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-- snip --The recently revealed destruction of raw data at the bottom of the global warming hysteria, as well as revelations of attempts to prevent critics of this hysteria from being published in leading journals, suggests that the disinterested search for truth — the hallmark of real science — has taken a back seat to a political crusade...

Wonderful, leisurely interview with Lord Monckton covering the science, Al Gore, conflict of interest and fraud in his usual crisp and clear style. Well worth watching.

Nathan Myhrvold is a former technology officer for Microsoft who has found his own company, Intellectual Ventures, which is involved in a number of technology development programs, including new forms of energy generation. Nathan Myhrvold also thinks that he has found a cheap and reliable way to solve global warming, which does not involve upending and perhaps destroying the world's economy. The global warming solution proposed by Nathan Myhvold involves Nathan Myhrvold's Anti Global Warming Scheme running a hose up to the stratosphere with balloons and using that hose to pump out enough sulfur particles to dim the sun's heat...

Science is one of the great achievements of the human mind and the biggest reason why we live not only longer but more vigorously in our old age, in addition to all the ways in which it provides us with things that make life easier and more enjoyable. Like anything valuable, science has been seized upon by politicians and ideologues, and used to forward their own agendas. This started long ago, as far back as the 18th century, when the Marquis de Condorcet coined the term "social science" to describe various theories he favored. In the 19th century, Karl Marx...

Russian analysts accuse Britain's Meteorological Office of cherry-picking Russian temperature data to "hide the decline" in global temperatures. Is Copenhagen rooted in a single tree in Siberia? Michael Mann, a Penn State meteorologist, wrote in Friday's Washington Post that "stolen" e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit still don't alter the evidence for climate change.

A few years ago, I accepted global warming theory with few doubts. I wrote several columns for this paper condemning what I thought were unfair attacks by skeptics and defending the climate scientists. Boy, was I naive.Since the Climategate emails and documents revealed active collusion to thwart skeptics and even outright fraud, I’ve been trying to correct the record of my earlier foolishness. In one of those columns, I even wrote: “And see Real Climate (www.realclimate.org) for global warming science without the political spin.” In fact, Real Climate was and is nothing more than the house organ of global warming...

Top Cuban Official Says Obama Lied in Copenhagen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS December 21, 2009 HAVANA (AP) -- Cuba's foreign minister called President Barack Obama an ''imperial and arrogant'' liar Monday for his conduct at the U.N. climate conference, a reflection of the communist island's increasingly fiery verbal attacks on the U.S. government. Bruno Rodriguez spent an hour and a half lambasting Obama's behavior in Copenhagen, telling a news conference, ''at this summit, there was only imperial, arrogant Obama, who does not listen, who imposes his positions and even threatens developing countries.'' He called the summit ''a fallacy, a farce'' and...

Do As I Say proves that Al Gore is a phony and a fraud that does not practice what he preaches, as well as uncovering blatant hypocrisy and double standards of so many other leading liberals. Al Gore won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar warning us about the catastrophe we will cause if we don't reduce our carbon footprints - but he travels the world in his private jet and racks up $30,000 in energy bills every year at his Nashville mansion. Al Gore parades around the globe condemning humans for causing global warming and destroying the earth. He...

Snowstorms and subfreezing temperatures have battered Europe, killing 15 people in Poland alone overnight and wreaking havoc on air, train and car travelers from the Nordics to Italy on the last weekend before Christmas...In Italy, where winters are generally milder, heavy snow and subfreezing temperatures were causing havoc. Italian farm lobby Coldiretti warned that the ice-and-snow-blanketed roads were delaying the distribution of milk and produce while the freezing temperatures risked damaging fruit trees, olive groves and vineyards.

Dozens of people have died across Europe as days of snow storms and sub-zero temperatures swept the continent, causing traffic chaos for millions. At least 29 people froze to death in Poland as temperatures fell far below freezing, while in southern Germany a figure of -33C (-27F) was recorded. Moscow said it was deploying 9,000 snow ploughs to clear the city's streets. Air, rail and road transport links were disrupted across northern Europe where more snow was expected in coming days. Eurostar services between the UK and the continent were suspended on Monday for a third day, as the company...

