March 11, 2010 by admin.

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Pajamas Media

March 11, 2010 - by Christopher Horner

Climategate: Three of the Four Temperature Datasets Now Irrevocably Tainted

With today’s revelation on Pajamas Media, only the Japan Meteorological Agency is left to save the warmists. Don’t bet on it. (Click here to see Horner discuss this article on PJTV.)

The warmist response to Climategate — the discovery of the thoroughly corrupt practices of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) — was that the tainted CRU dataset was just one of four independent data sets. You know. So really there’s no big deal.

Thanks to a FOIA request, the document production of which I am presently plowing through — and before that, thanks to the great work of Steve McIntyre, and particularly in their recent, comprehensive work, Joseph D’Aleo and Anthony Watts — we know that NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) passed no one’s test for credibility. Not even NASA’s….(Full Story)

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March 10, 2010 by admin.

Crisis of Faith

Faith-Based Climate Astrology: Women hit by global warming head to Capitol Hill: ‘We have freezing temps when we shouldn’t have freezing temps’

‘We didn’t know what was happening…We blamed God’ — But then they ‘learned that human activities are one cause of climate change’

Tuesday, March 09, 2010
By Marc Morano  –  Climate Depot (Full Story)

Can the deservedly and seriously damaged credibility of the IPCC be salvaged? Attempts will be made, but it is doubtful that the damage can be undone.

From The Times
March 10, 2010
UN to review errors made by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Ben Webster, Environment Editor

The United Nations is to announce an independent review of errors made by its climate change advisory body in an attempt to restore its credibility….(Full Story)

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March 9, 2010 by admin.

For some time now, the media reported on the case of the ducks who died at a Syncrude tailings pond, near Fort McMurray, in Northern Alberta.  First it was claimed that about 500 ducks had been killed.  That claim was later revised upward to 1,600 ducks in the incident or incidents.

The front page of the March 9, 2010 issue of the Edmonton Journal carried an article that reported Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach as stating that he had not seen the images of the ducks coated with bitumen at the Syncrude tailings pond, quite properly casting some doubt on Ed Stelmach’s claim that he had not seen those all-pervasive images.

The insinuation by the article in the increasingly liberal Edmonton Journal was that the pro-industry Alberta Government’s premier is in open denial of the truth, namely that the oil industry is deadly to the environment and specifically has little regard for the death toll it imposes on Alberta wildlife.

The deaths of 1,600 ducks appears to be a red herring dragged out to draw attention away from the death toll inflicted by “environment-friendly” alternative sources of energy, particularly wind power.

No doubt, environmentalist are ready and eager to crucify Ed Stelmach for daring to — either deliberately or inadvertently — belittle the deaths of the ducks in Fort McMurray.  The goal of the environmentalists’ exercise has been achieved.  Ed Stelmach’s denial is evidence of the Alberta Government’s program to insert “dirty oil” into the world market for oil production.

The deaths of the 1,600 ducks in the Syncrude tailings pond needs to be put into perspective.  The Alberta Government is an ardent promoter of alternative energy in the form of wind power, even though wind-power production cannot be justified economically and can be kept alive only through massive taxpayer-funded subsidies.

However, with respect to the impact of wind power on the lives of birds, the simple truth is that wind power is at least thousands of times more deadly to the lives of birds than the Fort McMurray tailings ponds could ever be feared to be.

 “Bernd Koop, based on monitoring studies conducted in Holland by Winkelman, estimated there would be 60,000 to 100,000 bird collisions per 1,000 megawatt installed capacity in his country - annually (13) . . ..Applying his estimate to Germany´s 17,000 MW, we obtain: 1,020,000 to 1,700,000 bird collisions per annum. And the closer we are getting to territorial saturation, the lower the chances for migrating birds to find safe routes through the maze, especially if we add the deadly power lines.

Already, birds in Germany die in great numbers from collisions with 70,000 km of high-tension lines that criss-cross the country - 30 million birds per year is an extrapolation found in Hoerschelmann, Haack & Wohlgemuth, based on a study along 4.5 km of high tension lines - electrocutions excluded (14). - As windfarms need more power lines, this mortality will increase as well; there is already evidence of this : Windfarms - the bird massacre continues. (Please follow this link, photos must be seen; author.)

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Source:
Wildlife Conservation Examiner

Deadly blades; death toll mounts as wind farms massacre birds of prey
August 7, 8:52 PM; by Cathy Taibbi

Not that anyone should downplay the unfortunate deaths of the ducks at Fort McMurray, but if we wish to measure the impact of energy sources on wildlife, let’s do justice to all sources of energy.  By objective measures, wind power is far more deadly to wildlife than the Syncrude tailings ponds are.

At least Syncrude is trying to do something, and largely successfully, about protecting ducks and other migratory birds, while most environmentalists who harp on Alberta’s “dirty oil” are totally silent about the massive deadliness and excessive costs of wind power.

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March 6, 2010 by admin.

