There's been so much going on, and I've read a lot of stuff I've wanted to link to and make some comments about. I figured I'll just rattle a bunch off and get on with it...

Sun still main force in climate change:

Over the past 20 years, however, the Danes argue, the solar cycle remains fully apparent in variations both of tropospheric air temperature and of ocean sub-surface water temperature.

"When the response of the climate system to the solar cycle is apparent in the troposphere and ocean, but not in the global surface temperature, one can only wonder about the quality of the surface temperature record," Svensmark and Friis-Christensen say.

The surface air temperature, they argue, is "a poor guide to sun-driven physical processes that are still plainly persistent in the climate system."

The researchers explained it's "customary to attribute to greenhouse gases any increase in global temperatures not due to solar changes."

"While that is reasonable," they say, "one cannot distinguish between the effects of anthropogenic gases such as carbon dioxide and of natural greenhouse gases."

Increased evaporation, for example, means "infrared radiation from water vapor, by far the most important greenhouse gas, will tend to provide positive feedback for any global warming, whether driven by anthropogenic or solar forcing."

Come on, people. The sun provides all the energy for our planet. Without it, our temperature would drop rather drastically. Surely anyone would have to admit that variance in solar output would result in changes in temperatures on earth (among other planets, as studies are also showing). Why do proponets of the man-caused global warming theory simply want to dismiss this?

And when they say that they "wonder about the quality of the surface temperature record," you can take a look at a site like this surfacestations.org to see examples of stations recording temperatures that are located in areas that are nowhere near giving an accurate temperature reading. Located by air conditioners, in parking lots, beside a lightbulb, all sorts of stuff. And these are the readings that are contributing to the data that makes everyone believe that "global warming" exists.

Questioning 20th Century Warmth:

Gerd Bürger of Berlin’s Institut für Meteorologie decided to revisit the work of Osborn and Briffa, and his results raise serious questions about the claim that the 20th century has been unusually warm. Bürger argues that Osborn and Briffa did not apply the appropriate statistical tests that link the proxy records to observational data, and as such, Osborn and Briffa did not properly quantify the statistical uncertainties in their analyses. Bürger repeated all analyses with the appropriate adjustments and concluded “As a result, the ‘highly significant’ occurrences of positive anomalies during the 20th century disappear.” Further, he reports that “The 95th percentile is exceeded mostly in the early 20th century, but also about the year 1000.”

In other words, this whole idea of the 20th century being quite an anomoly is quite possibly total bunk. Why? Because proponets of the man-caused global warming theory fail to use the right statistical methods when doing their research, and the media laps up the results regardless of the methods, since the result promotes hysteria.

CNN Meteorologist: ‘Definitely Some Inaccuracies’ in Gore Film:

CNN Meteorologist Rob Marciano clapped his hands and exclaimed, "Finally," in response to a report that a British judge might ban the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" from UK schools because, according to "American Morning," "it is politically biased and contains scientific inaccuracies..." Marciano also sarcastically said, "the Oscars, they give out awards for fictional films as well."

It must be getting a little cool down in the eternal dungeon, if someone at CNN is being critical of Al Gore. And on that note...

Boortz Responds to Al Gore's Peace Prize:

With few exceptions, the Nobel Peace Prize has always been awarded to someone with both feet firmly planted in the world of liberalism. I know a lot of leftists and anti-capitalists around this country and the world will be celebrating, but when you consider that this prize was once awarded to that murderous Muslim Yassir Arafat, it's hard to be impressed.

The peace prize has been a joke for years. Giving it to Yassir Arafat simply made it official. After that, giving it to Al Gore just gives you a good chuckle.

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