TLW's Climatescope™ (Climate Historyscope)

In Apr. 1968 the Club of Rome think tank is founded at the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, Italy by super-rich David Rockefeller and 30 brain people, incl. Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei (1908-84) and Scottish scientist Alexander King (1909-2007), to discuss the long-term dismal future of overpopulated humanity using computerized predictions, going on to pub. the manifesto The Predicament of Mankind, followed by The Limits to Growth in 1972, followed by The First Global Revolution in 1991, containing the soundbytes: "The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome"; "The resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 500 million people but less than one billion"; "The need for enemies seems to be a common historical factor. Some states have striven to overcome domestic failure and internal contradictions by blaming external enemies. The ploy of finding a scapegoat is as old as mankind itself - when things become too difficult at home, divert attention to adventure abroad. Bring the divided nation together to face an outside enemy, either a real one, or else one invented for the purpose. With the disappearance of the traditional enemy, the temptation is to use religious or ethnic minorities as scapegoats, especially those whose differences from the majority are disturbing"; "Every state has been so used to classifying its neighbours as friend or foe, that the sudden absence of traditional adversaries has left governments and public opinion with a great void to fill. New enemies have to be identified, new strategies imagined, and new weapons devised"; "We must find it to bring the divided nations together to face an outside enemy. It need not be a real one, but it can be one invented for the purpose"; future members incl. Henry Kissinger, Desmond Tutu, Ted Turner, Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Bill Gates, Kofi Annan, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Gro Harlem Bruntland, and the Dalai Lama; "The Earth has cancer and the cancer is Man." - let's hope they only discuss stuff? Watch video - David Icke.

On July 22, 1968 Viking pub. Unless Peace Comes: A Scientific Forecast of New Weapons, ed. by Nigel Calder, containing the article How to Wreck the Environment by Mexican-born UCLA geophysics prof. Gordon James Fraser "J.F." MacDonald (1929-2002) (member of JASON and Pres. Johnson's Scientific Advisory Committee) explaining how CO2 could be weaponized, going on to launch a JASON project in 1969 to model climate change, which causes him to believe that fossil fuel-burning will cause global warming that will overwhelm the cooling effects of industrial aerosols, going on The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1979 and People's Mag. in 1980 to warm, er, warn the public, followed on Apr. 8, 1980 by testimony to the 96th Congress U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (title: "Carbon Dioxide Building in the Atmosphere"), warning that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 would "probably have a profound effect on agriculture, on all aspects of energy use and generation, and on water and land use", adding" "The dilemma we face is of historic proportions. Economies around the world depend on the energy derived from carbon-based fuels. The continued use of these fuels will irreversibly change global climate, placing heavy stresses on societies around the world"; too bad, in 1964-7 he served on the Nat. Science Foundation Panel for Weather Modification that was attacked as "nonsense". Watch video.

In 1968 Stanford U. biology prof. Paul Ralph Ehrlich (1932-) pub. the bestseller (3M copies) The Population Bomb (rev. ed. 1971, 2nd ed. 1978), freaking at the news of the 200M U.S. pop., predicting that "The oceans will be as dead as Lake Erie in less than a decade", "America will be subject to water rationing by 1974 and food rationing by 1980, that 65M Americans will starve to death in the 1970s, that India is doomed, that "Sometime in the next 15 years the end will come... an utter breakdown of the capacity of the planet to support humanity", and that "England will not exist in the year 2000", calling current proposals for pollution control "Giving aspirins to cancer victims", and founding Zero Pop. Growth (ZPG) (Pop. Connection) with a Conn. atty. and a Yale forestry prof., advocating two children max per family; "The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate"; instead, grain farmers in the 1980s suffer economic losses from overproduction, and Ehlich's doom-and-gloom predictions prove a hoax? In Apr. 2012 Ehrlich issues the soundbytes: "How many you support depends on lifestyles. We came up with 1.5 to 2 billion because you can have big active cities and wilderness. If you want a battery chicken world where everyone has minimum space and food and everyone is kept just about alive you might be able to support in the long term about 4 or 5 billion people. But you already have 7 billion. So we have to humanely and as rapidly as possible move to population shrinkage"; "The question is: can you go over the top without a disaster, like a worldwide plague or a nuclear war between India and Pakistan? If we go on at the pace as we are, there's going to be various forms of disaster. Some maybe slow motion disasters like people getting more and more hungry, or catastrophic disasters because the more people you have the greater the chance of some weird virus transferring from animal to human populations, there could be a vast die-off." In July 2013 Ehrlich presents the lecture Avoiding a Collapse of Civilization: Our Chances, Prospects, and Pathways Forward. On July 10, 2017 Ehrlich, Gerardo Ceballos, and Rodolfo Dirzo pub. the article Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines, containing the soundbyte: "In the last few decades, habitat loss, overexploitation, invasive organisms, pollution, toxification, and more recently climate disruption, as well as the interactions among these factors, have led to the catastrophic declines in both the numbers and sizes of populations of both common and rare vertebrate species." Ehrlich also utters the anti-nuclear power soundbytes explaining why environmentalists are anti-nuclear power: "We contend that the position of the nuclear promoters is preposterous beyond the wildest imaginings of most nuclear opponents, primarily because one of the purported 'benefits' of nuclear power, the availability of cheap and abundant energy, is in fact a liability"; "Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun."

On Feb. 20, 1969 Walter Sullivan pub. the article Catastrophic Shifts in Climate Feared if Change Occurs in the New York Times, starting out: "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 and open sea within a decade or two."

On Aug. 14-22, 1969 175 mph Category 5 Hurricane Camille strikes Cuba and the Gulf Coast (La., Miss., Ala.) (Aug. 17), killing 259, leaving 200K homeless and causing $1.43B in damage, becoming the 2nd known Category 5 hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland since the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane and the most severe storm since Hurricane Audrey in 1957.

On Oct. 1, 1969 Sven Olof Joachim Palme (1927-86) is elected leader of Sweden's Social Dem. Party, succeeding retiring Tage Erlander; on Oct. 14 he becomes PM of Sweden (until Oct. 8, 1976, then Oct. 8-1982-Feb. 28, 1986), backing the Green Party while saving nuclear power in 1980 by intervening in a referendum.

On Nov. 15, 1969 Science News pub. the article Danger: The Globe Is Cooling, quoting meteorologist J. Murray Mitchell Jr. with the soundbyte: "How long the current cooling trend continues is one of the most important problems of our civilization", adding that if the cooling continues for 200-300 years the Earth could be plunged into an ice age.

In 1969 Greenpeace (originally Don't Make a Wave Committee) is founded in Vancouver, B.C., Canada to fight for environmental causes, growing by 2019 to offices in 39 countries plus an internat. HQ in Amsterdam. Watch video - Willie Soon.

In 1969 after his 1956 book "Heat Balance of the Earth's Surface" transforms climatology into a quantitative physical science, Russian meteorologist (physical climatologist) Mikhail Ivanovich Budyko (1920-2001) pub. the article The effect of solar radiation variation on the climate of the Earth in Tellus, proposing Arctic amplification, a larger temperature change at the poles than the equator because of ice-albedo feedback, possibly leading to runaway positive global temperature feedback, which is later independently derived by William D. Sellers of the U. of Ariz., resulting in the low-order Budyko-Sellers Global Climate Model incorporating ice-albedo feedback and equator-to-pole heat transport to show the possibility of an ice-covered Earth; in 1972 Budyko calculates that a few tenths of 1% increase in solar radiation or a 50% increase in atmospheric CO2 could melt the ice caps, while a 50% reduction of atmospheric CO2 could lead to a "complete glaciation of the Earth", predicting that the ice cover of the Arctic Ocean could completely melt by 2050; in 1974 he proposes Budyko's Blanket, the release of sulfate aerosols in the stratosphere via balloons, aircraft, or artillery to cool the atmosphere.

1970

In the early 1970s the far leftist Green Party arose for push environmental issues; in 1972 the Popular Movement for the Environment is founded in Neuchatel, Switzerland, becoming the first in Europe; in Feb. 1973 the PEOPLE Party is founded in Britain, becoming the first nat. green party in Europe; in 1980 the German Green Party is founded to oppose nuclear power, forming the Red-Green (Watermelon?) Alliance with the Social Dem. Party in 1998-2005, reaching an agreement in 2001 to end reliance on nuclear power; they eventually all coalesce around the globalist Marxist program of the U.N. and its IPCC that pushes CO2-driven global warming as the golden ticket to foisting global Marxism; the German Green Party has roots in the Nazi Party, which hated nuclear power and loved wind power?

In 1970 the U.S. press begins carrying articles predicting a new ice age caused by global cooling (ends 1979).

On Jan. 11, 1970 The Washington Post pub. the article Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age - Scientists See Ice Age in the Future by David R. Boidt, which starts out: "Get a good grip on your long johns, cold weather haters - the worst may be yet to come. That's the long-long-range weather forecast being given out by 'climatologists,' the people who study very long-term world weather trends. Some of them say the world is in a 'cold snap' that started in 1950 and which could last hundreds of years, even bringing on the start of another Ice Age. In the meantime, it would mean more snow, and more arctic freezes, like the one Washington is now shivering through"; actually, no peer-reviewed scientific journal in ths 1970s pub. an article predicting an imminent ice age?

On Feb. 19, 1970 (Feb. 10?) funny ears British Prince Charles of Wales (1948-) gives a speech on the environment, warming about pollution incl. chemical discharges, air pollution, and plastic waste, which he later says the press regarded as "completely potty". On Mar. 10, 2019 he gives a speech at a state dinner hosted by Chilean pres. Michelle Bachelet, attacking climate skeptics as "incomprehensible", and claiming that climate change must be tackled before world poverty - because that will make everybody poor? On July 8, 2009 he gives a speech to industrialists and environmentalists at St. James's Palace in Westminster, claiming that we have just 96 mo. [8 ears, er, years] left to save Earth from "irretrievable climate and ecosystem collapse and all that goes with it", hence must give up capitalism and consumerism along with the "age of convenience" via "coherent financial incentives and disincentives", with the soundbytes: "We face the dual challenges of a world view and an economic system that seem to have enormous shortcomings, together with an environmental crisis – including that of climate change - which threatens to engulf us all", and "But for all its achievements, our consumerist society comes at an enormous cost to the Earth and we must face up to the fact that the Earth cannot afford to support it. Just as our banking sector is struggling with its debts – and paradoxically also facing calls for a return to so-called 'old-fashioned', traditional banking – so Nature's life-support systems are failing to cope with the debts we have built up there too. If we don't face up to this, then Nature, the biggest bank of all, could go bust. And no amount of quantitative easing will revive it." In July 2019 Prince Charles warns Commonwealth leaders that they only have 18 mo. to "decide our ability to keep climate change to sustainable levels". On Feb. 19, 2020 Prince Charles utters the soundbyte that we've got only 10 years left to save the Earth. On Sept. 20, 2020 Prince Charles releases a recorded message at the virtual opening of Climate Week, claiming that "swift and immediate action" is needed, a "military-style campaign" like the Marshall Plan, and that the COVID-19 pandemic provides a "window of opportunity" to reset the economy for a more "sustainable and inclusive future", calling it "a wake-up call we cannot ignore"; he finishes with the soundbyte: "The [environmental] crisis has been with us for far too many years - decried, denigrated, and denied. It is now rapidly becoming a comprehensive catastrophe that will dwarf the impact of the coronavirus pandemic." Watch video - Prince Charles.

On Apr. 8, 1970 the NASA Nimbus 4 weather satellite is launched from Vandenberg AFB in Lompoc, Calif., sending data until Sept. 30, measuring the infrared emission spectra of the Earth's atmosphere, along with vertical temperature profiles and water vapor, solar UV radiation, and atmospheric ozone, revealing a V-shaped notch in the outgoing longwave radiation spectrum at 13-17 microns, caused by the 325 ppm CO2 content, which only cuts 2/3 of the way into the surface radiation spectrum, allowing 1/3 of the energy to escape into space?; the notch is saturated, meaning that higher CO2 concentrations can't increase the so-called Greenhouse Effect?

On Apr. 16, 1970 the Boston Globe pub. the article Scientist predicts a new ice age by 21st century, with the soundbyte: "Pollution expert... James P. Lodge Jr. at the Nat. Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. also warned that if the current rate of increase in electric power generation continues, the demands for cooling water will boil dry the entire flow of the rivers and streams of continental United States. Looking into his 'smoggy crystal ball', Lodge also warned that by the next century 'the consumption of oxyben in combustion processes, world-wide, will surpass all of the processes which return oxygen to the atmosphere."

On Apr. 22, 1970 (Lenin's birthday) the U.S. environmental movement is born with the first Earth Day, proposed in 1969 by UNESCO and founded by U.S. Sen. (D-Wisc.) (1963-81) and former Wisc. gov. #35 (1959-63) Gaylord Anton Nelson (1916-2005), organized by the Earth Week Committee of Philadelphia, Penn., and celebrated in the U.S. by 22M people with demonstrations against pollution of Spaceship Earth (coined by Adlai E. Stevenson) amid herds of massive leaded-gas-slurping V8 sedans, a nation filled with smoky industrial smokestacks, and a coverup of a fuel rod meltdown at the Savannah River Nuclear Plant near Aiken, S.C. (acknowleged in 1988); the idea was first proposed in 1969 by Davis City, Iowa-born John McConnell (1915-2012) (designer of the Earth Flag) to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, then coordinated by environmental activist Denis Allen Hayes (1944-), and supported by U Thant, Margaret Mead et al.; meanwhile on Jan. 14-23 Nelson goes for a double and holds the Nelson Hearings on the safety of combined oral contraceptive pills, resulting in the first side-effect disclosure for a pharmaceutical drug in the U.S.; too bad, zany incorrect predictions are made, incl. "Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we made, the death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years (Stanford U. biologist Paul Ehrlich); "Air pollution... is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone" (Ehrlich); "Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind" (Harvard biologist George David Wald); "In a decade urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution... By 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching Earth by one half" (Life mag.); "By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate... that there won't be any more crude oil. You'll drive up to the pump and say, 'Fill 'er up, buddy', and he'll say, 'I am very sorry, there isn't any'." (ecologist Kenneth Watt)

On July 18, 1970 The New York Times pub. the article U.S. And Soviet Press Studies of a Colder Arctic by Walter Sullivan, which begins: "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."

On July 20, 1970 after drought in Afghanistan becomes the worst in known history, an urgent request is sent to the U.S. for 100K tons of wheat which isn't approved until Aug. 1971, by which time the request is upped to 250K tons; it ends in 1971; the next worst is in 2000.

On Oct. 2, 1970 after Pres. Nixon delivers a Special Message to Congress on July 9, with the soundbyte: "Our national government today is not structured to make a coordinated attack on the pollutants which debase the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land that grows our food. Indeed, the present governmental structure for dealing with environmental pollution often defies effective and concerted action", the U.S. Clean Air Extension (Muskie) Act is passed, amending the 1963 U.S. Clean Air Act; on Dec. 2 Congress creates the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to monitor and protect the public from airborne contaminants, along with the Nat. Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. (NOAA) on Oct. 3, growing to the largest U.S. regulatory agency by 1975, with 9K employees and a budget of $700M a year; on Dec. 12 William Doyle Ruckelshaus (1932-) becomes dir. #1 of the EPA (until Apr. 1973); after legislative pressure, on Dec. 31 Pres. Nixon signs amendments to the act, giving automakers six years to develop engines that are 90% emission-free; too bad, existing smokestack plants are grandfathered, and pollution standards only apply to new plants, causing greedy owners to extend the life of the smoky old plants as long as they can for decades to come - takes my breath away?

On Nov. 3-13, 1970 the 150 mph 1970 Bhola Cyclone in E Pakistan and W Bengal results in a storm surge that floods the low-lying islands of the Ganges Dleta, killing 500K and causing $86.4M damage, becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history (until ?).

In winter 1970/1 a drought in North China becomes the worst since records began to be kept in 1951, until one in winter 2010/11.

In 1970 after Adams became disgusted seeing raw sewage floating by on the Hudson River as he sat on a bench in Battery Park eating a liverwurst sandwich, the Nat. Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is founded in New York City by attys. John Hamilton Adams (1936-) (exec. dir.), Richard E. Ayres, John E. Bryson (1943-), James Gustave "Gus" Speth (1942-) (senior atty. until 1977), and Edward L. Strohbehn Jr. to fight for environmental causes, becoming the first nat. environmental advocacy group in the U.S. focusing on bringing change through the courts, growing to 3M members and a staff of 700 lawyers, scientists, and policy experts by 2019, feeding its climate and clean air program, save the bees program, anti-nuclear weapons program, water quality program et al.; no surprise, starting in 2017 they begin soliciting donations to help them fight Pres. Trump. Watch video.

On Jan. 18, 1971 due to warm Santa Ana winds, Palm Springs and Los Angeles, Calif. reach 95F, becoming the highest recorded temp for Jan. (until ?).

In Jan. 1971 after heavy monsoon rains the 1971 Kuala Lumpur Floods in Malaysia kill 32 and affect 180K, becoming the worst in Malaysia since 1926, causing a flood control project to be set up.

On Feb. 20, 1971 (eve.) the 1971 Okla. Blizzard in NW Okla. brings a record 36 in. of snow (until ?), leaving 20 ft. snowdrifts; it also hits the Tex. Panhandle.

On Feb. 21, 1971 the 33-hour 15-min. Feb. 1971 Mississippi Delta Tornado Outbreak sees 19 tornadoes reported, killing 123 in three states, incl. the first F5 tornado in La. (until ?), causing $45.9M damage, becoming the 2nd deadliest tornado outbreak in Feb. after the 1884 Enigma tornado outbreak, later followed by the 2008 Super Tues. tornado outbreak.

On Feb. 21, 1971 after 30 hours of torrential rain incl. 11.4 in. (.29m) in 24 hours, New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand experiences its largest flood ever, after which dams are built on the Huatoki, Waimea, and Mangaotuku Rivers.

On Mar. 3-5, 1971 the E Canadian Blizzard of Mar. 1971 sees the worst 24-hour snowfall on record in Montreal, Quebec (17 in.) (.43m), killing 30 incl. 17 in Montreal and becoming known as "Quebec's Storm of the Century".

On Mar. 14, 1971 The New York Times pub. an article about drought in Argentina causing a beef crisis; the next worst drought happens in 2009.

On Apr. 5, 1971 The New York Times pub. an article reporting the worst drought in S Fla in 15 years, incl. in the Everglades, with less than 5 in. of rainfall in Miami since Oct. (vs. 23 in. the previous year), causing scientists to resort to cloud seeding, which doesn't stop 400K acres of the Everglades from burning.

On Apr. 9, 1971 the NBC Evening News, hosted by Frank McGee issues the soundbyte that Tex. is experiencing its worst drought since the 1950s.

On July 9, 1971 The Washington Post pub. the article U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming by Victor Cohn, with the lead: "The world could be as little as 50 or 60 years away from a disastrous new ice age", quoting an article in Science by S.I. Rasool and S.H. Schneider of NASA, with the soundbyte: "In the next 50 years, the fine dust man constantly puts into the atmosphere by fossil fuel-burning could screen out so much sunlight that the average temperature could drop by six degrees", adding that this were sustained over "five to 10" years, "such a temperature decrease could be sufficient to trigger an ice age." Watch video - Tony Heller.

On Aug. 1, 1971 the Red River Delta Flood in North Vietnam kills 100K and affects 2.7M, getting called a "250-year flood".

In early Aug. 1971 heavy rainfall and floods in N England bring below freezing temps in Lanarkshire on Aug. 8.

The Sept. 1971 issue of Scientific American contains the soundbyte: "If ever an energy source can be said to have arrived in the nick of time, it is nuclear energy"; there are 20 nuclear power plants operating in the U.S., with 100+ more being built (30 in operation, 51 under construction and 72 on order next year), plus 90+ operating outside the U.S.

In Dec. 1971 the 1971 Iraq Poison Grain Disaster sees methylmercury-treated seed grain imported from Mexico and the U.S. to fight the drought ending up being consumed despite the telltale pink color, killing 459-4.5K by next Mar.

In 1971 the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the U. of East Anglia in Norwich, England is founded by climatologist Hubert Horace "H.H." Lamb (1913-97) (known as the Ice Man for predicting a coming ice age before switching to global warming after the hot summer of 1976), and supported by Sir Graham Sutton, Lord Solly Zuckerman et al., with financial support from British Petroleum (BP), Royal Dutch Shell, the Nuffield Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and later the Wolfson Foundation, pioneering the idea of the variability of the climate; in the late 1970s it begins contracting with the U.S. Dept. of Energy; in the mid-1980s British PM Margaret Thatcher becomes a strong backer; in 1950 Lamb pub. a paper attempting to classify weather types, which evolves into the pan-European Grosswetterlagen scheme; in 1964 Lamb pub. the book The English Climate, followed in 1977 by Climatic History and the Future (rev. 1985), showing how studies of fossil pollen point to "great rapidity of climate change", but concluding "On balance, the effects of increased carbon dioxide on climate is almost certainly in the direction of warming but is probably much smaller than the estimates which have commonly been accepted." In 1982 he pub. Climate, History and the Modern World (2nd ed. 1995), with the ad blurb: "We live in a world that is increasingly vulnerable to climatic shocks - affecting agriculture and industry, government and international trade, not to mention human health and happiness. Serious anxieties have been aroused by respected scientists warning of dire perils that could result from upsets of the climatic regime", reviewing the Piora Oscillation (-13K), the Holocene Climate Cycle (-1.3K), the Medieval Warming Period, the Little Ice Age (1300-1850), and the modern era of 1700-1950, followed by global cooling along with local warming, claiming it might be CO2-induced but is expected to peak about 2100, with the next age by 2K years.

In 1971 Environment Canada (EC) is founded as part of the Canadian Dept. of the Environment; in 1991 after passage of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, it becomes the leading federal dept. in charge of cleaning up hazardous waste and oil spills; in ? it changes its name to Environment and Climate Change Canada, or Environment Canada.

In 1971 after meeting with the Club of Rome, Anselmo, Neb.-born computer-systems engineer (System Dynamics founder) Jay Wright Forrester (1918-2016) pub. World Dynamics, which attempts to model the complex interactions of the world economy, pop., and ecology, founding the field of Global Modeling.

In 1971 Sewickley, Penn.-born, San Mateo, Calif.-raised environmental scientist John Paul Holdren (1944-) and Philadelphia, Penn.-born ecologist Paul Ralph Ehrlich (1932-) (author of the 1968 bestseller "The Population Bomb", predicting global famine and proposing a One World Govt. with sweeping powers to set up a "Planetary Regime") (hardcore Malthusians) pub. the essay Overpopulation and the Potential for Ecocide in the book Global ecology: Readings toward a rational strategy for man, warming, er, warning of a coming ice age caused by industrial soot, farm dust, deforestation, and urbanization, containing the soundbytes: "It seems, however, that a competing effect has dominated the situation since 1940. This is the reduced transparency of the atmosphere to incoming light as a result of urban air polution (dust), and volcanic ash. This screening phenomenon is said to be responsible for the present world cooling trend - a total of about .2 deg C in the world mean surface temperature over the past quarter century. This number seems small until it is realized that a decrease of only 4 deg C would probably be sufficient to start another ice age"; "The effects of a new ice age on agriculture and the supportability of large human populations scarcely need elaboration here. Even more dramatic results are possible, however; for instance, a sudden outward slumping in the Antarctic ice cap, induced by added weight, could generate a tidal wave of proportions unprecedented in recorded history"; "If man survives the comparatively short-term threat of making the planet too cold, there is every indication he is quite capable of making it too warm not long thereafter. For the remaining major means of interference with the global heat balance is the release of energy from fossil and nuclear fuels. As pointed out previously, all this energy is ultimately degraded to heat. What are today scattered local effects of its disposition will in time, with the continued growth of population and energy consumption, give way to global warming... Again, the exact form such consequences might take is unknown; the melting of the ice caps with a concomitant 150-foot increase in sea level might be one of them"; no mention of greenhouse gases?; on Aug. 11, 1975 Holdren pub. the article Too much energy, too soon, a hazard in The Windsor Star, containing the soundbyte: "The United States is threatened far more by the hazards of too much energy, too soon, than by the hazards of too little, too late. The hazards of too much, which have been as widely underestimated as the liabilities of too little have been exaggerated, including diverting financial resources from compelling social needs, making hasty commitments to unproved technologies, and generating environmental and social costs that harm human welfare more than the extra energy improves it"; on Mar. 19, 2009 - Jan. 20, 2017 Holdren becomes Pres. Obama's dir. #9 of the Office of Science and Technology Policy; in 2009 Holdren gives an interview to CBS, with the soundbyte: "If you lose the summer sea ice, there are phenomena that could lead you not so very long thereafter to lose the winter sea ice as well. And if you lose that sea ice year round, it's going to mean drastic climatic change all over the hemisphere", causing IPCC critics to characterize Holdren as a "doom peddler". In 1977 Holdren, Paul R. Ehrlich, and Anne H. Ehrlich pub. the book Ecoscience, containing the soundbyte: "A transnational 'Planetary Regime' should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans' lives - using an international police force."

In 1971 New York City-born climate scientist Stephen Henry Schneider (1945-2010) of NCAR pub. the paper "Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Aerosols: Effects of Large Increases on Global Science" in Science mag., containing the soundbyte: "[I]t is projected that man's potential to pollute will increase six- to eightfold in the next 50 years. If this increased rate of injection of particulate matter in the atmosphere should raise the present background opacity by a factor of 4, our calculations suggest a decrease in global temperature by as much as 3.5 °K. Such a large decrease in the average temperature of Earth, sustained over a period of few years, is believed to be sufficient to trigger an ice age. However, by that time, nuclear power may have largely replaced fossil fuels as a means of energy production"; in 1974 after deciding that he underestimated the warming effect of CO2 by a factor of three, Schneider pub. a retraction, and in 1976 he pub. the book The Genesis Strategy: Climate and Global Survival, discussing the balance between short-term cooling due to aerosols and long-term warming due to CO2, deciding that CO2 wins and going on to become a major advocate of global warming and the Greenhouse Theory; on Jan. 8, 1979 the New York Times pub. an article in which Schneider is quoted as saying "If the West Antarctic ice sheet slips into the sea, as some glaciologists believe is possible, boats could be launched from the bottom steps of the Capitol in Wshington, and a third of Florida would be under water"; in Oct. 1989 Schneider pub. an article in Discovery Mag., containing the soundbyte: "On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method. On the other hand, we are not just scientists, but human beings as well. And like most people, we'd like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change. To do that, we need to get some broad-based support, to capture the public's imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. Or we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. This 'double ethical bind' we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both"; too bad, climate skeptics take to misquoting him by taking out all the parts about fairness, causing him to write the soundbyte: "[N]ot only do I disapprove of the 'ends justify the means' philosophy of which I am accused, but, in fact have actively campaigned against it in myriad speeches and writings." In 1989 Schneider pub. Global Warming: Are We Entering the Greenhouse Century?; on Nov. 3, 2009 he and Tim Flannery pub. Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save the Earth's Climate; in Oct. 2010 he and Michael D. Mastrandrea pub. Preparing for Climate Change, advocating big-buck projects. Watch video.

On Jan. 15, 1972 due to a Chinook wind, Loma, Mont. experiences the biggest known 24-hour temperature change, from -54F to +49F (103F) (-48C to 9C).

On Jan. 26-27, 1972 42 Am. and Euro scientists led by Czech-born Columbia U. climate scientist (Quaternary geologist) George J. Kukla (1930-2014) and Am. geologist Robert K. Matthews hold the conference titled The Present Ingerglacial, How and When Will It End? at Brown U., going on to pub. a summary on Oct. 13 in Science; on Dec. 3 they send a letter to Pres. Nixon warning of a coming global cooling, with the soundbyte: "It could not be excluded however that the cooling now under way in the Northern Hemisphere is the start of the expected shift. The present rate of the cooling seems fast enough to bring glacial temperatures in about a century, if continuing at the present pace", warning of the potential for "floods, snowstorms and deadly frosts, as well as 'substantially lowered' food production" and "warned that the Soviet Union was probably already considering a response"; Kukla utters the soundbyte: "I feel we're on pretty solid ground in interpreting orbit around the sun as the primary driving force behind ice-age glaciation. The relationship is just too clear and consistent to allow reasonable doubt"; in 1973 after this kick in the pants the U.S. State Dept. forms a Panel on the Present Interglacial, while Congress holds hearings on the state of U.S. climate research and U.S. preparedness, causing a series of bills to create a nat. climate program to be introduced, which backfires on them when they are barnstormed by the global warming lobby, spreading to the U.N.; in 1974 BBC-TV debuts The Weather Machine, starring Kukla; 2000 Kukla leads a symposium at Columbia U. where he moves the coming ice age to 5K years from now, and utters the soundbyte: "What I think is this: Man is responsible for a part of global warming. Most of it is still natural." Watch video - George J. Kukla.

On June 5-16, 1972 after 152 experts from 58 countries submit data for the report "Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet", the U.N. Conference on the Human Environment, reps. from 114 nations (with the slogan "Only One Earth"), meets in Stockholm, Sweden, and agrees on 200 points regarding environmental improvement, proclaiming a declaration of 26 principles on June 16, and agreeing to a Global Governance Agenda, with a plan for a permanent secretariat to coordinate progress; China insists that pop. is not a world problem; China and France insist on the right to stage atmospheric nuclear tests; the U.S. refuses to spend money on internat. environmental problems; the U.N. founds the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, Kenya (first U.N. agency with HQ in the Third World), with Socialist (globalist Marxist) Canadian oil exec ("Father of the Global Environmental Movement") Maurice Frederick Strong (1929-2015) (member of the Malthusian Club of Rome) as dir. #1 (until 1976), who utters the soundbytes: "Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?", "It is the responsibility of each human being today to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light. We must therefore transform our attitudes, and adopt a renewed respect for the superior laws of Divine Nature", and "Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable"; too bad, he was framed by climate skeptics eager to gain adherents because what he was really doing was talking about a novel he wanted to write?; too bad, Strong's real agenda was pop. reduction via abortion et al., fueled by his devotion to New Age pagan religion, run from the New Age Manitou Centre on the 200K-acre Baca Ranch near Crestone, Colo. (founded 1978), which spawns several other pagan centers; in 1992 Strong became chmn. of Ontario Hydro, going on to destroy Ontario's economy, taking it from the top performer among Canada's provinces to the bottom; the UNEP went on to underpin the U.N. effort to use CO2-driven global warming as the excuse for massive transfer of wealth from wealthy to poor countries; "What's truly alarming about Maurice Strong is his actual record. Strong's persistent calls for an international mobilization to combat environmental calamities, even when they are exaggerated (population growth) or scientifically unproven (global warming), have set the world's environmental agenda" (Neil Hrab); In 1995 after meeting with Maurice Strong, Canadian journalist Elaine Ruth Dewar (1948-) pub. Cloak of Green: The Links between Key Environmental Groups, Government and Big Business, revealing how the Canadian govt. has been using environmental groups to influence domestic policy and take over other nations for U.N. Agenda 21, and Strong's role in it; "Strong was using the U.N. as a platform to sell a global environment crisis and the Global Governance Agenda." Video - Maurice Strong Video - Elaine Dewar.

On June 30, 1972 Mount Copeland in British Columbia reports 964 in. of snowfall in the 1971/2 season (began July 1), becoming the greatest snowfall in Canada in one season (until ?).

On July 5-30, 1972 Category 5 Typhoon Rita (Gloring) starts SE of Guam, intensifies on July 9 W of the Mariana Islands, and reaches a peak intensity on July 11, hitting the Philippines, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, China, and Mongolia and causing 377 deaths and $445M damage; in July 1972 the 1972 Philippines Flood sees the Philippines have its rainiest mo. since Aug. 1919; Manila receives almost 62 in. of monsoon rains, and floods kill 775, cause 60M in damage, and leave thousands homeless.

On July 9, 1972 Russia's Kola Peninsula reaches a record high temperature of 32.9C (91.2F) (until ?); meanwhile forest fires rage across Arctic Norway.

On July 15, 1972 Furnace Creek, Calif. records the world record ground surface temp of 201F (93.9C).

On Aug. 4, 1972 the largest solar flare ever recorded knocks out cable lines in the U.S., and continues high levels of activity until Aug. 10; luckily the Apollo launch isn't scheduled until Dec; the solar storms set off of dozens of U.S. mines in Hai Phong Harbor, North Vietnam; in the preceding few weeks 4K more detonated.

On Dec. 3, 1972 a collection of 42 top climate experts at Brown U. sign a letter to Pres. Nixon, warning of a new ice age ("glacial temperatures") within a century.

In 1972 MIT scientists Donella H. "Dana" Meadows (1941-2001), her husband Dennis L. Meadows (1942-), Jorgen (Jørgen) Randers (1945-), and William W. Behrens III pub. the bestseller (30M copies) The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind, using primitive computer programs to predict a polluted depleted overpopulated planet, ramping up the environmentalist movement by giving it a religious mission; "If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years. The most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity"; too bad, the predictions fail to materialize by 1990, but time is on their side, and they pub. new eds. in 1992 and 2002; "The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technnology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from each other and to seek the truth rather than seek to be right." (Donella Meadows)

In 1972 Am. astronomers Carl Edward Sagan (1934-96) and George Mullen propose the Faint Early (Young) Sun Paradox (Problem), that the Earth's climate has been fairly constant for the last 4B years yet the Sun's radiation has increased by 35%-30%; in 1993 Am. scientist Jim Fraser Kasting (1953-) concludes that CO2 was 30% of the Earth's atmosphere, creating a greenhouse effect; in 2010 Danish scientist Minik Rosing et al. propose that the cloud layer was thinner in the past, allowing more rays to reach the Sun, and that the CO2 levels were only 0.1%.

In 1972 British meteorologist John Stanley Sawyer (1916-2000) pub. the study Man-made Carbon Dioxide and the "Greenhouse" Effect in Nature, summarizing the known science and accepting the theory of CO2-driven anthropogenic global warming, with the brilliant conclusion: "The increase of 35% CO2 expected by the end of the century therefore corresponds to an increase of 0.6°C in the world temperature - an amount somewhat greater than the climatic variation of recent centuries."

On Feb. 16, 1973 the right-wing Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. is founded with financial backing by Colo. Coors beer magnate Joseph Coors and Philly banking heir Richard Mellon Scaife, headed by Wisc.-born Paul M. Weyrich (1942-2008), a Roman Catholic turned Greek Orthodox religious zealot, whose 180-employee think tank begins grinding out studies against gay rights, abortion, marijuana, gun control, and big govt., gaining support from evangelicals, helping found the Moral Majority with Rev. Jerry Falwell, and growing into the largest public policy research inst. in the U.S. in 1977 Chicago, Ill.-born climate skeptic Edwin John "Ed" Feulner Jr. (1941-) becomes pres. until Apr. 3, 2013, when he is succeeded by former U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, who resigns on May 2, 2017, when Feulner becomes pres. again until Jan. 1, 2018; on Jan. 10, 2018 Feulner pub. the article Al Gore Blames the 'Climate Crisis' for Cold Weather. But Actually, It's Just January. On Dec. 5, 2018 in response to the 2018 Nat. Climate Assessment Feulner pub. the article Warming Up to the Cold Facts About Climate. On Jan. 1, 2018 2018 Kay Coles James (nee Madeline Kay Coles) (1949-), former dir. of the U.S. Office of Personnel Mgt. (2001-5) and Va. secy. of health and human resources #6 (1994-6) becomes pres. #6 of the Heritage Foundation (until ?), the first African-Am. woman. Watch video - Paul M. Weyrich. Watch video - Ed Feulner. Watch video - Kay Coles James.

On Apr. 19, 1973 Earth in the year 2022 suffers from uncontrolled global warming, incl. pollution, overpopulation, and worldwide food, water, and housing shortages, causing the govt. to turn people into food - 1973 MGM film Soylent Green.

In 1973 the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is founded at USC by John and Alice Tyler; no surprise in 1974 the first prizes are given to Canadian globalist Marxist Maurice Strong et al.; after the climate change hoaxers take over the environmental movement, the 2019 prizes are awarded to you-guessed-it-CO2-greenhouse-warming-proponents Michael Evan Mann (1965- and climate modeler Warren M. Washington (1936-), while pressure builds to add climate change science to the Nobel Prizes - one prize Al Gore isn't qualified for?

In 1973 English environmentalist scientist James Ephraim Lovelock (1919-) of Dorset, known for proposing the Gaia Hypothesis that Earth functions as a self-regulating system proposes that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) have a global warming effect; in 1975 Indian atmospheric scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan (1944-) finds that a CFC molecule is 10,000x more effective than a CO2 molecule in absorbing infrared radiation, with the soundbyte: "The effect of greenhouse gases on global warming is, in my opinion, the most important environmental issue facing the world today", causing climate scientists to eventually conclude that CFCs along with methane and other trace gases can have almost as important a climate effect as CO2. Watch video - Tony Heller.

In 1973 NASA begins pub. NASA Historical Data Book, which contains the tabular data collected between 1958-68; in 1988 they reissue it along with two more vols., followed by vol. 4 in 1994, vol. 5 in 1999, vol. 6 in 2000, vol. 7 in 2008, and vol. 8 in 2012; in 2003 it pub. NASA's Earth Science Enterprise Strategy, followed in 2006 by NASA Earth Science Reference Handbook, which asks a series of questions about Earth's climate, incl. 2) What are the primary forcings of the Earth system? a) What trends in atmospheric constituents and solar radiation are driving global climate? b) What are the motions of Earth's interior, and how do they directly impact our environment? 3) How does the Earth system respond to natural and human-induced changes? a) What are the effects of clouds and surface hydrologic processes on Earth's climate? b) How do ecosystems, land cover, and bioggeochemical cycles respond to and affect global environmental change? c) How can climate variations induce changes in the global ocean circulation? d) How do atmospheric trace constituents respond to and affect global environmental change? e) How is global sea level affected by natural variability and human-induced change in the Earth system? In ? NASA pub. the article WHAT ARE THE PRIMARY FORCINGS OF THE EARTH SYSTEM?, which starts out: "The Sun is the primary forcing of Earth's climate system. Sunlight warms our world. Sunlight drives atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns. Sunlight powers the process of photosynthesis that plants need to grow. Sunlight causes convection which carries warmth and water vapor up into the sky where clouds form and bring rain. In short, the Sun drives almost every aspect of our world's climate system and makes possible life as we know it", and concludes: "Other important forcings of Earth's climate system include such 'variables' as clouds, airborne particulate matter, and surface brightness. Each of these varying features of Earth's environment has the capacity to exceed the warming influence of greenhouse gases and cause our world to cool." Too bad, they delete it from their Web site around 2010.

On Jan. 29, 1974 The Guardian pub. the article Space satellites show new Ice Age coming fast by Anthony Tucker, which begins: "Worldwide and rapid trends towards a mini Ice Age are emerging from the first long term analyses of satellite weather pictures.... A preliminary analysis carried out at Columbia University, New York by European climatologists George and Helana Kukla (1930-2014) indicates that snow and ice cover of the earth increased by 12 per cent during 1967-1972. This appears to be in keeping with other long-term climatic changes, all of which suggest that after reaching a climax of warmth between 1935 and 1955, world average temperatures are now falling. But the rate of increase of snow and ice cover is much faster than would be expected from other trends."

On Mar. 4, 1974 the Corpus Christi Times pub. the article Imagine this global scenario by Peter J. Bernstein, containing the soundbyte: "To consider some of the urgent questions that a changing climate poses for the world, several of America's most prominent meteorologists gathered here last week for discussions at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. What emerged was a grim forecast for the future. It was generally agreed that the extraordinary warmth of the early 20th century is drawing to a close, and that a global cooling trend has been under way since about 1940. But the scientists cannot explain why."

The original Xenia Onatop? On Apr. 3-4, 1974 the the 1974 Super Tornado Outbreaks sees 148 tornadoes (incl. 30 F4/F5) in 13 U.S. states and the province of Ont., Canada incl. Ill., Ind., Ky., Mich., Ala., Miss., Ga., N.C. Va., W. Va., Tenn, and N.Y., causing $843M damage, killing 336 and injuring 5K, becoming the worst tornado outbreak in U.S. history (until ?), and the first tornado outbreak in history with 100+ tornadoes in a 24-hour period until the 1981 U.K. Tornado Outbreak and the 2011 U.S. Super Tornado Outbreak; on Apr. 4 Xenia, Ohio (founded 1803) (a suburb of Dayton) is hit by a F5 tornado and half destroyed along a quarter-mi. swath, killing 34 and injuring 1,150 and leaving 10K homeless, with $500M property damage; 10 states are declared nat. disaster areas, incl. Ala. (87 killed), Ga. (17), Ill. (2), Ind. (31), Ky. (88), Mich. (3), N.C. (7), Ohio (45), Tenn. (53), and W.V. (1) after Pres. Nixon signs the U.S. Disaster Relief Act on May 22, allowing U.S. presidents to declare disaster areas; in 1988 it is amended and named after U.S. Rep. (R-Vt.) (1961-71) and U.S. Sen. (R-Vt.) (1971-89) Robert Theodore Stafford (1913-2006), who goes on to become known for backing the 2000 Vt. law legalizing same-sex civil unions.

On June 12, 1974 the Greeley (Colo.) Tribune pub. the article Boulder scientists see end of period of favorable weather by Bill Jordan, which starts out: "Observers of the global climate at the National Center for Atmospheric Research believe the favorable weather of the past 15 years is about to give way to a period of unstable climate, crop losses, food shortages and death by starvation for millions. Underlying Schneider's ideas on food shortages i the knowledge that the world is moving into a period of cooler temperatures." About the same time NCAR dir. Walter Orr Roberts pub. the article Climate Change and Its Effect on World Food, which starts out: "In February of 1972 earth-orbiting artificial satellites revealed the existence of a greatly increased area of the snow and ice cover of the north polar ice cap as compared to all previous years of space age observations. Some scientists believe that this may have presaged the onset of the dramatic climate anomalies of 1972 that brought far-reaching adversities to the world's peoples. Moreover, there is mounting evidence that the bad climate of 1972 may be the forerunner of a long series of less favorable agricultural crop years that lie ahead for most world societies. Thus widespread food shortages threaten just at the same time that world populations are growing to new highs. Indeed, less favorable climate may be the new global norm. The Earth may have entered a new "little ice age". Perhaps this future period will not be extreme as that around 1700 AD, but it seems likely, at least, to be a cooler period resembling the hemispheric climatic regimes of the period from 1880-1920."

On June 24, 1974 Time mag. pub. the article Another Ice Age?, containing the soundbyte: "As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic uphead. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age." Watch video.

On June 28, 1974 Mexican-born Am. chemist Mario J. Molina (Jose Mario Molina-Pasquel Henriquez) (1943-2020) and Delaware, Ohio-born chemist Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland (1927-2012) pub. a paper in Nature claiming that chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) propellants are accelerating the depletion of the ozone layer in the stratosphere, with one chlorine molecule able to destroy up to 100K ozone molecules, winning them the 1995 Nobel Chem. Prize; meanwhile high acidity in lakes in NE U.S. and E Canada are traced to coal-burning plants in the U.S. Midwest; in 1978 the U.S. bans CFC-based aerosols in spray cans.

In June 1974 Queens, N.Y.-born Caltech physicist Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-88) gives his commencement address Cargo Cult Science, explaining the difference between real science and pseudoscience as "a kind of leaning over backwards" to make sure scientists don't fool themselves or others, using transparent methods that give transparent results so that others may verify them, with the soundbyte: "There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science... It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty - a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid - not only what you think is right about it; other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked - to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated. Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can - if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong - to explain it. If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it. There is also a more subtle problem. When you have put a lot of ideas together to make an elaborate theory, you want to make sure, when explaining what it fits, that those things it fits are not just the things that gave you the idea for the theory; but that the finished theory makes something else come out right, in addition. In summary, the idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution, not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another."

In June-July 1974 the 1974 Ariz. Heatwave sees 116F temps in Buckeye (near Phoenix), Ariz. on 12 days out of 13 on June 11-July 6. Watch video - Tony Heller.

On Aug. 27, 1974 the Christian Science Monitor pub. the article Earth Seems to be Cooling Off Again, containing the soundbyte that the North Atlantic is "cooling down about as fast as an ocean can cool", glaciers have "begun to advance", and "growing seasons in England and Scandinavia are getting shorter."

In Aug. 1974 the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) secretly pub. A Study of Climatological Research as it Pertains to Intelligence Problems, which starts out: "The western world's leading climatologists have confirmed recent reports of a detrimental global climatic change. The stability of most nations is based upon a dependable source of food, but this stability will not be possible under the new climatic era. A forecast by the University of Wisconsin projects that the earth's climate is returning to that of the non-boreal era (1600-1850) - an era of drought, famine, and political unrest in the western world"; "Climate has not been a prime consideration of intelligence analysis because, until recently, it has not caused any significant perturbations to the status of major nations. This is so because during so of the last 60 years the Earth has, on the average, enjoyed the best agricultural climate since the eleventh century. An early twentieth century world food surplus hindered U.S. efforts to maintain and equalize farm production and incomes. Climate and its effect on world food production was considered to be only a minor factor not worth consideration in the complicated equation of country assessment. Food production, to meet the growing demands of a geometrically expanding world population, was always considered to be a question of matching technology and science to the problem"; "The climate change began in 1960, but no one including the climatologists recognized it. Crop failures in the Soviet Union and India during the first part of the sixties were attributed to the natural fluctuation of the weather. India was supported by massive U.S. grain shipments that fed over 100 million people. To eat, the Soviets slaughtered their livestock, and Premier Nikita Khrushchev was quietly deposed"; "Scientists are confident that unless man is able to effectively modify the climate, the northern regions, such as Canada, the European part of the Soviet Union, and major areas in northern China, will again be covered with 100 to 200 feet of ice and snow. That this will occur within the next 2,500 years they are quite positive; that it may occur sooner is open to speculation." It is not declassified and released until Dec. 2, 2015.

In mid-Dec. 1974 the 1974-75 Central Australian Bushfires begin with the Moolah-Corinya Bushfires in Far West NSW, and end in 1975 with 11M acres burned.

On Dec. 21-26, 1974 125 mph Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia, killing 71 and causing A$837M in damage while destroying 70%+ of its bldgs. and 80% of its houses, leaving 25K of 47K inhabitants homeless, requiring the evacuation of 30K, leaving it deserted for a year. Watch video - Tony Heller.

On Dec. 29, 1974 The New York Times pub. the article Forecast For by Alan Anderson Jr., which features the soundbyte about climate cooling that it will result in "mass deaths by starvation and probably anarchy and violence."

In 1974 Edward Harrison Crane III (1944-), a leader in the U.S. Libertarian Party (quits in 1983) founds major corp.-backed conservative-libertarian think tank Cato Inst. (originally the Charles Koch Foundation) along with rich Wichita, Kan.-based Koch Industries CEO Charles de Ganahi Koch (1935-) and Austrian libertarian economist Murray Newton Rothbard (1926-95), which goes on to oppose environmental groups and back climate change/global warming denial, work to eliminate the U.S. depts. of agriculture, commerce, educate, energy, interior and labor, and propose privatizing Social Security, with Crane uttering the soundbyte: "I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did, which is to impose this great nanny state on America, was a great mistake"; after the Cocks, er, Kochs start a war to replace its stockholders with a 12-member board subservient to themselves, Crane retires as pres. on Oct. 1, 2012 after building it to a staff of 127 and a $21M/year budget. Charles Koch and his brother David Hamilton Koch (1940-2019) become major backers of climate skepticism. James Mahoney is hired by Koch Industries Inc. in 1988, rising to vice-pres. for operations excellence and compliance and serving as chmn. of the Nat. Petrochemical and Refineries Assoc. (NPRA) (later the Am. Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) in 2007-8, whose official position on greenhouse gas regulations is: "AFPM believes that using this 40-year-old law [the Clean Air Act] to control of[sic] greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions threatens our nation's economic and energy security." The Koch brothers are accused of setting up the Kochtopus of think tanks, foundations, lobbyists, and kept politicians to oppose any environmental regs threatening their profits, incl. Calif. Prop 23, becoming the #1 funder of climate change denial ahead of ExxonMobil; see list.

In 1974 the Fraser Inst. (named after the Fraser River) libertarian-conservative public policy think tank is founded in Vancouver, B.C., Canada by Canadian economist Michael Walker (1945-) et al., going on to pub. the annual Economic Freedom Index, Human Freedom Index, Survey of Mining Cos., School Report Cards, and Tax Freedom Day et al. while backing climate change skeptics Ross McKitrick et al. and influencing the Canadian Conservative Party to deny climate change; of course, critics put their donor list under the microscope, striking pay dirt with the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, Exxon Mobil et al.; senior dir. of natural resource studies is environmental scientist Kenneth P. "Ken" Green; senior research economist for their Centre for Environmental Studies and Centre for Risk and Regulation is Joel Wood (1981-). On Feb. 5, 2007 after the IPCC releases its "Summary for Policy Makers" as part of its Fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change (AR4), the Fraser Inst. releases the report Independent Summary for Policymakers, written by Ian D. Clark, Joseph D'Aleo, Christopher Essex, Wibjorn Karlen (Vibjörn Karlén) (1937-2021) , Madhav Khandekar, William Robert Kininmonth, Tad S. Murty et al., with the ad blurb: "An independent review of the latest United Nations report on climate change shows that the scientific evidence about global warming remains uncertain and provides no basis for alarmism", and "There will remain an unavoidable element of uncertainty as to the extent that humans are contributing to future climate change, and indeed whether or not such change is a good or bad thing." In 2000 Karlen pub. the soundbyte: "One of the big problems with trying to determine long-term temperature changes, is that weather records only go back to about 1860. By relying on statistical reconstruction of the last 1000 years, using only the temperature patterns of the last 140 years instead of actual temperature readings, the IPCC report and Summary missed both a major cooling period as well as a significant warming trend during that millennium"; he also slams the mainstream media for "spreading the exaggerated views of a human impact on climate." In 2005 Murty utters the soundbyte that global warming is "the biggest scientific hoax being perpetrated on humanity. There is no global warming due to human anthropogenic activities." In June 2007 Essex writes the soundbyte: "There is no such thing as global temperature. And if there is no global temperature, how can there be global warming?" In 2007 Clark utters the soundbyte: "Solar activity of the last hundred years, over the last several hundred years correlates very nicely on a decadal basis, with sea ice and Arctic temperatures." In 2009 Khandekar utters the soundbyte: "A very intense debate is going on. Most of the skeptics like me feel that the warming that we saw during the 80's and 90's was most possibly due to the natural variability of the climate, just as there was a cooling of the earth's climate from 1945 to about 1977. More importantly many skeptics and solar scientists feel that this warming and cooling is possibly driven by the variability of the total radiation received at the top of earth's atmosphere. So the problem is much more complex than what the IPCC has projected to us." Watch video - Kenneth P. Green.

In 1974 Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) is founded in Northern Calif. by Frank Wentz (1947-) to process microwave data from NASA satellites, going on to work with Carl A. Mears (1963-) to develop a satellite temperature record; in June 2017 version 4 revises the global warming trend from 1979 from .135K/decade to .184K/decade by tampering with the data?

In 1974 the Browning Newsletter is founded by Edna, Tex.-born self-proclaimed climatologist Iben Browning (1918-91) and James Fraser; in 1975 Browning and Nels Winkless III pub. the book Climate and the Affairs of Men, which denies manmade climate change and claims that the Earth's long warm period is ending and will be replaced by a dangerous cooling phase; too bad, he makes a notorious failed prediction of a major earthquake on the New Madrid fault on Dec. 2-3, 1990, stinking himself up before dying on July 18, 1991 in Albuquerque, N.M.; in 1991 Iben's daughter Evelyn Browning-Garriss takes over the newsletter, later uttering the soundbyte: "We had a Medieval warm period. We had a little ice age. Now the little ice age is over and it's getting warming. It's not surprising; you end an ice age, temperatures do get warmer. Climate change is standard. The concern should really be: in the past, mankind adjusted to climate change. We need to adjust to the change in climate... We need to be thinking in terms of shifting with the climate, because the climate shifts. The climate changes."

On Jan. 1, 1975 S. Manabe and R.T. Wetherald pub. the paper The Effects of Doubling the CO2 Concentration on the climate of a General Circulation Model in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, describing their simplified 3-D gen. climate model based on circulation rather than radiation and convection, which when CO2 is increased raises the temperature of the troposphere (lowest level) while lowering that of the stratosphere, resulting in a 2C temp rise when CO2 is doubled.

On Mar. 1, 1975 Science News pub. the article The Ice Age Cometh!, containing the soundbyte: "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind"; the cover shows glaciers crushing a city.

On Mar. 2, 1975 the Chicago Tribune pub. the article B-r-r-r-r: New ice age on way soon, containing the soundbytes: "In the last decade, the Arctic ice and snow cap has expanded 12 per cent, and for the first time in this century, ships making for Iceland ports have been impeded by drifting ice"; "Many climatologists see these signs as evidence that a significant shift in climate is taking place - a shift that could be the forerunner of an Ice Age like that which gripped much of the Northern Hemisphere before retreating 10,000 years ago"; on Mar. 16, 1986 they flip-flop and pub. the article "The Rising Seas", predicting massive floods.

On Apr. 28, 1975 Newsweek pub. the 9-paragraph article The Cooling World by England-born science ed. Peter Gwynne (1942-), which claims that evidence of a coming ice age is accumulating "so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it", and that "The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only ten years from now", spawning copycat articles by Nat. Geographic and The New York Times and becoming a hit with global warming skeptics incl. Forbes, U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Rush Limbaugh, and Donald Trump; on Jan. 10, 2014 Scientific American pub. the article How the "Global Cooling" Story Came to Be, with the subtitle: "Nine paragraphs written for Newsweek in 1975 continue to trump 40 years of climate science. It is a record that has its author amazed", claiming that Gwynne now believes in CO2-driven global warming, although his story "was accurate at the time".

On May 21, 1975 The New York Times pub. the article Scientists Ask Why World Climate is Changing: Major Cooling May Be Ahead by Walter Sullivan, containing the soundbytes: "Sooner or later a major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable. Hints that it may already have begun are evident. The drop in mean temperatures since 1950 in the Northern Hemisphere has been sufficient, for example, to shorten Britain's growing season for crops by two weeks"; "The first half of this century has apparently been the warmest period since the 'hot spell' between 5,000 and 7,000 years ago immediately following the last ice age. That the climate, at least in the Northern Hemisphere, has been getting cooler since about 1950, is well established - if one ignores the last two winters."

On July 17-18, 1975 the Black Frost (Helada Negra) (worst of the cent.) destroys 1.5B Brazilian coffee trees, over half of Brazil's total, causing other countries to halt exports until retail coffee prices jump 20 cents a lb. within two weeks.

On Aug. 8, 1975 Chicago, Ill.-born Columbia U. geophysicist Wallace Smith "Wally" Broecker (1931-) pub. the paper Climate Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming? in Science mag., coining the terms "global warming" and "climate change", predicting an atmospheric CO2 concentration of 403 ppm by 2010 along with a global temp increase of 1.10C, with the soundbyte: "If man-made dust is unimportant as a major cause of climatic change, then a strong case can be made that the present cooling trend will, within a decade or so, give way to a pronounced warming induced by carbon dioxide. By analogy with similar events in the past, the natural climatic cooling which, since 1940, has more than compensated for the carbon dioxide effect, will soon bottom out. Once this happens, the exponential rise in the atmospheric carbon dioxide content will tend to become a significant factor and by early in the next century will have driven the mean planetary temperature beyond the limits experienced during the last 1000 years"; he goes on to utter the soundbyte: "Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks", becoming known as "the Godfather of Global Warming". Watch video - Wallace Broecker. Watch video - Wallace Broecker. Watch video - Wallace Broecker.

On Oct. 26-29, 1975 Philly-born anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-78), pres. of the Am. Assoc. for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and climate scientist William Welch Kellogg (1917-2007) of the RAND Corp. organize the Endangered Atmosphere Conference at the Nat. Inst. of the Environment in Research Triangle Park, N.C., declaring that "the whole planet may be endangered" by anthropogenic global warming, leading to the destruction of human life, blaming it ultimately on pop. growth, proclaiming a new Law of the Atmosphere where clean nuclear power is taboo, with the soundbyte: "It is inevitable that there will be clash between those concerned with immediate problems and those who concern themselves with long-term consequences"; attendees incl. New York City-born climate scientist Stephen Henry Schneider (1945-2010) (close friend of Paul Ehrlich), George M. Woodwell (1930-) (founder of the Environmental Defense Fund in 1967 and Woods Hole Research Center in 1985), and John Paul Holdren (1944-) (co-author of several books with Paul Ehrlich); in 1976 Mead and Kellogg pub. The Atmosphere: Endangered and Endangering, promoting the idea that each nation "should control carbon dioxide emissions", making the conference into the place where the global warming hoax was born?

In 1975 the U.S. Committee for the Global Atmospheric Research Program of the Nat. Research Council pub. the report Understanding Climatic Change: A Program for Action, which talks about a recent round of global cooling and barely mentions CO2 AGW warming as a factor; it contains the soundbytes: "There is ample evidence, summarized in Appendix A of this report, that climate does change, and there is more than ample evidence from past history and even recent events that changes in climate can profoundly affect human activities and even life itself. Indeed, as a growing population places ever greater demands on food and fiber resources, man's sensitivity to variations in climate will increase. We have an urgent need for better information on global climate. Unfortunately, we do not have a good quantitative understanding of our climate machine and what determines its course. Without this fundamental understanding, it does not seem possible to predict climate - neither in its short-term variations nor in its larger long-term changes. There are some who believe that important variations in climate can occur with changes in the controlling factors that are so small they are difficult to measure. With such barriers to be overcome, is there any assurance of success? We believe so"; "A striking feature of the instrumental record is the behavior of temperature worldwide. As shown by Mitchell (1970), the average surface air temperature in the northern hemisphere increased from the 1880's until about 1940 and has been decreasing thereafter. Starr and Oort (1973) have reported that, during the period 1958-1963, the hemisphere's (mass-weighted) mean temperature decreased by about 0.6 °C. In that period the polar and subtropical arid regions experienced the greatest cooling. The cause of this variation is not known, although clearly this trend cannot continue indefinitely." "During the global warming of the first part of this century, for example, the average length of the growing season in England (as measured by the duration of temperatures above 42 °F) increased by two to three weeks and during the more recent cooling trend since the 1940's has undergone a comparable shortening." "A variety of meteorological indices have been used to characterize the climate and its temporal variations during the past century or more of extensive observations. Global- or hemisphere-averaged indices such as the surface temperature index shown in Figure A. 6 are often used for this purpose. This index clearly suggests a worldwide warming beginning in the 1880's, followed by a cooling since the 1940's. The warming may be recognized as the last part of a complex but recognizable trend that has persisted since the end of the seventeenth century." "In summary, we may say that observational data at the earth's surface show that during the period 1900 to 1940 the northern hemisphere as a whole warmed, although some areas (mainly the Atlantic sector of the Arctic and northern Siberia) warmed far more than the global average, some areas became colder, and others showed little measurable change (Mitchell, 1963). In the time since 1940, an overall cooling has occurred but is again characterized by a geographical structure; cooling since 1958 has occurred in the subtropical arid regions and in the Arctic (Starr and Oort, 1973). There is also some evidence that the northern hemisphere oceans are cooling (Namias, 1972b), although the oceanic data base necessary to confirm this has not yet been assembled." "One may still ask the question: When will the present interglacial end? Few paleoclimatologists would dispute that the prominent warm periods (or interglacials) that have followed each of the terminations of the major glaciations have had durations of 10,000 ±2000 years. In each case, a period of considerably colder climate has followed immediately after the interglacial interval. Since about 10,000 years has elapsed since the onset of the present period of prominent warmth, the question naturally arises as to whether we are indeed on the brink of a period of colder climate. Kukla and Matthews (1972) have already called attention to such a possibility. There seems little doubt that the present period of unusual warmth will eventually give way to a time of colder climate, but there is no consensus with regard to either the magnitude or rapidity of the transition. The onset of this climatic decline could be several thousand years in the future, although there is a finite probability that a serious worldwide cooling could befall the earth within the next hundred years." "These climatic projections, however, could be replaced with quite different future climatic scenarios due to man's inadvertent interference with the otherwise natural variation (Mitchell, 1973a). This aspect of climatic change has recently received increased attention, as evidenced by the smic report (Wilson, 1971). A leading anthropogenic effect is the enrichment of the atmospheric C02 content by the combustion of fossil fuels, which has been rising about 4 percent per year since 1910. There is evidence that the ocean's uptake of much of this C02 is diminishing (Keeling et al., 1974), which raises the possibility of even greater future atmospheric concentrations. Man's activities are also contaminating the atmosphere with aerosols and releasing waste heat into the atmosphere, either (or both) of which may have important climatic consequences (Mitchell, 1973b). Such effects may combine to offset a future natural cooling trend or to enhance a natural warming. This situation serves to illustrate the uncertainty introduced into the problem of future climatic changes by the interference of man and is occurring before adequate knowledge of the natural variations themselves has been obtained. Again, the clear need is for greatly increased research on both the nature and causes of climatic variation."

On Jan. 29, 1976 The Guardian pub. the article Space satellites show new Ice Age coming fast by Anthony Tucker, with the soundbyte: "A preliminary analysis carried out at Columbia University, New York, by the European climatologists Doctors George and Helena Kukla indicates that snow and ice cover of the earth increased by 12 percent during 1967-1972. This appears to be in keeping with other long-term climatic changes, all of which suggest that after reaching a climax of warmth between 1935 and 1955, world average temperatures are now falling."

On June 13, 1976 severe thunderstorms in Iowa spawn several tornadoes, incl. an F-5 that destroys the town of Jordan, Iowa.

On June 23-July 8, 1976 the 1976 Great Britain and Ireland Heat Wave sees the hottest avg. summer temperatures in the U.K. since records began, accompanied by a severe drought and constant blue skies from May until Sept., becoming the driest summer until 1995; on June 28 Southampton, England sets a June temp record at 35.6C (96.1F) (until ?).

On July 28, 1976 (3:42 a.m.) the 7.6 Great 1976 Tangshan Earthquake in Tangshan, Hebei, N China kills 242K+ and causes 10B Chinese renminbi damage, becoming the worst earthquake in Chinese history (until ?).

On Sept. 13, 1976 after DeuPont is first confronted with evidence that their product is destroying the stratospheric ozone layer in 1974, the U.S. Nat. Academy of Sciences reports that Freon (CFCs) used in spray cans is depleting the ozone layer of the atmosphere, increasing deadly UV radiation on the ground.

On Dec. 10, 1976 J.D. Hays, John Imbrie, and N.J. Shackleton pub. the paper Variations in the Earth's Orbit: Pacemaker of the Ice Ages in Science mag., using Milkankovitch Cycles to defnitively prove that "changes in the earth's orbital geometry are the fundamental cause of the succession of Quaternary ice ages", and that "A model of future climate based on the observed orbital-climate relationships, but ignoring anthropogenic effects, predicts that the long-term trend over the next seven thousand years is toward extensive Northern Hempisphere glaciation."

In Dec. 1976 German oceanographer Klaus Hasselmann (1931-) pub. the Hasselmann Stochastic Climate Model, linking weather variability to climate fluctuations by regressing fluctuations in top-of-atmosphere radiation against near-surface air temperature, which unfortunately fails to explain year-to-year observation variability; the model is improved by Cristian Proistosescu et al. in an article pub. on May 14, 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters, eliminating random atmospheric and oceanic processes such as the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, and reducing the data to three driving or forcing sources with different feedbacks and timescales.

In Dec. 1976 English geologist-paleoclimatologist Sir Nicholas John Shackleton (1937-2006) (great-nephew of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton) et al. pub. the paper Variations in the Earth's orbit: Pacemaker of the ice ages in Science, correlating climate oscillations over the past few million years with variations in the orbital and positional relationship of the Earth and Sun (100K-year Milankovitch Cycles) despite the slight change in sunlight, proving that feedbacks susceptible to small changes drive the climate system.

In 1976 after being elected to Congress from Tenn., Dem. rep Al Gore holds the first Congressional hearings on global warming.

In 1976 Am. journalist Lowell Ponte (1946-) pub. the book The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? Can We Survive It?, with foreword by U.S. Sen. Claiborne Pell and preface by U. of Wisc. climatologist Reid A. Bryson, which becomes a hit and goes through five printings; it warns that global cooling is going to be "the primary cause of world food shortages" as a new ice age lasting from 200-10K years results in "rivers of solid ice again as far south as Yosemite in California and Cincinnati, Ohio", claiming that scientists have proposed 60 theories to explain it; he proposes a manmade space heater pointed toward Earth in order to "convert the American southwestern deserts into verdant green valleys" and "stave off world famine".

On Jan. 9, 1977 the Chicago Tribune pub. the article Flood threat from polar ice, which starts out: "'We're doing about the most we can do right now to study the possible collapse of the west ice sheet,' said Dr. Richard Cameron, NSF program manager for glaciology. 'It has become an area of concern because we could be on the brink of a rise in sea levels.' The staggering aspect of the research is the discovery of a potentially catastrophic phenomenon that had been totally unexpected. 'We're seeing the west ice sheet on its way out,' said Cameron. 'It seems to be doing something completely different than the east ice sheet. It has nothing to do with a warmer climate, just the dynamics of unstable ice.'"

On Jan. 16-21, 1977 the Jan. 1977 Cold Wave brings snow to the greater Miami, Fla. area for the first time ever (until ?), damaging citrus crops and causing $350M damage; on Jan. 28-Feb. 1 the Blizzard of 1977 hits W New York and S Ontario, bringing 100 in. of snowfall and snowdrifts of 40 ft.; 1976/7 and 1976/8 become the coldest and snowiest winters in the U.S. until ?.

On Jan. 19, 1977 it snows in Miami, Fla. for the 1st time (until ?), becoming the southernmost U.S. snowfall outside Hawaii.

On Jan. 20, 1977 leftist nutcase James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr. (1924-) becomes Dem. U.S. pres. #39 (until Jan. 20, 1980), creating the 13-member Nat. Commission on Air Quality (NCAQ), with its mission incl. the stabilizing of climate; it is terminated upon pub. of its final report on Mar. 3, 1981; Carter also establishes the Office of Carbon Dioxide Effects in the U.S. Dept. of Energy, which disburses $200M in 1980; meanwhile Carter's EPA dir. assembles a climate science squad that immediately begins pub. reports linking coal burning to catastrophic CO2 emissions; by 1979 the U.S. federal govt. is employing several dozen full-time global warming scientists.

On Jan. 31, 1977 Time mag. pub. the cover story The Big Freeze, reporting that some scientists are reporting a 20F global avg. temp. drop caused by humans.

On Jan. 5, 1978 The New York Times pub. the article International Team of Scientists Finds No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere by Walter Sullivan, which begins: "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... In almost all cases it has been found that the year-to-year variations in climate are far more marked than the long-term trend. The long-term trend often becomes evident only when data from a number of years are displayed. The report, prepared by German, Japanese and American specialists, appears in the Dec. 15 issue of Nature, the British journal. The findings indicate that from 1950 to 1975 the cooling, per decade, of most climate indexes in the Northern Hemisphere was from 0.1 to 0.2 degrees Celsius, roughly 0.2 to 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit. Data from the Southern Hemisphere, particularly south of latitude 30 south, are so meager that reliable conclusions are not possible, the report says. The 30th parallel of south latitude passes through South Africa, Chile, and southern Australia. The cooling trend seems to extend at least part way into the Southern Hemisphere but there have been indications of warming at high southern latitudes."

On Jan. 25-27, 1978 the Great Blizzard of 1978 strikes the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region incl. Ill., Ind., Ky., Mich., Ohio, and SE Wisc. (40 in. of snow) along with SW Ont., Canada, with atmospheric pressure dropping 40 millibars in 24 hours accompanyed by wind gusts of up to 100 mph and wind chills of -51C (-60F), becoming the worst blizzard in U.S. history (until ?) and the worst in Ohio history (until ?) (51 killed), with the 3rd lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure in mainland U.S. history (until ?), reaching 956.0 millibars (28.23 in. Hg) on Jan. 26 in Mount Clemens, Mich., doing $73M damage and killing 71+.

On Jan. 26, 1978 Cheltenham, England-born glaciologist John H. Mercer (1922-87) of Ohio State U. pub. the article West Antarctic ice sheet and CO2 greenhouse effect: a threat of disaster in Nature mag., predicting a rapid deglaciation of West Antarctica and a 5m (16 ft.) rise in sea level after atmospheric CO2 doubles in 50 years, resulting in a collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet, causing NASA's James Hansen to coin the term "Mercer Effect".

In May 1978 the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Office of Carbon Dioxide Effects Research and Assessment pub. a Plan for Research into the Global Climate Cycle and Climatic Effects of Increasing Carbon Dioxide, which spawns more papers incl. The Long-Term Impact of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide on Climate, pub. in Apr. 1979 by JASON scientists Gordon MacDonald et al., and culiminating with The Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States in Dec. 1989.

On Oct. 15, 1978 the U.S. bans the use of fluorocarbons in aerosol sprays to halt destruction of the ozone layer; Sweden joins on June 30, 1979; too bad, the U.S. law is full of loopholes and exemptions.

On Oct. 17-29, 1978 140 mph Super Typhoon Rita (Kading) begins E of the Marshall Islands, growing to typhoon strength on Oct. 20 and hitting the Philippines on Oct. 26, killing 300+ (354 missing) and causing $100M damage.

In 1978 the U.S. Power Plant and Industrial Fuel Use Act is passed, prohibiting construction of natural gas-fired power plants and restricting new oil-fired power plants; in 1982 provisions mandating conversion of existing gas-fueled plants to coal are repealed; the act is repealed in 1987, with new power plants required to be convertible to coal, although land set-asides for coal yards are often ignored; in 1978-88 natural gas's share of U.S. electrical power generation shrinks from 14% to 9%, while coal's share grows from 44% to 57%.

In 1978 Prof. Bragi Arnason of the Univ. of Iceland proposes that Iceland become a Hydrogen Society, and the country begins the conversion to hydrogen power (fuel cells), attempting to become the Kuwait of the North.

In 1979 Leonard Nimoy narrates the TV show In Search of The Coming Ice Age, with the soundbytes: "In 1977 the worst winter in a century struck the United States. Arctic cold ripped the Midwest for weeks on end. Great blizzards paralyzed cities in the Northeast. One desperate night in Buffalo, eight people froze to death in marooned cars"; "Climate experts believe the next ice age is on its way. According to recent evidence, it could come sonner than anyone expected. According to climatologists, within a lifetime we might be living in the next ice age."

In 1978 Am. geologist Douglas "Doug" Vogt and Gary Sultan pub. the book Reality Revealed: The Theory of Multidimensional Reality, with the ad blurb: "The first information theory of existence explains many of the hardest phenomena in the Universe such as: the causes of the ice ages, polar reversals, mass extinctions, gravity, light, pyramid energy, kirlian photography, psychic phenomena, and more!" In 1997 Vogt founds the Diehold Foundation in Jacksonville, Fla. to do research on the cause of the Ice Ages, with the soundbytes: "The purpose for the Foundations' research is to see if global warming is caused by a collapsing magnetic field on the Earth and the Sun which will eventually culminate in a geomagnetic reversal then an ice age on the Earth. Reports and videos will be made as the research progresses"; "We believe we can determine what side of the earth will be facing the sun when it novas during the next geomagnetic reversal (polar reversal)." In 2007 Vogt pub. the book God's Day of Judgment: The Real Cause of Global Warming, explaining why he's obsessed with sudden geomagnetic reversals, viz., belief in the Bible, giving his critics ammo for calling him a religious kook - he'll prove God right on Judgment Day? Watch video - Douglas Vogt. Watch video - Douglas Vogt.

On Feb. 11, 1979 The Observer pub. an article reporting that some climatologists want to spred soot over the Arctic to melt the ice and stop global cooling.

On Feb. 12-23, 1979 the First World Climate Conference is held in Geneva by the World Meteorological Org. and attended by scientists from 50 nations, who unanimously demand urgent action to stop CO2-induced global warming, resulting in the establishment of the World Climate Programme (WCP) and the World Climate Research Programme, which lead to the creation of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988 after the conference pub. the conclusion: "It appears plausible that an increased amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can contribute to a gradual warming of the lower atmosphere, especially at higher latitudes... It is possible that some effects on a regional and global scale may be detectable before the end of this century and become significant before the middle of the next century."

On Feb. 18, 1979 snow falls in the Sahara Desert in Ain Sefra, NW Algeria ("Gateway to the Desert") for the first time in recorded history; it lasts for 30 min.; next time Jan. 20, 2017.

On Mar. 11, 1979 the Lawrence Journal World pub. the article Experts assess world's changing climate on p. 8, which contains the soundbyte: "One thing is indisputable: The world has been cooling off since World War II, something like one degree Fahrenheit. But that may be only a temporary swing in climate. Dr. J. Murray Mitchell, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the world has been cooling off in the long run. "On an average it's cooled down by something like one degree Fahrenheit or half-a-degree Celsius, that that cooling began around World War II."

On Mar. 26, 1979 Edward Garvey, Henry Shaw, Wallace Broecker, and Taro Takahashi of Exxon makes a proposal to help NOAA assess the greenhouse effect, actually wanting to assess the impact on Exxon's business and enhance its public relations image, acknowledging that increased atmospheric CO2 levels could be the result of fossil fuel combustion; on Nov. 19 Exxon's Henry Shaw sends a memo to H.N. Weinberg on Exxon's research on the "potential greenhouse effect", urging that Exxon participate to "influence possible legislation on environmental controls" while starting a "very aggressive defensive program"; on Jan. 29, 1980 Exxon's Walt Eckelmann sends a memo to Morey O'Loughlin, reporting that Exxon's Science and Technology Dept. views the build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere as a "potentially serious problem requiring the results of a huge world-wide research effort", detailing ongoing research efforts incl. the $600K/year program to determine whether the primary cause of atmospheric CO2 buildup is fossil fuels or forest clearing; on June 9, 1980 Exxon's H.N. Weinberg sends a memo to H. Shaw and N.R. Werthamer about Exxon's Greenhouse Program, detailing an argument over whether the oceans can act as a global carbon sink, with Weinberg claiming that the oceans can release CO2 at "the upwelling zones"; on Dec. 18, 1980 Exxon's Henry Shaw sends a memo to T.K. Kett reporting that forests are a CO2 sink, hence deforestation is partly responsible for increased atmospheric CO2 levels, and that another CO2 sink must be found, citing disputes over climate sensitivity, with the soundbyte: "General concensus [sic] will not be reached until such time as a significant temperature increase can be detected above the natural random temperature fluctuations in average global climate. The earliest that such discreet signals will be able to be measured is after the year 2000"; on Sept. 2, 1982 Exxon's Roger Cohen sends a memo to Al Natkin summarizing company climate model research, with the soundbyte that a "clear scientific consensus has emerged regarding the effects of increased atmospheric CO2." The Exxon Knew Movement that "Exxon knew about climate change" is born, although only a few of their scientists believed in it, and only a few govt. scientists? Watch video - Tony Heller.

In May 1979 the Office of Science and Technological Policy requests the Nat. Research Council to assess the CO2 global warming issue, causing Am. meteorologist Jule Gregory Charney (1917-81) of MIT to assemble a collection of oceanographers, meteorologists and climate modelers in a mansion in Woods Hole, Mass. joined by officials from the EPA, NOAA, and the U.S. Depts. of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, and State; on July 23-27, 1979 the Ad Hoc Study Group on Carbon Dioxide and Climate is held in Woods Hole, Mass., going on in 1979 to pub. the report Carbon Dioxide and Climate: A Scientific Assessment (The Charney Report) to the Climate Research Board of the U.S. Nat. Research Council, containing the conclusion: "When it is assumed that the CO2 content of the atmosphere is doubled and statistical thermal equilibrium is achieved, the more realistic of the modeling efforts predict a global surface warming of between 2°C and 3.5°C, with greater increases at high latitudes... We estimate the most probable global warming for a doubling of CO2 to be near 3°C with a probable error of ± 1.5°C... We have tried but have been unable to find any overlooked or underestimated physical effects that could reduce the currently estimated global warmings due to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 to negligible proportions or reverse them altogether"; too bad, it never mentions the Greenhouse Gas Theory of Svante Arrhenius, although it relies heavily on his work, giving him instant legitimacy?

In 1979 the Manifesto Research Group (MRG) is founded, turning into the Comparative Manifesto Project in 1989, which analyzes the climate views of 13 right-wing Euro political parties.

1980

1980 is the first year when global warming effects become noticeable?; this year the yearly number of wildfires in Calif. reaches a peak, bottoming-out in ?

On Jan. 15-31, 1980 Tropical Cyclone Hyacinthe forms NE of Mauritius and moves W-SW, passing N of Reunion and S of E Madagascar, dropping 3.3 ft. (1m) of rain on Reunion, and 239.5 in. (6.083m) of rainfail on Commerson's Crater, becoming the wettest tropical cyclone on record (until ?), destroying 2K houses and causing $167M damage.

On Feb. 14, 1980 the Solar Maximum (SolarMax) satellite is launched by NASA to monitor the Sun and its flares at an orbit of 400 mi. above the Earth; in Nov. its attitude control system fails, but it is repaired and launched by the Space Shuttle in Apr. 1984, then is destroyed by a massive solar flare on Dec. 2, 1989.

On Mar. 27, 1980 (Thur.) Mount St. Helens in Washington State (dormant for 123 years) erupts with ash and steam at 1.1K F; a crater forms at the summit and the N flank begins to bulge; on May 18 (8:32 a.m.) it explodes with the force of 500 A-bombs, losing over 1.3K ft. of elevation (9,677 to 8,364) and gaining a 2-mi.-long 1-mi.-wide crater; 57 people are killed or missing; 51M cu. yds. of debris is dumped into the Columbia River.

On Apr. 3, 1980 U.S. Sen. (D-Mass.) Paul Tsongas convenes the first Congressional hearing on the Greenhouse Effect (Effects of Carbon Dioxide Buildup in the Atmosphere); Gordon J.F. MacDonald (1929-2002) recommends a coordinated U.S.-U.N. energy policy, but doesn't endorse synfuels, recommending nuclear and solar; CBS-TV Evening News host Walter Cronkite makes a report on it, emphasizing alarmist fears.

In June-Sept. 1980 the 1980 U.S. summer heat wave cooks the Midwest and Southern Plains, causing massive drought that causes $20B agricultural damage and kills 1.7K; the Dallas/Fort Worth, Tex. area sees 100F+ temps a total of 69x incl. 42 straight days from June 23-Aug. 3, and 113F (45C) on June 26-28; on July 5 the More Trees Down Derecho blows in E Neb. to Va. for 15 hours, killing six and injuring 70; on July 15 the Western Wisc. Derecho kills three and causes $240M damage, becoming the largest storm damage total in Wisc. to that point. Watch video - Tony Heller.

On Oct. 29-31, 1980 a 3-day conference in St. Petersburg. Fla. of 24 experts invited by the Nat. Commission on Air Quality at the request of Congress is attended by David H. Slade, dir. of the Carbon Dioxide and Climate Div. of the Office of Health and Environmental Research of the U.S. Dept. of Energy, along with reps from the nuclear industry, environmental movement, and EPA, with all attendees provided copies of Charney's report; attendees agree on the need to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, but disagree on the transition's timeline, the basic urgency of the problem, with Slade believing that evidence of anthropogenic warming might not manifest within the lifetimes of the assembled, while environmentalists argue that by the time humans detect anthropogenic warming it could be too late; the group fails to agree on a wording for the opening paragraph of their joint statement, and the war is on?

On June 30, 1980 Pres. Carter signs the U.S. Energy Security Act, consisting of six major acts incl. synthetic fuels corp., biomass energy and alcohol fuels, renewable energy resources, solar energy and energy conservation, solar energy and energy conservation bank, geothermal energy, and ocean thermal energy conservation acts, directing the Nat. Academy of Science (NAS) to fund analyses of climate change.

In 1980 the anti-nuclear energy Oko-Inst. ( Öko-Institut) of Applied Ecology of Brisgau, Germany (founded in 1977) pub. Energiewende, which calls for nuclear and fossil fuel energy to be completely abandoned; too bad, Germany bites bigtime, with the Federal Environment Ministry hosting a symposium in Berlin on Feb. 16 titled Energiewende - Nuclear Phase-Out and Climate Protection; in 1991 Germany passes a feed-in tariff, providing for payment above the market rate for using renewable energy, guaranteeing the renewable energy industry a profit, with an avg. German household paying $171 in 2011; in Sept. 2010 the German govt. pub. a key policy document outlining the plan, which is passed by the Bundestag the same month; on June 6, 2011 after Fukishima gives them a kick in the pants, the govt. takes nuclear power out of its policy's list of bridging technologies; after the 2013 federal elections bring a coalition of the CDSU/CSU and SPD, they introduce a target of a 55%-60% share of renewable energy by 2035, and greenhouse gas reductions of 80%-95% by 2050, resulting in high electricity prices.

In 1980 after Congress requests the Nat. Academy of Science to review the science of climate change, Pres. Carter commissions a $1M analysis of the CO2 problem, with Am. physicist William Aaron Nierenberg (1919-2000), Roger Revelle's successor at the Scripps Inst. of Oceanography as chmn. of the Carbon Dioxide Assessment Committee, and economists William D. Nordhaus of Yale U. and Thomas Schelling of Harvard U. joining major physical scientists; on Oct. 19, 1983 it announces their 500-page report Changing Climate at a gala in the Nat. Academy of Science's Great Hall, backing up the Charney conclusions of a likely global warming of 1.5C-4.5C after a doubling of CO2, greater by 2x-3x over the poles than over the tropics, with a sea level rise of 70 cm over a cent., along with massive ice melts, famines, and cannibalism, concluding that while rising CO2 is a cause for concern, no action should be taken without more study and a careful program of monitoring and analysis; global warmists later claim that climate change denier Nierenberg slanted the conclusions toward inaction, and "in doing so arguably launched the climate change debate, transforming the issue from one of scientific concern to one of political controversy." On July 25, 2017 Nordhaus and Andrew Moffat pub. the study A Study of Global Impacts of Climate Change: Replication, Survey Methods, and a Statistical Analysis, which finds that a 2C increase in avg. global temps would only damage the world economy by up to 1% by 2100, while doubling the warming would only up that to 3%.

In 1980 the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is founded by the World Meteorological Org. (WMO) and the Internat. Council for Science (ICSU); in 1993 it is sponsored by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO; in 1989 the U.S. establishes the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), composed of 13 federal agencies with the task of issuing periodic reports about U.S. climate called the Nat. Climate Assessment; in 1995 the Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM) of WCRP establishes the Coupled model intercomparison project to coordinate research on Climate models incl. Gen. circulation models (GCMs). Watch video.

On Jan. 13, 1981 UPI carries the article A Report from President Carter's environmental advisers warned Tuesday...; about a report from Pres. Carter's Council on Environmental Quality to Pres. Carter warning that CO2-driven global warming might melt Antarctice ice, raising sea levels by 5m-8m, and forcing agriculture toward the poles, with council chmn. James Gustave "Gus" Speth (1942-) uttering the soundbyte: "The carbon dioxide problem is too important and too close upon us to be safely neglected in the making of energy policy. We must begin to take the CO2 problem seriously in charting our energy future", calling the consequences of a climate change in the next 40 years "much too risky" to ignore; the report says that fossil fuel use will have to peak in the early decades of the next cent. to forestall critical changes that could come from a doubling of atmospheric CO2, but Speth adds that the obvious solution of nuclear energy is "too risky"; the report calls on the U.S. as the world's biggest energy consumer to take the lead in energy planning and develop a "philosophical and ethical perspective"; the article carries the soundbyte: "Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere permits sunlight to enter, but prevents heat from escaping into space."

