This story is getting absolutely no coverage here in the US, but it’s stunning to us.
UK scientists are actually admitting they make up data to promote the Church of Global Warming, because they “want to put political pressure on governments”. So, these people invent data, such as the reports on Himalayan glacier shrinkage, create a global hysteria, dupe the Nobel Prize Committee into handing out a meritless award for research that is fabricated and fatally flawed, and the US media deigns not to report any of it.
The Nobel Prize, at this juncture, has essentially become no more prestigious than something found at the bottom of a Cracker Jacks box.
And not even one of the good prizes, like the fake tattoos or a decoder ring.
The Nobel Prize is one of those crappy plastic whistles that don’t really make any noise, or some kind of supposedly educational word-find games printed so small we can barely read it.
Not worth the paper it’s printed on.
The scariest thought, to us, regarding all of this blatant deception is that if these “scientists” have just been making up data to support the Church of Global Warming, what other “scientists” have been making things up?
Are they doing this in the field of aeronautics too? Does anyone understand how 747s stay in the air, really, or are they just winging the whole fluid dynamics comprehension stuff?
Does anyone have a real handle on nuclear power — or are all the scientists working in those plants just making up data and filling in their charts and graphs like soduku puzzles?
Is your heart surgeon someone who knows what she’s doing, or is she just “hoping for the best” and “saying whatever politicians want said about your EKG”?
“Science” today is an immense joke because of the Anthropogenic Global Warming hoax.
We’ve said this repeatedly, but we’ll say it again. In third grade, back in Catholic school, our teacher told us that the Earth’s weather was controlled by the sun. She even drew a picture on the chalk board, using the expensive colored chalk she only used to illustrate important points. Sister Francis Borgia drew a sun, with a big smiley face on it, with happy waves coming off it, headed towards the Earth. Then, she drew another picture, of an island with a palm tree on it. The waves from the sun caused waves in the water, and washed over the palm tree. In more advanced lessons, this nun drew a picture of the moon, to illustrate how it controls the tides.
No matter how many boats we put into the water, running at full speed away from the shore, towing giant plastic bags scooping as much water as possible, we will never be able to stop the moon’s impact on the tides. We can make a giant mess, disturb a great deal of wildlife, and upset many wealthy people with beachfront property (please let it be the Kennedys), but we as a species will never have more impact on the tides than the moon.
Just as we, as a species, can create a giant mess with pollution, but we will never have as much impact on the climate and weather as the sun.
Those happy wavy lines headed straight at us by that big smiley sun are what controls our climate. Whether ManBearPigs like it or not. When there is high solar activity, this planet warms. When there’s low solar activity, this planet cools.
We learned this in third grade.
Sister Francis Borgia deserves a Nobel Prize, posthumously awarded in the field of astronomy, climatology, and excellence in illustrative chalk drawing.
January 25, 2010 at 5:38 am
“Sister Francis Borgia deserves a Nobel Prize, posthumously awarded in the field of astronomy, climatology, and excellence in illustrative chalk drawing.”
You know you guys are pretty funny? I mean, I realize you wrote that thinking it’s funny, and it is — but you’re funny.
HillBuzz makes me grin, pretty much every time I swing by to see what’s happening.
By the way, you guys, you’re not Democrats anymore.
But you’re not Republicans, either.
You’re not Dems, same as I’m not a Republican anymore.
You’re conservatives, as I am a conservative.
Your whole paradigm has shifted. You may still like Hillary and respect her (hell, I do, after that fight she put up against The One — really), but your politics are not hers anymore.
They are not McCain’s, either.
They are conservative.
They are the politics of men and women who know that government is a necessary evil, and that anybody who holds its levers of powers may well be corrupted.
Like The Ring.
You may not even be Palinites — I’d have to see the Guv in action before I made that call.
But make no mistake about it: you *are* conservatives, as Mark Levin outlines in Liberty and Tyranny.
Conservatives.
Yay!
January 25, 2010 at 11:37 am
“illustrative chalk drawing.”
Some of the nuns that taught me, at good old Our Lady of the Wayside, had/have the most ridiculously perfect chalkboard penmanship.
January 25, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Obama caused us all to lose our prior affiliations-I was a Hillary supporter like the Hillbuzz guys. Obama DNC Reid Pelosi all corrupt and incompetent.
January 25, 2010 at 6:28 am
Warmism is just a late development of socialism, the very definition of which is the use of the supposed authority of “science” to violate natural individual rights.
The difference is that, while original socialism first based its authoritarianism on an allegedly superior “science of organization” which has been discredited in the social sciences, warmism has been trying to use the good reputation of the natural sciences.
The natural sciences owe their reputation to the fact that a natural scientist had generally rather reproduce a phenomenon, rather than find himself –or herself :-) –permanent excuses for failure.
As a consequence, while the politicization of funding –the fact that most researchers now live on money stolen from the taxpayers– does develop a parasitic bureaucracy, it is not expected to produce a definite bias in scientific findings.
The exception, however, is in the areas where failure to reproduce phenomena is not readily evident, or where it was to be expected.
One of those domains of science is long-term climate forecasting, which started receiving massive subsidies to find “evidence” for a politically pre-determined warmist conclusion during a warming period.
If it hadn’t been for the fact that mean-term temperature is actually led by 11-year and 22-year sun cycles, such natural warming which might have gone on for many more years without anyone noticing a discrepancy between the forecasts and the observations.
Even now that global temperatures have been going down for 11 years, there are still people who deny that it has statistical significance –while a few warmists deny the decline outright.
The warmist hoax thus relied:
– on the expected long-term nature of its forecasts –as opposed to the predictions of mean-term commodity shortages made by the Club of Rome, which were ridiculed within the time span of their forecasts (15 to 20 years)
– and on the fact that most natural scientists have little experience of the corruption of their findings by politics.
Economists, who have an inborn experience of such politicization and corruption, were never the dupes of the warmist hoax.
Yet, there is an element of economic illiteracy which tends to make natural scientists the dupes of environment fascism:
they do not understand that the source of all wealth is the human mind, and as a consequence, there is no such thing as “natural wealth” (Julian Simon).
That is why they do no understand that the only condition for development to be “sustainable” is that it be free.
On the contrary, they will regard all claims that growth is not naturally limited as based on a self-evident fallacy.
This comes from the materialistic methodology of the natural sciences, which systematically excludes creation as a kind of causality.
Yet all wealth is indeed created: as a matter of fact, every time any man comes upon a new idea, it brings something genuinely new to the universe as we can perceive it –and the very existence of science is evidence of that.
In that sense, an economist must be a “creationist” in order to be competent.
January 25, 2010 at 6:30 am
I too went to Catholic school: Our Lady of the Rule. I can add this from 4th grade -”carbon dioxide is the life blood of the planet. We exhale co2. Plants inhale co2 and use it to grow.” (Sister Anne Margaritte)
That was almost 35 years ago.
It seems Al Gore and the other progressives are just catching up now to basic science.
I wonder why?
January 25, 2010 at 10:11 am
Felix, thanks for mentioning CO2!
I, too learned about it in science class (Protestant public school) and how plants use it and make O2.
To think that Al Gorebot managed to brainwash so many people that CO2 is evil, and its proliferation will be the very death of the planet has to be one the very biggest hoaxes ever!
