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7 February 2013:  Geologist Bob Carter provides a superb essay on the empirical failure of the hypothesis of dangerous man-made global warming, titled "An Alternative View from Down Under." Professor Carter points out that the hypothesis fails five empirical tests:

1) Large increases in atmospheric warming have failed to produce any global warming over the last 16 years;

2) The magnitude of 20th Century warming falls within the envelope of past natural climate change;

3) Historically, temperature change precedes changes in atmospheric CO2;

4) Global climate model projections of atmospheric and ocean warming are not confirmed by empirical data;

5) Warming of Antarctica and the lower equatorial atmosphere predicted by climate models has not occurred.

Professor Carter's excellent essay can be found here.

11 December 2012:  In a letter published by the Financial Post on November 29, 134 scientists countered assertions by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that extreme weather events were caused by man-made global warming.

The letter states:

"The incidence and severity of extreme weather has not increased. There is little evidence that dangerous weather-related events will occur more often in the future…we ask that you desist from exploiting the misery of the families of those who lost their lives or properties in tropical storm Sandy by making unsupportable claims that human influences caused that storm. They did not. We also ask that you acknowledge that policy actions by the U.N., or by the signatory nations to the UNFCCC, that aim to reduce CO₂ emissions are unlikely to exercise any significant influence on future climate. Climate policies therefore need to focus on preparation for, and adaptation to, all dangerous climatic events however caused."

Read the entire letter here.

September 28, 2012: "Sounding the ice cap alarm while ignoring the elephant", by Steve Goreham, M.S., MBA, Executive Director, Climate Science Coalition of America, published in PhillyBurbs.com, the largest suburban website in Southeastern Pennsylvania and the online location for the Bucks County Courier Times, Burlington County Times and The Intelligencer in Doylestown.

"The Amundsen-Scott station is the third U.S. station. The first two stations were buried by accumulating snow. Every year, the South Pole receives a net snow accumulation of about eight inches. The current station is modular and supported on stilts. It can be jacked up every year above the accumulating snow to prolong its life. Contrary to the fears of Climatism, 90 percent of Earth’s icecaps are expanding!"

Read whole piece.