2008-03-02 Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate

2008-03-02 S. Fred Singer Science and Environmental Policy Project \global warming denial\global warming/skepticism/arguments\publications\PDFs http://www.heartland.org/custom/semod_policybot/pdf/22835.pdf Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate This is a printed 40-page 8.5"x11" glossy booklet (downloadable as PDF), ostensibly presenting arguments against the anthropogenic origins of global warming. Web page with a summary is here, and a shorter PowerPoint (.ppt) presentation here.

It has been widely cross-posted on and linked from various global warming skepticism web sites, including those of:
 * Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) - link and synopsis
 * JunkScience.com - link
 * Free Republic - post, with reader comments generally of the "I bet the press won't report this, and if they do it will be biased" variety
 * International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) - link: "...easy but compelling read..."
 * Australian Climate Science Coalition (ACSC) - link
 * New Zealand Climate Science Coalition (NZCSC) - link: "...easy-to-read but compelling report..."
 * Western Institute for Study of the Environment (WISE) - link with excerpts
 * Right Side News - link with synopsis
 * Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP) - link with copy of Heartland's abstract
 * Climate Change Fraud (CCF) - link and abstract
 * "...we are not paid shills of the energy industry or any other group.", but they don't actually say who they are -- and their domain contact info is proxied
 * site has links to a vast array of global warming skepticism sites
 * Cornwall Alliance - link and synopsis
 * Global Warming or Global Governance - link - site seems to be arguing that global warming is a part of a conspiracy to impose global rule
 * EnergyInnovator - synopsis and link
 * CO2 Sceptics - link and copy of Heartland synopsis

Favorable commentary:
 * 2008-03-05 Jennifer Marohasy's blog, entry by "Paul": The 'NIPCC' Report 2008: Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate
 * 2008-03-06 Not PC blog: "Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate" - NIPCC
 * 2008-09-02 American Freedom Movement - review / editorial
 * 2008-09-08 Hawaii Reporter - review by Michael R. Fox Ph. D.
 * linked by Carnival of Climate Change, a project of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research (TCPR) -
 * 2009-01-27 SchansBlog, the personal blog of Eric Schansberg, a Libertarian Christian politician in Indiana

Related:
 * date uncertain video of Fred Singer lecturing on this publication; one negative comment underneath, with calm but non-specific rebuttal

Credits

 * Editor: Fred Singer
 * Contributors:
 * Warren Anderson (United States)
 * Dennis Avery (United States)
 * Franco Battaglia (Italy)
 * Robert M. Carter (Australia) - SPPI Science Adviser; ICSC Science Advisory Board
 * Richard Courtney (United Kingdom)
 * Joseph D'Aleo (United States) - SPPI Meteorology Adviser
 * Fred Goldberg (Sweden)
 * Vincent Gray (New Zealand)
 * Kenneth Haapala (United States)
 * Klaus Heiss (Austria)
 * Craig Idso (United States) - SPPI Science Adviser
 * Zbigniew Jaworowski (Poland)
 * Olavi KÃ¤rner (Estonia)
 * Madhav Khandekar (Canada)
 * William Kininmonth (Australia) - SPPI Science Adviser; ICSC Science Advisory Board
 * Hans Labohm (Netherlands) - ICSC Science Advisory Board
 * Christopher Monckton (United Kingdom) - SPPI Chief Policy Adviser; ICSC Policy Advisory Board
 * Lubos Motl (Czech Republic)
 * Tom Segalstad (Norway)
 * S. Fred Singer (United States)
 * George Taylor (United States)
 * Dick Thoenes (Netherlands)
 * Anton Uriarte (Spain)
 * Gerd Weber (Germany)

It is credited to the Science and Environmental Policy Project, of which Singer is founder and president, and The Heartland Institute, a libertarian/conservative/free market public policy think tank.

a printed 40-page 8.5"x11" glossy booklet (downloadable as PDF), ostensibly presenting arguments against the anthropogenic origins of global warming   