Top Earth Scientist Says Global Warming NOT Caused By Man

The following commentary and book review comes from The Sydney (Australia) Herald and sums up and validates much of what I've been posting on this blog from the beginning. Geologists (or Earth Scientists) are the first climate scientists and as such are best able to understand the meaning and significance of the current international anxiety and debate about global warming and climate change.

It is refreshing to see a prominent geologist like the author of "Heaven And Earth" write about global warming and climate change. I have not read the book, but the following excerpted quotations clearly show Professor Ian Pilmer does not even remotely accept the myth of man-caused global warming. I think we will be hearing more about this book and the ongoing debate.
Peter


Beware the climate of conformity
Paul Sheehan April 13, 2009 - 11:59PM (source)
(A new book) questions much of what I have written in this space, in numerous columns, over the past five years. Perhaps what I have written can withstand this questioning. Perhaps not. The greater question is, am I - and you - capable of questioning our own orthodoxies and intellectual habits? Let's see.

The subject of this column is not small. It is a book entitled Heaven And Earth, which will be published tomorrow. It has been written by one of Australia's foremost Earth scientists, Professor Ian Plimer. He is a confronting sort of individual, polite but gruff, courteous but combative. He can write extremely well, and Heaven And Earth is a brilliantly argued book by someone not intimidated by hostile majorities or intellectual fashions.

The book's 500 pages and 230,000 words and 2311 footnotes are the product of 40 years' research and a depth and breadth of scholarship. As Plimer writes: "An understanding of climate requires an amalgamation of astronomy, solar physics, geology, geochronology, geochemistry, sedimentology, tectonics, palaeontology, palaeoecology, glaciology, climatology, meteorology, oceanography, ecology, archaeology and history."

The most important point to remember about Plimer is that he is Australia's most eminent geologist. As such, he thinks about time very differently from most of us. He takes the long, long view. He looks at climate over geological, archaeological, historical and modern time. He writes: "Past climate changes, sea-level changes and catastrophes are written in stone."

Much of what we have read about climate change, he argues, is rubbish, especially the computer modelling on which much current scientific opinion is based, which he describes as "primitive". Errors and distortions in computer modelling will be exposed in time. (As if on cue, the United Nations' peak scientific body on climate change was obliged to make an embarrassing admission last week that some of its computers models were wrong.)

Plimer does not dispute the dramatic flux of climate change - and this column is not about Australia's water debate - but he fundamentally disputes most of the assumptions and projections being made about the current causes, mostly led by atmospheric scientists, who have a different perspective on time. "It is little wonder that catastrophist views of the future of the planet fall on fertile pastures. The history of time shows us that depopulation, social disruption, extinctions, disease and catastrophic droughts take place in cold times … and life blossoms and economies boom in warm times. Planet Earth is dynamic. It always changes and evolves. It is currently in an ice age."

If we look at the last 6 million years, the Earth was warmer than it is now for 3 million years. The ice caps of the Arctic, Antarctica and Greenland are geologically unusual. Polar ice has only been present for less than 20 per cent of geological time.

What follows is an intense compression of the book's 500 pages and all their provocative arguments and conclusions:

Is dangerous warming occurring? No.

Is the temperature range observed in the 20th century outside the range of normal variability? No.

The Earth's climate is driven by the receipt and redistribution of solar energy. Despite this crucial relationship, the sun tends to be brushed aside as the most important driver of climate. Calculations on supercomputers are primitive compared with the complex dynamism of the Earth's climate and ignore the crucial relationship between climate and solar energy.

"To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is not science. To try to predict the future based on just one variable (CO2) in extraordinarily complex natural systems is folly. Yet when astronomers have the temerity to show that climate is driven by solar activities rather than CO2 emissions, they are dismissed as dinosaurs undertaking the methods of old-fashioned science."

Over time, the history of CO2 content in the atmosphere has been far higher than at present for most of time. Atmospheric CO2 follows temperature rise. It does not create a temperature rise. CO2 is not a pollutant. Global warming and a high CO2 content bring prosperity and longer life.

The hypothesis that human activity can create global warming is extraordinary because it is contrary to validated knowledge from solar physics, astronomy, history, archaeology and geology. "But evidence no longer matters. And any contrary work published in peer-reviewed journals is just ignored. We are told that the science on human-induced global warming is settled. Yet the claim by some scientists that the threat of human-induced global warming is 90 per cent certain (or even 99 per cent) is a figure of speech. It has no mathematical or evidential basis."

Observations in nature differ markedly from the results generated by nearly two dozen computer-generated climate models. These climate models exaggerate the effects of human CO2 emissions into the atmosphere because few of the natural variables are considered. Natural systems are far more complex than computer models.

The setting up by the UN of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 1988 gave an opportunity to make global warming the main theme of environmental groups. "The IPCC process is related to environmental activism, politics and opportunism. It is unrelated to science. Current zeal around human-induced climate change is comparable to the certainty professed by Creationists or religious fundamentalists."

