Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Climate pioneer backs tax on carbon, nuclear power
[James Hansen] also said claims that climate science had been undermined by recent criticisms were a ''hoax'' backed by vested interests - raw data showing rising temperatures was available on the NASA website, and glaciers were continuing to recede.
Peter Foster: Climate snow jobs - FP Comment
This past week has seen two wonderful examples of that psychological phenomenon known as “confirmation bias,” that is, interpreting whatever evidence presents itself as proof of what you believe. On Sunday, in The New York Times, Al Gore deemed it disgraceful that “deniers” were suggesting that this year’s East Coast Snowmageddon had undermined the Inconvenient Truth of man-made global warming. More snow was clear evidence of the pernicious hand of industrial man. The next day, B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell told The Globe and Mail that the lack of snow at the Vancouver Olympics was due to … man-made global warming.

These deliciously inconsistent claims also spring from the growing desperation of policy entrepreneurs and politicians in the face of greater public skepticism, which is in turn based in mounting evidence of scientific manipulation by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC.
Pajamas Media » BREAKING: ‘Anti-Lobbyist’ Obama Administration Recruited Left-Wing Lobbyists to Sell Bogus ‘Green Jobs’
A FOIA reveals the Department of Energy turned to George Soros and to wind industry lobbyists to help cover up two economic studies pointing to the failure of European wind energy programs.
[Is it really going to get hot enough to kill us all?]: "We are in the middle of earth's sixth extinction"
"Scientists warn that one third of the animals and plants will disappear by 2050 and they predict that this man made global warming will also lead to extinction of the human race if no action is taken to control it," said Minister Ranawaka.

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