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To: R2O who wrote (453)5/13/2014 9:10:54 PM
From: joseffy  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1400
 
Climate Change Debate: A Famous Scientist Becomes a Skeptic
Spiegel Online ^ | May 12, 2014 | Axel Bojanowski


The debate over climate change is often a contentious one, and key players in the discussion only rarely switch sides. But late last month, Lennart Bengtsson, the former director of the Hamburg-based Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, one of the world's leading climate research centers, announced he would join the academic advisory council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

GWPF, based in Britain, is a non-profit organization and self-described think tank. Conservative politician Nigel Lawson founded the organization in 2009 in order to counteract what he considered to be an exaggerated concern about global warming. The organization uses aggressive information campaigns to pursue its goals. The lobby group's views markedly differ from those of the UN climate panel, the IPCC, whose reports are the products of the work of hundreds of scientists who classify and analyze vast amounts of climate knowledge accumulated through years of research. The most recent IPCC report states that man-made emissions of greenhouse gases are leading to significant global warming, with serious environmental consequences.

Bengtsson was known for maintaining moderate positions even during the most vitriolic debates over global warming during the 1990s. In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, he discusses why he made the shift to the skeptics' camp.

(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...



To: R2O who wrote (453)5/26/2014 8:22:43 PM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 1400
 
Media Ridiculed for Hyping "Antarctic Collapse" Amid Record Ice

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The New American ^ | 26 May 2014 | Alex Newman



To: R2O who wrote (453)2/11/2015 6:05:44 PM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 1400
 
Hilarious climate change predictions

No coral or more coral, more rain or less rain, billions to die, end of life on earth, planet rotation to speed up or slow down - PANIC!! so as to let us wreck the economy.

He said sea levels could rise six to nine feet by the end of the century. “We’re not talking the 20 feet that would be necessary to submerge Manhattan. But the Jersey shore of my youth will not exist we continue on this course.”

(Dr Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University) WFMZ News, 1 May 2013, “Dr Michael Mann warns global warming will create a fundamentally different planet.”

Earth speeds up
February 6, 2015 by admin
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Climate change can also affect the Earth’s spin. Previously, Felix Landerer of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. and colleagues showed that global warming would cause Earth’s mass to be redistributed towards higher latitudes. Since that pulls mass closer to the planet’s spin axis, it causes the planet to rotate faster – just as an ice skater spins faster when she pulls her arms towards her body.
New Scientist 20 Aug 2009

Earth slows down
February 6, 2015 by admin

Belgian scientists have identified a hitherto unsuspected benefit of global warming – more time for all of us. They say increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere will slow the Earth’s rotation. They used computer models to analyse the effect of adding 1% more CO2 to the atmosphere annually.
BBC News, 12 Feb 2002

demise of all life by 2050!
February 4, 2015February 5, 2015 by admin

This methane eruption data is so consistent and aerially extensive that when combined with methane gas warming potentials, Permian extinction event temperatures and methane lifetime data it paints a frightening picture of the beginning of the now uncontrollable global warming induced destabilization of the subsea Arctic methane hydrates on the shelf and slope which started in late 2010.

This process of methane release will accelerate exponentially, release huge quantities of methane into the atmosphere and lead to the demise of all life on earth before the middle of this century….The absolute mean extinction time for the northern hemisphere is 2031.8 and for the southern hemisphere 2047.6 with a final mean extinction time for 3/4 of the earth’s surface of 2039.6

Arctic News: Global Extinction within one Human Lifetime as a Result of a Spreading Atmospheric Arctic Methane Heat wave and Surface Firestorm 9 Feb 2012

Over 4.5 Billion people could die from Global Warming-related causes by 2012. Runaway Global Warming promises to literally burn-up agricultural areas into dust worldwide by 2012, causing global famine, anarchy, diseases, and war on a global scale as military powers including the U.S., Russia, and China, fight for control of the Earth’s remaining resources.

The Canadian, 8 Jan 2007 (note: The Canadian website shows the current date above the article, but it appears to have been first published in 2007)

less rain
January 29, 2015 by admin
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“So even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and our river systems, and that’s a real worry for the people in the bush. If that trend continues then I think we’re going to have serious problems, particularly for irrigation” – Interview with Professor Tim Flannery
ABC News (Australia) Landline, 11 Feb 2007

more rain
January 29, 2015January 29, 2015 by admin

Climate change ”cannot be ruled out” as a factor in recent heavy rainfalls, such as the flash flooding in Sydney on March 8, the wettest March day for more than 25 years, a report by the federal government’s Climate Commission says. The chief commissioner, Tim Flannery, said NSW was highly vulnerable to climate change.
Sydney Morning Herald, Environment, 14 May 2012

Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters…A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

The Guardian 22 Feb 2004

“We’re facing a mass extinction event,” claims Bob Geldof. ” We may not get to 2030. We need to address the problem of climate change urgently. What are you going to do about it? Get serious. Some of the nations that arrived here so proudly will not be there to meet us.”

The Telegraph (UK) 3 Oct 2013 – about the One Young World Summit in Johannesburg

less coral reefs
January 25, 2015February 5, 2015 by admin
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Coral reefs will be the first global ecosystem to collapse in our lifetimes. More than 450 scientists from over 60 countries are participating in the “Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Oceans” symposium. When CO2 in the atmosphere reaches a concentration of 450 to 500 parts per million (ppm), the oceans will mostly be too acidic for corals to grow.
ipsnews.net/2008/05/biodiversity-the-twilight-age-of-coral-reefs/ May 2008

more coral reefs
January 25, 2015February 5, 2015 by admin

Coral reefs could be growing 35 per cent faster by the next century because of global warming. A team from the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, modelled interactions between the atmosphere, oceans and ice and found that warmer water would increase the rate of coral calcification, outweighing the detrimental effect of lower calcium carbonate levels. By 2100, corals would be growing 35 per cent faster than they do today, they predicted.
scotsman.com/news/environment/global-warming-helps-coral-reefs-grow – 8/12/04

“We have 500 days – not a day more – to avoid a climate disaster. We must face up to climate disruption, climate chaos. The scientists, several of whom are present here, have said it: ‘you’d have to be blind not to see it’” M. Laurent Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, 14 May 2014 about France hosting the major climate conference in December 2015.




http://climatechangepredictions.org/



To: R2O who wrote (453)6/16/2015 2:04:47 PM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 1400
 
Government Spent Billions on Green Upgrades with no Proof that They Saved Energy



To: R2O who wrote (453)6/23/2015 8:57:57 PM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 1400
 
EPA Chief: Global Warming “Deniers” Are Not “Normal People”…

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dailycaller ^ | Miachael Bastasch



To: R2O who wrote (453)6/30/2015 10:47:23 AM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 1400
 
Did green madness help create the Greek debt crisis?