Thank you for visiting the "Climate Change News" page. You will find news ad nauseum in the lamestream media purporting man-made climate change by alarmists at the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) but there is as much or more evidence by equally eminent scientists that suggest otherwise. I present facts here to bring balance to what you may have heard in favor of man-made climate change. ~ Rodney Spooner
February 2017
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Friday,
February 3, 2017 |
Is Anything Wrong With Natural, Non-Man-Made Climate Change?
Guest post written by Mario Loyola.I recently asked an environmentalist this question: "If we found out that the planet was warming for purely natural reasons, would you be in favor of climate engineering to stop it, because the current temperature and sea level are the right ones for humans?" He seemed appalled. "No, of course not, man," he said. "Thank you," I said. And I meant it, because this fellow had just made a concession that is fatal to the central argument in favor of reducing carbon emissions: the risk of catastrophic climate change. Mr. Loyola—author of "Twilight of the Climate Change Movement"—is senior fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty. |
May 2016
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Thursday,
May 5, 2016 |
Checkmating The Left On Global Warming
"Wind and solar...are not the only power sources that produce little or no carbon dioxide emissions. Natural gas power emits only half as much carbon dioxide as coal power, and hydro power and nuclear power emit no carbon dioxide emissions at all. Natural gas and nuclear power are available on-demand, unlike wind and solar power that are extremely limited on cloudy days, low-wind days and at night. Hydro power is not quite an on-demand power source, but it is much more reliable and predictable than wind and solar. Because wind and solar require conventional power backup, hydro and nuclear power actually reduce carbon dioxide emissions even more effectively than wind and solar, and natural gas emissions become comparatively smaller relative to wind and solar." Read more at http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2016/05/05/checkmating-the-left-on-global-warming/#512f3bb9179b |
April 2016
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Tuesday,
April 19, 2016 |
Tectonic shifts triggered ancient ice ages
BOSTON, April 19 (UPI) -- Researchers have known that across the great expanse of Earth's geologic history, tectonic shifts and climate change are linked. Identifying more specific correlations -- cause and effect -- has proven difficult. However, new research shows tectonic activity likely triggered the last two ice ages. "I think we're the first ones to really link large-scale tectonic events to climate change," Oliver Jagoutz, associate professor of planetary sciences at MIT, said in a news release. Read more about climate change at http://www.votefortheconstitution.com/climate-change-news.html |
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Monday,
April 18, 2016 |
Shining Light on ‘Settled’ Science: There Is No ‘Climate Crisis’
The science of global warming is settled. At least, this is what politicians keep insisting. Why should they care? Well, it turns out that global warming has provided a pretext for massive increases in political control over the public. The science of global warming has been used to justify the banning of lightbulbs, shutting down coal-fired power plants, and even a possible sighting of the holy grail: increased taxation without end (to save the planet). |
Janaury 2015
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Wednesday,
January 21, 2015 |
MIT Climate Scientist: Global Warming Believers a ‘Cult’
Last week, government agencies including NASA announced that 2014 was the “hottest year” in “recorded history,” as The New York Times put it in an early edition. Last year has since been demoted by the Times to the hottest “since record-keeping began in 1880.” But that may not be true. Now the same agencies have acknowledged that there’s only a 38 percent chance that 2014 was the hottest year on record. And even if it was, it was only by two-100ths of a degree. |
November 2014
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Monday,
November 24, 2014 |
White House threatens to put brakes on alternative fuels
California Gov. Jerry Brown is among several prominent politicians in the West who have personally appealed to the administration to drop the rollback plan championed by the Environmental Protection Agency. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) asked the president to stop the EPA from proceeding, warning in a letter last month that the plan destabilizes state efforts to combat climate change and creates "loopholes for oil companies" to avoid reducing pollution. But the administration is balancing a robust agenda to fight climate change with an alternative fuels program hobbled by setbacks and the messy politics of ethanol. |
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014
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The Angry GOP Backlash to Obama's Historic Climate Accord
