Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Feb. 25th 2010

In this weeks Round-Up you can vote for your favorite deadly gas, discover the pure joy of milk in a bag and learn the correct way to use a saucepan on a polar bear.  I’m not kidding.

It’s fun, it’s educational and there’s a hottie too.

Part One: Al Gore & Friends

It’s been a tough 2010 at the Global Warming Hoax World HQ in Tennessee, so let’s start with some good news for the propheteer: now that we all know there is no such thing as AGW, at least his beachfront property isn’t going to be underwater anytime soon.

The Goreacle will also be thrilled to learn that his global warming climate crisis ticks a lot of the requirements to be classified as a cult.

Great news for alarmed warmists, Al Gore is no longer missing.  The indefatigable Milloy has photographic evidence that Al is alive and well.

Investors Business Daily found the nine lies of Al Gore, but they might want to add a few more:

Last November, Al Gore was hailed by Newsweek as “The Thinking Man’s Thinking Man.”

Since then we and he have been given much to think about, starting with the damning e-mails from researchers associated with the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Britain. The e-mails revealed an organized attempt to “hide the decline” in global temperatures, to manipulate data to fit preconceived conclusions, and to discredit and shun reputable skeptics.

A key finding of the IPCC, which along with Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, was revealed last month to be utterly bogus. The IPCC claimed glaciers in the Himalayas would likely disappear by 2035. The only thing they had to back it up was a 1999 non-peer reviewed article in an Indian mass-market science magazine.

As Al reels under the relentless pressure of the truth, he is still blaming ‘big oil’ for funding a mysterious skeptics network.  He doesn’t understand that it’s an Army of Davids that he’s up against, and we’re small, nimble and informed.  Big Green, the multi-billion dollar activist corporations cannot react quickly and this is why they and Al are losing hearts and minds.

Walter Russell Mead unloads on the Goreacle.  Read leans warmist, so this evisceration is an especially sweet example of green on green:

I think Al Gore failed the climate change movement and that his negligence and blindness has done it irreparable harm.  If the skeptics are right and the world isn’t warming — or if natural causes are responsible for climate change –  it doesn’t matter much.  But if Al Gore and the climate change people are even half right about what is happening to our world, the cost of Mr. Gore’s failures are incalculably great. He was the one world leader who had the standing inside the climate change movement to lead it onto a more sustainable path and, as far as we can tell from the facts now before us, he didn’t really try.

Will Al Gore go to jail?  One legal opinion says… well you’ll have to go look for yourself.

It’s not just Al Gore who’s been conspicuously absent since Climategate, Canadian hippie’s spiritual leader David Suzuki hasn’t been as active as usual, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed.

Part Two: AGW Scaremongers

Scientists have just discovered cold water reefs in the shores around England, just in time to declare them about to be destroyed by global warming.  Someone send these clowns a memo that blaming everything on global warming doesn’t get the grant money it used to pre-Climategate.

Michael ‘Stick’ Mann does PR, discovers projection:

…the climate science community has been in battle for years. There’s an organized, well-funded effort to discredit us. And not just our science, but individuals. There’s been an increasing effort towards, so called ‘swiftboating’ of individual scientists. Smear campaigns run against scientists for the sole purpose of discrediting them, so as to discredit the science.

Another warmist mouthpiece, Kevin Grandia, bemoans that skeptics appearing in the news are not climatologists or peer-reviewed.  But wait, Grandia’s in the media telling everyone that global warming is real, so he must be a climatologist, right?  Errr, no.

Australians, the reason you fail to understand that you must be taxed out of existence to save the planet is because you’re stupid.  An environmentalist said so, so it must be true.

Rajendra “DH Lawrence” Pachauri has led the way to a green future.  Or is that greens futures?  How else to explain that his foundation built a golf course in a city that is short of drinking water?

The NYT’s climate shill-in-chief threw a tantrum over the collapse of the global warming hoax.  Expect lots more of these meltdowns, lefties don’t lose graciously.  Ever.

The AP’s shill is as bad, but he’s still spinning the facts, not yet ready to admit defeat.  Give him a few more weeks.

Big businesses everywhere can breathe more easily knowing that the UN is seeking to quantify their environmental impact.  That sound you hear is any chance of economic recovery leaving Earth’s gravitational pull.

The head of NOAA, when asked an awkward question, redefines the art of not answering a simple question:

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With all the uncertainty around climate science, headline writers are learning to cover all the angles: “Global warming may hurt some poor populations, benefit others” Take that skeptics, now we can never be wrong! (insert evil villain cackle here).

Hippies have woken up to the fact that no-one believes them about global warming, so they’re going to win the argument.  Just as soon as they can, like, be bothered, man.

Newsweek lays the blame for the publics rejection of the global warming hoax on scientists who exaggerated the facts. Because Newsweek wouldn’t have just reported sensational junk science, right?  Oh, wait: It’s too late to stop global warming.  It’s fat people’s fault, and Global warming is the cause of this year’s extreme weather.

