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Drill, Baby, Drill... Even Off-Shore. I commend Interior Secretary Salazar’s decision today to conditionally approve drilling at three exploratory wells in the Chukchi Sea off the northwest coast of Alaska; it’s a decision that’s been a long time coming. The area north of the Arctic Circle contains some of the world’s richest oil and gas reserves. U.S. Geological Survey researchers estimate that it contains 1.6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 83 billion barrels of undiscovered oil. The international community recognizes the potential of Arctic off-shore drilling; it’s about time our government allowed us to compete with them by...

Here is video of Britain's Lord Monckton being interviewed about his views on "Climate Change." Monckton is a noted "Climate Change skeptic." Lord Monckton says bluntly that there is no credible evidence that Global Warming is man-made, or that it is any kind of a real crisis. He says it is a "scientific fad," and compared it to the Y2K scare just before the year 2000 (which amounted to absolutely nothing), and the current Swine Flu scare, which he said will result in fewer deaths than the regular flu. When the interviewer asked the inevitable question why it was not...

With the recent exposure of damning emails among the Climate Research Unit staff at the University of East Anglia, the world now knows what many global warming skeptics have suspected all along: the fix is in. Over years of “research,” facts were omitted, others were exaggerated. Methodologies were adopted that understated the decline in global temperatures, while those that indicated rising temperatures were given prominent place. Even in the most sacred precincts of science, Truth was made whore to politics. And in the end, the entire notion of man-made climate change is justifiably suspect. But has that malfeasance shamed the...

Al Gore:  Inventor of the internet; Nobel Laureate; Snorting, surly failed presidential candidate; angry, unhinged raving ranter, environmental pied piper.  And now, poet??? Al Gore has written a poem.  I'm not joking.  Vanity Fair is gushing over it.  Here are the funniest parts (I won't bore you with the whole thing; I want some readership left after this post):One thin September soon A floating continent disappears In midnight sun Vapors rise as Fever settles on an acid sea Neptune's bones dissolve The shepherd cries The hour of choosing has arrived Here are your tools Reverend Al has inspired me.  Here...

Before anything has been decided by those participating in the environmental summit to be held in Copenhagen, the world’s foremost environmental expert, former US Vice-President Al Gore, criticized the efforts as “inadequate.” “Much more stringent measures are necessary if the returns on my investments in carbon offsets, alternative energy sources, and environmentally friendly technologies are to be maximized,” Gore observed. In related news, Gore cancelled a planned appearance at the Copenhagen summit where his fans would’ve been allowed to have their pictures taken with their idol for a fee of $1200 per photo. “It wasn’t the money,” said disappointed fan,...

It’s the only thing that could explain the insane craziness going on. Hotair reports: For the first time ever, the Environmental Protection Agency has declared a naturally-occurring substance in the air a danger to human health.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is officially under way. President Obama, after waffling on his agenda, has announced he will attend the end of the conference. The Associated Press now confirms, almost verbatim, the agenda Lord Christopher Monckton warned Americans about during his presentation in Minnesota last month. The intent of those gathered at Copenhagen is to strike a deal which would cede United States sovereignty to a foreign governmental authority empowered to enforce radical redistribution of wealth to Third World countries. The initial proposed cost is 30 billion dollars over three years with "hundreds of billions"...

Americans, along with citizens of many countries, have been cooling off in regard to climate change.

This is one of the most propaganda filled videos I've seen yet about global warming. They use children like props in a 'dramatic' film shown at the opening ceremony for the Copenhagen talks in Denmark. "Please Help The World" Click Here For The VideoHere's the info: "Please Help the World", film from the opening ceremony of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) in Copenhagen from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. Shown on December 7, 2009 at COP15. Director: Mikkel Blaabjerg Poulsen, producers: Stefan Fjeldmark and Marie Peuliche, cinematographer: Dan Laustsen, production designer: Peter de Neergaard, editor:...

Government regulation of nearly every aspect of economic activity by administrative fiat...it's enough to make Stalin blush. Trees and other plant life who thrive on CO2 Could not be reached for comment. This announcement has been in the pipeline ever since Obama took office but the timing is clearly intended to give Mr. World something to talk about when he drops by the Climate Scam Summit in Copenhagen in a few weeks. In addition to the international credibility He hopes it will buy, this announcement is the Sword of Damocles He wants to hang over Congress to get them to...

Time is up. Time to fight passion with calm reason. That always works, doesn’t it? Those thousands of “activists” and riled up protesters who have infected Denmark would sit down and listen patiently to a lecture on what counts as evidence for disastrous global warming, wouldn’t they? Of course they would. Who doesn’t prefer logic to polemic? Sigh—yes, I know. Hardly anybody chooses reason to passion. Much more fun to scream at the top of your lungs, or mesmerize yourself with a hey-hey-ho-ho chant and leave the thinking at home. All this is a long-winded way of announcing that I...

