Friends of Science | Providing Insight into Climate Change

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Consensus is the business of politics. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.Michael Crichton, authorUntil a continuous climate observing system is established, both climate models and observations will remain uncertain.Wielicki et al. Science June 21, 2002We can no longer absolutely conclude whether globally the troposphere is cooling or warming relative to the surface.Thorne et al, BAMS Oct 2005We only understand 10 percent of the climate issue. That is not enough to wreck the world economy with Kyoto-like measures.Henk Tennekes, former research director, Dutch Royal Meteorological InstituteThe minute you begin to believe your own hypothesis, you're a dead duck as a scientist.Frank Beales - former U. of Toronto ProfessorI would freely admit that on global warming we have crossed the boundary from news reporting to advocacy.Charles Alexander, Time magazine science editorSkepticism is the highest of duties, and unverified belief the one unpardonable sin.Thomas H. Huxley, BiologistSome people will do anything to save the earth . . . except take a science course.P. J. O'Rourke, author, journalistWe have to offer up scary scenarios (about global warming) ... ...each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.Stephen Schneider, Stanford University environmentalistI've just completed Mike's Nature trick ... to hide the decline.Phil Jones, Director of Climate Research Unit, UEA, UK.Mike, Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith regarding the latest IPCC report? Keith will do likewise. ...Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same?Phil Jones, Director of Climate Research Unit, UEA, UKThere is no reason to give them any data, in my opinion, and I think we do so at our own peril!Michael Mann, Director Earth System Science Center, Pennsylvania State UniversityThe fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't.Kevin Trenberth, National Center For Atmospheric Research, USAWe are nowhere close to knowing where energy is going or whether clouds are changing to make the planet brighter ... We are not close to balancing the energy budget.Kevin Trenberth, National Center For Atmospheric Research, USANo reviewer has ever asked to see the data.Phil Jones, Director of Climate Research Unit, UEA, UK.Kevin and I will keep them out [of the IPCC Report] somehow - even if we have to redefine what the "peer-review literature" is!Phil Jones, Director of Climate Research Unit, UEA, UK.If they [McIntyre and McKitrick] ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the United Kingdom, I think I'll delete the file rather than send it to anyone.Phil Jones, Director of Climate Research Unit, UEA, UK.If I were on the greenhouse deniers' side, I would .. focus on the wide range of paleoclimatology results and the differences between them as an argument for dismissing them all.Tom Wigley, University Corporation for Atmospheric ResearchMike, the figure you sent is very deceptive [...] there have been a number of dishonest presentations of model results by individual authors and by IPCC Tom Wigley, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, USAObservations do not show rising temperatures throughout the tropical troposphere ... This is just downright dangerous.Peter Thorne, Hadley Centre, Met Office, UKThe trick may be to decide on the main message and use that to guide what's included and what is left out [of the IPCC Reports].Jonathan Overpeck, Director, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, University of ArizonaBut it will be very difficult to make the MWP [Medieval Warm Period] go away in Greenland.Henry Pollack, University of MichiganWhat if climate change appears to be just mainly a multidecadal natural fluctuation? They'll kill us probably.Tommy Wils, Swansea UniversityWeighting the solar irradiance more strongly in the models, then much of the 19th to mid 20th century warming can be explained from the sun alone.Rob Wilson, School of Geography & Geosciences, University of St AndrewsI am not convinced that the 'truth' is always worth reaching if it is at the cost of damaged personal relationships"Thomas J. Crowley, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke UniversityThis will reduce the 1940-1970 cooling in Northern Hemisphere temperatures. Explaining the cooling with sulphates won't be quite as necessary.Phil Jones, Director of Climate Research Unit, UEA, UKIt is interesting to see the lower tropospheric warming minimum in the tropics in all three plots, which I cannot explain. ...it is remarkably robust against my adjustment efforts.Leopold Haimberger, Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of ViennaI also got recently a paper from Rob which says 'London's UHI [Urban Heat Island effect] has indeed become more intense since the 1960s especially during spring and summer'Geoff Jenkins, Met Office, UKWe found the [urban