LONDON (AFP) – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday accused a handful of countries of holding the UN climate summit to ransom as bitter recriminations swirled over the outcome of the negotiations. While China's Premier Wen Jiabao insisted his government had played an "important and constructive" role, Britain said the meeting had lurched into farce and pointed the finger of blame at Beijing. And the summit host, Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, rapped the lower-level negotiators for failing to make headway in nearly two weeks of talks and then leaving their masters with too much to do at...

Without a scintilla of evidence that rising temperatures threaten the extinction of life on the planet, anyone who expresses common sense doubts about the Doomsday prophecies of climate alarmists is dismissed as a "skeptic," an "extremist," or a heretic in the religion of environmentalism. No one needs to apologize for being a scientific ignoramus on climate change when the world's leading publicist for global warming, Al Gore, is not a scientist either. Yet some blindly accept Gore's claim in An Inconvenient Truth that melting ice caps and rising sea levels will drown New York City and Shanghai under 15 feet...

No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and mastermind of its latest report in 2007. Although Dr. Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as “the world’s top climate scientist”), as a former railway engineer with a PhD in economics he has no qualifications in climate science at all. What has also almost entirely escaped attention, however, is how Dr. Pachauri has established an astonishing worldwide...

UN IPCC Head Not Qualified for Post; Has Huge Conflict of Interest Issue The London Telegraph No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and mastermind of its latest report in 2007. Although Dr. Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as “the world’s top climate scientist”), as a former railway engineer with a PhD in economics he has no qualifications in climate science at all. What...

Democrats, Liberals and Progressives (DLP) and their media allies are masters of illusion as demonstrated again last week. A scan of world events underscores this statement. Last week’s seminal topics were Health Care, Global warming and Jobs. In all of these topics the vast leftwing DLP front did its best work creating the appearances of something that is not real. On the topic of Health Care there was created in the DLP media the illusion that Conservative efforts were blocking the DLP’s progress to getting their health care agenda passed. That was the illusion. (Not to mention that the whole...

Global Warming, Or A Lot of Hot Air? Aired last night (12/20/09) on FoxNews. Set in 6 parts on YouTube. For those who missed it. (I'm not sure how long they will be up.) Global Warming, Or A Lot of Hot Air? Part 1Global Warming, Or A Lot of Hot Air? Part 2Global Warming, Or A Lot of Hot Air? Part 3Global Warming, Or A Lot of Hot Air? Part 4Global Warming, Or A Lot of Hot Air? Part 5Global Warming, Or A Lot of Hot Air? Part 6

Everyone readily admits that things aren’t always what they seem. But are we really applying this knowledge in our daily dealings? Are we consciously ferreting out the illusory from the reality? I think not. For instance, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we aren’t really being run by pandering politicians, self-serving lobbyists, fanatical environmentalists, and greedy Wall Street manipulators. They are the illusion. There is another even more powerful (but much less visible) agent behind all of these puppets. The person behind the screen is the computer programmer. And, just like in the Wizard of OZ, they do not want...

Last three years have been winters like 'back in the old days': Dec 21st % Snow Coverage Ave. Depth 2009 51.7% 3.8" 2008 53.4% 4.4” 2007 42.3% 4.2” 2006 26.3% 2.4" 2005 44.8% 3.2" 2004 18.6% 1.2” 2003 24.7% 1.7” It was NOT just that big East Coast storm,..... One week ago: December 14, 2009 Area Covered By Snow: 48.7% Average: 3.7 in

Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle. But the revelation in the book "Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living" by New Zealanders Robert and Brenda Vale has angered pet owners who feel they are being singled out as troublemakers. The Vales, specialists in sustainable living at Victoria University of Wellington, analysed popular brands of pet food and calculated that a medium-sized dog eats around 164 kilos...

The Northeast began digging out on Sunday from a massive snowstorm that buried cities from Washington to Boston under as much as 2 feet of snow, creating travel chaos and hampering Christmas shopping.Nearly 2 feet of snow piled up in the Baltimore-Washington area on Saturday in the largest snowstorm to hit the region since February 2003, while New York City saw totals of up to a foot before the monster storm churned into New England. Boston, Cape Cod and southeastern Massachusetts areas saw as much as 2 feet of snow before the storm moved out to sea. Areas of eastern...

Recapping the story begun at WUWT here and continued at WUWT here, data from the temperature station Darwin Zero in northern Australia was found to be radically adjusted and showing huge warming (red line, adjusted temperature) compared to the unadjusted data (blue line). The unadjusted data showed that Darwin Zero was actually cooling over the period of the record. Here is the adjustment to Darwin Zero: Figure 1. The GHCN adjustments to the Darwin Zero temperature record.

