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The Down-To-Earth Guide to Global Warming

Date:
06/18/2010
Author:
Laurie David
Topic:
Alarmism
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Laurie David

Omaha schools pull Laurie David’s AGW book citing “major factual error” and DiCaprio video “without merit”.

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Omaha schools pull Laurie David’s AGW book citing “major factual error” and DiCaprio video “without merit”.

Omaha.com reports on the school board that made this decision here. This book has been around since 2007. Since she’s married to Seinfeld producer Larry David, so it fits right…

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Date:
06/18/2010
Author:
Laurie David
Topic:
Alarmism
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Omaha schools pull Laurie David’s AGW book citing “major factual error” and DiCaprio video “without merit”.

Book Review
Omaha schools pull Laurie David’s AGW book citing “major factual error” and DiCaprio video “without merit”.

Omaha.com reports on the school board that made this decision here. This book has been around since 2007. Since she’s married to Seinfeld producer Larry David, so it fits right…

Climatism

Date:
06/14/2010
Author:
Steve Goreham
Topic:
Climate Change Debate
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Steve Goreham

Available on Amazon
Book Review – Climatism

I’ve been tardy in reviewing a number of books people have sent to me. Especially this one. So I’m happy to say that William Gray reviews the book Climatism! by…

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Date:
06/14/2010
Author:
Steve Goreham
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Climate Change Debate
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Book Review – Climatism

Book Review
Book Review – Climatism

I’ve been tardy in reviewing a number of books people have sent to me. Especially this one. So I’m happy to say that William Gray reviews the book Climatism! by…

The Great Global Warming Blunder

Date:
04/23/2010
Author:
Roy Spencer
Topic:
Climate Change Debate
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Roy Spencer

New book from Dr. Roy Spencer

Today (April 20) is the official release date of my new book entitled: “The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World’s Top Climate Scientists“, published by Encounter Books.

About one-half of Blunder is a non-technical description of our new peer reviewed and soon-to-be-published research which supports the opinion that a majority of Americans already hold: that warming in recent decades is mostly due to a natural cycle in the climate system — not to an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning.

Believe it or not, this potential natural explanation for recent warming has never been seriously researched by climate scientists. The main reason they have ignored this possibility is that they cannot think of what might have caused it.

You see, climate researchers are rather myopic. They think that the only way for global-average temperatures to change is for the climate system to be forced ‘externally’…by a change in the output of the sun, or by a large volcanic eruption. These are events which occur external to the normal, internal operation of the climate system.

But what they have ignored is the potential for the climate system to cause its own climate change. Climate change is simply what the system does, owing to its complex, dynamic, chaotic internal behavior.

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Date:
04/23/2010
Author:
Roy Spencer
Topic:
Climate Change Debate
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New book from Dr. Roy Spencer

Book Review
New book from Dr. Roy Spencer

I have been remiss at posting reviews on several books that people have sent me. I hope to get some of them up in the next week. Dr. Spencer’s announcement…

Hockey Stick Illusion

Date:
03/14/2010
Author:
A. W. Montford
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Climate Change Debate
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A. W. Montford

Hockey Stick Illusion: “Shut-eyed Denial”
Andrew Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion is one of the best science books in years. It exposes in delicious detail, datum by datum, how a great scientific mistake of immense political weight was perpetrated, defended and camouflaged by a scientific establishment that should now be red with shame. It is a book about principal components, data mining and confidence intervals—subjects that have never before been made thrilling. It is the biography of a graph.

I can remember when I first paid attention to the “hockey stick” graph at a conference in Cambridge. The temperature line trundled along with little change for centuries, then shot through the roof in the 20th century, like the blade of an ice-hockey stick. I had become somewhat of a sceptic about the science of climate change, but here was emphatic proof that the world was much warmer today; and warming much faster than at any time in a thousand years. I resolved to shed my doubts. I assumed that since it had been published in Nature—the Canterbury Cathedral of scientific literature—it was true.
I was not the only one who was impressed. The graph appeared six times in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s third report in 2001. It was on display as a backdrop at the press conference to launch that report. James Lovelock pinned it to his wall. Al Gore used it in his film (though describing it as something else and with the Y axis upside down). Its author shot to scientific stardom. “It is hard to overestimate how influential this study has been,” said the BBC. The hockey stick is to global warming what St Paul was to Christianity.

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Date:
03/14/2010
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A. W. Montford
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Hockey Stick Illusion: “Shut-eyed Denial”

Book Review
Hockey Stick Illusion: “Shut-eyed Denial”

By John A A shout-out for a review of Andrew Montford’s “The Hockey Stick Illusion” by Matt Ridley in Prospect Magazine. Andrew Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion is one of…

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