We can only conclude that (as many of us already knew) the American ‘education’ system is a joke.
January 25, 2010 at 11:40 am
Not to belittle the publics, but isn’t this taught anymore? This used to be very common knowledge from the age of eight. Very telling on the state, or lack of, education these days. Guess it just doesn’t fit the progressive narrative.
January 25, 2010 at 1:27 pm
These days all that has to happen is little Johnny needs to come up with his own theory to receive a gold star. Such as “the weather is controlled by what you eat for lunch.
Nothing can be actually “taught” as that might offend someone.
January 25, 2010 at 3:13 pm
an “A” for participation and attendance.
*ugh*
January 25, 2010 at 3:08 pm
I remember learning it at Catholic school – St. Agnes and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart…. I remember it as part of the first form (year 7) science lesson.
January 25, 2010 at 6:36 am
Warmism is just a late development of socialism, the very definition of which is the use of the supposed authority of “science” to violate natural individual rights.
The difference is that, while original socialism first based its authoritarianism on an allegedly superior “science of organization” which has been discredited in the social sciences, warmism has been trying to use the good reputation of the natural sciences.
The natural sciences owe such reputation to the fact that a natural scientist had generally rather reproduce a phenomenon, rather than find himself –or herself :-) –permanent excuses for failure.
As a consequence, while the politicization of funding –the fact that most researchers now live on money stolen from the taxpayers– does develop a parasitic bureaucracy, it is not expected to produce a definite bias in scientific findings.
The exception, however, is in the areas where:
– there are large stakes for an entrenched power structure in finding a definite kind of results and
– failure to reproduce phenomena is not readily evident, or was to be expected.
One of those domains of science is long-term climate forecasting, which started receiving massive subsidies to find “evidence” for a politically pre-determined warmist conclusion during a warming period.
If it hadn’t been for the fact that mean-term temperature is actually led by 11-year and 22-year sun cycles, such natural warming which might have gone on for many more years without anyone noticing a discrepancy between the forecasts and the observations.
Even now that global temperatures have been going down for 11 years, there are still people who deny that it has statistical significance –while a few warmists deny the decline outright.
The warmist hoax thus relied:
– on the expected long-term nature of its forecasts –as opposed to the predictions of mean-term commodity shortages made by the Club of Rome, which were ridiculed within the time span of their forecasts (15 to 20 years)
– and on the fact that most natural scientists have little experience of the corruption of their findings by politics.
Economists, who have an inborn experience of such politicization and corruption, were never the dupes of the warmist hoax.
Yet, there are elements of economic illiteracy which tend to make natural scientists the dupes of enviro-fascism:
– they do not understand that the source of all wealth is the human mind, and as a consequence, there is no such thing as “natural wealth” (Julian Simon).
That is why they do no understand that the only condition for development to be “sustainable” is that it be free.
On the contrary, they will regard all claims that growth is not naturally limited as based on a self-evident fallacy.
– This comes from the materialistic methodology of the natural sciences, which systematically excludes creation as a kind of causality.
Yet all wealth is indeed created: as a matter of fact, every time any man comes upon a new idea, it brings something genuinely new to the universe as we can perceive it
–and the very existence of science is evidence of that.
In that sense, every economist must be a “creationist” in order to be competent.
January 25, 2010 at 6:38 am
Warmism is just a late development of socialism, the very definition of which is the use of the supposed authority of “science” to violate natural individual rights.
The difference is that, while original socialism first based its authoritarianism on an allegedly superior “science of organization” which has been discredited in the social sciences, warmism has been trying to use the good reputation of the natural sciences.
The natural sciences owe such reputation to the fact that a natural scientist had generally rather reproduce a phenomenon, rather than find himself –or herself :-) –permanent excuses for failure.
As a consequence, while the politicization of funding –the fact that most researchers now live on money stolen from the taxpayers– does develop a parasitic bureaucracy, it is not expected to produce a definite bias in scientific findings.
The exception, however, is in the areas where:
– there are large stakes for an entrenched power structure in finding a definite kind of results and
– failure to reproduce phenomena is not readily evident, or was to be expected.
One of those domains of science is long-term climate forecasting, which started receiving massive subsidies to find “evidence” for a politically pre-determined warmist conclusion during a warming period.
If it hadn’t been for the fact that mean-term temperature is actually led by 11-year and 22-year sun cycles, such natural warming which might have gone on for many more years without anyone noticing a discrepancy between the forecasts and the observations.
January 25, 2010 at 6:39 am
Even now that global temperatures have been going down for 11 years, there are still people who deny that it has statistical significance –while a few warmists deny the decline outright.
The warmist hoax thus relied:
– on the expected long-term nature of its forecasts –as opposed to the predictions of mean-term commodity shortages made by the Club of Rome, which were ridiculed within the time span of their forecasts (15 to 20 years)
– and on the fact that most natural scientists have little experience of the corruption of their findings by politics.
Economists, who have an inborn experience of such politicization and corruption, were never the dupes of the warmist hoax.
Yet, there are elements of economic illiteracy which tend to make natural scientists the dupes of enviro-fascism:
– they do not understand that the source of all wealth is the human mind, and as a consequence, there is no such thing as “natural wealth” (Julian Simon).
That is why they do no understand that the only condition for development to be “sustainable” is that it be free.
On the contrary, they will regard all claims that growth is not naturally limited as based on a self-evident fallacy.
– This comes from the materialistic methodology of the natural sciences, which systematically excludes creation as a kind of causality.
Yet all wealth is indeed created: as a matter of fact, every time any man comes upon a new idea, it brings something genuinely new to the universe as we can perceive it
–and the very existence of science is evidence of that.
In that sense, every economist must be a “creationist” in order to be competent.
January 25, 2010 at 6:39 am
Even now that global temperatures have been going down for 11 years, there are still people who deny that it has statistical significance –while a few warmists deny the decline outright.
The warmist hoax thus relied:
– on the expected long-term nature of its forecasts –as opposed to the predictions of mean-term commodity shortages made by the Club of Rome, which were ridiculed within the time span of their forecasts (15 to 20 years)
– and on the fact that most natural scientists have little experience of the corruption of their findings by politics.
Economists, who have an inborn experience of such politicization and corruption, were never the dupes of the warmist hoax.
Yet, there are elements of economic illiteracy which tend to make natural scientists the dupes of enviro-fascism:
– they do not understand that the source of all wealth is the human mind, and as a consequence, there is no such thing as “natural wealth” (Julian Simon).
That is why they do no understand that the only condition for development to be “sustainable” is that it be free.
On the contrary, they will regard all claims that growth is not naturally limited as based on a self-evident fallacy.
January 25, 2010 at 7:07 am
Sebaneau, I agree. The reasons behind the main subterfuge aside, how many human beings have been affected or died of starvation in the last few years because crops were being grown for bio-fuels instead of as food?
Yes, I realize that too falls into the Soros plan. And I don’t like it.
I can’t help but compare the whole sad thing to Stalin and the Ukraine.
January 25, 2010 at 10:04 am
Wow, the food for fuel has realy bothered me for a long time.
Things that make you go Hmmmmm.
Thinking that way, what about the hybridization of seed stock that makes it sterile. Growing up we were able to dry and keep the seeds from our vegatables one year and plant them the next. Not so much anymore. Another is the situation in the central valley of CA, where they have shut off the water to the crops in favor of the delta smelt.
