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Archive for September, 2009

Breaking news: Cherry Picking of Historic Proportions

A big news day. It appears Steve McIntyre (volunteer unpaid auditor of Big-Government-Science) has killed the Hockey Stick a second time…

The details are on the last three days of Steve McIntyre’s site Climate Audit, and summed up beautifully on Watts Up.
The sheer effrontery and gall appears to be breathtaking.
The Briffa temperature graphs have been widely [...]

Exile for non-believers

An original paper for the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI)
Source: PDF Report

The price for speaking out against global warming is exile from your peers, even if you are at the top of your field.
What follows is an example of a scientific group that not only stopped a leading researcher from attending a meeting, but [...]

The Handbook spreads to Turkey

Turkey, where the local climate is normal and where nothing unusual happened in the time since the green bandwagon hit the road, signed on to Kyoto and will most likely sign on to the Copenhagen compromise, Kyoto II. So there is a need to spread the word about that the science the media won’t mention, [...]

The carbon casino caught with its pants down (again)

Another major carbon auditor goes down.
Norways’ DNV (Det Norse Veritas, “The Norwegian Truth”) was the largest auditor of the infamous CDMs (Clean Development Mechanisms) until it was suspended last December when it was caught selling carbon credits for projects it hadn’t checked. At the time it was so large it had approved fully half of [...]

DeSoggyBog strikes back

From the new parody of DeSmog, DeSoggy Bog, some cutting truths are exposed about the active attack site that thinks it helps the planet by launching ad hominem attacks on scientists.
There will come a time when Jim Hoggan will regret the back-lash that comes against his PR firm Hoggan and Associates. So will David Suzuki, [...]

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The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with "Climate Change" Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History? Christopher Booker

The Bad Science and Bad Policy of Obama's Global Warming Agenda, Roy Spencer, 2010, $5.99

The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science, A.W Montford

The Great Global Warming Blunder, Roy Spencer

Climatism, Steve Goreham, Just out! The full compendium: the science, the ideology, the UN, & the history.

Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies That Hurt the Poor

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Fred Singer

Climategate The CRUTape Letters, Steven Mosher

The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud, And those who are too fearful to do so, Lawrence Solomon.

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science, Ian Plimer

CO2, Global Warming and Coral Reefs, Craig Idso. The science of CO2 and the oceans. It's an intense review with 23 pages of references. Many mythical fears debunked.

Red Hot Lies, Christopher Horner

The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About--Because They Helped Cause Them, Iain Murray

Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them, Steven Milloy

Eat the Rich, PJ O Rourke. It's old, but it's one of the funniest books I ever read. Sure beats learning economics from text-books.

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (Paperback), Amity Shlaes. Economic and political history, well told.

The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy. Ahead of it's time in 1995, if you haven't read Thomas Sowell, it's a good place to start.

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve (Paperback), G Edward Griffin. Possibly the most chilling book I ever read.

An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming, Nigel Lawson

Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming, Ian Wishart

Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know

The Chilling Stars, Henrik Svensmark & Nigel Calder. The puzzle pieces come together despite the resistance.

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