AP: Al Gore takes yet another fossil-fueled hop across the pond

[DAVOS, Switzerland] But on Friday, worries about global warming will get attention as forum participants look at the consequences of rising seas, expanding deserts and disappearing forests. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are also set to make appearances.

Nobel Peace prize winner Al Gore will join U.N. climate change chief Yvo de Boer and Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to look at prospects for a global climate pact by the end of this year. Later former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan leads talks on how to make any such deal fairer to poor countries.

A partial list of Gore's recent travel is here.

John Coleman: Hansen Credibility | CO2sceptics

And, now the case of global warming; a current cause celeb. The news has flooded us with Al Gore's pronouncements of climatic Armageddon and the constant barrage of supposed proof. From the dying Polar Bears (They were and are not dying), to the melting ice at the North Pole (The ice extent at the pole is now the same as it was when satellite survaillence began in 1979), the devastation of hurricane Katrina (A more or less average hurricane in a more or less average hurricane season, that created havoc in New Orleans because the levys were poor and the Mayor and Governor and well as federal officials did a poor job of evacuating the people and protecting property), all sorts of things including the die off of bees, shrinking coral reefs and a laundry list of other events have all been attributed by Journalists to global warming.

And, the connection between fossil fuel exhaust emissions of carbon dioxide has been presented over and over again as accepted science without the slightest bow to the growing throng of scientists protesting the entire silly forray of bad science and resulting public policy. The meetings and publications of the UN IPCC have been reported like the final decisions of the high court.

If you search the files of New York times articles about global warming, is there one single story that presents the skeptics side without demeaning them or their position. There is hardly such a story, much less a fair and balanced one.

Pajamas Media » Anthropogenic Global Warming: The Greatest Fraud in History?

...But what worries me most is that the credibility of science may never recover — and perhaps it shouldn’t. Credibility has to be earned, and once it’s squandered may never be recovered. By now far too many scientists have knowingly colluded in an historic fraud, one that would put Bernie Madoff to shame. We are seeing political larceny here on a truly planetary scale.

Why should scientists who’ve gambled their own reputations on this fakery ever be trusted again? They shouldn’t. Would you entrust your life savings to Bernie Madoff? Right.

I’m not a climatologist. Like most scientists I rarely judge what others do in their fields. And yet it’s been flamingly obvious for years now that the hypothesis of human-caused global warming violates all the basic rules and safeguards that protect the integrity of normal, healthy science. That’s why AGW (anthropogenic global warming) looks like a massive fraud, the biggest fraud ever in the history of science.

If that’s true, anybody who cares about science should be outraged...
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The AGW hype machine may signal the worst breakdown ever in the normal, healthy process of open debate and endless testing that makes for good science. It’s pathological science — which is not science at all.

What’s happening today is very dangerous. It can infect other parts of the sciences, medicine, and technology. If honest scientists cannot stand up to the pressure we are in deep, deep trouble as a society. Bad science kills people.

That institutional breakdown could spread — perhaps it has already spread — to other fields that have been politicized. This is very bad.

Ultimately the only solution may be to cauterize the proliferating mass of corruption. That can only be done by the new media, which are not playing footsies with political frauds.

All we can do is keep telling the truth, and listen to honest debate. Keep on doing that, and this sickness may yet pass, without killing the patient.