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Sinking 'Climate Change'
By: Cal Thomas
Examiner Columnist
June 3, 2010
Examiner Columnist
June 3, 2010
Three modern myths have been sold to the American people: the promise of a transparent administration (President Obama); the promise of a more ethical Congress (Speaker Pelosi); and the myth of "global warming," or climate change.
The first two are daily proving suspect and now the third is sinking with greater force than melting icebergs -- if they were melting, which many believe they are not.
After spending years promoting "global warming," the media are beginning to turn in the face of growing evidence that they have been wrong. The London Times recently reported: "Britain's premier scientific institution is being forced to review its statements on climate change after a rebellion by members who question mankind's contribution to rising temperatures."
It gets worse, or better, depending on your perspective. Newsweek magazine, which more than 30 years ago promoted global cooling and a new ice age -- and more recently has been drinking the global warming Kool-Aid -- headlined a story, "Uncertain Science: Bickering and Defensive, Climate Researchers Have Lost the Public's Trust." Newsweek does its best to cling to its increasingly discredited doctrine, but the growing body of contrary evidence only adds to the public's disbelief.
In Canada, the polar bear -- which has been used by global warming promoters to put a cuddly face on the issue -- is in danger of not being endangered any longer. CBC News reported that the polar bear's designation as a "species of special concern" has been suspended "while the government reviews the polar bear's status and decides whether to renew the classification or change it."
The New York Times recently lamented "global warmism's loss of credibility" in a story about hundreds of "environmental activists who met to ponder this question: "If the scientific consensus on climate change has not changed, why have so many people turned away from the idea that human activity is warming the planet?"
The "consensus" never was a consensus. Most of us may not have gotten an "A" in science, but we can sense when we are being bamboozled.
The German online news magazine Focus recently carried a story, "Warm Times Will Soon Be Over!" Commenting on the "new NASA high temperature record," which may be set, the magazine blames it on El Nino.
Meteorologists, like Joe D'Aleo of the Weather Channel, are publicly distancing themselves from the false doctrine of global warming. D'Aleo says, "We'll have La Nina conditions before the summer is over, and it will intensify further through the fall and winter. Thus we'll have cooler temperatures for the next couple of years."
Remember the scare ignited in 2007 by supposed melting Arctic ice caps? The Star Canada says a new analysis shows that the apparent change was the result of "shifting winds," while an expedition last year to the North Pole discovered the ice "100 percent thicker than expected."
Much of this information -- and more -- is available at the useful Web site www.climatedepot.com.
It is a given that America needs new sources of energy. Environmentalists have inhibited efforts at exploration by supporting policies that have forced some domestic exploration too far offshore (thus increasing chances of an ecological disaster as is occurring in the Gulf of Mexico).
Instead of trying to sell us a dubious doctrine at an estimated cost of $100 billion a year worldwide (so far), environmentalists would have done themselves and the world more good had they chosen a different strategy, such as not sending oil money to countries that want to destroy us. This would have increased our patriotic spirit and had the additional benefit of not only diversifying our energy supply, but also depriving our enemies of money they use to underwrite terrorism.
Watch for the hard-core "global warming" cultists to continue clinging to their beliefs; but also watch increasing numbers of scientists and eventually politicians to abandon this once "certain" faith and to look for other ways to control our lives. In that pursuit, the left never quits.Rather than acknowledge their error, they will go on to make new mistakes, knowing they will never be held accountable.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Sinking-_climate-change_-95418754.html#ixzz0sPkdKwrO
Call For Tighter Review Of IPCC Data
THE Australian scientist who compiled a disputed UN report on climate change is pushing for a more rigorous review of data.
Professor Jean Palutikof, who spent five years at the British Met Office preparing the UN report, Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, admitted yesterday the existing system was flawed because "quite a lot" of information had not been peer-reviewed by independent scientists before publication.
She said the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which underpins international decision-making by governments, "needs to remain very credible".
"It would be a shame if the IPCC became suspect," Professor Palutikof told The Australian yesterday.
