The global warming scandal of the century deepens
I called ClimateGate “the global warming scandal of the century” back on November 20. Deeper and deeper it goes. Over the weekend, University of East Anglia global warming cultist Phil Jones conceded that there has been no statistically significant warming over the last 15 years:
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.
The admissions will be seized on by sceptics as fresh evidence that there are serious flaws at the heart of the science of climate change and the orthodoxy that recent rises in temperature are largely man-made.
Professor Jones has been in the spotlight since he stepped down as director of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit after the leaking of emails that sceptics claim show scientists were manipulating data.
The raw data, collected from hundreds of weather stations around the world and analysed by his unit, has been used for years to bolster efforts by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to press governments to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
Anthony Watts sums up the Jones Q&A:
Specifically, the Q-and-As confirm what many skeptics have long suspected:
* Neither the rate nor magnitude of recent warming is exceptional.
* There was no significant warming from 1998-2009. According to the IPCC we should have seen a global temperature increase of at least 0.2°C per decade.
* The IPCC models may have overestimated the climate sensitivity for greenhouse gases, underestimated natural variability, or both.
* This also suggests that there is a systematic upward bias in the impacts estimates based on these models just from this factor alone.
* The logic behind attribution of current warming to well-mixed man-made greenhouse gases is faulty.
* The science is not settled, however unsettling that might be.
* There is a tendency in the IPCC reports to leave out inconvenient findings, especially in the part(s) most likely to be read by policy makers.
The MSM persists in minimizing the systemic academic fraud perpetuated by the AGW cult. Here’s the Washington Post using the weasel term “missteps” to describe the lies and cover-ups:
With its 2007 report declaring that the “warming of the climate system is unequivocal,” the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won a Nobel Prize — and a new degree of public trust in the controversial science of global warming.
But recent revelations about flaws in that seminal report, ranging from typos in key dates to sloppy sourcing, are undermining confidence not only in the panel’s work but also in projections about climate change. Scientists who have pointed out problems in the report say the panel’s methods and mistakes — including admitting Saturday that it had overstated how much of the Netherlands was below sea level — give doubters an opening.
It wasn’t the first one. There is still a scientific consensus that humans are causing climate change. But in the past year, a cache of stolen e-mails, revealing that prominent climate scientists sought to prevent the publication of works by their detractors, has sullied their image as impartial academics. The errors in the U.N. report — a document intended to be the last nail in the coffin of climate doubt — are a serious problem that could end up forcing environmentalists to focus more on the old question of proving that climate change is a threat, instead of the new question of how to stop it.
More on the latest embarrassment:
The U.N. panel of climate experts overstated how much of the Netherlands is below sea level, according to a preliminary report on Saturday, admitting yet another flaw after a row last month over Himalayan glacier melt. A background note by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said a 2007 report wrongly stated that 55 percent of the country was below sea level since the figure included areas above sea level, prone to flooding along rivers.
The United Nations has said errors in the 2007 report of about 3,000 pages do not affect the core conclusions that human activities, led by burning fossil fuels, are warming the globe.
“The sea level statistic was used for background information only, and the updated information remains consistent with the overall conclusions,” the IPCC note dated February 12 said.
Skeptics say errors have exposed sloppiness and over-reliance on “grey literature” outside leading scientific journals.
“Skeptics say?” The mounting evidence and exposures say it all: The science is not settled. It has been warped, corrupted, and manipulated systemically. There needs to be a probe of the U.N. — and not by the U.N.:
The UN body that advises world leaders on climate change must investigate an apparent bias in its report that resulted in several exaggerations of the impact of global warming, according to its former chairman.
In an interview with The Times Robert Watson said that all the errors exposed so far in the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) resulted in overstatements of the severity of the problem.
Professor Watson, currently chief scientific adviser to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, said that if the errors had just been innocent mistakes, as has been claimed by the current chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, some would probably have understated the impact of climate change.
The errors have emerged in the past month after simple checking of the sources cited by the 2,500 scientists who produced the report.
