In conjunction with today’s Third International Conference on Climate Change
in Washington, the Heartland Institute (my organization and
conference host) is releasing “Climate Change
Reconsidered: A Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel
on Climate Change.” The 880-page book (posted entirely online
at the Web site) challenges the scientific basis for concerns
that global warming is man-made or is a cause for concern.
The report rebuts the several manifestations of findings by the
United Nations Intergovernmental (I would say Pro-Governmental or
Governmentalovin’) Panel on Climate Change, which serves as the
foundation for several policies favored by President Obama and
Congressional Democrats to limit greenhouse gas emissions. From
the NIPCC site:
The scholarship in this book demonstrates overwhelming
scientific support for the position that the warming of the
twentieth century was moderate and not unprecedented, that its
impact on human health and wildlife was positive, and that
carbon dioxide probably is not the driving factor behind
climate change.
The authors cite thousands of peer-reviewed research papers
and books that were ignored by the IPCC, plus additional
scientific research that became available after the IPCC’s
self-imposed deadline of May 2006.
The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change
(NIPCC) is an international panel of nongovernment scientists
and scholars who have come together to understand the causes
and consequences of climate change. Because it is not a
government agency, and because its members are not predisposed
to believe climate change is caused by human greenhouse gas
emissions, NIPCC is able to offer an independent “second
opinion” of the evidence reviewed by the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The report addresses several scientific areas, including global
climate models, temperature record observations, solar
variability, climate cycles, species extinction, glaciers, sea
level, and more. In announcing the release of the book, Heartland
President Joseph Bast said:
“I think it is fair to say that this is the largest
independent compilation of research on climate change ever
published, and I think it marks a real turning point in the
national and international debates on climate….
“Whereas the IPCC pretends it has absolute confidence in
its findings, and puts forward projections that might be
predictions, but maybe they’re not predictions, this book
doesn’t do that. It’s much more intellectually modest and I
think honest.”
I, for one, am glad to finally see a major resource in this area
that is not paid for and owned by government. Let them do things
they are good at like running postal delivery, banks, and
automobile companies.
Cross-posted
at Globalwarming.org.
topics:
Global Warming
