The Saint’s are marching home, but even the defeated Colts probably feel better than the IPCC after more Gate-tastic credibility crunching confabulations were exposed.
Green Police
Audi aired this ad during the Superbowl. In case any climate alarmists were uncertain – yes, the world is openly mocking you.
Enjoy the snark, hippies, you earned it:
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Sad Scientist
Phil ‘Hide the Decline’ Jones has emerged from self-imposed exile to bare his soul to the press. Jones says the fallout from Climategate drove him to thoughts of suicide. Climate skeptic John L. Daly was unavailable for comment about Jones’ hurt feelings.
Jones was the big climate bully on campus, and he needs to go to jail for a long me to be made an example of. Don’t worry about him taking the coward’s way out, Jones doesn’t have the stones for it. He’s looking for sympathy, but like Delingpole, I’m all out.
Monday Pom-Poms
Bad Journalism
Part Un: The BBC has £8 billion reasons why they need the global warming hoax to run and run:
Concerns are growing that BBC journalists and their bosses regard disputed scientific theory that climate change is caused by mankind as “mainstream” while huge sums of employees’ money is invested in companies whose success depends on the theory being widely accepted.
Part Deux: Benny Peiser agreed to debate Observer environment correspondent Robin McKie, and opened the debate with a rational, fact focused presentation. McKie resorted to ugly name calling in the very first sentence of his response. Hippies have nothing left but vitriol for those that exposed them as dupes and frauds.
More IPCC Errors
The much-vaunted UN IPCC AR4 report looks like it has more problems. AfricaGate and DryGate are just the latest two embarrassing errors uncovered by curious skeptics.
Hansen has few original talking points, and he wheels out his old canard about skeptics being funded by Big Oil:
…recent polls show more Americans think that climate change is not real, something Hansen said showed the climate change contrarians, whose efforts are sometimes funded by and mirror the interests of fossil fuel companies that would lose billions in profits under greenhouse gas limits, are swaying public opinion. “It is surrealistic. As the science gets clearer and clearer, the public gets more and more misinformed,” he said.
TERI’s biggest single sponsor, BP India, which has provided £6?million, paid for dinner and drinks at an event publicising Dr Pachauri’s debut novel. A BP spokesman said it was entirely legitimate to fund the dinner, the company having enjoyed a “long association with Dr Pachauri”.
We have yet another ‘Gate’ to add to the ever growing list of problems for the IPCC.
Richard North reveals AfricaGate, in which ‘evidence’ that African countries’ yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced 50 percent by 2020 was not exactly scientific.
Unfortunately for Raj ‘Kiss Me‘ Pachauri, the claims came from an advocacy group, much like the claims of GlacierGate and AmazonGate. Unlike those other ‘Gates however, Pachauri’s fingerprints are all over AfricaGate.
Pachauri and the IPCC must wonder when the hits will stop coming, but there’s more ‘-Gate’ gold left in them thar AR4 hills yet.
Since it’s the weekend, let’s have some classic rock to accompany the IPCC’s latest fiasco.
That’s the sound of the global warming hoax deflating.
Less than 3 months after Climategate, public support for the idea of ‘man-made’ global warming is disappearing fast:
The take-away, only 26% of Britons think global warming is happening because of anything to do with man. Thanks are due to Phil Jones and the motley CRU for their sterling efforts to demonstrate that climate science is nothing more than ideology and bad statistics..
Big Green gets an endorsement from global terrorists, Al Gore pretends Bill Gates is his friend and ripples from Climategate continue to harsh hippie mellows. All this, a beach hottie and 10% more snark in your weekly round-up.
Part One: Al Gore & Friends
Here’s a simple question. How can you tell that Al Gore’s schedule isn’t as crowded as it was? Answer: Al posts on his blog 10 times in a week, that’s how. Let’s see what the profiteer prophet had on his mind:
The Goreacle’s oddest blog post became the subject of one of my own posts, in which readers waded in with woeful tales of lives destroyed by global warming. Feel free to add your own to the list, there might even be a prize for the best entry. Or not.
Conspiracy? Al Gore, Al Jazeera and Al Qaeda, united in greenity? Tell me that’s not fishy. Al Gore’s self-detonating AGW hoax received some much needed support in a brand new live-from-the-cave special from Osama Bin-Laden himself. Osama’s wars have gone about as well as Al’s recent battles, so he’s figured out it’s time to encourage the great Satan to self-immolate. Good luck with that, you evil hippie-bearded goat f-f-fancier.
Part Two: AGW Scaremongers
The Securities and Exchange Commission has decided that corporations must provide details to investors of the business risks of climate change. I wouldn’t worry too much, if the SEC is as competent at monitoring global warming as they are Madoff, Enron, Lehman et al, this initiative can be filed under idiotarian greenwashing.
KalliVornya might be bankrupt, but the valiant state lawmakers can still reach out and make a difference. So, take that, evil Free Parking. wait, what?
The Alaskan education system had no problem screening An Inconvenient Truth to frozen moppets, but has decided they need parental consent to show the same indoctrinated kids Not Evil Just Wrong.
What would we do with Hollywood people to tell us what to think. Famous faces that pretend to be other people for a living want you to forget that they might be vacuous hypocrites and listen to the shiny, pretty people. Leo DiCaprio leads the charge, of course.
Tony Blair is getting on the big green bandwagon, but has a lot to learn from the master, Al Gore. Tony’s in trouble because of who’s funding him, whereas clever Al still hasn’t revealed his source for that $300 million We campaign.