The report falsely claimed that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035 when evidence suggests that they will survive for another 300 years. It also claimed that global warming could cut rain-fed North African crop production by up to 50 per cent by 2020. A senior IPCC contributor has since admitted that there is no evidence to support this claim.
The Dutch Government has asked the IPCC to correct its claim that more than half the Netherlands is below sea level. The environment ministry said that only 26 per cent of the country was below sea level.
Professor Watson, who served as chairman of the IPCC from 1997-2002, said: “The mistakes all appear to have gone in the direction of making it seem like climate change is more serious by overstating the impact. That is worrying. The IPCC needs to look at this trend in the errors and ask why it happened.”
And more: IPCC warnings about African crops also bogus.
Oh, and Donald Trump is right: Al Gore should return his Nobel Prize.
Eco-hysteria doesn’t deliver world peace. It threatens it.
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My liberal “friends” who touted global warming since the 90s and defended it by calling the skeptics “loons” now reply “I don’t care” when the subject is brought up. Funny people.
The Great Climategate Scandal
In England: Horns blarring, cymbals clashing, drums beating, lights flashing, sirens wailing………..
In America: Crickets chirping, dead silence……
The MSM’s last shred of credability has been utterly stripped away. They are a disgrace, devoid of any integrity.
The IPCC needs to be disbanded and apologies issued to all of us Skeptics.
On the flip side, all this proves is that “Global Warming” is nothing more than a cult like “Islam”!!
That’s hot stuff
Doesn’t matter. It’s not about climate, weather or earth science. Just a simple excuse to get people to become willing to be controlled.
It IS all about a single world government control of ALL people and ALL money.
Algore and Hollywood are the carnival hawkers, but the real brains behind the deception lives in the United Nations.
And so the truth is, the EPA has no cover for saying carbon dioxide is a pollutant, which we have all known since high school chemistry and biology. It has always been about the politics of control, never the environment, except as an alibi.
The arrogance of Man! Even if there were truthful evidence of Global Warming, man has no capabililty to effect it one way or another to any significance. If we don’t kill ourselves first, in ten thousand years the earth is going to rollover and fart and any evidence mankind ever existed would be erased. The earth is going to warm or cool as it has for millenia. I say it’s going to cool, so bundle up and STFU!
Or as I contend, there were never any relevant papers and it is all completely bogus.
Good news: Global warming hysteria and
universalgovernment health care have been discredited and halted, at least for now.Bad news: The leftists, liberal progressives behind these ideas are still with us and are probably already looking for another crisis that will require massive new taxes and government programs. Socialists never give up on this one goal.
I spent about six weeks in north Africa in the eighties. It never rained, and there was no vegetation at all. Rain fed crops were certainly not in evidence, unless one considers flies a crop.
Hey AL!!!!!! Your input please. And Crickets chirp.
All one needs to do is look at a globe of the earth and see how truly insignificant man is. Most of the world is uninhabited by people. But the simple minded, living in the cities look out their windows and think they see the whole world.
Why can’t we just go back to simple things that can do some good for the environment. Remember “Don’t be a Litterbug” and “Don’t Mess with Texas”?
My estimation of Donald Trump just went way up!
I guess Phil will just now be one more scientist finding himself excluded from the ‘consensus’.
The answer is soooo simple – PULL OUT OF THE UN!
If the following answer from IPCC director Pachauri doesn’t convince you of that then nothing will..
Q: Has all that has happened this winter dented the credibility of IPCC?
Indeed!
Ask a starving Mongolian how much they need green technology.
What is it, like, less than 2 percent?
It’s also theorized that the entire world population could easily be fit into and live in a space the size of Texas (as an example, and should in no way imply any impunity towards Texas).
We all know Al Gore does not know how to say. “I’m sorry.” Nor would he do any mea culpas anytime soon. Think how much he has to reimburse his ditzy stock holders! Not to count the utter embarrassment of returning the Nobel and Academy Awards!
Everyone just watch out for the moles (still spouting man-made global warming) who’d come up for air… and whack them. It’s good therapy for Winter blues!
b-cat: Yes, exactly! Look at the Pacific ocean. It is freaking huge, man! The entire United States would get lost geographically in the middle of the Pacific ocean.
