Tom Harris

Leading experts rapidly endorsing ‘Climate Scientists’ Register’

Ottawa, Canada, June 18, 2010 -- The Climate Scientists' Register, started one month ago by International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), has just passed its first 100 expert endorsers -- see climatescienceinternational.org . By allowing their names to be added to the signatory list, these scientists are endorsing the following physical science statement:

The register of climate realists

CHICAGO, MAY 16, 2010 – It is frequency asserted that only a small proportion of climate science experts have serious problems with the concept of a carbon dioxide-induced climate crisis. These supposedly ‘outlier’ scientists are often assumed to be almost universally right of center, and/or energy industry funded or to not be leaders in the field.

Climate conference organizers asked for trouble in Copenhagen

“Arranged too late to attract NGO representatives, Forum Copenhagen, the official alternative venue for the thousands of delegates locked out of the main conference, stood nearly empty.”

It is not surprising that climate campaigners became increasingly aggressive during 2009, eventually resorting to violent conflicts with police on the streets of Copenhagen at year’s end. While activists had finally succeeded in getting most politicians to sing from the same song sheet – the Earth supposedly stands on the brink of a man-made climate catastrophe, leaders recited one after another at the United Nations climate conference in December – environmental groups have totally failed to convince governments to take actions that are even remotely commensurate with the alleged threat. Yes, politicians have invested billions of taxpayer dollars ostensibly trying to ‘stop climate change’, an absurd concept on a planet where climate has always changed – after all, the only constant about climate IS change. But, if the climate Armageddon hypothesis was correct, we would need many times the levels of emission reductions currently promised by western governments.

Waiting for the Other Shoe to drop on the Climate File

In part one of this piece, I explained how the Harper Conservatives rode to power on a platform that included open, common sense transparency in the climate debate; how they took full advantage of an electorate exhausted by past Prime Minister Jean Chretien's opportunistic, unscientific climate change bombast to tell Canadians that the Conservatives would promote an honest re-evaluation of the file from top to bottom.

Offset System for Greenhouse Gases shows Government Unconcerned with Reality,

One of the most significant climate science documents ever produced was released in Washington, DC last week. Coming to conclusions diametrically opposed to those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the new Non-governmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) is essential reading for all politicians, or at least those who want to develop policies that actually benefit their countries and the environment.

Climate forecasts have serious methodological errors, little connection with reality

Ottawa, Canada, June 4, 2008 - Climate forecasts by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change have been blasted by scientists of the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) as having little connection with reality and being irrelevant to public policy.

Are climate change investors living in a fool’s paradise?

fool's par·a·dise: “a state of happiness that is temporary and insubstantial because it is based on illusions or unrealistic hopes” - Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P)2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Harper must announce Canada’s withdrawal, from Kyoto, now!

The government has already said Canada will not meet Kyoto's most important clauses, namely those which limit our so-called 'greenhouse gas emissions' (really speaking mostly about the benign gas carbon dioxide here). We CAN get out of the treaty with one year's notice any time now - here is the clause in the Kyoto Protocol that specifies this:

Climate realist declaration tops 1,100 endorsers

Ottawa, Canada, June 19, 2008 – Since its creation in March by the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change has attracted signatories from 40 countries. Although ignored by most media and governments, endorsement for the Declaration has rained in from hundreds of climate experts and other scientists, as well as professional engineers, economists, policy experts, medical doctors and average citizens. The complete declaration text, endorser lists and international media contacts for expert commentary, may be viewed at climatescienceinternational.org.

Let everyone, especially students, hear the whole story about climate science

Shooting the messenger of alternative climate science views not constructive – students can only decide who to believe if they are permitted to hear all rational arguments Mike De Souza’s piece, “Climate-change skeptics target kids”, published in various versions in mainstream newspapers across Canada, is a classic example of how the climate debate has mostly been reduced to a war of emotive, and politically loaded, words.

The UN Climate Change Numbers Hoax

It’s an assertion repeated by politicians and climate campaigners the world over – ‘2,500 scientists of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) agree that humans are causing a climate crisis’. But it’s not true. And, for the first time ever, the public can now see the extent to which they have been misled. As lies go, it’s a whopper. Here’s the real situation.

Batten down the hatches – Climate fear-mongering to get worse

The Commonwealth conference just completed in Uganda provides a preview of the rhetoric we can expect from delegates at next week’s United Nations Climate Change Conference on the island of Bali, Indonesia. Britain's Prince Charles, now a devoted climate campaigner, told the Commonwealth conference, "Climate change has become the greatest challenge facing mankind… It has become a question literally of survival for Commonwealth members like Tuvalu and Kiribati."

Now is the time to listen to climate scientists, not activists

Listening to the Speech from the Throne Tuesday, one could be forgiven for thinking that the Conservatives were copying Stephane Dion's leadership campaign tactics of 13 months ago. In Dion's case, he took his climate change phraseology essentially verbatim from a David Suzuki report. In the case of the Harper government, they appear to have lifted most of their assertions from a wider selection of environmental groups, but the messages are equally unfounded nonethe-less. First, the government tells us that "Threats to our environment are a clear and present danger that now confronts governments around the world." "Clear and present danger" is a popular phrase used by environmental activists when speaking about climate change, Al Gore-trained Desiree McGraw of Montreal and Ralph Torrie, whose company produces greenhouse gas emissions software, being typical examples.