A denier has many tactics to stop people talking about evidence. The real deniers here are those pushing a fake crisis. 10 out of 10 based on 4 ratings […]
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December 12th, 2009 | Tags: Bullying, Denier (the insult), Name-calling, The Skeptics Handbook II | Category: AGW socio-political |  Print This Post | |
Thanks to Jorn in Germany for the graphic (with my additions) The collateral damage from the emails is large ClimateGate doesn’t just bring down the scientists who wrote the emails, it brings down all the institutions and organizations that were supposed to have exacting standards and ought to have exposed the crimes years ago. The men whose work was so bogus, were lauded by the IPCC, published in Nature and Science, and defended by the National Academy of Science. This evidence of collusion, falsification, hiding data, and consistent deceit blows away the infrastructures of the practice of science. It doesn’t hurt the scientific method, but it destroys the premise that the IPCC expert review means anything, that peer review is capable of even picking up outright fraud, and that the National Academy of Science is functional. 10 out of 10 based on 3 ratings […] December 11th, 2009 | Tags: ClimateGate | Category: AGW socio-political, Global Warming | Print This Post | |
There were 12 of us skeptics among 12,000 believers at the Bali UNFCCC in 2007. We were a rag-tag team of passionate people, some of whom had PhDs, and most of whom were not paid to be there. We came because we were angry about the way science was being exploited. It was a convention on a scale I had not seen before. Not just 2,000 for a weekend, which would be big, but 12,000 for two entire weeks, which was an extravaganza. 12,000 people for an two entire weeks was an extravaganza. The UNFCCC meetings define the term “junket”. These mass climate conventions happen every year in locations like Nairobi (Kenya), Poznan (Poland), Montreal (Canada), Buenos Aires (Argentina), and Milan in Italy. Copenhagen is COP 15, meaning there have been 14 before it. (And at two weeks each, that’s over six months of non-stop PR and “staff incentives”.) Is there any larger yearly congregation in the world? From the outset the UNFCCC did everything it could to maintain the appearance that it is a fair, transparent, and scientific based organization. Yet on the ground, it did everything it could to make sure that there would be […] December 8th, 2009 | Tags: Evans (David), IPCC, Marc Morano, Monckton (Christopher), UNFCCC, United Nations (UN) | Category: AGW socio-political, Global Warming | Print This Post | | Did I say things were changing? The latest Rassmussen poll shows that the knowledge of falsified data is spreading fast and the polls are collapsing. Nearly 60% of Americans are now suspicious that there has been some falsification of the data. Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Americans say it’s at least somewhat likely that some scientists have falsified research data to support their own theories and beliefs about global warming. Thirty-five percent (35%) say it’s Very Likely. Just 26% say it’s not very or not at all likely that some scientists falsified data. Only a quarter of US citizens think that scientists agree on the climate. (Possibly just the White House and it’s employees? Only a few days ago a spokesman for the Obama Government was still insisting that he didn’t think the science was “under dispute”.) How fast that news spreads… or possibly not. (After all, before Climategate, how many polling companies thought to ask a question about scientists falsifying data?) 7 out of 10 based on 3 ratings […] December 4th, 2009 | Tags: Journalism, Polls | Category: AGW socio-political, Global Warming | Print This Post | | These maps and graphs make it clear just how brazenly unscientific the Hockey Stick is.
It’s clear that the world was warmer during medieval times. Marked on the map are study after study (all peer-reviewed) from all around the world with results of temperatures from the medieval time compared to today. These use ice cores, stalagmites, sediments, and isotopes. They agree with 6,144 boreholes around the world which found that temperatures were about 0.5°C warmer world wide. 8.3 out of 10 based on 38 ratings […] December 3rd, 2009 | Tags: Briffa (Kieth), Evidence, Hockey Stick Graph, Little Ice Age, Loehle (Craig), McIntyre (Steven), McKitrick (Ross), Medieval Warm Period, Steven McIntyre, The Skeptics Handbook II, Wegman Report | Category: AGW socio-political, Global Warming | Print This Post | | From now forward nothing will be quite the same for climate skeptics. It’s true that there is still a major war against unreason, and massive vested money which will fight all the way from the bank, but the ClimateGate story has taken on a reality that cannot be stopped. Jon Stewart is a liberal (meaning leftie) comedian in the US, and watch him mock Gore, and give people the real import of “hide the decline”. …it’s just scientist speak for using a standard statistical technique