> Climategate e-mails sweep America, scuttle Cap & Trade
> Five Aussie MP’s resign in disgust over carbon tax
> Rigging a Climate ‘Consensus’   

   Adirondack Citizen says: Anthropogenic Global Warming theory has been completely discredited yet the Adirondack Council, which purchased 3,000 ‘carbon offset’ credits through the Ridiculous Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), continues to peddle ‘Carbon Reduction Certificates’ on its website (makes a ‘great’ Christmas gift!) 
   Talk about passing worthless paper! (Not that it ever had any value to begin with.) If Adirondack Council doesn’t remove this scam from its website immediately it will deservedly see the organization’s credibility suffer. That would be a shame for the Adirondacks.

I’m sure many have already seen this, but perhaps not the philosophers. Joe Romm has published a letter from Judy Curry (Georgia Tech), only a week or so after Steve McIntyre published a different letter from her. You can and should read both of them.

Saturday, November 28 2009
http://wp.me/ptYuG-Q

In the lead-up to the Copenhagen conference on Climate Change, is is time for a change in the way the ’science’ is done. By that I mean that openness and scrutiny by other scientists needs to be reinstated and the Peer-review process abandoned as it has just descended into mere cronyism. When a belief gains sufficient support that it can block any contrary viewpoint from being published, as it is evident from the Climategate revelations it has and does, then the peer-review process itself needs to be changed. Let research stand on its merits, on its reliance on data that can be checked and on logical deductions therefrom, not on the approval of a biased and incestuous group of people with vested interests of their own to protect.

Here is a widget that will monitor the current status of climate change. Hopefully it will be factual and not politically-distorted like some other reports.

This widget was obtained from World Climate Widget

Also recommended is : –

climate science

This site is a reference point for those with a cool head for climate science, arguably the most political science ever. When the government and most of the media concentrate on alarmism, this site is the antidote for those who don’t believe the scare stories – YOU ARE NOT ALONE! (blog started on 7/11/07)

Paul

As I speak of climate and nature the fact that just like nature, humans too have their various climates dawns on me. We have our own winters, summers, spring and rain. Like the shades of nature, we have our sentiments and emotions which reflect in our actions.
Life is so unpredictable. One moment we are alive and the next we are gone. Life is short however long we live. It is important to live our life the way we want to and not waste a single moment in feeling resentment or digging the past. It is the present which is important and worth living, as soon, it would become the past and just a bygone time. The future is a secret not known to anyone and only the present is ours right in front of us to live the way we choose.
People come together in a tragedy and try to cope with the situation. It is the sad demise of a close family member which awakens us to the reality that life is not as long as we expect and that we need to live and enjoy whatever time we are blessed with. Very soon we move on ahead and tuck away our loss as a thing of the past and look ahead towards the future. Forgetting our losses and our sorrows and moving ahead is what each one of us must do. We humans have the capacity to bounce back even after the worst of tragedies. I have seen people come out with more strength and will to survive after bearing the loss of a close one. It is important though that we must live in the best possible manner and try to be happy in the present and not go back in the past or sulk unnecessarily for small and meaningless reasons.
Life with all its various climates is worth living and with a little added effort we could make it meaningful……

Encore le Climate Gate.

Pourquoi j’en parle encore? Parce que nos médias Québécois n’en parle pas du tout!

Qu’ils ne viennent pas nous faire croire qu’ils ne sont pas au courant. La nouvelle est maintenant planétaire, tout le monde en parle, sauf au Québec et en France.

C’est maintenant évident que les TVA, Radio Canada et compagnies ont un agenda politique très clair. Ils croient au réchauffement planétaire, et ne veulent même pas en douter. Ils ne s’offrent même pas la chance de faire parler d’eux et nous vendre du sensationnalisme avec cette histoire qui a un effet de bombe mondialement. Ils préfèrent ne pas en parler et croient que le peuple Québécois est trop cave pour s’informer. Désolé pour nos bon gauchiste, mais il existe des salopards informés dans notre belle province et nous nous gênerons pas pour propager la nouvelle.

Maintenant que nous savons qu’ils cachent la nouvelle. Pourquoi? Pour quelle(s) raison(s) ne veulent ils pas en parler? Ils doutent de l’authenticité des e-mails? La preuve est faite, ils sont vrais. De la bouche même des personnes dans les e-mails. Mais pourquoi donc?

