Climategate: White House Involvement in Scandal Will Make It Harder for MSM to Ignore

NewsBusters ^ | November 26, 2009 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Yesterday Brian Williams delivered an NBC Nightly News report about President Obama attending the Copenhagen global warming summit. Guess what hot topic was left untouched? If you had guessed Climategate you would have been correct. Not only Williams but also the other TV networks, with the exception of FOX News, have completely ignored what is considered to be the biggest scientific scandal in history. However, new Climategate revelations made by the Canada Free Press about a White House connection to the scandal will soon make it much more difficult (and ridiculous) for the networks to ignore.

Canada Free Press editor Judi McLeod and Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball reveal the involvement of White House Science Czar John Holdren (photo) in the Climategate Scandal. The picture presented of Holdren is not a pretty one:

Lift up a rock and another snake comes slithering out from the ongoing University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) scandal, now riding as “Climategate”.

Obama Science Czar John Holdren is directly involved in CRU’s unfolding Climategate scandal. In fact, according to files released by a CEU hacker or whistleblower, Holdren is involved in what Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball terms “a truculent and nasty manner that provides a brief demonstration of his lack of understanding, commitment on faith and willingness to ridicule and bully people”.

[6SJ7]

Science Czar John Holdren...

"Science Czar". Now there's an oxymoron. Science, real science, is not dictated, but is proven by logic and evidence. Of course that is, I guess, old school thinking, replaced now by marxist ideas such as "scientific consensus".

[SunkenCiv]

Oh, I’m sure he was just a professor who happened to live nearby.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Freedom’sWorthIt. Have a great Thanksgiving.

China, US put climate targets on table
The Australian | November 26, 2009 | Brad Norington
Posted on 11/26/2009 6:37:48 AM PST by myknowledge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2394906/posts

[LikeLight]

R.I.P. Global Warming. You’ve scared a lot of people, including innocent kids. You’ve tricked us into wasting untold precious resources on your imaginary crisis, while people were starving and desperate and dying. You’ve deprived them of help with your loud and incessant whining, demanding constant attention with all your drama and hype. You’ve deceived a generation. But now the game is over. Goodbye and good riddance. We won’t miss you.

P.S. I never believed in you anyway. Creep.

[ETL]

There is no evidence that CO2 has ever caused significant warming on Earth when the concentrations were within 10-15 times of what they are today. Water vapor is, by far, the most important greenhouse gas in the Earth system. Water vapor accounts for about 95% of the greenhouse effect on Earth. Earth's temperature variations are much better correlated with the Sun's solar activity/sunspot cycle than with CO2 changes.-etl

THE ACQUITTAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE
by Jeffrey A. Glassman, PhD

ABSTRACT:

"Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere [historically] is the product of oceanic respiration due to the well-known but under-appreciated solubility pump. Carbon dioxide rises out of warm ocean waters where it is added to the atmosphere. There it is mixed with residual and accidental CO2, and circulated, to be absorbed into the sink of the cold ocean waters. Next the thermohaline circulation carries the CO2-rich sea water deep into the ocean. A millennium later it appears at the surface in warm waters, saturated by lower pressure and higher temperature, to be exhausted back into the atmosphere. Throughout the past 420 millennia, comprising four interglacial periods, the Vostok record of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is imprinted with, and fully characterized by, the physics of the solubility of CO2 in water, along with the lag in the deep ocean circulation.

Notwithstanding that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, atmospheric carbon dioxide has neither caused nor amplified global temperature increases. Increased carbon dioxide has been an effect of global warming, not a cause. Technically, carbon dioxide is a lagging proxy for ocean temperatures. When global temperature, and along with it, ocean temperature rises, the physics of solubility causes atmospheric CO2 to increase.

