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Follow the money! : Professor Emeritus agrees

October 14, 2010

The man made global warming fiasco took one heck of a shot from a real scientist.

When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago). Indeed, the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence—it was World War II that changed all that. The prospect of worldly gain drove few physicists. As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I chaired the first APS study of a contentious social/scientific issue, The Reactor Safety Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. We were therefore able to produce what I believe was and is an honest appraisal of the situation at that time. We were further enabled by the presence of an oversight committee consisting of Pief Panofsky, Vicki Weisskopf, and Hans Bethe, all towering physicists beyond reproach. I was proud of what we did in a charged atmosphere. In the end the oversight committee, in its report to the APS President, noted the complete independence in which we did the job, and predicted that the report would be attacked from both sides. What greater tribute could there be?

~SNIP~

It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.

Full story HERE

This entire scam was, and is, nothing more than a money making fraud committed on a world wide scale, and yet there still are people here trying to pass laws, taxes etc. That would choke an already battered economy based upon this criminal foolishness. Be sure to read the entire article.

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Climate Gate: As the world turns..? This is some soap opera!

December 13, 2009

The faux science called man made Global Warming is being blown apart as scandal after scandal, as well as lie after lie becomes exposed to the light of day. Anthony, over at The Liberty Sphere assembled a rather astonishing array of evidence, much of it from another WordPress Blog, Watts Up With That.

After nearly a month and counting since the story broke on the biggest scandal in scientific history, a major daily newspaper has finally undertaken a thorough examination of the evidence in the Climategate scandal.

(AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Granted, the newspaper in question is not in the United States but the U.K.  And still, even after a month the television news broadcasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC continue to ignore the story.

The London Daily Mail published their findings of a special investigation into Climategate.  And, the news isn’t good for the scientific community, the United Nations, or anyone else who attempts to peddle the hoax of ‘global warming’ or its snake-oil cures.

Perhaps the most damning of the findings of the Daily Mail’s investigation is the following admission by Professor Roger Pielke of the University of Colorado’s environmental studies:

‘These emails open up the possibility that big scientific questions we’ve regarded as settled may need another look.

‘They reveal that some of these scientists saw themselves not as neutral investigators but as warriors engaged in battle with the so-called sceptics.

‘They have lost a lot of credibility and as far as their being leading spokespeople on this issue of huge public importance, there is no going back.’

Just as damning as the admission that the scientists on the front lines of the ‘global warming’ propaganda have lost all credibility is the data showing that temperatures during the era known as ‘the Medieval warm period,’ which lasted roughly from 1000 to 1300 B.C., were much warmer than global temperatures today–a full 400-700 years before humans began pumping out those ‘deadly greenhouse gases.’

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Please follow the links, and comment as you would. The shear economic impact upon the entire world should these maniac’s agenda come about should be enough to wake up anyone, anywhere.

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The Climate has changed: In Wyoming, we call it winter…

December 3, 2009

Funny how that happens year after year. In any case we now have “Climate gate.”

The Climate Has Changed

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

The case for man-made global warming took a major hit last week when 62 megabytes of data, including e-mail messages and model codes (searchable here), were stolen from the UK’s University of East Anglia and then made public. The new information tells us much that we already suspected — warming scaremongers are cooking the books and suppressing dissent in order to push their agenda.

These aren’t just any scientists, either. They have been influential in driving the hype, including with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which issued a report in 2007 declaring that the end is near if massive shackles aren’t put on the economies of nations such as the U.S. Phil Jones, director of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, Keith Briffa also of CRU and Michael Mann of Penn State University — the creator of the debunked “hockey stick” graph — are some of the key players.

One of the most enlightening e-mails discusses whether the work of academic skeptics should be included in that IPCC report (which won the Committee and Al Gore a Nobel Peace Prize, by the way). Jones wrote to Mann, “I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!” Trenberth is head of the Climate Analysis Section at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research.

