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Climatologist Fired for Exposing Warming Myths

Sun, 27 May 2007 15:47:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Why am I not surprised by this?

University of Washington climate scientist Mark Albright was dismissed on March 12 from his position as associate state climatologist, just weeks after exposing false claims of shrinking glaciers in the Cascade Mountains.

Embarrassing Data

Albright sent emails to his colleagues informing them of the factual data.

Albright noted in his emails the current snow pack is only marginally lower than the long-term average since 1943. Moreover, the Cascade Mountains snow pack has been growing since the late 1970s.

Albright's emails were particularly embarrassing to Philip Mote, the Washington state climatologist.

Review Supported Albright

Censored, Fired

When Albright refused to submit to Mote's censorship, Mote stripped him of his associate state climatologist title.

Politics Triumphant

Cliff Mass, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington, told the March 15 Seattle Times, "In all my years of doing science, I've never seen this sort of gag-order approach to doing science."

Tags: climate change, global warming, science, politics, myth

Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science

Thu, 03 May 2007 02:50:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: How many of these signs can you find in the man made global warming hysteria?

Clip Source: www.quackwatch.org

Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science

1. The discoverer pitches the claim directly to the media.

2. The discoverer says that a powerful establishment is trying to suppress his or her work.

3. The scientific effect involved is always at the very limit of detection.

4. Evidence for a discovery is anecdotal.

5. The discoverer says a belief is credible because it has endured for centuries.

6. The discoverer has worked in isolation.

7. The discoverer must propose new laws of nature to explain an observation.

A new law of nature, invoked to explain some extraordinary result, must not conflict with what is already known. If we must change existing laws of nature or propose new laws to account for an observation, it is almost certainly wrong.

I began this list of warning signs to help federal judges detect scientific nonsense. But as I finished the list, I realized that in our increasingly technological society, spotting voodoo science is a skill that every citizen should develop.

Tags: science, myth

IPCC Backtracks on Global Warming

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:27:54 GMT

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Clip Source: www.opinionjournal.com

While global warming alarmism has become a daily American press feature, the IPCC, in its new report, is backtracking on its warming predictions. While Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" warns of up to 20 feet of sea-level increase, the IPCC has halved its estimate of the rise in sea level by the end of this century, to 17 inches from 36. It has reduced its estimate of the impact of global greenhouse-gas emissions on global climate by more than one-third, because, it says, pollutant particles reflect sunlight back into space and this has a cooling effect.

The IPCC does not explain why from 1940 to 1975, while carbon dioxide emissions were rising, global temperatures were falling, nor does it admit that its 2001 "hockey stick" graph showing a dramatic temperature increase beginning in 1970s had omitted the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warming temperature changes, apparently in order to make the new global warming increases appear more dramatic.

Tags: ipcc, global warming, climate change, myth, gore

Debunking global warming

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:53:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I've often wondered why I haven't heard much in the way of evidence for man made global warming in the news. Finally, here is the explanation! I have read numerous reports of man made emissions of one kind of another increasing, but never any evidence linking those emissions to global warming.
Simply saying that a scientist thinks this or that is not evidence. Real science is backed up with reliable data from reliable sources.

Clip Source: www.cknj.com

Debunking global warming

It is amazing that so many people believe global warming is real and is caused by humans. This myth has been largely promoted by the major media that gives much attention to those who support it and little to those who debunk it.

For example, in December, U.S. Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma chaired a "Climate Change and the Media" meeting. He said that global warming is a hoax. The meeting received almost no major media attention.

At this meeting, Dr. David Deming, a geophysicist at the University of Oklahoma, stated, "I was contacted by a reporter for National Public Radio. He offered to interview me, but only if I would state that the warming was due to human activity. When I refused to do so, he hung up on me."

Deming also said that he received an astonishing e-mail from a major researcher in climate change that read, "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period."

From about 800 A.D. to 1300 A.D. we had the Medieval Warm Period where the world was as warm or warmer than it is today. But it is an obstacle to those maintaining that the current warming is abnormal.

People who want to hear the other side can go to www.oism.org/pproject for a scientific debunking of global warming. Also listed are the names of more than 17,000 scientists, meteorologists and other technical people who have signed a petition stating that there is no convincing scientific evidence to support global warming.

Robert W. Van de Walle

Granada Hills, Calif.

Tags: global warming, myth, inhofe, climate change, hoax, deming, npr, medieval warm period, science, meterology, evidence