Before It's News :: Climategate: CRU Adjustments Are 80% of Climate Change Temperature Increases

Remove the "corrections" and 80% of the "hockey stick" is gone. And so is the argument for Global Warming.

Climatologists under pressure : Article : Nature

After all, the pressures the UEA e-mailers experienced may be nothing compared with what will emerge as the United States debates a climate bill next year, and denialists use every means at their disposal to undermine trust in scientists and science.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: When Nature Attacks

The strong editorial is of course expected as Nature is a very public face of the scientific community and its editors probably feel (and actually have) a responsibility to defend their community. But Nature needs to also be careful as its over-the-top tone and unrelenting defense of the scientists in the emails does not jibe with either much of public opinion or many of the views expressed by scholars (including this one) about the significance of the emails.

I have received several emails from scientists none too happy with the tone of Nature's editorial.

The American Spectator : Paul Chesser : Mann's Mad Money

For those keeping score, that's almost $6 million total for various predictions, models and reconstructions over the last 13 years by Mann and his playmates. Note also the generally escalating grant amounts in recent years. A lot of that is from the government's National Science Foundation and NOAA teats. Wouldn't trains and Tinkertoys been just as much fun and cost a whole lot less?

Goklany on Copenhagen and climate change health risks « Watts Up With That?

Mr. Ban Ki-moon, get your priorities straight, and quit wasting the world’s resources on third tier problems

Let’s Not Call the Whole Thing Off | GlobalWarming.org

Boxer showed her passion for law-and-order at today’s committee meeting.

Lorne Gunter: Why the climate email scandal matters. Big time. - Full Comment

There may be some examples of deliberate silence being maintained in order to keep the global warming eco-cause alive. The New York Times, for instance, claims it is refusing to cover Climategate because the private emails and files were obtained through electronic theft. Of course, the Times had no such qualms about publishing the stolen, top-secret Pentagon Papers that showed the United States had manipulated events to justify the Vietnam war.

This is a story of equal importance. What is keeping this story from being reported is a mindset rather than a conspiracy. It is socially and intellectually easier to take the word of the pleasant, safe crowd claiming to be interested in saving the Earth. Standing with the skeptics is harder work, not to mention riskier.

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Hey how did polar bears survive the Holocene optimum when N. Pole was 4°C ?

Israpundit » Blog Archive » Global Warming Exposed as Multitrillion Dollar Junk Science Scam

[Bill Levinson] Four events during the past two months have exposed anthropogenic climate change as the twenty-first century’s Piltdown Man or Cardiff Giant, the latter being the hoax that led P.T. Barnum or one of his associates to proclaim that a sucker is born every minute. Global warming is probably the biggest junk science scam of all in terms of its ambition to transfer money from working people to speculators and similar parasites, manufacturing firms in China and India, and the United Nations. Had carbon taxes and cap-and-trade mandates actually gone into effect, the trusts of the 19th century would have rolled in their graves with envy.

Obama science advisers grilled over hacked e-mails

 The hearing was supposed to focus on the latest in global warming scientific findings. Lubchenco even attempted a high school chemistry lesson with two quick experiments at the witness table. Donning one rubber glove, she demonstrated how adding carbon dioxide to water made it more acidic and said that is what's now happening in the world's oceans. Then she put chalk in acidic water compounds and showed it dissolving a bit, to demonstrate what will happen eventually to vital sea life.

But her bubble-inducing experiments were ignored in favor of the more explosive e-mails.
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The chairman of the Academy of Science panel, Texas A&M University atmospheric scientist Gerald North, confirmed in an interview Wednesday that Holdren was right, not Sensenbrenner.

"The conclusions that we came to were essentially the same as the hockey stick" theory that Mann proposed, North told The Associated Press.