Posts Made By: Dave Snope

I don't think for a minute that science is validated by the number of people who are for or against it. But the AGW proponents continue to push the scientific consensus idea without any valid numbers to back it up. Usually citing an IPCC exaggeration about the number of scientists supporting their reports.

52 scientists authored the 2007 IPCC Summary For Policy Makers.

More than 1000 dissenting scientists (updates previous 700 scientist report) from around the globe have now challenged man-made global warming claims made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice President Al Gore. This new 2010 320-page Climate Depot Special Report ¡ª updated from 2007¡äs groundbreaking U.S. Senate Report of over 400 scientists who voiced skepticism about the so-called global warming ¡°consensus¡± ¡ª features the skeptical voices of over 1000 international scientists, including many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN IPCC. This updated 2010 report includes a dramatic increase of over 300 additional (and growing) scientists and climate researchers since the last update in March 2009. This report¡¯s release coincides with the 2010 UN global warming summit being held in Cancun.

The chorus of skeptical scientific voices grew louder in 2010 as the Climategate scandal ¡ª which involved the upper echelon of UN IPCC scientists ¡ª detonated upon on the international climate movement. ¡°I view Climategate as science fraud, pure and simple,¡± said noted Princeton Physicist Dr. Robert Austin shortly after the scandal broke. Climategate prompted UN IPCC scientists to turn on each other. UN IPCC scientist Eduardo Zorita publicly declared that his Climategate colleagues Michael Mann and Phil Jones ¡°should be barred from the IPCC process¡­They are not credible anymore.¡± Zorita also noted how insular the IPCC science had become. ¡°By writing these lines I will just probably achieve that a few of my future studies will, again, not see the light of publication,¡± Zorita wrote. A UN lead author Richard Tol lead author grew disillusioned with the IPCC and lamented that it had been ¡°captured¡± and demanded that ¡°the Chair of IPCC and the Chairs of the IPCC Working Groups should be removed.¡± Tol also publicly called for the ¡°suspension¡± of IPCC Process in 2010 after being invited by the UN to participate as lead author again in the next IPCC Report.

Other UN scientists were more blunt. South African UN scientist declared the UN IPCC a ¡°worthless carcass¡± and noted IPCC chair Pachauri is in ¡°disgrace¡±. He also explained that the ¡°fraudulent science continues to be exposed.¡± Alexander, a former member of the UN Scientific and Technical Committee on Natural Disasters harshly critiqued the UN. ¡°¡®I was subjected to vilification tactics at the time. I persisted. Now, at long last, my persistence has been rewarded¡­There is no believable evidence to support [the IPCC] claims. I rest my case!¡± See: S. African UN Scientist Calls it! ¡®Climate change ¨C RIP: Cause of Death: No scientifically believable evidence¡­Deliberate manipulation to suit political objectives¡¯ [Also see: New Report: UN Scientists Speak Out On Global Warming -- As Skeptics!] Geologist Dr. Don Easterbrook, a professor of geology at Western Washington University, summed up the scandal on December 3, 2010: ¡°The corruption within the IPCC revealed by the Climategate scandal, the doctoring of data and the refusal to admit mistakes have so severely tainted the IPCC that it is no longer a credible agency.¡±


http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/08/shredding-the-climate-consensus-myth-more-than-1000-international-scientists-dissent-over-man-made-global-warming-claims-challenge-un-ipcc-gore/#more-29110

Sorry, I much prefer to discuss scientific issues, but this is climage change insanity. While islamic terrorists continue to carbomb NY, shoot dozens in Ft. Hood, both after being on terror watch lists; plot bomb attacks on subways and bridges and bases and skyscrapers, and now plot to put ricin in our salad bars for the holidays, DHS is using valuable resources to defend against climate change. It's a real wonder that we haven't been hit harder with these clowns running the show. Maybe this belongs in the politics forum:

At an all-day White House conference on "environmental justice," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that her department is creating a new task force to battle the effects of climate change on domestic security operations.

