Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Wheat Rises Most in Five Weeks on U.S. Plains Freeze Forecast - BusinessWeek
April 7 (Bloomberg) -- Wheat rose the most in five weeks on speculation that cold weather will damage crops in the U.S. southern Great Plains.

Temperatures will fall into the “middle and high 20s Fahrenheit” (around minus 4 Celsius) from western Nebraska to West Texas, Drew Lerner, the president of World Weather Inc., said today in a report. Damage to grain that has emerged on plant stems may be “spotty,” Lerner said in a report.
C3: The Natural Climate Makes Sea Ice Experts' Predictions Look Big-Time Stupid: Experts Stunned By Polar Sea Ice Growth
Read here. Great article regarding the wild and irresponsible predictions by "experts" about the Arctic sea ice extent (or lack of) made over the last decade. Simply summarized, for political and funding reasons, scientists made claims about melting sea ice, based on models that were designed to predict melting sea ice in the first place -- it's a simple as that. No IPCC scientist or government expert predicted, nor any climate model, that the polar sea ice would actually expand as the chart below shows. Consensus "science" and climate models present a united front in documenting why both are worthless.
Unwarranted trust | Professor David Henderson
The main headings of unprofessional conduct within the process, all identified and fully documented well before the recent revelations, have been:

1. Over-reliance on in-group peer review procedures which do not serve as a guarantee of quality and do not ensure due disclosure;
2. Serious and continuing failures of disclosure and archiving in relation to peer-reviewed studies which the IPCC and member governments have drawn on.
3. Continuing resistance to disclosure of basic information which reputable journals in other subject areas insist on as a precondition for acceptance.
4. Basic errors in the handling of data, through failure to consult or involve trained statisticians.
5. Failure to take due account of relevant published work which documented the above lapses, while disregarding IPCC criteria for inclusion in the review process.
6. Failure to take due note of comments from dissenting critics who took part in the preparation of AR4.
7. Resisting the disclosure of professional exchanges within the AR4 drafting process, despite the formal instruction of governments that the IPCC‘s proceedings should be open and transparent‘. And last butfar from least -
8. Failure on the part of the IPCC and its directing circle to acknowledge and remedy the above deficiencies, a failure which results from chronic and pervasive bias.
Frank admission from 'UN Climate Hero' and Climate Project presenter: 'I actually now try not to talk about climate change because especially in this country it's so polarizing | GORE LIED
Yes, the post-release of An Inconvenient Truth afterglow has certainly worn off as the Climate Project presenters are no longer being greeted adoringly as saviors of the planet, but are rather greeted by prickly questions about the validity of the science of man-made global warming.

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