The UN has asked the Academy of Sciences to review the IPCC's processes, after widespread criticism of its Fourth Assessment Report, which Professor Palutikof managed. Flaws included a statement that most Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035, based on a report by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Professor Palutikof said that the authors of the next IPCC report would need to be "very, very, very careful about writing things down every step of the way".
"For the Fifth Assessment, it will have to be different," she said. "There's a widely held view among the scientific community that much greater scrutiny as you go through the assessment will be required.
"The Fourth Assessment has been very carefully reviewed by people other than the authorities, subsequent to being completed. But it would be very nice if we didn't have to spend all of the time going back over stuff to check it."
Professor Palutikof said the Fourth Assessment report was being "picked over by people" because it had been based on "quite a lot" of information that had come from governmental, conservation group or UN reports, without having been peer-reviewed and published in scientific journals such as Science or Nature.
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Gingrich slams Obama on Gulf gusher and sounds off on climate
In his new book To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine, Gingrich pushes a strikingly different view, decrying "the doomsday theory of climate change," which he attributes to the "high-tax, big-bureaucracy, job-killing, and government-centralizing environmentalism of the Left."
A vehement critic of the Obama administration -- opposing its approach to the Gulf oil spill, energy and climate legislation, and much else -- Gingrich calls for a "green conservatism -- a new pathway to environmental stewardship." He characterizes this philosophy as "optimistic, positive ... entrepreneurial, market-based, and incentive-led." He calls the Tea Party movement "a good way to spread green conservatism."
Gingrich is busy these days promoting his book -- and himself. He’s mulling a 2012 presidential bid, planning to make a decision on whether to run by spring of next year. I spoke with Gingrich recently by phone about BP, global warming, green conservatism, and Rwandan gorillas.
Q. What is your position on climate change? How much of a threat do you think it poses?
A. It's an act of egotism for humans to think we're a primary source of climate change. Look at what happened recently with the Icelandic volcano. The natural systems are so much bigger than manmade systems. I am very dubious about claims that we know precisely what's going to happen. And I'm very suspicious of the use of those claims to create much larger governments with much greater bureaucratic controls over our life.
The Blatant Propagandist Lies on
‘Climate Change’ Insult to Irish Intelligence!
By Neil Foster, 30th June 2010.
Duncan Stewart – Climate Change PimpLast night I was compelled to watch the much advertised and hyped Duncan Stewart Scary Story Spoof ‘A Burning Question’. This was the worst hour of television I’ve forced myself to watch since Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Lie’ global warming mockumentary.
To say this was biased in favour of the global warming lobby would be an understatement akin to saying that Josef Stalin was a naughty little boy.
As one lie followed another, I found this extremely hard viewing. In a conflict of emotions between outrage and hysterical laughter at the absurdity of the propaganda being pushed, I found myself at the end utterly disgusted as the rant of Stewart, his lackey pseudo scientists and imbecilic journalists such as John Gibbons ex of The Irish Times made me totally disgusted by these people.
The slur of Deniers was used of course as it had been on RTE the previous Saturday in a lengthy interview on the Marian Finucan Show where Duncan Stewart, an architect, insulted acclaimed botanic scientist, David Bellamy, who with many peer reviewed scientific articles to his name spanning decades, is in fact a recognised expert in his field of science as opposed to an architect who has fallen out of a tree trying to film a documentary, who is as much a scientist as Al Gore, the aforementioned idiot John Gibbons or for that matter Mickey Mouse.
The radio interview in many ways was much worse although it does show the real motivation of Stewart and his cronies and was obvious for all to hear when he stated openly that the science was fact and for anyone to read books to the contrary was not just a Holocaust Denier but a misinformed if not disinformed person in his opinion because they were obviously reading the wrong books. He went on to say that nobody should be reading these books because they were fooling and confusing people on the dangers of climate change and even the existence of manmade global warming. So we’re now being told by our ‘experts’ that we shouldn’t be reading books they don’t agree with. Sounds like totalitarianism to me.
