Fight the great Climate Change scam

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Climategate: One Must Ignore 200 Years of Observations to Believe in AGW by David Bellamy December 12th 2009

http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=4634

There is no evidence of carbon dioxide being a poison, or that it is capable of causing a warming Armageddon. What follows is a summary of the proof — straight from real science, peer-reviewed over the past 232 years by legions of physicists, thanks to Newton’s Principia.

 

Remember the famous picture of Miss Marilyn Monroe with her skirt blown high? Even at the age of 76, when I see this picture my temperature goes up — followed by the amount of carbon dioxide I exhale. Never the other way ’round. Now, thanks to the study of a series of ice cores, this appears to be an inconvenient truth for the global warming industry.

 

Al Gore used this ice core data to claim that carbon dioxide made the temperature of the world rise, threatening life on earth, because there was a correlation between atmospheric CO2 levels and the world’s average temperature. Yet the data from the much-celebrated Vostok ice cores paints a very different picture: Up goes the temperature, followed by a rise in carbon dioxide.

 

Effectively flattening Gore’s dreams of hedging his funds.

 

More troubles lie ahead for the warmists. Independent researchers have pointed out that crucially important pieces of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) evidence were based on false statistical analysis. For starters, take a look at historical evidence from the last 1,000 years. There was a worldwide Medieval Warm Period — no, not just in Europe — and a few centuries prior to that period it was warm enough for the Romans to produce red wine on the borders of Scotland.

 

The warmists did their best to hide this inconvenient truth, too. In 2006, Dr. David Deming of the University of Oklahoma testified to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. He stated that soon after he had published a paper on borehole temperature based on historical data in the journal Science, he received an email from a major climate change researcher which read:

 

We have to get rid of the medieval warm period.

 

Michael Mann, one of the divas of global warming, had done just that. He published a reconstruction of past temperatures from AD 1000 to the present … in which the Medieval Warm Period conveniently vanished.Warmist believers joined in, flag-waving and sandwich-boarding, calling Mann critics “deniers” and worse.

 

Over the past 5,000 years? There was not just one, but three periods when it was warmer than today. And yet life on Earth survived. Climate change is natural, and warmer periods occur without human CO2 emissions being the cause. Just looking at the last decade, world temperature is falling as CO2 rises — big emitters China and India have been stocking up their coal sheds. Increases in CO2 rarely coincide with rises in the Earth’s temperature — so how can CO2 be the driver of global warming, let alone climate change?

 

Following the spread of this evidence, the warmists began to see the lights of the skeptic train rushing down their tunnel of hype. Those with the most to lose dropped the term “global warming,” replacing it with “climate change” — which has been happening since the first living thing was there to record the evidence. With this new term, they gave themselves a spurious license to carry on frightening law-abiding citizens with waterlogged tales of unprovable tipping points just around the corner.

 

Meanwhile, one of Britain’s mainstream scientific groups, NERC, sidestepped this troublesome term by blaming everything on “environmental change” in their publication Planet Earth.

 

We have had at least 75 major temperature swings in the past 4,500 years — all in great part explicable by solar cycles, volcanic activity, and those little rascals El Nino and La Nina. Those “warming” oceans? The recent trend is one of cooling, not the warming predicted by legions of modelers and their models. Since 2007, the Arctic ice cap has been increasing in area, heading back towards the norm again. Yes, the Northwest Passage was navigable this year — but it has been that way on a number of occasions, just since 1850. Thanks in great part to prevailing winds changing direction, as they are wont to do.

 

During the past 10,000 years since the end of the last Ice Age, all the civilizations of the world came to fruition — and they mainly prospered in the warmer periods.

 

There are now more polar bears dining on seals in the Arctic than when I was filming there some 30 years ago, thanks to good wildlife management. So good, in fact, that the global warmists did their best to lock out the lead manager on that project from an important meeting discussing polar bear population — a matter that Al Gore would use to falsely frighten children across the world.

 

Sea levels have been behaving themselves, slowly rising ever since the end of the Little Ice Age. However, much to the chagrin of the warmists, they have remained stationary since 2006 — against all their predictions. Those who had bothered to read the IPCC’s 2007 report might have noticed the following from Chapter 5:

Finally, the global average sea level rise for the last 50 years is likely to be larger than can be explained by thermal expansion and loss of land ice due to increased melting and thus for this period it is not possible to satisfactorily quantify the known processes causing sea level rise.

 

We can only guess why the likes of the BBC chose not to report this good news.

