Global air temperatures have stayed flat since 1998.
Global sea temperatures have declined since 2005.
Sea levels have remained stationary since 2006.
Arctic ice sheet has been growing (strongly) since 2007.
All the while, carbon dioxide has continued upward.
$20 (Aus) per year per taxpayer (according to politician Rudd) to reduce carbon dioxide, or $4500?
Chinese emissions will grow by 30 times Australia’s emissions in only 10 years; while Aus emissions will decline by 5%; at a cost of $4500 per taxpayer per year.
Obama wants energy costs to skyrocket in the US.
I’d say we’re all being conned.
We should all do the math.

However, the investigation already threatens to become another cover-up.

Can we rely on the thoroughness and fairness of this investigation? We certainly cannot rely on the “science” that has come out of Penn State, courtesy of Michael Mann.

I hope we can contact Penn State “investigators” and communicate the urgency of examining carefully all the facts. The “concerns that have been raised” are very serious and arise from a substantial amount of evidence and information.

The language of this statement is not encouraging for science, or for Penn State.

WUWT: Mann to be investigated by Penn State University review

In recent days a lengthy file of emails has been made public. Some of the questions raised through those emails may have been addressed already by the NAS investigation but others may not have been considered. The University is looking into this matter further, following a well defined policy used in such cases. No public discussion of the matter will occur while the University is reviewing the concerns that have been raised.

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Al Gore was collecting commissions for the critical function of making a market in this BS, naturally, would be my guess.

Story: Doug Ross @ Journal Timing: NASA Warmist James Hansen’s Book Due Out Next Month

Put simply, these would-be oligarchs went long on the climate change scam, figuring nothing could stop the march to Eco-Socialism. They were wrong.

Intrade’s Cap-and-Trade contract — which gauges the likelihood of passage of a carbon tax bill — has dropped from $40 to an all-time low of sixty cents.

In other words, there’s a better chance that Gene Simmons will be the next Supreme Court Justice.

Hansen, Browner and Holdren are now, officially, walking one-liners. Every time one of them enters a room, sound a rimshot.

Here’s directorblue’s Review of Hansen’s book:

Its title — Dreams from my Sauna — was inspired by the famous incident in which Hansen was reportedly locked in a sauna for six hours. The after-effects of the episode left Hansen forever scarred, worried that his children and grandchildren would suffer a similar fate due to either climate change or a faulty door;-)

ROFLMAO.

One-man climate catastrophe

Read the real book review here: Timing: NASA Warmist James Hansen’s Book Due Out Next Month

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Actually, a lot more lies – because there has been no warming, since at least 1998. Every “dataset” one can obtain has had the truth mangled out of it. The raw data has been destroyed. Those who controlled the data violated the public trust.

The parade of lies and abuse of funding intended for SCIENTIFIC research and services continues, but that is only the tip of the iceberg called Anthropogenic Climate Change.

The American Thinker (J.R. Dunn) story is: Global Warming Fraud and the Future of Science

The East Anglia Climate Research Unit “CRU” – only the latest, if climactic, in a long line of abuses.

It would be no real exaggeration to state that it was fertilized with fraud, marinated in fraud, stewed in fraud, and at last served up to the world as prime grade-A fraud with nice side orders of fakery and disingenuousness.

Y2K “oversight”

This episode involved the NASA/GISS team led by James Hansen, possibly the most fanatical and unrelenting of all warmists, a man who makes Al Gore look like a skeptic. (Among other things, Hansen has demanded that warming “deniers” be tried for “crimes against humanity”.) While examining a series of NASA temperature graphs, Canadian statistician Steve McIntyre, himself not so much a skeptic as an anti-warming Van Helsing, uncovered a discontinuity occurring in January 2000 that raised temperatures gathered over widespread areas by 1-2 degrees Fahrenheit. McIntyre had no easy time of it, since Hansen refused to reveal what algorithm he’d used to process the data, forcing McIntyre to perform some very abstruse calculations to figure it out.

