date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:06:48 +0100
from: "Laura Lang" <laura.lang@virgin.net>
subject: FW: Bid to withdraw Wiltshire Council from Carbon-Cutting Agreement
to: <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>

   Dear Tim


   Thank you very much for your time and helpful explanations.  Many thanks for agreeing to
   give me a few lines on the facts you mentioned explaining climate modelling graphs and the
   reasons for levelling off/dips; also the current and predicted overall trend in global
   temperature and link to carbon emissions.   The email below will give you the context for
   my enquiry should you wish to refer to it.  I would be interested to hear your view on the
   paragraphs highlighted if you have time but appreciate you are nearing term time.


   Many thanks again for your time.


   Best wishes.


   Laura


   Laura Lang

   Teffont, Wiltshire

   0172 716 217


   From: roderick.eaton [mailto:roderick.eaton1@virgin.net]
   Sent: 13 September 2009 10:17
   To: laura.lang@virgin.net
   Subject: Fw: Bid to withdraw Wiltshire Council from Carbon-Cutting Agreement


   Dear Ms Lang


   Thank you for your email. As promised, I am writing to explain the position regarding the
   group bringing this issue to council. For about three years, I have been researching the
   climate change theories from an analytical and scientific point of view. Each person must
   of course come to his/her own conclusions with or without a clear understanding of the
   facts but I hardly think that the media has covered both sides (natural and man-made) of
   the scientific debate in equitable measure. 'There's nothing like a good crisis (real or
   imaginary).'


   There has been no increase in global average temperature since 1998 and temperature started
   to reduce in 2005 and has continued to do so. The UN IPCC (Inter-governmental Panel on
   Climate Change) models failed to predict this and carbon dioxide emissions have continued
   to increase year on year (I have the figures and will send them if you require). Could the
   models, based on a positively weighted conversion factor of CO2 forcing (not applied to
   solar forcing), be barking up the wrong tree? I think this likely.


   IPCC scientists themselves include many strongly worded caveats in their reports and some
   oppose the IPCC conclusions altogether. As was accepted from Dr Richard Lindzen's (IPCC
   Lead Author) evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee (2005): those who dissented
   from the 'anthropogenic cause' (Man-Made Climate Change) theory were not given a full
   hearing by the IPCC organisation. I would recommend reading the works of Lord Lawson ('An
   Appeal to Reason') and articles by Lord Monckton (former scientific advisor to the UK
   government) together with peer review papers by perhaps Dr Larry Vardiman (Professor of
   Atmospheric Science at the University of Missouri) on Dr Henrik Svensmark's work (Dr
   Svensmark is the Head of the Danish National Space Centre). You will quickly realise that
   the science is by no means 'settled' on the MMCC theory. The cosmo-climatological theory is
   very powerful and based on natural phenomenon relating to radiation effects on cloud
   formation.


   Over 31,400 science-based professionals signed up to the ongoing Oregon Petition and 800 to
   the International Manhattan Declaration. I have details of 130 scientists listed in my own
   database who oppose the MMCC theory e.g. Drs Fred Singer (the founder of the US weather
   satellite program), Timothy Ball, Vincent Gray (IPCC expert reviewer and graduate of
   Cambridge University) and Tim Patterson (Professor of Geology at Carleton University -
   Canada) et al, not to mention Dr McKintrick who worked with Steve McIntyre to flaw the
   IPCC's hockey stick curve (subsequently withdrawn by the IPCC as it omitted the Mediaeval
   Warm period and the mini ice age in the past 1000 years to over emphasise the half a degree
   Celsius global temperature rise of the 20th century). After Mann's Hockey Stick Curve was
   withdrawn, I noted that the IPCC 2001 report made quite a startling admission as follows:


   Chapter 1; page 97, concludes: "Climate has always varied on all time-scales, so the
   observed change may be natural."


   Having carried out considerable research on the topic, I am firmly of the opinion that the
   balance of probability is that man-made emissions do not constitute any significant effect
   on climate. In particular, there is a very poor correlation between man made carbon dioxide
   emissions and global average temperature. The anthropogenic emission of all GHGs is well
   below half a percent of the total greenhouse effect (which is predominantly natural) and
   the greenhouse effect itself is but one aspect of the overall climatic system (one example
   is El Nino warming caused by tectonic movement below the ocean).