If increases in carbon dioxide, or any other greenhouse gas, could have in turn raised global temperatures, the positive feedback would have been catastrophic. While the conditions for such a catastrophe were present in the Vostok record from natural causes, the runaway event did not occur. Carbon dioxide does not accumulate in the atmosphere."

http://www.rocketscientistsjournal.com/2006/10/co2_acquittal.html
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The graph above represents temperature and CO2 levels over the past 400,000 years. It is the same exact data Al Gore and the rest of the man-made global warmers refer to. The blue line is temps, the red, CO2 levels. The deep valleys represent 4 separate glaciation/ice-age periods. Look carefully at this historical relationship between temps and CO2 levels (the present is on the right hand side of the graph) and keep in mind that Gore claims this data is the 'proof' that CO2 has warmed the earth in the past. But does the data indeed show this? Nope. In fact, rising CO2 levels all throughout this 400,000-year period actually *followed* temperature increases -lagging behind by an average of 800 years! So it couldn't have been CO2 that got Earth out of these past glaciations. Yet Gore continually and dishonestly claims otherwise. Furthermore, the subsequent CO2 level increases due to dissolved CO2 being released from warming oceans, never did lead to additional warming, the so-called "run-away greenhouse effect" that Al Gore and his friends keep warning us about. In short, there is little if any evidence that CO2 had ever led to increased warming, at least not when the levels were within 10-15 times of what they are today. -etl
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"The above chart shows the range of global temperature through the last 500 million years. There is no statistical correlation between the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere through the last 500 million years and the temperature record in this interval. In fact, one of the highest levels of carbon dioxide concentration occurred during a major ice age that occurred about 450 million years ago [Myr]. Carbon dioxide concentrations at that time were about 15 times higher than at present." [also see 180 million years ago, same thing happened]:
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=010405M
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So, greenhouse [effect] is all about carbon dioxide, right?

Wrong. The most important players on the greenhouse stage are water vapor and clouds [clouds of course aren't gas, but high level ones do act to trap heat from escaping, while low-lying cumulus clouds tend to reflect sunlight and thereby help cool the planet -etl]. Carbon dioxide has been increased to about 0.038% of the atmosphere (possibly from about 0.028% pre-Industrial Revolution) while water in its various forms ranges from 0% to 4% of the atmosphere and its properties vary by what form it is in and even at what altitude it is found in the atmosphere.

In simple terms the bulk of Earth's greenhouse effect is due to water vapor by virtue of its abundance. Water accounts for about 90% of the Earth's greenhouse effect -- perhaps 70% is due to water vapor and about 20% due to clouds (mostly water droplets), some estimates put water as high as 95% of Earth's total tropospheric greenhouse effect (e.g., Freidenreich and Ramaswamy, 'Solar Radiation Absorption by Carbon Dioxide, Overlap with Water, and a Parameterization for General Circulation Models,' Journal of Geophysical Research 98 (1993):7255-7264).

The remaining portion comes from carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, ozone and miscellaneous other 'minor greenhouse gases.' As an example of the relative importance of water it should be noted that changes in the relative humidity on the order of 1.3-4% are equivalent to the effect of doubling CO2.

http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/
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Water Vapor Rules the Greenhouse System

Water vapor constitutes Earth's most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95% of Earth's greenhouse effect (4). Interestingly, many 'facts and figures' regarding global warming completely ignore the powerful effects of water vapor in the greenhouse system, carelessly (perhaps, deliberately) overstating human impacts as much as 20-fold.

Water vapor is 99.999% of natural origin. Other atmospheric greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and miscellaneous other gases (CFC's, etc.), are also mostly of natural origin (except for the latter, which is mostly anthropogenic).

Human activities contribute slightly to greenhouse gas concentrations through farming, manufacturing, power generation, and transportation. However, these emissions are so dwarfed in comparison to emissions from natural sources we can do nothing about, that even the most costly efforts to limit human emissions would have a very small-- perhaps undetectable-- effect on global climate.