But today’s young students, and most of the people who believe in this non-sense, couldnt even FIND the Pacific ocean on a map. They are that clueless!
I’ve brought up the subject of WW2 air battles “over the Pacific” and young people respond “over the what?”
All liberals believe in global warming. Few concservatives do. That’s all I need to know.
Or a suggestion we should try. It’s not the Texans I would mind being neighbors with.
Not only should the IPCC be disbanded but the UN too. It is a place where the largest bunch of corrupt politicians gather, with the destruction of freedom is it’s aim. The world need more freedom and less government control.
Al Gore, SHAME on you.
Al Gore servile followers, how’s that herd mentality working out for ya?
Oh, yes, and I love how liberals are always whining about “we don’t make anything in America anymore!”
And they say they support environmental regulations that would add more burdens to America’s manufacturing base.
Can you believe? Can you believe the mind of a liberal??
The UN is the heart and soul of the leftist movement. It is their sactuary. From there, all the earth can be controlled. Just need a crisis that might affect everyone… so that they might be willing to lay down their arms and submit.
That simple minded buffoon is exemplified by Tina Fey!
Once global warming is finally buried, the Left will come up with another environmental crisis of some sort. The “useful idiots” will fall back into line again. Perhaps they will theorize over another mass pandemic, guaranteed to wipe out millions, or a supervolcano, that’s going to erupt any day now. They’ll find something.
There you have it: the Socialist Chicken Littles are officially adopting the Clintonian Sandy Berger Defense. I saw it coming.
warped, corrupted, and manipulated does serve to describe what has been done to the data. However, I prefer the terms – folded, spindled, and mutilated.
The AGW proponents are correct in their assessment that this is Mann-made global warming, they just conveniently forget one of the n’s. Consistently.
As in algore and friends are a bunch of lying flim-flam artist? The Animal Planet has been running algore’s Inconvenient Truthall weekend. How anyone could fall for that carney barking routine I do not know but it reminds me of the Half Man Half Ape side shows at the state fairs year ago.
Perhaps the good Professor might consider that his analytical skills matched his organizational skills and his ability to remember the facts were equal to his ability to remmebr the location of his records……
Coming next? “The dog ate my homework.”
Oh yeah…but you have to classify those minds into two groups. Most are the emotional, illogical, “follow-the-herd” types that really mean well but just can’t quite figure out that life is hard, but you have to help yourself.
The other catagory are those devious bastards who are highly intelligent but little imagination. Without the entrepreneurial ability to start something that would benefit themselves and others in a positive way, they use fear-mongering and governmental control to force others to their wills. These people usually adapt a single issue and exploit it to gain power. The smarter ones will embrace many of these schemes and, with a little more that the usual amount of charisma, will become, say, the President of the United States.
Jangar you are sooo right. For us to be paying 25% of the U.N. budget which is nothing but a cesspool of leftist corruption and spying organizations is deplorable. We want to cut gubmint spending, I say start with the U.N. and bring our troops home from europe and asia and tend to our domestic problems for a while. Let’s do like the chinese, spend our money on america first, and nobody second. Put our soldiers across our borders every 10 feet with orders to shoot any wets stepping on U.S. soil. This frees up our Border Patrol to go out and comb the countryside for illegals.
Thanks, Michelle.
I read some of the information in British papers yesterday, in US media? No mention, as they are Obama propagada specialists.
Ouch, that’s harsh. Let’s just call it “recycling”. While we’re at it, let’s also recycle Obama’s and Paul Krug’s.
That’s Paul Krugman, not Krug. Oops.
The Earth has been warming for 18,000+ years. Al Gore has yet to produce cave man SUVs to show that humans ended the last ice age.
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html
Al Gore…WHAT.SAY.YOU??? And where the heck are you? Did you crawl into bed and pull the covers over your head? That’s what I do when things hit the fan. Gore needs to make a statement. But he probably will just go on like none of this never happened. Another delusional moonbat.
