The Hockey Schtick
"According to a paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters, the recent decline in solar activity is the largest observed since the Maunder Minimum from 1645-1715 during the Little Ice Age."
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Lord Lawson accuses Sir David Attenborough of ‘sensationalism’
Telegraph
"Lord Lawson has accused Sir David Attenborough of ‘sensationalism’ as he focuses on the effects of global warming on the Polar regions during the finale of Frozen Planet."
"Lord Lawson has accused Sir David Attenborough of ‘sensationalism’ as he focuses on the effects of global warming on the Polar regions during the finale of Frozen Planet."
A £250million scheme to ease the impact of climate change taxes on energy intensive firm
Daily Mail
ED: There is no money and a massive deficit,so why the green taxes for a non-problem of natural global warming/cooling...?
ED: There is no money and a massive deficit,so why the green taxes for a non-problem of natural global warming/cooling...?
Monday, 28 November 2011
FURY AT £1BILLION CLIMATE CHANGE AID DEAL
Daily Express
"FRESH outrage erupted yesterday over the cost of details of the aid package overseas aid after it emerged that Britain is to stump up £1billion to help African countries fight climate change. Energy Secretary Chris Huhne will spearhead the megadeal that will see taxpayers shelling out for projects to help farmers insure their crops against flooding and drought. Other schemes include installing solar power in villages and building slurry pits that can produce gas to power generators. The move will infuriate millions of hard-pressed taxpayers trying to make ends meet. South Africa, the most economically advanced in the continent, is one of the continent, it is one of the countries to receive the handout."
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Climategate 2.0: Lawson squishes Huhne (Telegraph)
"Here's their smackdown and it's so brutal (in the politest, most restrained politico-diplomatic way, of course) that it deserves printing in full:"
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Rollback: UK Government Dismantling Green Agenda,Bit By Bit (GWPF)
"Alexander told the Today programme that the funds set aside for CCS could be spent instead as part of a general infrastructure fund, which would devote government assistance to a wide range of sectors and technologies from transport to energy."
"FRESH outrage erupted yesterday over the cost of details of the aid package overseas aid after it emerged that Britain is to stump up £1billion to help African countries fight climate change. Energy Secretary Chris Huhne will spearhead the megadeal that will see taxpayers shelling out for projects to help farmers insure their crops against flooding and drought. Other schemes include installing solar power in villages and building slurry pits that can produce gas to power generators. The move will infuriate millions of hard-pressed taxpayers trying to make ends meet. South Africa, the most economically advanced in the continent, is one of the continent, it is one of the countries to receive the handout."
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Climategate 2.0: Lawson squishes Huhne (Telegraph)
"Here's their smackdown and it's so brutal (in the politest, most restrained politico-diplomatic way, of course) that it deserves printing in full:"
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Rollback: UK Government Dismantling Green Agenda,Bit By Bit (GWPF)
"Alexander told the Today programme that the funds set aside for CCS could be spent instead as part of a general infrastructure fund, which would devote government assistance to a wide range of sectors and technologies from transport to energy."
Phil Jones paid £13.7 million in grants but “not a public servant”
JoNova (Australia)
"Up to £13.7 million in grants have been paid to Professor Phil Jones, from a number of funding bodies including the European Union, NATO, and the US Department of Energy. But the intellectual and philosophical climate is so weak that Jones doesn’t even consider himself to be paid to serve the citizens of those countries."
"Up to £13.7 million in grants have been paid to Professor Phil Jones, from a number of funding bodies including the European Union, NATO, and the US Department of Energy. But the intellectual and philosophical climate is so weak that Jones doesn’t even consider himself to be paid to serve the citizens of those countries."
Pointman — A dead mans hand detonator on hidden emails may protect ClimateGate whistleblower
JoNova (Australia)
"Pointman analyzes the ClimateGate whistleblower’s tactics and explains why he, she or they probably released those other 200,000 emails but kept them hidden behind the 4000-8000 character almost unbreakable password. He points out there are no emails released yet between key scientists and people in power, hence the worst, most damaging emails may be kept under a ” dead man’s hand detonator”. If politicians are afraid of what might be in those released-but-hidden emails, they may not want to expose or attack the whistleblower for fear of unleashing the other emails. The hidden emails buy the whistleblower protection."
