Maybe this Anthropogenic Global Warming (APG) stuff has something to it…I mean, when you find an article in the November edition of the Monthly Weather Review that says “The Arctic seems to be warming up,” and the article bases the statement on “Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers” you have to take it seriously don’t you?   Well, not really.  It turns out the report of warming in the Arctic in this case is from November 1922.

I really got a chuckle out of the 1922 article when I saw it on IHateMedia.com and realized that almost nothing has changed.  The alarmist eggheads perpetrating the APG hoax on the general public are still using unscientific reports to bolster their case.  Yeah, I said it.  They’re still using anecdotes instead of science and it’s being done at the highest levels including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at the United Nations.  Don’t believe me?  They did it in their 2007 report that got them the Nobel Peace Prize along with alarmist Al Gore and it came to light during “Glaciergate” and was blogged about by Wacky Global Warming News.

In an interesting side note, 1922 is not on the Union of Concerned Scientists list of the 20 hottest years of the 20th century.  How could that be?

Global Warming 1922 Style

Professor Phil Jones

If you’ve adopted Man-Made Global Warming as your religion you may want to reserve space in the next cult de-programming session…there’s been  no global warming since 1995 according to one of your very own cult leaders – Professor Phil Jones.  That’s not all.  The former head of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit has made a few other interesting admissions you might want to know about.

Jones, the guy at the heart of Climategate, has admitted that one of the reasons he didn’t respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by researchers and skeptics is that he may have actually lost the information they wanted.  Lost?  Yes, he may have lost the information that is the basis for a number of climate change claims including those of the famous “Hockey Stick Graph” prepared by Dr. Michael Mann and used ad nauseam by Al Gore in his slide show.  The information is also the basis of claims made in reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at the United Nations…reports that are used by politicians to justify limiting individual freedom and raising taxes though they’re riddled with errors.

Professor Jones has “also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.” Really?  A period of warming that can’t be attributed to cars and SUVs burning fossil fuels, coal-burning electrical plants, manufacturing, or use of incandescent light bulbs?  Could it be that the earth goes through periods of warming and cooling due to factors not related to the activity of mankind?  That’s pretty much what he admitted to, isn’t it?

Another interesting admission by Professor Jones is that there had been two other more recent periods which experienced warming similar to the medieval period, from 1910 to 1940 and from 1975 to 1998, but he said these could be explained by natural phenomena!  Wait a second…why does that time period of 1975 to 1998 look so familiar?  Got it.  It looks familiar because 12 of the 20 hottest years on record, according the Union of Concerned Scientists, occur during the 1975 to 1998 period.  So, 12 of the 20 hottest years on record can be explained by natural, not man-made, phenomena.

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.

Climbers and Sherpas traversing Himalayan Glacier

People sometimes don’t believe it when I say that this wacky Global Warming thing isn’t what they think.  Most people believe that scientists are completely objective and are warning us of impending doom.  They also think that people like Al Gore are just out to save us from ourselves and couldn’t possibly have any evil motives.  They think scientists and rotund ex-Vice-Presidents would never lie.  Wrong, wrong, and wrong.  What’s the latest evidence?  How about a damning admission by a “scientist” authoring the UN’s Nobel Peace Prize winning 2007 climate change report?  That’s what happened.

Dr. Murari Lal, the scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035  admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders. In other words, he knew the information was faulty but still included it to get politicians to fix a non-existent problem.  He didn’t say that he was hoping the politicians would give him more grant money in order to do more “research” but he didn’t not say it either.

Global Warming, particularly anthropogenic global warming, is a hoax that is meant to take away your freedom and your money.  Legislation to “combat the effects of climate change” like the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill (H.R. 2454) will increase energy costs and taxes while doing nothing for the environment.  Tell your Representatives and Senators we don’t need Cap and Trade.

Previous entries:
Wacky Global Warming News: Himalayan Glaciers Part 2
Wacky Global Warming News: Himalayan Glaciers

The whole “the world is melting because of CO2″ Global Warming thing is pretty wacky.  Remember the entry about Himalayan Glaciers melting by 2035?  Well, it turns out there’s more to the story than just one scientist’s speculation being used by other scientists too lazy to check sources.  You guessed it.  There’s more mistakes about the Himalayan glaciers in the same 2007 report.  You know, the report that resulted in a Nobel Peace Prize for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Global Warming doomsayer Al Gore.

In addition to the lie about the glaciers melting by 2035, they also say the total area of Himalayan glaciers “will likely shrink from the present 500,000 to 100,000 square kilometers by the year 2035”. Ha!  Another lie, there are only 33,000 square kilometers of glaciers in the Himalayas.  Also, the report claims the Pindari Glacier shrank by 2,840m — a rate of 135.2m a year. The actual rate of shrinkage when the lies are discarded is only 23.5m a year.  All of this has finally been admitted by the head of the IPCC Dr Rajendra Pachauri, who dismissed calls for his resignation.

Global Warming is a lie.  A scam that politicians are using to separate you from your money and freedom through needless taxes and regulation.  Don’t let them do it.

A warning that “climate change” (code for Global Warming) will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 turns out to be total crap based on scientific blunders.  A couple of years ago an agency of the United Nations issued a report supposedly based on the very latest scientific research into the horrors of Global Warming.  It turns out that the estimate of Himalayan glacial melt was based on an 8 year old article in a science journal that even the author admits was “speculation”.  Speculation?  Is speculation the “settled science” Al Gore refers to, or is speculation really just a “guess: a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence”?

None of this is a surprise really since the whole Chicken Little view of the climate appears to have been developed based on competition for grant money and recognition rather than actual science.  Scientists of the World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown.

I heard an interesting idea on the Glenn Beck radio show. The idea was to bulldoze the United Nations building and turn it into a dog park. Doesn’t sound like a bad idea to me.

The United Nations is a place where the United States (the UN’s host) is routinely bashed in public by “diplomats” from dictatorships and various other repressive regimes. It’s where they try to lecture the U.S. about human rights when the UN’s human rights council is composed of the worst violators of human rights. The United Nation’s various diplomats continuously violate our laws because they have diplomatic immunity.

The United Nations is also where various members of the UN Security Council tried to keep the U.S. from invading Iraq….because they were doing business with Iraq in violation of UN resolutions. Yes, France was illegally receiving oil from Iraq while selling Iraq everything from telephone systems in Baghdad, to Peugeot automobiles, and weapons. Germany was the builder of the underground bunkers that Saddam called palaces. Russia, another UN Security Council member, sold weapons to Iraq and also devices that were supposed to “deflect” our GPS guided bombs from their legitimate targets.

Let’s bulldoze the UN.