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Full Disclosure: Any typos below are most likely MINE from bad cut-n-pasting. Everyone in the blogosphere is talking about the release of the internal Hadley Climate Research Unit (CRU) emails. Most of the talk so far has focused on a couple of emails, nost notably the one from Phil Jones:From: Phil JonesTo: ray bradley ,mann@xxxxx.xxx, mhughes@xxxx.xxxSubject: Diagram for WMO StatementDate: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 +0000 Cc: k.briffa@xxx.xx.xx,t.osborn@xxxx.xxx 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...

They’re calling it “Climategate.” The scandal that the suffix –gate implies is the state of climate science over the past decade or so revealed by a thousand or so emails, documents, and computer code sets between various prominent scientists released following a leak from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in the UK. This may seem obscure, but the science involved is being used to justify the diversion of literally trillions of dollars of the world’s wealth in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by phasing out fossil fuels. The CRU is the Pentagon of...

So I was thinking about environmentalists, and the concept of being eco-friendly, going green, and minimizing your carbon footprint. It occurred to me, why don't environmentalists just kill themselves? Can you think of a more effective way to reduce your carbon footprint? Think about it, one less person, means less electricity use, less plastics use, less land and air being occupied and contaminated. Besides just using less resources, their decomposing bodies would fertilize the soil. Talk about a double whammy.

Suppose the alteration, hiding, or deletion of data were NOT involving "climate change" -- but, instead, had detailed knowledge of a conspirary to kill abortion 'doctors' and pro-abortion politicians? Do you think THAT would gain the media's attention?

The President is beginning to resemble the myth about Emperor Nero, who supposedly was playing his fiddle as Rome was burning to the ground. More often than not new facts prove his programs are out of touch with the facts or the will of the people, but he keeps on going almost as if he has lost all touch with reality (or he doesn't own a subscription to a newspaper).

This was never about the environment. It was just about the money, and nobody even bothered to check one of the most important things at the root of the whole debate.Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is the tiniest of trace gases in the overall total environment. It is one element in the overall mix of Greenhouse Gases. Almost all those GHG is water vapor. CO2 is only 388 Parts per million, which is only 0.0388% of the total Atmosphere. CO2 is absolutely essential for life on Earth.To more easily visualize what this amount is, consider that whole room as the total Atmosphere....

The blogosphere is abuzz with news of the latest global warming scandal. A latter day "Daniel Ellsberg" has released the climate equivalent of the Pentagon Papers onto the web. In 1971 former Defense Department employee Daniel Ellsberg turned over a large collection of Pentagon Vietnam War related documents to the New York Times. Recently an unknown whistler blower released 61 megabytes of documents along with emails involving communications between Professor Phil Jones, Director of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, and various other scientists who support the claim that humans can raise air temperatures by increasing...

When scientists become advocates for their scientific hypotheses, whether for political or self-aggrandizing reasons, they cease being scientists, and they become bullies, or worse. When scientists belittle, deride, condescend, stifle, censure or chastise the contributions of other scientists with whom they disagree, they are nothing less than evil. We now have evidence of such behavior on the part of a core of leading advocates for anthropogenic global warming. With the release of emails and other documents from the servers of the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit, the destructive mindset is exposed in all its glory. Today, November 24,...

Its really is funny when you think about it. Its another fuzzy bunny the left has rolled out to demoralize and destroy capitalism. Remember the "whole in the ozone"? Remember they said the ozone would be gone in ten years? That was 1980, within 10 years the hole was the smallest ever recorded. By the way, look for this again, for a long time there was no significant change. So someone came out with a new scale and all of a sudden it looks bad by the "New Scale" so this may be the next "crisis" now that Global Warming...

Climatic Research Unit update - 17.45 November 23 It is a matter of concern that data, including personal information about individuals, appears to have been illegally taken from the university and elements published selectively on a number of websites. The volume of material published and its piecemeal nature makes it impossible to confirm what proportion is genuine. We took immediate action to remove the server in question from operation and have involved the police in what we consider to be a criminal investigation.