 

Just this year, the data behind Michael Mann’s hockey stick was finally released. Mann had used only 12 carefully selected tree ring sequences to prepare his story — omitting 34 that didn’t suit his purpose. This is surely one of the most scandalous examples of cherry picking on record, a blatant attempt to keep the world scared of carbon dioxide, and to keep reputations and research budgets safe. A gravy train, of jet-set travel to conferences in choice locations around the globe, each well-laced with top cuisine for the top tables and adulation from a regular caravansary of hangers-on, swelling a spurious and unscientific consensus.

 

I have spent over 50 years of my life talking to and about plants, while doing my bit to recycle carbon dioxide to keep the living world going round and round. Today, children are taught that carbon dioxide is a poison. No — it is odorless, colorless, and non-toxic. We drink it in fizzy drinks and lager, and it puts the rise in our daily bread. Most importantly, it is one of the most important components of all life — photosynthesis converts CO2 into oxygen and carbon, life’s main building blocks. As long as plants have sufficient water and nutrients, their growth is enhanced by rising concentrations of carbon dioxide. CO2 is the free airborne fertilizer of the world.

 

Many experiments prove this fact of a carbon-rich atmosphere, experiments corroborated by millions of farmers across the world who cash in on the use of enhanced carbon dioxide in their greenhouses. Many even burn fossil fuel to boost production. Carbon dioxide plays a vital part in providing the 18 billion daily meals that do their best to feed the growing number of people across the world. The once-starving people of parts of the Sahel and Sahara deserts have returned to farm their lands, thanks to the shade of trees that now grow on some 300,000 square kilometers of their tribal lands, thanks in great part to rising levels of carbon dioxide.

 

The last thing Africa needs is to reduce its non-existent carbon footprint. Likewise, the last thing the economy of the world needs is to spend trillions of taxpayer money trying to solve the credit crunch by raising taxes to win a non-existent carbon dioxide war. The cost of the global warming [problem] is rising fast, and soon will pass the hundred billion dollar mark. Money that could have been spent solving real problems.

 

This August, right in the middle of the BBC’s promised barbecue summer (which didn’t come to pass), the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit disclosed that it had destroyed the raw data for its global surface temperature records. Despite the fact that they own some of the most powerful computers in the world, the reason they advanced was “an alleged lack of storage space.” The very foundation of the global warming argument was gone forever. Draw your own conclusions — sabotage or desperation?

 

Remember the millennium bug, or the dot-com bubble? Tens of thousands of the highest-paid and most computer-literate people fell for it, and rued the day. Now we see folks forced to stand by and watch biodiesel, palm oil, and soya swallow up their biodiverse, sustainably farmed rangelands.

 

Earth’s climate has remained within the limits tolerated by life for several billion years. During this time, the planet has experienced unimaginable volcanic events which liberated huge amounts of CO2. It has collided with extraterrestrial objects, triggering either an increase or decrease of temperature. Even the energy flow from the sun has varied over such a span of geological time.

 

And yet — here we are! Life remains. The global temperature is now well within life’s limits, the present-day is cooler than much of previous geological time, and you may soon have the opportunity to buy a secondhand private jet from the worlds first carbon-neutral billionaire.

Now watch this video which highlights the extent of propaganda that's fed to the general public who cannot think for themselves!

By Bob Ellis on December 13th, 2009

 

Lord Christopher Monckton just has fun where ever he goes.

 

Whether it’s to a university in Minnesota, or the Glenn Beck show, or correcting modern-day climate “Hitler Youth,” or even education Greenpeace protesters, he just has such a wonderful way of educating environmental extremists with such calm and grace–no small feat, in light of the maddening lack of intelligent or analytical thought out of most environmental extremists.

 

In the video below, he chats for about 10 minutes with a Greenpeace woman, enlightening her on many, many things that she obviously did not know. (Hint: reading only memos from environmental extremism groups is the last way to find out any real information).

 

I have a feeling that, if this woman can stay out of the clutches of her fellow environmentalist wackos–where she might be re-assimilated back into the hive mind–long enough to actually look up some of the information Monckton told her about for herself, she might just get a grip on reality and come to the startling realization that the theory of anthropogenic global warming is a load of hooey.

 

I once believed some pretty shallow, stupid stuff; I’m sure there’s hope for this woman, aren’t you?

http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/12/lord-monckton-educates-greenpeace-drone

Now what worries me is that 50% of the human population is below average intelligence!

 

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[Surfer01]

A very good article and more believable than a lot of tripe written by so called scientists on the gravy train.

BTW Ethiopia probably produces the most CO2 out of any country in the world due to its volcanoes and open lava fire pits so i wonder if it is going to be taxed to death or get billions from the taxpayers.

