My first foray into speaking out against the global warming hoax was when I made CDs of a youtube video – the Great Global Warming Swindle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TqqWJugXzs) – back in 2006 and distributed them at my place of work in Portland, Oregon. It was a big hit. I did it anonymously on a bulletin board (the old school kind with cork and pins) and had fun listening to people talk about it in Cubicle-landia. A couple of people thought it was crap, but most of them – being software developers, engineers, and project managers accustomed to using logic and reason – seemed to enjoy the fact that they were beginning to understand the science involved, or lack thereof. Al Gore’s claims just didn’t add up, now matter how many inconvenient truths he claimed to have found.
I personally think that his biggest “inconvenient truth” was that the real-world data didn’t support his claims of impending doom, and he chose to ironically name his book on purpose. It was his way of getting back at the American People for not voting him into office in 2004. Some say.
Continuing in this personal vein, I have a brother who we lovingly refer to as “RESEARCH!” because if you ever want something found on the web, or anywhere else for that matter, he can do it. He even found a very hard to find clip of a soccer goal scored in an obscure indoor league in the upper Midwest of the USA after many others had attempted to do so and failed. Oh, and not only that, but he ended up with a new friend in the team’s front office. (Some people have it, others don’t.) But more on him in a second.
I made a discovery of my own recently, with help from my favorite British bloggers at the Telegraph, about the man behind a lot of the mis-information on Global Warming. Read about it here http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100020515/climategate-the-corruption-of-wikipedia/
Basically, the jist of it is that one man, Cambridge-based scientist and Green Party activist William Connolley, hijacked Wikipedia for his own Global Warming Doom Campaign. First, he edited thousands of articles to only include data that he and his political agenda agreed with. Then, he obtained administrator privileges on the site, and either removed articles or black-listed thousands of contributors that were trying to publish truly scientific information that was detrimental to his crusade. How is this possible on a supposedly open-community like Wikipedia claims to be? Furthermore, the company Connolley helped found, Real Climate, pumps out information about the realities of global warming, knowingly modifies and hides real scientific data, and vociferously attempts to discredit anyone who may disagree with their agenda.
You know, when I was a child, there were certain types of people that you trusted. The Police. Firefighters. Teachers. Parents. Pastors. And Scientists! These were the guys doing their best to understand our world, and make sense of it through true scientific discovery, uncluttered with politics and agendas. I remember idyllic trips to San Francisco, or the wetlands at the California coast, where we visited museums, planetariums, and marshlands to learn about new scientific discoveries. Well, we all know the dangers of Pastors now (thanks Catholic Church), and the Police (just type in police brutality on youtube). I’m not saying that we can’t trust them at all - of course not. But we need to be more wary than we once were…and, sadly, we need to add Scientists to this list. Why? Because of the politicization of the global warming debate, and any other debate where there are massive amounts of money to be “politicized” away from people like you and me.
Here's a quick time line on the Global Warming debate over the last nine weeks, courtesy of ... “RESEARCH!”
1. World-leading British and US scientists get busted for fixing data, pressuring science publications, and breaking the law. (They won't be prosecuted because the events are more than six months old and British authorities are claiming action needed to be quicker. The Brits are arguing about this now...
http://www.climatechangefraud.com/politics-propaganda/6249-climategate-is-the-british-government-conspiring-not-to-prosecute
2. Copenhagen Summit...TOTAL collapse. Massive December snow storm that hasn't happened there in ~13 years. (see Gore Effect) Russia leaves early. Obama shows up at the meeting only to find himself late. China, India won't play ball... The US Senate would need 67 Senate votes so this was all an exercise in futility anyway to placate Left-wing base...
January 2010
3. An administrator in British climate office accidentally(?) blurts out in an email/blog that the way they test for warmest/coldest winter is to take the warmest 15 temperatures of the season. That's "15 *warmest* temps". Is this really the scientific method? C’mon….
4. IPCC head (Rajendra Pachauri) admits the data for the Himalayan Glacier 'facts' are not based in science but on "comments" in a phone conversation made by a basic 'nobody' from almost 10 years before.
a. Pachauri says he didn't know about this Himalayan error
b. Asian sub-team that wrote that section admits to knowing the data wasn't there...but that they included for "political reasons".
c. Due to FACTS coming out that prove Pachauri knew about the Himalayan error BEFORE Copenhagen, he admits he DID in fact know about it...
5. Last week…another ‘oops’: IPCC section written about Andes mountains losing snow/ice is actually based on a student’s anecdotal interviews with hikers/climbers and is published in a HIKING magazine…not a peer reviewed journal.
