Climate and Keplerian Planetary Dynamics: "The “Solar Jerk”, The King-Hele Cycle, and the Challenge to Climate Science" by Rhodes W. Fairbridge, Emeritus Professor of Geology at Columbia University in New York. A senior Earth scientist divulges some little known discoveries, and how they may affect Earth's climate.

Triggering Abrupt Climate Change: A perspective on potential climate changes presented by Dr. Robert B. Gagosian, President and Director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Global warming could actually lead to a big chill in some parts of the world. If the atmosphere continues to warm, it could soon trigger a dramatic and abrupt cooling throughout the North Atlantic region—where, not incidentally, some 60 percent of the world's economy is based.

Cosmic-climate study cools Kyoto: A widely misunderstood research paper says the sun's behaviour and the Earth's position in the galaxy, not CO2 build-up, are at the root of global warming. On July 1, the prestigious Geological Society of America (GSA) released a blockbuster scientific paper that fundamentally challenges the view that carbon dioxide is the principal driver of climate change.

July snow chills Interior: What the heck happened to July? It felt more like mid-October on Tuesday and Wednesday, as records fell all over the heart of Alaska. The culprit was a storm moving south from the Arctic Ocean that resulted in wintry temperatures, heavy rains and the first measurable snowfall to ever hit the Denali National Park and Preserve entrance area in July.

Are Human Activities Causing Global Warming?: Previous analyses of the global warming problem by the Marshall Institute have concentrated on the validity of climate models, the climate record as revealed in temperature observations, and the lack of a greenhouse signal in the temperature record to date. This report summarizes some results discussed in earlier reports, but its focus is on new facts related to the global warming issue as it has been discussed over the last 12 months.

20th Century Climate Not So Hot: (Harvard-Smithsonian Press release) Cambridge, MA - A review of more than 200 climate studies led by researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has determined that the 20th century is neither the warmest century nor the century with the most extreme weather of the past 1000 years. The review also confirmed that the Medieval Warm Period of 800 to 1300 A.D. and the Little Ice Age of 1300 to 1900 A.D. were worldwide phenomena not limited to the European and North American continents. While 20th century temperatures are much higher than in the Little Ice Age period, many parts of the world show the medieval warmth to be greater than that of the 20th century.

False correlations: Alleged correlation between atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and global temperatures are not so clear; in any case, the data show temperatures rose some hundred years before CO2 levels began to rise. An article by Eduardo Ferreyra.

Prof. John R. Christy, Written Testimony to the U.S. House Committee on Resources: - "I am John Christy, Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville or UAH. I am also Alabama's State Climatologist and recently served as a Lead Author of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change." - He thinks the global warming hype is a fraud, and Kyoto Protocol is absurd and contraproductive.

"The Year Without a Summer": beautiful article with great photographs and graphics, by astrophyisicist Willie Soon and journalist Steve H. Yaskell. The year 1816 is still known to scientists and historians as “eighteen hundred and froze to death” or the “year without a summer.” It was the locus of a period of natural ecological destruction not soon to be forgotten. During that year, the Northern Hemisphere was slammed with the effects of at least two abnormal but natural phenomena. These events were mysterious at the time, and even today they are not well understood, but they seriously points to the Sun's influence over the climate as the main driving force. (Published in Mercury magazine, May-June 2003 edition)

The Latest UCS (Union of Concerned Scientists) Scam: read the reasons these lunatics state for pushing the Global Warming Scam, and the proper coments by Eduardo Ferreyra (with some convincing links to scientific studies).

SOLAR WIND NEAR EARTH: INDICATOR OF VARIATIONS IN GLOBAL TEMPERATURE: Scientific paper by Dr. Theodor Landscheidt (Schroeter Institute for Research in Cycles of Solar Activity, Germany), published in Proceedings of the 1st Solar & Space Weather Euroconference, 'The Solar Cycle and Terrestrial Climate', Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, Spain, 25-29 September 2000 (ESA SP-463, December 2000). [Published here by Dr. Landscheidt's kind permission.]
ABSTRACT: Near-Earth variations in the solar wind, measured by the geomagnetic aa index since 1868, are closely correlated with global temperature ( r = 0.96; P < 10^-7). Geomagnetic activity leads temperature by 4 to 8 years. Allowing for this temperature lag, an outstanding aa peak around 1990 could explain the high global temperature in 1998. After 1990 the geomagnetic aa data show a steep decline comparable to the decrease between 1955 and 1967, followed by falling temperatures from 1961 through 1973 in spite of growing anthropogenic CO2 emissions. This points to decreasing global temperature during the next 10 years.

