Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 03/13/2010 1:03:16 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Recent months have brought to light data that has (or should have) reduced fears about some of the dramatic effects of global warming. It seems we no longer have to worry about Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035--the IPCC just got it wrong. It appears that the Amazon, African agriculture, damages due to hurricanes and floods and the continued existence of the polar bear are also at lower risk due to global warming than previously thought. Hallelujah!
It now appears that another cause of worry has been exaggerated. The computer models on which so much of the concern regarding global warming is based have always predicted that ice would melt quickly in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. Indeed, ice did melt quickly in the Arctic, reaching a low in 2007. The ice there has recovered dramatically, however, and it looks like we're going to have to stay tuned for further developments regarding it.
But ice in the Antarctic has been increasing, not decreasing. A lot of different ways of looking at this have come to the same conclusion. The ice is increasing. However, the IPCC, in their famous AR4 assessment of global climate, minimized the increase to the point where those who live and die via climate models didn't have to change their thinking about it.
But it looks like the IPCC authors cherry-picked the reports and the data they used to minimize the increase in Antarctic ice. The full story is here, and I strongly suggest you go there and read it all--my capsule summary is sure to miss some important detail.
This minimization of the increase in Antarctic ice was only possible by using an outdated calculation from a scientist named Cosimo. His revised calculation showed the growth to be greater. The IPCC authors had to ignore the NASA calculations, which showed the same robust growth, and Cosimo's revised calculations to get the results that were politically acceptable, using an earlier version of Cosimo's algorithm found in a book.
This could not have happened by accident. It shows that they wanted a certain result, and fished around until they found a way to do it. They had to change their calculations from monthly to annually to reduce statistical confidence in the increase they showed, and they used outdated calculations to get the answer they wanted.
This comes from the vaunted Work Group 1 of the IPCC AR4 team. Most of the other criticisms have revolved around Work Groups 2 and 3, working on mitigation and adaptation with access to much less science. But this error from the people assessing actual climate change is pretty damning. They had to close their eyes to the truth and change the science to get a wrong answer--and the fact that this allowed them to keep pointing to computer models as reliable is the only logical reason they would do this.
The only real question is, as we dispose of these manufactured worries one by one, what new ones will they come up with to continue trying to scare us?
As was mentioned during the recent inquiry by the UK House of Commons, Steve Mosher and I have written a book about the leaked emails that have caused so much controversy. The title is Climategate: The CRUtape Letters. It is available on Create Space here, Amazon here, Kindle here and Lulu here. One Amazon reviewer wrote, "Mosher and Fuller do a good job putting the ClimateGate documents in context, and the book is a riveting read. I received my copy yesterday, and find the book to be faithful to the climate war events that I have followed over a period of years. It reports actual email communications of a small group of paleoclimatologists and their roles in perhaps the biggest scientific hoax since Piltdown Man."
Yet Another Incorrect IPCC Assessment: Antarctic Sea Ice Increase
Posted on Mon 08 Mar 2010 07:47:07 PM PST by Bhoy
But hey, so far they have gotten away with the DDT ban fraud, and only 30-40 million African children have died because of it.
And then we have the CFCs and ozone fraud. I guess people didn’t do well in high school science. If they had, they would understand the Sun’s UV-A and UV-B create and destroy ozone. CFCs, not so much so.
Scientists Considered Pouring Soot Over the Arctic in the 1970s to [prevent manmade ice age]
http://info-wars.org/2009/12/19/scientists-considered-pouring-soot-over-the-arctic-in-the-1970s-to-help-melt-the-ice-%E2%80%93-in-order-to-prevent-another-ice-age
[If a confession isn’t enough, what is?]
Head of ‘Climategate’ research unit admits he hid data - because it was ‘standard practice’...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254660/Climategate-expert-tells-MPs.html
CLIMATEGATE: The Global Warming Cover Up Spreads to NASA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2469446/posts
UN CLIMATE CHIEF TO STEP ASIDE
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/18/AR2010021801331_pf.html
Climate e-mail rerun - Attack sparks memories of McCarthy witch-hunt.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467644/posts
Editorial: The Great Global Warming Hoax? ( Some good technical facts )
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2462209/posts
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THE COST [Focusing on the eocnomy like a laser or a death ray?]
Global climate battle plays out in World Bank
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2466659/posts
[To fight global “warming” ...]
Fuel Taxes Must Rise, Harvard Researchers Say ($7 dollars to Meets Obama’s emission cuts!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2462934/posts
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/fuel-taxes-must-rise-harvard-researchers-say
Massive $45 trillion to fund “global governance structure.” [???]
http://www.infowars.com/leaked-un-documents-reveal-plan-for-green-world-order-by-2012
[United Nations Initiative]
Global warming’s biggest winners: There are big profits in climate hysteria
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2463736/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2463779/posts
NEW WORLD ORDER: IMF suggests how to raise ‘climate change’ cash...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jdSzbOeYw2fRy2g-N8afCNxbsu6wD9EAEB480
Solar Industry Learns Lessons in Spanish Sun
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467001/posts
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Obama-Graham partnership emerges in climate debate (McLame’s lap dog says Obama “reasonable”)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2468585/posts
Michael Crichton: Fear and Complexity [State of Fear + Why Politicized Science is Dangerous]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1551707/posts
WHY the Enviromentalists Don’t Talk about Illegal Aliens [immigrants] and Borders
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1487753/posts
Those Climate Pugilists [American Spectator | Paul Chesser]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2469488/posts
“And the billion-dollar global warming science complex can’t compete with spunky skeptics.”
