Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/30/2009 10:30:23 AM PST by neverdem
The most obvious thing that strikes anyone wading through the CRU documents is how easy it was for a small number of "experts" to propel their data-raped conclusions first into a "peer-reviewed" "consensus" and then up through western governments into the international fait accomplis of Kyoto, the IPCC and now Copenhagen. I initially assumed stuff like this was just a bit of naked obstructionism toward a few troublemakers:
I find it hard to believe that the British Antarctic Survey would permit the deletion of relevant files for two recent publications or that there aren't any backups for the deleted data on institutional servers.
But no, it was systemic. Hysterical queens like Gordon Brown are demanding we introduce global taxation, micro-regulation of every aspect of your life, massive multi-trillion dollar transfers from the productive sector to eco-rackets and transnational bureaucracies, bovine flatulence levies and extraterrestrial surveillance of once sovereign states on the basis of fevered speculations for which there is no raw data:
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years...
The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building...
In a statement on its website, the CRU said: “We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data.”
The CRU is the world’s leading centre for reconstructing past climate and temperatures. Climate change sceptics have long been keen to examine exactly how its data were compiled. That is now impossible*.
No raw data, huh? But why let that stand in your way?
Only Monday, a British parliamentary committee proposed that every citizen be required to carry a carbon card that must be presented, under penalty of law, when buying gasoline, taking an airplane or using electricity. The card contains your yearly carbon ration to be drawn down with every purchase, every trip, every swipe.
But don't worry. It'll all be very scientific. Your carbon allowance numbers will be kept in a big database. Maybe in East Anglia?
(*Or, as Jim Treacher puts it, the science is settled ...at the bottom of the dumpster.)
Great post.
I love Steyn. Data-rape! LOL.
Steyn nails it. This is nothing more ridiculous than those who believe in AGW, and nothing more sinister than those “experts” who promote the fraud.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then sometimes a headline is worth a thousand words.
“The Dog Ate my Tree Rings.”
Vintage Steyn.
bttt
“Computer, could you tell me about the Corporate Wars?”
“And, um, I have some questions about the 16th Century...”
I will proudly die in a war for independence before I let the likes of some policy wonk in the UK dictate what I do in my day to day. I’ll be damned if Obama or anyone in the Federal government tries to tax me for minutiae.
I repeat, I will proudly die in a war for independence before any of this taxation garbage comes to fruition!
< speechless >
Data
Gone
As someone pointed out on another thread, this may or may not make the radar horizon in the MSM but these guys are done in serious science. There will probably be enough money in the scam to keep them afloat professionally, but this blot is permanent.
You know, it occurs to me that those trees could still be put to a very good use...
bump
“The Dog Ate My Tree Rings”: very funny and an instant classic.
I guess Brits view freedom with disdain, it's pitchfork and gallows time people.
Climate change data dumped! Comment# 145 links a source from early October on the lost, original data.
Three Things You Absolutely Must Know About Climategate nice & quick summary of the CRU fraud
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The GOP should use this global warming fraud to take on all of the politically correct BS of the left from gun control to feminism and all points in between, IMHO. Destroy all of the lefts' politically correct talking points and the heads full of mush that vote for RINOs and moderate rats won't have any reason to vote for them any more.
We'll never get the hard core left to agree with us. They are just too stupid or evil, but they are only about one fifth of the electorate. Destroy political correctness and we could have solid majorities as far as the eye can see.
Actually, I would put that bumper sticker on my car ...”The dog ate my Tree Rings” ... I love it.
That would be great except for one thing. When Republicans have solid majorities for any length of time, they turn into big spending hacks that disdain actual freedom. A problem for later, I guess.
Steyn is the closest thing we have to a true heir to GK Chesterton.
thanks for the links.
And leftists DO “just trust” the elites.
It’s a religious level of faith.
I figured that out when, repeatedly, I “logic trapped” a lib in the utter failures of liberal policies.
“They know what they’re doing, I trust them.”
We're from the government, and we're here to help.
NRA: The Untold Story of Gun Confiscation After Katrina
It's a less than 8 minute compilation of short videos. I've only seen parts of it before this. Check Annie Oakley with her Bible & gun.
This scam has cost us billions. It’s waaaaay beyond mere white collar crime - this is the real deal. These guys belong in prison.
Those ranks were also filled with loads of RINOs, so they weren't that solid. We can thank the rats for one thing: they knocked off plenty of RINOs in 2006 & 2008.
On top of that, with tons of debt and a huge deficit, big spending hacks will be primaried now.
That it is, and the primary evidence has just turned up destroyed. The MSM are giving it the "cleaning out the closet" spin. It's a lot more like Nixon's missing 18 minutes of tape.
I love the way he writes....
~& thinks, and speaks.
One day the man's going to assume the Golden EIB microphone when Rush decides on a well earned retirement, enjoy his remaining life and golfs.
