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You Could Not Make It Up: Siberian cold likely to bring sub-zero temperatures and snow by Paul Simons

Co2sceptic — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:49:17 -0500

Article Tags: Comment, Met Office, UK Winter Forecast 2009/10, You could not make it up

The following extract COULD run into trouble for the MET OFFICE, they are quoted as saying that they can predict weather months in advance, and yet they DID NOT MENTION THIS FORECAST LAST WEEK!!!

Unlike the earlier part of winter, though, this next freeze was forecast by the Met Office months ago, thanks to an extraordinary chain reaction in the atmosphere across the globe.

The story begins with El Niño, the big warming of tropical seas under way in the Pacific. So much hot air soared up from the Pacific it punched through into the stratosphere and dislocated winds 20-50km high.

On January 20 this colossal jolt sent unusually warm air flooding into the stratosphere over the Arctic, where temperatures in the stratosphere soared by 40C in just a few days. The intensely cold stratosphere air normally over the Arctic was shunted over Europe instead. Eventually that cold stratosphere rippled down into the lower atmosphere, flipping our winds from west to east — and easterly winds in winter usually give us our coldest weather.

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Source: timesonline.co.uk

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MUST LISTEN: Sun Talk Radio show with Piers Corbyn of WeatherAction.com

Co2sceptic — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:23:46 -0500

Article Tags: Piers Corbyn

Is the weather to take another turn for the worst? Piers Corbyn of Weather Action has the forecast as reports suggest Britain may be hit by another wave of snow

Piers Corbyn was on SUN TALK RADIO on the 12th January 2010 [LINK] and said to John Gaunt that more snow would follow in the UK come February, John asked him to come back on the show, and here he is with the snow...

Piers Corbyn gives his UK February winter forecast to Sun Talk Radio and mentions "plenty of more snow to come", take a note of the dates and see how close he is. Piers also has a dig at the Met Office for not using his service at WeatherAction.com as by doing so they would have to acknowledge that our climate is driven by the Sun and NOT Man.

CLICK to go to ArcticSnap.com for NEW SUN TALK radio link for February.

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Disclosing the Real Risks on Climate Change by Paul Driessen, TownHall.com

Co2sceptic — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:52:07 -0500

Article Tags: Paul Driessen

We are not weighing in on the climate debate. We are not opining on whether the world’s climate is changing, at what pace or due to what causes, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Shapiro insisted on announcing the SEC’s new “interpretive guidance” on climate change.

The Commission’s two Republican members objected that the Obama Administration was using the Commission to promote its global warming and renewable energy agenda (along with the EPA, NASA, Defense and Interior Departments and others). It’s true, but irrelevant.

Environmentalists and “ethical investing” groups had pressured the Commission for years to require corporate disclosure on climate matters. Now, as the SEC steps in, the Copenhagen treaty negotiations have collapsed in disarray. Cap-and-trade has bogged down over senators’ fears of further damage to the economy and their reelection chances. The Environmental Protection Agency has decreed that plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide is a “dangerous pollutant,” because senators are increasingly reluctant to micromanage the economy, companies and families, but the regs are likely to go nowhere.
Source: townhall.com

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NIGEL LAWSON: IF CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL, WE MUST ADAPT, NOT FIGHT NATURE by Julia Hartley-Brewer, Sunday Express

Co2sceptic — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:41:47 -0500

Article Tags: Nigel Lawson

NEVER before has the debate over global warming been so bitter or so public.

Climate change sceptics have been rubbing their hands with glee over the recent revelations about dodgy goings-on in the research laboratories and at the UN’s International Panel On Climate Change that suggest all is suddenly not so well with the theory of man-made global warming.

Some of the most alarmist claims about how the world is hurtling towards disaster unless we drastically curb carbon emissions have been shown to be nothing but, well, hot air. These damaging exposes may have shocked the public but were no surprise to Britain’s foremost climate change sceptic, Lord Lawson.

He was one of Margaret Thatcher’s most successful Chancellors and is father of TV chef Nigella. Now, at the age of 77, Lawson, has a new goal: to save the world from itself. His new think tank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation aims “to bring reason, integrity and balance to a debate that has become seriously unbalanced, irrationally alarmist”.

As in Lawson’s best-selling book, An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming, the foundation argues against the fashionable policy of drastically cutting carbon emissions .
Source: express.co.uk

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Obama Czar: Government should Ban discussion of Climategate by Aaron Klein, WorldNetDaily.com

Co2sceptic — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:49:39 -0500

Article Tags: Web Article

In a lengthy academic paper, President Obama’s regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, argued the U.S. government should ban “conspiracy theorizing.”

Among the beliefs Sunstein would ban is advocating that the theory of global warming is a deliberate fraud.

Sunstein also recommended the government send agents to infiltrate “extremists who supply conspiracy theories” to disrupt the efforts of the “extremists” to propagate their theories.

In a 2008 Harvard law paper, “Conspiracy Theories,” Sunstein and co-author Adrian Vermeule, a Harvard law professor, ask, “What can government do about conspiracy theories?”

“We can readily imagine a series of possible responses. (1) Government might ban conspiracy theorizing. (2) Government might impose some kind of tax, financial or otherwise, on those who disseminate such theories.”
Source: wnd.com

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India Sets up Independent Global Warming Panel by Dennis T. Avery, AmericanDaily.com

Co2sceptic — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:39:42 -0500

Article Tags: Dennis T. Avery

CHURCHVILLE, VA - India is setting up its own climate research unit because it no longer trusts the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I’ve been predicting such a move for years - partly due to the IPCC’s biased science, but more because India simply cannot afford to curtail its desperately needed and energy-powered economic growth. India’s government’s stability depends on expanding prosperity for the all of its people. That means more energy, and over half of India’s electricity comes from coal.

Carried to its extreme, the global warming scare would pressure India to give up the nitrogen fertilizer that feeds nearly half its population - and even slaughter its 200 million sacred cows, which daily produce huge amounts of the greenhouse gas methane. Either would cause widespread rioting.

