November 2009 Archives
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.
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 data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals -- stored on paper and magnetic tape -- were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building.
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By Elmer Beauregard
The Short Hear Round The World
Our newest video "Hide the Decline" seems to have hit a nerve and has gone viral. Rush played it on his show on Wednesday which helped immensely. Soon this little parody of "Draggin The Line" was playing all over the world. It was also big hit in Great Britain, Climategate seems to be a bigger story there than in America. Last night Stephanie Gutmann put up a nice story about "Minnesotans For Global Warming" at the Telegraph.co.uk. We were even seen on Russian TV check it out at about 2:30.
Leaked emails have revealed the unwillingness of climate change scientists to engage in a proper debate with the sceptics who doubt global warming
The storm began with just four cryptic words. "A miracle has happened," announced a contributor to Climate Audit, a website devoted to criticising the science of climate change.
"RC" said nothing more -- but included a web link that took anyone who clicked on it to another site, Real Climate.
There, on the morning of November 17, they found a treasure trove: a thousand or so emails sent or received by Professor Phil Jones, director of the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.
Jones is a key player in the science of climate change. His department's databases on global temperature changes and its measurements have been crucial in building the case for global warming.
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What those emails suggested, however, was that Jones and some colleagues may have become so convinced of their case that they crossed the line from objective research into active campaigning.
By Christopher Booker, Telegraph
Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with the Climategate whitewash, says Christopher Booker.
A week after my colleague James Delingpole, on his Telegraph blog, coined the term "Climategate" to describe the scandal revealed by the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, Google was showing that the word now appears across the internet more than nine million times. But in all these acres of electronic coverage, one hugely relevant point about these thousands of documents has largely been missed.
The reason why even the Guardian's George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
By Kimberley A. Strassel, Wall Street journal
So declares Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, taking a few minutes away from a Thanksgiving retreat with his family. "Ninety-five percent of the nails were in the coffin prior to this week. Now they are all in."
If any politician might be qualified to offer last rites, it would be Mr. Inhofe. The top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee has spent the past decade in the thick of Washington's climate fight. He's seen the back of three cap-and-trade bills, rode herd on an overweening Environmental Protection Agency, and steadfastly insisted that global researchers were "cooking" the science behind man-made global warming.
This week he's looking prescient. The more than 3,000 emails and documents from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) that have found their way to the Internet have blown the lid off the "science" of manmade global warming. CRU is a nerve center for many of those researchers who have authored the United Nations' global warming reports and fueled the political movement to regulate carbon.
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By Elmer Beauregard
Someone just heard it on Rush's show, thanks Rush!
Thanks to, Noel Sheppard at Newbusters.org, Alan Watt at wattsupwiththat.com, Joe at icecap.us, Andrew Bolt, and planetgore, and all the other skeptical blogs for helping this go viral.
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Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com
Hacked emails discussed manipulating data to "hide the decline" in global temperatures
Calls for an independent inquiry into what is being dubbed "Climategate" are growing as the foundation for man-made global warming implodes following the release of emails which prove researchers colluded to manipulate data in order to "hide the decline" in global temperatures.
Former British chancellor Lord Lawson was the latest to demand an impartial investigation be launched into the scandal, which arrives just weeks before the UN climate conference in Copenhagen. "They should set up a public inquiry under someone who is totally respected and get to the truth," he told the BBC Radio Four Today programme.
The emails were leaked at the end of last week after hackers penetrated the servers of the Climatic Research Unit, which is based at the University of East Anglia, in eastern England. The CRU is described as one of the leading climate research bodies in the world.
The hacked documents and communications reveal how top scientists conspired to falsify data in the face of declining global temperatures in order to prop up the premise that man-made factors are driving climate change. Others illustrate how they embarked on a venomous and coordinated campaign to ostracize climate skeptics and use their influence to keep dissenting reports from appearing in peer-reviewed journals, as well as using cronyism to avoid compliance with Freedom of Information Act requests.
By Elmer Beauregard
On Nov. 20th Startribune.com had a nice article about the hacked emails called "A Global Warming Meltdown" written by by Andrew C. Revkin, of the New York Times.
The article talked about how the emails revealed that scientists were using statistical "tricks" to make charts show a recent sharp warming trend. I went to find that article today on their website and it is gone, it seems to have been pulled. I can't find it on the New York Times website either, a lot of other sites had linked to this article as well, but all you get is the 404 error message.
