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Banned by the EPA
June 30, 2009, 19:30:31 | Doug L. Hoffman
Many news outlets are reporting that the Environmental Protection Agency may have suppressed an
internal report that was skeptical of claims about global warming. While this has conspiracy
theorists all a twitter, the truly shocking thing is the content of that report. The executive
summary contains a list of items contradicting claim after claim put forth by the IPCC and global
warming alarmists. The contents are nothing short of incendiary.

http://theresilientearth.com/?q=content/banned-epa

Skeptical Inquirer Abandons Reason, Embraces Global Warming
June 27, 2009, 12:43:45 | Doug L. Hoffman
For many years the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (formerly CSICOP) has published the Skeptical
Inquirer, a magazine dedicated to rational thought and a scientific view of the world around us.
Mostly concerned with debunking pseudoscience and mystical beliefs, its articles mostly concerned
UFOs, bigfoot sightings, psychic spoon benders and spirit mediums. Now, unfortunately, it seems
they have allied this previously skeptical magazine with one of the biggest scientific scams of our
time, anthropogenic global warming.

http://theresilientearth.com/?q=cont...global-warming

Ice Ages & CO2, Part II - Rising Sea-levels in Tahiti
June 25, 2009, 14:17:44 | Doug L. Hoffman
Having reported that scientists did not find CO2 responsible for a change in the duration of ice
age glacial periods 700,00 years ago, another new report takes a look at the conditions around the
last interglacial warm period and our own Holocene warming. Using corals from the south seas
paradise of Tahiti to track sea-level changes, researchers probed the mechanisms driving Earth's
climate between glacial and interglacial states. Almost as an after thought they added that there
is no longer any doubt: changes in sea-level drive changes in CO2, not the other way around.

http://theresilientearth.com/?q=cont...-levels-tahiti
Change In Ice Ages Not Caused By CO2
June 20, 2009, 14:35:17 | Doug L. Hoffman
Around 1.2 million years ago, a shift in global climate began that caused a change in the timing of
the alternating warm and cold periods-called interglacials and glacials-that have persisted during
the Pleistocene Ice Age. Prior to that time, ice age glacial periods lasted about 40,000 years but
since ~700,000 years ago ice-age cycles have lasted for around 100,000 years. Orbital variations,
called the Croll-Milankovitch cycles, do exert some forcing on the 100,000 year time scale, but it
is relatively weak. Orbital cycles seem to many too feeble an explanation for the change in
glacial-interglacial timing. Some scientists have attempted to attribute the timing shift to a drop
in CO2 but a new study confirms that carbon dioxide levels were not the cause of the climate shift.

http://theresilientearth.com/?q=cont...not-caused-co2

Seven Climate Models, Seven Different Answers
June 16, 2009, 15:09:55 | Doug L. Hoffman
In a new report, scientists used seven different climate models to assess human induced land cover
change (LCC) at regional and global scales. The first results from the LUCID (Land-Use and Climate,
IDentification of robust impacts) intercomparison study by Pitman et al. show no agreement among
the models. This study indicates that land cover change is "regionally significant, but it is not
feasible to impose a common LCC across multiple models for the next IPCC assessment." In other
words, this important factor is missing from current models and scientists are at a loss as to how
to add it.

http://theresilientearth.com/?q=cont...ferent-answers

Too Little CO2 To End Life On Earth
June 14, 2009, 11:48:14 | Doug L. Hoffman
It is no surprise to anyone who has studied the history of our planet and the life it harbors that
CO2 levels have been falling for billions of years. Despite all the hoopla over rising CO2 levels,
eventually Earth will have lost so much carbon dioxide from its atmosphere that plants and trees
will suffocate, signaling an end to life as we know it. Now, a team of scientists from the
California Institute of Technology, led by physicist King-Fai Li, have proposed a way to avert
disaster-get rid of much of the atmosphere.

http://theresilientearth.com/?q=cont...end-life-earth

Little Ice Age II, The Sequel?
June 9, 2009, 14:38:08 | Doug L. Hoffman
The lingering cool temperatures being experience by much of North America has weather forecasters
wondering it we are entering a new Little Ice Age-a reference to the prolonged period of cold
weather that afflicted the world for centuries and didn't end until just prior to the American
Civil War. From historical records, scientists have found a strong correlation between low sunspot
activity and a cooling climate. At the end of May, an international panel of experts led by NOAA
and sponsored by NASA released a new prediction for the next solar cycle: Solar Cycle 24 will be
one of the weakest in recent memory. Are we about to start a new Little Ice Age?

http://theresilientearth.com/?q=cont...-age-ii-sequel

Watering Down Biofuels
June 8, 2009, 10:41:26 | Doug L. Hoffman
The ineffectiveness of biofuels-ethanol and biodiesil-has been much in the news lately, with
reports from the EPA, California's CARB and the EU's joint Research Council claiming that biofuels
pollute more than the fossil fuels they are supposed to replace. Still, this has not prevented the
biofuels industry from receiving big government subsidies. Now a new report discloses another
reason to shun biofuels, one that has nothing to do with CO2 and everything to do with H2O. When
the water use of biofuel feedstock crops is analyzed, the water footprint (WF) ranges from 1,400 to
an astounding 20,000 gallons of water for each gallon of biofuel produced.

http://theresilientearth.com/?q=cont...-down-biofuels

New "Jelly Pump" Rewrites Carbon Cycle
June 4, 2009, 10:10:31 | Doug L. Hoffman
One of the fundamental aspects of Earth's ecological and climate systems is the way carbon moves
through the biosphere. From land to air to water, through living organisms and even the plant's
crust, carbon-the stuff of life-is always on the move. Scientists thought they had a pretty good
understanding of how the carbon cycle works, until now. Recent work with strange, jellyfish like
creatures called thaliaceans is causing scientists to re-evaluate the workings of the carbon cycle.

http://theresilientearth.com/?q=cont...s-carbon-cycle

Airborne Bacteria Discredit Climate Modeling Dogma
May 31, 2009, 12:18:16 | Doug L. Hoffman
The formation of low-level clouds-clouds that have a cooling effect on Earth's climate-has vexed
climate scientists for years. Current climate models treat cloud cover simplistically and make the
assumption that cloud cover decreases as temperatures rise. New data from a cloud sampling
experiment indicates that biological material-bacteria, spores and plant material-may account for
1/3 of the airborne material involved in cloud formation. Furthermore, biological material can form
clouds at much warmer temperatures than mineral dust. These new discoveries indicate that modelers
have the effects of temperature on low cloud cover backwards, placing all model predictions in
doubt.

http://theresilientearth.com/?q=cont...modeling-dogma