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Larry_Home · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 8:10 pm Post subject:

The source is the Frontier Centre for Public Policy (apparently Canadian):

Here's the Publications page.
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Lorianne_W · Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 2727

Thanks Charles

It would be interesting to see a similar graph plotted against the average temps for the entire time period (not just 20th C average temps) but I haven't been able to find such a thing.
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Larry_Home · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 10:21 pm Post subject:

What I find most interesting is a series of graphs showing temps covering hundreds of thousands of years, based on core drillings. The longer the time span you get, the less visible the so-called "hockey stick" becomes. In geological terms, we are in a relatively warm interglacial period that is the inevitable prelude to the next Ice Age.

The "big" bumps of AGW are an artifact of how the data are presented (and fudged), not of climate.

Personally, I hope and pray we are beginning another MWP. People thrive when it's warm, except possibly in Florida and parts of CA. I would happily trade most of those two states for higher average temperatures, a boon to agriculture and human activity.
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CharlesWT · Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 1741 Location: Plano, Texas

Based on Greenland ice cores, this interglacial period may have the most stable and predictable climate and weather of any interglacial period in human existence. A possible explanation for why agriculture and civilization didn't occur at an earlier date.

Lorianne_W · Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 2727

Lawrence Solomon: Wikipedia's hockey stick wars

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/23/lawrence-solomon-wikipedia-s-hockey-stick-wars.aspx

Larry_Home · Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:05 am Post subject:

And now Dr. Jones threatens suicide, thanks to those evil deniers.
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plaasjaapie · Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 9166

I've got a straight razor I'll loan him. Twisted Evil

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Lorianne_W · Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 2727

U.N. Climate Panel and Chief Face Credibility Siege
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/science/earth/09climate.html

The NYT apologize for him, etc.
I suppose its notable that they even acknowledged the scandal.
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plaasjaapie · Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 9166

Did you notice how they didn't invite comments on this piece of crap? Laughing

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Larry_Home · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 10:57 pm Post subject:

But wait! The "hockey stick" graph is back! New data found!

Source
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Larry_Home · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:58 am Post subject:

Al Gore, back from the dead! Again!

In a NYT Op-Ed, he proves conclusively that skeptics are wrong and he, once again, as always, is right, no matter what.

You can't wish it away, he says; but he can wish it were so.
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Lorianne_W · Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 2727

Head of 'Climategate' research unit admits sending 'pretty awful emails' to hide data

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254660/Climategate-expert-tells-MPs.html#ixzz0gz7hE5br
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CharlesWT · Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 1741 Location: Plano, Texas

More bad news today for the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as another of its extravangant ecopocalypse predictions, sourced from green campaigners, has been confirmed as bunk by scientists.

The UN body came under attack earlier this year for suggesting that 40 per cent of the Amazonian rainforests - dubbed the "lungs of the planet" by some for their ability to turn CO2 into oxygen, and also seen as vital on biodiversity grounds - might disappear imminently. This disaster would be triggered, according to the IPCC's assessment, by a relatively slight drop in rainfall of the sort to be expected in a warming world.

Unfortunately it now appears that just such conditions have already occurred, and in fact the Amazonian jungles were unaffected.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the baseless IPCC projection originated in a study produced in 2000 by hard-green* ecological campaigning group WWF, which was also implicated in the IPCC's equally invalid prediction that the glaciers of the Himalayas will all have melted within a generation from now.

According to the WWF report (pdf), which was not subject to scientific peer review - it was written by a freelance journalist and published by WWF itself - drying-up of forests will lead to runaway wildfires that will destroy the jungle and perhaps the entire planetary ecosystem. The document is full of terrifying phrases such as "the year the world caught fire". It warns of imminent doom caused by drought cycles:
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IPCC Rainforest eco-tastrophe claim confirmed as bunk: Official UN website still shows it as fact, though

Lorianne_W · Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 2727

NYT: “U.S. Data Since 1895 Fail To Show Warming Trend”
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/9931

Global Saming !
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Jethro Tull · Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 420

Or maybe Global Shaming! Laughing