January 25, 2010 at 11:12 am
Add this to it.
http://biggovernment.com/2010/01/25/obama-to-california-water-its-not-a-right-its-a-privilege/#more-64530
January 25, 2010 at 11:35 am
I don’t think too many people have died from the food-to-fuel diversion of foodstuffs.
But…they have seen the price of their food go up, and that has caused a certain degradation of their lifestyle.
On the other hand, the family farm has been setting records for yields. Apparently, more CO2 = more production.
Who knew? ;-)
January 25, 2010 at 12:35 pm
I agree that there probably has not been many deaths from the food to fuel conversion, what it has done is spark more civil unrest ie; Mexico City
January 25, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Notice how the “Amazonian Rain Forests” are no longer swamping the headlines. Guess they can’t fudge those figures and blame the US since, wonderful socialist Brazil is doing the plowing and bulldozing.
January 25, 2010 at 7:55 am
I am glad that you mention Club of Rome, because they are still out there writing “Global Warming” papers for the UN’s IPCC. It is also interesting to see who are members or who have been members. Their interest is in cutting human population. They believe and have said that Global Warming can be used as a political tool to gain consensus in the world over the traditional national borders.
January 25, 2010 at 6:40 am
– This comes from the materialistic methodology of the natural sciences, which systematically excludes creation as a kind of causality.
Yet all wealth is indeed created: as a matter of fact, every time any man comes upon a new idea, it brings something genuinely new to the universe as we can perceive it
–and the very existence of science is evidence of that.
In that sense, every economist must be a “creationist” in order to be competent.
January 25, 2010 at 6:41 am
– This comes from the materialistic methodology of the natural sciences, which systematically excludes creation as a kind of causality.
Yet all wealth is indeed created: as a matter of fact, every time any man comes upon a new idea, it brings something genuinely new to the universe as we can perceive it –and the very existence of science is evidence of that.
In that sense, every economist must be a “creationist” in order to be competent.
January 25, 2010 at 6:43 am
– This comes from the materialistic methodology of the natural sciences, which systematically excludes creation as a kind of causality.
Yet all wealth is indeed created: as a matter of fact, every time any man comes upon a new idea, it brings something genuinely new to the universe as we can perceive it
–and the very existence of science is evidence of that.
In that sense, every economist must be a “creationist” in order to be competent.
January 25, 2010 at 7:14 am
There is an excellent documentary on YouTube called “The Cloud Mystery” which explains how the sun and cosmic rays control climate change. It is very well done and easy to understand even if you have no advanced scientific background.
Besides the science, it is also interesting to watch how climate scientists attempt to stop the scientist, Dr. Svenmark, from doing his research and publishing his results.
Svenmark has also written a book called “The Chilling Stars” which goes over this theory. The documentary is easier to understand, however.
January 25, 2010 at 7:19 am
There’s a genuine belief among the climate change hysterics that they’re actually doing the right thing. I think it’s called a cognitive frame. It means that no matter what shit they pull, what lies they have to tell, they will always find a way to justify it.
Healthy people, when it comes to science, would think that if they have to lie to get politicians to get what they want, that there’s something wrong with their theory. These are not healthy people. Everything they believe is based on the idea that the mere existence of people and everything they do (including trying to get out of poverty) is a bad thing.
January 25, 2010 at 7:57 am
The first time I ever talked to my sweetie (BA, Iowa, MS, Illinois) I calmly told him (via my high school diploma and OSU Master Gardener certification) that Global Warming was…..horseshit.
He was speechless, as his entire elite crowd knew that GW was real and we were all gonna be dead ducksters in five years….or else. I said “Oh really? How much you wanna bet we’re still here in five years, without a scratch on us?” I told him that, for one to believe in the GW explanation being put forward, one has to leave their common sense at the door. He thought I was nuts. I imagine he thought about kicking me to the curb right then. LOL
Well, he didn’t. Now he is sickened that instead of being educated in college; he was indoctrinated.
January 25, 2010 at 8:07 am
When so-called authorities propagate lies, not only does the misinformation itself harm and lead astray, it wastes time and energy that could be spent on truth. What’s that got to do with global warming?
We have spent more than a decade of “global warming” getting shoved down our throats. All the time and money wasted on this lunacy could have been spent on cleaning up the water supplies in the third world, turning the ghetto into a safe neighborhood, feeding hungry people, turning the desert into green farmland that supplies food to Africa (like what happened in the Holy Land).
Global warming has been a waste of time. It has turned the focus off PEOPLE, which are the most important of God’s creation. This is all very sad–a very sad waste of time and energy.
January 25, 2010 at 8:20 am
You know, that is one of the best arguments I have heard for opposing this silly scare, and one that can be used with caring people who aren’t well-versed in science.
Thank you for pointing this out.
January 25, 2010 at 9:56 am
As an early teenager, I lived for four years in Papua New Guinea. My parents were missionaries. Dad was superintendent of about 20 churches in a very remote area. He saw to it that every pastor had a house with a metal roof, which collected rain water that was piped to a metal water tank.
This supplied CLEAN water for many (perhaps most if not all) of the residents of a given village. These Papua New Guineans didn’t have to get sick off the parasites in the river water any more! And we’re not talking big bucks here!
January 25, 2010 at 9:33 am
I agree wholeheartedly! You know, unfortunately, the people behind the AGW hoax want to DECREASE population. What better way than have them die from starvation? Or die from disease caused by dirty water?
January 25, 2010 at 3:34 pm
I think that, even more importantly, it undermines the confidence and respect of the scientific community. When I was growing up in Chicago, Jonas Salk and Enrico Fermi were almost as big a deal to me as Butkus and Payton (Sorry, Baseball lost me a looong time ago).
There was a sense of awe in the great scientists and inventors of the past. I feel that that genuine sense of awe is fading. Who can you trust when you can’t even trust yourself to honestly accomplish passing marks in school or in the scientific community to tell you the truth. Repeat the party line spewed by indoctrinating teachers -that term is losing it’s significance, I’m afraid- and show up for your report card.
January 25, 2010 at 8:39 am
There are no bright orange signs placed along the roadway announcing the imminent imposition of totalitarianism.
Free people have to be aware of any ideology which seeks to impose conformity of thinking.
Principles are not ideology. Integrity is not ideology. Principles and integrity are not subject to a given set of beliefs or behavior, but demand a daily reckoning of right and wrong, depending on what the day presents to us.
Principles and integrity are the opposite both of ideology and of ideology’s natural consequence, totalitarianism.
One reason leftists are so successful, is that non-leftists do not live their lives determined to gain power and mastery over others.
To non-leftists, it is unthinkable that science could be manipulated for political purposes. That is one reason why the AGW scam has been so successful.
The bona fides of the “scientists” was not questioned, because it was simply unthinkable that human beings could be so immorally manipulative for their selfish, crass reasons.
Question authority, indeed. If the “authority” leads to more intrusive government, presume bad faith first, and wait to have the bad faith disproven.
January 25, 2010 at 9:38 am
This isn’t exactly on topic, but the linked article is a fine one. I love his take on tolerance versus respect.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/when_tolerance_trumps_principl.html
January 25, 2010 at 10:02 am
TY, wonderful article (although I somewhat disagree with the example chosen).
It is amazing how much incoherence governs our society, but incoherence in service of an agenda.
