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Many resources in this collection deal with particular aspects of the climate change debate, often in the fine details which are important to the science. Resources in this section provide a bigger picture to the science.

Impact of "Climate Science" on Science

Climate Overviews: Reports and White Papers. Climate Overviews: Videos and Podcasts. Environmentalists. Why Climategeddon in 2 degrees? 1.5 degrees? Research Collections Skeptical of CAGW. Humor. Everything Climate – The data and the theories. Climate at a Glance. Doctors for Disaster Preparedness Climate Change IQ Project. An Irish Overview of the Latest Climate Science for Policymakers. Help us move forward with your donations made here.

An Irish Overview of the Latest Climate Science for Policymakers

This elegant and graphic filled 36 page whitepaper provides a brief overview of the latest Climate Science, compiled by the Irish Climate Science Forum Here is their introduction: "It is a summary compilation of the latest climate research and observations by independent scientists worldwide. The summary does not claim to be scientifically rigorous in every aspect, but hopefully encapsulates the key facts in this rapidly‐evolving field. The latest research and observations indicate that while there is an anthropogenic Green‐ House Gas (GHG) influence, it is considerably less than depicted by the IPCC. Many of the major issues are touched on, from paleoclimate and hot models to floods and global greening.

This paper is a useful textbook. Applying Basic Physics to Climate · Science Speak. The scientists who believe in the carbon dioxide theory of global warming do so essentially because of the application of “basic physics” to climate, by a model that is ubiquitous and traditional in climate science.

Applying Basic Physics to Climate · Science Speak

This model is rarely named, but is sometimes referred to as the “forcing-feedback framework or paradigm.” Explicitly called the “forcing-feedback model” (FFM) here, this pen-and-paper model estimates the sensitivity of the global temperature to increasing carbon dioxide. The FFM has serious architectural errors. Fixing the architecture, while keeping the physics, shows that future warming due to increasing carbon dioxide will be a fifth to a tenth of current official estimates. Less than 20% of the global warming since 1973 was due to increasing carbon dioxide.

The large computerized climate models (GCMs) are indirectly tailored to compute the same sensitivity to carbon dioxide as the FFM. Increasing carbon dioxide traps more heat. A Critical Framework For Climate Change. Climate change activists are focused on all the wrong solutions. As it is becoming obvious that political responses to global warming such as the Paris treaty are not working, environmentalists are urging us to consider the climate impact of our personal actions.

Climate change activists are focused on all the wrong solutions

Don’t eat meat, don’t drive a gasoline-powered car and don’t fly, they say. But these individual actions won’t make a substantial difference to our planet, and such demands divert attention away from the solutions that are needed. Even if all 4.5 billion flights this year were stopped from taking off, and the same happened every year until 2100, temperatures would be reduced by just 0.054 degrees, using mainstream climate models — equivalent to delaying climate change by less than one year by 2100. Nor will we solve global warming by giving up meat. Going vegetarian is difficult — one US survey shows 84 percent fail, most in less than a year.

And electric cars are not the answer. More growth, less warming. The only way to get dangerous global warming is to assume stagnation Here's a version of the article I published in the Financial Post this week with added links: The debate over climate change is horribly polarized.

More growth, less warming

From the way it is conducted, you would think that only two positions are possible: that the whole thing is a hoax or that catastrophe is inevitable. In fact there is room for lots of intermediate positions, including the view I hold, which is that man-made climate change is real but not likely to do much harm, let alone prove to be the greatest crisis facing humankind this century. After more than 25 years reporting and commenting on this topic for various media organizations, and having started out alarmed, that’s where I have ended up.

Friends of Science Calgary. The Canadian government’s report – “Canada’s Changing Climate Report (CCCR2019)” – released a day after the national carbon tax was introduced, is filled with fearmongering and highly speculative projections says Friends of Science.

Friends of Science Calgary

“Climate Change Your Mind” is Friends of Science evidence-based rebuttal; they are calling for the government to retract CCCR2019. LINK to Full Report; Climate Change Your Mind FINAL Environment and Climate Change Canada issued a report entitled “Canada’s Changing Climate Report 2019” (CCCR2019) on April 2, 2019 which sparked headlines world-wide claiming that Canada was warming ‘twice as fast as the global average temperature.’ The report made predictions of increased weather extremes such as flooding, wildfires and heatwaves, unless drastic cuts to greenhouse gas emissions and the use of fossil fuels were implemented. Will My Carbon Footprint Benefit or Harm the Environment?