On Feb. 22, 1981 UPI carries the story Global warming trend 'beyond human experience' by Edward Roby, talking about the new U.S. Dept. of Energy report Environmental and Societal Consequences of a Possible CO2-Induced Climate Change: A Research Agenda; on Feb. 23 he follows with Warming trend could 'pit nation against nation', with the soundbyte: "Future coal use by the United States, China and the Soviet Union will have an important effect on the so-called greenhouse effect."

On Aug. 22, 1981 The New York Times pub. a front-page story by Walter Sullivan titled Study Finds Warming Trend That Could Raise Sea Levels, about NASA'a James Edward Hansen and his forthcoming global warming paper in Science, conceding that the past century's warming lays within the range of historical averages but predicting the emergence of an anthropogenic global warming signal, with the soundbytes: "A team of Federal scientists says it has detected an overall warming trend in the earth's atmosphere extending back to the year 1880. They regard this as evidence of the validity of the 'greenhouse' effect, in which increasing amounts of carbon dioxide cause steady temperature increases."; "The seven atmospheric scientists predict a global warming of 'almost unprecedented magnitude' in the next century. It might even be sufficient to melt and dislodge the ice cover of West Antarctica, they say, eventually leading to a worldwide rise of 15 to 20 feet in the sea level. In that case, they say, it would 'flood 25 percent of Louisiana and Florida, 10 percent of New Jersey and many other lowlands throughout the world' within a century or less"; "Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is primarily a result of mankind's burning of fuels, is thought to act like the glass of a greenhouse. It absorbs heat radiation from the earth and its atmosphere, heat that otherwise would dissipate into space. Other factors being equal, the more carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere, the warmer the earth should become, according to the theory"; "Dr. Hansen and his colleagues cite the observed surface temperatures of Mars and, particularly, Venus as support for their predicted greenhouse effect. The surface of Venus, with an atmosphere formed largely of carbon dioxide, is at about 900 degrees Fahrenheit"; "The possibility that the greenhouse effect could alter the earth's temperature has long been debated. Scientists have agreed that carbon dioxide is increasing, but disagree on whether temperatures are also increasing . The major difficulty in accepting the greenhouse theory 'has been the absence of observed warming coincident with the historic carbon dioxide increase,' the scientists wrote"; "Researchers were further confounded by an apparent cooling trend since 1940. As a result, many atmospheric scientists concluded that the climatic effects of increased carbon dioxide might not become detectable for many decades. But the Government scientists say they see clear evidence that carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution has already warmed the climate"; "Their conclusion that the climate has warmed by almost one degree in the last century is based on a re-analysis of global observations, paying special attention to the Southern Hemisphere. 'The common misconception that the world is cooling,' they say, 'is based on Northern Hemisphere experience to 1970.'" Too bad, they don't mention that the Northern Hemisphere has the most and best temperature measurement stations, and those for the Southern Hemisphere are patchy and faulty, allowing any prejudiced scientist to read-in one degree of warming in the last century.

On Aug. 28, 1981 after starting out in astronomy and deciding that Venus' high temperatures are due to high CO2, seeing it as a prophecy of coming doom for Earth, NASA Goddard climate scientist James Edward Hansen (1941-) et al. pub. the study Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide in Science, with the abstract: "The global temperature rose 0.2°C between the middle 1960s and 1980, yielding a warming of 0.4°C in the past century. This temperature increase is consistent with the calculated effect due to measured increases of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Variations of volcanic aerosols and possibly solar luminosity appear to be primary causes of observed fluctuations about the mean trend of increasing temperature. It is shown that the anthropogenic carbon dioxide warming should emerge from the noise level of natural climate variability by the end of the century, and there is a high probability of warming in the 1980s. Potential effects on climate in the 21st century include the creation of drought-prone regions in North America and central Asia as part of a shifting of climatic zones, erosion of the West Antarctic ice sheet with a consequent worldwide rise in sea level, and opening of the fabled Northwest Passage"; no surprise, it recommends abandoning fossil fuels; within a few mo. Hansen is promoted to dir. of NASA's Inst. of Space Studies at Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Md. On Oct. 27, 1998 Hansen et al. pub. the paper Climate forcings in the industrial era in Proceedings of the Nat. Academy of Sciences, discussing perceived flaws in the CO2 greenhouse warming narrative and claiming to handle them, with the abstract: "The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change. Anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs), which are well measured, cause a strong positive (warming) forcing. But other, poorly measured, anthropogenic forcings, especially changes of atmospheric aerosols, clouds, and land-use patterns, cause a negative forcing that tends to offset greenhouse warming. One consequence of this partial balance is that the natural forcing due to solar irradiance changes may play a larger role in long-term climate change than inferred from comparison with GHGs alone. Current trends in GHG climate forcings are smaller than in popular 'business as usual' or 1% per year CO2 growth scenarios. The summary implication is a paradigm change for long-term climate projections: uncertainties in climate forcings have supplanted global climate sensitivity as the predominant issue"; "Sometimes it is argued that climate forcing due to solar variability is negligible because it is much smaller than the GHG forcing. However, a more relevant comparison is with the net forcing by all other known mechanisms. Fig. 2 suggests that this net forcing may be only ˜1 W/m2, with considerable uncertainty. Thus a solar forcing of even 0.4 W/m2 could have played a substantial role in climate change during the Industrial era. If solar irradiance is now at a relatively high level, as some evidence suggests (39), solar forcing could be negative in the coming century, thus tending to counteract GHG forcing rather than reinforcing it (Fig. 2). This emphasizes our need to monitor and understand solar variability."

On Nov. 22-24, 1981 the 1981 U.K. Tornado Outbreak sees a record 104 confirmed tormadoes touch down across England and Wales in 5 hours 26 min., becoming the largest tornado outbreak in Euro history (until ?); in Dec. 1981 the 1981-2 U.K. Cold Wave (Big Snow of 1982) begins (ends Jan.); on Jan. 10, 1982 the temperature in Harper Adams U., Edgmond, Shropshire records a low temp of -26.1C (-14.98F), becoming the lowest temperature ever recorded in England (until ?), also recrded in Newport, Telford, and Wrekin; on Jan. 10 Braemar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland records a record -27.2C (-17.0F), becoming the lowest temperature ever recorded in the U.K. (until ?);

In 1981 the CLIMAP project uses fossil plankton species to estimate ocean temps during the last Ice Age, finding that the equators remained warm.

In 1981 Newark, N.J. U. of Md. business admin. prof. Julian Lincoln Simon (1932-98) pub. the book The Ultimate Resource, which challenges the Malthusians, arguing that as intelligent beings, humans are capable of innovating their way out of shortages, which proves true (until ?); rev. ed. pub. in 1996 under title "The Ultimate Resource 2"; on Sept. 29, 1980 he makes the Simon-Ehrlich Wager with biologist Paul Ehrlich, betting that the prices of five metals would decrease over a decade; on Sept. 29, 1990 (payoff date) Ehrlich loses after all five commodities decline in price.

On May 2, 1982 (8:00 p.m. ET) Landmark Communications' The Weather Channel debuts on cable TV after a proposal by Alpine, Tex.-born Good Morning America weathercaster John Coleman (1934-2018) to CEO Frank Batten, with the motto "You need us for everything you do", losing $10M this year and not becoming profitable for several years; in 2007 Coleman becomes an outspoken critic of global warming, calling it the "greatest scam in history". Watch video - John Coleman. Watch video - John Coleman. Watch video - John Coleman. Watch video - anti-John Coleman.

On June 25, 1982 Ridley Scott's Blade Runner debuts, the first sci-fi film noir, based on the 1968 Philip K. Dick story "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"; stars Harrison Ford and Edward James Olmos as Nov. 2019 climate-fucked LA cops Rick Deckard and Gaff, who must track down pesky "replicants", humanoid robots Daryl Hannah ("Pris"), Joanna Cassidy ("Zhora"), Brion James ("Leon Kowalski"), led by Rutger Hauer ("Roy Batty"), who are programmed to die in days and are searching for their maker Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel), finally getting to him through his asst. J.F. Sebastian (William Sanderson), only to discover he's a replicant too; meanwhile Deckard falls for replicant Rachael (Sean Young), and has to decide between eloping or terminating her; Deckard is a replicant?; score by Vangelis features Rachel's Song, End Theme; watch trailer; view clip; TLW's favorite sci-fi flick other than Star Trek and Star Wars; should have been set in Nov. 2049 not Nov. 2019?

In 1982 Dutch atmospheric scientist Paul Jozef Crutzen (1933-) and John Birks pub. The Atmosphere after a Nuclear War: Twilight at Noon, becoming the first paper to propose a possible Nuclear Winter, with the soundbyte: "Nuclear war could easily mean the destruction of not only our race, but most of the planetary life as well." In Jan. 1991 Crutzen pub. an article in the Baltimore Sun predicting nuclear winter-like effects from the Kuwait oil fires. In 1995 Crutzen shares the Nobel Prize for his work on the hole in the ozone layer, going on to become a big believer in the CO2 greenhouse warming theory and call for radical actions incl. geoengineering. In Jan. 2008 Crutzen pub. a paper announcing that nitrous oxide (N20) emissions emitted during the production of biofuels contribute more to global warming than the fossil fuels they replace.

In 1982 after claiming that climate sensitivity is only about 0.3C, and that NASA's global warming predictions are "about 10 times too great", and that global warming will have a beneficial effect on agriculture, Thief River Falls, Minn.-born physicist Sherwood B. Idso (1942-) pub. Carbon Dioxide: Friend or Foe? An inquiry into the climatic and agricultural consequences of the rapidly rising CO content of Earth's atmosphere, highlighting CO2's benefits, becoming the first anti-global warming (AGW) book; the next one doesn't appear until July 1, 1989, his Carbon Dioxide and Global Change: Earth in Transition. In 1997 he pub. Global Warming: The Science and the Politics, which contains the soundbyte: "I find no compelling reason to believe that the earth will necessarily experience any global warming as a consequence of the ongoing rise in the atmosphere's carbon dioxide concentration"; in 1998 he pub. the paper "CO2-induced global warming: a skeptic's view of potential climate change", containing the soundbyte: "Several of these cooling forces have individually been estimated to be of equivalent magnitude, but of opposite sign, to the typically predicted greenhouse effect of a doubling of the air's CO2 content, which suggests to me that little net temperature change will ultimately result from the ongoing buildup of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere." On Jan. 7, 2011 Sherwood and his son Craig Idso pub. The Many Benefits of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment. Watch video. Watch video. Watch video.

In summer 1983 the U.S. Summer 1983 Heat Wave sees 100F+ temps in the drought-stricken Corn Belt and Upper Midwest states of Iowa, Mo., Ill., Mich., Wisc., Ind., Ohio, Minn., Neb., and Ky., along with the SE and Mid-Atlantic states; the city of St. Louis, Mo. sets up cooling centers for people without air conditioning.

On July 21, 1983 the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica records a record low ground level temp of -89.2C (-128.6F) (until ?).

On Aug. 18, 1983 small powerful 115 mph Hurricane Alicia(formed Aug. 15) hits the Tex. coast, killing 21 and causing $3B in damage, becoming the worst Tex. hurricane since Hurricane Carla in 1961; the last hurricane to hit mainland U.S. was Hurricane Allen in Aug. 1980.

In 1983 the Oak Foundation is founded in Chapel Hill, N.C. to support torture victims and single mothers, going on to fund climate change activists incl. Greenpeace, the World Resources Inst., the Environmental Law Inst., World Wildlife Fund, Oil Change Internat. et al.

On Mar. 9, 1984 the libertarian think tank Competitive Enterprise Inst. (CEI) in Washington, D.C. is founded by lobbyist Fred L. Smith Jr. to fight against big govt., going on to lead climate change skeptics. Watch video - Fred L. Smith Jr..

On Oct. 5, 1984 the NASA Ball Aerospace Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) is launched by Space Shuttle Challenger, which can measure the greenhouse effect without relying on climate models, showing that clouds have a large cooling effect; it is deactivated on Oct. 14, 2005.

In 1984 Michael G.L. ""Mike" Baillie et al. of Queen's U. in Belfast, Northern Ireland use Irish oak trees to establish an unbroken tree-ring chronology back 7,272 years.

In 1984 the libertarian-conservative think tank Heartland Inst. is founded in Arlington Heights (near Chicago), Ill. by Chicago investor David H. Padden (1927-2011), becoming known for backing free market policies before working for Philip Morris to question the health risks of second-hand smoke in the 1990s, going on in 2008 to back climate change/global warming denial, holding regular conferences and back the Tea Party; Kimberly, Wisc.-born Joseph Lee "Joe" Bast (1958-) becomes pres.-CEO #1 (until 2017), building it up to 8.3K supporters by 2015 incl. 160+ elected officials who serve on its legislative forum. Watch video - The Heartland Inst. Watch video - anti-Heartland Inst. Watch video - Joseph Bast. Watch video - Joseph Bast.

In 1984 the George C. Marshall Inst. (GMI) is established in Arlington, Va. as a conservative think tank with a focus on science and public policy issues (esp. to back Pres. Reagan's Star Wars program AKA Strategic Defense Initiative) by NASA astronomer Robert Jastrow (1925-2008), Am. solid state physicist Frederick "Fred" Seitz (1911-2008), and Am. physicist William Aaron Nierenberg (1919-2000), later becoming a major critic of climate change science; in 2015 it morphs into the CO2 Coalition.

On Jan. 1, 1985 Michael Howard "Mickey" Glantz of the U. of Colo. and Thomas R. Stewart of the NYSU Albany, working for the Nat. Defense U. pub. Expert judgment and climate forecasting: A methodological critique of “climate change to the year 2000”; "One could effectively argue that in the early 1970s the prevailing view was that the earth was moving toward a new ice age. Many articles appeared in the scientific literature as well as in the popular press speculating about the impact on agriculture of 1-2 deg C of cooling."

On Feb. 1, 1985 the town of Maybell, Moffatt County, Colo. sets a state low temp record of -61F (-51.7C).

On Mar. 22, 1985 the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer is signed by 28 nations, becoming effective on Sept. 22, 1988 after ratification by 20 states, growing to 197; it doesn't contain legally binding CFC reduction goals, but creates the Meeting of Ozone Research Mgrs. to assess ozone depletion and climate change research and produce reports for the Conference of Parties.

On May 16, 1985 British scientists Joe Farman, Brian Gardner, and Jonathan Shanklin studying the South Pole pub. an article in Nature announcing the finding of an "ozone hole" the size of the U.S. in the ozone layer of the atmosphere over Antarctica, with depletion as much as 70% in austral spring, allowing dangerous UV radiation to reach the Earth's surface; too bad, "The urgency of the alarm seemed to have everything to do with the phrase 'a hole in the ozone layer', which charitably put, was a mixed metaphor. For there was no hole and there was no layer... In satellite images colorized to show density the darker region appeared to depict a void. When F. Sherwood Rowland... spoke of an 'ozone hole' in a university slide lecture in November 1985, the crisis had found its catchphrase. The New York Times used it the same day in its article about the British team's findings, and while scientific journals initially refused to use the term within a year it was unavoidable." (Nathaniel Rich)

On Oct. 9-15, 1985 the Internat. Conference of the Assessment of the Role of Carbon Dioxide and of Other Greenhouse Gases in Climate Variations and Associated Impacts is held by the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), the Internat. Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), and the World Meteorological Org. (WMO) in Villach, Austria, led by Canadian climatologist Fredrick Kenneth Hare (1919-2002) and Swedish meteorologist Bert Rickard Johannes Bolin (1925-2007), and chaired by Canadian climatologist Gordon McBean, after which the U.N. Advisory Group on Greenhouse Gases is founded by the U.N. Environment Programme, the World Meteorological Org. (WMO), and the Internat. Council of Scientific Unions, holding its last meeting in 1990 after being replaced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (founded 1988); to make sure that it wasn't completely controlled by global warming scientists, the Reagan admin. requires govt. reps to be on the panel, which ends up backfiring as it becomes a body of politicians ordering scientists what conclusions to reach? In 1975 Bolin helped the Swedish govt. pass a bill on future energy policy containing the soundbyte: "It is likely that climatic concerns will limit the burning of fossil fuels rather than the size of the natural resources", earning him a rep as the man who got the world to agree on climate. In ? McBean becomes asst. deputy minister of Environment Canada (EC), increasing the funding of climate change research (esp. climate models) so much ($6.8B in 1997-2005) that the Canadian Auditor Gen. (CAG) investigates them. On Nov. 15, 2007 Bolin pub. the semi-autobio. book A History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change: The Role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

On Dec. 10, 1985 astronomer Carl Sagan testifies before Congress, pushing the fabled greenhouse effect, with all the future IPCC talking points.

In 1985 Am. oceanographer John Englander carries the flag of the Explorers Club on a diving expedition under the High Arctic Ice Cap, going on to become a global warming activist warning of the dangers of sea level rise, which never comes but he thinks is around the corner? On Oct. 22, 2012 he pub. the book High Tide On Main Street: Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis, which predicts a superstorm hitting Atlantic City, N.J. and New York City one week before Hurricane Sandy, making it a bestseller. Watch video - John Englander. Watch video - Willie Soon.

In 1985 Am. agronomist Sylvan Harold Wittwer (1917-2012) and Am. biologist Boyd Ray Strain pub. the paper Carbon dioxide levels in the biosphere: Effects on plant productivity in Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, touting the benefits of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), with the soundbyte: "An increase in plant growth due to 'fertilization' of extra CO2 has not been measured, but a 5 to 15% increase may already have occurred. Current data indicate that plants growing at higher than normal CO2 levels are more tolerant of water, temperature, light, and atmospheric pollutant stresses. There are effects on carbon metabolism, plant growth and development, microbial activity, and terrestrial and aquatic plant communities." On Sept. 1, 1987 Wittwer pub. Feeing a Billion: Frontiers of Chinese Agriculture, followed by Food, Climate, and Carbon Dioxide: The Global Environment and World Food Production (Oct. 30, 1995).

On June 11, 1986 The Milwaukee Journal pub. the AP article Greenhouse effect is speeding up, with NASA's head liar, er, climate scientist James Hansen uttering the soundbyte: "The fact that the greenhouse effect is real is proven", claiming that avg. U.S. temps have risen 1-2F since 1958, and will rise 3F-4F more by 2020.

On June 10-11, 1986 after Chafee utters the soundbyte: "Ozone depletion and the greenhouse effect can no longer be treated solely as scientific questions. They must be seen as critical problems facing the nations of the world, and they are problems that demand solutions", the House Subcommittee on Pollution of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee chaired by liberal U.S. Sen. (R-R.I.) (1976-99) John Lester Hubbard Chafee (1922-99) holds back-to-back hearings on CFCs and CO2, the Greenhouse Effect and its implications for public policy, featuring British atmospheric chemist Sir Robert Tony Watson (1948-) of NASA for CFCs, and James E. Hansen, George Woodwell, and Al Gore for CO2, after which Chafee urges the U.S. State Dept. to negotiate an internat. solution to "global warming", making the term immediately popular; the subcommittee requests the U.S. EPA to undertake studies, and in May 1989 after it commissions 55 studies by govt. and academic scientists, Dennis A. Tirpak (deputy dir. of the EPA Global Climate Change Div. in 1984-92) and Joel B. Smith of the U.S. EPA present Congress with the report The Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States, which is pub. by the EPA in Dec. 1989; it concludes that warmer weather "could have an enormous impact upon human health through the 21st century", even if people acclimatize; Tirpak goes on to become a lead author of the 2007 Fourth IPCC Assessment Report; Smith goes on to become a lead author of the 2001 Third, 2007 Fourth, and 2014 Fifth IPCC Assessment Reports.

Killer lake farts? On Aug. 21, 1986 a lethal cloud of 100K-1.6M tons of invisible CO2 gas erupts from under Lake Nyos in NW Cameroon, killing 1,746 people plus 3.5K livestock, becoming the strangest disaster of the 20th cent.?; a smaller release from Lake Monoun in 1984 killed 37.

The year 1987 is the warmest on record based on studies by NASA's Goddard Inst. for Space Studies in New York, and by a team at the U. of East Anglia in Britain led by Thomas Wigley; starting this year CO2 emissions go on to constitute 50% of all atmospheric CO2 by 2014; 40% since 1990; 30% since 2000.

On Jan. 29, 1987 U.S. Sen. (D-Del.) (1973-2009) Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden (1942-) introduces the Global Climate Protection Act for creation of a nat. climate strategy, becoming the first Senate bill dealing with climate change, directing the U.S. pres. to establish a Task Force on Global Climate to do R&D and implement a nat. strategy on global climate and deliver a U.S. Strategy on Global Climate to the U.S. pres. within a year, which he is required to report to specified members of Congress, while appointing an ambassador at large to coordinate U.S. govt. efforts in multinat. efforts to fight global warming, also requiring the U.S. pres. to give climate protection top priority in his agenda of U.S.-Soviet relations; the U.S. secy. of state is directed to promote an Internat. Year of Global Climate Protection; too bad, it doesn't pass.

On Aug. 26, 1987 the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is signed by 46 nations, effective Aug. 26, 1989, calling for a 50% reduction in the use of all substances responsible for ozone layer depletion esp. chloroflurocarbons (CFCs) by the year 2000; 197 U.N. members eventually ratify it; the ozone layer depletion stops by 1995, and is projected to return to 1980 levels in 2050-2070.

On Oct. 15-16, 1987 the Great Storm of 1987 rakes the U.K., France, and Channel Islands, with 135 mph winds at Pointe Du Rock, Granville, France, and 120 mph winds at Shoreham, killing 22+ in England and France.

On Oct. 27, 1987 Rockefeller Repub. John C. Topping, (former EPA official under Pres. Reagan), 1986 founder of the Climate Inst. in Washington, D.C. (first NGO with the word "climate" in its name) hosts the First North Am. Conference on Preparing for Climate Change: A Cooperative Approach in Washington, D.C., backed by Big Oil fossil fuel cos. incl. BP, G.E., and the Am. Gas Assoc., featuring the usual suspects Gordon J.F. MacDonald, George M. Woodwell, and Stephen H. Schneider of NCAR (known for calling the CO2 Greenhouse Effect "one of the best established theories in atmospheric science"), becoming the largest gathering so far on the climate change subject, and the first time that climatologists and climate impact scholars meet with a broad array of policy makers from industry and govt., recruiting 250 business and environmental lobbyists to the global warming hoax, er, cause; on Dec. 6-8, 1988 the 2nd North Am. Conference on Preparing for Climate Change is held in Washington, D.C. In 1988 Topping ed. the book Preparing for Climate Change, followed in 1989 by Coping with Climate Change. In 2008 Topping, Michael C. MacCracken, and Frances Moore ed. the book Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change: Exploring the Real Risks and how We Can Avoid Them, with the killer ad blurb: "While changes in emissions and atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are projected to be slow and smooth, the intensity and impacts of climate change on the environment and society could be abrupt and erratic. Surprising and nonlinear responses are likely to occur as warming exceeds certain thresholds, inducing relatively rapid and disruptive changes in the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, precipitation intensity and patterns, coastal inundation, the occurrence of wildfire, the ranges of plant and animal species and more."

In Nov. 1987 after the U.S. Congress holds eight days of climate hearings by three committees and both chambers, U.S. Sen. (D-Colo.) (1987-93) Timothy Endicott "Tim" Wirth (1939-) (backer of Al Gore's agenda) unveils a package of legislation aimed at "converting the science of climate change into a new national energy policy".

In Dec. 1987 Time mag. names the Endangered Earth the Planet of the Year, signalling all-out acceptance of the global warming position; in Dec. 2019 it names Greta Thunberg their Person of the Year.

In 1987 the Earth Charter is created by Club of Rome members Maurice Strong (1929-2015) of Canada and Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931-) (Supreme Soviet chmn. in 1989-90 and Soviet Union pres. in 1990-1) to declare the fundamental values and principles for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society by building a global partnership, which is eventually endorsed by orgs. representing millions of people; in 1994 it becomes a civil society initiative with help from the govt. of Netherlands; in Mar. 2000 the final 2.4K-word text is approved by the Earth Charter Commission, chaired by Steven Clark Rockefeller (1936-) (later the oldest member of the trillionaire Rockefeller family) at the UNESCO HQ in Paris, and officially launched on June 29, 2000 at the Peace Palace in The Hague, with Queen Beatrix of Netherlands attending the ceremony.

In 1987 the Environmental Change Inst. is founded by Oxford U. "to organize and promote interdisciplinary research on the nature, causes and impact of environmental change and to contribute to the development of management strategies for coping with future environmental change", going on to found the U.K. Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP, Climateprediction.net, "the world's largest climate modelling experiment for the 21st century", with 350K people running climate simulations to better understand regional climate patterns, and the Global Ecosystems Monitoring Network (GEM) program in remote forest locations in South Am., Asia, and Africa.

In 1987 the Social Venture Network is founded by Joshua Mailman and Wayne Silby to network business leaders who are into environmentally sustainable business.

In 1987 Russian meteorologist Yuri Antonovich Izrael (1930-2014), dir. of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Inst. of Global Climate and Ecology and Russian meteorologist Mikhail Ivanovich Budyko (1920-2001), dir. of the State Hydrological Inst.'s Div. for Climate Change Research pub. the study Anthropogenic Climate Change, concluding that parts of the Northern Hemisphere would benefit from some climate change; on Oct. 30, 1998 Budyko gives the speech Global Climate Warming and Its Consequence, with the soundbyte: "On balance, it is very difficult to conclude with higher accuracy whether the projected global warming would be globally beneficial to human society or not." In 2000 Dutch atmospheric chemist Paul Jozef Crutzen (1933-) and Am. biologist Eugene F. Stoermer (1334-2012) (who coined the term in the early 1980s) pub. a paper proposing the term "anthropocene" for the current geological epoch, with the soundbyte: "To assign a more specific date to the onset of the 'anthropocene' seems somewhat arbitrary, but we propose the latter part of the 18th century, although we are aware that alternative proposals can be made (some may even want to include the entire holocene). However, we choose this date because, during the past two centuries, the global effects of human activities have become clearly noticeable. This is the period when data retrieved from glacial ice cores show the beginning of a growth in the atmospheric concentrations of several 'greenhouse gases', in particular CO2 and CH4. Such a starting date also coincides with James Watt's invention of the steam engine in 1784."

In 1987 British physicist Peter Wadhams (1948-) becomes dir. of the Scott Polar Inst. at Cambridge U. (until 1992), winning the W.S. Bruce Medal in 1977 and the Polar Medal in 1987 before becoming prof. of ocean physics at Cambridge U. in 1992-2015, making 40+ expeditions to the polar regions, revealing that the thick icecap covering the Arctic Ocean is beginning to thin and shrink, calling sea ice the "canary in the mine" of global climate change; on Sept. 26, 2016 he pub. the article The Global Impact of Rapidly Disappearing Arctic Sea Ice, containing the soundbytes: "Few people understand that the Arctic sea ice 'death spiral' represents more than just a major ecological upheaval in the world's Far North. The decline of Arctic sea ice also has profound global climatic effects, or feedbacks, that are already intensifying global warming and have the potential to destabilize the climate system. Indeed, we are not far from the moment when the feedbacks themselves will be driving the change every bit as much as our continuing emission of billions of tons of carbon dioxide annually"; "The most worrisome feedback involves the release of seabed methane from the continental shelves of the Arctic Ocean"; "These changes represent a spiritual impoverishment of the earth, as well as a catastrophe for humanity." In Sept. 2016 he pub. the book Farewell to Ice, claiming that the retreat of sea ice in the Arctic generates feedbacks that impact the entire global climate system, accelerating the rate of warming, the rate of sea level rise, the emission of methane from the Arctic, and the occurrence of weather extremes affecting food production, arguing that catastrophic consequences cannot be avoided without making an all-out effort to develop ways of directly capturing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere; he goes on to predict the disappearance of summer Arctic sea ice for the first time in 10K years, not in 2050 but in 2016, 2017, 2018, ... Watch video - Peter Wadhams. Watch video - Peter Wadhams. Watch video - Peter Wadhams. Watch video - Peter Wadhams. Watch video - Peter Wadhams. Watch video - Tony Heller.

1988

On Apr. 21-22, 1988 the U.S. House of Reps holds hearings on scientific fraud, "In which Congress takes notice, bureaucrats squirm, and scientists unwisely8 delay getting their house in order" - only to see it up close and personal on June 23 from James Hansen?

On June 23, 1988 after the first Goddard Inst. for Space Studies (GISS) Global Temperature Analysis is pub. in 1981, and his mentor S. Ichtiaque Rasool (1930-2016) announces a new NASA CO2 research program, with the soundbyte: "No respectable scientist would say that you already have a signal", and foreign diplomats and environmental activists get U.S. Sen. (D-Colo.) (1987-93) Timothy Endicott "Tim" Wirth (1939-) to call it, profusely sweating top NASA Goddard climate scientist James Edward Hansen (1941-) addresses a U.S. Senate subcommitee chaired by U.S. Sen. (D-Tenn.) (1985-93) Albert Arnold "Al" Gore Jr. (1948-) in a hearing on a particularly hot day with malfunctioning air conditioning (after he and Wirth sabotaged it, with Wirth telling PBS-TV's "Frontline": "We called the Weather Bureau and found out what historically was the hottest day of the summer... so we scheduled the hearing that day, and bingo, it was the hottest day in Washington, or close to it... We went in at the night before and opened all the windows so that the air conditioning wasn't working inside the room"), uttering the soundbyte that "with 99% confidence" CO2-driven global warming has already arrived, claiming a 0.5C-0.7C global warming in the past cent., with the four warmest years all in the 1980s, and the two warmest in 1981 and 1987, making him 99% sure that the Earth is the warmest since instrumental data began to be collected in 1980, that there is a clear cause-effect relationship with the Greenhouse Effect, and that global warming is steadily increasing the likelihood of freak weather incl. superstorms, concluding: "Finally, I would like to stress that there is a need for improving these global climate models, and there is a need for global observations if we're going to obtain a full understanding of these phenomena", becoming "the opening salvo of the age of climate change", supercharging the One World Govt. (OWG) types and letting them loose like a roving lion to create a new money-hungry OWG religion complete with priests, bishops, and a pope (Al Gore)?, and CO2 as their Devil?; outside the hearing room Hansen declares "The greenhouse effect is here"; in 1999 the GISS study is updated, reporting 1998 as the warmest year on record despite slight cooling in the E U.S. and W Atlantic, mainly due to the El Nino; Hansen says that coal-fired power plants with no CO2 (carbon) capture technology should be eliminated in the U.S. by 2025, and the rest of the world by 2030; this despite the problem that carbon capture takes 3x-5x as much energy as can be gained by burning the fuel, which ultimately must come from burning fossil fuels, creating more CO2?; Hansen's runaway climate predictions focus the spotlight on the Petroleum (fossil fuel) industry and its Fossil fuels lobby, turning its great benefit to humanity into something sinister, based on pie-in-the-sky future gloom and doom predictions treated as sure things, targeting it with fossil fuel divestment, causing opponents of global warming to counter with global warming conspiracy theory; in the next seven years the budget for CO2-AGW climate research zooms from $200M to $4B?; too bad, after his runaway climate predictions fall flat, and he insists on keeping his job, on Aug. 29, 2000 Hansen et al. pub. the paper Global warming in the twenty-first century: An alternative scenario, admitting that the net global warming observed so far is likely due to non-CO2 gases and black carbon, because CO2 is offset by climate-cooling aerosols emitted via fossil fuel burning. On June 24, 1988 the article Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate by Philip Shabecoff is pub. in the New York Times, containing the soundbyte: "Until now, scientists have been cautious about attributing rising global temperatures of recent years to the predicted global warming caused by pollutants in the atmosphere, known as the 'greenhouse effect.' But today Dr. James E. Hansen of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration told a Congressional committee that it was 99 percent certain that the warming trend was not a natural variation but was caused by a buildup of carbon dioxide and other artificial gases in the atmosphere. Dr. Hansen, a leading expert on climate change, said in an interview that there was no 'magic number' that showed when the greenhouse effect was actually starting to cause changes in climate and weather. But he added, 'It is time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here.'" On Sept. 25, 2006 Hansen et al. pub. the paper Global Temperature Change in Proceedings of the Nat. Academy of Sciences, with the abstract: "Global surface temperature has increased 0.2°C per decade in the past 30 years, similar to the warming rate predicted in the 1980s initial global climate model simulations with transient greenhouse gas changes. Warming is larger in the Western Equatorial Pacific than in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific over the past century, and we suggest that the increased West–East temperature gradient may have increased the likelihood of strong El Niños, such as those of 1983 and 1998. Comparison of measured sea surface temperatures in the Western Paci?c with paleoclimate data suggests that this critical ocean region, and probably the planet as a whole, is approximately as warm now as at the Holocene maximum and within 1°C of the maximum temperature of the past million years. We conclude that global warming of more than 1°C, relative to 2000, will constitute 'dangerous' climate change as judged from likely effects on sea level and extermination of species" - is 1C of global avg. temp change like a $3 bill? On Dec. 5, 2006 Hansen et al. pub. the paper Dangerous human-made interference withclimate: a GISS modelE study in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, using the GISS climate data with computer climate simulations to predict the future, with the conclusion: "Our conclusion that global temperature is nearing the level of dangerous climate effects implies that little time remains to achieve the international cooperation needed toavoid widespread undesirable consequences. CO2 emissions are the critical issue, because a substantial fraction of these emissions remain in the atmosphere 'forever, for practical purposes. The principal implication is that avoidance of dangerous climate change requires the bulk of coal and unconventional fossil fuel resources to be exploited only under condition that CO2 emissions are captured and sequestered. A second inference is that remaining gas and oil resources must be husbanded, so thattheir role in critical functions such as mobile fuels can be stretched until acceptable alternatives are available, thus avoiding a need to squeeze such fuels from unconventional and environmentally damaging sources. The task is to achieve a transition toclean carbon-free energy sources, which are essential on the long run, without push-ing the climate system beyond a level where disastrous irreversible effects become inevitable." In 2008 Hansen et al. pub. the paper Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim? in The Open Atmospheric Science Journal, accepting on all the worst climate Armageddon predictions on the market and concluding that atmospheric CO2 must be reduced to 350 ppm or lower by putting "a rising global price on CO2 emissions" and phasing out coal use unless CO2 is captured and sequestered. On Feb. 13, 2013 global warming scientist James A. Hansen of NASA is arrested outside the White House along with Sierra Club dir. Michael Brune, 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben, civil rights activist Julian Bond, and actress Daryl Hannah while protesting the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline. CLIMATE WISDOM FROM THE FATHER OF CLIMATE CHANGE Watch video - James Hansen. Watch video - James Hansen. Watch video - Tony Heller on James Hansen. Watch video - Tony Heller on James Hansen.

On June 27-30, 1988 the World Conference on the Changing Atmosphere: Implications for Security in Toronto, Canada, hosted by Canadian U.N. ambassador H.E. Stephen Lewis is attended by 300 scientists and politicians from 46 nations, who unanimously sign a communique calling the greenhouse effect and the ozone problem a present problem threatening internat. security which "are already having harmful consequences over many parts of the globe", asserting a 0.7C global temp rise in the past cent. and calling for a 20% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2005 along with a formal Plan for the Protection of the Atmosphere and a World Atmosphere Fund "financed in part by a levy on the fossil fuel consumption of industrialized countries".

In summer 1988 the Summer 1988 U.S. Heat Wave sees a drought reminiscent of the Dust Bowl years, killing 5K-17K; Yellowstone burns, and the Mississippi River nearly dries up; too bad, the U.S. Nat. Climate Assessment erases it from their graph of the 20th-21st cent. to make it seem like global warming is happening?

On Sept. 8-19, 1988 Category 5 Hurricane Gilbert, "the storm of the century" smashes into the Gulf coast, Jamaica (Sept. 12) (45 dead, $1B damage), the Yucatan Peninsula (Sept. 14), and the Mexican coast (Sept. 16), killing 318 and causing $2.98B damage, becoming the most intense tropical cyclone to strike Mexico (until ?), and deadliest hurricane of 1988.

On Sept. 26, 1988 climate experts make the claim that all 1,1916 of the Maldives Islands will drown in 30 years.

On Nov. 17, 1988 pres.-elect Bush announces his choice of conservative Havana, Cuban-born Repub. N.H. gov. #75 (1983-9) John Henry Sununu (1939-) (an Arab-Am. of Lebanese extraction and Greek Orthodox faith) to be White House chief of staff #14 (Jan. 20, 1989-Dec. 15, 1991), and his Atlanta, Ga.-born campaign mgr. Harvey Leroy "Lee" Atwater (1951-91) to succeed Frank Fahrenkopf Jr. as chmn. of the Rep. Nat. Committee, becoming known for dirty tricks incl. the "jumper cable" episode, rumors that Dukakis had been treated for mental illness and his wife had burned a U.S. flag, and the Willie Horton ad smear campaign; before he dies of a brain tumor in 1991 Atwater converts to Roman Catholicism and issues written apologies; during the campaign Bush's son George W. Bush is given an office across from Atwater's to be his dad's "eyes and ears", and they become good friends; Sununu's refusal to back the 1986 proclamation condemning the U.N. resolution defining Zionism as racism causes concerns by Jews, but Bush owes him for his help in the N.H. primary; Sununu goes on to join a "policy action" group to advise Bush incl. Allan Bromley (science), Michael Biskin (economics), Dick Darman (budget), and Roger Porter (domestic policy) and convince Bush to becoming a global warming skeptic and "not commit to policies that would result in trillion dollar changes in the U.S. economy until there were then more adequate technical bases for such a position." Sununu goes on to utter the soundbytes: "The global warming crisis is just the latest surrogate for an over-arching agenda of anti-growth and anti-development. This agenda grew and gathered support in the years following World War II"; "Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate variability over multi-decade periods and with occasional significant variability over the short term"; "But waiting for 'eventually' to prove the alarmists wrong is not the wisest course of action. Unfullfillable ambitions to stifle growth will devastate a world trying to deal with the complexities of economics, stability, and the environment. Quality of life depends on access to energy. Noble intentions about 'C02-free' sources of energy are not sufficient, if their agenda of eliminating coal as a source, and turning their back on nuclear, are allowed to be part of our near-term policies." Watch video - John Sununu.

In 1988 after the speech by James Hansen, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is founded by the World Meteorological Org. (WMO) and U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) to investigate "the risk of human-induced climate change" and provide an objective scientific view of climate change and its political-economic impacts, but actually is weighted at the outset to assume anthropogenic global climate change, with Article 1.2 restricting its mission to studying "a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods", with Swedish meteorologist Bert Rickard Johannes Bolin (1925-2007) as chmn. #1, receiving endorsement by the U.N. Gen. Assembly in Resolution 43/53; too bad, it is taken over by sinister OWG globalists of the Club of Rome et al. who want to force the rich nations to cough-up their wealth and give it to the poor nations to supposedly atone for their sins, ensuring that all nations will be poor?; they also know that CO2 is good not bad, and must be limited to keep the teeming billions from being fed to keep the pop. down?; "The aim of the IPCC is to ignore recognized standards of science, frame mankind for a nonexistent crime, and shackle human society. It's the next planned slavery. The developing countries, who will be denied cheap and reliable energy, will bear the heaviest chains." - Pierre Gosselin Watch video.

The United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization created the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988. It has now produced six increasingly long and detailed assessments of the state of climate science as well as many special reports on associated subjects. Contrary to popular belief the IPCC is not a scientific organization; it is an administrative entity consisting of delegates from governments of 195 member states. The panel organizes periodic plenary meetings to oversee the work of the IPCC bureau, a 30-member agency headquartered in Geneva that directs the working groups. They, in turn, manage the process of producing assessment reports on scientific and socioeconomic topics related to climate change according to procedures developed by the IPCC. The IPCC itself was created not by scientists but by politicians. While its operating principles declare that its reports should be “neutral with respect to policy,” in practice its conclusions must be approved by the sponsoring government delegates, and the drift towards policy advocacy has become steadily more pronounced over time.

Users of IPCC reports, especially policymakers, need to have a clear picture in mind of the kind of entity the IPCC is. Using the analogy of a courtroom it is tempting to suppose that the IPCC is like a judge who listens to both sides then renders a judgment. But a close look at its procedures and the way it has handled numerous controversies in the past suggests that a better analogy is that of an advocate or witness for a particular side. In other words, the IPCC's development and operations, especially over the past two decades, are best explained by supposing that it assembles the evidence and argumentation that serves the interests of its sponsoring entities, who are openly committed to an ambitious climate policy agenda.

In its assessment reports and other publications, the IPCC has, when confronted with conflicting evidence, consistently selected and highlighted that which supports policy action to reduce human greenhouse gas emissions. It has downplayed, and often ignored outright, scientific evidence casting doubt on the need for such action. This is not surprising once users understand the detailed structure of the IPCC, as distinct from its popular image. The IPCC is under the directional control of, and entirely dependent for funding upon, those national governments who, largely for reasons of international competitive strategy, favour immediate action to reduce human GHG emissions. Like any expert witness, the IPCC has served the interests of its clients.

- The Hand of Government in theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Jason S. Johnston

In 1988 Shell's Greenhouse Effect Working Group creates the confidential report The Greenhouse Effect, admitting that fossil fuels play a dominant role in driving greenhouse gas emissions, incl. Shell's own products, recommending that early action be taken before major changes are observed in the climate.

In 1989 only four anti-global warming (AGW) books are pub., growing to 19 in the 1990s, 15 in 2000-5, 54 in 2005-9, and 15 in 2010.

On Jan. 26, 1989 The New York Times pub. the article U.S. Data Since 1895 Fail To Show Warming Trend by Philip Shabecoff, which begins: "After examining climate data extending back nearly 100 years, a team of Government scientists has concluded that there has been no significant change in average temperatures or rainfall in the United States over that entire period. While the nation's weather in individual years or even for periods of years has been hotter or cooler or drier or wetter than in other periods, the new study shows that over the last century there has been no trend in one direction or another. The study, made by scientists for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was published in the current issue of Geophysical Research Letters. It is based on temperature and precipitation readings taken at weather stations around the country from 1895 to 1987"; no surprise, "Dr. Hansen of NASA said today that he had 'no quarrel' with the findings in the new study. He noted that the United States covered only 1.5 percent of Earth. 'If you have only one degree warming on a global average, how much do you get at random' when taking measurements in such a relatively small area, he asked rhetorically. 'We are just arguing now about whether the global warming effect is large enough to see,' he added. 'It is not surprising we are not seeing it in a region that covers only 1.5 percent of the globe.' Dr. Hansen said there were several ways to look at the temperature readings for the United States, including as a 'statistical fluke'"; how convenient that outside the U.S. there are hardly any weather stations to collect accurate data?; in 1999 James Hansen of NASA Goddard falsifies the record by shaving 0.5C off 1935 and adding it to 1998 then lying about it? Watch video - Tony Heller, t=10:38.

On June 29, 1989 Peter James Spielmann pub. the AP news article U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked, quoting senior U.N. environmental official Noel Brown that world govts. have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes runaway, else entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000, and coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of 'eco-refugees'; climate alarmists love the 10-year doomsday number?

On Oct. 17, 1989 (5:04 p.m.) the 6.9 1989 Loma Prieta (Watsonville) (San Francisco) Earthquake, centered in the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park 10 mi. NE of Santa Cruz hits the San Francisco (N Calif.) area minutes before the start of World Series Game 3, killing 63, injuring 3,757 and causing $5.6-$6B in damage; the WS is delayed for 10 days.

On Nov. 1, 1989 M.S. Reilly, D. Arasteh, and M. Rubin of Lawrence Berkeley Lab pub. the study The Effects of Infrared Absorbing Gasses on Window Heat Transfer: A Comparison of Theory and Experiment in Solar Energy Materials, which finds experimentally that CO2 is useless in trapping heat or delaying cooling when used in multipane windows, showing up the global warming scientists who tout CO2 as a major "greenhouse gas" as the Emperor Has no Clothes, with the conclusion: "The effect of the infrared radiation properties of CO2 is unnoticeable".

On Nov. 7, 1989 the First Global Diplomatic Climate Conference in Noordwijk, Netherlands is attended by reps from 67 nations, 11 internat. orgs., and the Commission of the European Community (EC); too bad, after a stunt by activists who lower the U.S., Soviet, and Japanese flags to half-mast and use French govt. photographers to take photos that are plastered across Europe, pissing them off, the conference fails to reach a consensus, after which the fossil fuel industry mobilizes to fight the climate change lobby, leading the U.S. Senate to reject the Kyoto Protocol.

On Nov. 8, 1989 chemistry-trained British Conservative PM (1979-90) Margaret Hilda Thatcher (nee Roberts) (1925-2013) (AKA the Iron Lady) gives her 1989 Speech on Climate Change to the U.N. Gen. Assembly, warning of the dangers of rising CO2 and calling for an internat. framework convention on climate change, with the aim being "to prevent rather than just cure a global environmental problem", abandoning her laissez-faire free market principles with the soundbyte that economic growth must benefit "future as well as present generations everywhere", becoming the first world leader to put climate change at the top of the global agenda; it contains the soundbytes: "I believe we should aim to have a convention on global climate change ready by the time the World Conference on Environment and Development meets in 1992. That will be among the most important conferences the United Nations has ever held. I hope that we shall all accept a responsibility to meet this timetable. The 1992 Conference is indeed already being discussed among many countries in many places. And I draw particular attention to the very valuable discussion which members of the Commonwealth had under the Mahathir bin Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia's chairmanship at our recent Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kuala Lumpur. But a framework is not enough. It will need to be filled out with specific undertakings, or protocols in diplomatic language, on the different aspects of climate change. These protocols must be binding and there must be effective regimes to supervise and monitor their application. Otherwise those nations which accept and abide by environmental agreements, thus adding to their industrial costs, will lose out competitively to those who do not. The negotiation of some of these protocols will undoubtedly be difficult. And no issue will be more contentious than the need to control emissions of carbon dioxide, the major contributor—apart from water vapour—to the greenhouse effect. We can't just do nothing. But the measures we take must be based on sound scientific analysis of the effect of the different gases and the ways in which these can be reduced. In the past there has been a tendency to solve one problem at the expense of making others worse. The United Kingdom therefore proposes that we prolong the role of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change after it submits its report next year, so that it can provide an authoritative scientific base for the negotiation of this and other protocols. We can then agree to targets to reduce the greenhouse gases, and how much individual countries should contribute to their achievement. We think it important that this should be done in a way which enables all our economies to continue to grow and develop. The challenge for our negotiators on matters like this is as great as for any disarmament treaty. The Inter-governmental Panel's work mustremain on target, and we must not allow ourselves to be diverted into fruitless and divisive argument. Time is too short for that." On Nov. 6, 1990 Thatcher follows with another 1990 Speech on Climate Change, which contains the soundbytes: "The IPCC report is a remarkable achievement. It is almost as difficult to get a large number of distinguished scientists to agree, as it is to get agreement from a group of politicians. As a scientist who became a politician, I am perhaps particularly qualified to make that observation! I know both worlds. Of course, much more research is needed. We don't yet know all the answers. Some major uncertainties and doubts remain. No-one can yet say with certainty that it is human activities which have caused the apparent increase in global average temperatures. The IPCC report is very careful on this point. For instance, the total amount of carbon dioxide reaching the atmosphere each year from natural sources is some 600 billion tonnes, while the figure resulting from human activities is only 26 billion tonnes. In relative terms that is not very significant. Equally we know that the increases of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere date from the start of the industrial revolution. And we know that those concentrations will continue to rise if we fail to act. Nor do we know with any precision the extent of the likely warming in the next century, nor what the regional effects will be, and we can't be sure of the role of the clouds. There is a continuing mystery about how atmospheric carbon, including the small extra contribution from human sources, continuing mystery about how that is being absorbed: is most of it going into the ocean, as used to be thought? Or is it being increasingly absorbed by trees or plants, of soils, especially in the northern hemisphere? These are questions that need answers, sooner rather than later. Global climate change within limits need not by itself pose serious problems—our globe has after all seen a great deal of climate change over the centuries. And it's notable that the blue-green algae which dominated the Precambrian period at the dawn of life are still major components of the marine phytoplankton today. Despite the climate changes of many millions of years, these microbes have persisted on earth virtually unchanged, pumping out life-giving oxygen into the atmosphere and mopping up carbon dioxide. The real dangers arise because climate change is combined with other problems of our age: for instance the population explosion; — the deterioration of soil fertility; — increasing pollution of the sea; — intensive use of fossil fuel; - and destruction of the world's forests, particularly those in the tropics." In 2002 Thatcher flip-flops in her autobio. Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World in the section "Hot Air and Globl Warming", which contains the soundbytes: "By the end of my time as Prime Minister I was also becoming seriously concerned about the anti-capitalist arguments which the campaigners against global warming were deploying"; "The doomsters' favourite subject today is climate change. Clearly no plan to alter climate could be considered on anything but a global scale, it provides a marvelous excuse for worldwide, supra-national socialism"; "Actually, President Bush was quite right to reject the Kyoto protocol... Kyoto was an anti-growth, anti-capitalist, anti-American project which no American leader alert to his country's national interests could have supported"; "She voiced precisely the fundamental doubts about the warming scare that have since become familiar to us. Pouring scorn on the 'doomsters', she questioned the main scientific assumptions used t o drive the scare, from the conviction that the chief force shaping world climate is CO2, rather than natural factors such as solar activity, to exaggerated claims about rising sea levels. She mocked Al Gore and the futility of 'costly and economically damaging' schemes to reduce CO2 emissions. She cited the 2.5C rise in temperatures during the Medieval Warm Period as having had almost entirely beneficial effects. She pointed out that the dangers of a world getting colder are far worse than those of a CO2-enriched world growing warmer. She recognised how distortions of the science had been used to mask an anti-capitalist, Left-wing political agenda which posed a serious threat to the progress and prosperity of mankind. In other words, long before it became fashionable, Lady Thatcher was converted to the view of those who, on both scientific and political grounds, are profoundly sceptical of the climate change ideology. Alas, what she set in train earlier continues to exercise its baleful influence to this day. But the fact that she became one of the first and most prominent of 'climate sceptics'' has been almost entirely buried from view." - Was Margaret Thatcher The First Climate Sceptic? Watch video.

In Nov. 1989 Birmingham, England-born MIT meteorologist Reginald E. Newell (1932-2003) (known for talking the Mass. legislature into a harbor tunnel in 1969) pub. the article Has the Globe Really Warmed?, revealing that ocean surface temperature logs kept by merchant-marine captains around the world dating back to 1856 "appears to have... little or no global warming over the past century", going on to become a global warming skeptic and losing federal funding despite being considered one of the world's top meteorologists; on Aug. 12, 1990 he participates in the British documentary film The Greenhouse Conspiracy along with Richard Lindzen, Roy Spencer, Sherwood Iso, and Pat Michaels, containing the soundbyte "Man-Made Climate Change is Absolute Crap", becoming one of the first to suggest a conspiracy to deny funding to scientists critical of global warming. Watch video - Reginald E. Newell.

On Dec. 7, 1989 the Santa Cruz Sentinel pub. the article Debate over global warming heats up, containing the soundbyte: "'Analysis of warming since 1881 shows most of the increase in global temperature happened before 1919 - before the more recent sharp rise in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,' said Thomas Karl, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. 'While global climate warmed overall since 1881, it actually cooled from 1921 to 1979,' Karl said. 'In spite of all the well-publicized concern about global warming, you must that there is still considerable uncertainty among scientific experts about a number of critical factors which determine global warming,' NOAA administrator John Knauss said."

The U.N. IPCC works to expand its global Marxism rule into Western private corps. from day one: In 1989 the nonprofit org. Ceres (Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies) is founded in Boston, Mass. by Trillium Asset Mgt. pres. Joan Bavaria to team with far-left environmentalists to change corporate practices toward their idea of sustainability, going on in Fa.. 1989 to announce the 10-point Valdez (Ceres) Principles 10-point code for adoption by Ceres cos., signing up Sunoco in 1993, followed by 12 more Fortune 500 cos. and 50+ more; they go on to launch the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in 1997, which becomes the de facto std. used by 1.2K+ cos. for corporate reporting on ESE performance, the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) of 100 leading institutional investors with collective assets of $10T+, which was launched at the first bi-annual U.N. Investor Summit on Climate Risk in Nov. 2003, which in 2008 was attended by almot 50 institutional investors from the U.S. and Europe representing $1.75T in assets, and released a 9-point action plan aimed at increasing energy efficiency and clean energy; on Jan. 27, 2016 the Seventh (7th) U.N. Investor Summit on Climate Risk at the U.N. HQ in New York City sees 110+ institutional investors representing $22T+ in assets set the goal of doubling global investment in clean energy by 2020.

In 1989 the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) is founded in Washington, D.C. by an internat. lobbyist group of businesses incl. Exxon, Phillips Petroleum Co., the Am. Petroleum Inst., the Nat. Coal Assoc., the Am. Forest and Paper Assoc., the Edison Electric Inst., and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to oppose the Kyoto Protocol and challenge the science of global warming, becoming the largest climate policy group, representing over 230K businesses; too bad, in 1995 an internal advisory committee produces the 17-page report "Future Climate Change: A Primer", which admits "The scientific basis for the Greenhouse Effect and the potential impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on climate is well established and cannot be denied", and in 1996 after a campaign by environmental groups British Petroleum (BP) withdraws, followed in 1997 by Royal Dutch Shell, Ford Motor Co. in 2000, Texaco in 1999, the Southern Co. in 2000, GM in 2000, and Daimler-Chrysler in 2000, after which it folds in 2001 after U.S. Pres. George W. Bush withdraws the U.S. from the Kyoto process, but not before gleefully posting on its Web site: "At this point, both Congress and the Administration agree that the U.S. should not accept the mandatory cuts in emissions required by the protocol."

In 1989 English U. of Nottingham botanist-environmentalist David James Bellamy (1933-2019) (known for the soundbyte "Gwapple me gwape nuts") and English King's College London physical chemist Jack Barrett pub. the book The Greenhouse Effect, which contains the soundbyte: "The profligate demands of humankind are causing far reaching changes to the atmosphere of planet Earth, of this there is no doubt. Earth's temperature is showing an upward swing, the so-called greenhouse effect, now a subject of international concern. The greenhouse effect may melt the glaciers and ice caps of the world causing the sea to rise and flood many of our great cities and much of our best farmland"; Bellamy later flops on global warming, attributing it to natural causes not CO2, causing the PC establishment to begin snubbing him. In 1994 Barrett pub. an article in New Scientist claiming that the lowest 30m of the troposphere already contains all the CO2 necessary to absorb all the radiation reflected and emitted back by the earth's surface at most infrared wavelengths, except for the "window" between 7.5 and 14 microns, through which radiation escapes back into space, that fossil fuel burning can only result in an increase of CO2 levels to 1400 ppm, and that the most likely consequence would be flourishing vegegation not runaway global warming. In July 1990 Barrett pub. the article Grave Discrepancies Between Theory and Experiment, containing the soundbyte: "There is still argument about the magnitude of the climate sensitivity and the impossibility of doubling the carbon dioxide level." On May 2, 2007 Barrett and Bellamy pub. the paper Climate stability: an inconvenient proof in Civil Engineering, claiming to prove that even if atmospheric CO2 concentration doubles in the next decade, it "will amount to less than 1°C of global warming". In Jan. 2005 Bellamy utters the soundbyte: "Global warming is a largely natural phenomenon. The world is wasting stupendous amounts of money on trying to fix something that can't be fixed"; On June 24, 2007 Bellamy pub. the article The Global Warming Myth, containing the soundbyte: "I don't like being called a denier because deniers don't believe in facts. There are no facts linking the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide with imminent catastrophic global warming, there are only predictions based on complex computer models"; on Nov. 19, 2009 The Telegraph quotes him as uttering the soundbyte: "I'm sceptical about man-made climate change. There's absolutely no proof that carbon dioxide will kill us all. It's not a poison, it's the most important gas in the world. Carbon dioxide is an airborne fertiliser. How can farmers grow increasing amounts of food without a rise in CO2?" Too bad, he pub. a letter in New Scientist on Apr. 16, 2005 suggesting that 555 of 625 world glaciers are growing, causing English activist environmentalist George Joshua Richard Monbiot (1963-) to call him on it in a May 10 article titled Junk Science, after which he backs down and "decided to draw back from the debate on global warming", threatening his position as pres. of Plantlife Internat. and the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts; on Nov. 18, 2014 Monbiot pub. the op-ed Growth: the destructive god that can never be appeased in The Guardian; on Oct. 20, 2017 Monbiot pub. the op-ed Insectageddon: farming is more catastrophic than climate breakdown in The Guardian; on Oct. 27, 2017 Monbiot gives an interview to Novara Media, containing the soundbyte: "The political system is completely out of phase with the environmental crisis", proposing the term "climate breakdown" to replace "climate change"; on Dec. 11, 2007 he pub. the op-ed Mass starvation is humanity's fate if we keep flogging the land to death in The Guardian, with the subtitle: "The Earth cannot accomodate our need and greed for food. We must change our diet before it's too late", concluding: "There are no easy answers, but the crucial change is a shift from an animal- to a plant-based diet"; on Sept. 26, 2018 he pub. the op-ed While economic growth continues we'll never kick our fossil fuels habit in The Guardian; on Oct. 8, 2018 Monbiot tweets the soundbyte: "But deeper than any of this are the stories we tell ourselves: that progress means growth means wellbeing. What #climatebreakdown and the rest of the environmental crisis reveal is that perpetual growth is the greatest threat to our wellbeing." On Apr. 12, 2019 Monbiot tweets the soundbyte: "We've got to go straight to the heart of capitalism and overthrow it." Watch video - David Bellamy. Watch video - David Bellamy. Watch video - David Bellamy and George Monbiot. Watch video - Ian Plimer and George Monbiot.

In 1989 Tamanian amateur climate scientist John L. Daly (1943-2004) pub. the book The Greenhouse Trap: Why the greenhouse effect will not end life on earth, claiming that greenhouse gases can't cause global warming, only net solar radiation as modified by clouds, which are affected by sunspot activity; no surprise, in 2020 after he was gone the IPCC's scientists admitted that they didn't account for clouds in their GIGO computer climate models (CCMs), and instead of giving the billions they already wasted back, they put their hands out for more, starting with a $10M govt. pig trough that will probably further justify their CO2 global warming hoax.

In 1989 Palo Alto, Calif.-born environmentalist William Ernest "Bill" McKibben (1960-) pub. the book The End of Nature, becoming the first gen. audience book on global warming, attempting to stir readers into action either via the "Defiant Reflex" or a "More Humble Way of Living"; he goes on to found 350.org and lead 5.2K simultaneous demonstrations in 2009; "If the waves crash up against the beach, eroding dunes and destroying homes, it is not the awesome power of Mother Nature. It is the awesome power of Mother Nature as altered by the awesome power of man, who has overpowered in a century the processes that have been slowly evolving and changing of their own accord since the earth was born." On July 19, 2012 McKibben pub. the article Global Warming's Terrifying New Math in Rolling Stone mag., with the subtitle: "Three simple numbers that add up to a global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is"; the numbers are 2 deg C, 565 gigatons of CO2 more to reach it, and 2,795 gigatons contained in proven reserves.

1990

In the 1990s after ozone depletion is discovered in 1984, Hydroflurocarbons (HFCs) are introduced to replace ozone-depleting cloroflurocarbons (CFCs) such as freon in refrigerators, air conditioners, and insulating foam; too bad, while the ozone shield recovers, the HFCs cause a super greenhouse effect, with 4,470x the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide (CO2?)

In 1990 annual global CO2 emissions are 22.4B tons, rising to 35.8B in 2013 (60%).

In 1990 the solar irradiance at Earth's surface, which declined by 4%-6% since 1990 suddenly reverses.

In Mar. 1990 700+ from around the world gather for the First Internat. Ecocity Conference in Berkeley, Calif., calling for banning of chloroflourocarbons, increasing auto fuel efficiency and switching to renewable energy, preserving old-growth forests, minimizing hazardous waste production, stopping population growth, recycling, and green consumerism.

On June 27-July 2, 1990 the Painted Cave Fire in the Santa Ynez Mts. of Calif. explodes across Santa Barbara County, fed by heat, drought, and arson, destroying 427 bldgs. (most in Calif. history until ?)) from Santa Barbara to San Diego, and killin 1; Calif. Gov. George Deukmejian offers $50K rewards for arsonists, later identifying Leonard Ross as the perp; the fires cause Michael Jackson's 2.7K-acre Neverland Valley Ranch N of Santa Barbara, Calif. to be mentioned in the press for the first time; it even has a Ferris wheel.

On July 11, 1990 (2:48 p.m.) a clear sunny day suddenly ends with softball-sized hail in Denver, Colo., stripping most of the branches and all of the leaves off trees, and causing $625M in property damage to roofs and cars, incl. TLW's white Mitsubishi Galant, which is pockmarked like a golf ball; a power failure traps 47 in a Ferris wheel, causing them to be battered by the hail; the worst hailstorm in U.S. history until a worse hailstorm on July 20, 2009.

On Aug. 1-4, 1990 the 1990 U.K. Heat Wave sees highs of 37.1C (98.8F) on Aug. 3 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, breaking the 1911 record (until 2003).

On Sept. 14, 1990 Canadian environmental activist (zoologist) David Takayoshi Suzuki (1936-) co-founds the David Suzuki Foundation in Vancouver to attempt to reverse global climate change, er, global warming, adding clean energy and sustainability to the goals, along with opposition to GMOs, uttering the soundbyte: "Canada, more than any other nation, will be affected by rising sea leavels from global warming"; too bad, on Sept. 23, 2013 he gives an interview on Australia's ABC-TV, revealing complete ignorance about the main temperature data sets on which global warming theories are based, and on Feb. 2, 2016 calls for Canadian PM Stephen Harper to be jailed for "willful blindness" regarding AGW, after which on Dec. 12, 2019 at the U.N. Climate Summit in Madrid he declares: "Capitalism is at the heart of what is driving" AGW, therefore "We've got to throw the system out." Watch video - David Suzuki.

On Nov. 16, 1990 the U.S. Global Change Research Act of 1990 is enacted by the 101st U.S. Congress, requiring research into global warming and related issues along with a report to Congress every four years, which becomes known as the Nat. Climate Assessment.

In 1990 the First Assessment Report (FAR) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is pub., serving as the basis of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change of June 4, 1992; it is based on the 1979 Charney Report, making Svante Arrhenius' Greenhouse Effect into settled science; Welsh evangelical Christian scientist Sir John Theodore Houghton (1931-2020) is the lead author of Working Group I, which reaches the following conclusions: "We are certain of the following: there is a natural greenhouse effect...; emissions resulting from human activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases: CO2, methane, CFCs and nitrous oxide. These increases will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth's surface. The main greenhouse gas, water vapour, will increase in response to global warming and further enhance it"; "We calculate with confidence that: ...CO2 has been responsible for over half the enhanced greenhouse effect; long-lived gases would require immediate reductions in emissions from human activities of over 60% to stabilise their concentrations at today's levels..." "Global-mean surface air temperature has increased by 0.3°C to 0.6°C over the last 100 years... The size of this warming is broadly consistent with predictions of climate models, but it is also of the same magnitude as natural climate variability.. The unequivocal detection of the enhanced greenhouse effect from observations is not likely for a decade or more"; "Based on current models, we predict: under [BAU] increase of global mean temperature during the [21st] century of about 0.3 oC per decade (with an uncertainty range of 0.2 to 0.5 oC per decade); this is greater than that seen over the past 10,000 years; under other ... scenarios which assume progressively increasing levels of controls, rates of increase in global mean temperature of about 0.2o C [to] about 0.1o C per decade"; "There is no convincing evidence of an acceleration in global sea level rising during the twentieth century. For longer periods, however, there is weak evidence for an acceleration over the last 2-3 centuries"; the FAR incl. a graph by Houghton which depicts the Medieval Warming Period, although he soon flops and backs Michael Mann's hockey stick; the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios uses statistical techniques to predict CO2 emissions for the next cent., which later turn out to be moose hockey?

In 1990 the Aspen Global Change Inst. in Aspen, Colo. is founded, "dedicated to advancing the understanding of Earth system science and global environmental change through interdisciplinary workshops, research and consulting, and education and outreach."

In 1990 the Centre for Internat. Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO) at the U. of Oslo is founded by the govt. of Norway.

In 1990 the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research of the U.K. Met Office is established, going on to employ 1.5K staff incl. 200 in its climate research unit, incl. Richad A. Betts as head of High-End Climate Impacts and Extremes (Helix), and John Francis Brake Mitchell (1948-) as head of the Climate Change Group, rising to chief scientist in 2002-8 and dir. of climate science in 2008-10, becoming the most cited scientist on the topic of global warming, getting knighted in 2001; the climate unit goes on to develop the HadCM3 climate model, and the HadCRUT4 dataset in Mar. 2012, which is riddled with errors; in the 1990s the U.K. Met Office's Hadley Centre's temperature chart begins a clear rise, which levels off about 2000 (until ?); the result of more CO2 or cleaner air and more sunshine? Watch video - Marc Morano.

In 1990 the 10-part PBS-TV series Race to Save the Planet debuts, hosted by Meryl Streep and narrated by Roy Scheider; "By the year 2000, that's less than 10 years away, the Earth's climate will be warmer than it's been in over 100,000 years. If we don't do something, there will be enormous calamities in a very short time" (Streep); watch episode.

In 1990 UCSB physicist Harold Warren "Hal" Lewis (1923-2011) (student of J. Robert Oppenheimer) pub. Technological Risk, which contains the soundbyte: "All models agree that the net effect [of increasing greenhouse gases] will be a general and global warming of the earth; they only disagree about how much. None suggest that it will be a minor effect, to be ignored while we go about our business", adding that reducing the effects incl. sea level rise would "require global cooperation and sacrifice now, to avert something far in the future, and a conjectural something at that. There is no evidence in human history that this is in the cards, but one can always hope"; too bad, after 20 years of further thinking, combined with the Nov. 2009 Climategate Scandal, on Oct. 8, 2010 he writes a letter of resignation to Am. Physical Society (APS) pres. Curtis Callan, resigning after 67 years because it has been "corrupted by the money flood", which has "become the raison d'etre of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs", adding that it is "the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist", making him a climate denier celeb; in its Nov. 2010 newsletter the APS responds, with the soundbyte: "In his letter, Lewis speculated that Council's policy positions on climate change must be driven by financial interest, adding that Callan's own physics department 'would lose millions a year if the global warming bubble burst'. The APS press release categorically rejected the notion that APS as an organization is benefitting financially from climate change funding and further pointed out that the vast majority of the Society's members do not work on climate and derive no personal benefit from such research support"; too bad, Lewis dies on May 26, 2011 before he can properly respond.

In 1990 biologist Nasif Sabag Nahle, founder of the Biology Cabinet in Nuevo Leon, Mexico et al. pub. the paper The Effects of Infrared Absorbing Gases on Window Heat Transfer: A Comparison of Theory and Experience in Solar Energy Materials, reporting that lab tests by Lawrence Berkeley Lab proving that regular air delays and traps heat better than CO2. On Apr. 27, 2007 he pub. the paper Heat Stored by Greenhouse Gases, debunking the claim of CO2 back radiation. On Sept. 1, 2007 Nahle pub. the paper Emissivity, Absorbency and Total Emittance of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in Biocab.org, with the intro.: "The whole idea of global warming is based on the capacity of absorption and emissivity of carbon dioxide. The gases that have an influence on the atmosphere temperature are water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and methane. Heat Transfer science demonstrates that the effect known like 'global warming' is caused by the Solar Irradiance, Interstellar Cosmic Radiation and land and oceans. The influence of carbon dioxide is negligible", concluding: "Carbon dioxide is a conveyor of energy through convection and radiation more than an accumulator of heat." On Mar. 11, 2011 he pub. the article Recycling of Heat is Impossible, claiming the inanity of global warming scientists for using contrived energy budget diagrams, starting with the soundbyte: "Some diagrams on the Earth's energy budget depicts an exchange of energy between the surface and the atmosphere and their subsystems, considering each system as if they were blackbodies with emissivities and absorptivities of 100%. This kind of analyses show a strange 'multiplication' of the heat transferred from the surface to the atmosphere and from the atmosphere to the surface which is unexplainable from a scientific viewpoint. The authors of those diagrams adduce that such increase of energy in the atmosphere obeys a 'recycling' of the heat coming from the surface by the atmosphere, as if the atmosphere-surface were a furnace or a thermos and the heat was a substance. Such 'recycling' of heat by the atmosphere does not occur in the real world by the reasons I will expose later in this paper...", and concluding with the soundbyte: "Key diagrams that purport to show the annual energy budget of Earth show a recycling in the atmosphere of the heat emitted by the surface. But they are wrong. The lengthening of the wavelength of quantum/waves emitted by the absorber systems and the decrease of their frequency inhibit any possibility of re-absorption of the absorbed energy - in the form of infrared radiation - by the same absorber once it has been emitted out from the absorber system. Additionally, this assessment confirms that the second law of thermodynamics is applicable to molecular and quantum levels. The carbon dioxide does not act like a warmer of the Earth's surface, but rather like a coolant of the Earth's surface." Nahle also claims that CO2 only retains heat for 0.1 millisec. (100 microsec.), making warming "not possible". No surprise, AGW proponents label his analysis as moose hockey, causing independent scientists to believe it more?

In Jan. 1991 the Kuwaiti oil fires are set by Iraqi forces retreating from Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm of the Persian Gulf War, igniting 605-732 oil wells plus oil lakes and fire trenches; the last well is not capped until Nov. 6; meanwhile Am. astronomer Carl Edward Sagan (1934-96) debates Austrian-born U. of Va. physicist-engineer Siegfried Fred Singer (1924-2020) on ABC-TV's "Nightline", with Sagan claiming that the smoke could cause a Nuclear Winter, which only requires 100 oil fires emitting smoke that rises to 48K ft., and Singer correctly claiming that the smoke would only rise to 3K ft. before being rained out in 3-5 days; in 1995 Sagan pub. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, admitting that he was wrong, with the soundbyte: "It was pitch black at noon and temperatures dropped 4–6 °C over the Persian Gulf, but not much smoke reached stratospheric altitudes and Asia was spared."

On June 9-16, 1991 Mt. Pinatubo on Luzon Island in the Philippines erupts for the first time in 400 years, killing 450 (most on June 15-16), becoming the 2nd largest volcanic eruption of the cent. after Novarupta, Alaska in 1912, complicated by the arrival of Typhoon Yunya, causing tens of thousands to be evacuated, after which mudslides raise the death toll to 700; the particulates ejected into the stratosphere are the greatest since Krakatoa in 1883, forming a global sulfuric acid haze that drops global temps by 0.5C (0.9F) in 1991-3, increasing ozone depletion; volcanoes generate 200M tons of CO2 each year, vs. 24B from human activities; the eruption pumps more pollution into the atmosphere than the entire history of man? Watch video.

On Sept. 3, 1991 Scottish scientist Alexander King (1909-2007) (co-founder of the Club of Rome) and Bertrand Schneider (1929-) pub. The First Global Revolution: A Report by the Council of the Club of Rome, a sequel to the 1972 bestseller "The Limits to Growth", claiming that time has run out and it's now or never for radical environmental actions; "The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself."

In Sept. 1991 David Viner begins working at the U. of East Anglia (UEA) Climatic Research Unit, moving after 17 years to Natural England, followed by the British Council, and Mott MacDonald in 2012; in 2000 he utters the soundbyte: "[Snowfall will become] a very rare and exciting event... Children just aren't going to know what snow is."

In 1991 Royal Dutch Shell debuts the documentary film Climate of Concern; "If the weather machine were to be wound up to such new levels of energy, no country would remain unaffected. Global warming is not yet certain, but many think that to wait for final proof would be irresponsible. Action now is seen as the only safe insurance."

In 1991 the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement is founded by Am. leftist environmentalist activist Les U. Knight, with the motto: "When every human chooses to stop breeding, Earth's biosphere will be allowed to return to its former glory."

On Feb. 4, 1992 Al Gore debates conservative radio talk show host Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (1951-) on Ted Koppel's Nightline, with Limbaugh calling him an "environmentalist wacko". On Apr. 2, 2007 Limbaugh utters the soundbyte that the so-called scientific consensus on climate is "just a bunch of scientists organized around a political proposition." On Feb. 17, 2019 Limbaugh appears on Fox News Sunday, uttering the soundbytes: "Climate change is nothing but a bunch of computer models that attempt to tell us what's going to happen in 50 years or 30. Notice the predictions are never for next year or the next ten years. They're always for way, way, way, way out there, when none of us are going to be around or alive to know whether or not they were true", and "I know young people, Chris, who really think that by the time they're 65, the country, the world is not going to be habitable because of climate change, which is another hoax! There's no evidence for it", pissing-off warming scientist Kevin Trenberth, who calls it "utter nonsense." Watch video - debate part 1. Watch video - debate part 2.

On June 3-14, 1992 the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit (U.N. Conference on Environment and Development) is held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, producing the 27-principle Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, based on the principle of sustainable development, a Rio Declaration on Forests, the Rio (U.N.) Framework Convention on Climate Change (June 4), and the devilish Marxist globalist 40-chapter $600B Agenda 21 along with an agreement to establish a Sustainable Development Commission to monitor the progress in implementing the Rio Declaration, becoming the largest and most costly diplomatic gathering in world history to date but failing to agree on an internat. ban on whaling, followed on June 13-22 by the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, in which Canadian globalist Marxist U.N. bigwig Maurice Strong (1929-2015) utters the soundbytes: "We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrialized civilization to collapse. Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?"; "It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class…involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, golf courses, small electric appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable... A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns", followed by U.S. Sen. (D-Colo.) (1987-93) Timothy Endicott "Tim" Wirth (1939-) (backer of Al Gore's agenda), who utters the soundbyte: "We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy", going on to become undersecy. of state #1 for global affairs for the U.S. State Dept. in 1993-7, lead U.S. negotiator for the Kyoto Climate Conference, and pres. #1 of the United Nations Foundation in 1998-2013; activists claim that the Earth has only 10 years left to get global warming under control; U.S. deputy asst. of state Richard Benedick adds: "A global warming treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect"; Vancouver, Canada-born environmental activist Severn Cullis-Suzuki (1979-), daughter of environmental activist David Suzuki and 1988 founder of the Environmental Children's Org. (ECO) gives a speech at the Rio summit, containing the soundbyte: "I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the hole in our ozone. I am afraid to breathe the air because I don't know what chemicals are in it", which becomes a viral YouTube hit, causing her to be known as "the Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes"; in 2002 she founds the Internet-based think tank The Skyfish Project; meanwhile a climate skeptic conference is held in Heidelberg, Germany, resulting in the Heidelberg Appeal by Michel Salomon to be pub., signed by 492 scientists, calling on govt. to quit following "junk" environmental science for their "balanced" policies, calling it "pseudoscientific arguments or false and nonrelevant data", pissing-off the global warmists, who call it tobacco and asbestos industry agitprop, which doesn't stop it from having influence, after which Philip Morris pays APCO & Assocs. the create the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC) in 1993, headed by Steve Milloy. In Dec. 2011 U.N. Foundation pres. Tim Wirth utters the soundbyte that Pres. Obama has a "last window of opportunity" to put in place dramatic carbon dioxide restrictions necessary to keep future warming "anywhere approaching" the 2 degree Celsius tipping point and avert catastrophic climate change, but "I don't know who and where the climate leadership in the administration is. It doesn't exist. There is no resolve in the Obama administration to do anything, and I think they look at Congress and say, 'We can't do anything, so why break our pick now?'" Watch video - Severn Suzuki. Watch video - Glenn Beck and Rosa Koire. Watch video - Glenn Beck and Rosa Koire. Watch video - Patrick Wood.

On June 4, 1992 the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is opened for signatures at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, entering into force on Mar. 21, 1994, with the objective to "stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system", setting non-binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions with no enforcement mechanisms.

In June 1992 U.S. Sen. (D-Tenn.) and U.S. vice-pres. candidate Al Gore pub. the bestselling book Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit , becoming the first NYT bestseller by a sitting U.S. sen. since JFK's 1956 "Profiles in Courage"; proposes a Global Marshall Plan to address global warming and other ecological issues, calling the adaptation approach to global warming a “kind of laziness, an arrogant faith in our ability to react in time to save our skins"; in 2003 the Club of Rome et al. found the Global Marshall Plan Initiative.

In summer 1992 the article "What to Do about greenhouse Warning: Look Before You leap", by Austrian-born U. of Va. physicist-engineer Siegfried Fred Singer (1924-2020) (founding dir. of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service) and electrical engineer Chauncey Starr (1912-2007) is pub. in Cosmos: A Journal of Engineering Issues, containing the soundbyte: "Drastic, precipitous - and, especially, unilateral - steps to delay the putative greenhouse impacts can cost jobs and prosperity and increase the human costs of global poverty, without being effective. Stringent economic controls now would be economically devastating particularly for developing countries", and concludes: "The scientific base for a greenhouse warming is too uncertain to justify drastic action at this time. There is little risk in delaying policy responses"; too bad, Seattle, Wash.-born geologist-oceanographer ("Father of Global Warming") Roger Randall Douglas Revelle (1909-91) adds his name to the article after Singer allegedly hoodwinks him, causing Revelle's grad student Justin Lancaster to to call Singer's actions "unethical", after which Singer sues with the support of the Center for Public Interest in Washington, D.C., receiving a letter of apology from Lancaster sans admission of wrongdoing, only to withdraw his letter in 2006 after Robert Balling et al. continue to claim that Revelle is the article's real author, while Revelle waffles until his 1991 death; on June 1, 1989 Singer pub. the book Global Climate Change: Human and Natural Influences; meanwhile in June 1992 Dem. vice-pres. candidate Albert Arnold "Al" Gore Jr. (1948-) pub. the NYT bestseller (first by a sitting U.S. sen. since JFK's "Profiles in Courage") Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, proposing a Global Marshall Plan to save the planet. In 1997 Singer pub. the book Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate (rev. ed. Jan. 1, 2001); dares to point out that "the Emperor has no clothes" (Arthur C. Clarke). On July 1, 2002 Singer pub. the article Statistical Analysis Does Not Support a Human Influence on Climate in Energy & Environment. In Feb. 2007 Singer and Lansing, Mich.-born food policy analyst Dennis T. Avery (1936-2020) (dir. of the Center for Global Food Issues at the Hudson Inst.) pub. Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years, containing the soundbytes: "The Earth is warming but physical evidence from around the world tells us that human-emitted carbon dioxide has played only a minor role in it. Instead, the mild warming seems to be part of a natural 1,500-year climate cycle (plus or minus 500 years) that goes back at least one million years"; "Considered collectively, there is clear and convincing evidence of a 1,500-year climate cycle. And if the current warming trend is part of an entirely natural cycle, as Singer and Avery conclude, then actions to prevent further warming would be futile, could impose substantial costs upon the global economy and lessen the ability of the world's peoples to adapt to the impacts of climate change"; "Sunspots and cosmic rays have a 79 percent correlation with our thermometer record since 1860. Meanwhile the CO2 correlation is a mere 22 percent." On Sept. 9, 2007 Hannity's America airs footage of Al Gore landing in late Aug. in a fuel-inefficient private Gulfstream jet at the San Francisco airport and taking off in another fuel-inefficient town car. On Jan. 3, 2011 Singer pub. the article Estimated 40 Percent of Scientists Doubt Manmade Global Warming in the bulletin of the Nat. Assoc. of Scholars. In Aug. 2011 Singer pub. the article NIPCC vs. IPCC: Addressing the Disparity between Climate Models and Observations: Testing the Hypothesis of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW), exposing some of IPCC's dirty laundry incl. the failure to prove a tropical tropospheric hotspot, with the soundbyte: "While AR4 now asserts to be 90-99% sure that the warming of the late 20th century is anthropogenic, they have no solid evidence to back this claim. To the contrary, their own data demonstrate the opposite. All IPCC climate models show an amplification of trends in the tropical zone, with a 'hot spot' in the upper troposphere - while the temperature data from radiosondes (both the Hadley Centre analysis and the RATPAC analysis by NOAA) do not show this feature." On Feb. 29, 2012 Singer pub. the article Climate Deniers Are Giving Us Skeptics a Bad Name in American Thinker, attempting to position himself on the fence. In 2015 he steps away from the Greenhouse Warming crowd, with the soundbyte: "I should note that I am somewhat out of step here with my fellow skeptics. Few of them would agree with me that the climate sensitivity (CS) is indeed close to zero. I will have to publish the analyses to prove my point and try to convince them. Of course, nothing, no set of facts, will ever convince the confirmed climate alarmists." On Apr. 2, 2018 Singer pub. the article Does the Greenhouse Gas CO2 Cool the Climate? in American Thinker, which concludes: "A greenhouse gas produces cooling of the climate when its molecular transitions are in a region of positive lapse rate. One example is CO2 and the stratosphere, where temperature increases with altitude. Another example is temperature over the winter poles. While the climate cooling is not obvious, it counters [conventional] GH warming. This at-least-partial cancellation might explain the puzzling absence of CO2-based GH warming in the 20th century. It could also help explain the cause of the [hotly] contested climate 'pause'. Much further work awaits!" On May 15, 2018 Singer pub. the article The Sea is Rising, but Not Because of Climate Change in The Wall Street Journal, causing a flurry of denials and rebuttals by scientists. On Feb. 8, 2019 Singer pub. the article The 1978-1997 Warming Trend Is an Artifact of Instrumentation. Watch video - S. Fred Singer. Watch video - S. Fred Singer. Watch video - S. Fred Singer. Watch video - S. Fred Singer. Watch video - S. Fred Singer. Watch video - S. Fred Singer. Watch video - S. Fred Singer. Watch video - S. Fred Singer. Watch video - Dennis T. Avery. Watch video - Dennis T. Avery. Watch video - Dennis T. Avery.

On Sept. 11, 1992 Category 4 (145 mph) Hurricane Iniki (Hawaiian "strong and piercing wind") (formed Sept. 5) hits Kauai, Hawaii, becoming the first hurricane to hit Hawaii since Hurricane Iwa in 1982, and the first major hurricane since Hurricane Dot in 1959, killing six, damaging 1.4K houses and severely damaging 5K more, causing $3.1B damage before it dissipates on Sept. 13, becoming the most costly tropical cyclone to hit Hawaii (until ?).

