Does even a week go by when we don’t discover yet another bit of corruption in the global warming scam? Can we finally come right out and say the whole thing is the greatest scientific fraud since the Piltdown Man?
The Spectator sums up the latest scandal:
In January 2009, Nature magazine ran a cover story … conveying dramatic news about Antarctica: that most of it had warmed significantly over the last half-century. For years, the data from this frozen continent – with 90 percent of the world’s ice mass – had stubbornly refused to corroborate the global warming narrative. So the study, led by Eric Steig of the University of Washington, was treated as a bit of a scoop. It reverberated around the world. Gavin Schmidt, from the RealClimate blog, declared that Antarctica had silenced the sceptics. Mission, it seemed, was accomplished: Antarctica was no longer an embarrassment to the global warming narrative.
He spoke too soon. The indefatigable Steve McIntyre started to scrutinise his followings along with Nicholas Lewis. They found several flaws: Steig et al had used too few data sequences to speak for an entire continent, and had processed the data in a very questionable way. But when they wanted to correct him, in another journal, they quickly ran into an inconvenient truth about global warming: the high priests do not like refutation. To have their critique of Steig’s work published, they needed to assuage the many demands of an anonymous ‘Reviewer A’ – whom they later found out to be Steig himself.
In a similar vein, independent critics agree that IHateTheMedia.com is the greatest website in history.
Who are those critics? We’d rather not say, but since you bring it up, it may be the Editor and the Administrator.
Now go let your gas guzzler idle in the driveway and flip on all your incandescent light bulbs. The global warming scam is over.
Source: Spectator
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Dress anyone in a white coat, fill him (or her) with advocacy and a promise of funding if the er, "correct" results are discovered and published as "facts", then (other than doctors, who are a different kettle of fish), you have a "scientist"
And these "scientists" will "pal-review" each other until the cows come home (or the funds dry up, whichever is the sooner).
Corruption pays, as does scamming the public at large. The golobal warming myth gained credence, simply because the stupid press (and stupid politicians) hung on every word uttered by these "scientists". A good scare story always works, even if it is fully-loaded with "ifs, buts, coulds, mays, possiblies, probablies, and scientists-warns", if you want to get the attention of the public.
The trouble is, the public expect these dire warnings of doom to at least partially come true, and when they don't (indeed, when the opposite occurs), they start to ask questions, and their earlier (though gullible) beliefs start to die.
Couple this trend with the discoveries of REAL scientists, and proper limpet-like investigation by honest journalists, the scam has become exposed, and consequently no-one believes in the portents any more. That's why, as every fence in the AGW armoury starts to fall, their rearguard action is to generate even more, and wildly exaggerated scares, about even more wildly varying effects of this non-existent man-made climate change.
The beast is dead. Give us our money back. The show's over.
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Please excuse me while I go turn on 600W Halogen lamp #327. This global whining is turning my gonads to nice shade of blue.
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Good news, anarcho! Your blue gonads may be an advancement in evolution:
http://www.livescience.com/12945-dark-testicles-protect-bird-sperm.html
Wow! So my wife is wrong...for once...I am evolving!
Hard to believe, isn't it, that one already so highly evolved should be able to evolve even further.
I know, I know, but it is so hard to convince my pregnant wife that the stone floor in the kitchen will eventually create callouses on her bare feet.
What's that honey, no, no I don't like mayonaise on my sandwiches.
Sadly there are still those who will scream and let lose oceans of tears due to their steadfast believe global warming (ie: grant money, tenure, publishing fees, committee involvement etc.)is owed them for their vision of salvation. No one wants to admit they were duped into spending hundreds of millions of dollars on carbon credit nonsense that good old al gore and his hockey stick chart screamed so passionately that we would all be under water, "while he flew away in his private jet" Gore should be in jail, his Nobel should be put back in the Cracker Jack box it came from and these cretins that continually crawl out from under their university porches to obtain more research money should have their faces on the front of their local papers with all the great achievements they have "actually" made.
