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Energy and Environment

Solar Cycles, Sunspots and Global Warming and Cooling

May 26, 2008 Ultralong Solar Cycle 23 and Possible Consequences By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM In 1610, shortly after viewing the sun with his new telescope, Galileo Galilei made the first European observations of Sunspots. Daily observations were started at the Zurich Observatory in 1749 and with the addition of other observatories continuous observations were obtained […]

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Natural Ocean Cycles, not Man, responsible for Temperature and Ice Changes Part 2

May 24, 2008 Part 2 of 3 The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation By Joe D’Aleo Last week (Part 1), we discussed the Pacific decadal Oscillation (PDO) and its impact on the frequency of El Ninos and La Ninas, which have an effect on the position of global troughs and ridges and through them global patterns of temperatures and […]

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31,000 Scientists Shatter the Myth on Global Warming

May 23, 2008 31,000 Scientists Shatter the Myth of a “Scientific Consensus” on Global Warming CFIF Environmental extremists routinely assert a “scientific consensus” that global warming is occurring, and that human activity somehow causes it. This week, however, over 31,000 scientists spoke up and reduced that myth to a smoldering rubble. (see related articles)

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Culture Wars

Christian Employee Fired – Objected to Diversity Training which Celebrated Homosexuality

MAY 22, 2008 Rutherford Institute Files Lawsuit in Defense of Christian Employee Fired for Voicing Religious Objection to Workplace Diversity Training CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have come to the defense of a Christian systems engineer who was allegedly fired after voicing a religious objection to his employer’s diversity training initiative, […]

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Solar Energy, Ocean Cycles And Global Temperature

May 21, 2008 The Real Link Between Solar Energy, Ocean Cycles And Global Temperature By  Stephen Wilde This article expands and updates my previous articles and should be read with them. Failure of IPCC to properly consider Solar Influence which is about the failure of the IPCC to properly consider solar influences and The link between […]

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Culture Wars

Arab and Islamic Antisemitism

May 20, 2008   MEMRI No. 439 Arab and Islamic Antisemitism  By Prof. M. Milson * Arab and Islamic antisemitism is today the form of antisemitism that poses the most danger to Israel and to Jews everywhere in the world. Numerous antisemitic attacks in France and elsewhere in Europe in recent years have made it very […]

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Natural Ocean Cycles, not Man, responsible for Temperature and Ice Changes Part 1

PART I of 3 May 17, 2008 The Relationship of the PDO to El Nino and La Nina Frequency By Joe D’Aleo El Nino Dominance Since The Late 1970s – Explained John McLean in a paper here reported Australia’s CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology (Power and Smith 2007) wrote about a period of unprecedented El Niño […]

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Another look at Carbon Credits and Cap and Trade Costs

May 15, 2008 By Vincent Gioia Op-Ed on the Global Warming movement and the coming Presidential policies (Comments are welcome) All candidates for the presidency this year have many policies in common but the acceptance of and reaction to false claims of man-made global warming carries the most far reaching implication for changing the lifestyle […]

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Observed climate change in West Virginia

Written by Robert Ferguson     Monday, 12 May 2008 Annual temperature: Over the course of the past 113 years, the time since statewide records have been compiled by the U.S. National Climatic Data Center, the statewide annual average temperature history of West Virginia exhibits no statistically significant trend either towards cooling or warming. Instead, the temperature […]

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Global Warming and Cooling – The Reality

May 12, 2008 by Stephen Wilde It’s all very well doing what alarmists do which is to say that Co2 is rising and temperatures are rising so in the absence of any other known cause it must be man made CO2 that is warming the planet. That approach ignores both the differing scale of the […]

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Polar Bear Update – Populations and Environments

Demographic and Ecological Perspectives on the Status of Polar Bears Written by Dr. Mitchell Taylor and Dr. Martha Dowsley March 2008 For the Full Report in PDF Form, please click here. Dr. Taylor and Dr. Dowsley are not affiliated with SPPI] [Illustrations, footnotes and references available in PDF version] Report Includes: Abstract Introduction Polar Bear […]

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The Role Of Landscape Change On The Climate System

May 11, 2008 R.A. Pielke Sr. Research Group: Climate Science Another Paper On The Role Of Landscape Change On The Climate System – Van der Molen et al. The full report is below, in a pdf file. The abstract reads “Annual precipitation on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico decreased steadily during the 20th century, […]