Posts Made By: Dave Snope

Here is an example on how the math is done in Ohio. From The Columbus Dispatch

The Obama administration announced Friday that federal stimulus money had created or saved about 7,200 education jobs in Ohio as of Sept. 30.

Although a couple of hundred of those jobs were in Columbus City Schools, the district acknowledged yesterday that many of the “saved” jobs definitely wouldn’t have been lost in the first place, and others might not have been lost at all.
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of the 212.5 full-time equivalent jobs the district said were funded with part of the $64 million in stimulus it expects to receive, about 65 percent were “saved,” including 36 principals and assistant principals.

So was the district on the verge of laying off 36 school administrators?

“No,” Dannemiller said, explaining that the reporting choices were “created” and “saved.”

“They weren’t ‘created,’ obviously, so our only other choice was ’saved.’ “

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/11/03/copy/stimulus_jobs.ART_ART_11-03-09_B1_RDFIAA5.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

Remember, these are the cream of the crop of AGW scientists:

if genuine, they suggest dubious practices such as:

Manipulation of evidence:

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.

Private doubts about whether the world really is heating up:

The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.

Suppression of evidence:

Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?

Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.

Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new email address.

We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.

Fantasies of violence against prominent Climate Sceptic scientists:

Next
time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat
the crap out of him. Very tempted.

Attempts to disguise the inconvenient truth of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP):

……Phil and I have recently submitted a paper using about a dozen NH records that fit this category, and many of which are available nearly 2K back–I think that trying to adopt a timeframe of 2K, rather than the usual 1K, addresses a good earlier point that Peck made w/ regard to the memo, that it would be nice to try to “contain” the putative “MWP”, even if we don’t yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back….

And, perhaps most reprehensibly, a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. How, in other words, to create a scientific climate in which anyone who disagrees with AGW can be written off as a crank, whose views do not have a scrap of authority.

“This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing in the “peer-reviewed literature”. Obviously, they found a solution to that–take over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we have to stop considering “Climate Research” as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board…What do others think?”

“I will be emailing the journal to tell them I’m having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor.”“It results from this journal having a number of editors. The responsible one for this is a well-known skeptic in NZ. He has let a few papers through by Michaels and Gray in the past. I’ve had words with Hans von Storch about this, but got nowhere. Another thing to discuss in Nice !”

Another pre-Copenhagen fishwrap based on a simulation that defies real data, only meant to induce wealth transfer to African and the Middle East via implied damage by western emissions via the following mandates.

17. [[Developed [and developing] countries] [Developed and developing country Parties] [All Parties] [shall] [should]:]
(a) Compensate for damage to the LDCs’ economy and also compensate for lost opportunities, resources, lives, land and dignity, as many will become environmental refugees;
(b) Africa, in the context of environmental justice, should be equitably compensated for environmental, social and economic losses arising from the implementation of response measures.

They're ALL FOR IT! They must be paid large sums to maintain their dignity and environmental justice. The Scandi's absolutely agree that the U.S. should pay lots of money to Africa. China and India are happy to see a weakened U.S. economy. And the Middle East nations absolutely agree that the infidels should pay jizya taxes to them. Everybody wins.

Let's look at another POV that uses actual measurements: SAHARA DESERT GREENING DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090731-green-sahara.html

Emerging evidence is painting a very different scenario, one in which rising temperatures could benefit millions of Africans in the driest parts of the continent.

Scientists are now seeing signals that the Sahara desert and surrounding regions are greening due to increasing rainfall.

If sustained, these rains could revitalize drought-ravaged regions, reclaiming them for farming communities.

This desert-shrinking trend is supported by climate models, which predict a return to conditions that turned the Sahara into a lush savanna some 12,000 years ago.

The green shoots of recovery are showing up on satellite images of regions including the Sahel, a semi-desert zone bordering the Sahara to the south that stretches some 2,400 miles (3,860 kilometers).

Images taken between 1982 and 2002 revealed extensive regreening throughout the Sahel, according to a new study in the journal Biogeosciences.

The study suggests huge increases in vegetation in areas including central Chad and western Sudan.

