If this is being ignored by most media, it is because it is more junk science
perpetrated by totally unqualified hucksters. Neither Homewood nor Watt have
any scientific or academic credentials, and their unsupported harangues have
been repeatedly shown to be untrue. One can be a meteorologist without even a
college degree, which seems to be the case for Watt.
Eric Jeffrey
Falls Church USA
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> On Jan 26, 2015, at 5:15 PM, M.J.Wigginton <>
> wrote:
>
> Of course, neither 'believers' nor sceptics have ever denied that climate
> change is happening; that part of the debate is only about the rate of
> change, and the degree to which man's carbon dioxide emissions (a mere 3-4%
> of the annual total) have and are affecting it - or even if man's
> contribution is affecting it significantly at all. The predominant drum-beat
> message that man's carbon dioxide emissions are causing temperatures to rise
> at an alarming rate (global temperatures have been flat-lining for the last
> 18 years, but that's merely 'a pause' according to the alarmists) are not
> supported by recent research. The true picture seems to be that temperatures
> have shown a steady but very slow rise since the end of the last Ice Age,
> though with short periods of more rapid rises and falls, and there is no
> cause for alarm. Coincidentally, in the Telegraph this week Booker has an
> article on the scandalous manipulation of surface temperatures that has been
> going on for decades, a subject carefully ignored by most of the mass media.
> For those inclined, the piece is here -
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11367272/Climategate-the-sequel-How-we-are-STILL-being-tricked-with-flawed-data-on-global-warming.html
>
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Ian May
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 8:47 PM
> To: Laurie Knight
> Cc: Birding Aus
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Climate change does not bode well for picky
> eaters
>
> Believers in what? Looks like "60 minutes" is now the authority for
> peer reviewed "Climate Change" science.
>
> Laurie Knight wrote:
>
>> Yes Ian, believers in what?
>>
>> Even the United States Republican Party accepts that climate change is
>> happening. Last week the US Senate voted 98-1 that "It is the sense of the
>> Senate that climate change is real and not a hoax."
>> http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-senate-climate-hoax-20150121-story.html
>>
>> Regards, Laurie.
>>
>>
>> On 23 Jan 2015, at 10:59 am, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The believers? What? The Monkees fan club?
>>>
>>> Carl Clifford
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 23 Jan 2015, at 9:10 am, Ian May <> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> H
>>>>
>>>> Hello Laurie
>>>>
>>>> Not wanting to upset "the believers", I cannot help but wonder if these
>>>> researchers ever considered that a decline of Antarctic Krill could be
>>>> caused by the exponential increase of Cetaceans that has occurred over
>>>> the past two decades. Is it true that a current population estimate of
>>>> just one species, the humpback whale has now reached 80,000 individuals?
>>>> About five years ago, the population estimate at that time had increased
>>>> to 35,000 animals? See
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cetaceans#Global_Population_Estimates
>>>> or http://whaleone.com.au/whale-facts/
>>>>
>>>> As a part time researcher from a time nearing the end of the commercial
>>>> whaling era when it was rare to sight a large whale in Australian waters,
>>>> I occasionally pondered the effects on the pelagic world from competition
>>>> on the basic marine food source impacted by the presence or absence of
>>>> Cetaceans. My conclusion was that you cannot have your krill and eat it
>>>> too.
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ian May
>>>> PO Box 110
>>>> St Helens, 7216
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Laurie Knight wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> The following study contrasts the fortunes of Chinstrap and Gentoo
>>>>> Penguins
>>>>>
>>>>> see http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150120121304.htm
>>>>>
>>>>> Original study: MJ Polito, WZ Trivelpiece, WP Patterson, NJ Karnovsky,
>>>>> CS Reiss, SD Emslie. Contrasting specialist and generalist patterns
>>>>> facilitate foraging niche partitioning in sympatric populations of
>>>>> Pygoscelis penguins. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2015; 519: 221 DOI:
>>>>> 10.3354/meps11095
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