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Editorial:
"It is entirely possible that the collusion of many governments protected a revenue stream and methods to transfer vast sums of public money to individuals and other governments worldwide that required a scientific fraud on a scale never seen before. Those involved would be removed from office in a democratic election forced by public no confidence on a scale never seen before causing a political shift of epic proportions."
"Pointman analyzes the ClimateGate whistleblower’s tactics and explains why he, she or they probably released those other 200,000 emails but kept them hidden behind the 4000-8000 character almost unbreakable password. He points out there are no emails released yet between key scientists and people in power, hence the worst, most damaging emails may be kept under a ” dead man’s hand detonator”. If politicians are afraid of what might be in those released-but-hidden emails, they may not want to expose or attack the whistleblower for fear of unleashing the other emails. The hidden emails buy the whistleblower protection."
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Editorial:
"It is entirely possible that the collusion of many governments protected a revenue stream and methods to transfer vast sums of public money to individuals and other governments worldwide that required a scientific fraud on a scale never seen before. Those involved would be removed from office in a democratic election forced by public no confidence on a scale never seen before causing a political shift of epic proportions."
Canada quits Kyoto
CTV
"Canada will announce next month that it will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, CTV News has learned.The Harper government has tentatively planned an announcement for a few days before Christmas, CTV's Roger Smith reported Sunday evening."
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I really don’t think the rest of the world will follow Julia Gillard’s lead with her carbon dioxide tax: (Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun Australia)
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Canada to pull out of Kyoto Protocol (WUWT)
"Canada will announce next month that it will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, CTV News has learned.The Harper government has tentatively planned an announcement for a few days before Christmas, CTV's Roger Smith reported Sunday evening."
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I really don’t think the rest of the world will follow Julia Gillard’s lead with her carbon dioxide tax: (Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun Australia)
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Canada to pull out of Kyoto Protocol (WUWT)
Sunday, 27 November 2011
Climategate 2: How to create a global warming scare from nothing
Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun (Australia)
"Green group WWF tries to order up a hurricane scare from the University of East Anglia’s Mike Hulme, who suggests a few people who might oblige with what he admits is only a “theoretical” alarm, which can only be floated citing the catch-all “precautionary principle”. .....Warmist scientist Jonathan Overpeck, a coordinating lead author of the IPCC, wanted to ”deal a mortal blow” to the Medieval Warm Period - that embarrassing time the sceptics kept noting was warmer than today, and before cars and electrical power generation were invented. Climategate 2 reveals one way of dealing with the MWP. Hide the problem with your research:"
"Green group WWF tries to order up a hurricane scare from the University of East Anglia’s Mike Hulme, who suggests a few people who might oblige with what he admits is only a “theoretical” alarm, which can only be floated citing the catch-all “precautionary principle”. .....Warmist scientist Jonathan Overpeck, a coordinating lead author of the IPCC, wanted to ”deal a mortal blow” to the Medieval Warm Period - that embarrassing time the sceptics kept noting was warmer than today, and before cars and electrical power generation were invented. Climategate 2 reveals one way of dealing with the MWP. Hide the problem with your research:"
The importance of context
Matt Ridley
"Far from cherry-picking, McKitrick was explicitly testing the hypothesis that Suzuki had advanced, namely that the local weather had warmed in the autumn. Suddenly Schneider's nastiness seems a whole lot nastier. He gave a wholly wrong impression of McKitrick's point to his correspondents. His email being secret until last week, none of us knew about this -- least of all McKitrick."
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A Somewhat Late Response to Schneider(Climate Audit)
"Contrary to Schneider’s claim, I was not using the October-November temperature trend from Erie PA as a measure of global climate, I was using it as a measure of the October-November temperature trend for Erie PA. Schneider was careless in his reading, remiss in his recollection, and obnoxious in broadcasting his opinion to his colleagues."
"Far from cherry-picking, McKitrick was explicitly testing the hypothesis that Suzuki had advanced, namely that the local weather had warmed in the autumn. Suddenly Schneider's nastiness seems a whole lot nastier. He gave a wholly wrong impression of McKitrick's point to his correspondents. His email being secret until last week, none of us knew about this -- least of all McKitrick."
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A Somewhat Late Response to Schneider(Climate Audit)
"Contrary to Schneider’s claim, I was not using the October-November temperature trend from Erie PA as a measure of global climate, I was using it as a measure of the October-November temperature trend for Erie PA. Schneider was careless in his reading, remiss in his recollection, and obnoxious in broadcasting his opinion to his colleagues."