On Oct. 15, 1992 Berwyn, Ill.-born climatologist (global warming skeptic) Patrick J. "Pat" Michaels (1950-2022) pub. Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming, claiming that there is no scientific foundation for a coming global warming apocalypse a la Al Gore. On Dec. 31, 1998 Michaels pub. the paper Long Hot Year: Latest Science Debunks Global Warming Hysteria for the Cato Inst. In 2000 Michaels and Ariz. State U. geography prof. Robert C. Balling Jr. (1952-) pub. The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air About Global Warming. On Dec. 20, 2002 Michaels pub. the article Revised 21st century temperature projections along with Paul C. "Chip" Knappenberger (1964-), Oliver W. Frauenfeld, and Robert E. Davis (1960-) in Climate Research, containing the soundbyte that the Earth will see "a warming range of 1.3–3.0°C, with a central value of 1.9°C" for the 1990 to 2100 period (an analysis far smaller than the IPCC's average predictions)." In 2004 Michaels pub. Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians and the Media, "Patrick Michaels fully exploits his incomparable wit and credentialed expertise to dismantle the claim that catastrophic climate change is upon us. Using dozens of examples, this working-stiff climatologist exposes the exaggerations and outright falsehoods promoted by a media industry hungry for 'if it bleeds, it leads' stories." On Nov. 28, 2005 Michaels edited the book Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming. On Feb. 23, 2007 Michaels pub. an article calling Al Gore's big global warming scare film "science fiction... The main point of [Gore's] movie is that, unless we do something very serious, very soon about carbon dioxide emissions, much of Greenland's 630,000 cubic miles of ice is going to fall into the ocean, raising sea levels over twenty feet by the year 2100. Nowhere in the traditionally refereed scientific literature do we find any support for Gore's hypothesis. Instead, there's an un-refereed editorial by NASA climatefirebrand James E. Hansen, in the journal Climate Change - edited by Steven Schneider, of Stanford University, who said in 1989 that scientists had to choose 'the right balance between being effective and honest' about global warming - and a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that was only reviewed by one person, chosen by the author, again Dr. Hansen. These are the sources for the notion that we have only ten years to 'do' something immediately to prevent an institutionalized tsunami. And given that Gore only conceived of his movie about two years ago, the real clock must be down to eight years! It would be nice if my colleagues would actually level with politicians about various'solutions' for climate change. The Kyoto Protocol, if fulfilled by every signatory, would reduce global warming by 0.07 degrees Celsius per half-century." On Sept. 29, 2007 Michaels gives an interview to The Washington Post, explaining why he resigned as the state climatologist of Va., with the soundbyte: "I was told that I could not speak in public.... Michaels has argued that the climate is becoming warmer but that the consequences will not be as dire as others have predicted. Gov. Kaine had warned Michaels not to use his official title in discussing his views. 'I resigned as Virginia state climatologist because I was told that I could not speak in public on my area of expertise, global warming, as state climatologist,' Michaels said in a statement this week provided by the libertarian Cato Institute, where he has been a fellow since 1992. 'It was impossible to maintain academic freedom with this speech restriction.'" On Nov. 21, 2007 Andrew Dessler pub. the soundbyte in Grist Magazine: "While some people claim there are lots of skeptical climate scientists out there, if you actually try to find one, you keep turning up the same two dozen or so (Singer, Lindzen, Michaels, Christy, etc., etc.) These skeptics are endlessly recycled by the denial machine, so someone not paying close attention might think there are lots of them out there - but that's not the case." On Sept. 23, 2009 Michaels pub. the article The Dog Ate Global Warming in National Review, containing the soundbyte: "Steel yourself for the new reality, because the [Hadley Center] data needed to verify the gloom-and-doom warming forecasts have disappeared." In 2009 Michaels and Robert Balling Jr. pub. Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know. On Apr. 16, 2011 Michaels edited Climate Coup: Global Warming's Invasion of Our Government and Our Lives. In 2015 Michaels and Knappenberger pub. Global Lukewarming: A New Synthesis of Climate Change, proposing a third group after climate alarmists and climate deniers; "Climate change is real, it is partially man-made, but it is clearer than ever that its impact has been exaggerated - with many of the headline-grabbing predictions now being rendered implausible or impossible." In 2019 Michaels and Terence Kealey ed. the book Scientocracy: The Tangled Web of Public Science and Public Policy; "The public, politicians, and the media are mostly scientific ignoramuses easily fooled into believing that fake science is rock-solid science. There is an alliance driven by the money-greed of the science mandarins and the socialist dreams of the political Left. It is not an accident that the many ecological catastrophes predicted by rogue science get political support from the Left." Michaels is known for the soundbytes: "Surface temperatures are indeed increasing slightly: They've been going up, in fits and starts, for more than 150 years, or since a miserably cold and pestilential period known as the Little Ice Age. Before carbon dioxide from economic activity could have warmed us up, temperatures rose three-quarters of a degree Fahrenheit between 1910 and World War II. They then cooled down a bit, only to warm again from the mid-1970s to the late '90s, about the same amount as earlier in the century"; "It's hardly news that human beings have had a hand in the planetary warming that began more than 30 years ago. For nearly a century, scientists have known that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide would eventually result in warming that was most pronounced in winter, especially on winter's coldest days, and a cooling of the stratosphere. All of these have been observed... The best policy is to live with some modest climate change now and encourage economic development, which will generate the capital necessary for investment in the more efficient technologies of the future"; "Probably the best solution is to do nothing, because doing nothing is doing something." Balling is known for the soundbytes: "The scientific evidence argues against the existence of a greenhouse crisis, against the notion that realistic policies could achieve any meaningful climatic impact, and against the claim that urgent action is necessary to reduce the greenhouse threat"; "Life has existed on our planet for billions of years, and the climate over that time has changed from ice ages to periods much warmer than today. There is little doubt that as our cities grow, heat waves will be more severe in the urban areas. If global warming does in fact add to the problem, we will adapt to the new world, just as humans have done for millions of years"; "All of us engage in activities that involve burning fossil fuels, and according to some self-proclaimed environmentalists we should feel guilty doing so due to the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) which can lead to ever-dreaded global warming. However, the botanical literature is full of 1,000s of articles showing that elevated atmospheric concentrations of CO2 will be beneficial for plants throughout the world... We see the forest and we see the trees, and they both thank us for the CO2 we're adding to the atmosphere... So drive out to the forest and feel good about the CO2 coming out of your tailpipe!"; "Elevated atmospheric CO2 will produce biological miracles all over the world." Knappenberger is known for the soundbytes: "It's expected that the Arctic is going to warm more than the rest of the world. Now, does that mean it's all doom and gloom? There, I take exception to that... Some particular elements of the press like to focus on the losers – and pretend like the winners don't exist at all. But in that same annual Arctic report card from NOAA, there is plenty of good to be found there"; "The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) has recently reached a 'milestone' of 400 parts per million (ppm). In some circles, this announcement has been met with consternation and gnashing of teeth. The proper reaction is celebration." Davis is known for the soundbytes: "The question everyone should ask is not 'Is the earth warming,' but, 'How is the warming being felt across the planet? Where is it warming? When? And by how much?' It turns out that most of the warming is occurring in the high latitudes, in the winter, and across the planet, at night"; "The temperature record at the surface is a contaminated record and urbanization needs to be factored out of that if we're going to get any kind of accurate representation of how surface temperatures have changed over the last hundred years." Frauenfeld is known for the soundbytes: "Without question, much more progress is necessary regarding our current understanding of climate and our abilities to model it"; "Only after we identify these factors and determine how they affect one another, can we begin to produce accurate models. And only then should we rely on those models to shape policy. Until that time, climate variability will remain controversial and uncertain." Watch video - Patrick J. Michaels. Watch video - Patrick J. Michaels. Watch video - Patrick J. Michaels. Watch video - Patrick J. Michaels. Watch video - Patrick J. Michaels. Watch video - Patrick J. Michaels. Watch video - Patrick J. Michaels. Watch video - Patrick J. Michaels. Watch video - Robert C. Balling Jr.. Watch video - Chip Knappenberger.

In Oct. 1992 the Global Environment Facility (GEF) is founded to help finance internat. efforts to fight climate change and other environmental challenges, going on to provide $94B in co-financing and $18B in grants for 4.5K programs in 170 countries; too bad, a Sept. 2017 report concludes that a program started in Russia in 2010 to increase energy efficiency in building equipment and household appliances "did not achieve any GHG emission reductions", pointing to misappropriation of funds.

In Dec. 1992 former Union of Concerned Scientists chmn. Henry Way Kendall (1926-99) (1990 Nobel Physics Prize) pub. World Scientists' Warning to Humanity, a response to the June 14 Heidelberg Appeal, signed by 1.7K leading scientists incl. most Nobel Prize science laureates, starting out: "Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course", and incl. the soundbyte: "We must, for example, move away from fossil fuels to more benign, inexhaustible energy sources to cut greenhouse gas emissions and the pollution of our air and water... We must stabilize population"; in Nov. 2017 "A World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: Second Notice" is pub., signed by 15,364 scientists, calling for drastically lowering per capita consumption of fossil fuels, meat, et al., and limiting population growth, detailing 13 specific steps to transition to sustainability, becoming the most scientist cosigners for a journal article (until ?).

In 1992 the New Universal Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church is completed after nine drafts, changing the term "mortal sin" to "grave sin", adding terrorism and offenses against the environment to the sin list, and calling for a psychological analysis for sexual sins.

In 1992 the Australian Greens center-left political party is founded by environmentalists, pushing carbon taxes, tax cuts for the rich, free univ. tuition and medical care, becoming Australia's third largest political party.

In 1992 Albuquerque, N.M.-born Yale U. economist William Dawbney Nordhaus (1941-) pub. the paper An Optimal Transition Path for Controlling Greenhouse Gases, which introduces the Dynamic Integrated Climate-Economy (DICE) Model. In 1993 Nordhaus pub. the book Reflections on the Economics of Climate Change. On Oct. 4, 1994 he pub. the book Managing the Global Commons: The Economics of Climate Change, which makes him a global warming/climate change star. On Aug. 11, 2003 he pub. the book Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming, describing his DICE-99 (Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate-Economy) and RICE-99 (Regional Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate-Economy) models of the economics of climate change. On June 24, 2008 he pub. the book A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies, which becomes a std. work. On Nov. 26, 2013 Nordhaus edits the book Economics and Policy Issues in Climate Change (Resources for the Future). In Nov. 2013 he pub. the book The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World, calling coal the #1 cause of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), calling for a $40/ton carbon tax (which would result in 3.5C global warming?). On June 16, 2017 he pub. an article in the book Global Carbon Pricing: The Path to Climate Cooperation. In 2018 Nordhaus is awarded the 2018 Nobel Econ. Prize for "integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis". In June 2019 Nordhaus pub. the article The Empty Radicalism of the Climate Apocalypse in Issues in Science and Technology. Nordhaus's methods are fatally flawed? Watch video - William Nordhaus. Watch video - William Nordhaus.

In 1992 the Potsdam Inst. for Climate Impact Research (PIK) is founded by the German govt. and German physicist Hans-Joachim "John" Schelnhuber (1950-), an expert on climatological tipping points, who becomes dir. in 1993, going on to propose the 2C guardrail for global warming in 1995 and grow PIK to one of the world's top climate research institutes (300+ employees) before moving to the Tyndall Centre in 2001-5 and returning to the U. of Potsdam in time to see his Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) be jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. On Mar. 15, 2017 Dw.com pub. an interview with "Father of the 2C Limit" Schellnhuber, in which he "urges scientists to come out of their ivory towers to fight climate denial", adding: "We are at the crossroads now... We will end up with a planet warming by 4, 5, 6 or even 12 deg C. It would be the end of the world as we know it." On Aug. 19, 2018 the German online newspaper Augsburger Allgemeinen pub. an interview with Schellnhuber, in which he utters the soundbyte: "On Earth, ice ages and warm periods have alternated for millions of years. We have shown in studies that the industrial society, with its historic greenhouse gas emissions, has already interrupted this cycle and there will probably never be another ice age. So my colleagues and I brought up the question: Can our climate system be stabilized in the currently prevailing warm period state, or are we putting planetary processes in motion that are driving us into a hot period? The difference is, roughly speaking, the continued existence of civilization as we know it. With a long-term increase in temperature of five or six degrees and a sea level of around 60 meters, it will not be possible maintain it", receiving criticism from climate skeptics for his cluelessness.

In 1992 English climate scientist Chris Folland (1944-) of the U.K. Met Office Hadley Centre utters the soundbyte about the 1990 IPCC Report: "The data doesn't matter. We're not basing our recommendations on the data. We're basing them on the climate models"; in 2014 after the quote is spread over the Internet by climate warming skeptics, he confirms it but claims that since 1995 the data began coming in and the models are no longer as important.

In 1992 Harvard entomologist ("Father of Sociobology and Biodiversity") Edward Osborne "E.O." Wilson (1929-) pub. the book The Diversity of Life, which claims that the Earth is losing 30K species/year (3/hour), launching the concept of the Sixth Extinction, with the soundbyte: "The sixth great extinction spasm of geological time is upon us, grace of mankind. Earth has at last acquired a force that can break the crucible of biodiversity. The creation of that diversity came slow and hard: 3 billion years of evolution to start the profusion of animals that occupy the seas, another 350 million years to assemble the rain forests in which half or more of the species on earth now live. There was a succession of dynasties." Too bad, when environmental activist Tim Keating of Rainforest Relief was asked if he could name any of them he replies: "No we can't, because we don't know what those species are. But most of the species we're talking about in those estimates are things like insects and even microorganisms.” In 2014 The New Yorker journalist Elizabeth Kolbert (1961-) pub. the book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Pulitzer Prize), a climate alarmist hit predicting that humans are next, starting with 20%-50% of "all living species on earth" by 2100. On Mar. 7, 2016 Wilson pub. the book Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life, which buys the Sixth Extinction narrative bigtime, blaming humans for turning the Holocene into the Anthropocene, with the bold conclusion: "The only solution to the 'Sixth Extinction' is to increase the area of inviolable natural reserves to half the surface of the Earth or greater. This expansion is favored by unplanned consequences of ongoing human population growth and movement and evolution of the economy now driven by the digital revolution. But it also requires a fundamental shift in moral reasoning concerning our relation to the living environment"; on May 14, 2017 Kamran Nayeri pub. the article How to Stop the Sixth Extinction: A Critical Assessment of E. O. Wilson's Half-Earth on ecology.iww.org.

In 1992 the documentary film The Greening of Planet Earth: The Effects of Carbon Dioxide on the Biosphere is released, produced by the Greening Earth Society (Inst. for Biospheric Research), a front for the Western Fuels Assoc., and narrated by Sherwood Idso, praising rising CO2 levels as beneficial to agriculture and life itself while and knocking govt. policies designed to lower them, becoming popular with the George H.W. Bush admin. esp. chief of staff John H. Sununu; in 1998 the sequel "The Greening of Planet Earth Continues" is released. Watch Pt. 1. Watch Pt. 2.

On Jan. 28, 1993 Jonathan D. Kahl, Donna J. Charlevoix, Nina A. Zaftseva, Russell C. Schnell, and Mark C. Serreze pub. the paper Absence of evidence for greenhouse warming over the Arctic Ocean in the past 40 years in Nature mag., with the abstract: "We do not observe the large surface warming trends predicted by models; indeed, we detect significant surface cooling trends over the western Arctic Ocean during winter and autumn. This discrepancy suggests that present climate models do not adequately incorporate the physical processes that affect the polar region."

In early Mar. 1993 the U.S. East Coast is smothered in the No Name Superstorm (AKA Storm of the Cent.) , causing a 12-ft. storm surge in Taylor County, Fla. along with 11 tornadoes in Fla., moving N and becoming a historic blizzard, affecting 26 states and killing 218; watch video.

In Apr.-Oct. 1993 the Great Mississipi/Missouri River Flood floods 30K sq. mi., killing 32 and causing $15B damage, becoming the worst since the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 (until ?).

In 1993 Dem. U.S. pres. #42 (1993-2001) William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (Bythe III) (1946-) proposes a BTU Tax on all fuel sources based on their heat content, except for wind, solar, and geothermal; it passes the House but dies in the Senate; many House Dems. who lose their seats in the 1994 midterm election blame it on voting for it, causing the term "getting BTUd" to be coined.

In 1993 after he let the looted and pillaged Soviet Union fall, Green Cross Internat. is founded by Soviet pres. (1990-1) Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931-) to take communism global via a global propaganda machine giving cover to communists looting many nations in the name of fighting climate change; Global Green USA is the U.S. arm.

In 1993 the multinat. Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX), led by Indian scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan discovers anthropogenic atmospheric brown clouds covering the Indian Ocean, finding that they cause surface cooling that masks as much as 50% of the surface heating caused by CO2 and reduce precipitation during the Indian monsoon.

In 1993 Princeton U. physicist William "Will" Happer (1939-), dir. of energy research at the U.S. Dept. of Energy (in charge of a $6B annual budget, the world's largest funder of physical science research) testifies before Congress that the scientific data doesn't support the hypothesis of anthropogenic global warming, pissing-off Al Gore, who gets him fired, after which in 2008 Happer utters the soundbyte: "I had the privilege of being fired by Al Gore, since I refused to go along with his alarmism. I did not need the job that badly"; on Feb. 25, 2009 he speaks to the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, uttering the soundbyte: "I believe that the increase of CO2 is not a cause for alarm and will be good for mankind. I predict that future historians will look back on this period much as we now view the period just before the passage of the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution to prohibit 'the manufacturing, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors.' At the time, the 18th amendment seemed to be exactly the right thing to do – who wanted to be in league with demon rum? It was the 1917 version of saving the planet. More than half the states enacted prohibition laws before the 18th amendment was ratified. Only one state, Rhode Island, voted against the 18th amendment. Two states, Illinois and Indiana, never got around to voting and all the rest voted for it. There were many thoughtful people, including a majority of Rhode Islanders, who thought that prohibition might do more harm than good. But they were completely outmatched by the temperance movement, whose motives and methods had much in common with the movement to stop climate change. Deeply sincere people thought they were saving humanity from the evils of alcohol, just as many people now sincerely think they are saving humanity from the evils of CO2. Prohibition was a mistake, and our country has probably still not fully recovered from the damage it did. Institutions like organized crime got their start in that era. Drastic limitations on CO2 are likely to damage our country in analogous ways"; he goes on to declare that there is a CO2 drought. On Mar. 2, 2009 Happer pub. the article Global Warming in Perspective: A Note from William Happer, In June 2011 Happer pub. the paper The Truth About Greenhouse Gases, containing the soundbyte: "CO2 does indeed cause some warming of our planet, and we should thank Providence for that, because without the greenhouse warming of CO2 and its more potent partners, water vapor and clouds, the earth would be too cold to sustain its current abundance of life. Other things being equal, more CO2 will cause more warming. The question is how much warming, and whether the increased CO2 and the warming it causes will be good or bad for the planet"; he also utters the soundbyte that "the demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler." On May 8, 2013 Happer and former NASA astronaut (geologist) and U.S. Sen. (R-N.M.) (1977-83) Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (1935-) pub. the op-ed article In Defense of Carbon Dioxide in The Wall Street Journal, arguing that "The demonized chemical compound is a boon to plant life and has little correlations with global temperature", pissing-off the AGW true believers and causing the Columbia Journalism Review to call the article "shameful, even for the dismal standards" of the WSJ (journalism standards or scientific standards?); Happer later gives an interview claiming that "temperature always changes first, and CO2 follows", there has been no global temp increase since 1998, and "A thousand parts per million of CO2 would actually help the planet... If you look around the world, many greenhouse operators put several thousand parts per million into their greenhouses"; he later utters the soundbyte: "There's a whole area of climate so-called science that is really more like a cult... it's like Hare Krishna or something like that. They're glassy-eyed and they chant. It will potentially harm the image of all science"; "The hated 'deniers' are right. I don't see a whole lot of difference between the consensus on climate change and the consensus on witches. At the witch trials in Salem, the judges were educated at Harvard. This was supposedly 100 percent science. The one or two people who said there were no witches were immediately hung. Not much has changed." In 2017 Happer meets with new Pres. Trump to discuss being appointed as his science adviser, and is appointed on Sept. 4, 2018 by John Bolton to draft an executive order creating a Pres. Committee on Climate Security to rein-in climate alarmists in the federal govt., hiring former Obama admin. undersecy. for science in the U.S. Energy Dept. (2009-11) Steven E. "Steve" Koonin (1951-) to help him create a committee to scrutinize the science underlying the Nov. 2017 National Climate Assessment and make "the science more transparent and explicit" to form a skeptical but credible second opinion to send to the private National Academy of Sciences for review; too bad, the committee is killed in Oct. 2019, causing Happer to leve the Trump admin.; on Mar. 18, 2019 140+ scientists and scientific orgs. pub. a letter of support. Watch video - Will Happer. Watch video - Will Happer. Watch video - Will Happer. Watch video - Will Happer. Watch video - Will Happer. Watch video - Will Happer. Watch video - Will Happer. Watch video - Will Happer.

In 1993 the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) Research Station in Gakona, Alaska is established to develop ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications and surveillance; conspiracy theorists claim that it can be used to modify weather and cause catastrophes incl. the 2010 Haiti Earthquake; in 2018 Indian environmental minister Anil Madhav Dave accuses the U.S. govt. of using it to cause global warming and reduce yields of major crops incl. wheat and maize.

In 1993 Am. anti-Big Oil activist atty. Steven R. "Steve" Donziger (1961-) leads a legal team filing a class-action lawsuit against Texaco (bought by Chevron in 2001) for pollution in their Lago Agrio Oil Field in Ecuador, which began production in 1973, winning $18B in damages for 30K+ farmers and natives, which are later reduced to $9.5B, causing Chevron to move its assets out of Ecuador, making collection almost impossible after the U.N. Permanent Court of Arbitration rules in 2018 that the judgment was marred by fraud and corruption; meanwhile Chevron strikes back with a U.S. RICO lawsuit in 2011, which causes Donziger to be disbarred in N.Y. in 2018, then put under house arrest on Aug. 2019 for contempt of court for refusing to turn over certain electronic devices, which ends in a guilty verdict and 6 mo. jail sentence in Oct. 2021; in 2020 21 Nobel laureates sign a petition calling Chevron's actions "judicial harassment"; in Apr. 2021 six members of the Dem.-run U.S. Congressional Progressive Caucus demands that the U.S. Dept. of Justice review Donziger's case; in Sept. 2021 the U.N. high commissioner for human rights rules that Donziger's pre-trial detention was illegal, calling for his release.

In 1993 the InterAcademy Panel: The Global Network of Science Academies (IAP) is founded by 106+ nat. science academies to advise the public on scientific aspects of critical issues through its Gen. Council, which meets every 3rd year, going on to pub. official statements incl. pop. growth (1994), the future of cities (1996), sustainability (2000), human cloning (2003), access to scientific info. (2003), biosecurity (2005), the teaching of evolution (2006), ocean acidification (2009), tropical forests and climate change (2009), and the IPCC (2010); in 2002 it founds the InterAcademy Council (IAC).

On Apr. 8, 1994 The Canberra Times pub. the article Sunspots linked to global warming: Gases not dominant factor, which starts out: "Sunspots, rather than 'greenhouse' gases from the burning of fossil fuels, may be responsible for the rise in global temperatures in the past 200 years, it was claimed on Wednesday. Astronomers at Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland have studied meteorological records going back to 1795, which point to a strong link between air temperatures on Earth and solar activity. Dr. John Butler, who presented the results at the European and National Astronomy Meeting in Edinburgh, said: "It looks as though carbon dioxide [the principal greenhouse gas] has not been the most dominant factor in global warming for the past 200 years... However, Dr. Butler said, 'Carbon dioxide may well become dominant in future.'"

In 1994 MIT meteorologist Kerry Andrew Emanuel (1955-), known for his novel method of computer modeling that did a reasonable job of simulating past hurricane fluctuations proposes the hypercane, a superpowerful hurricane that could form if the avg. sea temp increases another 15C, making him a rising star among global warming scientists. In Aug. 2005 he pub. a paper in Nature finding that cyclones have become more destructive over the past 30 years, with long-lived and more intense storms; in early Sept. he follows with another paper in Nature that concludes that modern cyclones are stronger but less common than 35 years ago, which, combined with Hurricane Katrina in Aug. 2005 make him a superstar. In May 2008 he pub. the paper The Hurricane-Climate Connection in Bulletin of the Am. Meteorological Society, predicting that global warming is likely to increase the intensity but reduce the frequency of hurrricane and cyclone activity, with the soundbyte: "The weight of available evidence suggests that multidecadal variability of hurricane season tropical Atlantic SST and Northern Hemispheric surface temperature... is controlled mostly by time-varying radiative forcing owing to solar variability, major volcanic eruptions, and anthropogenic sulfate aerosols and greenhouse gases, though the response to this forcing may be modulated by natural modes of variability", making him a bigger star, after which his co-author Gabriel Vecchi of NOAA utters the soundbyte: "While his results don't rule out the possibility that global warming has contributed to the recent increase in activity in the Atlantic, they suggest that other factors - possibly in addition to global warming - are likely to have been substantial contributors to the observed increase in activity." In Nov., 2013 he co-authors an open letter with James Hansen, Tom Wigley, and Ken Caldeira, stating that "continued opposition to nuclear power threatens humanity's ability to avoid dangerous climate change." "The hurricanes are following the tropical ocean temperature.... [which] is following the Northern Hemisphere. And it's very hard now to believe that there's anything natural about that." (Emanuel) Watch video - James Hansen, Tom Wigley, Kerry Emanuel, Ken Caldeira.

In 1994 M.E. Schlesinger and Navin Ramankutty pub. the paper An oscillation in the global climate system of period 65-70 years in Nature, identifying the Atlantic Multidecal Oscillation (AMO), irregular cyclical temperature changes in the Atlantic, which are used by climate skeptics to explain away any greenhouse gas effect.

1995

On Jan. 1, 1995 a 61-ft.-high Draupner Wave (rogue wave) is observed via satellite in the Bermuda Triangle, supposedly solving the mystery; in Feb. a pair of rogue waves up to 95 ft. high hit the Queen Elizabeth II, injuring 50 passengers.

On June 16, 1995 Terre Haute, Ind.-born U. of Okla. geophysicist David Deming (1954-) pub. a paper in Science reviewing published analysis of borehole temperature data in North Am., concluding: "The magnitude of the observed warming... is still within the range of estimated natural variability... A cause and effect relationship between anthropogenic activities and climatic warming cannot be demonstrated unambiguously at the present time", pissing-off global warmists; in 1998 he adds that worldwide borehole temperature records are not anomalously warm "when compared to the period of time over which human civilization rose, present day temperatures are colder than average. Even if mean global temperature were to rise another degree, it would still be colder than it has been for much of the last 10,000 years." In Mar. 2005 he pub. an op-ed in Investor's Business Daily, comparing Naomi Oreskes' claim of 100% scientific consensus on global warming "to the October 2002 election in Iraq, where Saddam Hussein received 100% of the vote", dissing a Dec. 26, 2004 op-ed by Oreskes in the Washington Post in which she wrote the soundbyte "We need to stop repeating nonsense about the uncertainty of global warming" and ending with a quotation from Francis Bacon: "If we begin in certainty, we will end in doubts." On Dec. 6, 2006 he testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, with the soundbyte: "The amount of climatic warming that has taken place in the past 150 years is poorly constrained, and its cause - human or natural - is unknown. There is no sound scientific basis for predicting future climate change with any degree of certainty. If the climate does warm, it is likely to be beneficial to humanity rather than harmful. In my opinion, it would be foolish to establish national energy policy on the basis of misinformation and irrational hysteria." On Mar. 1, 2007 Deming debates Australian-born U. of Okla. meteorology prof. David John Karoly (1955-), uttering the soundbyte: "[S]ome people want to enlist science in a moral crusade. Science is a disinterested search for truth... Global warming is a scientific question, not a moral one... The projection that the temperatures are becoming warmer is nothing more than speculation." On Dec. 19, 2007 he pub. an op-ed in The Washington Times titled "Year of Global Cooling", containing the soundbyte: "In 2007, hundreds of people died, not from global warming, but from cold weather hazards", adding that "The mean planetary temperature hasn't increased significantly for nearly nine years", and concluding that "Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo."

On July 12-16, 1995 the 1995 Chicago, Ill. Heat Wave peaks, with a high of 106F (41C) on July 13 (warmest since 100F/43C on July 23, 1934), causing 739 deaths, mostly elderly who can't afford air conditioning; additional deaths occur in St. Louis, Mo. and Milwaukee, Wisc.

On July 28, 1995 Kevin Reynolds' Waterworld (Universal Pictures) ("A man with a serious drinking problem") debuts, gobbling up $172M in production and causing star Costly Kevin, er, Kevin Costner to call in his chips, becoming known as Fishtar and Kevin's Gate; stars Costner as man-fish Mariner, who helps the good human survivors of global flooding, esp. his babe Jeanne Tripplehorn look for Dryland while fighting Dennis Hopper's mean Smokers on a floating set anchored off Hawaii that is once lost during a tropical storm; does $264.2M box office; it could be the best or the worst sci-flick yet made, wait till the secondary markets are milked?; view trailer.

In Aug. 1995 South African U. of Pretoria U.N. scientist William John Richard "W.J.R." "Will" Alexander (1924-) pub. the peer-reviewed article Floods, droughts and climate change in South Africa Journal of Science; in Jan. 2004 he pub. the article Climate Change - There is no Need for Concern in The Water Wheel, concluding: "The general conclusion, therefore, is that global warming has not caused any environmental damage in South Africa in the past, and that future increases in global warming are more likely"; on Mar. 1, 2005 he pub. the peer-reviewed article Linkages Between Solar Activity and Climatic Responses in Energy & Environment, claiming that "statistically significant 21-year periodicity is present concurrently in South African annual rainfall, river flow, flood peak maxima, groundwater levels, lake levels and the Southern Oscillation Index. This is directly related to the double sunspot cycle. The first years of the periodic sequences are characterised by sudden, regular and therefore predictable, reversals from sequences of well below average rainfall and river flow (droughts) that are suddenly broken by sequences of well above average events (floods). These reversals are directly related to corresponding six-fold increases in sunspot activity at this time. The two sunspot cycles that comprise the double sunspot cycle also have fundamentally different effects on the hydrometeorological responses. These observations are solidly based and will require a re-assessment of the nature of the solar activity that gives rise to them"; in Feb. 2007 she pub. the peer-reviewed article Locally-Developed Climate Model Verified, describing his climate model for water resource development and mgt. based on a 21-year periodicity, pissing-off the PC global warmist scientists at the South African Nat. Biodiversity Inst., who claim it wasn't peer-reviewed to slam him; in June 2007 he co-authors the paper Linkages between solar activity, climate predictability and water resource development, in Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering, detailing linkages between solar activity, climate predictability, and water resource development, with the soundbyte: "This study is based on the numerical analysis of the properties of routinely observed hydrometeorological data which in South Africa alone is collected at a rate of more than half a million station-days per year, with some records approaching 100 continuous years in length. The analysis of the data demonstrates an unequivocal synchronous linkage between these processes in South Africa and elsewhere, and solar activity. This confirms observations reported by others in many countries during the past 150 years. It is also shown with a high degree of assurance that there is a synchronous linkage between the statistically significant, 21-year periodicity in these processes and the acceleration and deceleration of the sun as it moves through galactic space. Despite a diligent search, no evidence could be found of trends in the data that could be attributed to human activities", which draws stony silence. In Dec. 2007 he pub. the article The IPCC: Structure, Processes and Politics Climate Change – the Failure of Science in Energy & Environment, containing the soundbyte: "The IPCC has been in existence for nearly 20 years but its final report is newhere in sight. The essence of the difficulty is the impossibility of applying process theory to a problem that can only be solved by applying observation theory. Nowhere in the world is process theory used to design systems and structures exposed to climatic extremes. If climate change scientists had applied well-established observation theory instead of abstract process theory, they would have studied the wealth of published climate-related data extending back for more than the past 100 years. They would have observed the unequivocal linkage between variations in solar activity and synchronous climatic responses. The nations of the world would not be in the position where they are debating the necessity for implementing costly, and in all likelihood fruitless, greenhouse gas emissions control measures based on seriously flawed science. These measures must inevitably damage their economies and the reputation of science as an honest profession." In June 2008 he pub. the article The likelihood of a global drought in 2009-2016 in Civil Engineering, which draws stony ditto at a summit on climate change in Midrand in early Mar. 2009, after which on Mar. 26, 2009 he pub. the article Climate change - the clash of theories, lamenting the closed minds of the U.N. climatologists, with the soundbyte: "The whole climate change issue is about to fall apart - Heads will roll." List of articles by Will Alexander.

On Nov. 9-10, 1995 a conference in Leipzig, Germany organized by German plant physiologist Helmut Metzner (1925-99) produces the Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change, written by Austrian-born Am. physicist Siegfried Fred Singer (1924-2020) and his Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEP) (founded 1990) in Arlington, Va., and signed by 80 scientists and 25 TV meteorologists, opposing the claims of global warming; in 1997 it is updated to opppose the Kyoto Protocol after a conference on Nov. 10-11 in Bonn, Germany; in 2005 it is revised again; global warming advocates call it a disinfo. campaign.

On Nov. 27-29, 1995 the Second (2nd) Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is approved by the 5th session of IPCC Working Group I in Madrid, Spain, and pub. in 1996, dropping attempts at making forecasts, with the soundbyte: "Carbon dioxide remains the most important contributor to anthropogenic forcing of climate change; projections of future global mean temperature change and sea level rise confirm the potential for human activities to alter the Earth's climate to an extent unprecedented in human history; and the long time-scales governing both the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the response of the climate system to those accumulations, means that many important aspects of climate change are effectively irreversible"; too bad, after the key scientists who authored the report approve it, sections were eliminated by the global Marxist politician overlords "to ensure that it conformed to a policymakers' summary of the full report", incl. altering a key graph to suggest a human influence not suggested in the scientists' version, and adding fake evidence to support the CO2-driven global warming hoax, all pissing-off Frederick Seitz, who calls the report "the most corrupted peer-review process", demanding that his name be removed from the report; Working Group III pub. Summary for Policymakers, causing an uproar when it seems to put a money value on people, suggesting that people living in poor countries are worth less than people living in rich countries; meanwhile Am. scientist Charles David Keeling (1928-2005) of the Mauna Loa Observatory reports that the annual spring-time carbon dioxide drop in the N Hemisphere is occurring earlier each year in response to increasing global CO2 levels, lengthening the overall growing season about 12 days in recent decades; by 2005 it is a full month; "I honestly believe that we are standing at the edge of a very, very large mass extinction, and top-of-mountain species are going to be the first ones to go" (Terry Root, Stanford U.); too bad, overzealous CRU scientist Benjamin David "Ben" Santer (1955-) is lead author of Chapter 8: "Detection of Climate Change and Attribution of Causes", rewriting the conclusions of the other authors in their final draft meeting in Madrid, changing "None of the studies cited above has shown clear evidence that we can attribute the observed [climate] changes to the specific cause of increases in greenhouse gases" and "While some of the pattern-base discussed here have claimed detection of a significant climate change, no study to date has positively attributed all or part of climate change observed to man-made causes" to: "There is evidence of an emerging pattern of climate response to forcing by greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosols... from the geographical, seasonal and vertical patterns of temperature change... These results point toward a human influence on global climate" and "The body of statistical evidence in chapter 8, when examined in the context of our physical understanding of the climate system, now points to a discernible human influence on the global climate", taking the IPCC report over the top with the public as proof of a scientific consensus about human-caused climate change after a quick peer-reviewed article is pub. in Nature on July 4, 1996 by Santer, Tom Wigley, Phil Jones et al. backing up the report, with Dennis Avery and Fred Singer issuing the soundbyte: "Santer single-handedly reversed the 'climate science' of the whole IPCC report and with it the global warming political process! The 'discernible human influence' supposedly revealed by the IPCC has been cited thousands of times since in media around the world and has been the 'stopper' in millions of debates among nonscientists"; after the Climategate scandal breaks, Santer sends an email threatening to beat the crap out of Pat Michaels for exposing the fraud in an article in Nature he pub. on Dec. 12, 1996? On July 21, 2018 Santer et al. pub. an article in Science, dissing the U.S. Congress for failing to acknowledge human-caused global warming, and announcing that four decades of satellite data have led to the conclusion that for the first time humans are pushing seasonal temperatures out of balance, giving odds of "roughly 5 in 1 million" of it being purely natural - how about 100 trillion to 1, tax dollars bilked from suckers, that is? Watch video - Ben Santer. Watch video - Ben Santer.

In 1995 dendrochronologist Keith R. Briffa (1952-2017) of the U. of East Anglia Hadley Climate Research Unit pub. a paper attempting to frame the Medieval Warming Period as containing the coldest year of the millennium; too bad, it is later found that the paper relies on only three tree ring from the Polar Urals. On Apr. 18, 2012 B. Christiansen and F.C. Ljungqvist of the Danish Meteorological Inst. pub. the paper The extra-tropical Northern Hemisphere temperature in the last two millennia: reconstructions of low-frequency variability, confirming that the climate was warmer 1K years ago despite Michael Mann's hockey stick graph, with the soundbyte: "We present two new multi-proxy reconstructions of the extra-tropical Northern Hemisphere (30–90° N) mean temperature: a two-millennia long reconstruction reaching back to 1 AD and a 500-yr long reconstruction reaching back to 1500 AD. .. The two-millennia long reconstruction shows a well defined Medieval Warm Period, with a peak warming ca. 950–1050 AD reaching 0.6 °C relative to the reference period 1880–1960 AD. "

In 1995 English weather-forecasting physicist Piers Richard Corbyn (1947-), brother of British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn founds WeatherAction to sell weather predictions based on his secret Solar Weather Technique which considers past weather patterns and solar observations, and Sun-Earth magnetic connectivity; in 1990 his successful prediction of severe weather makes him a star when it becomes a year of "the worst extremes"; he goes on to deny anthropogenic global warming, with the soundbytes: "CO2 has never driven, does not drive and never will drive weather or climate. Global warming is over and it never was anything to do with CO2. CO2 is still rising but the world is now cooling and will continue to do so", "Climate change is a hoax by gravy-train scientists", "Superfloods, hellish heat is normal, sellout science is not", and "The global warming nonsense will collapse." Watch video - Piers Corbyn. Watch video - Piers Corbyn. Watch video - Piers Corbyn. Watch video - Piers Corbyn.

Nothing starts or moves, everything breaks? On Jan. 6-9, 1996 a record blizzard hits the E coast of the U.S., dumping 30.7 in. of snow on Philly, 20.6 in. on New York City, and 18.2 in. on Boston.

On Jan. 17, 1996 Am. physician Jonathan Patz pub. the paper Global Climate Change and Emerging Infectious Disease in the Journal of the Am. Medical Assoc., becoming the first climate policy paper of the Am. Public Health Assoc. (APHA), going on to become a global warming star salesman, scaring people with stories of stranded polar bears, thriving poison ivy, yellow fever, Zika virus, sewer overflow et al., all the while pushing American guilt and confusing global warming with air pollution?; he goes on to claim that the health benefit for each ton of CO2 eliminated is $200, vs. $30/ton for doing it; on Oct. 2, 2017 he gives a lecture at Colo. State U. in Fort Collins titled Solving the Global Climate Crisis Will Be the Health Cure of the Century. Watch video - Jonathan Patz. Watch video - Jonathan Patz.

On May 23, 1996 U. of Colo. atmospheric scientist Murry Lewis Salby (1951-) pub. the textbook Fundamentals of Atmospheric Physics, followed in 2011 by Physics of the Atmosphere and Climate, questioning anthropogenic climate change, with the soundbyte: "Because of the saturation effect in the energy absorption of CO2 molecules with increasing concentration and short residence time, the further increase in temperature could be therefore only at most a few tenths of a degree, if at all. However, the known fossil reserves would be exhausted by then"; too bad, in 20015 after his findings cast doubt on the U.N. IPCC global warming bureacracy, the Nat. Science Foundation begins framing, er, investigating him for funding irregularities, causing him to resign in 2008 and move to Macquarie U., only to be fired in 2013 after hosting the conference Global Emission of Carbon Dioxide: The Contribution from Natural Sources at the Sydney Inst. on Aug. 2, 2011. Watch video - Murry Salby. Watch video - Murry Salby. Watch video - Murry Salby. Watch video - Murry Salby.

On May 31, 1996 David Twohy's The Arrival (Orion Pictures) debuts, starring Charlie Sheen as radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky, who discovers evidence of intelligent ETs trying to raise Earth's temperature with CO2 emissions, becoming a victim of a conspiracy; Teri Polo plays his babe Char; Lindsay Crouse plays NCAR climatologist Ilana Green (a land of green?); does $14M on a $25M budget, becoming a cult film; watch trailer; watch movie.

In Dec. 1996 the 1996 El Nino develops (ends Aug. 1997), bringing unusually warm (4C) water to the South Am. coastline.

In 1996 Gastonia, N.C.-born African-Am. economist Thomas Sowell (1930-) pub. the book The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy, about how liberals try to build utopias and block evidence of failure to keep expanding, resorting to ridicule and shaming of conservative critics warning of serious side effects instead of logical argument; the anointed U.N.-backed global climate clique is a case in point? On Jan. 5, 2010 Sowell pub. the book Intellectuals and Society, expounding on "the fatal misstep of intellectuals", viz., their assumption that superior ability within some superspecialist subject gives them superior wisdom and morality in everything, causing these "idea workers" to manufacture public demand for more of themselves by making alarming predictions about economics, nat. defense, and the environment incl. climate change, ending up exercising profound influence on public opinion and policy makers even though they are not only regularly wrong but personally unaccountable for the results, using their "undue influence" and "vulgar pride" to cause disaster for societies. On Apr. 1, 2010 he pub. the article Don't use word 'science' to halt global warming debate in Deseret News, with the soundbytes: "Nothing is easier than coming up with computer models that prove almost anything. Back during the 1970s, there were computer models predicting mass starvation and global cooling. The utter failure of those predictions ought to make us at least skeptical of computer models, especially computer models based on data that advocates want to keep from public view or even 'lose' when investigators start closing in"; "On climate issues, as on many other issues, the biggest argument of the left has been that there is no argument. The word 'science' has been used as a magic mantra to shut up critics, even when those critics have been scientists with international reputations as specialists in climate science"; "Stealing the aura of science for political purposes is nothing new for the left. Karl Marx called his brand of Utopianism 'scientific socialism.' Even earlier, in the 18th century, the Marquis de Condorcet referred to 'engineering' society. In the 20th century, H.G. Wells referred to the creation of a lasting peace as a heavy and complex 'piece of mental engineering'"; "Genuine science is the opposite of dogmatism, but that does not keep dogmatists from invoking the name of science in order to shut off debate. Science is a method of analysis, rather than simply a set of conclusions. In fact, much of the history of science is a history of having to abandon the prevailing conclusions among scientists in light of new evidence or new methods of analysis"; "Educators who turn schools into indoctrination centers have been going all out to propagandize a whole generation with Al Gore's movie, 'An Inconvenient Truth' - which has, in fact, carried a message that has been very convenient for Gore financially, producing millions of dollars from his 'green' activities." Watch video - Thomas Sowell on Al Gore. Watch video - Thomas Sowell.

1997

On Jan. 1, 1997 Am. architect Robert W. Felix (-2021) pub. Not by Fire but by Ice: Discover What Killed the Dinosaurs...and Why It Could Soon Kill Us, with the ad blurb: "Forget global warming. The next ice age could begin any day. Beginning with the dinosaur extinction of 65 million years ago, Not by Fire but by Ice explores the relationship between mass extinctions, ice ages, and geomagnetic reversals (times when compasses would have pointed south instead of north)." On Jan. 1, 2008 Felix pub. Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps: The True Origin of Species.

On Apr. 28, 1997 U.S. defense secy. #20 (1997-2001) William Sebastian Cohen (1940-) utters the soundbyte that some nations have created eco-terrorism weapons that "can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... "So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations, It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our counter-terrorism efforts."

In Apr.-May 1997 after extreme temperatures and abundant snowfall, the 1997 Red River Flood of the Red River of the North in Minn., N.D., and S Manitoba causes $3.5B damage and no deaths, becoming the river's most severe flood since 1826.

On Dec. 11, 1997 the Kyoto Protocol is signed by 192 parties incl. all U.N. member states except Andorra, Canada, South Sudan, and the U.S., effective Feb. 16, 2005, extending the 1992 U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) committing all parties to reduce greenhouse emissions esp. CO2, while giving a pass to India and Red China; opening remarks offered by FCCC's Environment Program Executive Director Maurice Strong who organized the first U.N. Earth Climate Summit (1992) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil expressed an underlying priority very candidly: “We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrialized civilization to collapse. Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?”; "Strong left no doubt about where to place blame for global problems, stating in the conference report: “It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class… involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, golf courses, small electric appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable…A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns”; former U.S. Senator Timothy Wirth (D-CO), then representing the Clinton-Gore administration as U.S undersecretary of state for global issues, joined Maurice Strong in addressing the Climate Summit audience he said: “We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.” (Wirth now heads the U.N. Foundation which lobbies for hundreds of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to help underdeveloped countries fight climate change.); ;also speaking at the Rio conference, Deputy Assistant of State Richard Benedick, who then headed the policy divisions of the U.S. State Department, agreed that the Kyoto Protocol should be approved whether i t had anything to do with climate change or not: “A global warming treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the [enhanced] greenhouse effect”; in 1998 the Oregon Petition AKA the Global Warming Petition Project, organized by Chicago, Ill.-born biochemist Arthur Brouhard "Art" Robinson (1942-), pres. of the Ore. Inst. of Science and Medicine in Cave Junction, Ore. (founded in 1980), and endorsed by Am. solid state physicist Frederick Seitz (1911-2008), pres. #17 of the U.S. Nat Academy of Sciences in 1962-9 is launched, and signed by 31,487 Am. scientists incl. 9,029 with doctorates by Oct. 2019, urging the U.S. to reject the Kyoto Protocol, with the soundbytes: "This treaty is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful"; "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth"; "The proposed agreement would have very negative effects upon the technology of nations around the world, especially those that are currently attempting to lift from poverty and provide opportunities to over 4 billion people in technologically undeveloped countries"; "The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind"; the U.S. Congress unanimously agrees with the advice, while the EU continues to back the Kyoto Protocol.

In 1997 billionaire British investor Robert Jeremy Goltho Grantham (1938-), founder of Grantham, Mayo & van Otterloo (GMO) establishes the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, giving money to entities that protect the environment; in 2017 he launches the GMO Climate Change Fund to invest in wind and solar cos.; Grantham goes on to correctly predict the bursting of the Dot.com bubble in 2000 and the market downturn in 2008 while seeing his assets under mgt. drop $124B in June 2014 to $71B in Mar. 2018; no surprise, on June 12, 2018 he gives a speech at the Morningstar Investment Conference in Chicago, Ill. calling on capitalists and mainstream economists to recognize the looming threat of climate change, with the soundbyte: "We deforest the land, we degrade our soils, we pollute and overuse our water and we treat air like an open sewer, and we do it all off the balance sheet", blaming corps. for short-sightedness, with the soundbytes: "Anything that happens to a corporation over 25 years out doesn't exist for them, therefore, as I like to say, grandchildren have no value", and "Capitalism and mainstream economics simply cannot deal with these problems. Mainstream economics largely ignore them"; in Aug. 2018 he pub. the paper The Race of Our Lives Revisited, which contains the ridiculous alarmist soundbyte: "The number of floods is up by 15 times from 2005, the deaths from droughts up by 10 times, wildfires by 7 times, and extreme temperature events by 20 times"; they later issue a correction that it was 1950 not 2005, although those numbers are wrong? Watch video - Jeremy Grantham.

1998

1998 is the warmest year on Earth since record-keeping began in 1880, with an avg. temp. for the first 10 mo. of 1.25 deg. F above normal, according to NASA, blamed on the weather phenomenon known as El Nino (Niño) (warmer water than usual), which formed in the C and E equatorial Pacific in the first half of the year, disrupting worldwide weather patterns and feeding Millennium Fever with wildfires in Indonesia, Brazil, and Central Am., crop losses in SE Africa, record rains in the S U.S., the warmest spring in Canadian records, and the worst natural diaster in Latin Am. records (Hurricane Mitch); Jan.-Feb. are the warmest and wettest in U.S. records; the global avg. temp. this year is 14.57 C, compared to 14.0 C avg. from 1960-90; high sea temps cause massive coral bleaching in the Seychelles, Maldives and W Australian coral reefs, although coral bleaching has been happening for 400 years, and was far worse in the 1750s and 1890s? In 1998 (hockey stick year) the Global Warming Pause (Hiatus) (Slowdown) begins (ends 2013), causing global warming proponents to do somersaults until NOAA scientists Thomas R. Karl et al. pub. the article Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus in Science on June 4, 2015, claiming that the hiatus disappears after the datasets are "adjusted", which doesn't phase climate deniers, who claim it as more evidence of a govt. conspiracy. Watch video. Watch video. Watch video - Anthony Watts. Watch video - The Corbett Report. Watch video - ABC Science. Watch video - Robert Fanney. Watch video. Watch video - Jay Lawrimore. Watch video. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch vidoe - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller.

On Jan. 4-10, 1998 after a low pressure system stalls over the Great Lakes, pumping warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico into the St. Lawrence Valley, the Great North Am. Ice Storm of 1998 sees five successive ice storm hit a narrow swath of land from E Ontario to S Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, bordering U.S. areas from N New York to C Maine, damaging trees and electrical infrastructures, leading to long-term power outages that affect millions, causing the largest deployment of Canadian military personnel since the Korean War (16K incl. 12K in Quebec and 4K in Ontario).

In Jan. 1998 Tom Segalstad of the U. of Oslo pub. the paper Carbon cycle modelling and the residence time of natural and anthropogenic atmospheric CO 2: on the construction of the "Greenhouse Effect Global Warming" dogma, which contains the soundbyte: "IPCC's 'Greenhouse Effect Global Warming' dogma rests on invalid presumptions and a rejectable non-realistic carbon cycle modelling which simply refutes reality, like the existence of carbonated beer or soda 'pop' as we know it."

On Feb. 13, 1998 (Fri.) BBC News pub. the article Scientists blame sun for global warming, about a meeting of the Am. Assoc. for the Advancement of Science in Philly where climatologists and astronomers attribute global warming to changes in sunspot activity rather than CO2, and speculate on a coming mini ice age.

On Feb. 23-24, 1998 another Pacific storm hits the Cuyama River Basin in Sunny Southern Calif., spawning flash floods, mudslides, tornadoes in Long Beach, Huntington Beach et al., killing seven; San Francisco records its wettest Feb. ever (until ?), with 14.89 in. of rain (13.68 in. in Los Angeles) - it never rains where?

Man-made global warming or Mann-made global warming? On Apr. 23, 1998 Am. climatologists Michael Evan Mann (1965-) (Penn. State U.), Raymond S. "Ray" Bradley, and Malcolm K. Hughes pub. the article Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries in Nature, proposing the Hockey Stick Graph based on reconstructions of the temp record on Earth over the past 600 (later 1K years), showing an abrupt rise in temps over the last 150 years, ramping up the Global Warming Controversy over whether there is a coming runaway heat wave; Mann had a newly-minted doctorate that was "rushed through" so he could be appointed lead scientist of the IPCC?. Mann's graph hides the Medieval Warm Period of 950-1250, and later Mann and Katherine Hayhoe work together to erase it from history to make modern times look exceptional?; on Jan. 31, 2003 Malaysian-born Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics aerospace engineer Wei-Hock "Willie" Soon (1966-) and Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicist Sallie Louise Baliunas (1953-) pub. the paper Proxy climatic and environmental changes of the past 1000 years in Climate Research, blasting Mann's hockey stick, with the soundbytes: "Our results suggest a different interpretation of the multiproxy climates compared to recent conclusions of Mann et al. (1998, 1999, 2000)", "Our current lack of understanding of the Earth's climate system does not allow us to determine reliably the magnitude of climate change that will be caused by anthropogenic CO2 emissions, let alone whether this change will be for better or for worse", and "Across the world, many records reveal that the 20th century is probably not the warmest or a uniquely extreme climatic period of the last millennium", which is quickly adopted by the Pres. G.W. Bush admin. as a basis for amending the first EPA Report on the Environment, causing a firestorm of controversy causing 10 of 20 editors to resign and German-born publisher Otto Kinne (1923-2015) to cut the authors loose and blame the ed. who passed the paper, Trinidad and Tobago-born Kiwi climate scientist Christopher Rhodes "Chris" de Freitas (1948-2017), who on May 9, 2006 pub. an article in the New Zealand Herald with the soundbyte: "There is evidence of global warming. The climate has warmed about 0.6 °C in the past 100 years, but most of that warming occurred prior to 1940, before the post World War II industrialisation that led to an increase in carbon dioxide emissions. But warming does not confirm that carbon dioxide is causing it. Climate is always warming or cooling. There are natural variability theories of warming"; de Freitas also writes the soundbytes: "I am not a global warming skeptic. I accept that rising human-caused CO2 from fossil sources could 'change the climate'. The basic physics is there to support this view. But where is the evidence that the putative change would be large or damaging?" and "Climate is not responding to greenhouse gases in the way we thought it might. If increasing carbon dioxide is in fact increasing climate change, its impact is smaller than natural variation. People are being misled by people making money out of this"; Mann tries to cover up tree ring proxy data calculations by Keith Briffa at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the U. of East Anglia that showed a steady temperature decline?; Mann covered up an r-squared statistical test that showed his hockey stick shape to be incorrect?; no surprise, Mann suggests that Harvard U. punish Soon and Baliunas; on June 5, 2001 Baliunas pub. the paper Climate History and the Sun, containing the soundbyte: "But is it possible that the particular temperature increase observed in the last 100 years is the result of carbon dioxide produced by human activities? The scientific evidence clearly indicates that this is not the case … measurements of atmospheric temperatures made by instruments lofted in satellites and balloons show that no warming has occurred in the atmosphere in the last 50 years. This is just the period in which humanmade carbon dioxide has been pouring into the atmosphere and according to the climate studies, the resultant atmospheric warming should be clearly evident." On Jan. 31, 2003 Soon and Baliunas pub. the paper Proxy climatic and environmental changes of the past 2000 years in Climate Research, with the abstract: "The 1000 yr climatic and environmental history of the Earth contained in various proxy records is reviewed. As indicators, the proxies duly represent local climate. Because each is of a different nature, the results from the proxy indicators cannot be combined into a hemispheric or global quantitative composite. However, considered as an ensemble of individual expert opinions, the assemblage of local representations of climate establishes both the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period as climatic anomalies with worldwide imprints, extending earlier results by Bryson et al. (1963), Lamb (1965), and numerous intervening research efforts. Furthermore, the individual proxies can be used to address the question of whether the 20th century is the warmest of the 2nd millennium locally. Across the world, many records reveal that the 20th century is probably not the warmest nor a uniquely extreme climatic period of the last millennium", which they follow with the Mar. 31, 2003 press release 20th Century Climate Not So Hot, which starts out: "A review of more than 200 climate studies led by researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has determined that the 20th century is neither the warmest century nor the century with the most extreme weather of the past 1000 years. The review also confirmed that the Medieval Warm Period of 800 to 1300 A.D. and the Little Ice Age of 1300 to 1900 A.D. were worldwide phenomena not limited to the European and North American continents. While 20th century temperatures are much higher than in the Little Ice Age period, many parts of the world show the medieval warmth to be greater than that of the 20th century", pissing-off the IPCC crowd and resulting in the Soon and Baliunas Controversy. On May 9, 2003 Baliunas speaks out against U.K. climate change policy, with the soundbyte: "Fear often dominates discussion about the earth's climate. Many people have been led to believe that drastic measures are necessary to prevent the risk of negative future outcomes, such as global warming. As such, we now face a situation where politicians are misallocating resources because they are responding to manufactured problems, which are based on public anxiety rather than sound scientific evidence. Ineffective measures like the Kyoto Protocol, built on fear rather than science, will not reduce the future burden of greenhouse gases and will cause many more problems than they solve." In 2006 George Mason U. statistician Edward Wegman (1943-) et al. pub. the Wegman Report AKA Ad Hoc Committee Report on the 'Hockey Stick' Global Climate Reconstruction for U.S. Rep. Joe Barton of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce to evaluate Michael Mann's hockey stick graph and the criticisms by Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, concluding that Mann's graph is moose hockey, with the soundbyte: "Mann's] decentred methodology is simply incorrect mathematics . . . I am baffled by the claim that the incorrect method doesn't matter because the answer is correct anyway. . . . In this case we judge that there was too much reliance on peer review, which was not necessarily independent"; no surprise, the IPCC octopus responds with smearing and sniveling nit-picking, incl. accusing Wegner of "plagiarizing" Wikipedia while never addressing the profound statistical questions raised; when the Climategate scandal breaks, Wegman is later found to be part of a closed group of HadCRUT leftist activist scientists who "pal-review" each other's papers. On Nov. 14, 2011 Baliunas pub. the press release Human Activity is Not Cause of Global Warming via the George C. Marshall Inst., containing the soundbyte: "The science does not suggest dangerous global warming. If there is any trace at all of a greenhouse warming, it is too small to be seen in the climate record. That means that future warming due to human activities will be quite small - well under one degree C." On Feb. 25, 2015 after Soon is named a creditor in bankruptcy filings of Peabody Energy, Canadian mathematician Christopher Essex pub. the article Save Willie: The global warming movement is anti-science, oblivious to how little we know about climate in the Financial Post, calling out the "fascistic" media for "silly hit pieces" on Soon, with the soundbyte: "Those that speak out must endure vexatious, eristic tactics rather than scientific reasoning in matters from publication, to funding, to jobs. For example, my friend Dr. Willie Soon is under assault from activist groups. An army of human bots has been released to get him fired from Harvard's Center for Astrophysics. He's shared scientist's skepticism publicly. Betraying acute ignorance, media pound him with silly hit pieces. Some perpetrators believe they fight for science, but they could not be more antiscientific, if not fascistic. If there''s any chance at a rational policy on climate, two things must happen. First, intelligent laymen must take back the debate, by pushing currently out-of-bounds science back onto center stage. They must stop letting 'experts' do their thinking for them. Second, political attacks on scientists must be stopped. Those must be pushed out of bounds. Let's begin by saving Willie!" In Nov. 2015 Soon, Irish chemist Ronan Connolly, and his environmentalist father Michael Connolly pub. the paper Re-evaluating the role of solar variability on Northern Hemisphere temperature trends since the 19th century in Earth-Science Reviews, with the soundbyte: "Finally, we compare our new composite to one of the solar variability datasets not considered by the CMIP5 climate models, i.e., Scafetta and Willson, 2014's update to the Hoyt and Schatten, 1993 dataset. A strong correlation is found between these two datasets, implying that solar variability has been the dominant influence on Northern Hemisphere temperature trends since at least 1881." On Sept. 27, 2016 Mann pub. The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy. On Aug. 1, 2019 The Washington Post pub. the article Why we shouldn't take peer review as the 'gold standard', trying to attack peer review itself as to be chucked if climate skeptics like fossil fuel-funded Willie Soon are permitted to publish, drawing a scornful open letter by Christopher Monckton. On Sept. 10, 2020 the state of Del. libels Soon, calling him corrupted. On Oct. 2, 2020 Mann gives an interview to the Guardian, uttering the soundbytes: "A second Trump term is game over for the climate - really!"; "If we are going to avert ever more catastrophic climate change impacts, we need to limit warming below a degree and a half Celsius, a little less than three degrees Fahrenheit. Another four years of what we've seen under Trump, which is to outsource environmental and energy policy to the polluters and dismantle protections put in place by the previous administration... would make that essentially impossible"; "It is a political statement, because it speaks to the need to enact policies to deal with climate change. But it isn't partisan to say that we should act on this crisis"; "It's also a scientific statement. Two years ago this month, scientists with the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published a landmark study, Global Warming of 1.5 Degrees, which found that humanity had to cut heat-trapping emissions roughly by half by 2030 to avoid catastrophic climate breakdown"; headlines warned we had '12 years to save the planet"; in Nov. 2020 Joe Biden picks Mann to be his climate advisor. Crooked Climate ‘Scientist' Michael Mann Caught Lying Again! - John Sullivan. Watch video - Michael E. Mann. Watch video - Michael E. Mann. Watch video - Michael E. Mann. Watch video - Michael E. Mann. Watch video - Michael E. Mann. Watch video - Michael E. Mann et al.. Watch video - Sally Baliunas. Watch video - Sally Baliunas. Watch video - Willie Soon. Watch video - Willie Soon. Watch video - Willie Soon. Watch video - Willie Soon. Watch video - Willie Soon. Watch video - Willie Soon. Watch video - Malcolm Roberts. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Alex Epstein.

On May 12-June 7, 1998 2.5K+ people die in a record-breaking heat wave in New Delhi, India, with temperatures as high as 124 deg. F. (51 deg. C.).

In 1998 English hardcore English Greenie writer John Elkington (1949-) pub. Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business, which coined the phrases "environmental excellence", "green growth", "green consumer", and the "triple bottom line", the environmental, social, and financial factors for responsible investors to consider. Meanwhile in 1998 Robert Levering and Milton Moskowitz pub. Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For in Fortune mag, dispelling fears that using socially responsible investment criteria doesn't damage financial performance, after which in 2011 Wharton finance prof. Alex Edmans pub. a paper in Journal of Financial Economics concluding that the Leverling-Moskowitz cos. outperformed their peers by 2%-3% in higher stock returns in 1984-2009, causing Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) to catch on. No surprise, in 2005 the U.N. Environment Programme Finance Initiative commisioned a report from the internat. law firm of Freshfields, Bruckhaus, and Deringer that concludes that it is not only permissible but part of their fiduciary duty to integrate ESG considerations into their investment strategies, and in 2014 the Law Commission of England and Wales ruled that there is no bar on pension funds using ESG in investment decision.

On Nov. 3, 1998 Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark (1958-) pub. the paper Influence of Cosmic Rays on Earth's Climate in Physical Review Letters, with the abstract: "During the last solar cycle Earth's cloud cover underwent a modulation more closely in phase with the galactic cosmic ray flux than with other solar activity parameters. Further it is found that Earth's temperature follows more closely decade variations in galactic cosmic ray flux and solar cycle length, than other solar activity parameters. The main conclusion is that the average state of the heliosphere affects Earth's climate"; on Jan. 25, 2007 Svensmark pub. the paper Cosmoclimatology: a new theory emerges in Astronomy and Geophysics, tracing climate change to solar activity and their effect on cosmic rays, not CO2; in 2007 Svensmark and British science writer Nigel David Calder (McKail-Ritchie-Calder) (1931-2014) pub. the book The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change; in 1980 Calder predicted that by 2000 "the much-advertised heating of the earth by the man-made carbon dioxide 'greenhouse' fails to occur; instead, there is renewed concern about cooling an an impending ice age." "The hypothesis is that solar variability is linked to climate variability by a chain that involves the solar wind, cosmic rays, and clouds"; "Those who are absolute certain that the rise in temperature is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork." On Aug. 19, 2016 J. Svensmark, M.B. Enghoff, N.J. Shaviv, and H. Svenmark pub. the study The response of clouds and aerosols to cosmic ray decreases in JGR Space Physics, using over 25 years of satellite observations to conclude that large Sun surface eruptions can temporarily shield Earth from cosmic rays, reducing global cloud cover by about 2%, corresponding to 1B tonnes of liquid H2O disappearing from the atmosphere. Watch video - Henrik Svensmark. Watch video - Henrik Svensmark. Watch video.

On Dec. 23, 1998 a freeze destroys more than one-third of Calif.'s citrus crop; the cold spell beginning Dec. 21 is the worst since 1990?

In Dec. 1998 Christine Susan Stewart (1941-2015), Canadian Liberal Party minister of the environment utters the soundbyte to the Calgary Herald: "No matter if the science of global warming is all phony... climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world."

In 1998 the Global Climate Science Communications Plan is created by the Global Climate Science Communications Team to create a "one-stop resource on climate science for members of Congress, the media, industry and all others concerned", combined with a public relations and lobbying campaign funded with $600K from the Am. Petroleum Inst., known for the soundbyte: "Victory will be achieved when... Average citizens 'understand' (recognize) uncertainties in climate science; recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the 'conventional wisdom'", later being accused of deliberately trying to confuse the public.

In 1998 after getting pissed-off when his global warming skeptic physicist father Sherwood B. Idso (1942-) is attacked by U.S. senator Al Gore in an attempt to discredit him, Ariz. State U. geographer Craig D. Idso, his father, and his brother Keith E. Idso (botanist) found the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change in Tempe, Ariz., promoting the idea that carbon dioxide (CO2) has mostly positive environmental effects; no surprise, climate warmists later find out that he was receiving $11K/mo. from the Heatland, er, Heartland Inst. in 2012, using it to give the finger to all his scientific arguments without detailed scientific analysis Marxist style; famed agronomist Sylvan Harold Wittwer joins. On Feb. 24, 2009 Craig Idso pub. CO2, Global Warming and Coral Reefs. On June 1, 2009 Craig Idso and S. Fred Singer pub. Climate Change Reconsidered: The Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), released on conjunction with the Heartland Inst. 2nd Internat. Conference on Climate Change, claiming to refute the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. On Jan. 31, 2011 Craig and Sherwood Idso pub. Carbon Dioxide and Earth's Future: Pursuing the Prudent Path, which concludes: "Why would anyone in their right mind give the governments of the world a mandate to totally restructure human society to fight a hypothetical problem of vastly greater complexity than the very real and clearly-identified problems we currently face? Why should we not rather confront these genuine energy and health threats with all due haste and with every modern tool we have at our disposal?" On Sept. 1, 2011 Craig Idso and Robert M. Carter pub. Climate Change Reconsidered: 2011 Interim Report on the Nongovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In 2015 Craig Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer pub. Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: Second Edition: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus (2nd ed. May 9, 2018), containing the soundbyte: "Probably the most widely repeated claim in the debate over global warming is that '97% of scientists agree' that climate change is man-made and dangerous. This claim is not only false, but its presence in the debate is an insult to science." In June 2017 Craig D. Idso, James P. Wallace III, and Joseph S. D'Aleo pub. the paper On the Validity of NOAA, NASA and Hadley CRU Global Average Surface Temperature Data & The Validity of EPA's CO2 Endangerment Finding, concluding that the GST (Global Avg. Surface Temperature) data produced by NOAA, NASA, and Hadley used to claim ever-increasing yearly avg. surface temps "are not a valid representation of reality" because of the "adjustments" made to historical data that "systematically remove the previously existing cyclical temperature pattern", with the soundbyte: "The magnitude of their historical data adjustments, that removed their cyclical temperature patterns, are totally inconsistent with published and credible U.S. and other temperature data. Thus, it is impossible to conclude from the three published GAST data sets that recent years have been the warmest ever - despite current claims of record setting warming. Finally, since GAST data set validity is a necessary condition for EPA's GHG/CO2 Endangerment Finding, it too is invalidated by these research findings." Watch video - Craig D. Idso. Watch video - Sherwood B. Idso.

In 1998 Danish economist (self-educated environmentalist) Bjorn (Bjørn) Lomborg (1965-) pub. The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (English trans. pub. in 2001), questioning the statistical data supporting global warming claims along with deforestation, water shortages, overpop. and species loss, and questioning the wisdom of alarmist govt. policies incl. the Paris Accord, with the soundbyte: "Global warming is by no means our main environmental threat", causing a firestorm of controversy. In 2006 he pub. the book How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place. In 2011 he pub. the book Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming. On Feb. 11, 2015 Lomborg pub. the article The Alarming Thing About Climate Alarmism in The Wall Street Journal, claiming that climate change alarmists are like the boy that cried wolf, with the soundbyte: "Much of the data about climate change are encouraging", causing an outcry by scientists. On Aug. 31, 2018 Lomborg pub. the article The world gets better every day in the Mail & Guardian of Africa. Watch video - Bjorn Lomborg. Watch video - Bjorn Lomborg. Watch video - Bjorn Lomborg.

In 1998 Lenoir, N.C.-born biochemist Kary Banks Mullis (1944-2019) (co-winner of the 1993 Nobel Chem. Prize for discovering the polymerase chain reaction)) pub. his autobio. Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, in which he disses climate change along with ozone depletion and the HIV origin of AIDS, claiming a conspiracy by environmentalists and govt. to make money. Watch video - Kary Mullis.

In 1998 Nobel-Prize-winning Lenoir, N.C.-born biochemist Kary Banks Mullis (1944-) pub. his autobio. Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, which disses climate change along with ozone depletion and the HIV origin of AIDS, claiming a conspiracy by environmentalists and govt. to make money.

1999

On May 2-8, 1999 the 1999 Okla. Tornado Outbreak sees 154 tornadoes touch down in Okla., Kan., Neb, Tex., Ark., and Canada, incl. 72 in Okla., culiminating with an F5 SE of Chickasha, Okla. that tears through Oklahoma City and its suburbs incl. unlucky Moore, Okla.; on May 3 (6:23 p.m. CDT) the EF5 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore Tornado touches down in Grady County 2 mi. SSW of Amber, Okla., with wind speeds up to 301 mph, devastating portions of S Okla. City in its 38-mi. 85-min. rampage that kills 36 and injures 583, destroying 8K homes and causing $1B damage; too bad, on May 20, 2013 the EF5 2013 Moore Tornado travels adjacent to the 1999 tornado's track, killing 24 and injuring 212.

On June 3, 1999 J.R. Petit, J. Jouzel., D. Raynaud, C. Lorius et al. pub. Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica in Nature, becoming the first significant examination of the long-term Antarctic ice core record, with the soundbyte: "Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane correlate well with Antarctic air-temperature throughout the record. Present-day atmospheric burdens of these two important greenhouse gases seem to have been unprecedented during the past 420,000 years"; too bad, a graph supplied with the article upsets IPCC's CO2-driven temperature apple cart, with Scottish geologist Euan Mearns (1957-) writing the soundbyte: "In their seminal paper on the Vostok Ice Core, Petit et al. (1999) note that CO2 lags temperature during the onset of glaciations by several thousand years but offer no explanation. They also observe that CH4 and CO2 are not perfectly aligned with each other but offer no explanation. The significance of these observations are therefore ignored. At the onset of glaciations temperature drops to glacial values before CO2 begins to fall suggesting that CO2 has little influence on temperature modulation at these times"; on Aug. 10, 2007 Lorius et al. pub. the article Orbital and Millennial Antarctic Climate Variability over the Past 800,000 Years in Science, with the soundbyte: "Our [East Antarctica, Dome C] ice core shows no indication that greenhouse gases have played a key role in such a coupling [with radiative forcing]"; too bad, the IPCC crowd studiously ignores these results while working overtime to generate alternative explanations, always including climate models that have atmospheric CO2 capturing heat from the surface and sending it back down. In Oct. 2008 Australian science writer Joanne "Jo" Nova (nee Codling) pub. the article The 800 year lag in CO2 after temperature – graphed, with the subtitle "Carbon dioxide follows temperature in the Vostok Ice Cores", and the soundbytes: "In the 1990's the classic Vostok ice core graph showed temperature and carbon in lock step moving at the same time. It made sense to worry that carbon dioxide did influence temperature. But by 2003 new data came in and it was clear that carbon lagged behind temperature. The link was back to front. Temperatures appear to control carbon, and while it's possible that carbon also influences temperature these ice cores don't show much evidence of that. After temperatures rise, on average it takes 800 years before carbon starts to move. The extraordinary thing is that the lag is well accepted by climatologists, yet virtually unknown outside these circles. The fact that temperature leads is not controversial. Its relevance is debated." "The bottom line is that rising temperatures cause carbon levels to rise. Carbon may still influence temperatures, but these ice cores are neutral on that. If both factors caused each other to rise significantly, positive feedback would become exponential. We'd see a runaway greenhouse effect. It hasn't happened. Some other factor is more important than carbon dioxide, or carbon's role is minor." She also utters the soundbytes: "Anything that heats the planet will melt ice, shift Lemurs and cause droughts. None of these things tell us why the planet got warmer"; "In the head-spinning cosmos of climate change, everyday hundreds of people claim there are 'thousands of papers' in support of a theory, yet no one can actually name one single paper with empirical evidence that shows carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of global warming"; "Let the historic dissection begin. Man-made global warming is a dying market and a zombie science"; "Everything on our dinner table - the meat, cheese, salad, bread, and soft drink - requires carbon dioxide to be there. For those of you who believe that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, we have a special diet: water and salt!" In 2009 Nova pub. The Skeptic's Handbook, followed by Global Bullies Want Your Money (2009), and Climate Money. Watch video - Joanne Nova. Watch video - Joanne Nova. Watch video - Joanne Nova. Watch video - Joanne Nova. Watch video - Joanne Nova. In 2018 Nova becomes co-founder along with Jerry Ellis, Hugh Morgan, Ian Plimer, and Viv Forbes of the Saltbush Club (Carbon Sense Coalition), whose motto is: "Our goal is to change the climate of public opinion", and the soundbyte: "We have been listening to scare-mongers and panicky children for too long - it's time to listen to sensible people and grown-ups." On Apr. 5, 2012 paleoclimatologist Jeremy D. Shakun of Boston College et al. pub. the article Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations during the last deglaciation in Nature mag., criticizing the Vostok data as local not global, claiming to "construct a record of global surface temperature from 80 proxy records and show that temperature is correlated with and generally lags CO2 during the last (that is, the most recent) deglaciation... These observations, together with transient global climate model simulations, support the conclusion that an antiphased hemispheric temperature response to ocean circulation changes superimposed on globally in-phase warming driven by increasing CO2 concentrations is an explanation for much of the temperature change at the end of the most recent ice age." Watch video - Tony Heller on potholer54. Watch video - Reply to Tony Heller by potholer54. Watch video - Reply to potholer54 by Tony Heller. Watch video - 2nd Reply to Tony Holler by potholer54.

On Aug. 25, 1999 Mount Baker, Wash. reports 1,140 in. of snowfall for the 1998-9 season, becoming the most snowfall for a single season in U.S. history (until ?); in 1971 it received 1,122 in.

In 1999 Australian mathematician-engineer David Evans (1961-) (husband of Joanne Nova) begins working in the Australian Greenhouse Office (until 2005) to develop FullCam, a fully integrated carbon accounting model for thie Australian govt.; he goes on to utter the soundbyte: "The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it. Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever. If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again"; he also utters the soundbyte: "There is no evidence to support the idea that carbon emissions cause significant global warming. None. There is plenty of evidence that global warming has occurred, and theory suggests that carbon emissions should raise temperatures (though by how much is hotly disputed) but there are no observations by anyone that implicate carbon emissions as a significant cause of the recent global warming"; Evans' views piss-off the pro-AGW scientists, who pub. rebuttals. Watch video - David Evans. Watch video - David Evans.

In 1999 Am. former architect Robert W. Felix pub. Not by Fire but by Ice: Discover What Killed the Dinosaurs...and Why It Could Soon Kill Us, predicting a coming ice age after a reversal of the magnetic poles.

In 1999 Am. social psychologists David Dunning (1960-) and Justin Kruger (1971-) pub. the paper Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, describing the Dunning-Kruger Effect, with the soundbyte: "People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it." Guess who each side of the great climate debate blame for being unskilled?

In 1999 MIT-educated Am. physicist and climate blogger/activist Joseph J. Romm (1960-) pub. the book Cool Companies: How the Best Businesses Boost Profits and Productivity by Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions, becoming the first book on the subject. In 1997 he becomes acting secy. of the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency Renewable Energy, with a $1B/year budget. In 2004 he pub. the book The Hype about Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate, dissing hydrogen cars as diverting attention from reducing greenhouse gas emissions. On Dec. 26, 2006 he pub. the book Hell and High Water: Global Warming – the Solution and the Politics – and What We Should Do, calling for immediate massive U.S. govt. intervention to stop global warming, warning of sea level rises submerging U.S. coastlines along with horrible permanent droughts. On July 12, 2011 Romm pub. the article Dust Storm Marks Beginning of Southwest's "Permanent Drought", claiming tht the U.S. Southwest is going into a permanent drought; too bad, precipation returns to normals; and on Apr. 1, 2019 Joshua S. Oliver, Grant L. Harley, and Justin T. Maxwell pub. the paper in Geophysical Research Letters, proving that 50+ droughts have surpassed the severity of the 21st cent. ones since 500 B.C.E. In 2014 the TV series The Year of Living Dangerously debuts on Showtime, produced by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger et al., with Joseph Romm and Heidi Cullen as chief science advisors, trying to turn global climate change into a series of human stories dumbed down to Ahnuld level. Watch video - Joseph Romm. Watch video - Joseph Romm. Watch video - Joseph Romm. Watch video - Joseph Romm.

2000

In 2000 the Earth enters the Anthropocene epoch of geological history, the first period of geological time shaped by a single species, characterized by the 6th largest mass extinction in Earth's history; a moose hockey concept?

In 2000 the Earth's spin abruptly turns E and speeds up 2x to 17cm (17 in.) a year, moving toward the British Isles instead of Hudson Bay; in 2016 it is traced to lost water in Eurasia from climate change.

In 2000 U.S. utilities begin a new push to build coal-fired electric power plants, with 150 projects under planning or construction by spring 2007; meanwhile the U.N. IPCC-led global warming lobby plots the total shutdown of all plants around the world.

In 2000 Penn State U. geologist-climatologistRichard Blane Alley (1957-) pub. the book The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future (updated Oct. 24, 2014), which shows that the Earth experienced abrupt climate changes in the past, winning him the 2005 Seligman Crystal "for his prodigious contribution to our understanding of the stability of the ice sheets and glaciers of Antarctica and Greenland, and of erosion and sedimentation by this moving ice"; in Dec. 2009 Alley gives a speech to the Am. Geophysical Union, revealing that there is often a lag between atmospheric CO2 levels and global warming, pissing-off the U.N. IPCC apologists bigtime. On Sun. Apr. 10, 2011 Alley debuts the PBS program EARTH: The Operators' Manual; watch video. Watch video - Richard Alley.

On Mar. 24, 2000 Long Beach, Calif.-born oceanographer Donald "D." James Baker (1937-) of NOAA announces that since the late 1940s there "has been warming to a depth of nearly 10,000 feet in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. In each ocean basin, substantial temperature changes are occurring at much deeper depths than we previously thought", according to research conducted at NOAA's Ocean Climate Laboratory; the same day Sydney Levitus, John L. Antonov, Timothy P. Boyer, and Cathy Stephens of NOAA pub. the paper Warming of the World Ocean in Science mag. giving the details, with the soundbyte: "We quantify the interannual-to-decadal variability of the heat content (mean temperature) of the world ocean from the surface through 3000-meter depth for the period 1948 to 1998. The heat content of the world ocean increased by ~2 × 1023 joules between the mid-1950s and mid-1990s, representing a volume mean warming of 0.06°C. This corresponds to a warming rate of 0.3 watt per meter squared (per unit area of Earth's surface). Substantial changes in heat content occurred in the 300- to 1000-meter layers of each ocean and in depths greater than 1000 meters of the North Atlantic. The global volume mean temperature increase for the 0- to 300-meter layer was 0.31°C, corresponding to an increase in heat content for this layer of ~1023 joules between the mid-1950s and mid-1990s. The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans have undergone a net warming since the 1950s and the Indian Ocean has warmed since the mid-1960s, although the warming is not monotonic", warming the cockles of the climate alarmists' hearts, after which Richard A. Kerr writes the soundbyte: "The ocean-induced delay in global warming also suggests to some climatologists that future temperature increases will be toward the top end of the models' range of prediction", and James A. Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies writes the soundbyte: "Now the ocean-warming data imply that climate sensitivity [to the greenhouse effect] is not at the low end of the spectrum"; too bad, in summer 2000 Fullerton, Calif.-born Kauai, Hawaii-based climate skeptic oceanographer ("Father of Space Oceanography") Robert Everett "Bob" Stevenson (1921-2001) pub. the article Yes, the Ocean Has Warmed; No, It's Not 'Global Warming' in 21st Century, with the conclusions: "For the past two decades at least, and possibly for the past seven decades, the Earth's true surface air temperature has likely experienced no net change; there should have been a sizable CO2-induced increase in atmospheric radiative forcing during that time, but there wasn't. That must mean that a suite of compensatory feedbacks overwhelmed the 'greenhouse' impetus for warming; implying, therefore, that the planet will not warm from any man-produced increases in CO2; indicating [that] any increases in temperature will likely fit the global trend of +0.048 deg C/decade, that is, about 0.5°C this century - the rate of warming that has existed since the Little Ice Age, centered around 1750 in Europe, South America, and China; suggesting that the heat storage in the upper ocean takes place in the upper 100 meters, and the magnitude provides a rise in temperature at those depths of 0.5°C in the past 50 years (in those part of the ocean for which we have data); this global warming (and cooling) of the ocean occurs on biennial, ENSO, decadal and interdecadal period scales; thence, the ocean thermal changes on centennial-period scales, which appear as the warming trend through the past 50 to 100 years, can be explained by means of intrinsic internal modes of the Earth going through their normal cycle of warming and cooling, independent of both radiative and anthropogenic influences", ending with the soundbyte: "I guess what I'm really wondering is 'Why did Syd Levitus, and his associates, write their paper in the first place?'"

On May 30, 2000 Am. epistemologist and civil engineer David E. Wojick (1942-), Richard S. Courtney, Hugh Ellsaesser, Vincent Gray, Wibjorn Karlin, Ross McKitrick et al. form the Science Integrity Team to review IPCC's Third Assessment Report and brief members of Congress, news media et al. about why climate change isn't an important issue. On Oct. 1, 2002 Wojick pub. the article A skeptic's guide to global warming in the National Post, containing the soundbyte: "The problem is that the earth is very large and the temperature is always changing, everywhere, so how can we possibly tell if overall it is a mere half-degree warmer today than it was around 1902? The origin of the theory of global warming (for it is just a theory) lies in taking the thermometer readings we happen to have from the last 100 years and massaging them in various ways. Some places have clearly warmed, others have clearly cooled. Many have gone up and down but with little apparent trend. To get a global result requires a lot of statistical manipulation... Even if the earth has warmed a little bit there is still the very real possibility that this warming is natural, that the models are no good, that warming is beneficial, etc." On May 19, 2016 Wojick and Patrick J. Michaels pub. the article Climate Modeling Dominates Climate Science, containing the soundbyte: "To summarize, it looks like something like 55% of the modeling done in all of science is done in climate change science, even though it is a tiny fraction of the whole of science. Moreover, within climate change science almost all the research (97%) refers to modeling in some way." On Dec. 1, 2017 Wojick writes the soundbyte: "The motion of climate change is highly chaotic, poorly understood and at this point completely unpredictable within certain broad limits. In fact, there is strong evidence that the natural climate is capable of warming or cooling several degrees very quickly... The true shame is that teachers read this stuff and believe it, then teach it to their students, spreading it like a disease. What is lacking are alternative skeptical sources of sound science for teachers and students." On Nov. 26, 2018 Wojick pub. the article 100% Renewable Deception, with the soundbyte: "The basic point is that those who crusade for 100% renewable electricity from wind and solar, without mentioning the staggering number of big batteries required for that system, are either deceptive or painfully ignorant. I suspect it is a combination, but the problem of intermittency is too well known for it all to be ignorance. There must be a lot of 100% renewable deception. I guess deception is renewable too."

On July 26, 2000 the U.N. Global Compact is formed, a non-binding pact to encourage businesses worldwide to adopt ESG policies.

On Aug. 19, 2000 the New York Times pub. the fake news article Ages-Old Icecap at North Pole Is Now Liquid, Scientists Find, claiming "The thick ice that has for ages covered the Arctic Ocean at the pole has turned to water, recent visitors there reported yesterday... An ice-free patch of ocean about a mile wide has opened at the very top of the world, something that has presumably never before been seen by humans and is more evidence that global warming may be real and already affecting climate. The last time scientists can be certain the pole was awash in water was more than 50 million years ago."

On Nov. 21, 2000 the 6th Global Warming Conference (COP6) sees nations in a standoff, with the scientists continuing to assail the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the U.S. willing to compromise but unwilling to sacrifice core principles. On Nov. 21, 2000 the Cooler Heads Coalition (founded May 6, 1997 by the Nat. Consumer Coalition "to dispel the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis") (which runs the Web site GlobalWarming.org) holds a briefing titled "Climate is Not Warming - Has Not Warmed in 60 Years", featuring Nat. Coal Board (British Coal) senior material scientist Richard S. Courtney, Dutch U. of Utrecht geophysicist Harry N.A. Priem, Austrian-born Am. physicist-engineer Siegfried Frederick Singer (1924-), and German meteorologist Gerd Rainer Weber; global warming proponents content themselves with gloating at alleged oil and coal industry ties. Watch video - Gerd Rainer Weber.

In 2000 the first issue of the journal Energy & Environment is pub., becoming the journal climate skeptics can turn to after being rejected by the mainstream peer-reviewed science journals; ed. #1 is physical geographer Sonja A. Boehmer-Christiansen, who goes on to repub. the infamous 2003 Willie Soon-Sallie Balinius article from Climate Research; it doesn't become peer-reviewed until SAGE acquires it in Feb. 2018, promising to shut-out you know who, causing her to resign.

