Legislation will support research, surveillance, planning and interagency coordination

To tell you the truth, I had no idea where to place this.

Hey folks,

Is this the "Health and Science," the "You Can't Make This Stuff Up," the "IWA?" Maybe I should just create a New Segment for this sort of thing, the "BS" Segment. Did you catch this?

WASHINGTON, May 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Trust for America's Health (TFAH), and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) praised legislation introduced late yesterday to improve the public health response to climate change.

The bill is sponsored by the Vice Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Health, U.S. Rep. Lois Capps (CA/Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Ventura County), and cosponsored by U.S. Reps. Doris Matsui (CA/Sacramento) and Tammy Baldwin (WI/Madison, Beloit).

The bill introduction follows the official finding in April by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that climate change endangers human health and welfare, and the introduction of draft climate legislation, "The American Clean Energy and Security Act," by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) and House Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey (D-MA). Global warming is expected to worsen many health problems, including heat-related illness, diarrheal and other infectious diseases, and respiratory illness associated with ozone and allergens in the air.

Climate change is a concern to most public health agencies, but few of them have resources to tackle the problem, according to a national survey conducted last year by Environmental Defense Fund, the National Association of County and City Health Officials, and George Mason University. Congress needs to provide $200 million to sponsor research for climate change and public health in federal agencies, according to a recent report in Environmental Health Perspectives, the peer-reviewed journal published by the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

The bill, the Climate Change Health Protection and Promotion Act, would direct the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop, in consultation with other governmental and non-governmental partners, a national strategic action plan for addressing the impacts of climate change on public health. It would also authorize funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to research the health effects of climate change and identify greenhouse gas reduction behaviors that are health promoting, as well as bolster climate change preparedness planning around the country.

"As a nurse for two decades, Rep. Capps understands that climate change will be a life and death issue for many Americans if we don't prepare for its health impacts," said EDF Chief Health Scientist Dr. John Balbus, who is a member of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research and Medicine. "Reps. Matsui and Baldwin also deserve credit for cosponsoring this bill because it is a critical step in protecting public health from the varied threats posed by climate change."

"Reps. Capps, Matsui and Baldwin are providing invaluable leadership by recognizing and promoting new and innovative ways to prepare for the health risks of climate change," said Jeff Levi, Ph.D., Executive Director of TFAH. "We're already witnessing how climate change is leading to new health problems. This bill would help ensure that public health officials across the country -- who we rely on to protect us from infectious disease outbreaks and other health emergencies -- can meet the challenges we face."

"Children, the elderly, and people with many common medical conditions -- such as diabetes and asthma -- are especially at risk as the climate warms and health threats multiply," said Gina Solomon, M.D., M.P.H., Senior Scientist at NRDC. "We need to prepare today, so people don't suffer tomorrow."

The Climate Change Health Protection and Promotion Act also would authorize the CDC to:

Provide technical support to state, local, and tribal health departments in forecasting local effects, developing preparedness plans, and communicating with the public about the health effects of climate change;

Develop training programs for public health professionals on the health risks and interventions related to climate change;

Enhance domestic and international tracking capacity for infectious diseases and environmental health indicators;

Contract with the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine to prepare a report that assesses the needs for health professionals to prepare for and respond to climate change impacts on public health and recommends programs to meet those needs. The report would be due within 18 months after the bill becomes law.

Environmental Defense Fund, a leading national nonprofit organization, represents more than 500,000 members. Since 1967, Environmental Defense Fund has linked science, economics, law and innovative private-sector partnerships to create breakthrough solutions to the most serious environmental problems. For more information, visit www.edf.org

Trust for America's Health is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to saving lives by protecting the health of every community and working to make disease prevention a national priority.

The Natural Resources Defense Council is a national, nonprofit organization of scientists, lawyers and environmental specialists dedicated to protecting public health and the environment. Founded in 1970, NRDC has 1.2 million members and online activists, served from offices in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Beijing.

CONTACT: Dr. John Balbus, +1-202-572-3316, jbalbus@edf.org, or Jennifer Andreassen, +1-202-572-3387, jandreassen@edf.org

I'm not even going to waste time posting the reports. That's why I left the links in for you to check them out yourself. This is all about the money folks. We are not even WARMING. All this, and all the reports are, well, BS. Complete and utter BS. {Bad Science} or whatever you care to substitute here. {Smile}

Just to touch on a few of these patently absurd statements. First, and the biggest, we are not warming anymore. Anyone with an IQ over 10 will tell you we are actually in a cooling cycle now.

Second, "We're already witnessing how climate change is leading to new health problems." Really? Where, what, who, how? Oh yeah, you need not back any of this up. Right?

As you well know, sickness and disease are spread mostly during cooler temperatures. Hence the reason that the Flu season happens during the cooler parts of the year.

Third, "We need to prepare today, so people don't suffer tomorrow." Then they talk about $200 million and an on going contract in which they can get a continuous supply of cash. This seems to be the new tactic of the LWL. Justify out of control spending now, for future benefit. In other words, "We will take your money now. You will not see any benefit from it for YEARS later. But trust us, we must do this NOW." This way, by the time the SCAM is proven to be that, a SCAM, they would have already gained power and control, and or course, made a lot of money.

I could keep going on and on about all the nonsense of this, but it's time to move on to more Idiocies, the IWA. Be right back.
Peter

Global Warming Security threat?

Hey folks,

This is post number 800 and counting, with five months to go till the two year anniversary of the OPNTalk Blog. Not bad uh? This one has to fall in the "Now I have heard everything" category. Global Warming NOW being toted as a security issue. I'm not making this up folks. According to the AP - Think tank: Climate affects security

By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer
Sat Nov 3, 3:13 AM ET

Climate change could be one of the greatest national security challenges ever faced by U.S. policy makers, according to a new joint study by two U.S. think tanks.

Uh OK.

The report, to be released Monday, raises the threat of dramatic population migrations, wars over water and resources, and a realignment of power among nations.

During the last two decades, climate scientists have underestimated how quickly the Earth is changing — perhaps to avoid being branded as "alarmists," the study said. But policy planners should count on climate-induced instability in critical parts of the world within 30 years.

{Sigh} It's all bunk folks.

The report was compiled by a panel of security and climate specialists, sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Center for a New American Security. The Associated Press received an advance copy.

Both extreme Lib groups. {Laughing}

Climate change is likely to breed new conflicts, but it already is magnifying existing problems, from the desertification of Darfur and competition for water in the Middle East to the disruptive monsoons in Asia which increase the pressure for land, the report said.

