Climate-Change Debate Is Heating Up in Deep Freeze - NY Times

NY Times
February 10, 2010

WASHINGTON — As millions of people along the East Coast hole up in their snowbound homes, the two sides in the climate-change debate are seizing on the mounting drifts to bolster their arguments.

Skeptics of global warming are using the record-setting snows to mock those who warn of dangerous human-driven climate change — this looks more like global cooling, they taunt.

Most climate scientists respond that the ferocious storms are consistent with forecasts that a heating planet will produce more frequent and more intense weather events.

But some independent climate experts say the blizzards in the Northeast no more prove that the planet is cooling than the lack of snow in Vancouver or the downpours in Southern California prove that it is warming.

As an illustration of their point of view, the family of Senator James M. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, a leading climate skeptic in Congress, built a six-foot-tall igloo on Capitol Hill and put a cardboard sign on top that read “Al Gore’s New Home.”

Utah House tells feds to end emissions moves

The Associated Press

The Utah House has passed a resolution questioning the science behind global warming and calling for federal officials to stop policies aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

IF YOU THINK CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT ABOUT THE MONEY...Major Investor Groups Urge Tougher Action On Climate Change

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=201001141429dowjonesdjonline000594&title=major-investor-groups-urge-tougher-action-on-climate-change

PRIMARY UNITED STATES CLIMATE CENTERS NOW CAUGHT IN DATA MANIPULATION

http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/40749822.html

Key Lesson for rich countries - was that China would not be pushed around at Copenhagen

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/dont-push-us-china-warns-rich-countries-20100110-m0th.html

Obama Using the CIA to Study Global Warming - Icebergs not Terrorists?

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2ba_1262878501

What To Do Now That Its Been Done

Scene: Courageous Obama, iron-willed Nobel-prize-laureate makes his adorable little girls wait for Christmas while he bludgeons Congress to pass anything they can call heath care reform so the Cavalcade of Czars can fill in the blanks later

By Dr. Robert R. Owens
Monday, December 28, 2009

You can’t beat good political drama. The Nuremberg rallies with all those glistening uniforms and snappy torch light marches. he May Day Parades with the Soviet gerontocracy standing on Lenin’s tomb smiling at the grandchildren of the people they tortured riding on their shiny tanks and missile launchers.

Even little North Korea stages some pretty impressive mass birthday parties for the Glorious Midget. We may disagree with everything these totalitarian nightmare regimes stand for. We may abhor their gangster tactics and hellish fantasies about conquering the world but you have to give them credit for knowing how to wow the crowd. hey know how to stage a scene and then walk on as the Luke Skywalker of megalomania, wave to the great unwashed return to their castle of doom and continue living life large like Dr. No or in Kim Jong-II’ s case Mini-Me.

The Denver acceptance speech with its Styrofoam Acropolis gave us a hint of the political theater to come. he Victory speech to the teaming masses in Grant Park let us know the curtain was rising. Like the Perils of Pauline in a serial of sequels the suspense continues in the never-ending crisis. We must have health care and we must have it now! We’re so far in debt we need to spend a massive amount quickly or we’ll go bankrupt. his is an emergency there’s no time to read the bill hurry up and vote. We need this now even though it won’t be implemented until after the next presidential election. Hurry up vote!!!

There’s nail-biting suspense and edge-of-the-seat excitement as the plot thickens. What will it cost to buy Mary Landrieu’s vote? How much does Ben Nelson want for Nebraska’s vote? Ram it through no matter what the people want. Our lawyer-infested government knows better. Besides, who are we to question the only honest politician to emerge from the swamp of Chicago political corruption? Want to wake up with a horse’s head in our bed? Just pay the big and shut up they obviously know what’s best they’ve got 60 votes.

What a scene. he courageous iron-willed Nobel-prize-laureate makes his adorable little girls wait for Christmas while Daddy bludgeons a compliant Congress to pass anything they can call heath care reform so the Cavalcade of Czars can fill in the blanks later.

Every move they’ve taken since the November Revolution has been to seize control of the economy and society. Following the insurance, banking, and auto coups the health care take-over delivers another 1/6 of the economy into their clutches. Swiftly following will be Cap-n-Trade either by legislation or EPA mandate, Import-a-Voter-Immigration-Reform and watch for the regime to begin acting as if whatever that was the Boss agreed to in Copenhagen is a ratified treaty committing America to the UN administered shake-down carbon tax to help prop up statists around the world.

