[Coral-List] notice particularly paragraph 5
Steve Mussman
sealab at earthlink.net
Mon Mar 24 14:57:03 EDT 2014
The good news is that The Bloomberg Room at the National Press Club is only
500 square feet or 46 square meters with a seating capacity of less than
fifty. May the carbon dioxide level and room temperature benefit all
present.
-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric Appleman
>Sent: Mar 24, 2014 12:48 PM
>To: Coral-List at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
>Subject: [Coral-List] notice particularly paragraph 5
>
>Benefits of Global Warming Greatly Exceed Costs, New Study Says
>*Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) to Issue Its
>Critiqueof the United Nations' IPCC Working Groups II and III Reports at
>National Press Club on April 9*
>
>*What: *Breakfast press conference with authors and reviewers of *Climate
>Change Reconsidered II*: *Biological Impacts*, and*Climate Change
>Reconsidered II: Human Welfare, Energy, and Policies*
>
>*When: *Wednesday, April 9, 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
>
>*Where: *National Press Club, Bloomberg Room, 529 14th Street NW,
>Washington, DC
>
>*Who: Joseph Bast*, president, The Heartland Institute; *Dr. S. Fred
Singer*,
>professor emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia;
*Dr.
>Craig D. Idso*, founder, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global
>Change, and others to be announced.
>
>An international panel of climate scientists and economists will release a
>massive new report April 9 that finds the benefits of global warming
>"greatly exceed any plausible estimate of its costs." The new report, the
>second and third volumes of *Climate Change Reconsidered II*, were produced
>by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change
>(NIPCC)
>and published by The Heartland Institute.
>
>The new report summarizes scholarly research published as recently as
>January 2014 on the impacts, costs, and benefits of climate change. Hefty
>chapters summarize thousands of peer-reviewed studies of the impact of
>rising levels of carbon dioxide - a greenhouse gas produced during the
>burning of fossil fuels - on plants and soils, agriculture, forests,
>wildlife, ocean life, and humankind.
>
>The authors find higher levels of carbon dioxide and warmer temperatures
>benefit nearly all plants, leading to more leaves, more fruit, more
>vigorous growth, and greater resistance to pests, drought, and other forms
>of "stress." Wildlife benefits as their habitats grow and expand. Even
>polar bears, the poster child of anti-global warming activist groups such
>as the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), are benefiting from warmer
>temperatures.
>
>"Despite thousands of scientific articles affirming numerous benefits of
>rising temperatures and atmospheric CO2, IPCC makes almost no mention of
>any positive externalities resulting from such," said one of the report's
>lead authors, Dr. Craig D. Idso. "*Climate Change Reconsidered II *corrects
>this failure, presenting an analysis of thousands of neglected research
>studies IPCC has downplayed or ignored in its reports so that scientists,
>politicians, educators, and the general public can be better informed and
>make decisions about the potential impacts of CO2-induced climate change."
>
>The authors look closely at claims climate change will injure coral and
>other forms of marine life, possibly leading to some species extinctions.
>They conclude such claims lack scientific foundation and often are grossly
>exaggerated. Corals have survived warming periods in the past that caused
>ocean temperatures and sea levels to be much higher than today's levels or
>those likely to occur in the next century.
>
>The authors contend the world's economies are heavily dependent on fossil
>fuels because such fuels are and will continue to be safer, less expensive,
>more reliable, and of vastly greater supply than alternative fuels such as
>wind and solar. Dramatically reducing the use of fossil fuels would have
>devastating effects on workers and consumers of both the developed and
>developing worlds, leading to severe hardship and even deaths.
>
>Rather than continue to fight what is most likely a natural and unstoppable
>phenomenon, the authors call for adopting new energy and environmental
>policies that acknowledge current market and environmental realities. Such
>policies would encourage economic growth as the foundation for a cleaner
>environment, responsible development and use of fossil fuels until superior
>energy sources are found, and repeal of many of the regulations, subsidies,
>and taxes passed at the height of the man-made global warming scare.
>
>A Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of the report, written in collaboration
>with the lead authors and approved by them, will be available at the press
>conference. The complete study will be released digitally in April and
>available in printed form in May.
>
>Previous volumes in the *Climate Change Reconsidered *series were published
>in 2008 ,
>2009
>, 2011 , and
>2013.
>Those volumes are widely recognized as the most comprehensive and
>authoritative critiques of the reports of the United Nations'
>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In June 2013, a division
>of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published a Chinese translation and
>condensed edition of the 2009 and 2011 volumes.
>
>For copies of previous reports and background on NIPCC, please visit
>the Climate
>Change Reconsidered website .
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