of large-scale wind farms:		Interesting paper by Wang & Prinn, MIT
Climate Gate and the Crisis of Climate Alarmism		Editorial by Prof. R. Lindzen, WSJ.
Massive solar fraud of 2.6 million Euro		Between November 2009 and January 2010 about 4500 MWh of electricity were pumped by "solar sources" into the Spanish grid from midnight to 7 a.m. Also here.
The problem of the missing heat		Read here, here, here and here.
4th International Conference on Climate Change		All major videos.
The Hartwell Paper		"Climate policy, as it has been understood and practised by many governments of the world under the Kyoto Protocol approach, has failed to produce any discernable real world reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases in fifteen years. The underlying reason for this is that the UNFCCC/Kyoto model was structurally flawed and doomed to fail because it systematically misunderstood the nature of climate change as a policy issue between 1985 and 2009"
Most of the observed warming since mid-20th century likely not from human GHG?		From World Climate Report (Pat Michaels)
In Denial: The Meltdown of the Climate Campaign.		Large article in the Weekly Standard .by Stephen F. Hayward, 15Mar2010
The Global Warming Winners		There are big profits in climate hysteria. Editorail from the Washington Times, 03Mar2010.
The Peculiar Issue of Global Warming		Presentation of Prof. R. Lindzen at Fermilab (10Feb2010, Realplayer needed)
Presentations of the 2nd International Conference on Climate in Berlin.		04Dec09: Singer, Svensmark, Motl, Monckton and many more.(in German)
Backup energy requirements		of windpower.(see also this PhD thesis)
Copenhagen and the demise of green utopia		By Benny Peiser:
Climate Change and its Causes		This booklet of Dr. N. Scafetta from Duke University is certainly one of the best resuming most recent knowledge on climate change and its causes. The IPCC AGW hypothesis plays down natural causes and variability and clearly exaggerates human influence.
Polynomial Cointegration Tests of the Anthropogenic Theory of Glopbal Warming		New paper by Beenstock et al (in Nature): "a doubling of greenhouse gas forcings does not permanently increase global temperature". Also here!
Global Warming: the Collapse of a Grand Narrative		Excellent comment by Prof. Philip Stott (see also this article in the Indian OPEN magazine)
Why hasn't Earth warmed as much as expected?		Very important new paper by Schwartz et al. (link to discussion in ScienceDaily, full text paywalled)
The Crumbling Pillars of Climate Change		by D. Hoffman. From the blog "The Resilient Earth"
Copenhagen and the demise of green utopia		by Dr. Benny Peiser. From GWPF.
Global Warming: the other side.		A 5 parts TV emission by weatherman J. Colemann on AGW and showing the data manipulation of the NCDC.
Cosmic-ray-driven electron-induced reactions of halogenated molecules adsorbed on ice surfaces: Implications for atmospheric ozone depletion and global climate change		Important paper by Qing-Bin Lu on the impact of cosmic rays and stratospheric chlorine: ongoing cooling predicted (also here): "...the data strongly indicate that global temperature has been dominantly controlled by the level of CFC's, modulated by the CR-driven ozone depletion over the last century. " Is CO2 not the villain anymore?
Correct timing is everything		Discussion of a paper from Prof. T. Segalstadt on the residence time of CO2 in the atmosphere.(see also this presentation)
BTW, there will still be glaciers in the Himalayas in 2035		How the IPCC 4AR goofed spectacularly on Himalayan glacier melt. Read also this paper from ETHZ: Swiss glaciers melt faster during the colder 1940s than today!
AGW revisited		James Randi, pseudo-science and paranormal debunker extraordinaire on AGW (Dec 2009)
Suddenly It's Cool Again To Be A Sceptical Philosopher		Philosopher M. Cohen in the The Times Higher Education (Dec 2009)
Resisting climate hysteria.		Crystal clear article by MIT Prof. R. Lindzen
Glitter-sized solar photovoltaics		A new development by a Sandia National Laboratories team of micro-solar cells, consuming 100 times less silicon and pointing to a potential revolution in photovoltaics.
Copenhagen Climate Concerns		A large set of small videos on many points of the climate debate. From www.co2science.org
The Smoking Gun at Darwin Zero		Excellent detective work of Antony Watts showing that the "adjustments" to the raw data transform a cooling trend to one of warming. The IPCC data of Australia are more the result of fabrication than measurements!
Windige Geschaefte mit heisser Luft		Excellent article by A. Baur (Die Weltwoche) on CO2 certificates and the working of the Swiss NGO "myclimate". In German. (hat tip: R. Turpel). See also here.
Why Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheets are not collapsing		Prof. C. Ollier in the News of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists. (see pages 20 to 24)
Open letter to the President of the Maledives		Are the Maledives drowning? No says Prof. Nils-Axel Moerner.