The pair also discussed how they could pressure scientific journals to maintain the party line. Mann suggested that, for one, the journal “Climate Research” should be targeted. “Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal.” (Sounds a bit like White House adviser David Axelrod’s assessment of Fox News: “[Fox is] really not news — it’s pushing a point of view. And the bigger thing is that other news organizations … ought not to treat them that way, and we’re not going to treat them that way.”)

Of course, the definition of science is challenging hypotheses, not stifling dissent; following the evidence, not contriving it to fit.

But stifling and contriving are exactly what warmists are doing. In another e-mail, Jones wrote, “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd [sic] from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.” So the goal is to “hide the decline”?

Scientist Mick Kelly wrote to Jones about manipulating data to hide the fact that the planet is actually cooling: “I’ll maybe cut the last few points off the filtered curve before I give the talk again, as that’s trending down as a result of the end effects and the recent coldish years.”

Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research wrote to Mann complaining of cold weather and admitting, “The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment, and it is a travesty that we can’t.”

Perhaps they can’t account for cooling because their code for creating the models is geared toward making the earth appear warmer. In fact, the code may be more damning than the e-mails. One line of code features, for example, a variable called “fudge factor,” which allows these scientists to put in whatever they want to create the desired outcome in the computer models.

Australian geologist Ian Plimer, a global warming skeptic, summed it up: The e-mails “show that data was massaged, numbers were fudged, diagrams were biased, there was destruction of data after freedom of information requests, and there was refusal to submit taxpayer-funded data for independent examination.” Other than that, the science was accurate!

Considering that everything from the Kyoto Protocol to Waxman-Markey and Kerry-Boxer in Congress, to EPA regulations to the Copenhagen conference are based on this faulty, fudged and fictitious data, policy makers should, at minimum, re-evaluate their plans. Certainly, the world’s economy should not take a hit for nothing but lies.

UPDATE: The Washington Post, no doubt in an effort to be “fair and balanced,” published three letters to the editor in response to an editorial about this climate scandal. Two of the letters were in opposition to the Post’s defense of the warmists. Trouble is, the second letter was from none other than Michael Mann, and he linked to RealClimate.org so readers could be bombarded with more warming propaganda. The Post didn’t bother to note that Mann is being investigated for his role in the scandal.

UPDATE 2 (Tuesday afternoon): The Associated Press reports, “Britain’s University of East Anglia says [Phil Jones] the director of its prestigious Climatic Research Unit is stepping down pending an investigation into allegations that he overstated the case for man-made climate change.”

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Global Warming Redux number: I forget!

August 10, 2009

I received this email from a friend that works at NOAA. I hope the graphs and such come through.

Subject: FUN FACTS about CARBON DIOXIDE

  FUN 
  FACTS about 
  CARBON DIOXIDE
   Of the 186 billion tons of CO2 that enter earth's 
  atmosphere each year from all sources, only 6 billion tons are from human 
  activity. Approximately 90 billion tons come from biologic activity in earth's 
  oceans and another 90 billion tons from such sources as volcanoes and decaying 
  land plants.
   At 368 parts per million CO2 is a minor constituent of 
  earth's atmosphere-- less than 4/100ths 
  of 1% of all gases present. Compared to former geologic times, earth's 
  current atmosphere is CO2- 
  impoverished.
   CO2 is odorless, colorless, and tasteless. Plants 
  absorb CO2 and emit oxygen as a waste product. Humans and animals breathe 
  oxygen and emit CO2 as a waste product. Carbon dioxide is a nutrient, not a 
  pollutant, and all life-- plants and animals alike-- benefit from more of it. 
  All life on earth is carbon-based and CO2 is an essential ingredient. When 
  plant-growers want to stimulate plant growth, they introduce more carbon 
  dioxide.
   CO2 that goes into the atmosphere does not stay there 
  but is continually recycled by terrestrial plant life and earth's oceans-- the 
  great retirement home for most terrestrial carbon dioxide.