Je vais vous faire ma petite théorie sur nos bons médias Québécois.

Je suis peut-être paranoïaque, mais je me lance!

La raison est plutôt simple, vous m’avez probablement entendu dire que les médias ici sont TOUS de gauche. Je n’ai aucune exception en tête. C’est la pensée unique répandu jusqu’au plus profond de chaque presses de journaux et de chaque lentilles de caméras. Ça en est pitoyable, notre manque d’équilibre dans les médias est un handicap pour notre société. Ça nous servira seulement à nous enfoncer de plus en plus dans le gouffre sans fin de l’ignorance. Nos médias ne nous informent même plus quand la nouvelle ne leur plait pas. Quand la nouvelle ne sert plus leur haine du Capitalisme. Car que vous le voulez ou non. Le réchauffement de la planète est une guerre contre le capitalisme.

La gauche en générale déteste le capitalisme et SURTOUT le berceau du capitalisme, l’Amérique. Culturellement au Québec nous avons l’anti-américain très facile. Cela ne fait pas exception à nos médias, en faite ils sont en parties la cause de cette haine de l’Américain. Pourquoi? C’est une très très longue histoire de mépris et de jalousie mal contrôlé. Ils l’ont eu eux leur indépendance de l’English, pas nous, les salauds!

Les médias pourraient au moins nous en parler et discréditer les e-mails, dire qu’ils sont prit hors contexte ou dire quoi que ce soit. Mais non, la règle à suivre :

Silence Radio!

Mea culpa d’un réchauffiste

Par David

D’autres blogues sur le Climate Gate et nos médias Francophones :

Blog Politique de Christian Rioux
Minarchiste: L’inutilité totale des médias québécois
Blogue de Jacques Brassard (Ancien ministre de l’environnement et des transports sous la gouverne de Lucien Bouchard au Partie Québécois)

Organic farming can play an important role in countering climate change, a new report suggests today.

Use of organic methods means that the soil takes up much more carbon, which would otherwise be released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide to boost global warming, according to the report from the Soil Association, the organic food and farming charity.

Soil is a major store of carbon, the report says, containing three times as much as the atmosphere and five times as much as forests. About 60 per cent of this is in the form of organic matter in the soil. On average, organic farming produces 28 per cent higher levels of soil carbon compared to non-organic farming in northern Europe, according to the report, and 20 per cent higher for all countries studied (in Europe, North America and Australasia).

via ‘Organic farming may counter climate change,’ report says – Climate Change, Environment – The Independent.

The permanent Arctic sea ice that is home to the world's polar bears and usually survives the summer has all but disappeared, a Canadian researcher said Friday.University of Manitoba Arctic researcher David Barber said experts around the world believed the ice was recovering because satellite images showed it expanding, but the thick, multiyear frozen sheets have been replaced by thin ice that cannot support the weight of a polar bear.”Polar bears are being restricted to a small fringe of where this multiyear sea ice is. As we went further and further north, we saw less and less polar bears because this ice wasn't even strong enough for the polar bears to stand on,” said Barber, who just returned from an expedition to the Beaufort Sea.

via The Associated Press: Canadian researcher says arctic ice is thinning.

If you rely on the national newspapers and the BBC for all your news, you may well have missed it completely. But on Thursday 19th November 2009 the world of climate science changed forever. Something happened that, just over a week on, still seems incredible. Sometimes I find myself with lingering doubts as to its authenticity: surely it could all be a cunningly contrived hoax? But so far there has been, to my knowledge, no detailed refutation from the scientists involved. It looks increasingly likely that most or all of the material contained in file FOI2009 is genuine.

Rather than going over the history of the “CRU hack” or leak, as I think it might better be described, I’ll point you to some sources on the internet. Firstly, this Wikipedia article (although the usual Wikipedia caveats apply.) Secondly, this article on Wattsupwiththat (currently one of my favourite websites), and this post on the excellent Bishop Hill blog. Thirdly, a very good searchable online database of the CRU e-mails here.

