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Time for an Australia New Zealand Royal Commission
on Global Warming.
31 Jan 2008
A group of Australian and New Zealand organisations and scientists today called on
the governments of Australia and New Zealand to set up an Australia New Zealand Royal Commission on the Science of Global Warming (to be known as “The ANZIG
Royal Commission” – the Australia New Zealand Inquiry into Global Warming).The chairman of Australia’s Carbon Sense Coalition,Mr Viv Forbes, said that many groups and individuals in Australia and New Zealand had listened with alarm anddisbelief to plans of both governments to saddle their people and industries with the burdens of carbon taxes and the risks of carbon trading which he described as “an open invitation to massive fraud”.“We also fear the enormous costs of taxing and decimating our backbone industries of farming, mining, power generation, cement making, forestry, mineral processing and tourism and subsidising many expensive and ineffective alternate energyproposals. The very high costs to society of the actions being proposed require that we settle the science before forcing the whole ANZ community into a futile and expensive exercise to solve a problem that may not exist. ‘Do it just in case’ is not an option. “The Australian Government has set up the Garnaut Review to look into the likely costs of various proposals for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. However, we need a parallel independent inquiry into the science to determine whether any action at all is required. “The science is definitely not settled. Hundreds of qualified independent scientists around the world now question whether sufficient attention has been paid to the proven historical influence of natural solar cycles, and many other aspects of climate science. Since the scientific investigations for the IPCC fourth assessment reportwere completed 18 months ago, new research and new observations have cast serious doubt on many of the IPCC’s conclusions."Everyone, from the highest government minister tothe lowliest taxpayingconsumer, must realise that unless it can be proved beyond reasonable doubt that carbon dioxide causes excessive global warming, there is no justification for imposing restrictions and costs on emitters of carbon dioxide. These burdens will pass inevitably on to the whole community, and will fall most heavily on those who can least afford them. No valid, verifiable scientific proof has yet been established.All we have are hypotheses and speculations based on computer models.Governments have a duty to create an opportunity for the full range of scientific evidence to be examined and evaluated. This can best be done by way of a Royal Commission of Inquiry,” Mr Forbes continued.“Australia and New Zealand are both heavily dependent on primary production and world trade, neither have nuclear power, and both are leaders in science in the southern hemisphere. The whole hemisphere would bevery damaged by the global warming extremism of Al Gore and old Europe. Al Gore is more motivated by PR Royal Commission Jan08.doc
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extreme Green politics than scientific truth whileOld Europe believes that their nuclear capacity protects them from the carbon costs they plan to impose on others.”Mr Forbes said that this proposal is the joint initiative of The Carbon Sense Coalition based in Australia and the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, and is supported by individual scientists and industry representatives such as:
•Leon Ashby (Mt Gambier, SA), Chairman Landholders Institute, President
Bushvision, and Centenary medal recipient for services to conservation and the environment.
•The Australian Beef Association, via its chairman B
rad Bellinger (Ashford,
NSW), director John Niven (Grenfell, NSW), and director, John Michelmore
BAppSc(Chem), (Eyre, SA).
•John Carter (Crookwell, NSW), rural activist and co
mmentator, founder and director of the Australian Beef Association.
•Professor Bob Carter (QLD), palaeontologist, strati
grapher, marine geologist
and environmental scientist, a research Professor at James Cook University
(Qld) and University of Adelaide (SA).
•Howard Crozier (NSW), councillor of the NSW Farmers
Federation and previously General Manager Finance and Administrati
on of CSIRO.
•Emeritus Professor Lance Endersbee AO, Former Dean
of Engineering and Pro-Vice Chancellor, Monash University. Past President, The Institution of
Engineers, Australia (1980). Author, “A Voyage of Discovery”, a history of
ideas about the earth (2005).
•Bryan Leyland MSc, FIEE, FIMechE, FIPENZ, MRSNZ, consulting engineer to the power industry and chairman of the Economics
Panel of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition.
•Owen McShane, director of the Centre for Resource Management Studies in
New Zealand, and chairman of the policy panel of the New Zealand Climate
Science Coalition.
•Dr Muriel Newman (NZ), proprietor of the New Zealand Centre for Political Research.
“We are all of the view that CO2 in the atmosphere
is a benefit not a threat to humans, and there is no need to launch a massive assault on our lifestyle, industry and prosperity to solve a non problem.
