Mitchell Taylor, who has studied the animals for 30 years, was told his views ‘are extremely unhelpful’ , reveals Christopher Booker.
Christopher Booker
Published: 5:20PM BST 27 Jun 2009
Over the coming days a curiously revealing event will be taking place in Copenhagen. Top of the agenda at a meeting of the Polar Bear Specialist Group (set up under the International Union for the Conservation of Nature/Species Survival Commission) will be the need to produce a suitably scary report on how polar bears are being threatened with extinction by man-made global warming.
E-mail messages released this week show that Carlin was ordered not to “have any direct communication” with anyone outside his small group at EPA on the topic of climate change, and was informed that his report would not be shared with the agency group working on the topic.
After reviewing the scientific literature that the EPA is relying on, Carlin said, he concluded that it was at least three years out of date and did not reflect the latest research. “My personal view is that there is not currently any reason to regulate (carbon dioxide),” he said. “There may be in the future. But global temperatures are roughly where they were in the mid-20th century. They’re not going up, and if anything they’re going down.”
Carlin’s report listed a number of recent developments he said the EPA did not consider, including that global temperatures have declined for 11 years; that new research predicts Atlantic hurricanes will be unaffected; that there’s “little evidence” that Greenland is shedding ice at expected levels; and that solar radiation has the largest single effect on the earth’s temperature.
Jun 6 2009 2:49PM
Associated Press
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Bismarck, N.D. (AP) Snow has fallen in Dickinson in June, the first time in nearly 60 years the city has seen snow past May.
National Weather Service meteorologist Janine Vining in Bismarck says there were unofficial reports of a couple of inches of snow in Dickinson on Saturday.
Vining says snow in North Dakota in June is uncommon, though it’s not unheard of. She says other parts of the state have seen June snow within the past 10 years.
Williston and Bismarck had received only rain as of mid-Saturday, but Vining said snow was possible in those cities later in the day.
Washington, DC – UK’s Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, claimed House Democrats have refused to allow him to appear alongside former Vice President Al Gore at a high profile global warming hearing on Friday April 24, 2009 at 10am in Washington. Monckton told Climate Depotthat the Democrats rescinded his scheduled joint appearance at the House Energy and Commerce hearing on Friday. Monckton said he was informed that he would not be allowed to testify alongside Gore when his plane landed from England Thursday afternoon.
“The House Democrats don’t want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face,” Monckton told Climate Depot in an exclusive interview. “They are cowards.”
This is getting ridiculous here in Michigan. April 6th and six inches of snow! Come on people, if this is what we get to look forward to in the fight against Global Warming.. er, I mean Climate Change, this is NOT what we want! It’s April for crying out loud and we’ve only seen ONE day over 60 degrees! It’s supposed to be SPRING! Our grass hasn’t even started to turn green yet, flowers haven’t sprouted yet!
So burn some leaves! Burn your garbage! Fire up those coal-fired power plants! Jump in your gas-guzzling SUVs and drive around! If CO2 is the reason for global warming, then we need more CO2!!!!
April 6th, 2009 snowfall
April 6th, 2009 snowfall
It’s not just Michigan. There’s a freeze warning across much of the south!
Freeze warnings in south
Light blue area has a freeze warning. Dark blue has a deep freeze warning.
A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING
TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY
LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL
CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION.
A HARD FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-
FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE HIGHLY
LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL
CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION
IF PROTECTIVE MEASURES ARE NOT TAKEN.
ANY SENSITIVE PLANTS SHOULD EITHER BE
COVERED OR BROUGHT INDOORS.
Look at this forecast! Never gets to 50 this week, chance of snow on April 10th!
WASHINGTON — Windmills and solar panel arrays have become symbols of America’s growing interest in alternative energy. Yet as Congress begins debating new rules to restrict carbon dioxide emissions and promote electricity produced from renewable sources, an underlying question is how much more Americans will be willing to pay to harness the wind and the sun.
