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The Great Global Warming Swindle

Scientists who have been discussed and rejected for List of Scientists page


 * Henk Tennekes See Op-ed piece Climate of Fear
 * Dr. Giegengack
 * Syun Akasofu

Climatologist George Taylor

People to research Dr. Vincent Gray

Gerald Browning [www.climateaudit.org]

Why Most Published Research Findings are False

Scientists who are skeptical of IPCC predictions

 * Orrin Pilkey, coastal geologist and emeritus professor at Duke University, and his daugher Linda Pilkey-Jarvis have written a book titled “Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future." They write: "Assumption upon assumption, uncertainty upon uncertainty, and simplification upon simplification are combined to give an ultimate and inevitably shaky answer, which is then scaled up beyond the persistence time to make long-term predictions of the future of sea-level rise. Aside from the frailty of assumptions, there remains ordering complexity: the lack of understanding of the timing and intensity of each variable." (page 82) Also: "The objectivity of the IPCC documents is laudable. But the fact that the group recognizes its model weaknesses and is trying to improve them doesn't make its conclusions stronger or more believable." (page 83)

Dr. Ian D. Clark, professor, isotope hydrogeology and paleoclimatology, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa Dr. Tad Murty, former senior research scientist, Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans, former director of Australia's National Tidal Facility and professor of earth sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide; currently adjunct professor, Departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa Dr. R. Timothy Patterson, professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences (paleoclimatology), Carleton University, Ottawa Dr. Fred Michel, director, Institute of Environmental Science and associate professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa Dr. Madhav Khandekar, former research scientist, Environment Canada. Member of editorial board of Climate Research and Natural Hazards Dr. Paul Copper, FRSC, professor emeritus, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ont. Dr. Ross McKitrick, associate professor, Dept. of Economics, University of Guelph, Ont. Dr. Tim Ball, former professor of climatology, University of Winnipeg; environmental consultant Dr. Andreas Prokocon, adjunct professor of earth sciences, University of Ottawa; consultant in statistics and geology Mr. David Nowell, M.Sc. (Meteorology), fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, Canadian member and past chairman of the NATO Meteorological Group, Ottawa Dr. Christopher Essex, professor of applied mathematics and associate director of the Program in Theoretical Physics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. Dr. Gordon E. Swaters, professor of applied mathematics, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, and member, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Research Group, University of Alberta Dr. L. Graham Smith, associate professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. Dr. G. Cornelis van Kooten, professor and Canada Research Chair in environmental studies and climate change, Dept. of Economics, University of Victoria Dr. Petr Chylek, adjunct professor, Dept. of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax Dr./Cdr. M. R. Morgan, FRMS, climate consultant, former meteorology advisor to the World Meteorological Organization. Previously research scientist in climatology at University of Exeter, U.K. Dr. Keith D. Hage, climate consultant and professor emeritus of Meteorology, University of Alberta Dr. David E. Wojick, P.Eng., energy consultant, Star Tannery, Va., and Sioux Lookout, Ont. Rob Scagel, M.Sc., forest microclimate specialist, principal consultant, Pacific Phytometric Consultants, Surrey, B.C. Dr. Douglas Leahey, meteorologist and air-quality consultant, Calgary Paavo Siitam, M.Sc., agronomist, chemist, Cobourg, Ont. Dr. Chris de Freitas, climate scientist, associate professor, The University of Auckland, N.Z. Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. Freeman J. Dyson, emeritus professor of physics, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, N.J. Mr. George Taylor, Dept. of Meteorology, Oregon State University; Oregon State climatologist; past president, American Association of State Climatologists Dr. Ian Plimer, professor of geology, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide; emeritus professor of earth sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia Dr. R.M. Carter, professor, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia Mr. William Kininmonth, Australasian Climate Research, former Head National Climate Centre, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; former Australian delegate to World Meteorological Organization Commission for Climatology, Scientific and Technical Review Dr. Hendrik Tennekes, former director of research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute Dr. Gerrit J. van der Lingen, geologist/paleoclimatologist, Climate Change Consultant, Geoscience Research and Investigations, New Zealand Dr. Patrick J. Michaels, professor of environmental sciences, University of Virginia