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Good Article...
From American Thinker, February 24, 2010
"We have been repeatedly told (perhaps "lectured" is a better word) the past twenty years that global warming is occurring. With Climategate and subsequent confessions and bailouts by scientists at the CRU, Penn State, Arizona State, IPCC, et al., we are learning that little to none of the factual content in their "peer reviewed" articles is true. The Medieval Warming Period did occur, and it was warmer than currently; the oceans are not going to flood the plains; and the Arctic Ocean may not be turning into a summer water park. Of course, the mainstream media, especially in the United States, has reported little of this news, and President Obama appears not to be well-informed. But now the global warming story grows more interesting because here in America, we may have our own little "gate." I will call it ATG, for "American Temperaturegate."
NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) informs us, based on their "Adjusted Data" for the period from the last decade of the 19th century to 2006, that the temperature for the contiguous U.S. has increased at a rate of 0.69oC/century. NCDC arrives at this conclusion by massaging raw data from a set of meteorological stations located in the contiguous U.S. which they selected on the basis of a 2.5-degree latitude- and 3.5-degree-longitude grid.
The most-asked question, most recently by D'Aleo and Watts, is whether the NCDC's reported increase is correct. Perhaps the value is due to a dominant use (over-selection) of stations in urban locations or because of other issues, such as leaving out stations at higher altitudes for the more recent history and retaining them for the more distant past.
Here, one aspect is considered -- that of the Urban Heat Island Effect, which is tagged as UHIE.
We selected two sets of meteorological stations (48 each, with one station per each of the lower 48 states) from the NCDC master list. The stations in one set were at rural locations -- a rural set. The stations in the other set were at urban locations -- an urban set. The NCDC latitude and longitude station coordinates were used to "fly over" the locations on a computer, using a GPS map application to confirm the rural and urban characteristics. For each of the 96 stations, the NCDC's raw and adjusted temperature data were entered into a spreadsheet application and studied. The "raw" data are the annual average temperatures of the measured data. The "adjusted" data are the annual average temperatures the NCDC derived from the raw data by making a set of "corrective" assumptions for time of day, type of instrument, etc. and guessing the temperature at stations for missing data based on temperatures of other stations at the same latitude and/or region. For a more in-depth understanding of the NCDC protocols for converting raw data to adjusted data, click here. A summary of the findings is in the following table. The values in the table show that the NCDC's rate of increase of temperature, 0.69oC/century, is based on an over-selection of stations with urban locations.
Station Set oC/Century, 11-Year Average Based on the Use of
Raw Data
Adjusted Data
Rural (48)
0.11
0.58
Urban (48)
0.72
0.72
Rural + Urban (96)
0.47
0.65
The values in the table highlight four important considerations:
1) The rate of increase for rural locations, based on as-measured (raw) values, is small (if not, in effect, zero) at 0.11 oC/century.
2) There is definitely a UHIE in that the urban raw data has a rate of increase of 0.72oC/century. This tells us that man has caused warming in urban locations. This finding should not surprise anyone. On the other hand, because the rural value is 15% of the urban value, the UHIE has not caused warming in the rural locations, and it certainly has not caused a global sense of warming other than the aspect that the urban location values when averaged with the rural values produce an average increase which is larger than that of the rural alone.
3) The rural + urban value for the adjusted data, 0.65oC/century, is still less than the 0.69oC/century published by the NCDC. Thus, likely, there are more urban than rural sites used by the NCDC.
4) And this is the "Temperaturegate" aspect: The NCDC's massaging -- they call it "adjusting" -- has resulted in an increase in the rural values, from a raw value of 0.11oC/century to an adjusted value of 0.58oC/century, and no change in the urban values. That is, the NCDC's treatment has forced the rural value to look more like that of the urban. This is the exact opposite of any rational consideration, given the growth of the sizes of and activities within urban locations, unless deception is the goal.
The criticism this makes of the NCDC's treatment of historical data for the contiguous U.S. is the same as a recent Russian paper made of the HadCRUT treatment of historical temperature data for Russia.
Edward R. Long holds a Ph.D. in physics. He is a retired NASA scientist who is a consultant on radiation physics for space flight and on energy/climate in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Read more http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/a_pending_american_temperature.html
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
More Americans Agree: Global Warming Is Exaggerated
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The Christian Post, Thursday, March 11
48 percent of the public think that global warming is generally exaggerated, up from 41 percent in 2009 and 31 percent in 1997, when Gallup first asked the question. Gallup noted that the percentage of Americans who believe global warming is generally overblown is the highest on its record.
“The last two years have marked a general reversal in the trend of Americans’ attitudes about global warming,” reported Gallup. “[T]he public opinion tide turned in 2009, when several Gallup measures showed a slight retreat in public concern about global warming. This year, the downturn is even more pronounced.”
There was also a change in opinion on what causes global warming. Exactly half of the public believes that human activities are mainly responsible for the increase in the Earth’s temperature over the last century. This is a significant drop from the 61 percent in 2007 that held this view and the 58 percent in 2008.
The percentage of Americans who believe the warming of the Earth is mostly due to natural changes in the environment has steadily increased in recent years. In 2010, 46 percent hold this view, up from 38 percent in 2008 and 35 percent in 2007.
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20100311/more-americans-think-global-warming-is-exaggerated/index.html
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The Christian Post, Thursday, March 11
48 percent of the public think that global warming is generally exaggerated, up from 41 percent in 2009 and 31 percent in 1997, when Gallup first asked the question. Gallup noted that the percentage of Americans who believe global warming is generally overblown is the highest on its record.
“The last two years have marked a general reversal in the trend of Americans’ attitudes about global warming,” reported Gallup. “[T]he public opinion tide turned in 2009, when several Gallup measures showed a slight retreat in public concern about global warming. This year, the downturn is even more pronounced.”
There was also a change in opinion on what causes global warming. Exactly half of the public believes that human activities are mainly responsible for the increase in the Earth’s temperature over the last century. This is a significant drop from the 61 percent in 2007 that held this view and the 58 percent in 2008.
The percentage of Americans who believe the warming of the Earth is mostly due to natural changes in the environment has steadily increased in recent years. In 2010, 46 percent hold this view, up from 38 percent in 2008 and 35 percent in 2007.
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20100311/more-americans-think-global-warming-is-exaggerated/index.html
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
'Archaic' Network Provides Data for Global Warming Theory
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From Fox News, March 02, 2010
American climate data that provides the basis for trillion-dollar global warming legislation is obtained by a 120-year-old weather system.
The Historical Climatology Network consists of volunteers who take daily surface temperature readings and send their reports in by snail mail to the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Volunteers take readings at different times of day, round the temperatures to the nearest whole number, and mark the measurements on paper forms.
It is very kind of these volunteers to do this; they're expected to take measurements 365 days a year. But they aren't scientists, and their reports are sometimes a hodgepodge.
Anthony Watts, a meteorologist, has been cataloging problems in the 1,218 weather stations since 2007.
"When the network was put together in 1892, it was mercury thermometers and paper forms. Today it's still much the same," he said.
Requirements aren't very strict: Volunteers need decent vision in at least one eye and a small amount of training to qualify.
Expecting volunteers to be strict about collection of data several times a day 365 days a year in our current busy society is insane. As one would expect, some volunteers don't bother to collect data when they go on vacation or are sick. Watts told FoxNews.com that one volunteer filled in missing data with local weather reports from the newspapers that stacked up while he was out of town. It's highly likely that most, if not all, do that type of thing.
"You've got this kind of a ragtag network that's reporting the numbers for our official climate readings," said Watts. He added that 90 percent of the stations violated governmental guidelines for location, and poor placement compromises data.
