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16/11/09

Køligt III - “The Copenhagen Climate Challenge”

COIN har modtaget følgende:

"The Copenhagen Climate Challenge” [is to] be held in Copenhagen 8th-9th Dec. at Dansk Forfatterforening (Danish writers Union) Strandgade 6, 1401 København K [where] internationally respected scientists and others will be speaking and to which the world’s press will be invited.

[...] The aim is to present to governments and activists a clear scientific challenge to either produce rigorous scientific evidence of their claims or to stop pursuing the current scaremongering and extremely costly policies. This will be done by presenting papers on the various aspect of ‘Climate Change’, such as ocean levels, CO2 and temperature, AGW and disease etc. etc. and in effect saying, “Either to put up or shut up!"

We already have the following speakers:

Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley

Prof Fred Singer. Climate physicist and Prof. Emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia

H. Leighton Steward a geologist, environmentalist, author, and retired energy industry executive.

Nils-Axel Mörner, author of numerous research papers and the booklet The Greatest Lie Ever Told, awarded
The Golden Condrite of Merit “for his irreverence and contribution to our understanding of sea level
change”.

Prof Ian Plimer, Professor of Mining Geology at the University of Adelaide and Emeritus Professor of Earth
Sciences at the University of Melbourne where he was Professor and Head (1991-2005). He is the author
of Heaven and Earth. His previous book, A Short History of Planet Earth, won the Eureka Prize.

Kontakt:
Jens Robdrup
climate-sense[@]live.dk

http://climate-sense.com

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06/08/09

Interview with Ian Plimer on climate change

Permalink Af Category: Ian PlimerSimon Espersen, 11:05:23 pm, Categories: co2, global opvarmning og nedkøling, Klimajournalistik, Ian Plimer,

The past is the key to the present. Previous rapid and large climate changes were not related to carbon dioxide.

This has occurred on all scales of time. This century temperature has been decreasing, yet CO2 has been increasing. Over the last 150 years, temperature has increased (1860–1880, 1910–1940, 1976–1998) and decreased (1880–1910, 1940–1976, and 2002 to the present), yet CO2 has been increasing. If CO2 has been increasing, how can CO2-driven warming have driven cooling? Over historical times, there were the Minoan, Roman, and Medieval warmings, when temperature was a few degrees higher than at present. Sea level did not change. Over archaeological time, ice cores show that temperature peaks some 800 years before CO2 peaks, hence CO2 could not have driven temperature rise.

http://www.intellectualactivist.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=1120

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08/10/06

På vej mod permanent istid?

Permanent link Af Kategori: Ian PlimerSimon Espersen, 11:55:30, Kategorier: JunkScience, Økonomi, global opvarmning og nedkøling, Ian Plimer,

Da jorden afkølede, stabiliserede overfladen sig ganske vist, men imidlertid ikke frem mod nogen balance. De sidste 65 millioner år har hovedtendensen, det vil sige over det lange stræk, været kendetegnet ved afkøling.

Det er imidlertid for tidligt at sige, om der er tale om en klar tendens; selv om man kunne antage, at afkøling ville være det naturlige i takt med, at Jorden blev ældre.

Fra fredagens kommentar, der tidligere er bragt i Jyllands-Posten.

Kilde til afkølingstendens

Læs mere her.

Også den australske geolog Ian Plimer, mener at en istid, er noget man burde interessere sig mere for end en behersket kortvarig opvarmningsperiode.

Læs Klimapolitiker? Se her!

Ansvarlige politikere bør imidlertid først og fremmest interessere sig for, hvordan velstanden i samfundet bliver skabt. Her anbefales økonom Ludwig von Mises Human Action (der ikke på nogen som helst måde handler om klimaforandringer):

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28/09/06

Klimapolitiker? Se her!

Permanent link Af Kategori: Ian PlimerSimon Espersen, 12:02:51, Kategorier: Konkurrence og Regulering, Kyoto, Innovation og Vækst, Sikkerhed og Integritet, JunkScience, co2, Thor Pedersen, Ian Plimer,

I Copenhagen Institute kan vi konstatere en voksende interesse for det famøse brev, der blev rundsendt af Finansminister Thor pedersen den 17. marts 2005 til samtlige medlemmer af regeringen vedhæftet en kommentar i Jyllands-Posten, af undertegnede, om klimapolitikken.