My cousin in California is excited about buying a Tesla.

Will My Carbon Footprint Benefit or Harm the Environment?

“It is environmentally friendly” he says. Maybe you agree. My friends in India, too, are excited about buying electric cars. They think doing so will help them prevent global warming. But the evidence suggests otherwise. Almost every environmental policy now makes reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the only way to “go green.” Confessions of a climate scientist. Summary: A new book by a Japanese climate scientist explains why the predictions of climate models are useful but insufficiently reliable for large scale public policy action.

Confessions of a climate scientist

None of this is new information. But none of it is widely known. Excerpts from Confessions of a climate scientist By Mototaka Nakamura. Gavin’s Falsifiable Science. Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Gavin Schmidt is a computer programmer with the Goddard Institute of Space Sciences (GISS) and a noted climate alarmist.

Gavin’s Falsifiable Science

He has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics. He’s put together a twitter thread containing what he sees as some important points of the “testable, falsifiable science that supports a human cause of recent trends in global mean temperature”. He says that the slight ongoing rise in temperature is due to the increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) and other so-called “greenhouse gases”. Climate Change – Ebb and Flow of the Tide Part 1 of 3. Emotional, agenda-driven politics confronts sound, evidence-based science Dr Kelvin Kemm The topic of global warming and climate change is far more scientifically complex than the public is led to believe.

Climate Change – Ebb and Flow of the Tide Part 1 of 3

Myriads of newspaper, magazine and TV items over decades have tended to simplify the science to the point at which the general public believes that it is all so simple that any fool can see what is happening. Public groups often accuse world leaders and scientists of being fools, if they do not instantly act on simple messages projected by individuals or public groups.

Not About Science

Climate and Weather. 11 Empty Climate Claims. Below are a series of rebuttals of the 11 most common climate alarmists’ claims such as those made in the recently released Fourth National Climate Assessment Report.[2] The authors of these rebuttals are all recognized experts in the relevant fields.

11 Empty Climate Claims

H/T Joseph D’Aleo for compiling work by many experts at his website ACRESEARCH Fact Checking Climate Claims. Excerpts in italics with my bolds. For each alarmist claim, a summary of the relevant rebuttal is provided below along with a link to the full text of the rebuttal, which includes the names and the credentials of the authors of each rebuttal.

Claim: Heat Waves are increasing at an alarming rate and heat kills.Fact: They have been decreasing since the 1930s in the U.S. and globally. There has been no detectable long-term increase in heat waves in the United States or elsewhere in the world. Ten Key Graphs Behind The Global Warming Scam. Atmospheric CO2 has been rising exponentially for the past 60 years, and climate treaties have zero impact on it. ESRL Global Monitoring Division – Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network Coal, oil and natural gas usage are all increasing exponentially. CO₂ and other Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Our World in Data As CO2 has risen, agricultural productivity has increased with it. Yields and Land Use in Agriculture – Our World in Data Hunger has declined sharply.

Global Warming Fraud Exposed In Pictures. My Gift To Climate Alarmists Tony Heller does an amazing job of showing how the fraud takes place in his video entitled My Gift To Climate Alarmists. The video is only 12.51 minutes long. Cherry Picking Heatwaves increasing since 1960Arctic ice declining since 1979Wildfires increasing since 1983Sea levels rising since 1920 When you want to mislead people with statistics picking the start date is very important. Alarmist Heat Wave Chart Shown vs Underlying Data US Wildfires as Presented by Alarmists vs Actual Data.

Global Warming – Just Facts. * Instruments located on satellites can measure certain properties of oxygen that vary with temperature. Data from these instruments is used to calculate the average temperatures of different layers of the Earth’s atmosphere. * The lowermost layer of the atmosphere, which is called the “lower troposphere,” ranges from ground level to about five miles (8 km) high.

According to satellite data correlated and adjusted by the National Space Science and Technology Center at the University of Alabama Huntsville, the average temperature of the lower troposphere increased by 0.60ºF (0.33ºC) between the 1980s and 2000s, mostly from 1997 to 2010: * For reference, a temperature analysis of a borehole drilled on a glacier in Greenland found that the location was about 22ºF (12ºC) colder during the last ice age than it is now. * A 2006 paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research that calculates uncertainties in surface temperature data states that a: * A 2001 ClimateGate email states:

REBUTTAL: IPCC SR15 Climate Change Report is Based on Faulty Premises. Via Friends of Science, Press Release today. IPCC SR15 Climate Change Report is Based on Faulty Premises that Will Lead to Poor Public Policy says Friends of Science Society in New Rebuttal. Why Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong. Environmental journalists and advocates have in recent weeks made a number of apocalyptic predictions about the impact of climate change. Bill McKibben suggested climate-driven fires in Australia had made koalas “functionally extinct.”