warming] effect is pretty big in the areas we analyzed. Unfortunately, when we sent our comments to the IPCC AR4, they were mostly rejected.Guoyu Rean, National Climate Centre (NCC) of China, BeijingI'm sure you agree--the Mann/Jones GRL paper was truly pathetic and should never have been published.Raymond S. Bradley, Director, Climate System Research Center, University of MassachusettsHow can we be critical of Crowley for throwing out 40-years in the middle of his calibration, when we're throwing out all post-1960 dataTim Osborn, Climatic Research Unit, UEA, UKIt will not be models or theory, but observation that will provide the answer to the question of how the climate will change in many decades time.Andrew Watson, School of Environmental Sciences, UEA, UKThere is no individual model that does well in all of the SST [sea surface temperature] and water vapor tests we've applied.Ben Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USAI doubt the modeling world will be able to get away with this [tuning] much longerTim Barnett, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USASo using the 20th century for tuning [the IPCC models] is just doing what some people have long suspected us of doingGabriele Hegerl, Nicholas School for the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke UniversityBasic problem is that all models are wrong - not got enough middle and low level clouds.Phil Jones, Director of Climate Research Unit, UEA, UK.I've been told that IPCC is above national FOI Acts. One way to cover yourself and all those working in AR5 would be to delete all emails at the end of the processPhil Jones, Director of Climate Research Unit, UEA, UK.Any work we have done in the past is done on the back of the research grants we get - and has to be well hidden.Phil Jones, Director of Climate Research Unit, UEA, UK.Very little research has ever been funded to search for natural mechanisms of warming... it has simply been assumed that global warming is manmade.Roy W. Spencer, University of Alabama in HuntsvilleEveryone in IPCC WG3 should be terminated and, if the institution is to continue, it should be re-structured from scratch.Steve McIntyre, Climate AuditWhy should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?Phil Jones, Director of Climate Research Unit, UEA, UK FOS Q AQuestionTwenty-two major hurricanes (class 3 to 5) have struck the east coast of Florida since 1871. A class 4 hurricane has sustained wind speeds of 209-251 km/hr. The observed increase in wind speed of these hurricanes at landfall due to the sea surface warming since 1871 has been how much? Click on the image or HERE for information and to purchase tickets or a membership.December 8th, 2020 - 7 pm MST for Donna Laframboise.January 19th, 2021 - 7 pm MST for Dr. Roy SpencerDue to pandemic restrictions and concern for public safety, our annual in-person event, originally scheduled for April 6, 2020 is now going online as a two-part series.Free access is included with a Friends of Science membership.(Note to Members: You will get an email with your access password 24 hours before the event.)Non-members can join us for a $15 pay-per-view fee for an unlimited number of plays-----------------------------------Climate and Energy policy.  Click on image to open each report.Join the Debate on Twitter! HERE Open Letter to Prime Minister Justin TrudeauInvite one of our Speakers to Talk Climate Science, Policy, Commentary, here. Geothermal for Alberta? A Case for Caution, hereRobert Lyman on the implications of climate change targets for Canada, here.McKitrick on Climate Change" - click here for video clip series.Climate changes throughout time. Climate models are flawed as shown by the hiatus. See here Help us stop dangerous CO2 reduction policies.A Confluence of Carbonbaggers, here"IPCC AR5 Section7.4.6 says, "Many studies have reported observations that link solar activity to particular aspects of the climate system." See Videos:The Cosmic Ray Climate LinkClimate and the Variable SunThe greenhouse effect has changed very little. Temperatures may increase by 0.3 C by 2100 in response to CO2 emissions. See report here.More CO2 makes plants grow! Click on image to see video. Cliquez ici pour l'article en françaisSee Burning Questions phase out coal report, click here.Climate Sensitivity by Energy Balance with Urban and Natural Warming, hereDr. Nir Shaviv explains that the sun has a large effect on climate. Dr. Madhav Khandekar reports there are large uncertainties about climate change and climate models.Dr. Thoenes of the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, presents his views on the inflence of CO2 on global climate change - See more at: http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?id=324#sthash.eT4SSUKi.dpufThe Canadian Climate Model - No match to observations!See article HERE (Now to 2015!)Consensus on Global Warming? See our report: 97% Consensus? NO! Global Warming Math Myths Social Proofs table here.  