   If we are in a global 
  warming crisis today, even the most aggressive and costly proposals for 
  limiting industrial carbon dioxide emissions would have a negligible effect on 
  global climate!

The case for a "greenhouse problem" 
is made by environmentalists, news anchormen , and special interests who make 
inaccurate and misleading statements about global warming and climate change. 
Even though people may be skeptical of such rhetoric initially, after awhile 
people start believing it must be true because we hear it so often.

"We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, 
dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of 
us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being 
honest."

Stephen Schneider (leading advocate of the global warming 
theory)(in interview for Discover magazine, Oct 
1989)

"In the United States...we have to first convince the 
American People and the Congress that the climate problem is real."

former 
President Bill Clinton in a 1997 address to the United Nations

Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think 
there's a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to 
have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous (global 
warming) is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the 
solutions are...

former Vice President Al Gore(now, chairman and 
co-founder of Generation Investment Management--a 
London-based business that sells carbon credits)(in interview with 
Grist Magazine 
May 9, 2006, concerning his book, An 
Inconvenient Truth)

"In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined 
language of science by the misleading language of litigation and advocacy may be 
one of the more important sources of damage to society incurred in the current 
debate over global warming."

Dr. Richard S. 
Lindzen(leading climate and atmospheric science expert- 
MIT) (3)

 "Researchers pound the global-warming drum because 
they know there is politics and, therefore, money behind it. . . I've been 
critical of global warming and am persona non grata."

Dr. William Gray(Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University, Fort 
Collins, Colorado and leading expert of hurricane prediction )(in 
an interview for the Denver Rocky Mountain News, November 28, 
1999)

"Scientists who want to attract attention to 
themselves, who want to attract great funding to themselves, have to (find a) 
way to scare the public . . . and this you can achieve only by making things 
bigger and more dangerous than they really are."

Petr Chylek(Professor of Physics and Atmospheric 
Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia)Commenting on 
reports by other researchers that Greenland's glaciers are melting.(Halifax Chronicle-Herald, 
August 22, 2001) (8)

"Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will 
be doing the right thing -- in terms of economic policy and environmental 
policy."

Tim Wirth , while U.S. Senator, Colorado.After a 
short stint as United Nations Under-Secretary for Global Affairs (4)he now serves as President, 
U.N. Foundation, created by Ted Turner and his $1 billion 
"gift"

 "No matter if the science is all phony, there are 
collateral environmental benefits.... Climate change [provides] the greatest 
chance to bring about justice and equality in the world."

    Christine Stewart, Minister of the Environment of Canadarecent quote from the Calgary Herald

Unraveling the Earth's Temperature Record

    photo by: Vin MorganPalaeo 
      Environment (Ice Cores) Field Work
    Because 
      accumulating layers of glacial ice display annual bands which can be 
      dated, similar to annual rings of a tree, the age of ice core samples can 
      be determined. Continuous ice cores from borings as much as two miles long 
      have been extracted from permanent glaciers in Greenland, Antarctica, and 
      Siberia. Bubbles of entrapped air in the ice cores can be analyzed to 
      determine not only carbon dioxide and methane concentrations, but also 
      atmospheric temperatures can be determined from analysis of entrapped 
      hydrogen and oxygen.
Based on historical air temperatures inferred from ice core analyses from the 
Antarctic Vostok station in 1987, relative to the average global temperature in 
1900 it has been determined that from 160,000 years ago until about 18,000 years 
ago Earth temperatures were on average about 3° C cooler than today.
Except for two relatively brief interglacial episodes, one peaking about 
125,000 years ago (Eemian Interglacial), and the other beginning about 18,000 
years ago (Present Interglacial), the Earth has been under siege of ice for the 
last 160,000 years.