The plan is to push through so many changes and to commit us to such enormous debt there will be no way back to the America we’ve known. hey’re also planning on maintaining their power in perpetuity through Acorn voter registration, manipulation of the census and import-a-voter immigration reform. Echoing the question I hear every day as I travel around the country, the question I receive every day in emails from concerned Americans from sea to shining sea, ‚ÄúWhat can we do?‚Äù

They organized their way into power and we need to organize their way out. We laughed when someone had the audacity to list Community Organizer as their profession on a presidential r√©sum√©. Now we know that wasn’t a joke. We couldn’t believe it when someone from the most corrupt political machine in America was presented as hope for change. But the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media pulled it off. hen after the Republican statists and their casino capitalist pals abandoned free market principles to save the free market it was anti-climatic when a majority of American voters elected a one party regime with unstoppable majorities.

We must organize. We must remain peaceful but we must organize. he Tea Party movement blazed the way. Now a new organization, GOOOH, or Get Out of Our House is growing on the American political horizon with the intention of vetting and backing candidates across the political spectrum. Others such as the Tea Party Patriots and the Tea Party Express are springing up bringing like-minded Americans together for education, encouragement and inspiration. Using the Internet and the exploding social networks these innovative groups are leading the way.

Believers in free enterprise, personal liberty and individual freedom are coalescing to out-organize the organizers. Constitutionally limited government will return to Washington for we shall not go silently into that long dark night. he arrogant career politicians, their media fellow travelers and the entrenched technocrat bureaucracy may think they’ve won the final round. hey may think the America we’ve known and loved is down for the count but in reality all they’ve done is awaken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve. Don’t despair. Keep the faith. We shall overcome.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/18358

NewsWithViews.com | Defund Taxpayer Supported Science Fraud - It's time we cut off the looting of our pocketbooks

By Larry Pratt
December 26, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

Trofim Lysenko was Stalin’s favorite scientist because he liked his meshing of evolution and Marxism. Comrade Lysenko “proved” that there is no such thing as a gene. A lot of money was dumped into the “research” of this crackpot, and woe to those who declared that the emperor had no clothes.

Lysenko’s gene-free view of science led to claims that wheat plants could produce rye. Any disagreement was labeled as “political sabotage” -- similar to the contemporary global warming “elite” who libel and banish those who do not worship at their altar.

It turns out that Lysenko’s spiritual children are the global warming alarmists in today’s scientific establishment. The recent dumping of their emails on the internet exposed the fact that their “research” was as invalid as Lysenko’s. As an aside, it seems that the emails were posted from a server in Tomsk, a Russian secret police city. If the Ruskies did the deed, the best guess is that this major oil producer was alarmed by the West’s efforts to commit economic suicide by forcing a cutback in petroleum consumption.

The emails were parked on computers at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England. But the scandal is not just a British booboo. America’s leading climate Casandras were also part of the scam.

Perhaps you have heard of the now-infamous “hockey stick” graph that supposedly proved the Industrial Revolution, which massively improved the lives of millions of people, was the cause of global warming? The “hockey stick” was a fraudulent representation of data which showed a straight line of constant temperatures with a sharp uptick at the end. That uptick is allegedly the time that industrialization supposedly started generating global warming. Well, it turns out the “hockey stick” graph was as valid as a three-dollar bill.

Those of us active in defending the right to keep and bear arms don’t find it surprising that when politicians fund research, you get political science, not real science. Dr. Arthur Kellerman is the Trofim Lysenko of research on guns and public health. He grabbed some of our money that was funneled by the drunken spenders in Congress through the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. READ MORE ....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Pratt/larry108.htm

Build-A-Bear Warns Kids that Santa Claus May Cancel Christmas Due to 'Global Warming'...Why you should boycott Build-A-Bear

Attention Santas:

This missive is directed at the guardians of, and donors to, tiny humans. If you fall into that category you likely are already familiar with Build-A-Bear, a world-wide corporation that provides the most innocent of services. They sell customizable stuffed animals. Make your own bear, dog…penguin. Cute concept.

So cute, in fact, that the Build-A-Bear empire sweeps across nearly every state and into 17 other countries. You’ll find their outlets in shopping malls everywhere and even some ballparks. The company also has a website called Build-A-Bearville.com where children can play an interactive video game that, on it’s surface, is unlikely to raise suspicion or sound alarms.