Arctic Ice Cycle Ruse

Everybody involved knew that this cycle occurred, everyone had seen it happen previously time out of mind. But it was too good an opportunity to pass up. Worse yet, when the weather returned to its normal pattern two years ago, large numbers of scientists put in considerable effort to suggest that the “new” ice was thinner than usual and would vanish in a flash as soon as the temperatures went back up. The media went along with the joke. The Germans have a phrase to cover such eventualities: this crew should be stripped of their trade. (Several expeditions setting out for the Pole to “call attention” to the coming Arctic catastrophe had to stop short due to icy conditions. In one case, both women involved suffered serious frostbite.)

Polar Bear Fakery

This was evidently inspired by a single photograph (you’ve seen it — the entire world has at this point) of a woebegone polar bear crouched on a melting iceberg. That bear had to be sulking over allowing a nice juicy seal to escape, because it was in no danger. Out of the twenty major polar bear populations only two are known to be decreasing. Estimates of bear population (there are no exact figures) have increased over the past forty years, from 17,000 to19,000 to the current number of 22,000 to 27,000.

The Hockey Stick That Wasn’t.

This chart creates immediate doubt in anyone knowledgeable about the climate of the past millennium, which more resembles a roller coaster than a straight line. It developed — in yet another impressive McIntyre takedown, this time with an assist from Ross McKitrick — that Mann was utilizing an algorithm that would produce hockey sticks if you fed it telephone numbers. (Mann is the “Mike” mentioned in the CRU e-mails, and this is one of his “tricks”.) Despite this disclosure, Mann has never withdrawn the chart, offered an explanation, or made a correction. The chart remains an accepted piece of evidence among warmists.

Tree Ring Circus

How many trees were measured, you ask? A hundred? A thousand? Ten thousand?

The answer is twelve. A number perfectly adequate to trigger international panic, overthrow the capitalist system, establish a Green totalitarianism, and completely turn Western culture on its head.
But it turns out that further measurements were in fact made in the area, involving at least thirty-four other trees. And when this data is added to the original twelve, then the warming evidence disappears into the same branch of the Twilight Zone as the blade of Mann’s hockey stick. Another “oversight”, you understand.

Siting Earth stations by air conditioners, on blacktop, etc. – endless miscellaneous lies

We could go on to mention the automated U.S. weather stations chronicled by the tireless Anthony Watts, which were conscientiously placed next to air-con vents, atop sewage plants, in parking lots, and in one case, in a swamp (as many as 90% may be giving spurious high readings). The glaciers that are vanishing worldwide except where they aren’t. The endless papers demonstrating that the coral reefs, along with various birds, animals, insects, and plants, are facing extinction even though no warming whatsoever has occurred for twelve years. (And in the thirty years before that, the total rise was 1.25 degrees Fahrenheit, easily within normal variation.) Powerful stuff, this warming — it maims and destroys even when it’s not happening.

New Zealand’s NiWA Fraud & Prediction

The late-breaking revelations of temperature manipulations at New Zealand’s NiWA institute — another one of Mike’s tricks? — merely underlines the lesson of CRU. Now that the dam has busted, we’ll be hearing dozens of stories like this over the weeks and months to come.

In each case, the end, to save Earth by taking control of it, justifies the means, apparently in the minds of the scientists we are examining.

What is the cost?

Scientists were once among the most trusted figures in Western public life, similar to bankers, priests, and doctors, but in a real sense standing above them all. Scientists were honored as truth-tellers, aware that their reputation for veracity and seriousness was their only real asset. And while exceptions existed (read the story of Blondlot and his N-rays, for one example), the public took them at their own valuation.

That is ended, one with the scholastic monasteries and the academy at Athens. Scientists today are well on their way to becoming an amalgam of the cheap politician and the three-card monte dealer. They are viewed by the less educated as a privileged class making alarming and impudent claims for their own benefit. The better informed find ourselves in the uncomfortable position of being unable to defend something we once admired.

Must read story: The American Thinker Global Warming Fraud and the Future of Science

“The penalty good men pay for not being interested in politics is that they end up being ruled by men worse than themselves.” – Plato, ca. 340 BC

“ETS” is Emissions Trading Scheme, in Australia.