Scaremongers ain’t what they used to be, the fire-in-belly white guys in dreads protesting whatever have been replaced by corporate green -  people who wear suits and know what soap and shampoo are for.  But that doesn’t mean the alarmist press has to like it, dammit:

Greenpeace’s executive director, John Sauven, wrote a newspaper article this week calling for “fight” and “leadership” over climate, but his organisation has shown precious little of either. Indeed, two of his top aides have separately told me that the group is “keeping its head down” to avoid Right-wing US politicians capitalising on its involvement. This illustrates the problem precisely. Green groups got obsessed with policy and politicians, and complacent about public opinion, which they took for granted. They became part of the establishment, and let the sceptics take over their former role as insurgents. And they now cannot get their act together to respond.

Bearded hippie Josh Rosenau is shocked, shocked that there is a Bill to tell South Dakota schoolkids about both sides of the global warming argument.  In his rant he says skeptics “repeat nonsense about global temperatures declining for the last 8 years.”  Anyone that wants to tell Josh it’s been getting colder for 15 years and the ex-head of the CRU says so, be my guest.

Jeffrey Sachs, not content with comparing climate skeptics to holocaust deniers ups the ante and draws a comparison to those that denied a link between smoking and cancer.  Watts is furious, and as a person who lost someone close to the evil weed, I get his anger.

Good reef, Charlie Brown.  Reefs are dying, global warming to blame.  Greenpeace too, in case you forgot.

I mentioned that Al Gore has failed to understand that he’s facing an Army of Davids.  That line was inspired by this excellent post, your must-read of the week:

Many skeptical-leaning bloggers have scientific, mathematical, and statistical training – not to mention decades of real-world experience under their belts. Others have been professional communicators (I, myself, am a former print journalist). Some are speed-readers, others have photographic memories. Many, like the folks who rendered the Climategate e-mails fully searchable within a matter of hours, have impressive information technology skills.

Battle of the deadly gases: Will deadly methane or evil water vapor kill us all?  Vote for your favorite method of horrible boiling death below:

Do skeptics give skepticism a bad name? Does a sore-losing leftard journalist give journalists a bad name?  You decide.

For any iPhone-owning Round-Up readers that may have felt unfairly accused of being closet hippies in the past couple of weeks, there’s an app for that.  Get your skeptics app and feel free to use that shiny black tech in public once again.

Call the Whaaaaaaambulance, warmists are very upset that skeptics are beating them.  Here’s a clue, hippies, you fight like girls.

Part Three: Inconvenient Truths

Green stimulus we can believe in: The Feds can weatherize your house for the low, low price of $57,362.  In California the same deal has only cost $1.03 million per house, so far.  Golly, with a record like this in basic construction, I can’t wait to see what the government can do for health care.

David Deming, a man who paid a professional price for his open climate skepticism wonders why his accusers persecutors are so quiet these days.

Yvo DeBoer quit the IPCC, the first big name rat to jump the sinking AGW ship.  Raj Pachauri is fighting to keep his job in what looks to be the end times for the current iteration of the UN climate body.  Three big corporations fled the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, which is only the tip of the, er, iceberg.

Richard Lindzen wrote a pithy letter to the Boston Globe, calling out their weasel reporting:

KERRY EMANUEL’S Feb. 15 op-ed “Climate changes are proven fact’’ is more advocacy than assessment. Vague terms such as “consistent with,’’ “probably,’’ and “potentially’’ hardly change this. Certainly climate change is real; it occurs all the time. To claim that the little we’ve seen is larger than any change we “have been able to discern’’ for a thousand years is disingenuous.

President Neophyte Obama’s climate plans are in tatters, which means that his health bill, economic stimulus and Gitmo plans will have something else to keep them company.

Frightening kids has been a well-worn scaremonger tactic, but it comes at a real cost to adolescent well-being.  Of course, scientists blame the media, and vice versa in a circular firing squad.

Disappearing ice had more to do with a mighty wind than warmer temperatures.

Great news for electric car lovers, the new Tesla roadster is super-cool.  As long as you don’t mind only being able to drive a $109,000 car between 40-hour recharges:

Tesla supplies a normal 110-volt cable that works on any standard three-prong outlet. However, despite what simple math might indicate (half of 220 means a 12-hour charge?), the 110-volt cable can only transfer five miles for each hour of charging time. Translation: Over 40 hours to top off on a normal wall outlet…

That ‘debate is over’ thing?  Not so over as Al Gore would like, as it happens.

Would someone let President Obama know that Vancouver’s weather isn’t a sign of the global warming apocalypse?  Just hack the teleprompter, he’ll say whatever’s on the screen.

Pay up, or the wind farm sleeps with the fishes.

Al Gore still warns that sea levels are rising, but the ‘scientists’ behind the claim have withdrawn their report because it’s full of junk science.  If you ever thought Climategate was a storm in a teacup, just try and imagine a report being voluntarily withdrawn in a pre-Climategate world.  Yeah, exactly.

The IPCC’s report now has a problem with biofuels.  At this point, can we try and find one bit of the report that wasn’t made up?  Any volunteers?

The US Giver-ment is guaranteeing a new solar project’s $1.37 billion loan.  Let’s hope the ROI make more sense than the Nellis AFB project.