While observing the shockingly poor scientific ethics of this group of leading AGW scientists for the last decade, I often wondered what sort of people could rise to their level of global respect while behaving like a basket of slippery eels. That isn't how scientists are supposed to behave. For some time I tried to believe that they were good, ethical people that were blinded by their fervor to save the planet. Eventually that belief became impossible to maintain, but I still fought off the urge to view them as entirely corrupt. So what kind of men are these?

The CRU emails shed a lot of light on that question.

What's very disappointing is the cowardice of the scientific community, university administrators, and technical publications, for allowing these rockstar bullies to carry out their fraud and operate with impunity. They are responsible for letting money and politics lead the science. The world's press, of course, did what they always do.

The L.A. Times is a joke, 7 days a week.

They can add this crusade to their joke-of-the-day attempts to defend Acorn's helping hands for teen prostitution.

And their weekly joke attempt to distort recorded transcripts to excuse Roman Polanski's child drugging and anal rape of a 13-year old.

Not to mention their knee-jerk attempts to cover up Ft. Hood mass-murderer Hasan's religion and spin it with a grotesque assertion that there was somehow a Ft. Hood murders connection to army suicides due to service in Iraq.

Or running an op-ed by a Hamas terrorist Abu Marzook. You know, giving their point of view is only fair.

And pretty much anything that Pulitzer prize winner Chuck Phillips wrote about crime and murder, using forged documents or withholding facts that would otherwise solve capitol murder cases.

Or of their copying information from Wikipedia as if it was news and facts.

The L.A. Times: it puts the joke in journalism:

Latif is fairly reasonable guy. If the leading AGW scientists were more like him, we'd have far less fuel for fearmongering by politicians and press. And his name hasn't come up in any of the data-doctoring scandals of the last decade.

None of the alarmists and their supercomputer climate models ever predicted even a 30-year respite in their apocalyptic scenarios. Neither did they predict the sun, that thermonuclear furnace in the sky that has more influence on earth’s climate than any number of Ford Explorers, would suddenly go quiet for an indefinite period. Latif and others conclude that, at the very least, we have time to think about it and analyze and learn. We don’t have to fight global warming by inflicting global poverty. More things on Earth affect climate than are dreamed up in computer models.
–Investor’s Business Daily, 22 September 2009

Aaaah, that old communist Schellnhuber is at it again. What the world needs most is redistribution of wealth, so it's his duty to scare everybody. And we all know how well it has worked in recent history to transfer wealth to african dictators...

Question: So industrialized nations would have to pay massive sums of money?

Schellnhuber: Yes. Up to €100 billion ($142 billion) annually. If the richest sixth of the world’s population were to pay this amount, each person would have to pay €100 per year. The West would give back part of the wealth it has taken from the South in the past centuries and be indebted to countries that are now amongst the poorest in the world. It would, however, have to be ensured that the poorer nations use the money for the proposes it is intended — namely to help them to develop a greener economy.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,646506,00.html

Ooooh, another "provocative" new study. As I predicted, they are provocatively surging in now, one after the other, each one cheaper than the last, faster and faster towards the unstoppable climax in Copenhagen.

They're not even trying to pretend to be scientific now. A pinch of this, a teaspoon of that, add some spicy editorializing, and we have UNSTOPPABLE GLOBAL WARMING.

Next week these guys will be standing on street corners in Copenhagen dressed like anthropogenic prostitutes, calling out for reporters, "yoo hooo, hey Joe, you want it hot? I got yer hot right here. You thought you were cool, but you will be sooooo hott with meeeee! All I need is some cap'n'change cash, and I'll rock your world and bring your sky falling down."

To add some context, this is the Stephen Schneider "scientist" that wrote about a FOI request:
Good luck with this, and expect more of it as we get closer to international climate policy actions, We are witnessing the “contrarian battle of the bulge” now, and expect that all weapons will be used.

Cheers, Steve

PS Please do not copy or forward this email.

Just another trashy AGW fake scientist trying to cheat the taxpayers out of more money.

"Real" Climate is run by the same crew of fraudulent scientists that committed Climategate. Levelheaded? Unbiased? Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Might as well ask Al Gore for his opinion on the matter.

Thank you, Paul Ehrlich. You were wrong. We're still here, alive, better than ever, healthier, fresher, cleaner, better fed, longer-lived, more sexed, more fueled, with faster cars, better weather, cleaner air, bigger boobs, and more hot tubs. Sorry you missed out. Oh yeah, and say Hi to your pal John Holdren.