UN looks to set a new panel overseeing the old one.. Body in question is the IPCC responsible for monitoring climate change. Lately it was accused of fuzzy research hyping the hysteria surrounding global warming.
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Climate Fraud: Al Gore resurfaces in an op-ed to say that nobody's perfect, everybody makes mistakes and climate change is still real. And he has some oceanfront property in the Himalayas to sell you.
If hyperbole and chutzpah had a child, it would be the opening paragraph of Gore's op-ed in Sunday's New York Times. Gore surfaced from the global warming witness-protection program to opine that despite admissions of error and evidence of fraud by various agencies, we still face "an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it."
Perhaps he's trying to protect his investments as he knows them, for he is heavily involved in enterprises that deal with carbon offsets and green technology. If the case for climate change is shown to be demonstrably false, a lot of his green evaporates like moisture from the ocean.
Interestingly, it's that moisture from the ocean that he uses to defend his failed hypothesis. The blizzards that have buried the Northeast, he writes, are proof of global warming because record evaporation due to warming is what produces record snows. Except that supporters of his theory not long ago argued exactly the opposite.
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Paul Joseph Watson, PrisonPlanet.com
Massive $45 trillion transfer of wealth to fund creation of "global governance structure"
Leaked policy documents reveal that the United Nations plans to create a "green world order" by 2012 which will be enforced by a structure of global governance and funded by a gargantuan $45 trillion transfer of wealth from richer countries, as the globalists' insidious plan to centralize power, crush sovereignty while devastating the economy is exposed once again.
As we warned at the time, the failure of Copenhagen in December did not spell the end of the global warming heist, but merely a roadblock in the UN's agenda to create a world government funded by taxes paid by you on the very substance you exhale - carbon dioxide.
Using the justification of the vehemently debunked hoax that carbon dioxide is a deadly threat to the planet, the UN is already working to resurrect the failed Copenhagen agreement, with a series of new Copenhagen process negotiations set to take place in April, May and June.
Leaked planning documents (PDF) obtained by Fox News lift the lid on the UN's plan to impose global governance by the time of their 2012 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Rio, which will mark the 20th anniversary since the notorious "Earth Summit" held in the same city.
Continue reading Leaked UN Documents Reveal Plan For "Green World Order" By 2012 .
By Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones
Does John Kerry have good reason to be so optimistic about a climate bill? The Washington Post reports that he's getting strong signals that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants a bill ASAP, indicating that senators might be closer to a deal on climate and energy than many people around Washington have assumed.
Kerry indicated to reporters Tuesday that an energy package is still atop Reid's agenda for the year. And in a statement to the Post, Kerry said that Reid is "deadly serious about making progress this year on climate and energy reform." Reid met with Kerry on Tuesday after a he huddled with Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) to discuss the anticipated measure.
"Senator Reid made it clear to me the other day that he wants a bill and he wants it soon," Kerry said. "I can't give you an exact timeline, but we are working very very diligently with our colleagues and all of the stakeholders to think this through carefully and get this done right, and get it done in a way that can pass the Senate."
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In the wake of its swift and devastating fall from grace, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) says it will announce "within the next few days" plans to make significant changes in how it does business.
Just one year ago a pronouncement from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) was all that was needed to move nations and change environmental policies around the world. But today, the panel's creditability and even its very existence are in question.
In the wake of its swift and devastating fall from grace, the panel says it will announce "within the next few days" that it plans to make significant though as yet unexplained changes in how it does business.
Brenda Abrar-Milani, an external relations officer at the IPCC's office in Geneva, Switzerland, said changes have been slow in coming because "we have to inform the governments (all 194 member States) of any planned steps, and they are the ones who eventually take decisions on any revision of procedures."
"We put everything on the table and looked at it," she said, explaining that the panel's reforms would be extensive. She refused to detail any of the changes, but she did confirm that are in response to recent scandals involving the panel.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Nearly 100 students, local leaders and residents gathered for a rally surrounding the "Climategate Controversy" on Penn State's University Park Campus Friday.
Two different groups rallied outside the Hetzel Union Building at noon; one group calling for an external investigation into Dr. Michael Mann's leaked emails, the other supporting the professor.
The rally came on the heels of released results from an internal peer investigation earlier this week.
The committee decided that there is no substantial information to pursue an investigation into three of the four misconduct allegations against Dr. Mann.
Leading the local Young Americans for Freedom group requesting an external investigation, Samuel Settle told WJAC-TV Friday that he doubts the committee of peers could be unbiased.
"For the sake of the university, for the sake of his reputation, for the sake of our reputations as students and community members, we need to come out and make it clear to the university that this is not what we consider acceptable," said Settle. "We ask; we demand an external investigation of this."
Continue reading 'Climategate' Rally On Penn State Campus.