Wind Power is a green pipe-dream, here’s the ugly truth, they can’t power anything.

Arlington scientists have discovered a new way of making hippie heads explode, do something useful with coal.

Fraud.  The global warming F-word.  Phil Jones might have committed it by omission, others by action.  Inhofe has more to say (video at the link).

The science that won the IPCC and Al Gore a Nobel is flawed, fatally so.  Can you think of a reason why a politically motivated group of scientists trying to prove global warming might want to leave Antarctica out of the data?  Anyone?  Bueller?

In the UK, the damage to belief in global warming is severe, and permanent.  Less than one third of people now think AGW is ‘definitely’ a reality.

The news is just as bad for warmists in the US, where global warming came dead last in a poll of priorities.  That’s 21st place.  To illustrate how bad that is, ‘trade policy’ beat global warming as a concern for Americans, yet no-one spent$300 million advertising trade policy as an urgent priority.  Ouch.

Greens rail against skeptics for influencing public opinion, but if they had produced credible science in an honest way without end-of-the-world hubris, perhaps we’d have far less ammunition and perhaps the EPA and Barbara Boxer wouldn’t have to throw the IPCC under the bus.  That report is full of fail.

The Met. Office is to re-examine 150 years worth of data to see if it actually shows any warming.  They proposed the review in December, but  politicians stopped them:

The Met Office privately proposed the reassessment last December, soon after more than a thousand leaked e-mails raised doubts about the integrity of some scientists at the Climatic Research Unit. The Times revealed on December 5 that the Department of Energy and Climate Change had stopped the Met Office announcing the reassessment because it feared that it would be seized upon as an admission of weakness on the eve of the Copenhagen climate summit.

Remind me, if this is about science, why the political maneuvers?

Part Four: AGW in the News

A skeptic is vindicated in the Dutch press “He was right after all.”

Britain meets the Gore effect and is once more covered in global warming.

The inconvenient Medieval Warming Period and what it means for the global warming hoax:

A Nature study last year showed water temperatures in the Indonesia area were the same in medieval times as they are today.  Therefore the grossly simplistic formula of “greater GHG emissions equals greater warming” is false–and we absolutely know there are major natural factors affecting warming.
Unless you’ve seen images of Viking ships with smoke stacks you know that, aside from some small herds of very small methane-belching cows, mankind was producing virtually no GHGs back then. If the medieval warming wasn’t man made, then the recent warming may not be either.

Yvo De Boer might have quit the IPCC, but he’s not going to go hungry, he’s already landed a top paying gig with KPMG.  Meanwhile, his green friends try and spin his departure as about time.

Global warming causes dirty cars.  Add it to the list.

In Soviet Russia, skeptics on TV say Nyet.

Sainsbury’s shoppers will soon join Ontarians in discovering the joy of buying milk in bags.  Any ecological benefits of less packaging for milk will be offset by the increase in use of paper towels, floor cleaner and wasted milk.  It’s a liquid in a bag, what could possibly go wrong?  See how simple and convenient milk in a bag isn’t:

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‘Kooky’ alarmists and an inconvenient climate.

Canada’s Rex Murphy unloads on the Bed, Bath & Beyond greenwashing effort:

There is something useful in this attempt at pretentious fake-pious marketing. It should re-alert the good citizens of Alberta to how much the post-Climategate-desperate campaigners of the tattered global warming crusade will seize on any target or symbol to reanimate their tired and much battered lobby. And the oil sands are, to use a Gore-ithet, convenient.

The Globe and Mail holds its nose and profiles Climate Audit’s Steve McIntyre.

The next time the MSM protests that they have no pro-warming bias, remember this example set by the Gray Lady.

Inuit’s talk to the Times about life in the north, and hunting polar bears.  At least they don’t pretend to be eco-warriors running around on the ice bashing the bears with saucepans.

A UK power company accepts reality and drops plans to generate power from biomass in favor of coal, because the government won’t guarantee the subsidies needed to make the alternative energy source viable.

Newsweek says that scientists are their own worst enemy, while the Daily Telegraph says that bungling boffins are just par for the course.  With all due respect to the DT, there is a significant difference between incompetent bungling and deliberate fraud, however you might try and spin it.

A top US climate official appears all over the Climategate emails, apparently complicit in trying to suppress awkward truths about the flawed science.

Poor government policies in India are undoing Norman Borlaug’s Green Revolution.  Not good news for people who need to eat anytime soon.

People living near densely forested areas can relax, the trees are not coming for you.

The International Panel on Climate Change confirmed the evidence had not been peer-reviewed and will now amend the section of its 2007 report devoted to ‘killer trees’.  A spokesman said: “It appears the claim was not based on new data or field research but on that bit with the angry, talking trees in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

Heh.

A Canadian politician speaks sense about global warming, and the ruling class swoon and disown him.  Would someone show Stephen Harper the definition of ‘conservative’?

Part Five: Global Hottie

I was going to use a picture of Zooey Deschanel, but I did that already.  So, here’s Katy Perry, because damn if they weren’t separated at birth…

Thanks for reading.