Canal in Amsterdam

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at the United Nations can’t seem to get much right.  Recently it’s been found that the IPCC’s 938-page Fourth Assessment Report, which won the Nobel Peace Prize for the panel in 2007, was full of errors regarding Himalayan Glaciers melting and disappearing ice in the Swiss Alps, Andes, and Africa.

Now the report that many of the world’s politicians refer to when trying to take our freedom and money has been shown to contain more errors. According to the Nobel Peace Prize winning report, fifty-five percent (55%) of the Netherlands is below sea level.  No surprise, the report is wrong.

The reason the amount of Netherlands territory below sea level is in the report is that sea level is one of the ways man-made global warming hoaxers scare people into accepting more taxes and less freedom.  Sea level rise, according to climate change proponents, indicates melting of the polar ice cap and glaciers.   But, there’s a problem…in this case it’s wrong, incorrect, way off.  How far off?  By more than half.  According to the Dutch national statistics office CBS, just 20% of the country is below sea level and some other estimates are up to 26%.  Not fifty-five percent.  Isn’t science supposed to be precise?

According to Al Gore (who shared the Nobel with the IPCC), man-made global warming is settled science.  President Obama stated that there was “overwhelming evidence” of climate change during his first State of the Union address. I have to disagree with both Al Gore and President Obama.  The science can’t be settled and the evidence can’t be “overwhelming” if the most prominent report on the subject is riddled with unsupported speculation, anecdotes by biased activists, and outright errors.

Swiss Alps

Wow, I guess science isn’t what it used to be.  At least not at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations.  In 2007 the IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize (along with Al Gore) for their global warming/climate change report.  It’s a report that politicians around the world point to when they want to take away our money and freedom to fight global warming.  Well, at least part of the report is less about science than it is BS.

It turns out that the IPCC has been doing very little science regarding glaciers and mountain ice melt.  In fact the news coming out sounds more like the IPCC is a bunch of third-graders lifting information from the encyclopedia for their report.  First, news broke that the IPCC had included unsubstantiated “speculation” by one scientist contained in an 8 year old article to make a false claim that Himalayan Glaciers would melt by 2035.  Then it was learned that the IPCC also drastically overstated both the size of Himalayan Glaciers and the rate at which they were melting.  Next, Dr. Murari Lal, the scientist behind the part of the report with the bogus claims about Himalayan Glaciers admitted he included the information in order to put pressure on politicians to take action.  There’s also money at the heart of all of this.  But are the Himalayan Glacier errors the end of the story?  Not by a long shot.

The UK Telegraph reports the IPCC has also played fast and loose with their claims about mountain ice melting in the Andes, Alps, and Africa due to global warming.  How?  Claims in this “scientific” report about disappearing ice in the Andes, Alps, and Africa are actually based on an article in a mountain climbing magazine and a student’s dissertation.  The claims about the disappearing mountain ice were in a table of the IPCC’s report entitled “Selected observed effects due to changes in the cryosphere produced by warming”.  It says reductions in mountain ice have been observed from the loss of ice climbs in the Andes, Alps and in Africa between 1900 and 2000.  The problem?  The claims are based on guesses and anecdotes – NOT SCIENCE.  Also, both sources were written by known global warming activists not by objective scientific observers.

Global Warming is far from “settled science” and in fact it’s looking more and more like there’s no science behind it at all. Unfortunately, governments are taking action to “fight climate change” based in part on the massive load of crap in the IPCC report that is being given unwarranted credibility in many media outlets.  Keep yourself informed and let your representative know you’re aware of the scam.  Your money and your freedom are at stake.

Himalayan Glacier Traverse

Glaciergate, that’s what it’s being called now.  Glaciergate is the continuing  story about how members of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) lied when they published their 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winning report.  A report which claimed, among other things, that the Himalayan Glaciers would disappear by 2035 due to global warming.  Why would they lie?  What could they gain?  Well, as I said in my first Himalayan Glaciers entry it’s about money.

Glaciergate, and Global Warming in general, is really about money and power.  For politicians seeking power Global Warming is a convenient fraud on which to base restrictions upon individual behavior and taxes on every facet of life.  They’re already doing it in Europe and trying to do it in the United States.  For “scientists” Global Warming is still about money.  And how do scientists who don’t make a product get money?  They get it from grants.  Grants come from private individuals and foundations, charitable groups, and governments who have taxed their citizens.  Most of the time that means it’s your money being used.  In glaciergate a money trail is forming that appears to lead to the Chairman of the IPCC, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri.  As Christopher Booker of the UK Telegraph reports in Pachauri: the real story behind the Glaciergate scandal:

the scientist from whom this claim originated, Dr Syed Hasnain, has for the past two years been working as a senior employee of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), the Delhi-based company of which Dr Pachauri is director-general. Furthermore, the claim – now disowned by Dr Pachauri as chairman of the IPCC – has helped TERI to win a substantial share of a $500,000 grant from one of America’s leading charities, along with a share in a three million euro research study funded by the EU

Let’s recap…scientists employed by the United Nations, lauded by the Nobel Peace Prize committee, and funded by your hard-earned money have repeatedly lied about climate changes purported to be so serious that we all have to give up every modern convenience to prevent extinction of our species…did I miss anything there?  Oh, and where is Al Gore?  Why isn’t Al Gore talking about all of this?  I’ll tell you why.  He’s afraid of losing millions of dollars in the carbon credit market that his company is involved in.

Despite the mounting evidence that Global Warming is a hoax politicians are continuing their efforts to combat it.  Here in the United States the Congress is still trying to pass the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill.  Do us all a favor and let your Congressmen and Senators know you are against Cap and Trade.