I was reading on the Drudge report yesterday that another scientist has said that he and others reporting on global warming were in error because their information was flawed. Their readings were more because of the rise in population than global warming. He said that places that their information stations were set up were at one time fields, and are now taxi area for jets. Other places have air conditioners exhaust blowing on them. I can’t remember other illustrations he gave. But it is things I remember Neal Boortz reporting on at least two years ago. ( he even had pictures on his web site)
Gore should be strung up for all the trouble he and his cronies have caused. The enviormentalists are causing more death and distruction both here and overseas than the wars!!!!
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BAD SCIENCE gives bad results. And makes politicians rich at taxpayer expense.
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Vote out these Globull “Warming” Luddite clowns out of office in 2010 and 2012. And have them take Comrade Obama (PBUH) and his congressional ilk with them.
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CLEAN SWEEP needed–stat! While we still have a country and an economy.
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John Bibb
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Not that I wish to parrot the idea that correlation = causation the same way the eco-nitwits do but there’s an even stronger correlation to climate than CO2 – US postage rates!
No warming, just a lot of hot air generated in the search for research grants to advance the goals of the enviroweenies and their friends in governments around the world.
What this means is the only valid “hockey stick” graphs are the ones depicting projected Government spending and the Federal Deficit.
How depressing.
From the UK Times yesterday:
If we could only substitute the term “Saddam’s Weapons of Mass Destruction” for “Manmade Global Warming”, the MSM would be all over the story.
One of the sites covering this mess (can’t remember which) has a one-second video clip of Gilda Radner as Emily Litella delivering her immortal line:
“Never mind”.
Beautiful.
Al Gore was right. The debate on AGW is over. He was wrong about AGW. End of story.
Fake but accurate.
I always wondered if I were the only one who saw the irony in hearing people talk about “global warming” when there’s three feet of snow on the ground…
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
The state of climate science as represented by the IPCC is abominable. The climate is always changing one way or another naturally without any help or hindrance from Man, who only contributes about 3% (and sometimes much less) of the “greenhouse gases” that Nature contributes each year.
We’re really not sure if the temperature is now going up or down, and if it’s a short-term variation or long-term. To make the sweeping claims of catastrophe based on some tree rings (of their choosing) and computer models is not science at all.
Computer models have inherent limitations and are only approximations at best – why can’t the hurricane computer models even predict the path to within + / – 250 nautical miles just three days in advance – they can and do measure every input that we know how to measure, using ocean-based, satellite-based and air-based sensors and the latest and most sophisticated computers and mathematical models. But we’re supposed to believe climate computer models just on faith.
And if CO2 is such a potent greenhouse gas that traps heat, how can there be so much difference between day and night temperatures in the deserts but often hardly any difference along the coasts, when they both have the same concentrations of CO2? Water vapor/humidity is the real heat trapper.
President Eisenhower’s Farewell speech
“Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central, it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
I’ve noticed a warming trend every six months or so followed by a cooling trend. I’ve also seen a mini trend that takes place every 24 hours. I wonder how much money I can make studying this?
Realistically, nobody will ever apologize or even admit to being wrong. They will simply disappear from public view. The last thing they want is to be noticed for how much money they almost cost us for cap and trade, Copenhagen, etc.
When they have capped the volcanoes and turned down the sun to control the climate, they really need to get busy on:
Crust Shifting!
More people die from earthquakes every year than have died from climate change in the past 100 years. Someone needs to stop this Crust Shifting!
In California billions of dollars of prime real-estate is at risk, from Crust Shifting!
Crust Shifting!
Crust Shifting!
Oh my!
Now that is funny. What stooges.
I am NEVER going to forget that PSA with Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi on the sofa…NEVER. Who was peddling Junk Science to us and for how long? Who thought we were just too stupid to figure out the scam – hoax? It wasn’t just Democrats.
I won’t EVER FORGET THIS!
I’m conservative.
I know man is trashing the planet.
I also know the wealth-shifters are using AGW to their advantage.
I also know most of the AGW data is valid, but in their haste to get grants, they’ve screwed up for good with some of this stuff.
The problem is the common sense use of resources is somewhere in the middle, but the middle has no voice.
Evidently not. I have never seen or heard any data that leads me to believe in man-made global warming at all. It is a giant hoax, perpetrated by those who wish to enslave and rob us.
