Study finds Antarctic ice growing, countering earlier studies

Reported By Fox News on 2015-11-03

“Snow that began piling up 10,000 years ago in Antarctica is adding enough ice to offset the increased losses due to thinning glaciers, according to a NASA study. The latest findings appear to challenge other studies including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2013 report, which found that Antarctica is overall losing land ice….”

What I Learned about Climate Change: The Science is not Settled

Reported By medium.com on 2015-10-16

“What is your position on the climate-change debate? What would it take to change your mind? If the answer is It would take a ton of evidence to change my mind, because my understanding is that the science is settled, and we need to get going on this important issue, that’s what I thought, too. This is my story….”

France’s top weatherman sparks storm over book questioning climate change

Reported By www.telegraph.co.uk on 2015-10-14

“Every night, France’s chief weatherman has told the nation how much wind, sun or rain they can expect the following day. Now Philippe Verdier, a household name for his nightly forecasts on France 2, has been taken off air after a more controversial announcement – criticising the world’s top climate change experts. Mr Verdier claims in the book Climat Investigation (Climate Investigation) that leading climatologists and political leaders have ‘taken the world hostage’ with misleading data…”

Obama took the wrong side on climate change says physicist Freeman Dyson

Reported By Fox News on 2015-10-14

Theoretical physicist and Democrat voter Freeman Dyson has expressed his disappointment with President Obama’s stance on climate change. ‘I’m 100 percent Democrat myself, and I like Obama. But he took the wrong side on this issue, and the Republicans took the right side.’ Now retired, Dyson was a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton between 1953 and 1994. Famed for his work in quantum electrodynamics and nuclear engineering, Dyson also worked on climate studies during his career….”

Carbon Dioxide: The Good News

Reported By www.thegwpf.org on 2015-10-12

A report by “former IPCC delegate Dr Indur Goklany calls for a reassessment of carbon dioxide, which he says has many benefits for the natural world and for humankind. ‘Carbon dioxide fertilises plants, and emissions from fossil fuels have already had a hugely beneficial effect on crops, increasing yields by at least 10-15%. This has not only been good for humankind but for the natural world too, because an acre of land that is not used for crops is an acre of land that is left for nature’…. Pointing to estimates that the current value of the carbon dioxide fertilisation effect on global crop production is about $140 billion a year, he notes that this additional production has helped reduce hunger and advance human well-being…. Almost without exception, the wild places of the Earth have become greener in recent decades, .largely as a direct result of carbon dioxide increases. In fact, it has been shown that carbon dioxide can increase plants’ water-use efficiency too, making them more resilient to drought, so that there is a double benefit in arid parts of the world…. ‘Unlike the claims of future global warming disasters these benefits are firmly established and are being felt now. Yet despite this the media overlook the good news and the public remain in the dark. My report should begin to restore a little balance.’….” [Full Report in PDF Format]

Secretive conference on ‘Climate Change and the Law’ aims to outlaw skeptical inquiry

Reported By www.telegraph.co.uk on 2015-10-11 “We might think a proposal to an international conference of top judges – assembled in the highest courtroom in Britain – for a ruling to ‘scotch’ claims that challenge the ‘consensus’ on manmade global warming was odd enough to be worthy of front-page coverage…. The fact that it could be seriously proposed in the highest courtroom in the land that the law should now be used to help suppress any further debate on what has become one of the most contentious issues in the history of science (greeted with applause from the distinguished legal audience) speaks volumes about the curious psychological state to which the great global warming scare has reduced so many of the prominent figures who today exercise power and influence over the life of our Western societies….”

Scientist who urged government to sue climate skeptics gets millions from taxpayers

Reported By Fox News on 2015-10-07

 A key signatory of a petition calling for government to sue companies that question climate change has pulled the letter from his institute’s website amid revelations his family reaped $500,000 in salary and benefits last year from the government-funded organization…. Last year, tax records show that Shukla received a $333,000 salary and benefits from an organization he created called the ‘The Institute of Global Environment and Society’ – a group that gets 90 percent of its revenue from government grants. His wife also received $166,000 in compensation from the group over the same period…. The organization has been operating since 1991, and total payments from the group to the Shuklas since 2001 (the most recent year records are available) amount to $5.6 million, according to an analysis of old returns by the Free Beacon….”

A new low in science: Criminalizing climate change skeptics

Reported By Fox News on 2015-09-28

“Dismayed by what they see as a lack of progress on the implementation of climate policies that they support … 20 scientists sent a letter to the White House calling for their political opponents to be investigated by the government…. The demand by Senator Whitehouse and the 20 climate scientists for legal persecution of people whose research on science and policy they disagree with represents a new low in the politicization of science. The role of these 20 scientists is particularly troubling.  The consequence of this persecution … is to make pariahs of scientists who are doing exactly what we expect of researchers: to critically evaluate evidence and publish that work in the scientific literature…. What these 20 scientists have done with their letter is the worst kind of irresponsible advocacy. Attempts by powerful people to silence other scientists, especially in this brutal fashion, is a recipe for stifling scientific progress and for making poor policies….”

Radicals advising Pope Francis on Climate Change

Reported By www.climatedepot.com on 2015-09-24

“The Vatican relied on advisors who are the most extreme elements in the global warming debate.  These climate advisors are so far out of the mainstream they even make some of their fellow climate activists cringe…The Vatican advisors can only be described as a brew of anti-capitalist, pro-population control advocates who allow no dissent and are way out of the mainstream of even the global warming establishment….”

Approximately 66% of global surface temperature data consists of estimated values

Reported By wattsupwiththat.com on 2015-09-24

“Overall, from 1880 to the present, approximately 66% of the temperature data in the adjusted GHCN temperature data consists of estimated values produced by adjustment models, while 34% of the data are raw values retained from direct measurements…. The estimates produced by NOAA for the GHNC data introduce a warming trend of approximately a quarter degree C per century…. Approximately 7% of the raw data is discarded. If this data were included as-is in the final record it would likely introduce a warming component from 1880 to 1950, followed by a cooling component from 1951 to the present….”