December 27, 2008
by William DiPuccio
ScienceandPublicpolicy.org
"When the facts change, I change my mind? What do you do, sir?"
Lord Keynes (British Economist)

"Do you believe in Global Warming?" I have often been asked this question by people with little or no scientific background. It seems like a simple question that demands a "yes" or "no" answer. But in reality it is a complex question that cannot be reduced to an unqualified "yea" or "nay". The intent of this paper is not to resolve this question by rallying evidence for or against Global Warming (as if that can be done in a few pages!), but rather to lay bare the complexity of the climate change issue. Those who come to appreciate this fact will likely agree that simple answers are not only bad education, but can lead to bad policies.

December 23, 2008
Prominent Scientist Fired By Gore Says Warming Alarm ‘Mistaken'  
Joins Senate Report of More Than 650 Dissenting Scientists  
‘The current alarm over carbon dioxide is mistaken' 

WASHINGTON, DC - Award winning Princeton University Physicist Dr. Will Happer, who was reportedly fired by former Vice President Al Gore in 1993 for failing to adhere to Gore's scientific views, has now declared man-made global warming fears "mistaken."

December 21, 2008
Wattsupwiththat.com
(Right Side News has just been notified that WattsUpWithThat.com had 248,000 page views in a single week, and that is awesome for a meteorologist who drives an electric car! You go man!)

Jim Hansen's AGU presentation: "He's ‘nailed' climate forcing for 2x CO2″

I received this presentation of the "Bjerknes Lecture" that Dr. James Hansen gave at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union on December 17th. There are the usual things one might expect in the presentation, such as this slide which shows 2008 on the left with the anomalously warm Siberia and the Antarctic peninsula:

December 21, 2008
By Joseph D'Aleo, CCM, Fellow AMS
IceCap.us

With the number of sunspotless days reaching 16 so far this month, we have now exceeded 1912 as the 2nd quietest sun year since 1900. Only 1913 ranked higher with 311 days. With 12 more days this month as of this writing, we could reach as high as 266 days. Note that 2007 also ranked in the top 10.