ForNow

The Green Algor Cult

2007-05-16T10:27:00.010-04:00

Lay down, lay down, lay it all down!

algor, -oris (Latin) masc., coldness, the cold.

Websites & Articles

Link-rich resource for articles, names, credentials, and variety of objections

U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works -- Minority Page, December 20, 2007
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.SenateReport

Websites

Paleontologist, stratigrapher, marine geologist Robert (Bob) M. Carter's links to his & others' articles http://members.iinet.net.au/~glrmc/new_page_1.htm

surfacestations.org http://www.surfacestations.org/

Watts Up With That? (surfacestations' Anthony Watts' blog) http://www.norcalblogs.com/watts/

Climate Audit (Steve McIntyre) http://www.climateaudit.org/

Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group Weblog http://climatesci.colorado.edu/

CO2 Science http://www.co2science.org/

Competitive Enterprise Institute: Global Warming http://cei.org/sections/subsection.cfm?section=3

George C. Marshall Institute: Climate Change http://www.marshall.org/subcategory.php?id=9

World Climate Report (climate change blog) http://www.worldclimatereport.com/

Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) http://www.sepp.org/

The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition http://www.nzclimatescience.org/

Planet Gore, National Review Online http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/

Michael's Blog, Michael Asher, at the Daily Tech http://www.dailytech.com/blogs/~masher

