Changed Web Site

This site will stay up for quite some time but there is now a new site where updates will be made.  It is: 

http://www.climate-whichway.info/

One new page of interest is:

http://www.climate-whichway.info/ETS.html

This site includes a summary of why the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) has been such an abject failure with links to more information.

Also. information on  the following very topical tour:

Lord Monckton and Professor Ian Plimer are undertaking a talking/debating tour on climate change in Australia from 26 January 2010 to 8 February 2010.   (Brisbane at the Hiton may be booked out but not the Irish Club.)  

Go to the link below for details (towards the bottom of the page):

http://www.climate-whichway.info/ETS.html   

Cheers,

Denis Maclaine
Brisbane

Beware the Data Fiddlers

Deliberate manipulation of data to meet a pre-conceived agenda?

 Copenhagen Disgrace

It's outrageous that the document “Copenhagen Diagnosis” distributed to all delegates by the organisers of the Copenhagen summit on climate change was co-authored by the great data fiddler and very dishonest Michael Mann!

      Michael Mann has been ostracised by his peers. Why? Because he fudged widely accepted data on global temperatures to produce his dishonest “hockey stick” used by the gross exaggerator, Al Gore.

For many years, temperature data for the last 1,000 years has been analysed by experts who have agreed on the variations shown which include the Medieval Warming and the Little Ice Age. Mann's massaging of the data intentionally did away with these to produce his rigged “hockey stick” chart.

In 1996, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) “Second Assessment Summary for Policy Makers” chart on global temperatures included the Medieval Warming, the Little Ice Age and late Twentieth Century warming. However, in 2001, the IPPC uncritically adopted Michael Mann's fraudulent data and in their 2001 Climate Change Report included a totally different chart using Michael Mann's rigged figures and showing his ridiculous “hockey stick”.

Following widespread condemnation of Michel Mann's dishonesty(a), subsequent IPCC reports have included charts omitting the “hockey stick” without explanation. This is also disgraceful, as the 2001 IPPC chart based on rigged data together with al Gore's hyperbole, were crucial in putting so much unjustified fear and emotion into the whole Global Warming debate. It is clear that the IPPC authors knew that the rigged “hockey stick” data was wrong and sent a very misleading case to the public.

At the Copenhagen Summit, Saudi Arabia has called for an independent investigation into “Climategate”, the scandal over hacked e-mails that threatened to undermine the global-warming negotiations. The emails came from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), headed by Phil Jones (since stood down) and widely used by the IPCC. In one email Phil Jones says: “I’ve just completed Mike’s [Mann] Nature [Magazine] trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s [Briffa] to hide the decline [in temperatures].”

(a) See, for example: http://www.climateaudit.org/

http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/12/cherry-picking-trees-for-global-warming.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_controversy

http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3332616/that-famous-consensus.thtml

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/06/american-thinker-understanding-climategates-
hidden-decline/

http://groups.google.com/group/talk.politics.misc/msg/c23bd35c43ead628

We've had global warming from 1850 to 1998 (+ 0.7 degrees C) following global cooling in the Little Ice Age from 1280 to 1850 (- 2.0 degrees C). But has CO2 been the major cause?

A simple consideration is to compare hot deserts with the tropics. During the day, most deserts are the hottest places on earth. But at night, they rapidly radiate heat and become cold quickly. Why? Because just 0.0385 per cent (385 ppm) CO2 in the atmosphere is incapable of making an appreciable difference. And the atmosphere above hot deserts is dry, so that there is virtually no water vapour (moisture, humidity), the main greenhouse gas by far, to block heat radiation.

Compare that to the tropics. Very warm during the day. But at night, with no radiation from our sun, temperatures stay relatively high. Why? There is high humidity and this water vapour blocks heat radiation.

The United Nations and many politicians have got a religious-like campaign going like the proven gross exaggerator, Al Gore.

They try to imply that modern carbon emissions are like the coal particulate smog that plagued London in the industrial revolution!  Modern coal power plant emissions only include carbon as odourless, colourless, non-toxic CO2 that is essential for all plant life. What you can see is water vapour, the major greenhouse gas, which has around 60 times the greenhouse gas impact of CO2 but is far too complex in its impact to include in computer models.

Further, the relatively very small impact of CO2 on warming is a reverse logarithmic one. Doubling CO2 from now would have little impact on temperature (but would boost crop yields by about 70 per cent).

It's interesting that during the Roman Warming (250BC - 450AD) and the Medieval Warming (900 - 1280 AD) periods, European temperatures reached 1.5 - 2.0 degrees C warmer than now. This had nothing to do with CO2 but was due to the normal cause - increased solar radiation (which regularly changes). These were boom periods due to increased rainfall and, therefore, increased crop yields!