On Nov. 21 Andrew Revkin wrote another article called "Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute" this article is essentially the same as the article written the day before only the headline is different. hhhhhmmmmm
Today's article on startribune.com on the subject which is now being called "Climategate" is Hackers leak climate change e-mails from key research unit, stoke debate on global warming. This article seems more directed at killing the messenger and how this may have been done to undermine the Copenhagen meeting.
This is probably the spin the mainstream press will put on this whole thing, which is a bit like saying Woodward and Burnstein were just trying to undermine Nixon.
By Elmer Beauregard
It used to be a lot easier for people in power like Al Gore to control peoples opinions.
Not too long ago you if you said something stupid on national TV it was no big deal, just a phone call to a couple of big newspapers and the story went nowhere. But now if you say anything wrong at all, like the earth's core is several million degrees instead of several thousand degrees, all the little bloggers with no credentials jump all over it and make a big deal about it.
Or when Senator John Kerry, in explaining the need for a climate change bill, noted that in "the last eight years emissions in the United States of America in greenhouse gasses went up four times faster than in the 1990s" when in actuality they went down in that time period. In the olden days the press would just take Kerry's word as gospel.
And now with the release of the leaked emails from AirVent.com I bet Al Gore Wishes he never would have invented the internet.
By ANDREW C. REVKIN, NEW YORK TIMES
Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.
The e-mail messages, attributed to prominent American and British climate researchers, include discussions of scientific data and whether it should be released, exchanges about how best to combat the arguments of skeptics, and casual comments -- in some cases derisive -- about specific people known for their skeptical views. Drafts of scientific papers and a photo collage that portrays climate skeptics on an ice floe were also among the hacked data, some of which dates back 13 years.
In one e-mail exchange, a scientist writes of using a statistical "trick" in a chart illustrating a recent sharp warming trend. In another, a scientist refers to climate skeptics as "idiots."
Some skeptics asserted Friday that the correspondence revealed an effort to withhold scientific information. "This is not a smoking gun; this is a mushroom cloud," said Patrick J. Michaels, a climatologist who has long faulted evidence pointing to human-driven warming and is criticized in the documents.
There were 200 protesters at Gore's Boca Raton appearance a few days ago, and around 500 at this one (in Portland Oregon) i.e. about 400 around the stage at the American's for Prosperity Hot Air Tour event, and at least another 100 walking around on the sidewalks on the perimeter of the park carrying anti-Gore/anti-cap and trade signs. The Greenpeace activists seemed a bit surprised/perturbed that they had vocal opposition in their presence.
Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com
The King of cap and trade simply airbrushes them in to his new book to create a more scary earth
With the increasingly discredited notion of man-made global warming crashing and burning on a daily basis, climate alarmists are being forced to accelerate their fearmongering to unprecedented levels. With the evidence failing to match up to the doomsday proclamations, Al Gore has turned to PhotoShop in order to make a CO2-choked earth look scary enough to sell his cap and trade scam.
By Elmer Beauregard
Al Gore was out pimping his new book on Conan the other night, when the subject Geothermal Energy came up. After Conan said drilling holes to the center of the earth sounded a little Lex Luther like. Al said that the earth's core is "several million degrees".
The interior of the earth is hot, between 5000 - 9000 degrees Celsius, but not "several million degrees." The surface of the Sun is only estimated to be 6000º C.
A new UN report suggests that slowing population growth could help combat climate change. Do you think that having less children could help us save the planet?
The United Nations Population Fund said if women are empowered to take control of their reproductive health they may choose to have fewer children, reducing pressure on resources and the environment.
"Slower population growth would help build social resilience to climate change's impacts and would contribute to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions," it reads.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose new book "Going Rogue," was released today, is blaming the nation's economic woes at least partly on the Democrats' allegiance to growing socialism across the United States.
"Let's go back to what Reagan did in the early '80s and stay committed to those common sense free market principles that worked," for candidate for vice president in 2008 told talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh during an interview today.
"He faced a tougher recession than what we're facing today. He cut those taxes, ramped up industry, and we pulled out of that recession. We need to revisit that," she said.
She called on both Republicans and Independents to be bolder in pursuing a real solution to the unemployment across the United States that is above 10 percent - the highest level in decades.
Limbaugh asked why Democrats, who control the U.S. House, Senate and the White House, aren't following what clearly was a successful strategy against an earlier economic slump.
I am no longer the only source of Global Warming humor.
By Elmer Beauregard
Roland Emmerich who gave us THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, makes another "end of the world" film but this time the planet's demise is not caused by me driving my SUV, but instead by that large glowing fireball in the sky, the sun. Hmmm... maybe we're getting to them. The critics are panning it saying that its "formulaic", but I wonder if this latest Armageddon had been caused by people using incandescent light bulbs, would the critics have liked it more?