The global climate negotiations in Copenhagen produced neither a grand success nor the complete meltdown that seemed almost certain as late as Friday afternoon. Despite two years of advance work, the meeting failed to convert a rare gathering of world leaders into an ambitious, legally binding action plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It produced instead a softer interim accord that, at least in principle, would curb greenhouses gases, provide ways to verify countries’ emissions, save rain forests, shield vulnerable nations from the impacts of climate change, and share the costs. The hard work has only begun, in Washington and...

A disturbed man has been arrested after a series of shots were fired in the Forum neighbourhood. Police closed off the area around Forum in Copenhagen just before six this morning after a series of shots were fired in the neighbourhood. Half an hour later, police detained a man described as mentally disturbed, in a building in Kleinsgade street. “He fired a series of shots from a hunting rifle into the air and into the ceiling of a building,” says Police Spokesman Søren Wiborg. “The shots were reported at 5.30 a.m. and when the first patrol arrived they heard another...

... All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions. Acolytes whose writing conformed to...

Back in the days when war was a form of romance, there was a tactic called the "forlorn hope". When an army reached the end of its string while laying siege to a fortress or walled city, a single unit of several hundred men would be selected for a final attempt at overcoming the walls. Artillery would fire one last series of rounds to make a breach, and the forlorn hope would make its mad dash toward the walls, to try to overcome through muscle and will what months of patient strategy had failed to do. As for the level...

John Coleman founder of the Weather Channel shreds the AGW theory. Enjoy! Video at the link. http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-7715-Portland-Civil-Rights-Examiner~y2009m12d20-John-Coleman--The-global-warming-hoax-debunked http://www.kusi.com/home/78477082.html?video=pop&t=a

CHINA "hijacked'' the Copenhagen summit by blocking a legally-binding treaty, Britain's Climate Change Secretary David Miliband said. China vetoed attempts to give legal force to the accord reached at the United Nations climate summit. It also blocked an agreement on reductions in global emissions... "This was a chaotic process dogged by procedural games,'' The summit set a commitment to limit global warming to 2C but did not spell out the important global emissions targets for 2020 or 2050 that were the key to holding down temperatures. It also promised $100 billion for poor nations that risked bearing the brunt of...

Today the gloves came off and the true purpose of the “global warming” scare became nakedly visible. Ugo Chavez, the Socialist president of Venezuela, blamed “global warming” on capitalism – and received a standing ovation from very nearly all of the delegates, lamentably including those from those of the capitalist nations of the West that are on the far Left – and that means too many of them. Previously Robert Mugabe, dictator of Rhodesia, who had refused to leave office when he had been soundly defeated in a recent election, had also won plaudits at the conference for saying that...

The sea level in Juneau is actually falling very rapidly: "JUNEAU, Alaska — Global warming conjures images of rising seas that threaten coastal areas. But in Juneau, as almost nowhere else in the world, climate change is having the opposite effect: As the glaciers here melt, the land is rising, causing the sea to retreat. ___ Relative to the sea, land here has risen as much as 10 feet in little more than 200 years, according to the 2007 report. As global warming accelerates, the land will continue to rise, perhaps 3 more feet by 2100, scientists say."

I do not know what motivates politicians and Al Gore. Based on the data over 40,0000 years, they really don't have a good argument for human induced climate change. I am not sure Gore, Reid, Obama, or Pelosi could pass a college physics course if they tried. It is unclear to me they have an engineers mind or sense of analytical integrity. they have to listen to other 100% because they can't do these calculations alone. It is unclear to me that the folks in the climate gate memos are still using scientific method. We could be going into some...

The head of the UN's climate change panel - Dr Rajendra Pachauri - is accused of making a fortune from his links with 'carbon trading' companies, Christopher Booker and Richard North write. No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and mastermind of its latest report in 2007. Although Dr Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as “the world’s top climate scientist”), as a former...

No excerpt allowed from Bloomberg.com, story here.

And lo, the cry went up from the mainstream media: When, O when, will the Copenhagen climate summit, which concluded on Friday, discuss the real solution to global warming – fewer people? When will Jesse Jackson get around to talking about race? Writing in The National Post (Canada’s largest newspaper) on December 8, columnist Diane Francis waxed apocalyptic, “The ‘inconvenient truth’ overhanging the UN’s Copenhagen conference is not that the climate is warming or cooling, but that humans are overpopulating the world.” Francis insisted, “The world’s other species, vegetation, resources, oceans, arable land, water supplies and atmosphere are being destroyed...