In 2000 the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, named after 19th cent. scientist John Tyndall is founded in the U.K. by the U. of East Anglia, Cambridge U., Cardiff U., U. of Manchester, Newcastle U., Oxford U., U. of Southampton, and U. of Sussex; Fudan U. joins in May 2011; dir. #1 (until July 2007) is London-born Cambridge U. geographer Michael "Mike" Hulme (1960-), who in 2008 announces the "Five Lessons of Climate Change": (1) Climate change is a relative risk, not an absolute one; (2) Climate risks are serious, and we should seek to minimise them; (3) Our world has huge unmet development needs; (4) Our current energy portfolio is not sustainable; (5) Massive and deliberate geo-engineering of the planet is a dubious practice"; the dir. since ? is French-Canadian climate scientist Corinne Le Quere (Le Quéré) (1966-). On Apr. 30, 2009 Hulme pub. the book Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity, with the ad blurb: "Climate change is not 'a problem' waiting for 'a solution'. It is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanity's place on Earth. Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as an international climate change scientist and public commentator, Mike Hulme provides a unique insider's account of the emergence of this phenomenon and the diverse ways in which it is understood. He uses different standpoints from science, economics, faith, psychology, communication, sociology, politics and development to explain why we disagree about climate change. In this way he shows that climate change, far from being simply an 'issue' or a 'threat', can act as a catalyst to revise our perception of our place in the world." On June 15, 2010 Hulme responds to an article by Nat. Post columnist Lawrence Solomon claiming that Hulme made the claim that: "The UN's IPCC misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming", with the soundbyte: "The IPCC consensus does not mean - clearly cannot possibly mean – that every scientist involved in the IPCC process agrees with every single statement in the IPCC! Giving the impression that the IPCC consensus means everyone agrees with everyone else - as I think some well-meaning but uninformed commentaries do (or have a tendency to do) - is unhelpful; it doesn't reflect the uncertain, exploratory and sometimes contested nature of scientific knowledge." In 2011 he follows with the article Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism, with the abstract: "One hundred years ago, a popular theory contended that various aspects of climate determined the physiology and psychology of individuals, which in turn defined the behavior and culture of the societies that those individuals formed. As the ideological wars of the twentieth century reshaped political and moral worlds, environmental determinism became discredited and marginalised within mainstream academic thought. Yet at the beginning of a new century with heightening anxieties about changes in climate, the idea that climate can determine the fate of people and society has re-emerged in the form of 'climate reductionism'. This paper traces how climate has moved from playing a deterministic to a reductionist role in discourses about environment, society and the future. Climate determinism previously offered an explanation, and hence a justification, for the superiority of certain imperial races and cultures. The argument put forward here is that the new climate reductionism is driven by the hegemony exercised by the predictive natural sciences over contingent, imaginative and humanistic accounts of social life and visions of the future. It is a hegemony which lends disproportionate power in political and social discourse to model-based descriptions of putative future climates. Some possible reasons for this climate reductionism, as well as some of the limitations and dangers of this position for human relationships with the future, are suggested." In 2013 he pub. the book Exploring Climate Change through Science and in Society, and anthology of his works, with the ad blurb: "Mike Hulme has been studying climate change for over thirty years and is today one of the most distinctive and recognisable voices speaking internationally about climate change in the academy, in public and in the media. T he argument that he has made powerfully over the last few years is that climate change has to be understood as much as an idea situated in different cultural contexts as it is as a physical phenomenon to be studied through universal scientific practices. Climate change at its core embraces both science and society, both knowledge and culture." On June 4, 2014 he pub. the book Can Science Fix Climate Change?: A Case Against Climate Engineering. On June 15, 2016 he pub. the book Weathered: Cultures of Climate, with the soundbyte: "Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking". On Oct. 24, 2018 Hulme pub. the article Climatism and the Reification of Global Temperature, containing the soundbyte: "Global temperature does not cause anything to happen. It has no material agency. It is an abstract proxy for the aggregated accumulation of heat in the surface boundary layer of the planet. It is far removed from revealing the physical realities of meteorological hazards occurring in particular places. And forecasts of global temperature threshold exceedance are even further removed from actionable early warning information upon which disaster risk management systems can work. Global temperature offers the ultimate view of the planet - and of meteorological hazard - from nowhere."

In 2000 Canadian climate skeptic William Walter "Bill" Kay pub. The Great Global Warming Hoax on his Web site ecofascism.com, containing the soundbytes: "The problems with the human-induced-catastrophic-climate-change hypothesis are many, but the most salient are as follows. Earth's temperature is not static but rather has varied radically over the millennia, with many previous eras being much warmer than present. At others times, the temperature dropped so low that vast areas of Eurasia and North America were covered by kilometre-thick sheets of ice. No one can suggest human activity has anything to do with these changes. The generally accepted temperature records for the last 3,000 years reveal the present global temperature to be cooler than average for this period. Although fluctuations are the norm, Earth has been warming since the end of the last ice age (approximately 10,000 years ago). One of the main exceptions to this warming trend was the 'little ice age' (approximately 1300 to 1800 AD) wherein temperatures dipped considerably. As there has been a slow and steady warming trend since this time, it is impossible to determine how much, if any, appreciable warming can be attributed to fossil fuel burning because the current warming trend began prior to any possible influence from the Industrial Revolution"; "There is a clear and direct relationship between periodic increases in sunspot activity on the sun and increases in the sun's temperature. And there is a direct relationship between increases in the sun's heat output and the temperature here on Earth... Human activity has nothing to do with this relationship"; "Closely connected to this is the fact that because much of Earth's CO2 resides in the oceans, an increase in the sun's temperature causes a release of CO2 from the oceans into the atmosphere (the Coca Cola fizz effect). Hence, many scientists argue that increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere are a consequence of 'global warming' rather than a cause"; "And finally, keep in mind 'global warming' is not the first or only eco-scare. Over the last 40 years, overpopulation, energy crises, global cooling, ozone holes, desertification, deforestation, pesticide degradation, topsoil depletion, and other topics have each had their turn as scare of the day. The perpetrators of the doomsday hoaxes remain the same international environmental elite. The underlying fear within this small group of plutocrats is that unrestrained industrial growth will lead to a fundamental challenge to the prevailing property system. As surely as jacking up interest rates will slow economic development, so will high energy prices put a break on industrial progress. The 'global warming' scam is yet another effort of the most powerful and parasitic sectors of the ruling elite to hobble the forces of production with a view to the long-term preservation of an antiquated property system. Fighting for the truth about 'global warming' is fighting for the overthrow of these liars and the property regime upon which their power is based."

2001

On June 6, 2001 the Summer of the Shark begins with a shark attack on 8-y.-o. Jessie Arbogast in Santa Rose Island, followed by 76 more attacks and five deaths, turning into sensationalist publicity after a July 4 weekend attack on 8-y.-o. Jessie Arbogast, ending with the 9/11 attacks; in 2000 there were 85 attacks and 12 deaths, but no big publicity.

On June 25, 2001 Washington, D.C.-born govt. specialist James Kenneth Glassman (1947-) of the Am. Enterprise Inst. (AEI) and Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicist Sallie Louise Baliunas (1953-) pub. the article Bush Is Right on Global Warming in The Weekly Standard, claiming that climate change "is not a calamity but a truism", with the soundbytes: "Evidence from ice cores, glaciers, boreholes and tree rings, deposits of microscopic animals on the sea floor, pollen in lake beds, and mineral deposits in caves show clearly that surface temperatures in some centuries have been very different from temperatures in others"; "Because there is considerable uncertainty in current understanding of how the climate system varies naturally and reacts to emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols, current estimates of the magnitude of future warming should be regarded as tentative and subject to future adjustments (either upward or downward)"; "Global warming is not a here-and-now problem. If the computers are right, the dire effects will unfold slowly over the century. But signs now indicate that the models vastly overstate the problem. We'll see." On July 5, 2005 Glassman gives an interview to C-Span in which he opposes the Kyoto Protocol and questions the science behind climate change, with the soundbyte: "It is not clear, the President does not believe it is clear, that human intervention causes increased emissions which cause the climate to heat up. We know the climate has heated up. It's gone up about one-degree Fahrenheit in the last one-hundred years. The question is, why is that? Is it because of humans, or is it because of simply a solar cycle. You know, the planet's been warmer than it has been today long before there was such a thing as an SUV or anything like that."

On June 29, 2001 Chicago Heights, Ill.-born libertarian ABC News "20/20" TV personality John Frank Stossel (1947-) hosts a 1-hour ABC-TV special titled Tampering with Nature, which portrays environmentalits as "preachers of doom and gloom" who would have us "running around naked, hungry for food, maybe killing a rabbit with a rock, then dying young, probably before age 40", and features three dissenters from the 2K-member U.N. IPCC, pissing-off global warmists, who call it biased. On July 5, 2006 Stossel interviews climate skeptics John R. Christy and Sallie Baliunus, issuing the soundbyte: "The fundamentalist doom-mongers ignore scientists who say the effects of global warming may be benign." On Apr. 20, 2007 Stossel pub. the article The Global Warming Myth?, an extract from his 2007 book Myth, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel - Why Everything You Know Is Wrong. In 2013-17 Stossel hosts the Fox News TV series Green Tyranny, uttering the soundbytes: "Environmentalists collude with the EPA to block economic progress"; "So, why do I use the phrase 'green tyranny'? Because government always goes too far. Years ago, when I heard some animals were going extinct, I thought the endangered species act was a great idea. But in the hands of government lawyers, and environmental zealots, it's become an instrument of petty tyranny. Frogs, prairie dogs, beetles, take priority over people"; "One can love nature but still hate the tyranny the green movement imposes", "Global warming alarmism has turned into hysteria. Yes, the globe has warmed. Climate changes! We can adjust to it. But climate scientists who say that, like Judith Curry of Georgia Tech, are shunned as heretics", "The climate models that got the government so excited are totally wrong so far. A few degrees warming might be good... Cold waves kill many more people than heat waves." "Americans are told that fossil fuels - coal, oil, and gas - are evil. But much of civilization owes its existence to fossil fuels." Watch video - John Stossel. Watch video - John Stossel. Watch video - John Stossel. Watch video - John Stossel. Watch video - John Stossel. Watch video - John Stossel. Watch video - John Stossel. Watch video - John Stossel. Watch video - John Stossel. Watch video - John Stossel. Watch video - John Stossel.

On July 15, 2001 the Internat. Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) in Amsterdam pub. the Amsterdam Declaration on Earth System Science, proposing the term "Anthropocene", a new geological epoch to succeed Holocene about 10K B.C.E., caused by human alteration of the "Earth system", as coined by Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer, going on to unsuccessfully lobby the Internat. Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) to adopt it before running out of funding.

On Aug. 20-24, 2001 the First Internat. Conference on Global Warming and the Next Ice Age at Dalhousie U. in Halifax, N.S. is organized by Petr Chylek and Glen Lesins, and co-sponsored by the Am. Meteorological Society, the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, and the European Space Agency, with speakers on all sides of the global warming issue.

On Sept. 5, 2001 Am. journalist Bob Reiss (1951-) pub. the book The Coming Storm: Extreme Weather and Our Terrifying Future, attempting to freak-out readers with climate alarmism; "Bob Reiss shows how a series of freakish and colossally destructive weather events awakened... people to... a changing climate" (Eugene Linden); "The layman's guide to global warming... fair, urgent and deeply unsettling" (Ted Conover) - good timing on the publication date? On May 15, 2012 Reiss pub. The Eskimo and the Oil Man: The Battle at the Top of the World for America's Future, about the fight over offshore drilling in the Arctic as seen through the eyes of a Shell Oil exec and an Eskimo leader in Alaska, containing the soundbyte: "The Arctic century is upon us."

On Sept. 11, 2001 (9/11) the infamous 9/11 Attacks forever change the U.S.

In 2001 the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is pub., summarizing the predominant scientific opinion on climate change, concluding that the global avg. surface temp has risen 0.6C +/-0.2 C since the late 19th cent., and 0.17C/decade in 1971-2001, with the soundbyte: "There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities" esp. greenhouse gases methane and CO2, predicting a temp increase of 1.4C-5.8C between 1990 and 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions continue, accompanied by sea level rise and an increase in some types of extreme weather, becoming more negative as warming increases; it also incl. the soundbyte: "The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible"; leaders of the IPCC Working Group incl. chmn. Sir Robert Tony Watson (1948-) (knighted in 2012), co-chmn. Welsh evangelical Christian scientist Sir John Theodore Houghton (1931-) and Sir John Francis Brake Mitchell (1948-) of Hadley Centre (lead author of the Second Assessment Report); in May a joint statement of support is issued by the science academies of Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, the Caribbean, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, Sweden, and U.K.: "We recognise the IPCC as the world's most reliable source of information on climate change and its causes, and we endorse its method of achieving consensus"; Ch. 15.2.4.1.2.4 "Ice Storms", by Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability contains the soundbyte: "An increased frequency of heat waves will increase the risk of death and serious illness, principally in older age groups and the urban poor. The greatest increases in thermal stress are forecast for mid- to high-latitude (temperate) cities, especially in populations with limited air conditioning. Warmer winters and fewer cold spells, because of climate change, will decrease cold-related mortality in many temperate countries"; critics incl. Am. MIT atmospheric physicist (leading climate expert) Richard Siegmund "Dick" Lindzen (1940-), lead author of Ch. 7 "Physical Climate Processes and Feedbacks", who wakes up later and calls it "climate alarmism", uttering the soundbytes: "We have focused on the greenhouse picture despite the fact that this is probably not the major factor in climate change. That is to say, we have accepted the basic premise of the first [dominant] narrative. Mea culpa", and "Climate is a remarkably complex system that cannot be reduced to a CO2 knob, something you turn up or down like a house thermostat to control global temperature", also the soundbyte: "When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than the consequence of scientific research", and the soundbyte: "Why do we need to deconstruct global warming? Simply because it has been an issue that has been routinely treated with misinformation and sophistry abetted by constant repetition, institutional endorsements, and widespread ignorance even (perhaps especially) among the educated... To a great extent, global warming has been merely a device for implementing broader agendas"; in 1992 Lindzen pub. the article Global Warming: The Origin and Nature of the Alleged Scientific Consensus; in 2001 Lindzen pub. the Iris Hypothesis, that a warmer climate enhances precipitation efficiency, leading to less clouds in the troposphere from convection, allowing more infrared radiation to escape into space, creating a strong climate-stabilizing negative feedback loop preventing further warming; on Oct. 9, 2018 Lindzen gives a lecture in London with the title Global Warming for the Two Cultures, containing the soundbyte: "An implausible conjecture backed by false evidence and repeated incessantly has become politically correct 'knowledge', and is used to promote the overturn of industrial civilization"; in 2017 Lindzen utters the soundbyte: "To imply that a rise of temperature of a tenth of a degree is proof that the world is coming to an end - has to take one back to the dark ages. As long as you can get people excited as to whether it's a tenth of a degree warmer or cooler, then you don't have to think, you can assume everyone who is listening to you is an idiot. The whole point is so crazy because the temperature is always going up or down a little. What is astonishing is that in the last 20 years it hasn't done much of anything. What they don't mention is there has been a big El Nino in 2016 and in recent months the temperature has been dropping back into a zero trend level"; another critic is English-born Am. physicist Freeman John Dyson (1923-2020), Albert Einstein's successor at the Inst. for Advanced Physics at Princeton U., who acknowledges that CO2 drives global warming but doubts that existing climate simulation models are accurate enough "to describe the real world we live in", pointing in 2009 out that "What has happened in the past 10 years is that the discrepancies between what's observed and what's predicted have become much stronger. It's clear now the models are wrong, but it wasn't so clear 10 years ago", suggesting that China and India should choose to burn coal and get rich instead of staying poor, noting that "the main effect of carbon dioxide... is to make the planet greener, feeding the growth of green plans of al kinds, increasing the fertility of farms and fields and fields", suggesting that planting 1T trees could remove all excess CO2 in the atmosphere; in Apr. 2013 Dyson gives an interview to Paul Mulshine of the N.J. Star-Ledger, uttering the soundbytes: "I just think they [climatologists] don't understand the climate. Their computer models are full of fudge factors. The models are extremely oversimplified. They don't represent the clouds in detail at all. They simply use a fudge factor to represent the clouds"; in 2000 Watson utters the soundbyte: "The overwhelming majority of scientific experts, whilst recognising that scientific uncertainties exist, nonetheless believe that human-induced climate change is inevitable. Indeed, during the last few years, many parts of the world have suffered major heat waves, floods, droughts, fires and extreme weather events leading to significant economic losses and loss of life. While individual events cannot be directly linked to human-induced climate change, the frequency and magnitude of these types of events are predicted to increase in a warmer world"; in Apr. 2002 after pressure from ExxonMobil et al. IPCC chmn. (since 1997) Robert Watson is replaced as IPCC chmn. by Rajendra Kumar Pachauri (1940-2020), who resigns in Feb. 2015 after sexual harassment allegations; in 2010 Watson utters the soundbyte: "The mistakes all appear to have gone in the direction of making it seem like climate change is more serious by overstating the impact. That is worrying. The IPCC needs to look at this trend in the errors and ask why it happened." Adding "We should always be challenged by sceptics. The IPCC's job is to weigh up the evidence. If it can't be dismissed, it should be included in the report. Point out it's in the minority and, if you can't say why it's wrong, just say it's a different view." Another critic is London-born Kiwi chemist Vincent Robert Gray (1921-2018), who pub. the books The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of 'Climate Change 2001' (Aug. 2002), and Confessions of a Climate Skeptic, going on in Mar. 2008 to call for the IPCC to be abolished, calling it "fundamentally corrupt" and unable to handle criticism, with the soundbytes: "The claims of the IPCC are dangerous unscientific nonsense", "The two main 'scientific' claims of the IPCC are the claim that 'the globe is warming' and 'Increases in carbon dioxide emissions are responsible'. Evidence for both of these claims is fatally flawed", "There is not a scrap of evidence in any IPCC reports that human emissions of CO2 have any harmful effect on the climate", and "Nobody seems to realise that the most elaborate and comprehensive conflict of interest that has been inflicted on the public is the 'Global Warning" Theory'... I have been an Expert Reviewer on every one of the Reports of IPCC", ending up commenting on every pub. of the IPCC, with 1,898 comments on the 2007 report alone. On Nov. 10, 2015 he pub. his last book The Global Warming Scam and Climate Change Superscam. He also utters the soundbyte: "So there you have it. An implausible conjecture backed by false evidence and repeated incessantly has become politically correct 'knowledge', and is used to promote the overturn of industrial civilization. What we will be leaving our grandchildren is not a planet damaged by industrial progress, but a record of unfathomable silliness as well as a landscape degraded by rusting wind farms and decaying solar panel arrays. False claims about 97% agreement will not spare us, but the willingness of scientists to keep mum is likely to reduce trust in and support for science." Watch video - Richard Lindzen. Watch video - Richard Lindzen. Watch video - Richard Lindzen. Watch video - Richard Lindzen. 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In 2001 the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (CES) is founded in Arlington, Va. as a successor to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change to work with policymakers and stakeholders to promote pragmatic and effective policies to fight global warming at all levels from state to internat., growing to become the largest U.S.-based assoc. of cos. working to advance business and policy solutions to climate change, growing from 13 members in 2001 to 44 in 2008, with a total market capitalization of $2.8T, and 30 mainly Fortune 500 cos. by 2018 with a total of 3.5M employees; it goes on to found the Make an Impact Program to assist employees and individuals in reducing their carbon footprints.

In 2001 the Global Carbon Project (GCP) is established to fully understand the carbon cycle under the belief (illusion?) that rising CO2 concentrations must be dealt with, going on to claim in 2006 that global CO2 emissions increased 3.2%/year since 2000, claim on Dec. 5, 2011 that CO2 released by fossil fuel burning jumped to a record 5.9%/year in 2010 vs. 1% in the 1990s, and claim that atmospheric CO2 concentration will reach 500 ppm by 2100; in 2013 they establish the Global Carbon Atlas, a tool for visualization of global carbon cycle data; dir. #1 (2001-9) is Australian climate scientist Michael Robin "Mike" Raupach (1950-2015), originator of the concept of the carbon budget; dir. #2 (2009-13) is French-Canadian climate scientist Corinne Le Quere (Le Quéré) (1966-), founder of the annual pub. of the Global Carbon Budget.

2002

On Jan. 31, 2002 the Larsen B Ice Shelf in the Antarctic begins disintegrating, eventually collapsing into the Weddell Sea, becoming the largest series of Larsen Ice Shelf losses in decades.

In Feb. 2002 the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (originally the U.S. Global Change Research Program) is established under the U.S. Global Change Research Act of 1990 to coordinate and integrate research on global warming, issuing 21 Synthesis and Assessment Products (SAPs), along with three Nat. Climate Assessment Reports starting in 2000, followed by 2009 and 2014.

On May 4, 2002 the NASA Boeing Aqua (EOS PM-1) satellite is launched from Vanderberg AFB, settling into a Sun-synchronous orbit with several other satellites to measure water on the Earth's surface and atmosphere, becoming the 2nd major component of the Earth Observing System (EOS) after Terra (EOS AM-1) (launched in 1999) (clouds, water, ice, land surface, carbon monoxide, aerosols) and Aura (EOS CH-1) (launched July 15, 2004) (climate, air quality, ozone layer). Kiwi U. of Auckland chemical engineer and climate change skeptic Geoffrey G. "Geoff" Duffy utters the soundbyte: "It is also interesting to note that NASA's Aqua satellite system has shown that the Earth has been cooling since 1998. This corresponds with measurements from the Argos sub-ocean probes that the ocean is cooling. This is in stark contrast with the proposals from many 'climate alarmists'."

In summer 2002 a week-long flood in Tex. causes Canyon Lake to spill over into the Guadalupe Valley, carving a new canyon in three days - giving Creationists a magic moment?

In 2002 the Canadian nonprofit group Friends of Science (FoS) is founded in Calgary, Alberta by mechanical engineer Tom Harris et al., and "comprised mainly of active and retired earth and atmospheric scientists, engineers, and other professionals" whose main concern is "the abuse of science displayed in the politically inspired Kyoto protocol"; their goal is "To educate the public about climate science and through them bring pressure to bear on governments to engage in public debates on the scientific merits of the hypothesis of human induced global warming and the various policies that intend to address the issue"; climate alarmists gloat over the fact that they are partly funded by the fossil fuel industry; they go on to pub. the killer climate change essay Providing Insight into Climate Change. Watch video - Tom Harris. Watch video - Tom Harris. Watch video - Tom Harris. Watch video - Tom Harris.

In 2002 Canadian Western U. (London, Ont.) applied math prof. Christopher Essex (1954-) and and Canadian economist Ross McKitrick (1965-) pub. the book Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming. In Nov. 2006 Canada's Conservative got. appoints Essex to the 21-member Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, which oversses research grants to Canadian univs., pissing-off the AGW crowd, with Canadian New Dem. Party MP Nathan Cullen uttering the soundbyte: "If you put someone in who doesn't believe in climate change and sees no urgency to fight against human-related climate change, you then skew the entire debate. It's a Republican-style approach where you fund the skeptics." On Mar. 25, 2015 Essex pub. the article Climate Science Doubts: Not Because of Payment, But Because the Science Is Bad in Breitbart, which starts out: "Members of the Scientific Council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) recently criticized the Royal Society's positions on climate. Their clear, authoritative scientific objections to the Royal Society's positions reveal the weak scientific foundation on which the great climate fervor has been based. The public must either become conversant enough to grasp this or step back and get out of the way of those who have. Scientists don't need to be paid to oppose the ideas of climate orthodoxy, because those ideas are just so damn bad." Watch video - Christopher Essex. Watch video - Christopher Essex. Watch video - Christopher Essex. Watch video - Christopher Essex.

In 2002 West Hartford, Conn.-born Repub. (Pres. Bush) political consultant Frank Ian Luntz (1962-) suggests that the term "global warming" be changed to "climate change" to sound less severe, with the soundbyte: "The scientific debate is closing [against us]... but not yet closed. There is still a window of opportunity to challenge the science... Voters believe that there is no consensus about global warming within the scientific community. Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly. Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate, and defer to scientists and other experts in the field." In June 2019 Luntz begins a campaign to turn Repubs. into climate extremists who back his plan for a $40/ton fee on CO2 emissions, using a push poll funded by the Climate Leadership Council that he claims proves that opinion has reached a "tipping point".

2003

On Jan. 17, 2003 Chicago, Ill.-born "Jurassic Park" novelist John Michael Crichton (1942-2008) gives a lecture at Caltech titled Aliens Cause Global Warming, containing the soundbyte: "Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period"; also: "There's an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature; there's a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result from eating from the tree of knowledge; and as a result of our actions, there is a judgement day coming for all of us. We're energy sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called sustainability. Sustainability is salvation in the church of the environment. Just as organic food is its communion, that pesticide-free wafer that the right beliefs imbibe"; on Dec. 7, 2004 Crichton pub. the NYT bestseller novel (1.5M copies) State of Fear, about ecoterrorists plotting mass murder to publicize the dangers of global warming, calling climate change "a vast pseudo-scientific hoax", which the book attempts to refute with scientific arguments that are pooh-poohed by climate warmists, making it more popular? On Sept. 28, 2005 Crichton testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, uttering the soundbyte: "I want to state emphatically that nothing in my remarks should be taken to imply that we can ignore our environment, or that we should not take climate change seriously. On the contrary, we must dramatically improve our record on environmental management. That is why a focused effort on climate science, aimed at securing sound, independently verified answers to policy questions, is so important now." Watch video - Michael Crichton.

On May 1, 2003 Ahilleas Maurellis and Jonathan Tennyson pub. the article The climatic effects of water vapour in Physics World, which starts out: "Extreme variations in local weather and the seasons make it easy for people to mutter 'greenhouse effect', and blame everything on carbon dioxide. Along with other man-made gases, such as methane, carbon dioxide has received a bad press for many years and is uniformly cited as the major cause of the greenhouse effect. This is simply not correct."

In May 1, 2003 Swedish U. of Stockholm meteorologist Hans Roger Jelbring pub. the paper The "Greenhouse Effect" as a Function of Atmospheric Mass in Energy & Environment, with the abstract: "The main reason for claiming a scientific basis for 'Anthropogenic Greenhouse Warming (AGW)' is related to the use of 'radiative energy flux models as a major tool for describing vertical energy fluxes within the atmosphere. Such models prescribe that the temperature difference between a planetary surface and the planetary average black body radiation temperature (commonly called the Greenhouse Effect, GE) is caused almost exclusively by the so called greenhouse gases. Here, using a different approach, it is shown that GE can be explained as mainly being a consequence of known physical laws describing the behaviour of ideal gases in a gravity field... A noteworthy implication is that the calculated values of AGW, accepted by many contemporary climate scientists, are thus irrelevant and probably quite insignificant (not detectable) in relation to natural processes causing climate change"; in Jan. 2012 he writes the soundbyte: "IPCC should not only be defunded, it should be deleted as an agency. The reason is its misuse of the concept of science. It has never been meant to rely on correct science and uses science for one simple reason. People believe in science, since people have seen the result of powerful applications of it during 100 years. IPCC uses this fact to 'sell' its political message to get support from ordinary people. Science is a 'brand' for selling propaganda. The only way to keep the IPCC is for it to skip any claim of being scientific at all and clearly declare what it really is: a political organization. My tutor when writing my exam paper in meteorology was Bert Bolin, the founder of IPCC. He was for sure a screwed influential politician and a dishonest and ordinary scientist."

In July-Aug. 2003 the Summer 2003 European Heat Wave kills 70K, becoming the hottest summer in Europe since 1540; on Aug. 10 a record of 38.5C (101.3F) is set in Faversham, Kent, England; on Sept. 25 France reports a death toll of 14,802, mostly elderly people without air conditioning from the summer heat wave; the young people were vacationing at the time, and arrived back to find thousands of negelected dead old people bottled up in their hot apts.?

On Aug. 10, 2003 Haversham, Kent, England reaches a record 101.3F (38.5C).

On Sept. 29-Oct. 9, 2003 the World Climate Change Conference in Moscow, Russia, convened by Russian Federation pres. Vladimir Putin endorses the IPCC Third Assessment Report; too bad, several scientists break ranks, incl. Putin's scientific advisor Yuri Antonovich Izrael (1930-2014), vice-chmn. of the IPCC (until Sept. 2008) who utters the soundbytes: "The Kyoto Protocol is overly expensive, ineffective, and based on bad science", and: "The people of Bangladesh, who live at sea level, may face problems if the Indian Ocean rises. Still, their resettlement would be much cheaper than projected Kyoto Protocol expenses", causing conference participant Andreas Fischlin to get pissed-off and utter the soundbyte: "However, concerning the scientific content of the conference, we had also to struggle with considerable difficulties. Unfortunately, there were not only leading scientists present, but also some colleagues who used the conference to express personal, political opinions based on value judgement instead of scientific facts and rigorously derived, scientific insights and thorough understanding. Thereby, I believe, principles of proper scientific conduct were violated too often and sometimes, I am afraid having to say so, even systematically. This contrasts sharply with the principles upheld by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), which allow only to assess the current knowledge based on the best available, peer reviewed scientific literature and which do not allow for any non-scientific value judgements, let alone policy recommendations"; Izrael goes on to putin, er, put in his two cents worth, with the soundbytes: "Climate change is obvious, but science has not yet been able to identify the causes of it"; "There is no proven link between human activity and global warming"; "Global temperatures will likely rise by 1.4-5.8 degrees during the next 100 years. The average increase will be three degrees. I do not think that this threatens mankind. Sea levels, due to rise by 47 cm in the 21st century, will not threaten port cities"; "I think the panic over global warming is totally unjustified. There is no serious threat to climate"; "There is no need to dramatize the anthropogenic impact, because the climate has always been subject to change under Nature's influence, even when humanity did not even exist"; "There is no scientifically sound evidence of the negative processes that allegedly begin to place at such temperatures"; no surprise, global warmist scientists pooh-pooh him and resort to ad hominem attacks, with Quirin Shiermeier and Byron MacWilliams calling him a "fossil communist fighting for fossil fuel".

On Oct. 30, 2003 the U.S. McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act, drafted by U.S. Repub. Ariz. Sen. (1987-2018) John Sidney McCain III (1936-2018) and Indep. Conn. Sen. (1989-2013) Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman (1942-) is defeated in the U.S. Senate by 55-43; it would have capped 2010 CO2 emissions at the 2000 level and established a scholarship at the Nat. Academy of Sciences for students of climatology; similar acts are defeated in 2005 (38-60) and 2007 (dies in committee); on May 12, 2008 during the 2008 U.S. pres. campaign as the Repub. candidate, McCain gives a speech on climate change in Portland, Ore., with the soundbytes: "Today I'd like to focus on just one of those challenges, and among environmental dangers it is surely the most serious of all. Whether we call it 'climate change' or 'global warming', in the end we're all left with the same set of facts. The facts of global warming demand our urgent attention, especially in Washington. Good stewardship, prudence, and simple commonsense demand that we to act meet the challenge, and act quickly"; "Some of the most compelling evidence of global warming comes to us from NASA. No longer do we need to rely on guesswork and computer modeling, because satellite images reveal a dramatic disappearance of glaciers, Antarctic ice shelves and polar ice sheets"; "We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. Instead of idly debating the precise extent of global warming, or the precise timeline of global warming, we need to deal with the central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters, and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring. We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great. The most relevant question now is whether our own government is equal to the challenge." On Oct. 29, 2003 Charles River Associates reports that the impact on the U.S. economy of the McCain-Liberman Act would incl. 20% higher electricity bills, a 25-cent/gal. increase in the price of gasoline, and a cost of $300+/year/household in reduced consumption, with spokesman James K. Glassman of the Am. Enterprise Inst. (AEI) issuing the soundbyte: "The cost analysis of McCain-Lieberman reinforces what we've come to learn about global warming policy measures since Kyoto. We do know that they'll be very costly and damaging to the U.S. economy, and we don't know if they'll have any measurable effect on the earth's climate."

On Nov. 26, 2003 Hisashi Ozawa, Atsumu Ohmura, Ralph D. Lorenz, and Toni Pujol pub. the paper The second law of thermodynamics and the global climate system: A review of the maximum entropy production principle in Reviews of Geophysics, using the principle of maximum entropy production to accurately determine the meridional and vertical temperature profiles of the Earth's surface and atmosphere without needing to use GHGs or radiative forcing, bringing back Carnot's concept of the atmosphere as a heat engine.

On Dec. 17, 2003 UCB physicist Richard A. Muller (1944-) pub. the article Medieval Global Warming: A controversy over 14th century climate shows the peril of letting politics shape the debate, which contains the soundbyte: "Let me be clear. My own reading of the literature and study of paleoclimate suggests strongly that carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels will prove to be the greatest pollutant of human history. It is likely to have severe and detrimental effects on global climate. I would love to believe that the results of Mann et al. are correct, and that the last few years have been the warmest in a millennium." In 2010 after claiming to be a global warming skeptic to get the wealthy conservative Rebekah "Bekah" Mercer (1973-) to back him financially, he and his daughter Elizabeth Muller found Berkeley Earth to perform the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project to reanalyze the Earth's surface temperature record in the light of concerns by skeptics, going on to pub. their findings in 2012 and go non-profit in Feb. 2013; they conclude that potential biases from data selection, data adjustment, poor station quality, and the urban heat island (UHI) effect did not unduly bias the record, and that the overreliance on large and complex global climate models by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the attribution of the recent temperature increase to anthropogenic forcings could be replaced by a simple model that included a volcanic term and, as an anthropogenic proxy, CO2 concentration, concluding that the record could be reproduced by just these two contributions, and that inclusion of direct variations in solar intensity did not contribute to the fit, causing Richard Muller to supposedly convert to an AGW believer, as if he never published that article in 2003; Berkeley Earth members incl. Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter (1959-), UCB physicist Jonathan Wurtele (1957-), UCB physicist Arthur Hinton "Art" Rosenfeld (1926-2017), physicist Don Groom, Steven Mosher, Zeke Hausfather, Pamela Hyde, and UCB physicist Robert Andrew Rhode, who writes the software to search databases for global temp records and merge them into a unified record, which he compares to "Hercules' enormous task of cleaning the Augean stables", extending the temp record back to 1753; On Jan. 5, 2012 Muller is quoted in a Nov. 3, 2011 article in The Huffington Post by Tom Zeller Jr. titled Richard Muller, Climate Researchers, Navigates the Volatile Line Between Science and Skepticism: "It is ironic if some people treat me as a traitor, since I was never a skeptic - only a scientific skeptic. Some people called me a skeptic because in my best-seller 'Physics for Future Presidents' I had drawn attention to the numerous scientific errors in the movie 'An Inconvenient Truth'. But I never felt that pointing out mistakes qualified me to be called a climate skeptic." On Oct. 21, 2011 Richard Muller pub. op-ed The Case Against Global Warming Skepticism in The Wall Street Journal, containing the soundbyte: "When we began our study, we felt that skeptics had raised legitimate issues, and we didn't know what we'd find. Our results turned out to be close to those published by prior groups. We think that means that those groups had truly been very careful in their work, despite their inability to convince some skeptics of that. They managed to avoid bias in their data selection, homogenization and other corrections. Global warming is real. Perhaps our results will help cool this portion of the climate debate. How much of the warming is due to humans and what will be the likely effects? We made no independent assessment of that." On July 30, 2012 Muller pub. the op-ed The Conversion of a Climate Change Skeptic in the New York Times, which contains the soundbyte: "Our results show that the average temperature of the Earth's land has risen by 2.5F over the past 250 years, including an increase of 1.5 degrees over the most recent 50 years. Moreover, it appears likely that essentially all of this increase results from the human emission of greenhouse gases." Watch video - Richard A. Muller. Watch video - Richard A. Muller. Watch video - Tony Heller.

In late 2003 after getting pissed-off at the Canadian govt.'s promotion of the Kyoto Protocol, math-trained Canadian mining consultant Stephen "Steve" McIntyre (1947-) (owner of the blog Climate Audit) and Canadian economist Ross McKitrick (1965-) pub. the paper Corrections to the Mann et al. (1998) Proxy Data Base and Northern Hemispheric Average Temperature Series in Energy and Environment, alleging errors in principal component analysis in Mann's 1998 hockey stick graph that underrepresent the Medieval Warm Period, turning the hockey stick into er, moose hockey and launching the Hockey Stick Debate (Controversy); on Oct. 15, 2004 Richard A. Muller pub. the paper Global Warming Bombshell in MIT Technology Review (subtitle: A prime piece of evidence linking human activity to climate change turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics), containing the soundbyte: "McIntyre and McKitrick obtained part of the program that Mann used, and they found serious problems. Not only does the program not do conventional PCA, but it handles data normalization in a way that can only be described as mistaken. Now comes the real shocker. This improper normalization procedure tends to emphasize any data that do have the hockey stick shape, and to suppress all data that do not. To demonstrate this effect, McIntyre and McKitrick created some meaningless test data that had, on average, no trends. This method of generating random data is called 'Monte Carlo' analysis, after the famous casino, and it is widely used in statistical analysis to test procedures. When McIntyre and McKitrick fed these random data into the Mann procedure, out popped a hockey stick shape!... That discovery hit me like a bombshell, and I suspect it is having the same effect on many others. Suddenly the hockey stick, the poster-child of the global warming community, turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics. How could it happen?" - now that ain't my radio it's my weather gauge? McIntyre later utters the soundbyte: "The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann... for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors, unjustifiable truncation or extrapolation of source data, obsolete data, geographical location errors, incorrect calculation of principal componenets and other quality control defects." McKitrick later utters the soundbytes: "I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors I have consistently found that when the layers get peeled back, what lies at the core is either flawed, misleading or simply non-existent", and "The world still awaits a proper inquiry into climategate: one that is not stacked with global warming advocates and one that is prepared to cross-examine evidence, interview critics as well as supporters of the CRU and other IPCC players, and follow the evidence where it clearly leads." In 2002 McKitrick and Christopher Essex pub. Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming, accusing politicians of claiming more certainty that is justified by the science. On Dec. 5, 2019 McKitrick and McIntyre pub. the paper Climategate: Untangling Myth and Reality Ten Years Later.

In 2003 the NIPCC (Nongovernmental Internat. Panel on Climate Change is founded by the Science & Environmental Policy Project to counter the lies of the U.N. IPCC., going on to partner with the Heartland Inst.

In 2003 Ken Caldiera of Stanford U. coins the term "ocean acidification" for its shock value to aid CO2 climate alarmist agitprop; seawater is safely alkaline, with a pH of 7.8 to 8.5

In 2003 English environmental activist George Marshall (1964-) founds Climate Outreach to engage the public on climate change; in 2007 he pub. Carbon Detox, a how-to manual for personal emissions reduction; in 2014 he pub. Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change, about stepping away from Green Guilt, becoming a hit. Watch video - George Marshall.

In 2003 New York Times climate journalist Andrew Revkin (1956-) reports from a research camp located on drifting sea ice near the North Pole, advertising a sign that reads "The North Pole Was Here", going on to pub. The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World on Apr. 22, 2006. In 2010 he becomes a member of the new Anthropocene Working Group of the Internat. Commission on Stratigraphy, which was founded to develop the idea that human impact on Earth's climate is creating the new Anthropocene geological epoch, presenting its official recommendation on Aug. 29, 2016, which isn't officially approved until ?.

In 2003 Ithaca, N.Y.-born Hebrew U. of Jerusalem physicist-climatologist Nir Joseph Shaviv (1972-) and Slovakian-born U. of Ottawa geochemist Jan Veizer (1941-) pub. the article Celestial driver of Phanerozoic climate? in GSA Today, proposing that Earth's passes through the spiral arms of the Milky Way along with cosmic rays may have caused Earth's major ice ages over the past billion years, containing the soundbyte: "Pending further confirmation, one interpretation of the above result could be that the global climate possesses a stabilizing negative feedback. A likely candidate for such a feedback is cloud cover. If so, it would imply that the water cycle is the thermostat of climate dynamics, acting both as a positive (water vapor) and negative(clouds) feedback, with the carbon cycle 'piggybacking' on, and being modified by, the water cycle." On Apr. 19, 2007 Shavov and Veizer pub. the paper Celestial driver of Phanerozoic climate in the Journal of the Geological Society of Am., demonstrating that a temperature reconstruction of the Phanerozoic Eon (began -541M) correlates with cosmic ray flux but not with CO2, placing a low upper limit on the climatic effect of CO2, causing climate scientists Stefan Rahmstorf at al. to criticize them in the June 3, 2011 article Cosmic rays, carbon dioxide, and climate in Eos (Am. Geophysical Union), with the conclusion: "The correlation of CRF [cosmic ray flux] and climate over the past 520 m.y. appear to not hold up under scrutiny." On June 16, 2015 Shaviv pub. the article The IPCC and others blame CO2 for increases in sea levels, ignoring evidence that shows the sun to be the cause. On Dec. 19, 2017 Shaviv et al. pub. the article Increased ionization supports growth of aerosols into cloud condensation nuclei in Nature Communications, starting out: "Ions produced by cosmic rays have been thought to influence aerosols and clouds", showing that "the mass-flux of small ions can constitute an important addition to the growth caused by condensation of neutral molecules. Under atmospheric conditions the growth from ions can constitute severl percent of the natural growth." Watch video - Nir Shaviv.

2004

In 2004 the Antarctic Polar Night begins (ends 2016), with 100 different locations on the East Antarctic Plateau reaching temps of -98C (-144F), beating the record low air temp of -89.2C (-129F) of July 23, 1983.

In 2004 the 2004 African Locust Infestation ravages crops across the N third of Africa, leaving millions at risk of starvation; in 2006 another swarm reaches 3 sq. mi. in area as it moves across Mauritania; meanwhile a drought in Niger combined with desert locust damage destroys the fall crop, leaving 3.6M short of food, causing a food crisis in 2005-6.

On Feb. 21, 2004 The Guardian pub. the article Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us, describing a secret report written by CIA consultant Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall of the Calif.-based Global Business Network, commissioned by Pentagon defense adviser Andrew Marshall, which warns of rioting and nuclear war due to climate change and overpop. during the next 20 years that "could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disaster, claiming that "major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020"; "The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents"; former chmn. of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Bob Watson utters the soundbyte: "Can Bush ignore the Pentagon? It's going be hard to blow off this sort of document. It's hugely embarrassing. After all, Bush's single highest priority is national defence. The Pentagon is no wacko, liberal group, generally speaking it is conservative. If climate change is a threat to national security and the economy, then he has to act. There are two groups the Bush Administration tend to listen to, the oil lobby and the Pentagon"; Rob Gueterbock of Greenpeace adds the soundbyte: "You've got a President who says global warming is a hoax, and across the Potomac river you've got a Pentagon preparing for climate wars. It's pretty scary when Bush starts to ignore his own government on this issue."

On Mar. 10, 2004 the conservative-libertarian political advocacy group Americans for Prosperity is founded in Arlington, Va., funded by the billionaire Koch Brothers, going on to turn the Obama-era Tea Party into a political force, organizing opposition to Obama admin. initiatives on global warming, Medicaid expansion, economic stimulus, Obamacare, cap and trade, federal min. wage et al., helping achieve a Repub. majority in the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014; in 2008 it launches the No Climate Tax Pledge, which is signed by 411 politicians incl. 35% of U.S. senators and 33% of U.S. reps by July 213 incl. 9 of 12 Repubs. on the House Energy and Commerce Committee; in 2005 Spartanburg, S.C.-born Repub. political strategist Tim Phillips (1964-) becomes pres. (until ?).

On Mar. 19, 2004 Polish climate science pioneer Zbigniew Jaworowski (1927-2011) testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, dissing the use of ice core samples to determine ancient CO2 levels, with the soundbyte: "Particular gases, CO2, O2 and N2 trapped in the deep cold ice start to form clathrates, and leave the air bubbles, at different pressures and depth. At the ice temperature of –15oC dissociation pressure for N2 is about 100 bars, for O2 75 bars, and for CO2 5 bars. Formation of CO2 clathrates starts in the ice sheets at about 200 meter depth, and that of O2 and N2 at 600 to 1000 meters. This leads to depletion of CO2 in the gas trapped in the ice sheets. This is why the records of CO2 concentration in the gas inclusions from deep polar ice show the values lower than in the contemporary atmosphere, even for the epochs when the global surface temperature was higher than now"; on Mar. 16, 2007 Jaworowski pub. the article Look, Feel, & Smell Your Best (CO2 – The Greatest Scientific Scandal Of Our Time) in ERI Science, bemoaning the loss of scientific integrity in the field of global warming research after the intervention of the politician-controlled U.N. IPCC.

On May 17, 2004 Roland Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow (20th Cent. Fox) debuts, starring Dennis Quaid as climatologist Jack Hall, who must save the world from super-fast global warming er, cooling, which incl. New York being taken over by a new ice age; Jake Gyllenhaal plays his stranded son Sam; #7 movie of 2004 ($187M in the U.S. and $544.3M worldwide on a $125M budget); watch trailer; view clip.

On Oct. 18, 2004 Cambridge-educated Scottish agricultural economist Alister McFarquhar of the Adam Smith Inst. pub. a letter to the ed. in The Telegraph, complaining about biased coverage of the 2005 Kyoto Protocol, which he calls "too costly", with the soundbyte: "There is no clear evidence of warming in weather satellites and balloons in the 20th century. Predictions of warming depend on models involving arbitrary assumptions and science hypotheses. The relation between CO2, water vapour and putative warming seems very obscure."

In Oct. 2004 after studying radiosonde observations from around the world, NASA scientist Ferenc Miskolczi pub. the paper The greenhouse effect and the spectral decomposition of the clear-sky terrestrial radiation in the Quarterly Journal of the Hungarian Meteorological Service, describing a "greenhouse constant" that keeps the greenhouse effect in equilibrium with rising CO2 levels, maintaining a constant value of 1.87 total infrared optical thickness of the atmosphere, making warming by back-radiation along with runaway greenhouse theories moose hockey that contradict energy balance equations; too bad, his supervisors at NASA begin to shun him and refuse to pub. his results, causing him to resign on Oct. 28, 2005.

On Nov. 18, 2004 David E. Parker of Hadley Center in Exeter, England pub. the article Climate: Large-scale warming is not urban in Nature, showing that the urban heat island effect doesn't affect the historical temperature record, with the soundbyte: "The reality and magnitude of global-scale warming is supported by the near-equality of temperature trends on windy nights with trends based on all data"; too bad, other studies show the opposite.

In 2004 the climate change think tank E3G (Third Generation Environmentalism is founded by Nick Mabey, Tom Burke, and British diplomat John Ashton (1956-), with offices in London, Brussels, Berlin, and Washington, D.C., going on to play a pivotal role in getting Russia to ratify the Kyoto Protocol; in 2009 it creates the Transform UK Coalition, leading to the founding of the Green Investment Bank (Group) in London in 2012.

In 2004 amateur scientist (climate skeptic) Willis Eschenbach pub. the paper Tuvalu not experiencing increased sea level rise in Energy & Environment; in 2010 he pub. the paper The Thunderstorm Thermostat Hypothesis: How clouds and thunderstorms control the Earth's temperature in Energy & Environment, exposing a big blind spot of the CO2-does-everything IPCC octopus; too bad, his credentials are limited to a bachelor's in psychology from a podunk state univ., and a Calif. massage certificate, giving the IPCC establishment an excuse to ignore all his self-education. Watch video - Willis Eschenbach.

In 2004 Colo. State U. atmospheric scientist Phil Klotzbach (1977-) begins creating Atlantic basin hurricane forecasts with Colo. State U. atmospheric scientist William Mason "Bill" Gray (1929-2016); in 2006 Klotzbach becomes the first author of the seasonal hurricane forecasts, developing the 2-week forecasts used in Aug.-Oct. in the peak months of the hurricane season, later developing the Landfalling Hurricane Probability Webpage along with the GeoGraphics Lab of his alma mater Bridgewater State College, providing hurricane landfall probabilities for the entire U.S. coastline from Brownsville, Tex. to Eastport, Maine incl. the Caribbean Sea. On Oct. 11, 2011 Gray pub. the paper Gross Errors in the IPCC-AR4 Report regarding Past & Future Changes in Global Tropical Cyclone Activity – (a Nobel Disgrace), slamming them for lying that hurricane frequency and intensity have been increasing to get their Nobel Peace Prize. On May 21-3, 2012 at the 7th Internat. Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-7) in Chicago, Ill., Gray presents his paper The Physical Flaws of the Global Warming theory and Deep Ocean Circulation Changes as the Primary Climate Driver, which starts out: "The main misconception of the global warmers is to assume that all the many large energy terms of the climate system remain constant over long periods and that the only changes that matter for climate alteration are the very small magnitude variations of human-induced CO2. How could the warmers be so naive as to believe that changes in CO2 are the dominate climate forcing mechanism?"; "Increases in CO2 and other greenhouse gases will not be able to bring about significant climate disruption in the next 75-100 years. The main problem with the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory is the false treatment of the global hydrologic cycle which is not adequately understood by any of the AGW advocates. The water vapor, cloud, and condensation-evaporation assumptions within the conventional AGW theory and the (GCM) simulations are incorrectly designed to block too much infrared (IR) radiation to space. They also do not reflect-scatter enough short wave (albedo) energy to space. These two misrepresentations result in a large artificial warming that is not realistic. A realistic treatment of the hydrologic cycle would show that the influence of a doubling of CO2 should lead to a global surface warming of only about 0.3°C - not the 3°C warming as indicated by the climate simulations"; "The global surface warming of about 0.7°C that has been experienced over the last 150 years and the multi-decadal up-and-down global temperature changes of 0.3-0.4°C that have been observed over this period are hypothesized to be driven by a combination of multi-century and multi-decadal ocean circulation changes. These ocean changes are due to naturally occurring upper ocean salinity variations. Changes in CO2 play little role in these salinity driven ocean climate forcings." Gray also utters the soundbyte: "Human-induced global warming is supported by scientists afraid of losing grant funding." On Sept. 9, 2018 after Hurricane Florence is born, Klotzbach utters the soundbyte that storms in the NE Pacific have generated the most "accumulated cyclone energy" on record through the first week of Sept., with nine named storms in the Atlantic and 15 in the Pacific since their hurricane seasons began on June 1 and May 15, respectively; the last time this happened was in 2016, and before that in 1998. Dr. William Gray – The Man who Declared War on Global Warming Extremists Watch video - Bill Gray

In 2004 after co-founding the Breakthrough Inst. in Oakland, Calif., San Francisco, Calif.-based leftist environmentalist Michael Shellenberger (1971-) and Am. environmental policy expert Ted Nordhaus pub. the essay The Death of Environmentalism: Global Warming Politics in a Post-Environmental World, claiming that environmentalism is incapable of dealing with climate change and should "die" to make way for a new politics. In Oct. 2007 they pub. the book Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility, fleshing out the essay, splitting the left and causing them to become called "ecomodernists" and "eco-pragmatists" by Slate Mag., and winning praise from Wired mag., which says that it "could turn out to be the best thing to happen to environmentalism since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring." In 2008 Shellenberger wins the Hero of the Environment and Green Book Awards. In 2011 they launch The Breakthrough Journal, which The Nat. Review calls "The most promising effort at self-criticism by our liberal cousins in a long time." In Apr. 2015 Shellenberger et al. pub. An Ecomodernist Manifesto, with the soundbyte: "We offer this statement to affirm and to clarify our views and to describe our vision for putting humankind's extraordinary powers in the service of creating a good Anthropocene." In 2017 Shellenberger tells The Australian: "Like most people, I started out pretty anti-nuclear. I changed my mind as I realised you can't power a modern economy on solar and wind... All they do is make the electricity system chaotic and provide greenwash for fossil fuels." In 2018 Shellenberger runs unsuccessfully for Calif. Dem. gov. On May 22, 2019 Zach Weissmueller pub. the article Environmentalist Says Only Power Can Save Us Now in Reason mag. On June 30, 2020 Shellenberger pub. Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, with the ad blurb: "Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem." Watch video - Michael Shellenberger. Watch video - Michael Shellenberger. Watch video - Michael Shellenberger.

In 2004 leading climate alarmist scientists D.T. Shindell and G.A. Schmidt of NASA Goddard Inst. for Space Studies pub. the paper Southern Hemisphere climate response to ozone changes and greenhouse gas increases in Geophysical Research Letters, with the abstract: "While most of the Earth warmed rapidly during recent decades, surface temperatures decreased significantly over most of Antarctica", going on to try to link it to increased greenhouse gases and Antarctic ozone depletion; in 2004 NASA pub. a map of Antartica showing the cooling, only to change the data in a 2009 map to portray an Antarctic ice sheet collapse? On Oct. 30, 2015 NASA scientist H. Jay Zwally et al. pub. the paper Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses in Journal of Glaciology, using a LIDAR altimeter to discover that the Antarctic ice sheet is growing, with the soundbytes: "An increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers"; "The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice. According to the new analysis of satellite data, the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001. That net gain slowed to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008", revealing that ice sheet growth in E Antarctica of 147B tons/year outweighs the losses in W Antarctica, pissing-off warmist scientists; on Feb. 8, 2016 Harvard chem. student Jordan Wilkerson pub. the article Why is Antarctica's Ice Sheet Growing in a Warming World?, containing the soundbyte: "An important clarification to make: this trend in ice loss in the West Antarctic is one conclusion of the NASA study not being debated. 'We're essentially in agreement with other studies that show an increase in ice discharge in the Antarctic Peninsula and the Thwaites and Pine Island region of West Antarctica,; Jay Zwally, lead author of the study said. Therefore, if the increasing rates of ice loss in the West Antarctic continue, it'll be only a few decades before they outweigh the ice gain in the East. In this respect, there is no dispute. Antarctic ice is soon going to behave how we'd expect it to on a warming Earth – if it isn't already. And when you're considering how this study fits in with climate change, that is the important conclusion to keep in mind." A rebuttal is pub. on June 13, 2018 in Nature claiming that Antarctica is losing a net of 200B tons of ice/year, adding 0.02" (0.5mm) a year to the sea level, which Zwally claims is moose hockey. Watch video. Watch video. Watch video - H. Jay Zwally. Watch video - H. Jay Zwally. Watch video - Tony Heller.

2005

In Jan. 2005 NOAA begins recording temperatures with its new Climate Reference Network (USCRN), 114 stations uniformly spaced across the lower 48 states; too bad, they go on to show no warming by 2019?

On Feb. 1-3, 2005 after an invitation by British PM Tony Blair, Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change: A Scientific Symposium on Stabilisation of Greenhouse Gases is held at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Exeter, Devon, England, chaired by Dennis Tirpak to take action on the 2001 IPCC Third Assessment Report and achieve the objectives of the 1991 U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, concluding that the runaway level of 2C of global warming would likely happen after the atmospheric CO2 level reaches 550ppm, and that action must be taken when it is still below 400ppm because if it reaches 450 ppm then there is only a 50% likelihood of stopping the global warming from reaching 2C, also that if no action is taken for 20 years, emission reduction rates will have to be 3x-7x greater to achieve the same temperature target, causing the U.K. to change its target in its Climate Change Act from 60% to 80% by 2050.

On Feb. 16, 2005 the Kyoto Protocol (signed Dec. 11, 1997) becomes effective for all 84 signatories and 192 parties, incl. all U.N. member states except Andorra, South Sudan, and later Canada and the U.S.

On June 8, 2005 the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season begins (ends Jan. 6, 2006), becoming the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record, causing a total of 3,913 deaths and $180.7B damage (vs. $282.1B for the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season).

On Aug. 8, 2005 the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005 is signed by Pres. George W. Bush, creating the Renewable Fuel Standard, a requirement to put a min. vol. of renewable fuels in all transportation fuel sold in the U.S.; it is expanded and extended by the U.S. Energy Independence and Security (Clean Energy) Act of 2007, signed by Pres. George W. Bush on Dec. 19, 2007, implementing his "Twenty in Ten" challenge to reduce gasoline consumption by 20% in 10 years.

On Aug. 11, 2005 the online ed. of Science pub. three reports by Carl Mears and Frank Wentz of Remote Sensing Systems, reporting that old temp. records used to feed calculations indicating that there is no global warming contained errors, and that the troposphere has warmed during the last two decades; U. of Ala. atmospheric scientists John Raymond Christy (1951-) and Roy Warren Spencer (1955-), who developed the original records (first successful satellite temperature record) concede the error, but say that the warming rate calculated is too small to be a concern. In 2006 Spencer criticizes Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth", with the soundbyte: "Mr. Gore claims that the Earth is now warmer than it has been in thousands of years. Yet the latest National Academies of Science (NAS) report on the subject has now admitted that all we really know is that we are warmer now than we were during the last 400 years, which is mostly made up of the 'Little Ice Age'", adding the soundbyte in a New York Post op-ed of Feb. 26, 2007: "Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem"; on Feb. 28, 2007 he gives an interview to Rush Limbaugh, with the soundbyte the he doesn't believe that "catastrophic manmade global warming" is occurring, criticizing climate models with the soundbyte: "The people that have built the climate models that predict global warming believe they have sufficient physics in those models to predict the future. I believe they don't. I believe the climate system, the weather as it is today in the real world shows a stability that they do not yet have in those climate models", later billing himself as "official climatologist of the Rush Limbaugh Show". In 2008 Spencer and William Braswell pub. a paper in Journal of Climate suggesting that natural variations in cloud formation could be causing temperature changes, rather than vice-versa, leading to overestimates of the sensitivity of Earth's climate to greenhouse gas emissions, with the soundbyte: "Our paper is an important step toward validating a gut instinct that many meteorologists like myself have had over the years... that the climate system is dominated by stabilizing processes, rather than destabilizing processes – that is, negative feedback rather than positive feedback." In 2011 Spencer and Braswell pub. a paper in Remote Sensing concluding that more energy is radiated back to space and released earlier than previously thought, with the soundbyte: "The satellite observations suggest there is much more energy lost to space during and after warming than the climate models show. There is a huge discrepancy between the data and the forecasts that is especially big over the oceans", causing a firestorm of controversy resulting in ed.-in-chief Wolfgang Wagner to resign. In 2011 Spencer debates Colo. State U. pro-global warming climate scientist Scott Denning at the Heartland Inst. Internat. Conference on Climate Change, their only non-climate skeptic. On Feb. 14, 2012 Christy pub. a study that found that snowfall in the Sierra Nevada Mts. has not changed in 130 years, pissing-off climate change advocates. On Aug. 28, 2012 Spencer pub. The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Climate Scientists, showing how recent global warming is the result of chaotic internal natural cycles, and that the climate models fail to account for the complexities of clouds. In Feb. 2014 Spencer posts the soundbyte on his blog that those who use the derogatory term climate change deniers should be called global warming Nazis, with the soundbyte: "These people are supporting policies that will kill far more people than the Nazis ever did", pissing-off the Anti-Defamation League, who calls it "just the latest example of a troubling epidemic of comparisons to Hitler and the Holocaust", to which Spencer responds that they didn't criticize syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman's assertion that "global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers". On Mar. 13, 2015 Stephen Po-Chedley, Tyler J. Thorsen, and Qiang Fu of the U. of Wash. pub. the article Removing Diurnal Cycle Contamination in Satellite-Derived Tropospheric Temperatures: Understanding Tropical Tropospheric Trend Discrepancies is pub. in the Journal of Climate of the Am. Meteorological Society, claiming that Christy and Spencer are wrong to claim that there is no "tropospheric amplification" (tropospheric temps higher than surface temps) in the tropics, because their trend measurements are not in agreement with those of NOAA and Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) - and this is their best chance to claim a Dragon in the Sky? In Apr. 2015 Spencer and Christy give an interview to Albama.com, containing the soundbyte by Christy: "The American Meteorological Society did their survey and they specifically asked the question, Is man the dominate controller of climate over the last 50 years? Only 52 percent said yes. That is not a consensus at all in science... Roy and I have both made the statement that we are in the 97 percent because we believe in some (man-made) effect." On Aug. 19, 2017 Spencer pub. An Inconvenient Deception: How Al Gore Distorts Climate Science and Energy Policy, an attempt to drive the last nail in Gore's coffin, outselling Gore's book. Too bad, Spencer associates himself with the Intelligent Design crowd, and the libertarians, drawing derision for comments incl. "I view my job a little like a legislator, supported by the taxpayer, to protect the interests of the taxpayer and to minimize the role of government." Watch video - John Christy. Watch video - John Christy. Watch video - John Christy. Watch video - Roy W. Spencer. Watch video - Roy W. Spencer. Watch video - Roy W. Spencer. Watch video - Roy W. Spencer. Watch video - Roy W. Spencer. Watch video - Roy W. Spencer. Watch video - Roy W. Spencer. Watch video - Scott Denning.

On Sept. 28, 2005 the Nat. Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. releases data that the Arctic ice cap is shrinking, reaching its smallest-ever size this summer, and that the cause is probably global warming from human-generated greenhouse gases; they also speculate that the change is becoming self-sustaining as the holes in the ice allow the sea to absorb solar energy; they also claim that the permafrost is disappearing, coastal areas are being inundated, and polar bears are losing hunting grounds.

On Sept. 28, 2005 Italian-born scientist Nicola Scafetta and physics prof. Bruce West of Duke U. pub. a paper in Geophysical Research Letters, which claims that "The sun may have minimally contributed about 10 to 30 percent of the 1980-2002 global surface warming", with Scafetta's Wikipedia bio stating: "At least 60% of the warming of the Earth observed since 1970 appears to be induced by natural cycles which are present in the solar system, claiming that the only reasonable explanation is that the climate system is modulated by astronomical oscillations. Natural cycles known with certainty are the 11 (Schwabe) and 22 (Hale) year solar cycles, the cycles of the planets and luni-solar nodal cycles. Jupiter has an orbital period of 11.9 years while Saturn has an orbital period of 29.4 years. These periods predict three other major cycles which are associated with Jupiter and Saturn: about 10 years, the opposition of two planets; about 20 years, their synodic cycle; and about 60 years, the repetition of the combined orbits of the two planets. The major lunar cycles are about 18.6 and 8.85 years. Scafetta's climate model is based primarily on a numerological comparison of secular periodic changes of global surface temperature and the Sun's periodic movement around barycenter of the Solar System caused by the revolving planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Periodic modulation of Moon´s orbital parameters by these planets and subsequent modulation of lunar tides is also discussed. According to Scafetta, who provides no physical explanation of that process, "external forcing of celestial origin simply drives the adjustment of the natural rhythms by letting their own energy flow with the same frequency of the forcing. It just passes to the climatic system the information of how it has to oscillate, not the entire energy to make it oscillate. The effect of a periodic external forcing, even if weak, may become macroscopic and all components of the system gradually synchronize with it." In Dec. 2009 Scafetta pub. the paper Empirical analysis of the solar contribution to global mean air surface temperature change in Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, reconstructing major temperature patterns covering 400 years of solar-induced temperature changes. In 2011 Scafetta and Am. ecologist Craig Lohle pub. the paper Climate Change Attribution Using Empirical Decomposition of Climatic Data in the Open Atmospheric Science Journal, forecasting that the world climate "may remain approximately steady until 2030-20040, and may at most warm 0.5-1.0°C by 2100 at the estimated 0.66°C/century anthropogenic warming rate." Scafetta goes on to pub. four more major papers starting in Jan. 2012, only to see the PC global warming scientist community respond with yawns, uttering the soundbyte: "The fact is that I can hindcast major properties observed in climate and solar records for decades, centuries and millennia, as my papers demonstrate while the mainstream climate community cannot do it. My models overcome any IPCC GCM for accuracy that is also demonstrated in one of my recent peer review publications just published." In May 2012 Scafetta pub. the article Testing an astronomically based decadal-scale empirical harmonic climate model versus the IPCC (2007) general circulation climate models in Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, claiming to have found a 60-year cycle that explains climate change sans need for greenhouse effect; no surprise, it gets pooh-poohed as a mere curve-fitting exercise. On Mar. 10, 2019 Scafetta and Richard C. Willson of the U. of Naples pub. the article Comparison of Decadal Trends among Total Solar Irradiance Composites of Satellite Observations in Advances in Astronomy that links observed climate changes since 1850 to cyclical, predictable, naturally-occurring events in the Solar System, minimizing human influence.

On Oct. 15, 2005 Category 5 (185 mph) Hurricane Wilma starts as a tropical depression in the Caribbean Sea near Jamaica, going W and turning into a tropical storm on Oct. 17, then turning S and becoming a hurricane on Oct. 18, growing to Category 5 on Oct. 19, becoming the strongest storm in the Atlantic in recorded history as it wobbles its way through the Caribbean, hitting the Yucatan Peninsula on Oct. 21-22 then entering the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane, sideswiping Cuba on Oct. 23 and accelerating to Category 3 on Oct. 24 before hitting Cape Romano, Fla. with 120 mph winds, crossing Fla. while weakening to Category 2 and reintensifying to Category 3 as it reaches the Atlantic Ocean and dissipating on Oct. 27, killing 87 incl. 13 in Haiti and Jamaica by the time it dis, causing $27B damage, becoming the 3rd most costly hurricane in history after Katrina and Andrew, and the 8th hurricane to hit Fla. in 15 mo., after which no major hurricane hits the continental U.S. until Hurricane Harvey on Aug. 26, 2017 after 11 years 10 mo.; no hurricane hits Fla. until Hurricane Hermine in 2016, and no major hurricane until Hurricane Irma in Sept. 2017.

In Nov. 2005 Goldman Sachs establishes their Environmental Policy Framework, going green and biting the CO2-driven AGW narrative bigtime.

On Dec. 9, 2005 U. of Kan. researcher Johannes J. Feddema et al. pub. the article The Importance of Land-Cover Change in Simulating Future Climates in Science predicting that the deforestation of Amazon jungles could strengthen the summer monsoon in the SW U.S., adding 2 in. to the precipitation and offsetting some of global warming's effects; global deforestation is going at a rate of 50K sq. mi. a year.

In 2005 the Climate Inst. of Australia is founded in Sydney to encourage progressive policies for managing climate change in Australia.

In 2005 the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC) is founded at Yale U.'s School of Forestry after the Yale Forestry and Environmental Sciences Conference in Aspen, Colo. attended by 100 evironmental, business, and other groups agree on the battle plan Americans and Climate Change: Closing the Gap between Science and Action, resulting in funding by the NSF, NOAA, and eight private philanthropies incl. the Global Climate Action Summit, composed of the Grantham Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, and MacArthur Foundation; they go on to found the "flow-through" Energy Foundation, which pools funds from 23 philanthropies; the purpose of the YPCCC is as follows: "We conduct scientific research on public climate change knowledge, attitudes, policy preferences and behaviours and the underlying psychological, cultural and political factors that influence them"; the YPCCC subsidiary Yale Climate Connections feeds the media with pro-AGW stories with three full-time staff and 17 regular contributors, dir. by journalist Bud Ward; in 2007 human geography prof. Anthony Leiserowitz (1968-) becomes dir. of YPCC (until ?); his 2003 U. of Ore. dissertation is Global warming in the American mind : the roles of affect, imagery, and worldviews in risk perception, policy preferences and behavior; in 2007 YPCCC and the Environmental Defense found the Center for Climate Change Communication (GMU4C) at George Mason U., which helps produce the annual Climate Change and the American Mind; lead investigators at GMU4C are Edward Wile "Ed" Maibach (1958-) and Connie Roser-Renouf (1953-); in 2009 the GMU4C launches initiative to fuse AGW with public health in order to reveal the "health harms of climate change"; in 2016 they launch the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, with five nat. medical assocs. partnering; in 2009 GMU4C obtains funding from NSF to launch Climate Matters, a program to convert media weathercasters into AGW educators in partnership with the AMS, NOAA, and NASA, supplying weekly AGW packages to 600 weathercasters that reach 75% of Americans with pro-AGW agitprop, esp. the idea that local weather is getting "weird"; in 2014 they send a rep to interview Pres. Obama and convince him to speak more about AGW. Watch video - Anthony Leiserowitz. On Nov. 1, 2016 YPCCC pub. the article Global Warming's Six Americas by Michael Sloan, identifying six unique U.S. public audiences that AGW public engagement efforts need to be aware of, viz., Alarmed, Concerned, Cautious, Disengaged, Doubtful, and Dismissive.

In 2005 Australian environmentalist Timothy Fridtjof "Tim" Flannery (1956-) pub. The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change, which claims that high enough CO2 levels can cause mass species extinctions, and has already contributed to the conflict in Darfur, dissing the coal industry and the U.S. Repub. Party, making fans of Sir Richard Branson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, British Columbia PM Gordon Campbell, and Zhou Ji, pres. of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. In Aug. 2018 he pub. the book The Big Melt.

2006

In 2006 the U.S. Hurricane Drought begins, with no Category 3 or higher hurricane making landfall until 2017; the mean frequency of W North Pacific tropical cyclones is 18% lower in 1997-2014 than in 1980-96; the avg. value of total annual accumulated cyclone energy between 2006-16 is less than 60% of the 1900-2017 avg.; no increase in hurricane landfall frequency from 1900-2017; no correlation between tropical cyclone frequency and sea surface temperature over the W North Pacific basin.

On Jan. 26, 2006 the 2006 BBC Climate Seminar bans climate deniers, with the soundbyte: "The BBC has held a high-level seminar with some of the best scientific experts, and has come to the view that the weight of evidence no longer justifies equal space being given to the opponents of the consensus".

In Jan. 2006 English environmentalist scientist James Ephraim Lovelock (1919-) of Dorset, known for proposing the Gaia Hypothesis that Earth functions as a self-regulating system pub. an op-ed. in the British newspaper The Independent, claiming that as a result of global warming "billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable" by the end of the 21st cent., going on to predict that by 2040 the 6B world pop. will be culled by famine, flood, and droughts, with "the people of Southern Europe, as well as South-East Asia,... fighting their way into countries such as Canada, Australia and Britain", adding that "By 2040, parts of the Sahara desert will have moved into middle Ruope. We are talking about Paris - as far north as Berlin. In Britain we will escape because of our oceanic position", and "If you take the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predictions, then by 2040 every summer in Europe will be as hot as it was in 2003 - between 110F and 120F. It is not the death of people that is the main problem, it is the fact that the plants can't grow - there will be almost no food grown in Europe"; he finally predicts that 80% of humanity will perish by 2100 C.E., and that this global warming will last 100K years, adding in 2010 that "democracy must be put on hold for the time being"; too bad, in Apr. 2012 he gives an interview to MSNBC-TV, flopping on the issue, saying that he is no longer an "alarmist", with the soundbytes: "All right, I made a mistake", and had been "extrapolating too far"; when it comes to the claim that the science is settled, he utters the soundbytes: "One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it"; "It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion"; "I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use... The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air"; "The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened"; "The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now. The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time... it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that." He goes on to back nuclear energy, natural gas, and fracking. Watch video - James Lovelock. Watch video - James Lovelock.

In Jan. 2006 the DeSmog Blog is founded by public relations exec James "Jim" Hoggan (1946-) of Vancouver, B.C., Canada to push the global warming theory and oppose "a well-funded and highly organized public relations campaign" that is "poisoning" the climate change debate. On Sept. 29, 2009 he and Richard Littlemore pub. Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming, which "Explains how the propaganda generated by self interest groups has purposely created confusion about climate change. It's an imperative read for a successful future." - Leonardo DiCaprio; on Jan. 18, 2019 Graham Readfearn pub. the article Climate Advocates Underestimate Power of Fossil Fueled Misinformation Campaigns, Say Top Researchers in DeSmog Blog, calling a "myth" the assertion that the "Greenhouse effect violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics", with the soundbyte: "2nd law talks about net flow of energy, and doesn't forbid some flow from cool to hot", adding the "fact": "Greenhouse gases are like a blanket. They trap heat, sending it back down to Earth where we measure it"; no surprise, a post to the blog setting them straight was suppressed.

On Feb. 1, 2006 Am. health science specialist Steven J. "Steve the Junkman" Milloy, founder of the Web site Junk Science (1996), known for funding by Am. tobacco cos. before becoming a vocal climate skeptic utters the soundbyte: "Our opposition to global warming alarmism is based on three points. First, we don't believe the available scientific data indicate that human activity is measurably changing global climate - history shows that natural climate change can be far more significant than any slight change in climate that may have occurred over the last 200 years. Second, even if human activity is altering global climate to some extent, such climate change might actually be beneficial - historically, civilization has fared better in warmer climatic conditions as opposed to cooler climatic conditions. Third, even if humans are undesirably affecting global climate, the best path forward may be adaptation to that climate change rather than harming the global economy through the expenditure of hundreds of billion dollars under the questionable rationale that greenhouse gas regulation can act as some sort of global thermostat. When the Clean Air Act was enacted in 1970, air pollution in the U.S. was more of an aesthetic than a public health problem. That is even more the case today. Few people realize this after 30 years of non-stop junk science-fueled alarmism from environmental activists"; on Apr. 20, 2006 he pub. the article The Greenhouse Myth on Fox News, containing the soundbytes: "[The] doubling of atmospheric CO2 from pre-Industrial Revolution days might increase global temperature from between 0.5 degrees Centigrade to 1.5 degrees Centigrade - that is, not much"; "[Anthropogenic climate change is not based on] actual temperature measurements and greenhouse physics - rather it comes from manmade computer models relying on myriad assumptions and guesswork." On Apr. 22, 2014 he speaks at the Heritage Foundation's Happy Earth Day: Dispelling Environmental Myths and Celebrating Human Achievement, with the soundbyte: "Of the many guises of the 'War on Coal,' global warming is perhaps the most used excuse... Simple math shows that the Obama war on coal, for purposes of climate control, is futile. Even if U.S.' CO2 emissions stopped today and were to be zero for the remainder of this century, atmospheric CO2 levels would only decrease by about 3%. There would be no measurable impact on global climate, at a cost of 35% of global GDP. We can debate the science of global warming to our heart's content, and we should, but the reality is worldwide hydrocarbon use is increasing. By itself, China is adding the equivalent of the entire U.S. coal fleet between now and 2020, India is adding 71 gigawatts of coal power between now and 2018 - almost as much as the Obama EPA has already shuttered. Obama's unilateral actions are all based on 'junk science' that will accomplish nothing except hurt our standard of living, devastate coal communities, raise electricity prices for all, and cause power outages." Watch video - Steven J. Milloy. Watch video - Steven J. Milloy.

In Feb. 2006 conservative Australian electrical engineer and Western Mining Corp. exec Ray Evans (1939-2014) (known for the soundbyte that he is a Genesis 1:20 man, meaning "Man is top of the heap", and for calling Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" "bullshit from beginning to end"), founder of the Australian climate skeptic Lavoisier Group pub. the pamphlet Nine Lies About Global Warming, followed in Feb. 2007 by Nine Facts About Climate Change, which is released during a sitting of the Australian Parliament by Johannesburg, South Africa-born climate skeptic Liberal MP (2004-16) David Geoffrey Jensen (1962-); Evans goes on to utter the soundbytes: "The global warming scam has been, arguably, the most extraordinary example of scientific fraud in the post-War period. So many people, and institutions, have been caught up in the web of deceit, master-minded by environmental activists working through NGOs and their manipulation of the IPCC processes, that the integrity of Western science is seriously at risk"; "Environmentalism has largely superseded Christianity as the religion of the upper classes in Europe and to a lesser extent in the United States", and "If Kyoto is brought into effect the economic dislocation which must follow its implementation will be unprecedented in modern times. It will be equivalent to the famines of the early 19th Century in its disruptive power (except that the famines were followed by good seasons)." On Mar. 8, 2007 Evans appears on the panel discussing the BBC Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, along with Canadian geoscientist Ian D. Clark, who utters the soundbyte: "Solar activity of the last hundred years, over the last several hundred years correlates very nicely on a decadal basis, with sea ice and Arctic temperatures." In Sept. 2008 Evans pub. the article Satanic Gas: The Politics of Carbon Dioxide, claiming that "carbon dioxide has been wrongfully demonised", and "Since 1998... global temperatures have either been stationary or, since 2002, in decline, but despite that, CO2 concentrations have continued to increase." In Nov. 2008 Evans pub. the article Thank God for Carbon, which contains the soundbytes: "The belief that anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide are responsible for raising the world's temperature during the last 30 years or so is shown here to be without any solid foundation"; and "The Emissions Trading Scheme is a much greater threat to our lives and to our nation than any increase in carbon dioxide that man can produce." The Lavoisier Group goes on to help oust Liberal Party leader and PM #29 (since Sept. 15, 2015) Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (1954-) on Aug. 24, 2018 for supporting an emissions trading scheme. Watch video - Ray Evans. Watch video - Ian D. Clark. Watch video - Ian D. Clark. Watch video - Ian D. Clark. Watch video - Ian D. Clark.

On Mar. 26, 2006 Time mag. pub. the article Earth at the Tipping Point: Global Warming Heats Up, with the subtitle "Polar Ice Caps Are Melting Faster Than Ever... More and More Land is Being Devastated by Drought... Rising Waters Are Drowning Low-Lying Communities... The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame. Why the crisis hit so soon - and what we can do about it", starting out: "No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth. Never mind what you've heard about global warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take decades to play out. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us."

In Mar. 2006 Australian geologist David C. Archibald (1955-), dir. of the Australian climate skeptic Lavoisier Group pub. the paper Solar Cycles 24 [Dec. 2008] and 25 [2019] and Predicted Climate Response in Energy & Environment, with the abstract: "Based on solar maxima of approximately 50 for solar cycles 24 and 25, a global temperature decline of 1.5°C is predicted to 2020, equating to the experience of the Dalton Minimum. To provide a baseline for projecting temperature to the projected maximum of solar cycle 25, data from five rural, continental US stations with data from 1905 to 2003 was averaged and smoothed. The profile indicates that temperatures remain below the average over the first half of the twentieth century", launching a scientific movement connecting sunspots with Earth's climate; in Mar. 2008 Archibald pub. the paper Solar Cycle 24: Implications for the United States, which starts out: "Do we live in a special time in which the laws of physics and nature are suspended? No, we do not. Can we expect relationships between the Sun's activity and climate, that we can see in data going back several hundred years, to continue for at least another 20 years? With absolute certainy"; in Sept. 2008 he pub. the article Warming or cooling? in Oil & Gas Journal, arguing that the IPCC's claimed water vapor feedback effect is negative not positive, and there is no need to worry about runaway global warming; in Mar. 2009 he pub. the article Solar Cycle 24: Expectations and Implications, predicting global cooling during the upcoming Solar Cycles 24 and 25; on July 20, 2009 he pub. the article The Future of Energy in Australia, claiming the global warming issue is blocking consideration of the real problem of declining oil self-sufficiency; on Oct. 5, 2011 he gives the talk Peak Oil and Climate Change: The Threat to Agriculture and Food Security, advocating a switch to nuclear power; on Mar. 24, 2014 he pub. the book The Twilight of Abundance: Why Life in the 21st Century Will Be Nasty, Brutiish, and Short, warning of a future prolonged global cooling period, and how nuclear power and transformation of coal into liquid fuels can help survive it, going on a book tour that pisses-off global warming advocates, who call him a fringe scientist. In 2012 Jan-Erik Solheim, Kjell Stordahl, and Ole Humlum take up where Archibald left off, with the paper The long sunspot cycle 23 predicts a significant temperature decrease in cycle 24 in Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, with the abstract: "Relations between the length of a sunspot cycle and the average temperature in the same and the next cycle are calculated for a number of meteorological stations in Norway and in the North Atlantic region. No significant trend is found between the length of a cycle and the average temperature in the same cycle, but a significant negative trend is found between the length of a cycle and the temperature in the next cycle. This provides a tool to predict an average temperature decrease of at least 1.0°C from solar cycle 23 to solar cycle 24 for the stations and areas analyzed." Watch video - David C. Archibald. Watch video - David C. Archibald.

On Apr. 6, 2006 60 scientists (incl. 19 Canadians) send an open letter titled 61 Scientists Request a Review of Climate Science to new Canadian PM #23 (since Feb. 6) (until Nov. 4, 2015) Stephen Joseph Harper (1959-), arguing against the Dec. 11, 1997 Kyoto Protocol (which became effective on Feb. 16, 2005) and questioning its scientific basis, causing 90 climate scientists led by Canadian climatologist Gordon McBean, Canadian climate modeling scientist Andrew John Weaver (1961-) (lead author for "Chapter 12: Long-term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility" of Working Group I's contribution to IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report), and U. of Victoria ocean scientist Kenneth "Ken" Denman to send him an open letter calling for an effective nat. climate change strategy, resulting in the introduction of the Clean Air and Climate Change Act, which never becomes law, although the Clean Air Regulatory Agenda (CARA) is established to support govt. efforts to reduce greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions, resulting in Canadian greenhouse emissions dropping from 749M tons to 726M tons during Harper's time in office, compared to an increase of 600M-749M tons in 1993-2006 during the previous Liberal govt., although this is due to the decreased economic output during the Great Recession of Dec. 2007-June 2009, and emissions began increasing in 2010 after the economy began recovering. On Aug. 26, 2008 Weaver pub. Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World, followed on May 1, 2011 by Generation Us: The Challenge of Global Warming. In Oct. 2012 Weaver joins the Green Party of British Columbia, becoming its leader on Dec. 9, 2015. In Dec. 2012 after announcing it in Dec. 2011, Harper withdraws Canada from the Kyoto Protocol, becoming the first country. On Mar. 21, 2018 never-say-die Weaver gives a speech to the British Columbia legislature, warning of climate change and saying that society needs to "rise to the challenge and not shy away from it".

In Apr. 2006 English-born Australian marine geologist and environmental scientist Robert Merlin "Bob" Carter (1942-2016) pub. the soundbyte: "There IS a problem with global warming... It stopped in 1998... That industrial carbon dioxide is not the primary cause of earth's recent decadal-scale temperature changes doesn't seem at all odd to many thousands of independent scientists. They have long appreciated - ever since the early 1990s, when the global warming bandwagon first started to roll behind the gravy train of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - that such short-term climate fluctuations are chiefly of natural origin"; on Nov. 3, 2006 he pub. the soundbyte in The Australian: "The empirical data stressed by climate rationalists will ultimately prevail over the predictions of the unvalidated computer models. Perhaps then we will be able to attend to the real climate policy problem, which is to prepare response plans for extreme weather events, and for climate warmings as well as coolings, in the same way we prepare to cope with all other natural hazards"; in Sept. 2014 he and Tom Harris pub. an op-ed in The New York Post, with the soundbyte: "Science is never settled, but the current state of 'climate change' science is quite clear: There is essentially zero evidence that carbon dioxide from human activities is causing catastrophic climate change." On Apr. 15, 2009 the Australian Parliament's Select Committee on Climate Policy takes testimony from climate skeptics incl. English-born Australian marine geologist and environmental scientist Robert Merlin "Bob" Carter (1942-2016) and English "hydro-climatologist" Stewart "Stewie" Franks of the U. of Tasmania, who utters the soundbyte: "Our climate policies here in the west are already killing people and climate change has never been shown to have killed a single person"; Franks goes on to utter the soundbytes: "I don't think anybody knows the real role of carbon dioxide in climate change. To say it will be catastrophic is wrong. There is no evidence that CO2 drives climate change, but it continues to be used to scare people into action"; "A key concern is that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which advises governments around the world, has used the Murray-Darling Basin and incorrect science as an example of CO2-induced climate change"; "It is worth pointing out that the CO2 forcing in the IPCC models is only the start of their chain of disaster. It is actually the qualitative feedback with the clouds that generates the extreme disasters of runaway climate. It is not CO2 at all; it is a knock-on consequence. That has no empirical or scientific justification whatsoever. They could very much easily have built in negative feedback and found that the warming was actually reduced... We do not actually monitor what is the most important parameter for this planet; this is, its reflectivity—its albedo. We do not even measure that. A very small changed in the planetary albeit it would completely swamp any additional forcing by CO2 and we do not even measure it. How can we say CO2 is a scientifically proven theory of disastrous climate change? We cannot. We can be concerned about the future, but until it shows itself demonstrably there is no empirical evidence of CO2 leading to this runaway climate change." Watch video - Bob Carter. Watch video - Bob Carter. Watch video - Bob Carter. Watch video - Stewart Franks. Watch video - Stewart Franks.

