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306

Index

Abbott, Tony 235

'<lciclificalilln of the ocean' (see a/50

ocean

pH

balance) 33,74,87,

102-13

Akasofu, Syull 127

alkalinity ofthe oceans 102-13

Allegre, Claude 14

alternati ve energy

151,

240

American Geophy~iclll Union

(AGU) 177

An Inconvenient

Truth

83.98,131-3,

166

errors identified

by

Justice

Michael Burton 133

Antarctica 42,47,83, 139-40

Argo ocean probe network 121

Armstrong, Scott 127-8

Ashby, Leon 146

Attenborough, David 162

Australia

dimate policy 63,67, 132,

159-60, 162

Emergc.ncy Mamlgement

Australia (EMA) 226

environmentalmlvertising 169

Murray-Darling Fiver sy.,tem 135

nmur~1 di .• 3sters 64·5,135,164,

214

sea-level rise 92,98

Australhm Bwadcasting

Corporation (ABC) 181-2

Austral ian Bmeau

of

Meteorology

67, 136

Ausrralian Commonwealth

Scientific and Industrial Research

Organization (CSIRO) 116,

159-60

Australian Conservation

Foundation 33, 132, 169

Austmlian Environment

Foundat.ion (AEF) 145-6

Average Planetary Magnetic Index

(AP

index)

52

Bali "=~tter 204

Baliunas, Sallie 156

Ball, Tim 74

Rangladesh 92, 97

Barrett, Jack 108

BBC (British Broadcasting

Corporation) 187,231·6

Beck,

Ernst 72

Bellamy, David L08

Renm:tt, Jana 232

Blair, Tony D, 166, 1

n

Boaden,

Helen 232

Rohling, G.e. 65

Bolin,

Bert 12,28 Bolt, Andrew 15

Bouker, Christopher 14

Boston, JOl1<lthon 175

Bradley, Raymond 152

CUM,'\TE: THE COUNTER CONSENSUS

BrigneIl, John 130

British Anrarctic Survey 176

British Meteorological Office 119

Brown, Gordon 18

Brunner, Ronald 224

Burton, Michael 133

Bush, George 165

Cameron, David

16

carbon dioxide

benefits for plant growth 75, 84

consequence rather than driver of global temperature change 83,

122,134

half-life of carbon dioxide in the

atmosphere 71-4, 148

Henry's Law 106-7, 109

human contribution to 73-5,82 negative logarithmic relationship

betweell addition

of

carhon to

atmosphere and temperature

increase 76

ocean outgassing

89,

108-9,

134

ocean pH balance 102-13

'pollutant' definition

by US

Supreme CmJrt 85

seasonal changes in atmospheric

concentration 83

sequestration 82, 103, 214

carbon

dioxide

taxation systems

23, :32, 39, 63,162,173,221,237

carbon isowpes 73, 78-82

Chavez, Hugo 23fl

Cheney, Dick 117

cherry-picking of data 67

Christy, John 215

Church, John 96

Cicerone, Ralph 167

Clark, Megan 159

Climate Action Network (CAN)

170

climate change

abrupt 26,43,219

adaptarion to 13,24,217-28,245

'consensus' concerning 11,27,

29,191, 193,207

cost of research and policy 19,

149,220.2,230,238

education and 178·81

interest groups 32-3,181,220-1

local vs global change 54 natura! 23-5,30,34·5,38-9,47,

53-4,62-3,67.8,122,

128,

131-6,144-5,164.170,184,

194,196-7,203-6, 2ll, 217-20,

222-3.227·8,241,243-5

'climate norma!'

56-7

climate oscillations 39

Atlantic Multi-decadal

Oscillation 50,95,110-1,119,

122

Bond

Cycle 44,47,50, 157 EI N ina-Southern Oscillation

(ENSO) 95,98, 119,122, 125,

147

mid-Pleistocene revolution 4J

Milankovitch frequencies 40, 83

mlilridecada! cycling 68, 78

North Atlantic Oscillation

(NAO) 119

omitted from GCMs 119

Pacific Decadal Oscilbtlon (PDO)

95,111,119,122-3,125

solar cycles

sunspot cycle 48,51-2

Schwabe periodicity 48

Hale periodicity 48

Gleissberg periodicity 48

D:msgaard-Oeschger 50

Lunar Nodal Cycle

49

Southern

Annular

Mode

(SAlvO

95

Younger Dryas cooling 43-4,219

Climategate 15,60,159,230-7,

240-1

Climatic Research Unit (CRU) 13,

27,60 ll9,

128,135,230-7

computer modelling (5ee modelling)

