In conjunction with today?s Third International Conference on Climate Change in Washington, the Heartland Institute (my organization and conference host) is releasing ?Climate Change Reconsidered: A Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change.?
The 880-page book (posted entirely online at the Web site) challenges
the scientific basis for concerns that global warming is man-made or is
a cause for concern.
The report rebuts the several manifestations of findings by the
United Nations Intergovernmental (I would say Pro-Governmental or
Governmentalovin?) Panel on Climate Change, which serves as the
foundation for several policies favored by President Obama and
Congressional Democrats to limit greenhouse gas emissions. From the
NIPCC site:
The scholarship in this book demonstrates
overwhelming scientific support for the position that the warming of
the twentieth century was moderate and not unprecedented, that its
impact on human health and wildlife was positive, and that carbon
dioxide probably is not the driving factor behind climate change.The authors cite thousands of peer-reviewed research papers and
books that were ignored by the IPCC, plus additional scientific
research that became available after the IPCC?s self-imposed deadline
of May 2006.The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change
(NIPCC) is an international panel of nongovernment scientists and
scholars who have come together to understand the causes and
consequences of climate change. Because it is not a government agency,
and because its members are not predisposed to believe climate change
is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, NIPCC is able to offer an
independent ?second opinion? of the evidence reviewed by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The report addresses several scientific areas, including global
climate models, temperature record observations, solar variability,
climate cycles, species extinction, glaciers, sea level, and more. In
announcing the release of the book, Heartland President Joseph Bast said:
?I think it is fair to say that this is the largest
independent compilation of research on climate change ever published,
and I think it marks a real turning point in the national and
international debates on climate?.?Whereas the IPCC pretends it has absolute confidence in its
findings, and puts forward projections that might be predictions, but
maybe they?re not predictions, this book doesn?t do that. It?s much
more intellectually modest and I think honest.?
I, for one, am glad to finally see a major resource in this area
that is not paid for and owned by government. Let them do things they
are good at like running postal delivery, banks, and automobile
companies.
Cross-posted at Globalwarming.org.