Hot Scandals Sarah Carlsruh, December 7, 2009 More than 1,000 emails and 3,000 data files from University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) recently exposed a global warming deception. CRU research is at the center of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports “upon which the UN and the Kyoto process base everything they do,” claimed Myron Ebell at the Heritage Foundation’s conservative Blogger’s Briefing on December 1st. Ebell is the director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). He called the CRU scientists “con men,” saying that these emails confirm that “a...

Word is that Rush Limbaugh is sending a few packages of Zicam to Nobel Prize winner Al “CO2 is death” Gore. Gore maybe be developing some hacking symptoms as recent e-mails shed light on the “settled science” behind the man-made global warming push. If you have family or friends who still rely on the “dead tree media” (that’s a new name from our friends in the UK) they probably have not heard the story yet.

Former Vice President Al Gore is the most recognizable face of the anthropogenic global warming movement. He has authored books, starred in a documentary, and spoken innumerable times on the supposed threat global warming poses to life’s very existence.

With Copenhagen starting, there is one simple diagram that no one has bothered to even consider. It is not related to Science, but to Electrical Engineering. See this diagram at the link and read why anything that comes out of Copenhagen will not be able to be achieved, no matter what the aspiration might be.

One of my all-time favorite novels is Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, later made into an Oscar-winning film. Set in an institution for psychological patients, Cuckoo's Nest was a cautionary tale about all institutions-schools, churches, businesses, government bureaucracies, etc., it dramatized the horrors of what can happen when those in charge hijack an institution and place their own ambitions and lust for power, prestige, and control above the welfare of the very people whom the institution was created to help. The United Nations fits the cuckoo's nest paradigm perfectly. It is ostensibly dedicated to some of mankind's...

New research out this week has resolved a long-standing, and important, quandary about the causes of global warming. While several models point to anthropogenic CO2 and other greenhouse gases as the leading cause of global warming, the warming trends do not quite match the history of anthropogenic CO2. In fact, shrinking glaciers and other undeniable evidences of warming trace back to about the mid seventeenth century. But this predates the significant rise in anthropogenic CO2 that came later in later centuries. Now environmental researchers have solved the puzzle...

Anthropogenic (man-made) global warming is predicated on two major things. First, that the earth is abnormally warming. This was alleged to be proven true by the 'hockey stick' temperature graph. The Climategate emails have driven a stake through the heart of this fraud. Second, human activity generated CO2 is causing this alleged abnormal increase in global temperatures. That allegation is also false. The 'hockey stick' graph of CO2 concentrations has been 'fudged' too. Historical CO2 levels are determined from bubble in ice cores. Since the age of the ice is known, this data can be compared with temperature data to...

The term "hockey stick" was coined by the head of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Jerry Mahlman, to describe the pattern of historical temperatures in the northern hemisphere (it kind of looks like a hockey stick on its side). The chart, created by Professor Michael Mann of Penn State, shows relatively stable temperatures until around 100 year ago when we see a spike up. It is one of the key pieces of information used to prove that global warming is about to destroy the world. To create most of the chart , climate change scientists...

Until early January Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama's pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change. Then Mrs. Browner's name and biography had been removed from Socialist International's Web page, though a photo of her speaking June 30 to the group's congress in Greece was still available. The group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, the organization's action arm on climate change, says the developed world must reduce...

Fraudster the Snowman by F.R. Duplantier Fraudster the Snowman Was an enterprising pol, With a trust-fund life And an upturned nose And a heart made out of coal. Fraudster the Snowman Was a senator, they say. He was made of snow, But the voters know How he came to life one day. There must have been some magic in Those tight blue jeans they found, For when they placed them on his legs He began to dance around. O, Fraudster the Snowman Found a way to live for free. While the people pay, He could laugh and play And...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Karen Malec is the President of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer. Malec is one of the world's leading authorities on the relationship between abortion and breast cancer. The following essay is a perfect illustration of how mainstream media bias has tried to silence the public debate over this issue. On two occasions early in November, The Daily Iowan's opinion editor, Shawn Gude, invited a reader by the name of Rebecca Curtis to send him a 600-word rebuttal in response to a guest opinion written by University of Iowa law students, Amber Fricke and Amy Hirst, on October 27,...

Description of simple experiment that shows CO2 can't cause warming by trapping Infra Red (Credit to mystery blogger) The claim that carbon dioxide (CO2) can increase air temperatures by "trapping" infrared radiation (IR) ignores the fact that in 1909 physicist R.W. Wood disproved the popular 19th Century thesis that greenhouses stayed warm by trapping IR. Unfortunately, many people who claim to be scientists are unaware of Wood's experiment which was originally published in the Philosophical magazine , 1909, vol 17, p319-320. Wood was an expert on IR. His accomplishments included inventing both IR and UV (ultraviolet) photography. Wood constructed two...