6. Just yesterday it came out (London Times) that the IPCC data ‘proving’ the S. American rainforests are in danger is bogus. OOPS!
7. Canada, Russia, New Zealand scientists have all come out this month saying the data collected in their country is probably ‘cherry picked’.
a. Example: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/25/uh-oh-raw-data-in-new-zealand-tells-a-different-story-than-the-official-one/
b. Example: http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Scientists+using+selective+temperature+data+skeptics/2468634/story.html
February 2010
8. Published today…turns out the data from China used by an IPCC leading scientist – Phil Jones (see item #1 above) has been manipulated with, among other things, whole weather stations having been moved. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/01/dispute-weather-fraud
Combine these scientific shams with an obvious agenda that is being perpetrated by people like the William Connolleys and Al Gores of the world, and you have a massive mis-information propaganda machine. If you get stuck wondering what the propaganda is for, just think of the TRILLIONS of dollars that are going to be taxed, capped and traded! And to top it off, anyone that doesn’t believe in the “Religion” of Global Warming is a fool. Why religion? Where have you seen so much faith demonstrated in a world where participation in organized religion has fallen so far? It takes a lot of faith for the believers to believe in something that they cannot see, and the data does not support. The believers also defend their belief with a fanatical enthusiasm – in the face of mounting data against their claims. I wonder if the Christians that were persecuted for their faith in old Roman Empire times aren’t a little bit proud of the zealotry being displayed by these new "believers."
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Wot, Allie Gore lying to us? It's not possible!
I find it interesting that some things known by some for several years are just "beginning" to be found out by many.
How long did Al Gore and Connelly, et al. think the world could be fooled? The hubris of their thinking makes me stare.
A note: the RESEARCHER is interesting, too. I know that sort!
And I appreciate your writing, learning, and continuing to write. I am better for what you do.
I read a book called "Kicking the Sacred Cow" by James P. Hogan for a book group many years ago. Much of the faulty science and religious defense of Global Warming is included in one of its chapters. Here are some of my favorite quotes from that book:
History will judge neo-Darwinism a minor twentieth-century religious sect within the sprawling religious persuasion of Anglo-Saxon biology. - Lynn Margulis, professor of biology, University of Massachusetts
But once a theory is "known" to be true, the determination of the believers in making the evidence fit knows no bounds. - James P. Hogan, Kicking the Sacred Cow
A man cannot begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. - Epicetus
Maybe what we need is a Constitutional amendment separating Science and State. Government should no more be deciding what good science shall be than dictating or suppressing religion. - James P. Hogan, Kicking the Sacred Cow
"Whenever science is enlisted in a political cause, the result is always that the scientists themselves become fanatics." - Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Law Phillip Johnson
Notwithstanding that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, atmospheric carbon dioxide has neither caused nor amplified global temperature increases. Increased carbon dioxide has been an effect of global warming, not a cause. Technically, carbon dioxide is a lagging proxy for ocean temperatures. - Dr. Jeffrey A. Glassman
The Earth's climate has always been changing in some way or another, and always will be. - James P. Hogan
A totalitarian system now exists where only scientists that adhere to the prevailing orthodoxy can receive funds to conduct research. Not only will the government not fund studies on alternative hypotheses for AIDS and cancer, but this stricture applies to other areas of inquiry. All research on climate change must conform to the dogma of human-caused global warming, and studies on vaccines dare not criticize their safety or efficacy. No government grants will be awarded to anyone who wants to study radiation hormesis and question the linear no-threshold hypothesis. Studies published that support the reigning dogma are riddled with conflicts of interest, manipulated statistics, and bias. - Donald W. Miller Jr.
"The global warming debate has left the realm of science a long time ago. It has become totally politicised. Any scientific criticism is not met with a scientific response, but with name-calling and a stepping up of the scare tactics." - Dr. Gerrit J. van der Lingen
"A favourite ploy by AGW alarmists is to repeat ad infinitem that the science about AGW has been settled and that there is consensus among scientists that it is happening and that it will have cataclysmic consequences for our planet. People using these consensus arguments forget that scientific truth is not determined by consensus. But apart from being unscientific, the consensus argument is also a myth." - Dr. Gerrit J. van der Lingen
"It does not matter how often independent scientists point out that CO2 is not a pollutant but a plant fertilizer and an essential ingredient for life on earth, they keep repeating this mantra." - Dr. Gerrit J. van der Lingen
"It is clear that the politicising of climate science has resulted in an abandoning of good scientific practice and ethics. Any critical scientific discussion of the science behind the AGW doctrine is shouted down, ridiculed or ostracised." - Dr. Gerrit J. van der Lingen
(Sorry for the length. I had more quotes collected than I remembered.)
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