SOLAR FORCING OF EL NIÑO AND LA NIÑA: Scientific paper by Dr. Theodor Landscheidt (Schroeter Institute for Research in Cycles of Solar Activity, Germany), published in Proceedings of the 1st Solar & Space Weather Euroconference, 'The Solar Cycle and Terrestrial Climate', Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, Spain, 25-29 September 2000 (ESA SP-463, December 2000). [Published here by Dr. Landscheidt's kind permission.]
ABSTRACT: Global temperature anomalies are dominated by ENSO events which are viewed to be the most spectacular example of a free internal oscillation of the climate system not subjected to external forcing. It is shown, however, that El Niño, La Niña, and the Southern Oscillation are subjected to strong solar forcing. They are closely connected with special phases in the rise to maximum and the fall to minimum of the 11-year sunspot cycle which coincide with significant accumulations of energetic solar eruptions. This pattern made it possible to forecast the last two El Niños and the extension of La Niña beginning in 1998. On this basis, the next El Niño is to be expected around 2002.9 (+ 0.4). An alternating preponderance of El Niño and La Niña is shown to be linked to the 22-year Hale cycle constituted by 11-year magnetic reversals in sunspot activity. La Niña prevailed in the cycle 1954-1976 and El Niño in the cycle 1976-1996 (P < 10^-9). This alternating pattern can be traced back to the Hale cycle beginning in 1889. A predominance of La Niña may be expected in the current 22-year cycle.

New Little Ice Age Instead of Global Warming?: A superb scientific paper by Dr. Theodor Landscheidt: "Abstract: Analysis of the sun's varying activity in the last two millennia indicates that contrary to the IPCC's speculation about man-made global warming as high as 5.8° C within the next hundred years, a long period of cool climate with its coldest phase around 2030 is to be expected. It is shown that minima in the 80 to 90-year Gleissberg cycle of solar activity, coinciding with periods of cool climate on Earth, are consistently linked to an 83-year cycle in the change of the rotary force driving the sun's oscillatory motion about the centre of mass of the solar system. As the future course of this cycle and its amplitudes can be computed, it can be seen that the Gleissberg minimum around 2030 and another one around 2200 will be of the Maunder minimum type accompanied by severe cooling on Earth. This forecast should prove skillful as other long-range forecasts of climate phenomena, based on cycles in the sun's orbital motion, have turned out correct as for instance the prediction of the last three El Niños years before the respective event.

 Wintry Conditions Trimming Ukraine, Russia Winter Grain Expectations: Several episodes of bitterly cold weather from November through January likely resulted in considerable damage to winter crops, according to a USDA assessment of the situation. The Ukrainian Ministry of Statistics reports that farms planted 8.0 million hectares of winter grains for harvest in 2003 (compared to 8.7 million the previous season), including 6.7 (7.2) million wheat, 0.6 (0.8) million rye, and 0.7 (0.6) million barley." If this happens when the Earth warms, what should we expect if it starts to freeze? Please... bring back good old global warming!

 Garbage In, Garbage Out!: On July 25, at a hearing of the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee (the same folks who grill corporate executives), the nation found out how little real science there is about global warming. The hearing was prompted by the discovery that federal scientists were using computer models that they knew could not replicate U.S. temperatures. They appeared in two landmark documents that have served as the basis for very expensive and intrusive energy legislation.

 Why Energy conservation Fails?: Dr. Inhaber uses basic economic theory coupled with our well-known human nature to prove in dozens of ways that no artificial coercive strategy aimed at conserving anything can ever succeed. Through simple prose, supplemented with detailed illustrations and ample calculations, he makes his premise as certain as the law of gravity.

 Grass Science: by John Daly - The last thing the `global warming' proponents want is for any perceived benefit arising from CO2 emissions to be admitted publicly.  Consequently, we see several "It's a benefit to plants, but..." type papers, where the authors dig up obscure and unlikely reasons why the benefit might be less than anticipated.