The leaders of the incoming GOP Congress said the president had it out for the American energy consumer and vowed to stop his enhanced regulatory scheme come January. “This announcement is yet another sign that the president intends to double down on his job-crushing policies no matter how devastating the impact for America’s heartland and the country as a whole," House Speaker John Boehner said. "And it is the latest example of the president’s crusade against affordable, reliable energy that is already hurting jobs and squeezing middle-class families." |
October 2015
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Thursday,
October 15, 2015 |
Antarctic sea ice at its 2015 maximum
Antarctic sea ice extent reached its likely maximum for the year, at 18.83 million square kilometers (7.24 million square miles) on October 6, 2015. This year’s maximum was the sixteenth highest in the 35-year record. It was 120,000 square kilometers (46,000 square miles) above the average maximum daily extent computed over the 1981 to 2010 period of 18.71 million square kilometers (7.19 million square miles), and 1.33 million square kilometers (514,000 square miles) below the record maximum set in 2014. The date of the maximum was quite late in comparison to the 35-year satellite record. Only one year, 2002, has had a later maximum (October 12). At the date of the 2015 maximum, Antarctic sea ice extent was greater than average in the Antarctic Peninsula region, the Weddell Sea, and the Wilkes Land coast area; and below average in the Ross Sea and Indian Ocean sectors. |
July 2014
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Saturday, July 5,
2014 |
Global warming computer models confounded as Antarctic sea ice hits new record high with 2.1million square miles more than is usual for time of year
For years, computer simulations have predicted that sea ice should be disappearing from the Poles. Now, with the news that Antarctic sea-ice levels have hit new highs, comes yet another mishap to tarnish the credibility of climate science. Climatologists base their doom-laden predictions of the Earth’s climate on computer simulations. But these have long been the subject of ridicule because of their stunning failure to predict the pause in warming – nearly 18 years long on some measures – since the turn of the last century. It’s the same with sea ice. We hear a great deal about the decline in Arctic sea ice, in line with or even ahead of predictions. But why are environmentalists and scientists so much less keen to discuss the long-term increase in the southern hemisphere? In fact, across the globe, there are about one million square kilometres more sea ice than 35 years ago, which is when satellite measurements began. In recent days a new scandal over the integrity of temperature data has emerged, this time in America, where it has been revealed as much as 40 per cent of temperature data there are not real thermometer readings. Many temperature stations have closed, but rather than stop recording data from these posts, the authorities have taken the remarkable step of ‘estimating’ temperatures based on the records of surrounding stations. So vast swathes of the data are actually from ‘zombie’ stations that have long since disappeared. This is bad enough, but it has also been discovered that the US’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is using estimates even when perfectly good raw data is available to it – and that it has adjusted historical records. Read more... |
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Thursday, July 3,
2014 |
Gov’t Scientists: Antarctic Sea Ice Is Growing — Because Of Global Warming
Government scientists are not only blaming global warming for the centuries-long collapse of western Antarctic ice sheets, but global warming is also being blamed for record levels of sea ice in the South Pole. But past studies have shown the Antarctic glacier collapses are nothing new. The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) put out two studies in the past year showing that Antarctica has gone through similar periods of glacier collapse in the past. A BAS study from February 2014 shows that 8,000 years ago Antarctica’s Pine Island glacier thinned just as quickly as it has in recent decades — thousands of years before massive amounts of man-made carbon dioxide emissions were released into the atmosphere. Not only did the Pine Island glacier melt rapidly in the past, it was also able to naturally reverse the melting. Another BAS study from last year argued the current melt in the western Antarctic is within the “natural range of climate variability” of the last 300 years. “The record shows that this region has warmed since the late 1950s, at a similar magnitude to that observed in the Antarctic Peninsula and central West Antarctica,” said a BAS study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, “however, this warming trend is not unique.” “More dramatic isotopic warming (and cooling) trends occurred in the mid-19th and 18th centuries, suggesting that at present the effect of anthropogenic climate drivers at this location has not exceeded the natural range of climate variability in the context of the past ~300 years,” the study continued. |
June 2014
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014
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The Sangeang Api volcano in Indonesia began erupting on May 30, vaulting ash, along with tiny particles known as volcanic sulfur aerosols, as high as 65,000 feet into the stratosphere. Dramatic images from the eruption show the mountain exploding like a mushroom cloud.