Steve Watson, PrisonPlanet.com
Inhofe demands Al Gore be called back to the Senate to testify
Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe has called for a full investigation into the climategate affair, calling the actions of the scientists involved "criminal" and part of "the greatest scientific scandal of our generation".
Inhofe has asked the Department of Justice to determine if climatologists, including Dr. Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University and Dr. James Hansen of Columbia University and NASA, engaged in illegal activity to deliberately falsify data and mislead the public on the facts of global warming.
The Republican Senator also called for former Vice President Al Gore to be called back before the Senate to testify on the matter.
Continue reading Senator Calls For "Criminal" Global Warming Investigation .
by Elmer Beauregard
John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel and KUSI meteorologist, has just released another documentary called "Global Warming - Meltdown" It follows his first huge success "Global Warming - The Other Side".His newest documentary builds on the first one and updates us on the fallout from his first one, and how the Global Warming industry is melting down.
By the way Minnesotans for Global Warming is featured in segments 6 and 9.
Part one:
Click the link below to view the rest of the special.
Continue reading 'Global Warming Meltdown' John Coleman's Newest Special.
By Gene J. Koprowski, FOXNews.com
Global warming skeptics are agog that President Obama is seeking to dramatically increase federal funding for global warming research in the wake of the Climate-gate scandals that have emerged during the last three months.
The federal budget for 2011 proposes $2.6 billion for the Global Change Research Program, a 21 percent boost over 2010. It will bring funding to a level higher than under any administration dating back to 1989 -- when global warming first attracted federal budget funds.
In fact, critics note, overall climate funding is approximately as large as the entire federal government's budget was in 1932 -- $3.994 billion. (Additional money for climate science is apportioned to a number of federal agencies, like the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.)
By Jonathan Petre. DailyMailOnline
The academic at the centre of the 'Climategate' affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble 'keeping track' of the information.
Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.
Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is 'not as good as it should be'.
The data is crucial to the famous 'hockey stick graph' used by climate change advocates to support the theory.
Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now - suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.
And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no 'statistically significant' warming.
Saw this on CBS News last night and I thought it was a pretty fair report. Of course I may be biased because they used our youTube video. But you have to give credit where credit is due. Everyone should go here and leave a favorable comment.
By Andrew Hough, Telegraph.co.uk
The chairman of the United Nations' climate science panel has issued a robust defence of his organisation and refused to apologise for a mistaken claim that the Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035.
Rajendra Pachauri admitted the UN climate change panel had been damaged over its mistakes.Photo: GEORGES GOBET/GETTY
Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said the assertion in its 2007 report had "cost us dear" in the fight against global warming and helped boost the efforts of sceptics.
Despite the IPCC previously admitting it had made a mistake in its assessment on climate change, Dr Pachauri refused to personally apologise for the error because he was not responsible for that part of the report.
In an interview published on Wednesday, the IPPC chairman said a personal apology would be a "populist" step as he continued to refuse calls to resign.
"You can't expect me to be personally responsible for every word in a 3,000 page report," he said.
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James Delingpole, blogs.telegraph.co.uk
Penn State University has completed its internal investigation into potential wrongdoing by its star professor Michael Mann, creator of the most discredited graph in scientific history - the incredible, completely made-up Hockey Stick.
And guess what? Turns out the guy hasn't done anything wrong at all.
Well, probably. There's one area, the University has decided, which merits closer investigation:
"Decision 4. Given that information emerged in the form of the emails purloined from CRU in November 2009, which have raised questions in the public's mind about Dr. Mann's conduct of his research activity, given that this may be undermining confidence in his findings as a scientist, and given that it may be undermining public trust in science in general and climate science specifically, the inquiry committee believes an investigatory committee of faculty peers from diverse fields should be constituted under RA-10 to further consider this allegation."
And what do you reckon their eventual conclusion is going to be? As robust as SUNY Albany's response to Doug Keenan's allegations of wrongdoing by Professor Wei-Chyung Wang, perhaps? Or as forthright as the Information Commissioner's response to lawbreaking at the Climatic Research Institute?
Our video makes it on the channel 4 news, rather good story too.
By Katie Razzall, Channel 4 News
The Information Commissioner has said that the University of East Anglia, which is at the centre of the 'climategate' row, broke the law when its scientists refused to hand over raw data requested under the Freedom of Information Act.
These scientists were already under attack for emails that emerged, appearing to show them attempting to hide data that went against the scientific consensus, that climate change is man-made.
Now further emails have emerged which show Dr Phil Jones, the director of the university's climatic research unit, refusing to comply with Freedom of Information requests.
In one damning email, he wrote to a colleague: "Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4? (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Keith will do likewise."
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While covering the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, I took a morning away from the main venue to attend a forum of "climate skeptics".
