James Taylor of Forbes has reported on new NASA data in an article titled “New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hold In Global Warming Alarmism“¹. 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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Tin Whiskers

The European “Reduction of Hazardous Substances” regulations (aka RoHS) might have claimed another victim. A few years ago a billion dollar Swatch watch recall was apparently related to tin whiskers, a known failure mode of RoHS-compliant electronics.¹ Now, according to an industry news report, Toyota might have fallen victim to the same thing.²

We’re sure that some anti-industry environmentalists will be pleased, as this could make RoHS the most expensive piece of electronic industry regulation ever written.

What makes tin whiskers interesting, is that there is really no way to prevent them in lead free electronics, as all industry efforts focus on “mitigating” the effects, not preventing the formation of tin whiskers.³

We find it amazing that legislation that was in part intended to reduce waste is now apparently causing massive amounts of new waste due to accelerated failures, not to mention the indirect costs to the economy.

What strikes us is how similar the inclusion of lead in the RoHS legislation has been to the inclusion of carbon dioxide in the various attempted “Global Warming” laws. We recommend that our readers review the various references to this article and make their own conclusions as to the mindset and motivations of those who rammed through RoHS without regard to its implications. Unfortunately for the electronics industry and us (the consumers), there was no easy way to show that the benefits of lead-free electronics are possibly just as illusory as the benefits of a “carbon neutral” economy.⁴

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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

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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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.

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

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Speaks for itself…

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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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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)

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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