Friday, December 04, 2009

MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan Slams ClimateGate Fakery: When Will NBC Do the Same? | NewsBusters.org
MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan on Friday aggressively took on the subject of ClimateGate, informing a global warming scientist that the "perceived integrity of what you are saying is diminished by scientists who appear to be hiding something." If MSNBC can debate this serious subject, why have the three major networks ignored it for 14 days?
Al Gore’s Crumbling Credibility Cracked By Climategate
From Portland to Chicago, almost everywhere Gore has made a public appearance lately, he has been booed, protested and challenged by alert Americans who are refusing to go along with his fearmongering assertions
In depth: the climate change doubters - Times Online
Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies commented that Lindzen agrees with about 90 per cent of what other climate scientists are saying, yet the last 10 per cent is sufficiently different to label him a contrarian.
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At the far end of the spectrum, figures such as Sarah Palin appear to be happy to disregard scientific evidence [like what, specifically?] wholesale in favour of economic gain.
Streetsblog Los Angeles » The Climate Pitfalls of Denmark’s Electric Car Parking Perk
While effective use of wind power is a big carbon plus, subsidizing electric car use could easily end as a net negative if it pushes the travel mix to more car use and undermines Copenhagen's urban vitality.
IPCC [defends the climate hoax]
Through further, independent scientific work involving statistical methods and a range of different climate models, these changes have been detected as significant deviations [specifically how?] from natural climate variability and have been attributed [specifically why?] to the increase of greenhouse gases.
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 In compliance with the procedures of IPCC, the conclusions of AR4 have undergone scrutiny in the form of several stages of reviews by peers and governments, have been revised and refined to take into account these review comments, and have finally been approved word by word by the governments of the world1.
Study: Slowdown in warming last year not permanent
While temperature readings in North America dropped back to about the level of 1996 last year, it would have been even colder without the underlying effects of human-induced climate warming, said co-author Martin Hoerling of the Earth System Research Laboratory of the government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
[I blame Rush Limbaugh]: Danish Parliamentary Speaker [fails to buy into global warming fraud]
The Speaker of the Danish Parliament has issued a damning criticism of the climate debate, saying politicians gullibly turn theories into facts.

As the world prepares to converge on Copenhagen for the COP15 Climate Summit, Denmark’s Speaker of Parliament has expressed serious doubts as to the way in which the climate debate has developed.

The problem is that lots of people go around saying that the climate change we see is a result of human activity. That is a very dangerous claim,” Parliamentary Speaker and former Finance Minister Thor Pedersen (Lib) tells DR.

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