“It 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.” - U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.

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Snow falls on the St. Charles Avenue streecar on December 11, 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The last time it snowed in New Orleans was 2004, and the city has only experienced measurable amounts of snow 17 times since 1850.

More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims
U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Minority Report
Dec. 11, 2008

The chorus of skeptical scientific voices grow louder in 2008 as a steady stream of peer-reviewed studies, analyses, real world data and inconvenient developments challenged the UN and former Vice President Al Gore’s claims that the “science is settled” and there is a “consensus.” On a range of issues, 2008 proved to be challenging for the promoters of man-made climate fears. Promoters of anthropogenic warming fears endured the following: Global temperatures failing to warm; Peer-reviwed studies predicting a continued lack of warming; a failed attempt to revive the discredited “Hockey Stick”; inconvenient developments and studies regarding CO2; the Sun; Clouds; Antarctica; the Arctic; Greenland; Mount Kilimanjaro; Hurricanes; Extreme Storms; Floods; Ocean Acidification; Polar Bears; lack of atmosphieric dust; the failure of oceans to warm and rise as predicted.

In addition, the following developments further secured 2008 as the year the “consensus” collapsed. Russian scientists “rejected the very idea that carbon dioxide may be responsible for global warming”. An American Physical Society editor conceded that a “considerable presence” of scientific skeptics exist. An International team of scientists countered the UN IPCC, declaring: “Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate”. India Issued a report challenging global warming fears. International Scientists demanded the UN IPCC “be called to account and cease its deceptive practices,” and a canvass of more than 51,000 Canadian scientists revealed 68% disagree that global warming science is “settled.”

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“I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” - Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.

“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical. “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” - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology, and formerly of NASA, who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.”

Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

“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,” - Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet.

“So far, real measurements give no ground for concern about a catastrophic future warming.” - Scientist Dr. Jarl R. Ahlbeck, a chemical engineer at Abo Akademi University in Finland, author of 200 scientific publications and former Greenpeace member.

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“Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues of our time.” - Solar physicist Dr. Pal Brekke, senior advisor to the Norwegian Space Centre in Oslo. Brekke has published more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles on the sun and solar interaction with the Earth.

“The models and forecasts of the UN IPCC “are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity.” - Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

“Even doubling or tripling 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.” – . Geoffrey G. Duffy, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the University of Auckland, NZ.

“After reading [UN IPCC chairman] Pachauri’s asinine comment [comparing skeptics to] Flat Earthers, it’s hard to remain quiet.” – Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in the statistics of forecast evaluation, serves on the American Meteorological Society’s Probability and Statistics Committee and is an Associate Editor of Monthly Weather Review.

“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 round…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,” Andrei Kapitsa, a Russian geographer and Antarctic ice core researcher.

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Rocky_B
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No! No! It’s just Republican lies! There cain’t be snow in New Orleans. Probably just some drunk Republican-nazi-bastard-trailer-trash-cajuns going rooftop-to-rooftop down Bourbon Street with a stolen snow machine, so they can use the distraction to keep eligible Democrats from votering. Global Warming is Real! REAL I TELL YOU!
(Spoken as saliva dribbles from the corners of his mouth, while medical interns help ease Ex-presidential candidate Gore into a nice, warm cozy, straight-jacket – Fade to Black)

December 13th, 2008 at 6:13 am
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UPDATE: Seven Inches of Snow in the Las Vegas Valley. Dec 17 2008, It snowed a good part of the day in the Las Vegas Valley. Las Vegas got 2-inches, and 7-inches fell in Henderson (the valley area on the south side of LAS airport running to the east end of the valley and farther south to the Boulder Highway mountain pass.) Flights were canceled as the airport lacks de-icing equipment and snow plows.

December 18th, 2008 at 2:26 am
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Further Update on Las Vegas Snow: (1) Final tally was 3.6 inches of Snow in Las Vegas, across the road Henderson NV recorded 8 inches with scattered reports of as much as 10 inches of snow. (2) Correction: McCarran Airport does have aircraft de-icing equipment, but not snow plows. The airport received 3 inches to as much as 6 inches. (It was the highest snow accumulation recorded in the month of December in Las Vegas since the start of official records in 1937. The previous record was 2 inches of snow, which fell on Dec. 15, 1967.) The nearest snow plows are 30 miles away on Mount Charleston clearing away the 11 inches it received. One section of the mountain roads are still closed and only vehicles with chains are allowed up the mountain.

