The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding one's self in the ranks of the insane.

Figure 1-1 Global warming

Figure 1-3 Climate of the last 12,000 years

Figure 1-4 Climate of the last 100,000 years

Figure 1-5 Climate for the last 420 kyr, from Vostok ice

Figure 1-6 Climate for the last 3 million years

Figure 1-7 CO2 and temperature for the last 450 kyr

What a Politican Says

Former Colorado Senator and Deputy Undersecretary of State Tim Wirth, who presently heads Ted Turners billion dollar fund to reduce world population:

"What we've got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue," said Sen. Timothy E. Wirth, D-Colo., the Energy and Natural Resources Committee's point man on that issue and chairman of the Alliance to Save Energy. "Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy."

As reported in REPORTS - Less Burning, No Tears

By ROCHELLE L. STANFIELD, National Journal
© National Journal Group Inc.
Saturday, Aug. 13, 1988

What a Scientist Says

Climatologist Dr. Steven Schneider is a professor at Stanford University and a member of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He has recently criticized Danish Statistician Dr. Bjorn Lomborg for scientific dishonesty in Lomborg's book "The Skeptical Environmentalist".

But Schneider is hardly a paragon of scientific integrity. In a now famous interview in the October 1989 issue of Discover magazine, Schneider stated:

On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but - which means that we must include all the doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands and buts.

On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people, we'd like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climate change.

To do that, we need to get some broad-based support, to capture the public's imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.

In the News

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Absence of clouds caused prehuman supergreenhouse periods

"Our motivation was the inability of climate models to reproduce the climate of the supergreenhouse episodes of the Cetaceous and Eocene adequately," said Lee R. Kump, [Penn State] professor of geosciences. "People have tried increasing carbon dioxide in the models to explain the warming, but there are limits to the amounts that can be added because the existing proxies for carbon dioxide do not show such large amounts."

Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling

Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming

NOAA: Coolest Winter Since 2001 for U.S., Globe

Record Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent in January accompanied the 54th coolest winter since national records began in 1895.

Scientists read Antarctic mud for climate change insight

"We saw something like 50 cycles [in a few million years] of the Ross Ice Shelf disappearing and coming back," says Fabio Florindo, a soft-spoken geologist from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome.

A Case Against Climate Alarmism

"Such hysteria simply represents the scientific illiteracy of much of the public, the susceptibility of the public to the Goebbelian substitution of repetition for truth, and the exploitation of these weaknesses by politicians, environmental promoters, and, after 20 years of media drum beating, many others as well."
Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT

The Sun Also Sets - Investor Business Daily editorial

Climate Change: Not every scientist is part of Al Gore's mythical "consensus." Scientists worried about a new ice age seek funding to better observe something bigger than your SUV -- the sun.

Gore Dodges Repeated Calls to Debate Global Warming

Freedom, Not Climate is at Risk

Cooking Up Global Warming

A very embarrassing chapter in the history of our nation's scientific establishment has been unfolding thanks to a creative new website www.SurfaceStations.org set up and run by  Anthony Watts.

The First Exposé of International Surface Temperature Recording Stations, by John Daly

Forecasts by scientists vs. Scientific Forecasts

Claims that the Earth will get warmer have no more credence than saying that it will get colder

Fire and Ice

Journalists have warned of climate change for 100 years, but can’t decide weather we face an ice age or warming

Antarctic temperatures disagree with climate model predictions

A new report on climate over the world's southernmost continent shows that temperatures during the late 20th century did not climb as had been predicted by many global climate models.

Does CO2 really drive global warming?

The central point is that the major absorbing gas in the atmosphere is water, not CO2, and although CO2 is the only other significant atmospheric absorbing gas, it is still only a minor contributor because of its relatively low concentration.

Warming Climate Can Support Glacial Ice: It Did In Much Warmer Times

91 million years ago during the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum tropical ocean temperatures rose to 35-37°C (95-98.6°F), about 10°C (18°F) warmer than today, thus creating an intense greenhouse climate.

Researchers Question Validity Of A 'Global Temperature'

"It is impossible to talk about a single temperature for something as complicated as the climate of Earth", Bjarne Andresen says, an an expert of thermodynamics.

Read the Sunspots

The mud at the bottom of British Columbia fjords reveals that solar output drives climate change - and that we should prepare now for dangerous global cooling

Look to Mars for the truth on global warming

Global warming extends to Mars, where the polar ice cap is shrinking, where deep gullies in the landscape are now laid bare, and where the climate is the warmest it has been in decades or centuries.

Dissecting the Hockey Stick

They did it for the cause. It's a noble cause. And even though the data don't actually say what they wanted them to say -- in fact, they say the opposite -- they are untroubled by that. Because the government actions that are being taken are the Right Thing.

Ice Ages Blamed on Tilted Earth - Milankovich

In the past million years, the Earth experienced a major ice age about every 100,000 years. Scientists have several theories to explain this glacial cycle, but new research suggests the primary driving force is all in how the planet leans.

Climate Change is Nothing New

The ancient Greek philosopher Plato, who lived from 427 BC to 347 BC, wrote about major climate changes that were known in his day. (Scroll down nearly 1/2 way past the clutter)

Ban the Bulb?

Should the government phase out incandescent light bulbs?

Another Ice Age? - Lest We Forget

As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval.

Skeptical Scientists Urge World To ‘Have the Courage to Do Nothing' At UN Conference

Scientists presenting conflicting evidence about human influence on Earth's climate not welcome at Bali conference