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CLIMATEGATE - Scientists in stolen e-mail scandal hid climate data
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED | The History The US Government HOPES You Never Learn! (72)
2010-01-27 22:17:54
The university at the centre of the climate change row over stolen e-mails broke the law by refusing to hand over its raw data for public scrutiny. The University of East Anglia breached the Freedom of Information Act by refusing to comply with requests for data concerning claims by its scientists that man-made emissions were causing global warming. WRH permalink

There is fundamental uncertainty in climate change, science tsar says
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED | The History The US Government HOPES You Never Learn! (24)
2010-01-26 17:55:55
The impact of global warming has been exaggerated by some scientists and there is an urgent need for more honest disclosure of the uncertainty of predictions about the rate of climate change, according to the Government’s chief scientific adviser. WRH permalink

'Bin Laden' Rebukes US on Climate Change
Citizens For Legitimate Government (16)
2010-01-31 03:12:50
Osama bin Laden, the [deceased] leader of Al Qaeda, blamed the United States and developed countries for not halting climate change and said that the global economy should immediately abandon its reliance on the American dollar, according to an audiotape released Friday by the broadcaster Al Jazeera. "Talk about climate change is not an ideological luxury but a reality," Mr. bin Laden was quoted as saying in a report on Al Jazeera's English-language Web site. "All of the industrialized countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility for the global warming crisis." The authent

Warm Front -- By: Mark Steyn
The Corner - National Review Online (16)
2010-01-31 14:04:33
Rajendra Pachauri, the cricket-loving climate-profiteering Nobel Peace Prize-winner with a carbon footprint almost as big as Al Gore's, heads up the IPCC, the global climate-change racket whose "settled science" is getting less settled by the minute. It seems an odd moment for Dr Pachauri to branch out into bodice-heaving fiction: In breathless prose that risks making Dr Pachauri, who will be 70 this year, a laughing stock among the serious, high-minded scientists and world leaders with whom he mixes, he details sexual encounter after sexual encounter. The book, which makes reference to

The conservative case for trams.
Two Doctors (8)
2010-01-31 16:05:17
In October Matt Lewis reviewed "Moving Minds; Conservatives and Public Transportation", a book co-authored by Weyrich and Lind, two very senior American conservatives, one of whom cut his political teeth on a public transport campaign.Typically, as the review says, the case for better public transport is made by us tofu-eating "liberals", not hawks and military strategists. But they note that transport in America has been anything but a free market. Socialised freeways (note to Democrats and American Greens: this phrase may come in handy) have competed with overtaxed mass transit schemes.

The corruption of science
EU Referendum (5)
2010-01-26 10:25:00
"We are trying to do the best job we can in assessing the quality information about climate change issues in all its dimensions and some do not like the conclusions of our work. Now it is true we made a mistake around the glacier issue, it is one mistake on one issue in a 3,000 page report. We are going to reinforce the procedures to try this does not happen again."So says Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, vice chairman of the IPCC - as retailed by the famous Louise Gray, purveyor extraordinare of WWF press releases – in The Daily Telegraph today. It was simply a "human mistake", he adds. "Aren't

Royal Approval
http://idle-idle.blogspot.com (5)
2010-01-27 09:20:00
One tries - by God one tries - to be supportive. The alternative to the monarchy is too awful to envisage. But I'll try: the popular vote would give us AntanDec, or Julie Walters, or Simon Cowell. Maybe Beckham. Joanna Lumley if we were very lucky. Stephen Fry if we were slightly less lucky. Tony bleeding Blair. You get the picture.Better by far to have a settled succession. There will be a wrong 'un every now and again but not often.I wouldn't call the Prince of Wales a wrong 'un, but he does have some rum views. Sometimes, these will carry the prospect of policy enactment, additions to the s

Phenomenon and on and on
The Inelegant Gardener (5)
2010-01-28 11:50:00
With (hopefully) a little more time on my hands this year, I've decided to have a go at recording when natural events occur - phenology.Phenology is the study of recurring natural phenomena*, such as those that occur with the changing of the seasons. The study of these phenomena has been going on for hundreds of years, to a greater or lesser extent. I doubt that I will have the tenacity of Gilbert White or Robert Marsham but it will hopefully make me more aware of the changing seasons and act as a good excuse to get out and about a bit more.The Woodland Trust have set up Nature's Calendar, for

