Monday, November 23, 2009

The White House’s climate conundrum - Gary Andres and Patrick J. Griffin - POLITICO.com
...postponing legislative action for a year or two might also include some benefits. Nervous Democrats, hearing ominous political footsteps after the Virginia and New Jersey governors’ races — as well as a long and contentious health debate — might welcome a legislative timeout on another risky undertaking.
...Obama may never formally announce the death of a broad climate change bill, but as his political standing falters, health care drags on and the jobs picture doesn’t improve, the White House will most likely focus on other urgent matters next year.
LA Times Changes Its Mind: Science Doesn't Matter On Climate Bill | NewsBusters.org
When scientific findings were there to warn that global warming would kill the planet, the Times was quick to support it; when science was later found to be riddled with tricks that tainted its credibility, climate legislation was suddenly all about fixing the economy.

This is one more example in the long list of ways the liberal media has played fast and loose with the global warming agenda.

Even when faced with plausible evidence the whole thing might be a fraud, global warming believers simply found a way to assert that evidence was not necessary.
Simple Model Leaves Expensive Climate Models Cold — MasterResource
We have recently proposed a model that provides forecasts that are over seven times more accurate than forecasts from the procedures used by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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The forecasting model we chose was the so-called “naïve” model. The naïve model assumes that things will remain the same.
The Blackboard » Posted at DotEarth
Raypierre suggests it was just luck that none of Phil Jones personal information was contained in the emails. It seems more likely that the lack of personal information had nothing to do with luck. A cursory examination of the emails reveals no announcements for group meetings, no invitations to the lunch room to celebrate a coworkers birthday, no email exchanges between husbands and wives discussing their shared love of Lassie DVDs, no letter from the safety training people, nothing related to performance reviews, and no pesky nag notes to update ones cyber security training. (Maybe CRU doesn’t have cyber security training?) Whoever assembled this edited, and it appears that all emails containing very highly personal information were removed from the collection.

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