WUWT: The Australian ETS vote: a political litmus test for cap and trade

On Friday, 12 Liberal members of parliament resigned their frontbench positions rather than be forced into a party line vote for ETS. That is quite a statement. The MP’s are hearing from their constituents in large numbers. From ABC news in Australia, this snippet:

“The phone lines have been in meltdown with people saying that the Liberal Party would not be doing its job as an Opposition simply to pass this thing without the scrutiny that people calling my office think it demands,” he [MP Tony Abbott] said.
[. . .]
The ETS vote has been delayed until Monday, and there may well be a leadership “spill” before the vote. If ETS fails in Australia, it will the first eco-political casualty affected in part by Climategate.

This from Andrew Bolt, to Anthony Watts:
[. . . ]I’ve talked about Climategate on radio stations in four states, including the highest-rating AM shows in Sydney and Melbourne. Some talkback shows have flogged the issue, particularly in Brisbane and Sydney. Readers of the blog and other sources, or listeners to Sydney talkback in particular, have bombarded their MPs with emails mentioning it. I’ve debated it on the ABC (your BBC) on its flagship late-night political show, watched by many politicians. And still that doesn’t cover it all.

Many MPs have been scared to challenge a “consensus”, fearing they may not just be outgunned but simply wrong. The emails give some extra confidence. I doubt more than a handful at best would not know of them, and no sceptic would not be emboldened by them. [. . .]

The emails of Climategate may shift the momentum. Australians are burning up the phone lines to shut down ETS.

Important information on Climategate.

Governments around the world want your cash. Obama wants to give it to them, not to mention, to himself. The rationale for doing this comes from a science of lies. Catch up on the nitty-gritty.

Thanks to WUWT, Understanding Climategate: Who’s Who – a video

It doesn’t matter how badly, and criminally, the science was done.

It doesn’t matter that scientists of other viewpoints were systematically prevented from publishing and participating in the “science.” (Settling is not science, in this and many other writer’s opinions).

It doesn’t matter that the scientists violated various national laws which provide for transparency.

It doesn’t matter that the Earth is really getting cold, while carbon dioxide continues upward.

It doesn’t matter that the Earth could be entering a prolonged period of bitter cold, which seems to be indicated by some of the legitimate science, publishing of which was interfered with by the AGW clique.

The Obama administration, according to socialist climate czar Carol Browner, will press forward with cap and trade, international treaties comprimising the sovereignty of the United States, and skyrocketing energy prices to Americans. The means is justified.

Climate ‘czar’ says hacked e-mails don’t change anything

By Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times

Obama administration climate czar Carol Browner on Wednesday rejected claims that e-mails stolen from a British university show climate scientists trumped up global warming numbers, saying she considers the science settled.

“I’m sticking with the 2,500 scientists. These people have been studying this issue for a very long time and agree this problem is real,” said Ms. Browner, who President Obama has tapped as his chief of policy on global warming.

The e-mails were hacked from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and have come to light over the last week. They appear to show scientists saying they’ve smoothed over data that doesn’t back up their claims of warming, and pondering how to freeze out scientists who disagree with them.

Release of the e-mails has fueled skeptics ahead of next month’s major global warming meeting in Copenhagen, which is supposed to set the framework for a new global treaty to restrict greenhouse gas emissions.

The White House said Wednesday that Mr. Obama will personally travel to Copenhagen to commit the U.S. to greenhouse gas reductions.

The e-mails remain a point of debate, with skeptics pointing to several data sets that show the last few years have actually seen a cooling effect.

Sen. James Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican, has called for an investigation into the e-mails, and says they confirm his long-held suspicion that climate claims are not supported by the actual data.

Ms. Browner said the only people who still doubt global warming is happening and that humans are to blame are “a very small group of people who continue to say this isn’t a real problem, that we don’t need to do anything.”

She also said the e-mails are only trickling out, and that the entire set hasn’t been released.

Ms. Browner initially shrugged when asked about the e-mails, saying she didn’t have a reaction. But when a reporter followed up, she said she will stick with the consensus of the 2,500 climate scientists on the International Panel on Climate Change who concluded global warming is happening and is most likely being pushed by human actions.

Obama’s carbon footprint makes cheapskates out of all the rest of American presidents, combined.

The White House was not adequate, judged Obama, for the recent Obama “State Dinner,” so Obama erected a massive glass structure on the White House lawn for what has to be one of the most expensive state dinners of all time.

It’s nice to be king of America. Regardless of the general economic conditions, or Obama’s poll results, Obama does what makes him feel good.