I for one, appreciated the fact that I could enjoy watching the earth's destruction, without my intelligence being insulted.
I give it 4 Snow Shovels out of a possible 4.
Written By: James M. Taylor, Heartland Institute
Glaciers are growing in the Himalayan Mountains, confounding global warming alarmists who have recently claimed the glaciers were shrinking and that global warming was to blame.
A new study of the Karakoram, Hindu Kush, and Western Himalaya mountain ranges by researchers at England's Newcastle University shows consistent recent growth among the region's glaciers.
Researchers found cooler summers are failing to melt winter snows, which are themselves becoming more frequent, resulting in advancing ice sheets.
The study was published in the September 2006 issue of the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate.
Unfortunately, when China got hit by a bad winter last year, that is when the Chinese started getting serious about doing something on Global Warming I mean Climate Change.
13 Nov 09 - Unusually early snowstorms in northern China have stranded tens of thousands of vehicles and motorists, led to the deaths of 38 people, forced the evacuation of 158,000 people, and forced delays or cancellation of hundreds of flights in several cities, including China's capital city, Beijing.
The snow - heaviest in the area since records began - has caused more than half a billion dollars in damage, including the collapse of more than 7,000 buildings and damage to 297,000 acres (120,000 hectares) of crops, the Civil Affairs Ministry said Friday.
Politico.com today quotes a Democrat lobbyist who says that cap and trade is on the "back burner" until next year. This story has been picked up by numerous other outlets, creating the impression that we do not need to worry about this nightmare legislation passing the Senate until 2010.
As Alex has warned on many occasions, talking points about legislation having no chance of passing are often used to neutralize grass roots activists and sneak through what would otherwise be drastically opposed legislation.
Good article, not sure on this guys tone however, is he happy about this?
By Dana Milbank, Washington Post
The New World Order came into being at 4:25 Tuesday afternoon
It arrived at the Capitol, until that moment the seat of American government, in the form of the stooped and bespectacled figure of Ban Ki-moon, who as U.N. secretary general is the de facto leader of what conspiracy theorists call the One World Government. One floor beneath the Senate chamber, Ban, a South Korean national, took his place behind a lectern bearing the Senate seal and spelled out his demands.
"I would certainly expect the Senate to take the necessary action; that's what I have encouraged the senators," he told reporters as a trio of lawmakers stood at his side. He added an admonition for the chamber to deliver "as soon as possible."
The One World Government has specific requirements, Ban added, namely a "legally binding" commitment to "25 to 40 percent greenhouse gas reduction . . . as recommended by the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."
Uh-oh. A U.N. official standing in the Capitol telling U.S. lawmakers what binding commitments intergovernmental authorities expect from them? Glenn Beck was going to burst a blood vessel.
By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR., Wall Street Journal
Sincerity is no substitute for disinterestedness.
Last spring Tennessee Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn asked Al Gore during a House hearing if his investments in green energy meant he would benefit personally from cap and trade.
"If you believe that the reason I have been working on this issue for 30 years is because of greed, you don't know me," Mr. Gore responded (and, yes, according to two reporters present, he sighed).
Mr. Gore is quite right that his arguments should be judged on their merits, not on his investments. He's wrong to think his investments are irrelevant, and, even more, that sincerity is dispositive of anything. Sincerity is no substitute for disinterestedness.
Here are a couple questions: When so much of his position and prestige are invested in a predicted climate crisis, is Mr. Gore likely to be open to contrary evidence? Is he likely to be particularly fastidious about whether proposed steps will actually have an effect on global warming if they also happen to benefit his investments?
Clinton Connects Overpopulation to Climate Change
During a visit to India in July of this year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed not only the administration's commitment to tackle 'global climate change', but also her willingness to link it to overpopulation.
by William Yeatman, globalwarming.org
Yesterday the Washington Times hosted a briefing, "Advancing the Global Debate over Climate Change Policy," at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. The event featured four panels, one each for lobbyists, members of think tanks, Members of Congress, and foreign policy experts. This last panel included Czech President Václav Klaus, and his excellent remarks are below:
Václav Klaus, Washington Briefing: Advancing the Global Debate over Climate Change Policy,
"Many thanks for the invitation and for the courage to organize such an important gathering in the moment when political correctness tells you not to do it.
We are meeting one month before the Climate Change Copenhagen Summit and several weeks before the U.S. Senate hearing regarding the cap-and-trade scheme. For these reasons, today's meeting can't be an academic conference, even though the topic still needs academic discussion. There is no consensus - neither in science, nor in economic analysis or politics.