    Compiled by R.S. Bradley and J.A. Eddy based on J. 
    Jouzel et al., Nature vol. 329. pp. 403-408, 1987 and published in 
    EarthQuest, vol. 5, no. 1, 1991. Courtesy of Thomas 
    Crowley, Remembrance 
    of Things Past: Greenhouse Lessons from the Geologic 
    Record

  As illustrated in this final graph, over the past 800,000 years the Earth 
  has undergone major swings in warming and cooling at approximately 100,000 
  year intervals, interrupted by minor warming cycles at shorter intervals. This 
  represents periods of glacial expansion, separated by distinct but relatively 
  short-lived periods of glacial retreat.

    Temperature data inferred from measurements of the 
    ratio of oxygen isotope ratios in fossil plankton that settled to the sea 
    floor, and assumes that changes in global temperature approximately tracks 
    changes in the global ice volume. Based on data from J. 
    Imbrie, J.D. Hays, D.G. Martinson, A. McIntyre, A.C. Mix, J.J. Morley, N.G. 
    Pisias, W.L. Prell, and N.J. Shackleton, in A. Berger, J. Imbrie, J. Hats, 
    G. Kukla, and B. Saltzman, eds., Milankovitch and Climate, Dordrecht, 
    Reidel, pp. 269-305, 1984.Courtesy of Thomas Crowley, Remembrance 
    of Things Past: Greenhouse Lessons from the Geologic 
    Record

  The Polar Ice Cap Effect
  As long as the continent of Antarctica 
  exists at the southern pole of our planet we probably will be repeatedly pulled back 
  into glacial ice ages. This occurs because ice caps, which cannot attain 
  great thickness over open ocean, can and do achieve great thickness over a 
  polar continent-- like Antarctica. Antarctica used to be located near the 
  equator, but over geologic time has moved by continental drift 
  to its present location at the south pole. Once established, continental polar 
  ice caps act like huge cold sinks, taking over the climate and growing bigger 
  during periods of reduced solar output. Part of the problem with shaking off 
  the effects of an ice age is once ice caps are established, they cause solar 
  radiation to be reflected back into space, which acts to perpetuate global 
  cooling. This increases the size of ice caps which results in reflection of 
  even more radiation, resulting in more cooling, and so on.
  Continental polar ice caps seem to play a particularly important role in 
  ice ages when the arrangement of continental land masses restrict the free 
  global circulation of equatorial ocean currents. This is the case with the 
  continents today, as it was during the Carboniferous 
  Ice Age when the supercontinent Pangea stretched from pole to pole 
  300 million years ago.

  Stopping Climate Change
  Putting things in perspective, 
  geologists tell us our present warm climate is a mere blip in the history of 
  an otherwise cold Earth. Frigid Ice Age temperatures have been the rule, not 
  the exception, for the last couple of million years. This kind of world is not 
  totally inhospitable, but not a very fun place to live, unless you are a polar 
  bear.
  Some say we are "nearing the end of 
  our minor interglacial period" , and may in fact be on the brink of 
  another Ice Age. If this is true, the last thing we should be doing is 
  limiting carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere, just in case they may 
  have a positive effect in sustaining present temperatures. The smart money, 
  however, is betting that there is some momentum left in our present warming 
  cycle. Environmental advocates agree: resulting in a shift of tactics from the 
  "global cooling" scare of the 1970s to the "global warming" 
  threat of the 1980s and 1990s.
  Now, as we begin the 21st century the terminology is morphing 
  toward"climate change," whereby no matter the direction of temperature 
  trends-- up or down-- the headlines can universally blame humans while 
  avoiding the necessity of switching buzz-words with the periodicity of solar 
  cycles. Such tactics may, however, backfire as peoples' common sensibilities 
  are at last pushed over the brink.
  Global climate cycles of warming and cooling have been a natural phenomena 
  for hundreds of thousands of years, and it is unlikely that these cycles of 
  dramatic climate change will stop anytime soon. We currently enjoy a warm 
  Earth. Can we count on a warm Earth forever? The answer is most likely... 
  no.
  Since the climate has always been changing and will likely continue of its 
  own accord to change in the future, instead of crippling the U.S. economy in 
  order to achieve small reductions in global warming effects due to manmade 
  additions to atmospheric carbon dioxide, our resources may be better spent 
  making preparations to adapt to global cooling and global warming, and the 
  inevitable consequences of fluctuating ocean levels, temperatures, and 
  precipitation that accompany climatic change.
  Supporting this view is British scientist Jane 
  Francis, who maintains:

