Copenhagen climate summit: Al Gore condemned over Arctic ice melting prediction

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Speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, Mr Gore said new computer modelling suggests there is a 75 per cent chance of the entire polar ice cap melting during the summertime by 2014. Alluding to Dr Maslowski’s work, he said: “

These figures are fresh, I just got them yesterday."

However, he faced embarrassment last night after Dr Wieslav Maslowski, the climatologist whose work the prediction was based on, refuted his claims.


Dr Maslowski, of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, told The Times:

“It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at. I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”

Mr Gore’s speech also provoked criticism from leading members of the climate science community, who described the projection as “aggressive”...

[It's called scare tactics, and it works on many.]

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Climate change for 18 years: ‘An orchestrated litany of lies’

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As the Copenhagen climate talks enter their final phase, President Obama and 115 other world leaders are attempting to impose drastic carbon dioxide reductions on developed nations and to transfer billions of dollars to Third World countries to help them do the same, based entirely on highly suspect computer models.

Dr. Vincent Gray, who resigned from the Royal Society of New Zealand to protest the inaccuracies in a report on climate change it issued on July 12, minced no words when he called the entire global warming scenario “an orchestrated litany of lies”:

“As an Expert Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for eighteen years, that is to say, from the very beginning. I have submitted thousands of comments to all of the Reports. My comments on the Fourth IPCC Report, all 1,898 of them, are to be found at IPCC (2007) and my opinions of the IPCC are in Gray (2008b)

“I am therefore very familiar with the arguments presented by the IPCC, many of which have now been copied by the Royal Society of New Zealand, and the responses to them….

The globe is warming

“This statement is a lie. The globe is currently cooling. According to the CSSP Report (Karl et al 2007), there are currently nine authorities currently involved in providing a dataset of monthly global temperature anomalies. They are:

NOAA’s National Climate Data Center (NCDC, GHCN-COADS)
NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia (HadCRUT2v)
NOAA radiosonde network , (RATPAC)
Hadley Centre Radiosonde Network (HadAT2)
University of Alabama Lower Troposphere TLT MSU (UAH )
Remote Sensing Systems Lower Troposphere TLT MSU (RSS)
National Center for Environmental Protection Reanalysis (NCEP50)
European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts Reanalysis (ERA40)

“Eight of these authorities agree that the globe is currently cooling. Only GISS disagrees.

because of increasing greenhouse gas emissions

“No evidence is presented to justify this conclusion. There are “projections” of computer models but these are not predictions, they are merely the results of assumptions made in the model. No “projected” result has ever been successfully related to an actual change in the climate.

Measurements show that greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are well above levels seen for many thousands of years.

“This statement is a lie. 90,000 measurements published in peer-reviewed journals since 1850, some by Nobel Prize-winners, have been suppressed by the IPCC because they do not agree with this statement. (Beck 2007). Stability of carbon dioxide in ice cores thousands of years old is questionable. (Jaworowski 2007). Recent measurements of carbon dioxide are confined only to exceptional circumstances over the ocean, and do not include measurements over land. (Manning et al 1994).

Further global climate changes are predicted

“This is another lie. Computer models of the climate have never been shown to be capable of prediction, and the IPCC recognises this by using the term “projections” for the output from the models. This statement refers only to greenhouse gas concentrations anyway, not to any other ‘global climate change.’”

Here’s a link to Dr. Gray’s entire statement: http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=312&Itemid=1
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The New Big Lie: Climategate Emails Are Not Significant

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Charles Dickens wrote,

“I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it."

The criminals at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in England brazenly defend the indefensible.

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ClimateGate: This Can’t Help

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ClimateGate is devastating to the global warming industry, as alarmists are admitting, if mostly off-the-record and to sympathetic journalists (but I repeat myself). On its heels, however, and particularly for those dealing with insistent alarmists whimpering how ClimateGate reveals nothing,

this is a must read.

In context, it might be just as damning in the eyes of those open to reason.

It comes from an IPCC coordinating lead author who details the IPCC process’s inherent corruption — affirming the details thereof that I also painted after speaking to former lead authors in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism — and he joins the impressive ranks of actual “leading scientists” cutting their IPCC ties for the same reason. As you read it recall the specific defenses against ClimateGate’s meaning.