Speaking at the first White House Forum on Environmental Justice on Thursday, Napolitano discussed the initial findings of the department’s recently created "Climate Change and Adaptation Task Force."

Napolitano explained that the task force was charged with “identifying and assessing the impact that climate change could have on the missions and operations of the Department of Homeland Security.”


a more likely effect of climate change is that one of these wanna-be martyrs will slip on some ice during this frigid La Nina winter and prematurely splodeydope himself.

From WUWT, some criticism of the Hottest Year on Record hype that been flying around the media, using the NCDC's own data:


Of course there is no mention of the USA temperature ranking in the recent press release from NOAA. The only mention of the USA in that PR that comes close is this:

In the contiguous United States, 2010 was the 14th consecutive year with an annual temperature above the long-term average. Since 1895, the temperature across the nation has increased at an average rate of approximately 0.12 F per decade.

There’s no mention of the 2010 ranking for the USA temperature at all, nor any mention of the fact that 2010 was not nearly as warm as 1998, or 1934. I find that more than a little odd for an agency whose mission is to serve the American people with accurate and representative climate data.

They couldn’t find room for a sentence or two to mention the USA historical temperature rank for 2010? Apparently not.

No matter how many times they are caught faking the data, these guys remain at the pinnacle of respected climate change science.

Dr Benny Peiser and Dr David Whitehouse, of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), have written to John Hirst, chief executive of the beleaguered Met Office, asking for an explanation of a press release issued by his organisation on January 20 and headed “2010 – a near record year”. This won headlines by claiming that last year was hotter than any other in the past decade.

When the two men examined the original data from which this claim was derived – compiled by the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit and the Met Office’s Hadley Centre – it clearly showed 2010 as having been cooler than 2005 (and 1998) and equal to 2003. It emerged that, for the purposes of the press release, the data had been significantly adjusted.

Comparing the actual data for each year, from 2001 to 2010, with that given in the press release shows that for four years the original figure has been adjusted downwards. Only for 2010 was the data revised upwards, by the largest adjustment of all, allowing the Met Office to claim that 2010 was the hottest year of the decade.

I asked the Met Office to comment on what seems like yet another embarrassing example of juggling with the figures. It denied the charge and I shall report on its lengthily evasive reply, once the GWPF has had a more considered response from Mr Hirst.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/8290469/How-BBC-warmists-abuse-the-science.html

Dr. Noor van Andel, former head of research at Akzo Nobel, has a new paper out showing the available data to date contradicts the notion of greenhouse gas induced global warming or 'climate change.' He notes that while there have been extensive efforts to 'prove' the 'greenhouse' warming theory by bringing computer models and observations into agreement, this has been done "strangely only by adjusting the measurements instead of adjusting the models," in other words, via unscientific means. Dr. van Andel instead finds that ocean oscillations and the cosmic ray theory of Svensmark et al best explain climate changes.

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This behavior has been a problem for many, as it contradicts the global-warming-by-greenhouse- gases theory. So there has been a large activity to bring models and observations into agreement, strangely only by adjusting the measurements instead of adjusting the models.


http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2011/01/scientist-climate-changes-are-not.html

And makes our food very expensive. That and ethanol.

Release from Sysco to supermarket buyers on Feb 8:

ALL OF OUR GROWERS HAVE INVOKED THE ACT OF GOD CLAUSE ON OUR CONTRACTS DUE TO THE FOLLOWING RELEASE. WE WILL BE CONTACTING YOU PERSONALLY TO REVIEW HOW THIS WILL AFFECT OUR CONTRACTED ITEMS WITH YOU GOING FORWARD.

THE DEVASTATING FREEZE IN MEXICO IS WORST FREEZE IN OVER 50 YEARS...

