Welcome to www.ClimateCheck.org This is an independent UK based website established to help evaluate and disseminate sound scientific information on climate change and its causes, as a guide to the public and policymakers.   The site further seeks to draw attention to inappropriate policies which are not based on science.  You may add your comments or questions in the discussion forum.

The Real Global Warming Disaster
Is the obsession with 'climate change' turning out to be the most costly scientific blunder in history? by Christopher Booker
(published by Continuum International Publishing Group in October 2009)
This book tells the whole story in a unemotional but factual and easy to read style with all sources of information shown in appendices.  It shows how politicians are badly informed concerning the science and the extremely costly decisions that have been made.  It is easy to read and would be a good book to read first - strongly recommended.   Please add your review in the Forum.

Roy Spencer , Ph. D. climatologist, author, former NASA scientist
""... And now my old boss when I was at NASA (as well as James Hansen’s old boss), John Theon, has stated very clearly that he doesn’t believe global warming is manmade…and adding “climate models are useless” for good measure. Even I wouldn’t go quite that far, since I use simple ones in my published research."  Apart from the blog this website has Latest Global Temperatures and several other interesting reports.

Compare daily Arctic  sea ice - satellite images showing percentage concentration for dates entered (The Cryosphere Today)

An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look At Global Warming by Nigel Lawson
(published by Duckworth in April 2008) - see Forum for more details - strongly recommended.  Please add your review in the Forum.

Nasa is out of line on global warming
By Christopher Booker - 27 July 2008

Is the earth getting warmer, or cooler?
A tale of two thermometers
By Steven Goddard - posted in Science 2 May 2008

Solar activity 'not behind climate change'   3 April 2008
The research, carried out by physicists at Lancaster University, undermines claims by climate sceptics that cosmic rays are key drivers in cloudiness and temperature. The theory claims that variation in solar activity leads to a corresponding variance in cosmic rays.
Article     Full report      For comments see discussion forum     See also Cloud Proposals

NYC Climate Conference Further Debunks ‘Consensus’ Claims
Climate Skeptics Reveal ‘Horror Stories’ of Scientific Suppression
Written by George Landrith - Tuesday, 11 March 2008

Scientists skeptical of man-made climate fears meeting at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in New York City described the “absolute horror stories” about how some scientific journals have engaged in “outrageous and unethical behaviour” in attempting to suppress them from publishing their work in peer-reviewed journals. The March 2-4 groundbreaking conference, which featured about 100 speakers with over 500 people attending, presented the report of a team of international scientists who formed a group to counter the UN IPCC.

The event, which garnered significant international and U.S. media attention, featured many current and former UN IPCC scientists from around the world. The international climate conference built on the momentum of growing number of skeptics as the conference showcased a new report by a team of international scientists who formed a group to counter the UN IPCC called the “Nongovernmental International Panel of Climate Change” (NIPCC). The skeptical scientist report was titled “Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate.”

Key findings of the NIPCC’s climate findings:

(1) Most of climate change is caused by natural forces.
(2) The human contribution is not significant.
(3) Solar-activity changes are the main cause of climate change.

Climate Scientist Dr. S. Fred Singer, former director the US Weather Satellite Service and past vice chairman of the U.S. National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere, told the conference that the IPCC “chose to ignore these facts, because they conflicted with the conclusion that global warming is anthropogenic (man-made). 
PDF version of the study: Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate

“Global warming has stopped,” said David Whitehouse, former science editor for the BBC. “It’s not a viewpoint or a skeptic’s inaccuracy. It’s an observational fact.” But the observational fact matters little to global warming alarmists, particularly those in the media.

Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called "consensus" on man-made global warming. These scientists, many of whom are current and former participants in the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), criticized the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore.

Finland: Dr. Boris Winterhalter, retired Senior Marine Researcher of the Geological Survey of Finland and former professor of marine geology at University of Helsinki, criticized the media for what he considered its alarming climate coverage. “The effect of solar winds on cosmic radiation has just recently been established and, furthermore, there seems to be a good correlation between cloudiness and variations in the intensity of cosmic radiation. Here we have a mechanism which is a far better explanation to variations in global climate than the attempts by IPCC to blame it all on anthropogenic input of greenhouse gases. “

Britain: Dr. Richard Courtney, a UN IPCC expert reviewer and a UK-based climate and atmospheric science consultant: “To date, no convincing evidence for AGW (anthropogenic global warming) has been discovered. And recent global climate behavior is not consistent with AGW model predictions.”

The full article

Notes on climate change

Contents of the guide:

     Introduction
 1  Medieval Warm Period
 2  Surface temperatures, CO₂ level and solar activity
 3  More on solar activity
 4  Other planets
 5  Anomalies in global warming inconsistent with the greenhouse effect
 6  Urban heat island effect
 7  Surface temperatures compared to satellite temperatures and weather balloons
 8  Are hurricanes getting worse?
 9  Droughts
10 Climate variability
11 Rising sea levels and glacier meltdown
12 Perma-defrost releasing methane
13 Benefits of more CO₂
14 Greenhouse gases
15 Consensus of scientists
16 Summaries of the IPCC Fourth Assessment
17 Reducing anthropogenic production of CO₂
18 Carbon credits
19 Individual effort
20 Biofuels
21 Carbon offsets – the facts
22 Carbon dioxide capture and storage
23 Political agenda
24 Summary

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