But when your unsuspecting tot logs on and hops a virtual train to the North Pole…you should know that he or she will be informed — by Santa Claus — that Christmas may be canceled this year due to Global Warming. Below is part two of the 3-part video. READ MORE

http://biggovernment.com/2009/12/22/build-a-climate-scare-why-you-should-boycott-build-a-bear/

SeekingAlpha.com | China Nixes Climate Agreement - China was willing to assist a western economic suicide

The UN Climate Change Conference ended in failure. The last-minute accord negotiated by the US, China, India, Brazil and South Africa, after most world leaders had left on December 18, was in no way binding. It was, in the words of The Independent, a British newspaper, "merely a political statement."

China was willing to assist a western economic suicide, but was not interested in participating. The Independent explains how China killed the agreement by refusing to compromise:

The day's most remarkable feature was a direct and unprecedented personal clash between the US President, Barack Obama, and the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, in which Mr Wen took deep offence at Mr Obama's insistence – in public – that the Chinese should allow their promised cuts in greenhouse gases to be internationally verified. When the President, in an unyielding speech, said that without international verification "any agreement would be empty words on a page", that was too much for Mr Wen. He left the conference in Copenhagen's Bella Centre, returned to his hotel in the city, and responded with a direct snub of his own – he sent low-level delegates to take his place in the talks.

A high-level source told The Independent that the US President was amazed when he found who he was negotiating with, and clearly regarded Mr Wen's absence as a major diplomatic insult. He snapped: "It would be nice to negotiate with somebody who can make political decisions"...

In the meantime, as physicists have recently determined, the earth will continue to warm and cool in response to changes in solar activity and cosmic ray inflow, with CO2 playing a minor role, if any.

Perhaps President Obama would have found the sun to be a more tractable negotiation partner than China. In fact, the sun is actually cooperating -- its geomagnetic emissions are at an all-time low right now, as predicted by an excellent 2005 study (Sunspots may Vanish by 2015) by two scientists, William Livingston and Matthew Penn, at the National Solar Observatory in Arizona.

Physicists have found close correlations between cosmic ray influx and global temperatures and they know that solar activity blocks cosmic ray influx. The current hypothesis is that when solar activity is low, more cosmic rays penetrate the earth's atmosphere, causing more low-level clouds to form, reflecting more sunlight back into outerspace, and thus cooling the Earth.

Disclosure: No positions

http://seekingalpha.com/article/179007-china-nixes-climate-agreement

RussiaToday | Plenty of finger pointing after pretty fruitless Copenhagen summit (video)

World leaders reached a deal of sorts to tackle global warming, but the summit in Copenhagen has been widely seen as a failure, especially by developing countries – and many blame the US and China for refusing to budge.

Early on Saturday morning, world leaders finally reached a deal of sorts on reducing carbon emissions and financing developing countries in their battle against climate change.

Russian presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich shared some of the pain felt by negotiators.

“Many countries have made significant statements. Unfortunately, this summit was organized in such a way that the sides could not come to an agreement. The Russian President noted, among other things, that the documents which the leaders were expected to discuss were prepared very poorly. Negotiations have been really difficult,” Arkady Dvorkovich says.

The deal is one that includes none of the rhetoric of leaders going into the summit.

Many blamed the US and China for refusing to budge.

“Why would we in the United States give something to China to help them to meet certain goals when they own $800 billion of our debt? It just doesn't make sense,” believes US Senator James Inhofe.

But both countries eventually made small concessions, to enable the two superpowers, plus India, South Africa and Brazil, to broker a last-minute pledge to limit temperature rises to 2 degrees Celsius.

The five nations also promised $30 billion in aid to developing nations over the next three years, to help them cope with the impacts of climate change. The goal is to increase the sum to $100 billion a year by 2020.

The emerging deal still needs to be accepted by all 193 countries represented at the talks.

With the Copenhagen conference now over, many are left wondering what will happen next: will countries abide by the emissions cuts they’ve pledged, and will what was decided in Copenhagen ever become legally binding?

And the question on many people’s lips is: for so little achieved, was it really worth it?

But some say this summit was never about climate change and that the real goal was to force countries to act against their national interests in the name of preventing global warming.

The way forward, according to the Schiller Institute, is for the US, India, China and Russia, to join together to create a new global financial system.