 Environmentalists reveal Kyoto's biggest flaw: It is finally clear that economic arguments on their own have failed to sway Canadians to oppose the Kyoto accord. Those of us who work in climate science have been saying for years that the debate would be lost if the treaty's science flaws were not highlighted as the primary reason for blocking ratification. This should have been obvious from the beginning. While others at the premiers' conference in Au-gust were focused on the cost of implementing Kyoto, Paul Okalik, territorial leader of Nunavut, clearly summed up the environmentalist position when he described climate changes in the   North and told the premiers, "You can keep your money!"

  The Global Warming Folly: (by Prof. Zbigniew Jaworowski) - "Despite billions of dollars and millions of propaganda headlines, the global warming prophesied by the climate modelling industry is not scientifically real." Terrific article by former head of the United Nation Scientific Committee on Atomic Radiation, with 99 references to peer-rewied papers!

The Kyoto speak brain-washers : The summer of 1988 was a scorcher. There were droughts in the midwest and wildfires in the west. Al Gore convened his climate hearings, and one high-profile scientist said he was "99 per cent certain" that humans were responsible for global warming. Since then, Dr. Essex has watched the world of official science diverge more and more sharply from the world of real science. He has watched the doctrine of global warming gain such a grip on popular opinion and official policy that it is now virtually unquestioned.
Dr. Essex and Dr. McKitrick effectively demolish most of what you think you know about climate. For example, they explain why the concept of one big "global temperature" is meaningless.

Melting glacier 'false alarm' : Pictures released by Greenpeace claiming to show how man-made global warming has caused Arctic glaciers to retreat are at best misleading and only illustrate a natural phenomenon, says a leading glaciologist.

 A high Degree of Double-Talk: At the UN Summit on Sustainable in Johannesburg the reference to the Kyoto Protocol in the Summit statement on climate change apparently goes no further than strongly urging states that have not done so to "ratify the Protocol in a timely manner." Des Moore argues there's almost fraud in data being used to support the climate change argument

 The Sahara Desert is Retreating: Areas lost to the Sahara desert during decades of drought are growing vegetation again, according to the latest satellite pictures. The driving force behind the retreat of the deserts is believed to be increased rainfall. Better farming methods have also played a critical role, according to researchers. (Taken from BBC News OnLine)

 Satellites Show Overall Increases in Antarctic Sea Ice Cover: While recent studies have shown that on the whole Arctic sea ice has decreased since the late 1970s, satellite records of sea ice around Antarctica reveal an overall increase in the southern hemisphere ice over the same period. Continued decreases or increases could have substantial impacts on polar climates, because sea ice spreads over a vast area, reflects solar radiation away from the Earth's surface, and insulates the oceans from the atmosphere. (Taken from NASA's website)

 Modeling climatic effects of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions: unknowns and uncertainties: Scientific paper by Dr. Willie Soon, S. Baliunas, Sherwood B. Idso, Kirill Ya. Kondratyev, and Eric S. Posmentier: A likelihood of disastrous global environmental consequences has been surmised as a result of projected increases in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. These estimates are based on computer climate modeling, a branch of science still in its infancy despite recent substantial strides in knowledge. This paper demonstrates why computer modelling can not be trusted at all.

Collapse of Sound Science: News that an ice shelf collapsed in Antarctica in early March was an "aha" event for agenda-minded journalists and the environmental lobby. It was further evidence, they said, that man is destroying the Earth. With grand urgency it was reported that the Larsen B Ice Shelf left a "wakeup call" for man when it broke apart. Scientists, ABCnews.com said, were "still shaken" days later. They're now on an ice-shelf death watch, waiting for the next one to plummet into the frigid waters.

Is a Warmer Climate Sicker?: by Dr- Dr. Paul Reiter, Chief Entomologist of the Centers for Disease Control's Dengue Fever. "One of the scarier claims made by supporters of an international climate treaty is that global warming will spawn epidemics of deadly "tropical diseases" – malaria, dengue fever, Yellow fever – not only in countries where such scourges are already entrenched but in North America and Western Europe as well. Many prominent individuals in government, academia, and media embrace the "warmer is sicker" hypothesis. Indeed, some claim the expansion of disease vectors due to global warming is already under way. But is it true?"

