December 14, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

Global weather dataset being systematically corrupted
December 11, 10:38 PMEssex County Conservative Examiner

By Terry Hurlbut

For the past six days, several climate scientists have discovered an alarming trend: clear evidence of alteration of historical data at weather stations around the world, in order to support the contention of anthropogenic global warming (AGW).

The changes appear to affect the Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN), a project of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climate Data Center. Note that this is the same agency that employs Dr. Eugene Wahl, who might be implicated in the research misconduct allegations made against Michael E. Mann [*] at Penn State University….(Full Story)

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* Michael Mann is one of the creators of the hockey-stick graph of global temperature trends that featured prominently in the climate hype promoted by the IPCC and Al Gore and creatively eliminated all evidence of the Medieval Warm Period. The hockey-stick graph has been thoroughly discredited.

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December 11, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

The GISS temperature record can no longer be trusted.

On or around about Nov. 14, 2009, GISS began to use a new global temperature data set that deleted temperature records relating to the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  Not only that, but the temperature data that remained in use were adjusted downward for dates preceding the year 2000 (increasingly downward the farther back in the temperature record they go), thereby creating or exaggerating “warming” trends for individual locations.

A discussion thread at http://wattsupwiththat.com details the nature of the data fiddling.

From that discussion thread:

…See under “What’s New”:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/

“Nov. 14, 2009: USHCN_V2 is now used rather than the older version 1. The only visible effect is a slight increase of the US trend after year 2000 due to the fact that NOAA extended the TOBS and other adjustment to those years.
Sep. 11, 2009: NOAA NCDC provided an updated file on Sept. 9 of the GHCN data used in our analysis. The new file has increased data quality checks in the tropics. Beginning Sept. 11 the GISS analysis uses the new NOAA data set. ”

The “visible effect” of the new, manipulated data set is far greater than the quoted note implies.  The data changes were without a doubt manufactured to create a warming trend where none exists or to exaggerate possibly existing warming trends.

This is not the first time that the gate keepers of climate data were caught in the act of large-scale falsifying of existing data.

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December 11, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

Posted at http://sppiblog.org/news/hitler-youth-in-denmark-again

Friday, December 11th, 2009 at 9:16 am

By Christopher Monckton in Copenhagen

A thoughtful, quietly-spoken German was almost in tears.

“I never thought I would see this in my lifetime,” he said, sadness and anger competing on his face. “The last time young people politicized and indoctrinated by the State broke up a meeting of their opponents here in Copenhagen by chanting mindless, repetitive slogans was during the Nazi occupation of Denmark during the Second World War.”….(Full Story)

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Other comments and articles by Lord Monckton at folc.ca

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December 10, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

Thanks to Canada Free Press:

It is clear the science behind climate change is biased and disputed, leaving the propaganda machine as the only fact that remains.

By Paul Murdock, Psy.D
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

In the last several weeks we have learned several new facts about climate change research. First, climate scientists’ motives are biased. Second, scientists actively discussed how to achieve political ends through their research. Third, and more disturbingly, the public has learned of discarded data, attempts to keep opposing views silent, and total political adherence to an ideology.

Yet, without thinking twice, the main stream media and President Obama have shrugged off the controversy and continued boldly with their partisan agenda.  It is clear the science behind climate change is biased and disputed, leaving the propaganda machine as the only fact that remains.

Research by the conservative Media Research Group has stated that since the Climategate scandal broke out, ABC, CBS, and NBC have not mentioned the story in any of their news casts including their morning shows. Even when the outlets discussed Obama’s upcoming trip to Copenhagen, the controversy was never mentioned. There has been no mention of recently published research questioning climate change or that thousands of scholars disagree. Recently, the Wall Street Journal has raised questions of silencing dissenting opinions at the EPA, and there are now questions about NASA’s data. Even with a wide variety of dispute, the networks continue to use the language of propaganda including “undisputed, unequivocal, settled, and consensus.”….(Full Story)

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Note by folc.ca: Prescriptions for successful propaganda by two master-propagandists (keep in mind that propaganda was then an art, it is now a science):

Propaganda

(Quoted from bruderheim-rea.ca)

As far back as 1928, Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew, wrote in his book Propaganda:

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.  Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country….