Nigel Lawson from the London Times describes how the CRU emails have damaged, possibly permanently, the theory of man-made global warming: ...the scientific basis for global warming projections is now under scrutiny as never before. The principal source of these projections is produced by a small group of scientists at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU), affiliated to the University of East Anglia. Last week an apparent hacker obtained access to their computers and published in the blogosphere part of their internal e-mail traffic. And the CRU has conceded that the at least some of the published e-mails are genuine. Astonishingly,...

For those of us “skeptics” and “deniers” who have been jumping up and down, pointing at the Sun, and saying, “See, it’s the Sun that determines how warm or cool the Earth is. See it? Up there in the sky?” The truth about some of the scientists behind the global warming hoax has finally arrived. The hoax has its roots in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an instrument of the United Nations Environmental Program, for whom global warming was the open sesame to achieving a one-world-government by scaring nations into signing a treaty that would control their use...

the email archive, makes an utter mockery of the alarmists' claim that the science of global warming is settled in their favor. On the contrary, the conclusion an observer is likely to draw from the CRU archive is that the climate alarmists are making up the science as they go along and are fitting facts to reach a predetermined conclusion rather than objectively seeking after truth. What they are doing is politics, not science. When I was in law school, this story was told about accountants: A CEO is going to hire a new accountant and summons a series of...

the email archive, makes an utter mockery of the alarmists' claim that the science of global warming is settled in their favor. On the contrary, the conclusion an observer is likely to draw from the CRU archive is that the climate alarmists are making up the science as they go along and are fitting facts to reach a predetermined conclusion rather than objectively seeking after truth. What they are doing is politics, not science. When I was in law school, this story was told about accountants: A CEO is going to hire a new accountant and summons a series of...

I myself am reviewing two documents which support my long standing claims that the accuracy of the raw data is incapable of detecting a global warming trend of less than a degree over the period of actual temperature data that began in 1880. I am seeing indications the data cannot detect a warming trend under a degree for countries and regions, let alone the Earth.

I am from San Diego and John Coleman has always been my favorite Weather Man. His catch phrase is "The KUUUUSI Weather Report". I can't remember a single time John was wrong about our Weather. This man knows his weather and is a really good guy. I never knew he founded the Weather Channel. It's about time someone stands up and sues Al Gore and his Global Warming Conspiracy Theories. 30,000 scientist and Al Gore doesn't want to listen. Maybe this will "make" him listen. We all know why the Media and Hollywood want to push Global Warming. Very simple...

In a speech before 1,500 of the world’s top climate scientists, Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University, Germany warned that “the recent cooling trend should not be allowed to divert attention from our main purpose. Temperatures rise, temperatures fall, sometimes catastrophically. Amidst these fluctuations, though, it is imperative that funding for climate research be maintained.” “Many governments are looking for ways to reduce expenditures during the current recession,” Latif ominously observed. “Consequently, a perception that climatic dangers may be easing or that there may be plenty of time to respond to trends that take...

New information on the CRU emails, now it appears it may not be a hack but a insider: The anonymous tipster, whom many people initially assumed had "hacked" into the computers at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia (repeatedly called the "Hadley CRU," by mistake), might in fact be a CRU insider who released the files for his own reasons. The user, known only as "FOIA" (which now appears to be a reference to the British equivalent of the US Freedom of Information Act), left only one comment on The Air Vent to announce his...

We, the citizens of the United States of America, aware of our civil rights and in an effort to stop Al Gore and the I.P.P.C. from instilling false fears in the minds of the American People, hereby express our disapproval of Al Gore's and the I.P.P.C.'s refusal to hold a debate in-regards to Global Warming. We are aware of more than 30,000 scientist who disagree with the Global Warming theories Al Gore and the I.P.P.C. are trying to push. On the basis of the above, we demand Al Gore and the I.P.P.C. hold a fair and equal debate with Scientist...