Dr. Nils-Axel Morner, emeritus professor of paleogeophysics & geodynamics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Dr. Gary D. Sharp, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study, Salinas, Calif. Dr. Roy W. Spencer, principal research scientist, Earth System Science Center, The University of Alabama, Huntsville Dr. Al Pekarek, associate professor of geology, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Dept., St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minn. Dr. Marcel Leroux, professor emeritus of climatology, University of Lyon, France; former director of Laboratory of Climatology, Risks and Environment, CNRS Dr. Paul Reiter, professor, Institut Pasteur, Unit of Insects and Infectious Diseases, Paris, France. Expert reviewer, IPCC Working group II, chapter 8 (human health) Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski, physicist and chairman, Scientific Council of Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection, Warsaw, Poland Dr. Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, reader, Dept. of Geography, University of Hull, U.K.; editor, Energy & Environment Dr. Hans H.J. Labohm, former advisor to the executive board, Clingendael Institute (The Netherlands Institute of International Relations) and an economist who has focused on climate change Dr. Lee C. Gerhard, senior scientist emeritus, University of Kansas, past director and state geologist, Kansas Geological Survey Dr. Asmunn Moene, past head of the Forecasting Centre, Meteorological Institute, Norway Dr. August H. Auer, past professor of atmospheric science, University of Wyoming; previously chief meteorologist, Meteorological Service (MetService) of New Zealand Dr. Vincent Gray, expert reviewer for the IPCC and author of The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of 'Climate Change 2001,' Wellington, N.Z. Dr. Howard Hayden, emeritus professor of physics, University of Connecticut Dr Benny Peiser, professor of social anthropology, Faculty of Science, Liverpool John Moores University, U.K. Dr. Jack Barrett, chemist and spectroscopist, formerly with Imperial College London, U.K. Dr. William J.R. Alexander, professor emeritus, Dept. of Civil and Biosystems Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Member, United Nations Scientific and Technical Committee on Natural Disasters, 1994-2000 Dr. S. Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences, University of Virginia; former director, U.S. Weather Satellite Service Dr. Harry N.A. Priem, emeritus professor of planetary geology and isotope geophysics, Utrecht University; former director of the Netherlands Institute for Isotope Geosciences; past president of the Royal Netherlands Geological & Mining Society Dr. Robert H. Essenhigh, E.G. Bailey professor of energy conversion, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University Dr. Sallie Baliunas, astrophysicist and climate researcher, Boston, Mass. Douglas Hoyt, senior scientist at Raytheon (retired) and co-author of the book The Role of the Sun in Climate Change; previously with NCAR, NOAA, and the World Radiation Center, Davos, Switzerland Dipl.-Ing. Peter Dietze, independent energy advisor and scientific climate and carbon modeller, official IPCC reviewer, Bavaria, Germany Dr. Boris Winterhalter, senior marine researcher (retired), Geological Survey of Finland, former professor in marine geology, University of Helsinki, Finland Dr. Wibjorn Karlen, emeritus professor, Dept. of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden Dr. Hugh W. Ellsaesser, physicist/meteorologist, previously with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Calif.; atmospheric consultant. Dr. Art Robinson, founder, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, Cave Junction, Ore. Dr. Arthur Rorsch, emeritus professor of molecular genetics, Leiden University, The Netherlands; past board member, Netherlands organization for applied research (TNO) in environmental, food and public health Dr. Alister McFarquhar, Downing College, Cambridge, U.K.; international economist Dr. Richard S. Courtney, climate and atmospheric science consultant, IPCC expert reviewer, U.K.

Claude Allègre Bruce Anderson Ron Bailey Sallie Baliunas Tim Ball Robert Balling Joe Barton Glenn Beck Bruno Behrend David Bellamy Tom Bethell Roy Blunt Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen Robert M. Carter Alan Caruba Ian Castles George V. Chilingar John Christy Ian Clark Philip Cooney Michael Crichton John Lawrence Daly David Douglass Myron Ebell Michael Fumento William M. Gray Lester Hogan Sherwood B. Idso Andrey Illarionov Jim Inhofe Zbigniew Jaworowski Penn Jillette Herman Kahn William Kininmonth Theodor Landscheidt Nigel Lawson David Legates Marcel Leroux Richard Lindzen Bjorn Lomborg Phil Longman Ross McKitrick Stephen McIntyre Patrick Michaels Steven Milloy Forrest Mims Kary Mullis Jane Orient Trey Parker Benny Peiser Melanie Phillips Arthur B. Robinson James R. Schlesinger Frederick Seitz Julian Lincoln Simon Fred Singer Fred L. Smith Willie Soon Roy Spencer Mary Starrett Matt Stone Philip Stott Brian Sussman Jan Veizer

Disappearing world: Global warming claims tropical island 

People to research
 * Dr Vincent Gray, of Wellington, an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), most recently a visiting scholar at the Beijing Climate Centre in China.