What can it all mean? It is virtually impossible at this early stage to say just what all the implications might be, or what new revelations may emerge from all the files and e-mails revealed hitherto. But from what I’ve seen so far, these are my conclusions:

1) The climate science reset button needs to be pressed. So many of the assumptions made by scientists, journalists and politicians all over the world are based on the published work by the scientists involved in this scandal – Michael Mann, Phil Jones, Ben Santer, Keith Briffa – that rather than proceeding as if nothing serious has happened, there should be a hiatus while these assumptions are challenged, and while the science is independently audited. By independently audited, I mean put under complete scrutiny by a group of independent scientists who understand what they are looking at, and whose own methods and communications are utterly transparent. So much is at stake here, in terms of the future wellbeing and prosperity of the human race, that an independent audit of the scientific work done by CRU so far is essential and, in my opinion, a minimum requirement.

2) The talks in Copenhagen scheduled for December 2009 (under a month from now) should be put on hold, or if they cannot be put on hold, it should be made clear that no legally binding agreement on carbon emissions can be imposed on the world’s nations until an independent audit of the science is carried out, as per (1).

Will this audit actually take place? There is little sign of this happening so far in official circles, although I think the The Global Warming Policy Foundation now being set up by Lord Lawson is a welcome sign of progress taking place on this front. You can find an online petition here to request the current government to place CRU on hold until an investigation takes place; there are no guarantees, of course, that the petition will achieve anything much, but if enough people sign, hopefully someone in Whitehall will sit up and take notice.

With regard to the apparent evasion of Freedom of Information requests by Dr Phil Jones and his fellows, I will be writing to Sir Brandon Gough, Chancellor of the UEA, and will be sending a copy of my letter to Charles Clarke, current MP for Norwich South. I will be calling for the University to investigate the matter, and if the University has evidence that Dr Jones et al were in breach of the Freedom of Information Act, to treat this as potential law-breaking and turn the matter over to the police and the courts. I’ll publish my letter on this blog, in due course, with any replies that I receive.

The picture I have posted with this blog entry is of the tarot card known as The Tower; it is generally considered a very unsettling card to find, should it show up in a tarot reading. Here’s a very good and rather relevant description of The Tower from the Aeclectic Tarot website:

“False structures, false institutions, false beliefs are going to come tumbling down, suddenly, violently and all at once. What’s important to remember as a tarot reader is that the one you’re reading for likely does not know that something is false. Not yet. To the contrary, they probably believe that their lover is being faithful, that their religious beliefs are true and right, that there are no problems in their family structure, that everything is fine at work…oh, and that they’re fine. Just fine, really.

Alas, they’re about to get a very rude awakening. Shaken up, torn down, blown asunder. And all a reader can really do to soften the blow is assure the Querent that it is for the best. Nothing built on a lie, on falsehoods, can remain standing for long. Better to tear it all down and rebuild on the truth. It is not going to be pleasant or painless or easy, but it will be for the best.”

Thinking about this card, I am also reminded, alternatively, of the tower as a symbol of civilisation. Civilisation rises up from the earth, with each storey resting on the one beneath, each part of the superstructure (accumulated wealth and knowledge) depending on the one below, all the way down to the foundations. Stoutly and cleverly built, it has a good chance of withstanding the forces of entropy and chaos. Weakened and damaged by its enemies (which is what I anticipate will happen should the world’s nations expend huge efforts and divert sorely needed resources into combating what I suspect to be the monstrous non-problem of climate change) the odds begin to tip towards entropy, chaos and ruin.

Two towers – the edifice of climate science, as it now stands, and the structure of modern civilisation itself. Which will prevail?

For 50 to 100 years our power holders *(politicians) have been trying to figure out a way to create a tax to put on one of the four elements of life. When global warming and cooling theories started to pop up people like Al Gore would be there to try and influence the minds of the newly awakened enviormentalists. We are lead to believe that are little lives are the reason that the earth is experiencing all kinds of heating and cooling, but let the truth ring because it is all lies. It is a basic fact in all science that carbon is essential to plant life, and in return all life. If Al Gore and his friends get their way then we would all have a universal global carbon tax on everything we eat, breathe, whatever we do. It is sad because there is pollution problems, and enviormental conditions that need to be fixed. However its the same people that have created all these problems that are trying to offer the solution to the same problems, how familiar that sounds (banks, bailouts, corporations, waste, enviormentalism) For example people like Al Gore and other elite enviormentalists have to fly their personal leer jets, and other super carbon emitting lifestyle accessories in order to bring their ideas, and messages to people it’s complete hipocracy. These people should be living in caves, and have no access to anything, even air since when we exhale it lets out carbon. After thinking about this it is rather easy to see through all the bullshit, the elites and power controllers want to act like they ” care ” about the enviorment and what not, and in return put a tax on a fundamental life source. It is smoke and mirrors, and a disgrace to the human race I am utterly sick with thinking about how these people who created all of these problems are trying to blame it on the people like you and me, and tax us for it. I can’t get over that global carbon tax, this will be worse than healthcare debates, and whatever else you thought the government was doing that makes it tyrannical. So infowarriors and other like minded informational individuals please write yourself an article, or spread this one and let others know about all of this. It’s extremely upsetting that it is up to us that our generation has to deal with this. Hopefully after we are done with the work we were sent here for than only when this generation be remembered for something other than the lazy, or party generation. All my great hopes and desires rumble when I think about elite’s and the money and power they have over us, albeit money and material it really effects mentally eventually likewise for our physical if not complete will counter react a homeostatic psych. Peace and Love human galacticus. !