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Well it's over (at least for now), and what a total waste of time & money - time & money that could have been spent on THE REAL issues ADAPTING to climate change - not this poppycock nonsense of man made CO2 emissions - created as an excuse to tax the hell out of everyone.

 

Here is a very good summary (couldn't have written it better myself - lol):

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/message-on-climate-emotive-but-a-fraud/story-e6frezz0-1225812018528

THE Copenhagen conference was rightly killed by greed, science fiction and a surfeit of hot air emitted by the 45,000 delegates, rent-seekers and assorted hangers-on, all of whom attempted to defy common sense and cripple the global economy.

 

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who sought to attain some semblance of world statesmanship as a "friend of the chair" appointed by host, Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, again demonstrated his lack of diplomatic negotiating skills as conferees failed to agree to a meaningful conclusion.

 

Fortunately, Rudd's attempts to scare Australians into supporting an untested emissions trading system in advance of the failed conference were derailed by a new and reinvigorated Opposition, under Tony Abbott, at the eleventh hour.

 

Had Malcolm Turnbull's plan to go along with the Labor Party succeeded, Australia would now be suffering under a new tax scheme that would have ensured the collapse of industries fundamental to the economy.

 

The collapse at Copenhagen into a weak, almost meaningless morass of platitudes and "legally non-binding" (how's that for humbug?) agreement with no firm limits on emissions provided real-time proof of the inability of the United Nations to organise, let alone operate, anything.That Australia sent more than 100 people to Copenhagen to participate in this gabfest only to return with a piece of paper that reads like a drunk's New Year's resolution is an absolute disgrace. What's more, the whole show will be repeated in Bonn in six months in another exercise of futility, fatuity and duplicity.

 

Left-leaning nations and taxpayer-funded organisations went to Copenhagen prepared to give the dysfunctional global bureaucracy the power to operate the largest, most intrusive, supra-national tax-and-police authority ever envisaged.

 

Characters dressed as polar bears and pandas cheered such irrational leaders as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez as he called for the end of capitalism, for only with the end of rationalism can such endangered fruit-loops hope to survive.

 

One of the few to show any independent thinking was Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who said his nation supported a collective global agreement, but any compromise must not ignore the science. "To settle for something that would be seen as diminished expectations ... would be in our view a very wrong message to emerge," he said.

 

Without doubt, the wrong message has been sent.

 

As Patrick Michaels, formerly professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, wrote in The Wall Street Journal, Climategate - the now famous leaked emails from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit - demonstrate some arbitrary manipulating of various climate data sources in order to fit preconceived hypotheses, deliberate blocking of freedom of information requests related to data provided to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the silencing of climate scientists sceptical of the prevailing orthodoxy.

 

In effect, the global warming claims of the so-called science has been ripped apart. The crowd who gathered in Copenhagen were there pushing a fraud.

 

The Russians were on to it early when they checked the claims being put forward on the basis of the data they had supplied.

 

Last week, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) was issued a report claiming that the Hadley Centre for Climate Change based at the headquarters of the British Meteorological Office in Exeter (Devon, England) had probably tampered with Russian climate data.

 

The IEA said Russian meteorological-station data did not substantiate the anthropogenic global-warming theory and that the Hadley Climate Research Unit Temperature UK (HadCRUT) survey had cherry-picked available data.

 

It had ignored material that showed no substantial warming in the late 20th century and early 21st century and included incomplete data, rather than using uninterrupted observations.

 

The London Daily Telegraph's James Delingpole, a keen student of Climategate, noted: "What the Russians are suggesting here, in other words, is that the entire global temperature record used by the IPCC to inform world government policy is a crock."

 

In The Weekend Australian yesterday, a number of respected scientists dismissed the alarmist warnings about the extinction of the Great Barrier Reef. The widely anticipated extreme weather predicted by climate alarmists has not eventuated.

 

Even the threats of rising sea levels have been rejected by one of the world's foremost sea-rise experts, Nils-Axel Morner, the leader of the Maldives Sea Level Project, who wrote in October to Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed telling him that the results of extensive testing of the sea levels in the Maldives over several decades showed "overwhelming evidence that sea level was by no means in a rising mode in the Maldives, but had remained quite stable for the last 30 years".The same goes for Tuvalu and the other island nations claiming to be threatened by calamitous sea rise, he said. Very emotive, but a fraud.

 

There we have it. As yet, the global warming crowd have failed to produce any observation-based evidence that carbon dioxide levels have led to rising temperatures, but have shown that they are willing to distort data, manipulate facts and censor those who disagree with their ideology.

 

May all those who have peddled this dangerous and unscientific nonsense wake to a lump of coal in their stocking on Christmas Day.