Earth
Has Been Warming For 10,000 Years, Contradicting Studies That Humans Started
Global Warming
ACLU, News Organisations Back Mann-Critics In Climate Libel Case
Editor’s
Note: I removed some of the Steyn/Mann
commentaries because they would have been a repetition of the article posted
just before this one - My New Best Friends by Mark Steyn August 14, 2014. However you may wish to view them at the GWPF website here.
Was the Earth in a period of global warming or cooling
before the 20th century? Attempting to answer this question has thrown up a
conundrum for scientists, with some studies showing a warming trend, while
others suggesting it cooled until humans intervened. Now a new study hopes to
settle the issue by arguing that data points to the fact that Earth’s climate
has been warming over the past 10,000 years – long before human activity is
thought to have changed the climate. It argues that previous research that
showed a cooling trend was wrong because it used contradictory ice core data. --Ellie
Zolfagharfard, Daily Mail, 13 August 2014
A who’s who of news organizations, as well as the American Civil Liberties
Union, have sided with the conservative National Review and the free market
Competitive Enterprise Institute in a libel lawsuit brought against them by
climate scientist Michael Mann. In an amicus brief filed Monday, the ACLU and
news organizations urged the court to reverse a lower court ruling that the
statute didn’t apply in this case. They argued that it would be a blow to
freedom of the press should Mann prevail: While
Mann essentially claims that he can silence critics because he is “right,” the
judicial system should not be the arbiter of either scientific truth or correct
public policy. While amici may not necessarily agree with the content of
defendants’ speech, they believe that, if left to stand, the decision below
will chill the expression of opinion on a wide range of important scientific
and public policy issues, and therefore urge that it be reversed. --Sean
Higgins, Washington Examiner, 13 August 2014
What if the warmth the world has enjoyed for the past 50 years is the result of
solar activity, not man-made CO2? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
and its acolytes pay scant attention to any science, however strong the
empirical evidence, that may relegate human causes to a lesser status. If the
world does indeed move into a cooling period, its citizens are ill-prepared.
Cheap electricity in a colder climate will be critical. --Maurice Newman, The Australian, 14 August 2014
The support for Steyn et al. provided by the ACLU and the libel community plus
the national news media re-emphasizes that this case is about the freedom of
speech. It is very heartening to see this support for freedom of speech. It is
particularly interesting to see liberal organizations, who would normally align
to support an issue related to climate change, effectively take actions against
Michael Mann. The link between ‘defending Michael Mann is defending climate
science’ seems to have been broken. The ACLU has it exactly right with this
statement: “Scientific controversies must be
settled by the methods of science rather than by the methods of litigation.
More papers, more discussion, better data, and more satisfactory models – not
larger awards of damages – mark the path toward superior understanding of the
world around us.”—Judith Curry, Climate Etc, 14
August 2014
In the last decade of his life, Alan Peacock (1922-2014) was closely involved
with issues relating to climate change: these indeed became his chief single
professional concern. Lawson’s cause was one which Alan Peacock was happy to
make his own: he was involved with the Foundation from its inception till his
death. As advisor, commentator, author and collaborator, Alan made over the
last years of his life an outstanding contribution to the quality of the
climate change debate in Britain. All of us who worked closely with him in this
cause will miss him greatly and treasure his memory. --David Henderson, The Global Warming Policy
Foundation, 13 August 2014
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