The speakers presented political, economic, and scientific analyses to counter the series of assessments by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
A few of the skeptics went so far as to suggest that the current international drive to tackle global warming would eventually lead the world into some kind of "energy tyranny". One even showed a video clip of how "energy police" would invade private homes in the American suburbs, unplugging and removing the owners' microwave ovens, television sets, and other appliances.
I left the forum before the morning session ended. I felt that most of the speakers were too emotional and politically charged to be considered objective.
But I was impressed by the presentation of Dr Fred Singer, an atmospheric physicist and founding director of the US Weather Satellite Service, who challenged the IPCC findings with his research data.
In the next few days, I talked with several scientists, including Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chair, and asked them about Singer's data. All of these scientists brushed aside Singer's arguments, saying that the IPCC's primary finding is indisputable: "Warming in the climate system is unequivocal".
Continue reading Do three errors mean breaking point for IPCC?.
By Richard Foot, Canwest News Service
Call it the mystery of the missing thermometers.
Two months after "climategate" cast doubt on some of the science behind global warming, new questions are being raised about the reliability of a key temperature database, used by the United Nations and climate change scientists as proof of recent planetary warming.
Two American researchers allege that U.S. government scientists have skewed global temperature trends by ignoring readings from thousands of local weather stations around the world, particularly those in colder altitudes and more northerly latitudes, such as Canada.
In the 1970s, nearly 600 Canadian weather stations fed surface temperature readings into a global database assembled by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Today, NOAA only collects data from 35 stations across Canada.
Worse, only one station -- at Eureka on Ellesmere Island -- is now used by NOAA as a temperature gauge for all Canadian territory above the Arctic Circle.
London Telegraph
The United Nations' climate science panel has admitted that it made a mistake by claiming that the Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) made the assertion two years ago, saying it was based on detailed research into the impact of global warming.
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, the IPCC's vice chairman, conceded last night that it was an error and would be reviewed.
However, he said that the mistake, included in its 2007 assessment global warming, did not alter the broad picture of man-made climate change.
He told the BBC: "I don't see how one mistake in a 3,000-page report can damage the credibility of the overall report.
"Some people will attempt to use it to damage the credibility of the IPCC; but if we can uncover it, and explain it and change it, it should strengthen the IPCC's credibility, showing that we are ready to learn from our mistakes."
The IPCC admitted that the prediction was based on a report written in a science journal and even the scientist who was the subject of the original story admits it was not based on fact.
The article, in the New Scientist, was not even based on a research paper - it evolved from a short telephone interview with the academic.
Continue reading UN climate panel admits 'mistake' over Himalayan glacier melting.
Primary United States Climate Center Now Caught in Data Manipulation
It has been revealed that a "sleight of hand" was used in the computer program that rated 2005 as "THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD." Skeptical climate researchers have discovered extensive manipulation of the data within the U.S. Government's two primary climate centers: the National Climate Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, North Carolina and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) at Columbia University in New York City. These centers are being accused of creating a strong bias toward warmer temperatures through a system that dramatically trimmed the number and cherry-picked the locations of weather observation stations they use to produce the data set on which temperature record reports are based. The two investigators say the system has been distorted in other ways as well. They have documented their findings in great detail in a scientific report that has been posted online. These findings are presented as a part of my television special report "Global Warming: The Other Side" telecast which aired Thursday night, January 14th at 9 PM here on KUSI TV.
The data manipulation studies are explored in detail during the fourth segment of the one hour video now available here on our website.
Continue reading New Revelations Headlined On TV Climate Special.
By Elmer Beauregard
Is civilization doomed because of man-made global warming? You've been told your carbon footprint could lead to skyrocketing temperatures, melting ice caps, dying polar bears and "superstorms."
But now there is another side to the story, and you can see it here.
KUSI meteorologist and founder of the Weather Channel, John Coleman, has just released an amazing new documentary called "Global Warming - The Other Side" it tells the story of science gone bad, and he also has new revelations as the "climategate" scandal comes to the United States.
By the way Minnesotans For Global Warming is featured in Segment 4 and we close the whole thing out in Segment 5
Continue reading New Documentary Blows the Lid Off The Global Warming Scam.
Steve Watson, Prisonplanet.com
Corporate media completely silent on latest development with warming fraudsters
A leading scientist involved in the climategate scandal received over half a million dollars in federal economic stimulus funds from the Obama Administration last Summer, it has been revealed.
Professor Michael Mann of Penn State University, currently under investigation by the institution itself for his role in massaging climate data and hijacking the peer review process to advance the myth of anthropogenic global warming, was awarded a grant of $541,184 by the government in June 2009.
Mann, the creator of the now infamously discredited Hockey Stick Graph, landed money that came directly from the U.S. Treasury's economic stimulus package, reveals the Washington free-market think-tank group The National Center For Public Policy Research (NCPPR).