The warming alarmists have predicted awful things for India unless fossil fuels are curbed, including submergence of its coastal lands, lack of water for irrigation, increased cyclone activity, and forced shifts in rice production that would threaten hunger for millions.
Source: americandaily.com

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GLOBAL WARMING TO BECOME GLOBAL COOLING, CLAIMS EXPERT By John Ingham, Daily Express

Co2sceptic — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:19:43 -0500

Article Tags: Michael Beenstock

GLOBAL warming is set to become global cooling this century, a leading analyst claimed yesterday.

Professor Michael Beenstock said theories of climate change are wrong. He warned climatologists have misused statistics, leading them to the mistaken conclusion global warming is evidence of the greenhouse effect.

He told London’s Cass Business School that the link between rising greenhouse gas emissions and rising temperatures is “spurious”, adding: “The greenhouse effect is an illusion.”

The economics professor from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem said that just because greenhouse gases and temperatures have risen together does not mean they are linked.

He claims that the real cause of rising temperatures is the sun, which he says is at its hottest for over 1,000 years but is “beginning to stabilise”.
Source: express.co.uk

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US Postal Charges drive Global Warming

Co2sceptic — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:05:03 -0500

Article Tags: Cartoon

PASS IT ON TO YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER AND CONGRESSMAN THEY WILL SURELY WANT TO KNOW IT'S NOT CO2

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Why I Am A Global Warming Skeptic by Doug L. Hoffman

Co2sceptic — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:48:09 -0500

Article Tags: Doug L. Hoffman

The debate over anthropogenic global warming—a theory propounded by the UN IPCC—is often portrayed as an argument between deniers and true believers. The deniers supposedly claim that there is no global warming, man made or otherwise, and that the whole theory is a plot by left-wing agitators and closet socialists bent on world domination. The true believers, conversely, accept every claim of pending future disaster uttered by scientists and activists alike. As with most controversies both extreme positions are wrong and the truth lies somewhere in-between. As a scientist, I have studied the evidence and find the case for imminent, dangerous, human caused global warming unconvincing—here is why I am an AGW skeptic.

According to www.dict.org, a skeptic is “one who is yet undecided as to what is true; one who is looking or inquiring for what is true; an inquirer after facts or reasons”.* This is a much more accurate description of the stand taken by Al and myself in our book, The Resilient Earth. Specifically, I am skeptical of the claim that human produced carbon dioxide will have the dramatic effect on Earth's temperature projected by the IPCC and other global warming doomsayers. To understand why I have reached this conclusion requires starting with some basic science.

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Source: theresilientearth.com

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Where Is Global Warming? by Rebecca Terrell, NewAmerican.com

Co2sceptic — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:42:48 -0500

Article Tags: Rebecca Terrell

As the United Nations weathers a media beating over its falsified exaggeration of Himalayan glacier melt, new reports are adding fuel to the fire pointing out other blatant errors espoused by the international body.

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a comprehensive climate report in 2007 — the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) — that included the Himalayan snafu as well as a dire warning that more than half of The Netherlands is below sea level. It also exaggerated claims about global warming destroying the Amazon rainforest.

According to Fox News, Dutch environment ministry spokesman Trimo Vallaart points out that only 26 percent of his country is below sea level, a far cry from the 55 percent reported in AR4. Vallaart explained IPCC researchers exaggerated the amount by adding the 29 percent of land supposedly threatened by river flooding. He also pointed out that though the Dutch office for environmental planning is an IPCC partner and has the correct figures, the mistake has gone uncorrected.
Source: thenewamerican.com

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NASA Climate Data Verses the Conspiracy to Commit Good Science by Roger F. Gay, MensNewsDaily.com

Co2sceptic — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:38:06 -0500

Article Tags: Roger F. Gay

With so many revelations of fraud in support of the man-made global warming, it has gotten much more difficult for propagandists to contend that science is on their side. NASA has a well-earned reputation in science and technological advancement. Surely one might think that if NASA is worried about global warming then we should be too. This is more-or-less the last remaining argument in the warmers’ arsenal. With 95% of their claims disproven, NASA climate data still seems to provide support for at least some of the Al Gore style scary scenarios about a warming planet and the role of human activity.

But wait – this “NASA climate data” they speak of doesn’t really come from NASA; not at least from the core NASA organization with the great reputation for science and technological advancement.

Support for catastrophic man-made global warming “theory” comes from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). Sounds impressive, but you should ask; what’s that? It’s a group at Columbia University that is associated with The Earth Institute at Columbia University. GISS’s current director is none other than the “grandfather” of the global warming hoax himself, Dr. James Hansen. Go to their website and you will find it just as centrally dedicated to global warming propaganda as RealClimate.org.
Source: mensnewsdaily.com

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Top British scientist says UN panel is losing credibility by Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor, The Times

Co2sceptic — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:02:24 -0500

Article Tags: AfricaGate, Himalayan Glacier Data

A LEADING British government scientist has warned the United Nations’ climate panel to tackle its blunders or lose all credibility.

Robert Watson, chief scientist at Defra, the environment ministry, who chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1997 to 2002, was speaking after more potential inaccuracies emerged in the IPCC’s 2007 benchmark report on global warming.

The most important is a claim that global warming could cut rain-fed north African crop production by up to 50% by 2020, a remarkably short time for such a dramatic change. The claim has been quoted in speeches by Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, and by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general.

This weekend Professor Chris Field, the new lead author of the IPCC’s climate impacts team, told The Sunday Times that he could find nothing in the report to support the claim. The revelation follows the IPCC’s retraction of a claim that the Himalayan glaciers might all melt by 2035.
Source: timesonline.co.uk

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Site "Feeds" yet another NEW feature on ClimateRealists.com

Co2sceptic — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:31:22 -0500

Article Tags: ArcticSnap.Com, Site Announcements, SolarCycle25.com

Some of you would have noticed that we are using "Feeds" from ClimateDepot, WUWT & ClimateGate on the RIGHT hand column, we have also introduced feeds from our other two site's (ArcticSnap.Com & SolarCycle25.com) on the LEFT column.

