Here follows a compendium of articles and videos on what was quickly dubbed as “ClimateGate”.
Those in the electorate who have bothered to inform themselves and not be influenced by the emotive arguments issuing from the self-confessed scientific ignoramuses of the blogosphere know more about the charlatans involved in promoting global warming than they did when Kyoto was first mooted.The Conspiracy Of The Centuries [Reader Post]
Al Gore has since been revealed as a con man, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's scientific backing shown to be criminally distorted and emissions trading outed as another financial derivative to be run by the same traders who saw opportunities in no-document loans.
E-mail # 0889554019 from Anne Johnson of the IIAS coordinated this “gathering of the minds” for the Shell division, and they came up with 4 scenarios, one of which (A1) is the preferred one. The E-mail is very long, so I will only quote-out the one they most want to see happen by the year 2100:Penn State to investigate Michael Mann--or whitewash him
That section is titled:
Golden Economic Age (A1): a century of expanded economic prosperity with the emergence of global governance.
Mann's contemptuous attitude toward the committee formerly chaired by Rep. Barton has already been discussed. However, the more important question is why Penn State chose to ignore the Wegman report. That report raises a number of concerns of its own about the then-current (and still-current) state of climate science. Specifically, Wegman et al., charged that the "Hockey Stick" is the product of improper statistical treatment of the data and for that reason alone was not valid. Furthermore, Wegman et al., stated that Mann et al. had formed an "inner circle" and refused to interact with the general community of statisticians (who might be expected to have an opinion on their treatment of the data), and that Mann and other principal investigators had a habit of "review[ing] one another's work" and "reus[ing] the same data sets." This, said the Wegman committee, meant that the work of Mann and other investigators might not be as independent as they pretended.
Their age, character, proven leadership, admirable positions on international issues and their respected voices of reason distinguish them.[Flashback: If you're old and you don't believe in climate fraud, your age is allegedly a sign of senility]: Suzanne Goldenberg meets the climate change sceptics
It would be easy to dismiss this gathering as a pity party for people on the fringes of modern thought. The contrast with the America embodied by Obama's election is stark. The 600 attendees (by the organisers' count) are almost entirely white males, and many, if not most, are past retirement ageOne of a thousand things we should be looking at with global warming
"Probable effects of increasing global atmospheric CO2 concentration on crop yield, crop water use, and world climate are discussed. About 430 observations of the yields of 37 plant species grown with CO2 enrichment were extracted from the literature and analyzed. CO2 enrichment increased agricultural weight yields by an 36%. Additional analysis of 81 experiments which had controlled CO2 concentrations showed that yields will probably increase by 33% with a doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentration. Another 46 observations of the effects of CO2 enrichment on transpiration were extracted and averaged. These data showed that a doubling of CO2 concentration could reduce transpiration by 34%, which combined with the yield increase, indicates that water use efficiency may double.Climate Gate Fraud Confirmed Not Revealed
After running out of excuses, in September CRU’s Phil Jones simply claimed that he had lost the data so, sorry, no, no one can check it. Implausible beyond comprehension. And if the emails are real and any indication of the way this group operates, deeply dishonest.PrairiePundit: Politicians conspire to ignore climate fraud
Soon thereafter someone went and downloaded material that, again if real, says enough, you are scandalizing and perverting “science”. This shall stop. Someone took it upon themselves to enforce a UK freedom of information act that its targets allegedly and apparently admit to subverting.
Damn the evidence of fraud and scandal full speed ahead for a train wreck of epic proportions. Ignoring the cook books of Enron style climate science will come back to haunt Obama and other political leaders of this bogus movement.The “Scientific” Fraud of Climate Doomsday Mongering | The Beacon
Seven decades ago, C.S. Lewis prophetically warned us of this very same corruption of science and morality in his brilliant novel, That Hideous Strength, in which a group of university scientists conspires to take over society by manipulating information and people in order to impose the horror of a scientistic, totalitarian state, all to “save” nature and create a new “mankind.” Lewis simultaneously examined these central issues in his classic book on epistemology and ethics, The Abolition of Man.An NRO Symposium on National Review Online
What do hacked e-mails tell us about global-warming research?Timing: NASA Warmist James Hansen's Book Due Out Next Month
An NRO Symposium
Intrade's Cap-and-Trade contract -- which gauges the likelihood of passage of a carbon tax bill -- has dropped from $40 to an all-time low of sixty cents.
In other words, there's a better chance that Gene Simmons will be the next Supreme Court Justice.
Hansen, Browner and Holdren are now, officially, walking one-liners. Every time one of them enters a room, someone should execute a rimshot.
Is it just me or does the World Trade Organization seem to bring out some pretty nefarious individuals? In Geneva, anti-WTO protesters smashed the place up and burned cars in a demonstration against the World Trade Organization. The protesters claim that the WTO isn’t doing enough to combat climate change.The glacier controversy
It has been reported worldwide that the Himalayan glaciers are retreating fast due to global warming. But now a report released by India’s Ministry of Environment last week claims that the picture of fast retreating glaciers is simply not accurate.
Ahead of the Copenhagen summit, leading scientist and IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri warns of radical charges and regulation if global disaster is to be avoidedFlashback-UN climate panel head formed global consensus
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Hotel guests should have their electricity monitored; hefty aviation taxes should be introduced to deter people from flying; and iced water in restaurants should be curtailed, the world's leading climate scientist has told the Observer.
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He said that he also believed car use would have to be "curbed"...
[Pachauri] spends much of his time travelling and speaking on climate change at international fora and jokes he "lives at 30,000 feet".Climate change denier Nick Griffin to represent EU at Copenhagen | Environment | The Observer
Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National party, is to represent the European parliament at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, which opens next week.
Last night politicians and scientists reacted furiously to news that the far-right politician and climate change denier should be attending the summit on behalf of the EU.
MOST of the world's population will be wiped out if political leaders fail to agree a method of stopping current rates of global warming, one of the UK's most senior climate scientists has warned.[But wouldn't this be great for polar bears, people in low-lying coastal areas, people with kidney stones, etc?]: Gulf stream collapse could be like a disaster movie | Environment | The Observer
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Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, believes only around 10 per cent of the planet's population – around half a billion people – will survive if global temperatures rise by 4C.
Scientists predict an ice age could be provoked in a matter of monthsOp-Ed Contributor - Denmark in the Wind - NYTimes.com
“You’re the ones who will have to live with the effects of climate change,” we caution our youngest as he consumes yet another burger. As a 12-year-old, he has yet to comprehend that at some point he may have to choose between beef and rain forests, plane journeys or glaciers, rationing or perishing.News Release In The Sunday Times By Jonathan Leake – Climate Change Data dumped « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.
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I haven’t the heart to mention the plagues of malaria mosquitoes, the risks of contracting West Nile virus and cholera.
This is an absurd claim that the new data is “value-added”.
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The claim in the article that this elimination of the data up to the 1980s, however, suggests that raw data since that time period is available. This data needs to be independently scrutinized (i.e. not by GISS or NCDC) and each step of their “quality control” and “homogenization” quantitatively assessed.