It examined three scenarios, ranging from the consequences of an expected temperature increase of 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit by 2040, to the catastrophic implications of a 10-degree rise by the end of the century.

At the very least, the report said, the U.S. can expect more population migrations, both internally and from across its borders; a proliferation of diseases; greater conflict in weak states, especially in Africa where climates will change most drastically; and a restructuring in global power in line with the accessibility of natural resources.

The "Chicken Little" crowd is telling us the sky is falling. We are all going to die,well, according to them that is. Well, sort of. Let's see "Climate change is likely," "but it already is magnifying existing problems, from the desertification of Darfur and competition for water in the Middle East to the disruptive monsoons in Asia which increase the pressure for land, the report said." Prove it. "It examined three scenarios" "ranging from the consequences of an expected temperature increase of 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit by 2040, to the catastrophic implications" Prove it. According to some scientist, tempts are starting to stabilize and possible start cooling within two years. "The U.S. can expect" again, prove it. The rest reads like a SciFi novel or movie rather than any actual science.

Left unchecked, "the collapse and chaos associated with extreme climate change futures would destabilize virtually every aspect of modern life," said the report, comparing the potential outcome with the Cold War doomsday scenarios of a nuclear holocaust.

I'll pay to go see it. I love SciFi.

"Climate change has the potential to be one of the greatest national security challenges that this or any other generation of policy makers is likely to confront," said the report.

Among its contributors were former CIA director James Woolsey, Nobel laureate Thomas Schelling, National Academy of Sciences President Ralph Cicerone, President Bill Clinton's former chief of staff John Podesta and former Vice President Al Gore's security adviser Leon Fuerth.

Need I really say more?

The report listed 10 implications of climate change that policy makers should consider, including rising tensions between rich and poor nations, the backlash resulting from massive migrations, health problems partly caused by water shortages and crop failures, and concerns over nuclear proliferation as nations increasingly rely on nuclear energy.

Power, control, and money. That's what it's all about. Read that again. "The report listed 10 implications of climate change that policy makers should consider." Then they try to scare them, actually YOU, to try to force the ACTIVE US government to do their bidding.

The global balance of power will shift unpredictably as trade patterns change, it said. China's importance in the climate equation will grow as it increases emissions of greenhouse gases, and Russia's influence will increase alongside its exports of natural gas, the report said.

Attention began to focus earlier this year on the strategic consequences of climate change. But the latest report, more than 100 pages long, is among the most detailed analyses published so far on security aspects.

All bunk. Like I said, SciFi.

Last April, a a panel of retired top-ranking military officers issued the alarm that global warming was a "serious security threat" likely to aggravate terrorism and world instability.

Retired from?

The Office of the National Intelligence Director said the following month it has begun working on an assessment of the national security implications of climate change.

Yeah, he said whatever. Believe this if you want to folks, but it is nothing more than garbage. There is no real science in this at all. It's really sad that there truly are people out there that actually believe this bunk. But there is.
Peter

Source:
AP - Think tank: Climate affects security

GWBS Just Silly

Man-Made Climate Change is a joke. A poor one at that.

Hey folks,

This whole thing has just become silly. Seriously. Everyday something new comes out about this SCAM. At this point, the IPCC is nothing more than a Saturday Night Live skit. I can see it now.

"We have released our new report to say that the World is at great risk. Evil people from America, uh, we mean, uh, everywhere, is destroying the planet. CO2 is kill us all. But it is not to late. If America, uh, everyone, does exactly what we say, and give their money away to us, we can save the planet."

OK. What about the fact that we learned all these Emails of the Leaders of the Chicken Little Crowds have been LYING. That they have been telling each other to cover up and hide the fact we are actually Cooling?

"Well, forget that. Means nothing. Why do you think we changed it to Climate Change instead of Global Warming?"

What about the fact we learned that all those measuring posts have been MOVED? To make it appear that we are still warming and the ice is still melting.

"Uh, never mind that. Uh, just accept what we are telling you."

OK. what about the fact that Himalayan Glacier Melt is bogus? It was based on an old study that had never been peer-reviewed or even published, which was based entirely on the speculation of a single Indian Scientist who now works at the Environmental group run by the head of the IPCC, Economist Rajendra Pachauri?

"Never mind that either. Uh, you can not disregard the whole report on just a few minor irregularities."

A few? 16 of your "Facts" have been proven to come from Envionut Groups, NOT real Scientists, and they are FALSE. Not to mention there is NO real science backing ANYTHING?

"Shut up. Just believe what we tell you. We will make you. This new Government of yours is on our side and they are working on creating laws that will FORCE you to just do whatever we say, as long as we say it's for the good of the planet."

Remember just as they we going into Copenhagen, some were saying we only had 10 months to halt "Climate Change." I actually think that they called it Global Warming. So what did they achieve at Copenhagen? A signed agreement to talk more about it in 12. {Laughing} Not to mention a "Carbon Footprint" in the 12-day conference created 40,584 tons of CO2 equivalents. The same amount as the Carbon Emissions of Morocco in 2006.

Ten years, Twenty, oh, uh, in another Twenty, uh by 2050, uh? It's all BOGUS. Snowmageddon is happening as we speak. Global Warming? Here is just SOME of what has come out this week. Times Online - UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim by Jonathan Leake

A STARTLING report by the United Nations climate watchdog that global warming might wipe out 40% of the Amazon rainforest was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in its 2007 benchmark report that even a slight change in rainfall could see swathes of the rainforest rapidly replaced by savanna grassland.

The source for its claim was a report from WWF, an environmental pressure group, which was authored by two green activists. They had based their “research” on a study published in Nature, the science journal, which did not assess rainfall but in fact looked at the impact on the forest of human activity such as logging and burning. This weekend WWF said it was launching an internal inquiry into the study.

This is the third time in as many weeks that serious doubts have been raised over the IPCC’s conclusions on climate change. Two weeks ago, after reports in The Sunday Times, it was forced to retract a warning that climate change was likely to melt the Himalayan glaciers by 2035. That warning was also based on claims in a WWF report.

The IPCC has been put on the defensive as well over its claims that climate change may be increasing the severity and frequency of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods.

Where are they?

This weekend Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, was fighting to keep his job after a barrage of criticism.

Scientists fear the controversies will be used by climate change sceptics to sway public opinion to ignore global warming — even though the fundamental science, that greenhouse gases can heat the world, remains strong.