We were warned of the impending move towards ‘zero energy’ homes without any explanation as to how this was to be achieved. One slip up in the TV program however was the admission that we had to stop using energy and that if we did ‘everything would stop’.
EXACTLY!
What is clear to anyone with the intelligence to think for themselves and listen to what was said in both programs is that these lunatics are panicking! The promotion of the utterly discredited IPCC by Stewart and his cronies and the fact that they are still using their 4th Assessment Report as factual scientific data is laughable. Stewart, in a moment of utter idiocy, proclaimed that independent reviews of the ‘climategate’ emails leak last November revealed that no wrongdoing had occurred and that the IPCC had been fully vindicated and were the still the premier source of ‘factual scientific study’ to back the claim that man is responsible, through CO2 emmisions, including breathing folks, for destroying the planet.
More idiotic remarks included the imminent catastrophe of the ‘projected’ 6 degree rise in global temperatures, using bogus data entered into computer modelling programs, despite no evidence to back this up in any way. Sea levels are of course to rise dramatically. Maybe Duncan should have reminded his slave master Gore before he bought his beach house in New York State.
And what about Gore’s mansions that use 20 times more power than the average American? Oh I forgot, that’s ok because Gore pays for ‘carbon credits’ which he buys from his own carbon trading corporation, Generation Investment Management’ and he’s already a ‘carbon’ billionaire due to the scam he’s been pushing for two decades.
The likes of Stewart and Gibbons or the other ‘gods of climate change’ they worship like Michael Mann of ‘hockey stick’ infamy or James Hansen of NASA who was also caught faking data to give higher temperatures, should understand that when their Communist masters have attained their goal that they will then be dispensable. A bullet in the back of the head is the usual Soviet way. I for one won’t shed a tear for these maniacs pushing the eugenicist agenda they care so much about. When that day comes I’m sure they’ll still believe the utter nonsense they’ve been promoting all of their pathetic adult lives.
More disturbing I suppose is that the radio interview and the TV documentary were both broadcast on the state television channel RTE which the taxpayer funds. It should also be noted that the government minister responsible for communications Eamon Ryan, is a Green Party member of parliament and has a vested interest in this type of propaganda being pushed to a gullible public. I personally object to paying for propaganda, regardless of whose side it comes down on by a media network who are supposed to give a fair and balanced view on any subject to the public it is supposed to serve.
It is not supposed to be the mouthpiece of fanatical fringe groups who just happen to be in power at this time even although only 2% of the electorate in Ireland voted for them and who’s ‘leader’ John Gormley was indoctrinated, sorry educated, at the East German Freiberg University, when it was still controlled by the Soviet Union. How does an Irishman who went to a St. Munchin’s College in Limerick find himself in the Soviet Union in a university famous for producing National Socialists (Nazis) and Communists? It was even run by Martin Heidegger amongst others, who was a famous admirer of Adolf Hitler!
I think it would be in the public interest to know what Mr. Gormley studied in Freiberg but it appears he doesn’t want to talk about that as he doesn’t include any qualifications on the Green Party website although he does admit he went to Freiberg. Incidentally, this was the same town where fluoride was successfully prosecuted on a number of occasions. I wonder if Mr. Gormley would care to explain how he has no idea of the damage to human health of the effects of fluoride? Perhaps not.
In another outburst of total imbecility from Stewart he criticised the media for apparently championing the ‘sceptical’ side of the nonexistent ‘debate’ on climate change. Apparently the media are reporting that it’s all a scam. I wish he’d pointed me towards a few articles in the Irish media holding that editorial position because for the life of me I haven’t read, heard or seen one mainstream media outlet who hasn’t gone full throttle into the climate change scaremonger’s camp.
If you read this Duncan, please leave a comment with a few links to these media magnates who are on my side. In return I’ll send you thousands who believe the lies and pseudo science you and the cretins who you hang around with are promoting. The FACT is Duncan that you’ve made it so obvious by the tone of this propaganda piece that you and your ilk are desperate because people are finally waking up to the scam of manmade global warming. But hey, what do I know, I’m a ‘denier!’
Regrdless, I’d love to hear from you!
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