ICECAP http://icecap.us/

JunkScience.com http://www.junkscience.com/

Global Warming Hysteria http://www.globalwarminghysteria.com/

Global Warming Skeptics http://www.globalwarmingskeptics.info/

Global Warming and Other Myths http://www.geocities.com/jbraun1984/

Articles

**Lawrence Solomon: The Deniers I-XLII & more**
Lawrence Solomon's list at his Website:
http://www.urban-renaissance.org/urbanren/index.cfm?DSP=larry&SubID=163
He has now published a book *The Deniers*.
Note on asterisked dates: the *National Post* online articles I through X say that Fri, Feb 2, 2007 is the publication date, but many of those articles include earlier datelines which correspond to the dates provided at L. Solomon's own list.
The Maligners - The Deniers, Part XLII Lawrence Solomon, Thu, Jan 31, 2008, The National Post (Canada) http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2008/01/31/the-maligners-solomon.aspx Geo-pipe dreams - The Deniers, Part XLI Lawrence Solomon, Sat, Jan 26, 2008, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=264981 Carbon as currency - The Deniers, Part XL Lawrence Solomon, Sat, Jan 12, 2008, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=232092 Coal enters rehab: Moralizing utopians aim to ban a limitless supply of energy Lawrence Solomon, Fri, Dec 7, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=150830 Green hero slammed as climate heretic - The Deniers, Part XXXIX Lawrence Solomon, Tue, Nov 20, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=103128 Climate change by Jupiter - The Deniers, Part XXXVIII Lawrence Solomon, Sat, Nov 10, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=bfeddc8e-90d7-4f54-9ca7-1f56fadc7c2b and http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=88247 Why melting of ice sheets 'is impossible' - The Deniers, Part XXXVII Lawrence Solomon, Fri, Nov 2, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=73f39d90-644f-4117-880c-204c3a4fe4a3 and http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=71093 IPCC too blinkered and corrupt to save - The Deniers, Part XXXVI Lawrence Solomon, Fri, Oct 26, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=55387187-4d06-446f-9f4f-c2397d155a32 and http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=57252 You still need your parka in Antarctica - The Deniers, Part XXXV Lawrence Solomon, Sat, Sep 15, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=1edd8fbd-7084-4eb1-9f39-ecdee5378809 The hot trend is cool yachts - The Deniers, Part XXXIV Lawrence Solomon, Sat, Sep 8, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=c365f546-f6f4-4a34-abec-125e53e8263e The aerosol man - The Deniers, Part XXXIII Lawrence Solomon, Sat, Sep 1, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=340a4cc3-b513-4e32-aaff-dbeb39267a79 From chaos, coherence - The Deniers, Part XXXII Lawrence Solomon, Wed, Aug 15, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=288ba340-98f9-4fbe-8412-acf920b32604 In the eye of the storm over global warming - The Deniers Part XXXI Lawrence Solomon, Mon, Jul 30, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=7b343fd7-d786-45e7-83a1-12eb4ea49e56 Vertical farming Lawrence Solomon, Sat, Jul 21, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=8d7dc5fa-292c-4231-bc37-91bb81a8d69b What global warming, Australian skeptic asks - The Deniers Part XXX Lawrence Solomon, Tue, Jul 17, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=d71dfa89-384c-4ede-a759-55fb7ffdcfc2 Models trump measurements - The Deniers Part XXIX Lawrence Solomon, Sat, Jul 7, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=433b593b-6637-4a42-970b-bdef8947fa4e Open mind sees climate clearly - The Deniers Part XXVIII Lawrence Solomon, Fri, Jun 29, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=7c2c1cf2-643e-4fdb-8952-cc648332278d How many planets?: 'Ecological footprint' theory has nothing to do with ecology and everything to do with a slavish worship of primitivism Lawrence Solomon, Tue, Jun 19, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=a63f46ee-13ba-429c-bd50-7f1ee92af02e Forget warming - beware the new ice age - The Deniers Part XXVII Lawrence Solomon, Fri, Jun 15, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=bdc24964-7f82-4f7a-863c-f0ff43010278 NASA chief Michael Griffin silenced - The Deniers Part XXVI Lawrence Solomon, Fri, Jun 8, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=2271ac23-6895-4789-9da0-6b28968b8d15 They call this a consensus? - The Deniers Part XXV Lawrence Solomon, Sat, Jun 2, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=c47c1209-233b-412c-b6d1-5c755457a8af Dire forecasts aren't new - The Deniers Part XXIV Lawrence Solomon, Fri, May 25, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=c8019202-b14c-4cd8-9192-782d5b5d8b3d Discounting logic - The Deniers Part XXIII Lawrence Solomon, Fri, May 18, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=7bd269b6-b2e7-44d2-85e0-e7749714ba34 Some restraint in Rome - The Deniers Part XXII Lawrence Solomon, Fri, May 11, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=121163d6-d6b9-45bb-830c-5d27f88f899a The ice-core man - The Deniers Part XXI Lawrence Solomon, Fri, May 4, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=25526754-e53a-4899-84af-5d9089a5dcb6 Gore's guru disagreed - The Deniers Part XX Lawrence Solomon, Sat, Apr 28, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=58e0c50c-1631-46ca-8719-778c0973526e Science, not politics - The Deniers Part XIX Lawrence Solomon, Fri, Apr 13, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=5b824408-9df0-4189-86fc-cf6465bf0aa8 Fighting climate 'fluff' - The Deniers Part XVIII Lawrence Solomon, Thu, Apr 5, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=985641c9-8594-43c2-802d-947d65555e8e Little ice age is still within us - The Deniers Part XVII Lawrence Solomon, Fri, Mar 30, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=94b7d021-c5da-4e82-b37f-53d338709fb1 Bitten by the IPCC - The Deniers Part XVI Lawrence Solomon, Fri, Mar 23, 2007, The National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=0ea8dc23-ad1a-440f-a8dd-1e3ff42df34f Unsettled Science - The Deniers Part XV Lawrence Solomon, Wed, Mar 14, 2007, the National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=7e23a550-9cc4-4697-b730-b2d094f1628a The heat's in the sun - The Deniers Part XIV Lawrence Solomon, Fri, Mar 9, 2007, the National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=67ac2d90-ec56-4460-a831-75aacc20670d Allegre's second thoughts - The Deniers Part XIII Lawrence Solomon, Fri, Mar 2, 2007, the National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=2f4cc62e-5b0d-4b59-8705-fc28f14da388 Clouded research - The Deniers Part Part XII Lawrence Solomon, Fri, Feb 23, 2007, the National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=975f250d-ca5d-4f40-b687-a1672ed1f684 End the chill - The Deniers Part XI Lawrence Solomon, Fri, Feb 9, 2007, the National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=216ca730-10f0-4614-9692-fc37d99cbac3 Limited role for C02 - the Deniers Part X Lawrence Solomon, Fri, Feb 2, 2007, the National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=069cb5b2-7d81-4a8e-825d-56e0f112aeb5 (also titled: The real deal?: Against the grain: Some scientists deny global warming exists Lawrence Solomon, Fri, Feb 2, 2007, the National Post (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=156df7e6-d490-41c9-8b1f-106fef8763c6 Look to Mars for the truth on global warming - The Deniers Part IX Lawrence Solomon, Jan 26, 2007, the National Post* (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=edae9952-3c3e-47ba-913f-7359a5c7f723 The limits of predictability - The Deniers Part VIII Lawrence Solomon, Jan 19, 2007, the National Post* (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=9bc9a7c6-2729-4d07-9629-807f1dee479f Will the sun cool us? - The Deniers Part VII Lawrence Solomon, Jan 12, 2007, the National Post* (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=17fad0e2-6f6b-41f3-bdd8-8e9eeb015777 The sun moves climate change -- The Deniers Part VI Lawrence Solomon, Jan 5, 2007, the National Post* (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=fee9a01f-3627-4b01-9222-bf60aa332f1f The original denier: into the cold - The Deniers Part V Lawrence Solomon, Dec 22, 2006, the National Post* (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=63ab844f-8c55-4059-9ad8-89de085af353 Polar scientists on thin ice - The Deniers Part IV Lawrence Solomon, Dec 15, 2006, the National Post* (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=b228f4b0-a869-4f85-ba08-902b95c45dcf The hurricane expert who stood up to UN junk science - The Deniers Part III Lawrence Solomon, Dec 8, 2006, the National Post* (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=ae9b984d-4a1c-45c0-af24-031a1380121a Warming is real -- and has benefits - The Deniers Part II Lawrence Solomon, Dec 1, 2006, the National Post* (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=1d78fc67-3784-4542-a07c-e7eeec46d1fc Statistics needed - The Deniers Part I Lawrence Solomon, Nov 28, 2006, the National Post* (Canada) http://www.nationalpost/story.html?id=22003a0d-37cc-4399-8bcc-39cd20bed2f6

