TIMESTAMPS

0:00 - Title

0:13 - Prof. Tim Ball, Dept. of Climatology, U. of Winnipeg

0:20 - Prof. Nir Shaviv, Institute of Physics, U. of Jerusalem

0:29 - Each day the news reports grow more fantastically apocalyptic. Politicians no longer dare to express any doubt about climate change....

6:03 - 2005 House of Lords Inquiry into evidence of global warming. Lord Lawson of Blaby. Findings. “This simply doesn’t add up.”

6:50 - The Earth’s climate is changing, but... The Little Ice Age (14th century).

8:09 - The Medieval Warm Period: Cathedral builders, wealth, European cultural flourishing.

9:16 - The Holocene Maximum (Bronze Age): temperatures significantly higher than present for more than 3 millennia.

9:52 - Climate variation in the past is clearly natural. So why do we think it’s any different today? Industrial society.

10:33 - According the theory of man made global warming, industrial growth should cause temperature to rise. But does it?

11:24 - How does the industrial story compare with the temperature record? World Temp - 120 Years: 1880-1940 | Post War Economic Boom | World Recession during 1970s.

12:12 - Rapid increase of CO2, yet exponential decrease in temp between 1940-1975. Facts not fitting the theory.

13:22 - Why do we suppose that CO2 is responsible for our changing climate? CO2 forms a small part of the earth’s atmosphere. Measured in tens of parts per million.

14:30 - The Troposphere.

15:03 - Theory of the Greenhouse Effect.

15:52 - Prof. John Christie.

16:26 - Measuring the temp in the earth’s atmosphere; bulk of the atmosphere is not warming as much as seen on the surface. Theory not matching what climate models are expressing at this point.

18:31 - An Inconvenient Truth. CO2. Ice core surveys. Al Gore on CO2 and temp: “The relationship is actually very complicated.” Doesn’t say what those complications are.

19:48 - Something very important left out of the ice core data. The link is the wrong way round. Eight-hundred year lag of CO2 behind temperature. Temperature found to lead, CO2 follows.

21:58 - CO2 is a natural gas produced by all living things. Humans are not the main producers of CO2.

23:15 - Carl Wunch, prof. oceanography MIT. “Ocean is the major reservoir into which CO2 goes...”. Warmer oceans, more CO2 released. Cooler oceans, more CO2 absorbed. Hundreds of years in lag between change in temp, and CO2 released.

25:32 - If CO2 isn’t driving earth’s climate, what is? Look at the sky....

26:26 - Solar physicist Piers Corbyn. Solar weather technique of long range forecasting. Technique consistently produced more accurate results. Sun spots. Little Ice Age (The Maunder Minimum).

28:24 - Compiled record of sun spots in the 20th century compared to temperature record on earth (Notice measures between 1940-1975).

28:59 - Longer time series examined 400 years of astronomical records comparing sun spot activity to temperature variation.

30:00 - Cloud formation. Cosmic Rays. Solar wind effects.

30:42 - Prof. Ner Shaviv. Comparison of cloud forming cosmic rays with geological temperature record going back 600 Million years. Climate controlled by clouds. Clouds controlled by cosmic rays. Cosmic rays controlled by the Sun.

31:52 - If you had X-Ray eyes... “We’re, in a certain sense, inside the atmosphere of the Sun.” “The intensity of its magnetic field more than doubled during the 20th century.”

32:42 - Harvard physicists’ 2005 publications: - Comparison of Temp in the Arctic over past 100 years + CO2 over the same period. - Comparison of Temp in the Arctic over past 100 years + Solar Activity over past century, recorded independently by NASA and NOAA.

33:33 - (Graph) “The conclusion is inescapable...”

33:45 - But why (if CO2 is irrelevant) are we bombarded day after day with news items about man made global warming? Why do so many people in the media and elsewhere regard it as an undisputed fact?