Record Snowfalls...
Record snowfall (Canada)
"According to Environment Canada meteorologist Herb Thoms, the highest recorded snowfall amount was at St. John’s International Airport, which hit 29 centimetres by midday Thursday. The previous record was 25.3 centimetres on Nov. 19, 1980."
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Russia’s South Hit by Record Low Temperatures, Center Says(Bloomburg)
"Today’s temperatures of minus 19.1 degrees Celsius in Volgograd in the Southern federal district, and minus 16 degrees Celsius in Vladikavkaz in the North-Caucasus federal district are the lowest for this date since 1993, the weather center said on its website. In Makhachkala, which is in the North-Caucasus district, the minus 13.6 degrees Celsius temperature is the coldest registered since 1889, it said. In the Black-Earth Tambov region in central Russia, the temperature hit a 1998 record and was minus 19.2 degrees Celsius, the statement said." (H/T JoNova)
"According to Environment Canada meteorologist Herb Thoms, the highest recorded snowfall amount was at St. John’s International Airport, which hit 29 centimetres by midday Thursday. The previous record was 25.3 centimetres on Nov. 19, 1980."
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Russia’s South Hit by Record Low Temperatures, Center Says(Bloomburg)
"Today’s temperatures of minus 19.1 degrees Celsius in Volgograd in the Southern federal district, and minus 16 degrees Celsius in Vladikavkaz in the North-Caucasus federal district are the lowest for this date since 1993, the weather center said on its website. In Makhachkala, which is in the North-Caucasus district, the minus 13.6 degrees Celsius temperature is the coldest registered since 1889, it said. In the Black-Earth Tambov region in central Russia, the temperature hit a 1998 record and was minus 19.2 degrees Celsius, the statement said." (H/T JoNova)
An Open Letter to Dr. Phil Jones of the UEA CRU
WUWT
"Instead, you lied to cover it up. And when it was shown to be untrue, you lied again. And again. Here’s my point—the only reason I know that you lied, the only way you were caught in your lies, was the release of your emails."
"Instead, you lied to cover it up. And when it was shown to be untrue, you lied again. And again. Here’s my point—the only reason I know that you lied, the only way you were caught in your lies, was the release of your emails."
BBC sought advice from global warming scientists on economy, drama, music... and even game shows
Daily Mail
"Britain’s leading green activist research centre spent £15,000 on seminars for top BBC executives in an apparent bid to block climate change sceptics from the airwaves, a vast new cache of leaked ‘Climategate’ emails has revealed. The emails – part of a trove of more than 5,200 messages that appear to have been stolen from computers at the University of East Anglia – shed light for the first time on an incestuous web of interlocking relationships between BBC journalists and the university’s scientists, which goes back more than a decade.They show that University staff vetted BBC scripts, used their contacts at the Corporation to stop sceptics being interviewed and were consulted about how the broadcaster should alter its programme output. .....The ‘Climategate 2’ emails disclose that in private some of those same scientists have had doubts about aspects of the global warming case. For example, Professor Phil Jones, the head of the CRU, admitted there was no evidence that the snows of Kilimanjaro were melting because of climate change, and he and his colleagues agreed there were serious problems with the famous ‘hockey stick’ graph – the depiction of global temperatures that suggests they were broadly level for 1,000 years until they started to rise with industrialisation.
But although there is now more scientific debate than ever about influences on climate other than CO2, prompted by the fact that the world has not warmed for 15 years, a report from the BBC Trust this year compared climate change sceptics to the conspiracy theorists who blame America for 9/11, and said Britain’s main sceptic think-tank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, should be given no air time."
"Britain’s leading green activist research centre spent £15,000 on seminars for top BBC executives in an apparent bid to block climate change sceptics from the airwaves, a vast new cache of leaked ‘Climategate’ emails has revealed. The emails – part of a trove of more than 5,200 messages that appear to have been stolen from computers at the University of East Anglia – shed light for the first time on an incestuous web of interlocking relationships between BBC journalists and the university’s scientists, which goes back more than a decade.They show that University staff vetted BBC scripts, used their contacts at the Corporation to stop sceptics being interviewed and were consulted about how the broadcaster should alter its programme output. .....The ‘Climategate 2’ emails disclose that in private some of those same scientists have had doubts about aspects of the global warming case. For example, Professor Phil Jones, the head of the CRU, admitted there was no evidence that the snows of Kilimanjaro were melting because of climate change, and he and his colleagues agreed there were serious problems with the famous ‘hockey stick’ graph – the depiction of global temperatures that suggests they were broadly level for 1,000 years until they started to rise with industrialisation.