IPCC Crushes Scientific Objectivity		Commnet by Dr. Roy Spencer from UHA:
Scientific Shortcomings in the EPA’s Endangerment Finding from Greenhouse Gases		Very important, very clear article by P. Michaels et al. (Cato Institute)
Is Earth's Capacity to Absorb CO₂ Much Greater Than Expected?		Another bombshell in IPCC's garden: Airborne fraction of anthropogenic emitted CO2 constant since 1850. (from ScienceDaily). See also here and here.
Himalayen Glaciers		New inconvenient research report from India: GW is not the cause of melting Himalayan glaciers! Read also here.
Accurate estimation of CO₂ background level from near ground measurements at non-mixed environments (PDF)		New peer reviewed paper by F. Massen and E-G. Beck presented at the online Klima2009 conference. First in the top 10 of 103 published papers!
Statement of F. Massen for the Hearing on Climate Change (Luxembourg)		Read also the remarks of M. Severijnen (former head of the Environmental Monitoring Department of the Province of Limburg, NL)
Economic Impacts from the Promotion of Renewable Energies: The German Experience		A very clear report from RWI (Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschafts-forschunng): "CO2 abatement costs from PV (photo-voltaics) are estimated to be as high as 1035 US$ per tonne."
Climate Modelling Nonsense		Outstanding article by Dr. John Reid: "..climate prediction, as it is carried out by those organisations which come under the aegis of the IPCC, is not science. It is a superstition..."
Global Warming and Sea-Level Rise		A short but interesting paper by M. Khandekar. Best gues for 2100 is 23 +/- 5 cm !
On the determination of climate feedbacks from ERBE data		Very important paper by Lindzen & Choi which shows that climate feedbacks are negative, opposite to the findings of 11 GCM's, and that climate sensitivity is low.. Read a very extensive comment by Roy Spencer here and another by Lubos Motl here.
The Global Warming Debate Continues		A debate in 2 parts on AGW by Dr. William Gray and Dr.Kevin Trenberth. I find Dr. Gray's arguments much more convincing!
Stabilizing World CO2 Emissions: A bridge too far?		Paper of the A. Moran institute: "..estimates that deferring cuts until later would for the same quantity of emission reductions reduce costs to ~10% of those entailed by an early start".
EU R&D hostage of eco-religious fundamentalism?		Interview with David Zaruk, associate professor in risk and corporate communications at Vesalius College in Brussels, senior research associate at the Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
While the Sun Sleeps		Article by H. Svensmark; english translation from WUWT
The Malaria Myths of Climate Change		By Prof. Paul Reiter from the Pasteur Institute.
Empirical analysis of the solar contribution to global mean air surface temperature change		New paper by N. Scafetta on solar influence on climate (full text: ScienceDirect, paywalled!)
White roofs and pavements		Several reports on the effect of enhancing albedo by painting roofs and pavements white: LBNL short comment, Akbari's presentation and paper.
Geo-engineering, giving us time to act?		A report of the UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers proposing artificial trees as the preferred solution to remove CO2 from ambient air.
Global warming is global energy storage		Very interesting paper by Nordell & Gervet:: could the major part of the last 120 years global warming be explained by heat emissions (and not greenhouse gases)?
Solar cycle linked to Global Climate		Comment on a new NSF study showing the big influence of ENSO
Freeman Dyson on climate change		A new interview with Freeman Dyson in environment360 (Yale University).
When it comes to global warming, talk of treason is in the air		Comment by B. Lomborg (Daily Star, July 2009)
BP statistical review of world energy: ppt, full report here!
Climate change: science manipulated.		By Prof. S. Akasofu.
Limitations on Anthropogenic Global Warming.		Excellent paper by Leonard Weinstein, from Nasa.
Global Warming Causing Carbon Dioxide Increases: A simple model		CO2 increase: 90% from natural, 10% from anthropogenic sources? Read this interesting paper by Roy Spencer
What if global-warming fears are overblown?		Excellent interview of Dr. John Christy in CNNmoney.com.
The House Ways and Means Committee Testimony		of Dr. John Christy (Feb.2009)
Climate Change Reconsidered		Full report of the NICCP March 2009 conference (Singer & Idso)
2009 International Conference on Climate Change		List of presentations and talks given at the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change.
Statement on Global Warming		Statement of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Climate Change: Science Manipulated		by Prof. S. Akasofu (June 2009)
Time to ditch the climate consensus		Interview with Prof. Mike Hulme ( formerly at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research)
No we don't need 5 planets		by B. Lomborg (17Apr09).