With so much news about the current snow fall on the East Coast of the USA, we have been in contact with Piers Corbyn at WeatherAction and posted his current forecast and comments at ArcticSnap.com

Please take time out and use these NEW feeds.

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And now for Africagate, by Richard North, EUReferndum.com

Co2sceptic — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:46:18 -0500

Article Tags: AfricaGate, Richard North

Following an investigation by this blog (and with the story also told in The Sunday Times), another major "mistake" in the IPCC's benchmark Fourth Assessment Report has emerged.

Similar in effect to the erroneous "2035" claim – the year the IPCC claimed that Himalayan glaciers were going to melt – in this instance we find that the IPCC has wrongly claimed that in some African countries, yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50 percent by 2020.

At best, this is a wild exaggeration, unsupported by any scientific research, referenced only to a report produced by a Canadian advocacy group, written by an obscure Moroccan academic who specialises in carbon trading, citing references which do not support his claims.

Unlike the glacier claim, which was confined to a section of the technical Working Group II report, this "50 percent by 2020" claim forms part of the key Synthesis Report, the production of which was the personal responsibility of the chair of the IPCC, Dr R K Pachauri. It has been repeated by him in many public fora. He, therefore, bears a personal responsibility for the error.

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Source: eureferendum.blogspot.com

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Twitter Trends: How Met Office blocked questions on its own man's role in 'hockey stick' climate row, by David Rose, Daily Mail

Co2sceptic — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:15:23 -0500

Article Tags: ClimateGate, David Rose, Headline Story, Twitter, Updated

The Meteorological Office is blocking public scrutiny of the central role played by its top climate scientist in a highly controversial report by the beleaguered United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Professor John Mitchell, the Met Office’s Director of Climate Science, shared responsibility for the most worrying headline in the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning IPCC report – that the Earth is now hotter than at any time in the past 1,300 years.

And he approved the inclusion in the report of the famous ‘hockey stick’ graph, showing centuries of level or declining temperatures until a steep 20th Century rise.

Updated below from The Telegraph
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Twitter Trends: New errors in IPCC climate change report by Richard Gray and Ben Leach, The Telegraph

Co2sceptic — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:03:58 -0500

Article Tags: Twitter

The United Nations panel on climate change is facing fresh criticism today as The Sunday Telegraph reveals new factual errors and poor sources of evidence in its influential report to government leaders.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) report is supposed to be the world’s most authoritative scientific account of the scale of global warming.

But this paper has discovered a series of new flaws in it including:
Source: Twitter Trends

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You Could Not Make It Up: Think-tanks take oil money and use it to fund climate deniers by Jonathan Owen and Paul Bignell, The Independent

Co2sceptic — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:16:58 -0500

Article Tags: You could not make it up

ExxonMobil cash supported concerted campaign to undermine case for man-made warming

An orchestrated campaign is being waged against climate change science to undermine public acceptance of man-made global warming, environment experts claimed last night.

The attack against scientists supportive of the idea of man-made climate change has grown in ferocity since the leak of thousands of documents on the subject from the University of East Anglia (UEA) on the eve of the Copenhagen climate summit last December.

Free-market, anti-climate change think-tanks such as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in the US and the International Policy Network in the UK have received grants totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds from the multinational energy company ExxonMobil. Both organisations have funded international seminars pulling together climate change deniers from across the globe.

Click source to read how "Climate Realists" and others are paid fortunes to make up stories to turn their readers into "Climate Deniers", also from the Independent Leading article: Sceptics have their uses

Source: independent.co.uk

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Climate makes money move in mysterious ways by Christopher Booker

Co2sceptic — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:27:09 -0500

Article Tags: Christopher Booker, Headline Story

Dr Rajendra Pachauri embraces Jairam Ramesh, India's environment minister, at a meeting in New Delhi Photo: MANISH SWARUP/AP

The British Government has been pouring millions of pounds into 'climate-related' projects all over the world.

In all the coverage lately given to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its embattled chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, one rather important part of the story has largely been missed. This is the way in which, in its obsession with climate change, different branches of the UK Government have in recent years been pouring hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money into a bewildering array of "climate-related" projects, often throwing a veil of mystery over how much is being paid, to whom and why.

To begin with a small example. Everyone has now heard of "Glaciergate", the inclusion in the IPCC's 2007 report of a wild claim it was recently forced to disown, that by 2035 all Himalayan glaciers will have melted. In 2001 the Department for International Development (DfID) spent £315,277 commissioning a team of British scientists to investigate this prediction. After co-opting its Indian originator, Dr Syed Hasnain, they reported in 2004 that his claim was just a scare story. Some glaciers were retreating, others were not. There was no way they could disappear in a time-span shorter than many centuries.

Three years later, however, when the IPCC produced its 2007 report, it endorsed Dr Hasnain's claim without any mention of the careful UK-funded study which had shown it to be false. What made this particularly shocking was that in 2008 another British ministry, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) announced that it had paid £1,436,000 to fund all the support needed to run the same IPCC working group which, as we now know from a senior IPCC author, had included the bogus claim in its report.
Source: telegraph.co.uk

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Effort underway to suspend California's global-warming law by Margot Roosevelt, LA Times

Co2sceptic — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:37:03 -0500

Article Tags: Law/Policy

Conservatives propose an initiative that would delay curbs on greenhouse gas emissions until the state's unemployment rate drops to 5.5%, a level not seen since 2007.

Republican politicians and conservative activists are launching a ballot campaign to suspend California's landmark global-warming law, in what they hope will serve as a showcase for a national backlash against climate regulations.