Thing about Steyn is, he laughs.
Laughs about Liberal-Socialists.
Laughs at Liberal-Socialists.
Laughs at Liberal-Socilaist boondoggles.
So Mark laughs often *&* a lot.
Mark Steyn taught me how to laugh, at whom and when.
If I learned one thing after his lesson it was Liberal-Socilaists hate being laughed at and/or otherwise mocked.
They despise it. LOL
So, my calling became clear. LOL!!'
Thanks, Mark. ;^)
You're right, Bill. It is.
The MSM should treat this the way they'd treat EXXON if EXXON was caught destroying information about an oil spill ... They would "get" that...
As couterfeit cards become prblematic, they’ll just put your carbon info on a chip, implanted in your forehead or right hand....
You have GOT TO read Treacher: http://jimtreacher.com/archives/002138.html
Thank you BTTT
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,1,26424705-948,00.html
10AM UPDATE: TONY Abbott has promised a fight on climate change after rolling Malcolm Turnbull to take over the Liberal leadership.
Mr Abbott, Mr Turnbull and Joe Hockey contested a three-way spill at a special partyroom meeting in Parliament this morning. Mr Abbott won by a single vote, 42-41.
He said he was humbled but exhilarated by the win.
“We are gearing up for the fight of our lives,” he said at his first press conference as leader, adding that he was not frightened to fight an election against Kevin Rudd on climate change.
WHOOPEEE!!!
Yes it is. Thanks neverdem. HOORAY Mark Steyn...(data-rape ROFLMAO!)!
“If I learned one thing after his lesson it was Liberal-Socilaists hate being laughed at and/or otherwise mocked.
They despise it. LOL
So, my calling became clear. LOL!!’
I like to tweak em until the vein in their neck pops out ;-)
“We’ll never get the hard core left to agree with us. They are just too stupid or evil, but they are only about one fifth of the electorate. Destroy political correctness and we could have solid majorities as far as the eye can see. “
Hear that GOP??
Get off your bloody arse!!
Wowee!
Good Job...Fred!
I called our senator and congressman today to rant the long version against any iota of Copenhagen.I insisted we first ground the boy-king's 747 and pimpmobile with the five-inch ballistic armor and run-flat tires.
And godsake enough with the Wednesday night parties.
Newt Gingrich and John McCain and Lindsey Graham go for this crap.
And you wonder why the Republican Party had electile dysfunction.
You have got be freaking kidding me. What about every breath a person takes? Shouldn't we all be wired up too?
Astounding.
Thanks for the ping!
We need a medication for that problem....
BWWWHHAAAAAAAA!!!!
Phil?
I can honestly hear you, your voice telling the weasels that.
Funny stuff, my friend.
Thanks for the ping, and the call.. ;^)
Unfortunately, we both know damned well they didn't listen.
I do not get why the original data points cannot be reconstructed, even if they reside in various data bases in various countries and universities and meteorological centers around the world. Is there no chance of a forensic reconstruction?
As for the *carbon cards*, we have boycotted flying since 2006. We also mainly drive a low-mileage vehicle and perhaps only go on one trip of around a thousand miles per year or sometimes 18 months. We also heat primarily with wood, and while we do use propane, we use much less than we once did. We have mostly CFLs. Does this mean we can resell our *credits* just as the big boys do? Do my 40 acres of woodland and 20 acres of fallow crop land and 20 acres of meadow land count at all? If we were to get all our water from our 3 springs, would we be credited for not using our well pump? Do we get a break for being at *normal* or under *normal* weight, therefore using less carbon? If we utilize less medical services than *average*, do we get a credit for that? Does our venison count against our meat allotment, since killing the deer means they are no longer emitting carbon or eating up the carbon sink grasses? What about pan fish? Is the carbon debit for my container lettuce and tomatoes less than the carbon debit needed to ship them North in winter?
It is really confusing. I think they need some complicated algorithms to calculate all the variances.
I don't know. Try Patrick J. Michaels at Cato.
Hysterical queens like Gordon Brown are demanding we introduce global taxation, micro-regulation of every aspect of your life, massive multi-trillion dollar transfers from the productive sector to eco-rackets and transnational bureaucracies, bovine flatulence levies and extraterrestrial surveillance of once sovereign states on the basis of fevered speculations for which there is no raw data...Thanks neverdem and Ernest!
WHOOPEEE!!
UPDATE:
Yesterday
Leader of conservative coalition, Tony Abbot, announces:
EMMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME - DEAD IN SENATE!
P.S. Snippet on State Broadcasting Service (SBS) evening news: Hansen standing down, investigation pending, possible fraudulant data discovered - E-Mails - one shown on-screen, hockey-stick ‘trick’ reference.
LOVE IT!
JENNY WONG, OZ LABOR PARTY CLIMATE CZAR, LOSES COMPOSURE IN PARLIAMENT! hahaha!
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