{Sigh} It's ALL BS. This is pathetic "fundamental science, that greenhouse gases can heat the world, remains strong."Notice it does not say the world IS. It says the theory of "green House Gases to have the ability to heat the globe, is fundamental. That is like me saying, Science says that the Volcano, if it erupts, can and WILL destroy everything in it's path. So give me money so I can figure out a way to prevent that. The Science is strong, but the Volcano is NOT erupting, nor is it going to any time soon. Kind of like old tribes of people sacrificing to the Volcano gods. Right? Is that what we should be doing now with the GW gods?

The latest controversy originates in a report called A Global Review of Forest Fires, which WWF published in 2000. It was commissioned from Andrew Rowell, a freelance journalist and green campaigner who has worked for Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and anti-smoking organisations. The second author was Peter Moore, a campaigner and policy analyst with WWF.

In their report they suggested that “up to 40% of Brazilian rainforest was extremely sensitive to small reductions in the amount of rainfall” but made clear that this was because drier forests were more likely to catch fire.

The IPCC report picked up this reference but expanded it to cover the whole Amazon. It also suggested that a slight reduction in rainfall would kill many trees directly, not just by contributing to more fires.

It said: “Up to 40% of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, hydrology and climate system in South America could change very rapidly to another steady state. It is more probable that forests will be replaced by ecosystems that have more resistance to multiple stresses caused by temperature increase, droughts and fires, such as tropical savannas.”

Simon Lewis, a Royal Society research fellow at Leeds University who specialises in tropical forest ecology, described the section of Rowell and Moore’s report predicting the potential destruction of large swathes of rainforest as “a mess”.

“The Nature paper is about the interactions of logging damage, fire and periodic droughts, all extremely important in understanding the vulnerability of Amazon forest to drought, but is not related to the vulnerability of these forests to reductions in rainfall,” he said.

“In my opinion the Rowell and Moore report should not have been cited; it contains no primary research data.”

WWF said it prided itself on the accuracy of its reports and was investigating the latest concerns. “We have a team of people looking at this internationally,” said Keith Allott, its climate change campaigner.

Scientists such as Lewis are demanding that the IPCC ban the use of reports from pressure groups. They fear that environmental campaign groups are bound to cherry-pick the scientific literature that confirms their beliefs and ignore the rest.

{Laughing} You think?

It was exactly this process that lay behind the bogus claim that the Himalayan glaciers were likely to melt by 2035 — a suggestion that got into another WWF report and was then used by the IPCC.

Georg Kaser, a glaciologist who was a lead author on the last IPCC report, said: “Groups like WWF are not scientists and they are not professionally trained to manage data. They may have good intentions but it opens the way to mistakes.”

No. They purposely LIE to further their agendas.

Then this. Check this out. Activist-scientists cooked the books to foster alarm Lorne Gunter, Edmonton Journal Published: Sunday, January 31, 2010

I can't recall the wheels coming off the bus of any expert-driven hysteria as fast or as completely as they are now coming off the global-warming scare.

I suppose they must have came off faster from Y2K. At 12:00:01 AM on Jan. 1, 2000, when airliners didn't fall from the sky and power plants didn't shut down spontaneously or computers didn't freeze up all over the world, the air came out of the Y2K scare instantly. Billions had been spent on preventing that disaster-that-never-was up until midnight on the final day of 1999, then almost not a penny afterwards.

That is faster than the wheels are coming off the climate-change bus. But AGW -- anthropogenic global warming -- is a very close second.

News of the manipulations, distortions and frauds perpetrated to advance and preserve the environmentalists' cause celebre are so numerous and coming so fast, it's hard to keep up.

First, of course, there were the e-mails and computer files leaked from Britain's Climate Research Unit (CRU) -one of a handful of climate-research centres around the world that are the pillars of the United Nations' claims about impending climate doom. The CRU leaks showed many of the world's leading climate scientists discussing how they could torque their research to show more recent warming than there has been, conceal their "tricks" from other scientists and government investigators, and pressure scientific journals not to publish reports by dissenting scientists.

Then a couple of weeks ago came the news that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN's climate-change arm, had based its most recent findings on Himalayan glacier melt on an old study that had never been peer-reviewed or even published and which was based entirely on the speculation (not research) of a single Indian scientist who now works at the environmental think-tank run by the head of the IPCC, economist Rajendra Pachauri.

This by itself wouldn't be devastating, except that the scientist in charge of the glacier chapter of the IPCC's latest assessment report (AR4) admitted he had known the melt estimate was wrong but had included it anyway because "we thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action."

He just admitted it folks. It's not true, yet we put it in there to SCARE people. Scaryence. Not Science.

That's not climate science, it's environmental activism, pure and simple -- using misleading figures to whip up alarm and bring about political action.

Another revelation of malfeasance this week was the discovery that the chapter on Amazon rainforests in the IPCC's AR4, the one that included the often-repeated claim that 40 per cent of the forest is under imminent threat from climate change, was written not by climate scientists but by an policy analyst who works for environmental groups and a freelance environmental author. Like the glacier chapter, it was written not to present the latest dispassionate scientific data, but to present a propaganda case that would produce the policy outcome the UN and the IPCC want. It confirmed that the UN is a player for one side in the climate debate, not the source for object facts.

In all, so far, at least 16 major claims made in AR4 (the report for which the IPCC won a Nobel Prize) have been shown to have originated with environmental groups rather than scientists, including the claim that climate change is already making tornado, hurricanes, forest fires and floods worse.

This week, we also learned that NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) may have been playing fast and loose with its own calculations of global average temperature. Among the four main repositories of global temperature records, GISS is the only one to show the Earth still warming during the past decade. Now two American climate researchers -- Joseph D'Aleo and Anthony Watts -- believe they know why: Scientists at GISS may have been cherry-picking the weather stations they take their records from to increase global averages artificially.

The pair write that there was a "major" decline in the number of stations GISS scientists were taking readings from "and an increase in missing data from remaining stations, which occurred suddenly around 1990 ... a clear bias was found toward removing higher elevation, higher latitude, and rural stations -- the cooler stations -- during this culling process." The pre-1990 temperature records, though, continued to include these cooler stations. These changes tended to make temperatures before 1990 appear extra-cool and those after 1990 extra-warm.

This probably shouldn't surprise -- GISS is run by James Hansen, the scientist who first set off the global-warming scare in 1988 and who is an adviser to former U.S. vice-president Al Gore.

Hansen has testified in court on behalf of eco-vandals charged with damaging a British power plant, insisting they are guilty of no crime because they were acting in defence of humanity and he has called coal trains "death trains" and coal-fired power plants "factories of death."