Curbing carbon dioxide emissions — a central part of tackling climate change — will almost certainly raise electricity prices, experts say. And increasing the nation’s reliance on renewable energy will in itself raise costs.
Fifteen months into a recession, that prospect does not sit well in some quarters.
You see it all over the Internet now.. and in real life with people I meet… Obama won… oh crap! Or “Oh shit!”, “We’re Screwed!” and some other not-so-nice comments. A common thread of discussion is along the lines of “He bought the election” or “The best election money can buy”. What are we hearing on the street? Obama means higher taxes.. Oh Crap! Obama means more liberal judges.. Oh Crap! Obama means more socialism… Oh Crap! Obama means higher unemployment… Oh Crap! Obama means forced unions on small business.. Oh Crap! Obama means more economic turmoil.. Oh Crap! Obama means higher corporate taxes on business (the ones that provide jobs).. Oh Crap! Obama means more jobs and corporations driven overseas… Oh Crap! And Obama could lead us into a full blow depression.. OH CRAP!!!
Well, if you’re feeling these same sentiments, join the club… and show your disgust with this bumper sticker I threw together…
You can order by clicking on the image or clicking here.
(Category: Correcting Gore)
Posted by Admin
Wednesday 10 October 2007 - 07:04:33
The United Kingdom High Court has ruled that the book “An Inconvenient Truth” (by Al Gore) to be propaganda and described as irredeemable, containing serious scientific inaccuracies and “sentimental mush” There you have it.
Truck driver Stewart Dimmock brought legal action against the school system to prevent An Inconvenient Truth from being taught in school as factual information. The UK High Court has issued a preliminary ruling that teachers must make clear that:
The Film is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument
If teachers present the Film without making this plain they may be in breach of section 406 of the Education Act 1996 and guilty of political indoctrination
Eleven inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children
The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming. The Government’s expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.
The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years. The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.
The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that it was “not possible” to attribute one-off events to global warming.
The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that this was not the case.
The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice. It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.
The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant’s evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility.
The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching. The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.
The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously. The evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia.
The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting, the evidence was that it is in fact increasing.
The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.
The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand. The Government are unable to substantiate this and the Court observed that this appears to be a false claim.
Stay tuned as the UK High Court’s final ruling may impose additional restrictions on teaching An Inconvenient Truth in classes. They may also point out additional inaccuracies as we all know they only scratched the surface aboe.
This really isn’t surprising to me. Al Gore took a scene from the (fiction) movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” which in itself was a propaganda movie, and used it in his own propaganda “documentary,” “An Inconvenient Truth.” The scene in question was a computer generated image and is not real.
On Friday, it was revealed by ABC News that one of the famous shots of supposed Antarctic ice shelves in the film was actually a computer-generated image from the 2004 science fiction blockbuster “The Day After Tomorrow.”
I guess if you can’t find what you are looking for to prove your point you can just make something up. That appears to be Al Gore’s template. The inconvenient truth is, at least for Al Gore, that this movie is nothing but a fraud, the whole idea that global warming is man-made, if it exists at all, is a scam. Read the original story in it’s entirety
Energy Saving Day was a flop, its organiser admitted last night after the National Grid confirmed that across Britain energy use went up by just over one per cent.
The day, which began at dusk on Wednesday evening with candles being lit in St Paul’s cathedral, had received the backing of the minister for climate change, Joan Ruddock, Lord May, the former president of the Royal Society, and groups including the National Trust, Tesco and the power companies.
The E Day website encouraged participants to turn off as many appliances as possible and to leave them unused for as long as possible.
But by mid afternoon it was clear from the meters on the Day’s website that consumption was about 600 megawatt hours across the country, higher than what the National Grid estimated was used on a normal February day.
Matt Prescott, the organiser, who had support from the Esme Fairbairn Foundation, said: “We had problems. There was a change in temperature. If it had been warmer, we would have been happy.
“I feel we haven’t been able to get the publicity to get the scale we needed. I would love to do it again with enough publicity to do it better.”