Supporters say they have "solid commitments" of nearly $600,000 to pay signature gatherers for a November initiative aimed at delaying curbs on the greenhouse gas emissions of power plants and factories until the state's unemployment rate drops.
Source: latimes.com

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Penn State Probe into Mann's Wrongdoing a 'Total Whitewash' by Ed Barnes, FoxNews.com

Co2sceptic — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:27:11 -0500

Article Tags: ClimateGate

Penn State's probe that mostly cleared climate change scientist Michael Mann for any wrongdoing doesn't begin to scratch the surface, say critics.

How thoroughly did Penn State University investigate a top climate scientist who brought hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to the school? A growing number of critics say they hardly looked at all.

Penn State ended a two-month probe into the work of Michael Mann, a top climate scientist whose "hockey stick" graph of climbing world temperature helped galvanize support for the climate change movement, on Wednesday.

The probe stemmed from the release of thousands of hacked e-mails from a server at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England that showed the internal debate and, some say, the manipulation of data, to support the scientific underpinnings of the case for global, man-made warming of the planet. Mann's e-mails were among those released and critics charged that he used "tricks" to make his data match studies that confirmed warming trends.

A three-person board of inquiry cleared Mann of three of four charges brought by the university that he falsified or tried to destroy data, and recommended further study on the fourth charge that his methods "deviated from accepted practices" of the scientific community.

They wrote in their report that "that there exists no credible evidence that Dr. Mann had ever engaged in, or participated in, directly or indirectly, any actions with intent to delete, conceal or otherwise destroy emails, information and/or data."

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Source: foxnews.com

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You Could Not Make It Up: Rising scepticism - a chill wind? by Richard Black, BBC Environment Correspondent

Co2sceptic — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:12:04 -0500

Article Tags: BBC, Public Polls, You could not make it up

Over the last few months, a number of British commentators have been trumpeting an increase in scepticism about climate change.

The cold weather (often claimed - incorrectly - to be a hemisphere-wide phenomenon), the University of East Anglia e-mail hack, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's lack of rigour over projections of Himalayan glacier melt, the weak outcome from the Copenhagen summit: all these and more have been proclaimed as factors that are said to be deflecting the public away from climate concern

Now comes evidence from an opinion poll - commissioned by the BBC, carried out by Populus - indicating that in Britain at least, tales of increasing scepticism may be true.

The headline stats are that between November last year and the beginning of February this year, there has been a net 9% downwards swing in the proportion of Britons believing that "the Earth's climate is changing and global warming is taking place".

Click source to read Richard Black's spin on why he is right about "Man Made" Climate Change and the General Public are wrong!

Source: bbc.co.uk

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IPCC: Beyond the Himalayas by Lawrence Solomon, National Post

Co2sceptic — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:02:08 -0500

Article Tags: Lawrence Solomon

Climategate is one of many known IPCC failings

Two years ago, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was the world’s most celebrated organization, guardian of the world against the peril of climate change and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for “its outstanding scientific work!”

Today, the IPCC stands among the world’s most infamous organizations, its reputation in tatters, unable to respond to a growing chorus of critics because the critics now include many of its once-fiercest champions, among them its own scientists, and because its chairman and chief spokesman, India’s Rajendra Pachauri, is himself thoroughly disgraced. “The IPCC needs to regain credibility. Is that going to happen with Pachauri?,” asks John Sauven, director of Greenpeace UK, “I don’t think so.”

What caused a fall from grace so sudden that IPCC’s insiders now demand Pachauri’s ouster, and that leads the Indian government to set up an “Indian IPCC” as a national alternative to the IPCC, declaring that it “cannot rely” any longer on the organization that its own representative heads?

One answer is Climategate — the unauthorized release of emails in November that showed the duplicity of scientists associated with the IPCC. Unquestionably, Climategate opened the floodgates to the torrent of scandals that have since poured out, seemingly without end. Many of the new scandals, some of them sporting “-gate” as a suffix, were little known before the Climategate emails were released; many were well known, but not publicized by a compliant press. Their sheer number deserves cataloguing.
Source: network.nationalpost.com

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California turbines frozen in Minnesota wind by Jim Adams, Star Tribune

Co2sceptic — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:37:58 -0500

Article Tags: Windfarms, World Temperatures

Photo: Jim Gehrz, Star Tribune
A crew from enXco Energy Services from California inspected a wind turbine on Wednesday in Chaska. The blades were turning when the crew arrived, but there are several similar turbines in the metro area and outstate that have been stalled recently by the Minnesota winter.

Anoka, Chaska and other city residents ask why their newly installed windmills don't spin. Operator says they will be running within two months.

Like a lot of California transplants, 11 newcomers to Minnesota are having a hard time adjusting to our winters.

They are wind turbines, erected last fall by 11 metro and outstate cities. The green-energy machines were expected to be spinning before Christmas, but so far their blades have been largely motionless, apparently paralyzed by frigid weather.

The turbines sit idly in Anoka, North St. Paul, Chaska, Shakopee, Buffalo and six other cities, all members of the Minnesota Municipal Power Agency (MMPA). The refurbished, 115-foot towers had operated on a California wind farm, where they didn't have to worry about cold hydraulic fluid turning to gel and oil lubricants getting too sluggish.
Source: startribune.com

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Why does the British Council spend money on climate change propaganda? Ed West, The Telegraph

Co2sceptic — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:28:51 -0500

Article Tags: CO2 Propaganda, Ed West

Top blogger EU Referendum has done some digging and found out this irritating but not entirely shocking fact about the British Council:

In the space of two years, the British Council has spent more that £3.5 million of British taxpayers’ money on climate change propaganda – according to information released to this blog under the Freedom of Information Act.

It has been spent on recruiting young people in 60 countries to pressurise world leaders to “to take action on climate change”. This included funding groups to attend the December Copenhagen summit in order to take part in demonstrations.

