Energy Examiner: Climate change idiocy cycles through the news

America's Energy Policy needs to be based on climate change science; by minimizing the data that we have accumulated simply because it is inconvenient to business as usual and the established marketplace is to relegate humanity to a path to destruction. For too long we have relied on fossil fuels to power our society; the facts are in, and it is time to change. Perhaps sometime in the near future, we will finally put to rest this blitz of idiocy that seeks to undermine our most reasonable scientific explanations for climate change and how to avert some of the worst-case scenarios associated with it.

Radio host Trent Loos: Don't grease the squeaky wheel

Enough of my ramblings about the nonsense; it appears that the scientists who actually know what is going on are fed up with Al Gore and his bag of lies. As Gore was testifying in front of the Senate committee, presenting misinformation about global warming, not one senator raised a single question to challenge the false information presented. Not one on either side of the aisle. So, have they done their homework or are they just going to buy into whatever the snake-oil salesman has to offer?

Melanie Phillips, Spectator: That famous consensus

Yet another example of the bogus ‘research’ masquerading as science that is used to reinforce the man-made global warming fraud. One of the difficulties the green zealots have had is that Antarctica has been not warming but cooling, with the extent of its ice reaching record levels.
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...the invention of data that does not exist and the obliteration of data that does exist has been precisely how the man-made global warming fraud has been perpetrated right from the get-go. The most egregious example of this was the piece of ‘research’ that underpinned the entire IPCC/Kyoto shebang from 2001 when it was published -- the so-called ‘hockey stick’ curve, which purported to show a vertiginous and unprecedented rise in global temperature in the 20th century.

The problem with pegging such a rise to the evils of industrialisation had always been the Medieval Warm Period, during which global temperatures were warmer than in modern times. So the ‘hockey stick’ study dealt with that by simply managing to airbrush out the Medieval Warm Period and its subsequent corrective Little Ice Age altogether. Some seven centuries of global history were simply excised from the data -- because an algorithm had been built into the computer programme which would have been created a ‘hockey stick’ curve whatever data were fed into it.

This shoddy research was subsequently torn apart so comprehensively that it has been called the most discredited study in the history of science (and has been quietly dropped by the IPCC, leaving man-made global warming theory with no more substance than the grin on the face of the Cheshire Cat....
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With their reputations thus disappearing faster than the snows of Kilimanjaro, the zealots have become hysterical. Mann attacks a prominent sceptic, Lawrence Solomon, for citing the scientists’ criticisms of the Antarctica study, and is in turn answered by Solomon -- an exchange reproduced in Canada’s Financial Post, for which Solomon writes, here and here. Mann repeatedly accuses Solomon of lying. In doing so, he has left himself dramatically exposed...