 * Dr Gerrit J van der Lingen, of Christchurch, geologist/paleoclimatologist, climate change consultant, former director GRAINZ (Geoscience Research and Investigations New Zealand).


 * Prof August H. (Augie) Auer, of Auckland, past professor of atmospheric science, University of Wyoming; previously chief meteorologist, Meteorological Service (MetService) of New Zealand.


 * Professor Bob Carter, a New Zealander, now at the Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia.


 * Warwick Hughes, a New Zealand earth scientist living in Perth, who conducts a comprehensive website: www.warwickhughes.com

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=82&ObjectID=10379768
 * Roger Dewhurst, of Katikati, consulting environmental geologist and hydrogeologist.

Solar Activity Most Likely The Principal Driver Of Climate Change Dr. Jan Veizer, Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre, University of Ottawa, Canada, and Institut fuer Geologie, Mineralogie und Geophysik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Bochum, Germany, reinforces the concept of natural causes for climate change in an important article published in GSA TODAY on July 2003. It deals with cloud formation through charged nuclei provided by cosmic ray flux, which itself is subject to variation in the sun’s magnetic field.

A later article by Dr. Jan Veizer: “Celestial Climate Driver: A Perspective From Four Billion Years Of The Carbon Cycle” - SOLAR ACTIVITY MOST LIKELY THE PRINCIPAL DRIVER OF CLIMATE CHANGE was published in March 2005 in GEOSCIENCE CANADA. Full Article Here

Other scientific articles which provide evidence of the importance of solar activity include The Varying Sun & Climate Change by Soon & Baliunas, and Length of Solar Cycle- An Indicator of Solar Activity Closely Associated With Climate by E.Friis-Christensen & K. Lassen. http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?ide=5

Jack Barrett and David Bellamy http://www.his.com/~sepp/Archive/NewSEPP/Carbon-Bellamy.htm

Friends of Science http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?ide=4

http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/

Monckton's list of skeptics http://ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/20061121_gore.pdf

F. Hoyle and C. Wickramasinghe F. Hoyle and C. Wickramasinghe, 2001. “Cometary Impacts and Ice- Ages,” Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol. 275, pp. 367-376.

V.S. Bashkirtsev and G.P. Mashnich, 2003. “Will We Face Global Warming in the Nearest Future?,” Geomagnetism i Aeronomia, Vol. 43, pp. 124-127. 

H. Svensmark and E. Friis-Christensen, 1997. “Variation of Cosmic Ray Flux and Global Cloud Coverage—A Missing Link in Solar-Climate Relationship,” Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Vol. 59, No. 11, pp. 1225-1232.

E. Friis-Christensen and K. Lassen, 1991. “Length of the solar cycle: An Indicator of Solar Activity Closely Associated with Climate,” Science, Vol. 254, pp. 698-700.

S.L. Solanki, 2002. “Solar Variability and Climate Change: Is There a Link?,” Astronomy and Geophysics, Vol. 43 (October), pp. 5.9-5.13.

Assel, R., Cronk, K. and Norton, D. 2003. Recent trends in Laurentian Great Lakes ice cover. Climatic Change 57: 185-204.

Bashkirtsev, V.S. and Mashnich, G.P. 2003. Will we face global warming in the nearest future? Geomagnetism and Aeronomy 43: 124-127.

Chavez, F.P., Ryan, J., Lluch-Cota, S.E. and Niquen C., M. 2003. From anchovies to sardines and back: multidecadal change in the Pacific Ocean. Science 299: 217-221.

Chistyakov, V.F. 1996. On the structure of the secular cycles of solar activity. In: Solar Activity and Its Effect on the Earth (Chistyakov, V.F., Asst. Ed.), Dal'nauka, Vladivostok, Russia, pp. 98-105.