The £3.5 million expenditure has been incurred on two initiatives. The first, and most expensive, costing £2.5 million, is the “International Climate Champions” programme.

which “engages young people around the world as communicators who will help to influence and educate their peers and the general public on the urgency of climate change”.  This is matched by the European element known as “Challenge Europe”, which has cost hard-pressed British taxpayers £1.1 million to date. The British Council describes it as a three year project “that aspires to make a definite and lasting impact on the climate change debate, and is ambitious in its aim to accelerate change to a low carbon future.”
Source: blogs.telegraph.co.uk

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MUST SEE: Barrasso Calls for U.N. Climate Chief’s Resignation, NewsMax.com

Co2sceptic — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:21:48 -0500

Article Tags: YouTube

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator John Barrasso, R-Wyo., called on Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to resign after revelations of ongoing scientific fraud under Dr. Pachauri’s watch. Senator Barrasso delivered the following statement on the Senate Floor:

“Every day, new scandals emerge about the so called ‘facts’ in the UN reports. The integrity of the data and the integrity of the science have been compromised.

“Concrete action by world leaders is needed. Government delegations of the UN’s general assembly and UN Secretary Moon must pressure Dr. Rajendra Pachauri to step down as head of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Source: newsmax.com

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Met Office to look at more information in forecasts after 'barbecue summer' by Louise Gray, The Telegraph

Co2sceptic — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:48:44 -0500

Article Tags: Met Office, UK Winter Forecast 2009/10

The Met Office has said it was wrong to tell people to expect a barbecue summer and a warm winter and it looking at including more information on forecasts.

Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist at the Met Office, said the national weather service had let the public get the wrong message when it predicted a "barbecue" summer earlier this year and then revised the forecast when July and August turned out to be wet.
Source: telegraph.co.uk

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Climate scepticism 'on the rise', BBC News Science & Environment

Co2sceptic — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:33:25 -0500

Article Tags: BBC, Public Polls

The number of British people who are sceptical about climate change is rising, a poll for BBC News suggests.

The Populus poll of 1,001 adults found 25% did not think global warming was happening, a rise of 8% since a similar poll was conducted in November.

The percentage of respondents who said climate change was a reality had fallen from 83% in November to 75% this month.

And only 26% of those asked believed climate change was happening and "now established as largely man-made".

The findings are based on interviews carried out on 3-4 February.

In November 2009, a similar poll by Populus - commissioned by the Times newspaper - showed that 41% agreed that climate change was happening and it was largely the result of human activities.

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Source: news.bbc.co.uk

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What are Twitter Trends?

Mr Zippy — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:30:42 -0500

Article Tags: FAQ, Twitter

I am sure a lot of you have noticed a new tab has appeared on our navigation bar, Twitter Trends, but what exactly is Twitter and what on Earth are Twitter Trends I hear you ask, well let me try and answer these two questions:

What is Twitter?

What are Twitter Trends?

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Now to our new Twitter Trends page, we run multiple keyword, phrase and hashtag searches to try and find a good overview of what the worlds population is saying about Climate Realist topics.

It's not unknown for news stories to break on Twitter.

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Twitter Login now supported for comments

Mr Zippy — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:27:38 -0500

Article Tags: Site Announcements

You now no longer need to register on our forum to post comments, you can use your existing Twitter account to authenticate yourself.

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MUST SEE VIDEO LINK: Climategate spreads like an ozone hole, RussiaTodayTV, Laura Emmett with Piers Corbyn & Tom Harris

Co2sceptic — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:19:42 -0500

Article Tags: ClimateGate, Piers Corbyn, Tom Harris, Updated, Video Link, YouTube

Scientists at the heart of the Climategate controversy face new allegations which cast further doubt about global warming. Analysis shows researchers had tried to suppress key details of their findings for twenty years

New allegations swirl in Climategate, which began last November with an email leak at the University of East Anglia, suggesting that one of the world’s foremost centres for climate research had been manipulating data to prove the existence of man-made global warming.

Now, it turns out data manipulation has been going on since at least 1990.

Updated below with YouTube
Source: rt.com

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Detectives question climate change scientist over email leaks by David Leigh, Charles Arthur and Rob Evans, The Guardian

Co2sceptic — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:10:30 -0500

Article Tags: ClimateGate

University of East Anglia scientist Paul Dennis denies leaking material, but links to climate change sceptics in US drew him to attention of the investigators

A scientist at the University of East Anglia has been questioned by detectives investigating how controversial emails were leaked from the campus's climate research unit.

Norfolk police have interviewed and taken a formal statement from Paul Dennis, 54, another climate researcher who heads an adjacent laboratory.

The leaked emails from the head of the unit, Professor Phil Jones, surfaced just before the Copenhagen conference in December and caused a furore because they suggested that data which did not support theories of global warming was being deliberately withheld. Dennis denies leaking the material. But it is understood that his links with climate change sceptic bloggers in North America drew him to the attention of the investigating team, and have exposed rifts within the university's environmental science faculty.

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Source: guardian.co.uk

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Editorial: The Ruse Unravels, Investors.com

Co2sceptic — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:24:05 -0500

Article Tags: Editorial

Climate Change: Not long ago, we were pestered almost daily with another global warming scare. But the weather has changed. Now, it seems, each sunrise comes with fresh evidence that the scare is a fraud.

The latest setback for global warm-mongers is a probe conducted by the British Guardian newspaper, which discovered a prominent climate scientist "sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based."

The Guardian, which has a history of pumping the global warming scare, looked over the leaked e-mail exchanges from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and "found evidence that a series of measurements from Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed and that documents relating to them could not be produced."
Source: investors.com

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Your Could Not Make It Up: NO ONE BELIEVES US, ADMIT GLOBAL WARMING SCIENTISTS by Mark Reynolds, Daily Express

Co2sceptic — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:19:28 -0500

Article Tags: Newspaper Article, You could not make it up

BRITONS are not convinced that mankind has caused global warming, three leading climate scientists admitted yesterday.

In the wake of the scandal at the University of East Anglia, they conceded there were “uncertainties” about the science, but said the evidence was still overwhelming.