    " What we are seeing really is just another interglacial phase within 
    our big icehouse climate." Dismissing political calls for a global 
    effort to reverse climate change, she said, " It's really farcical 
    because the climate has been changing constantly... What we should do is be 
    more aware of the fact that it is changing and that we should be ready to 
    adapt to the change."

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  References
  (1) A scientific Discussion of 
  Climate Change, Sallie Baliunas, Ph.D., Harvard- Smithsonian Center for 
  Astrophysics and Willie Soon, Ph.D., Harvard- Smithsonian Center for 
  Astrophysics.
  (2) The Effects of Proposals 
  for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction; Testimony of Dr. Patrick J. 
  Michaels, Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, before 
  the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the Committee on Science, United 
  States House of Representatives
  (3) Statement Concerning 
  Global Warming-- Presented to the Senate Committee on Environmental and 
  Public Works, June 10, 1997, by Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, Massachusetts 
  Institute of Technology
  (4) Excerpts from,"Our 
  Global Future: Climate Change", Remarks by Under Secretary for Global 
  affairs, T. Wirth, 15 September 1997. Site maintained by The Globe - Climate 
  Change Campaign
  (5) Testimony of John R. 
  Christy to the Committee on Environmental and Public Works, Department of 
  Atmospheric Science and Earth System Science Laboratory, University of Alabama 
  in Huntsville, July 10, 1997.
  (6) The Carbon Dioxide Thermometer and the Cause of Global 
  Warming; Nigel Calder,-- Presented at a seminar SPRU (Science and 
  Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex, Brighton, England, October 
  6, 1998.
  (7) Variation in cosmic ray flux and global cloud coverage: a missing 
  link in solar-climate relationships; H. Svensmark and E. 
  Friis-Christiansen, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar- Terrestrial Physics, 
  vol. 59, pp. 1225 - 1232 (1997).
  (8) First International Conference on Global Warming and the Next Ice 
  Age; Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, sponsored by the Canadian 
  Meteorological and Oceanographic Society and the American Meteorological 
  Society, August 21-24, 2001.

  Additional Reading
  Understanding 
  Common Climate Claims: Dr. Richard S. Lindzen; Draft paper to appear in 
  the Proceedings of the 2005 Erice Meeting of the World Federation of 
  Scientists on Global Emergencies.
  Geological 
  Constraints on Global Climate Variability: Dr. Lee C. Gerhard-- A variety 
  of natural climate drivers constantly change our climate. A slide format 
  presentation. 8.5 MB.
  Thoughts of Global 
  Warming: "The bottom line is that climatic change is a given. It is 
  inescapable, it happens. There is no reason to be very concerned about it or 
  spend bazillions of dollars to try and even things out.
  NOAA 
  Paleoclimatology: An educational trip through earths distant and recent 
  past. Also contains useful information and illustrations relating to the 
  causes of climate change.
  Cracking the Ice Age: From the 
  PBS website-- NOVA online presents a brief tour of the causes of global 
  warming.
  Little 
  Ice Age (Solar Influence - Temperature): From the online magazine, "CO2 
  Science."
  Solar Variability and Climate 
  Change: by Willie Soon, January 10, 2000
  Earth's 
  Fidgeting Climate: NASA Science News "It may surprise many people that 
  science cannot deliver an unqualified, unanimous answer about something as 
  important as climate change"

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