The Beauty of New England In Celebration Of The New England Bloggers Birthday!
SWANEESINGER (5)
2010-01-27 23:58:00
If you scroll down the right side of my blog, you will see a button for New England Bloggers. These stupendous bunch of gals are all bloggers, and, of course, from New England! There's a super blogger that started it all about a year ago----Elizabeth over at Evil Overlord----and she thought it might be nice to celebrate by having some bloggers write about living in New England----just to celebrate our year of blogging together.It is hard for me to decide what I love most about living here. When I first visited New England with my sister, almost 20 years ago, I fell in love with it here

The SEC's New Climate Control Disclosure Guidance: "Nonsense on Stilts"'
ProfessorBainbridge.com (4)
2010-01-28 19:22:28
The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday promulgated (by a 3-2 party line vote) interpretative guidance for disclosure of business or legal developments relating to climate change: The interpretive release approved today provides guidance on certain existing disclosure rules that may require a company to disclose the impact that business or legal developments related to climate change may have on its business. The relevant rules cover a company's risk factors, business description, legal proceedings, and management discussion and analysis. ... Specifically, the SEC's interpretative gui

IPCC Statement on Trends in Disaster Losses
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog (4)
2010-01-26 11:07:00
The IPCC has issued a statement in response to the Sunday Times article on errors in the IPCC treatment of disaster losses and climate change. The IPCC statement (PDF) is a remarkable bit of spin and misinformation. Here it is with my comments:Geneva, 25 January 2010IPCC STATEMENT ON TRENDS IN DISASTER LOSSESThe January 24 Sunday Times ran a misleading and baseless story attacking the way the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC handled an important question concerning recent trends in economic losses from climate-related disasters. The article, entitled “UN Wrongly Linked Global Warming t

The Sound Of All Hell Breaking Loose
small dead animals (4)
2010-01-27 09:27:53
It's the end of the beginning; A catastrophic heat wave appears to be closing in on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. How hot is it getting in the scientific kitchen where they've been cooking the books and spicing up...

Global Warming Fraud Collapses Amidst Deception And Scandal
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED | The History The US Government HOPES You Never Learn! (4)
2010-01-27 09:31:09
The multi-billion dollar global warming fraud is truly beginning to crumble, with even vehement man-made climate change advocates like the BBC acknowledging that the credibility of the IPCC is shot. “The bloggers are all over the UN IPCC 2007 report, the bible of global warming, which predicted all manner of dire outcomes for our planet unless we got a grip on rising temperatures — and it seems to be crumbling in some pretty significant areas,” writes the BBC’s Andrew Neil in an article entitled ‘The dam is cracking‘. WRH permalink

The glacier show – a comedy in many parts
EU Referendum (4)
2010-01-28 16:12:00
To investigate fears of retreating glaciers in the Himalayas, the British government in 2001 funded a major field study major code-named "Sagarmatha". Reporting in June 2004, it found that the threat, that all of the region's glaciers may soon disappear, "would seem unfounded" and that "the catastrophic water shortages forecast by some experts are unlikely to happen for many decades, if at all."Of the "experts" who were forecasting catastrophe, by far the most vocal was Dr Sayed Hasnain, the scientist currently at the centre of the "Galciergate" storm. Yet, days before the British government r

Climate Change Fraud Continues To Be Exposed
Pete'sPlace (3)
2010-01-26 13:50:00
The biggest fraud in our lifetime is being exposed. Imagine, the charlatan, liar, and crook, Al Gore almost was elected President of the USA. Talk about dodging a bullet! I think it is time for the U.S. to pull out of the United Nations. Kick these con-artists out of New York City. Send them someplace where they would be welcome, like Cuba, or Venezuela, or North Korea.PeterMore Questionable Material Found in U.N. Climate ReportTuesday, January 26, 2010By Patrick Goodenough, International EditorSourceIPCC publicity material circulated in media prior to the release of the 2007 Fourth Asses

Climate change is speeding up insect breeding
Veggie Revolution (3)
2010-01-28 08:55:00
Orange-sulphur butterfly, photo by Alan KneidelThose of us concerned about greenhouse gases and climate change have a new study to ponder. This study, from Dr. Florian Altermatt at UC Davis, documents once again the biological effects of global warming.Altermatt examined insect data from Central Europe. Temperatures have been increasing there for decades, but particularly since 1980. This European warming trend is increasing the number of generations per year for some insects.Altermatt discovered this by analyzing climate records and population data for 263 butterfly and moth species in Centra

