African Drought? Another IPCC Lie

What a surprise. What next. Once a liar . . .

Story here: The Times: Top British scientist says IPCC is losing credibility

Originally here: By Johnathan Leake, Environment Editor Top British scientist says UN panel is losing credibility

A LEADING British government scientist has warned the United Nations’ climate panel to tackle its blunders or lose all credibility.

Robert Watson, chief scientist at Defra, the environment ministry, who chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1997 to 2002, was speaking after more potential inaccuracies emerged in the IPCC’s 2007 benchmark report on global warming.

The most important is a claim that global warming could cut rain-fed north African crop production by up to 50% by 2020, a remarkably short time for such a dramatic change. The claim has been quoted in speeches by Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, and by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general.

This weekend Professor Chris Field, the new lead author of the IPCC’s climate impacts team, told The Sunday Times that he could find nothing in the report to support the claim. The revelation follows the IPCC’s retraction of a claim that the Himalayan glaciers might all melt by 2035.

The African claims could be even more embarrassing for the IPCC because they appear not only in its report on climate change impacts but, unlike the glaciers claim, are also repeated in its Synthesis Report.
This report is the IPCC’s most politically sensitive publication, distilling its most important science into a form accessible to politicians and policy makers. Its lead authors include Pachauri himself.

In it he wrote: “By 2020, in some countries, yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50%. Agricultural production, including access to food, in many African countries is projected to be severely compromised.” The same claims have since been cited in speeches to world leaders by Pachauri and Ban.

Speaking at the 2008 global climate talks in Poznan, Poland, Pachauri said: “In some countries of Africa, yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by 50% by 2020.” In a speech last July, Ban said: “Yields from rain-fed agriculture could fall by half in some African countries over the next 10 years.”

Speaking this weekend, Field said: “I was not an author on the Synthesis Report but on reading it I cannot find support for the statement about African crop yield declines.”

Watson said such claims should be based on hard evidence. “Any such projection should be based on peer-reviewed literature from computer modelling of how agricultural yields would respond to climate change. I can see no such data supporting the IPCC report,” he said.

Cooling Is Well Underway

How does average global temperature 5 degrees Farenheit colder warm you up?

It won’t. It won’t help feed you. It won’t help feed your children. But, the truth is, reasonable scientists, given an awareness of earth’s history, can’t say earth won’t be 10 degrees Farenheit colder in 20 years! Less reasonable scientists, which seems to be a catch-all, can’t bother even to measure glaciers to report shrinkage; they have computer models that make such things, and particulary raising cash from governments, easy. The expensive computer models don’t ever predict cooling; why should they? They predict what ever is most expedient to raise cash.

This cooling is well underway, even since 1998; but no government scientist computer model predicted it.

carbon dioxide is not a factor

With Solar Cycle 23 ending up at twelve and a half years long, applying Friis-Christenson and Lassen theory to the temperature record of Hanover, New Hampshire results in a two degree centigrade decline in the annual average temperature at this location over the expected twelve years of Solar Cycle 24, from December 2009 to late 2021. Given some record low monthly averages in the northeast US in the recent summer, and the current cold winter, this cooling is well under way.

Story is here: David Archibald Solar Cycle 24 Update at What’s Up With That.

Collapse of Utter Bullshit

Bullshit normally does collapse, which I think was predicted here. Kudos to me.

Grand narratives, be they bullshit or not, also collapse, we are now informed. I am not certain if every new grand narrative is bullshit; but I have long examined them for it. Some passed exams, like the grand narrative of private enterprise and free markets – a grand narrative indeed in an otherwise pathetic human history. The most noble narrative of all history may be free market capitalism; but this narrative today is under heavy attack by children.

There is little further need to examine the more or less grand narrative of global warming.

That is why I have not been posting much.

However, there is an election coming. Warmist profound ignorance of reality for some reason makes them highly electable – somehow gives them voter appeal. We absolutely cannot stand any more of these.

Much more ominous than any election, there is also the normal climate variation on earth which we face. We have made ourselves ignorant of it. The ignorance of man is another narrative.

I am considering moving all climate posts to Porcupinerim.

I want to thank every single viewer, commenter, warmist or not. The debate is the grandest narrative of all. Long may you, and we, debate.

See: Global Warming: the Collapse of a Grand Narrative

Mad Economist Devours the World

Impossible wealth rewards the government climate scientists today.

But that is not enough; they want your blood. All of it.

Rajendra Pachauri is a latecomer to the cemetary; but a highly successful one.

H/T: Moonbattery Creature Feature: The Wolfman of Copenhagen

Geothermal Energy Expert Counsels America

I am sorry; I can’t get enough of this video.

Happily, Al Gore doesn’t charge much for his consultation. Compared to the national “budget.”

Now, here we have a REAL GENIUS, NOBEL PRIZE WINNER, and typical leader in American government. I am sorry; I just can’t get enough of this video.