Chistyakov, V.F. 2000. On the sun's radius oscillations during the Maunder and Dalton Minimums. In: Solar Activity and Its Effect on the Earth (Chistyakov, V.F., Asst. Ed.), Dal'nauka, Vladivostok, Russia, pp. 84-107.

Dergachev, V.A. and Raspopov, O.M. 2000. Long-term processes on the sun controlling trends in the solar irradiance and the earth's surface temperature. Geomagnetism and Aeronomy 40: 9-14.

Freeland, H.J., Gatien, G., Huyer, A. and Smith, R.L. 2002. Cold halocline in the northern California Current: An invasion of subarctic water. Geophysical Research Letters 30: 10.1029/2002GL016663.

Friis-Christensen, E. and Lassen, K. 1991. Length of the solar cycle: An indicator of solar activity closely associated with climate. Science 254: 698-700.

Zherebtsov, G.A. and Kovalenko, V.A. 2000. Effect of solar activity on hydrometeorological characteristics in the Baikal region. Proceedings of the International Conference "Solar Activity and Its Terrestrial Manifestations," Irkutsk, Russia, p. 54.

Volume 6, Number 37: 10 September 2003

Political pressure on AGW skeptics - people getting fired 

Learn about Theodor Landscheidt. He is dead now but wrote many papers.   

"The [IPCC report] relies extensively on an attempt to reconstruct the global climate during the last 1000 years," said Karlen. "This reconstruction shows neither a Medieval Warm Period nor a Little Ice Age. But extensive evidence shows that both these events occurred on a global scale and that climates fluctuated significantly."
 * Wibjorn Karlen, a paleoclimatologist at Stockholm University, states:

Climate regime shifts
In addition to the Bratcher and Giese paper, Hartman and Wendler also wrote about Pacific Decadal Oscillations (PDO). They wrote:
 * ''The 1976 Pacific climate shift is examined, and its manifestations and significance in Alaskan climatology during the last half-century are demonstrated. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation index shifted in 1976 from dominantly negative values for the 25-yr time period 1951-75 to dominantly positive values for the period 1977-2001.

Mean annual and seasonal temperatures for the positive phase were up to 3.1°C higher than for the negative phase. Likewise, mean cloudiness, wind speeds, and precipitation amounts increased, while mean sea level pressure and geopotential heights decreased. The pressure decrease resulted in a deepening of the Aleutian low in winter and spring. The intensification of the Aleutian low increased the advection of relatively warm and moist air to Alaska and storminess over the state during winter and spring.''


 * The regime shift is also examined for its effect on the long-term temperature trends throughout the state. The trends that have shown climatic warming are strongly biased by the sudden shift in 1976 from the cooler regime to a warmer regime. When analyzing the total time period from 1951 to 2001, warming is observed; however, the 25-yr period trend analyses before 1976 (1951-75) and thereafter (1977-2001) both display cooling, with a few exceptions. In this paper, emphasis is placed on the importance of taking into account the sudden changes that result from abrupt climatic shifts, persistent regimes, and the possibility of cyclic oscillations, such as the PDO, in the analysis of long-term climate change in Alaska.

Observed changes in CO2 concentrations are not dangerous
de Freitas Jack Barrett and David Bellamy 

The science is less settled than the IPCC suggests
A Skeptical View of Climate Models By Hendrik Tennekes http://www.his.com/~sepp/Archive/NewSEPP/Climate%20models-Tennekes.htm


 * Nils-Axel Mörner, emeritus professor of paleogeophysics & geodynamics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, writes: "The 'global warming' was once an interesting subject of research. It rapidly - and quite intentionally - was transferred to an intergovernmental stage where politics and lobbying took over. Today, society is completely flooded by this concept. Science, observations and logics are ignored. We are in the hands of a totally dominating 'ruling model' - just like what was the case when the Earth was put in the centre of our planetary system by Aristotle’s, Ptolemaist and the Church."


 * Arthur Rörsch, Richard S. Courtney and Dick Thoenes wrote a peer-reviewed article titled "Global Warming and the Accumulation of Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere." The abstract reads: "This paper provides a literature study of the observations on temperature changes and the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It investigates the cause-effect relationship between these parameters, and makes an alternative interpretation to that given by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)."

