Recently in Global Warming Fraud Category

The revelations of ClimateGate have raised the awareness of many Americans to the scam that is being perpetrated by fakirs such as Al Gore who have a huge investment in promoting the fiction of man-made global warming.

Powerline blog has posted an admirable short summary of what's fact in the debate, thoroughly debunking the scam. It's not only worth a read, it's a great summary to print out and keep handy for when the scamsters come.

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The massive global warming fraud that profiteers and power hungry governments have been foisting on the public has finally been exposed. One of its chief fabricating architects, a "researcher" at the Univeristy of East Anglia, has been forced to resign. His unit is the source of much of the data used to justify the claims that Al Gore and other charlatans falsely make.

Two articles are worth reading. The first is a quietly objective review of the facts by an MIT professor of Meterology. The second is by the well known political analyst Michael Barone, who exhibits some real world disgust and anger about this global fraud that would strangle economies and plunge billions into poverty if its proponents succeed.

OPINION NOVEMBER 30, 2009 in the Wall Street Journal The Climate Science Isn't Settled Confident predictions of catastrophe are unwarranted.

By RICHARD S. LINDZEN, Professor of Meterology, MIT

Is there a reason to be alarmed by the prospect of global warming? Consider that the measurement used, the globally averaged temperature anomaly (GATA), is always changing. Sometimes it goes up, sometimes down, and occasionally—such as for the last dozen years or so—it does little that can be discerned.

Claims that climate change is accelerating are bizarre. There is general support for the assertion that GATA has increased about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit since the middle of the 19th century. The quality of the data is poor, though, and because the changes are small, it is easy to nudge such data a few tenths of a degree in any direction. Several of the emails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) that have caused such a public ruckus dealt with how to do this so as to maximize apparent changes.

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Michael Barone is a bit more biting and direct in his condemnation of the fraud and the politicians who eagerly buy into it, including our president:

As Air Force One heads to Copenhagen for the climate summit Dec. 9, it will presumably not make a U-turn while flying over the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at University of East Anglia near Norwich, England. But perhaps it should.

And this:

You get the idea. The most charitable plausible explanation I have seen comes from The Atlantic's Megan McArdle. "The CRU's main computer model may be, to put it bluntly, complete rubbish."

Australian geologist Ian Plimer, a global warming skeptic, is more blunt. The e-mails "show that data was massaged, numbers were fudged, diagrams were biased, there was destruction of data after freedom of information requests, and there was refusal to submit taxpayer-funded data for independent examination."

And finally:

Copenhagen, despite Barack Obama's presence, seems sure to be a bust -- there will be no agreement on mandatory limits on carbon emissions. Even if there were, it would probably turn out to be no more effective than the limits others agreed to in Kyoto in 1997. In any case, China and India are not going to choke off their dazzling economic growth to please Western global warming alarmists.

The more interesting question going forward is whether European and American governmental, academic and corporate elites, having embraced global warming alarmism with religious fervor, will be shaken by the scandalous CRU e-mails. They should be.

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Mark Steyn is the business of making sensible observations -- often in hilarious fashion -- on the strange turnings of the world.

This weekend he goes even farther, doing investigative reporting that the "lamestream" media fails or refuses to do about the fraudulent global warming scam being perpetrated by Al Gore-type profiteers and governmental organizations eager to expand their reach and control for the riches that are sure to follow.

In this case, Steyn "connects the dots" linking two of the leading global warming "scientist" fraudsters exposed in the internet posting of the damning Unversity of East Anglia emails to a leading "science" reporter for the New York Times Andrew Revkin. The Times leads the chorus in intoning the climate warming dirges of impending world disaster.

The tight little circle of academic "peer-reviewers" who peer-review their "peer-reviewed" colleagues are at the heart of the scam. "Science reporters such as Revkin bestow legitimacy. They support those who create the fraud and benefit those eager to cash in on the fraud for money and power.

Where will it all lead?

As the UN conferees gather in Copenhagen, Steyn quotes the new president of the European Union "an eager proponent of the ecopalypse," who confidently calls 2009 “the first year of global governance.”

Global government, huh? I wonder where you go to vote them out of office.

November 28, 2009

CRU’s Tree-Ring Circus
Who peer-reviews the peer-reviewers?

By Mark Steyn at National Review Online

My favorite moment in the Climategate/Climaquiddick scandal currently roiling the “climate change” racket was Stuart Varney’s interview on Fox News with the actor Ed Begley Jr. — star of the 1980s medical drama St. Elsewhere but latterly better known, as is the fashion with members of the thespian community, as an “activist.” He’s currently in a competition with Bill Nye (“the Science Guy”) to see who can have the lowest “carbon footprint.” Pistols at dawn would seem the quickest way of resolving that one, but presumably you couldn’t get a reality series out of it. Anyway, Ed was relaxed about the mountain of documents recently leaked from Britain’s Climate Research Unit in which the world’s leading climate-change warm-mongers e-mail each other back and forth on how to “hide the decline” and other interesting matters.

Nothing to worry about, folks. “We’ll go down the path and see what happens in peer-reviewed studies,” said Ed airily. “Those are the key words here, Stuart. ‘Peer-reviewed studies.’”

Hang on. Could you say that again more slowly so I can write it down? Not to worry. Ed said it every 12 seconds, as if it were the magic charm that could make all the bad publicity go away. He wore an open-necked shirt, and, although I don’t have a 76” inch HDTV, I wouldn’t have been surprised to find a talismanic peer-reviewed amulet nestling in his chest hair for additional protection. “If these scientists have done something wrong, it will be found out and their peers will determine it,” insisted Ed. “Don’t get your information from me, folks, or any newscaster. Get it from people with Ph.D. after their names. ‘Peer-reviewed studies is the key words. And if it comes out in peer-reviewed studies . . . ”

Got it: Pier-reviewed studies. You stand on the pier and you notice the tide seems to be coming in a little higher than it used to and you wonder if it’s something to do with incandescent light bulbs killing the polar bears? Is that how it works?

No, no, peer-reviewed studies. “Peer-reviewed studies. Go to Science magazine, folks. Go to Nature,” babbled Ed. “Read peer-reviewed studies. That’s all you need to do. Don’t get it from you or me.”

Look for the peer-reviewed label! And then just believe whatever it is they tell you!

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"Fraud" is the best word to describe what Al Gore and the other climate-warming profiteers are engaged in. Skeptics have thought so for some time as various allegations and "hockey stick" charts have been revealed as untrue, flawed or mistaken.

Now we have direct evidence of deliberate fabrication of reports prepared by two of the four official arms of the UN's IPCC climate-change coordinating organization.

World leaders will be descending on Copenhagen in a few days determined to adopt programs, targets and rules in the name of protecting the environment that will cripple the world economy and grant unpredented power to the UN to control life on earth, from nation-states to individuals. The damage that can result is incalculable.

These are not just charlatans. Read these two reports.

They Are Criminals.

Climategate: Alarmism Is Underpinned by Fraud