Last year, leaked emails from the university’s climate research unit appeared to show that scientists had changed statistics to strengthen their case. But yesterday Professors Julia Slingo, Brian Hoskins and Alan Thorpe spoke out after weeks of controversy concerning the accuracy of the evidence.

Professor Slingo, chief scientist at the Met Office, said: “We have a real issue about communicating science in a clear way which the public can understand and we haven’t done that very well.” She said the impact on temperature of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, or CO2, had been known about since the 19th century. The link was “straightforward fundamental physics”, she said, while other data – from rises in sea level to retreating glaciers – also showed the climate was changing.

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Source: dailyexpress.co.uk

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You Could Not Make It Up: MET OFFICE RELYING ON AMATEUR COMPUTER, Daily Express

Co2sceptic — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:25:40 -0500

Article Tags: Met Office, You could not make it up

A COMPUTER that cost £30million was supposed to improve weather forecasting at the Met Office.

But after a few blips, including last year’s “barbecue summer” that never was, officials are instead relying on an amateur, it was revealed yesterday.

Keith Davis, 48, collates rainfall, temperature and humidity readings from a homemade weather station in his garden in Tavistock, Devon. The Met Office contacts him for updates, despite its own modern technology.

Mr Davis said: “My information is very accurate, especially the barometer readings.” Last night a Met Office spokesman said: “We use his measurements more as a guide rather than part of our observation network.”

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Source: express.co.uk

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Time Magazine Has a Problem with the Truth about Global Warming by Alan Caruba

Co2sceptic — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:13:11 -0500

Article Tags: Alan Caruba

Bryan Walsh has a great career in public relations awaiting him. Unfortunately he is currently passing himself off as a journalist for Time Magazine.

PR, a profession I have enjoyed for several decades, is widely seen to “spin” facts to a client’s advantage and this is frequently the case. PR is advocacy. Journalism is supposed to be something else, i.e., the unbiased, objective reporting of the facts. Someone needs to explain this to Bryan.

In an article titled “Explaining a Global Climate Panel’s Key Missteps”, Bryan barely pretends to be a journalist as he engages in whitewashing some widely known facts about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations' scam for the propagation of the huge global warming hoax.

Bryan correctly notes that the IPCC was “one of the most respected organizations in the world” and, in October 2007, had shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, a famed global warming blowhard and fabulist best known for predicting the end of the world next Tuesday.
Source: factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com

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UN Sea level blunder enrages Dutch minister

Co2sceptic — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:06:12 -0500

Article Tags: Sea Level Gate

A United Nations report wrongly claimed that more than half of the Netherlands is currently below sea level.

In fact, just 20 percent of the country consists of polders that are pumped dry, and which are at risk of flooding if global warming causes rising sea levels. Dutch Environment Minister Jacqueline Cramer has ordered a thorough investigation into the quality of the climate reports which she uses to base her policies on.

Climate-sceptic MPs were quick to react. Conservative MP Helma Neppérus and Richard de Mos from the right-wing Freedom Party want the minister to explain to parliament how these figures were used to decide on national climate policy. "This may invalidate all claims that the last decades were the hottest ever," Mr De Mos said.

The incorrect figures which date back to 2007 were revealed on Wednesday by the weekly Vrij Nederland. The Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency told reporters that the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) added together two figures supplied by the agency: the area of the Netherlands which is below sea-level and the area which is susceptible to flooding. In fact, these areas overlap, so the figures should not have been combined to produce the 55 percent quoted by the IPCC.
Source: rnw.nl

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MUST SEE: Lord Monckton wows Melbourne

Co2sceptic — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:49:04 -0500

Article Tags: Lord Monckton, YouTube

Part one of two part YouTube

Part 1 of 2 - Highlights of Lord Christopher Monckton's Melbourne Presentation at the Sofitel Melbourne. Recorded 1st February 2010. A DVD of the full presentation will be available to order.
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ESSINGTON LEWIS LECTURE by Professor Ian Plimer

Co2sceptic — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:26:25 -0500

Article Tags: Ian Plimer

Here is an excellent Speech by Dr. Ian Plimer. See PDF attachment.

Every person, (especially politicians and Journalists), interested in the GW/CC debate ought to read this carefully.

A couple of small typos are of no consequence.

Ronald Kitching

ESSINGTON LEWIS LECTURE by Professor Ian Plimer

The current ice age started 34 million years ago with the covering of Antarctica by an ice sheet. This great climate change was driven by the separation of South America from Antarctica thereby establishing a circum polar current that isolated Antarctica from warm water.

Water contains 22 times as much heat as the atmosphere and it is the oceans that are the bellwether to climate change, not the atmosphere. The Antarctic ice sheet has waxed and waned and did not disappear during long periods of warmth. During periods of ice sheet waning, Antarctica isostatically rose. When the ice sheet thickened, Antarctica sank.

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Twitter Trend: The global warming guerrillas by Matt Ridley, UK Spectator

Co2sceptic — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:40:04 -0500

Article Tags: Front Page News, Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley salutes the bloggers who changed the climate debate. While most of Fleet Street kowtowed to the green lobby, online amateurs uncovered the spin and deception that finally cracked the consensus

Journalists are wont to moan that the slow death of newspapers will mean a disastrous loss of investigative reporting. The web is all very well, they say, but who will pay for the tenacious sniffing newshounds to flush out the real story? ‘Climategate’ proves the opposite to be true. It was amateur bloggers who scented the exaggerations, distortions and corruptions in the climate establishment; whereas newspaper reporters, even after the scandal broke, played poodle to their sources.

It was not Private Eye, or the BBC or the News of the World, but a retired electrical engineer in Northampton, David Holland, whose freedom-of-information requests caused the Climategate scientists to break the law, according to the Information Commissioner. By contrast, it has so far attracted little attention that the leaked emails of Climategate include messages from reporters obsequiously seeking ammunition against the sceptics. Other emails have shown reporters meekly changing headlines to suit green activists, or being threatened with ostracism for even reporting the existence of a sceptical angle: ‘Your reportage is very worrisome to most climate scientists,’ one normally alarmist reporter was told last year when he slipped briefly off message. ‘I sense that you are about to experience the “Big Cutoff” from those of us who believe we can no longer trust you, me included.’