Again, those are the words of an activist, not a scientist.

Does all this prove global warming is a hoax?

I believe it does.

But at the least, it shows the science is far from settled.

It IS a Hoax. Nothing more and nothing less. A giant SCAM. Be right back with Part Two.
Peter

Sources:
Times Online - UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim
National Post - Activist-scientists cooked the books to foster
UK Guardian - Strange case of moving weather posts and a scientist under siege
UK Daily Mail- Leaked emails reveal that 'climategate' scientist 'hid' flaws in key global warming data
Canadian National Post - Wheels fall off global-warming hysteria
AFP - Netherlands adds to UN climate report controversy

Copenhagen Will Create What They Are Fighting Against

Patrick Michaels Of Cato Has It Right

Hey folks,

More GWBS, but GOOD questions. I loved this. It's from Yournews.com, / Reuters- Copenhagen's 'footprint' and the 'inconvenient scandal' 120509 7:30AM

Talk about your global warming... When an estimated 16,500 delegates, activists and reporters descend upon Copenhagen Monday for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, a lot of hot air will follow.

{Laughing}

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (Reuters/YN) - The U.N. estimates the 12-day conference will create 40,584 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, roughly the same amount as the carbon emissions of Morocco in 2006.

The same amount, if you accept the premise, which as you all know I don't, that an entire country creates in a YEAR, they will do in 12 days.

Those greenhouse gas emissions are comprised of two parts: international travel and local emissions from hotels and transportation venues. Organizers will also reportedly lay 900 kilometers of computer cable and 50,000 square miles of carpet, along with more than 200,000 meals to be served and 200,000 cups of coffee.

The conference will leave an enormous carbon footprint, says Patrick Michaels, senior fellow for environmental studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington.

“It will be huge,” Michaels said of the environmental toll. “Where is video conferencing when we need it? An equally important question is what will be accomplished here?”

They would not be able to party together with Video Conferencing, and, NOTHING. This should be cancelled anyway now that the Scammers got caught with their pants down.

Approximately 140 aircraft carrying world leaders, heads of state and VIPs will land in Copenhagen, the U.N. estimates — although 95 percent of departures from Copenhagen Airport will be “green departures,” which allow airplanes to climb continuously to their optimal operating level, enabling them to reach planned routes sooner than usual. The result, according to the U.N., is saved time, fuel and carbon emissions.

{Laughing} Up, up, and away. Why do they not just KEEP going into space. That would save the planet a lot of Hot Air.

But Michaels wonders why attendees, particularly those in Europe, can't ride the rails into Copenhagen.

“That’s the way I get to New York,” Michaels said. “There’s nothing new here. There’s always been a lot of hypocrisy amongst the climate change political community."

Some are, but the MAJORITY are not.

"Prince Charles goes around the world in a private jet, telling everyone else they need to ration their carbon dioxide. Please.”

You tell them Patrick!

Herb London, president of the Hudson Institute, a Washington-based think tank, acknowledged the “level of hypocrisy” regarding the conference and its emissions, but he said living in modernity mandates some sort of measurable carbon footprint. The question, he said, is if the carbon footprint left behind is desirable and efficient.

“It is ironic that you’ll have all these pronouncements made and very little action,” London said. “What are [China and India] going to do? So what are we talking about here?”

Here is my prediction. They will agree to talk more in the future. NOTHING will be signed, or implemented here. Just talk. IT'S ALL A SCAM ANYWAY!

To minimize the conference’s carbon footprint, the U.N. says the main venue, The Bella Center, aims to reach a 20 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. To reach that goal, delegates have been urged to use public transportation to the site, to drink water from the tap instead of plastic bottles, and to minimize paper waste. Hotel owners have been asked to offer rooms that have been certified as environment-friendly.

Idiots. All show folks.

Despite those efforts, Michaels said he expects little if any firm proposals to come out of the conference, which aims to produce a new treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

“It will not produce a concrete agreement on climate change, meaning a universally-accepted international agreement with targets and timetables,” Michaels said. “It will, however, produce a statement that there’s been a breakthrough even though there will not have been.”

What I said. {Smile}

President Obama will travel to the Danish capital on Dec. 9 to offer his goal of cutting emissions 17 percent by 2020, in line with a bill passed by the House in June and slightly less than a 20-percent decrease proposed in the Senate.

“The president going to Copenhagen will give positive momentum to the negotiations,” Michael Froman, Obama’s deputy national security adviser for international economies, told reporters last month. “We think it will enhance prospects for success.”

We have a President that either is to stupid to understand that this is all a SCAM, or a President who KNOWS it is a SCAM and is USING it to gain UNCONSTITUTIONAL, power, control, and money, from the American people, and EVEN possibly turn over American Sovereignty to the UN. I will let you chose which is worse. They BOTH have the same outcome.

Yet, the State Run Media STILL refuses to acknowledge the fact that the SCAM has been exploded all over the world. They still fail to ask the question I just asked. Is the President a Dunce, or is he Diabolical?

Joined by up to seven cabinet members, Obama will also propose reducing emissions by 83 percent by 2050 and a 30 percent reduction in 2005 levels by 2025. China and India have said industrialized countries like the United States — the biggest greenhouse gas producer among developed nations — must be willing to slash carbon output 40 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels if it expects poorer economies to agree to long-term goals.

What? No WAIT! CHINA is the biggest greenhouse gas producer among developed nations. Not the US! The writer of this piece should check out the facts. Oh, yeah, never-mind.

Some in Hollywood Say Gore Should Lose Oscar Over Climategate

Just days ahead of an international climate change conference, global warming guru and former Vice President Al Gore has been hit by an inconvenient scandal -- one that's reverberated all the way back to Hollywood.

Two conservative screenwriters say Gore should be stripped of his Oscar in light of the global warming questions raised by leaked e-mails out of a British research center.

You THINK? The Nobel Peace Prize as well.

The former vice president earned the Oscar in 2007 for his climate change manifesto "An Inconvenient Truth." He later went on to earn a Nobel Peace Prize and become one of the world's leading authorities on global warming.

But Roger Simon and Lionel Chetwynd, both members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, put out a statement Thursday calling for the Academy to take it all back in light of the controversy skeptics have dubbed Climate-Gate.

"I personally call for the Academy to rescind this Oscar," Simon said. "In the history of the Academy ... not to my knowledge has an Oscar ever been rescinded. ... I think they should rescind this one."

They won't.