Global Warming Models Labeled 'Fairy Tale' By Team of Scientists: Washington (CNSNews.com) - A team of international scientists Monday said climate models showing global warming are based on a "fairy tale" of computer projections. The scientists met on Capitol Hill to expose what they see as a dearth of scientific evidence about global warming. Hartwig Volz, a geophysicist with the RWE Research Lab in Germany questioned the merit of the climate projections coming from the United Nations sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC.) The IPCC climate projections have fueled worldwide support for the Kyoto Protocol, which aims to restrict the greenhouse gases thought to cause global warming.

A Global Warming Primer: by by Gerald E. Marsh, physicist at Argonne National Laboratory - The purpose of this primer is to help the reader determine whether our understanding of the Earth's climate is adequate to predict the long term effects of carbon dioxide released as a result of the continued burning of fossil fuels. "... Given the uncertainties described above, and the current state of coupled ocean-atmosphere general-circulation models, the predictions of these models cannot and do not form a sound basis for public policy decisions." A "must read" report.

Hydrocarbons are NOT fossils!: Review of Dr. Thomas Gold's Book: "The Deep Hot Biosphere" - Gold's thesis in The Deep Hot Biosphere is simple: Hydrocarbons have been in existence since the earliest times of the universe, and are part of the process of planetary formation. Their constituents, hydrogen and carbon, originated in the "primordial soup" from which Earth was formed. Earth's methane and petroleum, Gold says, are abiogenic - without biological origin. Contrary to the currently promoted explanation, Cold says that hydrocarbons did not disso-ciate during these early times because of high temperatures of planet formation, as theorists claim. Current geological science, he shows, affirms that the temperatures were not high enough, especially when depth-related pressures are taken into account.

Global warming and cooling: Brian Fagan, one of America's leading archaeologists, has written a most timely and riveting book examining in minute detail the ever-changing relationship between humanity and climate. In Europe, we are currently obsessed by "global warming", one of the great myths of our age. But how would we have enjoyed the winter of 1309-10, an exceptionally cold and dry year, when the Thames iced over, bread froze indoors - even when protected by straw - and shipping was disrupted from the Baltic Sea to the English Channel? This was just after the start of what we call the Little Ice Age, which can first be detected around 1200 from the evidence of tree rings and ice cores from Greenland and the Arctic. It would go on to curse Europe with great hungers, especially in 1315-19, 1741, and 1816, "the year without a summer".

The Greenhouse Hall of Shame: by John L. Daly STILL WAITING FOR THE GREENHOUSE: John Daly´s website. The best and more complete site for scientific information regarding the Global Warming issue.

Global Warming: A Chilling Perspective Earth's climate and the biosphere have been in constant flux, dominated by ice ages and glaciers for the past several million years. We are currently enjoying a temporary reprieve from the deep freeze. Approximately every 100,000 years Earth's climate warms up temporarily. These warm periods, called interglacial periods, appear to last approximately 15,000 to 20,000 years before regressing back to a cold ice age climate. At year 18,000 and counting our current interglacial vacation from the Ice Age is much nearer it's end than it's beginning.

Questions and Answers on Global Warming: Question: Is global warming occurring? Have the forecasts of global warming been confirmed by actual measurements? Answer: There is no serious evidence that man-made global warming is taking place. The computer models used in U.N. studies say the first area to heat under the "greenhouse gas effect" should be the lower atmosphere - known as the troposphere. Highly accurate, carefully checked satellite data have shown absolutely no such tropospheric warming. There has been surface warming of about half a degree Celsius, but this is far below the customary natural swings in surface temperatures.

Doubling of CO2: The effects of a doubling of carbon dioxide can be calculated theoretically. Read the article by Dr. Richard Lindzen!

Greenhouse Warming: Fact, Hypothesis, or Myth?: "Just recently I (Douglas V. Hoyt, author of the book "The Role of the Sun in Climate Change", and more than 80 scientific publications) have started looking at the Greenhouse Warming Hypothesis. On this and linked web pages, we are "kicking the tires", so to speak. Every new hypothesis needs its critics to keep things honest and that's what we are doing here. So spend a little time with me "kicking the tires" before buying or not buying the hypothesis.

Philosophy 101: Global Warming Myths vs. Empiricism (by: Philip Stott, Emeritus Professor of Biogeography in the University of London) I think it's time to re-examine the concept of "global warming" more philosophically. Weather and climate change every second, of every minute, of every day, of every week, of every year, of every decade, of every century, of every millennium, of every eon. There is no such thing as a stable, or "sustainable," climate. Temperature is accordingly never static; it is always either rising or falling.