They are supposed to be situated in empty clearings, but many are close to heat sources, such as exhaust pipes, trash-burning barrels, chimneys, barbecue grills, and hot asphalt.
If numbers appear faulty or there are more than nine days missing from a month's tally, the whole month is thrown out. Then the Center uses a computer program to determine average temperatures at dozens of nearby stations to guess what the temperature might have been for the month at that station.
Further - the NCDC adjusts for biases caused by the time of day when measurements are taken, for differences between old and new equipment, and to account for flukes that might be caused by poor siting. As if...they can be sure that those bias adjustments are necessary (poor siting?) or that they are adjusting in the right direction...
The NCDC insists its adjusted numbers are an accurate representation of climatic reality, backed up by worldwide trends in air temperature, water temperature, glacier melt, plant flowering and other indicators of climate change.
The final, highly scientific and meticulously gathered numbers - no...wait... numbers that were initially altered by heat sources they were near, then rounded by volunteers, guessed at by the NCDC, then further adjusted to correct for "biases," including uneven times of day when measurements were taken -- ending up with a number that is 0.6 degrees warmer than raw data, which Watts believes is itself suspect...THESE numbers are then used by several top climate research centers, including the U.N.'s International Panel on Climate Change, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia - all three of which have been implicated in Climategate.
Watts says that even a single step — the rounding of the daily temperature — creates a margin of error about as large as the entire global warming trend scientists are hoping to confirm.
But the NCDC says not to worry, the volunteer system is only part of how they gather data. They make sure that the volunteer numbers fit the numbers they've gathered by other methods.
So..why bother with the volunteer system, then? It will probably become moot within a decade anyway.
Lawrimore told FoxNews.com that 5 percent of the historical network has already been automated. Further, a digitally run "Climate Reference Network" (CRN), a system of 114 stations, went fully online in 2008.
Carefully sited in fields around the country, the CRN automatically records daily climate data and transmits it at midnight local time, sending it by satellite directly to NCDC; eliminating snail-mail delay, rounding of numbers and human error.
But NCDC says it will continue to rely on volunteer readings to gather climate data on the local level. (Ummm...why?)
Actually, it sounds to me like the volunteer program exists only to give a good public relations appearance that the NCDC is collecting local data several times a day and cares about that data. The way it really sounds, with all their adjustments - yet a lack of real concern for how the data is gathered - is that the NCDC has decided what the temperature should be, and if it's not...well, then it needs adjusting. Keeping an archaic system justifies manipulating the data.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/02/archaic-weather-network-run-with-volunteers/?test=latestnews
From Fox News, March 02, 2010
American climate data that provides the basis for trillion-dollar global warming legislation is obtained by a 120-year-old weather system.
The Historical Climatology Network consists of volunteers who take daily surface temperature readings and send their reports in by snail mail to the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Volunteers take readings at different times of day, round the temperatures to the nearest whole number, and mark the measurements on paper forms.
It is very kind of these volunteers to do this; they're expected to take measurements 365 days a year. But they aren't scientists, and their reports are sometimes a hodgepodge.
Anthony Watts, a meteorologist, has been cataloging problems in the 1,218 weather stations since 2007.
"When the network was put together in 1892, it was mercury thermometers and paper forms. Today it's still much the same," he said.
Requirements aren't very strict: Volunteers need decent vision in at least one eye and a small amount of training to qualify.
Expecting volunteers to be strict about collection of data several times a day 365 days a year in our current busy society is insane. As one would expect, some volunteers don't bother to collect data when they go on vacation or are sick. Watts told FoxNews.com that one volunteer filled in missing data with local weather reports from the newspapers that stacked up while he was out of town. It's highly likely that most, if not all, do that type of thing.
"You've got this kind of a ragtag network that's reporting the numbers for our official climate readings," said Watts. He added that 90 percent of the stations violated governmental guidelines for location, and poor placement compromises data.
They are supposed to be situated in empty clearings, but many are close to heat sources, such as exhaust pipes, trash-burning barrels, chimneys, barbecue grills, and hot asphalt.
If numbers appear faulty or there are more than nine days missing from a month's tally, the whole month is thrown out. Then the Center uses a computer program to determine average temperatures at dozens of nearby stations to guess what the temperature might have been for the month at that station.
Further - the NCDC adjusts for biases caused by the time of day when measurements are taken, for differences between old and new equipment, and to account for flukes that might be caused by poor siting. As if...they can be sure that those bias adjustments are necessary (poor siting?) or that they are adjusting in the right direction...
The NCDC insists its adjusted numbers are an accurate representation of climatic reality, backed up by worldwide trends in air temperature, water temperature, glacier melt, plant flowering and other indicators of climate change.
The final, highly scientific and meticulously gathered numbers - no...wait... numbers that were initially altered by heat sources they were near, then rounded by volunteers, guessed at by the NCDC, then further adjusted to correct for "biases," including uneven times of day when measurements were taken -- ending up with a number that is 0.6 degrees warmer than raw data, which Watts believes is itself suspect...THESE numbers are then used by several top climate research centers, including the U.N.'s International Panel on Climate Change, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia - all three of which have been implicated in Climategate.
Watts says that even a single step — the rounding of the daily temperature — creates a margin of error about as large as the entire global warming trend scientists are hoping to confirm.
But the NCDC says not to worry, the volunteer system is only part of how they gather data. They make sure that the volunteer numbers fit the numbers they've gathered by other methods.
So..why bother with the volunteer system, then? It will probably become moot within a decade anyway.
Lawrimore told FoxNews.com that 5 percent of the historical network has already been automated. Further, a digitally run "Climate Reference Network" (CRN), a system of 114 stations, went fully online in 2008.
Carefully sited in fields around the country, the CRN automatically records daily climate data and transmits it at midnight local time, sending it by satellite directly to NCDC; eliminating snail-mail delay, rounding of numbers and human error.
But NCDC says it will continue to rely on volunteer readings to gather climate data on the local level. (Ummm...why?)
Actually, it sounds to me like the volunteer program exists only to give a good public relations appearance that the NCDC is collecting local data several times a day and cares about that data. The way it really sounds, with all their adjustments - yet a lack of real concern for how the data is gathered - is that the NCDC has decided what the temperature should be, and if it's not...well, then it needs adjusting. Keeping an archaic system justifies manipulating the data.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/02/archaic-weather-network-run-with-volunteers/?test=latestnews
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Jail the Faux Scientists - Climategate: Senator Ask for DOJ Investigation
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Excerpts from Pajamas Media - February 21, 2010- by Charlie Martin
Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) asked the Obama administration to investigate what he called “the greatest scientific scandal of our generation” — ie Climategate: the actions of climate scientists and admissions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Dr. Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University and Dr. James Hansen of Columbia University and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies are both of interest.
- Yeah, like the Obama Administration would do that.
Senator Inhofe also asked that Al Gore to be called back to the Senate to testify. Inhofe said, “In [Gore's] science fiction movie, every assertion has been rebutted.”
- Well, that slime bucket will never subject himself to honest scrutiny. He'll only attend functions where he knows no one will confront him.
According to Pajamas Media, the Senator Inhofe minority staff report from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee alleges:
Dr. Murari Lal, editor of the IPCC AR4 report, admitted to the London Daily Mail that he had known the 2035 date was false, but was included in the report anyway “purely to put political pressure on world leaders.”
Senator Inhofe wants an investigation into research misconduct and criminal acts by the researchers. Further, Inhofe wants the EPA to drop its "Finding" that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and Congress to withdraw funding for consideration of carbon dioxide as a pollutant.