Though their demand will almost certainly not be met, it marks the latest effort by conservatives to draw attention to the controversy in the run-up to an international climate change conference next week in Copenhagen -- where Gore just canceled a lecture he was supposed to deliver.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are demanding hearings on the topic, after leaked e-mails from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit showed scientists appearing to discuss manipulating climate change data.

If they get it, it will be all show. The Loons on the Left want to lock up the "Whistle-blower/s" that leaked them. They have no desire to actually get to the truth.

Simon is the founder of Pajamas Media, whose Web site posted the Gore criticism Thursday. Chetwynd is a screenwriter.

The former vice president and Nobel Peace Prize winner had been scheduled to speak to more than 3,000 people at a Dec. 16 event hosted by the Berlingske Tidende newspaper group. The group says Gore canceled the lecture Thursday, citing unforeseen changes in his schedule.

Running scared and attempting to regroup.

Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider says the decision was made because of "all the events going on with the summit." Dec. 16 is a key date for the meeting because that's when the ministerial segment starts.

Chief editor Lisbeth Knudsen says it's a "great disappointment" that Gore canceled and that all tickets will be refunded.

United Nations Now Says Will Investigate Leaked Emails

On with the show.

The United Nations will conduct its own investigation into e-mails leaked from a leading British climate science center in addition to the probe by the University of East Anglia, a senior U.N. climate official said Friday. It is known however that persons involved in the scandal have intimate ties to the IPCC, with one of the primary scientists accused of manipulating climate data being a lead author of the 1995, 2001, and 2007 IPCC reports.

“The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading body for assessing climate change science,” reports the Daily Mail.

IPCC chairman Dr Rajendra Pachauri told the BBC the claims were serious and he wanted them investigated.

“We will certainly go into the whole lot and then we will take a position on it,’ he said.”

“We certainly don’t want to brush anything under the carpet. This is a serious issue and we will look into it in detail.”

And attempt to find a way to deny it. THE SCAMMERS ARE GOING TO INVESTIGATE THEMSELVES!!!! You are to believe whatever they find?

One of the primary climategate suspects, Kevin Trenberth, is a lead IPCC author, having been influential in crafting the 1995, 2001, and 2007 IPCC reports.

Professor Phil Jones, who infamously wrote of the need to “hide the decline” in global warming, is also a primary IPCC contributor, having been in charge of the two key sets of data used by the IPCC to draw up its reports.

In addition, another climategate suspect, Michael Mann, was the creator of the debunked “hockey stick” graph, which was “Given star billing by the IPCC, not least for the way it appeared to eliminate the long-accepted Mediaeval Warm Period when temperatures were higher than they are today.”

“As a measure of how out of touch UEA is, they apparently have little idea that the title “former civil servant” does not inspire much confidence from skeptics, since it has been “civil servants” who have been blocking access to the data and procedures all along,” writes Anthony Watts.

WOW Naming names? I'm impressed.

Russell has pitched himself as someone with “no links to either the university or the climate science community,” yet he is firmly a member of the academic establishment, being the former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow.

The The Royal Society of Edinburgh has thrown its weight behind the global warming movement, lending its absolute support for legislation aimed at reducing carbon emissions by 80%.

This organization has been even more vehement than national governments in its advocacy of the man-made cause of global warming, calling for such drastic CO2 cuts to be made in the short term, not even by the usual target date of 2050.

A February 2009 response to the Climate Change (Scotland) Bill outlines the organization’s staunch advocacy for the hypothesis of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming.

I said it before, I'll say it again, the only thing that is man-made about Global Warming, is the SCAM that IS Global Warming.

Earlier this year, The Royal Society of Edinburgh elected Professor Peter Smith to become one of its members. Smith is the Convening Lead Author of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report. He has also been a lead author for numerous other IPCC reports over the past thirteen years.

E-mails stolen from the climate unit at the University of East Anglia appeared to show some of world's leading scientists discussing ways to shield data from public scrutiny and suppress others' work. Those who deny the influence of man-made climate change have seized on the correspondence to argue that scientists have been conspiring to hide evidence about global warming.

In an interview with BBC radio, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, said the issue raised by the e-mails was serious and said "we will look into it in detail,"

"We will certainly go into the whole lot and then we will take a position on it," he said. "We certainly don't want to brush anything under the carpet."

The University of East Anglia has defended the integrity of the science published by the climate unit and its researchers, but on Thursday said it would investigate whether some of the data had been fudged. Phil Jones, the director of the unit, stepped down earlier in the week pending the result of the investigation.

East Anglia said its review will examine the e-mails and other information "to determine whether there is any evidence of the manipulation or suppression of data which is at odds with acceptable scientific practice."

IT SPELLS OUT HOW!!!! Of course it,,again, never-mind.

The theft of the e-mails and their publication online — only weeks before the U.N. summit on global warming — has been politically explosive, even if researchers say their content has no bearing on the principles of climate change itself.

It has EVERYTHING to do with it. It's total BS.

Britain's Ed Miliband, the climate change secretary, acknowledged the revelations may have an impact on the Copenhagen talks on a new global emissions reduction pact, but dismissed as "flat Earth-ers" critics who claim the e-mails are proof the case for man-made climate change is exaggerated.

"We need maximum transparency including about all the data but it's also very, very important to say one chain of e-mails, potentially misrepresented, does not undo the global science," Miliband said Friday. "I think we want to send a very clear message to people about that."

"There will be people that want to use this to try and undermine the science and we're not going to let them," he said.

THERE IS NO SCIENCE IN IT! Scaryence. But no REAL Science.

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have grilled government scientists on the leaked e-mails in a hearing Wednesday in Washington, but the scientists countered that the e-mails don't change the fact that the earth is warming.

"The e-mails do nothing to undermine the very strong scientific consensus ... that tells us the earth is warming, that warming is largely a result of human activity," said Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Jane, you are an Idiot. There can not be a consensus with REAL Science. Well, there can be, but there really isn't. There are MORE Scientist that are saying it's a SCAM than there are saying it's real NOW.

She said the e-mails don't address data from her agency or the U.S. space agency NASA, which both keep independent climate records that show dramatic global warming.

{Sigh} Wake up people. Wake up.
Peter

Sources:
Yournews.com, / Reuters- Copenhagen's 'footprint' and the 'inconvenient scandal'

Blame Global Warming

From the Emails 112009

Hey folks,

Happy Friday to you. I love this one. Since it IS Friday, it's time to go to the Emails. This one was sent in by BG, who included this note:

"You have to read the list of things global warming has caused, it is a hoot!"

Here it is.

