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Group rejects 'unfounded' global warming claims
01.05.06 1.00pm
 
A group of leading climate scientists has announced the formation of the
New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, aimed at refuting what it believes
are unfounded claims about man-made global warming.

"We believe this is a significant development in opening up the debate
about the real effects of climate change and the justification for the costs
and other measures prescribed in the Kyoto protocols," said the
coalition's secretary, Terry Dunleavy.

He said members of the coalition had had enough of "over-exaggerated"
claims about the effects of man-made global warming and aimed to
provide a balance to "what is being fed to the people of New Zealand".

The coalition includes such well-known climate scientists as:

* Dr Vincent Gray, of Wellington, an expert reviewer for the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), most recently a
visiting scholar at the Beijing Climate Centre in China.

* Dr Gerrit J van der Lingen, of Christchurch, geologist/paleoclimatologist,
climate change consultant, former director GRAINZ (Geoscience Research
and Investigations New Zealand).

* Prof August H. (Augie) Auer, of Auckland, past professor of
atmospheric science, University of Wyoming; previously chief
meteorologist, Meteorological Service (MetService) of New Zealand.

* Professor Bob Carter, a New Zealander, now at the Marine Geophysical
Laboratory, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia.

* Warwick Hughes, a New Zealand earth scientist living in Perth, who
conducts a comprehensive website: www.warwickhughes.com

* Roger Dewhurst, of Katikati, consulting environmental geologist and
hydrogeologist.

* Owen McShane, of Kaiwaka, director of the Centre for Resource
Management Studies, who is convenor of the establishment committee,
said many scientists and economists were concerned that the United
Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had an effective
monopoly on public announcements on global warming.

"Its statements go largely unchallenged -- or go largely unchallenged in
a format that will carry weight with governments, the media or the
general public," said Mr McShane.

"Hence, a new 'sceptical consensus' has developed that, before the next
IPCC report is published in February next year, there should be a panel,
or panels, of experts who have established themselves as 'auditors' of
the IPCC, both here in New Zealand and abroad.

"Those of us involved in forming this coalition believe that now is the
time for individual countries like New Zealand to assemble their own
national expert panels, so that these panels can form larger groupings
with like minded-panels from other countries so as to be ready to deal
with the reports to be published by the IPCC next year.

"Their aim should not be to repeat, or parallel, the work of the IPCC, but
to audit its reports, and to let the members of the IPCC know that such
auditors are waiting in the wings," said Mr McShane.

He said that the coalition's three main roles would be:

* To publish and distribute papers and commentaries produced by
members of the coalition;

* To audit statements by other organisations, both in New Zealand and
overseas, which are published in New Zealand, or are expected to
influence New Zealand public policy and public opinion;

* To audit the forthcoming United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) report.

The coalition has registered a website domain name,
www.climatescience.org.nz, which it expects to have running within a day
or two.

- NZPA

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International
Study by US Government agency on global warming says ""clear evidence
of human influences on the climate system"
By Finfacts Team
May 3, 2006, 08:33

A scientific study commissioned by the Bush administration concluded on
Tuesday that the lower atmosphere was indeed growing warmer and that
there was "clear evidence of human influences on the climate system." 
The study is the first of 21 assessments planned by the Federal Climate
Change Science Program, which was created by the administration in
2002 to address what it called unresolved questions.

The U.S. Climate Change Science Program issued the first of 21
Synthesis and Assessment S&A Products with findings that improve our
understanding of climate change and human influences on temperature
trends.

¡°Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere: Steps for Understanding
and Reconciling Differences,¡± tackles some of the long-standing
difficulties that have impeded understanding of changes in atmospheric
temperatures and the basic causes of these changes.

According to the published report, there is no longer a discrepancy in the
rate of global average temperature increase for the surface compared
with higher levels in the atmosphere. This discrepancy had previously
been used to challenge the validity of climate models used to detect and
attribute the causes of observed climate change. This is an important
revision to and update of the conclusions of earlier reports from the U.S.
National Research Council and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change.

This synthesis and assessment report exposes the remaining differences
among different observing systems and data sets related to recent
changes in tropospheric and stratospheric temperature, said Chief Editor
Dr. Thomas Karl, director of NOAA National Climatic Data Center.
"Discrepancies between the data sets and the models have been reduced
and our understanding of observed climate changes and their causes have
increased.  The evidence continues to support a substantial human impact
on global temperature increases. This should constitute a valuable source
of information to policymakers.

The report corrects errors that have been identified in the satellite data
and other temperature observations. These and other analyses have
increased confidence in the understanding of observed climatic changes
and their causes. The published report also states that research to detect
climate change and attribute its causes using patterns of observed
temperature change in space and time shows clear evidence of human
influences on the climate system due to changes in greenhouse gases,
aerosols, and stratospheric ozone. Also, the observed patterns of change
over the past 50 years cannot be explained by natural processes alone,
nor by the effects of short-lived atmospheric constituents such as
aerosols and tropospheric ozone alone.

The previously reported discrepancy between surface and atmospheric
temperature trends is no longer apparent on a global scale.  These
trends are consistent with climate model simulations.  One issue does
remain however, and that is related to the rates of warming in the
tropics. Here, models and theory predict an amplification of surface
warming higher in the atmosphere. However, this greater warming aloft is
not evident in three of the five observational data sets used in the
report.  Whether this is a result of uncertainties in the observed data,
flaws in climate models, or a combination of these is not yet known. 
Using the evidence available, the author team favors the first explanation.

The publication of S&A Product 1.1 signals a tremendous accomplishment,
not simply because of its scientific content, but also because of the
breadth in scope of contributing authors backgrounds and the meticulous
research they undertook, said Dr. James Mahoney, recently retired CCSP
director. The findings reflect years of effort in tackling difficult and
complex issues that have hampered our understanding of global climate. It
is the first of several significant products that are illustrative of the
outstanding research that will result from the CCSP.

During a workshop in 2002 that was attended by senior leadership in the
Bush Administration scientific agencies, as well as more than 1,000
physical and social scientists, the CCSP adopted five overarching
scientific goals that guide all climate research conducted by the federal
government. The 21 S&A Products further refine these goals and address
key topics that are necessary to resolve in order to make well informed
decisions. The S&A Products are designed to inform public debate, policy
and operational decisions, as well as defining and setting the future
direction and priorities of the program.

NOAA, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is dedicated to
enhancing economic security and national safety through the prediction
and research of weather and climate-related events and providing
environmental stewardship of the nation's coastal and marine resources. 
Through the emerging Global Earth Observation System of Systems
(GEOSS), NOAA is working with its federal partners, 61 countries and the
European Commission to develop a global network that is as integrated
as the planet it observes, predicts and protects.

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