- Of all the stupid, ridiculous things the EPA and Congress have ever done...What was next, deeming all humans and animals major polluters for breathing out CO2??
The staff report noted the four major issues revealed by Climategate:
- Are you kidding me? You mean there's a chance that they WON'T go to jail??)
Dr. Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit has already been forced to step aside because of the Climategate FOIA issues, and Dr. Michael Mann of Penn State is currently under investigation by the university for potential misconduct.
Senator Inhofe believes Dr. Hansen and Dr. Mann should be “let go” from their posts “for the good of the institutions involved.”
- Excuse me, Senator Inhofe, but the lies of these men have affected the entire world. I pray that the conservatives in our government won't allow them to walk away with a slap on the hand.
- Of course, the Obama Administration probably won't even acknowledge Senator Inhofe's appeal. The Democratic majority has blocked previous attempts by Inhofe to investigate issues with climate science. We might have to wait and hope for a new administration before justice is done.
For more of PJM’s Climategate coverage, read Charlie Martin’s “Climategate: The World’s Biggest Story, Everywhere but Here.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/climategate-and-the-law-senator-inhofe-to-ask-for-congressional-criminal-investigation-pajamas-mediapjtv-exclusive/
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Excerpts from Pajamas Media - February 21, 2010- by Charlie Martin
Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) asked the Obama administration to investigate what he called “the greatest scientific scandal of our generation” — ie Climategate: the actions of climate scientists and admissions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Dr. Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University and Dr. James Hansen of Columbia University and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies are both of interest.
- Yeah, like the Obama Administration would do that.
Senator Inhofe also asked that Al Gore to be called back to the Senate to testify. Inhofe said, “In [Gore's] science fiction movie, every assertion has been rebutted.”
- Well, that slime bucket will never subject himself to honest scrutiny. He'll only attend functions where he knows no one will confront him.
According to Pajamas Media, the Senator Inhofe minority staff report from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee alleges:
"[The] Minority Staff of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works believe the scientists involved may have violated fundamental ethical principles governing taxpayer-funded research and, in some cases, federal laws. In addition to these findings, we believe the emails and accompanying documents seriously compromise the IPCC -backed “consensus” and its central conclusion that anthropogenic emissions are inexorably leading to environmental catastrophes."According to Pajamas Media,
"The exposure of the "Climategate files" - ie leaked emails - has led to a reexamination of the IPCC Assessment Reports, especially the fourth report (AR4), published in 2007. The IPCC AR4 report was named by Environmental Protection Agency head Lisa Jackson as one of the major sources of scientific support for the agency’s Endangerment Finding, the first step towards allowing the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant."The IPCC has been forced to retract a number of conclusions — such as that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035 - and has been forced to admit that the report was based on reports from environmental activist groups instead of peer-reviewed scientific research.
Dr. Murari Lal, editor of the IPCC AR4 report, admitted to the London Daily Mail that he had known the 2035 date was false, but was included in the report anyway “purely to put political pressure on world leaders.”
Senator Inhofe wants an investigation into research misconduct and criminal acts by the researchers. Further, Inhofe wants the EPA to drop its "Finding" that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and Congress to withdraw funding for consideration of carbon dioxide as a pollutant.
- Of all the stupid, ridiculous things the EPA and Congress have ever done...What was next, deeming all humans and animals major polluters for breathing out CO2??
The staff report noted the four major issues revealed by Climategate:
1.Scientists cooperated to obstruct the release of information and counter-evidence.The report also notes potential legal issues raised by Climategate:
2.Scientists manipulated data to reach predetermined conclusions.
3.Scientists colluded to pressure journal editors not to publish work questioning the “consensus.”
4.Scientists involved in the report assumed the role of climate activists attempting to influence public opinion while claiming scientific objectivity.
1.Scientific misconduct may violate the Shelby Amendment — requiring open access to the results of government-funded research — and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) policies on scientific misconduct.If proven, these charges could debar the Scientists from federally funded research and maybe to criminal penalties.
2.Potential for violations of the Federal False Statements and False Claims Acts, which may have both civil and criminal penalties.
3.Possibility of an obstruction of Congress in congressional proceeds, which may constitute an obstruction of justice.
- Are you kidding me? You mean there's a chance that they WON'T go to jail??)
Dr. Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit has already been forced to step aside because of the Climategate FOIA issues, and Dr. Michael Mann of Penn State is currently under investigation by the university for potential misconduct.
Senator Inhofe believes Dr. Hansen and Dr. Mann should be “let go” from their posts “for the good of the institutions involved.”
- Excuse me, Senator Inhofe, but the lies of these men have affected the entire world. I pray that the conservatives in our government won't allow them to walk away with a slap on the hand.
- Of course, the Obama Administration probably won't even acknowledge Senator Inhofe's appeal. The Democratic majority has blocked previous attempts by Inhofe to investigate issues with climate science. We might have to wait and hope for a new administration before justice is done.
For more of PJM’s Climategate coverage, read Charlie Martin’s “Climategate: The World’s Biggest Story, Everywhere but Here.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/climategate-and-the-law-senator-inhofe-to-ask-for-congressional-criminal-investigation-pajamas-mediapjtv-exclusive/
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Friday, June 4, 2010
Global warming is a "Scam"says Congressman Don Young:
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In an interview with Matt Felling of KTVA TV, Congressman Don Young tells it like it is: Global warming is a 'Scam.'
Video - http://www.ktva.com/ci_14434574
In an interview with Matt Felling of KTVA TV, Congressman Don Young tells it like it is: Global warming is a 'Scam.'
Video - http://www.ktva.com/ci_14434574
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Vindicated: Global Warming denier "was right after all"
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I like this guy. Honest, despite the huge consequences. There aren't many people like that in this world. God bless him.
National Post February 18, 2010, 7:10 AM by Lawrence Solomon
"De Telegraaf, the Netherlands' largest daily newspaper, has totally vindicated the country's most prominent global warming denier in a prominent article entitled "Henk Tennekes - He was right after all."
"Tennekes was the director of the Netherlands Meteorological Institute, KNMI, until the early 1990s, when his skepticism of the climate science coming out of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change led to his forced resignation.
A translation into English of De Telegraaf's no-holds-barred vindication appears here.
Excerpts:
"In the nineties, Henk Tennekes was made to clear his desk and resign as Director of the KNMI (Dutch Meteorological Institute). His sin? In a newspaper column the world-renowned meteorologist had disproved all the bold claims about climate change.
Rehabilitation of the country’s first CO2-exile
By Edwin Timmer
ARNHEM - “I worry a lot these days. I worry about the arrogance of scientists who blithely claim that they are here to solve the climate problem, as long as they receive massive increases in funding. I worry about the way they covet new supercomputers.
Others talk about ”stabilizing the climate“. I’m terrified of the arrogance, vanity
and recklessness of those words. Why is it so difficult to demonstrate a little humility?“
Is this a response to recent climate scandals? Sober criticism of the failed IPCC UN climate panel that exaggerated the melting of the glaciers?
No, these are extracts from a column which appeared exactly twenty(!) years ago in a British scientific journal. When the then Director of Policy Development at the KNMI
(Holland’s Met Office,) Henk Tennekes put the cat among the pigeons. Watch out for all the unsubstantiated claims about climate!
“My role as research director was regarded by the people around me as primarily that of provider of the next even bigger computer. But I wanted to get to the heart of the problem. Are these forecast models reliable?
Not funny, everyone thought. Looking for the truth? You must be mad! That means you have to accept the fallibility of these models. That’s much too dangerous. Most of the KNMI researchers were happy if they could just sit in the cafeteria with their like-minded colleagues.”
