Climate & Environment Review - Special Edition: Some comments on NAS Climate Report

Climate & Environment Review
Special Edition: Some comments on NAS Climate Report
June 23, 2006

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NAS: schizophrenic climate report
The global warming, described by James Inhofe as the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people, was essentially downgraded from "certain" to "plausible"... >>Read More<<

THE HOCKEY STICK IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE HOCKEY STICK!
The National Academy of Sciences has reported on its investigation into the "hockey stick." That was the controversial reconstruction of temperatures over the past thousand years that said there was very little variation in those temperatures until the last century and that the 1990s were probably the warmest decade and 1998 the warmest year in the past thousand years... >>Read More<<

The Intelligent Design of MBH98
The play by Rolin Jones “The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow” unfolds a fanciful tale of science fueled by post-adolescent angst with a brilliant young woman who excels at rocket science but can’t leave her bedroom. Driven by a real life quest to find her biological mother, she pilfers parts from her government rocket project and builds a replica of herself, named Jenny Chow to meet her real birth mother in China, by
proxy... >>Read More<<

NAS briefing notes
Having “high confidence the planet is warmest in 400 years” is a little like saying everyone who eats carrots eventually will die. We all know that. What would one expect after emerging from the little ice age?.. >>Read More<<

Von Stroch et al. Response to NAs Report
We welcome the National Research Council’s Report, which clarifies that the discussion about the technical qualities of the hockeystick-methodology is insignificant for the overall conclusion that the presently ongoing warming is likely related to elevated greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. We are pleased to read that the NRC shares our view that the methodology behind the hockeystick is questionable. We stick to our view that the methodology was not sufficiently described when published and independently tested thereafter.... >>Read More<<

NAS comments by Roger Pielke, Sr.
The Report Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2000 Years” has appeared. This Report discusses the IPCC “hockey stick” plot of the multi-century global average surface temperature trends... >>Read More<<

Steve McIntyre on NAS report
The early rumors on the NAS Panel was that it was “two handed” – on the one hand, …, on the other hand, … with something for everyone. I’d characterize it more as schizophrenic. It’s got two completely distinct personalities. On the one hand, they pretty much concede that every criticism of MBH is correct. They disown MBH claims to statistical skill for individual decades and especially individual years... >>Read More<<

CEI NAS STATEMENT
Washington, D.C., June 22, 2006—The National Research Council’s report on the “hockey stick” temperature graph, which was released today, confirms what was not controversial—namely, that the twentieth century was the warmest in the past 400 years. As the Earth’s climate has been emerging from the Little Ice Age since the mid-nineteenth century, this is not being debated... >>Read More<<

Science Panel Backs Study on Warming Climate
WASHINGTON, A controversial paper asserting that recent warming in the Northern Hemisphere was probably unrivaled for 1,000 years was endorsed today, with a few reservations, by a panel convened by the nation's pre-eminent scientific body... >>Read More<<

INHOFE SAYS NAS REPORT REAFFIRMS ‘HOCKEY STICK’ IS BROKEN
Washington, D.C.-Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works commented on today’s congressionally commissioned review by the National Academy of Sciences that shows that Dr. Michael Mann’s “hockey stick” study was flawed, specifically refuting some of its most often-cited conclusions... >>Read More<<