Ian Plimer is not some isolated gadfly. He is a prize-winning scientist and professor. The back cover of Heaven And Earth carries a glowing endorsement from the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, who now holds the rotating presidency of the European Union. Numerous rigorous scientists have joined Plimer in dissenting from the prevailing orthodoxy.

Heaven And Earth is an evidence-based attack on conformity and orthodoxy, including my own, and a reminder to respect informed dissent and beware of ideology subverting evidence.

This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/beware-the-climate-of-conformity-20090412-a3ya.html

The Global Warming Book Collection

Here is another very useful list of books about Global Warming, compiled by : Andrew, computer analyst......


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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

The Global Warming Book Collection
As you celebrate the great communist mass murderer Vladimir Lenin's Birthday (Earth Day) how about some light reading...

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition (Dennis T. Avery, S. Fred Singer, 2008)
A Primer on CO2 and Climate (Howard C. Hayden, 2007)
Carbon Folly (Donn Dears, 2008)
Catastrophe? A New Theory As To The Cause of Global Warming (Keith Foster, 2006)
Chicken Little Agenda: Debunking "Experts'" Lies (Robert G. Williscroft, 2006)
Climate Change: A Natural Hazard (William Kininmonth, 2004)
Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry about Global Warming (Thomas Moore, 1998)
Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Leads to Bad Science, Pandering politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor (Roy Spencer, 2008)
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming (Bjørn Lomborg, 2007)
Earth Report 2000: Revisiting the True State of the Planet (Ronald Bailey, 1999)
Environmental Gore: A Constructive Response to Earth in the Balance (John A. Baden, 1995)Food Climate and Carbon Dioxide: The Global Environment and World Food Production (Sylvan H. Wittwer, 1995)
Global Climate Change: Human and Natural Influences (S. Fred Singer, 1989)
Global Warming and Other Eco Myths (Ronald Bailey, 2002)
Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate: How Truth Became Controversial (Mihkel M. Mathiesen, 2004)
Global Warming - Myth or Reality? (Marcel Leroux, 2005)
Global Warming: The Truth Behind the Myth (Michael L. Parsons, 1995)
Hot Talk Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate (S. Fred Singer, 1999)
Human Impacts on Weather and Climate (William R. Cotton, Roger A. Pielke Sr., 2007)
Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery (John Imbrie, Katherine Palmer Imbrie, 2005)
It's the Sun, Not Your SUV: Co2 Will Not Destroy The Earth (John Zyrkowski, 2007)
Man-Made Global Warming: Unravelling a Dogma (Hans Labohm, Simon Rozendaal, Dick Thoenes, 2004)
Maunder Minimum: And the Variable Sun-Earth Connection (Willie Wei-Hock Soon, Steven H. Yaskell, 2004)
Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media (Patrick J. Michaels, 2004)
Not by Fire but by Ice (Robert W. Felix, 1999)
Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth (Christopher Booker, Richard North, 2007)
Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming (Patrick J. Michaels, 2005)
Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming (Patrick J. Michaels, 1992)
Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming (Christopher Essex, Ross McKitrick, 2003)
The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change (Henrik Svensmark, 2007)
The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud (Lawrence Solomon, 2008)
The Future of Everything: The Science of Prediction (David Orrell, 2006)
The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of Climate Change (Vincent Gray, 2004)
The Greenhouse Trap: Why the greenhouse effect will not end life on earth (John L Daly, 1989)The Heated Debate: Greenhouse Predictions Versus Climate Reality (Robert C. Balling, 1993)The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) (Christopher C. Horner, 2007)
The Role of the Sun in Climate Change (Douglas V. Hoyt, Kenneth H. Schatten, 1997)
The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming (Patrick J. Michaels, Robert C. Balling, 2000)
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (Bjørn Lomborg, 2001)Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years[/b] (Dennis T. Avery, S. Fred Singer, 2007)Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future (Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, 2006)

Energy:
Black Gold Stranglehold (Jerome R. Corsi, 2005)
Energy: Ending the Never-Ending Crisis (Paul Ballonoff, 1997)
Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence (Robert Bryce, 2008)
The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (Peter Huber, 2005)
The Deep Hot Biosphere : The Myth of Fossil Fuels (Thomas Gold, 1999)
The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won't Run the World (Howard C. Hayden, 2002)
The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won't Run the World, Second Edition (Howard C. Hayden, 2005)

