Thread: Peer-Review Papers Skeptical of "Man-Made" Global Warming:

Furthermore, George, I would suggest you read the summaries of many of the quoted papers and try to understand exactly what the researchers are claiming - which may be very subtely different to the II claims.

I see from the early papers that 'Millenial scale' warming (& cooling) episodes are identified from ice core analysis - but bear in mind our current warming phase is believed by most of the researchers who have actually made the measurements to be 'decadal'. You understand the difference I presume.

And I see the hoary old 'CO2 lag' argument, so favoured by TTGWS, is quoted.

You've been hornswoggled

Libertarian (i.e. extreme right wing US)

...... wow...... just wow.

I can't believe you've just equated libertarianism with the extreme right wing, I've always thought you were just a bit deluded but surely, surely you're not so stupid as to not know what a libertarian is?

You'll probably find the majority of contributors to this forum consider themselves libertarian.

Originally Posted by Clippo

It has been compiled by a member of a Libertarian (i.e. extreme right wing US) think tank

No it has been compiled by me.

These ideas have not been debunked as valid science supports them. There is extensive evidence for a sun-climate connection:

Reply to Lockwood and Fröhlich – The persistent role of the Sun in climate forcing (The Danish National Space Center)
A Critique on the Lockwood/Frochlich Paper in the Royal Society Proceedings (Ken Gregory, B.A.Sc. Mechanical Engineering)
Shining More Light on the Solar Factor: A discussion of Problems with the Royal Society (Joseph D’Aleo, M.S. Meteorology)
100,000-Year Climate Pattern Linked To Sun's Magnetic Cycles (Science Daily)
Another Possible Climate Culprit: the Sun (The New York Times)
Basic physics supports solar activity as cause of global warming (The Guardian, UK)
Brightening Sun is Warming Earth (Harvard University Gazette)
Canadian Climatologist Says Sun Causing Global Warming (Dennis Avery, M.S. Agricultural Economics)
Changes In Sun’s Intensity Tied To Recurrent Droughts In Maya Region (Science Daily)
Climate History and the Sun (PDF) (Sallie Baliunas Ph.D. Astrophysics, Willie Soon Ph.D.)
Cosmic Rays and Climate (The Danish National Space Center)
Cosmic rays and Earth's climate (Steve Milloy, B.A. Natural Sciences, M.S. Health Sciences)
Cosmic Rays Blamed for Global Warming (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Cosmic Rays 'Linked to Clouds' (BBC)
Cosmic Rays Linked To Global Warming (Science Daily)
Cosmic Rays may solve global warming problem (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Cosmoclimatology: A new theory of climate change (The Danish National Space Center)
Evidence For Sun-climate Link Reported By UMaine Scientists (Science Daily)
Evidence of a Significant Solar Imprint in Annual Globally Averaged Temperature Trends - Part 1 (Anthony Watts. Meteorologist)
Evidence of a Significant Solar Imprint in Annual Globally Averaged Temperature Trends - Part 2 (Anthony Watts. Meteorologist)
First Eurocongress on the Solar Cycle and Terrestrial Climate (Willie Soon, Sallie Baliunas, Kirill Ya. Kondratyev, Sherwood B. Idso, Eric S. Posmentier)
Flares From Sun's Far Side May Affect Space Weather Of Inner Planets (Science Daily)
Flickering sun switched climate (Nature)
Fluctuations in the Sun may be changing climate (The Times, UK)
Greater Solar Activity May Bring United States More Gray Days (Science Daily)
Exploding Stars Influence Climate Of Earth (Space Daily)
Ice cores show sun, not humans, controlling Earth's climate (Dennis Avery, M.S. Agricultural Economics)
It's the Sun, Stupid (Steve Milloy, B.A. Natural Sciences, M.S. Health Sciences)
Holes In Sun's Corona Linked To Atmospheric Temperature Changes On Earth (Science Daily)
NASA Finds Sun-Climate Connection in Old Nile Records (NASA)
NASA Study Finds Increasing Solar Trend That Can Change Climate (NASA)
New Analysis Shows Earth's Lower Stratosphere In Synch With Solar Cycle (Science Daily)
New Experiment To Investigate Effect Of Galactic Cosmic Rays On Clouds And Climate (Science Daily)
Northern Climate, Ecosystems Driven By Cycles Of Changing Sunlight (Science Daily)
Read the sunspots (Tim Patterson, Ph.D. Professor of Geology)
Regional Variation In Warming From Sun During Solar Cycle Shown By Satellite (Science Daily)
Scientists blame sun for global warming (BBC)
Scientists Determine Biological And Ecosystem Changes In Polar Regions Linked To Solar Variability (Science Daily)
Solar blow to low cloud could be warming planet (Nature News)
Solar Changes and the Climate (Science & Public Policy Institute)
Solar cycle drives ocean temperatures, study says (USA Today)
Solar Cycles, Not CO2, Determine Climate (Zbigniew Jaworowski, M.D. Ph.D. D.Sc.)
Solar Variability and Climate Change (Willie Soon, Ph.D.)
Sun more active than for a millennium (NewScientist)
Sun, Not Man, Main Cause of Climate Change, New Study Says (CNSNews)
Sun still main force in climate change (WorldNetDaily)
Sun to Blame for Global Warming (National Center for Public Policy Research)
Sun's Activity Increased in Past Century, Study Confirms (Space.com)
Sun's Direct Role In Global Warming May Be Underestimated, Duke Physicists Report (Science Daily)
Sun's fickle heart may leave us cold (NewScientist)
Sun's magnetic flip affects cosmic ray penetration (USA Today)
Sun's Output Increasing in Possible Trend Fueling Global Warming (Space.com)