Global Warming Ate My Homework: 100 Things Blamed on Global Warming

Cap and trade proposes a new national tax of historic proportions

By Jack Spencer

Late for a party? Miss a meeting? Forget to pay your rent? Blame climate change; everyone else is doing it. From an increase in severe acne to all societal collapses since the beginning of time, just about everything gone wrong in the world today can be attributed to climate change. Here’s a list of 100 storylines blaming climate change as the problem.

The deaths of Aspen trees in the West
Incredible shrinking sheep
Caribbean coral deaths
Eskimo’s forced to leave their village
Disappearing lake in Chile
Early heat wave in Vietnam
Malaria and water-borne diseases in Africa
Invasion of jellyfish in the Mediterranean
Break in the Arctic Ice Shelf
Monsoons in India
Birds laying their eggs early
160,000 deaths a year
315,000 deaths a year
300,000 deaths a year
Decline in snowpack in the West
Deaths of walruses in Alaska
Hunger in Nepal
The appearance of oxygen-starved dead zones in the oceans
Surge in fatal shark attacks
Increasing number of typhoid cases in the Philippines
Boy Scout tornado deaths
Rise in asthma and hayfever
Duller fall foliage in 2007
Floods in Jakarta
Radical ecological shift in the North Sea
Snowfall in Baghdad
Western tree deaths
Diminishing desert resources
Pine beetles
Swedish beetles
Severe acne
Global conflict
Crash of Air France 447
Black Hawk Down incident
Amphibians breeding earlier
Flesh-eating disease
Global cooling
Bird strikes on US Airways 1549
Beer tastes different
Cougar attacks in Alberta
Suicide of farmers in Australia
Squirrels reproduce earlier
Monkeys moving to Great Rift Valley in Kenya
Confusion of migrating birds
Bigger tuna fish
Water shortages in Las Vegas
Worldwide hunger
Longer days
Earth spinning faster
Gender balance of crocodiles
Skin cancer deaths in UK
Increase in kidney stones in India
Penguin chicks frozen by global warming
Deaths of Minnesota moose
Increased threat of HIV/AIDS in developing countries
Increase of wasps in Alaska
Killer stingrays off British coasts
All societal collapses since the beginning of time
Bigger spiders
Increase in size of giant squid
Increase of orchids in UK
Collapse of gingerbread houses in Sweden
Cow infertility
Conflict in Darfur
Bluetongue outbreak in UK cows
Worldwide wars
Insomnia of children worried about global warming
Anxiety problems for people worried about climate change
Migration of cockroaches
Taller mountains due to melting glaciers
Drowning of four polar bears
UFO sightings in the UK
Hurricane Katrina
Greener mountains in Sweden
Decreased maple in maple trees
Cold wave in India
Worse traffic in LA because immigrants moving north
Increase in heart attacks and strokes
Rise in insurance premiums
Invasion of European species of earthworm in UK
Cold spells in Australia
Increase in crime
Boiling oceans
Grizzly deaths
Dengue fever
Lack of monsoons
Caterpillars devouring 45 towns in Liberia
Acid rain recovery
Global wheat shortage; food price hikes
Extinction of 13 species in Bangladesh
Changes in swan migration patterns in Siberia
The early arrival of Turkey’s endangered caretta carettas
Radical North Sea shift
Heroin addiction
Plant species climbing up mountains
Deadly fires in Australia
Droughts in Australia
The demise of California’s agriculture by the end of the century
Tsunami in South East Asia
Fashion victim: the death of the winter wardrobe

And the list goes on. The truth is climate change is causing some of these events, but the earth’s average temperature has been increasing and decreasing since the beginning of time. Maybe the increase in UFO sightings can’t be pinpointed to climate change but certainly animals will adapt to new habitats as the climate changes. But climate change and adaptation to it is nothing new. There’s an underlying assumption that human activity is causing the climate to change in many of these stories, but the scientific consensus on what causes climate change is anything but a consensus. Temperatures have risen and fallen many times before and the earth was cooling as recently as the period from the 1940s to the 1970s giving rise to fears of a coming ice age:

“At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind." C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said, "The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed."

The other implication of this list is that a reduction in Co2 with cap and trade policies like Waxman-Markey and Boxer-Kerry will cure problems as disparate as hurricanes, wars, crime, hunger and…cow infertility. The problem is that no one can actually claim that a reduction of Co2 will prevent these occurrences; one can only speculate that they will be worse in a world that has more rather than less Co2. Given cap and trade’s massive economic consequences and negligible effects on the earth’s temperature, this is a bold and potentially very costly speculation.

Katie Brown co-authored this post.

{Laughing} Yeah, I know. But the Kooks really believe this stuff. Have a great Weekend everyone. See you Sunday for the Big Sunday Edition.
Peter


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It's Just Cycles

Hey folks,

I do not have a lot of time this morning. Got a LATE start. But this is interesting. Like I have been saying for a LONG time now, Global Warming is nothing but a bunch of bunk. It is all about power, control, and money.

I have also told you and pointed out that there are natural cycles in nature that cause warming and cooling. Check the archives here. Just type in Global Warming, and you will see what I have been talking about. So I'll leave you with this piece by Noel Sheppard over at NewsBusters. Have a great day, see you tomorrow.

150 Years of Global Warming and Cooling at the New York Times

As the Business & Media Institute reported [1] last year, press reports of climate change have been going on since the 1800s.

Over the weekend, I was sent a list of New York Times articles dating back to 1855 addressing the global warming and cooling that has been happening on this planet for the past 150 years. I have taken the liberty of adding a few pieces that I discovered in the Times’ archives to further illustrate the point.

As you review the following, try to keep in mind just how sure global warming alarmists like soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore are that the current trend in climate change is a “a true planetary emergency [1]” that must be dealt with soon to avoid an imminent cataclysm:


CLIMATOLOGY
January 5, 1855, Wednesday

Page 4, 863 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - As the climate of every country has an inseparable relation with the physical character of its inhabitants, the attention of the Government was directed, some few years since, to the collection of correct meteorological statistics throughout the whole of the United States.


THIS CLIMATE OF OURS; WHY THESE OPEN WINTERS AND TEMPERATE SUMMERS? THE GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF THE ALTERNATE PREVALENCE OF A SEMITROPICAL ATMOSPHERE.

Climate Perculiarities of New-York.

January 2, 1870, Wednesday

Page 4, 500 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - The climate of New-York and the contigu ons Atlantic seaboard has long been a study of great interest. We have just experienced a remarkable instance of its peculiarity The Hudson River, by a singular freak of temperature, has thrown off its icy mantle and opened its waters to navigation.