The important thing is that [propaganda] is universal and continuous; and in its sum total it is regimenting the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers.^{[1, 2, 3]}

(Note by folc.ca: When these notes on propaganda were posted at bruderheim.ca, in the beginning of 2002, in connection with a history of the deregulation of the utility industry in Alberta, Edward Bernays was still alive and offered his services as a consultant at $10,000 per hour. As a strategist for propaganda, he was well worth what he charged.)

Someone else, far more famous but perhaps not as influential on a global and on-going basis, wrote along similar lines even before that:

The function of propaganda does not lie in the scientific training of the individual, but in calling the masses’ attention to certain facts, processes, necessities, etc., whose significance is thus for the first time placed within their field of vision. …

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be. But if, as in propaganda for sticking out a war, the aim is to influence a whole people, we must avoid excessive intellectual demands on our public, and too much caution cannot be extended in this direction. …

The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan….

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.

—Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter VI

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December 10, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

The current Climategate scandal and years of temperature-data fiddling by leading and controlling climatologists resulted in a clear demonstration that Michael Mann’s hockey stick graph was a fabrication that falsified the global temperature history for the past thousand years.

One of the most outstanding features of Michael Mann’s hockey-stick graph was that it attempted to eliminate a well-established historical fact, the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), a period of time when temperatures throughout the globe were substantially warmer and far more benign than they are now.

During the MWP the Vikings colonized Greenland, England had a substantial wine-production industry — based on vineyards grown as far north as Hadrian’s Wall — that successfully competed with that in France, and civilization throughout Europe grew and thrived.  All of that ended with the advent of the Little Ice Age, a period of time that brought much colder weather, crop failures, the burning of the witches and millions of deaths through the bubonic plague (a.k.a. the Black Death).

The Little Ice Age ended around 1850.  Climate alarmists, including the 15,000 or so meeting at the Copenhagen Climate-Jamboree, brand the slight warming we experienced from about 1850 to the end of the second millennium — with temperatures that are not even yet as high as those reached during the MWP, as something to be afraid of, harbingers of calamities that will bring about not only the end of civilization but the end of all life on Earth.

The climate alarmists, much like a surgeon calling for the amputation of an arm to cure a hangnail, call for futile measures that are far more drastic than the burning of the witches and so far brought nothing less than the doubling and tripling of food prices, spelling death for millions of the world’s poor at the edge of starvation. One third of arable land is now being used not to grow food for those who need it but to grow crops for bio-fuels for cars that don’t need bio-fuels.

Yet, the alarmism relating to the most recent global temperature rise, exaggerated as it is, is nothing but displaced, at best. Temperature trend hockey sticks abound throughout the long climate history of the world, with the current peak in the temperature trend being far from being the highest ever experienced during civilization’s relatively short history.  (See also climate histories in Greenland and in the Antarctic.)

With the current warm period being far from indicating anything special, it seems that the next ice age is just around the corner. Perhaps the arctic blast that will quite likely hit the Copenhagen Climate Jamboree this coming weekend will serve as a practical reminder of that.

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See also a related article.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Baby, It’s Cold Outside

By Alan Caruba

One of the great ironies of the Climate Change Conference taking place in Copenhagen is that its focus is on “global warming” at a time when Planet Earth has been in a cooling cycle for the passed decade….(Full Story)

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December 8, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

COP15 opening film

The film presents powerful fear mongering directed at children, but it presents not a single item of scientific fact.  The film is propaganda in action.

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December 8, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

Lord Monckton on Climategate

Lord Christopher Monckton speaks at the second International Climate Conference, addressing the so-called Climategate scandal and key players involved in what appears to be one of the biggest science scams of our time.

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December 8, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

Nov. 17, 2009, the Climategate scandal broke and showed some of the world’s leading climate scientists to have been involved in fraudulently cooking the books by constructing an inexorably rising global temperature trend, thereby doing their utmost best to stoke climate fear and hysteria.