But although there is now more scientific debate than ever about influences on climate other than CO2, prompted by the fact that the world has not warmed for 15 years, a report from the BBC Trust this year compared climate change sceptics to the conspiracy theorists who blame America for 9/11, and said Britain’s main sceptic think-tank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, should be given no air time."
Saturday, 26 November 2011
Is the global warming scare the greatest delusion in history?
Christopher Booker,Telegraph
"All this madness ultimately rests on a blind faith in the threat of man-made global warming, which no one has done more to promote than the scientists whose private emails were again last week leaked onto the internet.
It is still not generally appreciated that the significance of these Climategate emails is that their authors, such as Michael Mann, are no ordinary scientists: they are a little group of fanatical insiders who have, for years, done more than anyone else to drive the warming scare, through their influence at the heart of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And what is most striking about the picture that emerges from these emails is just how questionable the work of these men appears.
We see how they torture the evidence to support their theory – even to the point where some of them seem to lose faith in the story they are trying to tell. And we also see how rattled they were as soon as their work was challenged by expert outsiders such as Steve McIntyre, the mathematician who exposed the methods used to create Mann’s “hockey stick” temperature graph, which the IPCC had made Exhibit A for their theory.
Again and again we see them trying to defend the indefensible, giving vent to wild personal abuse of the enemies of what they call their “cause”, and stopping at nothing to keep their critics’ evidence out of IPCC reports and scientific journals, and prevent dissenting views from getting media attention."
"All this madness ultimately rests on a blind faith in the threat of man-made global warming, which no one has done more to promote than the scientists whose private emails were again last week leaked onto the internet.
It is still not generally appreciated that the significance of these Climategate emails is that their authors, such as Michael Mann, are no ordinary scientists: they are a little group of fanatical insiders who have, for years, done more than anyone else to drive the warming scare, through their influence at the heart of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And what is most striking about the picture that emerges from these emails is just how questionable the work of these men appears.
We see how they torture the evidence to support their theory – even to the point where some of them seem to lose faith in the story they are trying to tell. And we also see how rattled they were as soon as their work was challenged by expert outsiders such as Steve McIntyre, the mathematician who exposed the methods used to create Mann’s “hockey stick” temperature graph, which the IPCC had made Exhibit A for their theory.
Again and again we see them trying to defend the indefensible, giving vent to wild personal abuse of the enemies of what they call their “cause”, and stopping at nothing to keep their critics’ evidence out of IPCC reports and scientific journals, and prevent dissenting views from getting media attention."
Climategate 2: feeding the public “crap”
Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun (Australia)
"You will need to follow this carefully, but Steve McIntyre demonstrates a disgraceful example of how the “team” of climate scientists most responsible for the global warming scare knowingly published “crap” and kept secret their reservations about Michael Mann’s notorious “hockey stick”:..."
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Climategate 2: How the Bureau’s David Jones snowed sceptics - or himself
"At the Bureau of Meteorology, prominent alarmist David Jones boasts of snowing sceptics, and cites as evidence of global warming a drought now passed and a prediction since debunked: "
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Climategate 2: How to silence the sceptics
"Just another glimpse into the process by which “the consensus” was manufactured. "
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Australia picks last possible moment to leap ONTO burning ship (JoNova)
"You will need to follow this carefully, but Steve McIntyre demonstrates a disgraceful example of how the “team” of climate scientists most responsible for the global warming scare knowingly published “crap” and kept secret their reservations about Michael Mann’s notorious “hockey stick”:..."
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Climategate 2: How the Bureau’s David Jones snowed sceptics - or himself
"At the Bureau of Meteorology, prominent alarmist David Jones boasts of snowing sceptics, and cites as evidence of global warming a drought now passed and a prediction since debunked: "
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Climategate 2: How to silence the sceptics
"Just another glimpse into the process by which “the consensus” was manufactured. "
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Australia picks last possible moment to leap ONTO burning ship (JoNova)
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