The name of the game for research scientists is research grants. The way you advance up the ranks and receive notoriety is to be awarded new grants (they also pay many of the bills). Over the past few years Professor Phil Jones has received more than 13 million British Pounds in research grants (the equivalent of $22.5 million). Which gives Professor Jones strong a incentive to make sure those global temperature numbers keep rising.

Please right-click and save this graph. When you get a chance, print it out. The next time a leftist warmer rants on about AGW, show them this and ask them to explain the LONG TERM COOLING TREND that began 3900 YEARS AGO. . . . PLEASE NOTE: The red and blue trend lines at the top and bottom were added for emphasis, and do not appear in the original table. Original source is here: http://www.longrangeweather.com/global_temperatures.htm And a hat tip to backhoe, poster at http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/portal.php

'Climate-Gate?' Oh, I Wish... As Brad DeLong is fond of saying, "Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?" It's pretty disheartening, just as President Obama has announced he'll be going to the Copenhagen Climate Conference at its closing (implying a possible deal to announce on carbon emission reductions) to see that the WaPo is instead playing up the ridiculous 'Climategate' story so prominently. It's a great distraction for those who'd rather bury their heads in the sand than deal with the reality of climate change, but a real disservice to readers who by now should have little...

Knowing that Obama is about to sign away United States sovereignty and make us subservient to a board of communists who want to use the global warming hoax, the greatest lie ever told, to redistribute the world’s wealth, Sarah has demanded that Obama not only boycott the conference, but investigate the entire global warming lie.

In 1960, I became a professor at Durham University in England. I taught botany to undergraduates and led research teams at Masters, Ph.D., and postdoctoral levels. Between 1969 and 1996, I was a TV personality. The BBC, rapidly followed by ITV, gave me free rein to inform the world about botany, natural history, and the environment. My media popularity brought me many accolades: I was only the second person to have his photo on the cover of Nature. (Beaten to this position by Charles Darwin, no less!) The caption? “Science is Fun.” Back in those days, it was. I regularly...

A professor who is accusing global warming skeptics of engaging in "tabloid-style character assassination” of scientists, called an American climate skeptic “an assh*le” on the December 4, 2009 live broadcast of BBC's Newsnight program. “What an assh*le!” declared Professor Watson at the end of the contentious debate with Climate Depot's executive editor Marc Morano. A clearly agitated Watson had earlier shouted to Morano “will you shut up.” Video of BBC “As*h*le” clip is here. Full one-on-one BBC debate segment between Prof. Watson and Climate Depot's Morano is here in two parts. The remark was broadcast live on BBC and prompted...

Climategate is not going away. As I noted in my previous post this is not about emails where so called scientists suborning the peer-review process and scientific method while colluding to side step legal freedom of information requests. No, the problems discovered in Climategate are in the (computer) code and data and uncertainties.

Today’s Times of London reveals the UK Met (Meteorological) Office will go through the painstaking job of reassembling all of the original temperature data that was recently discovered to have been destroyed by the CRU, reportedly in the 1980s. This earth shattering news was discovered by the University of East Anglia shortly after it announced all source data and code used in the CRU’s reports would be made public. Two days after the revelation of the destroyed data, it was announced Phil Jones, CRU’s director would temporarily step down, pending an independent investigation... This is a necessary task for any...

It's getting harder and harder for the legacy media to ignore climategate. Now even the UN itself is recognizing climategate is serious business. The BBC reports: "The head of the UN's climate science body says claims that UK scientists manipulated data on global warming should be investigated. Dr Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said the matter could not be swept 'under the carpet'. [snip] 'We will certainly go into the whole lot and then we will take a position on it,' he said. 'We certainly don't want to brush anything under the carpet. This...

The Telegraph's Delingpole argues from a comparison of web and news stories that Climategate is a much better story than the mainstream press seems to think it is: "Climategate is now huge. Way, way bigger than the Mainstream Media (MSM) is admitting it is -- as Richard North demonstrates in this fascinating analysis. Using what he calls a Tiger Woods Index (TWI), he compares the amount of interest being shown by internet users (as shown by the number of general web pages on Google) and compares it with the number of news reports recorded. The ratio indicates what people are...