Cast: Barack Obama as Benny Hill Wen Jiabao as Little Old Bald Guy (wigged) Nicholas Sarkozy as The Frenchman Angela Merkel as Sexy Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, etc. as Extras Set up: Benny goes to Copenhagen to get the world’s leaders to sign a climate Agreement. Farcical results ensue. Players in position? Set the camera to skip-frame. Aaaaaand…Cue the saxophone. Daaa, dah dit duh dah-duh, dit dah dit duh…(you’re going to have to use your imagination here, folks; or click here—clip is from the UN!). Earnest Obama came to Copenhagen to talk. “The time for talk...

The freezing weather has not just hit the Channel Tunnel. Airports, railways and roads across much of Europe have ground to a standstill. In Belgium, Brussels-National airport spent much of Sunday closed, all flights delayed or cancelled as snow made take-off and landing impossible. It was the same all over mainland Europe, with thousands of passengers stranded at ports and airports not knowing whether to hang on or head back home. And the arctic conditions have had tragic consequences. In Poland, temperatures fell to minus 24 and police reported the deaths of at least 15 people living rough. 47 people...

<p>Man-Made Climate Change Debunker, Lord Monckton Assaulted to Unconsciousness by Police in Copenhagen December 18, 2009 by Arlen Williams Filed under News and Opinion The following article is Lord Christopher Monckton’s own, republished from yesterday addition to The SPPI Blog, which he co-authors. It is featured in my Investigating Obama blog, since Barack Obama is, by his pitched efforts, a co-conspirator in the Man-Made Global Marxofascism shakedown, along with Maurice Strong, Edmund de Rothschild, George Soros, Al Gore, Jeffrey Immelt – General Electric’s robber baron, etc.</p>

I am not a historian or a statistician. Nonetheless I had been skimming Climate Audit for a couple of years and knew enough to write, in January 2009, "Michael Mann should be in prison." I continue to enthusiastically endorse this view. I also do know a bit about the past. And the past has sent me its report on Climategate. It is a short message - quite pithy - full of punch. I transcribed it this week from my favorite Ouija board. At the planchette: me and my 2-year-old daughter, Sibyl. After data corrections, the text reads: Your entire system...

“(…) the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.” — P.B. Medawar So what’s next? A series of essays by Sarah Palin about the Large Hadron Collider and the mysteries of dark matter? An MIT lecture series by Rush Limbaugh regarding the thermodynamics of black holes? A Festschrift of Sean Hannity’s scholarly articles on plate tectonics and volcano formation? Glenn Beck performing live heart-lung transplants on Fox News? Everybody understands that these things couldn’t...

I have to admit it. I am jealous of former Vice President Al Gore. I want what he's got, at least in a generalized way. It isn't that I envy him for having been vice president. The number two spot has traditionally been one not well regarded and only a few VPs have made the position an important one, if only in a fleeting way. Thomas Jefferson did some excellent work fashioning the procedure of the Senate while he was the veep, Nixon became an important part of Ike's foreign policy team, and Dick Cheney became, well, Dick Cheney! But...

Whew! Man, that Sarah Palin sure has started a real firestorm now that she has attacked the Holy Church of Global Warming! It’s one thing to knock ObamaCare on it’s backside, there are only billions of dollars in payoffs and corruption riding on that deal. But the global warming hustle truly is the whole enchilada! Not billions, but trillions of dollars will change hands. Government control like you’ve never even dreamed of will come to pass. Taxes will flow into incompetent government hands like never before. Energy will “necessarily skyrocket.”

Who is Sarah Palin? Her vice presidential nomination acceptance speech in 2008 was written by Republican Party speechwriter Matthew Scully. In the subsequent campaign, her op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal on Sept. 9 was plagiarized from a McCain speech given nearly six months earlier (spokesperson Ashley Huston said the Journal would "decline comment" when I questioned her). Palin's autobiography, "Going Rogue" was penned by ghostwriter Lynn Vincent. So how should an audience assess this week's Washington Post op-ed with Palin's byline? In view of this history of words ascribed to Palin being written by someone else, it remains...

