Not about Christmas, and Not about Global Warming

One of the reasons my blog has petered out over here is that I took an oath not to blog about the last great religion: the religion of Climate Change, which never quite found the savior it was looking for.

This morning I found this link, and it speaks for itself.

Thus:

Well, folks, it's tea-time on Sunday and for anyone involved in keeping people moving it has been a hell of a weekend. Thousands have had their journeys wrecked, tens of thousands have been delayed getting away for Christmas; and for those Londoners who feel aggrieved by the performance of any part of our transport services, I can only say that we are doing our level best.

Almost the entire Tube system was running on Sunday and we would have done even better if it had not been for a suicide on the Northern Line, and the temporary stoppage that these tragedies entail.

And thus:

Back in November, when the Met Office was still doing its "mild winter" schtick, Corbyn said it would be the coldest for 100 years. Indeed, it was back in May that he first predicted a snowy December, and he put his own money on a white Christmas about a month before the Met Office made any such forecast. He said that the Met Office would be wrong about last year's mythical "barbecue summer", and he was vindicated. He was closer to the truth about last winter, too.

You should, for your own sake, read the whole thing. The information is prolly not new, but the way he says it is priceless.

Right before your eyes

Artic sea ice rebounds; Al Gore has no comment.

More of the same

The BBC interviews James Lovelock and I think it's even better than yesterday's version from the Guardian.

You've got to have standards

On the Global Warming front, James Lovelock opines about global warming and human stupidity.

This is quite ironic from a guy who also thinks that science has standards.

Read it and weep.

Yeah, Ok. OK. AWRIGHT AWREADY!

HT:Phil Johnson

The Weekly Standard on the Global Warming melt-down.(PDF version)

The body blows to the climate campaign did not end with the Climategate emails. The IPCC—which has produced four omnibus assessments of climate science since 1992—has issued several embarrassing retractions from its most recent 2007 report, starting with the claim that Himalayan glaciers were in danger of melting as soon as 2035. That such an outlandish claim would be so readily accepted is a sign of the credulity of the climate campaign and the media: Even if extreme global warming occurred over the next century, the one genuine scientific study available estimated that the huge ice fields of the Himalayas would take more than 300 years to melt—a prediction any beginning chemistry student could confirm with a calculator. (The actual evidence is mixed: Some Himalayan glaciers are currently expanding.)

And then this, of course:

The ruckus about “weather is not climate” exposes the greatest problem of the climate campaign. Al Gore and his band of brothers have been happy to point to any weather anomaly—cold winters, warm winters, in-between winters​—as proof of climate change. But the climate campaigners cannot name one weather pattern or event that would be inconsistent with their theory. Pretty convenient when your theory works in only one direction.

OK? Sheesh -- it's a nice day out. Does it have to be a political statement?

What's at stake

Y'all.

Here's the latest op-ed from Al Gore in the NYT (single-page printer-ready format) (and here's the PDF in case the link goes dead).

Here's the money quote from the end of the essay:

Simultaneously, changes in America’s political system — including the replacement of newspapers and magazines by television as the dominant medium of communication — conferred powerful advantages on wealthy advocates of unrestrained markets and weakened advocates of legal and regulatory reforms. Some news media organizations now present showmen masquerading as political thinkers who package hatred and divisiveness as entertainment. And as in times past, that has proved to be a potent drug in the veins of the body politic. Their most consistent theme is to label as “socialist” any proposal to reform exploitive behavior in the marketplace.

From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption. After all has been said and so little done, the truth about the climate crisis — inconvenient as ever — must still be faced.

I hope none of you are wondering at this point why I have been obsessed with blogging about this anymore. Plainly, this is about which instrument of human redemption we're going to invest our faith.

UPDATED: HotAir.com published a FANTASTIC piece on a report from the UK blasting the ClimateGate perpetrators from East Anglia CRU. Here's the original report.

Protestor decry global warming

You can caption this: Why Gummby is still the best sidekick

Satisfying, yet creepy

Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) today asked the Obama administration to investigate what he called “the greatest scientific scandal of our generation” — the actions of climate scientists revealed by the Climategate Files, and the subsequent admissions by the editors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).

[The] Minority Staff of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works believe the scientists involved may have violated fundamental ethical principles governing taxpayer-funded research and, in some cases, federal laws. In addition to these findings, we believe the emails and accompanying documents seriously compromise the IPCC -backed “consensus” and its central conclusion that anthropogenic emissions are inexorably leading to environmental catastrophes.

You should read the whole thing, but this is satisfying becuase indeed: the Big Lie has been told, and used to manipulate the outcome of public policy.

Not like that has never been done before, mind you. Everyone does it these days for one reason or another -- and if some politician says he isn't doing it, he's either self-ignorant or he thinks you're too stupid to understand what he's saying. Lies made to spread panic and cause civil distrust are told all the time in American politics today, and it's reprehensible.

So in one sense, it's totally satisfying to see someone call one of the worst offenders out on his malicious and self-serving campaign to bilk the world out of capital resources. Gore's not the only one who should be on what PJ O'Rourke once called the "enemies list" (cf. "the big lie"), but he's a big fat target for this bit of dirty work.