IS CLIMATE CHANGING?--

March 25, 1888, Wednesday

Page 13, 440 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - Formerly wine was made in England, the change of climate might be the principal reason that this manufacture does not now flourish. There are, however, many reasons why British wine ...

IS OUR CLIMATE CHANGING?

February 3, 1889, Wednesday

Page 4, 778 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - An article in the Forum for February is upon the subject of the much-talked-of change in our climate. The writer, Prof. CLEVELAND ABBE, says that the notion that it is possible for a climate to change to a modern one. Our ancestors lived in a region ...

THIS CLIMATE OF OURS; WHY THESE OPEN WINTERS AND TEMPERATE SUMMERS? THE GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF THE ALTERNATE PREVALENCE OF A SEMITROPICAL ATMOSPHERE.



June 23, 1890, Wednesday

Page 5, 1905 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - Is our climate changing? The succession of temperate Summers and open Winters through several years, culminating last Winter in the almost total failure of the ice crop throughout the valley of the Hudson, makes the question pertinent. The older inhabitants tell us that the Winters are not as cold now as when they were young, and we have all observed a marked diminution of the average cold even in this last decade.


FACT AND FANCY ABOUT CLIMATE; Prof. Ward in His New Book Discusses Various Popular Notions Regarding the Weather.

May 30, 1908, Saturday

Section: SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS, Page 18, 1432 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - AS popular misconceptions of variations in the weather are frequent and shiding, Prof. Ward has rendered the public a service in producing a book on climate which "can be read by an intelligent person who has not had special or extended training in the technicalities of the science."

Nation Is Held on Verge of Climate Shift; Experts See Old-Fashioned Winters Back

December 16, 1934, Sunday

By The Associated Press.

Section: SECOND NEWS SECTION, Page N8, 361 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. -- America is believed by Weather Bureau scientists to be on the verge of a change of climate, with a return to increasing rains and deeper snows and the colder Winters of grandfather's day.

Warming Arctic Climate Melting Glaciers Faster, Raising Ocean Level, Scientist Says

May 30, 1947, Friday

By GLADWIN HILLSpecial to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

Page 23, 366 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - LOS ANGELES, May 29 -- A mysterious warming of the climate is slowly manifesting itself in the Arctic, engendering a "serious international problem," Dr. Hans Ahlmann, noted Swedish geophysicist, said today.


Is Climate Changing?; Habits of Mammals and Birds Suggest World Is Warmer

October 15, 1950, Sunday

Section: The Week In Review, Page E9, 461 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - Is the world warming up? Dr. Joseph J. Hickey, Professor of Wildlife Management at the University of Wisconsin, holds that it is. He has drawn his evidence from the changing habits of some half-dozen species of mammals ...

How Industry May Change Climate

May 24, 1953, Sunday

W. K.

Section: REVIEW OF THE WEEK EDITORIALS, Page E11, 470 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - The amount of carbon dioxide in the air will double by the year 2080 and raise the temperature an average of at least 4 per cent. The burning of about two billion tons of coal and oil a year keeps the average ground temperature somewhat higher than it would otherwise be.

Greenland's Moderating Climate Turns Hunters Into Fishermen; Economy Once Based on Sea Mammals Now Depends On Cod Sold for Cash

August 29, 1954, Sunday

By KATHLEEN McLAUGHLIN

Page 2, 696 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Aug. 28 -- Greenland's polar climate has moderated so consistntly that communities of hunters have evolved into fishing villages. Sea mammals, vanishing from the west coast, have been replaced by codfish and other fish species in the area's southern waters.

CLIMATE WARMING IN THE ANTARCTIC; 5-Degree Rise Over the Last Half Century Is Recorded at Little America ICE IS FOUND THICKER Director of U. S. Program Says Sheet Drops 10,000 Feet in Many Areas

May 31, 1958, Saturday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Page 17, 778 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - An analysis of weather records from Little America shows a steady warming of climate over the last half century. The rise in average temperature at the Antarctic outpost has been about five degrees Fahrenheit.

SCIENCE IN REVIEW; Warmer Climate on the Earth May Be Due To More Carbon Dioxide in the Air

October 28, 1956, Sunday

By WALDEMAR KAEMPFFERT

Section: The Week In Review, Page 191, 904 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - The general warming of the climate that has occurred in the last sixty years has been variously explained. Among the explanations are fluctuations in the amount of energy received from the sun, changes in the amount of volcanic ...

CLUE TO WEATHER FOUND IN GLACIER;

December 25, 1956, Tuesday

North American Newspaper Alliance.

Page 27, 420 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Dec. 24-- Seven years of observation of the Great Grinnell Glacier in Glacier National Park has given rise to some comment on weather trends.

Frozen Key To Our Climate; The world's ice masses may be ushering in a fifth Ice Age. Frozen Key To Our Climate

December 7, 1958, Sunday

By LEONARD ENGEL

Section: Magazine, Page SM72, 2601 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - SEVERAL thousand scientists of many nations have recently been climbing mountains, digging tunnels in glaciers, journeying to the Antarctic, camping on floating Arctic ice. Their object has been to solve a fascinating riddle: what is happening to the world's ice?


A WARMER EARTH EVIDENT AT POLES; Arctic Findings in Particular Support Theory of Rising Global Temperatures

February 15, 1959, Sunday

Special to The New York Times.

Page 112, 305 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -- The theory that the world is growing slightly warmer is receiving added confirmation from temperature data


SCIENTISTS AGREE WORLD IS COLDER; But Climate Experts Meeting Here Fail to Agree on Reasons for Change

January 30, 1961, Monday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 46, 1326 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - After a week of discussions on the causes of climate change, an assembly of specialists from several continents seems to have reached unanimous agreement on only one point: it is getting colder.


EARTH'S WEATHER GROWING COLDER; U.S. Among the Exceptions, Rome Symposium Hears

October 8, 1961, Sunday

Special to The New York Times.

Page 66, 386 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - ROME, Oct. 7 -- The earth, with few regional exceptions, is undergoing "a persistent cold wave" that began in the Nineteen Forties, a United States weather man told a symposium on climate this week.


Weathermen Try to Explain the Why of Spring That Never Was in 1967

May 31, 1967, Wednesday

By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

Page 29, 975 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - In the year 1816 the year without summer, they called it snow fell in New England and parts of New York in June, July and August. Crops failed. People were impoverished and mystified.


