Posted by
ThePuke on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 3:06:53 PM
The
Telegraph reported today that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)had downgraded previous estimates of the impact that humans have on global warming, while insisting that they "are simply a refinement due to better data on how climate works rather than a reduction in the risk posed by global warming" (story
here, hat tip Drudge). Rising of the sea level is one of the most important threats attributed to climate change, and the upper estimate has now been reduced by half, from 34 to 17 inches. Also via Drudge,
The Independent reported that, interestingly enough,
cow 'emissions' are more damaging to our planet than CO2 from cars.
On Friday, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), who is leading the fight against the media's misrepresentation of the global warming issue, announced the release of the
Skeptic's Guide to Debunking Global Warming, which collects his speeches and related press releases, and in doing so offers a quick reference to disproving many of the claims that global warming alarmists would like you to believe are cold hard facts. Pay special attention to the section regarding Al Gore's
An Inconvenient Truth... it seems as if Gore is trying to dispose of an very "inconvenient truth" of his own: scientists are far from reaching a consensus about the facts surrounding global warming. In addition to the aforementioned EPW Skeptic's Guide, here are a few other informative resources:
I'll wrap up with a quote from Bob Carter, taken from the last article in the list above:
"There is copious evidence that the advice is untrustworthy. For instance, participants at a recent international climate conference in Stockholm were told that the hockey-stick depiction of temperature over the last 1000 years, an IPCC favourite, has been discredited; that pre-industrial atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were higher, and fluctuated more, than is indicated by the averaged ice core measurements; that global temperature has not increased since 1998, despite continuing increases in carbon dioxide; that the Arctic region is no warmer now than it was in the 1930s; and that climate models are too uncertain to be used as predictive policy tools."