Climategate 2010: The Inconvenient Facts About Global Warming
In the wake of the Climategate scandal, panelists and audience members at the Fourth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC4) indicated growing confidence that the tide is turning in favor of those who believe that manmade global warming is not a crisis.
More than 700 people — including a good many scientists, along with economists, policy analysts, and legislators — have gathered together since Sunday night, discussing the once-settled but increasingly controversial proposition of an anthroprogenic global warming (AGW) crisis. Any triumphalism was averted by a general agreement to explore real-world facts and test the assertions of alarmists. The presenters and audience members continually asked whether the data says what the modelers say it does.
The conference opened with a Sunday evening dinner at which Canadian statistical analyst Stephen McIntyre presented a meticulous history of the hugely influential “hockey stick” graph — which found an alarming rise of global temperatures since 1979 and led to the IPPC conclusion that AGW is causing a global crisis that requires drastic measures. McIntyre had begun publicly questioning the data several years ago, setting off an effort which ultimately led to the recent Climategate scandal, in which it was shown that the people behind the hockey stick graph knowingly altered the temperature record in a way that expanded a relatively common global temperature change into a shocking heat spike.
The scientists’ own words show them as phonying up temperature data “in order to trick you,” as McIntyre noted repeatedly in his presentation, quoting comedian Jon Stewart’s scathing mockery of the alarmists’ attempted evasions. McIntyre quoted extensively from the various parties that perpetrated this massive fraud, but he avoided using such emotionally charged words. Fellow keynote speaker Harrison Schmitt — a Ph.D. scientist and former NASA astronaut — by contrast, embraced the characterization of the Climategate events as a fraud, in response to audience comments in a lively Q&A session after McIntyre’s speech. The questioners strongly criticized McIntyre’s reticence and his argument supporting a central role for government in pressing a climate agenda.
The disagreement demonstrated that the increasing skepticism toward the AGW crisis hypothesis is not the result of an organized effort by energy industry shills but instead a serious movement investigating a scientific proposition carrying enormous political and economic implications. At breakfast on Monday, the eminent environmental sciences scholar Pat Michaels, Ph.D., a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists, employed much humor and telling details in documenting an extensive cover-up by alarmists in stopping publication of articles by AGW skeptics in Climate Science and other refereed science journals. Noting that a prominent alarmist called for the editor of Climate Science to be fired for not spiking AGW skeptics’ articles, Michaels observed: “This is a hanging offense in science.”
The real core of the conference has been the panel sessions, in which scientists, economists, and other experts present the facts about the environmental effects of human activity and the causes of global temperature changes. Given that four panels were meeting at any one time, attendees were forced to make some tough choices. But in each case, the emphasis was on presenting the facts, and in the three panels I attended I heard some strong words but no polemics.
Sanity.
Would resulting cooling disprove predicted warming?
And how is correlation supposed to be considered science? -that would be superstition, as in believing what one does not understand.
And isn’t making a virtue out of no proof really just religion?
Why do these Greenzi Climate Change Cowards wish for this misery to happen?
Is promising death for another 24 years sustainable?
Do voters have the real consensus that the taxes and personal sacrifice of lifestyle needs to be enacted into law?
Who dictates public science policy, scientists or voters?
How is bowing to a fat American politician promising to lower the seas considered responsible environmentalism?
How many climate change scientists to change a light bulb? None, but they DO have consensus that it WILL change.
Why are there more consensus scientists than marching protestors?
Why did the global warmer cross the road? She was being chased by a UFO, a swarm of Killer Bees and a new generation of children fed up with having death threats issued to them for 24 years.
Why is the climate crisis hiding only in far off places like the poles, deep in the oceans, high atop mountains and in remote jungles?
Is all good weather now bad and all bad weather just “wrong”?
Since we don’t natural climate, (wouldn’t that be a special place) how can we differentiate between it and “man-made” climate? Like how would you tell the difference between each if both actually exist? Wouldn’t man-made climate therefore NOT exist?
Why are peace loving environmentalists not overjoyed at Climate Gate proving the dangers has passed and was a mistake?
Why is fear environMENTALism’s only motivator?