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Source: spectator.co.uk

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DISINTEGRATION OF THE IPCC by Will Alexander, S. African UN Scientist

Co2sceptic — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:21:35 -0500

Article Tags: Will Alexander

‘We are now witnessing the disintegration of the IPCC’. That is what I wrote in Email GLACIERGATE sixteen days ago.

The bombardment continues with increased ferocity. The IPCC cannot possibly survive.

Regards,

Will

DISINTEGRATION OF THE IPCC

It is very difficult to get the message of the disintegration of the IPCC across to those who do not have a close interest in the subject, particularly to South African recipients. Until now, the IPCC scientists have protected themselves by developing a strong herd instinct. Their South African counterparts vigorously countered any attempts to criticise their science. Nevertheless, climate change is not a political issue in South Africa. It does not feature on the priorities of any political party. No South African government, now or in the future, would dare impose the measures now in force in the UK, EU and Australia.

My personal concern, which has not yet been expressed in the overseas media or discussions, is how will the countries that have already imposed costly and unpopular measures on their own citizens, react when they realise that the world's major developing countries are unlikely to follow their example? The IPCC documentation, the Stern Review and other sources have made it very clear that this is an all or nothing exercise. Trade wars and sanctions are on the horizon. These in turn could lead to loss of confidence in all United Nations bodies.

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Why was it cold in the UK, but not across the world? BBC News Magazine

Co2sceptic — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:01:56 -0500

Article Tags: BBC, World Temperatures

January was rather cold in the UK. But across the whole of the world, January was warmer than usual. Why?

According to provisional figures from the Met Office, the Britain's national weather service, January 2010 was the eighth coldest on record for the UK - the worst since 1987. A swath of northern Europe and parts of the US also experienced unseasonably cold temperatures.

And yet, explains Met Office research scientist David Parker, many areas, including large parts of South America, Africa, Asia, and Canada, had a warmer January than usual.

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Source: news.bbc.co.uk

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IPCC: International Pack of Climate Crooks by Marc Sheppard, AmericanThinker.com

Co2sceptic — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:47:20 -0500

Article Tags: Marc Sheppard

Unquestionably the world’s final authority on the subject, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's findings and recommendations have formed the bedrock of literally every climate-related initiative worldwide for more than a decade. Likewise, virtually all such future endeavors -- be they Kyoto II, domestic cap-and-tax, or EPA carbon regulation, would inexorably be built upon the credibility of the same U.N. panel's "expert" counsel. But a glut of ongoing recent discoveries of systemic fraud has rocked that foundation, and the entire man-made global warming house of cards is now teetering on the verge of complete collapse.

Simply stated, we've been swindled. We've been set up as marks by a gang of opportunistic hucksters who have exploited the naïvely altruistic intentions of the environmental movement in an effort to control international energy consumption while redistributing global wealth and (in many cases) greedily lining their own pockets in the process.

Perhaps now, more people will finally understand what many have known for years: Man-made climate change was never really a problem -- but rather, a solution.

For just as the science of the IPCC has been exposed as fraudulent, so have its apparent motives. The true ones became strikingly evident when the negotiating text for the "last chance to save the planet" International Climate Accord [PDF], put forth in Copenhagen in December, was found to contain as many paragraphs outlining the payment of "climate debt" reparations by Western nations under the watchful eye of a U.N.-controlled global government as it did emission reduction schemes.

Then again, neither stratagem should come as any real surprise to those who've paid attention. Here's a recap for those who have, and a long-overdue wake-up call for those who haven't.

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Source: americanthinker.com

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GLOBAL WARMING: NEW WORRIES OVER CLIMATEGATE DATA, Daily Express

Co2sceptic — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:29:06 -0500

Article Tags: ClimateGate

SCIENTISTS at the heart of the Climategate email scandal have been accused of “fabricating” scientific claims after new allegations cast further doubts over their global warming research.

Analysis of emails hacked from the University of East Anglia (UEA) showed researchers tried to suppress key details of their 1990 research paper on how cities affect global warming.

Now critics say measurements from Chinese weather stations used by Professor Phil Jones of UEA and exposed in the emails make his findings seriously flawed.

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Source: express.co.uk

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Pachauri admits damage to UN climate change panel, The Australian

Co2sceptic — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:18:21 -0500

Article Tags: ClimateGate, Newspaper Article

LONDON: The embattled chief of the UN climate change panel has admitted that a mistake in a landmark 2007 report has damaged the body's credibility.

But Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, refused to apologise for the erroneous claim that global warming could melt Himalayan glaciers by 2035.

The admission came as former British chief scientist David King backed away from his sensational claim that a foreign intelligence agency or wealthy US lobbyists were behind the hacking and release of controversial emails between climate scientists.

Sir David admitted he possessed no inside information about the leaks of embarrassing emails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, and had merely been speculating on material already in the public domain. His remarks to a journalist had been a "side-issue", he said.

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Source: theaustralian.com.au

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Breaking: Penn State inquiry finds no evidence for allegations against Michael Mann, Huffington Post

Co2sceptic — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:40:07 -0500

Article Tags: ClimateGate

Penn State University has concluded that there is no evidence to substantiate the claims made against climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann surrounding the emails stolen from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University.

An inquiry panel was set up early this year to look at allegations made by right-wing bloggers and media outlets against Penn State University climate scientist, Dr. Michael Mann, relating to the contents of emails stolen from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in London.

On all 4 of the allegations made against Dr. Mann the panel has concluded that there is no evidence to substantiate the claims.