Greenhouse Theory
The now 73-year-old scientist still persists in his fundamental criticism of climate modelling, for instance the often-heard argument that ‘95 percent of the greenhouse
theory remains valid’.
Tennekes: “Why does the IPCC ignore the oceans? The top 2½ meters of all sea-water contain as much heat as the total amount of heat in the atmosphere. Why has the topmost kilometre of the oceans turned colder during the last five years? We don’t know. Until we understand what is happening with the heat in the oceans, the models
which aim to predict the climate are totally useless.
“I am much more anxious about the cooling of the earth. The ultimate fate of this planet is a new ice age. If the main wheat belts of the Northern hemisphere fail to
produce their much needed harvest, heaven knows how we will feed ourselves.
Well, it could be that warming will lead to a disaster. I still want to accept that. But you must weigh this unknown risk against other problems. Why should we spend insane amounts to prevent CO2 emissions, while the risk is uncertain and any potential benefits of the solution unsure? With much less money we could eradicate malaria from this planet. Or fight HIV, before the entire African population decimates itself“.
Intimate clique
“No, I’m not surprised about the fuss surrounding current climate research. This storm has been brewing for years. The contributions of climate sceptics disappear unnoticed in the rubbish bin.
IPCC is run by an intimate clique of only a few dozen people. I believe that Minister Cramer (Environment) is a victim of the spin-doctors who surround her, people who believe ’good causes’ are served best by evil means. But these green bureaucrats do not understand the meaning of the proverb. It is the road to HELL that
is paved with good intentions, not the road to HEAVEN. You can print that.“
Translation: Richard Sumner (UK)
A translation into English of De Telegraaf's full no-holds-barred vindication appears here.
Read more: http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2010/02/18/lawrence-solomon-vindication-dutch-global-warming-denier-quot-was-right-after-all-quot.aspx
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I like this guy. Honest, despite the huge consequences. There aren't many people like that in this world. God bless him.
National Post February 18, 2010, 7:10 AM by Lawrence Solomon
"De Telegraaf, the Netherlands' largest daily newspaper, has totally vindicated the country's most prominent global warming denier in a prominent article entitled "Henk Tennekes - He was right after all."
"Tennekes was the director of the Netherlands Meteorological Institute, KNMI, until the early 1990s, when his skepticism of the climate science coming out of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change led to his forced resignation.
A translation into English of De Telegraaf's no-holds-barred vindication appears here.
Excerpts:
"In the nineties, Henk Tennekes was made to clear his desk and resign as Director of the KNMI (Dutch Meteorological Institute). His sin? In a newspaper column the world-renowned meteorologist had disproved all the bold claims about climate change.
Rehabilitation of the country’s first CO2-exile
By Edwin Timmer
ARNHEM - “I worry a lot these days. I worry about the arrogance of scientists who blithely claim that they are here to solve the climate problem, as long as they receive massive increases in funding. I worry about the way they covet new supercomputers.
Others talk about ”stabilizing the climate“. I’m terrified of the arrogance, vanity
and recklessness of those words. Why is it so difficult to demonstrate a little humility?“
Is this a response to recent climate scandals? Sober criticism of the failed IPCC UN climate panel that exaggerated the melting of the glaciers?
No, these are extracts from a column which appeared exactly twenty(!) years ago in a British scientific journal. When the then Director of Policy Development at the KNMI
(Holland’s Met Office,) Henk Tennekes put the cat among the pigeons. Watch out for all the unsubstantiated claims about climate!
“My role as research director was regarded by the people around me as primarily that of provider of the next even bigger computer. But I wanted to get to the heart of the problem. Are these forecast models reliable?
Not funny, everyone thought. Looking for the truth? You must be mad! That means you have to accept the fallibility of these models. That’s much too dangerous. Most of the KNMI researchers were happy if they could just sit in the cafeteria with their like-minded colleagues.”
Greenhouse Theory
The now 73-year-old scientist still persists in his fundamental criticism of climate modelling, for instance the often-heard argument that ‘95 percent of the greenhouse
theory remains valid’.
Tennekes: “Why does the IPCC ignore the oceans? The top 2½ meters of all sea-water contain as much heat as the total amount of heat in the atmosphere. Why has the topmost kilometre of the oceans turned colder during the last five years? We don’t know. Until we understand what is happening with the heat in the oceans, the models
which aim to predict the climate are totally useless.
“I am much more anxious about the cooling of the earth. The ultimate fate of this planet is a new ice age. If the main wheat belts of the Northern hemisphere fail to
produce their much needed harvest, heaven knows how we will feed ourselves.
Well, it could be that warming will lead to a disaster. I still want to accept that. But you must weigh this unknown risk against other problems. Why should we spend insane amounts to prevent CO2 emissions, while the risk is uncertain and any potential benefits of the solution unsure? With much less money we could eradicate malaria from this planet. Or fight HIV, before the entire African population decimates itself“.
Intimate clique
“No, I’m not surprised about the fuss surrounding current climate research. This storm has been brewing for years. The contributions of climate sceptics disappear unnoticed in the rubbish bin.
IPCC is run by an intimate clique of only a few dozen people. I believe that Minister Cramer (Environment) is a victim of the spin-doctors who surround her, people who believe ’good causes’ are served best by evil means. But these green bureaucrats do not understand the meaning of the proverb. It is the road to HELL that
is paved with good intentions, not the road to HEAVEN. You can print that.“
Translation: Richard Sumner (UK)
A translation into English of De Telegraaf's full no-holds-barred vindication appears here.
Read more: http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2010/02/18/lawrence-solomon-vindication-dutch-global-warming-denier-quot-was-right-after-all-quot.aspx
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Friday, May 28, 2010
Scientist admits "There has been NO global warming for 15 years"
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Express.co.uk - Monday February 15,2010
The man at the center of the “Climategate” affair, Professor Phil Jones, Director of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU), finally admitted that there had been no “statistically significant” rise in temperatures since 1995.
His admission came as new research cast doubt on temperature records collected around the world. Those records had been used to support the crazy global warming theory.
Researchers admitted yesterday that warming recorded by weather stations was often caused by local factors rather than global change.
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/158214
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Express.co.uk - Monday February 15,2010
The man at the center of the “Climategate” affair, Professor Phil Jones, Director of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU), finally admitted that there had been no “statistically significant” rise in temperatures since 1995.
His admission came as new research cast doubt on temperature records collected around the world. Those records had been used to support the crazy global warming theory.
Researchers admitted yesterday that warming recorded by weather stations was often caused by local factors rather than global change.
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/158214
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Dutch Find More Mistakes in U.N. Climate Report
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Here's MORE!
A Dutch environment ministry spokesman, Trimo Vallaart, asked the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to 'rethink' its assertion that more than half of the Netherlands is below seal level.
Dutch authorities state that only 26 percent of the country is below sea level.
"According to an AFP story, IPCC experts calculated that 55 percent of the Netherlands was below sea level by adding the area below sea level -- 26 percent -- to the area threatened by river flooding -- 29 percent -- Vallaart said. "They should have been clearer," Vallaart pointed out, adding that the Dutch office for environmental planning, an IPCC partner, had the exact figures."
(Why does the IPCC have so much trouble with numbers?)
He noted that correcting the error had been "on the agenda several times" but had never actually happened.
(Why didn't the IPCC correct it?)
Vallaart told the AFP that he regretted the fact that proper procedure was not followed, adding that it should not be left to politicians to check the IPCC's numbers.
No. One would hope that a UN panel whose reports have such an impact on the world would be able to do its math properly.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/05/dutch-point-new-mistakes-climate-report/
Here's MORE!
