Climate-Gate: Still more 'shenanigans?'

The link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/01/leaked-emails-climate-jones-chinese

" Phil Jones, the beleaguered British climate scientist at the centre of the leaked emails controversy, is facing fresh claims that he sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based.

" A Guardian investigation of thousands of emails and documents apparently hacked from the University of East Anglia's climatic research unit has found evidence that a series of measurements from Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed and that documents relating to them could not be produced. "

Yep. I'd call that a big problem. But it turns out that that's not the biggest problem. For that part, we go here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/01/dispute-weather-fraud

The title? "Strange case of moving weather posts and a scientist under siege."

" It is difficult to imagine a more bizarre academic dispute. Where exactly are 42 weather monitoring stations in remote parts of rural China?

" But the argument over the weather stations, and how it affects an important set of data on global warming, has led to accusations of scientific fraud and may yet result in a significant revision of a scientific paper that is still cited by the UN's top climate science body.

" It also further calls into question the integrity of the scientist at the centre of the scandal over hacked climate emails, the director of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), Dr Phil Jones. The emails suggest that he helped to cover up flaws in temperature data from China that underpinned his research on the strength of recent global warming.

" The Guardian has learned that crucial data obtained by American scientists from Chinese collaborators cannot be verified because documents containing them no longer exist. And what data is available suggests that the findings are fundamentally flawed. "

Again, there's far more material there, but I'll leave it for you to read. This, however, begs a few very interesting questions as well as observations.

1) Alex Jones (yes, that one) has been talking for years about a "Global Tax" and a "New World Order," among other things. Enter the "Global Carbon Tax."

a) http://www.prisonplanet.com/copenhagen-con-men-launch-global-carbon-tax-heist.html (This is Mr. Jones' site.)

b) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122826696217574539.html

c) http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/mar/12/carbon-tax-should-replace-kyoto-protocol

Google "Global Carbon Tax" and you'll get about 644,000 results.

2) Many other people have mentioned a "Global Carbon Tax." Can they all be conspiracy theorists?

So here's my question: Why continue to push for a global carbon tax when we're still not exactly sure of the root causes of global warming? Is mankind at all responsible for it, or does the human race bear sole responsibility for it?

The evidence is, to me, overwhelming. Mankind didn't cause global warming in my opinion, all he has done is make a bad situation worse.

But then you add in the fact that nearly everybody who studies the fossil record will tell you that climate change on this planet follows natural cycles. Remember, there have been 15 mass extinctions on this planet, all but one (possibly two if the "Great Dying" turns out to be due to asteroid impact as well) have been shown to have been caused by global warming. Indeed, the fossil record itself suggests that we're in a period of mass-extinction right now. Remember my writing about it yesterday? And earlier than that, even. It's called "The Holocene Mass Extinction Event."

The sun itself follows a cycle.

Add to that the fact that, if the Earth didn't have the moon that we have, the Earth would have its own 10,000 year cycle where the poles and axis would both shift. The moon does a number of wonderful things for us:

1) It gives us moon-lit beaches to walk upon, hand in hand with the person we love,

2) It stabilizes the axis and poles. Without the moon, the Earth would wobble on its axis and shift about every 10,000 years.

3) It slows the Earth down. Without the moon, the Earth would spin a 4-hour day - two hours of daylight and two hours of night.

4) Without the moon (and the tidal forces) surface winds would reach between 350 and 400 kilometers per hour. *

That would make human life hard to sustain on the Earth; the moon's not being there. But you get the point: The moon, the Earth, our sun, the galaxy and our universe all follow cycles.

But to tell me that mankind is solely culpable (at fault) for Earth's global warming is rubbish. Indeed, there is even contradictory evidence that currently points to a coming era of global cooling.

* sources:

Dr. Michio Kaku
Dr. Peter Ward
Dr. Phillip Plait

Article: "Still Rolling: Fox News Has Its Best January Ever"

The link: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/still-rolling-fox-news-has-their-best-january-ever/

The article says it better than anything I could ever write. Fox News had their best January ever, and Special Report with Bret Baier/Brit Hume was the top rated (#1) for the 100th consecutive month.

Now for those liberals who are math-challenged: Consecutive means one right after another. In other words, 100 unbroken months at #1.

Also for you math-challenged libs, there are 12 months in a year. Dividing this out we find that 100 months is 8.33 years.

But how, pray tell, did it get this way?

For that, we only need to go here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/changing_channels/2010/01/msnbc-to-massachusetts-drop-dead.html

Where we find this: " Watching coverage of the Massachusetts senatorial election Tuesday night, I wondered if MSNBC was getting ready to cut off its cable signal to the state. Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, positively enraged that Massachusetts dared to elect a Republican, delivered two hours of nonstop bilious rage toward the state's voters, calling them "irrational" and "teabaggers," engaged in "a total divorce from reality," and hinting that they're vicious racists to boot.