Although not a truly scientific issue, it would be interesting to know how much of Spain’s current economic problems are related to their pursuit (subsidies) of Green jobs.
Gentlemn; thank you for using reason, logic, thought and scholarly debate about the facts, the assumptions, and the limitations of our knowledge of this planet and its past, current and future condition. It is a cool breath of air to know that you are engaging and outmaneuvering the AGW Pharisees on these topics. Nice work and THANK YOU!
Wake up, sleepy heads! Time to rise and shine.
This all reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode, where scientists screamed “We are all going to burn up! We are nearing the sun!” And in actuality earth was plummeting away from the sun, and everyone froze to death.
We are cooling, folks; for how long even kim doesn’t know.
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Our Fearless Leaders will always protect us Global Warming and the Nuclear Powers or the BPs.
chairman of a House of Representatives committee on ‘global warming’ and energy independence.
Good Job Boys!
Now that we have Oil Tar Balls washing up on the Key West islands off of Florida, and
when this Oil and Tar gets into the Atlantic and washes up on the coast of South Carolina and Ocean Isle NC,
millions of jobs will be lost in the tourist industry.
The only beaches you can visit will be on the shores of Lake Michigan.
Committee on global warming and energy independence trying to prevent future accidents?
Reminds me of a hen house protected by frogs.
Environmentalists are invariably people that want others to use less energy!
If Obama/Gore really believed global warming, they would talk non stop about lowering speed limits to 50 and demand that Americans stop jack rabbit starts and stop racing to lights that are red.
Virtually no Americans believe it either; just look at the fuel wasting driving habits; that also fund the other sides war against us! If you believe the hurricane may kill you/your family: you leave. The driving habits prove no one believes it.
Look, climate change happens. There is a LONG historical record of it. An even longer ‘documented’ record of historical STUPIDITY exists among human understanding of ANYTHING. And the proof of that can be seen all around us. Even things that were supposedly ‘etched in stone’ for ‘posterity’ are now being ridiculed as ‘out of date’ or some other whimsical reason, sans supporting evidence. And the argument for taxing productive populations because the climate changes is supposed to make sense? Please! There is only one reason for this MONEY. And they believe they can TAKE your money because you are accepting the mindless argument(s) they are postulating on all of it! People are standing in line to be taken advantage of. Which is fine because: operators are waiting to take your call.
Recent research by Henrik Svensmark and his group at the Danish National
Space Center points to the real cause of the recent warming trend. In a
series of experiments on the formation of clouds, these scientists have
shown that fluctuations in the Sun’s output cause the observed changes in the
Earth’s temperature.
In the past, scientists believed the fluctuations in the Sun’s output were
too small to cause the observed amount of temperature change, hence the need
to look for other causes like carbon dioxide. However, these new
experiments show that fluctuations in the Sun’s output are in fact large
enough, so there is no longer a need to resort to carbon dioxide as the
cause of the recent warming trend.
The discovery of the real cause of the recent increase in the Earth’s
temperature is indeed a convenient truth. It means humans are not to blame
for the increase. It also means there is absolutely nothing we can, much
less do, to correct the situation.
Thomas Laprade
http://beforeitsnews.com/news/44/692/Astonishing_Science:_Sun_May_Cause_Global_Warming.html
It is starting again in Texas. It happens every year too.
Huh? Hang on, here! There was a conference? I thought the debate was over.
And a note from the other side:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=155225
Personally I feel that a Dalton type minimum is more likely than a Maunder type minimum, but the more extreme case can’t be completely ruled out.
Especially when you consider the fact that many of the so called sun spots that have been measured in the last few years are so small that it is unlikely they would have been spotted 400 years ago.
How much more lipstick are these idiots going to put on this pig? The truth never matters when you are spending taxpayers money.
Anyone else wonder why good scientists are forced to waste their time trying to disprove an unproven theory?
They’ve been trying since 1988 to prove that CO2 plays a major role in climate.
To date, they have failed miserably in that effort. Not a single shred of real world evidence to back up their theory. (No, climate models are neither real world, nor are they evidence of anything other than the ability of a programmer to produce what ever result he is being paid to produce.)
On the other hand the evidence that things other than CO2 are behind the recently ended rise in temperature has continued to mount over the last decade.