If the high priests of global warming want to convince us that we could face a man-made rise of 4C in the global temperature this century, then they have to engage with their critics instead of hiding away in their ivory towers.Sir Paul to tell EU: 'Less meat means less heat' - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent
Rearing fewer animals for food will slow global warming, says the former Beatle – and he's interrupting his European tour to tell world leaders howObama’s Climate Goals vs. the Senate’s - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com
[We hear from the following]WaPo’s Eilperin Blames Global Warming Skepticism Increase on 'Political Polarization'; No Mention of ClimateGate | NewsBusters.org
# Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones correspondent
# Nathaniel Keohane, Environmental Defense Fund
# Ryan Alexander, president, Taxpayers for Common Sense
# Jeffrey A. Miron, economist
Eilperin didn't offer the possible explanation that anthropogenic global warming really is as Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., called it years ago - a "hoax" - and that is why the issue is losing steam. Instead, it's just politics and the weather.
Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) says he's comfortable with the slow track.Natural climate variation « Climate Change
"I think some people are trying to hurry the process too much," says Rockefeller, who's from a coal state. His panel has yet to schedule its hearings on climate change. "I think it's not unfair to say that if you use the word 'cap-and-trade,' there may be one-half to two-thirds of the United States Senate [who] could not explain what is meant by that — not a good way to sort of go into a bill of that scope and magnitude. I know that my coal miners, the people in West Virginia, they just know it to be a really bad word."
Recent change in global temperature is explicable in terms of atmospheric dynamics that depend upon the influence of the sun. There is no need to invoke an anthropogenic influence.Global warming and cotton candy
And while others are calling for more transparency and the openness of data, I will counter with a call for some mechanism to shield science and scientists from the pressure to produce the right results in the next 10 minutes or you'll lose your funding for the next 10 years.Daily Kos: State of the Nation
...Democrats were three times more likely to say that they will "definitely not vote" in 2010 than are Republicans.
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.Climategate and the conservative herd mentality
It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.
The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.
The planet Mars has almost no carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and an average temperature of -50 degrees Celsius. But that’s just science. No emails confirm this reality.Atmosphere of Mars
Carbon dioxide 95.32%“Climategate” surpasses “Global Warming” on Google – autosuggest still blocked « Watts Up With That?
UPDATE: From comments I see that “Bing”, the new search engine from Microsoft, has no such problems, and in fact puts “climategate” right at the top after only 3 letters “c l i”:
The comments were made in a conference call for reporters.Taxpayers will pay for BNP leader Nick Griffin's 5-star Copenhagen trip - mirror.co.uk
The scientists—Somerville, Michael Mann of Penn State and Eric Steig of University of Washington—were supposed to be discussing their new report, the Copenhagen Diagnosis, a dismal update of the UN IPCC's 2007 climate data by 26 scientists from eight nations.
Instead they spent much of the time diffusing the hacker controversy, known in the media as "Climate Gate."
Taxpayers will foot the bill for BNP leader Nick Griffin to enjoy a week of five-star treatment at the Copenhagen climate change summit.University of East Anglia U-turn in climate change row - Telegraph
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As an MEP he is entitled to claim business class flights for the event, as well as his hotel accommodation and a £300 daily allowance.
Griffin has been given a place because he is the only member of the EU environment committee who believes global warming is a hoax.
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A [BNP] party spokesman said: "It's very much in Britain's national interests that at least one politician is willing to question and put under scrutiny what we are all being led to believe by the climate change lobby.
"Nick and the party believe that the whole global warming industry is a huge con."
In a statement welcomed by climate change sceptics, the university said it would make all the data accessible as soon as possible, once its Climatic Research Unit (CRU) had negotiated its release from a range of non-publication agreements.The great climate change science scandal - Times Online
There could, however, be another reason why the unit rejected requests to see its data.
This weekend it emerged that the unit has thrown away much of the data. Tucked away on its website is this statement: “Data storage availability in the 1980s meant that we were not able to keep the multiple sources for some sites ... We, therefore, do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (ie, quality controlled and homogenised) data.”
If true, it is extraordinary. It means that the data on which a large part of the world’s understanding of climate change is based can never be revisited or checked. Pielke said: “Can this be serious? It is now impossible to create a new temperature index from scratch. [The unit] is basically saying, ‘Trust us’.”
With the Hopenhagen event coming up early next month in Denmark, it will be President Obama that will have egg all over his face when he tries to push a radical climate change agenda, especially with the thousands of leaked emails that expose the coverup and falsifying of data. But either way, he'll find a way to make it historic.Another disgusting creep (Climategate)
Oh, sure. Let's cut off the tree ring data at 1960, and then substitute in actual temperatures. After all, if the tree ring data kept going, it would show a "decline." We couldn't have that. And then the actual temperatures themselves are probably manipulated and fudged.Climate Deniers, Hold Your Fire! | Grist
This doesn't really require a vast conspiracy of thousands of scientists. It only requires a smaller group of persons in key positions who have control over actual raw data.
It may be a different process for others, but I think most of us who stare directly into the bright sun of climate change are convinced that the scientific method—rigorous, peer-reviewed, replicable data—if not the scientists themselves, is sound and leads to the truth, however hard it may be.Prepare for a lot of this: Climate change missing from James speech: former MLA :: The Hook
British Columbia New Democratic Party leader Carole James' convention speech missed the opportunity to reclaim the green agenda, said former MLA David Cubberley.
“It's what I didn't notice,” he said when asked for his thoughts on James' speech. “It's like the dog that didn't bark in the night. The word 'climate change' was never mentioned. 'Sustainable' was a tack on.”
The responses in the CCSP report clearly show the casual dismissal of the substantive issues with respect to all three of the global average surface temperature trends that are being used by policymakers to quantify global warming. The three data analyses are not indepenent assessments, and, based on our research (e.g. see) have a significant warm bias.The Arena - Bradley A. Smith on ClimateGate | POLITICO.com
On another topic: I want to call attention to a story that is not getting nearly the press coverage it deserves - the revelation of emails from the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (like other governments worldwide), has relied heavily on the data from the University of East Anglia. And now, from leaked emails of scientists around the globe in correspondence to and from the University, we see suggestions that a massive fraud may have occured. This story is slowly tearing up the blogosphere, but has still been largely ignored by most major media outlets - where most Americans still get their news, and where most still turn for reliable information.Bit Tooth Energy: ClimateGate - and Dr Mann's changing story
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The near complete lack of coverage of this story in major news outlets is scandalous. The AP has 11 people "fact-check" a book by Sarah Palin, but apparently can't be bothered to look into this. The New York Times, the major TV networks, and numerous other major sources have also either refused to cover the story or given it only the barest mention.
All those folk who have been saying that the models had shown that there were no major impact due to solar changes are going to have to do a little backpeddling now that the High Priest has spokenPenn State Live - Past regional cold and warm periods linked to natural climate drivers
Comparisons between the reconstructed temperature patterns and the results of theoretical climate model simulations suggest an important role for natural drivers of climate such as volcanoes and changes in solar output in explaining the past changes. The warmer conditions of the medieval era were tied to higher solar output and few volcanic eruptions, while the cooler conditions of the Little Ice Age resulted from lower solar output and frequent explosive volcanic eruptions.