" If you watched CNN or Fox News last night, you got a balanced analysis of how Republican Scott Brown pulled off the political upset of the century (or, if you prefer, how Democrat Martha Coakley blew a dead solid electoral lock). Yes, I said Fox News, without irony. To be sure, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity made it clear they were rooting for Brown. But their shows also included a steady parade of liberal-leaning guests -- former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, former Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich, Democratic party strategist Mary Anne Marsh, NPR commentator Juan Williams and radio host Alan Colmes. And pollster Frank Luntz interviewed a panel of two dozen or so Massachusetts voters, most of them Democrats, about how they voted and why. Practically every conceivable perspective on the election was represented." (emphasis added)

" And on MSNBC, you got practically every conceivable expression of venom against Brown and anybody who voted him. From Maddow's dark suspicions that the election was rigged -- she cited complaints about a grand total of six ballots out of about 2.25 million cast -- to Olbermann's suggestion in the video up above that the same Massachusets voters who went for Barack Obama by a 62-28 percent margin had suddenly realized they helped elect a black guy and went Republican in repentance, the network's coverage was idiotic, one-sided and downright ugly. " (emphasis (and colour) added)

That's the Reader's Digest condensed version of the article. At the link above you can get the complete story about why MS(L)NBC and CNN's ratings are falling like rocks.

On average, Fox News really is "Fair and Balanced." On MS(L)NBC you get Maddow and Olbermann's version of 'reality.'

But I keep forgetting where Ms Maddow came from: Air America Radio. " Air America (formerly Air America Radio and Air America Media) was an American radio network specializing in politically leftwing talk programming. The network started programming on March 31, 2004, ending live programming on January 21, 2010 and all remaining operations on January 25, 2010.

" The network featured discussion and information programs with hosts reflecting leftwing points of view and specialized in presentations and monologues by on-air personalities, guest interviews, calls by listeners, and news reports. " (emphasis added. Links are Wikipedia's and are left intact.)

Mayhaps that's why MS(L)NBC's ratings are tanking? Let's not forget Janeane Garofalo's April 2009 diatribe: " Let's be very honest about what this is about. This is not about bashing Democrats. It's not about taxes. They have no idea what the Boston Tea Party was about. They don't know their history at all. It's about hating a black man in the White House. That is racism straight up. This is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks.[12] " (links are Wikipedia's and are left intact.)

Well then, you intellectual libs, how do you explain this?

Article: "Backdoor taxes to hit middle class"

The link: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/100201/us/usreport_us_budget_backdoortaxes


" NEW YORK (Reuters.com) --The Obama administration's plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade relies heavily on so-called backdoor tax increases that will result in a bigger tax bill for middle-class families.

" In the 2010 budget tabled by President Barack Obama on Monday, the White House wants to let billions of dollars in tax breaks expire by the end of the year -- effectively a tax hike by stealth. " (emphasis added)

Say it ain't so, O!

Will the 'real' 'Ellie Light' please stand up?

You might remember this article from the Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer about 'Ellie Light.'

First, the link: http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2010/01/ellie_light_dozens_more_sighti.html

You'll notice, I hope, the word 'dozens' in there. Indeed, in following the link from the Plain Dealer's site, we get sent here: http://patterico.com/2010/01/23/ellie-lights-obama-letters/

where we get these totals:

69 publications in 31 states and the District of Columbia,
3 National Publications and a Yahoo link, and,
2 foreign publications.

Most of those 69 publications are newspapers, of which 'Ellie Light' gives a local address as her home. Either:

1) Ms Light (If that is this person's real name ... but I'll give you very very long odds against this,) really does get around or

2) Everything about this 'administration' really is staged. Remember Mrs. Obama's (I won't call her the First Lady. First perhaps, but not First Lady) Vegetable Garden?

" In it [the 3-JAN-2010 Food Network episode of "Iron Chef America"], superstar chef Mario Batali teamed with Emeril Lagasse, and Bobby Flay with White House chef Cristeta Comerford to cook five dishes using the secret ingredient: produce from the White House garden.

" Except for one thing: As first reported on AOL’s Politics Daily blog, the fruits and vegetables used on the show weren’t from the White House. They were stunt produce. Ringers. " *

Oops. No doubt it's "Fake but accurate," a phrase used to describe RatherGate.

So, we have the phoney 'doctors' touting Osama (er...Obama)Care, their staged health care 'towne hall meetings' and our brave soldiers being told "You guys make a pretty good photo op." **

I don't think Mr Osama (er...OBAMA) would know what honesty was if it knocked him over. Note to the Department of Hussein's Sycophants and to the Secret Service, I am NOT advocating violence against Mr Obama. This is used to illustrate a point.

* - http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/chi-talk-white-house-veggiesjan14,0,7560057.story

** - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/19/AR2009111900904_pf.html

Editorial: "EDITORIAL: Obama won't connect terror dots"

Two things. First, this is an editorial. Second, this is the Washington Times.