Global warming impact may be overstated
The Telegraph (UK), January 10, 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/01/10/sciglacier110.xml

A comparison of tropical temperature trends with model predictions
David H. Douglass, John R. Christy, Benjamin D. Pearson, and S. Fred Singer, International Journal of Climatology, received May 31, 2007; accepted Oct 11, 2007; published Dec 12, 2007
http://www.uah.edu/News/pdf/climatemodel.pdf

Survey: Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory
Michael Asher, science blog at the Daily Tech, Aug 29, 2007 http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=8641
Note: the survey in question went unpublished and some pretty significant criticisms have been made against it or related work by the survey's author (not Michael Asher). I (who likewise am not Michael Asher!) got a little confused about which work by the survey's author was in question but I dug far enough to run into the significant questions). Anyway, part of the problem was that Benny Peiser had already done the work. SO, click here to skip down to Peiser's piece.

Argument of global warming questioned: Study says reports of change in ocean may be premature
Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times via JournalNow.com (Winston-Salem Journal), Aug 17, 2007
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173352416458

Capturing the Atlantic's Capricious Currents: A belt of monitors girdling the Atlantic reveal that its currents are fickle
David Biello, ScientificAmerican.com, Aug 16, 2007
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=708A8967-E7F2-99DF-3368594A3B3EFA47

Overturning the "Consensus" in One Fell Swoop
Joel Schwartz, Planet Gore, National Review Online, Aug 16, 2007, 3:34 pm
http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDc0MTY2NmVlOWNiNjc4ODk0NGUzMDE2YTRlMjMxNzc=

Heat Capacity, Time Constant, and Sensitivity of Earth's Climate System
Preprint, Stephen E. Schwartz, Brookhaven National Laboratory, June 2007
http://www.ecd.bnl.gov/steve/pubs/HeatCapacity.pdf

Does Hansen's Error "Matter"?
Steve McIntyre, Climate Audit, Aug 11, 2007
http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=1885

Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data
Michael Asher, science blog in Daily Tech, Aug 9, 2007 11:49 AM
Quick summary under memorable title. Quote: "The effect of the correction on global temperatures is minor (some 1-2% less warming than originally thought), but the effect on the U.S. global warming propaganda machine could be huge."
http://www.dailytech.com/Blogger+finds+Y2K+bug+in+NASA+Climate+Data/article8383.htm

Breaking News: Recent US Temperature Numbers Revised Downwards Today
Warren Meyer, Coyote Blog, Aug 8, 2007, 11:58 pm
Yes, another blog, but where's the regular press?
http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/08/official-us-cli.html

1998 no longer the hottest year on record in USA
Anthony Watts, Watts Up With That?, Aug 8, 2007, 04:08 PM
Not a regular news source, but (shrugs) dude helped break the news. Anthony Watts of surfacestations.org.
http://www.norcalblogs.com/watts/2007/08/1998_no_longer_the_hottest_yea.html

Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society
Freeman Dyson, Edge #219, Aug 9, 2007
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge219.html#dysonf