As a result of the growing ClimateGate scandal, Penn State University is investigating Michael Mann, its high-profile professor on the sending and receiving end of controversial e-mail messages recently obtained from a British Climate Research Unit.“A good way to deal with a problem” « Climate Audit – mirror site
The decline in the Briffa reconstruction is not shown; it is hidden.Climategate Master Criminal Phil Jones Collected $22.6 Million in Grants
Excerpts from a post by Michael Shedlock – “It’s now official. Much of the hype about global warming is nothing but a complete scam. The global warming thesis was completely fabricated.Malcolm Turnbull stance cops a poll axing | The Daily Telegraph
ALCOLM Turnbull's hopes of fighting off a Liberal rebellion over climate change to hold on to the Opposition leadership have been shattered by a poll showing a whopping 60 per cent of Australians are against Kevin Rudd rushing the Emissions Trading Scheme through parliament.
Despite Mr Turnbull insisting the ETS must be passed now - ahead of the UN's Copenhagen summit - the poll overwhelmingly backs his opponents - with 81 per cent of Coalition supporters wanting the vote delayed.
Incredibly, nine out of 10 Coalition supporters - and three out of four Labor voters - say they don't understand the ETS and want the Government to explain it better.
But I also had a journalist I admired, and who I still consider a friend, privately and gently suggest that if I doubted the truth about AGW then I was as deluded (and perhaps as evil) as a “holocaust denier.”WARMERGATE WRAP | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog
Yes. The left went that far. The press went that far. They embraced this unsettled science, this unproven theory, with a fervor of moral righteousness; to dispute AGW was to be a bad and stupid person, even if were a dissenting scientist.
• James Lewis: “It’s just like the Nixon tapes, except that emails are a lot more accurate than John Dean’s memory.”As Copenhagen summit nears, ‘Climategate’ dogs global warming debate | csmonitor.com
• Col. Douglas Mortimer: “You know, when you consider that ‘We’re Saving The Planet’ is the biggest power/money grabbing scam since ‘We’re Saving Your Souls,’ whoever leaked/released those e-mails and such is kind of like the modern scientific equivalent of Martin Luther. This person/persons may well have broken the backs of the Global Warming Priests who did everything in their power to make sure that the common man, and those who would oppose them, had no direct access to the Spoken Word of God.”
This is a “smear campaign to distract the public,” added Mann, a coauthor of the Copenhagen Diagnosis, the report on climate change released this week ahead of the Copenhagen. “Those opposed to climate action, simply don’t have the science on their side,” he added.Daily Kos: Saturday hate mail-apalooza
Remember how some out-of-context and patently misunderstood emails totally proved that thousands of climate-change scientists are wrong, and the dozen of Exxon-funded ones were right all along?The inconvenient truths Mr Gore and his fanatical friends DIDN'T tell you about climate change | Mail Online
In my experience, people who employ alarmism, and who turn with rage on their critics, do so because they lack confidence in their case. Watch their behaviour at the coming Copenhagen climate conference, a festival of panic and exaggerated woe.
This particular frenzy, if not checked, could end by bankrupting the West and leaving us sitting in the cold and the dark whistling for a wind to power our dead computers – while China and India surge on to growth and prosperity because they have had the sense to ignore the whole stupid thing.
It is clear from the non-story that Climategate has turned out to be in the press that the powers-that-be prefer to barrel on with the plan to institute a worldwide regulatory framework on the climate, or, dare I say it, global government. Yes, I consider myself a straight-news, middle-of-the-road journalist with a slight tilt to the right and I’m using one of the tin foil hat crowd buzz words “global government.” Read on if you dare.ClimateGate – the toxic bomb hidden in plain view « JoNova
There are not many facets of human personalities that are near universal across cultures, genders, and ages, but a sense of injustice is hard-wired. There will be no forgiveness for those who tricked them, and ignorance will be no excuse.Climategate: the Conservative backlash begins – Telegraph Blogs
As the news spreads, the ETS will “Go Toxic”. Voters will not just abandon the politicians who sacrificed us to JP Morgan and co, they will set land-speed records moving in the other direction.
Conservative leader David Cameron has issued a statement reiterating his party’s commitment to “tackling carbon emissions” to deal with the “real danger of climate change” and describing the Copenhagen summit as of “historic importance.” (Hat Tip: my splendid new friend Plato Says)
And the party faithful don’t like Cameron’s Copenhagen Kool-Aid Consumption one tiny bit.
Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with a whitewash regarding statistics for global warming, says Christopher BookerAnthropogenic Global Warming Scientists, the new “Flat Earth” society?
Last week, a hacker revealed that a group of powerful, government-backed European scientists are controlling the results of developing global warming theory, and preventing clear debate or the development of opposing scientific evidence to AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming). It appears that certain more objective scientists run the risk --- if they present solid evidence contrary to the popular global warming theories --- realize they run the risk of being made objects of ridicule and marginalized in efforts to gain monies from Governments for research projects designed to discover facts ... that lead to the truth.Mann to be investigated by Penn State University review « Watts Up With That?
This statement was released by Penn State here.“UEA succeeds in Quest for secure IT access” « Climate Audit – mirror site
On Nov. 12, 2009, CBR Networking has an article here entitled “UEA succeeds in Quest for secure IT access”.
A university spokesman said:This gives us peace of mind – for example, we have considerably more confidence that a student is unable to gain unauthorised access to sensitive systems such as the university’s finance system – and simplifies the auditing process.
From hiding evidence of ancient warming periods to the cherry picking and outright manipulation of data, there is much to be accounted for here.Climategate: The Ice Begins to Melt on MSM’s Refusal to Practice Journalism » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog
The following is a rundown of some of my favorite articles on the subject and a great news video about the controversy.
There was a time when the media prided itself on being a skeptical counter weight to the Establishment. Now, they consider themselves part of the Establishment. The entire field would be better off if reporters started practicing real journalism again.Nothing to See Here, Folks. The Lamestream Media on Climategate « NewsReal Blog
Remember the good old days when people used to make jokes comparing the New York Times to Pravda, and it was considered an insult to the New York Times? Now, the publishers of The Pentagon Papers have suddenly decided that the “public’s right to know” does not extend to things that damage the editorial page’s political stance.WaPo's Robinson: ClimateGate Hurts G-Warming 'Consensus' | NewsBusters.org
...However, the rare abundance of skepticism in his piece means that even a strong "consensus" believer like himself has been rocked by this scandal, so much so that he's even willing to write about it.Climategate: The BBC is still pretending not to notice – Telegraph Blogs
Most believers in AGW (who I accept include the majority of scientists in this field) acknowledge the significance of the Climategate scandal, breaking as it has on the eve of the Copenhagen summit. But the BBC is holding firm, providing far less than the bare minimum of coverage that licence payers have a right to expect.