Series of missteps by climate scientists threatens climate-change agenda (WaPo wakes up!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451800/posts
More than 50 ships stuck in Baltic Sea ice: maritime authorities
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2464306/posts
Bali-Hoo: U.N Still Pushing for Global Environmental Control (Global Gov by 2012 Rio Summit)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2459968/posts
Texas to challenge greenhouse gas rules...
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1661844120100216
UN global warming data skewed by heat from planes and buildings
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2451872/posts
The Continuing Climate Meltdown (WSJ Ed: More embarrassments for the ‘settled’ science)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2452302/posts
Drop Climate Change Initiatives, Save Trillions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2459800/posts
Mr. Gore, Call Your Attorney: Sen. Inhofe’s Call to Investigate Al Gore Over Climategate
http://www.pjtv.com/v/3143
Investigate Climate Crimes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2458674/posts
Calls to to Ban Gore’s Film from UK Schools...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7309204/UKIP-would-ban-Al-Gore-film-in-schools.html
DON’T LAUGH: CLIMATE EXPERTS SAY JANUARY WAS ‘HOTTEST’ EVER...
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/160556
Gore a lightning rod at APPLE shareholder meeting...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2459697/posts
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-10459872-260.html
“ ... several stockholders took turns either bashing or praising ... “
Climategate: A Defiance of Arrogant Political Power
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2452527/posts
Companies Begin to Pull Out of Climate Partnership...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704804204575069440096420212.html
SNOWSTORM HORROR: Man dies after 10 calls to 911 over two days...
http://www.postgazette.com/pg/10048/1036403-53.stm
Blizzards destroy D.C. cherry blossoms...
http://www.wtop.com/?sid=1890319&nid=25
[Washington Times]
More errors in temperature data: The global warming cult sees its superstitions shattered
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2454604/posts
The crackup of the climate ‘consensus’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2454765/posts
Bill Nye the Science Guy Clobbered in Debate Against Meteorologist Joe Bastardi Over Global Warming
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2457292/posts
Obama’s New Climate Agency Head Accused of Trying to Suppress Contrary Data...
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/22/tom-karl-tried-to-suppress-data-critics-charge/#/scitech/planet-earth/ci.New+Climate+Agency+Head+Tried+to+Suppress+Data%2C+Critics+Charge.opinion
Climate scientists withdraw claims of rising sea levels...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2456438/posts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/21/sea-level-geoscience-retract-siddall
[Did the One part the very seas?]
Climate-Change Fervor Cools Amid Disputed Science, Defections
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2456521/posts
Climate science: Credibility at risk, scientists say
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2456518/posts
[They’ve been caught with their pants down for a while now.]
U2 GUITARIST’S PLANS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN MALIBU DON’T FIND GREEN HARMONY...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/21malibu.html
Barbour Lobbies Fellow Governors to Oppose EPA Regulations
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2456059/posts
Alaska Congressman Calls Global Warming a ‘Scam’...
http://www.ktva.com/ci_14434574
Barack Obama’s climate change policy in crisis
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2455775/posts
World’s biggest coal company brings U.S. government to court in climate fraud
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453800/posts
Global Weirding Is Here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453078/posts
Earlier Climategate Headline Roundup
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2451377/posts?page=32#32
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Obama is focusing on the economy like a what?
I could hardly focus on reading your post due to the incessant celebrating going on! People are dancing in the streets in celebration that this calamity will not destroy us! Yaaay! (if it weren’t a lie that’s what would be going on anyway.....)
This whole thread is awesome for the links on the fake global warming controversy. The biggest scam in the history of mankind. Although I do think that the Obama Presidency will eclipse that title before long as he is exposed for the Marxist that he is.
Thanks for the great links....
That video at the top made me cry. I feel like a blubbering baby now.
Thank you Mr. Robinson, for this site. If I wasn’t unemployed, I would send you money.
Wife says the pendelum is gonna swing back hard. I think she’s a bright woman. She’s usually more correct about these things than I am.
I love my country.
Thanks! Reading at the link now.
And to think that a entire generation of innocent American children have been brainwashed into fearing for the very existence of the earth by these global warming frauds.
Some of them are never going to be able to be convinced that it is really ok and that they have nothing to fear.
Child mental abuse is what Al Gore and his ilk are guilty of!
Disgusting!!
ROFL....Love it!
Arctic Sea Ice Extent Continues to Expand
Posted on Thu 04 Mar 2010 12:20:24 PM PST by Helotes
In Lehman’s Demise, Some Shades of Enron (Repo 105 scam--Enron type of scam)
Hey Ern: Thanks for another good one.
Looks like somebody got caught hand in cookie jar:
“...to get the results that were politically acceptable, us[ed] an earlier version of Cosimo’s algorithm found in a book.
This could not have happened by accident. It shows that they wanted a certain result, and fished around until they found a way to do it. They had to change their calculations from monthly to annually to reduce statistical confidence in the increase they showed, and they used outdated calculations to get the answer they wanted.
This comes from the vaunted Work Group 1 of the IPCC AR4 team....”
Work Group 1 has been referenced in articles as the best “hard” science proving the carbon dioxide causes global warming theory.
hmmmm
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