Ann Coulter at Townhall Jon Stewart on the Daily Show

As Climategate is exposing the IPCC conference in Copenhagen as an exercise in political flatulence based on fraud within the scientific community scientific and a bizarre conspiracy by Leftists to establish control and power over the world, President Obama is determined to commit the US to an International Treaty that will compromise our sovereignty and economic security. In a desperate effort to lend credibility to a movement that is being continuously exposed everyday as nothing more than a scam, Obama apparently believes that he can salvage the Hoax with his presence and charm. However, the people of the United...

In the wake of Climategate, what’s an environmentalist to do? A couple of leading experts explore the options here.

Australian Senate Reaction to Climatgate Could Impact Cap & Trade in U.S. The news that the world's leading climate science institutions had been collaborating internationally for many years in a systematic and ruthless scientific and financial fraud by which they altered, suppressed, reprocessed, concealed, and conspired to destroy the data on which the world's temperature records are based has come as a wake up call to politicians previously slumbering.

Just a quick note: Many of us like to blog on a variety of topics. I know many of you blog, or would like to blog, on the lie commonly known as Climate Change. You need a good, catchy domain if you run a website. So, if you want a website dedicated to the climate issue, here's a domain for you: TheClimateLie.com. As of this moment, it's available for purchase. Any takers?

In the wake of the burgeoning Climategate fraud scandal, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) on December 2 filed an emergency petition demanding that the Environmental Protection Agency stop its plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act, pending a complete investigation.

I posted the Sarah Palin Radio Interview (video) on the Rusty Humphrey Show. They talked about Obama's birth certificate, climategate, the economy and the many fans she is meeting on the book tour. Overall a very good interview and Rusty asked some great questions.

Well, it finally happened. Much of Canadian media broke radio silence on Climategate today. There really wasn't much choice but to report it, now that Environment Minister Jim Prentice had officially described the allegations as "serious", coupled with the day-old news that CRU head Phil Jones was "stepping aside" in preparation for his encounter with a double-decker. As of this evening, there are 23,100,000 Google results for "climategate" - and exactly one on-air report from the CBC. It's been 14 days since the cork was pulled from FOIA 2009.zip And as it turns out, the concerted efforts of a protective...

The president’s decision to attend the international climate conference in Copenhagen needs to be reconsidered in light of the unfolding Climategate scandal. The leaked e-mails involved in Climategate expose the unscientific behavior of leading climate scientists who deliberately destroyed records to block information requests, manipulated data to “hide the decline” in global temperatures, and conspired to silence the critics of man-made global warming. I support Senator James Inhofe’s call for a full investigation into this scandal. Because it involves many of the same personalities and entities behind the Copenhagen conference, Climategate calls into question many of the proposals being pushed...

Dr. Leonard Horowitz, Keynote Speaker at the Denver "Don't Inject ME!" Protest and Rally for Medical Freedom sat down on the capitol steps in Denver and had a great conversation with the Men from We Are Change Colorado. These two videos cover the basics of what he had to say. Also included in this blog post is the podcast of The Insight Hour, Dr. Horowitzs Radio Broadcast, where Sherri Kane outlines the links between the criminals who planned the Global Vaccine Genocide and the Media. Dr. Horowitz also makes these connections in his video. All Three of US called for...

We Are Change Chicago confront Al Gore at a book signing. Alex Jones Responds, and Sarah Palin spanks the president. All videos hosted on blog!

The president’s decision to attend the international climate conference in Copenhagen needs to be reconsidered in light of the unfolding Climategate scandal. The leaked e-mails involved in Climategate expose the unscientific behavior of leading climate scientists who deliberately destroyed records to block information requests, manipulated data to “hide the decline” in global temperatures, and conspired to silence the critics of man-made global warming. I support Senator James Inhofe’s call for a full investigation into this scandal. Because it involves many of the same personalities and entities behind the Copenhagen conference, Climategate calls into question many of the proposals being pushed...

I've written little this year about my own personal views on climate change.  Truth be told, I've been doing a lot of thinking and reflecting and wasn't ready to speak out again.  But I've spoken out on this topic quite a bit in the past as evidenced by previous blog posts on climate change here. I've concluded that the oceans are the best gauge we have for telling us if climate change is anthropogenic or not.  The oceans are where the planet stores surface heat and it takes time for the oceans to store that heat.  Thus hurricane season begins...

An upper level storm system will be digging south-southeastward out of Colorado and into eastern Texas during the next 24-hours. You can see the storm system spinning on this water vapor image.

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Not all of the climate change Hoaxers are members of the CSU in England, the other major "research arm" of the Church of Global Warming is the United States own Space agency, NASA. The man behind NASA's climate change efforts is James Hansen, who runs the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He is also Al Gore's personal climate change guru. Hansen lives by one strong rule. "If God deals you bad numbers--fudge them." Remember when NASA announced October 2008 was the warmest in history and then, "OOPS NEVER MIND" someone figured out a mistake was made? It was James...