Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Feb. 18th 2010

Evan Bayh falls victim to a mutation in the Gore Effect, Dead Kennedy’s view is likely to be spoiled by a zombie wind farm and the IPCC becomes a gated community.

Also, there’s a nice bit of Welsh for your global hottie.

Part One: Al Gore & Friends

Al Gore has buried his head in the sand and continues to pretend that his global warming hoax is still credible.  When Climategate broke, Al said this:

“A few out-of-context lines from decade-old e-mails aren’t going to change that in the long term, and anyone who thinks we’ll be talking about these e-mails a year from now hasn’t been paying attention to a news cycle that moves at Twitter speed.”

As we know, Climategate was always about more than emails.  Even Phil ‘Hide the Decline’ Jones has admitted that there has been no warming since 1995.

Al doesn’t want to hear that, he wants you to believe that it’s even worse than we thought:

…as Barber and his colleagues explain in a recent paper in Geophysical Review Letters, the analysis of what the satellites were seeing was wrong. Some of what satellites identified as thick, melt-resistant multiyear ice turned out to be, in Barber’s words, “full of holes, like Swiss cheese.”

Kind of like AGW science, right Al?

As Al doubles down on the ‘climate crisis’, a growing chorus of voices are calling for some kind of reckoning for the profiteer prophet of doom.  Rush Limbaugh ponders a fraud conviction while the Donald wants Al’s Nobel stripped:

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Even lowly people like you, the evil skeptic Round-Up readers can sign a petition asking the Nobel Committee to take back the Gore award and give to a far more deserving winner.

The Gore Effect is a fun method of referring to adverse weather events that disrupt climate protests and so forth.  Perhaps there is now a new Political Gore effect emerging.  As soon as Gore’s Repower America ran ads targeting Senator Evan Bayh to support the cap and tax bill, Bayh announced he would not seek re-election.

No one expects Al Gore to present a balanced view of the global warming debate, but even he must realize that something is seriously wrong when three major US firms quit the Climate Action Partnership.  Just last September Al celebrated Alstom’s decision to join the CAP as a sign that “slowly and surely we are winning.”

So what does he think losing BP America, ConocoPhilips and Caterpillar means?  Al, buy a clue: slowly and surely, you are losing.

Part Two: AGW Scaremongers

Hippies hate science, otherwise how do we explain their serial refusal to respect the scientific method?

More preposterous is the conceit that only the warmists are actually taking account of hard science. In fact, the scandal of the past several months (which liberals have not digested) has been the long-term and systematic abuse of science in the name of politics.

Ouch.

Adherents to the global warming hoax are reacting badly to the collapse of their neo-religion, casting about at those who show them the mirror and resorting to name calling.  Others ignore years of nasty abuse from warmists and decide that now the tables have turned, maybe we can all just get along. Here’s a question for Jerome Ravetz, are we supposed to forget that alarmists wanted skeptics silenced, jailed or worse for asking questions?  Hippies sure are sore losers.

Some warmers wonder where all their friends went.  Rats from a sinking ship, perhaps?

Last week we discovered that your choice of phone can reveal if you are a hippie or not, to the chagrin of some readers.  Now, to back that up, we learn of an App for alarmists to use when confronted by a skeptic.  To keep things balanced, here’s a great summary of the ‘Gates’ of hell for skeptics to fire back with.  You’re welcome.

Paranoid, or prepared?  A skeptical journalist (yes, you read that right) waits for the next great scare the warmists will reveal in the hope that it will distract us from the IPCC’s meltdown.

Does anyone else get chills when they read about governments recuiting 100,000 young climate activists? Surely, this can’t end well.

Gun-totin’ Borepatch tells of the pressure on scientists to conform with AGW theory, or else.  Visit for the link, stay for the Garand-love.

Steve Milloy catches a scaremonger peddling climate fear, after already being warned to cut it out.

Meet the new deniers.  RealClimate says ‘whatever-gate’, Gawker says Glaciergate was a ‘typo‘ and the SMH wants to shout down skeptics.  In all three cases, the willingness to gloss over junkscience to prop up their beliefs is revealing.

On MSNBC, a propaganda wing of green corporate welfare bum GE, Dylan Ratigan went berserk after being called out for climate alarmism.

Phil Jones thinks that blogs have hijacked peer-review. Well, he should know what that looks like.

Oh noes, only 35% of Americans believe in global warming.  That’s about the same percentage who believe in ghosts and UFO’s.  In fact, I bet it’s the same people.  Get out your tin foil hats, or something.

Britain’s Daily Telegraph continues its descent into bipolar hell, on one hand hosting climate skeptic warrior James Delingpole, on the other still mindlessly peddling green scare stories.  Like how oceans are acidifying. Sorry DT, but we’ve seen that one before, only last time it was acid rain.  Fool me once…

Talking of bipolar, how about promoting the AGW hoax while acknowledging it was warmer a thousand years ago?

Some members of the IPCC haven’t understood that denial is not an option when you’re caught red-handed.

The IPCC really needs a better PR department:

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has asked governments around the world to nominate scientists to the panel that will review and finalise its fifth climate assessment report

Richard Branson continues in his quest to become the world’s biggest hypocrite by calling for civic governments to lead cuts in carbon emissions.  Meanwhile, Branson’s airline (4.67 million tonnes CO2), space tourism (0.8 tonnes per passenger) and Formula One operations continue to spew carbon into the air.  Surely Dick is rich enough that if he believed the planet to be in mortal danger he could just shut up shop and leave the rest us the hell alone?

Part Three: Inconvenient Truths

Truth is not decided by a vote and other pearls of wisdom brought to you by William M. Briggs in your must-read of the week.

Climate shakedowns, now up to 50% of Ecuador’s GDP.