In Apr. 2006 the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition (NZCSC) is founded "To represent accurately, and without prejudice, facts regarding climate change; to provide considered opinion on matters related to both natural and human-caused climate effects; and to comment on the economic and socio-political consequences of climate change"; in 2007 the Internat. Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) is founded by the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, with the goal of "moving the debate away from implementation of costly and ineffectual 'climate control' measures", providing an "international response to what has become a very international, heavily funded climate alarmist effort around the world"; "ICSC also focuses on publicizing the repercussions of misguided plans to solve the 'climate crisis'. This includes, but is not be limited to, the dangerous impacts of attempts to replace conventional energy sources with wind turbines, solar power, biofuels and other ineffective and expensive energy sources"; it goes on to create the Australian Climate Coalition and the Climate Science Coalition of Am., headed by Am. electrical engineer Steve Goreham; on Apr. 7, 2008 Canadian mechanical engineer Tom Harris (1953-) becomes exec. dir. of the Internat. Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), going on to engage in a media campaign and pub. articles giving the climate skeptic side; too bad, U.S. Dem. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse claims they're funded by the "Web of Deceit", "a web of deceit conceived and bankrolled by the Koch brothers and other self-interested billionaires to advocate for very selfish and unpatriotic politics. This web of deceit has infiltrated and populated the Trump administratin, and it is swamping the interests of everyday Americans." On Apr. 1, 2010 Goreham pub. the book Climatism! Science, Common Sense, and the 21st Century's Hottest Topic, "an overview of the science, politics, and energy policy implications of the world's misguided efforts to stop warming", defining Climatism as the belief that humans cause global warming, with the soundbytes: "The science clearly shows that global warming is due to natural causes, despite the tidal wave of world belief in man-made climate change"; "The global wind industry is built on a foundation of sand - the hypothesis that man-made global warming is destroying Earth's climate"; On Aug. 31, 2012 Goreham pub. the book The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism: Mankind and Climate Change Mania (2nd ed. Aug. 31, 2012), with the ad blurb: "Is it true that... by driving electric cars, we can stop the seas from rising?... The good news is that, contrary to what our newspaper, our professor, or our political leader tells us, global warming is natural and cars are innocent." On May 1, 2017 Goreham pub. the book Outside the Green Box: Rethinking Sustainable Development, with the ad blurb: "Today, businesses are trapped in the green box of sustainable development. Academics, government leaders, public opinion, and thousands of laws and regulations demand the adoption of sustainability. In response, companies spend billions on renewable energy, carbon credits, biofuels, and other green policies in an effort to counter the coming environmental apocalypse. But a look at data and trends shows that the ideology of environmental sustainable development is based on false concepts. Population growth is slowing, nations continue to reduce air and water pollution, climate change is dominated by natural factors, with the effects from human greenhouse emissions negligible, and societal access to resources continues to grow. Society and business should adopt a policy that is sensibly green, continuing to reduce air and water pollution, but avoid other policies aimed at stopping global warming and halting hydrocarbon use. These policies do little for Earth's environment." Watch video - Steve Goreham.

On May 11, 2006 the May (Mother's Day) 2006 New England Flood begins, becoming the worse since the 1938 New England Hurricane, bringing more than 10 in. of rain.

On May 24, 2006 after The Washington Post writes on Jan. 26 that he "believes humanity may have only 10 years left to save the planet from turning into a total frying pan", calling him "the world's most renowned crusader on climate change", Washington, D.C.-born former U.S. Sen. (D-Tenn.) (1985-93) and Dem. U.S. vice-pres. #45 (1993-2001) Albert Arnold "Al" Gore Jr. (1948-) pub. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It; pub. by Rodale Press in Emmaus, Penn.; the cover photo shows huge smokestacks belching a complete tornado while clouds are whitewashed out; "I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America"; "You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it's our only home. And that is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization. I believe this is a moral issue, it is your time to seize this issue, it is our time to rise again to secure our future"; "As for why so many people still resist what the facts clearly show, I think, in part, the reason is that the truth about the climate crisis is an inconvenient one that means we are going to have to change the way we live our lives"; "Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. This time it is not an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc: it is us"; "Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, 'What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?' We have to hear that question from them, now"; "The scientists are virtually screaming from the rooftops now. The debate is over! There's no longer any debate in the scientific community about this. But the political systems around the world have held this at arm's length because it's an inconvenient truth, because they don't want to accept that it's a moral imperative"; "It is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis"; "An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers" (Jon Niccum); released along with a film (May 24), which does $24M U.S. and $26M worldwide box office, which is followed by An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (July 28, 2017), which only grosses $5M worldwide; "I don't think anybody can prepare on a physical level. It isn't possible to prepare for what is about to happen. The Pentagon gives us one to three years left of normal life on this planet. Now you have Al Gore's movie 'An Inconvenient Truth', whom I find very optimistic, as he gives us ten years. But I don't know a single scientist on the planet who gives us ten years or anybody else who gives us that long. What the Pentagon talks about is the rapid changes in climate, making it impossible to live in certain areas. Exactly where those areas are, they don't know" (Drunvalo Melchizedek); the book is followed by the sequel Our Choice (original title: The Path to Survival) (Nov. 2009) - or, drowning polar bears, submerged mainly Dem. Manhattan and San Fran, and why I shoulda been president then grew a beard to save electricity? On May 31, 2006 Jonathan Freeland pub. the article Born again in The Guardian, containing the soundbyte: "Patiently, and surely for the 10,000th time, he [Gore] explains what's going wrong. The atmosphere is like a coat of varnish around the globe, he says. When it's thin, as it should be, heat naturally escapes. But when it gets thicker, thanks to carbon dioxide emitted by us, it traps in the heat and the world gets warmer. 'It's cooking and wilting the most vulnerable parts of the eco-system, melting all the mountain glaciers, the north polar ice cap, parts of Antarctica, parts of Greenland.' That molten ice-water will raise sea-levels, flooding food-producing areas that all of us rely on. Eventually it will submerge whole cities, from San Francisco to Shanghai. The site of the Twin Towers will not be a memorial garden: it will be underwater. 'This could literally end civilisation.' He smiles. 'I know it sounds alarmist, as if this is hyperbole, like a man with a white beard holding a placard, saying the end of the world is near... but this really is a planetary emergency'." In Nov. 2006 Gore founds the Climate Reality Project to collect donations, with the motto: "Together, we are stronger fighting against climate denial"; Gore becomes a millionaire from hawking climate change, going from a net worth of $1.7M in 2000 to $200M in 2017, buying an $8.8M 6.5K sq. ft. seafront home in Calif. and traveling in a gas hog private jet while claiming to travel on cheap Southwest Airlines? On Nov. 5, 2007 Gore utters the soundbyte on NBC-TV's Today Show: "There are still people who believe that the Earth is flat... You don't search out for someone who still believes the Earth is flat and give them equal time"; on Mar. 30, 2008 he appears on CBS-TV's "60 Minutes" to unveil a $300M advertising blitz to force a debate on climate change during the U.S. pres. elections, uttering the soundbyte about climate change skeptics: "I think that those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view, they're almost like the ones who still believe that the Moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the earth is flat. That demeans them a little bit, but it's not that far off." On Dec. 10, 2007 Gore utters the soundbyte that the Arctic will be ice-free in 7 years (2014). In 2007 Gore joins the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers (KPCB) to help invest in green startups. In Mar. 2008 Gore's Law is formulated: "As an online climate change debate grows longer, the probability that denier arguments will descend into attacks on Al Gore approaches 1." On Nov. 21, 2019 Gore gives a speech at Vanderbilt U. on his Climate Reality Project, with the soundbyte: "This is Pearl Harbor. This is Midway. This is the Battle of Bulge. This is 9/11. We have to rise to this challenge. We have to change." On Feb. 20, 2020 Gore gives a speech at Tex. Southern U., with the soundbyte: "Every child in the world alive today will be a victim of the climate crisis." On July 24, 2022 Gore gives an interview to Chuck Todd on NBC's "Meet the Press", comparing "climate deniers" to the cowardly police in Uvalde, Tex. who waited in the hallway while the lone gunman massacred 21 students and teachrs. Meanwhile Gore's 10 main global warming predictions all fall flat? Watch video - Al Gore. Watch video - Al Gore. Watch video - Al Gore. Watch video - Al Gore. Watch video - Al Gore. Watch video - Al Gore. Watch video - Al Gore. Watch video - Al Gore. Watch video - Al Gore. Watch video - Tony Heller on Al Gore. Watch video - Drew Johnson and Tucker Carlson on Al Gore. Watch video - Al Gore on the Rubin Report. Watch video - Dave Cullen.

A leading example of a caged hen in media? On June 27, 2006 new Ohio-born AP journalist (self-declared science writer) Seth Borenstein (1979-) begins his long sad career of super-partisan true Gore believer pro-AGW alarmist agitprop with the article Scientists OK Gore's Movie for Accuracy, claiming he interviewed "more than 100 top climate researchers", 19 of which gave Gore "five stars for accuracy", causing the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works to issue a press release claiming that his article raises "serious questions about AP's bias and methodology", challenging him to reveal his sources, which he refuses; on July 27, 2006 Borenstein pub. an article that describes a scientist as "one of the few remaining scientists skeptical of the global warming harm caused by industries that burn fossil fuels"; on Sept. 22, 2007 Borenstein pub. the article Rising Seas Likely to Flood U.S. History, containing the soundbyte: "Ultimately, rising seas will likely swamp the first American settlement in Jamestown, Va., as well as the Florida launch pad that sent the first American into orbit, many climate scientists are predicting. In about a century, some of the places that make America what it is may be slowly erased", adding that dangerous higher sea levels "will happen regardless of any future actions to curb greenhouse gases, several leading scientists say. And it will reshape the nation... Storm surges worsened by sea level rise will flood the waterfront getaways of rich politicians—the Bushes' Kennebunkport and John Edwards' place on the Outer Banks. And gone will be many of the beaches in Texas and Florida favored by budget-conscious students on Spring Break", causing nearly two dozen prominent scientists to denounce him; on Mar. 27, 2008 Borenstein pub. an article that claims that recent satellite images showing the 160 sq. mi. Wilkins Ice Shelf in the SW Antarctic Peninsula collapsing shows that the entire Antarctic is melting, with the soundbyte: "Scientists said they are not concerned about a rise in sea level from the latest event, but say it's a sign of worsening global warming", blatantly excluding scientists and peer-reviewed studies claiming that it has cooled over the past 50 years while ice coverage has grown to record levels since satellite monitoring began in 1979; on Dec. 14, 2008 Borenstein pub. the article Obama left with little time to curb global warming in USA Today, calling global warming "a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid", with the alarmist soundbyte: "Global warming is accelerating. Time is close to running out, and Obama knows it", pissing-off several scientists incl. Richard S. Courtney, who pub. the soundbyte: "Global warming is not 'accelerating'; global warming has stopped. There has been no statistically significant rise in (mean global temperature: MGT) since 1995 and MGT has fallen since 1998. The Earth has been warming from the Little Ice Age (LIA) for 300 years so, of course, the warmest years happened recently. But that warming from the LIA peaked in the El Nino year of 1998"; on Aug. 20, 2009 Borenstein pub. the article In Hot Water: World Sets Ocean Temperature Record, falsely claiming that the July 2009 NOAA "State of the Climate" report gives sea surface temps that are the highest since records began; on Oct. 8, 2013 Borenstein pub. the article Study Temperatures go off the charts around 2047, ignoring numerous climate models that don't agree with him to issue the alarmist conclusion: "Starting in about a decade, Kingston, Jamaica will probably be off-the-charts hot – permanently. Other places will soon follow. Singapore in 2028. Mexico City in 2031. Cairo in 2036. Phoenix and Honolulu in 2043. And eventually the whole world in 2047"; on Jan. 16, 2015 Borenstein pub. an article that falsely claims that the odds that nine of the 10 hottest years happened since 2000 are about 650 million to one; on Feb. 27, 2015 Borenstein and Luis Andres Henao pub. the article Glacial Melting in Antarctica Makes Continent the 'Ground Zero of Global Climate Change', once again excluding any scientists with views contrary to theirs; on Nov. 29, 2018 Borenstein pub. the article Climate change is more extensive and worse than once thought, which implies that the June 20, 2017 "near record" high temp of 120F (really 119F) in Phoenix, Ariz. was caused by global warming, neglecting to mention that it also saw temps of 122F in 1990 and 121F in 1995. Watch video - Seth Borenstein. Watch video - Seth Borenstein.

On Aug. 6, 2006 former NASA meteorologist Thomas "Tom" Wysmuller founds the Web site The Colder Side of Global Warming, containing the articles The Recent Temperature and CO2 Disconnect, and The Inconvenient CO2/Sea Level Non-Linkage, which contain the soundbytes: "There has been a stunning disconnect involving land temperatures globally and CO2, whether man-made or naturally sourced. The oceans continue to warm, while the surface record flatlines.... It is obvious that the surface records are NOT going up - they are basically in a 0.2C flatline"; "If CO2 is to be considered a major driver of temperatures, it is doing a counterintuitive dance around the numbers." Watch video - Thomas Wysmuller. Watch video - Thomas Wysmuller. Watch video - Thomas Wysmuller.

On Sept. 26, 2006 James Hansen et al. of NASA's Goddard Inst. for Space Studies warn that the Earth's temperature is the warmest in 12K years, and has been warming .036F (0.2C) per decade for the past 30 years; 1.7K plant, animal, and insect species move poleward at an avg. rate of 4 mi. (6.5km) per decade in the last half of the 20th cent.

On Sept. 27, 2006 the Calif. Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 is signed by Thal, Austria-born Calif. Repub. Gov. (2003-11) Arnold Alois "Ahnuld" Schwarzenegger (1947-), establishing a comprehensive program to reduce greenhouse emissions from all sources in the state, strengthening his Executive Order S-3-05 of June 1, 2005 establishing greenhouse emissions targets, resulting in more ambitious emission reduction goals than the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement; in Sept. 2011 he founds the R20 Regions of Climate Network to accelerate sub-national infrastructure investments in the green economy; he later becomes a big fan of Greta Thunberg.

On Oct. 23, 2006 Western Wash. U. geologist Donald J. "Don" Eastbrook (1936-) pub. the paper The Cause of Global Warming and Predictions for the Coming Century, containing the soundbyte: "If the cycles continue as in the past, the current warm cycle should end soon and global temperatures should cool slightly until about 2035, then warm about 0.5°C from ~2035 to ~2065, and cool slightly until 2100. The total increase in global warming for the century should be ~0.3 °C, rather than the catastrophic warming of 3-6°C (4-11°F) predicted by the IPCC." On Mar. 10, 2009 Eastbrook speaks at the Heartland Inst. 2nd Internat. Conference on Climate Change in Washington, D.C., uttering the soundbyte that a decades-long global cooling spell is coming, deeper than the one in the mid-20th cent., maxing-out energy sources, with the soundbyte: "We want to reduce pollution, increase efficiency, decrease dependence on foreign oil. The difficulty I see is greater demands and fewer resources." In Sept. 2010 Easterbrook and Joseph D'Aleo pub. Multidecadal Tendencies in ENSO and Global Temperatures Related to Multidecadal Oscillations in Energy & Environment, containing the soundbyte: "If the climate continues its cooling and the sun behaves in a manner not witnessed since 1800, we can be sure that climate changes are dominated by the sun and that atmospheric CO2 has a very small role in climate changes. If the same climatic patterns, cyclic warming and cooling, that occurred over the past 500 years continue, we can expect several decades of moderate to severe global cooling." On Sept. 14, 2011 Easterbrook (ed.) pub. the book Evidence-Based Climate Science: Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming. Watch video - Don J. Eastbrook. Watch video - Don J. Eastbrook. Watch video - Don J. Eastbrook. Watch video - Don J. Eastbrook.

On Oct. 30, 2006 the 550-page Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change is pub. by the British govt., written by 20 writers supervised by British economist Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford (1946-), containing the soundbyte: "Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen. The evidence on the seriousness of the risks from inaction or delayed action is now overwhelming... The problem of climate change involves a fundamental failure of markets: those who damage others by emitting greenhouse gases generally do not pay", recommending large environmental taxes incl. carbon taxes and carbon trading to supposedly circumvent a 5%-20% GDP loss per year, causing criticism of his freewheeling application of discount rates; Stern goes on to advocate vegetarianism to mitigate climate change. In Oct.-Dec. 2006 The Stern Review: A Dual Critique (2 parts) is pub. in World Economics, with Part 1 written by Robert M. Carter, C.R. de Freitas, Indur M. Goklany, David Holland, and Richard S. Lindzen, with the conclusion: "We conclude that the Stern Review is biased and alarmist in its reading ofthe science. In particular, it displays: (1) a failure to acknowledge the scope and scale of the knowledge gaps and uncertainties in climate science (2) credulous acceptance of hypothetical, model-based explanations of the causality of climate phenomena (3) massive overestimation of climate impacts through an implausible population scenario and one-sided treatment of the impacts literature,including reliance on agenda-driven advocacy documents (4) lack of due diligence in evaluating many pivotal research studies despite the scandalous lack of disclosure of data and methods in these studies (5) lack of concern for the defects and inadequacies of the peer reviewprocess as a guarantor of quality or truth"; Part 2 concludes: "(1) it greatly understates the extent of uncertainty as to possible developments, in highly complex systems that are not well understood, over a period of two centuries or more (2) its treatment of sources and evidence is persistently selective and biased." Watch video - Nicholas Stern.

On Nov. 17, 2006 Am. TV meteorologist Willard Anthony Watts (1958-) launches the blog Watts Up With That? (WUWT), opposing proponents of anthropogenic climate change esp. by CO2, going on to help spread the Climatic Research Unit controversy in Nov. 2009, and becoming the #1 climate change blog on Earth (until ?), adopting the "lukewarmer" position that CO2 heats the Earth's surface but that the climate sensitivity of the atmosphere to a doubling of CO2 is lower (1C usually) than the 3C-10C claimed by climate alarmists; geology-trained computer engineer Tony Heller (1957-) of Boulder, Colo. builds up a rep on the blog under the alias Steven Goddard with allegations that NASA has been falsely claiming the year 1998 as the hottest in U.S. history when it was really 1934 after "adjusting" temperature data in a way which is "highly subjective, and subject to software and algorithm errors", going on to launch his own blog The Deplorable (Real) Climate Science Blog, with the motto: "Pulling Back the Curtain on Junk Science", continuing to expose govt. agencies incl. NASA, NOAA, the U.K. Met Office Hadley Centre, and the Japanese Meteorological Agency as data fakers, and paint a picture of the "global warming religion"; in Aug. 2007 NASA admits that 1934 is the hottest year on record for the U.S., but claims that the hottest year on Earth for the past cent. is still 2005. On Sept. 2, 2018 Heller exposes the New York Times for climate fraud. He goes on to utter the soundbytes: "From my experience, at least 97% of what you read in the press about climate is fake news"; "Writers hide data, and do severely flawed analysis on the data they aren't hiding"; "Climate scientists are classic snake oil salesmen. They'll take whatever the current ailment is then say they have cure and you just need to give them money. And they employ Orwellian doublespeak as their standard technique.... Climate science is not a science at all. It's just the largest scam in history." On Jan. 29, 2019 Heller pub. the article Overwhelming Evidence of Climate Collusion. On July 1, 2019 climatefeedback.org pub. the article NASA did not create global warming by manipulating data. On Sept. 18, 2019 Heller pub. the article Plummeting Credibility Of Michael Mann. Watch video - Anthony Watts. Watch video - Anthony Watts. Watch video - Anthony Watts. Watch video - Anthony Watts. Watch video - James Delingpole on Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Dr. K. Strong contra Tony Heller.

In Nov. 2006 the Nat. Registry of Environmental Professionals (NREP) pub. a survey on climate change, with 82% claiming that global warming is real and measurable, 67% claiming that the U.S. is not doing enough to combat it, 66% claiming that global warming is a serious problem, 40% wanting the automotive industry regulated, and 39% wanting carbon emissions regulated.

In winter 2006 despite freezing over more than the other Great Lakes because of its shallowness, Lake Erie (southernmost and warmest Great Lake) fails to freeze for the first time in recorded history; in 2012 a study by NOAA scientists pub. in the Journal of Climate find that winter season ice cover on Lake Superior decreases 79% in 1973-2010; on Feb. 13, 2014 ice cover on the Great Lakes reaches 88%, highest since 1994 (90%); the lowest is 9.5% in 2002; in late Feb. 2019 75 mph winds cause an ice tsunami near Lake Erie.

In 2006 U.S. Sen. (R-Ind.) (1977-2013) Richard Green "Dick" Lugar (1932-2019) and U.S. Sen. (D-Del.) (1973-2009) Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden (1942-) co-sponsor Senate Resolution 312, calling for U.S. govt. participation in internat. climate mitigation agreements.

In 2006 Canadian geologist Bruno Wiskel (1961-) AKA the Prosperous Farmer pub. The Emperor's New Climate - Debunking the Myths of Global Warming. On Nov. 5, 2006 he gives an interview to Eliza Barlow of the Edmonton Sun, claiming that global warming is a "madness of the prevailing wisdom" that has turned "from a science to a religion", and is actually an eons-old force that has nothing to do with people, having been going on for about 18K years, with glaciers retreating and sea levels rising throughout, with the soundbyte: "If this happened once and we were the cause of it, that would be cause for concern. But glaciers have been coming and going for billions of years." In Nov. 2009 he pub. The Sky Is Not Falling - Putting Climate Change on Trial, containing the soundbyte: "Are you tired of the hysteria surrounding the climate change question? Do you believe that environmental groups are on the take and are simply using global warming to line their pockets? Do you think the doubt the science that the alarmists of the world are presenting? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, then 'The Sky Is Not Falling – Putting Climate Change On Trial' is definitely the book for you."

In 2006 the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation (originally the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance), "the most influential evangelical anti-environmentalist in the United States" is founded by evangelical Christian Ernest Calvin Beisner (1955-) to fight environmentalism as "one of the greatest threats to society and the church today", and "the greatest threat to Western civilization", with the soundbyte: "Earth and its ecosystems - created by God's intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence – are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory. Earth's climate system is no exception"; Protect the Poor: Ten Reasons to Oppose Harmful Climate Change Policies starts out: "As the product of infinitely wise design, omnipotent creation, and faithful sustaining, Earth is robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting. "Although Earth and its subsystems, including the climate system, are susceptible to some damage by ignorant or malicious human action, God's wise design and faithful sustaining make these natural systems more likely - as confirmed by widespread scientific observation p to respond in ways that suppress and correct that damage than magnify it catastrophically"; the "Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming" states: "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human contribution to greenhouse gases is causing dangerous global warming." Its parent group, the James Partnership is funded by the secretive Donors Trust, chaired since Sept. 2015 by Lawson R. Bader, former CEO of the Competitive Enterprise Inst. In 2010 the Cornwall Alliance releases the film Resisting the Green Dragon, which calls environmentalism a "false religion" and "global government" power grab; "In what has become one of the greatest deceptions of our day, radical environmentalism is striving to put America and the world under its destructive control. This so-called Green Dragon is seducing your children in our classrooms and popular culture. Its lust for political power now extends to the highest global levels, and its twisted view of the world elevates Nature above the needs of people, of even the poorest and most helpless. With millions falling prey to its spiritual deception, the time is now to stand and resist." Watch video.

In 2006 St. Louis, Mo.-born Kiwi meteorologist August H. "Augie" Auer Jr. (1940-2007) co-founds the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition to fight claims for anthropogenic global warming, calling on the Kiwi govt. to institute a royal commission on climate change because the public are "being given incomplete, inaccurate and biased information about the effects of increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere", claiming that "global warming caused by man-made emissions of greenhouse gases... cannot be substantiated", which they refuse; on May 19, 2007 Auer gives an interview to The Timaru Herald newspaper, containing the soundbyte: "Water vapour was responsible for 95 per cent of the greenhouse effect, an effect which was vital to keep the world warm... If we didn't have the greenhouse effect the planet would be at minus 18 °C but because we do have the greenhouse effect it is plus 15 °C, all the time. The other greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen dioxide, and various others including CFCs, contributed only five per cent of the effect, carbon dioxide being by far the greatest contributor at 3.6 per cent. It would be like trying to increase the temperature of bath tub full of water using one drop from an eye dropper"; too bad, on June 10 he drops dead in Melbourne on his 67th birthday.

In 2006 Houston, Tex.-born Texas A&M climate scientist (deep ecologist, who believes that Nature is perfect and humans can only mess it up) Andrew Dessler (1964-) and Edward A. Parson pub. The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate (2nd ed. 2009), which becomes a hit for teaching climate science from the global warmist viewpoint; on Oct. 10, 2011 he follows it with Introduction to Modern Climate Change. On Jan. 16, 2014 he testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, claiming that climate warming is real and "humans are now in the driver's seat... we have our foot on the gas, but unfortunately we don't have our hands on the wheel", adding "We know that, over the next century, if nothing is done to rein in emissions, temperatures will likely increase enough to profoundly change the planet." After a front page article is pub. in The New York Times discussing the theory that clouds might offset the effects of increased greenhouses gases, he pub. an article in 2011 in Geophysical Research Letters that "offered some evidence that clouds will exacerbate the long-term planetary warming", calling climate change skeptics believers in an "alternate reality", causing him to be targeted by climate change skeptics, making him more popular? - pretending to predict global climate in 2100 isn't an alternate reality? Climate Science Is A Lot Less Than It Appears in Some Cases. Watch video - Andrew Dessler. Watch video - Andrew Dessler. Watch video - Andrew Dessler.

In 2006 Port Alice, B.C., Canada-born former Greenpeace pres. (1977-86) Patrick Moore (who left after it "took a sharp turn to the political left" and "evolved into an organization of extremism and politically motivated agendas" writes a letter to the British Royal Society, claiming that there is "no scientific proof that mankind was causing global climate change", and that it "has a much better correlation with changes in solar activity than CO2 levels", adding that global warming can be good if it creates more arable land, advocating adaptation to it; on Feb. 27, 2014 he testifies before the U.S. Senate, uttering the soundbytes: "There is no scientific proof that human emissions of carbon dioxide are the dominant cause of the minor warming of the Earth's atmosphere over the past 100 years. If there were such a proof it would be written down for all to see. No actual proof, as it is understood in science, exists"; "When modern life evolved over 500 million years ago, CO2 was more than 10 times higher than today, yet life flourished at this time. Then an Ice Age occurred 450 million years ago when CO2 was 10 times higher than today. There is some correlation, but little evidence, to support a direct causal relationship between CO2 and global temperature through the millennia. The fact that we had both higher temperatures and an ice age at a time when CO2 emissions were 10 times higher than they are today fundamentally contradicts the certainty that human-caused CO2 emissions are the main cause of global warming"; "Today, we live in an unusually cold period in the history of life on Earth and there is no reason to believe that a warmer climate would be anything but beneficial for humans and the majority of other species"; "Humans just aren't capable of predicting global temperature changes." On June 1, 2016 Moore pub. the article The Positive Impact of Human CO2 Emissions on the Survival of Life on Earth, "As recently as 18,000 years ago, at the height of the most recent major glaciation, CO2 dipped to its lowest level in recorded history at 180 ppm, low enough to stunt plant growth. This is only 30 ppm above a level that would result in the death of plants due to CO2 starvation. It is calculated that if the decline in CO2 levels were to continue at the same rate as it has over the past 140 million years, life on Earth would begin to die as soon as two million years from now and would slowly perish almost entirely as carbon continued to be lost to the deepocean sediments"; on Jan. 20, 2021 Moore pub. Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom; "It dawned on me one day that most of the scare stories in the media today are based on things that are invisible, like CO2 and radiation, or very remote, like polar bears and coral reefs. Thus, the average person cannot observe and verify the truth of these claims for themselves. They must rely on activists, the media, politicians, and scientists - all of whom have a huge financial and/or political interest in the subject - to tell them the truth. This is my effort, after 50 years as a scientist and environmental activist, to expose the misinformation and outright lies used to scare us and our children about the future of the Earth. Direct observation is the very basis of science. Without verified observation it is not possible to know the truth. That is the sharp focus of this book." Watch video - Patrick Moore. Watch video - Patrick Moore. Watch video - Patrick Moore. Watch video - Patrick Moore. Watch video - Patrick Moore. Watch video - Patrick Moore. Watch video - Patrick Moore. Watch video - Patrick Moore. Watch video - Patrick Moore. Watch video - Patrick Moore. Watch video - Patrick Moore. Watch video - Patrick Moore. Watch video - Patrick Moore. Watch video - Patrick Moore. Watch video - Patrick Moore. Watch video - Patrick Moore.

2007

On Jan. 1, 2007 Am. atty. Christopher C. "Chris" Horner (senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Inst.) pub. the NYT bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism), followed by Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed (Oct. 21, 2008), Power Grab: How Obama's Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America (Apr. 19, 2010), and The Liberal War on Transparency: Confessions of a Freedom of Information "Criminal" (Oct. 2, 2012), becoming "instrumental in orchestrating the attacks on climate scientists over the past decade in the form of vexatious and frivolous FOIA demands, efforts to force scientists to turn over all of their personal email" (Michael Mann, a victim); too bad, his acceptance of funding by coal cos. is used by his critics to go low?; "The longtime go-to guy on global warming extremism." (Rush Limbaugh) Watch video - Christopher C. Horner. Watch video - Christopher C. Horner. Watch video - Christopher C. Horner. Watch video - Christopher C. Horner. Watch video - Christopher C. Horner. Watch video - Christopher C. Horner.

On Jan. 14, 2007 (14:30 GMT) the Doomsday Clock is set to 5 min. to midnight, becoming the 4th forward set since 1991, prompted by nuclear standoffs with Iran and N Korea and warnings of climate change; "Global warming could kill millions. We should have a war on global warming rather than the war on terror" (Stephen W. Hawking, Jan. 17); China's emissions increase 8% this year, causing it to overtake the U.S. as the top producer of greenhouse gases (14% higher), although the U.S. still leads on a per capita basis, 19.4 tons, vs. 11.8 in Russia, 8.6 in the EU, 5.1 in China, and 1.8 in India.

On Jan. 18, 2007 Ian Herbert pub. the article Snowdon will be snow-free in 13 years, scientists warn in The Independent, about Mt. Snowdon (Gael. "Snow Hill") in Wales.

On Jan. 19, 2007 St. Louis Park, Minn.-born Jewish globalist journalist Thomas Loren Friedman (1953-) pub. the article A Warning from the Garden in The New York Times, followed by the article The Power of Green in ditto on Apr. 15, proposing the Green New Deal, a version of FDR's New Deal involving a massive federal intervention in environmental programs incl. economic planning and stimulus packages to create green jobs.

On Jan. 22, 2007 Am. geologist-environmentalist William Hunt pub. the article The Nonsense of Global Warming, containing the soundbytes: "Global warming, geologic dating techniques, and uniformitarianism all can be considered junk science as much of the physical evidence argues against them"; "The facts, such as we can observe and calculate them, do not support the idea of man-made global warming. Natural processes completely eclipse anything that man can accomplish - a minor rainstorm expends more energy than a large nuclear explosive releases and the lowest category of hurricane expends more energy than all of the nuclear weapons ever produced in a short time. Most geologists and indeed, most scientists in the U.S., do not accept the idea that global warming resulting from human activities is a viable theory - because most have an appreciation for the kind of power inherent in natural systems. Conversely, most biologists do accept the idea of mancaused global warming and quote scientists in other fields, without understanding those other fields sufficiently to make a logical judgment as to whether the studies were reasonable in their methods and claims. They simply take it on faith that the scientists propounding global warming are correct in their methods and assumptions. The problem with computer [climate] modeling is that only a tiny percentage of the literally millions of variables involved can be written into a program. It's currently impossible for us to accurately model Earth's climate and we are not aware of all of the variables yet"; in 2007 he pub. the audio series Global Warming Exposed: True Climate Crisis or Media Hype?, followed on June 10, 2009 by the book Global Warming Challenged: True Climate Crisis or Media Hype?

On Jan. 26, 2007 Potholer54 (former BBC journalist Peter Hadfield) launches a YouTube channel, going on to release videos attempting to debunk climate change denialists, reaching 27K subscribers by Mar. 2010, and 157K by 2018; Watch video - Potholer54. Watch video - Potholer54. Watch video - Potholer54.

In Jan. 2007 Seth Shulman et al. of the Union of Concerned Scientists pub. Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco's Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science, with the intro: "In an effort to deceive the public about the reality of global warming, ExxonMobil has underwritten the most sophisticated and most successful disinformation campaign since the tobacco industry misled the public about the scientific evidence linking smoking to lung cancer and heart disease. As this report documents, the two disinformation campaigns are strikingly similar. ExxonMObil has drawn upon the tactics and even some of the organizations and actors involved in the callous disinformation campaign the tobacco industry waged for 40 years", drawing a big bead on climate skeptic Patrick J. Michaels.

On Feb. 8, 2007 U.S. Rep. (R-Calif.) (1989-2019) Dana Tyrone Rohrbacher (1947-) (former Ronald Reagan speechwriter) gives a speech at a congressional hearing on climate change, theorizing that ancient climate warming cycles may have been caused by CO2 released into the atmosphere by "dinosaur flatulence", with the soundbyte: "In fact, it is assumed at best to be unproven and at worst a liberal claptrap, trendy, but soon to go out of syle in our new Congress"; on May 25 Rohrbach suggests that a possible solution to global warming is clear-cutting and replanting of rain forests, pissing-off several scientists, causing him to reply: "Once again those with a global agenda have created a straw man by misrepresenting the position of their critics. I do not believe that CO2 is a cause of global warming, nor have I ever advocated the reduction of CO2 through the clearing of rainforests or cutting down older trees to prevent global warming. But that is how my question to a witness during my subcommittee hearing on May 25th is being reported. I simply asked the witness, Dr. Todd Stern, who is a supporter of a global climate treaty that would dramatically hurt the standard of living for millions of human beings, if he was considering a policy that would address naturally emitted carbon dioxide, which makes up over 90% of emissions. To suggest that I'm advocating such a radical approach instead of s imply questioning the policy is a total misrepresentation of my position"; in Aug. 2013 he calls global warming "a total fraud" that is part of a "game plan" by liberals to "create global government"; in late 2016 he is on the shortlist for Pres. Trump's secy. of state along with Mitt Romney until Rex Tillerson is selected; too bad, he has strong pro-Vladimir Putin and pro-Russian views, giving a new meaning to Trump's remark that global warming is a Chinese conspiracy?; too bad, after a year of kissing Trump's ass he loses reelection in Nov. 2018 by 53%-47%. Watch video - Dana Rohrbacher. Watch video - Dana Rohrbacher. Watch video - Dana Rohrbacher. Watch video - Dana Rohrbacher. Watch video - Dana Rohrbacher.

On Feb. 9, 2007 Sir Richard Branson offers a $25M reward for the invention of a way to suck greenhouse gases out of the air - plant trees?

On Feb. 25, 2007 the 79th Academy Awards, hosted by Ellen Degeneres are held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.; 306 films are eligible for consideration; the Oscars officially go green; the best picture Oscar for 2006 goes to The Departed, along with best dir. to sentimental favorite Martin Scorsese on his 6th try (beating Paul Greengrass' better United 93?); best actor goes to Forest "Idi Amin" Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland, best actress goes to Helen "Liz II" Mirren for The Queen ("Our Leaders. Ourselves.") (10-y.-o. Abigail Breslin, who played Olive Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine is passed over, as is Meryl Streep, who played Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada, her 14th nomination, two more than Jack Nicholson and Kate Hepburn), best supporting actor goes to Alan Alda in Little Miss Sunshine (Eddie Murphy, who plays James Brown clone James "Thunder" Early is passed over, perhaps because of his crude toilet-humor world's fattest woman flick Norbit, which comes out just at the wrong time, causing him to storm out of the awards show), and best supporting actress goes to Jennifer Hudson for playing Effie White in Dreamgirls (proving that rejection by Simon Cowell on "American Idol" is the ticket to fame?); Al Gore wins for the global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth (dir. by Davis Guggenheim) ("By far the most terrifying film you will ever see"), which also garners Lezzie Lezzeridge, er, Melissa Etheridge a best song Oscar for I Need to Wake Up; before going to the stage she gives her wife a big kiss, then dedicates the win to her and her four kids (the highlight of the evening?); Gore utters the soundbyte: "People all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis. It's not a political issue, it's a moral issue"; sound engineer Kevin O'Connell of Apocalypto sets a record with 19 straight Oscar nominations and 0 wins, losing to Dreamgirls; Pilobolus Dance Theatre provides the briefest numbers yet seen, despite one of the longest Oscar ceremonies ever.

On Feb. 27, 2007 leftist activist Canadian U. of Ottawa physicist Denis G. Rancourt (1957-) pub. the article Global Warming: Truth or Dare?, reversing the usual accusations that climate skeptics are conservatives by disputing the U.N. IPCC clique and its presentation of global warming "as the greatest potential threat to humankind and as the greatest environmental and ecological threat on the planet" and its belief that is "a problem that could be solved or contained by determined international collaboration - by political will if it were present", with the soundbytes: "I argue: (1) that global warming (climate change, climate chaos, etc.) will not become humankind's greatest threat until the sun has its next hiccup in a billion years or more (in the v ery unlikely scenario that we are still around), (2) that global warming is presently nowhere near being the planet's most deadly environmental scourge, and (3) that government action and political will cannot measurably or significantly ameliorate global climate in the present world. I also advance that there are strong societal, institutional, and psychological motivations for having constructed and for continuing to maintain the myth of a global warming dominant threat (global warming myth, for short). I describe these motivations in terms of the workings of the scientific profession and of the global corporate and finance network and its government shadows. I argue that by far the most destructive force on the planet is power-driven financiers and profit-driven corporations and their cartels backed by military might; and that the global warming myth is a red herring that contributes to hiding this truth. In my opinion, activists who, using any justification, feed the global warming myth have effectively been co-opted, or at best neutralized"; "Regarding planetary greenhouse warming, by far the most important greenhouse active atmospheric gas is water vapour – it is a major constituent of the atmosphere whereas CO2 is a trace atmospheric gas. This is well known and it is established, for example, that even doubling the present atmospheric CO2 concentration, to the unattainable value of 800 ppm (parts per million) say, without changing anything else in the atmosphere, would have little discernable effect on global temperature or climate. All of the climate models that relate CO2 concentrations to climate effects do so by arbitrarily linking a model increase in CO2 to an induced and larger increase in atmospheric water vapour. In other words, all the climate models postulate a large and positive feedback between CO2 and water vapour. Several scientists have argued that these models are computer realizations of the tail wagging the dog"; he goes on to call the global warming myth part of "the beliefs of mainstream environmentalists", which "are beliefs of the First World liberal middleclass", i.e., the evironmentalist movement has been hijacked, substituting true activism with an invention of the privileged world, with the soundbytes: He reveals how real activists understand that CO2-driven AGW is not true activism, but rather an invention of the privileged world: "NGOs and environmental groups who agree to buy into the global warming thing benefit from it a lot, in the sense that the powerful interests... fund them. They have to pretend they are doing important research without ever criticizing powerful interests. They look for comfortable lies... they look for elusive, sanitized things like acid rain, global warming... it helps to neutralize any kind of dissent... if you're really concerned about saving the forest, habitat destruction and so on, then fight against habitat destruction; don't go off into this tenuous thing about CO2 concentration"; "The media are allowed to talk global warming because it does not threaten power in any significant way. Indeed, it deflects attention away from real world issues. It's perfect. The scientists can debate it. The environmental activists are largely neutralized. Everyone thinks it's about CO2. The economists can work out the carbon credits. The politicians can talk environment without actually saying anything. Those who want to do something can change their consumer habits. The others can just ignore it and continue chatting about the weather. The fact that the global warming myth has now attained this degree of media promotion and entertainment industry integration means not only that the issue is not threatening to power but that it has also come to be understood by power to be quite useful. In this regard, the global warming myth has joined the other useful media-supported myths that include: increasing crime rates, the terrorist threat, the American dream, that we live in a democracy, that greed and selfishness are unavoidable overriding consequences of human nature, that we all attain the economic status that fits our talents and efforts, that we help developing and Third World countries (that would be worse off without us), etc." In 2009 Rancourt is fired by the U. of Ottawa. On Mar. 21, 2011 Rancourt pub. the article On the gargantuan lie of climate change science. On June 3, 2011 Rancourt pub. the paper Radiation physics constraints on global warming: CO2 increase has little effect. Watch video - Denis G. Rancourt. Watch video - Denis G. Rancourt. Watch video - Denis G. Rancourt. Watch video - Denis G. Rancourt.

On Mar. 8, 2007 after Calif. Dem. Rep. (since Jan. 3, 1993) Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi (1940-) (House Speaker #52 since Jan. 4) announced it on Jan. 18, the U.S. House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming, which is disbanded on Jan. 6, 2011 after the Repubs. gain control of the House for the 112th Congress on Jan. 3.

On Mar. 8, 2007 Martin Durkin's The Great Global Warming Swindle (original title: "Apocalypse my arse") debuts on BBC Channel 4, questioning the scientific consensus on global warming, calling it "a lie" and "the biggest scam of modern times", with the soundbytes: "This is a story about how a theory about climate turned into a political ideology"; "People have decided you have to convince other people that since no scientist disagrees you shouldn't disagree either, but whenever you hear that in science that's pure propaganda"; "I don't like to call it the environmental movement anymore, because really it is a political activist movement, and they have become hugely influential at a global level": "It is the story of the distortion of a whole area of science"; "Climate scientists need there to be a problem in order to get funding"; "We have a vested interest in creating panic because then money will flow to climate science": "There is one thing you shouldn't say, and that is this might not be a problem"; "It is the story of how a political campaign turned into a bureaucratic bandwagon"; "The fact of the matter is that tens of thousands of jobs depend on global warming right now. It's a big business"; "It's become a great industry in itself. And if the whole global warming fraud would collapse, there's be an awful lot of people out of jobs and looking for work"; "This is a story of censorship and intimidation"; "I have seen and heard them spitting fury at anybody that might disagree with them, which is not the scientific way"; "It is a story about Westerners invoking the threat of climatic disaster to hinder vital industrial progress in the developing world"; "One clear thing that emerges from the environmental debate is the point that somebody came to kill the African Dream, and the African Dream is to develop"; "The environmental force has developed into the strongest force there is for preventing development in the developing countries"; "The global warming story is a cautionary tale of how a media scare became the defining idea of a generation"; "The whole global warming business has become like a religion, and people who disagree are called heretics... the makers of this program are all heretics"; "Global warming has become a story of huge political significance; environmental activists using scare tactics to further their cause; scientists adding credence to secure billions of dollars in research money; politicians after headlines and a media happy to play along. No one dares speak against it for risk of being unpopular, losing funds and jeopardizing careers", pissing-off the PC police, causing U.K. broadcasting regulatory agency Ofcom to come down on them, making them rebroadcast it and correct three errors. Watch video. Watch video. Watch video - complete movie.

On Mar. 14, 2007 a debate is held in the Asia Society and Museum in New York City on the motion "Global Warming is not a Crisis"; arguing in favor are Michael Crichton, Richard Lindzen, and Philip Stott; arguing against are Gavin Schmidt of NASA Goddard, Richard Somerville of the Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, and Brenda Ekwurzel of the Union of Concerned Scientists; a poll after the debate gives the victory to those in favor, causing Schmidt to refuse further debates, becoming a trend in the climate alarmist world.

On Mar. 19, 2007 retired Canadian mechanical engineer H. Douglas "Doug" Lightfoot (1930-) pub. the DVD Nobody' Fuel: Energy supply is more important than climate change; in 2008 he pub. the chapter The Potential for Increasing the Contribution of Renewable Energies towards Replacing Fossil Fuels is too Small to Justify the Expenditure of Government Research Funds in Climate Change Research Progress; on Sept. 12, 2019 Lightfoot pub. the paper A new look at current climate science and carbon dioxide, with the abstract: "Energy from burning fossil fuels brings enormous benefits to the safety, health and general well-being of people and the environment. The resulting carbon dioxide enhances the growth rate of plants, greening planet Earth and enhancing food security. Considering such vital benefits, why are fossil fuels being demonized? The problem began in the IPCC First Assessment Report (FAR) of 1990 with the statement that water vapor amplifies warming by carbon dioxide. The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) in 2013 expanded this concept to include (a) water vapor typically amplifying warming by CO2 by a factor of two to three times and (b) CO2 controls water vapor concentration that goes up as CO2 goes up and down as CO2 goes down. This study proves these points are false by two independent methods that take into account the gas laws, response of CO2 and water vapor to temperature changes and back radiation. Compared to the dynamic and positive warming by back radiation from the Poles to the Tropics, warming by CO2 is passive, negative and appears insignificant. The evidence is clear; the sun has always controlled the temperature of the Earth's various climates." Watch video - H. Douglas Lightfoot. Watch video - H. Douglas Lightfoot.

On Mar. 21, 2007 Al Gore appears before Congress with a box full of petitions to take action on global warming, becoming his first appearance on Capitol Hill since Jan. 2001.

In Mar. 2007 global warming skeptic economist-politician Vaclav (Václav) Klaus (1941-), pres. #2 of the Czech Repub. in 2003-13 gives a speech at the Cato Inst. in Washington, D.C., uttering the soundbyte: "Environmentalism should belong in the social sciences, along with other isms such as communism, feminism, and liberalism", and compared environmentalism to a religion, a "modern counterpart of communism that seeks to change peoples' habits and economic systems." In June 2007 he pub. an op-ed in The Financial Times, calling environmentalism "the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, a market economy and prosperity", calling on readers to oppose the term "scientific consensus", adding that "it is always achieved only by a loud minority, never by a silent majority." In Sept. 2007 he speaks at the 2007 U.N. Climate Change Conference, calling for a second IPCC to be established to produce competing reports, and for countries to be left alone to set their priorities and prepare their own plans for the problem. In 2007 he pub. the book Blue Planet in Green Shackles: What Is Endangered: Climate or Freedom?, which contains the soundbyte: "The theory of global warming and the hypothesis on its causes, which has spread around massively nowadays, may be a bad theory, it may also be a valueless theory, but in any case it is a very dangerous theory." In Sept. 2009 he speaks at the 2009 U.N. Climate Change Conference, calling it "propagandistic" and "undignified". On Oct. 19, 2010 he utters the soundbyte: "It seems to me that the widespread acceptance of the global warming dogma has become one of the main, most costly and most undemocratic public policy mistakes in generations. The previous one was communism." On July 26, 2011 he speaks at the Nat. Press Club, calling global warming "a Communist conspiracy." On May 21, 2012 he speaks at the Heartland Inst. 7th Internat. Conference on Climate Change. Watch video - Vaclav Klaus. Watch video - Vaclav Klaus. Watch video - Vaclav Klaus. Watch video - Vaclav Klaus.

On Apr. 2, 2007 the U.S. Supreme (Roberts) Court rules 5-4 in Mass. vs. EPA (the Endangerment Finding) to rebuke the Bush admin. for inaction on global warming, declaring that CO2 and other greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the 1963 U.S. Clean Air Act, and that the EPA has the authority to regulate those emissions from new cars and trucks, after which on Dec. 15, 2009 the EPA pub. its Final Endangerment Findings with Respect to Greenhouse Gases, followed on Aug. 13, 2010 by EPA's Denial of the Petitions To Reconsider the Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act, pissing-off climate skeptics, who begin lobbying to overturn it, forming the Fourteen Amici, representing the Coalition for Responsible Regulation Inc., who file a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on May 27, 2011 against the EPA and its head Lisa P. Jackson, which claims that "the EPA's endangerment finding is not 'rational' and therefore arbitrary and capricious", with the soundbyte: "[T]he Earth's climate is not changing in an unusual or anomalous fashion. The EPA relied on instrumental data that were adjusted to exaggerate the increase in global temperatures." On May 21, 2019 Paul Driessen pub. the soundbyte: "The entire Obama EPA process smells like a crooked prosecutor who framed CO2 and was determined to get a conviction. The agency built its entire case on tainted, circumstantial evidence, and testimony from agency officials who had conflicts of interest and their own reasons for wanting CO2 convicted of endangering Americans. EPA reviewers ignored or hid exculpatory evidence and colluded to prevent witnesses for the CO2 defendant from presenting any defense or cross-examining agency witnesses"; on June 30, 2022 (last day of session) the U.S. Supreme Court reverses itself, ruling that authority to regulate CO2 emissions rests with Congress, derailing Pres. Biden's big plans to railroad the Green New Deal using unelected bureaucrats. Watch video. Watch video. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller.

On Apr. 12, 2007 the documentary film An Inconvenient Truth... or Convenient Fiction? debuts, starring conservative scholar Steven F. Hayward (1958-), aping Al Gore's PowerPoint presentation, agreeing with many of his points but dissing "global warming extremists" for slanting it toward an Armageddon, with the soundbyte: "What I disagree with is overall pessimism"; he later claims that there was global warming between 1978-98, when it suddenly stopped despite atmospheric CO2 continuing to rise, causing climate change models to be falsified; "It's clear that the climate establishment has become as narrowly intolerant as any department of gender studies on a college campus and for the same reason. What's really masked is a will to power... Global warming was always the dream issue for environmentalists because it gave them license to commandeer the entire energy sector of the entire world, and as energy is the master resource that enables all other resource use, I would say the platform for material human progress itself, getting control of energy is the commanding height of human civilization. But what they have proposed is a transformation of the world's energy system so sweeping and so unrealistic that it would make King Canute blush with embarrassment." Watch video - Steven F. Hayward.

On May 2, 2007 Exposed: The Climate of Fear debuts on CNN, hosted by Everett, Wash.-born Glenn Lee Beck (1964-) (his last show before moving to Fox-TV), featuring prominent climate change skeptics and deniers incl. Tim Ball, John Christy, Bjorn Lomborg, Patrick Michaels, Patrick Moore, and Roy Spencer; "Yes, Al Gore, there is another credible side." Watch video - Global Warming Exposed - ad. The Climate of Fear, Pt. 1. The Climate of Fear, Pt. 2. The Climate of Fear, Pt. 3. The Climate of Fear, Pt. 4. The Climate of Fear, Pt. 5.

On May 24, 2007 J.P. Donnelly and J.D. Woodruff pub. the article Intense hurricane activity over the past 5,000 years controlled by El Niño and the West African monsoon, in PubMed, concluding from an examination of 5K years of sediment cores from the Caribbean that increased frequency of intense tropical cyclones is due to variations in the El Nino-Southern Oscillation and the strength of the West African moonson rather than sea surface temps.

On May 25, 2007 Richard Seager et al. pub. the paper Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in Southwestern North America, predicting "a permanent drought by 2050 throughout the Southwest", with 1930s Dust Bowl conditions from Calif. to Kan.; on Jan. 26, 2009 NOAA issues the press release Irreversible climate change because of carbon dioxide emissions, with the soundbyte: "The climate change that is taking place because of increases in carbon dioxide concentration is largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop... Among illustrative irreversible impacts that should be expected if atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations increase from current levels near 385 parts per million by volume (ppmv) to a peak of 450–600 ppmv over the coming century are irreversible dry-season rainfall reductions in several regions comparable to those of the 'dust bowl' era and inexorable sea level rise"; on Oct. 19, 2010 Aiguo Dai of NCAR pub. the paper Drought under global warming: a review, claiming that if atmospheric CO2 reaches 520 ppm in 2050 and 700 in 2100, much of the U.S. and large parts of the rest of the world could experience worse levels of drought than in the 1930s Dust Bowl but affecting 10x-100x as many people, with the soundbyte: "The United States and many other heavily populated countries face a growing threat of severe and prolonged drought in coming decades... possibly reaching a scale in some regions by the end of the century that has rarely, if ever, been observed in modern times"; on Dec. 14, 2010 Connie Woodhouse et al. of the U. of Ariz. pub. a paper predicting "a Medieval-style drought with even warmer temperatures" in the Am. Southwest by 2100; New Study puts the 'hell' in Hell and High Water, on July 11, 2011 a 2-mi.-high 50-mi.-wide Dust Storm envelops Phoenix, Ariz., causing Brian Williams of NBC-TV to call it "The Dust Storm that Swallowed Up an American City", and Joseph Romm to pub. an article in energycentral.com, calling it a "haboob... just the shape of things to come for the entire Southwest".

In May 2007 the journal Environmental Communication is founded by the Internat. Environmental Communication Assoc. to study why lunkheads don't accept the true religion of AGW, er, to study er, forget it.

On June 26, 2007 David de Rothschild and William Van Roden pub. The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills to Stop Climate Change as an official companion book to the Live Earth concerts; on July 7 400K attend the globally-televised Live Earth concert at Copacabana Beach in Brazil and 10 other locations around the world to spotlight climate change, sponsored by Save Our Selves, founded by Kevin Wall with backing by Al Gore et al., receiving a record 15M live video streams, becoming a hit in Canada and a flop in the U.K. and U.S.

On June ?, 2007 Canadian Carleton U. geologist R. Timothy "Tim" Patterson pub. an article in the Financial Post of Canada, predicting a general climatic cooling as the Sun enters Cycle 25 about 2018; "Despite this clear and repeated correlation, the measured variations in incoming solar energy were, on their own, not sufficient to cause the climate changes we have observed in our proxies. In addition, even though the sun is brighter now than at any time in the past 8,000 years, the increase in direct solar input is not calculated to be sufficient to cause the past century's modest warming on its own. There had to be an amplifier of some sort for the sun to be a primary driver of climate change. Indeed, that is precisely what has been discovered. In a series of groundbreaking scientific papers starting in 2002, Veizer, Shaviv, Carslaw, and most recently Svensmark et al., have collectively demonstrated that as the output of the sun varies, and with it, our star's protective solar wind, varying amounts of galactic cosmic rays from deep space are able to enter our solar system and penetrate the Earth's atmosphere. These cosmic rays enhance cloud formation which, overall, has a cooling effect on the planet. When the sun's energy output is greater, not only does the Earth warm slightly due to direct solar heating, but the stronger solar wind generated during these 'high sun' periods blocks many of the cosmic rays from entering our atmosphere. Cloud cover decreases and the Earth warms still more. The opposite occurs when the sun is less bright. More cosmic rays are able to get through to Earth's atmosphere, more clouds form, and the planet cools more than would otherwise be the case due to direct solar effects alone. This is precisely what happened from the middle of the 17th century into the early 18th century, when the solar energy input to our atmosphere, as indicated by the number of sunspots, was at a minimum and the planet was stuck in the Little Ice Age. These new findings suggest that changes in the output of the sun caused the most recent climate change... By comparison, CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet's climate on long, medium and even short time scales.... Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe solar cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth. Beginning to plan for adaptation to such a cool period, one which may continue well beyond one 11-year cycle, as did the Little Ice Age, should be a priority for governments. It is global cooling, not warming, that is the major climate threat to the world, especially Canada." In Nov. 2015 he speaks to the Canadian Internat. Council (CIC), telling them that in addition to concerns over the long-term impact of global warming it would be prudent for Canadian policymakers and planners to be aware that "climatic cooling associated with Solar Cycle 25 and a corresponding trough in the Gleissberg Cycle may negatively impact the Canadian agricultural sector. During any climatic warming agricultural methods used to the south can be immediately adapted. However, cooling such as may occur beginning about 2018 would be an agricultural and national disaster as no one is farming north of us." Watch video - Tim Patterson.

On July 7, 2007 German mathematical physicists Gerhard Gerlich (1942-2014) and Ralf D. Tscheuschner pub. the killer paper Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics, with the abstract: "The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that many authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier (1824), Tyndall (1861), and Arrhenius (1896), and which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system. According to the second law of thermodynamics such a planetary machine can never exist. Nevertheless, in almost all texts of global climatology and in a widespread secondary literature it is taken for granted that such mechanism is real and stands on a firm scientific foundation. In this paper the popular conjecture is analyzed and the underlying physical principles are clarified. By showing that (a) there are no common physical laws between the warming phenomenon in glass houses and the fictitious atmospheric greenhouse effects, (b) there are no calculations to determine an average surface temperature of a planet, (c) the frequently mentioned difference of 33 degrees Celsius is a meaningless number calculated wrongly, (d) the formulas of cavity radiation are used inappropriately, (e) the assumption of a radiative balance is unphysical, (f) thermal conductivity and friction must not be set to zero, the atmospheric greenhouse conjecture is falsified, and (f) the assumption of a radiative balance is unphysical, pissing-off global warmists, who pub. alleged refutations, resulting in both sides sticking to their guns; "The CO2-greenhouse effect of the Earth atmosphere is pure fiction of people who like to use big computers, without physical fundamentals"; "The main strategy of modern CO2-greenhouse gas defenders seems to hide themselves behind more and more pseudo explanations, which are not part of the academic education or even of the physics training."

On Aug. 7, 2007 the New York Times pub. the article Government Report Finds Drastic Impact of Climate Change on U.S. by Lisa Freeman, which starts out: "The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a sweeping federal climate change report awaiting approval by the Trump admin. The draft report by scientists from 13 federal agencies, which has not yet been made public, concludes that Americans are feeling the effects of climate change right now. It directly contradicts claims by President Trump and members of his cabinet who say that the human contribution to climate change is uncertain, and that the ability to predict the effects is limited. 'Evidence for a changing climate abounds, from the top of the atmosphere to the depths of the oceans,' a draft of the report states." It's a bunch of moose hockey by Deep State global Marxists attempting to extort gigabucks from Pres. Trump? Watch video - Tony Heller.

On Aug. 10, 2007 French glaciologist Jean Jouzel (1947-) et al. pub. the paper Orbital and Millennial Antarctic Climate Variability over the Past 800,000 Years in Science mag., with the abstract: "A high-resolution deuterium profile is now available along the entire European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica Dome C ice core, extending this climate record back to marine isotope stage 20.2, ~800,000 years ago. Experiments performed with an atmospheric general circulation model including water isotopes support its temperature interpretation. We assessed the general correspondence between Dansgaard-Oeschger events and their smoothed Antarctic counterparts for this Dome C record, which reveals the presence of such features with similar amplitudes during previous glacial periods. We suggest that the interplay between obliquity and precession accounts for the variable intensity of interglacial periods in ice core records."

On Oct. 12, 2007 the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded jointly to U.S. vice-pres. #45 (1993-2001) Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (1948-) and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chmn. (2002-15) Rajendra Kumar Pachauri (1940-), "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change"; they accept it on Dec. 10.

On Oct. 13, 2007 Champaign, Ill.-born Oxford-Princeton-educated conservative climate skeptic political journalist George Frederick Will (1941-) pub. the article George F. Will on Global Warming in Newsweek, praising Bjorn Lomborg's book "Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming", with the soundbyte: "Zealots say fighting global warming is a moral imperative, so cost-benefit analyses are immoral. Like our Manichaean president, they have a simple fixation: Are you with us or not? But in his book 'Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming,' the Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg suggests that global warming, although real, is not apt to be severe; that many of its consequences will be beneficial, and that the exorbitant costs of attempting to substantially curtail it would squander resources that, put to other uses, could have effects thousands of times more ameliorative." On Feb. 15, 2009 Will pub. the op-ed Dark Green Doomsayers in The Washington Post, in which he claims that according to the U. of Ill. Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels are "now equal those of 1979", concluding: "There has been no recorded global warming for more than a decade, or one-third of the span since the global cooling scare", pissing-off Ill. researcher Bill Chapman, who issues the soundbyte: "Mr. Will's statement... does not square with the data or updates issued by the school." On Feb. 16, 2014 Will gives an interview to Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, uttering the soundbyte: "Of course the climate is changing. It's always been changing. That's what gave us the Medieval Warm Period", adding that he doesn't "buy" Pres. Obama's climate change proposals incl. the $1B Climate Resilience Fund, adding "Neither does science." On Jan. 7, 2015 Will pub. the op-ed Climate change's instructive past in The Washington Post, containing the soundbytes: "We know, because they often say so, that those who think catastrophic global warming is probable and perhaps imminent are exemplary empiricists. They say those who disagree with them are 'climate change deniers' disrespectful of science. Atually, however, something about which everyone can agree is that of course the climate is changing - it always is. And if climate Cassandras are as conscientious as they claim to be about weighing evidence, how do they accomodate historical evidence of enormously consequential episodes of climate change not produced by human activity?" Watch video - George F. Will. Watch video - George F. Will.

On Oct. 26, 2007 Katey M. Walter of the U. of Alaska et al. pub. the paper Thermokarst Lakes as a Source of Atmospheric CH4 During the Last Deglaciation in Science mag., warning of methane bubbling up from Arctic lakes, and claiming it will boost global warming and even lead to a runaway feedback loop; co-author Sergey Aphanasievich Zimov (1955-) of the Russian Academy of Sciences goes on to claim that the Arctic can be reclaimed by cutting all the trees and releasing Pleistocene mammals to tramp down the permafrost, calling on sciences to resurrect the Mammoth in his Pleistocene Park in Siberia - let the permafrost thaw and fart, all that will happen is the rest of the planet will green from the CO2 and the methane will be harmlessly reabsorbed? Watch video - Sergey Zimov. Watch video - Sergey Zimov.

On Nov. 1, 2007 Am. marine-environmental scientist Edward T. "Terry" Wimberley (1949-) of Fla. Gulf Coast U. writes the soundbyte: "At issue is how big of a problem is human produced CO2 emissions. Undoubtedly to some marginal degree - which scientists debate about - it is a problem, but is it the major cause of global warming? No. More important is the interaction of solar activity (solar winds) with penetrating cosmic rays into the earth's atmosphere. When cosmic ray activity is great a large volume of rays penetrate the earth's lower atmosphere and contribute to cloud formation and cool the earth. However, when there is a lot of solar activity, solar winds tend to blow away just enough of the cosmic rays to thwart cloud formation at the lower levels resulting in fewer clouds and global warming. This phenomenon can be documented over hundreds if not thousands of years - well before humans were able to affect atmosphere. Scientists do not dispel the problem of global warming - that is real - but rather the CO2 theory of global warming, which unfortunately is not verified by geological and climate records going back thousands of years or by observed fact. The CO2 theory of climate change is based upon a computer simulation model and flawed data that has been widely criticized in scientific literature. The theory has acquired ‘political legs' because there are interests who see benefit to be derived from their ideological positions by pursuing some of the policies that can be justified by aggressively responding to a global warming threat."

On Nov. 17, 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (founded 1988) pub. its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4): Climate Change 007 in Paris, written by hundreds of thousands of scientists (really only 52?) led by New York City-born geoscientist Michael Oppenheimer (1946-), Argentine-born Am. economist Graciela Chichilnisky (1944-), German climatologist Stefan Rahmstorf (1960-), Kiwi scientist Michael James "Jim" Salinger (1947-), German economist Ottmar Georg Edenhofer (1961-) of the Potsdam Inst. et al., citing 6K+ peer-reviewed scientific studies and concluding that "warming of the climate system is unequivocal", "most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions", warning that human activity poses a risk of "abrupt or irreversible changes" on Earth, and proposing the Carbon Credit Emissions Trading Market, which is adopted by the Kyoto Protocol; the 996-page report Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis is pub. by Working Group I as an addendum to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, describing causes and consequences of global warming; it has 620 authors; IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri utters the soundbyte: "If there's no action before 2012, that's too late"; the IPCC is awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with former U.S. vice-pres. Al Gore (1948-), whose acceptance speech contains the New Age OWG soundbyte: "The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift Global Consciousness to a higher level." Rahmstorf goes on to found the blog RealClimate, which becomes one of the most popular pro-climate change blogs. Watch video - Stefan Rahmstorf.

In Nov. 2007 2,264 sq. mi. C19A becomes the largest iceberg on Earth after 4.4K sq. mi. B15 cracks in two.

On Dec. 8-9, 2007 the Development and Climate Days at UNFCC COP13 in Bali, Indonesia features a community-based adaptation to climate change panel, and another one titled "increasing clean development investments in developing countries to enable them to leapfrog onto a clean development pathway" - who pays for it in the end?

On Dec. 12, 2007 BBC News science reporter Jonathan Amos pub. a report touting the claims of scientists Wieslaw Maslowski et al. that Arctic summers may be ice-free by 2013, and that this estimate might be "too conservative"; too bad, the Arctic isn't sea-ice-free in 2013, and grew from the record low of 2012, causing Maslowski to revise his prediction to 2016 +/- 3 years.

On Dec. 13, 2007 an Open Letter to U.N. Secy.-Gen. Ban Ki-Moon is signed by 141 internat. scientists, describing global warming as a natural phenomenon, and carbon dioxide as a "non-polluting gas that is essential to plant photosynthesis", calling the reports of the IPCC "inadequate as justification" for climate policy, and all attempts to control the Earth's climate "ultimately futile", with the soundbytes: "It is not possible to stop climate change, a natural phenomenon that has affected humanity through the ages. Geological, archaeological, oral and written histories all attest to the dramatic challenges posed to past societies from unanticipated changes in temperature, precipitation, winds and other climatic variables"; "In stark contrast to the often repeated assertion that the science of climate change is 'settled,' significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming"; "The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued increasingly alarming conclusions about the climatic influences of human-produced carbon dioxide (CO2), a non-polluting gas that is essential to plant photosynthesis. While we understand the evidence that has led them to view CO2 emissions as harmful, the IPCC's conclusions are quite inadequate as justification for implementing policies that will markedly diminish future prosperity. In particular, it is not established that it is possible to significantly alter global climate through cuts in human greenhouse gas emissions"; "The IPCC Summaries for Policy Makers are the most widely read IPCC reports amongst politicians and non-scientists and are the basis for most climate change policy formulation. Yet these Summaries are prepared by a relatively small core writing team with the final drafts approved line-by-line by ­government ­representatives. The great majority of IPCC contributors and reviewers, and the tens of thousands of other scientists who are qualified to comment on these matters, are not involved in the preparation of these documents. The summaries therefore cannot properly be represented as a consensus view among experts." Signers incl. Antonino Zichichi, co-founder and pres. of the World Federation of Scientists, and Kiwi geologist David Kear (1923-2019), who in July 2013 pub. the booklet Global Warming alias Climate Change (the Non-Existent, Incredibly Expensive, Threat to Us All, Including to Our Grandchildren), containing the soundbytes: "'Perhaps the saddest part has been that the essential and innocent gas, carbon dioxide, has been demonized and criminalized"; "A huge international bureaucratic industry was born - with Cabinet Ministers, government departments, company sections, travel, conferences, treaties, carbon credits, and carbon trading, and very much more. The challenge was often heard that we must curb our carbon emissions or sacrifice our grandchildren's well-being. In truth, those children were being saddled with a gigantic debt to pay for everything encompassed by the Warmers' 'carbon footprints', including the salaries and expenses of the loudest proponents"; "The widespread obsession with Global-Warming-Climate-Change, in opposition to all factual evidence, is quite incredible. It leads to unfair treatment of some citizens, and a massive bill for all, for nothing useful. When will citizens revolt effectively against such callous disregard for their observations and wishes, by those who are essentially their elected employees? When will the perpetrators examine the basis of their ideology, and realise that it's based on unfounded unscientific beliefs, not on confirmed, widely-available investigations by real scientists who abide by the moral standards of their profession?"

On Dec. 18, 2007 after being introduced by U.S. Rep. (D-W.V.) (1977-2015) Nick Joe Rahall II (1949-) and promoted by Dem. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Energy Independence and Security Act (Clean Energy Act) of 2007 is passed by Congress, and signed on Dec. 19 by Pres. George W. Bush to advance his Twenty in Ten challenge to reduce gasoline consumption by 20% in 10 years, with the purpose being "to move the United States toward greater energy independence and security, to increase the production of clean renewable fuels, to protect consumers, to increase the efficiency of products, buildings, and vehicles, to promote research on and deploy greenhouse gas capture and storage options, and to improve the energy performance of the Federal Government, and for other purposes"; too bad, it promotes biofuels incl. corn and palm oil, leading to ripple effects that create fuels with nearly double the greenhouse emissions of conventional fuels, along with topsoil depletion?

On Dec. 19, 2007 English astrophysicist David Robert Whitehouse (BBC's science correspondent in 1988-2006) pub. the article Has global warming stopped? in New Statesman, containing the soundbytes: "The fact is that the global temperature of 2007 is statistically the same as 2006 and every year since 2001"; "Global warming has, temporarily or permanently, ceased. Temperatures across the world are not increasing as they should according to the fundamental theory behind global warming - the greenhouse effect. Something else is happening and it is vital that we find out what or else we may spend hundreds of billions of pounds needlessly"; on May 22, 2009 he is quoted in the U.K. Register as criticizing the BBC's environmental coverage as "evangelical and inconsistent", and its reporting on other scientific issues "narrow, shallow and sparse", with the soundbyte: "Reporting the consensus about climate change... is not synonymous with good science reporting. The BBC is at an important point. It has been narrow minded about climate change for many years and they have become at the very least a cliché and at worst lampooned as being predictable and biased by a public that doesn't believe them anymore"; on Apr. 30, 2013 he is quoted in the article Global Warming Alarm: Continued Cooling May Jeopardize Climate Science And Green Energy Funding! by Larry Bell: "If we have not passed it already, we are on the threshold of global observations becoming incompatible with the consensus theory of climate change. If the standstill (lower temperatures) continues for a few more years, it will mean that no one who has just reached adulthood, or younger, will have witnessed the Earth get warmer during their lifetime"; on Oct. 3, 2014 he is quoted in the article Climate consensus: scientists and sceptics suspend hostilities in The Guardian by Sophie Yeo: "Both sides are really fed up with the outrageous alarmists who are not representing science properly. Both don't like those who shout about it and call people names and take a polarised point of view"; he goes on serve on the Academic Advisory Council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), pub. the article Internal Climate Variability or Climate Warming? on their Web site on Aug. 14, 2015, followed by The Hiatus and the Hostage on Oct. 29, 2015, 2015 Global Temp, or How Some Scientists Deliberately Mistook Weather for Climate on Jan. 22, 2016, Pacific Stalagmites Cast Doubt on Climate Models and Projections on June 1, 2016, Standing Up for Free Speech in Science on Mar. 31, 2017, Cosmic Rays-Climate Link Found on Dec. 19, 2017, and the article Climate and the Subtle Sun on Sept. 13, 2018. Watch video - David Whitehouse.

On Dec. 20, 2007 the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by U.S. Sen. (R-Okla.) (1994-) James Mountain Inhofe (1934-) pub. the U.S. Senate Minority Report on Global Warming, listing 400 prominent scientists who dispute manmade global warming, increasing it to 650 on Dec. 11, 2008, 687 in July 2009, and 1K+ on Dec. 8, 2010; the list incl. prominent internat. scientists (incl. former U.N. IPCC scientists who flip-flopped), of whom only about 15% are climate scientists, and about 15% have pub. in related fields; critics incl. eminent Russian space scientist Habibullo Ismailovich Abdussamatov (1940-), who calls CO2 "insignificant" in climate change, and expresses fears of a future "deep temperature drop", predicting a new mini-ice age in 2014-2055 in the Heartland Inst.'s 4th Internat. Conference on Climate Change in Chicago, Ill. in May 2010 and the 9th conference in Las Vegas on July 7-9, 2014; also Kiwi U. of Auckland chemical engineer Geoffrey G. "Geoff" Duffy, who uttered the soundbyte: "Even doubling our tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapor and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will"; "Climate and local weather is forever changing. Sure we must minimize pollution of our air and water systems with obnoxious chemical and particulates, and not treat them as 'sewers'. But even doubling or trebling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will"; "Climate has forever been changing and will continue to do so. The major driver is the Sun and the radiation from it. The main atmospheric 'intermediary' between the Sun and Earth is water, and thus it dictates the behaviour of the Earth's climate"; "It is also interesting to note that NASA's Aqua satellite system has shown that the Earth has been cooling since 1998. This corresponds with measurements from the Argos sub-ocean probes that the ocean is cooling. This is in stark contrast with the proposals from many 'climate alarmists'"; "So what are the key players in 'Climate Change'? The major driver is the Sun. Warming depends on the Sun. Cooling is due to the lack of Sun's energy"; another critic is famed Russian geographer and explorer (discoverer of subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica) Andrey Petrovich Kapitsa (1931-2011), who utters the soundbyte: "The Kyoto theorists have put the cart before the horse. It is global warming that triggers higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, not the other way around... A large number of critical documents submitted at the 1995 U.N. Conference in Madrid vanished without a trace. As a result, the discussion was one-sided and heavily biased, and the U.N. declared global warming to be a scientific fact", calling global warming "the biggest ever scientific fraud"; another critic is Hungarian physicist Miklos Zagoni (Miklós Zágoni), who started out supporting the Kyoto Protocol then flopped after reading the works of Hungarian climate skeptic Ferenc Miskolczi, uttering the soundbytes: "Nature's regulatory instrument is water vapor: more carbon dioxide leads to less moisture in the air, keeping the overall GHG content in accord with the necessary balance conditions"; "I am positively convinced that the anthropogenic global warming theory is wrong. New developments in the physics of greenhouse effect and radiative transfer show that the accepted theory leads to largely exaggerated global warming projections"; another critic is leading Portuguese environmental scientist Jose (José) Delgado Domingos (1935-2014), founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast Group, who on Jan. 28, 2008 gives an interview to Sabado Noticias (Saturday News) mag., containing the soundbytes: "There are measurable climate changes but there is also an enormous manipulation in reducing everything to CO2 and equivalents. The main gas producing the greenhouse effect is water vapour. The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning", adding that when it comes to the Kyoto Protocol, "Everything made to reduce carbon dioxide emissions is positive, because it implies a reduction in energy consumption. But creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense. It is preferable for us to prepare for the natural climate evolutions. To adapt ourselves and be ready in case it happens, meaning, among other things, not destroying the dunes on the pretext of national interest, not building in flood stream beds, not turning the soils impermeable to avoid the effects of potential and natural heat waves, etc"; on Nov. 31, 2009 he pub. an op-ed in the newspaper Expresso damning the Climategate emails of the Climate Research Unit of the U. of East Anglia as a scientific fraud that compromises the credibility of climate science; another critic is Japanese Chubu U. scientist Kunihiko Takeda (1943-) (proponent of nuclear energy and critic of recycling), which contains the soundbyte: "CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another... Every scientist knows this, but it doesn't pay to say so... Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver's seat and developing nations walking barefoot"; in Jaa. 2017 and on July 4, 2018 he gives lectures on Japanese TV calling global warming a hoax, saying that the focus should be on cooling instead of warming; another critic is Portland, Ore.-born nuclear physicist Paul Jerome Berenson (1935-2009), who uttered the soundbytes: "Earth is in the final stages of a typical 10,000 year plus interglacial when both atmospheric temperature and CO2 content tend to increase long term from natural causes, as they have after every ice age. The next major stage is the start of a new ice age which hopefully is more than a thousand years in the future" (Feb. 2008); "Man has been putting increasingly large amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Age and rapidly increasing the last 60 years as shown in all the references. However, the amount of CO2 man has added to the atmosphere is less than 1 % of the CO2 that is there from natural causes"; "Current atmospheric temperatures and CO2 content are no higher than they have been at various times during the past million years. The so-called Climate Optimum 1000 to 1300 A.D. was 1-3 degrees C warmer than now, and apparently provided better living conditions for humans, animals, and vegetation. For example, Greenland was green and habitable by farmers. Water vapor (H2O) is the primary greenhouse gas, contributing roughly 80 % of the greenhouse effect. Without the warming effect of the greenhouse gases, the Earth would be roughly 10 degrees cooler, and probably uninhabitable by humans. It has been estimated that the warming effect of CO2 is roughly one thousandth that of water vapor" "The analytical models used to predict higher atmospheric CO2 content and temperature have not been validated, and do not predict the measured values from the last 200 years; e.g., the cooling of roughly 1 degree C from about 1940 to 1975. Thus they are not valid and should not be used. They are not valid because they do not include major effects on the climate such as clouds, rain, electric currents, cosmic rays, sun spots, etc." Watch video - Habibullo Abdussamatov. Watch video - John L. Casey. Watch video - Sen. James Inhofe. Watch video. Watch video. Watch video - Piers Corbyn.

In 2007 Am. meteorologist Roger A. Pielke Sr. (1946-) breaks ranks with the herd and utters the soundbyte: "As I have summarized on the Climate Science weblog, humans activities do significantly alter the heat content of the climate system, although, based on the latest understanding, the radiative effect of CO2 has contributed, at most, only about 28% to the human-caused warming up to the present. The other 72% is still a result of human activities!", going on to criticize the IPCC for its conclusions on CO2 and global warming, accusing it of selectively choosing data to support their view; in 2010 he answers the question from Andrew Revkin: "Is most of the observed warming over the last 50 years likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations" with the soundbytes: "The 2010 answer ... remains NO", and "The added greenhouse gases from human activity clearly have a role in increasing the heat content of the climate system from what it otherwise would be... there are other equally or even more important significant human climate forcings... We now know, however, that the natural variations of atmospheric and ocean circulation features within the climate system produces global average heat changes that are substantially larger than what was known in 2005. The IPCC models have failed to adequately simulate this effect." His son Roger A. Pielke Jr. (1968-) of the U. of Colo. (a believer in human-caused AGW and decarbonization) has been labeled a climate skeptic or climate change denier by a vicious smear campaign backed by Pres. Obama and the Dems., just for proving that the trend of increasing damage from hurricanes is due to change in frequency and intensity, tracing higher rates of weather-related damages to increase in wealth density. On Nov. 1, 2014 Pielke Jr. pub. The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters and Climate Change, disproving the claim that climate change has made disasters worse, lamenting the attack on the legitimacy of climate skeptics and the refusal to address the issues, e.g., when Pres. Obama's science adviser John Holdren dissed his testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in 2014 by calling it outside the "scientific mainstream", causing U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva to launch an unsuccessful investigation to discover secret fossil fuel co. funding, causing him to quit the field in 2015; no surprise, in 2019 he is blocked by leftist reporters from the Washington Post, New York Times et al., while the BBC, Los Angeles Times et al. enact a zero-tolerance policy on climate skepticism and denial. On Nov. 15, 2017 after Stanford prof. Mark Jacobsen files a lawsuit against a fellow researcher at the Nat. of Academy of Sciences, Roger Pielke Jr. pub. the article A Litigious Climate Threatens Scientific Norms: An energy researcher sues another over a critical paper. It's the wrong way to resolve such disputes in the Wall Street Journal, taking issue at a claim from Michael Mann's atty. invoking Am. sociologist Robert K. Merton, with the soundbyte: "Were Merton alive today he would reject Mr. Pielke's claim that science is stronger when scientists must turn the other cheek to attacks on their character", when what he wrote was: "Controversies follow the classically identified course of social conflict. Attack is followed by counterattack, with progressive alienation of each party to the conflict. Since the conflict is public, it becomes a status battle more nearly than a search for the truth. The process of social conflict would more often be halted in mid-course and instead turned into intellectual criticism if there were nonreciprocation of affect, if a stop were put to the reciprocity of contempt that typically marks these polemics." "In social conflict cognitive issues become warped and distorted as they are pressed into the service of 'scoring off the other fellow.' Nevertheless, when conflict is regulated by the community of peers, it has its uses for the advancement of the discipline", clarifying that by "nonreciprocation of affect" he means "someone has to be the bigger person", with the soundbyte that it "requires a differentiation of status between the parties, at least with respect to the occasion giving rise to the expression of hostility. When this status differentiation is present... the nonreciprocity of expressed feeling is governed by a technical norm attached to the more authoritative status in the relationship"; Merton also uttered the soundbyte: "Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue." Watch video - Roger Pielke Jr. Watch video - Roger Pielke Jr. Watch video - Roger Pielke Jr. Watch video - Roger Pielke Jr., Judith Curry, John R. Christy, and Michael E. Mann

In 2007 The Climate Registry (TCR) is founded in Calif. to continue the work of the Calif. Climate Action Registry (CCAR), created by the State of Calif. in 2001 to design and operate voluntary and compliance greenhouse gas reporting programs, signing up 30+ U.S. states and 17 Canadian provinces and territories by 2009.

In 2007 the prestigious 45K-member British Inst. of Physics (IOP) (originally the Inst. of Fuel, later the Energy Inst.) is hijacked by pro-AGW climate activist scientists, who shut down debate and turn it into an AGW agitprop machine, pissing-off insiders Peter F. Gill and Avril Terri Jackson (founder of the Energy Group) who blow the whistle by leaking internal emails to science writer Andrew William Montford (owner of the Bishop Hill blog), who pub. the pamphlet Institutional Bias, containing the soundbyte; "The voice of the membership is increasingly being silenced, with headquarters staff having arranged to abolish the annual representatives meeting, at which grievances had formerly been aired"; in May 2009 Jackson pub. the article Pouring cold water on global warming: Global cooling has arrived. Global warming is dead in the Belfast Telegraph, which the IOP promises to repub. then suddenly reneges. in Jan. 2019 Gill resigns as chmn. of the Energy Group in disgust, with the soundbyte: "Each of the six main hypotheses that make up the overall AGW hypotheses are wrongly based, faulted or exaggerated." Watch video - Terri Jackson.

In 2007 Seattle, Wash.-born billionaire William Henry "Bill" Gates (1955-) begins funding research in geoengineering incl. the spraying of aerosols in the upper atmosphere to block sunlight; an evil idea with the hidden intent of reducing global pop.? On Oct. 17, 2018 he pub. the article Climate change and the 75% problem, starting out: "Making electricity is responsible for only 35% of all greenhouse gas emissions each year. So even if we could generate all the electricity we need without emitting a single molecule of greenhouse gases (which we're a long way from doing), we would cut total emissions by just a quarter", talking about his Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund "which is putting more than $1 billion into helping promising companies take great ideas from the lab to market at scale", and his plan to create Breakthrough Energy Europe with 100M Euros. In 2019 Gates turns on renewable energy, with the soundbyte: "Do you guys on Wall Street have something in your desks that makes steel? Where is fertilizer, cement, plastic going to come from? Do planes fly through the sky because of some number you put in a spreadsheet?" In early Aug. 2020 Gates warns that we must "eliminate the world's carbon emissions", else "the lost of life and economic misery caused by this pandemic are on a par with what will happen regularly", predicting that the "death toll from climate change" will equal the COVID-19 crisis by 2060 and exceed it five-fold by 211, claiming that the economic conditions in the next two decades could be "as bad as having a Covid-sized pandemic every ten years"; on Aug. 4 Gates pub. an op-ed, containing the soundbyte: "As awful as this pandemic is, climate change could be worse." Watch video - Bill Gates. Watch video - Bill Gates. Watch video - Bill Gates. Watch video - Bill Gates. Watch video - Bill Gates.

