Montana HJ 10: “Overwhelming scientific evidence”?

Hearing for HJ 10 is scheduled for: Wednesday, Feb 13, 3 p.m., Rm 172, Helena Rep Doug Coffin (D), Missoula, introduced HJ 10. Information about Rep Doug Coffin is here and here. The HJ 10 legislative draft is here. Continuing Bill information will be here. Download PDF. House Joint Resolution Number 10A Joint Resolution of the Senate And The House Of Representatives of […]

Facts aren’t necessary – Environmentalism is about Belief

by Michael Trigoboff, Ph.D., Computer Science Dep’t, Portland Community College Philosophers Michael R. Nelson and Kathleen Dean Moore seem to think that everyone who disagrees with them on scientific issues related to global warming is evil. I am more of a scientist then either of them and I disagree with them, but not because I’m evil. I’m skeptical

Bright daytime Meteor in 1945

by Dr. Ed Berry November 29, 1945, Sacramento, California. I was ten-years old and outdoors playing baseball with my friends. At 5:00 pm, it was still very light. Suddenly, I saw a bright meteor coming from the west-south-west. I pointed to the meteor and yelled to my friends. We watched in amazement as the meteor

Berry: Open Letter to the City of Spokane

by Edwin X Berry, PhD I first published this letter on October 27, 2010. It has been republished by many websites and it continues to be relevant, especially in the current American elections. We are partying on the train to Auschwitz Spokane signed on to the United Nations ICLEI (International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives)

Physics Guy Rap

This lyrical misadventure is the result of hasty two-night extra-credit project I did many years ago for a physics class in high school. Frankly, looking back, some of these lines are pretty awful.. I’ve kept this up on the Web because people seem to like it, not because lines like “electrodynamics is more than playing

The Truth About Greenhouse Gases

The dubious science of the climate crusaders. by William Happer, First Things “The object of the Author in the following pages has been to collect the most remarkable instances of those moral epidemics which have been excited, sometimes by one cause and sometimes by another, and to show how easily the masses have been led

Cargo Cult Science

by Richard Feynman Introduction The speech is reproduced in the book Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! and on many websites. He based the phrase on a concept in anthropology, the cargo cult, which describes how some pre-scientific cultures interpreted technologically advanced visitors as religious or supernatural figures who brought boons of cargo. Later, in an

The Song of Hiawatha – Selected Chapters

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from U of Virginia Library and Longfellow poems Introduction Should you ask me, Whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers, With their frequent repetitions, And their

The Greenhouse Effect

by Vincent Gray, NZ Climate Truth Newsletter No 262 The greenhouse effect is caused by absorption of infra red radiation from the earth by trace gases in the earth’s atmosphere. A greenhouse confines only a small part of the atmosphere, so the trace gas absorption is negligible.

Greenhouse Effect Does Not Exist

by Berthold Klein Table of Contents Section 1. Mixing the energySection 2. Chasing PhotonsSection 3. What happens in an IRag molecule (or any compound molecule)?Section 4. Quality of Sun lightSection 5. Dr. Alan Carlin of the US-EPA -No effect of CO2Section 6. All sources of Photons:Section 7. What is the magnitude of the heating?Section 8.

Improved Simple Climate Sensitivity Model

by Richard J. Petschauer (February 24, 2011) 1.  Summary of the Present Simple Model and Its Limitations The present simple climate model, used by most climate scientists to estimate climate sensitivity, is based on maintaining energy balance between the net solar incoming shortwave solar radiation and the outgoing longwave radiation from the planet. Increased CO2

CO2 Cannot Cause Global Warming

Ferenc Miskolczi’s Saturated Greenhouse Effect Theory by Miklos Zagoni, SPPI, December 18, 2009 The Earth’s atmosphere differs in essence from that of Venus and Mars. Our atmosphere is not totally cloud-covered, as is Venus: globally, about 40% of the sky is always clear. Also we have huge ocean surfaces that serve as a practically unlimited

CO2 Insignificant in Earth Warming

by Bryce Johnson (Revised, January 31, 2011) The SpectralCalc™ Code In a recent publication (1) Richard J. Petschauer utilized the SpectralCalc™ computer code (2) to demonstrate that carbon dioxide is but a “bit player” in earth warming by greenhouse gases (ghg’s). The code is extremely detailed and sophisticated, containing all the needed atmospheric and IR

How core values influence belief in global warming

by Dr. Ed Berry, Daily Inter Lake, Montana, Sunday, August 15, 2010 (Page C7) Morrie Shechtman gave a talk in Kalispell on August 6 illustrating how core values differ between liberals and conservatives. The one value that stood out to me was that liberals tend to consider themselves as “fragile” while conservatives tend to consider themselves

Hal Lewis: My Resignation From The American Physical Society

From: Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara To: Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society 6 October 2010 Dear Curt: When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which

Senator Inhofe’s Senate Minority Report on Climate Change

Click here to get the full report. This report is signed by over 1000 scientists. Compare this to the only 52, only a few of whom were scientists, who authored the IPCC Summary Report. Here are selected remarks from scientists: “Unfortunately, Climate Science has become Political Science…It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically

The Wisdom of 1946: The Bear that Wasn’t

Believers in global warming who believe they prove their belief true by denigrating and black-listing opposing scientists would do well to hear this story. In 1946, Frank Tashlin’s book and MGM record of “The Bear that wasn’t” began teaching a whole generation of kids about logic in a 10-minute story, enjoyed by all ages. We

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