Cllimate Change - the EU's Mission Impossible
Peter C Glover
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Some of the articles I have recently been drafting for Energy Tribune magazine and online - including today's 'Climate Change - the EU's Mission Impossible' have now been published online as well as Tribune's August EU special magazine.
Others by me and just published include:
The Great EU Energy Policy Switchover (on the impossiblility of the EU meeting renewables targets)
The EU & Russia: An Uneasy Oil and Gas Bond (a two-parter on the interesting three-way energy relation between the EU-Russia-Germany) and (with Robert Bryce) The EU and US Energy Markets: side by side (analysing relative energy consumptions et al).
From the Sepember issue I will be covering energy and energy poltiics issues for both ET's Europe and Middle East sections including an interesting look ahead entitled: Does the Middle East Matter?
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As your other site precludes the possibility of comment in appropriate places, I wondered if you could clarify some of the statements you have made, or taken from other sources as your justification.
The first graphic is one of Northern Hemisphere Land Temperature and Solar Cycle, which apparently is meant to undeline the 'fact' that you expound, that the sun is responsible for 'cyclical' variations in temperature. I happened to notice that the graph is authored by Dr Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon, in the Astrophysical Journal.
Would that be the same Dr Baliunas who belongs to any number of organisations in the USA that receives funding from the global oil giant ExxonMobil? The same Dr Baliunas who belongs to the Competative Enterprise Institute that is also funded by ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute, Cigna Corporation, Dow Chemical, EBCO Corp, General Motors, and IBM.
Is this the same Dr S Baliunas who belongs to the George C. Marshal Institute who, in 2005 published the book "Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming," edited by Patrick J. Michaels and containing essays by Sallie L. Baliunas, Robert C. Balling Jr., Randall S. Cerveny, John Christy, Robert E. Davis, Oliver W. Frauenfeld, Ross McKitrick, Patrick J. Michaels, Eric S. Posmentier, Willie Soon.
This is the same GMI that has received $US 715,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998. And is that the same Willie Soon that authored that graph you have show it must be the sun?
Your 'Ten Myths of Global Warming' is taken entirely from an organisation called Friends of Science, whose Scientific Advisory Board is headed by, wait for it, one Dr Sallie Baliunas.
Finally, as I have only just begun making my way through all the apparent 'debunking' I notice that at the top of your 'Key Sites' list, you have that of Senator James Inhofe. His name rang a bell somwhere, so I checked, and lo and behold, he belongs to name but a few: Tech Central Science Foundation, along with Dr. Baliunas and Willie Soon. Also, like Baliunas, he belongs to the Competative Enterprise Institute whose funding has already been commented on. Further both Baliunas and the good Senator are members of The Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy, whom, by their own admission "is a national, non-profit educational organization that supports and promotes responsible energy, environmental, health and safety policy-making through the use of sound science. Founded by scientists, former policy-makers, and economists, The Center is committed to ensuring that public policy decisions are based on scientific facts and reasoning." They have recieved regular annual funding from ExxonMobil and are primarily funded by the National Association of Manufacturers.
Now, far be it for me to cast aspersions, but I get the faint whiff of the exchange of greenbacks and mutual palm greasing. And that is just for starters. If I examined your site further I could probably connect most everyone, and show that they are funded by global companies who have an interest in 'debunking' climate science due to the effect it will have on their profit margins.
I also have some bets on as to how long, if at all, you allow this comment to remain on your site. I dare you to have the courage to comment on some of my facts, and the cojones (for want of a better English word) to actually let this stay on your site. But I am pretty certain what the response will be, because the only duff science, is that which you are presenting on your site.