Regression Abuse | Climate Skeptic

Hopefully, after our background exposition, you see the problem. Mann started with a theory that more organic material in lake sediments (as shown by lower x-ray densities) correlated with higher temperatures. But his regression showed the opposite relationship — and he just accepted this, presumably because it yielded the hockey stick shape he wanted. But there is absolutely no physical theory as to why our historic understanding of organic matter deposition in lakes should be reversed, and Mann has not even bothered to provide one. In fact, he says he doesn’t even need to.

This mistake (fraud?) is even more egregious because it is clear that the jump in x-ray values in recent years is due to a spurious signal and corruption of the data. Mann’s algorithm is locking into meaningless noise, and converting it into a “signal” that there is a hockey stick shape to the proxy data.

Al Fin: In Solar Powered Climate CO2 is Secondary

When you hear yet another news story describing how modern humans must revert to the stone ages to prevent catastrophic global warming, keep in mind that there is no catastrophic global warming outside of overheated brains of corrupt politicians, UN officials, and grant hungry former scientists.

Religious leaders join to [promote climate swindle] - Telegraph

At a meeting hosting by the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, leaders from Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Baha'i, Jain and Zoroastrian faiths called on the UK and G20 governments to fight for an ambitious deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions at UN-led talks in Copenhagen in December.
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Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband, who has warned that achieving a deal at Copenhagen still hangs in the balance, said: ''Each generation holds the planet in trust for the next and to fulfil our obligations to these future generations, we must succeed in getting a fair and ambitious agreement.

''We need the voice of all the world's religions in the coming weeks as we approach the Copenhagen summit.''

Today’s Calamity: Senate Concerns on Cap and Trade Cannot Be Fixed » The Foundry

Despite Boxer’s repeated attempts to promote cap and trade as a jobs bill, Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) still has concerns: “My message over all is that for us to support what needs to be done in addressing global warming we need to demonstrate that, in fact, jobs are created.”

They won’t be; they will be destroyed. It’s important to stress that of the organizations that modeled cap and trade, not one scenario, including the EPA’s after generous assumptions, projected a net increase in income or employment from cap and trade. The entire debate was over the magnitude of income, consumption and job losses.

The Senate has a lot of problems with cap and trade. But there aren’t any solutions.