Telegraph
"Has Mann actually read any of the Climategate and Climategate 2.0 emails, I wonder? A lot of them have his name on them, so he must have done at one time or another. But perhaps with all that data-fudging and decline-hiding his brain has been overtaxed of late. So let us gently jog his memory with some examples."
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Climategate 2.0 (WSJ)
Monday, 5 December 2011
Chinese Deal Breakers
WUWT
"Mr. Xie has come to Durban in part to lay out the conditions that would have to be met before China would sign on to any new “Son of Kyoto” treaty. Fortunately for the world, their conditions are stringent. ......, there is little chance that the worlds’ industrialized countries will agree to pony up a hundred billion a year and hand it to poor countries. Most countries are having a hard time staying afloat right now. In addition the EU is not all that thrilled about the plan. The last bunch of money that the EU handed over to the poor countries under the CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) was mostly lost in a cesspool of graft and corruption."
"Mr. Xie has come to Durban in part to lay out the conditions that would have to be met before China would sign on to any new “Son of Kyoto” treaty. Fortunately for the world, their conditions are stringent. ......, there is little chance that the worlds’ industrialized countries will agree to pony up a hundred billion a year and hand it to poor countries. Most countries are having a hard time staying afloat right now. In addition the EU is not all that thrilled about the plan. The last bunch of money that the EU handed over to the poor countries under the CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) was mostly lost in a cesspool of graft and corruption."
Sunday, 4 December 2011
Chinese want to lure the EU into continuing Kyoto by making vague promises.
Bloomburg
“If all the conditions are met, we’re open to the process,” Xie told a briefing today. “For the new framework after 2020, we must continue the Kyoto Protocol, there must be a second commitment period. If there’s no second commitment period it’s not meaningful for us to talk about new framework. This is the first condition.”
.....China and other developing nations made non-binding pledges to reduce emissions at the UN talks in Cancun last year, where developed nations also made pledges that are voluntary. Su said it’s too early to say whether China would accept legally binding commitments after 2020."
ED:They need to save their PV and wind turbine production.
“If all the conditions are met, we’re open to the process,” Xie told a briefing today. “For the new framework after 2020, we must continue the Kyoto Protocol, there must be a second commitment period. If there’s no second commitment period it’s not meaningful for us to talk about new framework. This is the first condition.”
.....China and other developing nations made non-binding pledges to reduce emissions at the UN talks in Cancun last year, where developed nations also made pledges that are voluntary. Su said it’s too early to say whether China would accept legally binding commitments after 2020."
ED:They need to save their PV and wind turbine production.
The contextual collection of ClimateGate 2.0 quotes
WUWT
"Jeff suggested I repost this collection of quotes in the words of climate scientists as discovered in Climategate 2.0 context. He’s done a great job at collecting the relevant context."
"Jeff suggested I repost this collection of quotes in the words of climate scientists as discovered in Climategate 2.0 context. He’s done a great job at collecting the relevant context."
Saturday, 3 December 2011
No, global warming isn’t drowning us in rising seas
Andrew Bolt.Herald Sun (Australia)
"Nils-Axel Morner on “Sealevelgate” - the hypeing of claims that the seas are rising dangerously: .......Satellite altimetry is a wonderful and vital new technique that offers the reconstruction of sea level changes all over the ocean surface. But it has been hijacked and distorted by the IPCC for political ends.
In 2003 the satellite altimetry record was mysteriously tilted upwards to imply a sudden sea level rise rate of 2.3mm per year. When I criticised this dishonest adjustment at a global warming conference in Moscow, a British member of the IPCC delegation admitted in public the reason for this new calibration: ‘We had to do so, otherwise there would be no trend.’
This is a scandal that should be called Sealevelgate. As with the Hockey Stick, there is little real-world data to support the upward tilt."
"Nils-Axel Morner on “Sealevelgate” - the hypeing of claims that the seas are rising dangerously: .......Satellite altimetry is a wonderful and vital new technique that offers the reconstruction of sea level changes all over the ocean surface. But it has been hijacked and distorted by the IPCC for political ends.
In 2003 the satellite altimetry record was mysteriously tilted upwards to imply a sudden sea level rise rate of 2.3mm per year. When I criticised this dishonest adjustment at a global warming conference in Moscow, a British member of the IPCC delegation admitted in public the reason for this new calibration: ‘We had to do so, otherwise there would be no trend.’
This is a scandal that should be called Sealevelgate. As with the Hockey Stick, there is little real-world data to support the upward tilt."
Climategate 2.0: A Sequel As Ugly As The Original.
GWPF
"No amount of context can possibly exonerate the CRU gang from some of the damning expressions and contrivances that appear repeatedly in the new emails. More so than the 2009 batch, these emails make clear the close collaboration between the leading IPCC scientists and environmental advocacy groups, government agencies, and partisan journalists."
"No amount of context can possibly exonerate the CRU gang from some of the damning expressions and contrivances that appear repeatedly in the new emails. More so than the 2009 batch, these emails make clear the close collaboration between the leading IPCC scientists and environmental advocacy groups, government agencies, and partisan journalists."
The EU dream and Kyoto will expire together
Christopher Booker,Telegraph
"As we know, the planet was not saved at Copenhagen. The largest conference the world has ever seen ended in acrimony, without establishing a successor to the Kyoto Protocol – a new treaty that would have landed humanity with the biggest bill in history, by far. Last year, an attempt to revive it, in Cancun, ended in further dismal failure. Now a third UN conference, taking place in Durban, looks even more forlorn, and any hope of a successor to Kyoto is slipping towards oblivion."