Ice shelf collapses mean we’re all going to die of global warming.  Oh, wait, it was waves?

A look inside the Climate bunker at why the IPCC and others are losing the battle for hearts and minds:

The ambition and global importance of the IPCC is growing, while its methods and resources are struggling to keep up. Confusion, not orchestrated bias or, as some have asserted, greed, seems the most likely cause of recent slipups. But with the fate of the planet in the balance, that’s not good enough.

We’re all going to drown as sea-levels rise.  Oh, wait, nevermind. It seems there’s a theme here.

Alarmists must learn that crying wolf and accusing critics of ‘playing Russian roulette’ will no longer be met with silence, but thrown back at them, with interest.

Arizona has withdrawn from the Western Climate Initiative because economic suicide is apparently more frightening than the end of the world.  Unless, of course, the world is just fine.

Ouch.  A scientist quits the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, saying “ I don’t want to remain a member of an organization that, like AMS and NAS, screws up science that badly.”

The Dutch are still not drowning, unlike the IPCC’s credibility.

Hot Air asks the best question of the week, was there any warming to begin with? Perhaps, but it was mostly Al Gore warming to his swelling bank account.

Was the AGW hoax perpetuated by an error cascade?  I think it was more dishonest than that, but it’s an interesting phenomenon nonetheless.

Film-maker McAleer has fun in the snow:

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If it’s so warm in here, how come the snow line is creeping South?

Hey Congress critters, the cost of supporting the cap and tax Bill?  Your job.

Alarmist Robert Watson acknowledges that every error revealed in the IPCC report exaggerated global warming.  Bias, much?

It’s the Sun, stupid.

If you can hide a decline once, it’s reasonable to assume you can get away with it twice, right.  Scandi-Gate, meet it.

A skeptic marvels at the idea that he may not be nuts after all, unlike his warmist buddies labeled him.

What the… Okay, now we have Hurricane-gate.

Simon has news that more ‘scientists’ have been caught discarding pesky data that wouldn’t support their grant application hypotheses.  Dumping inconvenient data seems to have been a favorite method of propping up the AGW hoax.

The EPA’s finding that CO2 was a dangerous pollutant was an exaggeration too far.  Texas, Utah and Virginia are suing the EPA,  joined by many more groups.  Legal mess, anyone?

Grist wonders if the Copenhagen Accord is already dead?  Sorry to tell you folks, it was still-born, it can’t be any deader.

Ice-Gate?  Alaska ice is 83% thicker than 15 years ago, and the IPCC ‘underestimated’ Antarctic ice by 50%.  Oops.

Curly toxic-bomb CFL’s as a metaphor for lefty government?  Believe it.

Michael Douglas, who’s China Syndrome film did more to frighten people away from nuclear power than even the Sierra Club, suddenly thinks mo ‘nukes would be a good thing.  Hey, he’s married, right?

Maurizio boldly predicts that the AGW theory is about to be killed dead once and for all.  Keep your fingers crossed that it doesn’t rise up and trigger something that would really mess up our day, a zombie apocalypse.

Part Four: AGW in the News

Snowmageddon piqued people’s interest in global warming so much even the NYT had to report it.

The CRU announced an independent investigation into Climategate, but after a panelist’s resignation, and accusations of bias against a second panelist, no one will believe a word they say.  The Royal Society also has a PR problem.

Dead Ted must be spinning in his grave, as his state reconsiders the benefits of the wind project he tried so hard to kill. Apparently ending young women was easier than wrecking giant bird shredder farms.  Who knew?

A scarcity of funds forces Oregon to cut clean energy subsidies.  Because money is more important than saving the planet.  Unless, of course, the planet is just fine.

Snark, not just available in the Weekly Round-Up:

Because without Consensus, scientific conclusions could be challenged by people demanding hard data.

The Times headline that made a million hippie heads explode: ‘World May Not Be Warming‘.

President Obama doubles down on stupid, skeptics howl, media snores.

Anthony Watts gets props for appearing in the Daily Telegraph for his work revealing the flawed sites for surface stations.  GIGO, much?

The Guardian turns to RealClimate to explain if there is anything to the whole Climategate thing.  Which is like like asking that nice wolf to guard the hen house.  Not that Guardian readers will notice.

Some media wakes up to the fact that maybe, just maybe the science isn’t settled.  Taranto knew that, of course.

Someone call Joe Romm a paramedic, Morano’s getting a media award.

Phil Jones stunned the world with his admission that there has been no global warming since 1995.  Unless you live in the USA, in which case you probably never heard about it.  People are noticing the absence of reporting, and are taking names:

# No mention by the New York Times
# No mention by the Washington Post
# No mention by USA Today
# No mention by ANY major U.S. newspaper EXCEPT the Washington Times
# No mention by the Associated Press
# No mention by Reuters
# No mention by UPI
# No mention by ABC News
# No mention by CBS News
# No mention by NBC News
# No mention by MSNBC

A tip for dead Ted, to kill a wind farm, end the subsidies.

Bill Gates agrees with Michael Douglas that nukes are really a pretty good answer for the future of clean power.

The Globe and Mail tries to make up for last week’s uncharacteristic skepticism and covers for the IPCC. It’s like a comfort blanky for hippies.

The Inconvenient Truth about peddling junk as science, the taint reaches further than just climate science.  If there is one reason we should all be mad at people like Jones, Mann, Hansen et al, it’s that they have done great harm to scientific credibility in all disciplines.

Finally, just to make any hippies that got this far feel better, global warming kills deer and makes lawns pink.  Oh, wait, my bad.  That’s cold weather doing that.

Part Five: Global Hottie

Astute readers will have noticed the question about the marital status of Michael Douglas.  And now you know why, it was a cheap segue to the hottie of the week and the most famous Welsh person that isn’t Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Thanks for reading.