In 2007 Indian-Am. electrical engineer (former IPCC member) Indur N. "Gok" Goklany (1946-), asst. dir., science & technology police, Office of Policy Analysis, U.S. Dept. of the Interior pub. Is a Richer-But-Warmer World Better Than Poor-But-Cooler Worlds, containing the soundbyte: "Strictly from the perspective of human well-being, the richest-but-warmest world characterized by the A1FI scenario would probably be superior to the poorer-but-cooler worlds at least through 2085, particularly if one considers the numerous ways GDP per capita advances human well-being"; in Aug. 2009 he appears in the Competitive Enterprise Inst. (CEI) video Policy Peril: Why Global Warming Policies Are More Dangerous than Global Warming Itself, narrated by climate change skeptic Marlo Lewis, taking apart Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth". in Oct. 2015 he pub. the GWPF report Carbon Dioxide: The Good News, with a foreword by Freeman Dyson, praising the benefits of atmospheric CO2, causing a controversy over whether it was peer-reviewed or just not pub. in a peer-reviewed journal; "It is very likely that the impact of rising carbon dioxide concentrations is currently net beneficial for both humanity and the biosphere generally. These benefits are real, whereas the costs of warming are uncertain"; "Firstly, the global climate has not been warming as rapidly as projected in the IPCC assessment reports... Models have been running hotter than reality. But these are the projections that governments have relied on to justify global warming policies, including subsidies for biofuels and renewable energy while increasing the overall cost of energy to the general consumer - costs that disproportionately burden those that are poorer"; "Finally, assessments of climate change impacts usually give short shrift to the potential positive impacts of anthropogenic global warming." He also uttered the soundbytes: "[O]ver the foreseeable future, the magnitude of the problem due to unmitigated climate change is generally smaller than that due to non-climate change related factors, and, where it is not, as in the case of coastal flooding, it is more economical to remedy it via adaptation. Therefore, global warming is unlikely to be the most important environmental problem facing the world, at least for most of the remainder of this century"; "Climate change is not now - nor is it likely to be for the foreseeable future - the most important environmental problem facing the globe, unless present-day problems such as hunger, water-related diseases, lack of access to safe water and sanitation, and indoor air pollution are reduced drastically"; "Future generations should, moreover, have greater access to human capital and technology to address whatever problems they might face, including climate change. Hence the argument that we should shift resources from dealing with the real and urgent problems confronting present generations to solving potential problems of tomorrow's wealthier and better positioned generations is unpersuasive at best and verging on immoral at worst"; "Considering that future generations will be far better off than current generations even after accounting for climate change, it would be more equitable for today's industrialized world to help solve the real problems facing today's poorer developing world than to mitigate climate change now to help reduce the burden on future populations that would not only be wealthier but also technologically superior." In May 2017 Goklany is charged by the Trump admin. with the task of rewriting Web pages and policies of the U.S. Dept. of the Interior on climate change. Watch video. Watch video. Watch video.

In 2007 Savannah, Ga.-born U.S. Rep. (R-S.C.) (2005-11) Robert Durden "Bob" Inglis Sr. (1959-) breaks ranks and declares that climate change is real and is caused by humans, and that the Repub. Party will "get hammered" if they don't start doing something about it; in 2010 he is unseated in the Repub. primary runoff; in 2012 he founds the Energy and Enterprise Initiative at George Mason U. in Fairfax, Va. to promote conservative solutions to climate change.

On ?, 2007 BBC-TV debuts its One Planet Special: It Seems the Winters of Our Youth are Unlikely to Return, featuring climate scientists opining that snow is becoming a thing of the past.

In 2007 there is a war on Wikipedia over fair and balanced coverage of the CO2-driven global warming/climate change controversy; no surprise those wanting it lost; since ? their Global Warming article is closed to editing; meanwhile in 2006-9 British Wikipedia system administrator Wiliam Michael Connolley (1964-) (software engineer and Green Party activist who claims there was no global cooling scare in the 1970s in the scientific lit., only in the popular press) goes on a rampage, disappearing 500+ articles that questioned the CO2 global warming narrative, and blocking 2K other contributors from editing before losing his own privileges. No surprise, on Mar. 8, 2020 they erase their List of Scientists Who Disagree with the Scientific Consensus on Global Warming after snide leftist editors "vote" on it.

2008

On Jan. 1, 2008 the U.N. Gen. Assembly declares the Internat. Year of Planet Earth to increase awareness of the importance of Earth sciences.

On Jan. 4, 2008 (Dec.?) Solar Cycle 24 begins (ends 2018?), with the lowest recorded sunspot activity since records began in 1750 (1755), with a min. count of 2.2, 489 spotless days, and a double-peaked solar maximum of 99 in 2011 and 101 (81.8?) in early 2014, lowest since the 17th cent. Dalton Minimum; it is expected to end in mid-late 2018, and be succeeded by Solar Cycle 25 in late 2019 through 2030.

In Jan. 2008 record cold sees the global land surface temp dip below the 20th cent. mean for the first time since 1982, along with the largest Jan. snow cover extent on record for the Eurasian continent and Northern Hemisphere, causing record biz for Colo. ski towns.

In Jan. 2008 the European Climate Foundation (ECF), a "foundation of foundations" is established to lead Europe into a low-carbon society and mitigate global climate change; the current dir. is Keith Allott - how does the magnet know that there's a refrigerator nearby to be attracted to?

In Feb. 2008 eminent Am. meteorologist Joanne Simpson (nee Gerould) (1923-2010) (first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology) releases her Public Citizen Statement on global warming, containing the soundbyte: "Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly. Few of these people seem to have any skeptical self-criticism left, although virtually all of the claims are derived from either flawed data sets or imperfect models or both. The term 'global warming' itself is very vague. Where and what scales of response are measurable? One distinguished scientist has shown that many aspects of climate change are regional, some of the most harmful dangers caused by changes in human land use. No one seems to have properly factored in population growth and land use, particularly in tropical and coastal areas... What should we as a nation do? Decisions have to be made on incomplete information. In this case, we must act on the recommendations of Gore and the IPCC because if we do not reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and the climate models are right, the planet as we know it will in this century become unsustainable. The main basis of the claim that man's release of greenhouse gases is the cause of the warming is based almost entirely upon climate models. We all know the frailty of models concerning the air-surface system. We only need to watch the weather forecasts", going on to recommend the use of NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission to test the predictions of climate models; too bad, her quote is regularly edited to take out her endorsement of Gore and the IPCC to make her a stronger climate change denier; in 2012 she pub. the soundbyte: "A vocal minority of scientists so mistrusts the models and the complex fragmentary data, that some claim that global warming is a hoax. They have made public statements accusing other scientists of deliberate fraud in aid of their research funding. Both sides are now hurling personal epithets at each other, a very bad development in Earth sciences."

On Mar. 1, 2008 www.chinaview.cn pub. the article Expert: Arctic polar cap may disappear this summer, quoting Norwegian scientist Olav Orheim.

On Mar. 2-9, 2008 the Heartland Inst. (founded in Arlington Heights, Ill. in 1984, and known for working for Philip Morris to question the health risks of second-hand smoke) holds the First Internat. Conference on Climate Change (ICCC1) in New York City, with the purpose being "to generate international media attention to the fact that many scientists believe forecasts of rapid warming and catastrophic events are not supported by sound science, and that expensive campaigns to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are not necessary or cost-effective", endorsing the Nongovernmental Internat. Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) and pub. the article Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate, criticizing the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), followed by the Manhattan Declaration, which states "That there is no convincing evidence that CO2 emissions from modern industrial activity has in the past, is now, or will in the future cause catastrophic climate change", declaring that carbon dioxide (CO2) is essential for all life, and calling for an immediate halt to tax-funded attempts to counteract climate change, demanding that "all taxes, regulations, and other interventions intended to reduce emissions of CO2 be abandoned forthwith", with the soundbytes: "Assertions of a supposed 'consensus' among climate experts are false"; leaders incl. Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (1952-), former adviser to British PM Margaret Thatcher; signers incl. Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Timothy F. Ball, David Bellamy, Robert M. Carter, Piers Corbyn, Nils-Axel Morner, Ian Plimer, S. Fred Singer, Roy W. Spencer, Anthony Watts, and Antonino Zichichi, plus Norwegian meteorologist Asmunn Moene, known for the soundbyte: "Global mean temperature changes are unpredictable... There is no significant relationship between the IPCC predicted trend and the two other curves which are generated by random changes. The random updating is of fundamental importance... An increase of the CO2-content in the atmosphere should create a greater warming trend in the lower troposphere i.e .a greenhouse effect. It is evident that this is actually not the case"; by 2017 12 conferences are held. On Mar. 9, 2008 Am. meteorologist Stanley B. "Stan" Goldenberg (1956-) of the Hurricane Research Div. of NOAA in Miami, Fla. speaks at the First Internat. Conference on Climate Change (ICCC1), with a speech titled The Mythical Link Between Hurricanes and Global Warming, followed in Mar. 2009 by the speech Is There a Link Between Global Warming and Hurricane Activity at the Second Internat. Conference on Climate Change (ICCC2) in Mar. 2009, and another at ICCC9 on July 9, 2014. He utters the soundbytes: "Just because climate change has happened doesn't mean AGW. Just because weather disasters happen doesn't mean AGW. And an inconvenient truth that most of the media are speaking of, CAGW – that's very important. They're not just talking about AGW, but catastrophic [anthropogenic global warming]. If we just have a little bit of warming from manmade causes, nobody really cares, but they're talking about it's going to be catastrophic"; "[The scientific consensus] is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into anthropogenic global warming"; "Not a single, to my knowledge – not a single scientist at the National Hurricane Center, the Hurricane Research Division, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center – I'm trying to find out about the Central Pacific Hurricane Center – believe that hurricanes – numbers, activity – that there's any measurable impact from any so-called global warming." On Mar. 4 Fred Hansen speaks at the conference with the soundbyte that there's "something fishy" with the adjusted temperature data of NASA and NOAA, exposing the disgraceful chasm between real-world observations and U.N.-hijacked climate science. Watch video - Stanley Goldenberg. Watch video - Stanley Goldenberg. Watch video - Stanley Goldenberg. Watch video - Stanley Goldenberg.

On Mar. 31-Apr. 4, 2008 the Bangkok Climate Change Talks are held in Bangkok, Thailand, featuring climate change proponents Dennis Tirpak of the IPCC, Andrew Howard of the UNFCC Secretariat, and Artur Runge-Metzger of the European Community, along with greedy Third World reps Martin Khor, Fernando Abad et al. calling for big bucks to mitigate the problems caused by the rich bad countries; similar conferences begin to be held regularly all over the Third World.

In Mar. 2008 after a visit to New York City where he learns that climate alarmist billboards are being sold for $700K/month, turning him into a climate skeptic, with the soundbyte: "Someone is willing to spend a huge amount of money to scare us about global warming. Big money is behind the global warming propaganda", retired U. of Conn. physicist Howard C. Hayden, associate of U. of Colo. physicist Petr Beckmann and ed. of the Energy Advocate, known for the soundbyte "People will do anything to save the world... except take a course in science"; appears on the Alex Jones Show to discus the "global warming hoax", uttering the soundbytes: "Yes, the polar ice caps are shrinking... on Mars", and "Overall the total polar bear population has been holding steady or slightly increasing"; "The previous predictions about the horrendous warming the people expected has not come to pass... so it's just pure garbage. There's no reason to believe any of it"; "The Sun is now cooling and the past 60 years have shown the highest solar activity in the last 1400 years. So, yes the Sun is now cooling, it has been warmer, and we can expect some cooling. But there's also some change in the ocean currents that's periodic so there is expected to be some cooling within the next decade or so. And temperature history also shows that since January 2001 the temperature of the Earth has basically held almost flat." On Oct. 27, 2009 he pub. a letter addressed to the EPA which argues that increased CO2 will be beneficial not harmful, with the soundbytes: "A warmer world is a better world. Look at weather-related death rates in winter and in summer, and the case is overwhelming that warmer is better"; "The higher the CO2 levels, the more vibrant is the biosphere, as numerous experiments in greenhouses have shown. But a quick trip to the museum can make that case in spades. Those huge dinosaurs could not exist anywhere on the earth today because the land is not productive enough. CO2 is plant food, pure and simple"; "CO2 is not pollution by any reasonable definition"; "A warmer world begets more precipitation"; "All computer models predict a smaller temperature gradient between the poles and the equator. Necessarily, this would mean fewer and less violent storms." His newsletter "The Energy Advocate" pub. the soundbyte: "Perhaps there is global warming, and perhaps there is a human influence, and perhaps that is bad. But we are not on the global-warming bandwagon... There is no credible evidence that the temperature rise of the last century is anything out of the ordinary, and even less that a warmer earth would be less habitable than it is now. Nor will we attempt to scare readers with sea-rise, for it amounts to only the thickness of a nickel per year, as it has for millennia." He goes on to pub. the books The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won't Run the World (2004, 2005) ("Solar energy has its uses, many of them, but running the world isn't one of them"), and A Primer on CO2 and Climate (2007, 2008). Watch video - Howard C. Hayden. Watch video - Howard C. Hayden. Watch video - Howard C. Hayden.

On Apr. 10, 2008 British Conservative MP (1974-92) and journalist Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby (1932-) pub. An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming, acknowledging global warming but denying that the science is settled, opposing the scientific consensus of the 2007 IPCC Report and claiming that global warming would bring benefits as well as harm, calling for gradual adaptation instead of radical action, with the soundbyte: "I don't question for a moment that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and that, all things being equal, this will lead to warming of the atmosphere. And that it's true that scientists differ greatly on how big the effect is, but there is huge agreement that there is some effect. But we account for less than two percent of global carbon emissions. And so it is crazy for us–we can't do anything on our own – and if the rest of the world... is not going to go down this route... it's not doing any good. I have long since come to the conclusion... that [climate change] is an economic issue... My judgement is the most cost-effective way of dealing with it is though adaptation, and I believe that is perfectly do-able", pissing-off global warmists incl. Jean Palutikof and IPCC head (1997-2002) Robert Watson, and the Hadley Centre, which admits that there has been no global warming since 2000 but blames it on the early 2007 La Nina - circular reasoning or gymnophobia?

On Apr. 28, 2008 Ore. State U. chemist Nicholas Drapela gives the slideshow presentation Global Warming Cracked Open: A Peek Inside, containing the soundbytes: "Global Warming doctrine is no longer just a scientific theory; it is a populist social and political tool. Many groups in our society benefit from the existence of the global warming doctrine. The coercion and propaganda used to advance this doctrine are disturbing, and have borrowed from other historical political movements. The benefactors of global warming theory are the rich and powerful; the losers are the rest of the world"; no surprise, his univ. lets him go on May 29, 2012 sans warning after 10 years and a 2004 award for outstanding teacher.

On May 19, 2008 a Petition on Global Warming is signe4d by 31,072 Am. scientists who reject the IPCC claim that global warming is caused by human activity and has reached a crisis stage.

On June 3, 2008 Sen. Barack Obama gives a speech in St. Paul, Minn., with the soundbyte: "I am absolutely certain that, generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that... this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."

On June 20, 2008 Nat. Geographic News pub. the article North Pole May Be Ice-Free for First Time This Summer, quoting U. of Manitoba scientist David Barber.

On June 23, 2008 (20th anniv. of his speech to Congress) top NASA climate scientist James A. Hansen gives a speech to the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, claiming the world has long passed the "dangerous level" for greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and needs to return to the 1988 levels or in a couple of decades there will be mass extinction, ecosystem collapse, and dramatic sea level rises, with the soundbyte: "We're toast if we don't get on a very different path. This is the last chance... We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes. The Arctic is the first tipping point and it's occurring exactly the way we said it would", adding that "in five to 10 years, the Arctic will be free of sea ice in the summer". Watch video - Tony Heller.

On June 24, 2008 NASA top climate expert James E. Hansen utters the soundbyte to AP: "The Arctic is the first tipping point, and it's occurring exactly the way we said it would", claiming it will be ice-free in 5-10 years, causing climate skeptic U.S. Sen. (R-Okla.) to cite the recent poll and utter the soundbyte: "Hansen, Gore and the media have been trumpeting manmade climate doom since the 1980s, but Americans are not buying it", to which U.S. Rep. (D-Mas.) Ed Markey replies: "Dr. Hansen was right. Twenty years later, we recognize him as a climate prophet."

On June 28, 2008 U.S. scientist Mark C. Serreze of the Nat. Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. predicts that the North Pole may becoming ice-free for the first time in recorded history by the end of the summer, with the soundbyte "The Arctic is screaming", becoming one of several gloomy predictions; luckily, they are all wrong, which doesn't stop them from renewing their predictions regularly?; on Apr. 17, 2018 pub. the book Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North, which claims that computer models are no longer providing reliable predictions of Arctic temperatures, and that the North Pole may be ice-free in 2018, and the whole Arctic in 2030.

In June 2008 Dieter Luthi, Bernhard Bereiter, Martine Le Floch, and Thomas Blunier pub. the paper High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000-800,000 years before present, with the abstract: "Changes in past atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations can be determined by measuring the composition of air trapped in ice cores from Antarctica. So far, the Antarctic Vostok and EPICA Dome C ice cores have provided a composite record of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels over the past 650,000 years. Here we present results of the lowest 200 m of the Dome C ice core, extending the record of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration by two complete glacial cycles to 800,000 yr before present. From previously published data and the present work, we find that atmospheric carbon dioxide is strongly correlated with Antarctic temperature throughout eight glacial cycles but with significantly lower concentrations between 650,000 and 750,000 yr before present. Carbon dioxide levels are below 180 parts per million by volume (p.p.m.v.) for a period of 3,000 yr during Marine Isotope Stage 16, possibly reflecting more pronounced oceanic carbon storage. We report the lowest carbon dioxide concentration measured in an ice core, which extends the pre-industrial range of carbon dioxide concentrations during the late Quaternary by about 10 p.p.m.v. to 172-300 p.p.m.v."

In July 2008 Lord Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (1952-) pub. the article Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered in the newsletter of the Am. Physical Society, which contains the soundbytes: "More importantly, the conclusion is that, perhaps, there is no 'climate crisis', and that currently-fashionable efforts by governments to reduce anthropogenic CO2 emissions are pointless, may be ill-conceived, and could even be harmful", and "Global warming will not affect us for the next 2,000 years, and if it does, it won't have been caused by us", ramping up the scientific climate change denial movement; on Oct. 18, 2008 Monckton posts the online article "More in Sorrow than in Anger, Open letter from The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley to Senator John McCain about Climate Science and Policy", dissing U.S. Sen. John McCain for a speech he made at a wind farm pushing anthropogenic climate change. On Apr. 20, 2012 Monckton pub. the article The Illogic of Climate Hysteria, covering the various logical fallacies used by IPCC believers. On ?, 2018 Monckton pub. the article On an error in defining temperature feedback, claiming that climatologists have been forgetting that the Sun was shining, predicting a climate sensitivity of 2C-4.5C, when it is really 1.17C after accounting for sunshine and pre-industrial greenhouse gas warming; he follows on July 30, 2018 with the article Climatology's startling error – an update, containing the soundbyte: "Bottom line: global warming is not a problem after all. Enjoy the sunshine climatologists forgot about"; he follows on Aug. 15, 2018 with the article Climatology's startling error of physics: answers to comments, containing the soundbyte: "Erroneously, IPCC (2013, p. 1450) defines temperature feedback as responding only to changes in reference temperature. However, feedback also responds to the entire reference temperature. Climatology thus omits the sunshine from its sums and loses the opportunity to find, directly and reliably, the Holy Grail of climate-sensitivity studies - the system-gain factor." Watch video - Lord Christopher Monckton. Watch video - Lord Christopher Monckton. Watch video - Lord Christopher Monckton. Watch video - Lord Christopher Monckton. Watch video - Lord Christopher Monckton. Watch video - Lord Christopher Monckton. Watch video - Lord Christopher Monckton. Watch video - Lord Christopher Monckton and Stefan Molyneux. Watch video - anti-Lord Christopher Monckton.

In July 2008 Am. economist Todd Wynn is hired as a policy analyst by the conservative Cascade Policy Inst. in Ore. to conduct "climate change and energy policy research", rising to vice-pres. in 2010-Sept. 2011, when he moves to the conservative Am. Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) until Sept. 2013, working to pass pro-fossil fuel legislation; meanwhile he becomes an outspoken climate skeptic, starting with the article Global Warming? No! It is Now Called Climate Change on June 22, 2009 in the Oregon Catalyst, with the soundbytes: "Global warming used to be the defining term to represent the increase in the average temperature of the earth during the past 100 years. Recently, the more politically popular term, climate change, has replaced global warming. Why? One main reason is because the earth is currently cooling"; "It is hard to advocate for overbearing regulations that attempt to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions when global temperatures have been stable or declining. In fact, in at least the last seven years, global temperatures have declined, despite increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide"; he also utters soundbytes: "It's absolutely ridiculous to say that they know that human activity is the major part of that [climate change]. We've had a temperature record a very spurious one for the maybe past 100 years, in the last 30 years a satellite temperature record. And then all the calculations for the predictions of the future are based on models... We've already seen that they're way off on their predictions"; "Climate change is a perfect scapegoat for environmentalists. They can use that to change the behavior, the lifestyle, and the standard of living of every single citizen on the planet. We also have to look at the benefits of higher global temperatures, a lot of places that weren't arable land before are now going to be. And I think that's important, that you need to weigh those costs and benefits. I think that global warming could be a net benefit for the planet in fact." In Oct. 2017 Wynn becomes dir. of the Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs of the U.S. Interior Dept. (until ?). Watch video - Todd Wynn.

In the July/Aug. 2008 issue of Launch Mag. NASA Apollo 7 astronaut Ronnie Walter "Walt" Cunningham (1932-) pub. the article In Science, Ignorance is not Bliss, containing the soundbytes: "Saying the Earth is warming is to state the obvious. Since the end of the ice age, the Earth's temperature has increased approximately 16 degrees Fahrenheit and sea levels have risen a total of 300 feet. That is certain and measurable evidence of warming, but it is not evidence of AGW- human-caused warming. We can track the temperature of the Earth back for millennia. Knowing the temperature of the Earth, past or present, is a matter of collecting data, analyzing it, and coming up with the best answer to account for the data. Collecting such data on a global basis is a NASA forte. I believe in global climate change, but there is no way that humans can influence the temperature of our planet to any measurable degree with the tools currently at their disposal. Any human contribution to global temperature change is lost in the noise of terrestrial and cosmic factors. Our beautiful home planet has been warming and cooling for the last 4.8 billion years. Most recently, it has been warming - be it ever so slightly - but there is nothing unusual about it! The changes and rates of change in the Earth's temperature, just since the Industrial Revolution, have occurred many times in our climatic history. While climate scientists generally agree that the Earth's temperature is always changing, not many of them would say that humans are responsible or those changes"; "It doesn't help that NASA scientist James Hansen was one of the early alarmists claiming humans caused global warming. Hansen is a political activist who spreads fear even when NASA's own data contradict him"; “NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused, or Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science. Advocacy is replacing objective evaluation of data, while scientific data is being ignored in favor of emotions and politics"; "I do see hopeful signs that some true believers are beginning to harbor doubts about AGW. Let's hope that NASA can focus the global warming discussion backon scientific evidence before we perpetrate an economic disaster on ourselve"; "The reality is that atmospheric CO2 has a minimal impact on greenhouse gases and world temperature. Water vapor is responsible for 95 percent of the greenhouse effect. CO2 contributes just 3.6 percent, with human activity responsible for only 3.2 percent of that. That is why some studies claim CO2 levels are largely irrelevant to global warming. Without the greenhouse effect to keep our world warm, the planet would have an average temperature of minus 18 degrees Celsius. Because we do have it, the temperature is a comfortable plus 15 degrees Celsius. Based on the seasonal and geographic distribution of any projected warming, a good case can be made that a warmer average temperature would be even more beneficial for humans." Watch video - Walt Cunningham. Watch video - Walt Cunningham.

On Aug. 16, 2008 Australian geologist Guy LeBlanc Smith writes the soundbyte: "I have yet to see credible proof of carbon dioxide driving climate change, yet alone manmade CO2 driving it. The atmospheric hot-spot is missing and the ice core data refute this. When will we collectively awake from this deceptive delusion? I contend that those professional scientists and advisors that are knowingly complicit in climate science fraud and all that is derived from it, will continue to be exposed by the science itself. There is no atmospheric hot-spot from 'greenhouse CO2' despite over 20 years of serious looking for it. Occam's razor would point to the sun as the driver of climate change of significance. Human generated carbon dioxide is arguably around 3% of the total carbon dioxide budget, and in the light of the above, we are effectively irrelevant to the natural climate change continuum." On Sept. 30, 2008 Australian economist Ross Gregory Garnaut (1946-), pub. the Garnaut Climate Change Review for the Australian govt., recommending a global CO2 level of 450 ppm and a fall-back position of 550 ppm, requiring emissions reductions of 35% on 2000 levels by 2020, and 90% by 2050, causing Smith to pub. a letter to Garnaut, containing the soundbyte: "I am strongly supportive of measures that promote effective and efficient use of all resources and reduction of pollution in all its forms - smart use. I contend that carbon tax will be amongst the most damaging and misguided use of a tax since the dark middle ages tax on light. The empirical evidence from ice core data do not support anthropogenic carbon dioxide impacts of significance. I have this data and my graphs and interpretations show substantive natural climate variations over records as long as 800,000 years, where CO2 is clearly a response after temperature change, and not a driver of change. I attach a few graphs of thisdata (with references) for your consideration. I have been in research for over 30 years in geoscience, ten of which with the CSIRO, and Iremain open to be convinced there is credible evidence to substantiate Item 1 of your terms of reference. I am yet to be persuaded by evidence not based on assumptions, that humankindhas any control over climate changes of significance. My reading of the rock and ice records is currently favouring an interpretation that our climate is poised for a major fall in temperatures, which will have a far more immediate and damaging impact of human populations should snowfall over northern land masses not melt across summer, effectively initiating continental ice sheets, and mass migrations. The Romanssuffered this when the Dark Ages Ice age took effect and northern tribes were forced south..."; "There is an abundance of information that does not support the current alarmist stance that humankind is causing climate change. My current view, based on evidence to hand, is that this contention is a fraud bordering on a crime against humanity. Hypothetically, I wonder if the Hague will get involved should carbon taxes of significance be levied, and subsequently be found to be unwarranted?" Watch video - potholer54.

On Aug. 24, 2008 the 33rd Internat. Geology Congress in Norway sees about two thirds of the presenters and question-askers hostile to the IPCC (International panel on climate change) and the idea that the Earth's climate was responding to human influences.

On Aug. 25-Sept. 2, 2008 Hurricane Gustav starts 260 mi. SE of Port-au-Prince (1958-), Haiti and reaches Category 3 before hitting the U.S. near Cocodrie, La. on Sept. 1 as a Category 2, dropping to Category 1 within 4 hours, and missing New Orleans, which had been evacuated by orders of mayor Ray Nagin, who called it "the mother of all storms", and later changes that to mother-in-law, causing the Repub. Nat. Convention to be delayed one day.

On Aug. 29, 2008 oceanographer Richard A. Feely of NOAA et al. pub. the article Ocean Acifification: The Other CO2 Problem in Annual Review of Marine Science, with the abstract: "Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), primarily from human fossil fuel combustion, reduces ocean pH and causes wholesale shifts in seawater carbonate chemistry. The process of ocean acidification is well documented in field data, and the rate will accelerate over this century unless future CO2 emissions are curbed dramatically. Acidification alters seawater chemical speciation and biogeochemical cycles of many elements and compounds. One well-known effect is the lowering of calcium carbonate saturation states, which impacts shell-forming marine organisms from plankton to benthic molluscs, echinoderms, and corals. Many calcifying species exhibit reduced calcification and growth rates in laboratory experiments under high-CO2 conditions. Ocean acidification also causes an increase in carbon fixation rates in some photosynthetic organisms (both calcifying and noncalcifying). The potential for marine organisms to adapt to increasing CO2 and broader implications for ocean ecosystems are not well known; both are high priorities for future research. Although ocean pH has varied in the geological past, paleo-events may be only imperfect analogs to current conditions." In 2010 Feely testifies before Congress raising alarms about ocean acidification. Too bad, in 2014 hydrologist Mike Wallace discovers a fraud in Feely's work, his omission of 80 years of data to make it look like ocean acidity has been increasing when the actual data shows it decreasing.

In Aug. 2008 Am. meteorologist David A. Dilley, 1992 founder of Global Weather Oscillations Inc. (formerly employed by the USAF, NOAA, and Nat. Weather Service) pub. the e-book Global Warming - Global Cooling, Natural Cause Found, in which he predicts that "the first stage of global cooling will begin during 2008 and 2009", followed in Feb. 2012 by the ebook Earth's Natural Climate Pulse, which claims that "wide swings in carbon dioxide levels will likely occur every 230 years as earth goes through natural global warming and cooling cycles", and "predicts that the Arctic warm water pulse will cool within the next 8 years. This will allow rapid global cooling to begin around the year 2020, with temperatures becoming similar to those experienced in the 1800's", containing the soundbyte: "Earth's temperature changes seasonally due to the seasonal tilt of the earth, with longer term cycles due to the PFM Natural Pulse cycles every 10-years, 230 years and 130 thousand years. Carbon dioxide concentrations are a naturally occurring cycle connected to the short-term global warming cycles that occur approximately every 230 years, and the longer term 130 thousand year glacial and inter-glacial cycles.... Earth's current temperatures and carbon dioxide levels are perfectly normal for global warming cycle that was occurring up to the year 2012 (now beginning to slip into global cooling for the next 150 years", and ending with the soundbyte: “Natural cycles of global cooling are potentially more dangerous than global warming. T hese natural cycles are a natural regulatory rhythm which is required by nature. Humans need sleep after a period of activity, and earth likewise requires active and rest periods. In 2008, earth entered phase I global cooling. Phase II cooling will begin around the year 2020, this will usher in very dramatic global cooling, hurling temperatures quickly back to where they were in the cold 1950s and 1960s, and then further back to the climate seen in the 1800s. Coldest temperatures will be from about the year 2024 to 2050. There will be rapid ice pack regeneration until the peak of the next global warming cycle in the year 2140. Due to the Lunisolar gravitation stress on the outer liquid core and floating plates beneath the earth's crust, there will be a historically strong climate changing volcano around 2020 to 2030. There will also be increased earthquake activity from 2008 through 2024." Dilley Debunked, by Roger Fjellstad Olsen. Watch video - David Dilley. Watch video - David Dilley. Watch video - David Dilley. Watch video - David Dilley. Watch video - David Dilley. Watch video - David Dilley - Pt. 1/4. Watch video - David Dilley - Pt. 2/4. Watch video - David Dilley - Pt. 3/4. Watch video - David Dilley - Pt. 4/4.

In Sept. 2008 the Web site Academia.edu is launched by British entrepreneur Richard Price, allowing authors to bypass the rigged academic journal refereeing system and go directly to the public, reaching 39M visitors/mo. by 2019 with 21M uploaded texts; Vancouver, Canada-based lawyer and climate change skeptic James Grant "Jim" Matkin becomes ed. in 2019-; on Mar. 4, 2020 he pub. the article Is there any viable alternative to greenhouse gases as the cause of climate change?

On Oct. 2, 2008 Am. solid state physicist and environmental activist John Droz Jr. (1946-) pub. the paper The Power of Energy, containing the soundbytes: "Is Global Warming a scientifically resolved matter? No. There is some very convincing evidence (and scientists) that indicate that there is such a thing as Global Warming. But there are some very qualified scientists (with good evidence) that suggest just the opposite. More importantly, statements often appearing in the media like 'the majority of scientists' believe in Global Warming, are meaningless. First of all, no legitimate survey has ever been done, and secondly, science is not about the number of people who advocate a position"; on Jan. 2012 after becoming an opponent of wind energy, he utters the soundbyte: "When I first heard about wind energy I was a supporter. Quite frankly, I never liked the looks of turbines but felt that we would have to live with the unsightliness as a trade-off for the good I initially assumed they were doing. Then I did some research and Critical Thinking. My conclusion now (as a scientist, economist, and environmentalist) is that industrial Wind Energy is not based on sound science"; in 2013 Droz founds the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED), whose basic position is that wind energy "is not a technically sound solution to provide electricity, or to meaningfully reduce global warming; is not an economically viable source of energy on its own; and is not environmentally responsible"; on June 17, 2014 he pub. a position paper on climate change titled Global Warming: The Scientific View, containing the soundbytes: "As a scientist I have been asked to elaborate a bit on my position regarding the Global Warming proposition - and how it relates to wind energy. These are very legitimate (and important) questions. The main hypothesis put forward is technically called Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW), where the fancy term 'anthropogenic' means 'man-made.' Although I am not a climatologist, as a scientist I know how to do thorough and objective research. (BTW, skepticism is a key ingredient of true scientists.) In my capacity as a scientist, I have read literally hundreds of reports and studies on this climate issue, from numerous experts. After digesting these studies and reports, it is very clear to me that AGW is still a scientifically unresolved matter. This is what is called a hypothesis." On Aug. 19, 2019 he posts the soundbyte: "As an independent physicist who has been involved with energy and environmental matters for 40+ years, I'm not aware where the AGW hypothesis has been officially adjudicated to warrant being labelled as a scientific theory. You might find investigating that simple matter to be quite enlightening - as it is indicative of what is transpiring. The three pillars of the AGW hypothesis are: 1) computer models, 2) the IPCC, and 3) scientific consensus. The fact is that not one of those pillars has any real substance. Ergo the AGW issue is still a scientific hypothesis. Once we understand that there is no genuine Science behind AGW, the question is: what is the basis for such claims. Clearly the answer is 'political science.' Well, what political factions are advancing AGW? The answer is the Left. Yes, there are many good people who have been swept up in this anti-scientific, anti-American tsunami." Watch video - John Droz Jr. Watch video - John Droz Jr.

On Oct. 3, 2008 British PM Gordon Brown reshuffles the cabinet to create the Dept. of Energy and Climate Change to supervise the decommissioning of the country's nuclear sites, with British Labour Party leader (son of Polish Jewish immigrants) Edward Samuel "Ed" Miliband (1969-) as secy. of state for energy and climate change #1 (until May 11, 2010), announcing on Oct. 16 that the govt. will pledge itself to cut greenhouse emissions by 80% by 2050 rather than 60% as previously announced; in Mar. 2009 Miliband attends the U.K. debut of the pro-AGW film "The Age of Stupid", where star Pete Postlethwait ambushes him and pressures him into changing the govt.'s policy on coal-fired power stations, requiring them to capture 35% of their emissions immediately, and 100% by 2025; in 2009 he represents the U.K. at the Copenhagen Summit, pledging $10B/year to fight climate change, growing to $100B/year in 2020, blaming China for keeping the conference from reaching a legally binding agreement, which China denies, accusing Britain of a "political scheme".

On Oct. 13, 2008 Urmee Khan pub. the article Climate change study predicts refugees fleeing into Antarctica in The Telegraph, with the lead: "Climate change refugees to move to Antarctica by 2030, researchers have predicted", referring to a report by Forum for the Future.

On Oct. 31, 2008 Jean de Sigonzac's Lost City Raiders debuts, starring James Brolin, Ian Somerhalder, Ben Cross, and Jamie King on globally-warmed 2048 New Vatican, where Cardinal Battaglia wants to use the Scepter of Moses to stop a global flood; "Waterworld without the budget" (Tampa Tribune); view trailer.

In Oct. 2008 British climate change skeptic European Parliament member Roger Helmer (1944-) of the conservative Tory Party becomes a member of its Temporary Committee on Climate Change, calling himself "a lone voice crying in the wilderness" and debating a draft EU Integrated Policy on Climate Change; in Mar. 2012 he switches to the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP); on Nov. 16, 2009 he pub. a letter in the Leicester Mercury accusing the Church of England of having "abandoned religious faith entirely and taken up the religion of climate alarmism instead", spending more time "preaching climate change than the gospel of salvation", urging the Church to "get back to the gospel", with the soundbyte: "The recent multi-faith conference at Windsor suggests that other world religions are taking the same line on climate change. This is particularly ironic at a time when the world is cooling and when more and more scientists around the world are breaking cover to challenge the theory of man-made global warming. Perhaps world religions should have more faith in God, and less in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change"; on Nov. 18, 2009 Helmer convenes the conference titled "Have Humans Changed the Climate?" in the European Parliament, hosting top climate change deniers incl. Dutch scientist Hans Labohm, Canadian economist Ross McKitrick, Australian scientist Ian Plimer, Norwegian geologist Tom Segalstad, and Am. scientist S. Fred Singer; in Dec. 2010 after attending the 2010 U.N. Climate Change Conference on Nov. 29-Dec. 10, Helmer uses £9K of EU funds to mount a billboard campaign in his constituency criticizing climate change policy and calling green climate policies "probably unnecessary", "certainly ineffectual", and "ruinously expensive"; he goes on to utter the soundbytes: "I believe, AGW is simply a kind of collective hysteria with no basis in science"; "But it's the temperature driving the CO2, and not, as Gore wrongly asserts, the CO2 driving the temperature. The records clearly show the CO2 graph around 800 years or so behind the temperature graph"; "By geo-historical standards, today's atmospheric CO2 levels are remarkably - indeed dangerously - low. We need CO2 in the air to support plant growth and agricultural yields, and more would be better"; "In the last hundred years, average global temperature has risen a mere 0.7 degrees Celsius. There is ample evidence that results from ground-based weather stations have been contaminated by urban sprawl, tarmac, car parks, vehicles, buildings and air-conditioning units"; "Temperature data from satellites over the last 30 years show some warming, but less than that from ground stations... This slight 0.7 degree rise is entirely consistent with well-established, long-term, natural climate cycles"; "The truth is that climate alarmism has become the most expensive, and the most wasteful, project in the history of the world. It is junk economics built on junk science. It amounts to no more than hot air, yet it looks set to beggar our grandchildren." On June 1, 2017 Pres. Trump announces his withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, tweeting the soundbyte: "President Trump is a Climate Hero. This is American Leadership in action. Well done that man." On Nov. 4, 2019 U.S. state secy. ike Pompeo announces that official notice has been given of withdrawal in 1 year, ending one day after the 2010 U.S. pres. election, causing Dem. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to condemn Pres. Trump's decision and utter the soundbyte: "The growing climate crisis is the existential threat of our time." On Nov. 10, 2021 Pelosi agrees with a reporter that the U.S. military is a "larger polluter than 140 countries combined." Watch video - Roger Helmer. Watch video - Roger Helmer. Watch video - Roger Helmer.

On Nov. 17, 2008 Andrew Dessler et al. of Texas A&M U. pub. the paper Water Vapor Confirmed as Major Player in Climate Change, claiming it is a critical greenhouse gas that has a feedback effect with CO2.

On Nov. 19, 2008 after several Euro countries approach his transition team to signal his intentions to diplomats gathering in Poland in Dec. to draft a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which entered into force on Feb. 16, 2005 while the U.S. never joined, pres.-elect #44 (2009-17) Barack Hussein Obama II (1961-) sends a videotaped Speech on Global Climate Change to 700 delegates from 19 countries at a global warming conference in Los Angeles, Calif. held by the London-based Climate Group and backed by Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, promising "a new chapter in America's leadership on climate change", incl. a federal cap and trade system, and establishment of annual targets aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions to their 1990 levels by 2020 and an additional 80% by 2050, promising that the U.S. will "help lead the world toward a new era of global cooperation on climate change"; "Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear." In Mar. 2009 the Cato Inst. pub. an ad titled With all due respect, Mr. President, that is not true, signed by dozens of scientists, reading: "We, the undersigned scientists, maintain that the case for alarm regarding climate change is grossly overstated. Surface temperature changes over the past century have been episodic and modest and there has been no net global warming for over a decade now. After controlling for population growth and property values, there has been no increase in damages from severe weather-related events. The computer models forecasting rapid temperature change abjectly fail to explain recent climate behavior. Mr. President, your characterization of the scientific facts regarding climate change and the degree of certainty informing the scientific debate is simply incorrect."

On Nov. 26, 2008 the Climate Change Act of 2008 by the British Parliament is given royal assent, making it the duty of the secy. of state for energy and climate change to ensure that the net carbon account for all six Kyoto greenhouse gases for the year 2050 is at least 80% lower than the 1990 baseline, aiming to make the U.K. a low-carbon economy with ministers given powers to introduce measures to achieve a wide range of greenhouse gas reduction targets; an independent Committee on Climate Change is established, whose eight members all have their snouts in the Green corporate trough and are anything but independent?; the act's lead author is Welsh-born Bryony Katherine Worthington, Baroness Worthington (1971-) who flops and accepts nuclear power as long as the fuel is thorium; no relation to Southern Calif. car dealer Cal Worthingon (1920-2013) and his dog Spot?; Rupert Darwall calls it "history's most expensive virtue signal"; British journalist Christopher John Penrice Booker (1937-) calls the act "the most expensive piece of legislation ever put through Parliament", with projected costs in the hundreds of billions over 40 years; on Oct. 17, 2009 Booker pub. the bestseller The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with 'Climate Change' Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?, denying a scientific consensus on climate change, denying that it is manmade, and calling govt. measures to combat it "one of the most expensive, destructive, and foolish mistakes the human race has ever made", labeling it Groupthink, with British science writer Philip Ball (1962-) (ed. of Nature) in The Observer (a critic) calling it "the definitive climate skeptics' manual... [in which] he has rounded up just about every criticism ever made of the majority scientific view that global warming, most probably caused by human activity, is under way, and presented them unchallenged"; Ball reverses the Groupthink argument with the observation that to accept Booker's position one must believe: "1) Most of the world's climate scientists, for reasons unspecified, decided to create a myth about human-induced global warming and have managed to twist endless measurements and computer models to fit their case, without the rest of the scientific community noticing. George W. Bush and certain oil companies have, however, seen through the deception. 2) Most of the world's climate scientists are incompetent and have grossly misinterpreted their data and models, yet their faulty conclusions are not, as you might imagine, a random chaos of assertions, but all point in the same direction." On Nov. 28, 2009 Booker pub. the article Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation in The Telegraph. On July 25, 2018 Booker pub. the article Yes it's scorching, but claims that the heatwave is down to climate change are just hot air: June was even hotter when Victoria was on the throne in the Daily Mail. On Oct. 14, 2018 Booker pub. the article The UN's latest mega-panic climate change report is based on pure fantasy in The Telegraph, containing the soundbyte: "However much those behind this report may delude themselves and try to delude the rest of us, the fact is that the rest of the world is no longer being taken in by their make-believe." Watch video - British Climate Change Act. Watch video - Baroness Worthington. Watch video - Baroness Worthington. Watch video - Christopher Booker. Watch video - Ian Plimer.

On Dec. 13, 2008 Al Gore predicts that the "entire North polarized cap" will be completely ice-free in five years.

On Dec. 18, 2008 after measuring methane levels at 1,080 locations in the sea over the East Siberian Arctic Shelf since 2003, finding that 80%+ of the bottom waters and 50%+ of the surface waters are supersaturated with methane, U. of Alaska researchers Igor P. Semiletov, Natalia Shakhova et al. pub. the article Scientists Find Increased Methane Levels in Arctic Ocean; on Mar. 5, 2010 Shakhova et al. pub. the article Extensive Methane Venting to the Atmosphere from Sediments of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf in Science mag., first of a series of articles predicting a "highly possible at any time" release of 50B metric tons of methane (out of 1,500B metric tons) from thawing clathrate structures in melting permafrost that could raise global avg. temps by 0.6C-1.3C in a short period; "At a minimum we would lose our ability to grow grains"; total CO2 released into the atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Age is 350B metric tons; the release of methane is actually too slow to be a worry? Watch video - Natalia Shakhova. Watch video.

In 2008 G.V. Chilingar and L.F. Khilyuk of USC, and O.G. Sorokhtin of the Russian Academy of Sciences pub. the paper Cooling of Atmosphere Due to CO2 Emission in Energy Sources, with the introduction: "Traditional anthropogenic theory of currently observed global warming states that release of carbon dioxide into atmosphere (partially as a result of utilization of fossil fuels) leads to an increase in atmospheric temperature because the molecules of CO2 (and other greenhouse gases) absorb the infrared radiation from the Earth's surface. This statement is based on the Arrhenius hypothesis, which was never verified (Arrhenius, 1896). The proponents of this theory take into consideration only one component of heat transfer in atmosphere, i.e., radiation. Yet, in the dense Earth's troposphere with the pressure pa > 0:2 atm, the heat from the Earth's surface is mostly transferred by convection (Sorokhtin, 2001a). According to our estimates, convection accounts for 67%, water vapor condensation in troposphere accounts for 35%, and radiation accounts for about 8% of the total heat transfer from the Earth's surface to troposphere. Thus, convection is the dominant process of heat transfer in troposphere, and all the theories of Earth's atmospheric heating (or cooling) first of all must consider this process of heat (energy) - mass redistribution in atmosphere." It ends with the conclusion: "Accumulation of large amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leads to the cooling, and not to warming of climate, as the proponents of traditional anthropogenic global warming theory believe. This conclusion has a simple physical explanation: when the infrared radiation is absorbed by the molecules of greenhouse gases, its energy is transformed into thermal expansion of air, which causes convective fluxes of air masses restoring the adiabatic distribution of temperature in the troposphere. Our estimates show that release of small amounts of carbon dioxide (several hundreds ppm), which are typical for the scope of anthropogenic emission, does not influence the global temperature of Earth's atmosphere"; the paper is not refuted in a peer-reviewed journal until ?.

In 2008 the nonprofit news org. Climate Central is founded in Princeton, N.J. to conduct scientific research on climate change and energy issues and produce and distribute multimedia content; on June 20, 2018 after NBC News reports how its Climate Change Education Partnership (founded 2010) helped educate 500+ TV weathercasters across the U.S. on global warming and its impacts, Repub. Sens. Ted Cruz of Tex., Rand Paul of Ky., James Lankford of Okla., and Jim Inhofe of Okla. call for the foundation's inspector gen. Allison Lerner to investigate their $4M program to increase climate reporting by meteorologists, calling it "propagandizing" instead of science, causing CEO Ben Strauss to utter the soundbyte: "Climate Central is not an advocacy organization, and the scientific consensus on climate change is not a political viewpoint", and U.S. Sen. (D-R.I.) (2007-) Sheldon Whitehouse (1955-) to utter the soundbyte: "Calling education on the irrefutable science of climate change 'political' would be laughable if it didn't reveal such a sobering truth about Republicans in Congress. Climate deniers still exist on Capitol Hill and the way fossil fuel money holds sway over the Republican Party permits antics like attacking this sensible grant." On May 10, 2019 Sheldon Whitehouse gives an interview to the Washington Examiner, claiming that after shareholder advocacy, public pressure, and litigation, the oil and gas industry is nearing a breaking point that could allow Congress to pass major climate change policy.

In 2008 in response to the 2008-9 crash Budapest, Hungary-born Jewish anti-American leftist super-billionaire puppetmaster George Soros (Schwartz Gyorgy) (1930-) co-founds the Inst. for New Economic Thinking (NET), with the soundbyte: "It is an attempt to get economists to rethink the very foundations of economics because it turns out that macro-economic theory has broken down. The financial crisis has shown that it is quite inadequate at making any kind of predictions about the future, and it has to be rethought from its fundamentals"; it goes on to mastermind the Socialist-Marxist Green New Deal and use the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to plan a decarbonized world energy order run by a technocratic world govt., viz. Soros.

2009

In 2009-2010 the 2009-2010 El Nino is a warm pool El Nino, rapidly decaying to a strong La Nina.

On Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2009 2009 Global Storm Activity incl. a severe drought in SW China along with Bolivia, Venezuela, Spain, Morocco, Mali, and Mauritania; meanwhile Victoria, Australia has a colder summer than usual; in June-Sept. the 2009 West Africa Floods see heavy rainfall cause the Niger, Penjari, Senegal, and Volta Rivers to overflow, affecting 940K in 12 countries, killing 193 and causing $152M damage, with 150K fleeing their homes in the Ougadougou area after one day of rainfall equals 35% of the annual avg.

On Jan. 8, 2009 Newfoundland-born Canadian conservative commentator and climate change skeptic Rex Murphy (1947-) pub. the op-ed Armageddon theory: Vancouver in the Globe and Mail, pointing out the coldness of the weather in Vancouver as throwing doubt on global warming theories, with the soundbytes: "Now I introduce this spotty survey not in any spirit of contention or with intent to counter what so many people hilariously refer to as the 'science' of global warming. One season's weather is not a guide to another, an insight captured more poetically by the proverb 'one swallow does not make a spring.' I am, most certainly, not going to make the error of our global warming hierophants who leap with troubling eagerness on any 'extreme weather event' and pilot it with ferocity to the conclusion that we are all doomed. They are rhetoricians of less scruple than I"; "I tie it all to Vancouver. So much of what the alarmists promised was supposed to be happening now isn't happening. So many events are running counter to their near-term projections, they've decided to go all Armageddon with their long-term ones, projections for a future that none of us will be around to check. So here's the test: The colder it gets in Vancouver, the hotter the dubious scenarios for the globe a hundred years from now will be." On Nov. 21, 2015 Murphy is listed as #1 in the 10 grumpy conservative voices Canadians are better off not listening to about climate science. On Oct. 12, 2018 after the Oct. 8 pub. of the new Doomsday IPCC Report, hhe pub. the article The UN climate-change panel that cried wolf too often in the National Post, containing the soundbytes: "You can't set multiple deadlines for Doomsday. It's a kind of one-off by nature. Do it too often and people cease to take notice or even care"; "The trouble with apocalypses is that they can't be plural. You only get one by definition. Neither can you set multiple deadlines for Doomsday. It's a kind of one-off by nature. Do it too often and people cease to take notice or even care. Everyone knows the sad story of Cassandra, the woman given the gift of true prophecy by the gods and simultaneously cursed to have no one believe her. The IPCC's problem, up to now, is like that but reversed. Always off, but generously credited. I think that string has run out. They can play Wagner and whistle the Ride of the Valkyries all they want from here on. People are tired of that music, and sick of the band." Watch video - Rex Murphy. Watch video - Rex Murphy.

On Jan. 15, 2009 NASA atmospheric scientist John S. Theon (1934), former supervisor of NASA climate change king James A. Hansen writes a letter to the Minority Office of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, with the soundbytes: "I appreciate the opportunity to add my name to those who disagree that global warming is man made"; "As Chief of several of NASA Headquarters' programs, I was responsible for all weather and climate research in the entire agency, including the research work by James Hansen"; "Hansen was never muzzled even though he violated NASA's official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind's effect on it). Hansen thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress"; "Climate models are useless... My own belief concerning anthropogenic climate change is that the models do not realistically simulate the climate system because there are many very important sub-grid scale processes that the models either replicate poorly or completely omit. Furthermore, some scientists have manipulated the observed data to justify their model results. In doing so, they neither explain what they have modified in the observations, nor explain how they did it. They have resisted making their work transparent so that it can be replicated independently by other scientists. This is clearly contrary to how science should be done. Thus there is no rational justification for using climate model forecasts to determine public policy."

On Jan. 17, 2009 Robin McKie pub. the article President 'has four years to save Earth': US must take the lead to avert eco-disaster, reporting that NASA climate guru James A. Hansen warmed Pres. Obama that he has to save the Earth in his first administration, with the soundbyte: "We cannot afford to put off change any longer. We have to get on a new path within this new administration. We only have four years left for Obama to set an example to the rest of the world. America must take the lead", claiming that atmospheric CO2 levels are already to high to prevent runaway greenhouse warming, and only the U.S. has the political muscle to lead the world to halt the rise.

On Jan. 22, 2009 U. of Wash. geochemist Eric J. Steig et al. pub. the paper Plugging data gaps shows warming across West Antarctica in Nature, claiming that a reconstruction of Antarctic surface temps in 1957-2006 suggests a warming trend of 0.1C/decade; on Apr. 15, 2011 aeronautical engineer Patrick Jeff Condon, independent researcher Nicholas "Nic" Lewis of Bath, England, Carnegie Mellon U. computer scientist Ryan O'Donnell, and math-trained Canadian mining exec Stephen George "Steve" McIntyre (1947-) pub. the rebuttal Improved Methods for PCA-Based Reconstructions: Case Study Using the Steig et al. (2009) Antarctic Temperature Reconstruction in Journal of Climate of the Am. Meteorological Society, containing the soundbyte: "Rather than finding warming concentrated in West Antarctica, the authors find warming over the period of 1957–2006 to be concentrated in the peninsula (˜0.35°C decade-1). This study also shows average trends for the continent, East Antarctica, and West Antarctica that are half or less than that found using the unimproved method. Notably, though the authors find warming in West Antarctica to be smaller in magnitude and find that statistically significant warming extends at least as far as Marie Byrd Land. This study also finds differences in the seasonal patterns of temperature change, with winter and fall showing the largest differences and spring and summer showing negligible differences outside of the peninsula"; on Feb. 1, 2011 Steig pub. West Antarctica: still warming. On Sept. 25, 2014 Nic Lewis and Judith A. Curry pub. the paper The implications for climate sensitivity of AR5 forcing and heat uptake estimates, using the data from IPCC's AR5 to lower the range of climate sensitivity from 6C to 3C, pissing them off. Watch video - Steve McIntyre. Watch video - Steve McIntyre. Watch video - Steve McIntyre.

On Jan. 25-Feb. 9, 2009 the 2009 Southeastern Australia Heat Wave becomes the most extreme in the region's history (until ?), with 50 separate locations setting records for consecutive highest daytime and nighttime temperatures, incl. 119.8F (48.8C) in Hopetoun, Victoria, 114.3F (45.7C) in Adelaide, and 115.5F (46.4C) in Melbourne, and a record 12-straight days over 109F (43C) in Mildura, Victoria, causing 374 deaths and 2K treated for heat.

On Jan. 27, 2009 Am. La. State U. geologist (AGW believer, specialist in the Antarctic) Peter T. Doran and his student Maggie Kendall Zimmerman pub. the paper Examining the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change in Eos, claiming that a survey of 1,257 Earth scientists showed a 97% consensus that there is anthropogenic global warming, with the conclusion: "It seems that the debate on the authenticity of global warming and the role played by human activity is largely nonexistent among those who understand the nuances and scientific basis of long-term climate processes. The challenge, rather, appears to be how to effectively communicate this fact to policy makers and to a public that continues to mistakenly perceive debate among scientists."

In Jan. 2009 Scottish-born Canadian geologist A. Neil Hutton (1934-) pub. Climate Change in Reservoir, the mag. of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, a balanced treatment pissing-off global warmists for its fairness to the climate skeptic side.

On Feb. 5, 2009 Dem. Conn. atty. gen. #23 (1991-2011) Richard Blumenthal (1946-) along with 17 other states and two cities issue a joint letter calling on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Lisa P. Jackson to comply with an Apr. 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision ordering it to determine whether CO2 is a danger to human health and welfare and must be regulated, with Blumenthal writing the soundbyte: "I urge the new Obama EPA to declare carbon dioxide a danger to human health and welfare so we can at last begin addressing the potentially disastrous threat global warming poses to health, the environment and our economy. We must make up for lost time before it's too late to curb dangerous warming threatening to devastate the planet and human society"; on Dec. 7 the EPA issues its Endangerment Finding that greenhouse gas pollution threatens human health and the environment, putting it under Section 202(a) of the U.S. Clean Air Act, causing Blumenthal to comment: "No reputable climate scientist disputes the reality of global warming. It is fact, plain and simple. Dithering will be disastrous"; New York City-born geoscientist Michael Oppenheimer (1946-) supplies a lone affadavit claiming that CO2 influences sea level rise, going on to smear CO2 as responsible for global warming effects incl. damage to coral reefs and ice sheets, linking climate change to crop yields and U.S.-Mexico cross-border migration.

On Feb. 7-Mar. 14, 2009 the Black Saturday Bushfires in Victoria, Australia see 400 fires burn 1.1M acres, killing a record 173, injuring 414, and destroying 3.5K bldgs. incl. 2,029 houses.

On Feb. 8, 2009 after moving to Wichita, Kan., home of the Koch Brothers, which back him up all the way, Orange, Calif.-born Ayn Rand-loving Repub. U.S. Army vet and Harvard Law School grad Michael Richard "Mike" Pompeo (1963-) is congratulated by the Koch brothers-funded Americans for Prosperity (founded 2003) for signing its No Climate Tax Pledge, which reads: "I pledge to the taxpayers of the State of __ and to the American people that I will oppose any legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue"; on June 25, 2013 Pompeo appears on the TV show Washington Journal, uttering the soundbyte: "There are scientists who think lots of different things about climate change. There's some who think we're warming, there's some who think we're cooling, there's some who think that the last 16 years have shown a pretty stable climate environment"; on Jan. 3, 2011 he becomes a U.S. rep. from Kan. (until Jan. 23, 2017); on Nov. 30, 2015 Pompeo issues a press release ahead of Pres. Obama's trip to the U.N. Climate Change Summit in Paris, with the soundbyte: "The President has his priorities dangerously wrong. He is now headed to Paris to bow down to radical environmentalists, all the while refusing to stand up to radical Islamists. In this city that has suffered an enormous tragedy at the hands of jihadists, our President stands ready to handcuff the global economy instead of the barbarians that seek to kill Americans, our allies, and others all over the world... President Obama has called climate change the biggest national security threat of our lifetime, but he is horribly wrong. His unwillingness to acknowledge the true threat posed by Islamic extremism will get Americans killed. His perverse fixation on achieving his economically harmful environmental agenda instead of defeating the true threats facing the world shows just how out of sync his priorities are with Kansans and the American people"; on Jan. 12, 2017 he faces a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing, refusing to acknowledge NASA's endorsement of climate change, with the soundbyte: "I, frankly, as the director of CIA, would prefer today not to get into the details of the climate debate and science. It seems my role is going to be so different and unique to that. It is going to be to work alongside warriors keeping Americans safe and so I stand by the things I've said previously with respect to that issue", after which he is confirmed as CIA dir. #6 on Jan. 23, 2017 until Apr. 26, 2018, when he becomes U.S. secy. of state #70 (until ?), succeeding Rex Tillerson; watch video - Mike Pompeo.

On Feb. 10, 2009 Susan Solomon, Gian-Kasper Plattner, Reto Knutti, and Pierre Friedlingstein pub. the paper Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions in Proceedings of the Nat. Academy of Sciences, with the abstract: "This paper shows that the climate change that takes place due to increases in carbon dioxide concentration is largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop. Following cessation of emissions, removal of atmospheric carbon dioxide decreases radiative forcing, but is largely compensated by slower loss of heat to the ocean, so that atmospheric temperatures do not drop significantly for at least 1,000 years. Among illustrative irreversible impacts that should be expected if atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations increase from current levels near 385 parts per million by volume (ppmv) to a peak of 450–600 ppmv over the coming century are irreversible dry-season rainfall reductions in several regions comparable to those of the 'dust bowl' era and inexorable sea level rise. Thermal expansion of the warming ocean provides a conservative lower limit to irreversible global average sea level rise of at least 0.4–1.0 m if 21st century CO2 concentrations exceed 600 ppmv and 0.6–1.9 m for peak CO2 concentrations exceeding ˜1,000 ppmv. Additional contributions from glaciers and ice sheet contributions to future sea level rise are uncertain but may equal or exceed several meters over the next millennium or longer." - in case some of you are wondering, we're traveling at one half the speed of light. There is nothing to worry about, however, you may experience some temporary metabolic changes?

On Feb. 23, 2009 Geneva College environmental scientist-meteorologist Anthony J. "Tony" Sadar, a conservative Christian who believes in the Theory of Intelligent Design pub. the article In Global Warming We Trust in The Washington Times, containing the soundbytes: "Everyone has been conditioned to believe that an extremely complex climate system is largely controlled by a single simple gas - carbon dioxide - even though the biggest single climate regulator on Earth is most likely water... Besides, could other uncontrollable factors like variation in incoming solar radiation and cosmic rays, as some atmospheric scientists have proposed, have a dominant influence over climate?"; "But wait. Aren't we all just essentially being pressured to believe in a long-range climate forecast? And isn't this pressure largely being applied by politicians and political organizations no less? Who today would bet serious money on a weather prediction made a month in advance let alone decades ahead? Yet the developed nations of the world are under the gun to invest hundreds of billions of dollars on a climate prophecy when worldwide financial stability is tottering. Doesn't President Barack Obama have enough global headaches to buffer to worry about a trillion-dollar climate prescription?"; on Aug. 20, 2012 he pub. the book In Global Warming We Trust: A Heretic's Guide to Climate Science (rev. ed. Apr. 5, 2016), comparing the U.N. IPCC-driven global warming lobby to a religious cult that wants to spend a trillion dollars canceling the Industrial Rev., relegating millions to lifelong poverty.

On Feb. 24, 2009 NASA's $280M Orbiting Carbon Laboratory, designed to detect worldwide carbon emissions plunges into the ocean after launch from Vandenberg AFB in Calif. when the nose cone fails to come off, weighting it down; on July 2, 2014 NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 is launched to study CO2 concentrations and distribution in Earth's atmosphere; watch video.

In Feb. 2009 Am. chemical process engineer Pierre R. Latour pub. a letter to the editor of Hydrocarbon Processing, defending his view that the Earth's thermostat can't be controlled with CO2 and pointing out errors in peer-reviewed journals, with the soundbyte: "The tenuous link between CO2 greenhouse effects and the Earth's temperature indicates humanity has no effective manipulated variable to control temperature; the steady-state gain dT/dCO2 is almost zero. If so, the system is uncontrollable. Kyoto will fail no matter what the political consensus may be." On Apr. 16, 2014 Latour pub. the paper Engineering Earth's Thermostat With CO2?, containing the soundbytes: "There are no greenhouse gases in physics"; "CO2 is not a pollutant; it is green plant food"; "CO2 does not affect temperature; rather temperature affects CO2"; "There is no such thing as a greenhouse gas because the atmosphere has no glass house"; "Since there are no graduate or licensed chemical process control engineers in the U.N. IPCC, U.S. Congress, Cabinet, or Supreme Court, these incompetent groups continue to waste time and money since 1997 attempting the impossible, designing Earth's thermostat using anthropogenic CO2. No one has controlled the climate of an entire planet"; "Halting all combustion of hydrocarbons (oil, gas, coal and wood) by man will not measurably affect atmospheric CO2 content, now 380 ppm. Simple material balance shows man generates 30 billion tons/year... while plants consume 7 trillion tons/year... Forest fires, rotting flora and volcanoes input most of the CO2 to the atmosphere. Total input or output is >7. The ratio is 0.03/7 = 0.0043... Cutting the 30 in half to 15 will drop CO2 by 100 ppm after 70 years"; "CO2 does not affect temperature; rather temperature affects CO2... Solubility of CO2 in water, oceans, beer and champagne decreases with temperature so solar warming of the ocean releases dissolved CO2 and cooling reaborbs it. Solar radiation drives Earth's temperature. CO2 has nothing to do with it"; "Atmospheric radiation absorption and emission is dominated by the presence of all three phases of H2O. Like all molecules, CO2 only absorbs and emits specific spectral wavelengths (14.77 microns) which constitute a tiny fraction of solar radiation energy in Earth's atmosphere. The first 50 ppm of CO2 absorbs about half of this tiny energy, each additional 50 ppm absorbs half of the remaining tiny fraction, so at the current 380 ppm there are almost no absorbable photons left. CO2 could triple to 1000 ppm with no additional discernible absorption-emission. This is the Beer-Lambert Law: the intensity of radiation decreases exponentially as it passes through an absorbing medium"; "Earth's temperature increased naturally 0.6C from 1976 to 1978 and has stabilized since, decreasing nearly 0.1C from 2005 to 2009. Forecasts of long term cooling are credible but irrelevant to the claim anthropogenic CO2 does not affect temperature. CO2 did not accelerate at the onset of the increase in hydrocarbon combustion by man after 1900"; "Warming or cooling, the rate of change of surface temperature at a moment in time, does not affect the melting or freezing rate of H2O, only the average temperature of its surroundings greater than 0C or less than 0C does. If average temperature is less than 0C, water will freeze even if the temperature is incrasing; if average temperature is >0C, ice will melt even if the temperature is decreasing. In other words ice melts because its surroundings are too warm, not because they are warming"; "What troubles me is the claim that ice melts because the temperature is warming, meaning any time the temperature increases, they say ice is going to melt. That's universal in the language in the media for 20 years, and that's not right, it's not said right"; "Earth's atmospheric temperature is not measurable. Temperature is a point property of the energy content of vibrating and radiating molecules. Physics has no rigorous definition of average temperature of bulk matter, accounting for changes in temperature, state, composition, pressure, heat capacity, velocity and reactions. Air temperature, pressure and composition change with altitude, latitude, clouds, time of day, season, weather fronts and deforestation. Wien's Law gives an average surface temperature from radiation emitted by black bodies like stars; it does not apply to bodies dominated by non-uniform, variable reflection, like Earth"; "U.N. IPCC climate models incorrectly assume Earth's radiation to space decreases as its temperature increases. The Stefan-Boltzmann Law states all bodies radiate proportional to T**4... Control engineers know all matter reaches an equilibrium temperature due to this change-mitigating effect. Otherwise Earth would have exploded or frozen long ago. U.N. climate models are empirical and hence wrong"; "Earth's global emissivity is difficult to measure or determine, but Standard Global Climate Model uses e = 0.612. It increases with content of radiating gases like H20 and C02.... Doubling CO2 from 400 to 800 ppmv increases e by about 0.001 to 0.613"; "What is all the fuss about? When I was in kindergarten, Henny Penny & Chicken Little said 'The sky is falling!'. They neglected to say how fast. No astrophysics, just chemical engineering. In 1981 James Hansen, NASA, assumed Earth was a black body, e = 1.0, and deduced Earth's radiating temperature to be Tbb0 = 100(239/567*1.0)**0.25 = 254.80 (-18.3C). Since it is about +15C, he declared the Greenhouse Gas Effect to be T0 - Tbb0 = 288.08 - 254.80 = 33C. Everybody was horrified, Hansen got famous, Al Gore got rich and the rest is history." On Feb. 25, 2017 Latour pub. the paper Radiation Physics Laws Give the Effect of CO2 on Earth's Temperatures – A Primer, ditching the climatologists' non-physics-based non-quantitative statistical climate models for a chemical process control systems model of Earth's atmosphere, concluding that a 1% increase in atmospheric parameters (emissivity and absorptivity levels) yields a surface temperature DROP from 14.786C to 14.033C (delta of– 0.763C), while atmospheric temperature drops from –18.141C to –18.533C (delta of –0.392C), exploding the COW, er, CO2 Greenhouse Warming Theory as moose hockey that doesn't even exist because it violates the Laws of Thermodynamics and creates an imaginary perpetual motion machine in the sky. Watch video - Pierre R. Latour

On Mar. 8-9, 2009 the Heartland Inst.'s Second Internat. Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-2) is held in New York City, with the theme "Global Warming: Was It Ever Really a Crisis?", with the keynote address given by Czech Repub. pres. Vaclav Klaus.

On Mar. 20, 2009 Franny Armstrong's The Age of Stupid (Spanner Films) (Dogwood Pictures) debuts, a documentary starring Pete Postlethwaite as a historyscoper living alone in the devastated world of 2055, watching archival footage from guess what year while asking "Why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?"; spawns the 10:10 Project in the U.K. to encourage everybody to reduce their carbon emissions by 15% in 12 mo. Watch the movie.

On Mar. 20, 2009 Alex Proyas' Knowing (Summit Entertainment), based on an idea by novelist Ryne Douglas Pearson debuts, starring Rose Byrne/Lara Robinson as Lucinda Embry-Wayland, who is visited by ETs in 1959 and puts a sheet of numbers in her school's time capsule, which is opened in 2009 by fellow student Caleb Koestler (Chandler Canterbury), whose father Jonathan "John" Koestler (Nicolas Cage) is an MIT astrophysics prof.; the numbers turn out to be dates and coordinates of major disasters, the last one of which is "EE" (everyone else), after which a solar flare wipes out all life on Earth right before some ETs arrive in spaceships to rescue a lucky few; does $187.9M box office on a $50M budget; "Now, I want you to think about the perfect set of circumstances that put this celestial ball of fire at just the correct distance from our little blue planet for life to evolve, making it possible for you to be sitting here in this riveting lecture. But that's a nice thought, right? Everything has a purpose, an order to it, is determined. But then there's the other side of the argument, the theory of randomness, which says it's all simply coincidence. The very fact we exist is nothing but the result of a complex yet inevitable string of chemical accidents and biological mutations. There is no grand meaning. There's no purpose. What about you, Professor Koestler? What? Well, what do you believe? I think shit just happens. But that's me." View trailer. Watch movie clip.

In Mar. 2009 Christchurch, New Zealand-born Kevin Edward Trenberth (1944-) of the Nat. Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. (lead author of the 2001 and 2007 IPCC Assessment Reports) pub. the article Earth's Global Energy Budget in Proceedings of the Am. Meteorological Society, displaying a Global Energy Flow Diagram that purports to show how "back radiation" of 333 W/sq. m causes global warming, and is quickly adopted by climate scientists, even though the incoming solar radiation is only 341.3 W/sq. m; this is moose hockey because it ignores the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics and doesn't mention that convection overrides radiation in Earth atmosphere, or that back radiation is mathematical science fiction that creates an imaginary second Sun along with a perpetual motion machine? On Mar. 31, 2011 Trenberth pub. the paper Changes in precipitation with climate change, which seems to forget about CO2 radiative forcing and focuses on the warming caused by the Sun, apparently not realizing he's undermining his own energy budget moose hockey. Watch video - Tony Heller. On July 8, 2004 according to the Climategate hacked emails, Phil Jones sent the email: "I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow, even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"

On Apr. 2, 2009 the 2009 G20 London Summit results in the leaders declaration, which starts with the soundbyte: "We face the greatest challenge to the world economy in modern times."

In Apr. 2009 Washington, D.C.-born former Rush Limbaugh aide Marc Morano (1968-) founds the climate change denial Web site Climate Depot, sponsored by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) of Washington, D.C. (founded in 1985 by David Rothbard (-2018) and Craig Rucker to "relentlessly infuse the environmental debate with a balanced perspective on environmental stewardship"), going on to help spread news of the Climategate scandal, also going on to debate Bill Nye the Science Guy on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" in Dec. 2012 and Sierra Club exec dir. Michael Brune on ditto in Jan. 2013, and produce the documentary Climate Hustle, which debuts on Dec. 7, 2015 at the COP 21 U.N. Climate Change Summit in Paris, and in U.S. theaters on May 2, 2016; the film is produced by the Committee for Contructive Tomorrow (CFACT), which is funded by major oil corps. and right-wing billionaire Richard Mellon "Dickie" Scaife (1932-2014); "Scorching temperatures. Melting ice caps. Killer hurricanes and tornadoes. Disappearing polar bears. The end of civilization as we know it! Are emissions from our cars, factories, and farms causing catastrophic climate change? Is there a genuine scientific consensus? Or is man-made 'global warming' an overheated environmental con job being used to push for drastic government control and a radical 'Green' energy agenda? Climate Hustle will answer these questions, and many more." On Feb. 26, 2018 Morano pub. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change, which claims that climate change is not about science but about fundamentally changing society to eliminate capitalism in favor of central planning run by the U.N. On May 6, 2019 Morano gave an interview to Fox News Channel, dissing the recent U.N. report claiming 1M species at risk from global warming, with the soundbyte: "This is politics, not science. The U.N. is trying to expand its base to include climate and species. They're looking for more treaties, more regulation. They've identified a problem. They've juiced it up and they put themselves in charge of solving the problem. That's called a self-interested lobbying organization." On May 8, 2019 William Davis pub. the article Marc Morano Claims the Government Can't Regulate the Climate in The Daily Caller. Am. atty. Michael Goetz is vice-pres. of CFACT Europe, which on Dec. 15, 2009 after bribing the crew with doughnuts puts a CFACT banner on the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior reading "Ship of Lies", later unfurling another banner reading "Propaganda Warrior"; CFACT's official policy on climate change is contained in the soundbytes: "The continuing scandal over falsified and destroyed temperature data, manipulated climate models, and a perverted scientific and peer review process further demonstrates that there is no valid basis for this anti-energy, wealth-redistribution, global governance Copenhagen treaty"; "Hundreds of climate scientists and thousands of other scientists disagree with that assertion [that climate change is occurring], as frequently noted by Lord Christopher Monckton, former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and a CFACT advisor." On Aug. 10, 2018 the Heartland Inst. uploads the video Battling Russia and America's Big Green Machine, featuring Marc Morano, exposing Russian subversion of the anti-fracking movement in the West. Watch video - Marc Morano. Watch video - Marc Morano. Watch video - Marc Morano. Watch video - Marc Morano. Watch video - Marc Morano. Watch video - Marc Morano. View trailer. View clip. Watch video - Climate Hustle. Watch video - Michael Goetz. Watch video - David Rothbard. Watch video - Craig Rucker. Watch video - Craig Rucker.

On May 1, 2009 John M. Broder pub. the article Saving the Planet, With a Thesaurus, explaining how the term "global warming" has become dated for marketing purposes, as is the term "climate change", and the latest proposal by ecoAmerica is the term "deteriorating atmosphere".

On May 1, 2009 Australian global warming skeptic earth scientist (geologist) Ian Rutherford Plimer (1946-) pub. the bestseller Heaven and Earth: Global Warming - The Missing Science, dissing climate models for overemphasis on CO2 and not giving enough weight to solar variation; in June he gives an interview to ABNNewswire, containing the soundbyte: "Carbon dioxide has an effect on the atmosphere and it has an effect for the first 50 parts per million and once it's done its job then it's finished and you can double it and quadruple it and it has no effect because we've seen that in the geological past, and we've seen it in times gone by when the carbon dioxide content was 100 times the current content. We didn't have runaway global warming, we actually had glaciation, so there's immediately a disconnect. So carbon dioxide is absolutely vital for living on earth; it's plant food, all of life lives off carbon dioxide. To demonize it shows that you don't understand school child science"; he also utters the soundbyte: "There is no problem with global warming. It stopped in 1998. The last two years of global cooling have erased nearly thirty years of temperature increase"; in 2014 he pub. Not for Greens: He Who Sups with the Devil Should Have a Long Spoon. In 2004 Plimer helps fellow Australian global warming skeptic meteorologist William Robert Kininmonth pub. his book Climate Change, a Natural Hazard. Watch video - Ian Plimer. Watch video - Ian Plimer. Watch video - Ian Plimer. Watch video - Ian Plimer. Watch video - Ian Plimer. Watch video - Ian Plimer. Watch video - Ian Plimer.

On May 8, 2009 after he can't make up his mind about climate change and hires top scientists on both sides to answer his questions, wealthy Kiwi economist and investor Gareth Huw Morgan (1953-) along with John McCrystal pub. Poles Apart: Beyond the Shouting, Who's Right About Climate Change? (The Great Climate Change Debate), explaining why he began accepting it despite problems with the hockey stick, with the order in which CO2 growth and warming occur at the end of an ice age, and the arcane language of the IPCC reports; in Feb. 2012 he makes a voyage in Antarctica from Bluff to Scott Base carrying top scientists to gauge Antarctica's sensitivity to climate change. Watch video - Gareth Morgan. Watch video - Gareth Morgan.

On May 17, 2009 English "Top Gear" motoring journalist Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (1960-) pub. the article "Okay, you've got me bang to rights - I'm a secret green" in The Times of London, admitting he "loves the destination" of Greenpeace et al. but not their tactics, calling them "eco-mentalists" who are a byproduct of "old trade untions and CND lesbians"; he goes on to diss global warming alarmists for not realizing that some warming may be beneficial, saying that CO2 emissions have a neglible effect on global climate, while admitting that too much global warming has a negative potential, with the soundbyte: "Let's just stop and think for a moment what the consequences might be. Switzerland loses its skiing resorts? The beach in Miami is washed away? North Carolina gets knocked over by a hurricane? Anything bothering you yet?" On Dec. 5, 2019 he tells Greta Thunberg to "shut up and go back to school", adding "She's mad... she's dangerous and she's causing young children sleepless nights." On Dec. 5, 2019 after a trip to Cambodia where he sees a dried lake, he flops and admits to the existence of global warming, calling it "alarming, genuinely alarming." Watch video - Jeremy Clarkson.

On June 11, 2009 after returning from a trip to China and Alaska, U.S. Dem. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issues the soundbyte that the U.S. and China have been "each using the other as the excuse for doing nothing" to stop global warming, adding: "The debate over whether or not the planet is warming and whether we are causing the problem no longer exists."

On June 23, 2009 a letter is sent to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) titled A Scientific Challenge of EPA's Proposed Finding of Endangerment that CO2, Methane, Nitrous Oxide, Hydrofluorocarbons, Perflouorocarbons, and Sulfur Hexafluoride, Collectively or Individually, Are Causal Agent(s) or Contributors of Climate Change, which contains the soundbyte: "There is no 'cause and effect' relationship between CO2 and GTA (Global Temperature Anomalies)"; signers incl. Norwegian U. of Oslo environmental geologist Tom Victor Segalstad, who is slammed by the EPA with the soundbyte: "[Segalstad's work] does not address the lifetime of a change in atmospheric concentration of CO2, but rather the lifetime in the atmosphere of an individual molecule of CO2", which they claim are "two different concepts", based on his hot, er, cool Dec. 1995 paper The distribution of CO2 between atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere; minimal influence from anthropogenic CO2 on the global "Greenhouse Effect", containing the soundbyte: "Man's contribution to atmospheric CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels is small, maximum 4% found by carbon isotope mass balance calculations. The 'Greenhouse Effect' of this contribution is small and well within natural climatic variability... The global climate is primarily governed by the enormous heat energy stored in the oceans and the latent heat of melting of the ice caps, not by the small amount of heat that can be absorbed in atmospheric CO2; hence legislation of 'CO2 taxes' to be paid by the public cannot influence on the sea level and the global climate"; Watch video - Tom Segalstad. Watch video - Tom Segalstad. Watch video - Tom Segalstad. Watch video - Tom Segalstad. Watch video - Tom Segalstad.

On June 26, 2009 the U.S. House by 219-212 (incl. 8 Repubs.) passes the landmark American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) (Waxman-Markey Bill), calling for greenhouse gas emissions to be cut 17% by 2020 and 83% by 2050 (by raising the price of energy), and for 20% of all electricity in the U.S. to be generated by renewable sources and/or more efficient methods by 2020 (via tax incentives), supposedly creating millions of new "green" jobs while costing the avg. U.S. household only $175 a year by 2020; Pres. Obama speaks out against a provision imposing trade penalties that don't accept global warming pollution limits, and adds the soundbyte that the legislation could make renewable energy "a driver of economic growth"; meanwhile House leaders complain that they won't have time to read the 1.2K-page monster before having to vote on it; critics call it a Soviet-style 50-year plan that foists Cap-and-Trade on U.S. industry; too bad, Thomas Crocker, who invented the idea in the 1960s, now says it's not a good idea, causing the Obama admin. to call his skepticism a "straw man" argument; it never reaches the floor of the Senate for a vote. Watch video - Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich.

On June 30, 2009 Repub. Alaska Gov. #9 (2006-9) Sarah Louise Palin (nee Heath) (1964-) announces that she doesn't support the Am. Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, sponsored by U.S. Rep. (D-Calif.) (1975-2015) Henry Arnold Waxman (1939-) and U.S. Rep. (D-Mass.) (1976-2013) Edward John "Ed" Markey (1946-), chmn. of the U.S. House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming since 2007, "calling it a case of one size doesn't fit all", which was approved 219-212 by the House on June 26 and is never brought to a vote in the Senate; on Aug. 7, 2010 after calling 2010 the hottest year on record, Markey suggests that global warming deniers start their own country on an iceberg, with the soundbyte: "An iceberg four times the size of Manhattan has broken off Greenland, creating plenty of room for global warming deniers to start their own country", adding that it is "unclear how many giant blocks of ice it will take to break the block of Republican climate deniers in the US Senate who continue hold this critical clean energy and climate legislation hostage", on Mar. 20, 2011 Markey ridicules Repubs. for trying to pass the U.S. Upton-Inhofe Bill to overturn the EPA's rules on climate pollution and its endangerment finding, with the soundbyte: "Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to a bill that overturns the scientific finding that pollution is harming our people and our planet. However, I won't physically rise, because I'm worried that Republicans will overturn the law of gravity, sending us floating about the room. I won't call for the sunlight of additional hearings, for fear that Republicans might excommunicate the finding that the Earth revolves around the sun. Instead, I'll embody Newton's third law of motion and be an equal and opposing force against this attack on science and on laws that will reduce America's importation of foreign oil", later uttering the soundbyte: "Scientists agree the Arctic is a canary in a coal mine that provides clear warmings on climate"; on Aug. 18, 2011 Markey appears on MSNBC's "The Last Word", dissing Repub. U.S. pres. candidates who want to dismantle the EPA, with the soundbyte: "Rick Perry and these other guys are allergic to science...too many of the Tea Party people, who basically don't believe in science, are now controlling the Republican Party." Watch video - Ed Markey. Watch video - Ed Markey. Watch video - Ed Markey and Judith Curry. Watch video - Ed Markey, Judith Curry, and Mark Steyn. Watch video - Ed Markey.

In June 2009 satellite data reveals that the Earth's temp has dropped by 0.74F since former U.S. vice-pres. Al Gore released "An Inconvenient Truth" in 2006, indicating that the Earth's fever has broken?

In June 2009 U.S. Sen. James Inhofe and the Competitive Enterprise Inst. (CEI) write a letter to EPA head Lisa Jackson calling for a congressional investigation of the suppression of a report casting doubt on the existence of CO2-driven global warming written by Caltech physics-trained MIT economics-trained economist Alan Carlin (dir. of EPA's Implementation Research Div. in 1971-4), which they deny, making him more popular with climate skeptics?; on Feb. 12, 2010 he pub. the article Why the Whole AGW/Warmist Narrative Is Even Weaker than Its Components, containing the soundbyte: "There is very little empirical evidence for rising GHG levels as the primary cause for global warming. Ice core data suggests that CO2 levels follow temperatures rather than the other way around. In fact, the all-important scientific tests of this hypothesis show that increases in GHG levels are not a significant cause of warming." Watch video - Alan Carlin. Watch video - Alan Carlin.

On July 10, 2009 Australian physicist Ralph B. Alexander pub. the book Global Warming False Alarm: The Bad Science Behind the United Nations' Assertion That Man-Made CO2 Causes Global Warming, containing the soundbytes: "I wrote this book because I'm a scientist. Because I'm offended that science is being perverted in the name of global warming - today's environmental cause célèbre. Because the world seems to have lost its collective mind and substituted political belief for the spirit of scientific inquiry"; "This book takes the skeptics viewpoint on global warming, but with emphasison the underlying science rather than the politics. My intention is as much to resurrect the tarnished reputation of scientiic endeavor as it is to convince you that CO2 has little to do with global warming"; "Global warming may be real, but there's hardly a shred of good scientific evidence that it has very much to do with the amount of CO2 we're producing, or even that temperatures have risen as much as warmists say"; "The link between extreme weather and global warming has as much scientific basis as the pagan rite of human sacrifice to ensure a good harvest"; "Climate-change skeptics might be regarded as modern-day witches because they think that global warming comes from natural forces. However, it's superstitious alarmists, who believe that extreme weather originates in our CO2 emissions and who have a dread of impending disaster, who are really the witches." On Dec. 10, 2012 he pub. the article Extreme Weather and Superstition in The New York Post, which claims that there is no link between anthropogenic climate change and extreme weather events. In Aug. 2012 he pub. the book Global Warming False Alarm: The Bad Science Behind the United Nations' Assertion That Man-Made CO2 Causes Global Warming. On Sept. 1, 2018 he pub. the book Science Under Attack: The Age of Unreason, attacking global warmists while expanding the list of hot-button issues to vaccination and the health of dietary fat, with the soundbytes: "Conventional scientific wisdom holds that global warming and consequent changes in the climate are primarily our own doing. But what few people realize is that the actual scientific evidence for a substantial human contribution to climate change is flimsy"; "It requires highly questionable computer climate models to make the connection between global warming and human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2)"; "The multiple lines of evidence which do exist are simply evidence that the world is warming, not proof that the warming comes predominantly from human activity"; "The supposed proof relies entirely on computer models that attempt to simulate the Earth's highly complex climate and include greenhouse gases as well as aerosols from both volcanic and man-made sources – but almost totally ignore natural variability."

