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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Wry Heat

No matter what side of the issue one might be on, this is serious stuff. And the debate is now turning from how badly the public has been misled, to whether or not someone should face criminal consequences. This isn’t surprising, as it would seem quite logical that actions taken knowingly to deceive for financial gain would be covered by fraud statutes.

Some commentaries on the unraveling ClimateGate scandal:

• Wry Heat
• Congress May Probe Leaked Global Warming E-Mails
• Climategate e-mails sweep America, may scuttle Barack Obama’s Cap and Trade laws
• Obama faces delicate balancing act on climate
• Climategate: five Aussie MPs lead the way by resigning in disgust over carbon tax
• How to Forge a Consensus
• Pretending the climate email leak isn’t a crisis won’t make it go away
• EDITORIAL: Hiding evidence of global cooling
• Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’?
• Climategate: sack ‘no longer credible’ Michael Mann from IPCC urges climatologist

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Global Warming for Idiots

Interesting development in the continuing saga of the Church of Man Made Global Warming (CMMGW).

It seems that some of the most vocal proponents of the concept of man made global warming were adding quite a thick layer of lipstick on their statistics and numbers to make them fit what they would like to say about the climate.

While this has been long recognized by those who are rightfully critical of the claims made by global warming advocates, it is only now that some leaked emails provide detail into the process by which the lipstick was applied, and the number of layers that some thought were needed.

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Nevada Development Authority

The Golden State hasn’t been that golden in a long while. Year after year the state seems to move from one budget crisis to the next. From one massive budget shortfall to another just as big or bigger. If political speeches promising a better future had any worth, the state would be platinum by now.

The experience that California is going through can be very helpful to the rest of the nation.

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Climate Change (formerly known as Global Warming) isn’t quite done in the political arena yet.

One would think that the the global warming predictions — and the so-called models they are based on — were sufficiently busted through actual observations of the weather and solid science¹ that there would be no further discussion of laws relying on them. But things aren’t so simple when money becomes part of the discussion.

We could still see Cap and Tax (called Cap and Trade by some) enacted, and create yet another job and economy killer for the United States. Visit NoCapAndTrade.com for details.

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Edmunds.com — known for evaluating new and used cars and their markets — collated its seasonal car sales numbers with the results of the cash for clunkers program (aka Car Allowance Rebate System). Their findings were that factoring in new car sales that would have taken place anyway, the government subsidized each true “clunker” replacement to the tune of $24,000.¹

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It would seem to anyone briefly touching on the topic of unemployment, that the very definition of unemployment is simple: anyone looking for work but not finding it. Right?

Not so fast. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has many methods for computing unemployment, only one of which is presented as the official unemployment rate.

Further, independent third parties provide their own computations for unemployment rates as they would be performed in other countries, or using methodology BLS applied in the past, but has since changed.

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