The principle of non-contradiction is the first thing to go in that agenda.
The abandonment is necessary in order to implement the Alinsky method, which is essentially the belief that the end justifies any means.
And it leads to the chief arguments made by the left, name-calling and “shut up!”
January 25, 2010 at 12:28 pm
It reminds me of a discussion I had with a blog poster about religious intolerance of homosexuality. He said that he had a brother who was gay; he loved his brother, and accepted his lifestyle. He asked what I would do if I had a homosexual relative. Well, actually, I do. I told the questioner that I would love my relative, but that it didn’t mean I would agree that homosexuality is equal to heterosexuality. I respect my relative (and love him), but I am sad that he will face adversity because he is gay. Just a note: this relative is in the entertainment industry in southern California, so he has not suffered much because he is gay, and probably profited in many respects.
January 25, 2010 at 8:42 am
“Does anyone understand how 747s stay in the air, really, or are they just winging the whole fluid dynamics comprehension stuff?”
A great line! Real guffaw. Actually, having worked on the Airbus for five years in the late 70′s, I can assure you that at least Airbus engineers are doing their job, which may be one of the reasons Airbus is outdoing Boeing these days.
As for nuclear science/engineering, I worked on that too, and again I can assure you that at least the French know what they’re doing.
When it comes to environmental science and supposed global warming, though, I fully agree with your wariness of the scientific community. Astronomers I have worked with have poo-pooed the notion of anthropogenic global warming, saying the earth’s orbital parameters and internal moon-driven furnace are more than 99% responsible for any climate change there may be; and these warm/ice age shifts have occurred repeatedly throughout the earth’s history.
This is not to say that the solutions offered for climate change are all nutty and to be thrown out with the bath water. There is certainly reason to plug in to renewable energies, as there are savings to be made and jobs to be created: insulating homes, equipping them with solar panels, setting up wind farms, all take money but money spent means jobs created, and the money spent is an investment, so that in the longer term, they will lead to savings.
January 25, 2010 at 10:13 am
I am afraid such “investments” will prove obsolete when alternative energies become profitable,
– either through a permanent increase in the inflation-adjusted price of carbon fuels (don’t hold your breath)
– or a breakthrough in the technology (which would deprive the present taxpayer-subsidized windmills and solar panels of their excuse
for receiving stolen money).
January 25, 2010 at 3:14 pm
My husband earned his degree in aeronautical engineering :)
Engineering is very precise and when it comes to aircraft everything must be done correctly.
January 25, 2010 at 8:52 am
here’s an interesting article on Michael Mann, inventor of the `hockey stick graph’:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487045410045750110931344004278.html
January 25, 2010 at 8:55 am
Darn, the link doesn’t seem to work. But you can still read the article at Wall Street Journal online; it’s called `Michael mann’s Climate Stimulus’ and appeared on January 20.
January 25, 2010 at 9:12 am
This story broke back before Thanksgiving – to http://strata-sphere.com/blog/ for all of AJ Strata’s analysis of this.
I agree – it is beyond stunning that no one in the MSM is following this; FOX has been on it for months (they’re the ONLY network covering this).
As more and more comes out on this, it is going to be harder and harder to deny – even though some of the faithful are still clinging to their false beliefs.
January 25, 2010 at 9:37 am
When it comes to medicine it’s the same lies also. Read Mercola.com and Health Ranger and you’ll know how many lies are perpetuated so Big Pharma can continue it’s stranglehold on people’s lives, health, and well being. They hate natural medicine and will make up and skew studies to fool people to use their poisonous products instead of the natural herbs, supplements, and homeopathics that work and don’t hurt people.
January 25, 2010 at 1:29 pm
You took the words out of my mouth. I think about the legal prescription drugs my mother took during the course of her 77 years of life. In the end, she was addicted not to one specific drug but to the idea of taking drugs for everything that ailed her. Of course as she became older, she ended up taking drugs for the side-effects of other drugs. It was a never ending cycle which eventually killed her. She did live out a normal life-span but I firmly believe the later years of her life could have been happier and more peaceful for her and everyone else had she not become “hooked” many years before on what turned out to be addictive and dangerous pharmaceuticals.
January 25, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Italy has filed a class action lawsuit against the swine flu vaccine drug companies, and from Germany:
“LifeGen reports that more than 7,800 side effects to the swine flu jab have been reported using the electronic Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) system including 33 suspected deaths, raising the chances of a class action lawsuit.”
The Czech Health ministry suspended the H1N1 vaccination program:
“No contract for the delivery of the vaccines A(H1N1) between Baxter and the Czech Republic has been concluded,” Cechova said. The server tn.cz writes that the Czech Health Ministry has explained its stopping the talks with Baxter by the firm’s inability to guarantee that the vaccine is safe and who will bear the risks for possible side-effects.”
…partly because of this:
“Baxter flu vaccines contaminated with H5N1 – otherwise known as the human form of avian flu, one of the most deadly biological weapons on earth with a 60% kill rate – were received by labs in the Czech Republic, Germany, and Slovenia.
Initially, Baxter attempted to stonewall questions by invoking “trade secrets” and refused to reveal how the vaccines were contaminated with H5N1. After increased pressure they then claimed that pure H5N1 batches were sent by accident. This was seemingly an attempt to quickly change the story and hide the fact that the accidental contamination of a vaccine with a deadly biological agent like avian flu is virtually impossible and the only way it could have happened was by wilful gross criminal negligence.”
January 25, 2010 at 9:50 am
The scariest thought, to us, regarding all of this blatant deception is that if these “scientists” have just been making up data to support the Church of Global Warming, what other “scientists” have been making things up?
I humbly refer you to “Dark Energy,” an inferrence that has dominated the fields of physics and astronomy for 10 years. The press loves to write about it too.
January 25, 2010 at 9:52 am
It’s not just the UK fudging the books on all this…read Climategate – American Style. They are basically fixing the data to suit their needs. It makes me sick and if I were a real scientist, I would be pissed to be included in this club.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/climategate_cru_was_but_the_ti.html
January 25, 2010 at 9:52 am
Speaking of Nobel Prizes, did Obama donate his prize money yet ? He said he was giving it to charity and just hoping that wasn’t the name of one of MO’s D-list designer friends :D
January 25, 2010 at 12:18 pm
One would have thought that Obama would have donated the prize to Haiti. Most likely the money will be used to purchase the Mansion in Hawaii he loves vacation in–
January 25, 2010 at 1:29 pm
They gave 15K to Haiti…cheapskates!~
January 25, 2010 at 9:58 am
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January 25, 2010 at 10:14 am
The best and most recent articles about this massive fraud – are exposed on the following web site: http://www.climatedepot.com
Climatedepot has articles on a daily basis from all over the world concerning this idiocy.
US media may be silent – however, the rest of the world is starting to expose the fraud.
http://www.climatedepot.com – Great Site!
January 25, 2010 at 10:27 am
Back when my children were in high school in the late 90′s we’d have wild discussions and I would be accused of being a Right Wing Nut when I would argue that Global Warming was a political club used by the Left in the world to beat people into submission. Well, then it became known that we weren’t warming any more, so the terminology was conveniently changed to Climate Change (although some unPC people still use “global warming” interchangeably – which only serves to prove the point that this has been a giant hoax.) But the crisis was still as severe. We were told – it’s not the warming – it’s the severe changes in weather.
