Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/05/2009 9:00:29 AM PST by ventanax5
Slowly and mostly unnoticed by the major news media, the air has been going out of the global warming balloon. Global temperatures stopped rising a few years ago, much to the dismay of the climate campaigners. The U.N.'s upcoming Copenhagen conference--which was supposed to yield a binding greenhouse gas emissions reduction treaty as a successor to the failed Kyoto Protocol--collapsed weeks in advance and remains on life support pending Obama's magical intervention. Cap and trade legislation is stalled on Capitol Hill. Recent opinion polls from Gallup, Pew, Rasmussen, ABC/Washington Post, and other pollsters all find a dramatic decline in public belief in human-caused global warming. The climate campaigners continue to insist this is because they have a "communications" problem, but after Al Gore's Nobel Prize/Academy Award double play, millions of dollars in paid advertising, and the relentless doom-mongering from the media echo chamber and the political class, this excuse is preposterous. And now the climate campaign is having its Emperor's New Clothes moment.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Really excellent review of the Climategate situation.
Anyone who has visited L’Anse Meadows in Newfoundland knows that the earth was a lot warmer in the middle ages when Leaf Ericson and his crew set up a vessel repair station there. They were explorers operating out of a settlement in Greenland and almost certainly reached the NA Continent, based on nuts found in L’Anse digs. None of this settlement or exploration would have been possible without a much warmer climate and there is also evidence of a higher sealevel..or maybe just retreat of glaciers allowing land to rise.
L’Anse aux Meadows was definitely built by Europeans, and only Norse/Icelanders are known to have visited North America around that time, but I don’t think we can say that Leif personally was ever at L’Anse aux Meadows. It may not have been the only site or the settlement which gets mentioned in the sagas.
Scientists Gone Wild
A keeper. I attempt in casual conversation to bring up the subject and ask people if they think global warming is true and do they know what cap and trade is and do they know that it is based on a theory that carbon dioxide is a pollutant. Most people I have talked to are not aware of the connections. There is a lot of work to do.
We can’t let the MSM win this.
Best ClimateGate clips (show everybody you know):
So called, “climate scientists” are upset (desperate) because nature and the data aren’t cooperating with their Socialist agenda, and now they are in a blizzard of truth.
Absolute best, most complete and most comprehensible summary of Climategate that I’ve read/heard to date.
Thanks for posting it!!!
That’s a great article. It’s long, but when a piece is really good, you don’t want it to end. This one does not disappoint, either quality or quantity.
Perfect read for a rainy Saturday, waiting for the Alabama/Florida game to start. GO TIDE!!!
great detailed recap of climaquiddick
Key dates in the story of a warming planet ( AP still pushing the story )
bttt
I spotted a typo in this excellent article. It says:
“And McIntyre scored a major hit against NASA’s chief climate alarmist James Hansen, discovering significant errors of overestimation in Hansen’s temperature reconstruction of the 20th century. (NASA’s Goddard Institute website publicly thanked McIntyre, no doubt through gritted cyber teeth, for pointing out their error.)”
But, actually, Hansen’s 0.8°C error was for the 21st century, not the 20th.
What is remarkable is that McIntyre managed to discover it despite being denied access to the raw data — something NASA was unable to do even though they are the keeprs of the data. Very impressive!
See this article on Anthony Watts’ indispensable blog:
http://www.norcalblogs.com/watts/2007/08/1998_no_longer_the_hottest_yea.html
-Dave
http://www.burtonsys.com/climategate/
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