Save the scientific method from Big Green propaganda and faulty science. Carbon Dioxide has nominal impact on temperature. PRESS RELEASES:Trudeau Climate Plan will Inflict Cruel and Unusual Punishment on CanadiansPension Fund Giants Called out on Material Changes to Climate Science and Inadequate DisclosureDonna Laframboise Online Event Speaks to Climate Activism Undermining Freedoms    More Press Releases HereFoS Extracts - Last issue 2020-12-29See our FoS Extracts, a summary of current climate policy stories for 2020, click here. FoS Extracts are emailed to members about 2 times per month.FoS Climate Science News - Last issue 2020-12-28See Climate Science News for 2020, click here. CliSci's are emailed to members about 2 times per month.Graph of New climate model projections and observations Here. Huge discrepancy!                 See Our Position Paper HereCarbon dioxide is plant food. CO2 emissions increase crop yields and the forest's productivity.Carbon dioxide is a wonderful by-product of fossil fuel use. See our report on the Alberta climate plan and the social cost of carbon, short version here, technical version here.Greenhouse gas emissions are very beneficial, with net benefits in Canada continually increasing throughout the 21st century. The social cost of carbon best estimate on a global basis is -17 US$/tCO2 and is extremely likely less than -4 US$/tCO2. The social benefits greatly exceed the social costs. Do you need more time to study these graphs? See our Climate Science Essay for sources and discussion of these and other graphs here, see Climate Science here.SIX THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE:1.    The earth's atmosphere is warming very slowly. Click here. 2.    The Sun causes climate change. Click here. 3.    Al Gore was wrong about CO2. Click here. 4.    Violent weather isn’t getting worse. Click here. 5.    It’s been hotter. Click here.  6.    Climate computer models are proven wrong. Click here.This debate matters!  The science matters.   Please take time to review the many resources available by the left navigaton menu. Contact your local MP click here and ask why Canada has committed billions of dollars for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions reduction (here) to fight a problem that doesn’t exist? CO2 emissions have only a tiny effect on temperatures, but strongly enhance plant growth.See our science summary, Global Warming or Cooling?, click here. This may be printed and folded to form a pamphlet.Our Position: While FOS does not do any original scientific research, it does extensive literature research and draws on the worldwide body of work by scientists in all fields relating to global climate change. To read our Position Statement, click here.News Events  2020-12-17 18:51:34 The Trudeau climate plan released on the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, will inflict cruel and unusual punishment on Canadians, says Friends of Science Society. in a new report. Friends of Science says the Trudeau plan lacks due diligence and attempts to bribe Canadians with claims that a carbon tax rebate (dividend) will return more money than is paid out by consumers. As reported by Brian Lilley in the Toronto Sun of Dec. 15, 2020, the plan includes a “566% increase for a controversial tax that’s before the Supreme Court.” The same plan pushes the goal of NetZero 2050, which energy economist Robert Lyman has ballparked in the trillions of dollars. According to Lyman’s report, the cost of electrification is around Cdn$5 trillion. Read more... 2020-12-03 22:05:41 Friends of Science Society is pleased to announce that ticketing is open for their 17th Annual Event, now a two-part speaker series, with Donna Laframboise as first guest speaker, Dec. 8, 2020, at 7pm Mountain Standard Time. Donna will address “Climate Activism: Undermining Free Speech, Free Thought & Free Choice”. Donna Laframboise is a journalist and past vice president of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. The second part of the event will feature Dr. Roy Spencer online on January 19, 2021, on “The Most important Reasons Why There is No Climate Emergency”. Read more... 2020-12-03 22:03:00 The November 25, 2020, call by eight of Canada’s pension giants for a ‘green COVID-19 recovery’ is being challenged by Friends of Science Society in an open letter of Dec. 2, 2020, that states climate change science understanding has materially changed. While the pension funds, like many investors, call for corporations to move to an ESG and climate risk reporting system, Friends of Science Society says there is inadequate disclosure by green industries and investors of the fact that government policy and subsidies are the only reason those industries exist. Since taxpayers are now burdened with government debt and many are bankrupt, demanding more such ‘green crony capitalism’ is an insult to the ordinary working person, says Friends of Science Society. 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