NASA has a website where you can search for images and video – Neil Armstrong, auroras on Jupiter, ET versus the Alien, etc. A great place to browse if you like that sort of thing. Here’s an image NASA made of receding glaciers in Alaska as part of an examination of whether less weight on the tectonic plates might make earthquakes more frequent.

posted by GeoT

Obama’s Secret Climate Pact
by Richard Wolffe
It’s no coincidence that one day after the White House announced new emissions targets, China followed suit with its own target.

After the Olympic-sized disappointment of his last trip to Copenhagen, why on earth would President Obama want to travel once again to the Danish capital for next month’s UN climate talks?

The answer, according to White House officials, lies in several weeks of intensive behind-the-scenes diplomacy that the press corps entirely overlooked during Obama’s recent trip to China, and during the recent state visit by India’s prime minister.

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“Obama is at the point where he feels on the verge of a breakthrough, based on the kind of talks that don’t get covered by reporters obsessing about state dinners.”

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Obama, Singh, Jintao

Beyond the photo ops and press statements, Obama was pushing President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the kind of climate deals that eluded him at the G8 summit in Italy in the summer – and have eluded international negotiators for the last decade. China and India have played central roles in blocking past agreements, alongside the US, in a seemingly intractable dispute between fast-developing economies and the older, wealthier polluters.

Now Obama is at the point where he feels on the verge of a breakthrough, based on the kind of talks that don’t get covered by reporters obsessing about state dinners. “He had extensive conversations with President Hu specifically on climate and conversations with the prime minister of India,” said one senior White House aide. “So he has been building momentum for a political agreement to be brokered at Copenhagen.”

U.S.- China set emissions targets

That was the backdrop for Wednesday’s White House announcement of specific targets to reduce emissions “in the range of 17% below 2005 levels in 2020.” The next day, on Thanksgiving, China announced its own bargaining position to slow the growth of carbon emissions by 2020. Using a different standard from the US – measuring carbon intensity (relative to its own economic growth), China is offering a 40 to 45% cut below 2005 levels.

read more here:

First broken by Bishop Hill, it appears that the whitewash of Climategate is now under way. James Delingpole over at the Torygraph has also picked it up from BH, and makes several incisive points.

BH: Lord Rees (Royal Society) to be asked by UEA to investigate CRU leak.

JD:  The appointment of Lord Rees, if confirmed, is especially worrying. It’s the rough equivalent of appointing King Herod’s grand vizier to investigate a mysterious outbreak of mass baby killing in Judaea. First, Lord Rees – formerly Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal – is very much of the catastrophist mindset which helped launch the whole AGW scare in the first place. Five years ago, he declared: “I think the odds are no better than 50/50 that our present civilisation will survive to the end of the present century.” Second, he has previously suggested that there might be certain areas where frank and open scientific enquiry is not a good idea. Third, he is president of an institution which has persistently used its distinguished name  and supposed unimpeachable scientific authority to push AGW theory.

BH also reveals that the Foreign Office and government are “leaning heavily on UEA to keep a lid on everything lest it destabilises Copenhagen,” and that CRU has been “asked to prepare data for a pre-emptive release in past couple of days but trouble reconciling issues between data bases has stopped this.”

While BH’s scoop is as yet unconfirmed (“from a correspondent – no verification as yet”) it certainly has a clear ring of truth about it, and should not be dismissed too easily.

Meanwhile, Doc Thompson shouts down the sheeple.