I think Algore sat back with a huge smile and couldn’t believe how easy it was to get people and countries behind this hoax. I became looked upon as a cold, heartless person when I’d argue that polar bears weren’t becoming extinct – and BTW – that video of the polar bear and it’s cub about to drown – POLAR BEARS CAN SWIM!!!!.
Even with all this Climategate information out – I’m still considered the wingnut among my friends. They are holding on to the belief that Climategate is a gigantic scam perpetrated by the Right, who truly want to kill the world.
And once again – it’s the media allowing all of this to happen by ignoring the obvious. Follow the money and see who’s getting rich off this hoax.
January 25, 2010 at 10:34 am
In the category of stuff they are trying to ram home in the name of science- the swine flu epidemic and the panic over the vaccinations. We’re all going to die without those shots…
January 25, 2010 at 4:22 pm
“In the last few monts, there have been unprecedented revelations about the depths of corruption and criminality of he UN in respect to climate change scam and of the WHO in respect to the swine flu vaccines.
But the complicity of national governments has also come under the spotlight.
There will be no return to the status quo ante.
The growth of communications and information technology cannot be stopped.
As an Irish person once said, when a good person dies, their voices go on talking forever but when an evil person dies, their voices fall silent, thereby underlining the reality that acts of communication have an inherent bias towards life-promoting values, and the truth.
The WHO and their allied national government will not be able to stop this dynamic of the communication age, especially not now when its voice has fallen silent on the world stage.”
Jane Burgermeister
January 25, 2010 at 10:35 am
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January 25, 2010 at 10:53 am
When I was in middle school, my parents used to coach our Science Olympiad team. One night, on the way home from a meeting, we were talking about Global Warming (which they were teaching us in school at the time) and I remember my parents saying that they didn’t believe in global warming. My mom explained that she thought the Earth just went through natural warming and cooling cycles.
I was very confused at the time, because I thought, “What do you mean you don’t believe in it? They taught us all about it in science class.” I wish they had explained more, because it wasn’t until recently that I learned (via Glenn Beck) about the Global Cooling scare of the 70′s (perpetuated by some of the very same people). When I asked my mom about she answered, “Oh yeah, I knew all about that.”
“WTF!?! Why didn’t anyone ever mention this to me?” It’s really sick what they do to kids in school. At least some things were taught as THEORIES and it was emphasized as such. Global Warming, however, was taught as fact.
January 25, 2010 at 11:45 am
Global Warming is this generation’s Evolution.
Darwin even said his theory of cross-species evolution was probably too outrageous to be true, but people hopped on the bandwagon and now Darwin’s Theory of Evolution has been taught as proven science for the last several generations. Even though there is no scientific or archeological evidence of cross-species evolution. There is evidence of intra-species evolution but most of us have grown up being taught that we are all here today because of a slimy creature crawling out of the mud and morphing into millions of different species.
The difference between Darwinism and Global Warming is that it wasn’t started as a way to control economy and people and make billions (if not trillions) to those who are spearheading the hoax, as the Global Warming crowd is doing.
January 25, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Hence the search for “the missing link” . . . and a game show with a similar title: “Weakest Link.”
January 25, 2010 at 10:59 am
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/indiana/election_2010_indiana_senate
Senator Evan Bayh is down by 3 points in his Senate re-election race. well if you voted for that terrible bill with dirty deals and didn’t have the courage to take on Obama and the Democrats then you should not be re-elected. It is sad, but politics is if you slip up and get carried away with power then the citizens can’t re-elect you.
January 25, 2010 at 11:02 am
Oh boy!!! This IS MY FAVORITE TOPIC to discuss and write letters/posts/blog about.
Why? I too went to Catholic school, and as I am about 10 years older than you Boyz, I was in school when Time and Newsweak ran cover stories (late 70s early 80s) that we were all going to freeze to death…because an “Ice Age” was coming! My wonderful science teacher, Sister Phyllis taught us HOW WRONG THAT WAS and we had the lesson of the ‘Maunder Minimum’ that was based on the following of sunspots (since the time of Galileo and the advent of the telescope) over hundreds of years.
Sunspots, Sister Phyllis taught, affect the earth’s weather patterns. They follow cycles that can be determined by the lack of sunspots (like we have now…which makes the earth ‘cool’) or periods of high sunspot development/activity which causes global warming. Global warming, we were taught brought bounty to the agrian cultures hundreds of years ago. Crops grew. People were able to eat; the population increased. When we entered the ‘mini ice age’ (starting around the 16th century) crops failed, populations died.
Sooooo, many years later, sort of as a ‘consolation prize’ to AlGore…he was ‘handed his cause’ to make up for not being President (all those hanging and dangling chads)…and THAT was when we first started ‘hearing’ about GloBull Warming, and Co2 was killing us…I thought back to middle school and HS and said, ‘huh?’ (Actually, I probably thought in a more colorful, perjorative way…but will stand by the generic ‘huh?’)
When the wonderful Viscount Lord Christopher Monckton, appearing here in the US gave his empassioned ’23rd hour, 59th minute’ speech I feared it was too little, too late…but then…be it a whistle blower at England’s East Anglian University; some Soviet moles; or a nerdy kid using his mom’s laptop…the leaking of the ‘ClimateGate Memos’ was timed like Divine Providence (that and the blizzard in ‘Hope’nhagen during the UN Global Warming conference–just like the ManBearPig blizzard in DC a couple of years ago…when you know who…went to Congress to ‘testify.’) I was thrilled.
But Boyz, you are sooooo correct in your point that our lamestream media has not given AGW fraud proper coverage (all of the heavy lifting has been done across the pond by the likes of Lord Monckton and by the wonderful British reporter/blogger James Delingpole). I live in PA…home of Penn State (funded by state tax dollars) and it was/is a ‘non’ story here. Michael ‘Hockey Stick’ Mann pontificates from the cuddling, indulgent campus at Happy Valley.
FWIW, I have written letters and called my state rep; my state senator; and members of the Commonwealth Education Committee (who says PA government isn’t ‘top heavy?’) to find out what, if anything, was being done at the state (PA) level to look into the fraudulent use of PSU resources to perpetuate this fraud. My responses? Either NO response or a ‘thank you for your interest in (fill in blank)’ kind of letter. Phone calls to their offices (again, PA state officials) were like I was calling to complain about crop circles or dandruff…their response was ‘huh?’ I even wrote to the Centre County District Attorney’s office (and no response, but I didn’t ‘think’ I should expect one…yet felt compelled to write to them about the fraud going on in their county.)
In true Cloward Piven strategy…we are overwhelmed I know. But, other than the US House/Senate Energy Committee members, or pressing your own Congresscritter/Sinator, I would suggest ‘inquiring’ of the PA officials who fund PSU/Mann.
Thanks Boyz for the threads you have devoted to the AGW fraud. Keeping the info ‘going’ on the web will make it harder for the fraud to be ignored.
January 25, 2010 at 12:39 pm
Thanks MaryQ. I also am old enough to remember the Global Cooling scare. Within the last year or so the Discovery Science Channel broadcast a rerun about Cooling from that period with the wildly popular scientist, Carl Sagan. Remember him?
January 25, 2010 at 12:43 pm
I have ‘billions and billions’ of fond memories of the late Dr. Sagan.
