Taxing Air - Facts and Fallacies About Climate Change

first hypothesized by Fourier first measured by Tyndall Fourier’s interpretation an oversimplification what is it greenhouse gases methane ozone what are they which are the most important Greenpeace ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– H Hadley Centre global average temperature record Hansen, James head of climate studies, GISS Happer, William

distinguished physicist (Princeton) Heartland Institute funding for climate agnostics heat is an intrinsic property poleward transfer by ocean and atmosphere Heidelberg Appeal statement about carbon dioxide, 1992 Holocene as an interglacial early Holocene climatic optimum hot spot, atmospheric · See global warming Hoyle, Fred Ice, the Ultimate Human Catastrophe Hughes, Gordon reliability and costs of wind turbines –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

I ice cores Greenland Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal Indian Ocean Dipole6 International Climate Science Coalition IPCC climate alarmism by critical audit of its recommendations involvement with Climategate report on extreme weather events, 2012 science taken on trust by Stern and Garnaut isotopes, definition · 73 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– J Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA) Jones, Alan

remedial training in fact presentation Jones, Phil Director, Climate Research Unit ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– K Karoly, David and Australia’s carbon dioxide emissions Kininmonth, Bill Klaus, Vaclav environmentalism threat Koeppen, Wladimir world climate zonation Kyoto Protocol withdrawal of NZ, Russia, Japan, Canada ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– L Laframboise, Donna

The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert lapse rate · See climate system last glaciation Leipzig Declaration statement about carbon dioxide, 1997 Lindzen, Richard Alfred P. Sloan Prof. of Meteorology, MIT pole-equator temperature gradients Little Ice Age not shown by Mann’s hockey stick local relative sea-level · See sea-level Lynas, Mark failure of German alternative energy policy ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– M Manhattan Declaration

statement about carbon dioxide, 2008 Mann, Michael hockey stick temperature graph Maunder Minimum · See solar influences on climate McIntyre, Steve dismantling the hockey stick McKitrick, Ross dismantling the hockey stic no experts on climate change Medieval and other warm periods . Medieval Warm Period not shown by Mann’s hockey stick methane · See greenhouse gases methane gas-hydrate · Milankovitch variations See climate cycles models · See computer models

Monckton, Christopher warming averted by cuts in Australian emissions Montford, Andrew The Hockey Stick Illusion Montreal Protocol, 1987 to limit CFC emissions Moore, Patrick co-founder of Greenpeace mountains · See climate system MRET · See energy generation, MRET scheme Murray-Darling Basin environmental health of ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– N Nghiem, Son Arctic scientist, NASA

Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) North Atlantic Oscillation Nova, Joanne funds for global warming research nuclear power · See alternative energy nuclear radiation less harmful than widely feared ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– O ocean as a buffered solution changing alkalinity of ocean processes as a control on climate thermohaline circulation ocean circulation modulation by solar influences

Oettinger, Gunther EU energy policy opinion polls value undermined by language ambiguity Oregon Petition statement on carbon dioxide, 1998-2007 ozone · See also greenhouse gases damage to the ozone layer in the modern atmosphere ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– P Pacific Decadal Oscillation pH Pliocene climatic optimum polar bears are not decreasing precaution against natural hazard precautionary principle

giving earth the benefit of the doubt Productivity Commission quiet on the carbon dioxide tax proxy records of temperature oxygen isotope analysis ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– R radioactive decay heating from Reiter, Paul Director infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute Riehl, Herbert and Joanne Malkus cumulus clouds as a cooling mechanism Rio Earth Summit, 1992 Rudd, Kevin commissioned Garnaut Report

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– S Santer, Ben signal-noise ratio of human climate signal Scafetta, Nicola solar cycles control climate sceptic · See climate sceptic science court scientific consensus scientific method sea-ice Arctic Ocean and Antarctica sea-level difference between local and global (eustatic) higher than present isostatic rebound rate of rise lessening

satellite measurement tide gauge measurement what controls the position of the shoreline Singer, Fred Director, U.S. Satellite Weather Service solar influences on climat 1,500 year (Bond) cycle common in Holocene Grand Minima and Maxima latitudinal distribution of radiation magnetic activity modulation of cosmic rays solar power · See alternative energy Soon, Willie solar influences on climate Southern Oscillation Index speleothems, Chillagoe cave Steffen, Will

Director, Climate Change Institute, ANU Steirou and Houtsoyiannis reanalysis, 20th century temperatures Stern, Nicholas author of UK report on the economics of global warming ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– T tectonics temperature 150 year thermometer record represents weather not climate is not an intrinsic property temperature trend long-term cooling through the Holocene The Carbon Dioxide Tax - I · See IX The Carbon Dioxide Tax - II · See X The Carbon Dioxide Tax - III · See XI

The Greenhouse Hypothesis · See IV troposphere definition of Tyndall, John first measurements of radiation absorbtion by greenhouse gases, 1850s ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– U United Nations letter to Secretary-General (Bali, 2007) letter to Secretary-General (Copenhagen, 2009) letter to the Secretary-General (Cancun, 2010) letter to the Secretary-General (Doha, 2012) United Nations Environment Programme urban heat island effect ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– V

Villach climate meeting, 1985 volcanic activity effect on climate ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– W warmaholic Watson, Phil sea-level rise in eastern Australia weather seasons what is it Wegener, Alfred father of continental drift Wegman, Edward Mann hockey stick audit Western Pacific Warm Pool Wheatley, Joseph

Irish windfarms Whitehouse, David BBC online science editor windfarm, windturbine · See alternative energy World Meteorological Organisation World Wildlife Fund ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– X XBT · See expendable bathythermograph ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Z Zimmerman, Margaret poll of climate scientists, 2008