Will the Real USHCN Data Set Please Stand Up?
Steve McIntyre, Climate Audit, Aug 7, 2007, 6:42 pm
Steve McIntyre finds Y2K bug in NASA climate data. NASA responds and revises US temperatures downward.
http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=1878

The truth is, we can't ignore the sun
David Whitehouse (astronomer), The Telegraph (UK), Jul 15, 2007 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/07/15/do1508.xml

Forecasts all up in the air
Bob Carter (paleontologist, stratigrapher, marine geologist), Courier-Mail (Australia), Jun 30, 2007
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21977114-27197,00.html

Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny
James M. Taylor, The Chicago Sun-Times, Jun 30, 2007
http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/450392,CST-EDT-REF30b.article

Local scientist calls global warming theory hooey
[about Reid Bryson, regarded as "father of scientific climatology"]
Samara Kalk Derby, The Capital Times (Madison, Wisc.), Jun 18, 2007
http://www.madison.com/tct/mad/topstories/index.php?ntid=197613

Coal Man: There's at least one CEO left who is not buying global warming hysteria. [Interview of Robert E. Murray]
Kimberley A. Strassel, Opinion Journal (WSJ), May 19, 2007
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010098

Carbon dioxide, storm strength not linked, Gray says
Jim Wayne, Florida Today (Gannett), May 19, 2007
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070519/NEWS04/705190328/1006/NEWS01

Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics [with over a dozen names, plus discussions and links]
Marc Morano, The Inhofe EPW Press Blog (Senator Inhofe, R-OK), May 15, 2007
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=927b9303-802a-23ad-494b-dccb00b51a12

Global Warming: Not the End of the World as We Know It
Von Olaf Stampf, Spiegel Online, May 9, 2007
http://www.google.com/search?q=Or-will-Arrhenius-end

The Faithful Heretic: A Wisconsin Icon Pursues Tough Questions
Dave Hoopman, May 2007, Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News
(about leading climatologist Reid Bryson)
http://www.wecnmagazine.com/2007issues/may/may07.html

Global warming debate 'irrational': scientists
Stephanie Stein, Cornwall Standard-Freeholder (Canada), Apr 26, 2007
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Global+warming+debate+%27irrational%27%22

Inconvenient Truths: Novel science fiction on global warming.
Patrick J. Michaels, National Review Online, Apr 23, 2007
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjI4NTc0YWMzNTA3ZjRmYmJiMDRjNmI5MGEwZTFhM2E

Climate change skeptics say it's hard to get heard
Jeff Mason, Reuters, Apr 18, 2007
http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USL1829984220070418

A dangerous climate
Bob Carter (geologist & marine geologist), Apr 11, 2007, Sunday Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/08/nrclimate08.xml

The Great Global Warming Swindle (video documentary)
Channel 4 (U.K.), (broadcast on) Thursday, Mar 8, 2007, at 9pm (UK time)
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=great+global+warming+swindle&hl=en

The Great Global Warming Swindle (article, not the video documentary)
Channel 4 (U.K.), from before Mar 8, 2007
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/index.html

Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says
National Geographic, Mar 8, 2007
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html

'Blame cosmic rays not CO2 for warming up the planet'
Lewis Smith, Times (UK), Feb 12, 2007
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1368920.ece

An experiment that hints we are wrong on climate change
Nigel Calder (former editor of New Scientist), Sunday Times (UK), Feb 11, 2007 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1363818.ece

NO: It's a fact that their numbers are up fivefold since the 1970s [also published as "Polar bears on thin ice, not really!"]
H. Sterling Burnett, McClatchy-Tribune News Service via the Charlotte Observer, Jan 2, 2007, also via the Pittsburg Tribune-Review
http://eteam.ncpa.org/commentaries/polar-bears-on-thin-ice-not-really

Al Gore Is a Greenhouse Gasbag: Penn professor Bob Giegengack has a few quibbles with the former VP on this whole global warming thing
John Marchese, Philadelphia Magazine, Jan 2007
http://www.phillymag.com/articles/science_al_gore_is_a_greenhouse_gasbag

A sample of experts' comments about the science of "An Inconvenient Truth"
Tom Harris, Natural Resources Stewardship Project, Canada Free Press, Nov 7, 2006
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harris110706a.htm

Public Disservice: Melting myths.
Patrick J. Michaels, National Review Online, Jul 26, 2006
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OWZkMDU5NmM4MzVmNDQ2NGNhYjcxNjY3NGJiZWU2Njc=

Climate of Fear: Global-warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence.
Richard Lindzen (Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT), Opinion Journal, Apr 12, 2006
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008220