One of my kids got extra credit (in 9th grade, public school HS) for being able to explain the theory of sunspots.
The good Sisters should be proud…their lessons are being carried on to the next generation :)
January 25, 2010 at 12:48 pm
The rebroadcast was of the show “Cosmos”. Sagan believed that burning and clear cutting of the rain forests would cause a little ice age. One of his suggestions to counteract the effect was, ironically, to intentionally release more greenhouse gasses.
January 25, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Hi! I tried to post earlier…that I have ‘billions and billions’ of memories of Dr. Sagan. Johnny Carson (memba him?) used to do ‘Saganims.’ And I do remember the Cosmos episodes.
One of the end all and be all comments on this subject was summed up like a Hallmark card…’climate change, what we used to call ‘weather.”
January 25, 2010 at 6:41 pm
I miss Johnny Carson – those who followed are but a pale shadow of the man.
January 25, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Mary, I am older than you, and yes I remember the period of global cooling in the 70s and the scare that went with it.
Here in Australia the cooling in summer was very stark…..
January 25, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Maggie -
I seem to remember that some of the 1970′s cooling had to do with volcanic ash in the atmosphere (Mt Pinatubo, perhaps?)
January 25, 2010 at 11:13 am
I have to admit I’ve wondered about AIDS research and the H1N1 furor.
The surprising thing is that after so many years of fudging data, disregarding criticism (and shouting down dissent), lies, and crappy computer programming, they are actually admitting what they did. I hope all of this puts paid to the issue once and for all.
January 25, 2010 at 11:16 am
Grrr…my (I guess too long) commentary is awaiting its que, cooling its heals on the WordPress green room…but here is a slight follow up (cart before horse)…but, AGW is falling apart:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2436782/posts
The Carbon Credit ‘selling’ scheme has pretty much collapsed.
One for the good guys!!!
January 25, 2010 at 11:32 am
Does anyone know if Al Gore has been interviewed since all of this information has come out?
I would like to know what his response is!
January 25, 2010 at 11:51 am
As far as I know – the Slate interview has been his only public discussion on it.
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2009/12/al-gore-speaks-out-on-climate-gate.html
I had a hard time actually finding the Slate interview – too embarrassing for them I guess.
January 25, 2010 at 11:39 am
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January 25, 2010 at 12:03 pm
Glaciergate–A relatively tame Hitler parody video
Glaciergate: Hitler’s Last Straw
January 25, 2010 at 4:02 pm
heh, heh…..Those “Hitler’s Bunker” vids never get old….
January 25, 2010 at 12:12 pm
……….MONEY BOMB….
Today is the unofficial money bomb day. Everyone is encouraging the Boys to get a lawyer. We want the boys to succeed in going after the “bad guys” so I declare today to be money bomb day. I’m donating to them right now. I encourage you to do the same.
January 25, 2010 at 12:47 pm
GLOBAL HOAXING SUCKS….if they press this crap on my son there will be hell to pay. They are already pressing “Big Hugs” for Islam in some public schools.
PLease check this out…it’s a real STUNNER so sit down!
Bill Whittle Investigates: In Washington, DC radical Islam’s influence over our government is growing and access to our national security secrets is part of a much larger strategy. Two whistleblowers have the chilling details. Watch and comment here: http://pjtv.com/v/2930
January 25, 2010 at 1:17 pm
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January 25, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Boyz and fellow Buzzerz, how psychic of HB to post this thread today…as I mentioned above (sorry to repeat) but one of the ‘heavy lifters’ on AGW fraud has been James Delingpole :)
Here is a linky to his latest UK Telegraph blog post:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100023598/after-climategate-pachaurigate-and-glaciergate-amazongate/
JD is so snarky and intelligent in his writings. I also follow him on twitter :)
January 25, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Thanks for posting this. I’ve always liked his articles on the subject. Informative and funny – just like HB!
January 25, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Strangely this scandal reminds me of the OJ trial. Once the tape was released, where Mark Furman admitted to falsifying evidence on black suspects reasonable doubt came into play. Yeah and the gloves didn’t fit interesting! No matter how much scientists tap dance around the scandal they are going to have to prove and provide new evidence that their conclusions are correct. This is especially true due to the high costs trying to reverse global warming will cost the American people. Don’t tell me there is more data out their that proves the case; in my mind all evidence is possibly tainted and is subject to reasonable doubt.
January 25, 2010 at 2:49 pm
Except OJ was guilty.
January 25, 2010 at 3:32 pm
in Australia it was the Chamberlain case. Lindy Chamberlain was convicted of murdering Azaria (which was not true) based upon tainted evidence. The forensic pathologist used tainted materials, and claimed that what was in fact sound deadener or coke was baby’s blood.
Yes the dingo took the baby!!!
There were witnesses at the camp and their evidence was ignored at the trial!!!!
The thing is that the members of the jury had decided that the woman was guilty of murder but it was not true.
The pathologist evidence was truly mushroom fodder, and the chemicals that she used were from a faulty batch.
One of Lindy Chamberlain’s supporters was a professor in forensics and he always proclaimed her innocence.
Now get this last part: the forensic pathologist who worked in NSW at the time then got a job in Darwin!! Talk about the pay off.
January 25, 2010 at 2:08 pm
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January 25, 2010 at 2:49 pm
While I agree that we have little effect on the overall effect on the planet. I would just like to point out that we can effect if we choose to ie: freon was found to harm the enviroment solution: we use things that are worse same thing goes for CFC’s. And I must object that we can’t effect the tides we can always blow up the moon. Finally if they insist on the global warming farce we can always make the planet cool by causing a nuclear war between Pakistan and India and kill two birds with one stone!
January 25, 2010 at 2:49 pm
Thank God for catholic schools with nuns that spoke the truth to young ears, and btw to all schools that taught us the truth about heating, cooling, and tides before the crazies took over the school teaches and books. Remember the earth cooling hoax of the 70″, look it up it’s true, and we were all going to freeze to death by now, same guy is pushing Global Warming, Climate change or whatever name they are using this week?! Seriously I have a brother who teaches and believes this crap, of course he is a brain-washed professor of anthropology, please keep him in your prayers. The truth will set us all free from the alarmists and their lying agenda.
January 25, 2010 at 2:53 pm
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January 25, 2010 at 3:03 pm
While the push for cap and trade seems to have cooled some, i believe they will still try to use the EPA to do the same thing–only worse. If O can’t get congress to do his bidding, he will find a backdoor way to bypass them.
SJ Res 26 was introduced to the Senate on Jan. 21, 2010 by Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. This resolution would overturn the EPA’s Endangerment Finding which determined that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare and that motor vehicles are potent contributors to GHG emissions. This amendment would also remove the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases from mobile and stationary sources. These sources are us who exhale and cities, apartment complexes and so on would be punished for too much exhaling carbon dioxide.
Please contact your sinators and ask them to vote for this resolution . I contacted mine and got the same answers I’ve been getting for a year now on climate change/global warming. They really should update the script once in awhile. As always, I was assured that my thoughts would be considered.
If O gets this EPA ruling to stick, it will be far worse than cap and tax.
Thank you for listening.
January 25, 2010 at 3:05 pm
I was born in 1981. In 1984 we had an ice storm where temp stayed below zero for about a month. Later, when I was going to elementary school, we would miss on average a week of school because of snow.