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html
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Water Vapor Confirmed As Major Player In Climate Change

ScienceDaily (Nov. 18, 2008) — Water vapor is known to be Earth's most abundant greenhouse gas, but the extent of its contribution to global warming has been debated. Using recent NASA satellite data, researchers have estimated more precisely than ever the heat-trapping effect of water in the air, validating the role of the gas as a critical component of climate change.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081117193013.htm

[razzle]

“This guy (Holdren) is pure evil. He would get along with Hitler. “

Another Hitler comparison. Hitler came around at a time when Communists and their friends the rich liberal Jews were sucking the blood from Germany along with the French (does this sound familiar). To say that Hitler overreacted is an understatement, however - Liberalism causes nothing but war and suffering.

[snowrip]

Spoke with my broker yesterday (he’s a buddy). He feels strongly that this is the one of the biggest stories of the year, and advised me to begin selling my green energy stocks.

[Achilles Heel]

Dems are going ram “climate change” taxes and schemes up our butts as if we were turkeys for stuffing.

Yup—as I said in another post, she mouthed the newest DEM talking points on crap and trade. Like Pelousy said—I don't care what they think. They are hell bent on shoving this through for monetary gain and power over companies and sheeple. This will bring in mega bucks to the govt. I read where Valero is now upset over this.

[houeto]

The left's assault on America is in full frontal mode. No more feints, no more smokescreens or dissembling about how they are doing the people's will. They have admitted out loud, they are here to rule.

Which gives me an ever growing sick feeling in my gut that there will not be any 2010 elections. Not sure where the feeling comes from, I just know it's there.

[RatsDawg]

No joke, I was in first grade back in 1990, when this stuff really started taking off. I remember distinctly my teacher telling us, “If you don’t pick up the garbage outside, the light will shine on that garbage and cause the Ozone to get bigger.” I believed that for a lot of years. Until I got old enough to realize, WTF? We also performed a musical on the effects of global warming and pollution, and this was in the early 90’s at public school of course.

[RatsDawg]

I also remembered that in first grade the first Gulf War started, and the teachers tried to explain it to us like, “Saddam is a very bad man with oil. America and George Bush want that oil, so that’s what we are fighting to get over there.”

I believed that until high school, when I had a Republican American studies teacher, who taught us the real reason behind the war. My American Studies class was unique, we had 2 teachers in the class room, one was a Democrat the other a Republican. So we got both sides.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Bump

[PA-RIVER]

As Rush said yesterday, Liberals live in the world of lies.

This Global warming bullshit has been a pack of lies from the get go, and they, the media included, will never admit it.

I think the tone of debate is going to get harsh, as it needs to. When someone is making up facts as they go along, you need to take off the goves and shove it down their throats.

[rockinqsranch]

Please be so kind as to add my name to your ping list. I’d appreciate it.

Seems to me that bus of Obama’s is about to receive another axle inspector, as apparently that is the Obama answer to any and all the personnel problems he encounters.

Toss ‘em under the bus.

Interesting that contrary to Obama’s statement during the campaign in which he said he chose his friends well that today he proves an extraordinary inability to choose at all, much less well.

[I got the rope]

Wow...basically it was Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon that broke the hockeystick before Steve McIntyre at Climate audit!

They deserve more credit than McIntyre for exposing this BS.

[PJ-Comix]

This author flew all over the map to make his case and confused everyone. He wound up making people wonder if anything wrong really occurred.

Sorry, but it does get complex when the documents are presented. Bottom line is that the presentations by the two physicists didn't fit in with the global warming agenda so Holdren was the one to mock them and call them into question.

[I got the rope]

It’s because the both work at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...at Harvard. They are not professors but they are working scientists.

[printhead]

My guess; either at a flag or draft card burning.

[manc]

this is even big news in the UK and yet nothing here.

Fox has covered it but they need to put up exclusive and a big banner saying this
Then run with this in a big way for days

I’ve called and sent mail off to all the networks including local channels asking why they will not show or report this in detail and why d they keep being biased as it is a great dis service to the public

I hope others have too.

[Smokeyblue]

I’m sure Charlie Gibson hasn’t heard about it yet.