Peer reviewed paper finds 20th century warming due to sun

Posted on 7 June 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

I found this on the THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: A peer-reviewed paper published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics finds global warming over the 20th century “not significantly different” from warming episodes that occurred in earlier centuries. The paper finds that the increase in solar activity over the past 400 years explains the warming, without any need to search for a unique cause of late 20th century warming, such as greenhouse gas concentrations. The NIPCC website just posted this summary of the paper:
Authors de Jager and Duhau (2009) write that (1) “solar activity is regulated by the solar dynamo,” that (2) “the dynamo is a non-linear interplay between the equatorial and polar magnetic field components,” and that (3) “so far, in sun-climate studies, only the equatorial component has been considered as a possible driver of tropospheric temperature variations.” Continue reading →

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INSANE USE OF LOW DOSAGE ANTIBIOTICS IN FARMING

Posted on 6 June 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

If anything shows the real nature of modern “science” its a comparison between global warming and antibiotic immune bacteria. As far as I am aware, the only possible causal link between possible global warming is a tentative link with hurricanes, although this may be changes in ocean circulation. In contrast, if we look at the impact of the growth of anti-biotic immunity of bacteria, we see a large and growing number of people being affected by MRSA in hospitals and now the tragic death and long term injury to many in Germany. One is an entirely natural event (climate varies naturally) which has yet to my knowledge to claim a single life, the other is a direct consequence of human action and is claiming more and more people, and by the laws of exponential growth, those numbers can only continue to grow if we continue our current insane farming practices.
How to grow an anti-biotic immune bacteria??
First it’s a numbers game, Continue reading →

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Prince charles talks to more plants

Posted on 2 June 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

OK, the actual headline is: Charles speaks to (Edinburgh) climate group but I just couldn’t help myself, who could resist a headline like that, the chance to imply that anyone living in Edinburgh was a plant.
As for the seminar, I think we can get the drift from: “This is very much a working group session, hearing what the challenges are in Scotland across the different areas, whether it`s forestry, public engagement in climate change or finance.”
In other words it’s another group of people looking to rub shoulders with the politicians in the hope of scrounging more public money to fund their uneconomic ideas, which without the global warming scam wouldn’t have got past the filing cabinet marked “Bin”.

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Global warming decline – A timeline!

Posted on 2 June 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

As I was reading through the article on the collapses of the carbon market, I suddenly realised that there now exists a tangible timeline for the collapse of the global warming scam.
As I posted before, the replacement for the Kyoto treaty is dead because the US refuses to take part in the treaty, and Russia, Japan and Canada said at the recent G8 meeting they would not continue under Kyoto. What I hadn’t realised is that this all comes to a head in 2012 when the Kyoto treaty expires. Continue reading →

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Why do big organisation tend to support Global Warming hysteria?

Posted on 2 June 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

Now that there is much more of a parity in the debate between sceptics and alarmists, it easier to compare the types of organisations from which each view stems. And it has struck me that overwhelmingly, it is the large organisations, and amongst them, the multinationals (whether media of e.g. UN or charities) who overtly express support for global warming alarmism, but it is the small, even individual people who express scepticism.
Could this simply be that “social” structures are more likely to support causes for the “good us all”, whilst individuals are more likely to express their personal interests? Continue reading →

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Global warming stories on the rise – why?

Posted on 2 June 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

If anyone had read my previous posts on the number of google stories, you may know that I don’t exactly trust google. There was e.g. the way during climategate that the auto suggest feature failed to suggest climategate. Then there’s the way that if you search for “WUWT” the second rated story is one of WUWT closing down (a very old story which surely is strangely prominent, as is the other negative stories on WUWT if you search google?) Then there is the way that sceptical websites are consistently downgraded on the google listing. All in all, google have not exactly excelled at portraying themselves as being honest on this issue.
So, when I started posting on the google numbers of hits on global warming, I realised that simply highlighting this number may cause it to change if the google spin machine went into action again, so with that proviso, I don’t know how to take the recent edging upwards of the google newscount for global warming. Continue reading →

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Fusion Scientist admits defeat

Posted on 31 May 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

A senior scientist at the a senior scientist at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire told the Guardian:

“We have to use electricity to run the machine and there is no way of getting around that.”

Which is a very odd thing to say if you happen to be a research group whose intention is to produce electricity rather than use it! Continue reading →

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It’s All Over: Kyoto Protocol Loses Four Big Nations

Posted on 30 May 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

DEAUVILLE, France: Russia, Japan and Canada told the G8 they would not join a second round of carbon cuts under the Kyoto Protocol at United Nations talks this year and the US reiterated it would remain outside the treaty, European diplomats have said.
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At last Thursday’s G8 dinner the US President, Barack Obama, confirmed Washington would not join an updated Kyoto Protocol, the diplomats said.
The US, the second-largest carbon emitter, signed the protocol in 1997 but in 2001 the then president, George W. Bush, said he would not put it to the Senate for ratification.
Agence France-Press, 29 May 2011

The tide has turned Continue reading →

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More US politicians going cold

Posted on 29 May 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

(US) Presidential politics has candidates rethinking global warming

“One thing that Tim Pawlenty, Jon Huntsman, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have in common: These GOP(republican) presidential contenders all are running away from their past positions on global warming, driven by their party’s loud doubters who question the science and disdain government solutions.
All four have stepped back from previous stances on the issue, either apologizing outright or softening what they said earlier. And those who haven’t fully recanted are under pressure to do so.
The latest sign of that pressure came Thursday when New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he was pulling his state out of a regional agreement to reduce greenhouse gases, saying it won’t work.

(Source Associated press – by Dina Cappiello)

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SNP all but drop any reference to global warming.

Posted on 28 May 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

I’ve just been listening to the Alex Salmonds “five year vision” on the BBC.
In a 22minute speech, I noticed two possible reference. There was one mention of “crown estates” and “wealth” which could if desperate be taken to mean “offshore wind”, but likely means oil.
And then 14minutes in we had the only clear reference:
“Scottish futures trush designed to tackle head on problems of Scottish society …So the (Scottish) futures fund (has within it)
Youth talent fund (blurb) … A warm homes fund, that will deliverer warm homes and provide these communities with own renewable energy… tackling not only the symptoms but the causes of poverty.

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