In his Climate Review Professor Bob Carter Carter discusses the most important events which influenced the climate debate in 2011. These are the month by month references to that Review.
January:
Climategate enquiries a thorough whitewash
February:
Japan has wasted $78 billion on fruitless global warming projects
U.S. Congress passes Luetkemeyer Amendment to halt taxpayer financing of UN Climate Panel
Former German Chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, calls for an audit of the IPCC
March:
Snows of Kilimanjaro defy global warming predictions
Tropical storm activity hits a 40-year low
April:
Computer climate models use false assumptions
Nary a climate refugee to be seen
Floods decreasing around the world
May:
Scientific ‘consensus’ wrong again: biodiversity loss far less severe than feared
Kyoto Protocol loses support from four big western nations
June:
Earth may be headed into a mini-ice age within a decade
Another false alarm: Pacific Islands defy sea-level rise hysteria
U.S. Science Committee calls on IPCC to address conflicts of interest
Carbon dioxide price collapses in Europe
Yet another false alarm: no decline detected in the Great Barrier Reef
July:
Sea-Level rise is not accelerating
Global warming far less serious than ‘Alarmists’ predict says NASA scientist
August:
Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are an environmental benefit
CERN Experiment confirms potential of cosmic rays in climate change
Contrary to IPCC predictions, malaria-carrying mosquitoes are disappearing in parts of Africa
September:
Nobel prize-winner Ivar Giaever quits American Physical Society over global warming alarmism
Wikileak: UN Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) climate programme ‘basically a farce’
October:
New analysis of the global temperature record confirms the lack of recent warming
Japanese IBUKI satellite shows western nations as a CO2 sink, undeveloped nations as a source
Chinese scientists challenge IPCC dangerous warming consensus
November:
No link between climate change and extreme weather insurance losses
IPCC draft report: only minor global warming expected in the next 20-30 years
Donna Laframboise’s delinquent teenager: IPCC rocked by reputational crisis
The Climategate email scandal, Round 2
December:
Feydau farce at Durban conference: an agreement to agree that it’s too early to agree
Canada withdraws from the Kyoto Protocol: Canadian Senate listens to independent scientists
European carbon dioxide trading market collapses again, to €6.3/tonne
See also:
Climate Review: I is here…
Climate Review: II is here…
Climate Review: III is here…