Yesterday I watched a bit of the news related to the climate-fear jamboree in Copenhagen, with its $10 million a day hotel accommodation bill (not counting meals and other perks), more than a thousand limousines and hundreds of private jet aircraft that need to be flown, after delivering their cargoes of climate-fear activist in Copenhagen, to other European airports to find space for them to park while the climate-fear jamboree runs its course.

Some of the news anchors mentioned the recent Climategate scandal and commented or reported some leading climate-fear activists remarking that the “hacked e-mails” would not have any impact on the (foregone) conclusions of the Copenhagen climate conference, that”the data are okay.”

Well, at least Saudi Arabia now has very strong feelings on the demonstrated lack of any significant connection between human activities and climate trends.  The data are not okay, as illustrated in the following excellent analysis by Willis Eschenbach.

Thanks to wattsupwiththat.com:

The Smoking Gun At Darwin Zero
8 12 2009

by Willis Eschenbach

People keep saying “Yes, the Climategate scientists behaved badly. But that doesn’t mean the data is bad. That doesn’t mean the earth is not warming.”

Let me start with the second objection first. The earth has generally been warming since the Little Ice Age, around 1650. There is general agreement that the earth has warmed since then. See e.g. Akasofu . Climategate doesn’t affect that.

The second question, the integrity of the data, is different. People say “Yes, they destroyed emails, and hid from Freedom of information Acts, and messed with proxies, and fought to keep other scientists’ papers out of the journals … but that doesn’t affect the data, the data is still good.” Which sounds reasonable….(Full Story, graphs and links)

No one who has looked at that analysis will still insist that “the data are okay.”

The analysis by Willis Eschenbach concerns the Australian portion of the global climate record.  Add to that the similar falsifications of the New Zealand portion of the global climate record reconstruction, and it becomes irrefutably obvious that THE DATA ARE NOT OKAY!

But the Climategate scandal is not the only damaging news about the Copenhagen climate jamboree. Also identified at wattsupwiththat.com is this:

More Leaks – Copenhagen in disarray

However, don’t hold your breath waiting for the main-stream media to report on the rampant climate-fear fraud at any time soon. Adolf Hitler had it right.

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.

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December 5, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

The Weekly Standard: Scientists Behaving Badly

5 12 2009

An excellent summary and editorial, well worth the read. Note that Hayward apparently reads WUWT, as he references the “CRUtape Letters”, first published here. – Anthony

Excerpts of: Scientists Behaving Badly
A corrupt cabal of global warming alarmists are exposed by a massive document leak.
by Steven F. Hayward

Slowly and mostly unnoticed by the major news media, the air has been going out of the global warming balloon. Global temperatures stopped rising a few years ago, much to the dismay of the climate campaigners. The U.N.’s upcoming Copenhagen conference–which was supposed to yield a binding greenhouse gas emissions reduction treaty as a successor to the failed Kyoto Protocol–collapsed weeks in advance and remains on life support pending Obama’s magical intervention. Cap and trade legislation is stalled on Capitol Hill. Recent opinion polls from Gallup, Pew, Rasmussen, ABC/Washington Post, and other pollsters all find a dramatic decline in public belief in human-caused global warming. The climate campaigners continue to insist this is because they have a “communications” problem, but after Al Gore’s Nobel Prize/Academy Award double play, millions of dollars in paid advertising, and the relentless doom-mongering from the media echo chamber and the political class, this excuse is preposterous. And now the climate campaign is having its Emperor’s New Clothes moment….(Full Story at wattsupwiththat..com)

Link to the full story in the Weekly Standard.

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December 3, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

News from WeatherAction

WA News No 91 - 30th Nov 2009

WeatherAction releases free long range forecast for Copenhagen

Climate summit to be hit by blustery deluges, probably turning to snow or blizzards and icy blasts in the region at times - especially heavy when President Obama visits

Honest Greens called on to “Jump from the Titanic before you and what you stand for gets dragged down with it”….

(Full statement in WANews09No91 pdf)

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