What Phil Jones has finally conceded is that the world temperature data ITSELF is garbage. The thermometers are too widely (and inconsistently) scattered for the data to mean anything.
On February 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am, happyscrapper said:
Duh…just re-read my post!
So, the planet is not be on fire, but the warmingists’ pants are?
Wow. Just Wow:
Link to above:
http://www.examiner.com/x-32936-Seminole-County-Environmental-News-Examiner~y2010m2d12-Former-NASA-scientist-defends-theory-refuting-global-warming-doctrine
1. Conservative vs. liberal has NOTHING to do with science. (and I don’t believe you anyway)
2. 99% of all species that ever existed on the planet were EXTINCT before we arrived on the scene. “Trashing the planet” is what liberals say when someone throws a used happy meal box in front of their house. The RICHEST countries are the cleanest countries which also happen to be the most capitalistic countries. The USA uses 25% of the world’s energy resources but our water and air quality are among the best in the world – because we can, (unless Obama keeps bankrupting us further), afford the cost.
3. Much AGW data is not only NOT valid – it is NONEXISTENT as admitted by Phil Jones above. They ADMITTED that the data they released was doctored to favor warming. (Did you know that the BBC’s pension plan includes ~25% investment in CARBON TRADING EQUITIES? So tell me you can believe ANYTHING about AGW reported by the BBC?)
4. The middle most certainly HAS a ‘voice’ called their WALLETS but liberals don’t want capitalism to provide the best outcome because then liberals cannot claim a reason to grab power over us. Resources will be conserved when their price increases if/when their availability TRULY declines.
Fossil fuels transformed our society bringing us a much more comfortable existence and longer life expectancy Did government have much of anything to do with that? No. Government created the problems of foreign energy dependency by placing artificial impediments to domestic production. So the fix is obvious – get rid of government.
When should we all start petitioning our Supreme Court to reverse on its LAME ruling to allow the EPA to call CO2 a pollutant? (This week or next?)
And what about the ban on incandescent light bulbs that cause zero problems in land fills as opposed to the liberal mandated CFL’s to replace them (made by GENERAL ELECTRIC who helped get liberals elected) that have mercury in them? We should be screaming for a REPEAL of that and of BIOFUEL mandate that was proven to do NOTHING for the climate a long time ago even if the hoax was true.
Please ignore your eyes and common sense. 1400 lemmings will sign a petition telling you what you are to believe.
In answer to the question, “Where is Al Gore?”
I am pretty sure he is currently hibernating with the endangerd polar bears on a melting ice floe. http://endangeredpolarbear.com/
Or he could be investigating the melting glaciers in the Himalayas, which are not melting.
He could just be sedated and hiding behind Tipper in his huge 10,000 square foot carbon footprint of a home:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316806,00.html
He should pay back every dime in carbon offsets, and return the prizes he won as the snake oil salesman for global warming.
Do they even teach the scientific method anymore? Or just “facts”…
wescam said:
Right down the street is the local airport – located 10 feet from an AC Exhaust vent is a NOAA weather station -want a pic?
When I meet someone who is overly concerned with the effects of global warming, I like to ask, “Why do they call Greenland that way?” No, it wasn’t to invite settlers. The coast was green. This is during the Medieval warming period when agriculture boomed, explorations started, famines stopped, and life was generally better. The Left hopes no-one studied that period.
You’re behind the times. Money is already being spent to predict and possibly control them.
It can start any time now!!!!!
Flaws? Wrong stated? Errors? No. If they were simple errors, there would be errors in favor of Gorebull warming and against.
This is flat out conspiracy.
Well, our snowman in Atlanta is melting today. Is this due to Carbon emissions?
Yes please, this stuff makes me laugh…
They also have thermometers on black rooftops which absorb heat during the day, and give it off at night – making the nights appear warmer…
Gosh, I sure never saw this coming. Excuse me while I check with algore about this rather, er, disturbing development.