Environmentalism:
A Moment on the Earth : The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism (Gregg Easterbrook, 1996)
Apocalypse Not: Science, Economics, and Environmentalism (Ben Bolch, Harold Lyons, 1993)
But Is It True?: A Citizens Guide to Environmental Health and Safety Issues (Aaron Wildavsky, 1997)
Cutting Green Tape: Toxic Pollutants, Environmental Regulation, and the Law (Roger E. Meiners, Richard L. Stroup, 2000)
Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death (Paul Driessen, 2003)
Eco-nomics: What Everyone Should Know About Economics and the Environment (Richard L. Stroup, 2003)
Eco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism (Joseph L. Bast, Peter J. Hill, Richard C. Rue, 1996)
Ecoscam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse (Ronald Bailey, 1994)
Ecoterror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature : The World of the Unabomber (Ron Arnold, 1997)
Ecology Wars: Environmentalism As If People Mattered (Ron Arnold, 1998)
Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well (Terry L. Anderson, Donald R. Leal, 1997)Environmental Overkill: Whatever Happened to Common Sense? (Dixie Lee Ray, Lou Guzzo, 1993)
Free Market Environmentalism (Terry L. Anderson, Donald R. Leal, 2001)
Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists A Conservative Manifesto (Peter Huber, 2000)
Hoodwinking the Nation (Julian Simon, 1999)
It Takes a Hero: The Grassroots Battle Against Environmental Oppression (William Perry Pendley, 1998)
No Turning Back: Dismantling the Fantasies of Environmental Thinking (Wallace Kaufman, 2000)
Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns (Jay H. Lehr, 1992)
Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy (Robert Higgs, Carl P. Close, 2005)
The Really Inconvenient Truths (Iain Murray, 2008)
Saviors of the Earth? : The Politics and Religion of the Environmental Movement (Michael Coffman, 1994)
The Green Crusade : Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism (Charles T. Rubin, 1994)The Improving State of the World: Why We're Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet (Indur Goklany, 2007)
The New Ecological Order : Trees, Animals and Men (Luc Ferry, Carol Volk, 1995)
The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment's Number One Enemy (Jack M. Hollander, 2003)
The State of Humanity (Julian L. Simon, 1995)
The Ultimate Resource 2 (Julian L. Simon, 1996)
Through Green-Colored Glasses: Enviromentalism Reconsidered (Wilfred Beckerman, 1996)Trashing the Economy: How Runaway Environmentalism Is Wrecking America (Ron Arnold, Alan Gottlieb, 1998)
Undue Influence: Wealthy Foundations, Grant Driven Environmental Groups and Zealous Bureaucrats That Control Your Future (Ron Arnold, 1998)

Fiction:
State of Fear (Michael Crichton, 2005)

Political:
A Short History of Fear (Alexander Cockburn , 2008)
An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems (Glen Beck, 2007)Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds (Charles Mackay, Andrew Tobias, 1995)
Global Crises, Global Solutions (Bjorn Lomborg, 2004)
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning (Jonah Goldberg, 2008)
Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity (John Stossel, 2006)
Politicizing Science: The Alchemy of Policymaking (Michael Gough, 2003)
Silencing Silence (Steve Milloy, 1999)
The Best-Laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future (Randal O'Toole, 2007)
The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics (Roger A. Pielke Jr., 2007)The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal (Indur M. Goklany, 2001)
The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (Ayn Rand, Peter Schwartz, 1999)

Statistics:
Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists (Joel Best, 2001)More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues (Joel Best, 2004)

Kids Books:
Facts, Not Fear: Teaching Children About the Environment (Michael Sanera, Jane S. Shaw, 1999)
The Sky's Not Falling!: Why It's Ok to Chill About Global Warming (Holly Fretwell, 2007)
Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! (Katharine DeBrecht, Jim Hummel, 2005)Censored Global Warming VideosNO 'Consensus' on "Man-Made" Global Warming

The Anti "Man-Made" Global Warming Resource

Chris Horner and "The Politically Incorrect Guide To Global Warming"

Chris Horner is a very enthusiastic and well-informed "skeptic" of the myth of man-caused global warming. I intend to get his book. In the mean time, look at the following videos. They are informative and entertaining.
Peter


GeoPete
Message #1 - 04/08/08 01:35 AM
There are some who see socialism as being an undesirable form of government, or as a way of living. There are many who see environmentalism in general, and the huge movement behind the idea of man-caused global warming as a vehicle for the socialization, or control of the entire world. Read the following, consider what is said and make up your own minds. GP

Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Global Warming Equals Socialism
Click to view imagePhilip V. Brennan has an article today at NewsmaxClick to view image in which he quotes from a new book, "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming":
...author Christopher C. Horner explains why, although Al Gore and his cronies among the media elites and U.N. globalists endlessly bleat that "global warming" is an unprecedented global crisis, they really think of it as a dream come true.

"Global warming is the ideal scare campaign for those who are doing all they can to secure strict control over society, business, and the minutest details of individual life." As Horner explains, "if global warming really were as bad as the Leftist doomsayers insist it is, then no policy imaginable could 'solve' it . . . no matter how much we sacrifice there would still be more to do. That makes global warming the bottomless well of excuses for the relentless growth of Big Government."
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and EnvironmentalismClick to view image

GeoPete
Message #2 - 04/08/08 01:46 AM
Here are some short videos of Chris Horner, author of "The Politically Incorrect Guide To Global Warming", he is filmed discussing his book and answering some questions. GP

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming: Part 1/4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=z04XMXc7zJg

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming: Part 2/4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L6kG-tFDthk

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming: Part 3/4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XAzcsYluUSM

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming: Part 4/4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=08guZIdYY88