A massive global warming Ooops
Bensblurb #508. 11/23/09
Call off Copenhagen?
The global warmists can be forgiven if most stay home from that Dec. confab. However,
as one analyst put it, “Unable to sign a binding treaty in Copenhagen, the president [has] called for...‘an accord that covers all of the issues ... and has immediate operational effect.’ The only way he can sign a deal with ‘immediate operational effect,’ without congressional approval, would be to have the Environmental Protection Agency accomplish by regulation what he cannot by legislation, a step he just might take if he takes the Senate's decision...to postpone consideration of cap and trade until next spring as a signal that it won't act then, or ever....” ‘.
All that rumination occurred before this weekend’s bombshell uncovering of skullduggery amongst the world’s elite scientific warmers.
As Newsbusters put it, “E-mail messages between high-ranking scientists appear to indicate a conspiracy by some of the world's leading global warming alarmists to falsify temperature data in order to exaggerate global averages. Those involved allegedly include: James Hansen, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Michael Mann, famous for Mann's ‘Hockey Stick‘; Gavin Schmidt, NASA climate modeler, and; Stephen Schneider, Stanford professor and Al Gore confidant.
Further, about those publicized emails, here’s John Hinderaker of Power Line blog.
“...the conclusion an observer is likely to draw from the CRU archive is that the climate alarmists are making up the science as they go along and are fitting facts to reach a predetermined conclusion rather than objectively seeking after truth. What they are doing is politics, not science.”
And from Bright Green Blog, this: “One target [of the emailers‘ wrath], climate researcher John Christy at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, finds the emails reflect a disturbing level of what he terms ‘group think.’ In an email exchange (a polite one), he writes:
“These people act in concert to diminish, reject, and otherwise denigrate findings with which they do not agree — and they are able to do so because of their ‘establishment’ positions. This is the preservation of ‘group think’ at its most serious level…. The group represented by the bulk of these emails does indeed have a message to defend. Those of us who see problems with that message are aware of how the data are manufactured and interpreted to support that message — and worse, how these establishment scientists act as gatekeepers for the ‘consensus’ reports to suppress alternative findings.”
Finally, here’s old friend Dennis Avery, a long-time author and leader in the skeptics community:
“Copenhagen has predictably brought out a new round of claims that humanity is frying the planet. Mother Nature, however, has told us to expect only about 0.5 degree of further warming over the next several centuries. Which is right, Mother Nature or the computerized global climate models championed by Al Gore?
“...One of the alleged emails has Kevin Trenberth of the U.S. National Center on Climate Research, saying to his fellow believers in man-made warming: ....“The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming, and it is a travesty that we can’t. The [government satellite radiation data] shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. . . .”
“Trenberth is saying the data he’s getting can’t be right because they don’t confirm his theory that the Modern Warming is mostly man-made. But there’s an old saying in science: “If your data don’t confirm your theory, get a new theory.”
You can see other recent columns by Dennis at cgfi.org.
It will be fun watching the global warmists trying to pooh-pooh the thrust of these candid email messages
-----And, by the way, Happy Thanksgiving, friends.
Call off Copenhagen?
The global warmists can be forgiven if most stay home from that Dec. confab. However,
as one analyst put it, “Unable to sign a binding treaty in Copenhagen, the president [has] called for...‘an accord that covers all of the issues ... and has immediate operational effect.’ The only way he can sign a deal with ‘immediate operational effect,’ without congressional approval, would be to have the Environmental Protection Agency accomplish by regulation what he cannot by legislation, a step he just might take if he takes the Senate's decision...to postpone consideration of cap and trade until next spring as a signal that it won't act then, or ever....” ‘.
All that rumination occurred before this weekend’s bombshell uncovering of skullduggery amongst the world’s elite scientific warmers.
As Newsbusters put it, “E-mail messages between high-ranking scientists appear to indicate a conspiracy by some of the world's leading global warming alarmists to falsify temperature data in order to exaggerate global averages. Those involved allegedly include: James Hansen, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Michael Mann, famous for Mann's ‘Hockey Stick‘; Gavin Schmidt, NASA climate modeler, and; Stephen Schneider, Stanford professor and Al Gore confidant.
Further, about those publicized emails, here’s John Hinderaker of Power Line blog.
“...the conclusion an observer is likely to draw from the CRU archive is that the climate alarmists are making up the science as they go along and are fitting facts to reach a predetermined conclusion rather than objectively seeking after truth. What they are doing is politics, not science.”
And from Bright Green Blog, this: “One target [of the emailers‘ wrath], climate researcher John Christy at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, finds the emails reflect a disturbing level of what he terms ‘group think.’ In an email exchange (a polite one), he writes:
“These people act in concert to diminish, reject, and otherwise denigrate findings with which they do not agree — and they are able to do so because of their ‘establishment’ positions. This is the preservation of ‘group think’ at its most serious level…. The group represented by the bulk of these emails does indeed have a message to defend. Those of us who see problems with that message are aware of how the data are manufactured and interpreted to support that message — and worse, how these establishment scientists act as gatekeepers for the ‘consensus’ reports to suppress alternative findings.”
Finally, here’s old friend Dennis Avery, a long-time author and leader in the skeptics community:
“Copenhagen has predictably brought out a new round of claims that humanity is frying the planet. Mother Nature, however, has told us to expect only about 0.5 degree of further warming over the next several centuries. Which is right, Mother Nature or the computerized global climate models championed by Al Gore?
“...One of the alleged emails has Kevin Trenberth of the U.S. National Center on Climate Research, saying to his fellow believers in man-made warming: ....“The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming, and it is a travesty that we can’t. The [government satellite radiation data] shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. . . .”
“Trenberth is saying the data he’s getting can’t be right because they don’t confirm his theory that the Modern Warming is mostly man-made. But there’s an old saying in science: “If your data don’t confirm your theory, get a new theory.”
You can see other recent columns by Dennis at cgfi.org.
It will be fun watching the global warmists trying to pooh-pooh the thrust of these candid email messages
-----And, by the way, Happy Thanksgiving, friends.
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