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The Hot Water Bottle Effect, Greenhouse Gas and Global Warming

June 25th 2008 The Hot Water Bottle Effect by Stephen Wilde  Preface This article attempts to consider the combined effect of the atmospheric greenhouse effect and oceanic oscillations. As far as I know no one has previously attempted to describe both phenomena as part of a single global temperature control system. It was prompted by […]

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Rising Sea Levels Due to Ice Melting in Greenland and West Antarctica?

June 25, 2008 SPPI The title of this article sounds quite alarming, and comes from the movie An Inconvenient Truth. In October of this last year, the High Court in London had identified this claim of rising sea levels as an “error” in the movie. Even today, school teachers across the United States continue showing our children […]

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Carbon Control Versus Energy and Food Security

June 24, 2008 Vinod K. Dar Managing Director, Dar & Company The world can have carbon control or it can have food and energy security.  The former means reduced energy supply while the latter requires greatly expanded energy supply, which in turn, for at least the next 3 or 4 decades, means substantially greater carbon […]

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Global Warming Deniers – Get Ready For The Coming Inquisition

June 23, 2008 By Vincent Gioia I wondered how long it would take to come to this. We have had calls for the firing of scientists and other disbelievers of the religion of the day; can the inquisition and McCarthy-style hearings be far behind? I can hear it now – “Are you now or ever […]

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James Hansen Exposed, Climate Outlook is Excellent

June 23, 2008 Marc Morano and the EPW Don’t Panic Over Predictions of Climate Doom – Get the Facts on James Hansen ‘High Crimes Against Humanity’ Trial for Climate Skeptics? Weblink to Part Two of Fact Sheet on James Hansen: NASA scientist James Hansen has created worldwide media frenzy with his call for trials against […]

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Is the Arctic Ice Expanding or Collapsing?

June 22, 2008 Solstice Sea Ice Update By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow ICECAP The Antarctic set a new record (since records began in 1979) for sea ice extent at the end of last winter. It stayed well above the normal through the summer with icemelt 40% below the normal. As a new height of […]

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As the Earth Cools: What Does it Mean for the Energy Industry?

June18, 2008 Vinod K. Dar Right Side News  The earth warmed strongly between 1915 and 1940, cooled between 1940 and 1975 and then warmed strongly again between 1975 and 1998.  The earth has been cooling in the opening years of this century even as carbon dioxide levels have risen appreciably since 1998.  Many influential people […]

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IPCC Scientist calls Global Warming Fears the Worst scientific scandal in history

June 17, 2008 Marc Morano Alert: UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Turns on UN – Sun Slows Down More! – Climate Fear ‘Running out of Gas’ – Spitting = Impact of Doubling CO2? – Round Up – June 17, 2008 [Note: The Sheer volume of scientists dissenting from UN IPCC climate views since 2007 has made […]

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Global Warming and Disastrous Floods in Wisconsin

Jun 14, 2008 Environmentalists Try to Take Advantage of Natural Disaster – Blame Midwest Floods on Global Warming By Joseph D’Aleo In the latest in a series of predictable releases, an environmental group Clean Wisconsin today claimed that the disastrous floods that ravaged southern Wisconsin this week are consistent with global warming predictions in the […]

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Opposition to Coal Will Reduce Electricity Reliability, Harm US Economy

June 16, 2008 SPPI In an April 2008 white paper entitled, “Natural Gas and Electricity Costs and Impacts on Industry”, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) reported that opposition to new coal-based power plants is leading to a generation capacity shortage in many areas of the country and endangering U.S. energy […]

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The Death Blow to Anthropogenic Global Warming

The Death Blow to AGW Co2sceptic Wednesday June 04, 2008 9:46 AM BST Stephen Wilde has been a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society since 1968. The first five articles from Mr Wilde were received with a great deal of interest throughout the Co2 Sceptic community.

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Cap and Trade Legislation’s Economic Impact on Florida

May 30, 2008 ACCF/NAM Study of the Economic Impact of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act.  Economic Impact on Florida from the Lieberman-Warner Proposed Legislation to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (PDF Report with graphs and references)  Understanding the economic impacts of the Lieberman- Warner Climate Security Act1 (L/W bill) can help guide choices on climate change […]