Climate Change Reconsidered: 2011 Interim Report on the Nongovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), already under severe criticism for violating the requirements of academic peer review and relying on secondary sources, comes under attack again in a new book co-produced by three nonprofit research organizations.

According to Climate Change Reconsidered: 2011 Interim Report, natural causes are very likely to be [the] dominant cause of climate change that took place in the twentieth and at the start of the twenty-first centuries. We are not saying anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHG) cannot produce some warming or have not in the past. Our conclusion is that the evidence shows they are not playing a substantial role.

The authors of the new report Craig D. Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer go on to say the net effect of continued warming and rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere is most likely to be beneficial to humans, plants, and wildlife.

Both conclusions contradict the findings of the widely cited reports of the IPCC.

The book is titled Climate Change Reconsidered: 2011 Interim Report because it precedes a comprehensive volume that is expected to be released in 2013. It focuses on scientific research released since publication of Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC).

Climate Change Reconsidered 2011: Interim Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) will reward the reader searching for a one-stop source of authoritative and documented information on the multifaceted topic of climate change. In contrast to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), this encyclopedic volume appears to have no preset agenda serving to support the claim of catastrophic, man-made climate disruption. Instead, numerous research papers are quoted and referenced which serve to illustrate the complexity inherent in understanding the scope of the topic and the natural drivers of climate, along with the difficulty in convincingly attributing such changes to human origin. This compendium of referenced papers on a variety of climate related topics is informative in itself, but along the way also serves to counter many of the IPCC claims of anthropogenic causation and climate model validity. The ten main chapters cover topics ranging from "Climate Models and Their Limitations to Economic and Other Policy Implications. The open-minded reader will appreciate finding the material presented accessible to those without a background in the climate sciences, yet referenced papers accompany the narrative text for those wishing to delve deeper. Highly recommended. --Charles G. Battig, MS, MD, Science Writer

We owe a huge debt of gratitude to those courageous scientists that stood their ground against the global warming fraud.

Recently The Heartland Institute, in concert with the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change and the Science and Environmental Policy Project, published Climate Change Reconsidered: 2011 Interim Report. It is 430 pages co-authored by Dr. Craig D. Idso, Dr. Robert M. Carter, and Dr. S. Fred Singer, all of whom have been among the scientists repeatedly slandered as global warming deniers and skeptics for their efforts to educate the public.

The report, in carefully documented, scientific language, identifies the way the warmists computer models over-estimated the amount of warming, ignored the fact that increased carbon dioxide benefits plant growth, that there is less melting in the Arctic, Antarctic and on mountain tops than claimed, and that there is no sign of acceleration of sea-level rise in recent decades.

A recent Rasmussen survey indicates that upwards of 60% of Americans have concluded that humans have nothing to do with global warming or any other aspect of the climate. This is extraordinary when one considers how the mainstream media, the curriculums in the nation s schools, and the unceasing efforts of major environmental organizations have tried to impose the global warming claims on the public.

--Alan Caruba, Warning Signs