Roger Helmer MEP

Over and over again, in the great Climate Debate, we read that “not a single peer-reviewed scientific paper supports the sceptics”.  This claim came up recently in a comment from Julian Lees, which appeared on my earlier blog item “Driving to a greener future”.  I think the claim originated with Al Gore, and like so much that Al Gore says, it’s transparent nonsense.  On the contrary, we have recently seen a steady increase in the number of peer-reviewed sceptical papers.
 
2007 alone has provided an abundance of peer-reviewed papers debunking the man-made CO2 “consensus”.   A recent survey of peer-reviewed papers from 2004-2007 reveals that less than half of published papers endorse man-made global warming theory.  In the past 4 months, there has been a rush of sceptical peer-reviewed papers.  A good reference is the US Senate report: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=84e9e44a-802a-23ad-493a-b35d0842fed8 <http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=84e9e44a-802a-23ad-493a-b35d0842fed8>
 
Even the impeccably correct New York Times admits that the earth is well within natural climate variability.  All the promoters of climate alarmism have to go on are unproven computer model predictions of doom. But two top UN scientists admit models are not predictions and are not reliable. (Renwick and Trebwernth)
 
Antarctic Sea ice is at an historic maximum, and Antarctica is not following predicted global warming models.   Greenland has COOLED since the ’30 and ‘40s.  (Follow the Greenland link in report above — peer-reviewed studies literally make a mockery of Greenland melt fears).   Even the UK Met Office concedes that global warming has stopped in past few years.  The southern hemisphere is cooling.  Alarmists should really go and check the literature before insisting that “all serious scientists endorse man-made global warming”.