Carbon dioxide is not capable of significantly warming the earth's atmosphere

 * Jack Barrett, is a longtime critic of global warming theory. He wrote the peer-reviewed journal article "The roles of carbon dioxide and water vapour in warming and cooling the Earth's troposphere" in 1995. The abstract reads: "The currently perceived mechanism of operation of the so-called greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide and water, is dependent upon the atmosphere behaving as an emitter of continuous radiation as would a cavity of the same temperature and upon vibrationally excited carbon dioxide and water molecules being de-activated mainly by the emission of fluorescence radiation at all altitudes. This article maintains that carbon dioxide and gaseous water molecules cannot behave as cavity radiators and presents evidence for vibrational fluorescence of carbon dioxide occurring substantially only at the very low pressures (lower than 0.1 Pa) found in the thermosphere at altitudes above 95 km. Substantial concentrations of water vapour exist only in the troposphere where pressures are too great to allow significant emission of vibrational fluorescence radiation."

Rise in surface temperatures not preceded by atmospheric warming as per AGW theory

 * Bob Foster, a geoscientist for Shell writes: "However, the 1976–2000 warming is unlikely to be from the ‘greenhouse effect’, because there is no substantial trend of rising temperature in the lower atmosphere over that time—beyond the 1976/77 jump. On the other hand, and not mentioned by IPCC, there was a major re-ordering of oceanic heat transportation between 1976 and 1977. This event provides a better-founded explanation for the observed surface warming at 1976–2000 than does IPCC’s implausible attribution to human-caused changes in the composition of the atmosphere." (Page 33)

The science does not support the idea that mitigation is possible
Another chink in the wall: Evironmental Geology Volume 50, Number 6 / August, 2006

“any attempts to mitigate undesirable climatic changes using restrictive regulations are condemned to failure, because the global natural forces are at least 4-5 orders of magnitude greater than available human controls.” What is more, they indicate that “application of these controls will lead to catastrophic economic consequences,” noting that “since its inception in February 2005, the Kyoto Protocol has cost about $50 billion supposedly averting about 0.0005°C of warming by the year 2050,” and that “the Kyoto Protocol is a good example of how to achieve the minimum results with the maximum efforts (and sacrifices).” This being the case, they conclude that “attempts to alter the occurring global climatic changes have to be abandoned as meaningless and harmful,” and that in their place the “moral and professional obligation of all responsible scientists and politicians is to minimize potential human misery resulting from oncoming global climatic change,” hopefully by more immediate, rational and cost-effective means. 

Scientists predicting global cooling

 * Khabibullo Abdusamatov, chief researcher at Pulkovskaya Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the supervisor of the Astrometria project of the Russian section of the International Space Station says: "“On the basis of our [solar emission] research, we developed a scenario of a global cooling of the Earth’s climate by the middle of this century and the beginning of a regular 200-year-long cycle of the climate’s global warming at the start of the 22nd century."

Increase in atmospheric CO2 is not anthropogenic

 * Zbigniew Jaworowski, chair of the Scientific Council at the Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection in Warsaw, wrote: "In fact, primary source of atmospheric carbon in North America and elsewhere, is not fossil fuel burning, but natural sources. The annual natural flux of CO2 (expressed as carbon) from ocean into the global atmosphere is about 106 Gt, and from the lands 63 Gt, summing up to a total of about 169 Gt. To this natural flux of CO2 the fossil fuels, land use, and cement production add about 6.3 Gt per year, i.e. about 3.7%. The North American contribution of 1.6 Gt per year adds a triffle 0.95% to the natural flow of CO2 into the global atmosphere. This hardly could be defined as 'primary source.'"

M. L. Khandekar, T. S. Murty and P. Chittibabu write in an abstract: "Our review suggests that the dissenting view offered by the skeptics or opponents of global warming appears substantially more credible than the supporting view put forth by the proponents of global warming. Further, the projections of future climate change over the next fifty to one hundred years is based on insufficiently verified climate models and are therefore not considered reliable at this point in time." 