Also in the US, news that legal counsel for the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has filed three Notices of Intent to File Suit against NASA… Chris Horner, counsel of CEI, said that the suit against NASA and its Goddard Institute of Space Studies is for the agency’s failure to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests for the past three years. Employees of the agency have been mentioned in the Climategate emails:

CEI has been seeking documents and emails pertaining to NASA’s modification of climate records after errors were discovered in them by Steve McIntyre of Climate Audit. They also are seeking information on NASA scientist Gavin Schmidt and his activities on the site RealClimate that may be in conflict with his governmental employment.

Horner wrote on the American Spectator that, “The information sought is directly relevant to the exploding “ClimateGate” scandal revealing document destruction, coordinated efforts in the U.S. and UK to avoid complying with both countries’ freedom of information laws, and apparent and widespread intent to defraud at the highest levels of international climate science bodies.”

Thousands of emails from Britain’s Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia were illegally released on the Internet Friday and it has caused a major uproar. United States Senator James Inhofe is vowing an investigation into the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In Britain, Former Chancellor Lord Lawson is pushing for a probe of university for possible manipulation of climate data.

| Picture: The Weather Project, Olafur Eliasson, 2003 |

Parece haberse extinguido la especie de los científicos, periodistas e incluso primos que negaban el cambio climático. Ahora estamos en la fase de las grandes alternativas: “No niegues nada, pero no hagas nada”. Muchos de los antiguos negacionistas se dedican a la difusión entusiasta de “falsos amigos” lingüísticos, tan nocivos como los gases de efecto invernadero. Cuando te hablan de “crecimiento sostenible” hay que traducirlo ya por “crecimiento simultáneo”, una de las teorías mágicas del neoliberalismo: cómo incrementar el negocio aumentando y disminuyendo a un tiempo las emisiones. Ahí entra el truco del mercado de carbono, ese cambalache llamado también comercio de emisiones. Puede comprarse el derecho a la contaminación sostenible. Esa parece ser la componenda, ensayada en el pacto de Kyoto, que quieren desenvolver las grandes corporaciones y gobiernos timoratos. Otra estafa del capitalismo mágico es equiparar lo desigual. Para entendernos, el as Camps y la copiloto Barberá podrían adquirir los derechos anuales de emisión de metano de una honrada vaca cántabra para poder soltar sospechosos gases efusivos por el tubo del flamante Ferrari. El escritor Flaubert confesó en una carta al ruso Turgueniev: “Siempre he intentado vivir en una torre de marfil, pero una marea de mierda no deja de golpear sus muros, y amenaza con tirarla abajo”. En lugar de inquietarse, hay magnates que desde la altura de la torre de marfil, se frotan las manos ante semejante marea. Empiezas por el comercio de gases de invernadero, y acabas creando un mercado internacional de escrúpulos. Mientras el lobby nuclear refuerza su campaña, vendiéndonos la nueva generación de reactores como fábricas de chocolate, en puntos de la costa italiana se van descubriendo barcos cargados de residuos radiactivos y hundidos por los servicios de limpieza de la mafia. Cuanto más cara sea la mierda, más negocio. Es la criminalidad sostenible.

| Manuel Rivas | elpais.com

Corporate Social Responsibility News: Timberland’s Climate and Haiti Help Campaigns; American Cancer Society’s Corporate Impact Awards

The US Congress should pay close attention to the recent actions of five MPs (Members of Parliament) in Australia. Rather than blindly following a party line and voting for a new Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), similar to our cap and trade bill, they resigned from their party in protest (http://tinyurl.com/yfhyfzp). 

One reason for their resignation is that they recognize taxes for carbon emissions contained in the ETS would be highly damaging to Australia’s economy. Since Australia is one of the world’s biggest coal exporters, the economy is already destined to take a hit from the world’s shunning of coal use. Homeland industries, therefore, would be stressed past their limit by more taxes.

The main reason for the resignations, however, is the dishonesty and corruption in the anthropogenic global warming industry. After reading Ian Plimer’s book, Heaven And Earth: Global Warming – The Missing Science(http://tinyurl.com/kvfgfj), which is a severe critique of man-made global warming, the five MPs were spurred by the recent scandal where hacked e-mails show collusion among some climatologists to manipulate scientific data (http://tinyurl.com/yl7rut9). 

It is becoming evident that the “scientific consensus” concerning man-made global warming does not exist and hastily passing economically damaging bills based on that false premise is not wise. Well, at least it’s becoming evident in Australia. Are you listening America?

David J. Hentosh