REFERENCES FOR COLORADANS CURIOUS ABOUT MAN-MADE WARMING
BOOKS
"Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media" by Patrick J. Michaels: Cato Institute, 2004, Washington, DC. (In Douglas County Libraries)
"Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years" by S. Fred Singer and Dennis Avery: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007, Lanham, MD. Includes hundreds of references to the scientific literature. On order by Douglas County Libraries.
"Shattered consensus : the true state of global warming" / edited by Patrick J. Michaels. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, Lanham, MD Contains a detailed analysis of "the Hockey Stick" graph and its errors. In Douglas County Libraries. "The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization" by Brian Fagan, 2004, Basic Books, New York NY. Fagan is an anthropologist, and has several books on aspects of climate, such as El Nino and the Little Ice Age, that have impacted civilization. "The Long Summer" details Fagan's thesis that a climatic upset in 6200 BC forced humans from their hunter-gatherer life into settled agriculture. Having studied the disastrous effects of climate change on some ancient civilizations - the Maya, the Old Kingdom, the Moche - Fagan is concerned about its effect on the modern world. Another of his books deals specifically with "The Little Ice Age."
"The Chilling Stars: a new theory of climate change" by Henrik Svensmark & Nigel Calder. (551.6 SVE) Available through Douglas County Public Libraries. Details of new scientific research attributing cloud formation, earth cooling, and increased precipitation to cosmic rays. Earth is shielded from cosmic rays by the combined magnetic fields of Earth and Sun, which varies with the sunspot cycle (every 11 years). When the magnetic fields are out of phase, we receive more cosmic rays, have more clouds, and lower temperatures. Incidentally, a new sunspot cycle will peak in 2013. Earth in general and Colorado in particular are likely to be both cooler and wetter for the next 15 years. Worldwide temperatures have been stable or slightly decreasing since 1999, near the peak of the last sunspot cycle.
"Red Hot Lies" by Christopher C. Horner; Regnery Publishing, 2008; www.regnery.com Documentation of the lies by the believers, including the media and the IPCC.
"Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians, and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor" by Roy W. Spencer, Encounter Books, 2008. www.encounterbooks.com The title says it all. Dr. Spencer is a serious climatologist and a leader in measurement of world temperature by satellites.
VIDEO
"The Great Global Warming Swindle" A video produced by Britain's Channel 4. 76 minutes. On order by Douglas County Library District. Ask YOUR library to order a copy.
INTERNET
For near-daily updates on "climate change" in the news, see Icecap.us for commentary on the latest media scams about the "crisis."
And for news about the economic and ecological disasters (remember corn-based ethanol?) the Envirosocialists are pushing, get a subscription to Cooler Heads Digest at the Competitive Enterprise Institute .
You can also look up real climate data from
the National Climate Data Center on-line. This is where the data on the 2007-2008 Colorado Winter temperatures on the home page came from. For example, look up Summer temperatures (June-July-August); the graph will show you 112 Summer average temperatures. It will also show you that 1934 and 1936 (in Colorado) were warmer than 2006. If CO2 makes Earth warmer, shouldn't 2006 be a LOT warmer than 1936 - 70 years ago, in the Great Depression?
There's more climate data on the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (yes, there's lots of duplication of effort in the US Gov't) (GISS) site This is the location of Dr. James Hansen, who started the "global warming crisis" nonsense in Congressional testimony in 1988 - before Al Gore. Dr. Hansen recently had to revise his mistaken figures and admit that 1934 - not 1998 - was the warmest year in American history (back to 1880), and that 5 of the 10 hottest years in American history were before World War 2.
Another science site sceptical of man-made global warming is
Friends of Science.
Junk Science A good explanation of some of many things wrong with the theory of "man-made global warming."
The Heartland Institute A wealth of facts about the "crisis" In particular:
18869.pdf "Issues in the Current State of Climate Science" includes a particularly good overview by Prof. Richard Lindzen of MIT, as presented to the House of Lords in 2005.
20861.pdf "Scientific Consensus on Global Warming." is a summary (with complete results in an Appendix) of a census among 530 climatologists on major questions. 82% of respondents agree global warming is already underway. 66% disagree that we can be sure carbon dioxide is causing it. 56% agree that human activity is responsible in some way for climate change. 35% agreed we can predict future climate; 47% disagreed. Read it for yourself, and watch out for the extremists who claim they represent "a consensus."
20796.pdf "A Skeptic's Primer on Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth Everything you wanted to know about how wrong the Goreacle is. Categorized among distorted, misleading, exaggerated, speculative, and just plain WRONG . If you believe Mr. Gore deserves any credibility, read this.
"Global Warming: A science and economics update." A presentation to the Nebraska Farm Bureau, February, 2007. How the Kyoto Treaty will drive Colorado farmers and ranchers out of business a lot faster than any amount of "global warming." This "cure" is definitely worse than the "disease."
"Global Warming Madness and How to Stop It."
The Fraser Institute; search on "Climate". The Fraser Institute issues its own analysis of the scientific reports compiled for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which - unlike the IPCC - presents a more balanced assessment of what the science really says.
The Science and Environmental Policy Project An on-line commentary and newsletter by S. Fred Singer, author of "Unstoppable Global Warming." Singer provides a weekly email update - "The Week That Was" - that covers "news" in the environmental community.
Prof. Roger Pielke Sr.'s Research Weblog. Prof. Pielke's group publishes a great deal on climate change induced by land-use changes, in addition to temperature change. They often highlight current research that - for some reason - you never hear about in the media, such as decreases in ocean heat storage.
CO2 Science A weekly review and repository of scientific research findings pertaining to carbon dioxide and global change.
RealClimate Very orthodox IPCC contention that climate change is driven by human addition of CO2 to the atmosphere. Caution: one of the founders of this site is Michael Mann, creator of the infamous "hockey stick" graph in the Third Assessment Report (TAR) of 2001. Another is Gavin Schmidt, accomplice of James Hansen, NASA/GISS.
An on-line test See how well you understand global warming
Lots more:
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/ All things
http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/ Many things
http://climateaudit.org/ Many difficult statistical things; hard-hitting rebuttal of AGW. This is the site/author that disproved the "hockey stick" assertions (that there was no Medieval Warm Period). Also the site/author that exposed Hansen's error in claiming that "... 1998 was the warmest year of the 20th Century." (Wrong; 1934)
http://gorelied.blogspot.com/ Commentary
http://co2sceptics.com/index.php
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/ Arctic ice
http://www.iceagenow.com/ Recent unusual weather
http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/Index.jsp CO2 science
http://dev.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/ Tropical storm activity
http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/ Snow cover
BOTH SIDES
http://climatedebatedaily.com/ Arguments from both sides
BELIEVERS
http://gristmill.grist.org/ No science; very snarky
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