California Governor Jerry Brown had some strong warnings about future cost impacts due to the effects of global warming. According to some scientists over the next couple of hundred years, sea levels could rise up to four feet and that will affect the airports in Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as the nuclear plant in San Onofre. Brown said, “If that happens, the Los Angeles airport’s going to be under water…so is the San Francisco airport. You’re going to have to move all that.”
“Unfortunately, someone had the temerity to do some fact checking and discovered that LAX is over one hundred feet above sea level and unless you are a Common Core math graduate, a four-foot change would have “minimal impact on airport operations.” Jim Vanne
“The University of Queensland in Australia is taking legal action to block the release of data used by one of its scientists to come up with the oft-quoted statistic that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that mankind is causing global warming.” Michael Bastasch
Where Did ’97 Percent’ Global Warming Consensus Figure Come From?
Michael Bastasch, Daily Caller, May 16, 2014
The University of Queensland in Australia is taking legal action to block the release of data used by one of its scientists to come up with the oft-quoted statistic that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that mankind is causing global warming.
Since coming out with this figure last year, climate scientist John Cook of the University of Queensland’s Global Change Institute has been under fire for the methodology he used.
“Our analysis indicates that the number of papers rejecting the consensus on [anthropogenic global warming] is a vanishingly small proportion of the published research,’’ Cook and his fellow authors wrote in their study which was published in the journal Environmental Research Letters last year.
The university has told climate skeptic blogger Brandon Schollenberger that the data on the study he possesses was illegally obtained and they would take legal action against him if he published it.
“UQ has therefore published all data relating to the paper that is of any scientific value to the wider community,” said Queensland’s acting pro-vice-chancellor Alastair McEwan.
“UQ withheld only data that could identify research participants who took part in the research on condition of anonymity,” McEwan added. “Such conditions are not uncommon in academic research, and any breach of confidentiality could deter people from participating in valuable research in the future.” Continue reading