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Source: huffingtonpost.com

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You Could Not Make It Up: BBC asks WUWT for help: Updated by Piers Corbyn at WUWT

Co2sceptic — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:55:07 -0500

Article Tags: Anthony Watts, BBC, Headline Story, Open Letter/Fax, Piers Corbyn, Updated, You could not make it up

I received this email this morning from Roger Harribin, the BBC’s environmental analyst. It’s interesting because I received an email from the Guardian yesterday asking if I’d like to write a 200 word guest piece. Unfortunately it somehow ended up in my spam filter (which I found this morning) so I missed the 3 PM GMT deadline today. Here’s what Mr. Harrabin wrote. I hope WUWT readers will come to aid, especially since skeptics are now apparently getting a voice in UK MSM.

Dear Mr Watts,

I am trying to talk to UK scientists in current academic posts who are sceptical about AGW.

I’m struggling to find anyone – but there may of course be a number of reasons for this. Please could you post my request on your website – and ask people to email roger.harrabin@bbc.co.uk.

We are looking for scientists, of course – not insults.

It strikes me that it might be useful to meet sometime to discuss a project I am planning on the weather.

I enclose my latest column Harrabin's Notes: Raising the error bar which touches on the difficulties of reporting climate change FYI.

I look forward to hearing from you

Yours Roger Harrabin

If you know of a skeptical scientist in the UK that may be interested, please advise them of this. Thanks to all for your consideration. – Anthony
Updated below by Piers Corbyn at WUWT
Source: wattsupwiththat.com

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TWITTER TREND: Inquiry into climate scientist moves to next phase (Penn State is posting the results of its internal inquiry for Mr. Mann)

Co2sceptic — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:27:41 -0500

Article Tags: ClimateGate, Twitter

University Park, Pa. — An internal inquiry by Penn State into the research and scholarly activities of a well-known climate scientist will move into the investigatory stage, which is the next step in the University's process for reviewing research conduct.

A University committee has concluded its inquiry into allegations of research impropriety that were leveled in November against Professor Michael Mann, after information contained in a collection of stolen e-mails was revealed. More than a thousand e-mails are reported to have been "hacked" from computer servers at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in England, one of the main repositories of information about climate change.

During the inquiry, all relevant e-mails pertaining to Mann or his work were reviewed, as well as related journal articles, reports and additional information. The committee followed a well-established University policy during the inquiry (http://guru.psu.edu/policies/ra10.html ).

In looking at four possible allegations of research misconduct, the committee determined that further investigation is warranted for one of those allegations. The recommended investigation will focus on determining if Mann "engaged in, directly or indirectly, any actions that seriously deviated from accepted practices within the academic community for proposing, conducting or reporting research or other scholarly activities." A full report (http://www.research.psu.edu/orp) concerning the allegations and the findings of the inquiry committee has been submitted.

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Submission to the EPA on Endangerment Finding by Stephen McIntyre, Climate Audit

Co2sceptic — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:20:54 -0500

Article Tags: Steve McIntyre

1. The Proposed Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act (the Finding) and its associated Technical Support Document (TSD) are “highly influential scientific assessments” and are therefore required to comply with section III of the OMB Peer Review Guidelines and accompanying Information Bulletin (OMB 2002; 2004) and the EPA Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility and Integrity of Information Disseminated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA 2002) (the “EPA Guidelines”), which include by reference other EPA policy manuals, including the EPA Quality Manual (EPA 2000) and the EPA Peer Review Handbook (EPA 2006a)
2. The EPA elected to rely “heavily” on “existing” scientific assessments carried out by external parties. EPA guidelines and policies establish procedures which EPA is required to comply with, prior to utilizing scientific assessments carried out by external parties, including international bodies. These procedures include the submission of the scientific assessment by the external party to EPA together with its peer review record and the evaluation of the submission by EPA officials to evaluate the scientific content and the external party’s peer review process. The TSD failed to state that EPA complied with these procedures and there is considerable evidence that EPA did not do so.

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Source: scienceandpublicpolicy.org (PDF Download)

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China And The “Deniers”: Why Climate Change Issues Are Problematic for the Chinese by Michael Economides, Energy Tribune editor in chief, and Xina Xie, China correspondent

Co2sceptic — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:58:16 -0500

Article Tags: Michael J. Economides

In the wake of Climategate, Chinese climate researchers have been looking for a way forward. For the past few years, the Chinese government has been supportive of the “consensus” western position on climate change. Wanting very much to be liked and accepted internationally, China went along with the climate change predictions being put forward by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They publicly agreed with the potential dangers posed by climate change while all along making it clear that they would not accept any mandatory limits on their carbon dioxide emissions.
Source: energytribune.com

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Geological Society of America declines endorsement by Geologist Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Emeritus Professor at Western Washington University

Co2sceptic — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:42:08 -0500

Article Tags: Don Easterbrook, Headline Story

The Geological Society of America (GSA) has declined to endorse an official policy statement of the society which was proposed in October. At the national meeting of GSA in Portland last October, I strongly opposed adoption of the proposed endorsement of IPCC contentions and argued that "for a position statement of a scientific society of professional geologists, this statement is remarkably one sided and lacks the kind of depth and scientific analysis that one would expect from GSA. It totally ignores a wealth of well-documented data contrary to many of the statements made in the text and many of the contentions are not supported by any tangible data at all. This would be a much more credible document if it explored both sides of many of the issues and provided supporting evidence. The section on Rationale is shocking in its lack of scientific logic—it essentially claims that because we have had global warming (which no one denies), that in itself proves it is due to CO2. CO2. That shoddy logic must surely make T.C. Chamberlain and Hoover Mackin turn over in their graves!"

"To contend that glacier retreat proves warming due to CO2 is bad enough, but the authors clearly have very poor knowledge of glacier fluctuations since 1850.During the 1890 to 1915 cool period, glaciers extended almost to their Little Ice Age maximums, retreated during the 1915 to 1945 warm period, advanced again during the 1945 to 1977 cool period, and retreated again during the 1977 to 1999 warm period. None of these climate fluctuations prior to 1945 can be due to increase in CO2 so to contend that retreat of glaciers since 1850 is proof of warming due to CO2 is incredibly amateurish."
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