Motley CRU front man Phil ‘The Decline’ Jones might face some serious jail time for fraud. Just step back and think for a moment about how many nervous scaremongers and hoaxsters are terrified by the idea of Jones being thrown in the slammer, and then rub your hands together in anticipation.
A first year PH.D student somewhere in Arizona penned an article listing all the recent problems with the global warming hoax before declaring that it’s all still real regardless. Attaboy, there’s a shiny future waiting for you in climate science, where’s it always summer all the time and the grant dollars flow like rivers.
For years I’ve been made to feel a pariah for my views on AGW. Chris Booker has had the same experience, as has Richard North, Benny Peiser, Lord Lawson, Philip Stott and those few others of us who recognised early on that the AGW thing stank. Now it’s payback time and I take small satisfaction from seeing so many rats deserting their sinking ship. I don’t want them on my side. I want to see them in hell, reliving scenes from Hieronymus Bosch.
In case you hadn’t heard, there’s Amazongate now, too.
The UK environment minister escalates the current trend in British politics of doubling down on stupid by declaring war. On Skeptics. Miliband was only warming up with that one, he’s got more.
Oh noes, sea turtle eggs, cooked. By global warming. Apparently some alarmists haven’t gotten the memo that the whole world is now laughing every time we see another bogus claim like that.
Scaremonger Iain Hunter can’t dismiss the wrongdoings of global warming scientists fast enough to get back to his comfort zone of blaming skeptics for wrecking his nice new religion. Here’s a question, are none of the global warmers relieved that the science was bunk, or do they actually want the planet to be endangered?
The Guardian sticks it head in the sand, because facing the truth that they and their readers were gullible dupes is simply too much.
Part Three: Inconvenient Truths
I noted that Al Gore was eager to pretend that Bill Gates agrees with his climate crisis hoax, but actually that is far from the truth. Gates worries that billions spent chasing the jolly green giant will cause the poor to suffer more ill health:
Gates, the Microsoft Corp co-founder whose $34 billion foundation is fighting malaria, AIDS, tuberculosis and other diseases in developing countries, expressed concern about the amount of spending pledged at December’s Copenhagen global climate meeting. Participants at the meeting agreed to a target of channeling $100 billion per year to developing countries to combat climate change by 2020. Gates said that amount represents more than three quarters of foreign aid currently given by the richest countries per year. “I am concerned that some of this money will come from reducing other categories of foreign aid, especially health,” Gates wrote in a letter, released late on Sunday, describing the work of his foundation. “If just 1 percent of the $100 billion goal came from vaccine funding, then 700,000 more children could die from preventable diseases,” Gates added.
Take that quote and the full cynical misuse of Al Gore’s post from Part One becomes clear. Of course, some environmentalists will think 700,000 extra dead kids is a good start.
“We need to look at peer review, because while it’s far better than nothing, it is not perfect, and when it fails it gives claims made under peer review the imprimatur of being properly done, research being conducted properly, and there being sufficient oversight by other scientists of that work.
“So the stakes are very high and I think there’s more that can be done to make sure that peer review is as fraud-proof or lazy-proof as possible. I just wish that either the science minister or one of the select committees would take this issue seriously, because it’s in the interests of everyone, scientists and the journals and the public, that they can have faith in peer reviewed work.”
Wind power is great, as long as you don’t mind living in the Stone Age on a calm day, or a cold day.
Bjorn Lomborg has some sensible ideas about how to be greener without breaking the global economy. Bjorn’s a smart guy, maybe even smart enough to reform ABBA? We can only hope. Here’s Bjorn and friends singing amid a global warming outbreak:
Lord Stern, a global warmer, misused a study to suggest it supported global warming, when it didn’t. Note how little leeway the warmers get now that Climategate has exposed them as cheats and liars.
As the climate con collapses, politicians that nailed their credibility to the AGW mast are left swinging in the breeze with no cover. It actually looks good on them, mixed metaphors or not.
Solar power is so economic that the industry collapses without government subsidies. Wait, what?
A Hawaiian editor feels like he was conned by the global warming crowd. Perhaps if he had asked a hard question, even just once, he could avoided looking like an idiot. Journalists should hang their collective heads in shame and have the courage to issue a lot more mea culpas like this one.
Phil Jones, guilty of hiding data. Will we ever know the truth about his missing Chinese data?
David Cameron, the greendream believing leader of the UK’s conservative party should wake up and smell the ashes of the AGHW hoax:
Suddenly, AGW is so yesterday. Pity poor warmists, abruptly exposed to the chill blast of scepticism. Yesterday they were part of a massive, authoritative consensus (well, more like a herd of lemmings, actually), today they waken up to find scientific hemlines have changed fashion entirely. Just take a look at the unimaginable headlines all over the Guardian: “No apology from IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri for glacier fallacy”… “How scientists kept the sceptics out…”
Meanwhile, over on Newsnight, Kirsty is suddenly shrieking at the wrong people. Warmist scientists, accustomed to an easy ride, are goggling like rabbits in the headlights all over our television screens. E-mailgate, Glaciergate, even Montaineeringmagazine gate – the Alpine glacier of lies and charlatanry that has sustained the AGW myth is collapsing in an avalanche
Peer review, the darling defense of the scaremongers, torn to shreds. In The Guardian.
Part Five: Global Hottie
Fans of TV series Lost will know that the final season has started. So why not celebrate with Evangeline Lilly, who has wandered a remote green island for many seasons without ever being rewarded as a global hottie. I’m happy to change that.
