July 26, 2008 by admin.

The Register [U.K.]

Monday 21st July 2008

Climate Swindle film: bruised egos, but no offence

So says Ofcom

By Andrew Orlowski

British regulator Ofcom has rejected complaints that the popular polemical film, The Great Global Warming Swindle, misled viewers. The regulator said it was paramount that the public received alternative points of view - even if these were not endorsed by institutions or the major political parties….

The hour long programme, directed and narrated by Martin Durkin, was screened in March 2007, and has subsequently become a hit on DVD. Environmental activists blame the film, and the broadcaster Channel 4, for undermining public confidence in the theory that human CO2 emissions are primarily responsible for increasing temperatures in the late 20th century….(Full Story)

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Note by folc.ca: Apparently, in the UK, as elsewhere, it is not as important for the public to know the truth as it is that the public’s beliefs in the assertions of man-made global warming, under-pinned by years of all-out propaganda, not be shaken.

As to alternative points of view that Ofcom wishes the public to know about, Ofcom should have mentioned that its decision was most likely and very importantly influenced by an earlier October 2007 decision by the High Court in London that pertained expressively to the lack of veracity in Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, showing it to violate the UK’s racketeering laws — which “The Great Global Warming Swindle” did not.

35 Inconvenient Truths

The errors in Al Gore’s movie

By Lord Monckton, UK [science advisor to Margaret Thatcher when she was in office]

A spokesman for Al Gore has issued a questionable response to the news that in October 2007 the High Court in London had identified nine “errors” in his movie An Inconvenient Truth. The judge had stated that, if the UK Government had not agreed to send to every secondary school in England a corrected guidance note making clear the mainstream scientific position on these nine “errors”, he would have made a finding that the Government’s distribution of the film and the first draft of the guidance note earlier in 2007 to all English secondary schools had been an unlawful contravention of an Act of Parliament prohibiting the political indoctrination of children….

Ms. Kreider says the IPCC’s results are sometimes “conservative,” and continues: “Vice President Gore tried to convey in good faith those threats that he views as the most serious.” Readers of the long list of errors described in this memorandum will decide for themselves whether Mr. Gore was acting in good faith. However, in this connection it is significant that each of the 35 errors listed below misstates the conclusions of the scientific literature or states that there is a threat where there is none or exaggerates the threat where there may be one. All of the errors point in one direction – towards undue alarmism. Not one of the errors falls in the direction of underestimating the degree of concern in the scientific community. The likelihood that all 35 of the errors listed below could have fallen in one direction purely by inadvertence is less than 1 in 34 billion….(Full Story)

Notice that the finding by the High Court in London implies that Al Gore does deliberately mislead the public, even to the extent of unlawfully indoctrinating children, whereas the Ofcom adjudication merely states that the film The Great Global Warming Swindle “treated interviewees unfairly, but did not mislead audiences…”.

In the eyes of an objective observer that is a substantial and very important difference in legal opinions with respect to the two films under discussion.  Truth trumps fiction, even if Ofcom is mealy-mouthed about it, and Al Gore stands exposed as a propagandistic opportunist. The chance that An Inconvenient Truth is a collection of deliberate lies is at least 34 billion to one.

Then there is this item in the (Canadian) National Post:

Do as Al says, not as Al does

Lorne Gunter, National Post

Editorial Page: Monday, July 21, 2008
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=668476

How about this one, global warming? What global warming?

Global Warming Reality Check

June 12, 2008

None of the Global Circulation Models (GCMs) tell anything about reality, against which all of them must be validated. Yet, the GCMs are the primary source of the information that fuels the global warming hysteria.

Reality check: UAH (University of Alabama in Huntsville) monthly globally averaged lower atmospheric temperature variations since 1979 as measured by NOAA and NASA satellites.

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July 22, 2008 by admin.

Letter to Dave Dubauskas, Chief Administration Officer of the Town of Bruderheim

2008 07 22

Hello Dave,

The proposed location for the Sage housing development, the 135 acres north of the Walker School, sure is a wet place, a flood plain and bad place for the construction of a residential subdivision intended to house 1,300 people.  Topographically, the proposed area is at the lowest elevation in Bruderheim.  It is a swampy flood plain that has become seriously inundated with run-off water on at least three separate occasions during the 35-year interval that I lived in this area.  The watershed area draining into that flood plain is at least 30 square miles in size.

Quoted from the article at the following link The Proposed Sage Housing Development in Bruderheim (Published 2008 07 20):

It can only be hoped that our town council does not become blinded by short-term gain to ignore long-term pain.  Doug Maschmeyer knows how to prevent from becoming ensnared by the Sage development.  In leaving the information session, he said: “You won’t sell me a piece of property in that development!”

Let’s assume that the development will go through and that one of those floods that happen on average every dozen years or so in that area comes about.  It will be an easy job even for a junior lawyer to sue the pants of the Town of Bruderheim.  There is no way that such a flood could be called an act of God.  All of the massive damages that would be caused by such a flood would be due to neglecting to use proper care and attention….

…it would be far more practical and a lot cheaper for contractors, home owners and opportunistic developers alike to build homes on land that doesn’t flood as often as does the area for the proposed Sage subdivision.  Last but not least, that would also be far safer, financially, in regard to the risk the Town of Bruderheim would expose itself to if it were to issue permits for the construction of a residential subdivision on a flood plain that is quite literally the low point of the topography of Bruderheim.

Dave, please be so good and forward this message to Jack Lambert.  It appears that the e-mail address I have for him no longer functions.

All the best,

–Walter Schneider

P.S.: By the way, check http://bruderheim.ca/FAQ.htm. Some of the information contained in that web page is inaccurate (e. g.: the composition of the Town Council is wrong). –WHS

Cc: Various members of the public, media and town council

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July 20, 2008 by admin.

July 20, 2008

By Walter Schneider

The proposed location, 135 acres located north of the Walker School, sure is a wet place, a flood plain and bad place for the construction of a residential subdivision intended to house 1,300 people….(Full Story)

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July 16, 2008 by admin.

NASA

What’s Wrong with the Sun? (Nothing)

July 11, 2008: Stop the presses! The sun is behaving normally.

So says NASA solar physicist David Hathaway. “There have been some reports lately that Solar Minimum is lasting longer than it should. That’s not true. The ongoing lull in sunspot number is well within historic norms for the solar cycle.”….(Full Story)
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See also:

• Sunspots have some influence on weather and climate trends.
• Prolonged absence of sunspots is associated with much colder climate (e. g.: ice ages)

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