I’m off to buy stock in snow shovel companies. And, yes, it is snowing, AGAIN, in Washington, DC as I type…
If Wall Street businessspeople were discovered bilking their
companies of millions of dollars the media would be hounding them and
Congress would be honing their knives for some grave penalties, yet these
fraudulent scientists willfully tried to jive entire nations of TRILLIONS of dollars (and massive changes of lifestyles and industries) for an unsubstantiated issue based on biased “science” and a “kill you to save you” green agenda mentality — yet they’re barely being seriously rebuked. Your job or livelihood would’ve been impacted or eliminated because of these zealot bastards. They should not be the butt of jokes. They should be in JAIL.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
The word “fraud” is not too strong a word. The term “RICO” is not too strong a term.
These people have systematically, over a period of decades, attempted to extort and defraud the governments and people of the industrialized nations for their own benefit. They have obtained billions in grants from various sources on outright fabrications and lies. They did this knowingly.
These people need to face consequences for their fraudulent and criminal actions! People need to start exploring civil action against these frauds and demanding the DoJ investigate these people for criminal matters. DEMAND JUSTICE!
Where I live all of my electrical power is supplied by generator. I have a power inverter which hooks up to a car battery which allows me to have a light on without having to run the generator. I have found the new “energy saving” lightbulbs drain the battery twice as fast as incandescent bulbs do. Plus the mercury laden bulbs don’t work worth a crap on the porch when temps get below zero F.
On February 15th, 2010 at 9:25 am, JHSII said:
I’m conservative.
I know the idea that man is trashing the planet is vastly over hyped by those who wish to keep their real agenda’s hidden.
I know many who believe man is trashing the planet assist wealth-shifters by mindlessly parroting the AGW/man-trashing-planet hype.
I know most of the AGW data is invalid for a large number of reasons, including the fact that much of the data has been manipulated, changed, lost, never was, by those hyping it for their own personal gain. Even the original source data is not worth much due to siting of existing measuring sensors, or due to moving those sensors, or due to wild extrapolation of data gathered from trees.
Ever see a calibration sticker on a tree?
The problem is the lack of common sense by anyone who relies on government funding for their “science”.
Drill Here! Drill Now!!!
I agree the market could provide the best solutions.
Even if AGW was all made up, and it isn’t, I think it’s too late. Too many people. Too few resources. Too many agendas.
The Earth will be fine. Our way of life will not. There just isn’t enough to go around.
Either way, the planet is trashed and getting trashier. Argue the finer points all ya like.
One problem we have is that many corporations, either voluntarily or by threats, have millions invested in “green”. I’m sure they would be quite reluctant to reverse their agenda and lose all the investments. Too many of them were “sold a bad idea”. Some will continue to push “global warming” to get something back.
In science, laws are indisputable. Hypotheses are not. These admissions downgrade the supposition of global warming even further away from legitimate scientific theory. The scientific method has been bastardized by paranoiacs, by those vying for social nobility and political power, and by people who are driven by greed for continued government funding. Too many people have fallen for the claims of indisputability. A lot of those people are in the mainstream, and few of those armchair scientists are willing to admit they are wrong. An ounce of humility and an iota of skepticism can lead to a pound of credibility.
I don’t claim to be a scientist, either, and I’m willing to admit when I’m wrong if the facts are shown. But now the facts are not facts, so they were never facts to begin with. I can buy the idea that the greenhouse effect is real. I can’t buy the idea that our planet is on the verge of destruction because of where the greenhouse effect currently stands. We are not at a tipping point.
And we don’t need a scientific law to prove to us that climates change. They always have, and they always will. We should always be conscious of our effects on the environment and take precautions to avoid overstepping certain bounds, but shoving excessive new standards, restrictions, taxes, protocols, rules, regulations, directives, and mandates down our gullets is the epitome of Chicken Littlism.
Is there a Law of Global Warming? Well, it seems we have three of them.
Ok. Now that you have caught up it’s time to talk about what we do about it.
Ted Costa and Dan Logue have introduced
Suspend AB 32 (the California Jobs initiative).
What it does – suspends California’s Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 until unemployment falls below 5.5 %.
What it needs – 500,000 registered voter signatures to make the Nov 2010 ballot.