“If those four come together, all the other nations represented here will say, we want to join in, because what we really want is development – we desperately need economic development for Africa, for South America, for Asia, and that’s actually what most of the countries that were here at the conference would have liked to discuss. Because that’s what they thought they could get out of it – money for development,” says Tom Gillesberg, Schiller Institute chairman.

The G77 group of developing nations reacted angrily to what they say was a deal done behind their backs.

And some environmental activists called the non-binding agreement a “crime”.

As it stands, this is a deal that leaves no one satisfied.

http://rt.com/Top_News/2009-12-20/climate-change-copenhagen-summit.html?fullstory

AFP | Head of UN panel of climate scientists said Copenhagen summit was only the start

Rajendra Pachauri said the accord agreement "will really not be the final word"

December 20, 2009

NEW DELHI — The head of the Nobel-winning UN panel of climate scientists has said the outcome of the Copenhagen summit was a start but urged countries to work quickly towards a legally binding pact.

Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), described the Copenhagen Accord, passed Saturday after two weeks of frantic talks as "an agreement that will really not be the final word.

"We will have build on it, we will have to make sure it moves quickly towards the status of a legally binding agreement and therefore I think the task for the global community is cut out," he told the NDTV news channel.

"In the next few weeks and months we will have to work very hard to see that, before the end of 2010 if not earlier, we get a binding agreement that really moves action in the direction we need," he said in the interview broadcast Sunday ...

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j2kbq9LN0MFYbYmtolZBo5GhVPIQ

Chaos in Copenhagen - United States and host Denmark accused of trampling on the rights of poor countries

Chaos and farce reigned at the birth of a climate accord agreed by a clique of leaders
with statesmen going missing, critics crying foul,
and hacks stampeding on vain hunts for Barack Obama.

By AFP and FIL C. SIONIL

December 19, 2009, 8:06pm

COPENHAGEN –Fatigue fermented a feverish cocktail of human emotion overnight Friday as the US president claimed to have staved off a default in the dying hours of global warming talks in Copenhagen.

But small nations like Cuba and Nicaragua erupted in fury at being snubbed in a game of big power diplomatic chess also involving developing giants Brazil, China, and India.

A major bloc of developing nations called the draft climate deal in Copenhagen the “worst in history” and hinted it may try to block it.

Lumumba Stanislas Dia-ping of Sudan, chairing the Group of 77 and China bloc of 130 poor nations, accused the United States and host Denmark of trampling on the rights of poor countries.

“Today's events really represent the worst developments in climate change negotiations in history,” Diaping told reporters.

“The deal locks developing countries and the poor of developing countries into a cycle of poverty forever.”

Despite the chaos, President Arroyo’s participation in the two-day conference was deemed a success as she became the spokesperson of the member-economies of Southeast Asia on the severity of the effect of global warming on “climate-takers” like the Philippines.

President Arroyo heightened the awareness of the world leaders on the importance of preserving the environment, cut down on greenhouse gas emission to avert further worsening of the situation as shown by the sufferings of her countrymen due to the recent weather disturbances that visited the Philippines.

She referred to the outcome of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)-sponsored study on the national, economic, environment, and development effects of 12 nations identified to be the most at risk or vulnerable to climate change with Philippines on the top rank.

The study indicated that 70 percent of the coastal settlements in the Philippines would be submerged for every meter rise that includes Metro Manila. A two-meter rise in sea level on the other hand would impact the entire world.

This was the basis for the Philippine leader to announce here the government's commitment to further pare down its carbon footprint by 20 percent annually as soon as possible.

Claiming a “meaningful” deal to curb greenhouse gas emissions, Obama fired up carbon-belching Air Force One and raced back from the global warming summit to outrun a storm ironically tipped to dump a foot of snow on Washington.

It was a stunning turnaround, as earlier, as the summit went into extra time, the whole project was on the verge of collapse, US officials said.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd added: “There was a grave risk that these negotiations would collapse altogether.”

While Obama's team clearly had an interest in spinning the climax of the talks to the young US president's advantage, they revealed a stunning succession of events more apt to a French farce than a major world summit.

Frustrated at deadlock in the talks, largely over China's refusal to accept a transparency regime to monitor developing states' emissions, Obama vowed to have “one more run at getting this done,” a senior aide said on Air Force One.

Desperate for a foreign policy win, Obama drew the line when a comparatively minor Chinese official Yu Qingtai, an expert on climate change talks showed up to a multilateral meeting instead of Chinese premier Wen Jiabao.