Cohen, Martin 144

Coleman, John 235

Coroiso, j.c. 140

Copenhagen Conference (2009)

(see IPCC: conferences)

Copenhagen lerter 205

coral reefs 106, 111-3, 133

Great Barrier Reef 106,141, lSI

Cribb, Julian 183-4

Crichton, Michnel 141, 191

D'Aleo, Jogeph

60

Darwin, Charles 100

De'ath, Marc 112-3

de FreinJs, Chris 72, j 47

Ddingpole, James 15

Di-Aping, Lumumba Stanislal18 13

Dinunock, Stewart 133

DiPuccio,

W.

121

Di,\cover Magazine 150

Doswell, Chuck 185·6

Easterling, DK 30

Ehrlich,

Paul

164,168

Einstein, Albert 25

INDFX

El

Nino 30,62,95.98,102,123,

136,147,205,214,244

Environmental Protection Agency

(EPA) 85,224

Ereaut, G. 172

Eschenbach, Willis 99-100

Esper,

J.

157

Essex, Chrio 27-9, 119,148

European Organization for Nuclear

Research (CERN)

so

Federal Emergency Managemenr

AgellCy (FEMA) 226

Fleming, Charles

27

Flood, Wilson 58

fluctuations in the Earth's orbit 40

Framework Convention on Climate

Change (FCCC) 35

Galileo Galilei 11,58

Garnallt. Ross 25, 162,164

geneml circulation computer

climate

models (GCMs) 21, 115-29

failure to make SliccessCul

predictions 30, 123-4

CUMATE: THE COUNTER CONSENSt)~

omis!iion of natural cluTlatc

oscillations 119,122

pammeterization 116-7 sea-leycl 94

usc of proxy data 55

GeoNet

227

Geophysical I<esearch Letters (GRL)

30, 152 Ch;rlach, T.M. 73

Gerondeau, Christian 14

Ulobal warming (see climate

change)

Goldsmith, Edward 16

Gon:, Al 12-3, 17, 83, 98, 101.

128, 130-3,166, 172

Great Pacific Climate Shift 0976-7)

88,147

Green, Kesten 128

greenhouse effect

70-2, 75

negmive feedback loops 77, J4El

greenhouse gase~ 70

c~rb()n dioxide (see carbon dioxide)

water vapour 71, 77, 1 21, 146,

148

Greenbnd 42-4,65-7,83, 125, 1313-40,219

Creenpeace 13,33,169,198

lIadley Cenrre 27,32,34, 158

lblllilwn, Kim!' 176

H<ll1113h,

J.

96

Hansen, James 168, 187-90

Hanseni sm 187-90

Harrabin, Ruger 232

.310

Hathaway, David 52

Henderson, David 14

Hcrfort, L 111

'hockey stick' graph 152-7,234

Congressional commitree 156

Corrigendum 156

~tatistical analysis flawed 155 tree-ring records 154-6

HoffmaIl, Doug 220

Holdren, John 168

Holgate, Simon 96

Holmes, Paul 231-2

Holocene 41-7,68, 83, 142

Houghton, John 17,28

HomE of Commom Select

Committee on Science and

Technology 211. 217, 21)

Hughes, Malcolm 1.52

Hulme, M. 57

Hurrell, James 64

Hurricane Katrin:.l 63-S, lJ'" 137, 214,226

Idso, Craig 203

International Arctic Resccln:h

Center 127

International Meteorological

Org,mization (IMO) (s(~e also

World Meteorologlcal

Organization

Warsaw Conference (19~5) 56

WCC (lntergovemmcl1l:-l1 P,melUI1

Climate Change)

advert ising agencies i 44 -5

Assesment Rcpom 2H, 194-6

hrst Assessment Report 194,

196

Second Assessment Report 25,

136. 158, 199

Third Asses,ment Report 121.