On Sept. 22-24, 2009 the 2009 Eastern Australian Dust Storm, not driven by drought smothers dozens of towns and cities in two states with a red-orange dust cloud visible from space that is reminiscent of Mars, becoming the worst in N.S.W. in almost 70 years.

On Sept. 25, 2009 Albany, N.Y.-born Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Robin Krugman (1953-) pub. the op-ed It's Easy Being Green in Tte New York Times, dissing global warming deniers for claiming that climate legislation would cause "immense economic damage" and accusing them of "treason against the planet"; on Sept. 27 he pub. the NYT op-ed Cassandras of Climate, claiming that climate scientists are like the Greek myth of Cassandra, who could prophesy the future but could never get anybody to believe her; on Aug. 20, 2018 he pub. the NYT op-ed The G.O.P.'s Climate of Paranoia, with the soundbytes: "Fifteen years have passed since Senator James Inhofe suggested that global warming is 'the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.' This was and is an even crazier claim than the assertion of Trump and company that all of the tweeter in chief's woes are the product of a vast deep-state conspiracy; it's not far short of Pizzagate or QAnon territory. To take it seriously you have to believe in a vast international conspiracy involving thousands of scientists, not one of whom dares speak out", and "Climate denial is a deeply cynical enterprise; the people misrepresenting evidence and sifting through emails for 'gotcha' quotes have to know that they're not being honest. Yet their rage against 'elitists' who continue to point out inconvenient truths is very real - because it's a fact of life that many people feel special hatred for those they've mistreated." He follows with Donald and the Deadly Deniers: Climate policy is the ultimate example of Trumpian corruption on Oct. 15, 2018, The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial: Risking civilization for profit, ideology and ego on Nov. 26, 2018, and Climate Denial Was the Crucible for Trumpism on Dec. 3, 2018, attempting to defame climate change skeptics and do everything but call for them to be burned at the stake.

On Sept. 28-30, 2009 the 4 Degrees and Beyond Internat. Climate Conference: Implications of a Global Climate Change of 4+ Degrees for People, Ecosystems and the Earth-system is held in Oxford, U.K., sponsored by Oxford U., the Tyndall Centre, and the Met Office Hadley Centre.

In Sept. 2009 after agreeing that AGW is beyond dispute, 28 internat. academics led by true AGW believer Johan Rockstrem (Rockström) of Stockholm U. hold a conference to propose a new framework for govt. agencies to achieve sustainable development based on nine "planetary life support systems" that form the "safe operating space for humanity" (climate change, ocean acidification, stratospheric ozone depletion, nitrogen cycle, phosphorus cycle, global freshwater use, change in land use, biodiversity loss, atmospheric aerosol loading, and chemical pollution), with violation of "planetary boundaries" bringing a risk of "irreversible and abrupt environmental change" that could make the Earth less habitable; critics pan the whole idea as arbitrary and not applying globally. Watch video - Johan Rockström. Watch video - Johan Rockström. Watch video - Johan Rockström. Watch video - Johan Rockström. Watch video - Patrick Moore.

On Oct. 18, 2009 Australian atmospheric physicist John Reid pub. an article dissing Al Gore as nothing but a religious cult leader, with the soundbyte: "Global warming is the central tenet of this new belief system in much the same way that the Resurrection is the central tenet of Christianity. Al Gore has taken a role corresponding to that of St Paul in proselytizing the new faith... My skepticism about AGW arises from the fact that as a physicist who has worked in closely related areas, I know how poor the underlying science is. In effect the scientific method has been abandoned in this field."

On Oct. 24, 2009 Financial Sense Newshour (founded 1988), hosted by Am. investment analyst James Joseph "Jim" Puplava pub. an interview with climate change skeptic Ian Plimer about his book "Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science", who utters the soundbyte: "My view shows us that in the past we've had massive climate changes far far bigger than anything we've measured today", adding that increased CO2 in the atmosphere is a "gift" because it improves crop production; Puplava adds the soundbyte: "History shows that depopulation, social disruptions, extinctions, disease, and catastrophic droughts take place in cold times yet life blossoms and economies bloom in warm times. If indeed there is a period of global warming, why are we afraid of it?"

In Oct. 2009 future Australian Liberal PM #28 (2013-15) Anthony John "Tony" Abbott (1957-) gives a speech in Victoria, in which he utters the soundbyte: "I observed that the so-called settled science of climate change was 'absolute crap'"; in July 2014 his govt. abolishes Labor's 2011 carbon tax and replaces it with the Emissions Reduction Fund, which lets cos. bid for $2.5B in public funds to implement emissions reduction projects; on Oct. 9, 2017 he gives the speech Daring to Doubt at the Global Warming Policy Foundation in London, calling green ideology a symptom of the decline of Western civilization, and climate change an insidious new religion that has replaced Christianity in many Western societies, with the soundbytes: "Beware the pronouncement, 'the science is settled'. It's the spirit of the Inquisition, the thought police, down the ages. Almost as bad is the claim that '99 per cent of scientists believe', as if scientific truth is determined by votes rather than facts", "Contrary to the breathless assertions that climate change is behind every weather event, in Australia the floods are not bigger, the bushfires are not worse, the droughts are not deeper or longer, and the cyclones are not more severe than they were in the 1800s. Sometimes, they do more damage but that's because there's more to destroy, not because their intensity has increased. More than 100 years of photography at Manly Beach in my electorate does not suggest that sea levels have risen despite frequent reports from climate alarmists that this is imminent", "In what might be described as Ridley's paradox, after the distinguished British commentator: at least so far, it's climate change policy that's doing harm; climate change itself is probably doing good; or at least, more good than harm", "The growing evidence that records have been adjusted, that the impact of urban heat islands has been downplayed, and that data sets have been slanted in order to fit the theory of dangerous anthropogenic global warming does not make it false; but it should produce much caution about basing drastic action upon it", "Unsurprisingly, the recipients of climate change subsidies and climate change research grants think action is very urgent indeed. As for the general public, of course saving the planet counts – until the bills come in and then the humbug detector is switched on", with the concluding soundbyte: "A tendency to fear catastrophe is ingrained in the human psyche. Looking at the climate record over millions of years, one day it will probably come; whatever we do today won't stop it, and when it comes, it will have little to do with the carbon dioxide emissions of mankind." Watch video - Tony Abbott.

On Nov. 12, 2009 scientists Joseph Francisco of Purdue U. and Timothy Lee of NASA pub. an article in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A, revealing that carbon dioxide and methane are outclassed in their climate warming potential by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and sulfur and nitrogen fluorides because they "contain fluorine atoms, [which] are far more efficient at blocking radiation in the 'atmospheric window'..., the frequency in the infrared region through which radiation from Earth is released into space, helping to cool the planet."

On Nov. 17, 2009 the Climategate Scandal breaks after Phil Jones, dir. of the U. of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit receives a British Freedom of Info. Act requesting documentary proof of human-caused global warming, which he refuses to provide, after which a secret whistleblower leaks a treasure trove of thousands of secret emails to the realclimate.org Web site, who refuse to publish it, after which they send it to Anthony Watts, who publicizes it; the term "climategate" is coined by columnist James Delingpole; CRU dir. Philip Douglas "Phil" Jones (1952-) is in charge of the two key data sets used by the U.N. Intergovt. Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to draw up its reports, along with Australian climate scientist Tom Wigley (1940-) (Hubert Lamb's successor at the CRU), causing them to be known as Jones and Wigley; "Here are some speculations on correcting SSTs to partly explain the 1940s warming blip... So, if we could reduce the ocean blip by, say, 0.15 degC, then this would be significant for the global mean -- but we'd still have to explain the land blip... It would be good to remove a least part of the 1940s blip, but we are still left with 'why the blip'" (Wigley, Sept. 27, 2009); Los Alamos Nat. Lab researcher Petr Chylek sends an email titled "Open Letter to the Climate Research Community" to 100 of his climate research peers, containing the soundbyte that the climate science community has "substituted the search for truth with an attempt at proving one point of view", concluding "Let us drastically modify or temporarily discontinue the IPCC" and appealing for climate scientists to stop making "unjustified claims and exaggerated projections about the future even if the editors of some eminent journals are just waiting to publish them"; on Nov. 22 Climategate II sees another batch of email released, causing Myron Ebell (1953-), dir. of the Competitive Enterprise Inst. Center on Energy and Environment to utter the soundbyte: "If there were any doubts remaining after reading the first Climategate e-mails, the new batch of e-mails that appeared on the web today make it clear that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is an organized conspiracy dedicated to tricking the world into believing that global warming is a crisis that requires a drastic response"; too bad, it comes too near the Copenhagen Summit to stop it, despite U.N. climate scientist panel head Rajendra Pachauri uttering the soundbyte: "The internal consistency from multiple lines of evidence strongly supports the work of the scientific community, incl. those individuals singled out in these email exchanges"; an investigation by the U.K. Royal Society and the U. of East Anglia led by Lord Oxburgh absolves the CRU scientists of any wrongdoing, with the conclusion: "No evidence of any deliberate scientific malpractice in any of the work of the Climatic Research Unit"; it was a whitewash, as in don't get caught again? On June 4, 2011 Kiwi-born U. of Cambridge solid state physicist Michael Joseph Kelly (1949-), who was a member of the Climategate panel pub. an op-ed. arguing against a scientific consensus on global warming, with the soundbyte: "It is perfectly possible to adopt a position, as I have, of 'a principled climate science scepticism.' It is based on the fact that every time an engineering-standard analysis is done of the climate data, one ends up contradicting the results of the climate change modellers. I am heavily involved in the debate in the UK"; he also utters the 2009 soundbyte: "Up to and throughout this exercise, I have remained puzzled how the real humility of the scientists in this area, as evident in their papers, including all these here, and the talks I have heard them give, is morphed into statements of confidence at the 95% level for public consumption through the IPCC process. This does not happen in other subjects of equal importance to humanity, e.g. energy futures or environmental degradation or resource depletion. I can only think it is the 'authority' appropriated by the IPCC itself that is the root cause"; he goes on to co-sign a Jan. 27, 2012 Wall Street Journal op-ed. questioning it, getting appointed to the board of the Global Warning Policy Foundation (GWPF) in 2019, delivering the foundation's annual lecture on Nov. 11, with the soundbyte that the UK's commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050 was "beset by superficial thinking that ignores engineering reality" and would be "unachievable without major social disruption", calling the Committee on Climate Change's cost estimates "pie in the sky". Watch video - Climategate - The Corbett Report. Watch video - Climategate = RT. Watch video - Patrick J. Michaels. Watch video - Climategate - Wikileaks. Watch video - Tom Wigley. Watch video - Climategate. Watch video - Climategate - The Corbett Report. Watch video - Climategate - James Delingpole. Watch video - Climategate - Stefan Molyneux. Watch video - Climategate II. Watch video - Myron Ebell. Watch video - Michael Joseph Kelly.

On Nov. 20, 2009 English conservative-libertarian climate skeptic writer-journalist (non-scientist) James Mark Court Delingpole (1965-) pub. the article Climategate: The Final Nail in the Coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming' in the London Daily Telegraph, containing the soundbytes about "Climategate" (which he coins): "The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed", and "A contretemps with a Climate Bully who wonders whether I have a science degree. (No I don't. I just happen to be a believer in empiricism and not spending taxpayers' money on a problem that may well not exist)." He goes on to popularize the term "Climategate" and use anthropogenic global warming (AGW) as a whipping boy, calling NOAA scientists "talentless low-lives who cannot be trusted", climate change scientists "abject liars", and climate activists "eco nazis", "eco fascists", and "scum-sucking slime balls" pushing "junk science". On June 22, 2010 Delingpole pub. the article 'Climate change sceptics have smaller members, uglier wives, dumber kids' says new study made up by warmists in The Telegraph, criticizing the article Expert credibility in climate change by William R.L. Anderegg, James W. Prall, Jacob Harold, and Stephen H. Schneider in Proceedings of the Nat. Acadmy of Sciences, which concludes: "We use an extensive dataset of 1,372 climate researchers and their publication and citation data to show that (i) 97–98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field surveyed here support the tenets of ACC outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and (ii) the relative climate expertise and scientific prominence of the researchers unconvinced of ACC are substantially below that of the convinced researchers", with the soundbyte that the article is "based on a petty, spiteful, Stasi-like blacklist produced by an obscure Canadian warmist - outrageously aggrandised by being published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences." On Feb. 16, 2012 Delingpole pub. the book Watermelons: How Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children's Future, with the ad blurb: "The shocking story of how an unholy mix of junk science, green hype, corporate greed and political opportunism led to the biggest and most expensive outbreak of mass hysteria in history." On Apr. 7, 2013 Delingpole pub. the article An English class for trolls, professional offence-takers and climate activists in The Telegraph, humorously suggesting that global warming scientists like Michael E. Mann should be "hanged", "given the electric chair", or "fed to the crocodiles". On Mar. 28, 2016 Delingpole pub. the article: Climate Change: The Greatest-Ever Conspiracy Against the Taxpayer in Breitbart, containing the soundbytes: "Climate change is the biggest scam in the history of the world - a $1.5 trillion-a-year conspiracy against the taxpayer, every cent, penny and centime of which ends in the pockets of the wrong kind of people, none of which goes towards a cause remotely worth funding, all of it a complete and utter waste"; "It really doesn't matter whether you believe in global warming or not because here's the reality: All that money we're being to spend on the global warming industry – that $1.5 trillion I mentioned earlier siphoned straight out of taxpayers' pockets – it isn't going to make the blindest bit of difference"; "I call climate change 'the gift that goes on giving' because day in day out I get an endless stream of stories to write about the corruption, incompetence, skullduggery of the climate alarmism industry"; "Now we have all those eco-friendly wind turbines, or as I call them, bird-slicing, bat-chomping eco-crucifixes." On Apr. 9, 2016 Delingpole pub. the article Why Conservatives Will Always Lose the War on Climate Change, containing the soundbytes: "Most people don't realize this yet, but if a Democrat gets the keys to the White House next year it's game over for the US economy. This isn't just for the obvious reason that liberals like Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton don't understand free markets or small government. It's because the left has got its hands on the magic formula that enables it to do at both federal and local level all the things that lefties love to do – the meddling, the nannying, the taxing, the regulating, the confiscating, the cronyism – virtually unopposed by the people who should be opposing them. The formula is: 'We're saving the planet'"; "The left is cunning. Like the Taliban – 'you have the watches, we have the time' – it plays a very long game. The tactics it has been using in the environmental wars date at least back to Saul Alinsky and probably as far back as the Cultural Marxists of the 1930s Frankfurt School"; "What's certain is for several decades now - and most especially since the Fall of the Berlin Wall supposedly won the capitalist argument – the left has been using environmentalism as a cloak to disguise its usual controlling, misanthropic, puritanical, big government agenda with a kindly aura of bunny-hugging caringness." In Jan. 2018 Delingpole gives an interview to This Week, praising Pres. Trump for withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement, with the soundbytes: "Let's cut the crap. Donald Trump is amazing. The U.S. economy is going gangbusters. The DOW is soaring. Growth is over 3%. Hourly wages are two-and-a-half percent higher than this time last year. Unemployment for African Americans is at record lows"; "And after Trump's sweeping tax reforms, something that lesser Republicans have been trying and failing to achieve for years, we can expect massive growth ahead"; "And because he's so frank and fearless, he's even dared to take on the green crazies. He's brushed off all their scaremongering nonsense and told it like it is: global warming is just an excuse to bomb the global economy back to the dark ages"; "Au revoir, Paris Climate Accord. Hello freedom, scientific integrity, and prosperity." On Jan. 3, 2019 Delingpole pub. the article Twelve Debunked Climate Scares We Can Laugh at in 2019. Watch video - James Delingpole. Watch video - James Delingpole. Watch video - James Delingpole. Watch video - James Delingpole. Watch video - James Delingpole. Watch video - James Delingpole. Watch video - James Delingpole. Watch video - James Delingpole. Watch video - James Delingpole.

On Nov. 29, 2009 English engineer and climate skeptic Roger Tattersall AKA Rog Tallbloke founds the blog TallBloke's Workshop, going on to co-found Clexit on July 7, 2016 along with the usual suspects Bernard Beauzamy, Paul Driessen, Geoffrey G. "Geoff" Duffy, Don J. Eastbrook (1936-), Kesten Green, Howard Hayden, Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, Paul Homewood, Craig D. Idso, Claes Goran (Göran) L. Johnson, Madhav Khandekar, William Robert Kininmonth, Hans H.J. Labohm, Alan Moran, Patrick Moore, Joanne Nova (nee Codling) (1967-), Ian R. Plimer (1946-), Willie Wei-Hock Soon, Thomas "Tom" Wysmuller, Australian geologist Viv Forbes of the The Carbon Sense Coalition et al. to fight climate change alarmists, lobbying Pres. Trump to withdraw from the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, etc., with the soundbyte: "There is no justification for the War on carbon dioxide - CO2 does not drive global temperature and Earth's climate cannot be tweaked by erecting windmills or putting taxes on carbon dioxide. CO2 is naturally sequestered by oceans and the biosphere. Burning natural hydrocarbons merely recycles Earth's carbonaceous nutrients vital to all life - already world food production and global forests have benefitted from the small increases in carbon dioxide plant food in Earth's atmosphere." In Jan. 2010 Tattersall pub. the soundbyte: "Why do we spend our time working on obscure stuff about the way the planets and sun bob about in space? Because changes in solar output are the primary driver of climate change on Earth not changes in the atmosphere." In 2016 Tattersall pub. the soundbyte: "We think that the variation of the sun, and the variation of the orbital parameters of the planets in the solar system has a much bigger effect on changes in Earth's surface temperature than the changing concentration of a minor trace gas such as carbon dioxide." Swedish applied mathematician Claes Johnson goes on to deny CO2 back radiation as a fiction, using mathematics to prove it, with the soundbytes: "[Climate science may be the] "biggest scientific fraud ever"; "If thermodynamics is the main mechanism of the atmosphere as an air conditioner or heat transporter, then CO2 will not cause warming, and IPCC climate alarmism collapses"; "The realization that carbon dioxide alarmism has no scientific basis spreads rapidly among the world's scientists. Today, there are many scientists who know that the carbon dioxide alarmism preached by the IPCC and the Stockholm Resilience Centre is based on scientific falsehoods revealed partly by Climategate. There are many scholars who know that there is no evidence to suggest that a little more carbon dioxide in the air could be dangerous", calling the blogosphere the perfect "arena of skepticism" because it can't be censored by the govt. Another co-founder of Clexit is Swedish geophysicist Nils-Axel "Niklas" Morner (Mörner) (1938-2020), who in 2007 (after retiring for safety) pub. the booklet The Greatest Lie Ever Told, disputing the IPCC view that the sea level has been rising at 2mm-3mm/year over the last cent, claiming it was 1.0 mm/yr in 1986-96, with the soundbyte: "The last 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade." Tattersall also utters the soundbyte: "You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it." On Dec. 23, 2019 Viv Forbes pub. the article Time for Climate Sense in American Thinker, containing the soundbyte: "'Climate emergency' is an exercise in global politics, not science. The plan is to scare us into transferring money and power from Western nations to the U.N. — a fake answer to an invented problem." Watch video - Roger Tattersall. Watch video - Roger Tattersall. Watch video - Claes Johnson. Watch video - Nils-Axel Morner. Watch video - Nils-Axel Morner. Watch video - Nils-Axel Morner.

In Nov. 2009 retired Indian geologist Vijay Kumar Raina pub. the paper Himalayan Glaciers: A State-of-the-Art Review of Glacial Studies, Glacial Retreat and Climate Change, which claims that the retreat and advance of Himalayan and other glaciers have no discernible link to global climate change, with the soundbyte: "This is one of the many issues of climate change science that we do not fully understand", pissing-off global warmists.

In Nov. 2009 the think tank Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is founded in London, England by Lord Nigel Lawson to challenge "extremely damaging and harmful policies" proposed by govts. to mitigate anthropogenic global warming, taking the position that the science is not yet settled, causing warmists to lump them with climate change deniers; Lawson's aide in the House of Lords is Harry Wilkinson, who became a researcher at the GWPF in Nov. 2015 and calls the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) "the cult of anti-CO2", with the soundbyte: "The CCC is an organization that has a set conclusion and finds 'evidence' to back it up. In doing so it has the backing of most of the British establishment, who always seem to benefit from the subsidies and policies it advocates." On Sept. 7, 2018 Wilkinson pub. the article Arctic Sea Ice Just Won't Play the Game in The Conservative Woman, with the soundbyte: "Arctic sea ice is proving remarkably reluctant to enter its appointed 'death throes', despite the usual suspects having already planned the funeral. Climate Change Anxiety Disorder, it turns out, is yet to impose its angst on the actual climate, no matter how hard the BBC tries to make it. The latest observations show that Arctic sea ice is on course to have a greater minimum extent than in 2015 and 2016, and is running higher than levels seen a decade ago. Back then, the BBC reported that Arctic summers may be ice-free by 2013, although this estimate was described as being 'too conservative'. That prediction was spectacularly wrong, and contrary to warnings of an 'Arctic death spiral', sea ice extent has been remarkably stable in the last decade. No one can say what exactly will happen next; if this humbling affair teaches anything it should be precisely that."

On Dec. 1, 2009-Feb. 28, 2010 the 2009-10 European Winter sees heavy snowfall and record low temperatures, leading to transport disruption, power failures, and 310+ deaths; meanwhile the 2009-10 North Am. Winter ends in the Feb. 5-6, 2010 Snowmageddon and the Feb. 9-10, 2010 North Am. Blizzard.

On Dec. 3, 2009 Australia's federal govt. chief scientist Penny Sucket, er, Sackett utters the soundbyte that Earth has just five years to avoid disastrous global warming.

On Dec. 7, 2009 the U.S. Environmental Protection Admin. (EPA) announces that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare, opening the way for the Obama admin. to impose its own curbs on emissions with or without approval from Congress.

On Dec. 7, 2009 the Hopenhagen.org Web site sponsored by Coca-Cola, Siemens, and SAP corps. opens, inviting the world's citizens to sign a petition demanding world leaders draft binding agreements on climate changes; meanwhile Europe has its coldest winter in 50 years, snowing uninterruptedly starting on Dec. 13; Coca-Cola spearheads a coalition of 100+ cos. pushing a U.N. climate treaty, which commits the world's wealthiest nations to $10T in foreign aid, and possibly create an internat. "super-grid" for regulating and distributing electric power; on Dec. 7-18 the 2009 U.N. Climate Change (Copenhagen) Conference attended by 15K reps from 192 nations is held in Copenhagen, Denmark to attempt to reach an internat. agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions, with U.N. Climate Change Secretariat head Yvo de Boer uttering the soundbyte: "The clock has ticked down to zero. After two years of negotiations the time has come to deliver"; developing nations will be offered aid to cut emissions; British former deputy PM (1997-2007) John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescott (1938-) (big backer of China) criticizes U.S. special envoy Todd Stern for mentioning that China is projected to emit 60% more CO2 than the U.S. by 2030, with the soundbyte that he "ignored the more transparent measure of pollution per capita, which shows the U.S. emits 20 tonnes per person every year, compared to China's six tonnes, whilst America's GDP per person is almost eight times greater than the Chinese"; on Dec. 8 a leaked document showing that world leaders will be asked to sign an agreement handing more power to rich countries and sidelining the U.N.'s role in all future climate negotiations causes an uproar, after which African reps. walk out on Dec. 14; on Dec. 14 Al Gore gives a speech, claiming that polar ice may vanish in 5-7 years (summer 2014), rather than in 2030 like other scientists estimate, citing Wieslav Maslowski, who later disclaims it; on Dec. 18 Pres. Obama visits it, originally planning to pledge a 17% emissions cut by 2020, and 83% by 2050, but ending up frantically trying to rescue it from a stalemate after China balks at a real deal, getting snubbed by the Chinese PM then crashing a meeting to work a last-minute toothless deal in order to claim a V; the last day of the conference is blanked with 4 in. of snow; Lord Christopher Monckton (1952-), former science adviser to British PM Margaret Thatcher claims that the real purpose of the conference is to lay the foundation for a OWG, but since it was a dud he must have been mistaken?; the rival Copenhagen Climate Challenge Conference is held by climate skeptics, with Australian earth scientist Ian Plimer as the star speaker, who utters the soundbyte: "They've got us outnumbered, but we've got them outgunned, and that's with the truth"; on Dec. 12 Danish police arrest 968 of 100K pro-global-warming protesters in Copenhagen; next July U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer resigns. Watch video - Lord Christopher Monckton on Copenhagen Summit.

On Dec. 7-8, 2009 after the New York Times announces on Nov. 14, 2009 that "President Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the difficult task of reaching a climate change agreement... agreeing instead to make it the mission of the Copenhagen conference to reach a less specific 'politically binding' agreement that would punt the most difficult issues into the future", the 15th U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, Denmark is a bust, failing to achieve a binding agreement for long-term action.

On Dec. 11, 2009 French mathematician Bernard Beauzamy, founder of the Mathematical Calculation Society pub. a letter in the Financial Times, which claims that out "knowledge of the general climate of the planet is so small that statements such as the 'hottest decade for the planet' are scientifically meaningless", and that "the part of the earth that is covered by [meteorological stations] is still extremely small; for instance, we know almost nothing about temperatures in the oceans in general, or in high atmosphere." In Sept. he pub. the paper The battle against global warming: an absurd, costly and pointless crusade, which claims that climate change is not caused by man, and that reducing CO2 emissions "serves absolutely no purpose", with the soundbytes: "There is not a single fact, figure or observation that leads us to conclude that the world's climate is in any way 'disturbed'. It is variable, as it has always been, but rather less so now than during certain periods or geological eras. Modern methods are far from being able to accurately measure the planet's global temperature even today, so measurements made 50 or 100 years ago are even less reliable. Concentrations of CO2 vary, as they always have done; the figures that are being released are biased and dishonest. Rising sea levels are a normal phenomenon linked to upthrust buoyancy; they are nothing to do with so-called global warming. As for extreme weather events - they are no more frequent now than they have been in the past. We ourselves have processed the raw data on hurricanes. We are being told that 'a temperature increase of more than 2ºC by comparison with the beginning of the industrial age would have dramatic consequences, and absolutely has to be prevented'. When they hear this, people worry: hasn't there already been an increase of 1.9ºC? Actually, no: the figures for the period 1995-2015 show an upward trend of about 1ºC every hundred years! Of course, these figures, which contradict public policies, are never brought to public attention"; "Direct aid for industries that are completely unviable (such as photovoltaics and wind turbines) but presented as 'virtuous' runs into billions of euros, according to recent reports published by the Cour des Comptes (French Audit Office) in 2013. But the highest cost lies in the principle of 'energy saving', which is presented as especially virtuous. Since no civilization can develop when it is saving energy, ours has stopped developing: France nowhas more than three million people unemployed - it is the price we have to pay for our virtue"; "Human beings cannot, in any event, change the climate. If we in France were to stop all industrial activity (let's not talk about our intellectual activity, which ceased long ago), if we were to eradicate all trace of animal life, the composition of the atmosphere would not alter in any measurable, perceptible way. To explain this, let us make a comparison with the rotation of the planet: it is slowing down. To address that, we might be tempted to ask the entire population of China to run in an easterly direction. But, no matter how big China and its population are, this would have no measurable impact on the Earth's rotation"; "One might wonder about the potential consequences of so-called global warming for human beings and the natural world. The answer is very simple: the natural world will adjust very well, as it has always done. Plants, in particular, would enjoy an increase in CO2 concentrations. In France, the positive effects would far outweigh the negative ones. If there were such a thing as global warming, then we should celebrate. And if it does not exist, then we shall simply have to carry on switching on the central heating nine months a year"; "In a democracy, there is an opposition, and this opposition has a right, in principle, to express its views: this is what distinguishes democracy from dictatorship. But when it comes to the questions about global warming that we are talking about here, the opposition – people who do not believe in global warming - have been told to shut up: no public debate, no contradictory discourse, no articles in scientific journals. They have simply been toldthat the case is proven and it is time to take action. In law, there is a fundamental principle known as the 'adversarial principle'. A case can bethrown out of court if the defense is not informed of every known element of the accusation. Even if twenty people have witnessed the abominable criminal commit his offense, if the defense has not had access to blood-sample analyses, the case will be thrown out. In the case of global warming, a number of bodies are telling us they have all the evidence, but refuse to tell us what it is. The data have been processed, but how? Time series have been altered, but why? Some phenomena have been left out of the equation, but on what grounds? We do not know, and we are simply required to keep quiet and do what we are told. No second opinion is permitted. It is on the debris of the fundamental principles of the law and of democracy that this White Paper has been written."

On Dec. 22-28, 2009 the Category 5 2009 North Am. Christmas Blizzard hits the NW and SE U.S. incl. the Great Plains, and the Eastern Seaboard incl. Ontario, Canada, killing 21 and dropping 40 in. of snow; on Dec. 23-24 27 tornadoes are reported in the SE and C U.S.; on Dec. 24 the Christmas Eve 2009 Okla. Blizzard drops 10 in. in Oklahoma City and Wichita Falls, leaving 3 ft. snowdrifts.

In Dec. 2009-Mar. 2010 the Winter of 2010 is the coldest since 1963; on Jan. 5 Norway records a temp of -45.6C as hundreds die in Europe.

In 2009 Gabriel Calzada Alvarez et al. of Univ. Rey Juan Carlos pub. Study of the effects on employment of public aid to renewable energy sources, which finds that Spanish solar energy subsidies "destroyed 2.2 jobs for every 'green job' created."

In 2009 Brazilian geologist Geraldo Luis Lino pub. the book The Global Warming Fraud: How a Natural Phenomenon Was Converted into a False World Emergency, going on to utter the soundbytes: "The Anthropogenic Global Warming Hypothesis (AGWH, for short) is simple, direct and appealing; the only problem is that it flunks the scientific method test"; "Hundreds of billions of dollars have been wasted with the attempt of imposing a Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory that is not supported by physical world evidences... AGW has been forcefully imposed by means of a barrage of scare stories and indoctrination that begins in the elementary school textbooks."

In 2009 retired Australian U. of Tasmania atmospheric scientist Garth William Paltridge (1940-) pub. the book The Climate Caper: Facts and Fallacies of Global Warming (foreword by Lord Monckton), claiming that anthropogenic global warming is real, but the warming is probably too small to be a threat; on Jan. 22, 2014 he pub. the article Climate Change's Inherent Uncertainties in Quadrant Online, containing the soundbytes: "Virtually all scientists directly involved in climate prediction are aware of the enormous uncertainties associated with their product. How is it that they can place hands over hearts and swear that human emissions of carbon dioxide are wrecking the planet?"; "The chances of proving that climate change over the next century will be large enough to be disastrous are virtually nil. For the same reason, the chances of a climate sceptic, or anyone else for that matter, proving the disaster theory to be oversold are also virtually nil. To that extent there is a level playing field for the two sides of the argument. The problem is that climate research necessarily involves enormous resources, and is a game for institutions and organisations. Scepticism is an occupation for individuals. Things being as they are in the climate-change arena, scepticism by an individual within the system can be fairly career-limiting. In any event, most individual scientists have a conscience, and are reluctant to put their heads above the public parapet in order to propound a view of things that may be inherently unprovable. In short, there is more than enough uncertainty about the forecasting of climate to allow normal human beings to be at least reasonably hopeful that global warming might not be nearly as bad as is currently touted. Climate scientists, and indeed scientists in general, are not so lucky. They have a lot to lose if time should prove them wrong." He also utters the soundbyte: "The broad theory of man-made global warming is acceptable in the purely qualitative sense. If humans continue to fill the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, there can be little doubt that the average temperature of the world will increase above what it would have been otherwise. The argument about the science is, and always has been, whether the increase would be big enough to be noticed among all the other natural variations of climate. The economic and social argument is whether the increase, even if it were noticeable, would change the overall welfare of mankind for the worse." Watch video - Garth Paltridge. Watch video - Garth Paltridge. Watch video - critic of Garth Paltridge.

In 2009 after the Climategate scandal turns him off to global warming science, Dutch climate modeler Hajo Smit (member of the Dutch U.N. IPCC committee) launches the Web site Climategate.nl, uttering the soundbyte: "Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp... Climate models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact." Watch video - Hajo Smit.

In 2009 the Northern Va. Chapter of Scientists and Engineers for Energy and Environment (VA-SEEE) is founded by electrical engineer and prominent global warming skeptic S. Fred Singer of the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), with the aim of "educating the public on the issues of climate, energy and environment"; members incl. energy economist Kenneth "Ken" Haapala, pres. of the Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) (founded 1997); the pres. of the Piedmont Chapter (since 2009) is retired physician and electrical engineer Charles Battig, who on Dec. 6, 2009 pub. an op-ed titled Investigate data behind global-warming theory in DailyProgress.com in Charlottesville, Va., containing the soundbytes: "The climate science community has been shaken by the posting of thousands of e-mails and internal documents originating from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University, England. The inconvenient truths of the workings of this science community cast doubt on the integrity of some promoting catastrophic climate change. Documents show a small cabal of climate scientists actively suppressed dissenting views, denied opposing views publication in journals they control and fostered manipulation of temperature data to conform to global warming dogma. It is proclaimed that failure to impose a new, worldwide energy rationing system and wealth redistribution scheme will provoke a global climate meltdown. A global government is promoted to administer the redistribution of wealth and energy. Government, industry, research institutions and the financial community are giddy with the prospects of a trillion-dollar-a-year funding source. Our own government is pushing 'cap and trade' as necessary because 'the science is settled.' There may be ample reason now to believe there is 'something rotten in the state of Denmark.' The scientific community and the public deserve a full and open investigation of the data behind the conclusions made to support the global-warming theory." On July 10, 2014 Battig pub. the article Climate Change Hysteria and the Madness of Crowds, containing the soundbyte: "Years of relentless doomsday prognostications by a variety of public voices spanning the political-scientific spectrum have found their mark in a gullible and guilt-prone public. There is a Medusa-like quality in the serpentine web of doomsday prophets, including members of the Club of Rome, Paul Ehrlich's 'Population Bomb,' and the current White House science advisor, John Holdren. Al Gore came to discover 'Inconvenient Truths,' later found to be not so truthful. Al Gore's contribution to making climate change a co-equal amongst the four horsemen of the apocalypse is matched by M. Mann's reinterpretation of global temperature history. Repeated refutations of 'faulty' science and failed predictions of climate calamities have not deterred these marketers of doom. Cut the head off, yet it lives on." On Dec. 23, 2016 Battig pub. the article The next great sucking sound in American Thinker, containing the soundbyte: "President-Elect Trump has pierced the veils surrounding the holy of holies wherein reside the eco-dogmatists of the EPA and the U.N. and promises the rightful return of respect to the essence of scientific research... skepticism." On July 8, 2014 Haapala speaks at the Heartland Inst.'s 9th Internat. Conference on Climate Change at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nev., uttering the soundbytes: "Good morning carbon-based life forms. All life on this planet is carbon-based, yet many in Washington declare that carbon is a pollutant. Is life a pollutant?"; "The EPA stated that it based its finding on three lines of evidence. These lines of evidence do not exist, or no longer exist. They are: (1) a distinct human fingerprint in the atmosphere over the tropics; (2) late 20th century warming was unusual; and (3) climate models predict that human-caused warming would become dangerous to humans in the 21st century. No one, including the National Academy of Sciences, has been able to find the distinct human fingerprint except those who falsely claim such a warming is uniquely human-caused." Watch video - Ken Haapala. Watch video - Ken Haapala. Watch video - Ken Haapala. Watch video - Charles Battig.

2010

Between 2000 and 2010 humans add about 100 billion tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere, which is about 35% of all the CO2 put there by humanity since 1750.

In 2010 the U.S. hurricane season is the first in 110 years with at least 10 hurricanes and none hitting the U.S.

In Jan. 2010 Am. petroleum geologist Norman Page begins corresponding with IPCC chmn. Rajendra Kumar Pauchari, putting him on the radar; he goes on to dispute the CO2-driven AGW theory and predict a coming ice age; on Jan. 23, 2019 he pub. the article The CO2 Derangement Syndrome - the Millennial Turning Point and the Coming Cooling.

In Jan.-Feb. 2010 the U.S. experiences its coldest winter in 25 years, while Canada experiences its warmest winter on record.

On Jan. 1, 2010 Am. ex-environmentalist Paul Driessen (1948-) pub. his first book Eco-Imperialism: Green Power Black Death, slamming the environmental movement as a group of affluent Westerners imposing their views on backward impoverished Third World peoples, violating their basic rights and denying them economic opportunities, going on to promote the use of fossil fuels and pooh-poohing climate change alarmists, going on to utter the soundbytes: "Not using fossil fuels is tantamount to not using energy. It is economic suicide and eco-manslaughter"; "Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the Middle Ages – and beyond, since even fire, the wheel and organic farming poserisks, and none would have passed the 'absolute safety' test the zealots demand. Putting them in charge now would mean an end to progress, and perpetual deprivation for inhabitants of developing nations"; "No Real-World evidence supports a 'dangerous manmade climate change' thesis. In fact, a moderately warmer planet with more atmospheric carbon dioxide would hugely benefit crop, forest and other plant growth, wildlife and humans – with no or minimal climate effect. A colder planet with less CO2 would punish them. And a chillier CO2-deprived planet with less reliable, less affordable energy (from massive wind, solar and biofuel projects) would threaten habitats, species, nutrition and the poorest among us"; "Climate has always changed. It is far better to have energy, technology, modern housing and wealth to adapt to, survive, recover from and even thrive amid inevitable warming, cooling and weather events, than to forego these abilities (on the absurd assumption that humans can control climate and weather) - and be forced to confront nature's onslaughts the way previous generations had to"; "As to climate change, numerous studies demonstrate that there is no credible evidence that manmade carbon dioxide is causing dangerous global warming. Moreover, rising CO2 emissions from China, India and other rapidly developing nations vastly exceed any imaginable US reductions"; "A couple degrees warmer would be good for humanity and planet, especially with more plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide in the air... But a couple degrees colder would bring serious adverse consequences for habitats, wildlife, agriculture and humanity." Driessen's co-author on CFACT is economist Roger H. Bezdek, who on June 1, 2015 uttered the soundbytes: "CO2 is not harmful and is actually good for the planet"; "The federal SCC (social costs of carbon) estimates do not adequately consider the benefits of fossil fuels and CO2 emission"; "There is no convincing evidence that anthropogenic global warming (AGW) will produce catastrophic climate changes:; in Dec. 2014 he utters the soundbyte: "CO2 is basically plant food, and the more CO2 in the environment the better plants do." Watch video - Paul Driessen. Watch video - Paul Driessen. Watch video - Paul Driessen. Watch video - Roger Bezdek. Watch video - Roger Bezdek.

Master Bates jokes here? On Jan. 9, 2010 London-born Oxford-educated British conservative Daily Mail on Sunday (founded May 2, 1982) investigative journalist (since 2008) David Rose (1959-) pub. the article The mini ice age starts here; on Oct. 30, 2011 he pub. the article Scientist who said climate change sceptics had been proved wrong accused of hiding truth by colleague, an interview with climate skeptic Judith Curry and allegedly flopped climate skeptic Richard Muller; on Oct. 13, 2012 Rose pub. the article Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released... and here is the chart to prove it, exposing the global warming pause in 1997-Aug. 2012; on Feb. 24, 2013 Rose pub. the article Eco-tastrophe! How MPs in the pay of subsidised eco-firms set insane new carbon targets that send your bills sky-rocketing... and drag us to a new Dark Age, containing the insert "Exploding the Myths About Climate Change", pissing-off the PC global warming establishment; on Mar. 16, 2013 he pub. the article The Great Green Con no. 1: The hard proof that finally shows global warming forecasts that are costing you billions were WRONG all along, with the subtitle: "No, the world ISN'T getting warmer (as you may have noticed). Now we reveal the official data that's making scientists suddenly change their minds about climate doom. So will eco-funded MPs stop waging a green crusade with your money? Well... what do YOU think?", causing a huge public reaction pro and con; on Sept. 7, 2013 he pub. the article And now it's global COOLING! Return of Arctic ice cap as it grows by 29% in a year; too bad, his articles draw personal insults and threats despite a mea culpa statement that he believes in global warming, causing him to pub. the article Climate of Hate: His children are urged to kill him, he's compared to Adolf Hitler and labelled a 'denier' – even though he's Jewish. Disturbing article reveals what happens if you dare to doubt the Green prophets of doom on Jan. 31, 2015 in the er, U.K. Daily Mail, which he spoils on Oct. 17, 2016 when he attends a Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) lecture at the Royal Society in London, sitting next to English climate skeptic James Delingpole; on Nov. 26, 2016 Rose pub. the article Stunning new data indicates El Nino drove record highs in global temperatures suggesting rise may not be down to man-made emissions, claiming a 1C global avg. land temp drop caused by the end of the El Nino; on Feb. 4, 2017 Rose pub. the article Exposed: How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data, with the lead: "The Mail on Sunday today reveals astonishing evidence that the organisation that is the world's leading source of climate data rushed to publish a landmark paper that exaggerated global warming and was timed to influence the historic Paris Agreement on climate change", going on to report about "high-level whistleblower", NOAA climate scientist John J. Bates and his allegations, which some call Climategate II; too bad, the global warming scientists come down on him with several alleged refutations, incl. the leftist U.K. newspaper The Guardian, which on Feb. 5, 2017 pub. an article by John Abraham titled Mail on Sunday launches the first salvo in the latest war against climate scientists, slamming him, after which in Sept. 2017 the U.K. press regulator Independent Press Standards Org. censures Daily Mail for running it, causing them to censor further climate articles, replacing him with pro-warming alarmist Joe Pinkstone, who on Oct. 16, 2018 pub. the article How climate change is threatening BEER supplies: Lager could DOUBLE in price as severe droughts and heatwaves decimate barley fields, study says - the Empire Strikes Back? Watch video - David Rose and David Whitehouse. Watch video - John J. Bates. Watch video - John J. Bates. Watch video - John J. Bates. Watch video - John J. Bates.

On Jan. 11, 2010 The Daily Caller conservative Web site is founded in Washington, D.C. by San Francisco, Calif.-born Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (1969-) (son of U.S. ambassador to Seychelles Richard Warner Carlson and Swanson Foods heiress Patricia Caroline Swanson [1945-], and great-nephew of U.S. Sen. J. William Fulbright ([1905-95]) and Neil Patel with a $3M budget and a reporting staff of 21, battling the liberal The Huffington Post and reaching 35M page views/mo. and 200K comments/mo. by 2013, surpassing The Washington Times, Politico, and Forbes, becoming known for supporting climate change denial while receiving mucho funding from the Koch brothers; reporters incl. Michael Bastach (1989-). On Jan. 31, 2019 Bastach pub. the article Bizarre Theory Linking Global Warming To 'Polar Vortexes' Resurfaces.

On Jan. 12, 2010 (4:53 a.m.) the 7.0 Great 2010 Haiti Earthquake centered 10 mi. from Port-au-Prince kills 100K-316K and leaves most of the 3M city pop. homeless, becoming the worst earthquake in the area in 200+ years; the nat. penitentiary collapses, allowing inmates to escape; the H.Q. of the U.N. Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) (9K troops) in Port-au-Prince collapses, causing many personnel to be unaccounted for; the pres. palace collapses, along with the parliament bldg., causing Haitian pres. Rene Preval to flee to the Port-au-Prince airport and live there; the U.S. suspends deportations of illegal Haitian immigrants, and Pres. Obama promises "unwavering support" to rebuild the country, pledging $100M in immediate aid and sending thousands of troops; $5M in aid is donated in the first 48 hours via texting in $10 increments, and $22M within a week; U.S. televangelist Pat Robertson stinks himself up by calling the earthquake God's revenge because Haiti had made a "pact with the Devil" to throw out the French in 1791, followed by Rev. Bill Shuler, who claims that the "practice of witchcraft" caused God's wrath; a group of 10 U.S. Baptists are arrested for child trafficking and kidnapping for trying to cross the border to the Dominican Repub. with 33 Haitian orphans, some of whom turn out not to be orphans, and on Feb. 17 they are finally allowed to leave the country; by Oct. 1 not one cent of the $1.1B pledged by the U.S. for rebuilding arrives as 1M+ Haitians still live on the streets; after South Korean textile co. Sae-A Trading Co. donates $50K-$100K to the Clinton Foundation, several hundred farmers are evicted to make way for the 600-acre $300M Caracol Industrial Park in 2012, creating 8K jobs, although Bill Clinton claimed it would be 100K; conspiracy theorists claim that big oil caused the quake by secret drilling, but in Oct. scientists announce that a previously unmapped fault caused it, and that the originally blamed fault is ready to trigger another one; in 2012 Hillary Clinton's youngest brother Anthony Dean "Tony" Rodham (1954-) sits on the board of N.C.-based VCS Mining as it receives one of two "gold exploitation permits" from the Haitian govt. (the first issued in over five decades) for Morne Bossa, with options to renew for up to 25 years.

In Jan. 2010 English chemist-writer-accountant Andrew William Montford, founder of the global warming skeptic blog Bishop Hill on Nov. 21, 2006 pub. the U.K. bestseller The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science, a layperson's approach to the Hockey Stick Debate based on climate skeptic Stephen McIntyre's blog Climate Audit; no surprise, it pisses-off the pro-global warming clique.

On Feb. 5-6 and Feb. 9-10, 2010 the Snowpocalypse (Snowmageddon) buries the Washington, D.C. area in 30 in. of snow, causing govt. workers to be told to stay home on Feb. 8-10; a 3rd blizzard hits on Feb. 25-26.

On Feb. 13, 2010 after the Climategate scandal causes Philip Douglas "Phil" Jones (1952-) to temporarily step aside as dir. of the U. of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU), BBC News pub. an article titled Q&A: Phil Jones, an interview by BBC journalist Roger Harrabin, who asks him if the rates of global warming from 18860-80, 1910-40, and 1978-98 are identical, to which he replies: "The warming rates for all four periods are similar and not statistically significantly different from each other"; to the question: "DO you agree that from January 2002 to the present there has been statistically significant global warming?" he replies: "No. This period is even shorter than 1995-2009. The trend this time is negative (-0.12C per decade), but this trend is not statistically significant"; to the question: "There is a debate over whether the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was global or not. If it were to be conclusively shown that it was a global phenomenon, would you accept that this would undermine the premise that mean surface atmospheric temperatures during the latter part of the 20th Century were unprecedented?", he replies: "There is much debate over whether the Medieval Warm Period was global in extent or not. The MWP is most clearly expressed in parts of North America, the North Atlantic and Europe and parts of Asia. For it to be global in extent the MWP would need to be seen clearly in more records from the tropical regions and the Southern Hemisphere. There are very few palaeoclimatic records for these latter two regions. Of course, if the MWP was shown to be global in extent and as warm or warmer than today (based on an equivalent coverage over the NH and SH) then obviously the late-20th century warmth would not be unprecedented. On the other hand, if the MWP was global, but was less warm that today, then current warmth would be unprecedented. We know from the instrumental temperature record that the two hemispheres do not always follow one another. We cannot, therefore, make the assumption that temperatures in the global average will be similar to those in the northern hemisphere"; to the question: "When scientists say 'the debate on climate change is over', what exactly do they mean - and what don't they mean?", he replies: "It would be supposition on my behalf to know whether all scientists who say the debate is over are saying that for the same reason. I don't believe the vast majority of climate scientists think this. This is not my view. There is still much that needs to be undertaken to reduce uncertainties, not just for the future, but for the instrumental (and especially the palaeoclimatic) past as well." Watch video - Phil Jones.

On Apr. 3, 2010 the 2010 Sahel Famine starts with drought in the Senegal River area in Feb.-Aug., killing 9-62 by Sept. 18.

On Apr. 16, 2010 the Wayback Machine saved the NASA Science: Earth page What Are the Primary Forcings of the Earth System?, telling the truth about the Sun driving climate not CO2, with the soundbyte: "The Sun is the primary forcing of Earth's climate system. Sunlight warms our world. Sunlight drives atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns. Sunlight powers the process of photosynthesis that plants need to grow. Sunlight causes convection which carries warmth and water vapor up into the sky where clouds form and bring rain. In short, the Sun drives almost every aspect of our world's climate system and makes possible life as we know it"; it then shows the first hijacking attempts by CO2 greenhouse warming scientists, with the soundbyte neatly spliced in: "However, a new force for change has arisen: humans. After the industrial revolution, humans introduced increasing amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and changed the surface of the landscape to an extent great enough to influence climate on local and global scales. By driving up carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere (by about 30 percent), humans have increased its capacity to trap warmth near the surface", followed by more truth discounting CO2's role in global warming: "Other important forcings of Earth's climate system include such 'variables' as clouds, airborne particulate matter, and surface brightness. Each of these varying features of Earth's environment has the capacity to exceed the warming influence of greenhouse gases and cause our world to cool. For example, increased cloudiness would give more shade to the surface while reflecting more sunlight back to space. Increased airborne particles (or 'aerosol'") would scatter and reflect more sunlight back to space, thereby cooling the surface. Major volcanic eruptions (such as that of Mt. Pinatubo in 1992) can inject so much aerosol into the atmosphere that, as it spreads around the globe, it reduces sunlight and cause Earth to cool. Likewise, increasing the surface area of highly reflective surface types, such as ice sheets, reflects greater amounts of sunlight back to space and causes Earth to cool."

On Apr. 24, 2010 the worst tornado in decades in Miss. kills 10.

In Apr.-Oct. 2010 the June 2009-May 2010 El Nino launches the 2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, which affects the U.S., China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong, N Africa, and Europe incl. parts of E Australia, Canada, Russia, Indochina, South Korea, and Japan, receiving a boost from the 2010-11 La Nina, causing $500B damage, causing climate scientists to claim a V for their CO2-boosted climate models.

On May 1, 2010 the Antarctic Volcanoes Project Blog is launched by TLW, who claims that global warming is good not bad, and more not less CO2 and H2O need to be pumped into the atmosphere to create more living space and food supplies, calling for a global scientific effort to evaluate the potential of reactivating underwater volcanoes in the Antarctic.

On May 16-18, 2010 the Heartland Inst.'s Fourth Internat. Conference on Climate Change is held, with the theme "Reconsidering the Science and Economics"; U. of Mexico geophysicist Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera gives a talk titled The New Solar Minimum and the Mini Ice Age of the Twenty-First Century, containing the soundbyte that the models and forecasts of the U.N. IPCC "are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity", claiming that solar activity is diminishing and that the Earth will see a small ice age lasting from 60-80 years, claiming that "In this century glaciers are growing", pissing-off Ohio State U. geologist Lonnie G. Thompson (1948-), who led 50+ expeditions to 15+ countries since 1978 to collect ice cores, becoming the founder of tropical alpine paleoclimatology after discovering that the Quelccaya tropical ice cap in Peru is not only retreating, but accelerating; meanwhile on Nov. 17, 2009 Alaskan geophysicist and climate skeptic Syun-Ichi Akasofu, founder of the Internat. Arctic Research Center (ARC) at the U. of Alaska in 1998 pub. the paper "Natural Components of Climate Change over the last few 100 years", containing the soundbyte: "Climate change during the last few hundred years may be interpreted mainly in terms of a combination of the recovery effect and the multi-decadal oscillation. These are natural changes. Thus, there is a possibility that only a small fraction of the warming between 1900 and 2000 may be attributable to the greenhouse effect. In this view, the predicted temperature change in 2100 is about 0.5°C ± 0.2°C", followed in Nov. 2010 by the paper On the recovery from the Little Ice Age, with the abstract: "We learn that the recovery from the LIA has proceeded continuously, roughly in a linear manner, from 1800-1850 to the present. The rate of the recovery in terms of temperature is about 0.5°C/100 years and thus it has important implications for understanding the present global warming. It is suggested on the basis of a much longer period covering that the Earth is still in the process of recovery from the LIA; there is no sign to indicate the end of the recovery before 1900. Cosmic-ray intensity data show that solar activity was related to both the LIA and its recovery. The multi-decadal oscillation of a period of 50 to 60 years was superposed on the linear change; it peaked in 1940 and 2000, causing the halting of warming temporarily after 2000. These changes are natural changes, and in order to determine the contribution of the manmade greenhouse effect, there is an urgent need to identify them correctly and accurately and remove them." Watch video - Syun Akasofu. Watch video - Indur M. Goklany.

On May 19, 2010 Cyclone Laila hits Andhra Pradesh, India, killing 23 by May 21.

On May 24, 2010 The New York Times pub. the article Climate Fears Turn to Doubts Among Britons, causing New York City satirist William "Bill" Maher (1956-), host since Feb. 21, 2003 of the HBO-TV show Real Time with Bill Maher to satirize them, with the soundbyte: "Devastating worldwide climate change is happening, whether you phone in for it or not. You can't vote for rain. What's real is what's real, and like it or not, no one can change the nature of reality, except of course with mushrooms and Pabst Blue Ribbon". On Jan. 30, 2011 Maher utters the soundbyte: "I don't want to sound condescending to the Republicans when I say, 'Do you understand the difference between climate and weather?" On Apr. 23, 2017 Maher interviews Matthew Segal, dissing Pres. Trump for not believing in climate change, with the soundbytes: "If we don't believe in climate change, why should we fund anything about it? They [Republican voters] don't care. It's not immediate. You know what's immediate? A wall"; "You can't link one event to climate change, the same way you don't know which Cheetoh you ate gave you cancer." On May 25, 2017 Maher stars in a new animation produced by ATN, with the soundbytes: "Climate change is killing us", satirizing Pres. Trump for backing a $450B mission to Mars by 2033, calling it a waste of time, and Mars an "airless, lifeless, freezing shithole". On June 2, 2017 Maher disses Pres. Trump for pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord, with the soundbytes: "The clown who runs our country, the laughing stock on the world stage that is Donald Trump, pulled out of the Paris climate accord this week"; "It is hard to exaggerate how alone America is on this issue. 190 countries in the world signed on to the Paris accord. That's pretty much all of them. North Korea signed! The country who is always threatening to blow up the planet wants to save the planet"; "Is it any wonder that 43 percent of registered voters in the last poll want him impeached?" On Aug. 4, 2017 Maher hosts Al Gore on his HBO show "Real Time with Bill Maher", uttering the soundbyte: "So when the sea levels rise, obviously we could lose Venice. We could lose Florida. And who would know better about losing Florida?", causing Gore to reply "Actually I think I carried Florida. But that's another... we won't go there." On Sept. 9, 2017 Maher taunts climate change deniers with the soundbyte: "The deniers all have beach houses in the way of the storm" (Hurricane Irma). On Sept. 8, 2017 Maher clashes with political commentator S.E. Cupp over the link between climate change and hurricanes, with Maher uttering the soundbyte: "If you're going to accept federal aid for a storm, shouldn't you also accept the science on climate change?"; Cupp responds that Maher's use of the term "climate change denier" could embolden conservative figures like talk show host Rush Limbaugh, who called Hurricane Irma a climate change ploy. On Oct. 13, 2018 Maher lambastes the media for failing to link catastrophic hurricanes to climate change, with the soundbyte: "You've heard of a slow news week. Well, this was a stupid news week." Watch video - Bill Maher. Watch video - Bill Maher. Watch video - Bill Maher. Watch video - Bill Maher and Michael Mann.

On June 1-Dec. 29, 2010 the 2010 West African (Nigerian) Floods leave 110K homeless in Niger after the Niger River reaches its highest level in 80 years and spreads into Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo, and Benin.

In July 2010 Costa Rican diplomat Karen Christiana Figueres (1956-) is appointed exec secy. of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); on Feb. 3, 2015 she utters the soundbyte at a conference in Brussels: "This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history. This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation."

In July 2010 Estacada, Ore.-born aircraft designer (SpaceShipOne pilot) Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan (1943-) pub. An Engineer's Critique of Global Warming 'Science': Questioning the CAGW Theory; in Jan. 2011 Rutan pub. Comprehensive Report on Global Warming Science Fraud; on Nov. 14, 2012 he gives an interview to WUWT.TV on why he doubts that global warming/climate change is a problem, presenting the engineering data that convinced him; on Sept. 10, 2017 Rutan utters the soundbyte: "Those who call themselves 'Green planet advocates' should be arguing for a CO2-fertilized atmosphere, not a CO2-starved atmosphere... Diversity increases when the planet was warm AND had high CO2 atmospheric content... Al Gore's personal behavior supports a green planet – his enormous energy use with his 4 homes and his bizjet, does indeed help make the planet greener. Kudos, Al for doing your part to save the planet." Watch video - Burt Rutan. Watch video - Burt Rutan.

On Aug. 30, 2010 after a 4-mo. review the InterAcademy Council of the 106 nat. science academy InterAcademy Panel (founded 1993) pub. Review of the IPCC: An evaluation of the procedures and processes of the InterGovernmental Panel on Climate Change, detailing "significant shortcomings in each major step of IPCC's assessment process", causing the New Scientist mag. and the Financial Times to call for the resignation of IPCC chmn. Rajendra Pachauri, and British environmental correspondent Geoffrey Lean to call the IPCC an "amateurish, ramshackle operation"; on Aug. 31 the U.K. Times pub. the headline This discredited science body must be purged.

On Sept. 5, 2010 Proceedings of the Nat. Academy of Sciences pub. an article by the U. of Ore. that determined the fine-scale genetic structure of the first animal to show an evolutionary response to rapid climate change, the pitcher plant mosquito Wyoeomyia smithii.

On Oct. 9, 2010 Dem. W. Va. gov. #34 (since Jan. 17, 2005) Joseph "Joe" Manchin III (1947-) (big backer of coal) pub. a video bragging about his NRA endorsement and showing him shooting at a copy of the U.S. Senate's Cap and Trade Bill, going on to replace the late Sen. Robert Byrd and become W. Va. Dem. U.S. Sen. on Nov. 15, becoming known for bipartisanship in the Trump era; meanwhile on May 10, 2011 Manchin introduces the U.S. Am. Alternative Fuels Act with U.S. Sen. (R-Wy.) John Barrasso to remove restrictions on the development of alternative fuels incl. algae-based fuels and synthetic natural gas; on Nov. 9, 2011 Manchin introduces the U.S. Fair Compliance Act with U.S. Sen. (R-Ind. Dan Coats to "lengthen timelines and establish benchmarks for utilities to compy with the two major EPA air pollution rules"; in 2011 Manchin becomes the only Dem. U.S. sen. to support the proposed U.S. Energy Tax Prevention Act, which seeks to prohibit the U.S. EPA from regulating greenhouse gas; in Feb. 2017 Manchin becomes one of two Dem. U.S. sens. to vote to confirm Scott Pruitt as head of the EPA; in June 2017 Manchin supports Pres. Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, with the Los Angeles Times writing the soundbyte that he "does not deny the existence of man-made climate change, but is reluctant to curtail it; in 2019 with backing from Bernie Sanders, Manchin becomes chmn. of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which hasn't held a hearing fully devoted to climate change since 2012 (vs. nine in 2009), becoming an effective long-term roadblock to Dem. efforts to push Green New Deal and other climate change laws through.

On Oct. 15, 2010 Andrew A. Lacis, Gavin A. Schmidt, David Rind, and Reto A. Ruedy pub. the paper Atmospheric CO2: Principal Control Knob Governing Earth's Temperature in Science mag., announcing that the authors "conducted a set of idealized climate model experiments in which various greenhouse gases were added to or subtracted from the atmosphere in order to illustrate their roles in controlling the temperature of the air. The findings clearly show that carbon dioxide exerts the most control on Earth's climate, and that its abundance determines how much water vapor the atmosphere contains, even though the radiative effect of the water vapor is greater than that of carbon dioxide itself" - duh, water vapor ends up cooling the earth's surface by blocking sunlight and letting go of precipitation? Watch video - Tony Heller.

On Oct. 30, 2010 L.J. Gray et al. of the Internat. Space Science Inst. (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland pub. the paper Solar Influences on Climate in Reviews of Geophysics, with the conclusion: "Extensive climate model studies have indicated that the models can only reproduce the late twentieth century warming when anthropogenic forcing is included, in addition to the solar and volcanic forcings."

On Nov. 4, 2010 German economist Ottmar Georg Edenhofer (1961-) of the Potsdam Inst. gives an interview to the Swiss newspaper Neue Zurcher (Zürcher) Zeitung, containing the soundbytes: "One must free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. [What we're doing] has almost nothing to do with the climate. We must state clearly that we use climate policy to redistribute de facto the world's wealth"; he adds the soundbyte: "Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with protecting the environment. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economic summit during which distribution of the world's resources will be negotiated"; too bad, this is climate denier agitprop; he really said: "First of all, we as industrialized countries have quasi expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must explicitly say: We de facto redistribute the world's wealth due to climate politics. That the owners of coal and oil are not enthusiastic about this is obvious. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate politics is environmental politics. This has almost nothing to do any more with environmental politics, [as it was] with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole"; before that he said: "Fundamentally, it is a big mistake to discuss climate politics separately from the big issues of globalization. The climate summit in Cancun at end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War. Why? Because we have 11,000 gigatons of carbon in the coal reserves under our feet - and we can only add 400 gigatons more to the atmosphere if we want to stay within the 2 °C target. 11,000 to 400 - we have to face the fact that a large part of the fossil reserves must remain in the ground. De facto, this is the expropriation of the countries with these natural resources. This leads to an entirely different development than the one that has been initiated with development policy." "A spokesperson for Edenhofer told me the quote was used 'to imply that Prof. Edenhofer ''admits'' that there is some kind of 'hidden agenda' behind climate policy. The spokesperson added: 'Of course, this is not what he was saying. These quotes are taken out of context to be misused. The devaluation of fossil fuel reserves of course leads in a way to wealth redistribution - but this is rather a consequence of the necessity to stop using fossil fuels, and not the actual goal of climate policy."

On Nov. 29-Dec. 10, 2010 the 16th U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP16) in Cancun, Mexico.

In Nov. 2010 the Internat. Science Coalition pub. its Climate Scientists Register, with the declaration: "Having assessed the relevant scientific evidence, [we] do not find convincing support for the hypothesis that human emissions of carbon dioxide are causing, or will in the foreseeable future cause, dangerous global warming"; critics accuse them of being paid shills of the fossil fuel industry; signatories incl. Finnish marine geologist Boris "Boba" Winterhalter, known for the soundbytes: "The effect of solar winds on cosmic radiation has just recently been established and, furthermore, there seems to be a good correlation between cloudiness and variations in the intensity of cosmic radiation. Here we have a mechanism which is a far better explanation to variations in global climate than the attempts by IPCC to blame it all on anthropogenic input of greenhouse gases."

On Dec. 19, 2010 an interview of U. of Colo. climatologist Richard Alan Keen by Spaceweather.com is pub. as All Clear in the Stratosphere, with the soundbytes: "Since 1996, lunar eclipses have been bright, which means the stratosphere is relatively clear of volcanic aerosols. This is the longest period with a clear stratosphere since before 1960"; "Half or more of the warming since 1995 may due to the lack of large volcanic eruptions... The remaining climate change is presumably caused by other forces, such as solar variability, El Nino, Atlantic AMO warming in 1995, lower Albedo and maybe even a little greenhouse gas." on July 9, 2014 he speaks at the Ninth Internat. Conference on Climate Change (ICCC9) at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nev., giving the talk The Art of Detection: How Do You Measure Global Warming; on July 19, 2015 he releases the video Show Me the Data, blasting mainstream climate modelers. On Feb. 5-10, 2017 Keen speaks at the Fourth Santa Fe Conference on Global and Regional Climate Change, giving the speech Volcanic Aerosol Forcing of the Global Climate from Lunar Eclipse Observations.

In Dec. 2010 after years of papers attempting to estimate scientific support for anthropogenic global warming/climate change, Australian U. of Queensland cognitive scientist (self-employed cartoonist?) John Cook (2007 founder of the pro-CO2 AGW climate science blog Skeptical Science: Getting skeptical about global warming skepticism), pub. the oxymoronic book The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism, which is financed by Canadian environmentalist-zoologist David Suzuki; in 2011 Cook pub. the book Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand", reducing climate critics to the size of a peanut by accusing them of cherry-picking data and stooping to ad hominem attacks, while doing the same himself by accusing Big Oil of being behind them; of course environmentalist mags. heap praise on him, but The New American disses him for using labels like "deniers" and "denialists", which they call forms of character assassination; on Jan. 20, 2009 P. Doran and Maggie Zimmerman pub. the article Examining the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change in Transactions of the Am. Geophysical Union, with the abstract: "Fifty-two percent of Americans think most climate scientists agree that the Earth has been warming in recent years, and 47% think climate scientists agree (i.e., that there is a scientific consensus) that human activities are a major cause of that warming, according to recent polling. However, attempts to quantify the scientific consensus on anthropogenic warming have met with criticism... The objective of our study presented here is to assess the scientific consensus on climate change through an unbiased survey of a large and broad group of Earth scientists"; they go on to use the replies of 79 members of the Am. Geophysical Union (out of 10,257 survey invitees of which only 3,187 responded) to come up with a 97% consensus among all of its members and the rest of science too; .on May 15, 2013 Cook, Mich. Technological U. chem. prof. Sarah A. Green (1961-) et al. pub. the paper Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature in Environmental Research Letters, reporting an examination of 11,944 climate abstracts pub. in 1991-2011, finding that "Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming", which is given a super boost on May 16 by Pres. Obama in a tweet; the phrase "among papers taking a position" gives the conclusions away as moose hockey because only 3% of the papers he examined took a position, and 33% appeared to endorse anthropogenic global warming (AGW), so he divided 33/34 to get 97%"; in Apr. 2015 U. of Del. climatology prof. David Russell Legates et al. pub. the paper Climate Consensus and 'Misinformation': A Rejoinder to Agnotology, Scientific Consensus, and the Teaching and Learning of Climate Change in Science & Education, which repeats Cook's study, finding that "only 41 papers - 0.3 percent of all 11,944 abstracts of 1.0 percent of the 4,014 expressing an opinion, and not 97.1 percent" endorsed AGW: on Dec. 3, 2004 Am. historian of science Naomi Oreskes (1958-) pub. the paper The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change in Science, containing the soundbyte: "This analysis shows that scientists publishing in the peer-reviewed literature agree with IPCC, the National Academy of Sciences, and the public statements of their professional societies. Politicians, economists, journalists, and others may have the impression of confusion, disagreement, or discord among climate scientists, but that impression is incorrect"; on Apr. 13, 2016 John Cook, Naomi Orestes, Peter T. Doran , Stephan Lewandowsky et al. pub. the paper Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming in Environmental Research Letters, which concludes that "The consensus that humans are causing recent global warming is shared by 90%-100% of publishing climate scientists according to six independent studies by co-authors of this paper", and that "The finding of 97% consensus [that humans are causing recent global warming] in published climate research is robust and consistent with other surveys of climate scientists and peer-reviewed studies"; Doran cooked the study to get the result he wanted? On June 3, 2010 Oreskes and Erik M. Conway (1965-) pub. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, which is filmed in 2004 by Robert Kenner. On Apr. 22, 2011 Cook, Haydn Washington, and Oreskes pub. Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand, pissing-off the opposition by use of the cruel char. assassination terms "deniers" and "denialists". On Aug. 22, 2014 Neil Stenhouse, Edard Maibach, and Sara Cobb pub. the paper Meteorologists' Views About Global Warming: A Survey of American Meteorological Society Professional Members in Journal of the Am. Meteorological Society, reporting a survey of meteorologists (only 13% of which describe climate as their field of expertise) which finds that 93% accept some kind of AGW (78% say mostly human-caused, 15% say equally caused by humans and natural processes, 5% say humans have contributed but the precise degree is unclear), 2% say global warming is mostly natural, 1% say global warming isn't happening, On Sept. 12 NPR pub. a hit piece on Legates, calling him a "longtime climate science denier". In Oct. 2020 Pres. Trump appoints Legates a top deputy of the Nat. Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. (NOAA). Watch video - John Cook. 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In 2010 the U.N. Green Climate Fund is established in Incheon, South Korea to fight global warming via Climate finance under the UNFCCC; on June 1, 2017 Pres. Trump calls it a scheme to redistribute wealth from rich to poor countries; on July 4, 2018 Australian diplomat Howard Bamsey, dir. since Jan. 2017 resigns after a board meeting approves no new projects.

In 2010 Am. chem. prof. James R. Barrante pub. the book Global Warming for Dim Wits: A Scientist's Perspective of Climate Change, with the ad blurb: "It is the intent of this author that by the time you finish the book you will be convinced that: greenhouse gases do not control the climate, the climate controls greenhouse gases; your children will understand that they are safe and the sky is not falling; climate change is a natural process that takes tens of thousands of years to occur."

In 2010 Canadian investigative journalist (non-scientist) Donna Laframboise organizes a "citizen audit" of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, finding that 21 of its 44 chapters used fewer than 60% peer-reviewed sources; in 2011 she pub. the book The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World's Top Climate Expert, exposing the rottenness of the IPCC incl. its ties to environmental activist orgs. and no conflict of interest policy until May 2011; on Sept. 9, 2013 she pub. the book Into the Dustbin: Rajendra Pachauri, the Climate Report & the Nobel Peace Prize, criticizing IPCC chmn. Rajendra Pachauri for padding his resume, and claiming that the IPCC bases its conclusions solely on peer-reviewed lit. while advising IPCC personnel to claim that they are Nobel laureates; no surprise, the PC press attacks her personally, just making her more popular?; "There are two ways to get a scientific consensus. One is to present the data and the analysis in a manner that is so persuasive that everyone is convinced. The other way is to exclude or marginalize anyone who does not agree... The response to Susan's work is politically motivated, not an argument against her conclusions." (Mitchell Taylor) Watch video - Donna Laframboise.

In 2010 Alan J. Moran (ed.) pub. Climate Change: The Facts, pub. by the Inst. of Public Affairs (IPA) in Australia, containing 23 essays expounding the climate skeptic viewpoint from several authors; in 2015 a 2nd ed. is pub. by IPA and the Canadian right wing pundit Mark Steyn, containing 21 essays; in 2017 Australian climate skeptic biologist Jennifer Marohasy (1963-) (ed.) pub. Climate Change: The Facts 2017, containing 22 essays, sponsored by the IPA; "Our understanding of how the climate operates is incomplete and it is critically important to challenge the view that the planet is facing a global warming catastrophe"; co-author Christopher Essex "points to the complexity of the scientific analysis of the climate, which has led to exaggerated claims by pseudo-experts. He suggests a need to whittle down the numbers and listen only to those with demonstrable qualifications but does not underestimate the difficulties of determining who these are." (Alan Moran) Watch video - Jennifer Marohasy. Watch video - Jennifer Marohasy.

In 2010 after working at the British Met Office, the U. of Wash., and European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in the new Predictability and Diagnostics Div., British mathematical physicist Timothy Noel "Tim" Palmer (1952-) becomes prof. of climate physics at the U. of Oxford, enjoying a cushy jet-set lifestyle while going on to develop stochastic parameterisations and apply inexact computing techniques based on the Butterfly Effect to develop ultra-high resolution climate models, no matter how bad their predictions, all based on blind belief in the CO2 Greenhouse Gas Theory. Watch video - Tim Palmer. Watch video - Tim Palmer. Watch video - Tim Palmer. Watch video - Tim Palmer.

2011

On Jan. 1, 2011 after S. Fred Singer inspires him to investigate the issue, U. of Houston space architecture prof. Larry Bell pub. the book Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming Hoax, claiming that "politics is responsible for the global warming hoax", with the ad blurb: "Melting glaciers, suffering polar bears, rising oceans - these are just a few of the climate change crisis myths debunked by noted aerospace expert Larry Bell in this explosive new book. With meticulous research, Bell deflates these and other climate misconceptions with perceptive analysis, humor, and the most recent scientific data. Written for the laymen, yet in-depth enough for the specialist, this book digs deep into the natural and political aspects of the climate change debate, answering fundamental questions that reveal the all-too-human origins of 'scientific' inquiry. Why and how are some of the world's most prestigious scientific institutions cashing in on the debate? Who stand to benefit most by promoting public climate change alarmism? What true political and financial purposes are served by the vilification of carbon dioxide? How do climate deceptions promote grossly exaggerated claims for non-fossil alternative energy capacities and advance blatant global wealth redistribution goals? With its devastating portrayal of scientific and government establishments run amok, this book is an invaluable addition to the tremendously popular literature attacking the scientific status quo. Climate of Corruption will bring welcome relief to all those who are fed up with climate crisis insanity"; on Jan. 5, 2011 Bell pub. the article The Climate Crisis Hoax in Forbes mag., with the conclusion: "Who stands to gain from the politics of corrupt climate science? There are many culprits, and they are becoming ever more powerful. Principal among them are certain agenda-driven federal government regulatory agencies; alternative energy and environmental lobbies; a captive multibillion-dollar per year climate science industry; cap-and-trade marketers; large, associated special-interest hedge fund managers; and yes, the U.N. and other organizations seeking global resource and wealth redistribution. While it might be overreaching to bundle certain dishonest players within various categories into a unified conspiracy theory, many of these organs of misinformation clearly do appear to be joined at a common colon. Either way, the end results are much the same"; on May 3, 2011 Bell pub. the article Breaking News: The Climate Actually Changes! in Forbes mag., containing the soundbyte: "And while global warming has been trumpeted as an epic climate change crisis with human-produced CO2, a trace atmospheric 'greenhouse gas' branded as a primary culprit and endangering 'pollutant', don't be too sure about the veracity of those pitches. Throughout earlier periods of Earth's history those levels have been many times higher than today, with temperature changes preceding - not following - atmospheric CO2 changes. It doesn't require a degree in a climate science, or rocket science either for that matter, to understand these basic facts." On Jan. 12, 2015 Bell pub. the article EPA Uses Junk Science to Wage War on Coal in Newsmax, one of 80+ articles since Dec. 2, 2014, incl. Get NASA Out of Climate Alarm Business (Jan. 26, 2015), CO2 Deserves Gratitude, Not Disdain (Feb. 9, 2015), Climate Alarm Industry is Scientifically Bankrupt (Aug. 31, 2015), Desperate Climate Alarmists Attack Skeptics (Dec. 28, 2015), Don't Believe 'Hottest-Year' Hype (Mar. 14, 2016), A Short Politically Incorrect Climate Conversation (Aug. 8, 2016), On Feb. 22, 2019 Bell pub. the article Green New Deal Reveals Green Left's True Colors, in CFACT, with a lead photo of a broken watermelon signifying green on the outside, red on the inside, containing the soundbyte:; "When you say pollution, carbon dioxide is plant food. It makes the rainforest happy. It makes Bambi smile. Carbon dioxide is what greenhouses put on their plants to make them grow. So to call carbon dioxide a pollutant is a bit misguided. When we're talking about pollution, there's real pollution in terms of particulate natter that comes from a lot of different sources. Nobody wants dirty air, dirty water, dirty land. But to equate that to carbon dioxide is just really very far off base." Watch video - Larry Bell. Watch video - Larry Bell. Watch video - Larry Bell. Watch vidoe - Larry Bell.

On Jan. 18, 2011 Canadian U. of Winnipeg geographer-climatologist Timothy Francis "Tim" Ball (1938-2022), Charles Anderson, Martin Hertzberg, Claes Johnson, Joseph A. Olson, Alan Siddons, Oliver K. Manuel, Charles Anderson, John O'Sullivan, and Hans Schreuder (-2019) pub. Slaying the Sky Dragon - Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory, claiming to disprove the theory of manmade global warming by carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and to double-down by claiming that CO2 cools the climate; it is a product of Principia Scientific Internat. (PSI), founded in the U.K. in 2010 by Tim Ball and British-born Canadian-Am. atty. John O'Sullivan to push the claim that CO2 is not a greenhouse gas, attracting noted scientists, engineers, environmentalists, economists, etc., incl. Habibullo Abdussamatov, Joe Bastardi, Darko Butina, Piers Corbyn, Paul Driessen, Peter F. Gill, Ole Humlum, Terri Jackson, and Nils-Axel Moerner; too bad, they pub. a number of fringe science articles, giving an opening to critics, and Sullivan's credentials are full of holes, even though he clearly did his homework on the climate change issue and qualifies as a climate change journalist, plus he's got a great tiger by the tail? On Jan. 10-19, 2011 Ball pub. the article Corruption of Science Has Created 30 Lost Years in Canada Free Press, lamenting that climate science along has a generation of older scientists disputing the AGW views of a generation of younger scientists, with the soundbytes: "It's frightening how little climate science is known by both sides of the debate on human causation of global warming. We now have a generation (30 years) of people teaching, researching or running government that has little knowledge because of lack of fundamental education", and "The blame begins with the political manipulations of Maurice Strong, but he only succeeded because of the so-called climate scientists. Among them, computer modelers caused the biggest problem. They needed to know the most, but knew the least", dissing Canadian U. of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver as an incompetent climate scientist who was really just a computer modeler, and the IPCC for diverting almost all climate research funding into AGW while leaving the wider subject unresearched, causing Weaver on Feb. 2, 2011 to file a libel and defamation lawsuit, ultimately losing when the judge rules that the attack is too ludicrous to qualify as libel; in Mar. 2011 Michael E. Mann files a defamation lawsuit against Tim Ball for his statement that Mann "should be in the State Pen, not Penn State", accusing him of complicity in Climategate along with scientific fraud for misrepresenting the Medieval Warming Period in his famous Climate Hockey Stick, which Mann's supporters call "the climate science trial of the century", which is dismissed on Feb. 13, 2018 a related lawsuit by U. of Victoria climate modeler Andrew Weaver is dismissed because "while the Article is derogatory of Dr. Weaver, it is not defamatory"; too bad, on July 4, 2017 Mann's lawsuit backfires when Mann refuses to surrender his data to the court and could be cited for contempt of court; in Aug. 2019 his lawsuit is completely dismissed; he should be prosecuted for racketeering? On Jan. 21, 2014 Ball pub. The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science, dissing the progressive left for politicizing what should only be a science. On Sept. 5, 2016 Ball pub. the book Human Caused Global Warming: The Biggest Deception in History. The Why, What, Where, When, and How It Was Achieved. On Dec. 26, 2018 Ball pub. the article How Canada Worked to Stoke Climate Alarmism. On Feb. 25, 2019 Ball pub. the article New Green Deals, Junk Science. On July 29, 2019 Ball utters the soundbyte: "Global warming was chosen by the people that were working for the Club of Rome because of course it's the original Chicken Little the Sky is Falling threat that everybody has. Global warming was never about climate change, it was always about overpopulation." On Dec. 26, 2019 The Sky Dragon Slayers: Victory Lap is pub. Watch video - Tim Ball. Watch video - Tim Ball. Watch video - Tim Ball. Watch video - Tim Ball. Watch video - Tim Ball. Watch video - Tim Ball. Watch video - Tim Ball.

On Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2011 the 2011 North Am. Winter Storm (Blizard), AKA the Storm of the Cent. and the 2011 Groundhog Day Blizzard hits three-quarters of the U.S. with record snowfalls and low temps.

On Mar. 11, 2011 the 9.0 2011 Tohoku Japan Earthquake (biggest ever) strikes off Senai (near Tokyo), causing tsunami alerts in 20+ countries, with a 33-ft. wall of water swamping town in N Japan, killing 10K and causing $35B in damage; an explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi (No. 1) Power Plant nuclear reactor 170 mi. NE of Tokyo causes radiation to hit 1Kx the safe level, causing a 6-mi. exclusion zone to be placed around it, after which a 2nd power plant explodes; on Mar. 14 the 3rd nuclear power plant explosion occurs, causing panicked residents of Tokyo to flee as the U.S. braces for possible radioactive fallout; the earthquake shortens the length of the day by 1.8 microsec.; on Mar. 15 100K protesters throughout Germany call for closing of nuclear power stations; on Mar. 17 German chancellor Angela Merkel orders Germany's older nuclear reactors to be temporarily shut down for a safety check; on Mar. 18 Pres. Obama orders a review of nuclear power plants, while standing strong on the need for more; on Mar. 26 after radioactive iodine spikes 1.2K times higher than normal in nearby seawater, Japanese authorities order the evacuation zone to be expanded to 18 mi.; on Apr. 12 Japan raises the crisis level at Fukushima to 7 (highest), equal to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

On Mar. 21, 2011 Canadian-Am. Tex. Tech (fake?) climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe (1972-) and her husband, West Tex. evangelical pastor Andrew Farley (1972-) pub. A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions, attempting to reconcile climate change wth evangelical Christianity, making fans of Leonardo DiCaprio and Pres. Obama; on Nov. 14, 2016 she writes an open letter to Pres. Trump, pleading with him to accept that climate change is real and not a hoax, coining the term "climate weirding" to describe extreme weather. On Oct. 31 she pub. the op-ed. I'm a Climate Scientist Who Believes in God. Hear Me Out. Global warming will strike hardest against the very people we're told to love: the poor and vulnerable in The New York Times. Watch video - Katharine Hayhoe. Watch video - Tony Heller. Watch video - Tony Heller.

On Apr. 14-16, 2011 the U.S. tornado outbreak of Apr. 14-16, 2011) produces 178 confirmed tornadoes across 16 days, killing 38 and causing $2.1B damage, becoming the deadliest since the 2008 Super Tues. tornado outbreak.

On Apr. 25-28, 2011 the 2011 Super Tornado Outbreak in the S, Midwest, and NE U.S. produces 360 confirmed tornadoes, killing 324 and causing $12.2B damage, with up to 210 mph winds; on Apr. 27 4.5 in. hail falls in Saltville, Va. On Apr. 27-28, 2011 a tornado-thunderstorm outbreak in the U.S. South does $5B damage and kills 343 in five states, becoming the 2nd deadliest in U.S. history since the Mar. 1932 Ala. twister outbreak that killed 332; three TVA nuclear reactors are knocked out; on Apr. 29 Pres. Obama visits Ala. to survey the damage and offer condolences.

In Apr. 2011 Mt. Tambora in Indonesia, scene of the humongous 1815 earthquake begins getting active again, with 200+ quakes/mo., spewing ash and smoke as high as 4.6K ft. (1.4km).

In Apr. 2011 the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature Climate Change is founded to cover global warming research; ed.-in-chief #1 is Olive Heffernan.

In Apr. 2011 UCSD-Stanford prof. David G. Victor, dir. of the Laboratory on Internat. Law and Regulation pub. the book Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet, which attempts to explain why so little diplomatic progress has been made on the climate change problem and suggesting solutions. Watch video - David G. Victor. Watch video - David G. Victor. Watch video - David G. Victor. Watch video - David G. Victor. Watch video - David G. Victor. Listen to audio - David G. Victor.

On May 4, 2011 the Great Mississippi River Flood of 2011 begins, cresting on May 10 near Memphis, Tenn. before ending on June 20 after killing 20 and causing $2B-$4B damage.

On May 25-27, 2011 the 2011 Geological and Mineralogical Assoc. of Canada (GAC-MAC) Conference is held at the U. of Ottawa in Canada, pissing-off global warmists by giving ample space to global warming skeptics incl. Bob Carter, Ian Plimer, and Henrik Svensmark.

On May 29, 2011 the Wallow Fire in Apache Sitgreaves Nat. Forest in E Ariz starts, burning for more than 1 mo. and destroying 840 sq. mi. of forest, displacing 10K, and doing $79M damage; on June 18 U.S. Repub. Sen. John McCain suggests that it was started by illegal immigrants, causing Hispanic groups to demand he apologize after non-Hispanic campers Caleb Joshua Malboeuf (26) and David Wayne Malboeuf (24) are charged by federal authorities.

On May 31, 2011 former White House nat. space policy adviser John L. Casey pub. Cold Sun, blaming perceived global warming on the Sun; on Aug. 19, 2014 he pub. Dark Winter: How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell, predicting a coming "solar hibernation" bringing a long-term drop in Earth temperatures along with record earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Watch video - John L. Casey. Watch video - John L. Casey. Watch video - John L. Casey.