“I don't want to mess around with this anymore, I want to just talk with Premier Wen,” a senior aide quoted Obama as saying.

Obama also decided he wanted to speak to leaders of major developing powers seen in China's camp.

So, he dispatched his advance team to find Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and South African President Jacob Zuma.

One problem: US aides were told that Singh was already at the airport, probably believing the talks were done.

“Advance basically tells the South Africans that at this point the Brazilians are unclear about meeting without the Indians, the Indians are at the airport, and Zuma at that point says, ‘well, if they're not coming I can't do this,’” said the US official.

Soon, Wen's team came on the line and said they were ready to meet Obama.

Obama's advance men headed off to scope out the room in the cavernous Bella Centre where the talks were taking place, but could not get in... and the reason soon becomes clear.

“We've now figured out why we can't get into that room: because that room has Wen, Lula, Singh and Zuma,” the official said. “They're all having a meeting.”

Obama, according to reporters close to his side as he strode towards the talks, headed straight in.

“Mr. Premier, are you ready to see me? Are you ready? Mr. Premier, are you ready to see me? Are you ready?” Obama cried.

US officials insisted the president did not barge in uninvited on the surprise meeting, but was merely showing up on time for his talks with Wen.

“We weren't crashing a meeting – we were going for our bilateral meeting ... we found the other people there.”

At this point a near scuffle broke out after Chinese cameramen made a rush for a shot of all the leaders together.

“My people” have to get into the room, “or we're leaving” said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs in an unusual role as defender of the US press.

Downstairs, waves of reporters, cameramen and photographers started to surge through the conference center, as rumours ran riot that Obama was about to give a dramatic press conference.

But Obama's small corps of traveling press was already salted away in a makeshift television studio fashioned from black curtains, in a deserted shopping mall with half dressed mannequins just out of sight.

The president declared the non-binding pact unprecedented and historic, though short of what must be done to tame global warming.

Shellshocked delegates were left to digest implications of the non-binding deal, with vague promises to cut emissions, in an all-night plenary session of the Conference of Parties (COP).

Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen was in the chair, but at times the late night talks descended into incoherence.

“The United States abstained, then I passed the floor to Nicaragua .....,” Rasmussen said, confused by a breakdown of the session.

“Nicaragua abstained... who wants to speak?”

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/234823/chaos-copenhagen

Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming

December 16, 2009

Climategate just got much, much bigger. And all thanks to the Russians who, with perfect timing, dropped this bombshell just as the world’s leaders are gathering in Copenhagen to discuss ways of carbon-taxing us all back to the dark ages.

Feast your eyes on this news release from Rionovosta, via the Ria Novosti agency, posted on Icecap. (Hat Tip: Richard North)

A discussion of the November 2009 Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident, referred to by some sources as “Climategate,” continues against the backdrop of the abortive UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) discussing alternative agreements to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that aimed to combat global warming.

The incident involved an e-mail server used by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, East England. Unknown persons stole and anonymously disseminated thousands of e-mails and other documents dealing with the global-warming issue made over the course of 13 years.

Controversy arose after various allegations were made including that climate scientists colluded to withhold scientific evidence and manipulated data to make the case for global warming appear stronger than it is.

Climategate has already affected Russia. On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center 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 believes that Russian meteorological-station data did not substantiate the anthropogenic global-warming theory. Analysts say Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country’s territory, and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in its reports. Over 40% of Russian territory was not included in global-temperature calculations for some other reasons, rather than the lack of meteorological stations and observations.

The data of stations located in areas not listed in the Hadley Climate Research Unit Temperature UK (HadCRUT) survey often does not show any substantial warming in the late 20th century and the early 21st century.

The HadCRUT database includes specific stations providing incomplete data and highlighting the global-warming process, rather than stations facilitating uninterrupted observations.

On the whole, climatologists use the incomplete findings of meteorological stations far more often than those providing complete observations.

IEA analysts say climatologists use the data of stations located in large populated centers that are influenced by the urban-warming effect more frequently than the correct data of remote stations.

The scale of global warming was exaggerated due to temperature distortions for Russia accounting for 12.5% of the world’s land mass. The IEA said it was necessary to recalculate all global-temperature data in order to assess the scale of such exaggeration.

Global-temperature data will have to be modified if similar climate-date procedures have been used from other national data because the calculations used by COP15 analysts, including financial calculations, are based on HadCRUT research.

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.