for recalibrating data in order to… …TRICK YOU!. He delivers the blows beautifully. [ Darn. This youtube video was removed from youtube…] Most people in polls might say they believe we should do something about the climate, but only 10% of them are truly committed followers. The other 90% are dutiful. And because the dutiful followers of the greenhouse crisis are well… dutiful, they aren’t going to object too hard when someone tells them it was all scam, and… they don’t have to pay more money, or apologize for taking long flights, or swap their dog for a goldfish (which has a smaller carbon footprint). That’s why, once this begins to fall, there […] December 3rd, 2009 | Tags: Australian Politics, Bullying, ClimateGate | Category: AGW socio-political | Print This Post | | Behind the scenes, large financial houses are moving in stealthily. In 2008, carbon trading worldwide reached $126 billion and is projected to grow to become a $2-$10 trillion dollar market, or “The largest commodity traded world wide”. The largest. That’s bigger than oil, coal, gas, or iron. Banks want us to trade carbon
9.5 out of 10 based on 6 ratings […] December 1st, 2009 | Tags: Bankers, Climate Money, Money | Category: AGW socio-political | Print This Post | | Since 1989 the US government has given nearly $80 billion dollars to the climate change industry. 9.3 out of 10 based on 4 ratings […] December 1st, 2009 | Tags: Big-Government, Climate Money, Funding (Climate related), Journalism, Money, The Skeptics Handbook II | Category: AGW socio-political, Global Warming | Print This Post | | What if governments poured billions of monopolistic funding into one theory but hardly anything into the alternatives: a theory that suited personal ambitions, profits of major players, careers of scientists, and the aims of naïve greens? How would you know? What if governments sacked and bullied scientists who disagreed? If officials used slander and libel in order to suppress scientific opinions? What if public agencies hid their data, refused to supply it, or even lost it; if baseless graphs were publicized and not corrected? Who informs the public and who enforces the rules of science, of science journals, of Aristotle? What if thousands of scientists rose up in protest, but it went unreported? 10 out of 10 based on 3 ratings […] December 1st, 2009 | Tags: Journalism, The Skeptics Handbook II | Category: AGW socio-political | Print This Post | |
It’s unthinkable. Big Government has spent $79 billion on the climate industry, 3000 times more than Big-oil. Leading climate scientists won’t debate in public and won’t provide their data. What do they hide? When faced with legal requests they say they’ve “lost” the original global temperature records. Thousands of scientists are rising in protest against the scare campaign. Meanwhile $126 billion turned over in carbon markets in 2008 and bankers get set to make billions. 8.7 out of 10 based on 6 ratings […] December 1st, 2009 | Tags: Cartoon, The Skeptics Handbook II | Category: AGW socio-political | Print This Post | | The Australian situation tonight: Today the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) decision was successfully delayed by questions until Monday. That’s good news, but there’s no Champers popping yet. The longer we wait, the longer the real story of the fraud has to filter through to our representatives, but this is a race to overcome two decades of propaganda in one weekend. This week will be written up in history books. Late yesterday a parliamentary mutiny occurred as opposition cabinet members abandoned their leader. 10 out of 10 based on 3 ratings […] November 28th, 2009 | Tags: Australian Politics, Emissions Trading Scheme | Category: AGW socio-political, Global Warming | Print This Post | | We all know something is gravely wrong, but what exactly are the crimes implicated? This insight comes from Richard S. Courtney, who has been an expert witness for the UK Parliament, and House of Lords, the IPCC and was one of 15 scientists invited to speak for the US congress in 2000. Jones, Briffa and Mann seem to have committed several criminal offences. These include: 1. Misappropriation of public funds They deliberately falsified data then used the results of the falsification to obtain additional research funding. This is criminal fraud under English Law. 2. Deliberate attempt to prevent disclosure of information that was requested under the FOI Act They colluded to destroy information that was the subject of an FOI request. This is a criminal offence under English Law. 10 out of 10 based on 2 ratings […] As news races around the blog world and the tip of the iceberg breaks into the mainstream media, people are waking up to the scam. Australia is in the extraordinary position of passing legislation that is known to be based on fraudulent science. True, it’s only been days since the news broke, but our politicians have Blackberries. It only takes seconds for the information to reach the palm of their hands, but it may take years for the meaning to filter through flawed neural software.