Much of the beginning of the segment, before the interview I have covered in detail as you can find in links at the bottom of this post. Marc is correct that the leaker is a hero, and that the IPCC should have it Nobel Peace Prize pulled (which would include Al Gore by the way).At NYT's Dot Earth: Young Scientist 'Disheartened' by Climategate; Core Problems Ignored | NewsBusters.org
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The best part of the interview, at least from my point of view, was at the end where Marc drew the analogy between the global warming alarmists, and pretty much every single episode of Scooby Doo, where at the end of the episodes, the bad ghost/ghoul/monster that was trying to scare everyone away from the truth is unmasked as a fraud for all to see, only to say "I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those darned kids." Indeed, the whole house of cards now tumbling down was caused, in the end, by one person that leaked the data. [MP3]
Given that those caught red-handed cooking the books and playing hide-and-seek with the data have yet to see any meaningful sanctions or discipline for what they have done, students would logically fear that if they fight for scientific values when they are compromised by political factors, they will be fighting alone and ostracized by their peers.Obama & Copenhagen's COMEDY Convention ***... | Gather
The over $22 Million paid to East Anglia's CRUover the past ten years should be recovered. Al Gore, who knowingly promoted this fake global warming should be fined and stripped of his illegally obtained profits. The Nobel Peace Prize, and the monetary award which accompanied it, should be given back to the committee.YouTube - ClimateGate on Fox News 11-28-09
We, the taxpayers, who paid the tab, should be entitled to full reimbursement as well.
If anyone’s keeping a tab on “climategate” hits, they have a very Hockey-Stick shaped pattern. A couple of days ago, someone observed that “climategate” hits on Google hit the 10 million mark. They’ve now hit 10.8 million. [Note: I got 94.5 million a couple of minutes ago. Dunno why I got a different answer when I did it again. 10.8 million makes more sense.]Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Hiding the Decline: Part 1 – The Adventure Begins
This, people, is blatant data-cooking, with no pretense otherwise. It flattens a period of warm temperatures in theIn case you missed it: "Malice, mischief and Machiavellian manoeuverings"1940s1930s — see those negative coefficients? Then, later on, it applies a positive multiplier so you get a nice dramatic hockey stick at the end of the century.
All you apologists weakly protesting that this is research business as usual and there are plausible explanations for everything in the emails? Sackcloth and ashes time for you. This isn’t just a smoking gun, it’s a siege cannon with the barrel still hot.
"The malice, mischief and Machiavellian manoeuvrings revealed in the illegally hacked megabytes of emails from the University of East Anglia’s prestigious Climate Research Unit, for example, offers a useful paradigm of contemporary scientific conflict. Science may be objective; scientists emphatically are not. This episode illustrates what too many universities, professional societies, and research funders have irresponsibly allowed their scientists to become. Shame on them all.Hot Air » Blog Archive » Another classic moment in government interventions
The source of that shame is a toxic mix of institutional laziness and complacency. Too many scientists in academia, industry and government are allowed to get away with concealing or withholding vital information about their data, research methodologies and results. That is unacceptable and must change. ...
Now it looks as though we have a glut of ethanol coming, and your catalytic converters might be sacrificed on the altar of Congressional foolishness
News of ClimateGate is running riot on the web. The word came into existence a week ago, and there are 5 million hits on the term today. Do the Reuters team think that no one will notice how much they risk their journalistic reputations on this?The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Data Sharing and Climate Change Research
Or could it be that since Reuters was taken over by Thompson Financial, a company that provides market news to financial corporations, that the conflict of interest that was feared has already arrived?
As I understand, and please correct me if I’m wrong, the CRU researchers apparently refused to share the underlying raw data that was the basis of their research. Is that so? If so, is there a scientifically acceptable justification for this refusal, especially when the topic is as important as this one?Climategate Update: Lord Monckton On The Corbett Report - Minnesotans For Global Warming
In Mann08 a correlation screening process was used to eliminate offending series for a composite plus scale reconstruction. It provided an easy method for the scientists to choose which data makes the best hockey stick. It was very simple to demonstrate the completely bogus and biased selective choice of information which was in my opinion done with the intent of creating a false signal. This blog has been quite vocal about the intent issue win Mann08 and now we are faced with the same kind of result in Mann09. Yet they didn’t use screening this time.
[Frank Tipler] It is an act of treason against science. It is also an act of treason against humanity, since it has been used to justify an attempt to destroy the world economy.Understanding Climategate: Who’s Who – a video « Watts Up With That?
Thanks to MagicJava for putting this into a YouTube video at my requestCBC & Solomon | Kelowna.com
I had been waiting (in vain, I thought) for the CBC to give credible global warming sceptics an opportunity to voice their views after listening to so many on only one side of the debate. My delight on hearing that Solomon would finally be interviewed quickly turned to anger and outrage as Tremonti did everything she could to prevent Solomon from presenting his views by incessant interruption and very aggressive questioning.Connie Hedegaard: Time Is Up - The Deadline Is Copenhagen
We have no alternative. We must handle climate change and we must do it right now. Copenhagen is the deadline. Time is up.The Curry letter: a word about “deniers”… « Watts Up With That?
[comment] Judith Curry wrote “I reserve the word “deniers” for people that are explicitly associated with advocacy groups that are politicizing this issue…”
I reserve the word “deniers” for people that explicitly reject the history of Jewish extermination in wartime Germany.
When I see anyone legitimize the term “denier” in the context of this debate, an alarm bell goes off – “this is not a serious person”.
9. The claim that the IPCC is unbiased. The IPCC was formed for the explicit purpose of building the case for global warming being our fault, not for investigating the possibility that it is just part of a natural cycle in the climate system. Their accomplices in government have bought off the scientific community for the purpose of achieving specific policy goals.Climate change will hit Africa hardest | Meles Zenawi | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
10. The claim that reducing CO2 emissions is the right thing to do anyway. Oh, really? What if life on Earth (which requires CO2 for its existence) is actually benefiting from more CO2? Nature is always changing anyway…why must we always assume that every single change that humans cause is necessarily a bad thing? Even though virtually all Earth scientists believe this, too, it is not science, but religion. I’m all for religion…but not when it masquerades as science.
Africa will not only be hit hardest, but it will be hit first. Indeed, the long dreaded impact of climate change is already upon us. The current drought covering much of east Africa – far more severe than past droughts – has been directly associated with climate change.Flashback: Study Finds Pattern of Severe Droughts in Africa - NYTimes.com
For at least 3,000 years, a drumbeat of potent droughts, far longer and more severe than any experienced recently, have seared a belt of sub-Saharan Africa that is now home to tens of millions of the world’s poorest people, climate researchers report in a new study.Climate change [fraud is allegedly] cool on streets where Liberals labour
The last such drought, persisting more than three centuries, ended around 1750, the research team writes in the April 17 issue of the journal Science.
''It's cool to believe in climate change,'' said 21-year-old Rosemary Sasse. ''If you don't - who are you, what are you doing here? You're not knowledgeable about anything; you're an ignorant person.''
Ms Sasse's views crystallise the conundrum facing the federal Liberal Party. Climate change sceptics are ''nobodies'' in the eyes of young people but they are definite ''somebodies'' among more seasoned Liberal voters.
Brian C. Murray, director for economic analysis at Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, said carbon credits could move tens of millions of acres of cropland into forest, particularly in the Southeast and Midwest, where they have moved back and forth since the Civil War.Nobel expert: Global warming causing Irish floods, climate change | Irish News | IrishCentral
Ireland's massive flooding has almost certainly been the result of climate change, says Nobel Prize-winner and Ireland's leading climatologist, Prof. John Sweeney.Witches and Scapegoats: Persecuting & Prosecuting Witches as a Way of Attacking Social Problems
"We have reaped what we have sown," he said.