   The costs of Kyoto (Carbon Credit scheme) and the 'green obligation' for electricity
   companies is passed on to the private, commercial and industrial consumer, of course.
   Together with VED increases, fuel and other so called green taxes the costs are very
   high but excusable on the back of the MMCC tenet. The support and furtherance of a belief
   in MMCC at a local level is demonstrated by the Nottingham Declaration. We are unable to
   support this 'blind science' approach, which, as the Lords select committee stated should
   be based on evidence. What I have seen is IPCC scientists properly placing caveats on their
   findings in the Climate reports and their expert reviewers who dissent from the
   'orthodoxy' often being ignored. This is not so much by other scientists but rather by the
   government officials who write the 'Summaries for Policy Makers'. These have a strong
   tendency to omit the caveats and promote a 'done deal' on AGW despite the evidence. The
   Stern Report (Nicky Stern is an economist) and more obviously, Al (alarmist) Gore
   exaggerate further the IPCC conclusions. Perhaps the following quote from Dr Benjamin
   Santer (a leading climatologist and author of the last IPCC Report's chapter on the
   detection of greenhouse warming) will give you an insight to the lack of consensus in the
   scientific community:


   "It's unfortunate that many people read the media hype before they read the (IPCC report)
   chapter "on the detection of greenhouse warming." I think the caveats are there. We say
   quite clearly that few scientists would say that man-made climate change was a done deal."


   Energy efficiency is a prudent and cost saving approach and, provided one continues to
   be free to make one's own choices, one may indeed save oneself some money. I fully support
   that of course. If some choose to change their lifestyles in terms of what they eat, riding
   a bike or where they may take their holidays, then that is their own personal preference. I
   simply do not believe that any government or council should be pushing these things on
   people who have their own way of life and ideas on climate. If global warming were to
   return for whatever reason, it could well be an encouragement for people to holiday in the
   UK (rather than go abroad for the sun) and I would expect air conditioning sales would
   increase. As Nigel Lawson writes:


   "As to health, in its most recent report, the IPCC found only one outcome which they ranked
   as "virtually certain" to happen - and that was "reduced human mortality from decreased
   cold exposure". This echoes a study done by our own Department of Health which predicted
   that by the 2050s, the UK would suffer an increase in heat-related deaths by 2,000 a year,
   and a decrease in cold-related mortality of 20,000 deaths a year - something that ministers
   have been curiously silent about.  All in all, given that global warming produces benefits
   as well as costs, it is far from clear that the currently projected warming, far from being
   "catastrophic", would do any net harm at all."


   Being signed up to the Nottingham Declaration gives government much opportunity to
   introduce draconian measures, to tax, control,  interfere and regulate on the back
   of reducing CO2 emissions. I do not believe that withdrawal from it would do other
   than free people to follow their chosen lifestyles and put the emphasis back onto council
   providing services rather than control measures.


   In context, if Wiltshire Council hit its target emission cut (50% in five years) right now,
   China would have produced sufficient CO2 in 3 minutes to make up for it. If the whole UK
   carbon economy shut down right now, it would take under 6 weeks for China to fill the
   gap. Climate is a very complex subject and I hope that this will help you understand that
   the drastic measures you mention will not have any effect at all on climate
   but just bring more drastic negative changes to our lives here and now.


   Kind regards


   Rod Eaton, MBA, DMS (Leeds), MCMI, FIET


   ----- Original Message -----

   From: [1]Eaton, Rod

   To: [2]roderick.eaton1@virgin.net

   Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 7:20 AM

   Subject: FW: Bid to withdraw Wiltshire Council from Carbon-Cutting Agreement


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   From: Laura Lang [laura.lang@virgin.net]
   Sent: 11 September 2009 22:02
   To: Eaton, Rod
   Subject: Bid to withdraw Wiltshire Council from Carbon-Cutting Agreement

   Dear Mr Eaton


   It would be helpful if you explain the rationale for withdrawing Wiltshire Council from the
   Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change in the face of compelling scientific evidence on
   the need for urgent and drastic reduction of carbon emissions.


   I look forward to hearing from you.


   Laura Lang


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