Global Warming: Charges and Responses: A refutation of the most pervasive charges relating to the theory of man-made global warming. Charge: George W. Bush killed the Kyoto Protocol.Response: President Bush did not kill the Kyoto Protocol. It was dead when he took office. Senate Res. 98, passed by a vote of 95-0 on July 25, 1997, states that the Senate will not ratify any climate treaty that would harm the U.S. economy or fails to require developing nations to reduce emissions.1 Kyoto fails both tests. The President simply recognized these facts.

Black Body Radiation: "How is Radiation Absorbed? - What is meant by the phrase "black body" radiation? The point is that radiation from heated bodies depends to some extent on the body heated. Let us back up momentarily and consider how differently different materials absorb radiation". Read this interesting lecture on black body radiation to learn what you always (perhaps) wanted to know abouy this matter.

CONSEQUENCES: Oceans, Global Warming, the Sun...

Separating Facts From Fiction: an excellent scientific article by Dr. Sallie Baliunas' testimony provided to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, chaired by Sen. James M. Jeffords, with excellent graphs on the subject of Global Warming..

NOAA's Ark of Lies : Weather Agency Preparing False "Climate" Scare - Word from within the Bush White House is that one of its own agencies plans to spring a political stunt on unsuspecting taxpayers soon. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency overseen by the Department of Commerce, is preparing a formal government document directly contravening President Bush's policy on climate change and science.

  Antarctica is Cooling: "So the Antarctic is cooling after all. Years of news reports claimed that it was warming, and that gigantic icebergs would calve off and melt, turning New York's Central Park into a pond. But the boy who cried "wolf" cried once too often. It turns out that most of the Antarctic measurements in the past had been taken on a small peninsula, and not over the vast wind-blown expanse of the frozen continent. Why did the past measurements concentrate on one peninsula? This is where the scientific outposts are. It reminds me of the old story of the drunk who lost his car keys at night. He crawled around near a lamppost, where a policeman confronted him. The constable asked him if he had lost the keys near the post. "No", was the reply, "but there's light here.".

  Wrong at the Core: another excellent scientific article by Dr. Sallie Baliunas on the subject of Global Warming: Ice core records drilled from Antarctica and Greenland hold a treasure of information on the vicissitudes of ancient climate and the interaction between the air's carbon dioxide and its temperature. But contrary to popular belief, those records reaching back 400,000 years cannot support the hypothesis that the air's recent carbon dioxide increases will cause a cataclysmic global warming.

  The Press Gets It Wrong: Our report doesn't support the Kyoto treaty. by RICHARD S. LINDZEN : As one of 11 scientists who prepared the report of the US National Academy of Sciences, I can state that this is simply untrue. For starters, the NAS never asks that all participants agree to all elements of a report, but rather that the report represent the span of views. This the full report did, making clear that there is no consensus, unanimous or otherwise, about long-term climate trends and what causes them.

Global Warming Natural, May End Within 20 Years, Says Ohio State University Researcher

Global Warming: Does it Exist? If so, is it Man- or Sun-made? (Stanford University, USA)

MILANKOVITCH CYCLES IN PALEOCLIMATE Earth´s climate has been governed by geological cycles studied by croatian astronomer Milutin Milankovitch back in the 30s

MOUNT WILSON OBSERVATORY SOLAR CYCLES PROGRAM (UCLA)

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Articles from CO2 Science.org
Evaporation losing its strength. Nature 377: 687-688: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change:"the downward trend in pan evaporation over most of the United States and former Soviet Union implies that, for large regions of the globe, the terrestrial evaporation component of the hydrological cycle has been decreasing."  They also note that this observation "corresponds well with both decreases in maximum summer temperatures over these regions and a decrease in growing-season degree-days over the Siberian and European former Soviet Union."  Speculating on the cause of these related trends, the authors suggest "increases in cloud cover, especially low cloud cover," since "pan evaporation has been decreasing and is correlated negatively with cloud cover ... for the five regions."

Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming: Where We Stand on the Issue: by C. D. Idso and K. E. Idso from the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change: There is no evidence for warming-induced increases in extreme weather. Proponents of the CO2-induced global warming hypothesis often predict that extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, and hurricanes will become more numerous and/or extreme in a warmer world; however, there is no evidence to support this claim. In fact, many studies have revealed that the numbers and intensities of extreme weather events have remained relatively constant over the last century of modest global warming or have actually declined.

Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment: Boon or Bane of the Biosphere? by C. D. Idso and K. E. Idso from the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change: Boon or bane? Which is it? Will the rising CO2 content of earth's atmosphere devastate the planet's coral reefs while it simultaneously fertilizes its forests? Will this ongoing global environmental change be both good and bad at the same time? Or is there a problem with one of these scenarios?

 There Has Been No Global Warming for the Past 70 Years in our editorial of 15 June 2000 - The Global Surface Air Temperature Record Must Be Wrong - we reviewed a large body of evidence that suggests that the highly-hyped "unprecedented global warming" of the past two decades never actually occurred. This evidence includes (1) the satellite microwave-sounding-unit temperature record, which in the absence of the massive 1998 El Niño heat pulse shows no warming whatsoever from 1979 to the present, (2) the weather-balloon temperature record, which for the same circumstances also shows no warming, (3) the surface- and satellite-derived temperature records of earth's polar regions, which also show no warming, and (4) the high-quality U.S. Historical Climatology Network data base, which, not surprisingly, also shows no statistically significant warming over this period. We now augment this substantial body of empirical evidence for no global warming over the last two decades with observations gleaned from tree-ring reconstructions of surface air temperature.

The Global Surface Air Temperature Record Must Be Wrong Our conversion on this matter began with our reading of John Daly's treatise on the global surface air temperature record (Daly, 2000), which is posted on the website of the Greening Earth Society. In reference to the divergent trends of the surface air temperature record, which exhibits a dramatic warming over the past 21 years, and the lower tropospheric temperature record produced by satellite microwave sounding units, which exhibits no such warming, he cites the only three explanations that can possibly account for this discrepancy: (1) the surface record is incorrect, (2) the satellite record is incorrect, (3) both records are correct, and their different temperature trends are due to some unknown atmospheric process or processes.

 World Temperatures Data Repository in this section of our CO2science.org website you may calculate and download temperature trends for the entire globe or for selected regions of the globe using data from any of the four data sets listed below. If you know the data set you wish to utilize, click on its appropriate link. If you are unsure which data set is best suited for your purpose, click here to obtain data set descriptions.

USHCN Temperature Record of the Week: Newkirk, Oklahoma To bolster our claim that "There Has Been No Global Warming for the Past 70 Years," each week we highlight the temperature record of one of the 1221 U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) stations from 1930-1994 (click here to find out why the data do not extend to the present). The USHCN data set is one of the highest quality sources of directly-measured climate information on the planet and is eminently suited for this purpose. This issue's temperature record of the week is from Newkirk, Oklahoma. During the period of most significant greenhouse gas buildup over the past century, i.e., 1930 and onward, Newkirk's mean annual temperature has cooled by 1.20 degrees Fahrenheit. Not much global warming here!

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Havoc on Nature: another great scientific article by Dr. Sallie Baliunas: More than one million years ago the early tool-making hominid species homo erectus controlled fire as a means for bettering chances of the species' survival. Homo sapiens, the modern successor of homo erectus, continues in the hominid legacy of attempting to control, and thereby outlast, the havoc of nature. Read it!

The Antarctic is Freezing Cold: Antarctic icebergs called B-15A and C-16 are about 54 miles and 34 miles long, respectively. They calved from the Ross Ice Shelf in March 2000, and have drifted northeast. The mammoth icebergs, along with increased sea ice, now block open water in McMurdo Sound. The Adelie and Emperor penguins, which usually swim beyond the open sound for food for their chicks, are stuck walking across the ice dam. Without ready access to food, the chicks die. Several of the smaller colonies, according to a National Science Foundation researcher, will be obliterated.

Alaska is Not Heating Up: Thermometer readings from various locations around Alaska indicate that a warming occurred during the last five decades. But can this Alaska warming be connected to the air's increased carbon dioxide concentration from human activities like fossil fuel consumption? The short answer is, no. And that is at odds with the analysis from the United States National Assessment (USNA).

Climate Lies: (by Dr. Willie Soon, a Physicist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics). Winston Churchill once remarked that "a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." If my recent travels are any indicator, the Last Lion may have understated the case. While there is much uncertainty in climate science, in the scientific discussions over global warming there is, however, at least one sure scientific fact: man-made global warming has not been confirmed at all from available records. So cheer up Hilton, cheer up US Airways, and cheer up distinguished Nobelists: the truth is out there, and he is getting his pants on.

