SPPI Monthly CO2 Report
A note to our readers –
During the last few years, the desperation has become palpable among the UNIPCC, many Western governments and their lavishly-funded conscripts promoting more political centralization, massive transfers of wealth and technologies and breath-taking personal greed.
Because some of the graphs in the SPPI Monthly CO2 Report expose exaggerations, if not outright deceptions, in the UN’s IPCC reports, alarmist pro-IPCC, pro-regulatory websites have, of necessity, attacked them and their presenter, Christopher Monckton.
A response to these attacks appears in this month’s report, and also in this recent short paper posted on the SPPI website: http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/commentaries_essays/they_do_protest_too_much.html
That the CO2 Report has not only provoked and engaged much needed debate on the central issues of science and governance — such as climate sensitivity, natural cycles beyond human control and transnational governance –, but heightened it, is a major value in and of itself. The individual reader – to the extent that he/she understands the finer points of this debate – is invited to make up his/her own mind as to which side comes closest to reality, given the serious uncertainties in “climate science” and the climate models largely pretending at science.
As can be seen in the below listed contents of this month’s report, government-funded claims of catastrophe from temperature to sea level rise to tropical storms to sea ice extent to ocean “acidification” do not match real-world evidence – often the exact opposite is the case. The American people are increasingly awaking to this reality, resulting in a healthy, increasing distrust of the motives and actions of government and its paid servants in government agencies, NGOs and academia. The real “deniers” of science are coming to the fore.
Contents
Did ‘global warming’ cause Russia’s drought and Pakistan’s floods?
The authoritative Monthly CO2 Report for June 2010 explains that recent extreme weather is of natural origin and that the influence of Man is too small to have played a significant part. Editorial Comment: Page 3.
Mörner on sea level: The Professor says yet another suggestion that sea level will soon rise 23 feet is nonsense. Page 4.
Our revised graphs explained: An account of how we compile our authoritiative SPPI temperature and CO2 graphs. Page 5.
IPCC assumes CO2 concentration will reach 836 ppmv by 2100, but, on present trends, it will be well short. Pages 6-8.
Since 1980 global temperature has risen at only 2.7 °F (1.5 °C)/century, not 6 F° (3.4 C°) as IPCC predicts. Pages 9-12.
Sea level rose just 8 inches in the 20th century, and has been rising since 1993 at a very modest 1 ft/century. Page 13.
Arctic sea-ice extent is nearing its summer minimum. In the Antarctic, sea ice extent is now at its third-highest in the 30-year record. Global sea ice extent shows little trend for 30 years. Pages 14-18.
Hurricane and tropical-cyclone activity remains at its lowest since satellite measurement began. Pages 19-22.
Sunspot activity is back to low-normal: but, looking back it was a long – and cool – solar minimum. Pages 23-24.
The (very few) benefits and the (very large) costs of the Sunspot activity are illustrated at Pages 25-28.
There is no cause for alarm: Christopher Monckton of Brenchley says CO2 and warming are normal. Pages 29-32.
As always, there’s our “global warming” ready reckoner, the surest way to check policy costs against benefits. Pages 33-34.
and our selection of recent scientific papers of interest, compiled by Dr. Craig Idso of www.co2science.org. Pages 35-40.
The medieval warm period was real, global, and warmer than the present, as our global map shows. Page 41.
And finally … a polar bear’s take on “global warming! Page 42.
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