THE EXTREME FREEZING TEMPERATURES HIT A VERY BROAD SECTION OF MAJOR GROWING REGIONS IN MEXICO, FROM HERMOSILLO IN THE NORTH ALL THE WAY SOUTH TO LOS MOCHIS AND EVEN SOUTH OF CULIACAN. THE EARLY REPORTS ARE STILL COMING IN BUT MOST ARE SHOWING LOSSES OF CROPS IN THE RANGE OF 80 TO 100%. EVEN SHADE HOUSE PRODUCT WAS HIT BY THE EXTREMELY COLD TEMPS. IT WILL TAKE 7-10 DAYS TO HAVE A CLEARER PICTURE FROM GROWERS AND FIELD SUPERVISORS, BUT THESE GROWING REGIONS HAVEN’T HAD COLD LIKE THIS IN OVER A HALF CENTURY. THIS TIME OF YEAR, MEXICO SUPPLIES A SIGNIFICANT PERCENT OF NORTH AMERICA’S ROW CROP VEGETABLES SUCH AS: GREEN BEANS, EGGPLANT, CUCUMBERS, SQUASH, PEPPERS, ASPARAGUS, AND ROUND AND ROMA TOMATOES. FLORIDA NORMALLY IS A MAJOR SUPPLIER FOR THESE ITEMS AS WELL BUT THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN STRUCK WITH SEVERE FREEZE DAMAGE IN DECEMBER AND JANUARY AND UP UNTIL NOW HAVE HAD TO PURCHASE PRODUCT OUT OF MEXICO TO FILL THEIR COMMITMENTS, THAT IS NO LONGER AND OPTION.

WITH THE SERIES OF WEATHER DISASTERS THAT HAS OCCURRED IN BOTH OF THESE MAJOR GROWING AREAS WE WILL EXPERIENCE IMMEDIATE VOLATILE PRICES, EXPECTED LIMITED AVAILABLITITY, AND MEDIOCRE QUALITY AT BEST. THIS WILL NOT ONLY HAVE AN IMMEDIATE IMPACT ON SUPPLIES, BUT BECAUSE OF VERY STRONG BLOSSOM DROPS, THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT SUPPLIES 30 – 60 DAYS FROM NOW. SOME GROWERS ARE MEETING WITH THEIR BOARDS RIGHT NOW TO DETERMINE WHETHER THEY SHOULD IMMEDIATELY RE-PLANT, HOPING FOR A HARVEST BY LATE-MARCH-TO- EARLY-APRIL, OR WHETHER THEY SHOULD DISC THE FIELDS UNDER AND WAIT FOR ANOTHER SEASON.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xA_ZJ2kMDQ0/TVcyucmXERI/AAAAAAAABgc/fHGiPvgQHsw/s1600/Fullscreen%2Bcapture%2B2122011%2B52051%2BPM.jpg

Muammar Gaddafi struck at rebel control of a key Libyan coastal road for a second day Thursday but received a warning he would be held to account at The Hague for suspected crimes by his security forces.

Venezuela said Gaddafi had agreed to its proposal for an international commission to negotiate an end to the turmoil in the world’s 12th largest oil exporting nation.

But a leader of the uprising against Gaddafi’s 41-year-old rule rejected any proposal for talks with the veteran leader…

…The rebels, armed with rocket launchers, anti-aircraft guns and tanks, called Wednesday for U.N.-backed air strikes on foreign mercenaries it said were fighting for Gaddafi.

Opposition activists called for a no-fly zone, echoing a demand by Libya’s deputy U.N. envoy, who now opposes Gaddafi.

“Bring Bush! Make a no fly zone, bomb the planes,” shouted soldier-turned-rebel Nasr Ali, referring to a no-fly zone imposed on Iraq in 1991 by then U.S. President George Bush.

Italy said it was preparing for a potential mass exodus of migrants escaping turmoil in North Africa after a rise in flows of illegal immigrants from Tunisia, the initial destination for tens of thousands who have fled violence in Libya.

A paper published today in the journal Paleoceanography adds to the overwhelming evidence published by over 950 scientists that the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was as hot or hotter than the present, and contrary to the claims of Michael Mann, the MWP was a global -not local- phenomenon. The paper finds mean annual sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the Gulf of Mexico during the MWP were similar to near-modern SSTs, and that the SSTs were significantly cooler than the present during the Little Ice Age. Modern global warming began well before industrialization as a natural recovery from the nadir of the Little Ice Age. By mere coincidence, the global thermometer record begins at the end of the Little Ice Age and reflects recovery from these unusually cold temperatures during the current interglacial.