124,136,152,20kl

Fourth Assessment Report 22>, 35,116-7,121, 163, 17.3, 191, 195, 197, 200-2

Fiflh Assessment Report 194,

202

~lSSllmed half-life of carbon

dioxide in the atmosphere 74

carnon i,o£ope analysis 80-2

Clll1(t;ro1CCS

Rloddaniero (1992) 13,194,

212

Kyoto (1997) (see Kyoto

Pmtocol)

Nairobi (2006) 173

I-hli (2007) 13, 173,204

Puman (2008) 173

Copenhagen (2009) 13, 85,

146,17.3. 192,204.215,225,

130,235,237-40

general circulation computl!r

climate models (GeMs) 30,

W, 11,),29

Himalayan glacier predictions

withdrawn 235

ignores ,[lIar intluence on

dilllale 53

political not scientific advice 26, 57,148-9,16.3,193,19,)

review procedures 197 -200

INDEX

.sea-level rise 89-91, 9.3,96, WI,

136

Summary for Policymaker,

(SP~.'1) 195-6, 204 temperature recurd~ )9, 62 Wllrking Grollp,

Working Group 1 - Physical

Science Basis 194-5,200

Working Group 2 - [mp<l(:t~,

Adaptation and

Vulnerability 194

Working Group 3 - Mitig:·nion

of Climate Change 194

Jones, Phil 229, 234

jownal of Marine SCience .33

Katrin,1 (see Hurrkanc KalTlIL'I) Kellow, Aymley 151

Klaus, Vaclav 12,14,86,216

Klyashrorin,

LB_ 125

Koppen, Wladimir 223

Kmov, Sergey 121

KlJursoyiannis, D. 121, 148

Krauthammcr, Charles 85

Kynto Prutocol 70, 159, 165,

173-4,194,215,221,230,237,239

Lu Nina 98, 13~ 147 Lamb, Harvey 82 La nd esman, Pe ter 115

Landsea. Chris 201

Lave, Lester 12

LHWSun, Nigel 14,17, [13, [63,

225

CU\·IATE: THE CCLNTER C<.)NSENSl:S

Legates, David 177-8

Limnology & Ocertnos;raphy 33

Lindzen, Richard 12,27,77,146,

161-2, [67

'iron triang[e of abrmism' 161-2

Little Ice Age 59,68,122,127,

134,137, 152, 156-7,212,219 Loaiciga, Hugo 148

Lockarr, N. ]Vi

Lochle, Craig 62.121,125,157

Lrnch, Amanda 224

Lysenko, Trofim 189-90 Lyubushin, A.A. 125

lvhhon, Pder 190

Manhatt<Jn Declaration 205-6,243

t..1ann, Michael 152,157-8,199,

234

Marshall Institute 166

May, Robert 165,232-3

MEH (Mann, Bradley and Hughes) graph (see 'hockey stick' graph)

McCulloch, Huston 157 Mclntyre, Steve 14,155-6 McKitrick, Ross 14,27-9,147,

155-6

~kLean, John 27,134,147,200 Iv1cMahon, Sean 44

media contributIOn to climate

(Ilarmi~m .D, 146, 150, 162,

18J-7,

230

Mediaeval Warm Period 6S, 89.

152, 156-7

MeteorologicalOfHce 27,34 Mich(le\s, Patrick 147

Milankovitch, Milutin 40,42

modelling

deterministic (see general circulmion models) sratistic;ll 124-7

forecas t i ng, mfi ve model 1 27 -8

Montford, Andrew 15

Murdoch, Rupert

2J

2

NASA (National Aeronautics and

Space Admimmation) 52,59,

187, 198,2.36

National Academy of Sciences (US) 166-R

Notional Center for Atmospheric

Research (NCAK.) 64

National EnVIronmental Research

Council (NERC) 199

N;ltionallnstitllte of Water and

Atmosphere (Nl\VA) 174-5

natural clim~1tc change (see cltffi<lte change: Il:01tura1)

Nmural Hazards 136

Nature 32, 152, 156, 165,225 New Political Economy 159-60

NewZeahnd 96,181-2

Climate Change and Governance

conference 1 7.3- 7

CleoNer

227

Newton, Isaac 130

Non-governmentallnternation~l

Panel on Climate Change

(NJPCC) 89-90, 134,203-4 Nott, Jonathan 137

O'Donnell, Guo WO

Oball1a, Barack 13,220,238

Occam, Willi:01m of 142

ocean acidification (see

'aciJificiHion of thl' ocerm')

