Alarmist Doomsday warning of rising seas 'was wrong', says Met Office study

Another Global Warming Consequence Exaggerated
Well this is unfortunate timing. Just as it is being reported that the Cancun climate talks are in danger of collapse, a report is published that debunks one more of the extreme Global Warming consequences claims. Alarming predictions that Global Warming could cause sea levels to rise 6ft in the next century are wrong, it has emerged. The forecast made by the influential 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which would have seen cities around the world submerged by water, now looks ...

Emissions from Deforestation Lower than Earlier Estimates, Study Says
A study by ecologists employed at a U.S. consulting firm says that Carbon Emissions from destruction of tropical forests are likely half of previous estimates, a finding that could affect international efforts to compensate developing nations for leaving forests intact. The new analysis, presented during the international climate talks in Cancun, says Deforestation accounts for about 8 percent of global carbon emissions, with a likely range of 5 to 12 percent, according to Winrock International...

Global Warming Stopped...15 Years Ago
How inconvenient: A year ago tomorrow, just before the opening of the UN Copenhagen world climate summit, the British Meteorological Office issued a confident prediction. The mean world temperature for 2010, it announced, 'is expected to be 14.58C, the warmest on record' - a deeply worrying 0.58C above the 19611990 average. World temperatures, it went on, were locked inexorably into an everrising trend: 'Our experimental decadal forecast confirms previous indications that about half the years ...

AGW Today: Marshall Islands Could Disappear Due To Sea Rise
Unshockingly, this breathless report comes from a reporter in.......exotic Cancun, Mexico, rather than from the Marshall IslandsCANCUN, Mexico - Encroaching seas in the far Pacific are raising the salt level in the wells of the Marshall Islands. Waves threaten to cut one sliver of an island in two. "It's getting worse," says Kaminaga Kaminaga, the tiny nation's Climate Change coordinator.Two things to pre-notice: if all the Glaciers and ice are melting, and they are composed primarily of f...

IPCC's Doomsday Prediction of Rising Seas 'Was Wrong'
Credibility washed away Remember all that crazy talk about Sea Levels rising from nonexistent Global Warming? Well, it was all nonsense. Of course a lot of us said so at the time, but we were called deniers.Alarming predictions that global warming could cause Sea Levels to rise 6ft in the next century are wrong, it has emerged. The forecast made by the influential 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which would have seen cities around the world submerged by water, now looks ‘unli...

Climate summit in Cancun intent on progress
Cancun, MEXICO - The U.N.-sponsored climate talks, which began here a week ago, entered a new phase Monday, as delegates and high-ranking ministers from nearly 200 countries settled into vast, sunless meeting rooms, intent on restoring the credibility of a process aimed at slowing Global Warming. While last year's climate talks in Copenhagen produced little despite attracting more than 100 heads of state, some experts suggested this wonkish two-week meeting in a resort better known for colleg...

Temperature may hit high in 2010
The global average temperature could reach a record high in 2010, according to the UK's Met Office. Forecasters predict that the annual figure for 2010 will be 14.58C (58.24F), 0.58C (1.04F) above the long-term average of 14.0C (57.2F). They say the combination of Climate Change and a moderate warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean are set to drive up temperatures next year. The current record record is 14.52C (58.14F), which was set in 1998. "The latest forecast from our climate scientis...

'Warmest Year on Record'? The Truth is Global Warming Has Halted
© Daily Mail Winter's icy grip: Drivers and Pedestrians battle through blizzards in Kent last week. A year ago tomorrow, just before the opening of the UN Copenhagen world climate summit, the British Meteorological Office issued a confident prediction. The mean world temperature for 2010, it announced, 'is expected to be 14.58C, the warmest on record' - a deeply worrying 0.58C above the 1961-1990 average. World temperatures, it went on, were locked inexorably into an ever rising trend: ...

2010: the warmest year on record that wasn't
Last year, the prediction was that 2010 will be the warmest year on record. Last Thanksgiving, the AP was ringing the Global Warming alarm bells (again) right when the CRU Scandal was unfolding: AP ignores CRU emails, instead says Global Warming accelerating! Quotes people in CRU emails! So much for that meme. From the UK Daily Mail: What happened to the 'warmest year on record': The truth is Global Warming has halted A year ago tomorrow, just before the opening of the UN Copenhagen world clima...

Hot Off The Presses, Or Six Hundreths Of A Degree Of Separation
The Daily Mail's David Rose notes that the British Meteorological Office has lowered its 2010 yearly temperature forecast slightly from this time last year. This means that Global Warming is over, the cult of climatological change has been completely debunked, and Al Gore is fat. Never mind that Britain, just as it was last winter and the winter before, was deep in the grip of a cold snap, which has seen some temperatures plummet to minus 20C, and that here 2010 has been the coolest year since 1...

Obama Stopped the Rising of the Seas
Just like he promised during the campaign: Alarming predictions that Global Warming could cause sea levels to rise 6ft in the next century are wrong, it has emerged. The forecast made by the influential 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which would have seen cities around the world submerged by water, now looks ‘unlikely’. A Met Office study also rules out the shutdown of the Atlantic Ocean’s conveyor belt, which would trigger Arctic winters in Britain like those...

Cancun Climate Summit: Can Rainforests Be Saved With Cash Injections?
Protecting the world's Rainforests is a central issue at this month's Climate Change Conference in Cancun. Huge sums are to be offered to countries that protect their forests. However, experts fear that these rewards could be misused, and that they could actually promote Deforestation. If you want to save the world, there's no point starting in Paradise. At least that's what Environmental Protection groups said when it was announced that the world climate summit would be held on the tropical s...