Why AGW has become a dogma and corrupt the scientific method.
There has formed an opportunistic cabal comprised of Big Business (Cap’n Trade), Big Government (carbon tax), Big Science (billions for research), Big Eco-Green (billions for wind and solar), Big Media (Gore/Suzuki and a new global warming apocalypse story every day) , Big Socialism (IPCC and U.N. wealth re-distribution) money, money, money follow the money. AGW has now become a holy cause formed out of the un-holy alliance outlined above.
I laud those who take on the money machine of this scope (I’ve never seen anything like it), good luck your going to need it.
What? No refutations from the mighty Lazar?! One bitch slappin’ was enough, eh?
He’s been reduced to trying to prove that he’s been censored.
He claims that he’s being censored in order to keep certain information out of this blog.
In the posts in which he claims censorship, he proceeds to list all of the information that he claims got his previous entries censored.
The funny thing is, he fails to realize how he has managed to refute himself.
Just for the uninitiated here is the translation from DEMspeak/Islamospeak/Green NAZIspeak/Left wing Moonbatspeak to English
I misspoke ……………………………. I LIED
I was missquoted…………………………I LIED
You have to read it in context…………….I LIED
I never said that………………………..I am LYING
Data needs CORRECTING…………………….I am about to commit FRAUD to get lots of MONEY
He did it too……………………………But I am still a LIAR
Hide the decline…………………………Now I am really LYING
Peer review control………………………No you cant expose my LIES
Religion of Peace………………………..Blatant barefaced LIE
Women are equals in Islam…………………Absolute whopper of a LIE
White Policemen are STUPID………………..Hi my names Obama/Holder
Muslim Terrorists what Muslim terrorists……Hi my name is Obama/Holder
Black Panthers are innocent……………….Hi my name is Obama/Holder
TeaBaggers………………………………Hi my name is Obama/Holder
No I haven’t read it but I KNOW its wrong….Hi I am any DEM you want to name.
Here’s what really matters, as reported in the Toronto Globe and Mail. The actual data (the real world) is a far cry from the La-La Land that the deniers, here, try to represent as fact:
“Arctic sea ice is on track to recede to a record low this year, suggesting that northern waters free of summer ice are coming faster than anyone thought.
The latest satellite information shows ice coverage is equal to what it was in 2007, the lowest year on record, and is declining faster than it did that year.
“Could we break another record this year? I think it’s quite possible,” said Mark Serreze of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo.
“We are going to lose the summer sea-ice cover. We can’t go back.”
In April, the centre published data showing that sea ice had almost recovered to the 20-year average. That ignited a flurry of interest on climate change skeptic blogs.
But much of that ice was thin and new. The warmest April on record in the Arctic made short work of it.”
Question: What are the chances an infinitesimal (.04%) trace gas (CO2), essential to photosynthesis and therefore life on this planet, is responsible for runaway Global Warming?
Answer: Infinitesimal
The IPCC now agrees. See the IPCC Technical Report section entitled Global Warming Potential (GWP). And the GWP for CO2? Just 1, (one), unity, the lowest of all green house gases (GHG). What’s more, trace gases which include GHG constitute less than 1% of the atmosphere. Of that 1%, water vapor, the most powerful GHG, makes ups 40% of the total. Carbon dioxide is 1/10th of that amount, an insignificant .04%. If carbon dioxide levels were cut in half to 200PPM, all plant growth would stop according to agricultural scientists. It’s no accident that commercial green house owner/operators invest heavily in CO2 generators to increase production, revenues and profits. Prof. Michael Mann’s Bristle cone tree proxy data (Hockey stick) proves nothing has done more to GREEN (verb) the planet over the past few decades than moderate sun-driven warming (see solar inertial motion) together with elevated levels of CO2, regardless of the source. None of these facts have been reported in the national media. Why?
Come on guys, this is like coming round to the celebration party the morning after to up some things and still finding some party goers still partying!
Climategate didn’t burst the balloon … it just reminded everyone how small the balloon was! No one cares about global warming any longer. It’s a none issue. The public are fed up with it, the press are fed up with it and even the eco-crusaders are fed up with it.
There’s only a few drunken climategate nerds left at the party!