Norman Borlaug just turned 94 – and is still going strong. During the “Eat This” segment of their docu-comedy series BS, Penn Jillette beat Teller in a round of their “Greatest Person in History” card game. Penn needed just one card: Norman Borlaug. This Iowa farm boy and University of Minnesota agriculture graduate lived Thomas Edison’s maxim to the fullest. “Invention,” Edison once remarked, “is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” Dr. Borlaug did most of his 99% in the sweltering fields of … [Read more...]
Peer-Reviewed Research Suggests Very Little Warming from CO2
A year-old article in Idõjárás: Quarterly Journal of the Hungarian Meteorological Service is suddenly getting attention in the meteorological community. And it deserves it. By Hungarian meteorologist Ferenc M. Miskolczi, the peer-reviewed article uses rigorous mathematical and physical analysis to re-estimate climate sensitivity--that is, the amount of warming to be expected from doubled atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide. Miskolczi's answer: not the 2 to 5 degrees C typically asserted … [Read more...]
Check Out Sunspot Record for Yourself
Increasing numbers of scientists are predicting that a quieting Sun will lead to global cooling here on Earth. Here is a fairly typical picture of the Sun, courtesy of the University of Wisconsin, showing lots of sunspots, on March 29, 2001: Here's a more recent image, courtesy of NASA, for March 24, 2008: You can check out images for day after day after day for the past few years. Very few images show more than one sunspot, and many show none. Featured Image Courtesy of Nick … [Read more...]
How Not To Measure Temperature: Los Angeles
[Editor's note: This is REALLY FUN READING. Don't miss it. It explains creatively, with good humor but deadly serious, one among hundreds of examples of the kinds of actions that taint temperature records not just in America but all around the world.--ECB] This is the city. Los Angeles, California. I study weather stations here. I carry a thermometer. My name’s Anthony. The story you are about to see is true; the names have been changed to protect the innocent. The day was Monday, March 24th, … [Read more...]
My Nobel Moment and Global Climate Change
I'm sure the majority (but not all) of my IPCC colleagues cringe when I say this, but I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see. Rather, I see a reliance on climate models (useful but never "proof") and the coincidence that changes in carbon dioxide and global temperatures have loose similarity over time. There are some of us who remain so humbled by the task of measuring and understanding the … [Read more...]
Hey, Nobel Prize Winners, Answer Me This
As a climate scientist, I would like to see some answers to a few basic global warming science questions which I’m sure the U.N.’s Ministry of Global Warming Truth (also known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC) can handle. After all, since they are 90% confident that recent global warming is manmade, they surely must have already addressed these issues: 1) Why are ALL of the 20+ IPCC climate models more sensitive in their total cloud feedback than published estimates of … [Read more...]
Conference Culminates in Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change
Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, March 7, 2008 Scientists, economists, and policy experts gathered for the International Conference on Climate Change in New York City this week joined in issuing the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change following the conference. The Declaration reads: "Global warming" is not a global crisis We, the scientists and researchers in climate and related fields, economists, policymakers, and business leaders, assembled at Times Square, New York … [Read more...]
New Summary for Policymakers: Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate
A panel of climate change experts calling itself the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, headed by S. Fred Singer, this week released a report that competes head-on with the Summary for Policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The group's name highlights the fact that, contrary to common perceptions that it is an objective body of scientists, the IPCC comprises not only scientists but also government bureaucrats and policy shapers, and its Summary for … [Read more...]
From Climate Alarmism to Climate Realism
Address to the International Conference on Climate Change Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, I would like first of all to thank the organizers of this important conference for making it possible and also for inviting one politically incorrect politician from Central Europe to come and speak here. This meeting will undoubtedly make a significant contribution to the moving away from the irrational climate alarmism to the much needed climate realism. I know it is difficult to say anything … [Read more...]
Global Warming: Not so Fast
[Editor's note: This item is a little longer and more technical than most we carry, but reading it carefully can provide a good education in the science of the climate debate. --ECB] For more than 100 years, climate scientists have fully understood that if all else were held constant, an increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) would lead to an increase in the near-surface air temperatures. The problem becomes a lot more complicated in the real world when we consider … [Read more...]
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