Vocal Minority
Paul Krugman, Friday, March 05, 2010

Failed “Scientist” Paul Ehrlich Among AGW Alarmists Swiping at Skeptics

There’s a 2004 book by Victor Gold called Liberwocky: What Liberals Say and What They Really Mean. It’s a tongue-and-cheek (but not inaccurate) glossary of buzzwords used and abused by the liberati in all walks of life. E.g.,

“Obscene: Liberal pejorative applied to ‘outrageous’ corporate profits; not, however, applicable to pornographic magazines or motion pictures.”

I think it’s time for a sequel. Consider this piece at the Washington Times about certain climate alarmists scientists hitting back at skeptics in light of the past several months AGW scandals and errors: ….(Full Story)

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March 6, 2010 by admin.

Global Warming Conference Heats Up in May 2010

by Todd Wynn    Friday, March 5. 2010

CHICAGO, IL USA - What a difference a year makes! Last year at this time, global warming “skeptics” were dismissed as being a fringe group of dissenters from “the overwhelming consensus” of scientific opinion. Now, their critics are admitting that the science is far from settled and that global warming is not the crisis it was once made out to be….(Full Story)

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March 4, 2010 by admin.

August Review
The Global Elite Research Letter

Smart Grid: The Implementation of Technocracy?

By Patrick Wood, Editor
March 2, 2010

Introduction

According to the United Nations Governing Council of the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP),  “our dominant economic model may thus be termed a ‘brown economy.” UNEP’s clearly stated goal is to overturn the “brown economy” and replace it with a “green economy”:

“A green economy implies the decoupling of resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth… These investments, both public and private, provide the mechanism for the reconfiguration of businesses, infrastructure and institutions, and for the adoption of sustainable consumption and production processes.”  [p. 2]

Sustainable consumption? Reconfiguring businesses, infrastructure and institutions? What do these words mean? They do not mean merely reshuffling the existing order, but rather replacing it with a completely new economic system, one that has never before been seen or used in the history of the world.

This paper will demonstrate that the current crisis of capitalism is being used to implement a radical new economic system that will completely supplant it. This is not some new idea created in the bowels of the United Nations: It is a revitalized implementation of Technocracy that was thoroughly repudiated by the American public in 1933, in the middle of the Great Depression….(Full Story)

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February 21, 2010 by admin.

Thanks to wattsupwiththat.com:

Must see: John Coleman’s Global Warming Special #2 – now online at YouTube

In his program, John Coleman, the founder of the Weather Channel in the US, mentions his website for looking up more detailed information.  Here is a link to John Coleman’s website Coleman’s Corner, at KUSI TV.

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February 8, 2010 by admin.

The daily inundation through commercials and other advertisements in the media includes initiatives by policy makers as well as opportunistic consequences of policies. It is at times difficult to tell whether climate hype and hysteria feed on “commercial” insanity or whether the insane hysteria about climate change presented by policy makers is what drives the business interests who inflict insane commercials on the population.

Having grown up in and during Hitler’s regime, there is one thing I know, because I observed it first hand.  Hitler said in “Mein Kampf” that the implementation of absolute ideological domination depends on the extent to which a simplified propaganda message — tailored to the lowest common denominator of the capabilities of the most simplistic elements in the masses — saturizes the daily lives of the masses continuously and all pervasively.

Thanks to wattsupwiththat.com, here is a link to a prime example of the blurring of the line between intent and consequences of high-intensity propaganda:

The Superbowl “Green Police” commercial

That is “truth” in advertising? The truth shall set you free, but keep in mind that, when propaganda was only an art and not yet a science, Hitler said:

The function of propaganda is, for example, not to weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right which it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly. (More)

—Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter VI

 It does not pay to buy in on artistic or “scientific” over-the-top propaganda efforts. It makes no difference whether they are used to promote totalitarian politics or intensified consumerism.

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January 31, 2010 by admin.

Thanks to http://climaterealists.com/

The following contains a link (source link at the bottom of the entry) to an interesting presentation by Ian Plimer, on climate change.

IAN PLIMER JOHNNY BALL LORD MONCKTON UK INDEPENDENCE PARTY (UKIP) VIDEO LINK

UKIP: Professor Ian Plimer on climate change and others inc. Lord Monckton

Sunday, January 31st 2010, 1:50 PM EST

Co2sceptic (Site Admin)

World leading climate change sceptic Professor Ian Plimer states the truth about global warming in this presentation hosted by UKIP’s Godfrey Bloom in London recently.

Click source link and see several Video links from UKIP

Source Link: ukip.org

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January 31, 2010 by admin.

By Professor Philip Stott

Saturday, 30 January 2010

For over a month now, since the farcical conclusion of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, I have been silent, partly through family commitments abroad in the USA, but also because, in this noisy world, in ‘The Clamour Of The Times’, it is on occasion better to be quiet and contemplative, to observe rather than…

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The commentary by Professor Philip Stott is an excellent summary of the present state and demise of the global-warming hype and hysteria.

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