Ralph Nader Blows Hot Air: As important as energy policy is to the future of America's economy and safety, policy discussions through the 1990s were thrall to optimistic but unworkable ideas on energy resources. While these ideas may have been good politics, they are based on bad science and obscure important national security concerns. One example is the notion that a significant amount of energy or electricity can be supplied in America by wind power. In a recent article, Ralph Nader states that at present it is technologically feasible to generate 20% of America's electricity needs with wind power.

The Non-Science of Global Warming: an excellent scientific article by oceanographer Robert Stevenson, Ph.D., telling us about how "The Science of climate has been buried alive
by an avalanche of ideology-based computer models"

Guess What?: Antarctica's getting colder, not warmer —Two studies of temperatures and ice-cap movements in Antarctica suggest that the Southern Hemisphere's "canary" isn't going down without a fight - key sections of the ice cap appear to be growing thicker, not thinner, as previously believed. And the continent's average temperature appears to have cooled slightly during the past 35 years, not warmed."

"Greenhouse lobby, read the paper" —"Those following the climate debate should read, (between the lines), the features by Simon Grose, and by Peter Szental in today's CT. The first item , shows just how hard it is to say exactly what the temperature of the planet is doing, with some findings now showing that average temperatures in Antarctica may be dropping. The second castigates 'strong and vocal self-interested groups that still argue against' the greenhouse effect. Its author happens to be, by the way, 'chief executive officer of the Sustainable Energy Industry Association.'

Is a New Ice Age Under Way?: by Laurence Hecht, "Watch out, Al Gore. The glaciers will get you!" With that appended note, my friend, retired field geologist Jack Sauers, forwarded to me a report that should have been a lead item in every newspaper in the world. It was the news that the best-measured glacier in North America, the Nisqually on Mount Rainier, has been growing since 1931. (Laurence Hecht is Editor-in-Chief of 21st Century Science & Technology magazine).

VIRTUAL CLIMATE ALERT: We heard the news, this week, oh boy. "The vast reshaping of the environment by modern civilization raises the chances of sudden and drastic upheavals in the climate, a panel of experts warns," writes The New York Times. The Washington Post chimes in, "While recent climate change studies have focused on the risks of a gradual rise in the Earth's temperature, a new National Academy of Sciences report has concluded that greenhouse gases and other pollutants could trigger large, abrupt and potentially disastrous climate changes." Really funny!

Greenhouse Lessons from the Geologic Record: Global climate--like local weather--is ever changing, on all time scales, in response to natural variations. For this reason, projections of global warming, resulting from increasing levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases, need to be set in the context of what has happened in the past. A knowledge of what has changed, and when and where, provides insights into why past changes have occurred. Such information can also help in evaluating the reliability of global warming forecasts. Excellent scientific analysis of the subject!

CLIMATE SEARCH: The most complete source of sound scientific information on Earth´s climate on the Internet!. Thousand of topics and a suberbly powerful search engine easy to use. DO NOT MISS THIS WEBSITE!

Virtual Climate Alert - Models are Wrong : According to an article in the October 11th edition of Nature, the general circulation models used to forecast future climate incorporate a major and fundamental error. If corrected in accordance with the researchers' finding, forecasts of rising global temperature likely would drop about 20 percent.

A DISCERNIBLE HUMAN INFLUENCE ...Critique of a paper by Santer et al which became the subject of the IPCC Controversy involving the notorious `Chapter 8' allegations.

What´s Hot on Thin Ice: - Sep 29, 2000 A new study of polar ice finds the summer decline to be 40 percent per century, pegging its total demise for the year 2210. Winter ice, though, won't melt until the year 3625. But who can say with certainty what energy system will be in place 50, 100, 200, or 1,600 years from now? Or how it might affect global climate? New Hope Environmental Services Staff

The Medieval Warm Period in Russia : The reconstructed temperature history revealed the existence of a number of climatic excursions, including the "Holocene Optimum 4000-6000 years ago, Medieval Warm Period with a culmination about 1000 years ago and Little Ice Age 200-500 years ago." (Demezhko, D.Yu. and Shchapov, V.A. 2001.)

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