Obama White House Energy Example

Everybody in attendance was highly impressed with Obama’s unique and lavish arrangements; also they were warm and comfortable.

Story here: Obama State Dinner

Surprise (not). New Zealand’s climate authority is also involved in criminal climate conspiracy.

Perhaps the IPCC fouls whatever it touches (ya think?)

Which evil is more responsible for climate fraud? National governments, or the IPCC? A fine point, perhaps.

BREAKING: NZ’s NIWA accused of CRU-style temperature faking

There have been strident claims that New Zealand is warming. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), among other organisations and scientists, allege that, along with
the rest of the world, we have been heating up for over 100 years.

But now, a simple check of publicly-available information proves these claims wrong. In fact, New Zealand’s temperature has been remarkably stable for a century and a half. So what’s going on?

New Zealand’s National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) is responsible for New Zealand’s National Climate Database. This database, available online, holds all New Zealand’s climate data, including temperature readings, since the 1850s. Anybody can go and get the data for free. That’s what we did, and we made our own graph.

This data has been adjusted by NZ, IPCC government scientists

Actual NZ tem\perature data, unadjusted by scientists

Straight away you can see there’s no slope—either up or down. The temperatures are remarkably constant way back to the 1850s. Of course, the temperature still varies from year to year, but the trend stays level—statistically insignificant at 0.06°C per century since 1850.

Putting these two graphs side by side, you can see huge differences. What is going on?

Why does NIWA’s graph show strong warming, but graphing their own raw data looks completely different? Their graph shows warming, but the actual temperature readings show none whatsoever!

Have the readings in the official NIWA graph been adjusted?

It is relatively easy to find out. We compared raw data for each station (from NIWA’s web site) with the adjusted official data, which we obtained from one of Dr Salinger’s colleagues.

Requests for this information from Dr Salinger himself over the years, by different scientists, have long gone unanswered, but now we might discover the truth.

Proof of man-made warming

What did we find? First, the station histories are unremarkable. There are no reasons for any large corrections. But we were astonished to find that strong adjustments have indeed been made.

About half the adjustments actually created a warming trend where none existed; the other half greatly exaggerated existing warming. All the adjustments increased or even created a warming trend, with only one (Dunedin) going the other way and slightly reducing the original trend.

The shocking truth is that the oldest readings have been cranked way down and later readings artificially lifted to give a false impression of warming, as documented below. There is nothing in the station histories to warrant these adjustments and to date Dr Salinger and NIWA have not revealed why they did this.

One station, Hokitika, had its early temperatures reduced by a huge 1.3°C, creating strong warming from a mild cooling, yet there’s no apparent reason for it.

We have discovered that the warming in New Zealand over the past 156 years was indeed man-made, but it had nothing to do with emissions of CO2—it was created by man-made adjustments of the temperature. It’s a disgrace.

NIWA claim their official graph reveals a rising trend of 0.92ºC per century, which means (they claim) we warmed more than the rest of the globe, for according to the IPCC, global warming over the 20th century was only about 0.6°C.

Why is it so necessary to science that the Earth be warming?

More at Moonbattery: Warmists Caught Fudging Data in New Zealand

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Obama today announced that Government Sponsored Enterprises “GSEs” FNMA and FMAC will commence offering Carbon Offset Spread Swaps.

Obama explained “for affordable carbon credits so that Americans can afford to exhale, we absolutely must have a strong, orderly, and well-regulated (by me) world market. Carbon Offset Spread Swaps will make such a market possible. The timing is just perfect for this new market.”

Obama continued “The wealth of Americans will do everyone a lot more good if it is spread around, not just in America, but all over the world. These new products will ensure the participation of the entire world in a rich new society, free of American economic and military domination.”

“There is no risk of a carbon credit price bubble,” explained Obama. “Global temperatures will always go in one direction – up.” Hadley CRU Climate Director Philip Jones echoed Obama’s apprisal of global climate change. “The hockey stick is a sacred reality, of that there can be no debate,” according to Jones.

FNMA and FMAC will buy their carbon credits on the open world market, then bundle them to make exciting new government option products. Greedy capitalists are not employable at FNMA and FMAC, which is another good reason why there can never, NEVER, be a bubble. Only greedy bureaucrats need apply.

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