There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998
Bob Carter (geologist in paleoclimate research), Opinion.Telegraph (UK), Apr 9, 2006
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/04/09/ixworld.html

Open Kyoto to debate: Sixty scientists call on Harper to revisit the science of global warming
National Post [Canada], Apr 6, 2006
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=3711460e-bd5a-475d-a6be-4db87559d605

Complexity Theory and Environmental Management
Michael Crichton, Speech at the Washington Center for Complexity and Public Policy, Washington, DC, Nov 6, 2005
http://www.crichton-official.com/speech-complexity.html

[Beginning of] The Global-Warming God: Must it now be appeased?
Patrick J. Michaels, National Review Online, Oct 5, 2005
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjIzZWM3Y2M5ZmM3MjdkM2NiMDY1NTgzOWU5NzRmYTg=

Testimony Before the United States Senate
Michael Crichton at the Committee on Environment and Public Works, Washington, DC, Sep 28, 2005
http://www.michaelcrichton.com/speech-senatetestimony.html

Interview with Dr. William Gray
James K. Glassman, TCSDaily, Sep 9, 2005
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=041106H

Discover Dialogue: Meteorologist William Gray
Kathy A. Svitil, Discover Vol. 26 No. 09, Sep 2005
http://www.discover.com/issues/sep-05/departments/discover-dialogue/

Interview with Dr. S. Fred Singer
Frontline, PBS, undated
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/debate/singer.html

Wildlife groups axe Bellamy as global warming ‘heretic’ [about Dr. David Bellamy, botanist & environmental campaigner]
Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor, The Sunday Times (UK), May 15, 2005
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article522744.ece

Leading scientific journals 'are censoring debate on global warming'
Robert Matthews, the Telegraph (UK), May 1, 2005
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/01/wglob01.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/01/ixworld.html
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The Dangers of Consensus Science
Benny Peiser, originally in the National Post (Canada), May 17, 2005
Peiser (homepage http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/) is a social anthropologist at John Moores University in Liverpool, UK. Counters claim by Naomi Oreskes in Science 2004 that there is unanimous "scientific consensus" on anthropogenic causes of recent global warming. Science refused to publish Peiser's response on grounds that his points had been "widely dispersed on the internet." Nature also refused to publish.
http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/NationalPost.htm
See also his "Update: The Oreskes abstracts" at http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/Oreskes-abstracts.htm Peiser has posted all documents and abstracts listed in the ISI database under the key words “global climate change” (for the period 1993 – 2003) so that you can check for yourself.

The Case For Skepticism On Global Warming
Michael Crichton, speech at the National Press Club, Washington DC, Jan 25, 2005
http://www.michaelcrichton.com/speech-ourenvironmentalfuture.html

Why Politicized Science is Dangerous
(Excerpted from State of Fear) by Michael Crichton
http://www.crichton-official.com/essay-stateoffear-whypoliticizedscienceisdangerous.html

Environmentalism as Religion
Michael Crichton, speech at the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA, Sep 15, 2003
http://www.michaelcrichton.com/speech-environmentalismaseligion.html

Aliens Cause Global Warming
Michael Crichton, lecture at the California Institute of Technology, Jan 17, 2003
http://www.michaelcrichton.com/speech-alienscauseglobalwarming.html

Clip from Penn & Teller’s “Environmental Hysteria” episode (2003) of their cable TV series
http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/prevepisodes.do?episodeid=s1/eh
The whole episode:
http://z4.invisionfree.com/Popular_Technology/index.php?showtopic=2544

Defending Wolfowitz & Riza

2007-05-12T09:24:00.000-04:00

Crying Wolfowitz: . . . while the United Nations bankrolls dictators.
Claudia Rosett, The Weekly Standard, Posted May 19, 2007, Volume 012, Issue 35, May 28, 2007
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/675mviot.asp

World Bank Justice: Wolfowitz's resignation offers a window into a corrupt institution.
Editorial, Opinion Journal (WSJ), May 18, 2007
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010095

World Bank and Wolfowitz official statements
The American Thinker, May 17, 2007
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/05/world_bank_and_wolfowitz_offic.html

World Bank Scholar: Paul Wolfowitz's judges may have ethical issues of their own.
Bret Stephens, Opinion Journal (WSJ), May 17, 2007
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/bstephens/?id=110010086

The Attempted Putsch at the World Bank
Clarice Feldman, The American Thinker, May 15, 2007
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/05/the_attempted_putsch_at_the_wo.html

