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Are you saying that you can actually find insight into scientist thought processes in the section to which I refer?
I'm interested in your opinion. You allege that section was rubbish, what's your evidence ?
Are you saying that you can actually find insight into scientist thought processes in the section to which I refer?
I'm not saying anything, you made an allegation, you back it up.
As reported at Inside Climate News, emails and related documents regarding Willie Soon's funding were obtained by Greenpeace through a Freedom of Information Act Request. Communications show that Soon had called a number of his research papers “delieverables” and had received funding in return from fossil fuel companies. [42]
Inside Climate News details “11 times Willie Soon failed to Disclose Fossil Fuel Funding”, with the primary contributor being Southern Company, which generates power for nine states (largely from coal). The studies in question are summarized below, as reported on at Inside Climate News: [43]
Topic Journal Date Additional Funders
Response to a critique of a 2007 paper co-authored by soon on polar bears and climate change (1)
Ecological Complexity1 July, 2008 Southern Company
Modeling changes in rainfall patterns from monsoons(1)
Journal of Climate1 Sept. 2008 Southern Company
Review of government reports on polar bear populations(1)Interfaces1 Sept. - Oct. 2008
Southern Company
How changes in sun's intensity explain the Artic's changing climate (1) Physical Geography1 March, 2009 Southern Company
Cycles of 20 active stars (1) Astronomy & Astrophysics1 May, 2009 Southern Company
Validity of the United Nations' climate change studies International Journal of Forecasting (1) Oct.-Dec 2009
Southern Company
How policymakers should consider potential climate change regulations Ecological Law Currents2 2010 Southern Company
Surface air temperatures in China during the 20th century Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics2,3,4 Aug. 2011 Southern Company
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India's summer monsoons and solar activity Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 2,3,4 Aug. 2011 Southern Company
Air temperatures and Solar Activity Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics4 Feb. 2013 Southern Company
How India's summer monsoons are affected by the sun New Astronomy4,5 Feb. 2015 Southern Company
(1) Deliverable Listed in Soon's Jan 2009 report for Southern Company
Deliverable Listed in Soon's May 2011 report for Southern Company
Deliverable Listed in Soon's Jan 2012 report for Donors Trust, Inc.
Deliverable Listed in Soon's Nov 2012 report for Southern Company
Soon's 2012 report to Southern Compnay said study had been submitted to Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
The documents were made public by Greenpeace on February 21. Greenpeace suggests that Soon “may have violated several scientific journals’ ethical guidelines by failing to disclose these conflicts of interest.” [44]
As of April, 2015, after supplying Soon with nearly $470,000 for research, Southern Company decided it will no longer fund Soon's work. [45]
January 31, 2003
Soon co-published a controversial review article titled “Proxy climatic and environmental changes of the past 1000 years” (Climate Research, 2003) with Sallie Baliunas. The article claims that the twentieth century was not the warmest century in the past 1,000 years and that the climate has not changed significantly during this time. Senator James Inhofe used this article as proof that climate change is caused by natural variability, not human activity.
After the article was published, three of the editors of Climate Research resigned in protest, including incoming editor-in-chief Hans von Storch. Storch declared the article was seriously flawed because “the conclusions [were] not supported by the evidence presented in the paper.” In addition to the resignations, thirteen of the scientists cited in the paper published rebuttals stating that Soon and Baliunas had misinterpreted their work.
According to the Union of Concerned Scientists' 2007 report, “Smoke, Mirrors, and Hot Air,” the National Research Council recently published research concluding that the “global mean surface temperature was higher during the last few decades of the 20th century than during any comparable period in the preceding four centuries.”
April joins parade of record global temperatures, making it 12 months in a row
Date
May 3, 2016
Peter Hannam
India swelters in deadly heat wave
India is in the grip of a heat wave that has killed more than 100 people.
Scary blue line that shocked scientists
Emerging new threat in world's oceans
It's the sort of anniversary you don't want to celebrate.
Early reports indicate that April was another record hot month - by some margin - making it 12 months in a row that have set new high marks for heat.
Eric Holthaus, a US-based meteorologist took to Twitter with an estimate that sea and land-surface temperatures would again top 1 degree compared with the average for 1951-80 period used by NASA.
The previous biggest anomaly for April was recorded in 2010 at 0.83 degrees, implying that last month was easily the warmest ever registered for the month.
If confirmed by major meteorological agencies within coming weeks, the April figures would continue the remarkably warm start to 2016, with each month among a handful over the most abnormally hot months in more than 130 years of global figures.
Australia is also exceptionally warm. During the first four months of 2016, average mean temperatures were 1.28 degrees above the 1961-90 period used by the Bureau of Meteorology for its benchmark.
The previous record to this point of the year was 1.16 degrees in 2005, Blair Trewin, senior bureau climatologist, told Fairfax Media.
As long as it helped you noco, it was worth it.
It's not a good look to quote the work of 13 scientists in your paper and then have them trash you for misinterpreting/misrepresenting their work. You look like a very dishonest scientist.
I think the number of scientists dishonestly represented may have been somewhat higher than 13, only it wasn't in relation to Dr Soon's work, it was in relation to the generation of fraudulent claims to the purported scientific consensus!
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I am so utterly bored with the same old GREEN broken record......It is the same old tripe you were sprouting 4 years ago...
SO BORING.
April brought perfect swimming weather for Queensland, with daily average maximums of 32.8C, 2.9C warmer than normal and 0.4C higher than the previous record set in 2005.
As is your constant spouting of denialist propaganda and one sided interpretation of scientific studies which you have no ability to understand so you just swallow the rubbish handed out that supports your own bigoted opinions.
Typical trollism.
As is your constant spouting of denialist propaganda and one sided interpretation of scientific studies which you have no ability to understand so you just swallow the rubbish handed out that supports your own bigoted opinions.
Typical trollism.
It's not like you to react negatively to deliberate baiting. Everyone knows, anecdotally at least, the weather is changing and I'm guessing we are acclimating to it somewhat ...... although I am wondering if the elevated heat is affecting some people's ability to think cogently.
This is advocacy and politics, not science.
Sometimes, ya just gotta hit em where it hurts...
It has all to do with the SUN my blessed son.
The only thing that will change some people's minds about climate change is if their political masters have a change of attitude. It's just Collingwood V Carlton stuff for some.
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The fact that you're now in furious agreement with a poster who but a few comments back admitted to primary school level science being a Galilean heresy ..... 'Waynes World' alright....
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