I left Prague after signing of the Lisbon Treaty and came here only a few minutes ago, which means that I missed most of your conference. I'm sorry for that.
I have already been at a UN Summit in Copenhagen before. It was in 1995 at the so called Social Summit. At that time, the Summit was attended by then US Vice President Al Gore who - so it seems - will be there again this year. I did also attend, as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, but I don't plan to go there now. I don't see any chance to influence the results or to be listened to.
In 1995, there were huge demonstrations there organized by all kinds of anti-establishment groupings - from socialists and greens to anarchists and anti-globalizationists. I have never seen such clashes between demonstrators and police and army forces before. The difference is that I don't expect any demonstrations in Copenhagen now. The anti-establishment people have in the meantime become insiders and will be sitting in the main hall. This is a shift with far-reaching consequences.
By Robert Schroeder, MarketWatch
Republicans absent from vote; Sen. Baucus only Democratic dissenter
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- A bill that would set tough emissions limits on U.S. industries cleared a Senate panel on Thursday morning, following two days of a bill-writing session boycotted by Republicans.
By a vote of 10-1, members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved a bill that aims to slash greenhouse gas emissions and boost investment in alternative energy technologies. Sen. Max Baucus, the Montana lawmaker who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, was the only Democrat to vote against the measure.
Republicans sat out the vote. Members of the GOP were all but absent this week as Sen. Barbara Boxer, the California Democrat who chairs the panel, conducted the committee's "mark up," or bill-writing session. Republicans said they didn't have enough analysis of the bill or time to consider it.
The measure faces scrutiny by five other committees before reaching the Senate floor.
The bill would set up a "cap and trade" system, which sets limits on pollutants and allows utilities and other emitters to trade pollution permits among themselves.
The bill targets a reduction in pollution of 20% by 2020 and 80% by 2050 from 2005 levels. Proponents like Boxer and co-sponsor Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., say the bill will clean the environment and create new jobs, (if you believe that I've got a bridge to sell you) but Republicans say the bill amounts to a huge tax on U.S. industries and families.
A similar measure has already passed in the House.
Elmer and Daryl have fun playing in the snow.
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By Stephen Adams and Louise Gray, Telegraph
An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views after a judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs.
In a landmark ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton said that "a belief in man-made climate change ... is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations".
The ruling could open the door for employees to sue their companies for failing to account for their green lifestyles, such as providing recycling facilities or offering low-carbon travel.
Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington and Damian Carrington, guarduan.co.uk
• Senate delay means no bill likely before Copenhagen
• German leader makes historic Congress address
Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel delivers remarks to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill,
Washington DC, USA, 03 Nov 2009. Photograph: Rainer Jensen/EPA
International negotiators lost one of the key elements to a successful deal on global warming today after Democratic leaders in the US Congress ruled out passing a climate change law before 2010. In the latest obstacle on the road to the UN summit in Copenhagen next month, Senate leaders ordered a five-week pause to review the costs of the legislation.
The delay, which would push a Senate vote on a climate change bill into next year, frustrates a last-minute push by the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, to get America to commit itself at home to cut greenhouse gas emissions before the Copenhagen meeting. World leaders - and US officials - have repeatedly said US legislation is crucial to a deal on global warming.
Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com
Startling concession devastates legitimacy of carbon tax, cap and trade agenda
In a new development that is potentially devastating to the agenda to introduce a global carbon tax and a cap and trade system, Al Gore admits that the majority of global warming that occurred until 2001 was not primarily caused by CO2.
Before we get too excited, Gore is not backing away from his support for the theory of man-made climate change, but his concession that carbon dioxide only accounted for 40% of warming according to new studies could seriously harm efforts to tax CO2, that evil, life-giving gas that humans exhale and plants absorb.
"Gore acknowledged to Newsweek that the findings could complicate efforts to build a political consensus around the need to limit carbon emissions," reports BB News.
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Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com
CO2 tax agenda front man lining his pockets on the back of global warming fearmongering
The New York Times has lifted the lid on how Al Gore stands to benefit to the tune of billions of dollars if the carbon tax proposals he is pushing come to fruition in the United States, while documenting how he has already lined his pockets on the back of exaggerated fearmongering about global warming.
As is to be expected, the article is largely a whitewash and takes an apologist stance in defense of Gore.
However, the NY Times' John M. Broder does reveal how one of the companies Gore invested in, Silver Spring Networks, recently received a contract worth $560 million dollars from the Energy Department to install "smart meters" in people's homes that record (and critics fear could eventually regulate) energy usage.