A Dutch environment ministry spokesman, Trimo Vallaart, asked the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to 'rethink' its assertion that more than half of the Netherlands is below seal level.
Dutch authorities state that only 26 percent of the country is below sea level.
"According to an AFP story, IPCC experts calculated that 55 percent of the Netherlands was below sea level by adding the area below sea level -- 26 percent -- to the area threatened by river flooding -- 29 percent -- Vallaart said. "They should have been clearer," Vallaart pointed out, adding that the Dutch office for environmental planning, an IPCC partner, had the exact figures."
(Why does the IPCC have so much trouble with numbers?)
He noted that correcting the error had been "on the agenda several times" but had never actually happened.
(Why didn't the IPCC correct it?)
Vallaart told the AFP that he regretted the fact that proper procedure was not followed, adding that it should not be left to politicians to check the IPCC's numbers.
No. One would hope that a UN panel whose reports have such an impact on the world would be able to do its math properly.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/05/dutch-point-new-mistakes-climate-report/
Thursday, May 20, 2010
More Lies: Climate Researchers Manipulated & Hid Data
,From The Guardian Monday 1 February 2010 - Fred Pearce
E-mails leaked by hackers from the University of East Anglia's climatic research unit (CRU) turned up additional concerns. A study by the London paper, The Guardian, found serious flaws in measurements from Chinese weather stations, noting that documents from them could not be produced.
The e-mails revealed that Chinese monitoring stations were moved several times, making their data unreliable. This data was cited by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to prove rapid global warming in the last few decades.
Further, according to The Guardian, CRU chief scientist Phil Jones withheld information requested under freedom of information laws. Of 105 freedom of information requests concerning the climatic research unit (CRU), only 10 had been released in full.
There had been some question concerning the work of Jones's collaborator, Wei-Chyung Wang of the University at Albany-SUNY. Allegations are that he committed fraud in his research cited by the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC (2007) on
“urban heat islands” (a critical issue). Douglas J. Keenan has detailed it in a paper - THE FRAUD ALLEGATION AGAINST SOME CLIMATIC RESEARCH OF WEI-CHYUNG WANG
Wang was cleared of scientific fraud by his university, but new information brought on by the emails indicates at least one senior colleague had serious concerns about the affair and told Jones that he feared that Wang had "screwed up."
"The former director of the unit, Tom Wigley, harboured grave doubts about the cover-up of the shortcomings in Jones and Wang's work. Wigley was in charge of CRU when the original paper was published. "Were you taking W-CW [Wang] on trust?" he asked Jones. He continued: "Why, why, why did you and W-CW not simply say this right at the start?"
Unfortunately, it now seems that documents Wang claimed would exonerate him and Jones do not exist.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/02/climate-researchers-manipulated-hid-data/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/01/leaked-emails-climate-jones-chinese
E-mails leaked by hackers from the University of East Anglia's climatic research unit (CRU) turned up additional concerns. A study by the London paper, The Guardian, found serious flaws in measurements from Chinese weather stations, noting that documents from them could not be produced.
The e-mails revealed that Chinese monitoring stations were moved several times, making their data unreliable. This data was cited by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to prove rapid global warming in the last few decades.
Further, according to The Guardian, CRU chief scientist Phil Jones withheld information requested under freedom of information laws. Of 105 freedom of information requests concerning the climatic research unit (CRU), only 10 had been released in full.
There had been some question concerning the work of Jones's collaborator, Wei-Chyung Wang of the University at Albany-SUNY. Allegations are that he committed fraud in his research cited by the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC (2007) on
“urban heat islands” (a critical issue). Douglas J. Keenan has detailed it in a paper - THE FRAUD ALLEGATION AGAINST SOME CLIMATIC RESEARCH OF WEI-CHYUNG WANG
Wang was cleared of scientific fraud by his university, but new information brought on by the emails indicates at least one senior colleague had serious concerns about the affair and told Jones that he feared that Wang had "screwed up."
"The former director of the unit, Tom Wigley, harboured grave doubts about the cover-up of the shortcomings in Jones and Wang's work. Wigley was in charge of CRU when the original paper was published. "Were you taking W-CW [Wang] on trust?" he asked Jones. He continued: "Why, why, why did you and W-CW not simply say this right at the start?"
Unfortunately, it now seems that documents Wang claimed would exonerate him and Jones do not exist.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/02/climate-researchers-manipulated-hid-data/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/01/leaked-emails-climate-jones-chinese
Sunday, May 16, 2010
UN Climate Chief used Bogus Data to get Grants
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Quotes from The Sunday Times, January 24, 2010
According to reports, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), used bogus claims that Himalayan glaciers were melting to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Meaning - EU taxpayers have been funding research into a bogus scientific claim about melting glaciers.
The Sunday Times had one week earlier highlighted flaws in the IPCC's 2007 report on impacts of global warming. The IPCC had said climate change would melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035. Most glaciologists considered that ludicrous. After being confronted, the IPCC retracted the claim and corrected its report.
However, The Sunday Times then discovered the same bogus claim had been cited in grant applications for TERI. One of the grants, announced earlier just before the Glacier scandal broke, resulted in a £310,000 grant from Carnegie.
"Rajendra Pachauri's Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), based in New Delhi, was awarded up to £310,000 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the lion's share of a £2.5m EU grant funded by European taxpayers."
The grant application states: "The Himalaya glaciers, vital to more than a dozen major rivers that sustain hundreds of millions of people in South Asia, are melting and receding at a dangerous rate. One authoritative study reported that most of the glaciers in the region "will vanish within forty years as a result of global warming, resulting in widespread water shortages,..."
Oh my gosh, most of us lowly people have no idea how these people in power around the world are scamming us. Just keep on working, lowly peons. Our masters need more bling.
And yet, so many point the finger at the US as the cause of all that ails. Never mind what tyrants, dictators, and Somalian gang leaders are doing. The US and Britain, the ones that try to run to help everyone, are blamed. And never mind that the UN isn't run by Americans, but by many of the said dictators and various ranking swindlers. Take - oh, Pachauri for example.
In India questions are also being asked about Pachauri's links with GloriOil, a Houston, Texas-based oil technology company that specialises in recovering extra oil from declining oil fields . Pachauri is listed as a founder and scientific advisor.
Critics say it is odd for a man committed to decarbonising energy supplies to be linked to an oil company. I think it's odd, too.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6999975.ece
Quotes from The Sunday Times, January 24, 2010
According to reports, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), used bogus claims that Himalayan glaciers were melting to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Meaning - EU taxpayers have been funding research into a bogus scientific claim about melting glaciers.
The Sunday Times had one week earlier highlighted flaws in the IPCC's 2007 report on impacts of global warming. The IPCC had said climate change would melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035. Most glaciologists considered that ludicrous. After being confronted, the IPCC retracted the claim and corrected its report.
However, The Sunday Times then discovered the same bogus claim had been cited in grant applications for TERI. One of the grants, announced earlier just before the Glacier scandal broke, resulted in a £310,000 grant from Carnegie.
"Rajendra Pachauri's Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), based in New Delhi, was awarded up to £310,000 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the lion's share of a £2.5m EU grant funded by European taxpayers."
The grant application states: "The Himalaya glaciers, vital to more than a dozen major rivers that sustain hundreds of millions of people in South Asia, are melting and receding at a dangerous rate. One authoritative study reported that most of the glaciers in the region "will vanish within forty years as a result of global warming, resulting in widespread water shortages,..."
Oh my gosh, most of us lowly people have no idea how these people in power around the world are scamming us. Just keep on working, lowly peons. Our masters need more bling.