Extinction Rebellion said “Billions will die” and “Life on Earth is dying.” Vice claimed the “collapse of civilization may have already begun.” Few have underscored the threat more than student climate activist Greta Thunberg and Green New Deal sponsor Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Sometimes, scientists themselves make apocalyptic claims. Apocalyptic statements like these have real-world impacts. Alarmist Claim Rebuttals – ACRESEARCH. Alarmist Claim Rebuttal Overview[1] Climate Researcher’s New E-Book: IPCC Significantly Overstates CO2, “The Sorry State Of Climate Science” – Watts Up With That? There is no Climate Emergency ! Reposted from edmhdotme What if there is no Catastrophic Risk from Man-made Global Warming ?

What's Natural? Series | Jim Steele

Willis Eisenbach. The Climate Myth Series | Jim Steele. Hazards of Global Warming Series: Andy May, Petrophysicist. Climate Change Debate Series with William Happer and David Karoly. Heller/Adams Challenge. New Here? The “ten second” guide to the world of skeptics. … Almost everything you thought you knew about man made global warming might be a worthless half-truth. Lastly, Big Bankers want us to trade carbon. Think about that. The Skeptics Handbook sums up the science (with cartoons) I used to believe in man-made global warming. Then I found out that there was another side to the story, and I was shocked. Why I Don’t Deny: Confessions of a Climate Skeptic — Part 1. Guest Essay by Kip Hansen. What if there is no Climate Emergency ? Reposted from edmhdotme. Why I Don’t Deny: Confessions of a Climate Skeptic — Part 2. Climate skeptics have valid reasons to question manmade warming.

Many people are actively worried about global warming. And it frustrates them that skeptics and “deniers” refuse to acknowledge the “science” of such an urgent, manmade problem. Take the Climate Challenge. New Book – Climate Basics: Nothing to Fear. By Rod Martin, Jr. PhD Physicist Says Evidence Of Major Human Role In Climate “Is Lacking” …Sees “Abuses Of Science” Not only did the models overestimate the warming rate by two or three times, they wrongly predict a hot spot in the upper atmosphere that isn’t there, and are unable to accurately reproduce sea level rise. Yet it’s these same failed models that underpin the whole case for catastrophic consequences of man-made climate change, a case embodied in the 2015 Paris Agreement. The international agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions – which 195 nations, together with many of the world’s scientific societies and national academies, have signed on to – is based not on empirical evidence, but on artificial computer models.

Lindzen on why the educated elites are so vulnerable to being fooled. Top 12 Debunked Climate Scares of 2018. Engineer Critique of AGW Science.v4.3. A Critique of Bill Gates’ New Book – Watts Up With That? The Climate Story (Illustrated) Answers Before Climate Action. Carbon Dioxide: Benefiting the Biosphere. Climate Change Points and Graphics – CO2 is Life. Alarmist Claim Rebuttals – ACRESEARCH. A Short List Of Facts Global Warming Alarmists Don’t Want To Face – Issues & Insights. Richard Lindzen Lecture at GWPF: ‘Global Warming for the Two Cultures’ U.N. Official Reveals Real Reason Behind Warming Scare. Environmentalists’ “Stable Climate” Fantasy - Capital Research Center. Climate Change: What’s the Worst Case? Listening to climate doomsters makes our situation worse. Climate Change–The Facts. Presentation: The Science of the Skeptic Position. Core of climate science is in the real-world data. A conversation with Dr. Willie Soon – on polar bears, the sun, and Earth’s climate.

A Handy Primer for Deluded Warmists. Global Climate Presentation Slides by Howard Cork Hayden. The World’s First State Of The Climate Survey Based on Observations Only. 90 Leading Italian Scientists Sign Petition: CO2 Impact On Climate “UNJUSTIFIABLY EXAGGERATED” … Catastrophic Predictions “NOT REALISTIC” Whatever Happened to Agenda 21 and Climate Change Policy? Twilight of the Climate Change Movement. ABC-watch: Economist talks unresearched conspiracy science to pretend journalist. President Trump says our climate is “fabulous” and that “the climate, the hottest in modern human history, can change back on its own.”