I den anledning skal henvises til en glimrende introduktion til planetens opståen, og de klimaforandringer, der efterfølgende har fundet sted af den australske geolog Ian Plimer.

I den forbindelse skal også mindes om "stråmanden", der handler om at Kyoto-modstandere angiveligt skulle benægte klimaforandringer. Som den australske geolog bemærker, bør man tværtimod hæfte sig ved vor tids demagoger, der siger at "klimaforandringer er en realitet", og dermed implicit antyder, at det ikke har været tilfældet endog meget længe.

Hovedpointen fra undertegnedes side er således, at forandringer i milliarder af år selvsagt har været en realitet, men at den væsentlige og mest centrale forudsætning for, at man kan forholde sig til forandringer, det nu engang er sikringen af menneskets handlefrihed, det vil sige, at vi skal styrke den personlige frihed herunder de økonomiske friheder, og ikke svække dem. - En åbenlys svækkelse af den økonomiske handlefrihed er netop den fattigdomsskabende og restriktive Kyoto-protokol.

(- I denne anledning skal også henvises til søndagens kronik i Berlingske Tidende, hvor undertegnede skrev at for at kunne tænke og drage praktisk nytte af tænkning kræves [...] friheden til at handle, og til at opnå udbytte af såvel tanke som handling, samt til artiklen i RÆSON, hvorved det gerne skulle fremgå, at konsekvenserne ved Kyoto-protokollen er åbenlyst negative.).

Geolog Ian Plimer indleder sin introducerende historie til planeten jordens udvikling og de mange forandringer, der har fundet sted, således:

IN THE LONG AGO Planet Earth condensed 4,550 million years ago (Ma) from recycled stardust. Since that time, the continents have been enlarging, Earth materials have been constantly recycled and the Earth and all associated systems have been dynamically evolving. The Earth has not stopped being an evolving dynamic system just because humans now live on the continents...

Plimers Essay kan downloades her. (pdf)

En længere version findes her. (doc)

Besøg Kyoto Kritik.

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17/09/06

En historie om forandringer

Permanent link Af Kategori: Ian PlimerSimon Espersen, 12:35:03, Kategorier: Uddannelse, Kyoto, JunkScience, Svend Auken, Ian Plimer,

I anledning af Svend Aukens kronik idag i Jyllands-Posten bringes følgende historie (med henvisning nederst) af Professor Ian Plimer, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne:

In 1831, Admiral Sir James Robert George Graham had the Union Jack hoisted on a volcanic land mass that suddenly appeared near Sicily.

It was called Graham Bank and was claimed by England. It was also claimed by the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies who called it Isola Ferdinandea, the French (L'Isle Julia) and other powers who variously named it Nerita, Hotham, Scicca and Corrao. In the subsequent dispute over ownership, France and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies almost came to war and England and the Two Kingdoms of Sicily had a diplomatic row.

During the intense diplomatic dispute, the island quietly slipped back underwater.

In 1987, US warplanes thought the dark mass 8 metres below sea level was a Libyan submarine and attacked it with depth charges.

In February 2000 when the volcano again stirred, Domenico Macalusa, a surgeon, diver and the Honorary Inspector of Sicilian Cultural Relics, took action. He persuaded Charles and Camilla, the last two surviving relatives of the Bourbon Kings of the Two Sicilies to fund the bolting of a 150 kg marble plaque to the volcano at some 20 metres below sea level.

The plaque pre-empted ownership if the volcano ever again rose above sea level. It was placed underwater in September 2001, by November 2002, person or persons unknown had smashed the plaque into 12 pieces.

This rock [it] is worth nothing, is of no use as a territorial possession and is of no scientific interest and yet the French and Bourbons nearly came to war 170 years ago and the English and Italians are still in dispute.

Graham Banks serves to show that whatever political decisions we humans make, the land rises and falls, sea level rises and fall and climates change as they have done since the dawn of time.

Læs The Past is the Key to the Present: Greenhouse and Icehouse over Time
(doc-fil)