World Bank Jobbery: More evidence the Wolfowitz accusers chose to ignore.
Editorial, Opinion Journal (WSJ), May 15, 2007
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010075

[LEAKED] Statement of Paul Wolfowitz to the World Bank Group Executive Directors
WorldBankPresident.org (anti-Wolfowitz), May 15, 2007
http://www.worldbankpresident.org/archives/PWStatementMay15.pdf

Wolfowitz Lifeline Shortens and John Briscoe Speaks.
Deep Insider, WorldBankPresident.org (anti-Wolfowitz), May 15, 2007
http://www.worldbankpresident.org/archives/000716.php

World Bank Wolfowitz Report with Wolfowitz's Response
The American Thinker, May 15, 2007
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/05/world_bank_wolfowitz_report_wi.html

George Soros and the Future of the World Bank
Ed Lasky, The American Thinker, May 15, 2007
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/05/george_soros_and_the_future_of.html

A Brave Woman Scorned: The campaign against Shaha Riza is the nastiest character assassination I have ever seen.
Christopher Hitchens, Slate, May 14, 2007
http://www.slate.com/id/2166136/

Axis of Soros: The men and motives behind the World Bank coup attempt.
Editorial, Opinion Journal (WSJ), May 9, 2007
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010050

Gagging Shaha Riza: Why won't the World Bank let her have her say?
Editorial, Opinion Journal (WSJ), May 4, 2007
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010024

World Bank Rolls: Nearly 1,400 employees make more than Condi Rice.
Editorial, Opinion Journal (WSJ), May 3, 2007
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010018

[LEAKED] Official statements of Shaha Riza and Paul Wolfowitz
Clarice Feldman, The American Thinker, May 1, 2007
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/05/official_statements_of_shaha_r.html

Notes on a Scandal: How ethical are Paul Wolfowitz's detractors?
Bret Stephens, Opinion Journal (WSJ), May 1, 2007
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/bstephens/?id=110010012

Africans for Wolfowitz: Third World reformers resist a coup by rich Europeans.
Editorial, Opinion Journal (WSJ), Apr 27, 2007
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009995

The Real World Bank Scandal: Why the bureaucracy wants to oust Paul Wolfowitz.
Robert B. Holland III, Opinion Journal (WSJ), Apr 20, 2007
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009965

Sliming Wolfowitz: The World Bank president did nothing wrong.
Christopher Hitchens, Slate, Apr 17, 2007
http://www.slate.com/id/2164368/

The Wolfowitz Set-up: Just Say "No"
Clarice Feldman, The American Thinker, Apr 17, 2007
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/04/the_wolfowitz_setup_just_say_n.html

The Wolfowitz Files: The anatomy of a World Bank smear.
Editorial, Opinion Journal (WSJ), Apr 16, 2007
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/?id=110009948

World Bank Power Play: The bureaucracy bites back at Paul Wolfowitz.
Editorial, Opinion Journal (WSJ), Apr 15, 2007
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009943

Cleaning Up The World Bank: Its mission: to end global poverty. But corruption has cost it billions. How to weed out the crooks and grifters
Danielle Knight & Edward T. Pound, U.S. News & World Report, Posted March 26, 2006
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/060403/3worldbank.htm

Deaths of Iraqis since the invasion

2007-05-10T20:53:00.000-04:00

Anti-war Soros funded Iraq study
Brendan Montague, the Times (UK), Sunday, Jan 13, 2008
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3177653.ece

Violence-Related Mortality in Iraq from 2002 to 2006
Iraq Family Health Survey Study Group, New England Journal of Medicine, Jan 9, 2008
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMsa0707782

The Lancet's Political Hit
Review & Outlook [Editorial], Wall Street Journal, Jan 9, 2008; Page A14
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119984087808076475.html

Data Bomb
Neil Munro and Carl M. Cannon, National Journal, Friday, Jan 4, 2008
http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/databomb/index.htm

Document drop: A new critique of the 2004 Lancet Iraq death toll study
Includes entire 2007 article "Comments on the Confidence Intervals of Roberts et al. (2004)" by David Kane, Institute Fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. Kane says that Les Roberts et al. got it wrong, very wrong.
Michelle Malkin, MichelleMalkin.com, Jul 25, 2007 11:01 AM
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/07/25/document-drop-a-new-critique-of-the-2004-lancet-iraq-death-toll-study/

Democrat Trashes Republicans
Tim Blair, Oct 20, 2006. Johns Hopkins study leader Les Roberts ran in a Democrat primary for Congress in 2006. I googled around and it's the same Les Roberts indeed.
http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/democrat_trashes_republicans/

