Posted 20 May 2013

In this video extract, one if America's top physicists, Dr William Happer, of Princeton University, tells the CNBC TV audience that Planet Earth would benefit from 1000 ppm of carbon dioxide, well over twice today's current level.

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Posted 18 May 2013

John Cook, a blogger who runs the site with the ambush title “SkepticalScience” (which unskeptically defends the mainstream position), has tried to revive the put-down and smear strategy against the thousands of scientists who disagree. The new paper confounds climate research with financial forces, is based on the wrong assumptions, uses fallacious reasoning, wasn’t independent, and confuses a consensus of climate scientists for a scientific consensus, not that a consensus proves anything anyway, if it existed. His paper alleging a "97% consensus" support for man-made global warming, has been comprehensively torn to shreds by West Australian blogger, Joanne Nova.

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Posted 15 May 2013

An interesting video in which US TV host John Stossel attempts to engage NASA scientist Dr Gavin Schmidt in debate with Dr Roy Spencer.  Like other alarmist scientists, Schmidt refuses to debate, so Mr Stossel records their views separately, before winding up with an explanation by UK scientist and author Matt Ridley why human emissions of carbon dioxide are good for the Earth and its people.  Watch, listen and form your own opinion.  

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Posted 14 May 2013

"Of all of the world's chemical compounds, none has a worse reputation than carbon dioxide. Thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control of energy production, the conventional wisdom about carbon dioxide is that it is a dangerous pollutant. That's simply not the case. Contrary to what some would have us believe, increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will benefit the increasing population on the planet by increasing agricultural productivity." Two top U.S. scientists write in the Wall Street Journal.

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