The ash grounded air traffic in northwest Australia and parts of Indonesia, since those aerosols are hazardous to modern high bypass turbofan engines and can cause them to shut down in mid-flight. Giant volcanic eruptions — the most famous being the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, also in Indonesia — are well-known for their ability to temporarily cool the Earth. But this eruption, even counted alongside a concurrent one in Alaska, are not large enough to make much of an impact on the planet's temperature trends on their own. The Sangeang Api volcano is located in the tropics, along the so-called Ring of Fire where the Earth's tectonic plates meet one another, leading to all sorts of geological hazards, from volcanoes to earthquakes. 
Ash cloud (brownish hues) seen billowing away from the Sangeang Api volcano in Indonesia on May 31, 2014.
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April 2014
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Friday, April 18, 2014
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Frigid Winter? Blame 4,000 Years of Wild Jet Streams
The rainfall patterns reveal the jet stream was relatively "flat," moving straight and steady from about 8,000 to 4,000 years ago, the study reports. Then, about 4,000 years ago, the amount of solar energy reaching the Northern Hemisphere dropped. (This drop was caused by Earth's 20,000-year precession, the slow change in its rotation axis.) The change in the sun's energy altered worldwide climate, such as triggering a stronger El Niño/La Niña cycle and a shift in monsoonal rainfall over India and Pakistan. [10 Surprising Ways Weather Has Changed History] The jet stream pattern also shifted 4,000 years ago, going from flat to curvy over a period of about 500 years, the researchers found. For example, the isotopes show more Arctic air moving south in the East, and more tropical air heading north in the West, consistent with wrinkles in the jet stream. The curves help explain why some parts of North America became colder or wetter, while others grew drier or warmer, Bowen said. "We knew the changing seasonality of the climate in North America wasn't uniform, and we were able to link it to this change in the jet stream," Bowen said. Sun to blame? So was this winter's bizarre weather the result of natural climate swings? Not at all, Bowen said. "All things being equal, with the solar forcing that kicked in 4,000 years ago, we'd actually expect to be heading the other way now and starting to decrease the jet stream curviness," Bowen told Live Science. Several recent studies have argued that the jet stream's twists and turns are being exacerbated by climate change. That's because the jet stream's high-speed air current forms at the border between hot and cold air masses. As global warming changes the distribution of hot and cold air on the planet, the location and pattern of the jet stream may change too. "Whether the Pacific-North America Teleconnection will continue to vary in the future as it has for the past few thousand years will have important implications in terms of water availability and climate in the western United States," said Max Berkelhammer, a hydrologist at the University of Illinois, Chicago, who was not involved in the study. But until now, only a century of instrumental records have been available to model the jet stream's response to global warming. The new study "gives us a good look at natural variability so that we can gain a better understanding about how the jet stream has responded to past changes," said Lesleigh Anderson, a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who was not involved in the study "This is what we need to know to better understand what could happen in the future with rising carbon dioxide." I used to be a man-made "Climate Change denier" until I learned about geoengineering where science has delved into controlling weather patterns to create precipitation in certain areas and prevent it in others. This science isn't new and patents have been granted as early as the 1940's for what we have called "cloud seeding". How far has this science evolved? Is it possible to make it rain longer to cause more destructive flooding? Is it possible to cause an extended drought to make farms and ranches unsustainable and force farmers and ranchers into bankruptcy? We are being led to believe that global warming is man-made because of increased C02 when the sun has just climaxed its natural several year cycle of increased solar activity that will be followed by its natural several year cycle of regression. Is there any link between the sun's increased solar activity and the increase of volcanic and earthquake activity? Volcanoes belch out far more C02 as well as other toxic gasses, ash and smoke into the atmosphere than any man-made pollution. So, the question of man-made global warming versus man-made geoengineering still begs an answer..." Is the climate chaos we have been experiencing recently an 'act of God' or the act of men acting like God?" |
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Monday, April 14, 2014
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Give up meat, coal, oil, economic growth and national sovereignty - orders new IPCC climate report