“We have four recommendations:
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1.That the Australian and New Zealand governments commission a joint public inquiry to investigate and report on the science underlying the claims that man-made CO2 causes dangerous global wa
rming. This enquiry must consider whether it is likely that human activity has had a significant effect on global warming and the extent to which the policies being proposed to cut man’s greenhouse gas emissions are likely to affect global warming or any other aspects of climate.
2.That the inquiry be under the charge of at least three commissioners including at least one Australian and one New Zealander, preferably wellqualified in science and able to take an objective, independent view of the IPCC process. The chairman should be skilled in obtaining and assessing evidence. (To ensure it has full jurisdiction in both countries, each government may appoint its own enquiry with one or two commissioners, and a common chairman, with meetings to be held concurrently, some in each country).
3.That the inquiry have the power and funding to initiate wide ranging scientific inquiries into all aspects of present knowledge on climate and to take and consider evidence on climate change and to analyse the likely effects of currently proposed policies on reducing
carbon emissions.
4.
until such an inquiry has reported, no steps be taken to institute an emissions reduction programme of any kind in Australia or New Zealand. Mr Forbes said that it is clear there is growing concern among the world scientific community about the conclusions being promoted by the IPCC. “In contrast to the 2000 or so scientists who are claimed to have contributed to the IPCC (many of whom do not support the extremist political conclusions promoted by the IPCC) there are at least 20,000 scientists whohave signed their names in public opposition to the IPCC. (See references below). “In addition, many organisations, think tanks and business leaders have voiced opposition to the radical proposals from the IPCC, and many more are quietly dismayed. There is no consensus about the science, even if scientific questions could be decided by a show of hands. Scientific questions are determined by facts andevidence, and this is what a Royal Commission can discover and make public.“In further support of this proposal we have appended links to various submissions made recently to the Garnaut Enquiry, and other relevant documents,” Mr Forbes concluded. Terry Dunleavy, secretary of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, comments: “An ANZ approach to this vital issue is anatural flow-on from close co-operation already existing between the two trans-Tasman neighbours. Australia and New Zealand have one of the most open economic andtrade relationships of any two countries. This is based on a comprehensive set of trade and economic arrangements,
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known as Closer Economic Relations (CE
R), which underpin substantial flows of merchandise trade, services, investment, labour and visitors between the two countries. Implemented in 1983, CER has already seen such joint official bodies
as:
• ANZSFA, the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Authority;
• JAS-ANZ covering classifications and standards in
official statistics;
• Ensis, a joint venture of forestry R & D.
• Negotiations to form a joint Australia New Zealand Therapeutics Agency. “In New Zealand, government advocates of a carbon emissions trading regime have referred to the desirability of harmonising with Australia. Surely, it is logical to first establish that there is scientific justification for the imposition of an economically burdensome carbon emissions scheme, before going down that costly track, whether together or separately. Two countries as close together as we are in so many official
ways should have no difficulty in sorting out any jurisdictional complexities arising from the creation of a joint ANZAC Royal Commission to look at an issue that is so common to us both," said Mr Dunleavy.
Ends
1320 words
Authorised by:
Viv Forbes, BScApp, FAusIMM, FSIA
Chairman
The Carbon Sense Coalition
MS 23
Rosewood Qld
0754 640 533
www.carbon-sense.com
info@carbon-sense.com
Terry Dunleavy, MBE, JP
Secretary
The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
New Zealand
http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php
terry.dunleavy@nzclimatescience.org.nz
tel +6494863859 (or +64274836688)
Dr Muriel Newman
Director
New Zealand Centre for Political Research
Whangarei.
New Zealand
http://www.nzcpr.com/About.htm
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Brad Bellinger
Chairman
Australian Beef Association
NSW
bbellinger@nsw.chariot.net.au
Howard Crozier
Executive Councilor of NSW Farmers Association
Australia.
crozierh@nswfarmers.org.au
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References:
1.
Submission by the Carbon Sense Coalition to the Garnaut Review
:http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/garnaut-submission.pdf
2. Submission by the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition to the New Zealand Parliament in 2006, calling for a Royal Commission:
http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=205&itemid=1
3.
Submission by The Lavoisier Society to the Garnaut
Review: http://www.lavoisier.com.au/papers/articles/Garnaut
FinalSubmission.pdf
4. Submission by Prof Bob Carter to the Garnaut Review:
http://carbon-sense.com/2008/01/30/submission-to-the-garnaut-review-by-prof-r-m-carter/
5.
