Global Warming or Climate Change

AP Photo/Heribert Proepper by   DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS 26 Apr 2015 47 A major inquiry has been launched into the reliability of official global surface temperature records following widespread allegations that data has been manipulated to prove that global warming is happening. According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), from which the US government draws official statistics, 2014 was the hottest year globally since records began in 1880. However, Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) and the University of Alabama (UAH), both of which rely on satellite systems to gauge global temperatures, show no such warming. NOAA gathers its data from a network of more than 3,000 weather stations known as the Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN).However, in the light of the different pictures being painted by the satellites and weather stations, analysts have examined the data and point to hundreds of examples of data from the ...

The London-based think-tank the Global Warming Policy Foundation is today launching a major inquiry into the integrity of the official global surface temperature records. An internati onal team of eminent climatologists, physicists and statisticians has been assembled under the chairmanship of Professor Terence Kealey, the former vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham. Questions have been raised about the reliability of the surface temperature data and the extent to which apparent warming trends may be artefacts of adjustments made after the data are collected. The inquiry will review the technical challenges in accurately measuring surface temperature, and will assess the extent of adjustments to the data, their integrity and whether they tend to increase or decrease the warming trend. Launching the inquiry, Professor Kealey said: “Many people have found the extent of adjustments to the data surprising. While we believe that the 20th century warming is real...

The Global Warming Policy Foundation was set up by Lord Lawson in 2009 and has been attacked for its position on global warming The UK’s most prominent climate change denial group is launching an inquiry into the integrity of global surface temperature records. The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), established by notable climate-change sceptic Lord Lawson, announced an international team of “eminent climatologists, physicists and statisticians” would investigate the reliability of the current data. Professor Terence Kealey, the former vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham, has been appointed chair of the international temperature data review project. Professor Kealey studied medicine at Oxford University before lecturing on clinical biochemistry, which is primarily concerned with the analysis of bodily fluids, at Cambridge University. It is unclear what experience he has in the field of climate change. The other five commissioners of the data review project: Petr ...

#PeoplesClimate: Faith Contingent & Unitarian Universalists (image by  Peter.Bowden )     DMCA Earth Day has passed, but the task of saving the Earth continues. Since the annual observance of the first large scale People's conference on the environment has become in many cases a memorial to past victories and in others a celebration of greenwashing, it's true purpose now may be to inspire us to take the time to reassess our strategies for accomplishing our most important goals. As world temperatures continue to hit record highs year after year since the turn of the century, an increasing number of climate change skeptics are admitting that global warming is real. The problem is that most resisted the idea in the first place because it was too frightening. Now they look for reasons to argue it is not an emergency. The problem is not that they are too frightened to face the reality of the human consequences if they are wrong: they are clearly capable of...

Twitter on the front of the New York Stock Exchange on Nov. 7, 2013.  (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images) This story has been updated. On the week of Sept. 8, 2014, the Web site Skeptical Science launched an online campaign to emphasize the broad scientific agreement about climate change. It was called “ 97 hours of consensus ,” and for each hour, the organizers put out a new statement from a climate scientist highlighting the scientific consensus — accompanied by  tweetable cartoon images  of each scientist. The campaign was popular enough that organizers claimed to have reached “millions” online. A tweet from Barack Obama surely didn’t hurt: The campaign did indeed create a successful spike in online attention, say the authors of a  new academic analysis  that crunches vast amounts of Web data to compare how differently Twitter and the mainstream media handle the subject of climate change. But what’s most in...

As the nation's capital gears up for a large Earth Day celebration this weekend, President Obama issued a warning on the dangers global warming pose to the planet. "Climate change can no longer be denied - or ignored," the president said in a video  Saturday. "The world is looking to the United States - to us - to lead." "Today, there's no greater threat to our planet than climate change," Mr. Obama continued. "This is the only planet we've got. And years from now, I want to be able to look our children and grandchildren in the eye and tell them that we did everything we could to protect it." Obama on impact of climate change on his family's health Ahead of Earth Day, EPA gets a glimpse of upcoming climate change fight Though Earth Day isn't officially until Wednesday of this coming week, the president is getting a head start on reminding the American people of the dangers of global warming. Earlier this month ...

Earth Day provided a fresh opening for Obama to raise alarms about global warming based on beliefs, not science. ENLARGE President Obama at Everglades National Park in Florida for Earth Day, April 22. PHOTO: JOE SKIPPER/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY ‘Today, our planet faces new challenges, but none pose a greater threat to future generations than climate change,” President Obama wrote in his proclamation for Earth Day on Wednesday. “As a Nation, we must act before it is too late.” Secretary of State John Kerry , in an Earth Day op-ed for USA Today, declared that climate change has put America “on a dangerous path—along with the rest of the world.” Both the president and Mr. Kerry cited rapidly warming global temperatures and ever-more-severe storms caused by climate change as reasons for urgent action. Given that for the past decade and a half global-temperature increases have been negligible, and that the worsening-storms scenario has been widely debunked, the pronouncements from th...