In May-June, 2011 after record snowfall in the Rocky Mts. of Mont. and Wyo. and near-record spring rainfall in C-E Mont., the 2011 Missouri River Flood results after six major dams are opened to prevent overflow, flooding towns and cities from Mont. to Mo. incl. Bismarck, N.D., Pierre, S.D., Dunes, S.C., South Sioux City, Neb., Sioux City, Iowa, Omaha, Neb., Council Bluffs, Iowa, Kansas City, Mo., and Jefferson City, Mo.

In May 2011 Ben Davidson (1983-) founds SuspiciousObservers to promote the role of the Sun in climate change and predict a coming Grand Solar Minimum. Watch video.

In May 2011 Australian billionaire (Australia's richest woman) Georgina Hope "Gina" Rineheart (nee Hancock) (1954-) writes the soundbyte: "I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change, especially not from a relatively small country like Australia"; she also utters the soundbytes: "I am yet to hear scientific evidence to satisfy me that if the very, very small amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (approximately 0.38%) was increased, it could lead to significant global warming""; "Let's consider climate change - the world has constantly changed climate and will continue to do so. Even before human civilisation, the world went through ice ages and periods of global warming"; "There will always be changes that affect our climate, even if we close down all thermal-fired power stations, steel mills and other manufacturing operations, putting employees out of work and drastically changing our way of life. Furthermore, there will always be geothermal activity that spew out heat and ash and this activity does affect the climate"; on July 17, 2018 Graham Readfearn of DeSmog Blog reveals that she donated $4.5M to the climate skeptic think tank Inst. of Public Affairs in 2016-7, almost half their income; in Dec. 2016 she and her fellow climate change denier friend, Australian Conservative politician Cory Bernardi (1969-) of South Australia meet with pres.-elect Donald Trump's campaign team incl. Rudy Giuliani and campaign mgr. Kellyanne Conway, and on Feb. 7, 2017 he announces that he's leaving the Liberal Party to form his own party called the Australian Conservatives.

On June 26, 2011 Bergen, Norway-born Am. physicist Ivar Giaever (1929-) (co-winner of the 1973 Nobel Physics Prize) utters the soundbyte in the Aftenposten (Norway's largest newspaper): "It is amazing how stable temperature has been over the last 150 years", resigning from the Am. Physical Society on Sept. 13, 2011, with the soundbyte: "In the APS it is OK to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible?"; at the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting he utters the soundbyte: "Is climate change pseudoscience? If I'm going to answer the question, the answer is: absolutely"; he also utters the soundbyte: "The claim (how can you measure the average temperature of the whole earth for a whole year?) is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degrees Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this 'warming' period.'" Watch video - Ivar Giaever. Watch video - Ivar Giaever. Watch video - Ivar Giaever.

In June 2011 Colo. State U. atmospheric scientist William Mason "Bill" Gray (1929-2016) (authority on tropical cyclone forecasting) pub. the paper On the Hijacking of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), containing the soundbyte: "I am very disappointed at the downward path the AMS has been following for the last 10-15 years in its advocacy of the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) hypothesis. The society has officially taken a position many of us AMS members do not agree with. We believe that humans are having little or no significant influence on the global climate and that the many Global Circulation Climate Model (GCMs) results and the four IPCC reports do not realistically give accurate future projections. To take this position which so many of its members do not necessarily agree with shows that the AMS is following more of a political than a scientific agenda.... We AMS members have allowed a small group of AMS administrators, climate modelers, and CO2 warming sympathizers to maneuver the internal workings of our society to support AGW policiesirrespective of what our rank-and-file members might think. This small organized group of AGW sympathizers has indeed hijacked our society"; the paper was greeted with stony silence - you can't handle the truth? On May 23, 2012 he speaks at the Heartland Inst.'s 7th Internat. Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-7) in Chicago, Ill., presenting the paper The Physical Flaws of the Global Warming Theory and Deep Ocean Circulation Changes as the Primary Climate Driver, with the abstract: "Increases in CO2 and other greenhouse gases will not be able to bring about significant climate disruption in the next 75-100 years. The main problem with the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory is the false treatment of the global hydrologic cycle which is not adequately understood by any of the AGW advocates. The water vapor, cloud, and condensation-evaporation assumptions within the conventional AGW theory and the (GCM) simulations are incorrectly designed to block too much infrared (IR) radiation to space. They also do not reflect-scatter enough short wave (albedo) energy to space. These two misrepresentations result in a large artificial warming that is not realistic. A realistic treatment of the hydrologic cycle would show that the influence of a doubling of CO2 should lead to a global surface warming of only about 0.3°C – not the 3°C warming as indicated by the climate simulations. The global surface warming of about 0.7°C that has been experienced over the last 150 years and the multi-decadal up-and-down global temperature changes of 0.3-0.4°C that have been observed over this period are hypothesized to be driven by a combination of multi-century and multi-decadal ocean circulation changes. These ocean changes are due to naturally occurring upper ocean salinity variations. Changes in CO2 play little role in these salinity driven ocean climate forcings"; he goes on to discuss the topic "Negative Consequences of Politics Trumping Climate Science", with the soundbytes: "Until the basic scientific flaws in the AGW theory are recognized and broadly accepted (as they eventually will have to be) it will not be possible for the scientific community and society to put this pernicious and harmful hoax to rest. The wide acceptance of this theory has had a profound negative influence on the US and the world. AGW's basic scientific flaws must be made known as soon as possible so that the public can be made aware as to the fallacy of this hypothesis. This will help reduce the current economic, political, and psychological harm which is occurring around the globe due to AGW's unrealistic warming propaganda and prevent greater harm in future years"; "The AGW climate scare of the last 30 years did not come to the forefront from individual scientists beginning to coalesce around the idea that rising levels of CO2 might pose a serious future climate threat to society. This threat was, by contrast, imposed upon the world from 'above' by the coming together of globally influential politicians, environmentalists, internationalists, etc. who knew little about climate but saw great political opportunities by using the rising CO2 levels as a scare tactic in order to exercise control over them. People respond best out of fear. But lasting response to fear must have a firm basis in truth. The AGW scare does not"; "I have absolutely no doubt that the AGW hypothesis will become fully discredited within the next decade or so. A doubling of CO2 near the end of the 21st century should, by itself, only bring about a global warming of about 0.3°C or only about one-tenth of the ~3°C global warming projected by nearly all of the GCM models." Watch video - William M. Gray.

On July 12, 2011 Am. journalist Christian Parenti pub. Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence, claiming a link between climate change and political unrest in mid-lat. regions of Earth.

On July 19, 2011 Robert K. Kaufmann, Heikki Kauppi, Michael L. Mann, and James H. Stock pub. the paper Reconciling anthropogenic climate change with observed temperature 1998-2008, attempting to rescue the CO2 AGW theory despite the global warming hiatus of 1998-2008, with the abstract: "Given the widely noted increase in the warming effects of rising greenhouse gas concentrations, it has been unclear why global surface temperatures did not rise between 1998 and 2008. We find that this hiatus in warming coincides with a period of little increase in the sum of anthropogenic and natural forcings. Declining solar insolation as part of a normal eleven-year cycle, and a cyclical change from an El Nino to a La Nina dominate our measure of anthropogenic effects because rapid growth in short-lived sulfur emissions partially offsets rising greenhouse gas concentrations. As such, we find that recent global temperature records are consistent with the existing understanding of the relationship among global surface temperature, internal variability, and radiative forcing, which includes anthropogenic factors with well known warming and cooling effects."

On Aug. 18, 2011 The Guardian of U.K. pub. the article Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilisations, say scientists, reporting on the article Would contact with extraterrestrials benefit or harm humanity? A scenario analysis by Seth D. Baum, Jacob D. Haqq-Misra, and Shawn D. Domagal-Goldman of Penn. State U. and the NASA Planetary Science Division, speculating that extraterrestrial environmentalists could be so pissed-off at our pollution that they come to view us as a threat to the intergalactic ecosystem and decide to destroy us - how, with messy polutting nukes?

On Aug. 23, 2011 (1:51 p.m. EST) the 5.8 2011 U.S. East Coast Earthquake (worst in 67 years) centered in Mineral, Va. S of Washington, D.C. is felt all the way to Boston and Chicago, causing the White House, Pentagon, and other govt. bldgs. and memorials to be evacuated; an unrelated 5.3 earthquake hit S Colo. just before the bigger quake.

On Sept. 1, 2011 the SEII (European Society of Engineers and Industrialists) in Belgium cancels a climate change event featuring Am. climate change skeptic S. Fred Singer and Swedish climate change skeptic Claes-Goran Johnson, pissing-off organizer (chemical engineer) Henri A. Masson, who resigns, blaming pressure from the IPCC,and holds a private meeting instead; Masson goes on to utter the soundbytes: "Temperature records over time in a given location show a chaotic behaviour. Our finding proofs mathematically that any forecast of temperature in a given point is meaningless on the medium or longer term, which is intuitively obvious from weather forecasts"; "An indirect consequence of the complexity of the climate system is the danger of writing non-comprehensive executive summaries for decision makers, based only on mathematical models, as the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change) usually does"; "Consequently, there is a serious risk that climate related socio-economic or geopolitical decisions made by political decision-makers are based on unsubstantiated scientific evidence. The development of a low carbon economy, the promotion of, and subsidies for alternative energies, electrical vehicles, underwater or underground carbon trapping, cap and trade mechanisms, etc. could be part of such unsubstantiated decisions with huge global consequences for the competitiveness of industries, and of nations in attracting these industries." Other Belgian climate change skeptics incl. chemical engineer Anne Debeil and welding engineer Fred Goldberg (-2016). Watch video - Fred Goldberg.

On Oct. 14, 2011 Indian petroleum geologist Arun Ahluwalia speaks at the climate skeptic Conference on Climate Change: Shifting Science and Changing Policy in Mumbai, India, hosted by the Liberty Inst. and Mumbai U., giving a presentation titled Climate Change or Global Warming: Man Made or Natural or Both?, with the soundbytes: "Man indeed may be a pygmy before nature and incapable of causing or reversing a global warming or climate change. To err on the side of caution let us presume man may be contributing a minor fraction towards warming of the earth. The planet has a great resilience we must not however forget", and "The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn't listen to others. It doesn't have open minds... I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists."

On Oct. 24, 2011 Am. geologist and petroleum engineer Howard R. Lowe pub. the ebook The Sky Will Not Fall: Unmasking the Green Revolution, with the ad blurb: "It's good that mankind is taking note of his effects on the environment. However, many of the world's environmental problems cannot be solved by Man. We cannot change the Earth's orbit or declination of its axis, nor can we control sunspot activity, solar storms or meteorite collisions. The Earth is a dynamic place." On Jan. 14, 2017 Lowe and Christopher Bell pub. the ebook Beyond Our Control: Debunking Manmade Global Warming, which concludes: "Based on empirical evidence, the Earth's climate is controlled by naturally occurring events and operates in cycles."

Ad hominem turned into an academic discipline? Or, why are conservative white males so dumb and liberal white males such geniuses who are bearers of the true faith as proved by their Ph.Ds? In Oct. 2011 the journal Global Environmental Change pub. the article Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United States by Mich. State U. environmental sociologist Aaron M. McCright ("A hidden genius who draws reports") and Okla. State U. environmental sociologist Riley E. Dunlap, with the conclusion that conservative white males are more likely than other Americans to deny climate change, that it can be understood as an expression protecting group identity and justifying a social system providing desired benefits, and that climate change denial increased from 2001-2010 - aren't they glad they're liberal AGW believers who get all the academic positions? On July 5, 2018 Olve Krange, Bjorn P. Kaltenborn, and Martin Hultman pub. the study Cool dudes in Norway: climate change denial among conservative Norwegian men, concluding that 63% of conservative Norwegian men are climate deniers, compared to 36% of Norway's overall pop.; in 2016 Chalmers Inst. of Tech. in Sweden hosts a conference of "25 climate denial specialists", hosted by Martin Hultman, with Riley Dunlap attending via Skype. In 2018 Chalmers Inst. of Tech. in Sweden founds the leftist-socialist-globalist Center for the Study of Climate Change Denialism, attempting to link climate change denial with conservatism and xenophobia/Islamophobia, financed by the Swedish Energy Agency and led by Martin Hultman, who utters the soundbyte: "Climate change is an existential question for all society. We have these insights, but we come into conflict with them. Therefore, it is important to understand the mechanisms behind different forms of climate change denial, and how this influences the debate and political decisions" - how long until they encounter this climate historyscope and really study the subject? On May 19, 2014 Hultman and Jonas Anshelm (1960-) pub. the paper A green fatwa? Climate change as a threat to the masculinity of industrial modernity, one of those papers you've read just by reading the title? In 2014 Hultman and Anshelm pub. the book Discourses of Global Climate Change: Apocalyptic framing and political antagonisms, based on empirical research in Sweden, with the ad blurb: "The book identifies and analyses four globally circulated discourses that call for very different action to be taken to achieve sustainability: Industrial fatalism, Green Keynesianism, Eco-socialism and Climate scepticism. Drawing on risk society and post-political theory, it elaborates concepts such as industrial modern masculinity and ecomodern utopia, exploring how it is possible to reconcile apocalyptic framing to the dominant discourse of political conservatism."

On Nov. 8, 2011 to fight global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions, the Clean Energy Act of 2011, introduced by the Labor govt. of Australian PM #27 (2010-13) Julia Eileen Gillard (1961-) is passed, establishing an emissions trading scheme preceded by a 3-year period of fixed carbon pricing, with the goal being to "drive substantial changes in patterns of energy production and energy use"; on July 1, 2014 it is repealed by the Labor govt. of Tony Abbott.

On Nov. 9, 2011 Montreal-born anti-Capitalist pro-Communist leftist climate activist Naomi Klein (1970-) pub. the article Capitalism vs. the Climate in The Nation, containing the soundbyte: "So let's summarize. Responding to climate change requires that we break every rule in the free-market playbook and that we do so with great urgency. We will need to rebuild the public sphere, reverse privatizations, relocalize large parts of economies, scale back overconsumption, bring back long-term planning, heavily regulate and tax corporations, maybe even nationalize some of them, cut military spending and recognize our debts to the global South. Of course, none of this has a hope in hell of happening unless it is accompanied by a massive, broad-based effort to radically reduce the influence that corporations have over the political process. That means, at a minimum, publicly funded elections and stripping corporations of their status as “people” under the law. In short, climate change supercharges the pre-existing case for virtually every progressive demand on the books, binding them into a coherent agenda based on a clear scientific imperative." On Sept. 2014 Klein pub. the NYT bestseller This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, claiming that capitalism has waited too long to address climate change, and that neoliberal market fundamentalism and its profligate consumption, mega-mergers, and trade agreements immune to concerns about the environment stands in the way of the solution, making it necessary to cross "the river of fire" and dump it and start an ecological rev.; filmed in 2015 by her hubby Avi Lewis. On Apr. 30, 2019 after working with U.S. Rep. (D-N.Y.) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) to create the video AOC's Message from the Future, calling for massive govt. spending and mandates to save the world from climate change in 12 years, Klein speaks at a journalism conference at Columbia U. with the goal of pumping-up media coverage of climate change, uttering the leftist self-loathing soundbyte: "Having covered this for a really long time, uh, I know that one of the strongest forces we are up against is the sense of doom, inevitability, but also kind of a self-loathing. Like we've been told for so long that all we are are selfish, that all we are are short-term thinkers. We get messages like the huge cover story in the New York Times Magazine that blames the whole thing on human nature. So I really do think there is a deep feeling of 'We're... not even sure we deserve to survive.'"

On Nov. 16, 2011 Xuhui Lee et al. of Yale U. pub. the paper Observed Increase in Local Cooling Effect of Deforestation at Higher Latitudes in Nature, reporting that deforestation causes cooling due to the increased albedo.

On Nov. 20, 2011 Dem. Wash. gov. #17 (1977-81) (marine biologist) (nuclear energy supporter) Dixy Lee (Marguerite) Ray (1914-94) and Lou Guzzo pub. the book Trashing the Planet: How Science Can Help Us Deal With Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and Nuclear Waste (among Other Things).

On Nov. 28-Dec. 11, 2011 the 2011 U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP17) in Durban, South Africa fails to establish a new treaty to limit carbon emissions, but does agree to establish a legally binding deal comprising all countries by 2015, to take effect in 2020; despite conference pres. Maite Nkoana-Mashabane declaring it a success, environmental groups and scientists warnt that it is not sufficient to avoid global warming beyond 2C.

On Dec. 13, 2011 Hammersmith, London-born British journalist Melanie Phillips (1951-) pub. the book The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle Over God, Truth, and Power, arguing that the loss of religious belief has meant the West has replaced reason and truth with ideology and prejudice, resulting in a form of mass derangement, as truth and falsity, right and wrong, victim and aggressor have become confused, citing the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the scientists who resigned when they realized it was a political-ideological rather than scientific body with an agenda to replace capitalism with world socialism. Watch video - Melanie Phillips.

On Dec. 15, 2011 the Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources holds a 2-hour Hearing on Climate Change, with speakers incl. climate change skeptics Ian Clark, Ross McKitrick, Tim Patterson, Roger Pielke, and Jan Veizer. Watch video.

On Dec. 28, 2011 Adrian G. Vance pub. the book All About Global Warming. On June 3, 2017 he pub. the article Climate Change for Power and Money in medium.com, which begins: "'Climate Change' is a scam for power and money. China and India have no restraints under it while the US pays for everything. It is high treason by Barack Obama and the facts are very simple."

In Dec. 2011 the 2011-2017 Calif. Drought begins (ends Mar. 2017), killing 102M trees in 2011-16, and 62M in 2016 only, after which severe floods are caused by Pacific storms, causing the Calif. Drought Manipulation Conspiracy Theory to be proclaimed by various sources, claiming it was manufactured via weather modification.

In Dec. 2011 U. of Alaska meteorologist Gerhard Kramm and U. Hospital Munich physicist Ralph Dlugi pub. the paper Scrutinizing the atmospheric greenhouse effect and its climatic impact in Scientific Research, with the conclusion: "1) the so-called atmospheric greenhouse effect cannot be proved by the statistical description of fortuitous weather events that took place in a climate period, 2) the description by AMS and WMO has to be discarded because of physical reasons, 3) energy-flux budgets for the Earth-atmosphere system do not provide tangible evidence that the atmospheric greenhouse effect does exist. Because of this lack of tangible evidence it is time to acknowledge that the atmospheric greenhouse effect and especially its climatic impact are based on meritless conjectures."

In 2011 after becoming an Ayn Rand fan, Duke U. philosophy graduate Alexander Joseph "Alex" Epstein (1980-) founds the Center for Industrial Progress to "bring about a new industrial revolution". In 2013 Rolling Stone lists Epstein among the top global warming deniers, causing him to write a rebuttal in Forbes, dissing the term "global warming denier" as a smear tactic to lump them with Holocaust deniers. On Nov. 13, 2014 he pub. the NYT bestseller The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, making the case for fossil fuels as a great benefit to humanity and knocking wind, solar, and biofuels as too expensive and unreliable while dissing climate alarmists; "If our goal is human flourishing and we look at the full context there is a strong moral case for using more fossil fuels, not less"; "This is not a debate over facts. It's a debate over philosophy and our assumptions"; "Increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere from 0.03 per cent to 0.04 per cent has not caused and is not causing catastrophic runaway global warming. Dishonest references to '97 per cent of scientists' equate a mild warming influence, which most scientists agree with and more importantly can demonstrate, with a catastrophic warming influence - which most don't agree with and none can demonstrate." In 2016 Epstein testifies before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by climate change denier James Inhofe (R-Okla.), claiming that rising CO2 levels "benefit plants and Americans", pissing-off Dem. rep. Barbara Boxer, who says she doesn't "appreciate being lectured by a philosopher and not a scientist." He goes on to make his t-shirt slogan "I love fossil fuels" famous and to utter the soundbytes: "Before fossil fuels brought power to the masses we experienced climate helplessness, not climate safety. Now, empowered by fossil fuels, we experience climate mastery and therefore unprecedented climate safety"; "Nature doesn't give us a stable, safe climate that we make dangerous. It gives us an ever-changing, dangerous climate that we need to make safe." Watch video - Alex Epstein. Watch video - Alex Epstein and Glenn Beck. Watch video - Alex Epstein and Dave Rubin. Watch video - Alex Epstein. Watch video - Alex Epstein. Watch video - Alex Epstein. Watch video - Alex Epstein. Watch video - Alex Epstein vs. Bill McKibben. Watch video - Alex Epstein. Watch video - Alex Epstein. Watch video - Alex Epstein. Watch video - Alex Epstein. Watch video - Alex Epstein.

In 2011 Norwegian U. of Oslo physical geographer Ole Humlum (1949-) et al. pub. the paper Identifying natural contributions to late Holocene climate change in Global and Planetary Change, claiming that changes in the Sun's and Moon's influence on the Earth may explain most of the historical and current climate change, drawing fire from several pro-anthropogenic warming scientists; in 2013 he predicts that the climate will most likely grow colder in the next 10–15 years. On Feb. 24, 2011 Nuclear Street pub. an interview with Humlum. In Jan. 2013 Humblum, Kjell Stordahl, and Jan-Erik Solheim pub. the paper The phase relation between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperature in Global and Planetary Change 100, disputing the claim that CO2 increases precede global temperature increases, with the abstract: "We find a high degree of co-variation between all data series except 7) and 8), but with changes in CO2 always lagging changes in temperature. The maximum positive correlation between CO2 and temperature is found for CO2 lagging 11–12 months in relation to global sea surface temperature, 9.5–10 months to global surface air temperature, and about 9 months to global lower troposphere temperature. The correlation between changes in ocean temperatures and atmospheric CO2 is high, but do not explain all observed changes." Humlum goes on to found the Web site Climate 4 You.

In 2011 German-born Oxford economist Max Roser founds the Web site Our World in Data, covering global data on living conditions incl. natural catastrophes. His three main messages are: "The world is much better; The world is awful; The world can be much better", with the soundbytes: "It is because the world is terrible still that it is so important to write about how the world became a better place", and "For our history to be a source of encouragement we have to know our history. The story that we tell ourselves about our history and our time matters. Because our hopes and efforts for building a better future are inextricably linked to our perception of the past it is important to understand and communicate the global development up to now... Freedom is impossible without faith in free people. And if we are not aware of our history and falsely believe the opposite of what is true we risk losing faith in each other." Roser's data on natural disasters shows a steady rise from 1900-2000, followed by a steady fall, while total damage costs from natural disasters steadily increase until 2011, then plummet.

2012

Get me some boots? On Jan. 8, 2012 Colin Goldblatt of the U. of Victoria, B.C. and Andrew J. Watson of the U. of East Anglia pub. the paper The Runaway Greenhouse: Implications for future climate change, geoengineering and planetary atmospheres in the journal of the Royal Society, describing a "runaway greenhouse" as the condition where the surface temp reaches 1400K, evaporating the oceans and exterminating all life, concluding: "The good news is that almost all lines of evidence lead us to believe that is unlikely to be possible, even in principle, to trigger full a runaway greenhouse by addition of noncondensible greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. However, our understanding of the dynamics, thermodynamics, radiative transfer and cloud physics of hot and steamy atmospheres is weak. We cannot therefore completely rule out the possibility that human actions might cause a transition, if not to full runaway, then at least to a much warmer climate state than the present one. High climate sensitivity might provide a warning. If we, or more likely our remote descendants, are threatened with a runaway greenhouse then geoengineering to reflect sunlight might be life's only hope. Injecting reflective aerosols into the stratosphere would be too short lived, and even sunshades in space might require excessive maintenance."

On Jan. 17, 2012 prolific Am. RAND/UCLA climate skeptic pro-fossil fuel economist Benjamin Zycher of the Am. Enterprise Inst. (AEI) pub. the article Wind and solar power, part 1: Uncooperative Reality, and part 2: How persuasive are the rationales? in Journal of the Am. Enterprise Inst. (JAEI), followed by Would a carbon dioxide tax be efficient? on Aug. 30, 2012 in The American, Benjamin Zycher response to Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change on Feb. 14, 2013 in JAEI, Benjamin Zycher response to Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change - Round 2 on Apr. 12, 2013 in JAEI, The 'Science' of Global Warming, Part 2 on Oct. 8, 2013 in The American, IPCC: Apocalypse not on Oct. 8, 2013 in JAEI, The Unbearable Lightness of the Climate Change Industrial Complex on Nov. 14, 2013 in The American, Opposition to Keystone XL: Global warming as the all-purpose excuse on Nov. 21, 2013 in JAEI, and many more. Watch video - Benjamin Zycher.

On Jan. 20, 2012 geoscientist Gene "G." Dedrick Robinson and his atty. son Gene D. Robinson III pub. the book Global Warming-Alarmists, Skeptics and Deniers: A Geoscientist Looks at the Science of Climate Change, with the ad blurb: "Dr. Robinson knows that geological science is essential for placing the global warming controversy in proper prospective. One cannot hope to understand how humans might be causing climate change without an understanding of the magnitude and speed natural processed are capable of when it comes to climate change. Earth history is the only yardstick we have to determine whether recent climate change is unusual or not. Yet, inexplicably, a vast repository of geologic data has been ignored in this contentious issue"; "The author makes it very clear that a changing climate is not unusual. It is in fact the norm, but often so slow that humans cannot detect it directly. This may be the single most important contribution of this well-written and fact-filled book." (Dr. S. Fred Singer)

On Jan. 27, 2012 the op-ed No Need to Panic About Global Warming is pub. in The Wall Street Journal, signed by 16 scientists, with the headline: "There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy", claiming that "a large and growing number of distinguished scientists and engineers do not agree that drastic actions on global warming are needed" and calling on elected officials to avoid implementing climate change policy because it would "divert resources from real needs and are based on alarming but untenable claims of incontrovertible evidence", only four signers have pub. peer-reviewed climate research articles, only two in the past 30 years?; it's just a cheap propaganda ploy that avoids the need to pub. a peer-reviewed scientific article proving their claims? signers incl. French leading climate skeptic (geochemist) Claude J. Allegre (Allègre), a flip-flopper who signed the 1992 "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity", known for the soundbyte: "We do not deny climate change, but we consider that global warming is not the essential phenomenon. If the temperature increases by 1 or 2° C per century and the sea level rises 25 centimeters, this does not seem catastrophic. We think, for our part, that the essential phenomenon is the increased frequency of extreme events: heat waves or Russian winter, heavy rains with flooding and drought with lack of clean water, and frequent violent tornadoes. All with seemingly random geographic distributions"; his French colleague Vincent Courtillot (b. 1949?) is known for the soundbytes: "It is true that carbon dioxide has increased dramatically in recent decades. And if I am not persuaded that the effect on global temperatures is shown, nothing prevents these effects occurring in the future (one of the main risks is ocean acidification)"; "It is clear that oil, gas and coal resources will eventually be depleted someday and to be reasonably cautious about decreasing consumption is a necessity. It does not need to be related to a legal precautionary principle"; "We have shown that some specific features of the magnetic field were remarkably well correlated with some variations in the sun's activity - which in itself was not surprising - but the fact that it also correlated with the mean global temperature of the lower atmosphere came to us as a real surprise. This is how I started to get interested in climatology at the decadal to centennial time scale, an area which is not my specialty, though I had already encountered climatologists at the million year time scale with the Indian volcanism." On Jan. 27, 2012 water resources scientist Peter H. Gleick (1956-), 1987 co-founder of the Pacific Inst. for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security pub. the article Remarkable Editorial Bias on Climate Science at the Wall Street Journal in Forbes mag., questioning the credentials of the 16 scientists that signed the Wall Street Journal op-ed, claiming that two years earlier 255 members of the U.S. Nat. Academy of Sciences incl. Gleick signed a pro-global warming essay titled Climate Change and the Integrity of Science that was rejected by them and pub. by Science mag. on May 7, 2010; too bad, on Feb. 20, 2012 Gleick announces his responsibility for distributing documents from the pesky Heartland Inst., incl. a forged 2-page "Strategy Memo", with the soundbyte: "My judgment was blinded by my frustration with the ongoing efforts - often anonymous, well-funded, and coordinated - to attack climate science and scientists and prevent this debate, and by the lack of transparency of the organizations involved."

On Jan. 29, 2012 David B. Lobell et al. of Stanford U. pub. an article in Nature Climate Change revealing that images from the MODIS Earth observation satellite show wehat in the Ganges Plain of India turning from green to brown earlier when avg. temps are higher, predicting yield losses 50% greater than today if global temps rise by 2C - meaning that a Paradise Earth won't have Wheaties?

On Jan. 30, 2012 Finnish engineer Antero Ollila pub. the paper Changes in cosmic ray fluxes improve correlation to global warming in Internat. Journal of the Physical Sciences, with the abstract: "In this study, it was found out that ion chamber measurements of cosmic ray fluxes during the last solar cycle ending in 2009 differ essentially from neutron measurements. The ion chamber measurements utilizing geomagnetic aa index as proxy for the years between 1868 and 1936 produced excellent correlation to the global temperature changes for the period of 1868 to 2009. These results indicate that solar activity changes may cause climate changes"; he goes on to pub. many more articles panned by the U.N. IPCC octopus.

On Feb. 7, 2012 U.S. Sen. (R-Okla.) (1994-) James Mountain Inhofe (1934-), chmn. of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) in 2003-7 and 2015-17, known for opposing same-sex marriage and wanting to make English the U.S. nat. language pub. The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future, claiming on the Senate floor that "manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people", once bringing a snowball with him to disprove global warming, and claiming that schools are "brainwashing" children about climate change, making it necessary to "unbrainwash them when they get out", earning him the top position on the Top Ten Climate Deniers List.

On Feb. 8, 2012 U. of Central Fla. astronomer-planetary scientist Daniel "Dan" Britt pub. The History of Climate, with the conclusion: (1) There is no "normal" climate; (2) On average Earth's climate has been much warmer over the last 500M years; average means: no continental glaciation; sea level about 350 feet higher; temperate vegetation N of the Arctic Circle; climate of the Keys as far north as Ohio. Watch video - Dan Britt. Watch video - Dan Britt.

On Feb. 20, 2012 environmental activist Peter Gleick admits to hacking into the computers of the Heartland Inst. and stealing internal documents that show it paying six univ. profs. to provide consulting services, causing U. of Mo. atmospheric scientist Anthony R. "Tony" Lupo (1966-) to be unsuccessfully put under the microscope to 'get' hiim for his belief that humans are causing global warming, with the soundbyte: "There's no doubt the climate is changing; that's a given. But the question is: What's causing it. Is it mankind alone, which a lot of people say? Is it some mix of man and nature? Or is it nature? I would say nature is mostly responsible. There may be a role for man in there somewhere, but how much, I don't know"; he goes on to speak at the 7th Heartland Inst. Conference on Climate Change in Chicago, Ill. in May 2012, and the 9th in Las Vegas, Nev. on July 7-9, 2014. Watch video - Anthony R. Lupo.

On Feb. 24, 2012 conservative pro-Israel writer Rael Jean Isaac (1933-) pub. the book Roosters of the Apocalypse: How the Junk Science of Global Warming Nearly Bankrupted the Western World, analyzing the leftist environmentalist movement and showing how it's anti-science and really out to destroy modern civilization.

On Mar. 1, 2012 after founding the far-right Web site Breitbart.com in mid-2007, Los Angeles, Calif.-born conservative writer Andrew James Breitbart (b. 1969) dies, and Norfolk, Va.-born Stephen Kevin "Steve" Bannon (1953-) takes over, receiving $10M from Rebekah Mercer to pump it up to the #29 site in the U.S., passing The Huffington Post, while changing it to alt-right, calling himself an economic nationalist and advocating immigration reduction, free trade restrictions with China and Mexico, higher federal income tax for those making $5M+/year, and reduction of U.S. military intervention abroad, going on to champion Donald Trump's election as U.S. pres., calling him the "John Wayne of politics", who will "set back the destruction of America", becoming a climate change denier, calling global warming a "manufactured crisis", and hiring British pundit James Delingpole, who writes the soundbyte: "One of [Bannon's] pet peeves is the great climate change con. It's partly why he recruited a notorious skeptic like myself. Basically, we won"; on Dec. 2, 2015 Bannon declares that Pope Francis has "fallen into this hysteria" about climate change, responding to the comment of theologian Thomas D. Williams that his encyclical is "closely aligned to a redistributionist mentality" about poor countries "looking for handouts under the guise" of reducing CO2 emissions with "Yes, that's the climate justice"; on Nov. 15, 2016 Trump appoints Bannon as his chief strategist; in Jan. 2017 he gives him a seat on the principals committee of the Nat. Security Council (until Apr. 5, 2017); too bad, on Aug. 18, 2017 Bannon is fired from the White House, then steps down as exec chmn. of Breitbart News in Jan. 2018 after Pres. Trump says that he "lost his mind" for calling Ivanka Trump "dumb as a brick" and a meeting by Donald Trump Jr. with Russians "treasonous", causing climate change denier Marc Morano to call it "bad news for climate skeptics". Watch video - Steve Bannon. Watch video - Marc Morano on Steve Bannon.

On Mar. 1, 2012 Barbel Honisch et al. of Columbia U. pub. an article in Science announcing that the Earth's oceans may be turning acidic from human carbon emissions faster than during the last four major extinctions over 300M years. Watch video.

On Mar. 1-27, 2012 the Mar. 2012 North Am. Heat Wave sees 7K+ daily temperature records tied or broken, with Chicago, Ill. reching 80F+ every day between Mar. 14-18; S Canada also sees record-breaking high temps.

On Mar. 2, 2012 the EF-3 West Liberty Tornado in West Liberty, Ky. leaves a 60-mi. track in country that that it was tornado-free, killing six and injuring 75.

On Mar. 22, 2012 Tony Phillips of NASA Langley Research Center pub. the study Solar Storm Dumps Gigawatts into Earth's Upper Atmosphere , claiming that so-called greenhouse gases CO2 and NO2 in the thermosphere block up to 95% of harmful shortwave infrared solar radiation and reradiate it to space, with James Russell of Hampton U. uttering the soundbyte: "When the upper atmosphere (or 'thermosphere') heats up, these molecules try as hard as they can to shed that heat back into space"; too bad, they continue to maintain that these gases absorb longwave infrared radiation and reradiate it to the surface?

On Mar. 22, 2012 Fuhai Hong and Ziaojian Zhao pub. the paper Information Manipulation and Climate Agreements, with the soundbyte: "We find that information manipulation has an instrumental value, as it ex post induces more countries to participate in an International Environmental Agreement."

On Mar. 28, 2012 Graeme L. Stephens of JPL, Martin Wild of ETH Zurich, Paul W. Stackhouse Jr. of NASA Langley, and Tristan L'Ecuver, Seiji Kato, and David S. Henderson of Colo. State U. pub. the paper The Global Character of the Flux of Downward Longwave Radiation, claiming to estimate the surface downwelling longwave radiative flux (DLR) as 344-350 +/-10 W/sq. m., and the global cloud radiative effect as 24-34 W/sq. m.; too bad, they fall for the con that these kind of fluxes are physical and not just made up by bad robots from statistics obtained from climate models that all make CO2 into a dragon in the sky, with the soundbyte: "Four different types of estimates of the surface downwelling longwave radiative flux (DLR) are reviewed. One group of estimates synthesizes global cloud, aerosol, and other information in a radiation model that is used to calculate fluxes. Because these synthesis fluxes have been assessed against observations, the global-mean values of these fluxes are deemed to be the most credible of the four different categories reviewed."

In Mar. 2012 British-born Canadian oceanographer Alan Reece Longhurst (1925-) pub. the book Doubt and Uncertainty in Climate Science, which criticizes the IPCC for inadequate consideration of sea heating; "Sea surface temperature is not a substitute for air temperature over the oceans beause it responds to changes in vertical motion in the ocean associated with costal and open-ocean upwelling; the resultant change in surface temperature is independent of any changes in atmospheric temperature caused by CO2, yet these changes are integrated into the GMST record which is used to estimate the effects of CO2"; "The planetary heat budget is poorly constrained, perhaps principally by our inability to quantify the mechanisms that control the accumulation and loss of heat in the ocean, where most solar heat accumulates; the quantification of changes in cloud cover is so insecure that we cannot confidently describe its variability - yet clouds are the most important control on the rate of heat input at the sea surface"; "The consequences of acidification of seawater is one of the most enigmatic questions, and may bring serious biological problems, although it seems now that (i) marine organisms are more resilient to changing pH than was originally feared, because of the genetic diversity of their populations and (ii) the history of pH of seawater during geological time suggests that resilience through selection of genomes has emerged when appropriate in the past."

On Apr. 1, 2012 the article New comparison of ocean temperatures reveals rise over the last century reports a new study by Dean Roemmich of Scripps Inst. of Oceanography contrasting ocean temperature readings of the 1870s with modern readings reveals an upward global ocean warming trend spanning 100+ years, with a 0.33C (0.59F) avg. increase in the surface up to 700m (2,300 ft.) depth, decreasing to 0.12C (0.22F) at 900m (2,950 ft.) depth.

On Apr. 11, 2012, 49 former NASA employees incl. "top astronauts, scientists, and engineers" and "NASA experts, with more than 1000 years of combined professional experience" send a letter to the head of NASA, containing the soundbytes: "We, the undersigned, respectfully request that NASA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) refrain from including unproven remarks in public releases and websites"; "We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data. With hundreds of well-known climate scientists and tens of thousands of other scientists publicly declaring their disbelief in the catastrophic forecasts, coming particularly from the GISS leadership, it is clear that the science is NOT settled"; "As former NASA employees, we feel that NASA's advocacy of an extreme position, prior to a thorough study of the possible overwhelming impact of natural climate drivers is inappropriate"; "We request that NASA refrain from including unproven and unsupported remarks in its future releases and websites on this subject. At risk is damage to the exemplary reputation of NASA, NASA's current or former scientists and employees, and even the reputation of science itself." In Jan. 2013 the Right Climate Stuff Research Team, composed of 20 "Apollo era NASA retirees" incl. Harold H. "Hal" Doiron and James M. Peacock pub. a climate report along with a press release, claiming that anthropogenic global warming is not "settled" and is of no pressing concern; the project is headed by former oil-gas exec and geologist H. Leighton Steward (1936-), who runs the Web site CO2 Is Green and founded the group Plants Need CO2 in 2009.

On Apr. 19, 2012 German meteorologist-physicist Klaus-Eckart Puls of the European Inst. for Climate and Energy (EIKE) (founded in Feb. 2007 in Hanover, Germany) pub. the article Climate Panic Orchestra Now Playing in Antarctica, containing the soundbyte: "Antarctica is cooling and the ice belt is growing." On May 8, 2012 he gives an interview to the Swiss mag. Factum, containing the soundbytes: "Until 10 years ago I simply parroted unchecked what the IPCC told us. At some point I attempted to verify the allegations. The result is I started with doubts and ended with horror and the realization that a lot of what the IPCC and the media say about climate change is not true and is not covered by scientific facts and measurements. I am ashamed today for what I used to 'retell' unchecked as a scientist in my lectures. The CO2 climate hysteria in Germany is propagated by people who are in it for lots of money, attention, and power."

In Apr. 2012 Obama admin. agriculture secy. Tom Vilsack announcing the new Forest Planning Rule for the 155 U.S. nat. forests and grasslands, heavily influenced by leftist environmentalists, with plan components incl. "Restore and maintain forests and grasslands", "Provide habitat for plant and animal diversity and special conservation" et al., in practice making forest fires more likely by prohibiting the clearing of brush and cutting of dead trees since environmentalists can't stand the sight of a logger in a nat. park?

On May 3-4, 2012 the Heartland Inst. runs a billboard ad campaign comparing believers in global warming to the Unabomber, pissing them off along with some supporters, causing them to pull the billboard and not follow it with more featuring Charles Manson, Fidel Castro, and Osama bin Laden.

On Mar. 17, 2012 Rutgers U. climate scientist Jennifer A. Francis and U. of Wisc. atmospheric scientist Stephen J. Vavrus pub. the article Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid-latitudes in Geophysical Research Letters, attempting to tie blizzards and deep freeze on the U.S. East Coast to global warming. On Jan. 6, 2015 Francis and Vavrus pub. the article Evidence for a wavier jet stream in response to rapid Arctic warming, with the abstract: "New metrics and evidence are presented that support a linkage between rapid Arctic warming, relative to Northern hemisphere mid-latitudes, and more frequent high-amplitude (wavy) jet-stream configurations that favor persistent weather patterns. We find robust relationships among seasonal and regional patterns of weaker poleward thickness gradients, weaker zonal upper-level winds, and a more meridional flow direction. These results suggest that as the Arctic continues to warm faster than elsewhere in response to rising greenhouse-gas concentrations, the frequency of extreme weather events caused by persistent jet-stream patterns will increase." On Mar. 27, 2015 Science News pub. the article Climate change does not cause extreme winters, experts say, reporting on the Mar. 13 paper Physics of Changes in Synoptic Midlatitude Temperature Variability by Tapio Schneider (1972-), Tobias Bischoff, and Hanna Plotka of ETH Zurich and Cal Tech in Journal of Climate, debunking the wavy jet stream theory, with the soundbyte: "Cold snaps like the ones that hit the eastern United States in the past winters are not a consequence of climate change. Scientists have now shown that global warming actually tends to reduce temperature variability." On May 16, 2017 Francis, Vavrus et al. pub. the article Amplified Arctic warming and mid-latitude weather: new perspectives on emerging connections in WIREs Climate Change. On Jan. 3, 2018 Francis pub. the article Why Are Arctic Linkages to Extreme Weather Still up in the Air?, In Jan. 2018 after Winter Storm Grayson hits, she utters the soundbyte: "When this pattern is in place, nor'easters are likely to form along the boundary between the cold air and the warm Atlantic, fueled by the dynamics in the flow of the jet stream along the eastern seaboard. We can't say this particular storm is caused by global warming, but we can say that the persistent ridge/trough pattern, which is one factor in causing nor'easters, is likely to occur more frequently." On Feb. 20, 2018 U. of Mo. atmospheric scientist Anthony R. Lupo (1966-) et al. pub. the article Weather should remain predictable despite climate change, uttering the soundbyte: "The jet stream changes character every 10 to 12 days, and we use this pattern to predict the weather. We were curious about how this would change in a world with higher carbon dioxide levels. We found that in that warmer world, the variability of the jet stream remained the same." On Feb. 25, 2019 Schneider et al. pub. the study Possible climate transitions from breakup of stratocumulus decks under greenhouse warming in Nature Geoscience, claiming that a loss of stratocumulus clouds break up after atmospheric CO2 reaches 1,200 ppm, which could precipitate extreme global warming, raising global temps 8C beyond greenhouse gases. Watch video - Tapio Schneider.

On Mar. 28, 2012 49 former NASA scientists and astronauts incl. Michael F. Collins and Walter Cunningham send a letter to NASA administrator Charles Bolden Jr., with the soundbyte: "We believe the claims by NASA and GISS [NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies], that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data. With hundreds of well-known climate scientists and tens of thousands of other scientists publicly declaring their disbelief in the catastrophic forecasts, coming particularly from the GISS leadership, it is clear that the science is NOT settled."

On May 21, 2012 Adelaide, Australia-born conservative commentator (non-scientist) Andrew Bolt (1959-) speaks at the Inst. of Public Affairs (IPA) conference in Melbourne, featuring climate skeptic Vaclav Klaus, describing AGW as a "pretend problem", with the soundbyte: "We are talking about a pretend tax to solve a pretend problem that no one believes will be solved by this and we all have to pay attention"; on Oct. 30, 2013 Wendy Bacon of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism pub. Sceptical Climate Part 2: Climate Science in Australian Newspapers, which claims that Andrew Bolt is the 2nd most prolific writer on the climate change issue in Australia behind fellow climate skeptic Terry McCrann, with 41 articles in Feb.-July 2011; on Feb. 21, 2014 Bolt gives an interview to ABC News' "One Plus One", in which he utters the soundbyte: "I know that there is a debate about [humans causing the warming of the planet] - that's all I am prepared to say. I'm not a scientist but when someone tells me that all the scientists agree, I say no they don't. They all agree that there's a tendency for human emissions to heat the planet, but whether that's responsible for all the heating is an open question. But I must say that once it was confidently predicted that there was run away warming and now we have had a pause for 16 years. Now please explain that"; on Dec. ?, 2015 Bolt airs an episode of his show "The Bolt Report" on Southern Cross Ten, exposing the global warming pause that began in 1997, pissing-off the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), which examines him but concludes he didn't breach the industry's code of practice; on Oct. 4 Bolt hosts climate skeptic Ian Plimer on "The Bolt Report" to discuss his new book "The Climate Change Delusion and the Great Electricity Ripoff", with Plimer claiming that climate models have been "doctored" and promote a "fallacy based on fraud promoted by fools", uttering the soundbytes: "To think we can do something is the ultimate of narcissism. And it's all based on a failed fundamental: The fundamental is that it is the human emissions of carbon dioxide that drive global warming. That has never been shown. 99% of emissions are natural"; "The 2nd thing is that we have to cut our emissions. Cut this plant food that we're putting into the atmosphere. Now, to cut that, we build wind industrial complexes and solar complexes. Now, the amount of toxins that we release, the amount of carbon dioxide to build them, and to maintain them, to transport the products, doesn't save anything"; on June 22, 2018 Bolt pub. the article 30 Years of Exaggerating Global Warming in the Herald Sun, followed by Global Warming Won't Kill You, But SBS Propaganda Might (June 29, 2018), Gods Use Solar Panels on Their Roofs (Nov. 16, 2018), Warmists Predicted No Snow. Instead, Record Falls (Nov. 17, 2018), and ‘So What' Is Not What A Science Body Should Say (Jan. 22, 2019). Watch video - Andrew Bolt.

On June 15, 2012 U. of Oslo astrophysicist Jan-Erik Solheim pub. the article What Happened to James Hansen's 1988 Temperature Forecast? Time for a Review, containing the soundbyte: "The arrow beyond Scenario A represents the temperature value that the Hansen team predicted would increase by 2.5% based on a CO2 increase. According to the Hansen forecast, the temperature should have risen by 1.5° C compared to the reference level in the 1970s. In truth, however, the temperature has only increased by 0.6° C. It can be seen that the temperature forecast modeled by the Hansen Group in 1988 is about 150% inappropriate. It is deeply regrettable that this kind of modeling is still regarded by our politicians as a reliable climate forecast"; it's moose hockey? Watch video - Jan-Erik Solheim. Watch video - Jan-Erik Solheim.

On June 23, 2012 the Waldo Canyon Fire 4 mi. NW of Colorado Springs, Colo. (ends July 10) causes 32K to flee, destroying 346 homes and causes $453.7M damage, becoming the most destructive fire in Colo. until the Black Forest Fire next year.

On June 23-30, 2012 Tropical Storm Debby starts in the C Gulf of Mexico, making landfall near Steinhatchee, Fla. with 40 mph winds, dropping 28.78 inc. of rain in Curtis Mills, Fla causing the Sopchoppy River to flood 400 bldgs. in Wakulla County, the Anciote and Pithlachascotee Rivers to flood 106 homes, and Black Creek in Clay County to flood 587 homes, killing 10 and causing $250M damage.

On June 29-30, 2012 the 240-mi.-wide 100 mph June 2012 North Am. Derecho (Sp. "straight ahead") "land hurricane" devastates 10 states from Ill. to the U.S. East Coast, killing 22 and causing $2.9B in property damage, leaving 4M without power.

On July 4, 2012 AP writer Seth Borenstein pub. the article Scientists: This is what global warming looks like, the results of interviewing 15 so-called climate scientists, who unanimously blame hot summer weather on climate change.

On Aug. 13, 2012 the city of Needles, Calif. experiences hot rain of 115F, becoming the hottest ever recorded (until ?).

On Sept. 17, 2012 The Guardian pub. the article Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years, containing the soundbyte: "As sea ice shrinks to record laws, Prof Peter Wadhams warns a 'global disaster' is now unfolding in northern latitudes", adding: "Climate change is no longer something we can aim to do something about in a few decades' time, and that we must not only urgently reduce CO2 emissions but must urgently examine other ways of slowing global warming, such as the various geoengineering ideas that have been put forward."

On Sept. 17, 2012 Am. psychiatrist Jay Michaelson of Brown U. pub. the paper Geoengineering: A Climate Change Manhattan Project in Stanford Environmental Law Journal, with the abstract: "This article argues that the lack of success in climate change policy stems from the exclusive focus of policymakers on various forms of preventive regulation. Because climate change regulation requires an extraordinary amount of will and coordination, and because uncertainty, cost, equity, and other factors threaten the effective implementation of a regulatory regime, a regulation-only approach is dangerously myopic. Because of these structural problems, the time has now come to expand our policy horizons to include geoengineering, the direct manipulation of the Earth's climatic feedback system, as a serious alternative to ineffective and contentious regulation."

On Oct. 22-31, 2012 Category 3 Hurricane Sandy devastates portions of the Caribbean and E U.S. and Canada, killing 209+; it shuts down Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, N.Y., but power remains on in the HQ of Goldman Sachs.

On Nov. 6, 2012 (Obama's reelection day) billionaire real estate playboy Donald John Trump (1946-) tweets the soundbyte: "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive"; on Sept. 26, 2016 Trump denies he said that in a debate with Hillary Clinton; this is Trump's first of 20 strong climate skeptic statements before becoming Repub. U.S. pres. #45 on Jan. 20, 2017. Too bad, in early Jan. 2020 Trump backpedals, saying that climate change is "not a hoax", but a "very serious issue", calling himself an environmentalist. Watch video - Donald Trump. Watch video - Donald Trump.

On Nov. 15, 2012 Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood, and Michael L. Roderick pub. the article Little change in global drought over the past 60 years, questioning the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI).

On Nov. 19, 2012 Lianne M. Lefsrud and Renate D. Meyer pub. the paper Science or Science Fiction? Professionals' Discursive Construction of Climate Change, with the soundbyte: "Taken together, these four skeptical groups numerically blow away the 36 percent of scientists who believe global warming is human caused and a serious concern."

On Nov. 26-Dec. 8, 2012 the 2012 U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP18) is held in Doha, Qatar, agreeing to extend the life of the Kyoto Protocol until 2020. Watch video.

On Dec. 18, 2012 English libertarian journalist Sir Matthew White "Matt" Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley (1958-), known for his lukewarm view of climate change and distrust of renewable energy policy pub. the article Cooling Down the Fears of Climate Change, claiming that evidence points to a further global temp rise of just 1C by 2100, and arguing that the net effect on Earth may be beneficial; on Jan. 4, 2013 he pub. the article How Fossil Fuels Have Greened the Planet in The Wall Street Journal explaining the satellite evidence for the CO2 fertilisation effect (global greening), becoming the first in the mainstream media; on Sept. 17 he pub. the article Dialing Back the Alarm on Climate Change, claiming that the forthcoming (Sept. 27) IPCC Fifth Assessment Report will lower its estimates on global warming; in 2013 he pub. a report for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, containing the soundbyte: "I have written about climate change and energy policy for more than 25 years. I have come to the conclusion that current energy and climate policy is probably more dangerous, both economically and ecologically, than climate change itself. T his is not the same as arguing that climate has not changed or that mankind is not partly responsible. That the climate has changed because of man-made carbon dioxide I fully accept. What I do not accept is that the change is or will be damaging, or that current policy would prevent it"; in 2015 he comments on the CO2 fertilisation effect in a report about Indian-Am. scientist Indur M. Goklany: "As Goklany demonstrates, the assessments used by policy makers have overestimated warming so far, underestimated the direct benefits of carbon dioxide, overestimated the harms from climate change, and underestimated the human capacity to adapt"; his critics ignore his arguments and satisfy themselves with observations on his ownership of coal mine land. On Sept. 4, 2014 he pub. the article Whatever Happened to Global Warming? in The Wall Street Journal, examining "climate scientists' implausible explanations for why the 'hiatus' has passed the 15-year mark". Watch video - Matt Ridley. Watch video - Matt Ridley. Watch video - Matt Ridley.

On Dec. 28, 2012 Shaun W. Elsasser and Riley E. Dunlap pub. the article Leading Voices in the Denier Choir : Conservative Columnists' Dismissal of Global Warming and Denigration of Climate Science in Am. Behavioral Scientist, with the abstract: "The conservative 'echo chamber' is a crucial element of the climate change denialmachine. Although social scientists have begun to examine the role of conservativemedia in the denial campaign, this article reports the first examination of conservativenewspaper columnists. Syndicated columnists are very influential because they reacha large audience. We analyze 203 opinion editorials (“op-eds”) written by 80 differentcolumnists published from 2007 to 2010, a period that saw a number of crucial events and policy proposals regarding climate change. We focus on the key topics the columnists address and the skeptical arguments they employ. The overall results reveal a highly dismissive view of climate change and critical stance toward climate science among these influential conservative pundits. They play a crucial role in amplifying thedenial machine's messages to a broad segment of the American public."

In Dec. 2012 after visiting the Arctic in 2007 and acting as science and environment reporter since 2006, new BBC News environment correspondent Matt McGrath begins pub. a prolific stream of articles pushing the global warmist narrative backed by the BBC and British govt., with the going rate that anybody doubting them are mentally challenged. On May 12, 2013 he pub. the article 'Dramatic decline' warning for plants and animals. On Apr. 4, 2014 the blog Biased BBC pub. the article Matt McGrath Is the New Black, On July 21, 2015 McGrath pub. the article Arctic ice 'grew by a third' after cool summer in 2013 in BBC News, which opens: "The volume of Arctic sea ice increased by around a third after an unusually cool summer in 2013. Researchers say the growth continued in 2014 and more than compensated for losses recorded in the three previous years. The scientists involved believe changes in summer temperatures have greater impacts on ice than thought. But they say 2013 was a one-off and that climate change will continue to shrink the ice in the decades ahead. The Arctic region has warmed more than most other parts of the planet over the past 30 years. Satellite observations have documented a decrease of around 40% in the extent of sea ice cover in the Arctic since 1980." On Nov. 30, 2015 McGarth pub. the article COP21: Fine words but divisions run deep. On Dec. 12, 2015 McGrath pub. the article Has history been made at COP21? On Oct. 30, 2017 McGrath pub. the article Record surge in atmospheric CO2 seen in 2016. On June 1, 2018 McGrath pub. the article Paris climate pullout: The worst is yet to come. On Dec. 8, 2018 McGrath pub. the article Climate change: COP24 fails to adopt key scientific report. On Dec. 9, 2018 McGrath pub. the video Climate change: Why are governments taking so long to take action?. On Feb. 6, 2019 McGrath pub. the article Climate change: World heading for warmest decade, says Met Office.

In 2012 E. Steirou and D. Koutsoyiannis pub. the paper Investigation of methods for hydroclimatic data homogenization in Geophysical Research Abstracts, containing the conclusion: "The above results cast some doubts in the use of homogenization procedures and tend to indicate that the global temperature increase during the last century is between 0.4°C and 0.7°C, where these two values are the estimates derived from raw and adjusted data, respectively."

In 2012 German chemist Fritz Vahrenholt (1949-) and German geologist Sebastian Luning (Lüning) (1970-) pub. "Die Kalte Sonne: Warum die Klimakatrasphoe nicht Statfindet", which is pub. in English on June 15, 2015 as The Neglected Sun: Why the Sun Precludes Climate Catastrophe, which claims that the Sun and four concurrent solar cycles control weather on Earth, not CO2, making the doomsday global warming predictions of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change into moose hockey, a castle built on sand, because a future ice age is a possibility after the Earth cools 0.2-0.3 C by 2035; their book is heavily criticized by climate scientists.

In 2012-13 the coldest winter in 50 years in Russia, with abnormally cold weather in Europe, India, China, and the U.S.; China has its coldest winter in 30 years; Moscow has its deepest snowfall in 134 years; in Jan. 2013 New Delhi records its lowest temperature in 44 years; in Mar. 2013 Britain experiences its 2nd coldest Mar. since 1910; in Apr. 2013 3,318 sites in the U.S. record their lowest temps ever; on Mar. 31, 2013 an article in the Herald of Germany contains the soundbyte: "German meteorologists say that the start of 2013 is now the coldest in 208 years - and now German media has quoted Russian scientist Dr Habibullo Abdussamatov from the St. Petersburg Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory [saying this] is proof as he said earlier that we are heading for a 'Mini Ice Age.' Talking to German media the scientist who first made his prediction in 2005 said that after studying sunspots and their relationship with climate change on Earth, we are now on an 'unavoidable advance towards a deep temperature drop.'"

2013

In early Jan.-Mar. 2013 after a pool of hot air settles over the center of the continent in Sept. combined with lack of cloud cover, the 90-day Australian Angry (Extreme) Summer sees 123 weather records broken incl. hottest Jan., hottest summer, hottest week (avg. of 39C or 102F), and hottest day in Australia (Jan. 7, 40.30C or 104.54F); no surprise, the U. of Melbourne claims a link to anthropogenic global warming.

On Jan. 7, 2013 Australia sets a nat. avg. max temp of 40.3C (104.5F).

On Jan. 8-9, 2013 wild cold wet weather hits the Middle East, with snow in Jordan.

On Jan. 10, 2013 British retired geologist Aziz I. Adam pub. the book New Emperors' New Clothes - Climate Change Analysed, with the ad blurb: "Like the boy in the fairy tale, the author points out that the climate 'emperor' also has no clothes. Making extensive use of documentary evidence from across the scientific spectrum he demonstrates that the alleged "consensus" of the climate scientists is non-existent. T he writer examines in detail the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports and finds there is no credible scientific evidence to back up the claims of imminent climate catastrophe. The present book has particular significance, given that the developing world will suffer most if deprived of sources of urgently needed cheap energy as a result of the West's futile, indeed hypocritical, crusade to 'save the planet' by outlawing fossil fuels."

On Jan. 18, 2013 a whopping 10 in. of snow falls in non-globally-warmed Moscow, becoming known as teh Russian Snowpocalypse.

On Jan. 20-21, 2013 after announcing that he's converting his campaign org. into a permanent lobby org., the 57th U.S. Pres. Inauguration is held; Pres. Obama's 2nd Inaugural Address lays out an unabashedly liberal agenda, making climate change his #1 priority; it incl. the soundbytes: "My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it, so long as we seize it together. For we, the People understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it"; "Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms"; "We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that failure to do so would betray our children and future generations"; it features the first-ever layperson invited to give the invocation, Myrlie Evers-Williams (1933-); Obama makes the first-ever reference to gay rights; during his first term Obama increased the nat. debt by $50,521 per household, more than the first 42 presidents in 53 terms combined; the number of Americans "not in the labor force" increased by 8,332,000; the number of Americans collecting disability increased by 1,385,418 (1 per 13 full-time workers, vs. 1 in 51 in Dec. 1968); Obama's first term approval rating averaged 49.1%, among the least for post-WWII presidents. On Jan. 28 Am. climate change skeptic Rupert Darwall pub. the article Second-Term Climate Change in the Nat. Review Online, containing the soundbyte: "It was characteristically bold of President Obama in his second inaugural to speak of the overwhelming judgment of science on global warming, given that we are well into the second decade of average global temperatures that indicate no statistically significant warming trend. The temperature standstill was not predicted by climate scientists, leaving them struggling to rationalize its significance... Even if climate science is as robust as the president asserts, in the absence of a global agreement on carbon emissions, mandates and subsidies to produce renewable energy will have negligible impact on global temperatures and on the weather. A 1998 study on the effect of the Kyoto Protocol estimated that, if fully implemented, it would delay the rise in global temperatures by four to 14 years over the course of the current century and have a minimal effect on the rise of sea levels. However, the cost of the attempt would be at the expense of the competitiveness of American business and American taxpayers and consumers."

On Feb. 14, 2013 Socialist U.S. Sen. (I-Vt.) (2007-) Bernie Sanders (1941-) and U.S. Sen. (D-Calif.) (1993-2017) Barbara Levy Boxer (1940-) introduce the Sanders-Boxer Climate Protection Act of 2013, setting a long-term emissions reduction goal of 80% or more by 2050, and enacting a $20/ton carbon fee, rising 5.6%/year for 10 years, featuring a "fee and dividend" system (variant on a carbon tax) that imposes a tax on carbon emissions at the source (coal mines, etc.) and refunding 60% of the proceeds to U.S. residents in the form of rebates, with Sanders issuing the soundbyte: "Under the legislation, a fee on carbon pollution emissions would fund historic investments in energy efficiency and sustainable energy technologies such as wind, solar, geothermal and biomass. The proposal also would provide rebates to consumers to offset any efforts by oil, coal or gas companies to raise prices"; it fails to pass. On July 28, 2015 Sanders gives an interview to Ezra Klein of Vox, giving the climate alarmist view and calling Repubs. an "embarrassment" that are "refusing to listen to science", calling for a carbon tax. On Oct. 13, 2015 Sanders participates in the first Dem. U.S. pres. debate, pushing climate change as a key issue, with the soundbyte that it is the biggest threat to U.S. nat. security, and that we must "transform our energy system away from polluting fossil fuels, and towards energy efficiency and sustainability"; "The scientific community is telling us that if we do not address the global crisis of climate change, transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to sustainable energy, the planet that we're going to be leaving our kids and our grandchildren may well not be habitable. That is a major crisis", later calling climate change a "moral issue". On Dec. 5, 2016 Sanders pub. his People Before Polluters Climate Plan: Combating Climate Change to Save the Planet, which begins: "The scientists are virtually unanimous that climate change is real, is caused by human activity and is already causing devastating problems in the United States and around the world. And, they tell us, if we do not act boldly the situation will only become much worse in years to come in terms of drought, floods, extreme storms and acidification of the oceans. Sadly, we now have a Republican Party that is more concerned about protecting the profits of Exxon, BP and Shell and the coal industry than protecting the planet. While fossil fuel companies are raking in record profits, climate change ravages our planet and our people – all because the wealthiest industry in the history of our planet has bribed politicians into ignoring science." Sandrs follows with a full plan, which begins: "Climate change is the single greatest threat facing our planet. The debate is over, and the scientific jury is in: global climate change is real, it is caused mainly by emissions released from burning fossil fuels and it poses a catastrophic threat to the long-term longevity of our planet. If we do nothing, the planet will heat up five to ten degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century. That would cause enough sea level rise from melting glaciers to put cities like New York and Miami underwater – along with more frequent asthma attacks, higher food prices, insufficient drinking water and more infectious diseases"; "Right now, we have an energy policy that is rigged to boost the profits of big oil companies like Exxon, BP, and Shell at the expense of average Americans. CEOs are raking in record profits while climate change ravages our planet and our people - all because the wealthiest industry in the history of our planet has bribed politicians into complacency in the face of climate change. Enough is enough. It's time for a political revolution that takes on the fossil fuel billionaires, accelerates our transition to clean energy, and finally puts people before the profits of polluters." On Mar. 29, 2017 Sanders appears on MSNBC's Morning Joe, blasting Pres. Trump as an embarrassment on climate change. On Oct. 10, 2018 Sanders tweets the soundbyte: "Climate change is a planetary crisis. Our task is clear. We must take on the fossil fuel industry that's largely responsible for global emissions and accelerate our transition toward energy efficiency and sustainable energy sources." On Oct. 18, 2018 Sanders tweets the soundbyte: "Climate change is the single greatest threat facing our planet. On Nov. 6th, we must show up at the polls from coast to coast and stand with candidates who are willing and ready to accelerate our transition to clean energy, and finally put people before the profits of polluters"; meanwhile he spends $300K for private jets in Oct. On Dec. 3, 2018 Sanders holds a climate change town hall titled "Solving Our Climate Crisis" on Capitol Hill before a crowd of 400, getting upstaged by newly-elected Socialist N.Y. Dem. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1989-) (AOC), who pushes the Green New Deal, with the soundbyte: "This is going to be the Great Society, the moonshot, the civil rights movement of our generation. That is the scale of the ambition that this movement is going to require"; on Jan. 21 AOC tweets the soundbyte: "Millennials, and Gen z, and all these folks that come after us, are looking up and we're like 'the world will end in 12 years if we don't address climate change, and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?'", which is hooted by the conservatives, who didn't get the point that the same day she attended a memorial for MLK Jr., referring to his statement: "We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action"; she also utters the soundbyte: "This is our war - this is our World War II"; on Mar. 29 she appears on MSNBC, uttering the soundbyte: "We've got 12 years to turn it around. When we actually finally pass something, it's a wimpy carbon tax and our kids are doomed"; on Apr. 9 she tweets the soundbyte: "The far-right loves to drum up fear & resistance to immigrants. But have you ever noticed they never talk about what‘s causing people to flee their homes in the first place? Perhaps that's bc they'd be forced to confront 1 major factor fueling global migration: Climate change", ignoring the facts that temperatures in Central Am. haven't changed, while crop production has zoomed; N.Y. Dem. Socialist Nomiki Konst was Bernie's spokesperson before she ran for Public Advocate in 2018; even if the U.S. cuts CO2 emissions completely, the Earth would only cool by 0.137C by 2100?; meanwhile in the U.K. the opposition Labour Party is pushing a Green New Deal, led by shadow secy. of state for business, energy and industrial strategy (since Feb. 9, 2017) Rebecca Long-Bailey (1979-), who wants to increase offshore wind power by 7x; on Apr. 9 AOC tweets the soundbyte that climate change is "causing people to flee their homes in the first place"; on May 12 AOC flip-flops, tweeting the soundbyte: "Like the 'world ending in 12 years' thing, you'd have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it's literal." On July 9, 2019 Sanders and AOC issue a nat. climate emergency, with Sanders comparing the "climate change crisis" to Pearl Harbor. On Aug. 11, 2019 Sanders speaks at the Iowa State Fair, with the soundbyte that climate change is "the major national security issue we face", bigger than al-Qaida or ISIS. On Aug. 22, 2019 Sanders announces a $16.3T climate plan building on the Green New Deal, calling for the U.S. to switch to renewable energy across the board by 2050 while declaring climate change a nat. emergency, starting with a "10-year nationwide mobilization centered on equity and humanity" that will supposedly create 20M new jobs, which doesn't sound hard after giving $2.18T in grants to low and middle income families to weatherize and refit their homes and businesses to reduce residential energy consumption by 30%, and spending $526B to modernize the electrical grid while investing in electric vehicles, high-speed rail, and expanded public transit; no surprise, his plan calls for a federal govt. takeover of energy production, with the soundbyte "Can't nibble around the edges"; on Aug. 22 he tweets the soundbytes: "Fossil fuel executives should be criminally prosecuted for the destruction they have knowingly caused"; "These executives have spent hundreds of millions of dollars protecting their profits at the expense of our future, and they will do whatever it takes to squeeze every last penny out of the Earth"; "There is no such thing as 'clean coal.' There is no such thing as 'sustainably fracked' natural gas. We are going to end the greed of the fossil fuel industry and move to 100% renewable energy"; no surprise, the real goal comes out when the Green New Deal is described as an "opportunity to uproot historical injustices and inequities to advance social, racial and economic justice". On Oct. 20, 2019 House Dems. hold a hearing on Exxon, trying to prove they knew that CO2 emissions caused global warming back in 1982 and lied to the public for years, to give fuel to lefist environmentalists wanting to frame them as another Big Tobacco to get in their deep pockets; AOC leads the questioning. On Nov. 20, 2019 Sanders utters the soundbyte at a Dem. pres. debate: "You talked about the need to make climate change a national emergency. I've introduced legislation to just do that. Now, I disagree with the thrust of the original question because your question has said, 'What with we going to do in decades?' We don't have decades. What the scientists are telling us, if we don't get our act together within the next 8 or 9 years, we're talking about cities all over the world, major cities, going under water. We're talking about increased drought. We're talking about increased extreme weather disturbances. The United Nations is telling us that, in the years to come, there are going to be hundreds of millions of climate refugees causing national security issues all over the world"; he adds the soundbyte: "What we have to do is tell the fossil fuel industry that their short-term profits are not more important than the future of this planet. The fossil fuel industry is probably criminally liable, because they have lied and lied and lied when they had the evidence that their carbon products were destroying the planet", suggesting that Big Oil execs be prosecuted. Watch video - Tim Pool. Watch video - Bernie Sanders. Watch video - Bernie Sanders. Watch video - Nomiki Konst.

On Feb. 15, 2013 Australian atmospheric physicist Douglas J. "Doug" Cotton writes the article (pub. Dec. 1, 2016) Planetary Core and Surface Temperatures, ditching the radiative greenhouse effect and presenting a new main heat transfer mechanism in all planets, accusing the climatologist-dominated U.N. IPCC of avoiding review of their papers by physicists; on NOv. 23, 2015 Cotton pub. the article Why It's Not Carbon Dioxide, which contains the soundbyte: "The world needs to focus more on what is and what is not the correct physics that does in fact explain temperatures and energy transfers both on Earth and other planets. That correct physics has nothing to do with radiation reaching a planet's surface, because nearly all such solar radiation is not sufficient to raise the existing temperatures. Most solar radiation merely warms the upper troposphere and stratosphere, and this is very obvious for Venus if you apply Stefan-Boltzmann calculations. The 'greenhouse effect' assumes incorrectly that the most prolific so-called 'greenhouse gas' water vapour warms the Earth's surface by most of 33 degrees on average. So, given that water vapour concentrations vary between about 1% and 4% we could deduce from the invalid 'science' that rain forests should be more than 50 degrees hotter than dry deserts at similar latitude and altitude. Of course they are not, and that disproves the 'settled' science. My study showed that, in the real world, the more moist regions have lower mean daily maximum and minimum temperatures than the drier regions. Water vapour cools, and it's just as well that it does. So does carbon dioxide, but by less than 0.1 degree"; on Dec. 23, 2016 Cotton pub. the article Comprehensive Refutation of the Radiative Forcing Greenhouse Hypothesis, containing the soundbyte: "Greenhouse gases do not raise the surface temperature by 33 degrees. Instead gravity raises it by about 40 or more degrees and then greenhouse gases lower it back by a few degrees"; on Nov. 25, 2019 Cotton pub. the article Cogent and irrefutable reasons why carbon dioxide cannot warm Earth. On Dec. 21, 2019 Cotton pub. the paper Understanding Planetary Surface Temperatures Using Kinetic Theory. Watch video - Douglas Cotton.

On Feb. 17, 2013 the Forward on Climate movement holds protests in major U.S. cities incl. 35K in Washington, D.C., calling for Pres. Obama to act on his inaugural pledge about climate change and reject the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

On Mar. 2, 2013 the climate skeptic blog NoTricksZone pub. the article The Carbon Cycle - Nature or Nurture? by Ed Caryl, which claims that man injects only about 4% of the annual CO2 flux, the resting coming from oceans and land plants, concluding: "It is ten times as likely that atmospheric CO2 is coming from natural sources, namely the warming ocean surface, as it is likely that it is coming from anthropogenic sources. The changes in CO2 track ocean surface temperature, not global carbon emissions. Burning fossil fuels is not increasing atmospheric CO2. Recovery from the Little Ice Age, driven by the sun, is causing the oceans to release CO2. It is temperature driving CO2 release, not the other way around. Just as it has always been. As the sun gets quiet in the next few years, sea surface temperature will begin to fall, and the rise in CO2 will cease. If the sun stays quiet for 30 or 40 years, ocean surface temperatures will fall far enough to reverse the CO2 rise, the globe will enter a new little ice age, and things will get really interesting"; it turns out to be fake news? On Oct. 15, 2015 Caryl pub. the article Social Benefit Of Carbon Is Ten To A Hundred Times The Estimated Social Cost. On July 13, 2018 the blog pub. the article Five New Studies From Around the World Show Today's Weather Fully Within Range of Natural Variability! by Pierre Gosselin. Watch video.

On Mar. 13, 2013 James McBee Taylor, former managing ed. of "Environment & Climate News" (2001-14) releases his first article in the Spark of Freedom series, titled Developing Nations Account for All Oil Demand Growth, going on to advocate that the public "should recognize the benefits of energy sources such as natural gas, hydro, and nuclear power" while dissing wind and solar power, with the soundbyte: "Federal, state, and local government policies restrict production and use of these valuable, common-ground energy sources. That needs to change"; he goes on to appear publicly debunking climate alarmism and paint global warming as modest and beneficial. On Aug. 31, 2019 he pub. the article Climate Alarmists Foiled: No U.S. Warming Since 2005. Watch video - James M. Taylor. Watch video - James M. Taylor.

On Apr. 5, 2013 U.S. vice-pres. Joe Biden utters the soundbyte at the 28th Annual Conference of the U.S. Export-Import Bank that "the affirmative task we have now is to actually create a new world order"; he repeats his call for a new world order on Mar. 21, 2022 at a secretive meeting at the Business Roundtable CEO Quarterly Meeting with leaders in energy, manufacturing, and retail.

On Apr. 10, 2013 the Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy Coalition (BICEP) releases the Climate Declaration urging Congress to act on climate change, with the soundbyte that "asserting that a bold response to the climate challenge is one of the greatest American economic opportunities of the 21st century"; signers incl. 30 cos. incl. Nike, Starbucks, and eBay.

On Apr. 15, 2013 Slovenian-born British scientist Darko Butina (formerly with Glaxo Research, where he helped developed Sumatriptan, the first effective drug to treat migraine) pub. the article Should We Worry About the Earth's Calculated Warming at 0.7C Over Last the Last 100 Years When the Observed Daily Variations Over the Last 161 Years Can Be as High as 24C?, with the conclusions: "1. That the global warming does not exist in thermometer data since it is impossible to declare one year either warmer or colder than any other year; 2. That the Hockey Stick scenario does not exist in thermometer data and therefore it must be an artifact observed in a purely theoretical space of non-existing annual global temperatures", drawing a mocking rebuttal by HotWhopper blog on Apr. 16, 2013, pointing out that all of Butina's temperature records are for a single location, the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland from 1844-2004; on May 17, 2013 Butina pub. the article Twenty Facts About Carbon Dioxide (CO2), containing the soundbytes: "We know that no gas molecule of the open system, as our atmosphere is, can possibly control temperature"; "We know that CO2 in the atmosphere could not be detected by a standard IR-spectrometer and yet that property of CO2 has been used to argue for the existence of a greenhouse effect. "We know that all the knowledge about the physical world comes from experiments that can be validated and not from calculations that cannot be validated. And yet, everything about man-made global warming is about calculations and NOTHING about measurements"; on Feb. 15, 2017 he pub. an article announcing that three years of study of global temperature readings reveal that govt. researchers have been doctoring readings from thermometers to fit their climate models in order to justify their global warming conclusions, questioning the concept of a global temperature; on Sept. 3, 2018 he pub. an article claiming that the real data proves that the Northern Hemisphere has been cooling for the last 140 years, not warming.

On Apr. 29, 2013 the atmospheric CO2 concentration at NOAA's Mauna Loa Observatory reaches 400 ppm for the first time after increasing 2.1 ppm per year for the last 10 years.

On May 8, 2013 Am. mechanical engineer Dan Pangburn pub. the essay Natural Climate Change, which starts out: "About 41.8% of reported average global temperature change results from natural ocean surface temperature oscillation and 58.2% results from change in the rate that the planet radiates energy to outer space and/or reflects it, as calculated using a proxy, which is the time-integral of sunspot numbers. Using just these two factors explains average global temperatures (least biased values based on HadCRUT4 and other credible measurements) since before 1900 with 89.82% accuracy (R2=0.8982)." On June 8, 2014 he pub. the essay Mistakes Made by the Consensus, with the soundbyte: "Compelling evidence CO2 does not cause very much climate change." On Jan. 28, 2015 he pub. the essay End of Global Warming, with the soundbyte: "Humanity has wasted over $100,000,000,000 in failed attempts using super computers to demonstrate that added atmospheric CO2 is a primary cause of global warming and in misguided activities to try to do something about it. An unfunded engineer, using only a desk top computer, applying a little science and some engineering, discovered a simple equation that unveils the mystery of global warming and describes what actually drives average global temperature." On Feb. 22, 2016 he pub. the essay Cause of Global Climate Change, with the conclusion: "Two factors can explain most of AGT change since before 1900. They are ocean cycles, accounted for with an approximation, and, influence quantified by a proxy; the SSN anomaly time-integral... Long term prediction of average global temperatures depends primarily on long term prediction of sunspot numbers." On Aug. 6, 2016 he pub. the essay Climate Change Drivers, which claims that since CO2 is "thermalized" by collisions with non-CO2 molecules and doesn't control climate, it's all about water vapor. Pangburn's computerized climate model is the only one that can accurately model past global temperatures back to 1800, with all 103 govt.-controlled CO2 AGW-based climate models off by more than 2 sigma in the hot direction?

On May 26, 2013 researchers at the U. of Hawaii pub. an article in Nature Geoscience revealing that El Nino is dependent on an unusual wind pattern that straddles the equatorial Pacific and has a 15 mo. cycle.

On May 30, 2013 Qing-Bin Lu et al. of the U. of Waterloo in Canada pub. an article in the Internat. Journal of Modern Physics B blaming chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) for global warming instead of carbon dioxide (CO2), with the soundbyte: "Conventional thinking says that the emission of human-made non-CFC gases such as carbon dioxide has mainly contributed to global warming. But we have observed data going back to the Industrial Revolution that convincingly shows that conventional understanding is wrong. In fact, the data shows that CFCs conspiring with cosmic rays caused both the polar ozone hole and global warming. Most conventional theories expect that global temperatures will continue to increase as CO2 levels continue to rise, as they have done since 1850. What's striking is that since 2002, global temperatures have actually declined - matching a decline in CFCs in the atmosphere. My calculations of CFC greenhouse effect show that there was global warming by about 0.6 °C from 1950 to 2002, but the earth has actually cooled since 2002. The cooling trend is set to continue for the next 50-70 years as the amount of CFCs in the atmosphere continues to decline." On June 6, 2013 Rupert Darwall pub. the article Global Warming and the Gipper in the Wall Street Journal, containing the soundbyte: "Might it be that it was Ronald Reagan and not Barack Obama who began to slow the rise of the seas? That is one conclusion that could be drawn from a new paper by Canadian physicist Qing-Bin Lu of Ontario's University of Waterloo. Instead of carbon dioxide emissions, Mr. Lu argues that ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other halocarbons caused global warming. Thanks to the Reagan administration and the 1987 Montreal Protocol, CFCs have been phased out by developed countries. After a lag, Mr. Lu argues that global temperatures peaked around 2002 and predicts they are set to gradually fall over the next five to seven decades. Upholders of the consensus argue that increased carbon dioxide is the only way to explain rising global temperatures. Now there is a competing explanation, with a chronology that better fits the evidence."

In May 2013 Berlin-born Am. psychologist Stephan Lewandowsky (1958-) pub. a survey of 1K climate science blog readers in Psychological Science titled "NASA Faked the Moon Landing - Therefore, (Climate) Science Is a Hoax", claiming to find a correlation between rejection of the IPCC climate science narrative and free market economic belief, further correlating IPCC skepticism with skepticism about HIV causing AIDs and tobacco smoking causing lung cancer, and further claiming correlation with a "cluster of conspiracy theories"; in 2013 he co-authors the infamous John Cook study claiming that 97% of climate scientists believe in AGW, leading to the more general Gateway Belief Model of Scientific Consensus; in 2013 Lewandowsky pub. another survey claiming a correlation between belief in conspiracy theories (incl. the 9/11 conspiracy theory) and rejection of mainstream science, incl. IPCC climate science, and the safety of GMOs and vaccines.

On June 11-20, 2013 the Black Forest Fire in Colo. burns 14,280 acres, destroys 511 homes and kills two, causing 38K to be evacuated from 13K homes, becoming the most destructive fire in Colo. history (until ?).

On June 15, 2013 Australian accountant Peter Sullivan pub. the book Punch-Drunk on CO2... Dizzy from Spin: Catastrophic Man-Made Global Warming Sustainable Hypothesis or Unsustainable Hoax?, reviewing all the arguments of the climate skeptics, "revealing why the hypothesis of the IPCC, and its alarmist claims, are not valid", containing the soundbytes: "At the very heart of the matter is a basic supposition that carbon dioxide emitted from human activity is causing catastrophic global warming and is driving climate change. There are many who claim that 'the science is settled' regarding climate change, and unless action is urgently taken to halt climate change, the world will reach a 'tipping point' whereupon extreme climatic events will have catastrophic consequences for the world over the coming decades. Others argue that this is simply alarmist nonsense"; "With IPCC releasing its fifth assessment report this year (2013), Punch-Drunk on CO2...Dizzy from Spin will shed light on recommendations that mean radical proposals which will cause major adverse impacts on peoples' lives. With access to a lot of information they have been generally unaware of, readers will begin to understand how the world has been misled about a fabricated 'problem' based on questionable science, and on which obscene amounts of money have been spent to resolve what actually is, in reality, a non-problem"; "It seems the IPCC and its supporters simply got punch-drunk on carbon dioxide...dizzy from spin. There isn't another book like it."

On June 19-July 12, 2013 the 2013 Alberta Floods in S and C Alberta, Canada displace 100K, kill five, and cause $5B damage, becoming the worst flood in Alberta history (until ?), and the costliest disaster in Canadian historyy until the 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfire.

On June 25, 2013 Pres. Obama unveils his Nat. Climate Action Plan in a speech at Georgetown U. in Washington, D.C., containing the soundbytes: "And around the same time we began exploring space, scientists were studying changes taking place in the Earth's atmosphere. Now, scientists had known since the 1800s that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide trap heat, and that burning fossil fuels release those gases into the air. That wasn't news. But in the late 1950s, the National Weather Service began measuring the levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, with the worry that rising levels might someday disrupt the fragile balance that makes our planet so hospitable. And what they've found, year after year, is that the levels of carbon pollution in our atmosphere have increased dramatically. That science, accumulated and reviewed over decades, tells us that our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all of humankind. The 12 warmest years in recorded history have all come in the last 15 years. Last year, temperatures in some areas of the ocean reached record highs, and ice in the Arctic shrank to its smallest size on record - faster than most models had predicted it would. These are facts. Now, we know that no single weather event is caused solely by climate change. Droughts and fires and floods, they go back to ancient times. But we also know that in a world that's warmer than it used to be, all weather events are affected by a warming planet. The fact that sea level in New York, in New York Harbor, are now a foot higher than a century ago - that didn't cause Hurricane Sandy, but it certainly contributed to the destruction that left large parts of our mightiest city dark and underwater. The potential impacts go beyond rising sea levels. Here at home, 2012 was the warmest year in our history. Midwest farms were parched by the worst drought since the Dust Bowl, and then drenched by the wettest spring on record. Western wildfires scorched an area larger than the state of Maryland. Just last week, a heat wave in Alaska shot temperatures into the 90s"; "So the question is not whether we need to act. The overwhelming judgment of science - of chemistry and physics and millions of measurements - has put all that to rest. Ninety-seven percent of scientists, including, by the way, some who originally disputed the data, have now put that to rest. They've acknowledged the planet is warming and human activity is contributing to it." Watch video.

On June 30, 2013 Am. environmentalist Jim Steele (dir. of San Francisco State U.'s Sierra Nevada Field Campus) pub. his first book Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist's Journey to Climate Skepticism, debunking CO2-driven global climate change as really local landscape change caused by habitat loss, watershed degradation, etc., dissing the politicization of the issue as resulting in misguided conservation efforts and misdirecting critical funding, thwarting attempts to improve the environment; his discovery of declining temperatures in the Sierra Nevada made him a climate skeptic, finding that the El Nino and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation affect local climate more than CO2 levels. Watch video - Jim Steele.

In June 2013 sociologist Riley E. Dunlap of Okla. State U. and political scientist Peter J. Jacques of the U. of Central Fla. pub. the article Climate Change Denial Books and Conservative Think Tanks: Exploring the Connection, complaining of the lack of peer review for climate denial books, and noting that the climate denial movement has spread out from the U.S. to other countries.