Submission by Howard Cozier to the Garnaut Review:
See Garnaut Review website.
6.
Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made glo
bal warming:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=927b9303-802a-23ad-494b-dccb00b51a12
7.
20,000 scientists sign petition against global warm
ing hysteria:
http://www.oism.org/pproject/
8.
Over 100 Prominent Scientists Warn UN: Attempting To Control Climate Is Futile:
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=64002
In 1997, fully 90% of US State Climatologists did NOT agree with the ADW Hypotheses (Quoted in
Singer and Avery, 2007, 65-66)
9. Recent observations show that the world has not
warmed since 1998, and 2007 is the coolest year
since 2000
:http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=2641
http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/1998-no-longer-the-hottest-year-on-record-in-usa/
10. Recent research shows the solar cycles, cosmic rays and clouds have a major effect on our climate:
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Svensmark, H. and Calder, N., 2007. The Chilling St
ars – a new theory of Climate Change, Icon
Books. ISBN-10: 1-84046-815-7
http://carbon-sense.com/2007/12/30/climate-change-is-nothing-new/
11. It is generally agreed that if greenhouse warmi
ng was occurring, the strongest warming would be
in the upper atmosphere above the tropics. Recent research shows this is not occurring, which indicates that warming is not being caused by green
house gases:
Douglass, D.H., J.R. Christy, B.D. Pearson, and S.F
. Singer. 2007. A comparison of tropical
temperature trends with model predictions. Internat
ional Journal of Climatology, DOI:
10.1002/joc.1651.
12.
Australian Parliamentary Enquiry. Dissenting report
on Geo-sequestration:
http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/geosequestration-dissent.pdf
13. Prof David Henderson: Governments are Mishandli
ng Climate Change Issues:
http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_co
ntent&task=view&id=181&itemid=1
14. Program for International Climate Change Confer
ence in New York:
http://carbon-sense.com/2008/01/28/the-2008-interna
tional-conference-on-climate-change/
15. “Climate Change Re-examined”, Joel Kauffman, 2007:
http://nzclimatescience.net/images/PDFs/ccr.pdf
16. Lance Endersbee reported that temperature readings from 27 rural ground stations in Australia
showed no sign of global warming over the 110 years of temperature records (to 1990). (Endersbee,
L, 2005 “
A Voyage of Discovery”,
Fig 142 , page 244).
See also his “Climate Change is Nothing New:
http://carbon-sense.com/2007/12/30/climate-change-is-nothing-new/#more-40
UAH Version 6 Global Satellite Temperature Products:
4 Methodology and Results
5
Roy W. Spencer1
, John R. Christy1
and William D. Braswell1
6
1
7 Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 320 Sparkman Drive,
8 Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A.
9
10 Accepted by
11 Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Science
12 November, 2016
27 Corresponding Author: Roy W. Spencer, Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama
28 in Huntsville, 320 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, Alabama 35805
Abstract
Version 6 of the UAH MSU/AMSU global satellite temperature dataset represents an
33 extensive revision of the procedures employed in previous versions of the UAH datasets. The
34 two most significant results from an end-user perspective are (1) a decrease in the global-average
35 lower tropospheric temperature (LT) trend from +0.14 C/decade to +0.11 C/decade (Jan. 1979
36 through Dec. 2015); and (2) the geographic distribution of the LT trends, including higher spatial
37 resolution, owing to a new method for computing LT. We describe the major changes in
38 processing strategy, including a new method for monthly gridpoint averaging which uses all of
39 the footprint data yet eliminates the need for limb correction; a new multi-channel (rather than
40 multi-angle) method for computing the lower tropospheric (LT) temperature product which
41 requires an additional tropopause (TP) channel to be used; and a new empirical method for
42 diurnal drift correction. We show results for LT, the mid-troposphere (MT, from
43 MSU2/AMSU5), and lower stratosphere (LS, from MSU4/AMSU9). A 0.03 C/decade reduction
44 in the global LT trend from the Version 5.6 product is partly due to lesser sensitivity of the new
45 LT to land surface skin temperature (est. 0.01 C/decade), with the remainder of the reduction
46 (0.02 C/decade) due to the new diurnal drift adjustment, the more robust method of LT
47 calculation, and other changes in processing procedures.
48
49 Key words: global temperature, satellites, climate change
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