Beam me to Planet Gore !
Clean up some pollution...sure it's a good idea. Put industries like coal "out of business"....stupid.
Politico sure is soft on crime. They do a fine job of reporting the phrases and talking points of the Climate Change Criminal Conspiracy. The piece was pitiful even if this were not the biggest financial and scientific frauds the world has ever seen.
Politico has always sucked and they just keep getting better it seems.
Yeah, the press sure did create a fake image - it elevated the AGW proponents to the level of wise sages and the skeptics were equated to Holocaust deniers.
But Climategate sure unspun that nonsense in a big hurry.
The Almighty blesses in mysterious ways — sometimes through hacked e-mails, apparently.
SnakeDoc
Get it right, Lisa:
“Now, we know that skeptics have and will continue to try and sow doubts truths about the so-called 'science' of climate change...”
See this thread for the discussion of that little known fact:
Smoking Guns Across Australia: Where’s the warming? Looking at 16 other locations.
A chart for one location ...at Darwin Station:
Figure 7. GHCN homogeneity adjustments to Darwin Airport combined record
From this thread:
Some of the “Homogenized” Temperature Data is False
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And as we can see the Red line hides the decline as evidenced by the BLUE LINE.
What warm dark orifice were these 'new' figures stored in?
Either they had the right data for the current decade, or they did not.
If not, why should this un-reviewed, new, improved, lemon scented, extra strength data be taken at face value?
The data are not the only thing at issue here, either, the way they were handled, the fudge factors, and other mathematical manipulations all need to be subjected to open and transparent review before public policies are based on them, especially policies which will cause tremendous economic harm to the very nations which are most capable of developing and implementing any technology (if there is any) capable of mitigating the effects or causes of any severe changes in climate, should those occur and should there be any mitigation of either cause or result possible.
Who will feed the world? People who cannot feed themselves?
The developed nations achieved that status in part because they had sufficient resources and technology to feed themselves with a surplus of specialized people to engage in other pursuits.