Anthony Watts over at Watts Up With That has a breaking story about unknown hacker or persons breaking into the East Anglia Climate Research Unit's database. The over 61 megs of data "appears to be genuinue" considering the herculean task of creating emails and other sundry data of such magnitude. I’m currently traveling and writing this from an airport, but here is what I know so far: An unknown person put postings on some climate skeptic websites that advertised an FTP file on a Russian FTP server, here is the message that was placed on the Air Vent today: We...

In the most recent deluge of report given by the UN on global warming, it seems that they have completely lost their minds. First, as I have already written about, they believe that condoms and family planning will help end global warming. The agency did not recommend countries set limits on how many children people should have, but said: “Women with access to reproductive health services … have lower fertility rates that contribute to slower growth in greenhouse gas emissions.” And now, they are claiming that women, by nature, are more at risk of global warming. The report concluded: “Because...

We have never hidden our antipathy toward those who believe in global warming, for we find their thesis illogical at worst, poorly based on ill-advised facts, and antiprogress. As we said last week, and as we have said for years, however, we do indeed believe in global climate change. The climate always changes. The world is malleable and its climate has always changed… radically… and it will continue to change into the future. Man’s “imposition” on that change is minimal at best, made all but insignificant when compared to the effects of the sun, gravity, ocean drifts, tectonic plate shifts,...

Florida’s Global Warming University Malcolm A. Kline, November 16, 2009 Not content to push global warming theories on students even when temperatures don’t support them, Florida Gulf Coast University is trying to censor skepticism off of its campus. When Brandon Wasicsko of the FGCU Eagles 4 Liberty club attempted to advertise a showing of the documentary Not Evil, Just Wrong, Patrick J. Greene, an associate professor of Educational Technology, went berserk. “This email is a violation of the FGCU policy to not use our email system for Political propaganda,” Greene wrote in an electronic missive to Wasicsko on October 19,...

Apparently, forming a one-world government that ruled in the interest of climate change wasn’t quite pressing enough to push through this year. The New York Times reported on Sunday that the COP15 summit to be held from Dec. 7 until Dec. 18 would not offer a legally binding climate treaty for signature. The treaty, which has become famous from its widespread denunciation by climate change skeptics like Lord Monckton, will be reconsidered in Bonn in 2010. According to the Times: U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders on Sunday supported delaying a legally binding climate pact until 2010 or...

Many of you from coast-to-coast experienced a wet and cool October and now the official numbers are in. Since 1895, October 2009 was the 3rd coolest October, nationally.

This week, spokespeople for the Indian science journal Jonwar Chodu announced that climate change is causing problems in more ways than anyone imagines. An assortment of 200 Indian climatologists, geologists, psychologists and spiritual leaders met secretly in Patpong, Thailand, to pool all their knowledge of global warming so that they could come to grips with just what is being done to the world. The secrecy resulted from the fact that, quote, "We didn't want Republicans to come and ruin things." Reporters for the non-partisan news organization "Stop Global Warming Or Else!" learned of the event through sources and descended on...

The 2009 hurricane season is another in a line of record low hurricane years! What's left of Tropical Depression Ida is passing overhead as I write. With barely a breeze but some much needed rain she is a welcome end to the 2009 hurricane season. A year which set a record as the quietest season since 1997. Not one hurricane made landfall in the United States and very few storms even reached hurricane strength. The total accumulated energy of all tropical storms remains near historic lows despite a modest warming trend in ocean waters which is now declining. And yet...

The members of the Church of the Holy Global Warming Moonbats, just hate when you throw facts at them. They say that when the temperatures fall it is because of Global Warming. For the "normal" people the fact that temperatures are going down is more evidence that the global warming crisis is nonsense. Take a look at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration review of October:

Al Gore decided to celebrate halloween a couple days later then everyone else. Instead of a haunted house he went on Morning Joe and started telling us the world is about to end. The sky is falling. The earth has a fever. And we are all going to drown from rising sea levels. Here's the link for the video. Transcript below. "Al Gore: Well, the book is titled “Our Choice” because it focuses on the key factor. If we choose to switch to renewable energy. Sustainable agriculture and forestry. Make our economy more efficient. Then we don’t have to depended...