A compelling angle to this is that it appears to have been written days before ClimateGate documents made their way to select servers and before the admissions were widely known.

Ha-tip Marc Morano at Climate Depot.

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'The world must take action on climate change at Copenhagen even if the science is not correct:'

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Tony Blair

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[It's a religion.]

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Climate Treaty Would Create New Global Agencies to Transfer Money and Technology from U.S. and Other Developed Countries to Third World

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A draft proposal released by the United Nation’s climate negotiating group outlines a plan for creating two new international agencies designed to transfer technology and money from developed Western states such as the United States to undeveloped Third World Countries.

Among the proposals the draft agreement outlines are a new international agency responsible for redistributing financial resources from developed countries to developing ones and another new international agency that would coordinate the redistribution of advanced technologies to those same developing countries.

Under the proposed agreement, the details of which will be worked out over the coming week, developed countries--including the United States--would be responsible for not only enacting their own “legally-binding” environmental laws but also for funding and assisting the environmental agendas of Third World states...

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Developing Countries Say ‘No Money, No Deal’ in Climate Talks

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[So much for this being about climate and 'saving the world'. It's about money (and power) - both to degrees the free world's never seen.]

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[BTW: China led the 'walk out' as a 'developing nation' requiring that we pay them billions to do anything...]

Reality Check...

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"But Gore also acknowledged that one reason the Senate balked at ratifying the Kyoto Treaty was because other major emitters in the world had no obligations to cut back. The very fact that developing countries like Brazil, Indonesia, China -- which is in its own category -- have begun to take steps,' Gore said, I think that makes it a very different situation.' Since Kyoto, China has overtaken the United States as the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide."

Source: NPR.

Source: US Statistical Abstract, Table 1304.

Percentage growth in CO2 emissions from fossil fuels from 1997 (year before Kyoto treaty) to 2005: worldwide, 24%; China, 73%; Indonesia, 47%; Brazil, 12%; US, 7%.

(Source: US Statistical Abstract, Table 1304.)

Cost of proposed "cap-and-trade" taxes (auctions of emission allowances): $100 to $200 billion annually.

(Source: US Treasury, as obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute by FOIA request.)
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Reality Check...

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"The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that."

Ted Turner, founder of CNN.

"We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals." Ted Turner.

Temperature Station Readings in Warrenton, Mo.,

Source: NASA/GISS.

• Most recent 20-year average (1990-2009) of annual temperatures in Warrenton, MO: 12.32o C.
• Warrenton's 20-year average temperature 70 years prior (1920-1939): 12.45o C.
• Temperature trend in Warrenton, Mo., since 1930 (1930-2008): down 0.003o C per year.
• Temperature trend in Warrenton, Mo., since 1999 (1999-2008): down 0.11o C per year.

Source: Author's calculations using NASA/GISS data ("trend" is linear regression slope as calculated by spreadsheet).
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Sunshine speeded 1940s Swiss glacier melt

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A surge in sunshine more than 60 years ago helped Swiss mountain glaciers melt faster than today. Swiss researchers said Monday.

Their study into the impact of solar radiation on Alpine glaciers made the "surprising discovery" that in the 1940s, and especially summer 1947, the ice floes lost the most ice since measurements begin 95 years ago...

[Sun melts ice. That is surprising. Wonder how much that 'study' cost.]

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Edmonton shatters cold record

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Edmonton's weather boasted two dubious distinctions Sunday: it was colder here than anywhere else in North America and it marked the coldest Dec. 13 in the city's history. Environment Canada recorded a frigid minus 46.1 C, or minus 58.4 C with the wind chill,

The old record of minus 36.1 C was set last year...

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ABC' Weatherman: ClimateGate Is ‘Not Reportable as Such’

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Good Morning America weatherman and global warming alarmist Sam Champion asserted on Twitter that ClimateGate is "not reportable as such."

On Wednesday, Champion Tweeted back: "i kno what u refer to! there is quite a controversy surrounding the veracity of that stolen info...not reportable as such." [Grammar original to post.]