Scientist Hints Earthquake Link To Wobbles in Spinning of Earth; Heirtzler of

November 29, 1968, Friday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Page 92, 1169 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - The head of Columbia University's Hudson Laboratories, at Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., has suggested that wobbles in the earth's spin may be responsible for such diverse phenomena as earthquakes, periods of mountain -building and climate

Expert Says Arctic Ocean Will Soon Be an Open Sea; Catastrophic Shifts in Climate Feared if Change Occurs Other Specialists See No Thinning of Polar Ice Cap

February 20, 1969, Thursday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Page 20, 1691 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - Col. Bernt Balchen, polar explorer and flier, is circulating a paper among polar specialists proposing that the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two.


U.S. and Soviet Press Studies of a Colder Arctic; U.S. and Soviet Press Arctic Studies

July 18, 1970, Saturday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Page 1, 1398 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - The United States and the Soviet Union are mounting large-scale investigations to determine why the Arctic climate is becoming more frigid, why parts of the Arctic sea ice have recently become ominously thicker and whether the extent of that ice cover contributes to the onset of ice ages.


Climate Experts Assay Ice Age Clues

January 27, 1972, Thursday

Special to The New York Times

Section: BUSINESS/FINANCE, Page 74, 731 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - PROVIDENCE, R. I., Jan. 26 -- After invading Nebraska and Colorado, the armadillos, faced with increasingly frigid weather, are in retreat from those states toward their ancestral home south of the Mexican border. The winter snow accumulation on Baffin Island has increased 35 per cent in the last decade.


Record of a Little Ice Age Is Discovered

February 5, 1972, Saturday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Page 14, 706 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - From a study of ice extracted from deep within the Greenland ice sheet it appears that 89,500 years ago something catastrophic changed the climate from being warmer than today's to that of a full-fledged ice age.


Scientist Fears Equable Climate Around World Could Be Ending

October 31, 1972, Tuesday

By BOYCE RENSBERGER

Page 25, 645 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - The current 12,000-year-old era of comfortable climates around the world may be coming to an end, closing another chapter in what a University of Miami scientist believes has been a history of frequent and relatively short-lived ice ages and warm ages.


FORECAST FOR; FORECASTING: CLOUDY In the long term, climate is cooling off-or is it warming up? As for tomorrow's weather, even the world's biggest computer can't sayfor sure what it will be. Forecasting ' A really accurate three-day weather forecast would result in savings of $86-million a year just for growersof wheat in the state of Wisconsin.'

December 29, 1974, Sunday

By Alan Anderson Jr.

Section: SM, Page 156, 4834 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - A number of climatologists, whose job it is to keep an eye on long-term weather changes, have lately been predicting deterioration of the benignclimate to which we have grown accustomed.

CLIMATE CHANGES CALLED OMINOUS; Scientists Warn Predictions Must Be Made Precise to Avoid Catastrophe

January 19, 1975, Sunday

By HAROLD M. SCHMECK Jr. Special to The New York Times

Page 31, 1089 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 Changes in the earth's climate are inevitable and mankind must learn to predict these variations to avoid potential catastrophe, a group of prominent scientists has concluded after a two-year study.


Scientists Ask Why World Climate Is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead; Scientists Ponder Why World's Climate Is Changing; a Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable

May 21, 1975, Wednesday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Page 45, 2828 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - The world's climate is changing. Of that scientists are firmly convinced. But in what direction and why are subjects of deepening debate.


WARMING TREND SEEN IN CLIMATE; Two Articles Counter View That Cold Period Is Due

August 14, 1975, Thursday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Section: Sports, Page 24, 759 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - Articles in two scientific journals have questioned widely publicized predictions that, in coming decades, the world climate will deteriorate severely affecting food production and, perhaps, initiating a new ice age.


Experts Fear Great Peril If SST Fumes Cool Earth

December 21, 1975, Sunday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Page 32, 1057 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - A federally sponsored inquiry into the effects of possible climate changes caused by heavy supersonic traffic in the stratosphere has concluded that even a slight cooling could cost the world from $200 billion to 500 times that much in damage done to agriculture, public health and other effects.


2 Climate Experts Decry Predictions of Disasters; Drought in

February 22, 1976, Sunday

By WALTER SULLIVAN Special to The New York Times

Page 48, 823 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - BOSTON, Feb. 21--Two authorities on climate change have termed irresponsible recent predictions of an impending ice age or other climatic disaster. The also said that any global effects of man-made air pollution on the climate to date remained obscure.


International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere

January 5, 1978, Thursday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Section: Sports, Page D17, 817 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.


Climate Specialists, in Poll, Foresee No Catastrophic Weather Changes in Rest of Century; Warning About Carbon Dioxide

February 18, 1978, Saturday

By WALTER SULLIVAN Special to The New York Times

Page 9, 967 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Feb. 17--A poll of climate specialists in seven countries has found a consensus that there will be no catastrophic changes in the climate by the end of the century. But the specialists were almost equally divided on whether there would be a warming, a cooling or no change at all.


Scientists at World Parley Doubt Climate Variations Are Ominous; Forgetting the Past Major Shifts in Past

February 16, 1979, Friday

By WALTER SULLIVAN Special to The New York Times

Section: Business & Finance, Page D13, 688 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - GENEVA, Feb. 15 This winter Chicago was paralyzed by snow. Last winter it was Boston. European Russia has just suffered its coldest December in a century. In Britain and Western Europe, the summer of 1976 was the hottest in 250 years.


A Vast 'Interdisciplinary Effort' To Predict Climate Trend Urged; Neutralization Needed

February 24, 1979, Saturday

By WALTER SULLIVAN Special to The New York Times

Page 44, 913 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - GENEVA, Feb. 23--After exchanging views here for two weeks, the people who know more about climate than anyone else in the world have concluded that climate's future trends can be predicted in a meaningful way only after "an interdisciplinary effort of unprecedented scope."


Scientists Reviving Speculation on Climate and Slipping Antarctic Ice; Theory of Linked Events Evidence in Bones Volcanic Dust Theory In Less Than a Century

March 9, 1980, Sunday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Page 43, 1161 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - Scientists are reviving the controversial notion that millions of cubic miles of Antarctic ice can sometimes abruptly slip off the continent into the sea, resulting in extreme increases in global ocean levels and precipitating a dramatic chilling of the world's climate.

AfricaColumbia Also Suggests a Relationship to Climate Changes Great Ice River in Rockies Shows Long-Range Change Indicating Cold Period Thermometer of the Ages Favorable Trend in Climate