Regions with the most social and political unrest also happened to be those with the greatest problem with witches. Every social, political, and natural problem was blamed on witches. Crop failure? Witches did it.Fact, fiction and foolishness: 2009 ebbs: The Swamp
Facts: The surface temperatures of the world's oceans have increased. The Arctic ice cap has shrunk. Glaciers are melting into the sea. It's fiction to suggest that all of the carbon that human industry and trasnportation is pumping into the Earth's atmosphere has had nothing to do with climate change. A renowned oceanographer whom we know says that, in his decades of scientific research, he has never seen anything more real. It's foolishness to doubt the seriousness of global warming, or even to spend any time debating it.
In my holiday travels, I’ve been amazed by the degree to which the coverage of the hacked emails from East Anglia University's Climate Research Unit has captured the interest of normal people. Even people with better things to do than discuss climate policy and “cap and trade” legislation have paid attention to the evidence of a large-scale scientific conspiracy to keep dissenting opinions about man-made climate change from being heard.Hot Air » Blog Archive » Not economist, just wrong
The story is sticking because it has the elements that news consumers love: it cuts against the conventional wisdom and shows powerful people in an embarrassing light.
Al Gore, apparently not content with the job of cleaning the Climategate mess, is now opining on GDP accounting.Stott: Pascal’s Wager and Global Warming
In summary, therefore, Pascal’s wager can be applied neither to climate change nor to ‘global warming’ in any meaningful way. Indeed, believing in ‘global warming’ may burden you with more costs than not doing so, and believing that you know how to respond to ‘global warming’ may prove false, even if ‘global warming’ were to exist. Ultimately, of course, ‘global warming’ itself may prove a false ‘God’.What Story? - Mark Steyn - The Corner on National Review Online
I wager it will. And, I’ll bet you all one thing though: climate will change. Any takers, Antonia?
If anyone needs newspapers, it ought to be for stories like this. If there were no impending epocalypse, then "climate science" would be a relatively obscure field, as it was up to a generation ago. Now it produces celebrity scientists living high off the hog of billions in grants. They thus have a vested interest in maintaining the planet's-gonna-fry line. So what do the media do? Instead of exposing the thesis to rigorous journalistic examination, they stage fluffy green stunts, run soft-focus "living green" features with Hollywood "activists", and at a time of massive staff cutbacks in every other department create the positions of specialist "climate correspondent" and "environmental reporter" and fill them with sycophantic promoters of the Big Scare to the point that, as Dr Mann coos approvingly to The New York Times, "you've taken the words out of my mouth".Andy Revkin (revkin) on Twitter
Well before climate hack questions about future of IPCC: http://j.mp/ipccFate & http://j.mp/ipccFutIs Revkin trying to distance himself from the climate hoax?
Countdown to Copenhagen: Who in Canada is Killing the International Climate Treaty?Daily Kos: This Week in Science
Join George Monbiot, Guardian columnist and author of “Heat: How To Save The Planet From Burning," in Toronto next weekend for a special event!
Jean Williams posted a brief and accurate piece on the CRU email hack and was over run with a horde of overly eager skeptics. I had the same experience. No doubt Hezbollah and Al Qaeda will be heartened to know that conservatives are onboard with Jihad, making sure their pipeline of oil money is available to keep killing innocent people for decades to come.When we burn coal, natural gas or oil produced right here in North America, what percentage of the profit goes to Al Qaeda?
Here, we focused on those people who specialise in climate prediction rather than climate change’s impact on the environment. The criteria for inclusion was original research, influence on peers and sound judgment.World's top climate scientists interviewed on global warming | MNN - Mother Nature Network
So, while we were willing to consider talking to climate change naysayers – “denier” seems a rather Stalinist term – we found that even their initially compelling arguments were rarely backed up by peer-reviewed research. None made it into the top 10, although since he is a contrarian whose earlier work remains relatively respected, we chose to profile Richard Lindzen, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well.
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[Isaac Held] says he could join a car pool but prizes his freedom.
And in sure-fire, contrarian fashion, global warming skeptic Richard Lindzen of MIT contends that he probably uses less energy than "the climate change activists in Washington with their Mercedes."Alex Jones’ Prison Planet.com » Lord Monckton: Shut Down The UN, Arrest The Warmist Criminals
"We all have to ’fess up to the fact that we’re deeply hypocritical and contradictory beings," admitted Tim Lenton. Indeed, as complicated as working through the details of climate science can be, the personal fortitude to genuinely go green might be these scientists' biggest challenge.
Appearing on The Alex Jones Show yesterday, Lord Christopher Monckton went further than ever before in his vehement opposition to the elitists running the climate change scam, calling for the UN to be shut down and for fraudulent peddlers of global warming propaganda like Al Gore to be arrested and criminally prosecuted.The Green Slime
Monckton said that those who are threatening to shut down economies, bankrupt nations, and deepen the problems of the third world by implementing draconian policies in the name of global warming should be indicted, prosecuted and imprisoned “for a very long time”.
Yes, this (in the end) is all about money. It’s quite ironic that the same environmentalists who accuse oil companies of greed, are themselves propagating a scam to make themselves the rule makers of a global warming bank where the rest of us only make forced deposits.
The investments we have made and tough steps we have taken have helped break the back of the recession, and now our economy is finally growing again.Frog Fatalities Not Caused By Global Warming | The Resilient Earth
So yes, humans are at least partly to blame, but it was through people spreading the fungus, not by people causing global warming. Oops! I guess the “blame global warming for everything” crowd jumped the gun on this one, with an assist by a large number of lazy herpetologists who uncritically accepted the proffered false smoking gun. Seems that science can save frogs from the fatal fungus but nothing can save climate science from the folly of global warming.'Hackers,' Leak Emails From Climatologists, Government - Huntington News Network
On Monday, Holdren admitted ownership of the hacked emails, and told The Wall Street Journal, "I'm happy to stand by my contribution to this exchange."YouTube - Climategate - IPCC claims busted by autodidact and common sense.
PCC Claims refuted and counter-arguements explained using common sense, basic scientific knowledge and some of the IPCCs own data.Ag. disaster designation for Potter | Pennsylvania
A hard frost that settled in on the region in mid-June, causing millions of dollars in damage to farm crops, has triggered a federal government program that provides low-interest loans to farmers.
New Delhi, Nov 28 (PTI) BJP today accused Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh of speaking a different language abroad on the issue of climate change after buckling under international pressure and suggested that India should follow the policy of voluntary emission cuts.So Galileo was wrong?