Who is against it – Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Jerry Brown, the entire Democratic contingent of the California Assembly, the MSM.
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tbear44 said:
I propose that you receive $20 million from the government to test your hypothesis. All I request is a 15% kickback for the suggestion.
“Systemic academic fraud” is the correct description for the academics pushing AGW in the US and in UK.
Criminal investigations and prosecutions are warranted.
That’s an oxymoron. Science is NOT consensus. Science is reproducible results. Consensus is politics. They are completely separate.
Read this speech by Dr. Michael Crichton. Here’s a quote.
If it means more power for the socialists, they’ll use anything, even phony science to get that power.
Of course they’re against it. They know that with the rampant socialism in The People’s Socialist Quagmire of California (I live in CA), unemployment will continue to rise, not fall. And if by some strange happenstance it does fall, it won’t get anywhere NEAR 5.5%!
The enviro-nazis are running scared.
On February 15th, 2010 at 6:40 pm, TooMuchTime said:
That’s true about the false “consensus” about AGW, and it’s true about the false “consensus” about evolution.
Ben Stein did an excellent movie about how anyone who questions the “consensus” of evolution is silenced by a “scientific” community that cannot accept any questioning of its hegemony.
The “scientific” community can’t handle the truth,
so they silence those who speak it.
The IDIOTS preaching AGW won’t relent until Florida is covered by glaciers! Even then most of these IDIOTS would still claim that the growth in glaciers in Florida is due to AGW!
AGW is a religion that makes ISLAM look open-minded!
Alrighty then!
So, Al Gore’s inconvenient claims regarding “man-made Global Warming” turn out to be as phony as a Buddhist Temple Fund Raiser?
This guy’s speculative joyrides are REALLY getting to be expensive.
Isn’t it time to recall Gore’s Nobel and Oscar awards?
Excellent coverage Michelle. I’m loving this, exposing smug, lying, elitist leftist. Love it!
Or as they say…
Hello all. I’ve called this junk science since 1999. People would often look at me like I was crazy when I would point out that they were cooking the books to make money. This is the same thing they did with DDT, second hand smoke, MSGs and now they are claiming there will be a dirt shortage. There is no scientific evidence to support any of these conclusions. Its all analytics, with no science. Environuts want us all in caves throwing rocks at each other. But, never fear, the social elite will come down from their mansions every so often to ensure that we are all using the same size rocks and that no one is hoarding them. Can’t have anyone having a rock advantage. That would be against the socialist protocol.
Well, if global warming fades away as a attempt to increase power, perhaps, the socialists can go back to Eugenics. It’s been several decades. The naive and gullible won’t remember, or know their history.
Jones, Mann, and the warmists have yet to publish or make available the raw data that went into making the hocky stick graph. They also refuse to divulge the methods and procedures they use to select temperature stations and
fudgehomogenize the temperature data. And they continue to refuse to publish the computer code they use to model global climate. Yet they claim a scientific consensus exists based on other scientists believing their conclusions without ever having seen the raw data, testing it, or reproducing their results.The mistake Pons and Fleischmann made when they announced their discovery of cold fusion was to publish their data and allow other scientists the opportunity to try to reproduce their results. When no one could, the whole thing fell apart. Perhaps if they had kept their data secret and just asked other scientists to sign a petition, they, too, might have walked away with a Nobel Prize.
…and hundreds of millions in grants for further study.
Problem was then, science was still considered science, and others expected it to be reproduced.
Science has morphed into researching what those controlling the grant purse strings want, and concluding what is necessary to obtain those grants.
…and a jobs program for hacks too lazy to work the old fashioned way.
On February 15th, 2010 at 11:59 pm, Republicanvet said:
Indeed. And that is precisely what President Eisenhower warned could happen.
Virginia Patriot brought this up in an earlier comment.
Many people are familiar with only one of the two warnings Eisenhower gave in his farewell address. Many people are familiar with the warning about the “military-industrial complex“, but they are not familiar with the warning about the “scientific-technological elite“:
Flashback:
And a comment I made to that post, regarding what the Presidential candidates had to say at CPAC 2008 about U.S. Sovereignty.