And yet, so many point the finger at the US as the cause of all that ails. Never mind what tyrants, dictators, and Somalian gang leaders are doing. The US and Britain, the ones that try to run to help everyone, are blamed. And never mind that the UN isn't run by Americans, but by many of the said dictators and various ranking swindlers. Take - oh, Pachauri for example.
In India questions are also being asked about Pachauri's links with GloriOil, a Houston, Texas-based oil technology company that specialises in recovering extra oil from declining oil fields . Pachauri is listed as a founder and scientific advisor.
Critics say it is odd for a man committed to decarbonising energy supplies to be linked to an oil company. I think it's odd, too.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6999975.ece
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Serving the King -: "Slain in the Spirit" - Is it for Real?
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As a Christian, I have seen many charlatans, including having gone once to a Benny Hinn event where, sitting in the stands, I watched as they manipulated the seating to make it appear to cameras that the arena was full, and people pushed and shoved each other to be the first down the stars to the floor, where they could get in line to be touched by Benny - if Benny's guards, who were stopping and questioning each potential sick-person-in-need-of-healing, allowed you to. The air was thick with the power of a spirit in action; only I don't think it was the Holy one...
And yes, I have stood at the prayer altar and felt a pastor try to push me, with two fingers on my chest, back into the arms of someone standing behind me. I stood straight, and kept praying to Jesus that what ever His will was, that I would do. But I wasn't going to lay down for any man. The pastor seemed to get frustrated with me, and moved on.
However, there was once, at an average chapel service at a small church
Read More: Serving the King -: "Slain in the Spirit" - Is it for Real?
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As a Christian, I have seen many charlatans, including having gone once to a Benny Hinn event where, sitting in the stands, I watched as they manipulated the seating to make it appear to cameras that the arena was full, and people pushed and shoved each other to be the first down the stars to the floor, where they could get in line to be touched by Benny - if Benny's guards, who were stopping and questioning each potential sick-person-in-need-of-healing, allowed you to. The air was thick with the power of a spirit in action; only I don't think it was the Holy one...
And yes, I have stood at the prayer altar and felt a pastor try to push me, with two fingers on my chest, back into the arms of someone standing behind me. I stood straight, and kept praying to Jesus that what ever His will was, that I would do. But I wasn't going to lay down for any man. The pastor seemed to get frustrated with me, and moved on.
However, there was once, at an average chapel service at a small church
Read More: Serving the King -: "Slain in the Spirit" - Is it for Real?
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
7,500 Online Shoppers Unknowingly Sold Their Souls
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LOL - Unbelievable. A game company placed this April 1st in that tiny print people click past when shopping online...I love the people that thought this up ....
LOL - Unbelievable. A game company placed this April 1st in that tiny print people click past when shopping online...I love the people that thought this up ....
"By placing an order via this Web site on the first day of the fourth month of the year 2010 Anno Domini, you agree to grant Us a non transferable option to claim, for now and for ever more, your immortal soul. Should We wish to exercise this option, you agree to surrender your immortal soul, and any claim you may have on it, within 5 (five) working days of receiving written notification from gamesation.co.uk or one of its duly authorised minions."Read More: 7,500 Online Shoppers Unknowingly Sold Their Souls
Climate Chief KNEW of False Glacier Claims Before Copenhagen
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From The Times January 30, 2010 -Ben Webster
The Times of London reports that research has shown that IPCC's assessment that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035 was false, and Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of IPCC, was told this way before the Copenhagen summit.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)is the U.N.'s leading climate change watchdog. Many look to the organization to be a respectable purveyor of truth. But Pachauri waited two months, until after the Copenhagen summit, to correct the false From The Times January 30, 2010report that his organization had published. He failed to act despite knowing that their claim had been refuted by leading glaciologists.
The IPCC’s report that the glaciers were melting at an alarming rate was the foundation for many proposals at Copenhagen for drastic cuts in global emissions.
However, most glaciologists believe the Himalayan glaciers are so thick and high altitude that at their present rate, they will take hundreds of years to melt. Some are growing and many show little sign of change.
Dr Pachauri, who played a leading role at the summit, corrected the error only after coming under media pressure following the summit. He told The Times on January 22 that he had only known about the error a few days.
When asked whether he had kept silent deliberately to avoid embarrassment at Copenhagen, he said: “That’s ridiculous. It never came to my attention before the Copenhagen summit. It wasn’t in the public sphere.”
"However, Pallava Bagla, who writes for Science journal, said he had asked Dr Pachauri about the 2035 error in November of 2009.
Dr Pacharui has also been accused of using the error to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7009081.ece
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/29/climate-chief-knew-false-glacier-claims-copenhagen/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews/scitech+(Text+-+SciTech)&test=latestnews
From The Times January 30, 2010 -Ben Webster
The Times of London reports that research has shown that IPCC's assessment that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035 was false, and Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of IPCC, was told this way before the Copenhagen summit.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)is the U.N.'s leading climate change watchdog. Many look to the organization to be a respectable purveyor of truth. But Pachauri waited two months, until after the Copenhagen summit, to correct the false From The Times January 30, 2010report that his organization had published. He failed to act despite knowing that their claim had been refuted by leading glaciologists.
The IPCC’s report that the glaciers were melting at an alarming rate was the foundation for many proposals at Copenhagen for drastic cuts in global emissions.
However, most glaciologists believe the Himalayan glaciers are so thick and high altitude that at their present rate, they will take hundreds of years to melt. Some are growing and many show little sign of change.
Dr Pachauri, who played a leading role at the summit, corrected the error only after coming under media pressure following the summit. He told The Times on January 22 that he had only known about the error a few days.
When asked whether he had kept silent deliberately to avoid embarrassment at Copenhagen, he said: “That’s ridiculous. It never came to my attention before the Copenhagen summit. It wasn’t in the public sphere.”
"However, Pallava Bagla, who writes for Science journal, said he had asked Dr Pachauri about the 2035 error in November of 2009.
Dr Pacharui has also been accused of using the error to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7009081.ece
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/29/climate-chief-knew-false-glacier-claims-copenhagen/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews/scitech+(Text+-+SciTech)&test=latestnews
Sunday, May 9, 2010
"Climategate" & Leaked Emails: Scientists that should be Jailed
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Facts from the Wall Street Journal:
3,000 emails and documents of some of the world's most influential climatologists were released in the fall of 2009 after the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit's servers were hacked and messages were published on the Internet.
Phil Jones, director of the University of East Anglia's CRU, and Michael Mann, director of the Pennsylvania State University's Earth System Science Center, were two of the emailers that were focused on.
Among some of the facts that came out: These Scientists urged each other 'to present a "unified" view on their theory of man-made climate change, calling it an important "common cause." They also advised each other on how to adjust data so it wouldn't compromise their hypothesis, discussed ways to keep opposing views out of leading Science journals, and gave tips on how to "hide the decline" of temperature in certain inconvenient data.
Mr. Jones wrote in 2005, "The two MMs (probably Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, two Canadians who devoted years trying to obtain the raw data and codes used in climate graphs, then fact-checking them) have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the U.K., I think I'll delete the file rather than send to anyone. . . . We also have a data protection act, which I will hide behind."
Mann and friends also seemed to work at blacklisting scientists who disagreed wth their hypothesis of Global Warming, as well as journals that published Global Warming skeptics' work.
"I think we have to stop considering 'Climate Research' as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal," states an email (said to be from Mr. Mann in March 2003.) "Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal."
Nice guy. Reminds you of one of History's worst Scientists - Trofim Lysenko.
