[Coral-List] notice particularly paragraph 5

[Richard]

Check out number three on this list of fallacies spouted by climate change
deniers:http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php

I agree with Sarah. These are the same folks telling us that secondhand
smoke is safe:
http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2008/07/01/scientific-evidence-shows-secondhand-smoke-no-danger

Cheers,
Richard


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Michael Risk <riskmj at mcmaster.ca> wrote:

> Sarah:
>
> While I agree with you that this "report" will be an oil-fuelled pile of
> BS, I don't think we should simply dismiss it.That would basically let them
> get away with murder-of future generations.
>
>  Rather, we need to correct and contradict their assertions with the
> finest science available.  For example, this nonsense that increased CO2
> will be good for plants in general and crops specifically. Recent research
> has shown that the small benefits of increased CO2 are far outweighed by
> decreases in yield caused by increased temperature. And we as reef
> historians/biologists/geologists  need to jump all over this assertion that
> reefs somehow survived similar previous climate insults. The geologic
> record shows all too clearly that reefs, no matter what taxon were the
> framework builders, simply died at the first opportunity. Sure, they were
> replaced later by someone else, but that "someone" was often very
> different. Seen any Rugosan/brachiopod/Rudist reefs lately???
>
> Mike
>
>  f 2014-03-24, at 1:32 PM, Sarah Frias-Torres wrote:
>
> > just check out who published the study, The Heartland Institute. Enough
> said.
> >
> > Sarah Frias-Torres, Ph.D. Coordinator Reef Rescuers ProgramIsland
> Conservation Centre Nature Seychelles,Amitie, Praslin,
> Seychelleshttp://www.natureseychelles.org-and-Research
> CollaboratorSmithsonian-National Museum of Natural Historyat Smithsonian
> Marine Station, Fort Pierce, FL, USATwitter: @GrouperDocBlog: http:/
> /grouperluna.wordpress.comhttp://independent..
> academia.edu/SarahFriasTorres
> >
> >
> >> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:48:04 -0400
> >> From: action08 at gmail.com
> >> 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<http://climatechangereconsidered.org/>)
> >> 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 <http://climatechangereconsidered.org/#tabs-1-5>,
> >> 2009<http://climatechangereconsidered.org/#tabs-1-4>
> >> , 2011 <http://climatechangereconsidered.org/#tabs-1-3>, and
> >> 2013<http://climatechangereconsidered.org/#tabs-1-2>.
> >> 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 <http://climatechangereconsidered.org/>.
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