Maybe Al Gore will take over health care, too. Climate isn’t the only thing that is broken ;~)

Osama Joins Obama

Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has enlisted with Obama among the ranks of the warmists who blame American capitalism for their imagined pathos.

Apparently, it is getting warmer in Osama’s cave.

Like Obama, Osama also wishes to bring “the wheels of the American economy to a halt.”

Osama also like Obama would like to see the dollar replaced as the reserve currency of the world.

These guys both bow to Arab princes, must be.

Myself, I can see a lot of advantage in a warm cave.

Bin Laden Blasts U.S. for Climate Change

Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called in a new audiotape for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other industrialized countries for global warming.

In the tape, aired in part on Al-Jazeera television Friday, bin Laden warns of the dangers of climate change and says that the way to it is to bring “the wheels of the American economy” to a halt.

He says the world should “stop consuming American products” and “refrain from using the dollar,” according to a transcript on Al-Jazeera’s Web site.

The new message, whose authenticity could not immediately be confirmed, comes after a bin Laden tape released last week in which he endorsed a failed attempt to blow up an American airliner on Christmas Day.

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Overwhelming Scientific Evidence on Climate Change

Highlights the ridiculousness that is Obama.

The sucker does NOT HAVE A CLUE what he is saying. Even morons Biden and Pelosi are clued in; Obama is not.

H/T: The Astute Bloggers IT’S OFFICIAL: AGW IS DEAD: IT’S NOW A PUNCHLINE EVERYONE LAUGHS AT

US Government Scientists Cherry-Pick Their Input Data

But that’s not all: US government scientists RIG their output data; AFTER THEY ARE DONE cherry-picking their input data.

(I am referring to US GOVERNMENT CLIMATE and WEATHER scientists, immediately. But if you suffer from the allusion you are a scientist, and work for the US government, you should ask yourself if you are in the wrong kitchen. You absolutely should consider a scientific career at the UN).

GERMS would make superior US government scientists, imho.

The bigger the government, the bigger the lie – has been demonstrated.

In fact, what is proven is that “government scientist” is an oxymoron perfectly designed for the satisfaction of illiterate government bureaucrats and journalists.

My advice is to keep “government scientists” at about 6 parsecs distance (note for journalists, this is a long way). Otherwise, they are genetically predisposed to pick your pocket; and will do so without mercy until long after global warming freezes over.

The “allegations” – as disingeneously referred to by the journalist below – are scientifically justified – the proof is a lock. The facts are obvious and speak for themselves. This is in noteworthy distinction to anthropogenic global warming, which has never been scientifically proven. “TRUE BELIEVERS” are only interested in the unproven. Of what is scientifically proven or what is actual history (e.g. Medieval Warming), they prefer to remain skeptical.

Scientists using selective temperature data

, skeptics say

Two American researchers allege that U.S. government scientists have skewed global temperature trends by ignoring readings from thousands of local weather stations around the world, particularly those in colder altitudes and more northerly latitudes, such as Canada.

In the 1970s, nearly 600 Canadian weather stations fed surface temperature readings into a global database assembled by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Today, NOAA only collects data from 35 stations across Canada.

Worse, only one station — at Eureka on Ellesmere Island — is now used by NOAA as a temperature gauge for all Canadian territory above the Arctic Circle.

The Canadian government, meanwhile, operates 1,400 surface weather stations across the country, and more than 100 above the Arctic Circle, according to Environment Canada.

Yet as American researchers Joseph D’Aleo, a meteorologist, and E. Michael Smith, a computer programmer, point out in a study published on the website of the Science and Public Policy Institute, NOAA uses “just one thermometer [for measuring] everything north of latitude 65 degrees.”

SCAM! SCAM! SCAM!

H/T: Moonbattery SCAM! SCAM! SCAM!
H/T: Breitbart.tv ‘Scam, Scam, Scam!’: European Parliament Member Rips Global Warming Hysteria

Who Said The Glaciers Are Melting?

The Nobel Prize Committee HOPED the glaciers were melting. And, it was so, for a while. Who do we blame?

Not everybody believed. Not everybody wanted to believe.

EVEN THE “SCIENTIST” WHO MADE THE BOGUS CLAIM DIDN’T BELIEVE IT.

He wanted to influence government! And government was more than happy to oblige, sans examination of the details. Another example of government failure.

Same story in New Zealand, same story at Hadley CRU, same story at Penn State, same story at NASA GISS, same story at . . .

QED. AGW believers are dupes. THE NOBEL PRIZE COMMITTEE IS HOLDING THE BAG. Wake up. You are killing people.

Take back those ridiculous prizes for anti-science.

The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.
Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.
In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Dr Lal, the co-ordinating lead author of the report’s chapter on Asia, said: ‘It related to several countries in this region and their water sources. We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.
‘It had importance for the region, so we thought we should put it in.’

Story here: Glacier scientist: I knew data hadn’t been verified

H/T: American Thinker IPCC scientist admits Glaciergate was about influencing governments