I believed in Global Warming because it fit the lack of snow from 90 onwards around here (except for the Blizzard of ’93).
The first crack for me was 8 inches of snow in SE New Mexico and about a week of temp in the Teens. But I moved back to TN and the winters were mild, much more mild than I remember. There were winters when all I had to do was wear jeans and a long-sleeved shirt.
But now, woo boy! Snow in Baghdad? Snow in Copenhagen. A blizzard hits New England (even snow here). We even had snow here and now heavy rain, we usually get this much rain in spring and summer. I wonder what the lake level is now, in winter. There was a summer when I was a kid when Norris Lake was 20 feet higher than what they like to keep it at, that was some good fishing I tell you.
I do not believe anymore.
January 25, 2010 at 3:55 pm
The late Sam Kinison had a great skit describing climate change. Basically, his point was if you want to help the people suffering from famine you should “MOVE THEM”!! He would scream “you know what this is around you?…. SAND!!, you know what it was 100 years ago?…. SAND! You know what it’ll be 100 years from now?…. SAND”. His point was if you really want to help these people instead of flying and trucking in millions of tons of rice, over and over, just rent a couple hundred u-hauls and move the population to a place with dirt. DUH !
The same can be said with water. Instead of trying to invest in 1,000 mile pipelines, and digging into aquifers, how bout building some desalinization plants? Turn sea water into potable fresh water.
There are hundreds of such desalinization plants in FL now, and most produce excess potable water for the expanding population. Man made RO works pretty good.
We also have the technology to change CO2 into oxygen, hence space station atmospherics, rebreathers, etc. etc. Why not apply those same principles to co2 emmision on larger global scale if it is such a massive concern?
Allow technology to advance our cultures not change the culture to avoid the need for technology. We’re here. More of us every day… hello?
Just a thought.
January 25, 2010 at 3:23 pm
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January 25, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Boyz -
Please specify the Nobel Peace Prize (or Piece Pries, depending on your mood.)
There are multiple Nobel Prizes awarded -Physics, Literature, Chemistry and Medicine are the other areas and the winners have to earn those. It takes years after the initial discovery/work for scientists to win awards. Einstein first published the Special Theory of Relativity in 1905, but didn’t win the Nobel in Physics until 1921. More recently, half of the 2008 Nobel in Medicine was awarded to the discoverers of the HIV virus, first discovered in 1983.
Let’s celebrate the accomplishments of those who won these prizes and hold them up as a contrast to the media sluts who are recent winners of the “Peace Prize.”
January 25, 2010 at 3:59 pm
On all issues related to AGW, please check out this well-established website:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
January 25, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Hey sundancefan -
As Sam said, “Get to where the food is!”
January 29, 2010 at 11:23 pm
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January 30, 2010 at 11:17 pm
http://web.me.com/sinfonia1/Clamour_Of_The_Times/Clamour_Of_The_Times/Entries/2010/1/30_Global_Warming%3A_the_Collapse_of_a_Grand_Narrative.html
Global Warming: the Collapse of a Grand Narrative
By Philip Stott, The Clamour of the Times, Saturday, 30 January 2010
I first met Professor Stott a couple of years ago. He’s emeritus professor of biogeography at the University of London, and I tracked him down because in those days he was pretty much the ONLY senior scientific academic anywhere in Britain brave enough publicly to dispute the AGW ‘consensus.”
We had lunch. “There are many more scientists who think the way I do,” he told me. “But they don’t want to stick their heads above the parapet. They don’t want to lose their jobs.” We talked a bit about the loneliness of our position, how impossible it was to place dissenting articles anywhere in the media, how people who thought like us were treated like pariahs.
Now suddenly it has all changed utterly. And you know what? I’m in no mood for being magnanimous in victory. I want the lying, cheating, fraudulent scientists prosecuted and fined or imprisoned. I want warmist politicians like Brown and disgusting Milibands booted out and I want Conservative fellow-travellers who are still pushing this green con trick – that’ll be you, David Cameron, you Greg Clark, you Tim Yeo, you John Gummer, to name but four – to be punished at the polls for their culpable idiocy.
For years I’ve been made to feel a pariah for my views on AGW. Chris Booker has had the same experience, as has Richard North, Benny Peiser, Lord Lawson, Philip Stott and those few others of us who recognised early on that the AGW thing stank. Now it’s payback time and I take small satisfaction from seeing so many rats deserting their sinking ship. I don’t want them on my side. I want to see them in hell, reliving scenes from Hieronymus Bosch.
Yeah, maybe it isn’t the Christian way. But screw ‘em. It’s not as though they haven’t all been screwing us for long enough.
James Delingpole, The Daily Telegraph, 30 January 2010 (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100024416/climategate-time-for-the-tumbrils/)
For over a month now, since the farcical conclusion of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, I have been silent, partly through family commitments abroad in the USA, but also because, in this noisy world, in ‘The Clamour Of The Times’, it is on occasion better to be quiet and contemplative, to observe rather than to comment. And, as an independent academic, it has been fascinating to witness the classical collapse of a Grand Narrative, in which social and philosophical theories are being played out before our gaze. It is like watching the Berlin Wall [pictured] being torn down, concrete slab by concrete slab, brick by brick, with cracks appearing and widening daily on every face – political, economic, and scientific. Likewise, the bloggers have been swift to cover the crumbling edifice with colourful graffiti, sometimes bitter, at others caustic and witty.
The Political And Economic Collapse
Moreover, the collapse has been quicker than any might have predicted. The humiliating exclusion of Britain and the EU at the end of the Copenhagen debacle was partially to be expected, but it was brutal in its final execution. The swing of power to the BASIC group of countries (Brazil, South Africa, India, China) had likewise been signified for some time, but, again, it came with precipitate ease, leaving even the American President, Barack Obama, with no doubts as to where the political agenda on climate change was now heading, namely to the developing world, but especially to the East, and to the Pacific Rim. The dirigiste tropes of ‘Old Europe’, with its love of meaningless targets and carbon capping, will no longer carry weight, while Obama himself has been straitjacketed by the voters of Massachusetts, by the rust-belt Democrats, by a truculent Congress, by an increasingly-sceptical and disillusioned American public, but, above all, by the financial crisis. Nothing will now be effected that for a single moment curbs economic development, from China to Connecticut, from Africa to Alaska.
And, as ever, capitalism has read the runes, with carbon-trading posts quietly being shed, ‘Green’ jobs sidelined, and even big insurance companies starting to hedge their own bets against the future of the Global Warming Grand Narrative. These rats are leaving the sinking ship far faster than any politician, many of whom are going to be abandoned, left, still clinging to the masts, as the Good Ship ‘Global Warming’ founders on titanic icebergs in the raging oceans of doubt and delusion.
The Scientific Collapse
And what can one say about ‘the science’? ‘The ‘science’ is already paying dearly for its abuse of freedom of information, for unacceptable cronyism, for unwonted arrogance, and for the disgraceful misuse of data at every level, from temperature measurements to glaciers to the Amazon rain forest. What is worse, the usurping of the scientific method, and of justified scientific scepticism, by political policies and political propaganda could well damage science sensu lato – never mind just climate science – in the public eye for decades. The appalling pre-Copenhagen attacks by the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and his climate-change henchman, Ed Miliband, on those who dared to be critical of the science of climate change were some of the most unforgivable I can recall.