Do the true believers of CGW really think that it would have been better if the Industrial Revolution had not happened?Gore Flees in Panic from Chicago Book Signing | LaRouchePAC
I think that they do. I think that they view Man (excepting themselves) as the problem. I think that they think that they are far more intelligent than anyone else, and that theirs is the only legitimate worlview. That is why Global Warming is termed "a crisis." It is critical for these elitists that they control our lives as much as possible, and elevate themselves above the rest of us in the process. It's as if the nightmarish vision of Orwell's "1984" is coming to life before our very eyes. Don't think so? Just look at the lifestyle of Goofy Al Gore, then, with a straight face, tell me that he practices what he preaches. [Via Climate Realists]
Appearing at a bookstore in the downtown Loop, Gore was confronted by a team of demonstrators from a grass roots group called "We Are Change," as he was signing his latest fascist screed on the global warming swindle. Gore bolted from the bookstore, raced down an alley, jumped into a waiting car, and tried to speed off, with protesters chasing after him and banging on the car. Midwest LYM organizers, who were also on the scene to confront the global warming swindler, provided an eyewitness account of Fat Albert's flight of fear.Climate change may weaken El Niño's hurricane buffering effect - Environment - MiamiHerald.com
...a new study co-authored by a University of Miami scientist suggests climate change may sap the strength when El Niños form in the future -- at least some of the time.Global Warming Consensus: Garbage in, Garbage out: Michael Barone
As Air Force One heads to Copenhagen for the climate summit Dec. 9, it will presumably not make a U-turn while flying over the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at University of East Anglia near Norwich, England. But perhaps it should.
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The more interesting question going forward is whether European and American governmental, academic and corporate elites, having embraced global warming alarmism with religious fervor, will be shaken by the scandalous CRU e-mails. They should be.
David Barber says the thick, multiyear frozen sheets crucial to the northern ecosystem have been replaced by thin “rotten” ice which can't support the weight of the bears.Sarkozy: No global carbon risk from T&T
Trinidad and Tobago does not risk upsetting the world’s carbon emission balance despite its heavily industrialised economy, says French President Nicolas Sarkozy.William M. Briggs, Statistician & Consultant » A Response to What is—and what isn’t—evidence of global warming.
Really, the only point at which I am my interlocutor disagree is in how much to trust the models. I am not yet ready to trust them to the extent that they be used to create rules and regulations that are mandated by force of law. I am willing, as I assume my questioner is, to pay, in the form of taxes, for more research on climate—to, that is, continue to do what we have been doing. I would not support new taxes.Data-leak lessons learned from the 'Climategate' hack
Lesson 2: Don't evade Freedom of Information requests. As noted in the Science Magazine link above, many of the e-mails discuss how to destroy documents in anticipation of Freedom of Information requests. That's a criminal offense in the United Kingdom (where the CRU is located). IT folks should be aware that an increasing amount of data (particularly scientific and research data gathered via public funding) is subject to FOIA. They should work with researchers to ensure documents are stored and organized with that in mind.RealClimate: Where’s the data?
Much of the discussion in recent days has been motivated by the idea that climate science is somehow unfairly restricting access to raw data upon which scientific conclusions are based. This is a powerful meme and one that has clear resonance far beyond the people who are actually interested in analysing data themselves. However, many of the people raising this issue are not aware of what and how much data is actually available.
Therefore, we have set up a page of data links to sources of temperature and other climate data, codes to process it, model outputs, model codes, reconstructions, paleo-records, the codes involved in reconstructions etc. We have made a start on this on a new Data Sources page, but if anyone has other links that we’ve missed, note them in the comments and we’ll update accordingly.
The problem is that Climate Change is now a religion, with celebrations and sins. Dogma means simplifying things so that you don’t have to think of complicated things.Australia: Carbon trading legislation triggers Liberal party “meltdown”
The opposition Liberal party is tearing itself apart over a pending parliamentary vote on legislation for an Australian carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS), with leader Malcolm Turnbull facing a leadership spill on Tuesday morning. In the space of just three days, Turnbull’s front bench has disintegrated, with thirteen MPs resigning. Turnbull will be challenged by right-wing shadow minister for families, housing, community services and indigenous affairs, Tony Abbott, and possibly by his ally, shadow treasurer Joe Hockey, who is on record as supporting the ETS.Guest opinion: Loss of pine seeds puts Yellowstone grizzlies’ survival in question
Although Yellowstone grizzlies eat a wide array for foods, from ants to buffalo, it is this tiny, fatty seed of the whitebark pine, conveniently cached by the red squirrel, that drives female reproductive success.2005: Grizzly Population Increasing at Yellowstone - ABC News
When grizzlies received endangered species protection in 1975, their numbers had dwindled to about 200. Today, more than 500 of the bears live in and around Yellowstone.
Over 95% of the CRU climate data set concerning land surface temperatures has been accessible to climate researchers, sceptics and the public for several years the University of East Anglia has confirmed.Satellites to monitor countries for climate change under Gordon Brown plan - Telegraph
An international satellite monitoring system to check countries comply with new climate change targets was proposed by Gordon Brown last night as a way of binding developing nations into a new deal on the environment.Hacked E-Mail Data Prompts Calls for Changes in Climate Research - NYTimes.com
“This whole concept of, ‘We’re the experts, trust us,’ has clearly gone by the wayside with these e-mails,” said Judith Curry, a climate scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology.Questions for James Inhofe - Global Warning - Interview - NYTimes.com
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Gavin A. Schmidt, a NASA climatologist involved in many of the e-mail exchanges, said that voluntarily disclosing more data would never satisfy the “very hard-bitten, distraught core” of climate skeptics. “The number of attacks on our integrity will actually increase since there will be more ways to twist what it is we do to support some conspiracy theory or other,” he said.
[Q] [Boxer] and her fellow Democrats have lately suggested that global warming could be a threat to national security by destabilizing developing countries.
[Inhofe] That’s the most ludicrous thing. They looked around and they found, I think, five generals to testify before the committee. Well, that’s 5 generals out of 4,000 retired generals that say that. There are a lot of generals who don’t like to be out of the limelight. They’d like to get back in.
Well, duh! This is kind of obvious, isn't it? Once the fraudulent "science" behind the global warming scare was exposed, Al Gore became the Piltdown Man of American politics and that whole Kyoto-style agenda was as obsolete as the mullet and parachute pants.Fausty's Libertarian Blog: Climate Change scam: Lord Monckton on Alex Jones Show
Lord Monckton calls the climate change proponents fraudsters and criminals and calls for them to be arrested.The SMH can’t even see the column, let alone the scandal | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Monckton on the Alex Jones show yesterday (5-part autoplay)...
What do you think the people reading of this scandal there conclude when they then turn to, say, The Age or the ABC, and find there barely a word of coverage?The Australian ETS vote: a political litmus test for cap and trade « Watts Up With That?
I’ll tell you: they’ll conclude that the media cannot be trusted to tell even the news, let alone the truth, when it conflicts with their agenda.
It would seem, the people and their representatives are bypassing the MSM in favor of the Internet and Talk Radio.Climategate: a Word of Advice to the Scientists
The ETS vote has been delayed until Monday, and there may well be a leadership “spill” before the vote. If ETS fails in Australia, it will the first eco-political casualty affected in part by Climategate.