Top Ten Ways al-Qaeda Causes Carbon Emissions and Climate Change
Informed Comment (3)
2010-01-31 01:00:00
In an audiotape attributed to Usamah Bin Laden, the mass murderer called for a boycott of the US dollar and blamed the US for global warming. There is nothing worse than a terrorist who kills thousands of innocent people, but being a hypocrite is also a pretty bad character flaw, and Bin Laden manages both. During human history on earth, there were typically 275 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Low levels of carbon dioxide have coincided with ice ages over the past 400,000 years. Only once in that period, 325,000 years ago, did carbon dioxide reach 300 parts per milli

Ed Miliband declares war on climate change sceptics
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED | The History The US Government HOPES You Never Learn! (3)
2010-01-31 15:34:05
Climate secretary Ed Miliband broke his silence on the ongoing row about man-made climate change by declaring war on the 'siren voices' who denied global warming was real or man-made. WRH permalink

D�'jà vu all over again
EU Referendum (3)
2010-01-27 08:57:00
More than half of the experts who advised the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare swine flu a "pandemic" are linked to drug-makers that have reaped huge profits from untested vaccines and flu drugs. This is from the Institute of Science in Society who tells us that eleven of the 20 members of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) have profited from work done for the pharmaceutical industry or are linked to it through their universities. Many have declared interests in GlaxoSmithKline, the vaccine maker that stands to benefit the most from the pandemic. At the height of the

STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH
Sean Linnane (3)
2010-01-27 20:04:00
I'm not watching the State of the Union Show, on account I don't believe in subjecting myself to enemy propaganda.Instead, we present . . . . . . ( drumroll ) . . . . . . STORMBRINGER propaganda ! ! !Opie is extremely picky about who he takes his treats from.This next guy is worth watching, if only to see how long it takes until his head explodes:This next guy slams the Climate Change movement; it's sort of COUNTER-propaganda propaganda: That's all for now, I'm at risk of getting called out on my "anti-politics" stance here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Do as I say
EU Referendum (3)
2010-01-31 08:05:00
The Mail on Sunday today is doing what it does best. It picks up the "the world's most powerful climate scientist" and tells us: "Controversial climate change boss uses car AND driver to travel one mile to office... (but he says YOU should use public transport)".Thus the piece presents Pachauri for what he really is – a rank hypocrite. "You might expect Dr Rajendra Pachauri to be doing everything he can to reduce his own carbon footprint," observes the MoS. But he shows "no apparent inclination to cut global warming in his own back yard", having his personal chauffeur collect him from his £

Remember, These Are Scientists
From On High (3)
2010-01-31 07:16:00
Or are they'UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article This fits into the same category with Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize.Both make you shake your head in wonder and ask, "What in God's name were these people thinking'"

It's the Unions, Stupid..
Psycmeister's Ice Palace! (3)
2010-01-31 15:21:00
There's a buzz about the blogosphere and the twittersphere about a new, supposedly grass-roots organization called "The Tea Party is Over" whose mission is.."To prevent the Tea Party's dangerous ideas from gaining legislative traction." They call the Tea Party Movement (which was more than likely responsible for the democrat loss of Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts)a 'fad' and their ideas, 'dangerous.' This movement is a fad. Some of their ideas include the belief that programs like Social Security and Medicare are socialistic and should never have been created in the first place and that

McCain: President Must Reject Earmarks and Pork -- By: Robert Costa
The Corner - National Review Online (3)
2010-01-26 15:02:44
Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) tells National Review Online that the spending freeze is a “long, long way from the medicine we need to cure our government’s addiction.” A day before President Obama’s maiden State of the Union address, McCain also says that he is disappointed with the president’s recent mea culpa to Diane Sawyer. “I was flabbergasted by that interview,” says McCain. “Instead of that, what I’d like to see tomorrow — and won’t — is the president saying that he promised to change the climate in Washington, but hasn’t. That he promised to broadcast health-ca

Keep it Simple'
FEAR AND TREMBLING (3)
2010-01-26 10:03:00
Dear blogger friends, do you remember the time when everything was incredibly simply to understand and explain'I do; it was my childhood. I enjoyed that time, feeling confident in the knowledge I easily gleaned from my surroundings. How does a plant grow' You give it water and put it in the sun and voila! How does a car go' You put gas in it, press the pedal and push it along. Why are people so mean' Because they're dumb. Actually, I still believe that one. ;)But there comes a time when your mind changes, your spirit becomes more sensitive to grey areas, and you begin to realize that your inst