It is further salutary that much of the trouble is now emanating from India. Indeed, the nonsense written about the Indian Sub-Continent has been a particular nadir in climate-change science, and it has long been judged so by many experts on the region. My ex-SOAS friend and colleague, Dr. Robert Bradnock, a world authority on the Sub-Continent, has been seething for years over the traducing of data and information relating to this key part of the world. In June, 2008, he wrote:
“However, in my own narrow area of research, I know that many of the claims about the impact of ‘global warming’ in Bangladesh, for example, are completely unfounded. There is no evidence that flooding has increased at all in recent years. Drought and excessive rainfall are the nature of the monsoon system. Agricultural production, far from being decimated by worsening floods over the last twenty years, has nearly doubled. In the early 1990s, Houghton published a map of the purported effects of sea-level rise on Bangladesh. Coming from a Fellow of the Royal Society, former Head of the Met Office and Chair of the IPCC, this was widely accepted, and frequently reproduced. Yet, it shows no understanding of the complex processes that form the Bengal delta, and it is seriously misleading. Moreover, despite the repeated claims of the World Wide Fund, Greenpeace, and, sadly, Christian Aid, the melting of the Himalayan glaciers is of completely marginal significance to the farmers of the plains in China, India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. One could go on!”
The Media Collapse
One could indeed! But we may not need to do so for much longer. W hy? Because the biggest collapse is in the media, the very ‘mechanism’ through which the greedy Global Warming Grand Narrative has promulgated itself during the last ten to twenty years. The break in the ‘Media Wall’ began in the tabloids and in the ‘red tops’, like The Daily Express and the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, but it is today spreading rapidly – yet once more as theory predicts – to the so-called ‘heavyweights’ and to the BBC. In the past, uncritical and apocalyptic stories and programmes were given the highest prominence, with any sceptical comment confined to the briefest of quotations from some benighted, and often snidely-mentioned, sceptic squeezed in at the very end of the piece (“For balance, you know”). Today, the reverse is becoming true, with the ‘global warming’ faithful firmly forced on to the back foot. Yet, in our post-modern world, it is the journalistic language being employed that is the true indicator of a new media order. Listening to good old Roger Harrabin this morning, reporting on BBC Radio 4’s flagship “Today” programme, was a revelation in this respect; the language, and even the style, had altered radically.
Potential Losers
The collapse is now so precipitate that there will inevitably be some serious losers caught out by it all. The UK Met Office could well be one, with the BBC rightly reviewing its contract with them. At the moment, Met Office spokespersons sound extraordinary, bizarre even. They bleat out ‘global warming’ phrases like programmed robotic sheep, although they are finding it increasingly difficult to pull the wool over our eyes. It is terribly 1984, and rather chilling, so to speak. It is obvious that the organisation is suffering from another classical academic state, namely that known as ‘cognitive dissonance’ [see here and here]. This is experienced when belief in a Grand Narrative persists blindly, even when the facts in the real world begin to contradict what the narrative is saying. Sadly, many of our public and private organisations have allowed themselves to develop far too great a vested interest in ‘global warming’, as have too many politicians and activists. These are increasingly terrified, many having no idea how to react, or how to adjust, to the collapse. It will be particularly interesting to witness how, in the end, the Royal Society plays its cards, especially if competing scientific paradigms, such as the key role played by water vapour in climate change, start to displace the current paradigm in classic fashion. Icecap Note: This may be Susan Solomon’s bout with cognitive dissonance.
Certain newspapers, like my own DNOC, The Times, have also been a tad slow to grasp the magnitude of the collapse (although Ben Webster has tried valiantly to counter this with some good pieces); yet, even such outlets at last appear to be fathoming the remarkable changes taking place. Today, for example, The Times carries a brief, but seminal, critique of the ‘science’ from Lord Leach of Fairford.
What Will It Mean?
I have long predicted, and in public too, that the Copenhagen Conference could prove to be the beginning of the end for the Global Warming Grand Narrative. It appears that I may well have been right and, indeed, I may have considerably underestimated the speed, and the dramatic nature, of the demise. Where this all leaves our politicians and political parties in the UK; where it leaves climate science, scientists more generally, and the Royal Society; where it leaves energy policy; where it leaves the ‘Green’ movement; and, where it leaves our media will have to be topics for many later comments and analyses. For the moment, we must not underestimate the magnitude of the collapse. Academically, it is jaw-dropping to observe.
And, the political, economic, and scientific consequences will be profound.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article7008635.ece
Scientists and climate change
Lord Leach of Fairford, The Times, January 30, 2010
The obsessive mentality of scientists who have put truth-seeking second to pursuit of a mission
Sir,
Dr Vicky Pope’s defence of the robustness of “the science” of climate change is too comprehensive (Commentary, Jan 28). It is high time for the Met Office to recognise that the surface temperature record is deeply flawed: not just the discredited 1,000-year “hockey stick” that was the iconic centrepiece of Al Gore’s film, but also the more recent data. The leaked University of East Anglia e-mails reveal the obsessive mentality of scientists who have put truth-seeking second to pursuit of a mission.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s “mistakes” that Dr Pope refers to are no ordinary errors. They show a deliberate disregard for the principles of scientific objectivity. The IPCC had every reason to know that its account of the Himalayan glacier melting was misleading, just as it had every reason to know that its predictions of hurricane frequency and intensity were both unsubstantiated and implausible. On more than 25 occasions, the IPCC cites essays by WWF or Greenpeace as though they were serious academic studies.
The basic physics tells us that greenhouse gases have some warming effect. How material, how lasting, how much offset or accentuated by natural influences is unknown at this stage of scientific understanding — the temperature record certainly suggests no immediate cause for alarm.
Computer models will not give us the answer. They can only regurgitate what is programmed into them.
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February 1, 2010 at 1:40 pm
“they tend to confuse the known and unknown deposits of minerals, fuels and other “natural resources” with resources meaningful in the economic sense, resources that human beings are able to make use of – given existing prices and technologies. They do not believe us that the exhaustion of resources does not take place, at least as a large-scale, frequent and mass phenomenon and that the known deposits of economically interesting “resources” have been in the past, even in the recent past, continuously growing, not decreasing. The greater the demand for (and use of) resources is, the more of resources is discovered (and supplied).
This counterintuitive argument is absolutely trivial, apparent and self-evident for us. In the current world-wide confusion this is, however, a minority view which is laughed at and ridiculed, without being taken seriously. We need more books like Julian Simon’s The Ultimate Resource, Indur M. Goklany’s The Improving State of the World, Bjørn Lomborg’s Skeptical Environmentalist (and others). We should try to explain to the silent majority what Julian Simon’s “ultimate resource” is and that the only resource endangered by environmentalists’ plans and activities is man, his inventions and genuine efforts.”
Václav Klaus,
“Current Global Warming Alarmism and the Mont Pelerin Society’s Long Term Agenda”, 8.9.2008
http://www.klaus.cz/klaus2/asp/clanek.asp?id=KaTffYUet0Rm
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February 24, 2010 at 9:20 am
I don’t want to believe that it is actually true that scientists have just been making up data to support the Church of Global Warming.If that is it are we really even safe from anything again…Who knows what they will make up next just to put pressures on government.It’s so sour for my ears.