The Working Group I report, released in September last year, admitted that there has been an inexplicable pause in global warming since 1997, which none of its computer models predicted. (In other words, the entire basis of man-made-global warming theory - which underpins Working Group III's demands for "decarbonisation" - may depend on a flawed assumption, unsupported by real-world evidence). |
March 2014
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Monday, March 3, 2014
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Giant Virus Resurrected from Permafrost After 30,000 Years
A mysterious giant virus buried for 30,000 years in Siberian permafrost has been resurrected. The virus only infects single-celled organisms and doesn't closely resemble any known pathogens that harm humans. Even so, the new discovery raises the possibility that as the climate warms and exploration expands in long-untouched regions of Siberia, humans could release ancient or eradicated viruses. These could include Neanderthal viruses or even smallpox that have lain dormant in the ice for thousands of years. "There is now a non-zero probability that the pathogenic microbes that bothered [ancient human populations] could be revived, and most likely infect us as well," study co-author Jean-Michel Claverie, a bioinformatics researcher at Aix-Marseille University in France, wrote in an email. "Those pathogens could be banal bacteria (curable with antibiotics) or resistant bacteria or nasty viruses. If they have been extinct for a long time, then our immune system is no longer prepared to respond to them." (A "non-zero" probability just means the chances of the event happening are not "impossible.") |
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Monday, March 3, 2014
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No climate change impact on insurance biz: Buffett
While the question of climate change "deserves lots of attention," Buffett said in a " Squawk Box " interview, "It has no effect ... [on] the prices we're charging this year versus five years ago. And I don't think it'll have an effect on what we're charging three years or five years from now." |
February 2014
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
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Confessions of a ‘Greenpeace Dropout’ to the U.S. Senate on climate change
These judgments are based, almost entirely, on the results of sophisticated computer models designed to predict the future of global climate. As noted by many observers, including Dr. Freeman Dyson of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, a computer model is not a crystal ball. We may think it sophisticated, but we cannot predict the future with a computer model any more than we can make predictions with crystal balls, throwing bones, or by appealing to the Gods. |
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
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Climate engineering is not working: Researchers
This comes as a spanner in the works of those working night and day to evolve policies and mechanisms to arrest climate change. The implementation of climate engineering technologies as a last ditch effort to combat the escalating effects of climate change could, in fact, make things worse, assert a team of researchers. |
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
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Geoengineering Ineffective Against Climate Change, Could Make Worse
Current schemes to minimize the havoc caused by global warming by purposefully manipulating Earth's climate are likely to either be relatively useless or actually make things worse, researchers say in a new study. |
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Sunday, February 16, 2014
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Science Linking Drought to Global Warming Remains Matter of Dispute
While a trend of increasing drought that may be linked to global warming has been documented in some regions, including parts of the Mediterranean and in the Southwestern United States, there is no scientific consensus yet that it is a worldwide phenomenon. Nor is there definitive evidence that it is causing California’s problems. |
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014
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Climate hubs courtesy of Executive Order
With this week’s Senate passage of the ‘Farm Bill’ and now via Executive Order, Barack HUSSEIN Obama has created seven regional ‘so-called’ climate hubs claiming they will help farmers and rural communities respond more successfully to the risks and effects of climate change…including drought, invasive pests, climate related wildfires, and floods. |
July 2013
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July 2011
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Thursday,
July 7, 2011 |
TRR: Chinese Smog is Saving the World
The most interesting new theory pits man-made pollution against man-made pollution. A Boston University study blames the lack of expected global warming on coal-burning electrical plants in China. |
November 2009
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Wednesday, November 10, 2009
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Artificial snowstorm brings chaos to Beijing
Chinese scientists have artificially induced the second major snowstorm to wreak havoc in Beijing this season, state media said, reigniting debate over the practice of tinkering with Mother Nature. |