"As we know, the planet was not saved at Copenhagen. The largest conference the world has ever seen ended in acrimony, without establishing a successor to the Kyoto Protocol – a new treaty that would have landed humanity with the biggest bill in history, by far. Last year, an attempt to revive it, in Cancun, ended in further dismal failure. Now a third UN conference, taking place in Durban, looks even more forlorn, and any hope of a successor to Kyoto is slipping towards oblivion."
Friday, 2 December 2011
Climategate And The Self-Destruction Of Science
GWPF
"Governments around the world have spent billions on policies to counteract the impact of global warming. They have done so because policy-makers, politicians and the public have been told that the science is built on bedrock. But some of that bedrock turns out to be sand.
Instead of distancing themselves from the shenanigans, the broader climate-science community has treated the central figures in Climategate like persecuted heroes. That is a terrible mistake, because it erodes the credibility of the entire field. The suppression of legitimate debate is a catastrophe for climate science. It’s also a catastrophe for science, period."
"Governments around the world have spent billions on policies to counteract the impact of global warming. They have done so because policy-makers, politicians and the public have been told that the science is built on bedrock. But some of that bedrock turns out to be sand.
Instead of distancing themselves from the shenanigans, the broader climate-science community has treated the central figures in Climategate like persecuted heroes. That is a terrible mistake, because it erodes the credibility of the entire field. The suppression of legitimate debate is a catastrophe for climate science. It’s also a catastrophe for science, period."
Are government warmists censoring the data?
Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun (Australia)
"Allegations that sea level data is being censored by NSW Government climate change bureaucrats because they show the seas not rising as fast as predicted. "
"Allegations that sea level data is being censored by NSW Government climate change bureaucrats because they show the seas not rising as fast as predicted. "
Team ugliness – a call to get a skeptics PhD thesis revoked
WUWT
"Climategate II: An Open Letter to the Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research"
"Climategate II: An Open Letter to the Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research"
Thursday, 1 December 2011
Doomsday predictions on sea level rises are 'false alarm' - levels always fluctuate, says expert as climate change row heats up
Daily Mail
#Satellite data 'tilted to distort figures'
#Historical data suggests sea rises and fall naturally
#UN 'expert' admits 'We had to adjust data, otherwise there would be no new trend'
#Climate expert describes sea levels as 'artificial crisis'
#Satellite data 'tilted to distort figures'
#Historical data suggests sea rises and fall naturally
#UN 'expert' admits 'We had to adjust data, otherwise there would be no new trend'
#Climate expert describes sea levels as 'artificial crisis'
Climategate 2:0: Hide the dissent
Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun (Australia)
"We now know that this Yamal work was a botch job - cherrypicking a few tree ring samples in Siberia to produce “evidence” of unprecedented warming, as used by Michael Mann in his notorious “hockey stick”.
Here’s how the team of warmist scientists most behind the global warming scare responded on their influential blog:"
"We now know that this Yamal work was a botch job - cherrypicking a few tree ring samples in Siberia to produce “evidence” of unprecedented warming, as used by Michael Mann in his notorious “hockey stick”.
Here’s how the team of warmist scientists most behind the global warming scare responded on their influential blog:"
More Met Office Spin About Annual Temperatures (In Time for Durban)
GWPF
"Once again, for political reasons, the Met Office is “jumping the gun” and drawing conclusions about the global annual temperature of 2011 before all the data has come in. It is also erroneously saying that even with a globally cooling La Nina event 2011 is a record year."
"Once again, for political reasons, the Met Office is “jumping the gun” and drawing conclusions about the global annual temperature of 2011 before all the data has come in. It is also erroneously saying that even with a globally cooling La Nina event 2011 is a record year."
Green cons ...
WUWT
"Just in time for Durban – new green technology promises big fuel savings, lower emissions" ED:It's a satire
.....It's honestly shameful that amazon sell this kind of product! I hope nobody is fooled by this kind of thing, but you're unsure, just think: If it was this easy to make such huge savings in fuel consumption, why would a manufacturer not fit it as standard?! Easy, it's all lies! (Amazon, customer review)
"Just in time for Durban – new green technology promises big fuel savings, lower emissions" ED:It's a satire
.....It's honestly shameful that amazon sell this kind of product! I hope nobody is fooled by this kind of thing, but you're unsure, just think: If it was this easy to make such huge savings in fuel consumption, why would a manufacturer not fit it as standard?! Easy, it's all lies! (Amazon, customer review)
Hide-the-Decline Plus
Climate Audit
"At the time, no one knew about “hide the decline”. Mann et al do not mention anything about deleting adverse data. The Briffa reconstruction labeled in the legend as “Briffa et al scaled 1856-1980″, giving no clue to readers of hide-the-decline. Let’s now look at a magnified version of this graphic, blown up so that we can see how they handled the Briffa (orange) reconstruction. As sharp-eyed CA readers observed, if you squint closely, you can see that the Briffa reconstruction was chopped off before its end.
Indeed, they did not simply “hide the decline”, their “hide the decline” was worse than we thought. Mann et al did not merely delete data after 1960, they deleted data from 1940 on, You can see the last point of the Briffa reconstruction (located at ~1940) peeking from behind the spaghetti in the graphic below:"
"At the time, no one knew about “hide the decline”. Mann et al do not mention anything about deleting adverse data. The Briffa reconstruction labeled in the legend as “Briffa et al scaled 1856-1980″, giving no clue to readers of hide-the-decline. Let’s now look at a magnified version of this graphic, blown up so that we can see how they handled the Briffa (orange) reconstruction. As sharp-eyed CA readers observed, if you squint closely, you can see that the Briffa reconstruction was chopped off before its end.
Indeed, they did not simply “hide the decline”, their “hide the decline” was worse than we thought. Mann et al did not merely delete data after 1960, they deleted data from 1940 on, You can see the last point of the Briffa reconstruction (located at ~1940) peeking from behind the spaghetti in the graphic below:"
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