Famous quote from Michael Mann: "...it would be nice to "contain" the putative 'MWP'," after which he used Mann-made statistics to produce the alarmist and thoroughly discredited hockey stick graph with the MWP "contained," flattened, and beaten to a pulp.


http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2011/03/out-manned-over-950-scientists-show.html

MONTREAL — Severe earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and now Japan have experts around the world asking whether the world's tectonic plates are becoming more active — and what could be causing it.


Some scientists theorize that the sudden melting of glaciers due to man-made climate change is lightening the load on the Earth's surface, allowing its mantle to rebound upwards and causing plates to become unstuck.


These scientists point to the historical increase in volcanic and earthquake activity that occurred about 12,000 years ago when the glaciers that covered most of Canada in an ice sheet several kilometres thick suddenly melted.


The result was that most of Canada's crust lifted — and is still rising.


Scientists have discovered that the accelerated melting of the Greenland ice sheet over the last 10 years already is lifting the southeastern part of that island several millimetres every year.



Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Could+global+warming+causing+recent+earthquakes/4445492/story.html#ixzz1GyTzxCIk


Once again we are given incontrovertible proof that critical thinking is not a requirement to get a journalism degree.

Do these fools even feel the slightest sense of embarassment when they write this nonsense? Does it even occur to them that the recent earthquakes in Japan and Haiti are nowhere near a melting glacier? Does it occur to them to wonder why earthquakes aren't happening in Greenland instead of the tropical and temperate Pacific Rim "ring of fire"? Do they even get a twinge of guilt when writing nonsense to connect natural earthquake activity 12,000 years ago to manmade global warming - induced earthquakes today? Do they even perform a cursory check to see if earthquake activity has increased in the last 10 years, and if it somehow correlates to Greenland glacier melting?

The answers are, of course, no.

Judicial and Freedom Watch Founder Alleges Misuse of “Social Network” In Threatening Jews with Death For Profit
(Washington, D.C., March 31, 2011). Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, and a U.S. Senate candidate in 2004, today filed suit against the "founder" of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook itself for their role in furthering a radical Palestinian page called "Third Intifada," which threatened Jews in particular with death. Mr. Klayman, who is of Jewish origin, is a prominent public interest advocate and as Chairman of Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch has pursued court cases and other activities that involve radical Palestinians. He is also known to be a strong supporter of Israel, and has been called a "Zionist" publicly by radical Palestinians and other such Arabic interests. Mr. Klayman is thus a target of this call to kill Jews.

Over the course of the last week, Defendants were asked to take this Third Intifada and related sites down, but refused. Only in the last few days did they do so, after increased pressure was exerted by the Israeli government.

However, the damage had already been done and it is believed that this and other pages will soon reappear on Facebook.

As alleged in the complaint, one can explain the initial refusal to take down the page as an effort by the Zuckerberg and Facebook to increase the social network's net worth based on viewership and use. It is not in dispute that Facebook has profited handsomely by the turmoil in the Middle East.

The complaint alleges assault and negligence, including willful and wanton conduct, gross negligence and recklessness on the part of the Defendants, as it has put Mr. Klayman's life at risk, as well as other similarly situated Jews who are prominent public figures and otherwise. The complaint reserves the right to be amended into a class action suit and prays for compensatory and punitive damages in excess of $1 Billion Dollars.

"While Facebook has accomplished a lot of good, it can, as in this instance, be used for nefarious and evil purposes. Defendants Zuckerberg's and Facebook's callous and greedy actions in not taking down the page, but willfully allowing it to stay up for many days, has caused huge damage, for which they must be held accountable, so as to prevent this from ever happening again. They must be not only enjoined but also hit in their purse, which is where they understand matters best. Apparently, the ethically compromised Zuckerberg has no conscience or sense of right or wrong, as depicted recently in the award winning film "Social Network."
http://www.freedomwatchusa.org/facebook-and-zuckerberg-sued-for-1-billion