Quotes taken from the Wall Street Journal, Nov. 24, 2009 edition
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704888404574547730924988354.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
Facts from the Wall Street Journal:
3,000 emails and documents of some of the world's most influential climatologists were released in the fall of 2009 after the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit's servers were hacked and messages were published on the Internet.
Phil Jones, director of the University of East Anglia's CRU, and Michael Mann, director of the Pennsylvania State University's Earth System Science Center, were two of the emailers that were focused on.
Among some of the facts that came out: These Scientists urged each other 'to present a "unified" view on their theory of man-made climate change, calling it an important "common cause." They also advised each other on how to adjust data so it wouldn't compromise their hypothesis, discussed ways to keep opposing views out of leading Science journals, and gave tips on how to "hide the decline" of temperature in certain inconvenient data.
Mr. Jones wrote in 2005, "The two MMs (probably Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, two Canadians who devoted years trying to obtain the raw data and codes used in climate graphs, then fact-checking them) have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the U.K., I think I'll delete the file rather than send to anyone. . . . We also have a data protection act, which I will hide behind."
Mann and friends also seemed to work at blacklisting scientists who disagreed wth their hypothesis of Global Warming, as well as journals that published Global Warming skeptics' work.
"I think we have to stop considering 'Climate Research' as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal," states an email (said to be from Mr. Mann in March 2003.) "Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal."
Nice guy. Reminds you of one of History's worst Scientists - Trofim Lysenko.
Quotes taken from the Wall Street Journal, Nov. 24, 2009 edition
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704888404574547730924988354.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, May 6th 2010
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Among Top News for Global Warming enthusiasts
(from the The Daily Bayonet.com -Skewering the Clueless Since 2006):
Read More: Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, May 6th 2010
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Among Top News for Global Warming enthusiasts
(from the The Daily Bayonet.com -Skewering the Clueless Since 2006):
- Al Gore, the guy who told us to stop using so much energy and to beware of the sea rising dramatically, has purchased another new mansion - this one on the beach...
- Michael ‘Stick’ Mann, the scientist behind the hokey hockey-stick graph, is suing over a parody video...
- The University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit, the CRU that screamed about Global Warming for the last decade, now claims we are heading into a new ice age...
- The current US government exempted BP from a recent environmental study. President Obama accepted a lot of cash for his election campaign from BP...
- CO2 has pretty much nothing to do with global warming...
- Cap & Trade, the biggest heist in American history....
- Electric cars are great, unless you want to go anywhere...
- Organic food, much beloved of hippies everywhere and a staple of warmists buy local diet, isn’t any better for you than regular food...
- Bad news, catastrophic glacial retreat has been observed in Spitzbergen, Norway. In 1934...
- Greenland was warmer 80 years ago than it is today...
- Oh, and the Guardian continues its countdown to the end of the world (you have about 6.5 years left)
Read More: Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, May 6th 2010
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Thursday, May 6, 2010
Ridding History of Inconvenient Truth: Wikipedia Editor erased Climate History online
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Can it get any better than this? "A British scientist and Wikipedia administrator rewrote climate history, editing more than 5,000 unique articles in the online encyclopedia to cover traces of a medieval warming period – something that Climategate scientists saw as a major roadblock in the effort to spread the global warming message."
Right; don't let Truth, Fact and History get in the way.
Can't have any inconvenient truths around, now, can we.
The University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, according to the famous leaked emails, was apparently trying to brush aside the 'Medieval Warm Period,' a 400-year era that began around A.D. 1000.
Keith Briffa, a researcher, said in a 1999 e-mail, "I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is not quite so simple. … I believe that the recent warmth was probably matched about 1,000 years ago."
However, anyone bringing up the fact that climate change is cyclical was ignored. The famous Hockey stick graph was published again and again showing stable temperatures over the last 1,000 years, omitting any indication of a warming period.
What I don't get is - why? I've heard that money is to be gained; it certainly does look like Gore, at the very least, has made a good living off of this fraud. Apparently, there was lots of Climate Research grants available, and these "scientists" wanted to make sure they got it and that it kept coming. They created a "problem" - a reason for their paycheck.
What a great system we have.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119745
Can it get any better than this? "A British scientist and Wikipedia administrator rewrote climate history, editing more than 5,000 unique articles in the online encyclopedia to cover traces of a medieval warming period – something that Climategate scientists saw as a major roadblock in the effort to spread the global warming message."
Right; don't let Truth, Fact and History get in the way.
Can't have any inconvenient truths around, now, can we.
The University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, according to the famous leaked emails, was apparently trying to brush aside the 'Medieval Warm Period,' a 400-year era that began around A.D. 1000.
Keith Briffa, a researcher, said in a 1999 e-mail, "I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is not quite so simple. … I believe that the recent warmth was probably matched about 1,000 years ago."
However, anyone bringing up the fact that climate change is cyclical was ignored. The famous Hockey stick graph was published again and again showing stable temperatures over the last 1,000 years, omitting any indication of a warming period.
What I don't get is - why? I've heard that money is to be gained; it certainly does look like Gore, at the very least, has made a good living off of this fraud. Apparently, there was lots of Climate Research grants available, and these "scientists" wanted to make sure they got it and that it kept coming. They created a "problem" - a reason for their paycheck.
What a great system we have.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119745
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Freedom of Speech: Independent Indian Press
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Quoting from the new web magazine - The Independent Indian Press:
"Both Roland Morris Sr. and Bill Lawrence, Minnesota Chippewa heroes of Truth and independent thought, have passed on. The Native American Press / Ojibwe News has printed its final edition. But their legacy and what they taught us lives on.
"We will not be silenced or controlled. We are not owned by Tribal Government. We have a voice, and we will use it.
"This site is open to the writings of Tribal Members and those that love them for the purpose of standing up for Conservative Values, the US Constitution and freedom from over-reaching government.
"Current Federal Indian policy does not work to the benefit of the individual tribal members and their families; it works to the benefit of the tribal and federal government. It works to the benefit of those in power.
"In fact, Federal Indian Policy not only does not benefit tribal members, but it works to their detriment. The evidence is in the ever increasing amount of alcoholism, drug abuse, violence, mental health issues, child abuse and neglect, and suicides within Indian Country. Things aren’t getting better, they’ve been getting worse. It’s time it was admitted. The emperor has no clothes.
"As Roland Morris once said, being treated a child is the worst thing that can happen to a man. As adults and citizens of the United States, there is no reason why we need be considered wards of the federal government or chattel for the tribal government. We want to live with all the rights and responsibilities of every other American citizen.
"No more pretending that we aren’t capable. No more treating us like 2nd class citizens. No more taking control and “jurisdiction” over our children, as if parents who have moved on don’t know what is best for them.
"No more forcing us to live in a socialist system, where assets are controlled by government rather than families. America is up in arms over the Socialism Obama is forcing on everyone – but we’ve been forced to live with it for years.
"No more allowing tribal government to deny those living on reservations Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Press, Freedom of Religion, and Freedom of Assembly. No more living under a system of Nepotism and Cronyism.
"No more living without a separation of powers within tribal government...
"...Further, financial dependence on outsiders must end. Governments have developed a circular need for social service funding, as it is the one area where they are assured outside funds. However, in focusing on getting money for social programs, the governments haven’t been giving economic growth and development any attention. There needs to be a decrease in the primary focus of program and service delivery, and an increase in focus on long-term, strategic goals that develop solutions and reduce financial dependence. With that in mind, workforce dependence on government jobs will also lessen. Reservations are top-heavy in government jobs; the natural outgrowth of a focus on program and social service funding.