But this is creepy for a deeper reason:

[the report] suggests scientific misconduct that may violate the Shelby Amendment — requiring open access to the results of government-funded research — and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) policies on scientific misconduct (which were announced December 12, 2000).

The sentence itself is so Orwellian and totalitarian in substance that I don't really know where to start. The United States has an "Office of Science and Technology Policy"? I mean: I'm in favor of scientists telling the truth and everything -- it seems like the basic part of actually being a "scientist" and not "Dr. Doom" or "Miguelito Lovelace", but when the government starts defining what truth is or ought to be, I'm ready to move to another plant -- with or without oxygen.

A few notes on Global Warming

Professor Phil Jones, who is at the centre of the “Climategate” affair, conceded that there has been no “statistically significant” rise in temperatures since 1995.

He also sounds much less ebullient about the basic theory, admitting that there is little difference between global warming rates in the Nineties and in two previous periods since 1860.

New research, including work by British scientists, is casting doubt on such claims. Some even suggest the world may not be warming much at all.

And the only place you can consistently find these reports in the US is Drudge. The MSM isn't reporting this at all.

Why 'Carbon Bigfoot' is a great sidekick

You haters. You simply aren't watching the development of the issue. Of course Carbon Bigfoot is the right sidekick for Calvinist Gadfly: Because the warming is causing the blizzards and freezing, dummy.

Let it snow baby - Let it rain dear!

The Great Global Warming Collapse.

“The global warming movement as we have known it is dead,” the brilliant analyst Walter Russell Mead says in his blog on The American Interest. It was done in by a combination of bad science and bad politics.

The impetus for the Copenhagen conference was that the science makes it imperative for us to act. But even if that were true – and even if we knew what to do – a global deal was never in the cards. As Mr. Mead writes, “The global warming movement proposed a complex set of international agreements involving vast transfers of funds, intrusive regulations in national economies, and substantial changes to the domestic political economies of most countries on the planet.” Copenhagen was never going to produce a breakthrough. It was a dead end.

Won't have to blog much more about this, I guess.

Orwellian Splendor

First of all, I'm going to type "Climategate" here so that it becomes a search term, and it will also be a new tag for the blog to help seed the search-engine cloud when peollke are thinking/asking about this.

But the reason for doing so is two-fold:

[1] I read this article at scragged.com about the course of events in the last 90 days round Climategate, thanks to a Tweet from Phil Johnson. That is certainly enough to make you a little sick to your western civilization stomach.

but [2] is even worse. In that essay, there's a link to this note from James Delingpole at the Telegraph UK -- a news outlet which is really getting in front of the IPCC hoax details. According to that blurb:

What is going on at Google? I only ask because last night when I typed “Global Warming” into Google News the top item was Christopher Booker’s superb analysis of the Climategate scandal.

It’s still the most-read article of the Telegraph’s entire online operation – 430 comments and counting – yet mysteriously when you try the same search now it doesn’t even feature. Instead, the top-featured item is a blogger pushing Al Gore’s AGW agenda. Perhaps there’s nothing sinister in this. Perhaps some Google-savvy reader can enlighten me…..

UPDATE: Richard North has some interesting thoughts on this. He too suspects some sort of skullduggery.

Pure madness. Google is actively surpressing information about Climategate? Next thing you know, people will start disappearing.

Seriously.

Leon Ashby Slides

Read this PDF, and then let me apologize for all the nasty things I have ever said about Canadians who live in that nasty, cold country the US wears as a hat.

HT: vigilant and faithful reader MvD from the hockey capital of Canada. They know from hockey sticks up thar.

And then there's Al Gore ...

Sometrhing in the state of Denmark

I know I'm sorta dumping here today, but I had a free minute. This is not a story about LEGOs. It's about what's going on in Copenhagen this week.

They are against climate change, but not against violent uprising.

The Copenhagen climate change conference appeared to be imploding from within and exploding from without on Wednesday.

Police fired tear gas, brandished batons and detained more than 200 protesters who tried to push through the security cordon around the Bella Center, as negotiations inside bogged down, for the second time this week, over differences between China and the West over emissions, funding issues and transparency.

After you stop laughing at that last word there, feel free to brandish your batons in the meta.

100 reasons

The DailyExpress.co.uk has listed 100 reasons why climate change is natural, and I have given up on providing links to info like this because they vanish over time. Instead, I have converted theirs page into a PDF, and I have linked it here.

Merry Christmas. Throw another log on the fire for me.

Because we can't have that

I'd link to this essay from Ann Coulter about the Global Warming scam, but I'm afraid that you'll accidentally see Ann's cleavage.

I don't want to offend the weaker brothers.

The worst of our generation

The London telegraph is calling "Climategate" the worst scientific scandal of our generation".

So at what point does Al Gore have to give his Nobel back?

At some point ...

... they just have to turn out the lights and lock the door. Apparently, "scientists" at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.

Can we now dispose of the myth of peer-reviewed climate science which points to an unequivocal human cause for an alleged unprecedented spike in global temperatures?

You thought I missed this, dincha?

Global Warming exposed as actually ginned-up "science" with no foundation in reality.

I was just waiting a bit to make sure the hacked e-mails weren't made up e-mails instead. When the Telegraph is reporting this stuff, the gig is up.

I am also going to burn some styrofoam cups out in my back yard this long weekend to celebrate.