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James Taylor of Forbes has reported on new NASA data in an article titled “New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hold In Global Warming Alarmism1. Basically it shows that all the climate models put forth by global warming (aka climate change) alarmists are faulty. For those inclined to read the underlying scientific paper titled “On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth’s Radiant Energy Balance“, it is available from the peer reviewed journal Remote Sensing2.

Time for a new theory, or in this case fairy tale, Church of Man Made Global Warming folks. I bet Prince Charles feels pretty stupid right now, or should anyway. And algoracle still laughs all the way to the bank. There sure are plenty of suckers out there.

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Netherlands
(dark green below sealevel)

As if the IPCC doesn’t have enough egg on its face from basing predictions on manipulated weather data and just lying about the future of glaciers in the Himalayas.

Now it’s becoming ever more obvious that nothing the panel has stated can be relied on. This inevitable conclusion is derived from the IPCC not even getting basic geographical data points right, as it has now surfaced that the IPCC claims that more than half of the Netherlands lies below sea level, when in fact only about 26% does.1

The Indians have clearly had enough of the IPCC circus, and has effectively quit by creating it’s own climate change monitoring body. Reportedly this was because the country can’t rely on what the UN IPCC produces.2 This is particularly embarrassing for the head of the IPCC, Dr R.K Pachauri, who is from India.

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Jan/10

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IPCC Spreading More Misinformation

It seems that the IPCC has more egg on its face for the “scientific” conclusions that it claims to present in the name of all “scientists” in the world.

This one is about the IPCC statement as to a 90% probability that the Himalayan glaciers will be reduced by 80% or entirely gone by the year 2035.1

Now it turns out that the IPCC was basing its “scientific conclusion” on no research what so ever. Instead, the IPCC quoted an opinion piece, that itself quoted another opinion piece, finally tracking back to an interview about a decade ago.

More details can be obtained from a very good article describing how incredibly bad and inaccurate these IPCC conclusions are.2

If IPCC maintains the same standards in the future, we can expect the next report to include a weather prediction by the chairman’s wife’s third aunt’s best friend, published as a scientific consensus with a 90% probability.

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I Want To Believe

I Want To Believe

It seems that the “warmers” at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) (University of East Anglia, UEA) aren’t the only ones manipulating climate data to match models and predictions.

Now the Russian Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) in Moscow claims that the Hadley Center for Climate Change (Hadley Climate Research Unit Temperature, HadCRUT), based at the British Meteorological Office in Exeter, has tampered with Russian climate data.12

The short version is that HadCRUT includes only a small portion of Russian climate data; specifically only those parts that showed measurements to Hadley’s liking. According to Russian analysts, only 25% of stations were actually used. The measurements that were left out showed no substantial warming in the late 20th century and the early 21st century.

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Oops

Oops

The European Foundation1 has released a list of 100 reasons why climate change (formerly known as global warming) is natural and not man-made2:
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  1. It’s unclear exactly what organization this is, and the source article did not provide a link to it, though the paper describes the Foundation as “respected”
  2. As reported by Daily Express

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What would one expect from someone with a lot to hide? First ignoring the question, then trying to stop the questioner, and finally calling security.1 See for yourself.

Armed Response to 'Climategate' question

This person calling himself a “professor” is from Stanford University.

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Dec/09

5

Musical Moment…

Imagine There's No Global Warming

Speaks for itself…

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Head in the Sand

Head in the Sand

It has now been 14 days since the ClimateGate matter broke, and major news networks have yet to cover the topic. According to Media Research Center1 ABC, CBS and NBC have yet to mention ClimateGate. Perhaps this is all one needs to know about the “quality” of “news” from these networks.

Perhaps it’s not just that the news networks haven’t heard about ClimateGate from a “reliable” source — such as Gibbsy2 at the White House briefing room — ignoring the stepping down of the head of the Climatic Research Unit3 and the UN calling for an investigation4.

Or it could also be that the topic isn’t important enough. What, with the Democratic Congress giving away trillion dollar handouts from healthcare to the umptieth bailout of a union driven industry, they might rightfully be under the impression that legislation based on made up data and inconsistent models is quite ordinary, and therefore not newsworthy.

Or maybe these “news” outlets just want to stay away from commenting on the cap and tax trading scheme voted to the Senate by Pelosi’s House of Representatives, because the trading scheme apparently was originally invented by Ken Lay of Enron fame5.

Regardless of the reasons behind it, actions speak louder than words. It would be a good idea for everyone to remember this failure by ABC, CBS and NBC next time when one turns to television for “news”.

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Trussst in me...

Tru$$$t in me...

The Climatic Research Unit (CRU) seems to have destroyed raw weather data that it gathered, only holding onto “value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data“.1

Now isn’t that convenient? The same people who manipulated their data to make their models show results they wanted to see are now effectively asking everyone to trust them on the processing of raw measurements into “value-added data”.

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Problem data (for warmers)

Problem data (for warmers)

It seems that so called scientists at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and other institutions might be finally willing to properly respond to Freedom Of Information (FOI) requests. Not surprising, now that the genie is out of the bottle and it is going to be increasingly more criminal to claim that data related to FOI requests doesn’t exist or can’t be released due to some excuse.

No wonder the “warmers” — to give them a name, as “scientist” clearly fails to describe what they are — were manipulating data, as their precious models don’t match actual observations unless data is discarded, ignored and manipulated.

Special appreciation for bringing this matter forward goes to Mr. David Holland, who has for years taken on the warmers, the inconsistencies in their published data, and their so called conclusions.1

It will be interesting to see how the new — hopefully more accurate and complete — data impacts the predictions. Perhaps it’s time to get ready for that next ice age, as predicted in the 1970′s by the then-coolers-now-warmers…

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