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		<title>Announcing the Galileo Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 08:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Nova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Case Smit and John Smeed brought Christopher Monckton to Australia in a brave defiant move last year. This year they have put together the Galileo Movement which was launched today by none other than Alan Jones.</p> <p>They live by the creed: &#8220;All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing&#8221;.</p> <p>This is another form of the grassroots uprising against serfdom and misinformation.</p> Purpose and Aims of the Galileo Movement: by exposing misrepresentations pushing a &#8216;price on carbon dioxide&#8217; <p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 180px;">The Galileo Movement seeks to protect Australians and our future in five areas:</p> Protect freedom &#8211; personal choice and national sovereignty; Protect the environment; Protect science and restore scientific integrity; Protect our economic security; Protect people&#8217;s emotional health by ending Government and activists&#8217; constant destructive bombardment of fear and guilt on our kids and communities. <p style="text-align: center;">Please Visit The Galileo Movement and support them if you can.</p> <p></p> Rating: 1.0/10 (2 votes cast)<br /><div><img src="http://joannenova.com.au/wp/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=1.0" /></div><div>Rating: 1.0/<strong>10</strong> (2 votes cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking news: Cherry Picking of Historic Proportions</title>
		<link>http://joannenova.com.au/2009/09/breaking-news-cherry-picking-of-historic-proportions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JoNova</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alarmist Behaviour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Briffa (Kieth)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>A big news day. It appears Steve McIntyre (volunteer unpaid auditor of Big-Government-Science) has killed the Hockey Stick a second time&#8230;</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> The details are on the last three days of Steve McIntyre&#8217;s site Climate Audit, and summed up beautifully on Watts Up. <p style="text-align: center;">The sheer effrontery and gall appears to be breathtaking.</p> <p style="text-align: center;">The Briffa temperature graphs have been widely cited as evidence by the IPCC, yet it appears they were based on a very carefully selected set of data, so select, that the shape of the graph would have been totally transformed if the rest of the data had been included.</p> <p>Kieth Briffa used 12 samples to arrive at his version of the hockey stick and refused to provide his data for years. When McIntyre finally got hold of it, and looked at the 34 samples that Briffa left out of his graphs, a stark message was displayed. McIntyre describes it today as one of the most disquieting images he&#8217;s ever presented.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p></p> Background <p>Since 1995 Kieth Briffa has been publishing graphs about temperature of the last thousand years. Like Michael Manns&#8217; famous (and discredited) Hockey Stick graph, Briffa&#8217;s graphs were [...]<br /><div><img src="http://joannenova.com.au/wp/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=10.0" /></div><div>Rating: 10.0/<strong>10</strong> (3 votes cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate money: Monopoly science</title>
		<link>http://joannenova.com.au/2009/07/climate-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JoNova</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AGW socio-political]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Skeptics Handbook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;text-align: left;font-size: x-large;color: #6d7b8d">The scientific process has become distorted. One side of a theory receives billions, but the other side is so poorly funded that auditing of that research is left as a community service project for people with expert skills, a thick skin and a passionate interest. A kind of “Adopt an Error” approach.</p> <p>Can science survive the vice-like grip of politics and finance?</p> <p>Despite the billions of dollars in funding, outrageous mistakes have been made. One howler in particular, rewrote history and then persisted for years before one dedicated fact checker, working for free, exposed the fraud about the Hockey Stick Graph. Meanwhile agencies like the Goddard Institute of Space Studies, can’t afford to install temperature sensors to meet its own guidelines, because the workers are poorly trained and equipped to dig trenches only with garden trowels and shovels. NOAA “adjust” the data after the fact—apparently to compensate for sensors which are too close to air conditioners or car parks, yet it begs the question: If the climate is the biggest problem we face; if billions of dollars are needed, why can’t we install thermometers properly?</p> <p>How serious are they about getting the [...]<br /><div><img src="http://joannenova.com.au/wp/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=10.0" /></div><div>Rating: 10.0/<strong>10</strong> (2 votes cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate money: Auditing is left to unpaid volunteers</title>
		<link>http://joannenova.com.au/2009/07/climate-money-auditing-is-left-to-unpaid-volunteers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JoNova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Billions for “the climate” but nothing left for audits? <p>It&#8217;s the most &#8220;important crisis&#8221; on Earth today, and we must rely on the science, yet it&#8217;s not quite important enough for anyone to independently double check those results. And just in case you think that the peer review process does that double checking, think again. Most papers are reviewed by only two or three colleagues who may be hoping to prove the same &#8220;theory&#8221; as the authors (so not especially keen to find holes in it), and who are unpaid and anonymous. (The saying &#8220;you get what you pay for&#8221; comes to mind. We pay to find a crisis, and we don&#8217;t pay to check the results.)</p> <p>The best examples of unpaid auditing are the work of independent scientists Steve McIntyre, and Anthony Watts. The irony is that skilled workers are providing a pro bono service, normally a service to help those who can&#8217;t afford it, but in this case, to assist the largest single financial entity on the planet.</p> Steve McIntyre and the misleading “Hockey Stick” graph <p>Steve McIntyre was trained in mathematics and worked in mineral exploration for 30 years (and despite claims to the contrary has never [...]<br /><div><img src="http://joannenova.com.au/wp/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=10.0" /></div><div>Rating: 10.0/<strong>10</strong> (2 votes cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Massive climate funding exposed</title>
		<link>http://joannenova.com.au/2009/07/massive-climate-funding-exposed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JoNova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p class="headline">Climate Money</p> The Climate Industry: $79 billion so far &#8211; Trillions to come <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: left;">For the first time, the numbers from government documents have been compiled in one place. It&#8217;s time to start talking of &#8220;Monopolistic Science&#8221;. It&#8217;s time to expose the lie that those who claim &#8220;to save the planet&#8221; are the underdogs. And it&#8217;s time to get serious about auditing science, especially when it comes to pronouncements that are used to justify giant government programs and massive movements of money. Who audits the IPCC?</p> <p style="text-align: left;"> The Summary The US government has provided over $79 billion since 1989 on policies related to climate change, including science and technology research, foreign aid, and tax breaks. Despite the billions: “audits” of the science are left to unpaid volunteers. A dedicated but largely uncoordinated grassroots movement of scientists has sprung up around the globe to test the integrity of the theory and compete with a well funded highly organized climate monopoly. They have exposed major errors. Carbon trading worldwide reached $126 billion in 2008. Banks are calling for more carbon-trading. And experts are predicting the carbon market will reach $2 &#8211; $10 trillion making carbon [...]<br /><div><img src="http://joannenova.com.au/wp/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=7.0" /></div><div>Rating: 7.0/<strong>10</strong> (4 votes cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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