Not reportable as such? Whether or not one likes the story, the scientists are not disputing that the hacked e-mails are real. And considering that one of the individuals accused of altering data also contributed to a UN panel on climate change, how is this story "not reportable?"

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'Science Is Dying': What Media Are Really Missing About ClimateGate

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While most global warming-obsessed media have either ignored or downplayed the significance of the growing ClimateGate scandal, the Wall Street Journal has been on top of this story since it first broke two weeks ago.

On Thursday, Journal editorial page deputy editor Daniel Henninger penned a piece that should be an absolute must-read for all the so-called journalists in America that have either intentionally boycotted this controversy or have participated in hiding its seriousness from the public.

Called "Climategate: Science Is Dying," the article exposed some inconvenient truths far more ominous than anything in Nobel Laureate Al Gore's award winning schlockumentary:

If the new ethos is that "close-enough" science is now sufficient to achieve political goals, serious scientists should be under no illusion that politicians will press-gang them into service for future agendas. Everyone working in science, no matter their politics, has an [sic] stake in cleaning up the mess revealed by the East Anglia emails. Science is on the credibility bubble. If it pops, centuries of what we understand to be the role of science go with it.

And, if we had an honest press versus a news media filled with political activists, this would be the tenor of the discussion since ClimateGate first broke.

After all, this isn't just about global warming, cap and trade, or the environment.

What these e-mail messages demonstrate is a concerted effort by a limited number of highly-influential scientists to control the dissemination of information for political reasons.

If this is allowed to go unchecked, not only does science lose all credibility in the future, but also raises questions about what other established truths were politically fabricated.

If that's not a storyline media can seek their teeth into, what is?

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In Touting 'Climate Justice' Protesters, Networks Oblivious to Communist Participation

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Network journalists who were quick to see racists, haters and extremists amongst the “tea party” protesters were oblivious on Saturday to communists in the “climate justice” march in Copenhagen whose cause they trumpeted -- even as the video they showed included brief shots of marchers waving red flags displaying the Soviet Union's hammer and sickle.

“The streets were filled today with tens of thousands of protesters from around the world, demanding action to stop global warming,” NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt announced before Anne Thompson marveled: “An extraordinary sight in front of Denmark's parliament building: 35,000 protesters filling the square, stepping off on a slow march with an urgent plea: Save the planet.”

On the CBS Evening News, anchor Jeff Glor touted how “around the world tonight, protesters are creating heat over climate change. In Copenhagen, where UN talks on global warming are under way, police estimate 40,000 activists marched, mostly peacefully, to demand an agreement that produces real change.” Reporter Sheila MacVicar began: “From India to Australia, from China to Copenhagen, tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets.”

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Climate bill's 'emergency provision' gives Obama strong-man powers

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Both the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade energy approved earlier this year and the version just okayed by Sen. Barbara Boxer’s Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s Democrats (Republicans boycotted the vote) contains an obscure but nasty bureaucratic provision that requires President Obama to act like Venezuelan strong man Hugo Chavez. Here’s how: The bills require a federal declaration of a “climate emergency”

it's about power, not climate

In a detailed post on BigGovernment.com, Competitive Enterprise Institute scholar and environmental expert Chris Horner warns that this provision is clearly intended to concentrate power in an unprecedented manner:

"But as we have been warning you in detail, this agenda transparently is not about GHG concentrations, or the climate. It’s about what this provision would bring: Almost limitless power over private economic activity and individual liberty for the activist president and, for the reluctant leader, litigious greens and courts that in this case would only have two choices. Those are follow the law, or declare it unconstitutional knowing the predilections of the appellate courts and what will very soon be Obama’s Supreme Court."

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Global Warming Lecture Postponed Due to Cooling'

Houston, we have a problem.

And the problem is unusually cold weather in Houston to the extent that city had its earliest recorded snowfall on Friday. Plus much of the rest of Texas also had quite cold weather which caused the cancellation of a global warming lecture at the University of Texas in Austin.

Here is the e-mail received by the Houston Chronicle SciGuy blogger Eric Berger:

Global Warming lecture postponed due to cooling

Given the travel advisories issued and the likelihood of freezing weather for the Austin area tomorrow evening, we are postponing the event, Global Warming - Lone Star Impacts.

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