Power Line - A Caveat

What this episode shows, I think, is that tree ring studies are useless, which we also noted here. Is that significant? Absolutely: tree-ring studies are the main support for the AGW conclusions reached by the U.N.'s IPCC report, which in turn is the U.S. government's only basis for cap and trade, etc.

For the global warming alarmists, it's any port in a storm. Use data as long as it supports your fanatically-held position, delete it as soon as it diverges.
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The problem is that Obama knows absolutely nothing about the issue of climate, much as he knows little or nothing about the economy. I sincerely doubt that most Americans want to impoverish ourselves in order to satisfy a bunch of climate "scientists" who, we now know, happily sacrifice truth to political ideology and financial interest.

Environment Forum » Blog Archive » Five minutes of Al Gore | Reuters Blogs |

He started late, made them laugh for the first 5 minutes then gently kicked out the media.

“I’m Al Gore and I used to be the next president of America,” he said. Everyone laughed.

Environment Forum » Blog Archive » Five minutes of Al Gore | Blogs |

[First comment] Hunh…what? The big news in not Gore’s Message, but the hacked emails that make his awards a potential farce and more importantly a scientific fraud. As of now, very few MSM sources are going into the details. It involves work to find the references. All the Big Media outlets that use the alphabet as their call letters have treated this news story with silence. It boggles the mind really. Ask Gore if doctoring scientific records, deleting documents, ignoring freedom of information is important in letting the science speak? Oh, I forgot, Al Gore don’t take questions. And the Media was silently shuffled out of the room after some pleasant jokes and a Chicken dinner.

Critics slam Government over controversial climate change [hoax] report | News | Farmers Guardian

A GOVERNMEMT-BACKED report advocating large cuts in livestock numbers to combat climate change and improve public health has provoked a storm of controversy.