Medieval Warm Period
Wallace S. Broecker

Articles on temperature reconstructions

 * Solar-induced and internal climate variability at decadal time scales by M Dima 2005


 * Distinct modes of bidecadal and multidecadal variability in a climate reconstruction of the last centuries from a South Pacific coral by M Dima 2005


 * Isotopic record in a marine shallow-water core: Imprint of solar centennial cycles in the past 2 millennia by Castagnoli et al 2005

climate isotopic records] By C. Taricco and S. Alessio.
 * [http://sait.oat.ts.astro.it/MSAIt760405/PDF/2005MmSAI..76.1048T.pdf Decadal and centennial cycles revealed in two

Solar forcing

 * Usoskin, I.G., et al., A millennium scale sunspot number reconstruction: Evidence for an unusually active sun since the 1940’s, Phys. Rev. Lett., 91(21), 211101, 2003.
 * Usoskin, I.G., et al. Reconstruction of solar activity for the last millennium using 10Be data, Astron. Astrophys., 413, 745-751, 2004.
 * Solanki, S.K., et al., An unusually active Sun during recent decades compared to the previous 11,000 years, Nature, 431, 1084 1087, 2004.
 * Usoskin, I.G., et al., Solar activity reconstructed over the last 7000 years: The influence of geomagnetic field changes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33(8), L08103, 2006.


 * On possible drivers of Sun-induced climate changes by Cornelis de Jagera and Ilya Usoskin


 * CAWSES Newsletter September 2006



Wild, M., Gilgen, H., Roesch, A., Ohmura, A., Long, C.N., Dutton, E.G., Forgan, B., Kallis, A., Russak, V. and Tsvetkov, A. 2005. From dimming to brightening: Decadal changes in solar radiation at earth's surface. Science 308: 847-850.

Cosmic ray forcing

 * Usoskin et al., Heliospheric modulation of cosmic rays: Monthly reconstruction for 1951-2004, J. Geophys. Res.,101, A12108, doi:10.1029/ 2005JA011250, 2005.
 * Usoskin, I.G. et al., Cosmic ray induced ionization in the atmosphere: Spatial and temporal changes, J. Atm. Solar-Terr. Phys., 66(18), 1791-1796, 2004.
 * Usoskin, I.G., and G.A. Kovaltsov, Cosmic ray induced ionization in the atmosphere: Full modeling and practical applications, J. Geophys. Res., doi: 10.1029/ 2006JD007150, (in press).


 * Cosmic Rays and Climate by Nir Shaviv

Articles on increased CO2

 * Potential Effect of Global Warming on the Photosynthetic Response of Sweet Potato to a Doubling of Atmospheric CO2

News articles
Lindzen's op-ed piece

Interesting data sites
US Climate info

MM03 criticism of MBH98
Provide an accurate rendering of MM criticisms, including direct quotations from MM05a, MM05b, as they touch on the main criticisms of MBH98, including: failure of cross-validation statistics; inaccurate benchmarking of RE significance; withholding of adverse cross-validation statistics; lack of robustness to the presence/absence of bristlecone pines; the defects of bristlecones as a temperature proxy. Correction of inaccurate renderings would also require removing all references to MM "presenting" an alternative reconstruction; removing all reference to MM or MBH "centering conventions" and using neutral language such as covariance matrix, correlation matrix, or uncentered; removing all reference to tree ring chronologies being "unstandardized" (since they are all pre-standardized); etc.

jae's comparison of weather in different cities
jae says:

April 2nd, 2007 at 1:33 pm Here’s the type of thing that intrigues me about the data in my spreadsheet:

Compare Phoenix and Atlanta. Both are at about the same altitude and latitude, and therefore both receive the same TOA solar radiation. Phoenix gets 100 w/m2 more radiation at the surface in July than Atlanta does, and it averages 8 degrees hotter. Atlanta has 49 percent more moisture in the air (absolute humidity), but the surface temperature is lower. Water vapor or clouds appear to be taking the extra heat in Atlanta. Water vapor/cloud feedback appears to be negative in this case. It appears that the extra insolation in Phoenix simply causes higher surface temperatures. Calculated sensitivities are the same at both locations, 0.14 deg/w/m2.

Now compare Indianapolis with Sacramento. Again, both about same altitude and latitude and receive same TOA solar radiation. Sacramento gets 130 (!) w/m2 more surface radiation in July than Indianapolis, but in this case, the July average surface temperatures are the same. Indianapolis has 36 percent more water vapor in the air than Sacramento, but the temperatures are the same. It appears that there is no water vapor feedback in Indianapolis. Where does the extra heat go in Sacramento? Probably to cool pacific airflows, since the sensitivity is 0.05, compared to 0.11 in Indianapolis.

http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=1275