ocean outgassing 89, lOS

ocean pH balance 102-13, 148

ocean temperature 87, 121, 147 Oilier, Cliff 140

Oregon Petition 206

Organisation of Economic

Co-oper;)tion and Development

(OECD) 14, 241

Oxburgh, Ron 176 ozone layer 123

Pachauri, Rajendra 13, 235

Pain, Colin 140

Parry, Martin .12

peer review 197 -200

Peiser, Benny 17,239

Perlwitz, Judith .\0

Pew Foumbtion .13

Phillips, Melanie 186

Plirner, Ian 14

Pockley, Peter 159

polar bear numbers 5.'), 130, 133-5,

141

population i.ncr~ase 84, 100 precaurionary principle 169-70,

209,211-3 Przybylak, R. 138

Ramesh, Jaimm 236

Raven, John 108

Ravetz, Jerome 14

Reid, John 116

Rellwick, Jim 175

Ridd, Peter 112, 1 Z2

Ring, Ed 70

Robbins, Tony 2S

Roberts, David 1.32

Rockefeller, John 0, 166

K.oral Society

2005 report 108

alarmist statenwnts 168

funding to climate sceptics

I"LJ~X

suppressed 165-6,209

RUSSIan Academy of Sciences [66,

189

Russtan Arnie und Antarctic

Re;;earch lmtirutc U8

Santer, Ben

25

S:mtorio, Santorio 58

Sarker, lvlaminul H:lquc 97

Scafetta, Nicol:l 177

Schneider, Stephen l. 50, 168

sea-level 87,89-102, 136

Allstralian South Pacific

Sea-level Pnw:cr 98

Bangladesh 92, 97

costal engineering 91. 113

eustutic sea-level 36, 90-2 'global average se,devel' 36 local relative ~ca-level (LRSL)

36, 90·2

melting ice-caps 140

satellite radar measurements

CUMATE: THE CUI.I"iTER C()NS"N~I.J~

stene eflee t R 9

tide gauge measurements 92

Tuvalu 36

Segalstad, Tom

72,

82, 107, III

Scgnit, N. 172

SIerra Club 169

Simmons, Allen

no

Singer, Fred 203

SlliCUnl, G- 72

Smirh50ni,m Institute 84

Snowc,OlympiaJ. 166

"oiar flares (see :>unspots)

Solomon, SU:;~111 168

Soon, Willie 5}, 72, 119,i2E1, 146,

156, 177-8

5pash, Cliye 159

Spencer, Roy R2, 146

statistical climate modelling (~ce

modelling: statistical)

Stern, NichlJl~s 2~-7, 162-4 Stewart, Christine 150

Strong, l'v1auricc 28

;;;UnWl)'

Telewaph

3R

slmspms 4S, ,)(}-2

Dalton Minimum 52,219

Maunder Minimllm 5R

Svensmark, Henrik 50

temperature records 57-62,67-8

Centwl Englolnd Temperature

(CET) mdcx 18-9

'chrnate nOrillal' 56-7

'glnbal average tcmpemture' 36

microwave ,ensing units (MSU)

62

.114

proxyd,1til )9,44-7,55,57,65-6,

155-7

tree rings 39, 154-5, 157,254

ice cores 42·3,47, 65-6, ~n,

89, 125, 134,219

oxygen iSOTope rariu 65-6

Remote Sensing Systems (I\S5)

62

Texas A&:vf UniversitY" 38

Thatcher, Margaret 12

Thomson,

Ke1v\l1

166

Thorpe, Alan 19':1-200

Titus, Jim

224

Tracimki, Robert 229,241

Trenberrh, Kevin 123-4, 176

Tuvalu 36, 98-100, 207

UK Meteorologkal Office 58-9

UN Environmental Program

(UNEP) 191

UN Fnm1ework Convemion on

C]irmte Change (UNFCCC)

174, 193-5

University of Alahama, Huntsville

(UAH) 62

University of East Angli,\ (~ec

Climatic Resenrch Unit)

Unb'cr,ity of Pennsvlvani~l 128

University ufTownto 155

Upton, Simon 222

url)",m hcat isl~J\d effect 53,60,62 US Nmional Center for

Annospheric Research 176

US Natiunal Science Foundation 97

Vaugh un , David 176

volcanic activity

Kilauea 73

subm8rine volcanic sources of

CO,

108-9,112

Tamhora 219

Von Neumann, Johnny 118

Von Storch, 11 157, 199

\Vall ~(rCC!)oLtmal 186,225,239 Ward, Bob [65

\V'alts, AnthDny 60

Wegman, EdwarJ 156

Western Pacific W~irm Pool 98

White, Neil 96

Wigley, T(lm 158

Wong, Penny 67 -8, 168

INDEX

\V'orld Meteorological Organization (WMO) 56, 193

World Wiue Fund for Nmure 13,

33,169,198

Wunsch, Cn-I 94

Xian, Sun 125

Zhen-Shan, Lin 125

Zwally, H.J. 140