What can we do? Criminal prosecution of scientists who manipulate data would be a good start. Scientists who fake data and manipulate peer review to advance their agenda are no different than corporate executives who manipulate stock prices or lawyers who tamper with juries. Ultimately, perhaps massive defunding of organized science, and a new system of support for research that demands utter transparency and maximal accommodation of debate, may be the only way to defend ourselves from an utterly corrupt scientific elite.Yet More Stuff We Always Suspected But Its Nice To Have Proof | Climate Skeptic
It may well be that the public will be forced to protect itself from organized science, as we now protect ourselves from organized crime.
Nearly all the reported warming in the USHCN data base, which is used for nearly all global warming studies and models, is from human-added fudge factors, guesstimates, and corrections.
You see, it has been an extraordinarily stressful and exhausting week here at WUWT, trying to keep up with it all. Traffic records have been smashed one day, only to be smashed again the next. Comments are coming at the rate of a couple per second at times. Emails, tips, requests arriving faster than we can deal with them sometimes. It’s been crazy.They said what about global warming?
The emails released last week are starting to bring forth comments from the scientific community this week. These are not skeptics--these are scientists who believe in global warming and think we need to address it. They simply want the science done the way science should be done.“The Trick” | Climate Skeptic
There's more to come.
...in fact, the visual image of a hockey stick is driven by the overlay of the instrumental record on the proxies. The hockey stick inflection point occurs right at the point the two lines join, raising the distinct possibility the inflection is due to incompatibility of the two data sources rather than a natural phenomenon.Hide the Decline | Climate Skeptic
A lot of folks have asked me why I wasn’t more energized initially about the climate emails. One reasons is that they don’t really reveal much that I and others who did not go along blindly with the orthodoxy knew for years. The emails are kind of like getting a written confession from OJ Simpson to Nicole Brown’s murder- newsworthy, but it wouldn’t be confirming anything I didn’t already know.The Twenty Guys Behind the Curtain | Climate Skeptic
Pay no attention to those guys behind the curtain. Its all settled science. There is total consensus among tens of thousands of scientists. Which is why these guys were so hesitant to let anyone else view the details of their work, or allow anyone to criticize them in print...The great green fraud: Conrad Black
Till now, I have avoided more than very limited comment on the whole global-warming-carbon emissions controversy. But now that colossal spending and regulating programs impend on these issues, I must say that the Al Gore-David Suzuki conventional-wisdom hysteria is an insane scam.
Until we get some real answers to those questions, until we know what the true picture of scientific truth and political corruption is in the research centers of the climatology industry, I think we should be very leery of making drastic economic adjustments on the say-so of scientists whose only check appears to be their own self-control and honesty. I have no doubt that those virtues find wide distribution within the scientific community, but I also have no doubt that they are far from universal. We have to protect our ecosphere, the place where we all live, but we also have to make a living here - let’s not throw away our ability to do that until we are quite sure about the trustworthiness of the people advising us.American Thinker Blog: Warmist denial won't work
That denial is only going to make matters worse for the warmists. Are they going to pretend that Monbiot is in the pay of the hydrocarbon industry? The Warmist toothpaste is not going back into the tube. Pretending that there isn't an ugly pile of dentifrice on the sink is not going to make the mess go away.Academic questions 'green' initiatives on cutting carbon footprint
ScienceDaily (Nov. 27, 2009) — Global carbon markets may well have been hailed as the saviour of the planet by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but in many ways they are doing more harm than good, according to new evidence.The eye of the storm : article : Nature Reports Climate Change
"I am sorry to say", he writes, "that most of what politicians are doing on the climate front is greenwashing — their proposals sound good, but they are deceiving you and themselves at the same time."Central England Temperature series
According to Hansen, that includes US President Obama. Even former Vice President Al Gore, who perhaps has done more than anyone to raise awareness of climate change, is evidently deceiving himself. "I saw him on Larry King last night," says Hansen, "and what really worries me is that he sounds optimistic that we're now on a track to solve this problem." He lets out an incredulous chuckle. "We're not, however, on a track, and that's clear."
The very long thermometer-reading series from central England (from 1659 on) is of huge interest because it does NOT rely on dubious proxies -- and it shows the 20th century as being unexceptional. I have therefore made a number of allusions to it on this blog.
Now with proof of the scam in the pseudoscience of man-made global warming, the right thing should be a pause in pushing the IPCC agenda by parties invested in promoting it since Kyoto.YouTube - Climate crunch: David Bellamy on global warming fraud
But since big governments and organizations such as the UN are not known for acknowledging any error or wrongdoing on their part, the global warming fraud will continue being pushed unless the people put a halt to it.
November 25, 2009: A Current Affair interviews three people about global warming and the emissions trading scheme, all of whom agree the public is being duped without the reporter or presenter suggesting these people are speaking anything other than plain sense.Climategate has local player in Malcolm Hughes
It is to early to determine the developing scandal will affect Dr. Hughes and his work. National news organizations are pointedly ignoring the story, as are local news providers. The exception is Greg Patterson of Arizona's Own Espresso Pundit who not only points out Hughes, but also critiques the local news providers.Arizona's Own Espresso Pundit: The Sound of Silence
It's been 72 hours since "Climategate" became an international story and despite the fact that one of the University of Arizona's most prominent researchers is at the heart of an international scandal, there has been exactly zero coverage in the local Mainstream Media.Alex Jones’ Prison Planet.com » Climategate spells end to the false science of climate change
The ludicrous claims made by pushers of the global warming scam have been thoroughly debunked, and those in charge of creating false numbers have been exposed. It is time to inform everyone you know about these recent findings. Don’t let false science dictate the actions that you make in your life.Top 10 green living myths | Duncan Clark | Environment | guardian.co.uk
There is more to being green than driving a Prius and buying local produce. Duncan Clark sheds further light on the eco-friendly messages we've come to take for granted
Get going, get emissions reductions done, says a new very scary publication put out by climate scientists insisting global warming could be worse than we imagined and that irreversible calamities could soon be with us, and I say this in response: Let's hear it for some extraordinarily illuminating hackers.Paul Driessen : Cleaning Out the Climate Science Cesspool - Townhall.com
Far worse for the Climate Armageddon movement, newly released emails from its leading scientists reveal a cesspool of intimidation, duplicity and fraud that could rock Copenhagen and the alarmist agenda to their core. The emails cast deepening suspicion over global warming data, science and models.Chris Mooney Turns a Climate "Trick"
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Jones, Mann, Briffa, Trenberth, Wigley, IPCC chief Rajenda Pachauri, White House science advisor John Holdren, CRU scientist Tim Osborn, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher Ben Santer and others implicated in this growing scandal should do the honorable thing – and resign their posts.
Admittedly, Mooney has been busy. Too busy to analyze any of the emails or data that document scientific misconduct and fraud. No time for science journalism here. Yet Mooney insists that we pony up trillions of dollars and get right to work restructuring our lives, our governments, and the world economy along the lines that Mooney and his award-bestowing-to-Mooney science patrons demand. He insists that doing exactly as scientists say is “what matters”. Why should humanity be any different than Chris Mooney?Hacked e-mails heat up climate-change debate
Christmas came early this year for Diane Katz and other Canadians at the forefront of the most polarized political fight on the planet.
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But Katz says the hacked e-mail exchanges prove the IPCC, and governments everywhere, have been seriously misled.