The Civil Heretic		Read this 8 pages article in the New York Times on Princeton professor Freeman Dyson, a global warming skeptic by excellence.
Sulfur Dioxide Initiates Global Climate Change in Four Ways		Could SO2 explain last centuries warming and cooling periods? Read abstract of paper by Dr. P. Ward.
We can't solve global warming		A discussion of East Anglia University professor Mike Hulme's statements, by Mike Swain, Science and Environment Editor for the Daily Mirror: "We shouldn't be framing climate change as the problem that we have to solve above all others."
Panikmache als Schmiermittel		An interview (in German) with F. Massen in the Luxembourg weekly magazine "Revue", 22 Apr09
Has the climate recently shifted?		Paper by Swanson et al.: "...a break in the global mean temperature trend from the consistent warming over the 1976/77–2001/02 period may have occurred."
Statement on climate change		by Princeton University physics professor W. Happer.
Using the oceans as a calorimeter to quantify the solar radiative forcing		Solar impact on ocean heat 6 times greater than explained by TSI variations alone. Summary of JGR paper by N. Shaviv
Validity of Climate Change forecasting for Public Decision Making		by Green/Armstrong/Soon: "The (no-change) benchmark forecast is that the global mean temperature for each year for the rest of this century will be within 0.5°C of the 2008 figure."
Testimony		of Dr. P. Michaels for the US Committee on Energy and Environment.
Climate future		Essay from K. Beckman: “Climate change has grown into a large bureaucratic, industrial and political machine, on which the livelihood of many thousands of people depends." Also R. Pielke Jr.'s very intelligent comment on "The Collapse of Climate Policy".
Climate alarm: What We Are Up Against, and What to Do		Presentation by R. Lindzen at the ICCC: "..nature is, as any reasonable person might suppose, dominated by stabilizing negative feedbacks rather than destabilizing positive feedbacks"
Fire or Ice? The role of peak fossil fuels in climate change scenarios.		Excellent article in the OIL DRUM by Ugo Bardi. Peak of fossil fuels limits CO2 levels to about 450-550 max. Read also here, here and here. See graph here (Nel paper).
Is Environmentalism a Bigger Threat to Humanity than Global Warming?		Article by V. Klaus in euportal (8 March 2009)
Antartctica is cooling		If Steig had done it correctly, it would have shown up. Paper by Ken Gregory.
Arrêtons de croire les gourous du réchauffement climatique.		Article (in French) by Claude Allègre, prof. of geophysics and former Minister of Education. (hat tip: G.S.)
Statement of W. Happer before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee		W. Happer is Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics, Princeton University: "I believe that the increase of CO2 is not a cause for alarm."
TESTIMONY of Patrick J. MICHAELS to the Subcommitte on Energy and Environment of the Committe on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives.		"..all we know is this: calculations of the costs of inaction, based upon models that are clearly overestimating warming to the point that they can no longer be relied upon, are likely to be similarly overestimated". Very clear demonstration that the IPCC ensemble of 21 climate models does not agree with observed temperature trends. All other testimonies and video here (I recommend the video if you have a couple of hours to spend).
Climate Future		Essay in the European Energy Review by K. Beckman: “Climate change has grown into a large bureaucratic, industrial and political machine, on which the livelihood of many thousands of people depends." Also R. Pielke Jr.'s very intelligent comment on "The Collapse of Climate Policy".
Weather and Climate: Noise and Timescales.		Excellent and crystal clear paper! by Lubos Motl (ex-Harvard physics professor)
CO2 reconstruction from stomatal frequency in fossil needles.		Phd thesis (2004) by L. Kouwenberg, University of Utrecht. Look for graph here! Are ice core CO2 data really ok?
Interannual variations in Earth's reflectance 1999–2007		New important GRL paper by Pallé et al on albedo variations; read abstract and comments here: "...we have demonstrated that the trend toward an increasing terrestrial albedo seen in the earthshine is due to evolving cloud properties" Look here for 19984 to 2007 and here for recent global albedo data.
Contribution of Fish to the Marine Inorganic Carbon Cycle		R.W.Wilson an al. show that fish poop is an important source of carbonate, helping keep down ocean acidification (fish poops may contribute up to 15% of the carbonate production). With possible rising fish populations, this would be a negative feedback (abhorred by the IPCC!) to the consequences of AGW.
Advocacy Threatens Scientific Integrity		Comment by R.E. Levine in the Jan09 edition of the American Physical Society (APS) newsletter. The APS Council should reassert the primacy of the openness principles, which were abandoned in its "climate change" position.

Accurate estimation of CO2 background level from near ground measurements at non-mixed environments (PDF)

Accurate estimation of CO₂ background level from near ground measurements at non-mixed environments (PDF)