"(Does anyone see similarity’s between the current tribal government system and the system President Obama is trying to bestow on us? Can we get a “hello!” recognition as to how and why Obama’s agenda must be stopped, and what must changed on the reservations?) "
To Read More Conservative Writing by Tribal Members - Visit Independent Indian Press
Quoting from the new web magazine - The Independent Indian Press:
"Both Roland Morris Sr. and Bill Lawrence, Minnesota Chippewa heroes of Truth and independent thought, have passed on. The Native American Press / Ojibwe News has printed its final edition. But their legacy and what they taught us lives on.
"We will not be silenced or controlled. We are not owned by Tribal Government. We have a voice, and we will use it.
"This site is open to the writings of Tribal Members and those that love them for the purpose of standing up for Conservative Values, the US Constitution and freedom from over-reaching government.
"Current Federal Indian policy does not work to the benefit of the individual tribal members and their families; it works to the benefit of the tribal and federal government. It works to the benefit of those in power.
"In fact, Federal Indian Policy not only does not benefit tribal members, but it works to their detriment. The evidence is in the ever increasing amount of alcoholism, drug abuse, violence, mental health issues, child abuse and neglect, and suicides within Indian Country. Things aren’t getting better, they’ve been getting worse. It’s time it was admitted. The emperor has no clothes.
"As Roland Morris once said, being treated a child is the worst thing that can happen to a man. As adults and citizens of the United States, there is no reason why we need be considered wards of the federal government or chattel for the tribal government. We want to live with all the rights and responsibilities of every other American citizen.
"No more pretending that we aren’t capable. No more treating us like 2nd class citizens. No more taking control and “jurisdiction” over our children, as if parents who have moved on don’t know what is best for them.
"No more forcing us to live in a socialist system, where assets are controlled by government rather than families. America is up in arms over the Socialism Obama is forcing on everyone – but we’ve been forced to live with it for years.
"No more allowing tribal government to deny those living on reservations Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Press, Freedom of Religion, and Freedom of Assembly. No more living under a system of Nepotism and Cronyism.
"No more living without a separation of powers within tribal government...
"...Further, financial dependence on outsiders must end. Governments have developed a circular need for social service funding, as it is the one area where they are assured outside funds. However, in focusing on getting money for social programs, the governments haven’t been giving economic growth and development any attention. There needs to be a decrease in the primary focus of program and service delivery, and an increase in focus on long-term, strategic goals that develop solutions and reduce financial dependence. With that in mind, workforce dependence on government jobs will also lessen. Reservations are top-heavy in government jobs; the natural outgrowth of a focus on program and social service funding.
"(Does anyone see similarity’s between the current tribal government system and the system President Obama is trying to bestow on us? Can we get a “hello!” recognition as to how and why Obama’s agenda must be stopped, and what must changed on the reservations?) "
To Read More Conservative Writing by Tribal Members - Visit Independent Indian Press
Monday, May 3, 2010
Teen gets 40 Years in Border Agent's Murder
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The border agent, Robert Rosas, was shot several times in the head, from behind and while lying on the ground, during a Robbery attempt.
The teen and others "lured Rosas out of his Border Patrol vehicle by leaving footprints on a dirt road, shaking bushes and making noises," according to prosecutors. Rosas was ambushed about 100 yards from the border. Rosa was patrolling alone.
When are our elected officials in Congress going to do their jobs? Their job was not to force us into universal health care. Their job is not to take over auto companies and banks. Their job is to get off their fannies and protect our borders.
Lord Jesus, please help us to replace most of Congress this Fall, and put in place people that are willing to follow the constitution and do their jobs. Please help us to protect our citizens.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/29/teen-gets-years-border-patrol-agents-murder/
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The border agent, Robert Rosas, was shot several times in the head, from behind and while lying on the ground, during a Robbery attempt.
The teen and others "lured Rosas out of his Border Patrol vehicle by leaving footprints on a dirt road, shaking bushes and making noises," according to prosecutors. Rosas was ambushed about 100 yards from the border. Rosa was patrolling alone.
When are our elected officials in Congress going to do their jobs? Their job was not to force us into universal health care. Their job is not to take over auto companies and banks. Their job is to get off their fannies and protect our borders.
Lord Jesus, please help us to replace most of Congress this Fall, and put in place people that are willing to follow the constitution and do their jobs. Please help us to protect our citizens.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/29/teen-gets-years-border-patrol-agents-murder/
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Saturday, May 1, 2010
Yeah! 17 Illegals Rounded Up in Hunt for Deputy's Attacker
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17 illegal immigrants were caught in southern Arizona today as Police continued a manhunt for smugglers who shot and wounded a sheriff's deputy in a desert 50 miles south of Phoenix. The Deputy had come across a stash of marijuana bales and five smugglers. At least one of the suspects opened fire on him.
Three of the 17 rounded up matched the description of the attackers.
Alright Arizona - you do what you have to do to protect your citizens. We're glad that at least one government in America is taking their job seriously.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/01/suspected-illegal-immigrants-caught-search-ariz-deputys-attackers/
17 illegal immigrants were caught in southern Arizona today as Police continued a manhunt for smugglers who shot and wounded a sheriff's deputy in a desert 50 miles south of Phoenix. The Deputy had come across a stash of marijuana bales and five smugglers. At least one of the suspects opened fire on him.
Three of the 17 rounded up matched the description of the attackers.
Alright Arizona - you do what you have to do to protect your citizens. We're glad that at least one government in America is taking their job seriously.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/01/suspected-illegal-immigrants-caught-search-ariz-deputys-attackers/
Border States Deal with most Illegal Immigrant Crime
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"We've been inundated with criminal activity. It's just -- it's been outrageous," Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer told Fox News.
"Crime is off the chart in this state," added Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, president of the Arizona Association of Sheriffs.
Wake up, liberals. It must have been people like you that sat back and said nothing, pretending it's not all that bad, while Hitler rounded up and murdered their neighbors. Wake up and see reality. Something has to be done, and if it were your ranch on the border, and your children playing in the yard, you might be a little more realistic about this.
And it's not just right on the border - the problem is in Pheonix, as well...
"The Department of Justice's latest National Drug Threat Assessment says there were 267 kidnappings in Phoenix last year and 299 in 2008. The report said the victims usually have a connection to immigrant smuggling groups or drug traffickers."
Leave the people of Arizona alone. They have a right to run their state, and they have a right to protect their families. And Hey! The PEOPLE of Arizona - Legal US Citizens - come in all shapes, sizes, and colors! Americans of Mexican heritage don't want their kids hurt by drug wars anymore than persons of any heritage do!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/29/border-states-dealing-illegal-immigrant-crime-data-suggests/
"We've been inundated with criminal activity. It's just -- it's been outrageous," Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer told Fox News.
"Crime is off the chart in this state," added Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, president of the Arizona Association of Sheriffs.
Wake up, liberals. It must have been people like you that sat back and said nothing, pretending it's not all that bad, while Hitler rounded up and murdered their neighbors. Wake up and see reality. Something has to be done, and if it were your ranch on the border, and your children playing in the yard, you might be a little more realistic about this.
And it's not just right on the border - the problem is in Pheonix, as well...
"The Department of Justice's latest National Drug Threat Assessment says there were 267 kidnappings in Phoenix last year and 299 in 2008. The report said the victims usually have a connection to immigrant smuggling groups or drug traffickers."
Leave the people of Arizona alone. They have a right to run their state, and they have a right to protect their families. And Hey! The PEOPLE of Arizona - Legal US Citizens - come in all shapes, sizes, and colors! Americans of Mexican heritage don't want their kids hurt by drug wars anymore than persons of any heritage do!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/29/border-states-dealing-illegal-immigrant-crime-data-suggests/
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