"The perversion of science exposed in these e-mails is a vindication of the scholars and analysts who have long questioned the claims of climate alarmists," said Katz in an interview this week.
The more I’ve seen, the more convinced I’ve become that the global warming crowd latched onto the parallel rise in temperatures and CO2, and built what has essentially become a religion around it.Professor embroiled in climate change controversy responds - The Daily Collegian Online
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It appears that Jones and the CRU folks didn’t simply massage the data. As other pundits have pointed out, they waterboarded it. There are several blatantly obvious conclusions to be drawn here. First, any group receiving public money for research must make their data available to all. Even to guys with laptops on Saturday afternoons. Second, it seems that peer review means next to nothing. In the whole AGW thing, collaborating researchers apparently became co-conspirators. Wink-wink, nudge-nudge has no place in honest scientific endeavors. Third, science in general has taken a huge hit, making the average guy wonder if large grants create large lies and vice-versa. Fourth, where the heck has our media been? Menus at the White House are more important than what is possibly the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the American public? Apparently, only FOX got the memo. Fifth, school children need to be re-educated that CO2 is not the same as phosgene and sarin.
...the professor in question, Penn State meteorology professor Michael Mann, said Friday the e-mails have been taken out of context.Extremists the real danger to society, not the threat of climate change - The Daily Observer - Ontario, CA
I know many of you think David Suzuki is the best thing since sliced bread, but I think he has lost touch with reality. He gets a lot of CBC air time, but will not debate with any science professor who does not agree with his ranting.American Thinker Blog: Down under, global warming is a free speech issue
I see nothing wrong with intellectual diversity, and oppose all forms of government-driven scientific censorship. And, I recognize that blackmailing sections of the public will only last for so long. If PM Rudd continues to run on Gore's authoritarian the-debate-is-over pro-censorship platform, is he advertising his strengths or weaknesses? Do real leaders rally against democracy to promote "good science"?
Methods used to tabulate the number of experts who are skeptical of climate change leave something to be desiredGlobal warming fraud uncovered | Opinion | eastvalleytribune.com
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She didn’t, for example, try a reality check by asking him to search Google Scholar for Al Gore. Had she done so, she would have seen that Gore, with 30,000 Scholar hits and untold citations, was closing in on Einstein’s 36,000.
In addition to these problems, the attempts to brainwash the public are evident. CRU apparently utilized a public relations firm to communicate its climate change message. Most notable is the statement, “Changing attitudes toward climate change is not like selling a particular brand of soap, it’s like convincing someone to use soap in the first place.” Another one of the PR rules is, “Everyone must use a clear and consistent explanation of climate change.”Proposal to exclude Canada from the Commonwealth
In the past, the Commonwealth has suspended several countries for human rights reasons. Now, campaigners, politicians and scientists have proposed suspending Canada because of its climate policy.Only U.S. can inject momentum into climate talks - The Globe and Mail
Only 35 per cent of Americans now think climate change is a “serious problem” and of those who have heard “a lot” about the cap-and-trade legislation passed in June by the House of Representatives (which sets the same 17 per cent target the administration proposed), almost two-thirds oppose it.
When doing important research about the potential future of the planet, scientists should have nothing to hide. Their obligation to the truth is an obligation to openness.In Greenland, warming fuels dream of hidden wealth - Forbes.com
...North Sea resources of the same magnitude have made Norway one of Europe's richest countries.The Greenroom » Forum Archive » The Day Al Gore Stood Still
Even if only a small part becomes recoverable as the Arctic sea ice retreats, it would be enough for a major boost in living standards for Greenland's tiny population.
Mr. Mann, could you please tell us how we’re supposed to say it’s warming when icebergs are now forming in the Gulf of Mexico?Canada contradicts climate change consensus at Commonwealth
...a passionate-sounding Sarkozy told his news conference that the leaders have "no right to fail.Hot Air » Blog Archive » Quotes of the day
"In 20 days in Copenhagen," he said, "it won't be time for small deals or small ambitions. "We either achieve success together or we fail together and if we fail then the whole world fails. Copenhagen is not an negotiation like the others. What's at stake here is the future of the planet."
‘I’m sticking with the 2,500 scientists. These people have been studying this issue for a very long time and agree this problem is real,’ said Ms. Browner, who President Obama has tapped as his chief of policy on global warming…
“Ms. Browner initially shrugged when asked about the e-mails, saying she didn’t have a reaction.”
Thre times I’ve heard Malcolm Turnbull cite three authorities - and just these three - for his belief that global warming is a threat that we must fight with a great green tax.New Zealand’s man-made warming | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Those authorites are the famous climate scientists Margaret Thatcher, John Howard and Rupert Murdoch.
The spike was produced by adjustments made by an IPCC co-author who once worked with the Climatic Research Unit now at the centre of the Climategate scandal.[13-second video]: Climategate protester pwn3d CBC on live TV « Watts Up With That?
How interesting that it has now risen to this level. Climategate? Quel Climategate?Liberty News Central: Exposing environmentalist's bitches -The Hindustan Times, part 1
This will be a series exposing the persistent lack of honest reporting on climate change in the Indian media.Starting with the Hindustan Times because this is the rag I'm most familiar with.Climategate: the IPCC is over says UEA climate scientist – Telegraph Blogs
Could this be the beginning of the end for the IPCC-endorsed AGW scam? UEA climate science professor Mike Hulme has expressed these reservations before. But Climategate is the game-changer that will make people listen. Here’s what he has to say in response to the leaked files...The Weekend Australian trumpets Newspoll results… from September | Australian Climate Madness
Defeating the ETS will bring on an election, and only an election campaign will allow the required investment in informing the Australian public about this harsh realities of this issue – we certainly can’t rely on the media.
Beware the mass strike! ETS chaos reflects popular rage[More stellar reporting from your mainstream media]: Momentum Builds For Copenhagen Climate Deal - NYTimes.com
The extraordinary chaos in the Parliamentary Liberal Party this week over the emissions trading scheme reflects the white-hot rage in the community at Canberra’s b.s., Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood noted today.
“Australia is witnessing a mass-strike uprising of the population similar to the United States, and that is what has caused the impasse in Canberra,” Mr Isherwood said.
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - World leaders on Friday rallied to a diplomatic offensive to forge a U.N. climate deal in Copenhagen next month and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said an agreement was "within reach".Global Warming Models: 'Out of Order'? -- Seeking Alpha
You have to feel sorry for the AGW scientists whose e-mails were revealed. They thought they had a good theory. Governments were anxious to fund their research. Prominent members of the press were always consulting with them. World leaders had agreed to implement their recommendations. Then their models stopped working.The Migrant Mind: Freezing earlier in a warming world
When the story of Climategate gets written, it may be found that the AGW scientists corrupted science in order to prevent their failure from being revealed. It would be a sad chapter in scientific history and part of one of the oldest stories ever told: Power corrupts.
Over the past century, Weatherford, Texas has had its first Fall freeze earlier and earlier (smaller Julian Day number which is simply the number of day in the year this day is) This is not what one expects in a warming world.IPCC too “politicised” to survive | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Green journalists may ignore them, but scientists cannot. In fact, even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change itself is threatened by the Climategate emails.
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