The link: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/01/obama-wont-connect-terror-dots/?feat=home_editorials

" Lloyd R. Woodson was arrested Jan. 25 in rural New Jersey. He had been observed behaving strangely, wearing military-style fatigues and a bulletproof vest. He had a weapon modified to fire .50-caliber rounds from beneath his jacket. He had a hotel room full of weapons and ammunition. Despite all these warning signs, the immediate response from the government was that this was "not a terrorism thing." "

Really?

How then do we explain that various law enforcement authorities are now investigating Mr Woodson's possible ties to radical Islam, including to Anwar al Awlaki, the same radicalized Imam who preached at the Mosque that two of the 9/11 hijackers worshipped at ... and at the same time.

No ties? Come on. Pull your PC blinders off already.

One exit question: Exactly how many more bodies will it take before you wake up?

(H/T: Northeast Intelligence Network)

Article: "UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article"

The link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7111525/UN-climate-change-panel-based-claims-on-student-dissertation-and-magazine-article.html

" The revelation will cause fresh embarrassment for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which had to issue a humiliating apology earlier this month over inaccurate statements about global warming. "

Which, you might recall, contained five factual errors in the first paragraph. Could you imagine you or I presenting such a 'paper' to our professors? We'd quite literally be laughed off campus.

Their 'conclusions' you'll also recall weren't based on the raw data. It turns out that they'd already destroyed the raw data! Google this, you'll find it. Again, try doing that in a paper for a professor. You and your paper would be dead in the water.

But this is climate change we're talking about, so what the hell, right?

Right?

Turns out that in examining the fossil record, there have been 15 mass-extinctions in the Earth's history. One of the most severe (killing the most species) was 250 million years ago. Called "The Great Dying" it occurred at the end of the Permian Era. There are two prominent theories as to what caused that particular E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event.) (Sorry to channel the movie Deep Impact, but it does fit.)

Theory 1: An asteroid between 6 and 12 km (kilometers) across. Although they have found C60 molecules (carbon-60) in the rocks of that time, they have yet to find definitive proof of this theory. Such proof would either be shocked quartz or iridium.

Theory 2: A massive flood-basalt of lava from the Siberian Traps. This would release an enormous amount of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and many other gases into the atmosphere.

Indeed, in looking at the fossil and geological records we find only one E.L.E. which was definitively caused by asteroid impact: the KT event of 65 million years ago (yes, the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.)

That leaves 14 other E.L.E.'s which were caused by ... global warming. No humans around 250 million years ago to cause "The Great Dying."

But to scare the pants off of people reading this (that is, if anybody actually is reading this) the fossil record supports an ongoing mass extinction happening right now. Seriously. It's called "The Holocene Extinction Event." Honestly.

" However, modern climatology suggests the current Holocene epoch is no more than the latest in a series of interglacial intervals. Furthermore, there is a continuum of extinctions since 11,000 years BCE. If only considering human impact, the vulnerability and extinction rate of species simply rises with the increase in human population, so there would be no need to separate the Pleistocene extinction from the recent one. Nevertheless, the Pleistocene extinction event is large enough and has not been resolved completely. " (Emphasis added.)

But let's go back to the article I linked to at the start of this entry. It turns out that the 'proof' that the UN climate guy was referring to had two sources:

1) Anecdotal reports from mountaineers about the changes they were observing. Two problems with this: These cannot be taken as scientific measurements and therefore are invalid. Each person might see the same event differently and thus use different words to describe it. Again, it is not scientific.

2) The other source was a paper written by a geography student who was studying for the equivalent of a Master's degree.

Neither of these was peer-reviewed. And as already stated, it contained five factual errors in just the first paragraph.

Global warming?

Yes. It is happening. No, mankind is not the only cause.

" ... modern climatology suggests the current Holocene epoch is no more than the latest in a series of interglacial intervals. "

But they have an agenda, so what the hell, right?

Right?

O Bow Ma Bows Again ... To Tampa (FL) Mayor

Don't believe me?

The link goes here: http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//100128/480/b07861589f354ce698c3bf88b741d692/

Where we see this:

The caption reads: " U.S. President Barack Obama bows to Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio at MacDill Air Force Base on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 in Tampa, Fla.(AP Photo/Edmund Fountain, Pool) "

Would somebody please explain to president dumbass that he doesn't bow to foreign leaders and sure as hell not to the Mayor of a US city!

Wait!!! I can hear MSNBC, ABC and Janeane Garofalo now. He wasn't bowing you see, he was ... um... admiring her cleavage?

No ... that would channel his inner Bill Clinton again.

Wondering what that ant was doing on her foot? Possible.

Wondering why that dog had run across the tarmac and then stopped right there?

Bowing before the Tampa Florida Mayor.

What a disgrace we have in the White House.