The Lancet: Medical Journal Or Activist Rag?
J.F. Beck, RWDB, Oct 13, 2006. Provides info and many links about the Lancet and its sorry history since Richard Horton became its editor.
http://rwdb.blogspot.com/2006_10_08_rwdb_archive.html

655,000 War Dead?: A bogus study on Iraq casualties.
Steven E. Moore, Opinion Journal (WSJ), Oct 18, 2006
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009108

Exaggeration won't save Iraqis: The new claims about the civilian death toll in Iraq are vastly overstated
David Burchell, The Australian, Oct 19, 2006
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20604818-7583,00.html

The same Johns Hopkins team under the same Les Roberts had submitted another bogus report to the same Brit medical journal (the Lancet) just before the 2004 US election.

100,000 Civilian Deaths Estimated in Iraq
Rob Stein, Washington Post Staff Writer, Oct 29, 2004; Page A16. Even the WaPo casts doubt on the study and quotes Human Rights Watch senior military analyst Marc E. Garlasco saying "The methods that they used are certainly prone to inflation due to overcounting" & "These numbers seem to be inflated." (But look at article's title! An old journalistic trick -- the reader who only glances takes only the propaganda in.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7967-2004Oct28.html

100,000 Dead -- or 8,000: How many Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the war?
Fred Kaplan, Slate, Oct 29, 2004
http://www.slate.com/Default.aspx?id=2108887&

Bogus Lancet Study
Shannon Love, Chicago Boyz, Oct 29, 2004
http://www.chicagoboyz.net/archives/002543.html

Comment on "Bogus Lancet Study"
AMMackay, Chicago Boyz, Oct 29, 2004. Not only did the study's lead author Les Roberts submit it to the Lancet on condition that it be published before the 2004 US election, but also, as MacKay points out, the peer review process was extraordinarily compressed.
http://www.chicagoboyz.net/archives/002543.html#009323

Lancet Civilian Death Report Kills the Truth
Michael Fumento, Tech Central Station, Nov 1, 2004
http://www.techcentralstation.com/110104H.html

Iraq sanctions

2007-05-09T18:33:00.001-04:00

Confessions of an Anti-Sanctions Activist
Charles M. Brown, Middle East Forum, Summer 2003
http://www.meforum.org/article/548

Propagandizing Sanctions [a.k.a. "Blood of Innocents" a.k.a. "MDs now blame Saddam, not sanctions, in babies' deaths"]
Matthew McAllester (of Newsday), May 24, 2003, Sun Journal via Newsday and other newspapers
http://www.patriotfiles.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27665

Saddam's parades of dead babies are exposed as a cynical charade
Charlotte Edwards, the Telegraph (UK), filed May 25, 2003
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/25/wirq25.xml

Suffer The Children
Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun (Australia), June 16, 2003
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Pilger+was+far+from+the+only+journalist%22

Bad reporting of the Iraq invasion

2007-05-09T07:01:00.002-04:00

Bizarro Broadcasting Company
Denis Boyles, Duck Season, Apr 7, 2003
Now appearing as "Notes from the Previous War: Bizarro Broadcasting Company"
at National Review Online. This is a classic article, with good material on Andrew Gilligan foreshadowing Gilligan's later misreporting.
http://www.nationalreview.com/nr_comment/nr_comment072903.asp

Special Gloat and Quote Edition: Media's Erroneous Predictions
CyberAlert Extra, Media Research Center, Apr 9, 2003 (link repaired Jun 7, 2008)
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030409_extra.asp

Who got it right and who got it wrong?
The Telegraph (UK), filed Apr 10, 2003 (link repaired Jun 7, 2008)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/1427173/Who-got-it-right-and-who-got-it-wrong.html

[roundups of war misreporting, etc.]
Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish Apr 6-11, 2003 (link repaired Jun 7, 2008)
http://time-blog.com/daily_dish/index.php?dish_inc=archives/2003_04_06_dish_archive.html

Bad Reporting in Baghdad
Jonathan Foreman, The Weekly Standard, May 12, 2003
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/629xnqei.asp

Eason Jordan & CNN misreporting on Iraq

2007-05-09T07:01:00.001-04:00

John Burns: 'There Is Corruption in Our Business'
[Interview] Editor & Publisher with John F. Burns Sep 15, 2003
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=corruption-in-our-business+John-Burns