The music world is all riled up again and this time it’s for “Climate Change”. Oh climate change, yeah!!! After the wild success of projects like: USA for Africa, Band Aid, Live Aid, Farm Aid they’re now singing for temperature. All we need now is a big pair of headphones for the sun and… wait and a spaceship! A solar powered spaceship! Brilliant! Sadly, the artists are lame and the song is not very creative. They’ve basically taken Midnight Oil’s 1987 hit “Beds are Burning” and got a 2nd grader that attended an ALGORE lecture on the end of the...

Halloween is upon us and many of the Little Punkins will be seeking the treasure of candy and goods Saturday evening. But will they be able to do so with just their costume and bag at hand or will they need coat/jacket and or rain gear?

A vigorous storm system moving through the center of the nation has delivered feet of snow to Colorado including the Denver metro area and is also delivering strong to severe storms across portions of SE Oklahoma/NE Texas/Western AR/Western LA. As of 2 PM CT, 3 tornado watches were in effect.

A powerful early winter season storm is spinning up across the 4-corners with a surface low across southeast Colorado. The surface system will gradually lift north-northeastward through Saturday while the upper level support will be slowly track eastward into the lower Mississippi Valley. What does this mean?

One of Europe's solutions to the perceived global warming threat is trying to regulate carbon emissions through Carbon Credits The way it works is the government sets a or cap on the total amount of a pollutant that can be emitted. Companies or other groups are issued emission permits and are required to hold an equivalent number of credits. Companies that need to increase their emission allowance must buy credits from those who pollute less. In effect, the buyer is paying a charge for polluting, while the seller is being rewarded for having reduced emissions by more than was needed....

Crops such as Corn, Cotton and Soybeans Affected If it has seemed like it has been raining unusually often and by quite a bit, you are right. The months during harvest time (August/September/October) are traditionally the driest of year for most locations east of the Rockies, especially across the corn and cotton belts. This season, though, has been an exception. Here is a slide show that shows how the precipitation of these months has compared to normal.

President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Chai Feldblum, has rankled many by calling the promotion of traditional marriage “wrongheaded.” “The idea that two-parent families are a positive force for good is mistaken,” Feldblum argued. “In fact, its touted key strength—that it is best for children—is its greatest weakness. The Earth is already overpopulated. Adding more children can only worsen this problem.” Feldblum contrasted traditional heterosexual marriage with the gay lifestyle, calling it a comparison that does not bode favorably for so-called traditional values. “The great virtue of homosexual relationships is that they don’t produce more...

'Warming had a natural origin...CO2 is 'not guilty' Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - By Marc Morano – Climate Depot Reprint of new scientific paper: (Full pdf paper available here.) THE SUN DEFINES THE CLIMATE (Habibullo Abdussamatov, Dr. Sc. - Head of Space research laboratory of the Pulkovo Observatory, Head of the Russian/Ukrainian joint project Astrometria - (translated from Russian by Lucy Hancock) Dr. Abdussamatov is featured on page 140 of the 2009 U.S. Senate Report of More Than 700 Dissenting Scientists Over Man-Made Global Warming.) Key Excerpts: Observations of the Sun show that as for the increase in temperature, carbon...

Lord Monckton is certainly the new poster boy for people who do not buy into the power grab that is global warming. I just came across this video of Lord Monckton speaking at Accuracy In Media's 40th anniversary on Oct. 23rd. Among other things he says that it would take the entire planet 200 years of a stone age economy with NO fires in our caves to make a tiny diff' to global warming. He goes on to talk about the Copenhagen treaty. Here is the video Lord Monckton speaking at A.I.M.I'll try and get a transcript up later.

That god among men and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Al Gore, told us in “An Inconvenient Truth”, his Oscar-winning documentary, that we had to brace for increasing numbers of hurricanes as the result of global warming. So, where are the hurricanes of 2009, Mr. Gore? The hurricane season that runs from June through October is about to end with nothing more than one weak to borderline moderate tropical storm that hit Florida’s panhandle, but there have been NO hurricanes. So, where are the hurricanes of 2009, Mr. Gore? [snip] Since an increase in hurricanes was one of his dramatic claims...