As Richard North says: This is serial.

UPDATE: As Steve McIntyre reports at ClimateAudit, it has long been suspected that the CRU had been playing especially fast and loose with Russian – more particularly Siberian – temperature records. Here from March 2004, is an email from Phil Jones to Michael Mann.

Recently rejected two papers (one for JGR and for GRL) from people saying CRU has it
wrong over Siberia. Went to town in both reviews, hopefully successfully. If either
appears
I will be very surprised, but you never know with GRL.
Cheers
Phil

And here at Watts Up With That is a guest post by Jeff Id of the Air Vent

And here is what one of the commenters has to say about the way the data has been cherry-picked and skewed for political ends:

The crux of the argument is that the CRU cherry picked data following the same methods that have been done everywhere else. They ignored data covering 40% of Russia and chose data that showed a warming trend over statistically preferable alternatives when available. They ignored completeness of data, preferred urban data, strongly preferred data from stations that relocated, ignored length of data set.

One the final page, there is a chart that shows that CRU’s selective use of 25% of the data created 0.64C more warming than simply using all of the raw data would have done. The complete set of data show 1.4C rise since 1860, the CRU set shows 2.06C rise over the same period.

Not, of course, dear readers that I’m in any way tempted to crow about these latest revelations. After all, so many of my colleagues, junior and senior, have been backing me on this one to the hilt….

Oh, if anyone speaks Russian, here’s the full report.

Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don't add up

December 15, 2009 - There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday.

The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row.

Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years.

In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.”

However, the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon dropped the former Vice-President in the water with an icy blast.

“It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr Maslowski said. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”

Mr Gore’s office later admitted that the 75 per cent figure was one used by Dr Maslowksi as a “ballpark figure” several years ago in a conversation with Mr Gore.

The embarrassing error cast another shadow over the conference after the controversy over the hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, which appeared to suggest that scientists had manipulated data to strengthen their argument that human activities were causing global warming.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6956783.ece

COPENHAGEN (AP) - China, India and other developing nations boycotted U.N. climate talks on Monday Dec 14

Dec 14, 8:58 AM (ET)

COPENHAGEN (AP) - China, India and other developing nations boycotted U.N. climate talks on Monday, bringing negotiations to a halt with their demand that rich countries discuss much deeper cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions.

Representatives from developing countries - a bloc of 135 nations - said they refused to participate in any formal working groups at the 192-nation summit until the issue was resolved.

The African-led move was a setback for the Copenhagen talks, which were already faltering over long-running disputes between rich and poor nations over emissions cuts and financing for developing countries to deal with climate change.

However, the move Monday was largely seen as a ploy to shift the agenda to the responsibilities of the industrial countries and make emissions reductions the first item for discussion when world leaders begin arriving Tuesday.

"I don't think the talks are falling apart, but we're losing time," said Kim Carstensen, of the World Wildlife Fund. The developing countries "are making a point."

The dispute came as the conference entered its second week, and only days before over 100 world leaders including President Barack Obama were scheduled to arrive in Copenhagen.

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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091214/D9CJ48I00.html

Record cold forecast for Copenhagen

The Weather Underground people are forecasting low temperatures of 21°, 17° and 22° in Copenhagen, respectively, for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The record lows for those dates are 24°, 19° and 19°.

Now it could be that the weather history that Weather Underground uses does not go back that far.

But then again, the Global Warming crowd ignores data that shows the Middle Ages were much warmer than today.

The normal temperature range for Copenhagen in January is 29° to 36°.

Other forecasts say it will be only slightly colder, no record.

http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/5805

Can America Stop The Coming Oppression? Could Climategate Unravel the UN’s Plan to Rule the World?

People for Freedom

J. Hapiak

Could Climategate Unravel the UN’s Plan to Rule the World?

In a matter of days, President Obama will write a brand new chapter in American history, one that fulfils the promise of change that the Americans asked for, but not necessarily the change that they hoped for. What I am speaking about is the Copenhagen Climate Treaty that President Obama had promised to sign around December 9, 2009, that could forever surrender American sovereignty.

Now with the emergence of Climategate as reported all over the internet, and Senator Inhofe’s calling for an investigation into that matter which implies that the top UN climate scientists had cooked the science of climate change for profit . . . the signing of this document has been supposedly postponed, but the President still has plans to make the trip to Copenhagen anyhow.