Top Obama czar: Infiltrate all 'conspiracy theorists' Presidential adviser wrote about crackdown on expressing opinions
In a lengthy academic paper, President Obama's regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, argued the U.S. government should ban "conspiracy theorizing."
Among the beliefs Sunstein would ban is advocating that
the theory of global warming is a deliberate fraud.
Sunstein also recommended the government send agents to infiltrate "extremists who supply conspiracy theories" to disrupt the efforts of the "extremists" to propagate their theories.
In a 2008 Harvard law paper, "Conspiracy Theories," Sunstein and co-author Adrian Vermeule, a Harvard law professor, ask, "What can government do about conspiracy theories?"
"We can readily imagine a series of possible responses. (1) Government might ban conspiracy theorizing. (2) Government might impose some kind of tax, financial or otherwise, on those who disseminate such theories."
In the 30-page paper - obtained and reviewed by WND - Sunstein argues the best government response to "conspiracy theories" is "cognitive infiltration of extremist groups."
Continue reading Talking About Global Warming May Soon Be Banned.
By Alan Caruba, freedomaction.net
"I was impressed as never before by the utter lack of logic of the man, the scantiness of his precise knowledge of things that he was talking about, by the gross inaccuracies in his statements, by the almost pathological lack of sequences in his discussion, by the complete rectitude that he felt as to his own conduct, by the immense and growing egotism that came from his office, by his willingness to continue the excoriation of the press and business in order to get votes for himself, by his indifference to what effect the long-continued pursuit of these ends would have upon the civilization in which he was playing a part."
No, this was not a judgment of President Barack Obama, though the description eerily fits him. It was the view of Raymond Moley, a Columbia University professor and member of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Brain Trust" who often wrote or helped write FDR's major speeches. FDR's policies extended the Great Depression for ten years.
Here are some facts worth considering every time Obama calls for an expansion or intercession of the federal government as an answer to the current financial crisis:
Social Security, a cornerstone of FDR's administration, was established in 1935. After 74 years it is on the brink of insolvency because Congress gave itself access to its funds.
Fannie Mae was established in 1938 to facilitate home ownership. It has been around for 71 years. Congress has had to seize control of it and of Freddie Mac, established in 1970. Together, they presently own or guarantee about half of the United States' $12 trillion mortgage market.
The War on Poverty started in 1964. One trillion dollars has been transferred to "the poor" and it has not worked.
The Department of Energy was established in 1977 to lessen dependence on the import of foreign oil. With 16,000 employees and an annual budget of $24 billion, the United States has imported more oil with every passing year while denying U.S. oil companies access to vast national reserves in ANWR and off our continental shelf. It is an abysmal failure.
Continue reading The Lies About Green Jobs.
James Delingpole, Telegraph.co.uk
As I said yesterday, one of our jobs this year is to wipe the complacent smiles off the smug faces of the lobbyists, "experts", "scientists", politicians and activists pushing AGW.
This is why I am so glad to report that Michael Mann - creator of the incredible Hockey Stick curve and one of the scientists most heavily implicated in the Climategate scandal - is about to get a very nasty shock. When he turns up to work on Monday, he'll find that all 27 of his colleagues at the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University have received a rather tempting email inviting them to blow the whistle on anyone they know who may have been fraudulently misusing federal grant funds for climate research.
Under US law, regardless of whether or not a prosecution results, the whistleblower stands to make very large sums of money: it is based on a percentage of the total government funds which have been misused, in this case perhaps as much as $50 million. (Hat tip: John O'Sullivan of the wonderful new campaigning site www.climategate.com)
Continue reading Michael Mann's very unhappy New Year .
By Elmer Beauregard
Even Before It Was Over The Globe Started To Cool
This might seem a little schizophrenic, seeings how just yesterday I said Copenhagn was a dismal failure, but then I started to see all the stories of all the developed nations getting hit with very unusually cold weather, so it seems it was a huge success. President Obama had to to leave the Conference early because of the blizzard that was hitting the east coast. Both England and even southern France are experiencing very cold weather.
Continue reading Copenhagen Was A Huge Success.
By Elmer Beauregard
Type in Copenhagen Failure into Google News Search and you get 8,896 results. It seems like everything went against Copenhagen in the last couple of weeks.
God showed up big time and answered our prayers for a white Copenhagen. It's hard to talk about ending Global Warming when your freezing to death. Obama had to leave the conference early because of the blizzard hitting Washington D.C.
Then there was Climategate even though the media won't mention it and reporters weren't allowed to ask about it. Obama failed to acknowledge Climategate in his speech by saying, "it is science not fiction". Even still Climategate seems to be having an effect.
Continue reading Copenhagen Summit Ends in Dismal Failure.