Obama’s promises appear to be very conservative in nature, until you get beyond the teleprompted platitudes. “Everyone should have a stake” in energy legislation, Obama explained, doubtless referring to the massive increase in energy costs that every American will be forced to pay, should the cap-and-tax bill pass the Senate. The president claimed that energy independence was a major goal, “making the best use of resources we have in abundance.” Except for the oil in ANWR. Or the offshore fields that the Chinese are beginning to tap. Or the oil shale fields in states like Colorado, where Obama’s comrades in...

Belief in the myth of Global Warming has dropped 20 points in the last 3 years according to polling done by the Pew Research Center. Obama has followed this up by opening a polar bear habitat in Alaska, which will make drilling for oil and natural gas there much more difficult. ...

Signs are showing that November will be turning warmer than normal, at least for the first half of so of the month for the Eastern U.S. with the opposite being true for the West. However,

Despite the lack of mainstream media coverage, the word must be getting out that the facts are beginning to pile up against the global warming hoax. * At the UN's World Climate Change Conference in Geneva one of the worlds top climate change scientists, predicted that we are facing 10-20 years of global cooling. The Scientist, named Mojib Latif said the cooling would be the result of changes to ocean currents and temperatures in the North Atlantic, a feature known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Latif also said that the NAO may be partly the cause of warming during...

Obama team member David Axelrod spoke on George Stephanopoulos’ This Week and went so far as to claim that FOXNews is “really not news,” but rather was opinionated entertainment dressed as news. Obviously, like all Americans, Axelrod and his Nobel Peace Prize-winning employer are entitled to their opinions about FOX, but what makes the episode even more comical is the fact that the “legitimate” news agencies fell for a hoax the day after Axelrod lambasted Rupert Murdoch’s network. As reported in the Los Angeles Times, a group of activists posing as U.S. Chamber of Commerce officials sent out a press...

December 8 2009 is the end of the world according to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. So stop your worrying about 2012! Ah, doesn’t Gordon Brown read the BBC News? To date there has been absolutely no sign of global warming since 1999. Paul Hudson a Climate correspondent for the BBC News reluctantly admits that much. (see story) This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.-- Paul Hudson Climate correspondent, BBC News So come on already! Just because...

A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made. -- Governor Sarah Palin A couple weeks ago in Madison Wisconsin, Al Gore, noted global warming alarmist, was making a presentation at The Society of Environmental Journalists at a venue in Madison, Wisconsin. During his presentation, he was faced with something he goes out of his way to avoid: a reporter who dares to ask, shall we say, an inconvenient question about the unsubstantiated musings in his film, An Inconvenient Truth:

This December, politicians, activists, diplomats and environmentalists from all over the world will gather in chilly Copenhagen, Denmark, to discuss “global warming.” The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will sponsor the Copenhagen conference, and its goal will be getting developed countries to cap the carbon emissions that cause “global warming,” thereby reducing the purported role that (primarily Western) nations play in the destruction of the Earth’s ecosystem.

This week Earth will be passing through a debris field left behind by Halley’s Comet, the Orionids. Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office says, “Flakes of comet dust hitting the atmosphere should give us dozens of meteors per hour. Since 2006, Orionids have been one of the showers of the year, with counts of 60 or more meteors per hour.”

"Benefit" is not the correct word, as Cap and Trade will not be a net benefit to any state, being a direct tax on productivity and business in the name of warding off the scam of man-made global warming. That being said, the Waxman-Baucus Bill, Waxman (D-MA) and Baucus (D-CA), will aid special interests in Massachusetts and California more than it will special interests from other states. A little noticed Environmental Protection Agency analysis shows that the pending climate-change bill in Congress would particularly benefit the states represented by its primary authors. The analysis, obtained by The Washington Times, shows...

It’s hard to be thinking about severe weather after the very cool weather many of us have been experiencing, especially where it has recently snowed. However, we are heading into another severe weather season that generally runs from late October through November. Now, this season is predominately found in the southern United States from Texas to Georgia.