Global Warming: Avoiding the Battle of Anecdotes

Originally posting at Desk of Brian: http://sites.google.com/site/thedeskofbrian/state-of-the-nation/globalwarmingavoidingthebattleofanecdotes

Recently I joked that I was really, really wrong about President Obama, I never expected him to fix global warming so quickly.

I joked.

Unfortunately Republicans, Conservatives, and talking heads are all falling into the same trap as the global warming alarmists. We shouldn't look at the local weather or recent snow storms to evaluate the climate shifts of the earth.

Al Gore became the poster boy of these anecdotal claims such as escalated hurricane activity and general outbreaks of disease which were all attributed to the earth's rising temperature. Scotish sheep, cougar attacks, kidney stones, squirrel gene mutations and even the crash of Air France Flight 447 have at one time or another been linked by alarmists to global warming.

Al Gore's declaration "The debate is settled" was embraced and this new scientific arrogance highjacked environmentalism.

Meanwhile, Phil Jones, Michael Mann and many of the top scientists have been turned on their head with faulty data, manipulated research papers and emails disclosing their "cover-up."

Recently Jones discussed how there has been NO WARMING since 1995 and he finally acknowledged Medieval Warm Period. Additionally, the IPCC is under attack for the countless flaws with their preposterous 2007 claim that the Himalayan glaciers would melt away, completely disappear, in 25 years.

From an article by Dana Milbank at the Washington Post: "Skip the hurricanes and Himalayan glaciers and keep the argument on the hundreds of billions of dollars spent annually on foreign oil, some of that going to terrorists rahter than to domestic job creation."

So now we're at the crux of problem.

Politics and science are horrible bedfellows and the global warming agenda is just that, an agenda to manipulate finances and lifestyles to benefit individuals NOT connected to fossil fuels.

There's no "skipping" the credibility of science and the assault on polluters.

I've yet to meet that arrogant, nasty polluter who shamelessly wants humans to disregard everything and destroy the planet. No, the mainstream stance is simple: we need to be good stewards of the planet without a hysterical, Chicken Little global warming reaction.

In contrast to Mr. Gore, the debate is never over. We should never abandon scientific scrutiny.

I wish both sides could be mindful that snow in Florida does NOT disprove global warming any more or less than the July heat wave in Philadelphia.

I've always question the validity science that ignores solar flare activity while proclaiming to measure the earth's temperatures from hundreds and hundreds of years ago.

No more anecdotal science and knee jerk reactions.

Don't even bring up Climategate or face ejection

Journalist Phelim McAleer dared the unthinkable: he asked a scientist at the Copenhagen summit about those pesky "Climategate" emails.

Oh the horror.

Dr. Stephen Schneider (Stanford University), his assistant and the UN Security did NOT appreciate this journalist doing his job.



This pompous high road attitude over the "means" in which the emails were obtained is proof positive these folks are liars and hiding the truth.

Was this the response to journalists over Watergate tapes or the Lewinsky dress? Of course not. Phil Jones and the other global warming conspirators need to be outed and if the scientists were honest, they would distance themselves from the manipulated science, denounce Jones and NOT attack the tapes and the journalists.


They are literally trying to pry the microphone away from McAleer before having security confront McAleer and his credentials.

Wow, that's the best and the brightest of global warming science responding to questions. Sorry, let's explore that: this was a non-confrontational question, simply asking for Schneider's opinion on Jones et al.

Then watch how they are threatened over turning off the camera and not rolling tape or face ejection and confiscation of the camera.

This is McAleer's statement:

"I have met Mr Christopher Ankerson the UN’s head of security for the conference and he has confirmed it was Professor Schneider’s staff who asked the security guards to come corral us at the press conference. Mr Ankerson could not say what grounds the security guard had for ordering us to stop filming.

This is a blatant attempt to stop journalists doing journalism and asking hard questions. It is not the job of armed UN security officers to stop legitimate journalists asking legitimate questions of senior members of the UN’s IPCC." - McAleer.




http://www.eutimes.net/2009/12/un-security-stops-journalists-questions-about-climategate-scandal/

Global Warming Fraud finally revealed

There must have been cheers around on the Duke University campus as their solar activity studies (which correlated temperature fluctuations with the sun's activity) officially gained credibility. Emails leaked from a hacker revealed what many of us have been shouting: global warming is a sham.

The hysteria surrounding CO2 levels and man-made contributions have been overly hyped to achieve political and financial means. The world's leading scientist reveal the details of collusion, corruption and scientific fraud.

From the e-mails:

UK Climatologist Phil Jones instructs fellow scientists to "hide the decline" in recent global temperatures. Some evidence appears to show a halt in a rise of global temperatures from about 1960, contradicting the current global warming theme.

Jones stated in one email: ..."just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e., from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline" - this is Michael Mann, a professor of meteorology at Pennsylvania State University.

Michael Mann (i.e. Mike) is famous for the "hockey stick" graph, but the "trick" is really a "short cut" according to Mann and Jones.

Mann's official statement: "I'm not going to comment on the content of illegally obtained emails. However, I will say this: both their theft and, I believe, any reproduction of the emails that were obtained on public websites, etc, constitutes serious criminal activity. I'm hoping the perpetrators and their facilitators will be tracked down and prosecuted to the fullest extent the law allows."

Of course he won't comment on content, only cry foul that they have been released and discredit them as "illegal" - was that the response when the Watergate tapes made headlines?


Here's another gem:

Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,

Once Tim’s got a diagram here we’ll send that either later today or first thing tomorrow. 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) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. Mike’s series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.

Thanks for the comments, Ray.
Cheers, Phil



So basically thermometers stopped being beneficial to the study they were said to have "lost sensitivity" -- they eliminated BAD data!!!

This is the IPCC, a huge scientific leader in the global warming movement, being outed to have FIXED data.

Two other American scientists named in leaked e-mails are Gavin Schmidt of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, and Kevin Trenberth, of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Colorado --- no word from them.




First in 2007, when Dr James Hansen's data was revealed to have been systematically "adjusted" to show recent temperatures as higher than those reported by the other three official sources.

The result was the in GISS revising its figures.(exposed by two science blogs, Watts Up With That, run by Anthony Watts, and Steve McIntyre's Climate Audit)


Gavin Schmidt has been distancing himself from the GISS having played the fall guy for a false report of "Hottest October on Record" when the data was falsified from the previous month's data. (outed by the aforementioned blogs)


George Monbiot, a leading environmentalist, said Phil Jones should resign from the Climatic Research Unit. Jones and other researchers suppressed scientific data and climatologist admitted it was a travesty that scientists could not explain a lack of global warming in recent years.


This onion has no end because the layers of lies runs to the core. Working in research and the medical field, I can tell you that biggest crime is sacrificing the integrity of the science.

Global warming is a hoax and has distracted us from being good stewards of the planet. Billions and billions has been wasted on bogus research and climate control measures which could have better served on conservation.








should resign: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1230635/Scientist-climate-change-cover-storm-told-quit.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/21/ap/world/main5727910.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/20/climate-sceptics-hackers-leaked-emails

http://www.climatechangefraud.com/climate-reports/5510-gavin-schmidt-wants-it-known-he-has-no-connection-with-the-giss-temperature-record