CNN's Access of Evil
Franklin Foer, Opinion Journal, Apr 14, 2003
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003336

The News We Kept to Ourselves
Eason Jordan (CNN chief), New York Times, Apr 11, 2003
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22The+News+We+Kept+to+Ourselves%22

Bob Garfields's Interview with Eason Jordan
[Relevant to Foer’s "CNN's Access of Evil" above] WNYC Radio, Oct 25, 2002
http://www.wnyc.org/onthemedia/transcripts/transcripts_102502_jordan.html

Air War - How Saddam Manipulates the U.S. Media
Franklin Foer, The New Republic, Posted Oct 16, 2002, Issue: Oct 28, 2002
http://foi.missouri.edu/polinfoprop/howsaddam.html

Baghdad museum

2007-05-09T06:00:00.000-04:00

What really happened at the Baghdad museum?
Dan Cruickshank, The Guardian, (UK), June 19, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,980368,00.html

Iraq's museums: what really happened
by Eleanor Robson, The Guardian (UK), June 18, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,980042,00.html

Staff revolt at Baghdad museum
Rory McCarthy, The Guardian (UK), June 17, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,979087,00.html

Hoaxes, Hype and Humiliation
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post, June 13, 2003
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer061303.asp

Lost from the Baghdad museum: truth
David Aaronovitch, The Guardian (UK), June 10, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,974194,00.html

All Along, Most Iraqi Relics Were 'Safe and Sound'
William Booth & Guy Gugliotta, The Washington Post, June 9, 2003 (Filed June 8, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A32129-2003Jun8&notFound=true

Most Iraqi Treasures Recovered
William Booth, The Washington Post, Page A22, June 8, 2003
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22The+biggest+prize+so+far%22+Nimrud

Senate Intelligence Committee political memo 2003

2007-05-08T18:33:00.003-04:00

Democrats Mull Politicizing Iraq War Intelligence
Fox News, Wed, Nov 5, 2003
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,102206,00.html

Raw Data: Dem Memo on Iraq Intel
Fox News, Thu, Nov 6, 2003
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,102258,00.html

Heads Should Roll Over Politicizing Iraqi Intelligence
Senator Zell Miller (D-Georgia), Fri, Nov 7, 2003, Senate Office Press Release, (now at FrontPageMagazine.com)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10682

A Political Threat to U.S. Security
Bob Kerrey (former U.S. Senator (D-Nebraska) & former vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee), The New York Post, Fri, Nov 7, 2003
Note: this article does not appear in the NY Post's own online archive search.
http://web.archive.org/web/20040219074723/http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/10137.htm

Flagrantly Dishonest': Even the Senate Intelligence Committee isn't safe from Democratic partisanship.
[Calls for firing of minority staff director & former Clinton Admin. member Christopher Mellon]
Editorial, Opinion Journal (WSJ), Fri, Nov 7, 2003
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004277

Transcript: Pat Roberts on 'FOX News Sunday'
Fox News with Tony Snow, Sun, Nov 9, 2003 [with quote of Sen. Evan Bayh: "Senator Rockefeller has been under intense pressure -- intense pressure -- by some others to pursue a much more partisan line...."]
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,102590,00.html

What Memo?: The reason the mainstream media is downplaying the Democratic Senate Intelligence Committee memo is because it implicates mainstream journalists.
Hugh Hewitt, The Weekly Standard, Nov 13, 2003
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/371hncft.asp

Ruining the Intelligence Committee: Partisan animosity that has brought operations of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to a standstill reached new depths on the early evening of Nov. 5.
Robert Novak, Townhall.com, Nov 17, 2003,
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertDNovak/2003/11/17/ruining_the_intelligence_committee

Transcript: Sen. Jay Rockefeller on Fox News Sunday
Interview choice corrected - I had a July 2003 interview here but this is the right one.
In this interview, Rockefeller claims that Bush had said that there was an imminent threat from Iraq. Snow counters him with evidence to the contrary, including where Bush said in the 2003 State of the Union that we should NOT wait for the threat to become imminent. Then Snow quotes Rockefeller himself having said, a year earlier (Oct 10, 2002), that the question of imminence itself was outdated ever since 9/11/01 -- so how could Rockefeller have misconstrued what Bush said? Jay Rockefeller is now the head of the no-longer non-partisan Senate Intelligence Committee.
Fox News with Tony Snow, Sun, Oct 12, 2003 [Background on Rockefeller's thinking]
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22he+talked+about+imminent+threat.+And+he+never+did%22&filter=0