7.8 out of 10 based on 4 ratings […] November 25th, 2009 | Tags: Australian Politics, ClimateGate, Emissions Trading Scheme, JoNova's Favourites | Category: AGW socio-political | Print This Post | | Hackers Expose Climate Brawl Monday Nov 23, 2009 UPDATE Mon 23rd: The Australian put this story on Page 1, and added an image file of “quotes” for which they deserve kudos. This blog comments on the online version. The in-print version is better (see at the bottom). Caroline Overington writes up the story of the hackers breaking in to the East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU), but misses the meat of the story. The Australian can tick the box “Covered”, but not tick the box “Incisive”. She includes a few of the emails, but misses the bombshells while wasting column space discussing irrelevancies. As the Australian Senators sit down to assess the meaningfulness of an Emissions Trading Scheme this week, we can only hope they have better sources of information. The extraordinary emails from the East Anglia CRU expose how corrupt climate science has become. They are nothing less than startling. Leading researchers have been caught discussing how to “hide the decline”, how to refuse their scientific and legal obligations, and threatening to blackball professional journals to stop legitimate research being published. These same researchers have a long persistent record of hiding data and when faced with a series […] November 23rd, 2009 | Tags: ClimateGate, Journalism, Science Communication | Category: AGW socio-political, Global Warming | Print This Post | | Someone appears to have hacked into or leaked 1079 emails and 72 documents out of the Hadley Centre. It could take weeks of work to verify, but the sheer size and detail make it hard to argue that it is all faked. Steve McIntyre has confirmed emails he sent as being accurate. The only question is whether there are any fakes among a pattern of real ones. The blog world is alive with comments. It will be very interesting to watch this unfold and see the responses from Hadley, governments, and the mainstream media. UPDATE: Response from Hadley “Phil Jones, has told Investigate magazine’s TGIF Edition tonight that his organization has been hacked, and the data flying all over the internet appears to be genuine.” (Thanks VG) If someone within Hadley has finally had enough of the deceit, the hidden data, and the unscientific practices, they’ve presumably decided enough is enough — and will not allow the world’s bureaucrats and bankers to keep exploiting science for their own profits. If so, all credit to them for taking such a big risk. 10 out of 10 based on 2 ratings […] November 20th, 2009 | Tags: ClimateGate | Category: AGW socio-political, Global Warming | Print This Post | | Dr David Evans and Joanne Nova The temptation is all too strong. How many bureaucrats would work just as hard to show that their department was less important, less necessary, and less deserving of funding? It’s the fatal trap of socialist management. The incentives are wrong. When governments are faced with poor reports, but they write their own report cards, they have many options to upgrade their “score”. It’s insane to think that people might not take every opportunity they can to improve their mark. They are human. Big problems like inflation, unemployment, national growth, or global temperatures can be “improved” two ways –one way takes tough decisions and years of work, and the other way takes a quiet statistical summit, a white paper and an in-house training weekend. It’s easier to “solve” big problems by changing the way you measure them. By changing definitions, methods of interpreting the data, or through sheer statistical chicanery it’s possible to issue press releases with the words “improvement”, “better than expected” or at least “figures have plateaued”. 10 out of 10 based on 4 ratings […] November 14th, 2009 | Tags: CPI, Emissions Trading Scheme, Evans (David), Statistics | Category: AGW socio-political, Global Warming | Print This Post | | The world is considering a new financial market larger than any commodity, it’s “based on science”, but if you ask for evidence, you’re called names—“Denier”, and by our Prime Minister, no less. This is supposed to pass for reasoned debate? […] November 11th, 2009 | Tags: Argument by Authority, Australian Politics, Bullying, Coercion, JoNova's Favourites, Logic & Reason | Category: AGW socio-political, Global Warming, Logic & Reason | Print This Post | | Eminent Professors have taken the extraordinary step of writing another open letter to Congress to warn them again that there is no consensus and they are being deceived. The brand name Science is being used for a power grab. Decades of good-will has been stolen by the hunters from big finance and wannabe autocrats. It’s time for scientists everywhere to stand up and be counted. Write to your associations. Write to your elected representatives. Tell the people on the bus on the way to work!* It will be too late after the deals are signed… — JoNova Team of Scientists’ Open Letter To U.S. Senators: ‘Claim of consensus is fake’ Science group ‘reviewing its stance on global warming’ after 160 physicists sign petition Monday, November 02, 2009 – By Marc Morano – Climate Depot The following letter was sent to all 100 U.S. Senator’s on October 29, 2009 by a team of scientists. The letter is reproduced in full below: A GAGGLE IS NOT A CONSENSUS You have recently received a letter from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), purporting to convey a “consensus” of the scientific community that immediate and drastic action is needed […] November 3rd, 2009 | Tags: Consensus | Category: AGW socio-political, Global Warming | Print This Post | | Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer have made a desperately needed and polished documentary. Once again, as resistance to the one-sided coverage of the greenhouse crisis grows we can marvel at the determination of people to find a new way to spread the word that there is another side to the story. Once again, grass-roots citizens rise up to fight the witchdoctors who promise to save us from their own exaggerated threats. The indomitable human spirit shines, but sadly so does the destructive power of ideology without rational debate. 8.5 out of 10 based on 2 ratings […] October 17th, 2009 | Tags: Coercion, Evading Debate | Category: AGW socio-political, Global Warming | Print This Post | | Australian conservatives implode — the suppressed majority rebel In an extraordinary development, it’s now publicly known and beyond any doubt that most of our conservative’s in opposition do not want an ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) before Copenhagen. But our opposition leader wants an ETS, and has put his job on the line to get it. The Government wants to start negotiations in a week, or else they will “dissolve parliament” (which is not quite as scary as it sounds). It’s not obvious which way this will go. One state conservative branch has called the bluff, and The Nationals (the junior partners in conservative politics) have made it clear they will not vote for the ETS. The main conservative party in Australia is fracturing because intimidation and bullying has suppressed real opinions. No one is debating the science. Instead, the government bullies the opposition with election threats, and the opposition leader responds by bullying the opposition too. This is not what democracy was supposed to be. This is an international version of my shorter local OnLineOpinion Commentary 10 out of 10 based on 2 ratings […] October 13th, 2009 | Tags: Australian Politics, Bullying, Coercion | Category: AGW socio-political, Global Warming | Print This Post | | |
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