Will President Obama sign this treaty behind closed doors despite the allegations that Climate Change may be a fraud? Will he sign it like the President George W. Bush signed the Sovereign Prosperity and Partnership agreement in Ottawa, in secret? No one knows for sure.

The mainstream media isn’t saying much about anything, and they certainly aren’t warning the American people is that this treaty is less about the climate and more about establishing an international carbon tax and finalizing the framework for a new layer of government, one that is international in scope and whose “rules of law” will govern the conduct of all UN member nations. What else they aren’t saying, is that there will be no pulling back out of this agreement without the unanimous consent of every UN member nation.

This movement has been fueled for many decades, but it went virtually unnoticed until 1991 when George H. W. Bush announced to Congress, the coming of the New World Order, the first steps to setting up a global community and changing the way America conducts its business forever. A few months later on February 1, 1992, he made another speech to the United Nations General Assembly, and stated . . .

“It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance.”

... Under the World Trade Organization (WTO), the states must become compliant with the United Nations mandates, in order for them to continue receiving welfare funding from Washington for the people. Under this agreement the States must also support and make preparations to adopt the following:

1) The Codex Alimentarious (UN takeover of the food code and classifying vitamins as toxins, while making outlawed toxins– legal)

2) Universal Health Care (UN takeover of health care, population control, firearms control)

3) Agenda 21 (UN takeover of America’s agricultural output, farmland and water rights, relocation of people)

4) World Trade Organization (UN takeover of all manufacturing and trade)

5) Sovereign Prosperity and Partnership agreement (open borders with Canada and Mexico, the forming of the North American Union and creating a gold or silver backed universal currency)

6) Cap and Trade, and the Copenhagen Climate Agenda (UN takeover of all taxation, transportation, energy etc.)

7) Coordination of International Regulation (The UN takeover of the Federal Reserve System, the Securities and Exchange Commission, all issuing of currency, all government loans, collateral and the economy).

The list goes on and on . . .

Let the truth be known to all, until the American people realize that the United Nations is the oppressor, despotism will always be on our doorstep.

Source:

http://peopleforfreedom.com/new-world-order-news/globalism/can-america-stop-the-coming-oppression/

Washington Times | Researcher: NASA hiding climate data

December 3, 2009 - The fight over global warming science is about to cross the Atlantic with a U.S. researcher poised to sue NASA, demanding release of the same kind of climate data that has landed a leading British center in hot water over charges it skewed its data.

Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said NASA has refused for two years to provide information under the Freedom of Information Act that would show how the agency has shaped its climate data and would explain why the agency has repeatedly had to correct its data going as far back as the 1930s.

"I assume that what is there is highly damaging," Mr. Horner said. "These guys are quite clearly bound and determined not to reveal their internal discussions about this."

The numbers matter. Under pressure in 2007, NASA recalculated its data and found that 1934, not 1998, was the hottest year in its records for the contiguous 48 states. NASA later changed that data again, and now 1998 and 2006 are tied for first, with 1934 slightly cooler.

Source:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/03/researcher-says-nasa-hiding-climate-data/

Climate change/global warming activists aren’t in search of truth

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Let’s make it official: climate change/global warming activists aren’t in search of truth, care little about the stain the leaked emails have done to the credibility of existing research and data regarding weather patterns. This is all about the United Nations sticking it to industrialized nations and extract as much of our money as they can, with the power to take as much as they like whenever they like.

I really think people should be discreet … in this day and age anything you write, even privately, could become public and to put anything down in writing is, to say the least, indiscreet … It is another matter to talk about this to your friends on the telephone or person to person but to put it down in writing was indiscreet. If someone was to say something like this in an IPCC authors’ meeting then there are others who would chew him up.

— Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

So, the problem is that the scientists who rigged numbers and considered destroying evidence sought in a Freedom of Information request weren’t “discreet”.

The bonehead added…

Every single comment that an expert reviewer provides has to be answered either by acceptance of the comment, or if it is not accepted, the reasons have to be clearly specified. So I think it is a very transparent, a very comprehensive process which insures that even if someone wants to leave out a piece of peer reviewed literature there is virtually no possibility of that happening.

Now I’m no climate scientist, but how can you have “peer reviewed” anything if you have nothing to review…?

Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.

It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.

I really hope the next Republican congress, senate, and president votes to de-fund the United Nations’ residency here in America so we can kick these lying, diplomatically-immune weasels out of our country, once and for all.

Source:

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/17400