US National Academy of Science on Global Warming

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So, the USA's most eminent scientists say it is occurring, and that human activity is a major contributor...

www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1804014,00.html

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

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Statement on the National Research Council’s Surface Temperature Report
by Myron Ebell
June 22, 2006


Washington, D.C., June 22, 2006—The National Research Council’s report on the “hockey stick” temperature graph, which was released today, confirms what was not controversial—namely, that the twentieth century was the warmest in the past 400 years. As the Earth’s climate has been emerging from the Little Ice Age since the mid-nineteenth century, this is not being debated.

On the issues that the committee was charged with investigating, the report finds that the proxy evidence does not support the conclusions that the twentieth century was the warmest or that the 1990s was the warmest decade or that 1998 was the warmest year in the past 1000 years, claims which were originally made in papers by Professor Michael Mann, et al. and were given widespread publicity in the IPCC’s Third Assessment Report. All those claims could, of course, be true, but they are not confirmed by the available evidence according to the committee report.



Furthermore, the chairman of the committee, Professor Gerald North, in his oral remarks criticized the IPCC for using the hockey stick graph as the featured item in the Summary for Policymakers of the Third Assessment Report (2001). He said that this was not the way science should work, because science should be a process of proposing new claims and then challenging them, rather than taking the claims of one new scientific paper as definitive before it had been vetted by the scientific community. Clearly, the hockey stick has not stood up to further scientific scrutiny, and today’s report by the NRC expert committee confirms that conclusion.



http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,05397.cfm

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So, the USA's most eminent scientists say it is occurring, and that human activity is a major contributor...

None of this is true. None of it matters.

George Bush doesn't want it to be true so it isn't. Stop talking about this stuff or I'll stick my fingers in my ears and chant "I'm not listening to you I'm not listening to you I'm not listening to you" over and over and over.

First Class Citizen Twice Over

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So Myron Ebell outranks the National Academy, in your opinion.

Between 1 A.D. and 1850, volcanic eruptions and solar fluctuations had the biggest effects on climate. But those temperature changes "were much less pronounced than the warming due to greenhouse gas levels by pollution since the mid-19th century", the panel said.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

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Myron Ebell, trying to supress a report on climate change in 2002:

"As I said, we made the decision this morning to do as much as we could to deflect criticism by blaming the EPA for freelancing. It seems to me that the folks at the EPA are the obvious fall guys, and we would only hope that the fall guy (or gal) should be as high up as possible. I have done several interviews and have stressed that the president needs to get everyone rowing in the same direction. Perhaps tomorrow we will call for [Christine Todd Whitman] to be fired. I know that that doesn't sound like much help, but it seems to me that our only leverage to push you in the right direction is to drive a wedgge between the President and those in the Administration who think they are serving the president's best interests by publishing this rubbish."

Ebell is a director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, an organization that Exxon funds.