NIPCC REPORT DOCUMENTS
WARMING’S BENEFITS ON THE BIOSPHERE
WARMING’S BENEFITS ON THE BIOSPHERE
The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate
Change released a 1,000-page report documenting global warming’s beneficial
impact on the biosphere. The report, Climate Change Reconsidered II:
Biological Impacts, provides a comprehensive analysis of global warming’s
impacts on plants, terrestrial animals, aquatic life, and human well-being.
The new volume is the fifth produced by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change. A sixth volume, Climate Change Reconsidered II: Human Welfare, Energy, and Policies, is scheduled for release later this month.
More than 30 scientists served as authors and reviewers for the new volume. The volume cites more than 1,000 peer-reviewed studies supporting the conclusion that global warming is not causing substantial harm to the biosphere.
Biological Impacts broadly tracks and critiques the work of IPCC’s Working Group II, which is expected to release its report on the impacts of climate change around the same time as this report is presented. It appears IPCC is continuing its pattern of selectively reporting data to present an alarmist view of the impacts of climate change the report explains.
Biological Impacts
documents increasing productivity of forests and grasslands, countering IPCC
assertions to the contrary. The new volume also presents the scientific evidence
that a more productive biosphere effectively sequesters much of the carbon
dioxide IPCC claims will cause additional warming. The new volume is available for free online at The
Heartland Institute and NIPCC websites.
MORE INFORMATION: Nongovernmental
International Panel on Climate Change
IN THIS ISSUE - Heartland Institute announces international global warming conference - Carbon dioxide emissions stimulating the greening of Asia - Cold temperature records pile up in March - Polar sea ice refuses to retreat - IPCC turns truth on its head regarding crop production
HEARTLAND INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL
WARMING CONFERENCE - The Heartland Institute announced it will be
holding its Ninth International Conference on Climate Change July 7-9 in Las
Vegas. The conference will highlight two comprehensive new publications by the
Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change and will point out how
the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been forced
to abandon many of its prior assertions and predictions regarding global
warming. Approximately 50 speakers will give presentations, including
Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore and climate scientists Patrick Michaels and
Roy Spencer. Registration and additional information are available at The
Heartland Institute website.
CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS STIMULATING THE GREENING OF ASIA - Earth’s terrestrial plants are photosynthesizing at ever greater rates, causing a greening of the planet. On the website of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, scientist Craig Idso cites and summarizes a peer-reviewed article documenting this greening in Asia. Satellite measurements show 40 percent of Asia’s non-ice-covered landmass experienced an increase in vegetation from 1982 - 2011, while only 5 percent experienced a decrease in vegetation. The increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide “is literally transforming the planet for the better right before our eyes, Idso explained.
CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS STIMULATING THE GREENING OF ASIA - Earth’s terrestrial plants are photosynthesizing at ever greater rates, causing a greening of the planet. On the website of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, scientist Craig Idso cites and summarizes a peer-reviewed article documenting this greening in Asia. Satellite measurements show 40 percent of Asia’s non-ice-covered landmass experienced an increase in vegetation from 1982 - 2011, while only 5 percent experienced a decrease in vegetation. The increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide “is literally transforming the planet for the better right before our eyes, Idso explained.
MORE INFORMATION: Website
of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change
COLD TEMPERATURE RECORDS PILE UP IN MARCH - The historically cold winter of 2013, 14 went out like a lion, with new cold temperature records set throughout much of the United States. December 2013 through March 2014 was the coldest four-month stretch in recorded history in President Barack Obama’s home city of Chicago. In the U.S. Northeast, cities such as Caribou, Maine and Burlington, Vermont experienced their coldest March in recorded history. More than 90 percent of the Great Lakes were frozen over in early March, the second-most-extensive ice cover in recorded history.
MORE INFORMATION: Environment
and Climate News
POLAR SEA ICE REFUSES TO RETREAT - Polar sea ice was above the long-term average last week, continuing a trend where polar ice has remained above the long-term average for most of the past 15 months. (Calculations of the long-term average date back to 1979 when NASA/NOAA satellite instruments began measuring polar sea ice on a daily basis.) It has been more than two years since Southern Hemisphere sea ice has been below the long-term average. Satellite data also show a substantial increase in multi-year Northern Hemisphere sea ice.
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change ignored global warming’s positive impact on global crop
production and falsely claimed global warming is reducing food production,
National Review Online writer Rupert Darwall explained in a compelling article.
In addition to misrepresenting global warming’s beneficial impact on crop
production, IPCC hypocritically blamed global warming for price increases of
staple food crops when the price increases were caused by climate activists
promotion of removing crops from the food market and burning them for fuel
instead. This negligence amounts to
downright dishonesty, Darwall observes.
MORE INFORMATION: National Review Online
MORE INFORMATION: National Review Online
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