Saturday, January 30, 2010
Why Being an AGW Denier Is No Longer Fun
I'm back to really wondering if there has been significant warming of the planet at all since the mid-80s. The loss of 75% of the reporting weather stations and the cherry picking among those remaining by the Warmie priest/scientists makes me doubt all the land based records and rely only on the satellite records, which are not scary at all, although relatively short lived. But it's not fun being an Anthropogenic Global Warming denier anymore for two reasons.
1. The guy who is successfully impersonating the late Osama bin Laden is a Warmie. Noscitur a sociis.
2. The fraud of AGW is falling apart. I feel like I'm with the majority now rather than in the van of a small group of seriously skeptical non scientists who knew something was wrong with the climate alarmism. It's no longer cool to be a skeptic. Everyone is now.
We've won.
1. The guy who is successfully impersonating the late Osama bin Laden is a Warmie. Noscitur a sociis.
2. The fraud of AGW is falling apart. I feel like I'm with the majority now rather than in the van of a small group of seriously skeptical non scientists who knew something was wrong with the climate alarmism. It's no longer cool to be a skeptic. Everyone is now.
We've won.
Labels: Global Warming Hoax; Death Knell?
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Whom to Believe?
Here is what disgraced Warmie climate scientist, Phil Jones, said to reporters before Thanksgiving, after many of his e-mails were leaked by a whistle blower:
And here is what he wrote in an e-mail complaining about a FOI request from Steve McIntyre about a year ago:
To quote David Knopfler: Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong.
Or as we lawyer types dream of asking: So when were you lying to us, Mr. Jones--last year or last month?
Also, for the not too feint of heart, here is a dense but rewarding take on the thing from Steven Hayward at the Weekly Standard.
Except for the fact that some science is involved, the alphabet broadcast news systems are ignoring a pretty good story here. I guess they are itching to lose even more viewers.
We've not deleted any emails or data here at CRU.
And here is what he wrote in an e-mail complaining about a FOI request from Steve McIntyre about a year ago:
About 2 months ago I deleted loads of emails, so have very little - if anything at all.
To quote David Knopfler: Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong.
Or as we lawyer types dream of asking: So when were you lying to us, Mr. Jones--last year or last month?
Also, for the not too feint of heart, here is a dense but rewarding take on the thing from Steven Hayward at the Weekly Standard.
Except for the fact that some science is involved, the alphabet broadcast news systems are ignoring a pretty good story here. I guess they are itching to lose even more viewers.
Labels: Global Warming Hoax; Death Knell?
Friday, December 04, 2009
Looking Past the E-Mails
I don't know computer code from Cretan Linear B. The last time I wrote a program, I saved it on paper tape with huge and little holes in it, and my program took about all the free bytes available on my high school's main frame. So this guy could be leading us by the nose, but Hadley CRU and GISS have always produced global temperature measurements above the satellite measurers so the difference was either heat island artifact or crafty manipulation. It's really looking like the latter now, and the whistle blower released documents are indeed proving a timely help to us who look on Warmie alarmists as we look on Aztec priests pulling out hearts. There's a reason that the alphabet broadcast news networks have ignored the document drop we're apparently calling Climategate
Oh, and here is a good refutation of the "Nothing here to see, folks, move along" apologists regarding the e-mails, etc. I really liked it. Wonder who, really, Sean is.
Despite the yawning and ignoring by the left stream media, this really is a big thing.
Oh, and here is a good refutation of the "Nothing here to see, folks, move along" apologists regarding the e-mails, etc. I really liked it. Wonder who, really, Sean is.
Despite the yawning and ignoring by the left stream media, this really is a big thing.
Labels: Global Warming Hoax; Death Knell?
Friday, November 20, 2009
This Could Be Big or Nothing
There is no doubt that someone hacked a computer server at East Anglia University which is associated with Hadley Climate Research Unit (HadCRU), and released thousands of old e-mails to and from the HadCRU scientists. If the e-mails are accurate (that is, not created or enhanced by the hackers, and it's beginning to look like they're real) the Warmie true believers have been conspiring to perpetrate a fraud, one of the biggest and most pernicious scientific frauds in history. Here, via Climate Depot, are a bunch of the e-mails with appropriate highlighting and comments in a constantly updated newspaper report. Here is what Anthony Watt has to say. And here is what Warmie Central, Real Climate, admits (as its contributors attempt to start damage control). Notice that there are no comments on the Real Climate site regarding the hacking. That means they haven't allowed any there on this issue, as they usually have at least a few hundred or so. What's up with the no comment decision?
To paraphrase George C. Scott in Strangelove: Mr. President, I'm beginning to smell a big, fat Warmie rat.
UPDATE: Here is a summary of 33 issues the author has identified in the Warmie e-mails. Very well organized.
UPDATE 2: Dr. Spencer says that this is not the death knell of AGW. Hard to argue with his logic. I will note that from now on we Deniers can write that the Warmie scientists use tricks to hide the decline in global temperatures and we will be using the Warmie scientists' own words. That can't help them. If the future indeed holds the decline in temperatures the Warmies are trying to hide, they will have ever greater trouble telling us the sky is actually falling.
As a final word, the key to the extent of the damage is whether the e-mails are genuine or not. Look at the Real Climate response (which now has comments) here again, they don't say the 'trick to hide the decline' e-mail is not a real e-mail, they try to spin it into an innocuous trifle, unsuccessfully, I might add. Failing to claim something is not real is an admission that it is real. These guys should be in trouble via RICO but with our current corrupt administration the overwhelmingly likely response from the justice department will be yawns. What the individual universities do may be something else entirely. Ward Churchill type investigations seem, at the minimum, to be in order.
To paraphrase George C. Scott in Strangelove: Mr. President, I'm beginning to smell a big, fat Warmie rat.
UPDATE: Here is a summary of 33 issues the author has identified in the Warmie e-mails. Very well organized.
UPDATE 2: Dr. Spencer says that this is not the death knell of AGW. Hard to argue with his logic. I will note that from now on we Deniers can write that the Warmie scientists use tricks to hide the decline in global temperatures and we will be using the Warmie scientists' own words. That can't help them. If the future indeed holds the decline in temperatures the Warmies are trying to hide, they will have ever greater trouble telling us the sky is actually falling.
As a final word, the key to the extent of the damage is whether the e-mails are genuine or not. Look at the Real Climate response (which now has comments) here again, they don't say the 'trick to hide the decline' e-mail is not a real e-mail, they try to spin it into an innocuous trifle, unsuccessfully, I might add. Failing to claim something is not real is an admission that it is real. These guys should be in trouble via RICO but with our current corrupt administration the overwhelmingly likely response from the justice department will be yawns. What the individual universities do may be something else entirely. Ward Churchill type investigations seem, at the minimum, to be in order.
Labels: Global Warming Hoax; Death Knell?