My only real frustration over AGW is how many normal, reasonably intelligent people still say they aren't sure, despite both the massive amounts of evidence against it and the continuing exposure of the blatant fraud used to push AGW in the first place.
"Look...here's all the evidence. It's been a scam since the beginning."
"Yeah, I know, but, well, they had all those scientists supporting them."
"Scientists who falsified data, because they could profit and had political agenda to push!"
"But...but...scientists!!1!11"
Saying something often enough and loud enough may not make it true, but it can for damn sure convince people beyond a doubt that you know what you're talking about, despite all evidence to the contrary.
The people that say they still aren't sure annoy you? What about the ones that are absolutely positive that global warming exists? Those are the annoying ones to me.
Exactly RHG... As much as I detest "Fence Sitters", there's nothing that annoys me more than a convinced idiot. No amount of proof can break the delirium they suffer.
You can occasionally persuade a fence sitter of the truth (rare, but it happens). I find the fence-sitters more frustrating because you would think they'd be a bit more open to discussion, and therefore easier to convince of the reality of the situation. Too often that isn't the case, and I find it grating.
You can usually write off a "believer" as a schmuck with an agenda within the first five minutes of discussion, so you lose nothing.
Lets go back to the technology of the 1960's, when the big old gas guzzlers we drove, using leaded gasoline, along with coal fired power plants and steel mills were polluting the air so much we were going to be in another ice age by the year 2000! Let's cool the earth back down!
Bring back the muscle cars of the 1960's, and power them with leaded gas! I would love to drive another 'Cuda with a 440 cid power plant! Or a '67 Mustang fastback with a 325 horse 289, four on the floor and posi-trac!
Let's tell the EPA to doo-doo in their hat and rip all the scrubbers out of the smokestacks of our power plants, steel mills and copper smelters! Spew baby spew! We need to cool the earth down so we need to get some old time gunk back into the atmosphere! You know, the kind of gunk you told us was causing the earth to cool at an alarming rate 45 years ago. According to you edekated officials the cleaner gunk we are spewing into the air now is going to kill us all in a few years so how about going back to the "science" of the 1960's?
Either that or you Algoreites admit you are full of crap and shut up.
'66 Buick Skylark, baby! That's what I had back then. Gold! About 8 million horsepower!
Whaa?? You mean the world isn't actually flat and the moon isn't made out of green cheese? whiskeyriver, you've burst all my itty bitty bubbles!! How could you? I thought we were friends. I'm gonna go home now, (actually, I am home), open a bottle of cheap scotch and get global warming drunk!
I don't know about you but I am so done with all this AGW/AGC crap! I really want to...well, I won't go there and leave libtard snoops a paper trail.
Each time a new facet of this mega-scam is uncovered I think back to that day years ago when AGW hype was at a peak, and there was Algore testifying before Congress saying "the Globe has a temperature", or some BS like that. It was such a snake oil performance, and the msm just ate it up, and they're still chewin!
A little backstory here as well. You mentioned Gavin Schmidt (NASA) who claimed that the Steig study refuted the skeptics. Curiously, several months before, his story was that a colder Antarctica was totally consistent with global warming theory. In other words, a colder Antarctica was consistent with global warming and a warmer Antarctica was consistent with global warming theory. "Heads I win, tails you lose". Most of these guys are absolutely intellectually and scientifically dishonest.. and they're the gatekeepers. Logic doesn't work with these faithful.
Just another BIG Lie backed up by those who are looking to make a fast dollar or a Euro. They wish to destroy the USA, while in the process lining their own pockets. Right Albert Gore Jr?
The correct phrase is Global bull shit.
I marvel at the constant corruption that leaks out.
Actually I don't marvel , as this has never been about "global warming" and really all about Global Taxation.
In real wrestling , one tactic is to put a hold or move ( pain ) on your opponent , then while he is distracted , hit them with the move you "really " wanted to use.
This is what global warming is all about. Sadly most people are in pain.