Sun's Past Strength Took Toll On Tropical Glaciers, Worsens Today's Outlook (Science Daily)
Sun's warming influence 'under-estimated' (BBC)
Sunspots: correlations with temperature (Luboš Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physicist, Harvard)
Surface Warming And The Solar Cycle (Science Daily)
The Solar to Global Warming Connection (Jim Goodridge, Retired State Climatologist)
The Sun Also Warms (Sallie Baliunas, Ph.D. Astrophysics, Willie Soon Ph.D.)
The Sun's Chilly Impact On Earth (Science Daily)
The Sun and Global Warming (NASA)
The Sun Is More Active Now Than Over The Last 8000 Years (Science Daily)
The truth about global warming - it's the Sun that's to blame (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Viewpoint: The Sun and climate change (BBC)
Why So Hot? Don't Blame Man, Blame the Sun (Sallie Baliunas, Ph.D. Astrophysics)

Originally Posted by Clippo

Nancy Oreskes studies would be a good starting point.

Oreskes study has been debunked and is worthless.

RE: “The scientific consensus on climate change” (Benny Peiser, The letter Science Magazine refused to publish)

Originally Posted by Benny Peiser

Oreskes claims to have analysed 928 abstracts she found listed on the ISI database using the keywords "climate change". However, a search on the ISI database using the keywords "climate change" for the years 1993 - 2003 reveals that almost 12,000 papers were published during the decade in question. [...] ...she admitted that there was indeed a serious mistake in her Science essay. According to Oreskes, her study was not based on the keywords "climate change," but on "global climate change" [yet her paper is clearly titled: The scientific consensus on "climate change" not "global climate change"] Her use of three keywords instead of two reduced the list of peer reviewed publications by one order of magnitude (on the UK's ISI databank the keyword search "global climate change" comes up with 1247 documents) [...] The results of my analysis contradict Oreskes' findings and essentially falsify her study: Of all 1117 abstracts, only 13 (1%) explicitly endorse the 'consensus view'. [...] 34 abstracts reject or doubt the view that human activities are the main drivers of the "the observed warming over the last 50 years". 44 abstracts focus on natural factors of global climate change."

Poptech wrote:-

There is extensive evidence for a sun-climate connection.

Historically yes there is - but not for the current phase of GW. Satellite studies have shown conclusively only a minute change in the Sun's output over the last 2-3 decades. Refer to the IPCC reports for scientific fact on this.

However, curious at your seemingly impressive list of references to support your case I glanced down it and guess what ? we find the names Soon, Baliunas, Milloy (of Junkscience fame), Patterson - all well known contrarians whose theories have been debunked by the mainstream science.
Added to your list are many media articles which probably 2nd generation pieces from the flawed Solar / GW theorists. And then we have the usual crackpots from outside the mainstream Climate science fields.

Worried that I may have indeed been mistaken all along, I looked intensively at reference #6 in your first list attributed to the Guardian. (The Guardian publishing something so heretical ?????). What do I find ? Actually it's a letter from a reader. And guess who ?? why it's our old meteorologist crackpot Piers Corbyn.

I need say no more on the this topic.

As regards Nancy Oreskes' research, you are living in a parallel universe.

The deniers did try some time back to cast doubt ( their favourite tactic) on her research methods but their arguments were blown out of the water comprehensively. By your own printed admission, Science magazine refused to print Benny Peiser's 'research' - probably because it was so flawed it didn't get through initial peer-review.

Thank you Poptech for your posts #15 and #16,they are very welcome here and extremely informative.

As you will be aware,the pro Climate Change and MMGW fanatics are hell bent on dissing anything and everything that disproves or disagrees with their idea of things,your posts are perfect proof that these people are wrong in most of what they push on the subject.

Thanks.