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rpfan2008
02-07-2009, 11:33 AM
Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know
by Patrick J. Michaels

Published by the Washington libertarian think tank Cato Institute (http://www.cato.org/).


Product Description
Is the weather truly getting worse? When it comes to global warming, dire predictions seem to be all we see or hear. Climatologists Patrick Michaels and Robert Balling Jr. explain why the news and information we receive about global warming have become so apocalyptic. The science itself has become increasingly biased, with warnings of extreme consequences from global warming becoming the norm. That bias is then communicated through the media, who focus on only extreme predictions. The authors compellingly illuminate the other side of the story, the science we aren't being told. This body of work details how the impact of global warming is far less severe than is generally believed and far from catastrophic.

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From the Back Cover
"Michaels and Balling claim that, although global warming is real, it does not herald a climate crisis and that human beings cannot 'significantly alter the temperature trajectory of the planet.' They present detailed evidence that climate data is inaccurate, the fear that permafrost will release huge amounts of the greenhouse gas methane is unfounded and that 'horror stories about an imminent collapse of Greenland's ice simply aren't borne out by the fact that it was warmer there for decades in the early 20th century, and for millennia after the end of the last ice age.' The authors make persuasive arguments and climate crisis skeptics will applaud the book's message." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

rpfan2008
02-07-2009, 11:42 AM
Other State Climatologists soon had similar difficulties. George
Taylor at Oregon State University, who is very popular with the
AASC (and the only person ever elected to consecutive terms as
president), was told that he was simply not to speak on global
warming. Having read the playbook established by Governor Kaine
in Virginia, Governor Ted Kulongoski (D) told Portland’s KGW-TV
that ‘‘Taylor’s contradictions interfere with the state’s stated goals
to reduce greenhouse gases.’’
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Preface
Taylor had long questioned glib statements about a 50 percent
decline in Pacific Northwest snowpack, which were being made by
climate alarmists worldwide. The 50 percent figure is only part of
the story. That figure accrues if one starts the data in 1950 and
ends in the mid-1990s. If one uses the entire set of snowpack data
(1915–2004), a different picture emerges (Figure P. 1, bottom). Taylor
was told to shut up as State Climatologist even though he was
merely telling the truth.
Taylor resigned his Oregon State University position in February
2008.

So this is science?!! My A$$

oilboiler
02-07-2009, 11:44 AM
Lots of information here,

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rpfan2008
02-07-2009, 11:51 AM
Lots of information here,

http://www.icecap.us/index.php

thanks :)