COPENHAGEN | Found a seat at meeting, worked out key accord with ChinaWASHINGTON -- It was almost unthinkable. The president of the United States walked into a meeting of fellow world leaders, and there wasn't a chair for him, a sure sign he was not expected, maybe not even wanted. President Obama didn't pause, however. "I'm going to sit by my friend Lula," he said, moving toward Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. A Brazilian aide gave the U.S. president his chair, and Obama spent the next 80 minutes helping craft new requirements for disclosing efforts to fight global...

The farce in Copenhagen continues. As I have intimated before, I am not without hope for this "earth summit." I see more and more evidence that people -- "electorates" in all the western countries, where we do have elections, and can throw the bums out, which is about the only pleasure we have as "electors" -- have seen through this imposture completely. My column today cannot be the best one on this subject. For that, I must refer the same reader to the London Telegraph, and Gerald Warner's column from Friday. Rather than trying to improve upon it, let me...

Bruce Nussbaum on December 19 The real failure in Copenhagen to get firm, legal commitments to cut greenhouse gases to slow global warming is a failure of paradigm and process. It is time to end the guilt-tripping, finger-wagging, top-down, United Nations-based regulation-and-punishment paradigm and shift to a more positive, bottoms-up, individual-behavior, incentive-based model. It is time to design a positive, glowing picture of a better possible life for Asians, Americans, Europeans, poor and rich alike by presenting positive pathways of behavior to a sustainable future. Innovation to create incentives to change individual and CEO behaviors will ultimately prove better than...

Just after midnight, Copenhagen time, Gordon Brown appeared in front of the Sky News camera. "I feel I've played a part in bringing countries together," said the Prime Minister, in a line clearly prepared long before the disaster unfolding around him. Mr Brown had, in fact, played little part in the final deal that emerged in the early hours of Saturday, and would be well advised to make that abundantly clear. For even as he spoke, international unity was falling apart – and the emotional temperature inside the conference centre was already rising to levels beyond even the most doom-laden...

The CRU emails have revealed how the normal conventions of the peer review process appear to have been compromised by a team* of global warming scientists, with the willing cooperation of the editor of the International Journal of Climatology (IJC), Glenn McGregor. The team spent nearly a year preparing and publishing a paper that attempted to rebut a previously published paper in IJC by Douglass, Christy, Pearson and Singer (DCPS). The DCPS paper, reviewed and accepted in the traditional manner, had shown that the IPCC models that predicted significant "global warming" in fact largely disagreed with the observational data. We...

China blamed as anger mounts over climate deal • Beijing accused over emissions cuts • Campaigners say accord 'a disaster' An outbreak of bitter recrimination has erupted among politicians and delegates following the drawing up of the Copenhagen accord for tackling climate change. The deal, finally hammered out early yesterday, had been expected to commit countries to deep cuts in carbon emissions. In the end, it fell short of this goal after China fought hard against strong US pressure to submit to a regime of international monitoring. The Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, walked out of the conference at one...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The White House Saturday sought to rally support for the contentious deal brokered by President Barack Obama at UN climate talks by listing prominent Americans who back the plan against global warming, though opponents also spoke up. A statement released by the White House included quotes from environmentalists, captains of industry and leading elected officials from Obama's Democratic Party praising the "breakthrough" that will "lay the foundation for international action in the years to come." Michael Eckhart, head of the American Council on Renewable Energy, applauded Obama's "wisdom in achieving an agreement on the aspirational goal, limiting...

Russian analysts accuse Britain’s Meteorological Office of cherry-picking Russian temperature data to “hide the decline” in global temperatures. Is Copenhagen rooted in a single tree in Siberia? Michael Mann, a Penn State meteorologist, wrote in Friday’s Washington Post that “stolen” e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit still don’t alter the evidence for climate change. Mann, a creator of the discredited hockey-stick graph used in reports from the U.N.‘s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to show man-made warming, attacks climate skeptics, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, saying they “confuse the public.”

Regular BreakPoint listeners know about the inhumane lengths some environmentalists are prepared to go to “save the planet.”Some have proposed taxing the parents of newborns several thousand dollars to discourage child-bearing, and thereby reducing CO2 emissions. Others have spoken of “culling” the human herd.What these proposals have in common, besides their cold-bloodedness, is that mainstream environmentalists keep insisting that they are “fringe” views. Well, recent statements from sources that couldn’t be more “respectable” put the lie to those claims. And they should remind Christians why the sanctity of human life must be our highest priority.During the recent U.N. global...