AGW Today: Marshall Islands Could Disappear Due To Sea Rise
CANCUN, Mexico - Encroaching seas in the far Pacific are raising the salt level in the wells of the Marshall Islands. Waves threaten to cut one sliver of an island in two. “It’s getting worse,” says Kaminaga Kaminaga, the tiny nation’s Climate Change coordinator. Two things to pre-notice: if all the Glaciers and ice are melting, and they are composed primarily of fresh water, wouldn’t that mean the seas are getting less salty? Second, remember that thing about...

Marshall Islands' Climate Change Dilemma: If It Vanishes Beneath Rising Sea Levels, Is It Still A Nation?
CHARLES J. HANLEY | 12/ 6/10 02:27 PM | AP Cancun, Mexico — Encroaching seas in the far Pacific are raising the salt level in the wells of the Marshall Islands. Waves threaten to cut one sliver of an island in two. "It's getting worse," says Kaminaga Kaminaga, the tiny nation's Climate Change coordinator. The rising ocean raises questions, too: What happens if the 61,000 Marshallese must abandon their low-lying atolls? Would they still be a nation? With a U.N. seat? With control of their ol...

Committee on Climate Change advises UK to cut emissions 60% by 2030
An Electric Vehicle charging point in Brighton. Millions of petrol cars should be replaced with electric or plug-in hybrid models, according to the Committee on Climate Change. Photograph: Alamy The UK will cut its greenhouse Gas Emissions by 60% by 2030 under world-leading proposals from the government's advisers on climate change. Achieving the target proposed by the Committee on Climate Change requires a complete revamp of the nation's electricity market, making it virtually zero-carbon, ...

IEA director calls for action at Cancun
Published: Dec. 7, 2010 at 10:03 AM Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- There is no time to waste in finding a comprehensive environmental solution because the tab for green energy is rising, the IEA director said from Mexico. International Energy Agency Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said world leaders needed to find the political will during climate talks in Mexico to advance the agenda beyond vague commitments reached at last year's summit in Denmark. "Despite the positive steps taken last year ...

Shocker: IPCC Alarmism About Melting Ice Caps And Flooded Cities Turns Out To Be False
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the “scientific consensus” that is endlessly referred to by Environmental Activists like Al Gore when they want to silence any dissent to Global Warming dogma. In fact, the IPCC was the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize with Al Gore for their work on the climate change issue. One of the most over-the-top claims made by the IPCC was that sea levels were going to rise due to melting ice caps (among other things) and those rising sea levels...

Cancun climate conference: Fears over global deal on forests
A global deal to save Rainforests, backed by the Prince of Wales, is hanging in the balance at the Cancun Climate Change talks as countries struggle to agree on how to stop Deforestation....

Experts: Glacier melt speeds up, risking lives
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) - United Nations and other international experts say the lives and livelihoods of people in South Asia are at "high risk" as Global Warming melts Glaciers in the Himalayas. The glacier melt is sending floods crashing down from overloaded mountain lakes and depriving farmers of steady sources of water. The U.N. Environment Program says that worldwide, "since the beginning of the 1980s, the rate of ice loss has increased substantially in many regions, concurrent with an increa...

Experts: Glacier melt speeds up, risking lives
An Activist from Via Campesina, an international movement of peasants, holds a container filled with incense during the 'Global Forum for Life, Environmental and Social Justice', an alternative event parallel to the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. According to the UN weather agency, 2010 is "almost certain" to rank among the three Hottest years on record, and the 2001-2010 decade is the warmest period since the beginning of weather records in 1850. United N...

If Cancun Climate Talks Falter, Blame the US
The most recent round of United Nations-led Climate Change negotiations began this week in Cancun, and although international expectations are muted this year, the stakes are still high. As Mother Jones‘ Kate Sheppard explains,"The 2010 meeting could make or break the future of global negotiations.” This is the sixteenth Conference of the Parties, convened by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). After the tepid results of last year’s conferen...

Scientists Fight Inhofe Attack On Climate Fund
Scientists Fight Inhofe Attack On Climate Fund The Wonk Room is reporting and tweeting live from the international climate talks in Cancun, Mexico. A group of four Republican senators, led by climate denier Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), have lashed out at the Obama Administration’s efforts to protect the poorest and most vulnerable people of the world from climate disasters. Inhofe, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), and Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) wrote a letter to Preside...

Pachauri Debunks Myth Of IPCC As Money-Hungry Bureaucracy
Pachauri Debunks Myth Of IPCC As Money-Hungry Bureaucracy The Wonk Room is reporting and tweeting live from the international climate talks in Cancun, Mexico. Right-wing opponents of climate action such as Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Koch Industries’ Americans For Prosperity have attempted to demonize climate scientists as part of a corrupt, conspiratorial United Nations bureaucracy trying to accumulate money and power. In an interview on Friday with the Wonk Room, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri,...

Scientists fight Inhofe attack on climate fund
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.).Cross-posted from the Wonk Room. A group of four Republican senators, led by climate denier Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), have lashed out at the Obama Administration's efforts to protect the poorest and most vulnerable people of the world from climate disasters. Inhofe, Sens. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), David Vitter (R-La.), and George Voinovich (R-Ohio) wrote a letter to President Barack Obama telling him to drop an international adaptation fund for the least developed nati...

Group brings Cancun delegates to nearby village without electricity
In case you were unaware, the United Nations is holding a climate summit right now in Cancun. They are sunning and making big plans to limit international Economic Growth, because they are convinced that the observed phenomenon of Global Warming will result in a disaster right out of some movie. (Cancun, Mexico) On Wednesday, December 8th, CFACT will bring COP16 delegates and press to tour La Libertad, a Mexican community only minutes from the comforts of the Cancun tourist zone, where the poor ...