December 19th, 2008 at 2:03 am
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@Surrey: Maybe you haven’t heard but:

Kilimanjaro’s shrinking snow not sign of warming
Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:18am EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The snows of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania have been diminishing for more than a century but probably not due to global warming, researchers report.

While the retreat of glaciers and mountaintop ice in the mid-latitudes — where much of the world’s human population lives — is definitely linked to global climate change, the same cannot be said of Kilimanjaro, the researchers wrote in the July-August edition of American Scientist magazine.

Kilimanjaro’s icy top, which provided the title for an iconic short story by Ernest Hemingway, has been waning for more than a century, according to Philip Mote of the University of Washington in the United States and Georg Kaser of the University of Innsbruck in Austria.

Most of the retreat occurred before 1953, nearly two decades before any conclusive evidence of atmospheric warming was available, they wrote.

January 25th, 2009 at 6:58 am
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I heard about that Mike. There is actually a growing number of scientists (especially in European nations) that are changing their minds and coming to the conclusion that the global warming theorists are perpetrating a hoax for political reasons:

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=f80a6386-802a-23ad-40c8-3c63dc2d02cb

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=DE6A54BF-802A-23AD-45ED-60AE6F3FEBE2

Atmospheric scientist Dr. Nathan Paldor, Professor of Dynamical Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, author of almost 70 peer-reviewed studies, explains how many of his fellow scientists have been intimidated.

“Many of my colleagues with whom I spoke share these views and report on their inability to publish their skepticism in the scientific or public media,” Paldor wrote.

“Paleoclimatologist Dr. Tim Patterson, professor in the department of Earth Sciences at Carleton University in Ottawa, recently converted from a believer in man-made climate change to a skeptic. Patterson noted that the notion of a “consensus” of scientists aligned with the UN IPCC or former Vice President Al Gore is false. “I was at the Geological Society of America meeting in Philadelphia in the fall and I would say that people with my opinion were probably in the majority.” ”

Ditto’s Simple Experiment to prove what would happen If the Arctic Ice Melts:
There is much fear by the global warming supporters over what will happen ‘if’ (they say “when”) the Arctic Ice melts. Unlike the Antarctic, the North Pole ice is floating.

HINT: Ice expands when it freezes.

(1) Get a cooler and fill the bottom with ice blocks from your corner convenience store.

(2) Now add water untile you are satisfied that the ice blocks are all floating free.

(OPTIONAL: You could add salt to create a brine solution to a level approaching that of salt suspension in the waters of the Arctic Ocean, however be aware that this will lengthen the amount of time it will take the ice to melt, as the salt reaction with the water and ice together will reach even colder temperatures than they could on their own. That’s what made it possible for your great-grandmother to create yummy home-made ice cream in the middle of summer.)

(3) Mark the water line with a permanent marker.

(4) Come back after a couple hours or so and check the water level. For those wishing more accurate results wait until the ice has melted completely. If you added salt, double the time before checking.

(5) Realize the truth: regarding displacement, floating bodies, why they float and apply what you have learned to Al Gore’s theory of Arctic ice melting, and how it will affect coastal water levels (especially in regards to islands. NOTE: One other scientific fact that should be taken into affect: Hard-pack Arctic ice, is created by snow fall. Continual snowfall causes layer after layer of build-up and the hard-pack below is further compressed by the layers above. In simpler terms… (for those who accept Al Gore’s theories without understanding them and who label as “Flat-Earthers” any skeptical scientist’s who dispute global warming theories.) …polar ice is much less dense then that which is found in your refrigerator ice tray, and it is generally available for purchase locally.

(6) Now, try to figure out how you are going to dump all that water without sloshing it all over yourself.

(7) Send Al Gore and the global warming alarmists nasty emails for telling fibs, and ponder what else they have been fudging the truth on. Repeat for those who have mirrored same.

(8) Make a note to yourself that in the future you should actually understand and comment only on things that you actually know, rather than basing your arguments on the words and theories of one-sided political activists.

January 29th, 2009 at 3:43 am

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