Finnet From what you have said it would seem that you haven? t the slightest understanding of the realities of the physics and chemistry of the atmosphere, nor of the vast complexity of solar, planetary, and terrestrial influences on the earth's climate. Nor have you taken the trouble to read the incontestable scientific evidence that none of the in terrorem assertions of the global warming fraternity have any basis on fact.
The whole edifice of AGW has been comprehensively destroyed over recent months by the exposing of the scandals of the fraudulent (and possibly criminal) activities of the chief protagonists of the IPCC's assertions about AGW.
In case you have failed to notice the defenestration of the IPCC and its gravy train load of rentier "scientists" I append a short list of some of the fraudulent activities indulged in by this disgraceful coterie of "scientists" and fellow travellers.
One of the more recent is the claim in the last report of the IPCC that the Himalayan glaciers would virtually disappear by 2035. The provenance of this claim is interesting, and significant. It derived from an article by an obscure Indian scientist (Dr Syed Hasnain) in an equally obscure Indian magazine. Much later this article was picked up by the magazine New Scientist (a rag with about as much scientific credibility as Popular Mechanics or the National Geographic magazine) and by the WWF ( a rabid left-wing environmental group like Greenpeace) and on this authority was given a prominent place in the IPCC's 2007 report. The chairman of the IPCC, Rajindra Pachauri, subsequently employed Hasnain; and on the strength of the fraudulent statement about Himalayan glaciers Pachauri's company has received large sums in grants from the Carnegie foundation and the EU global warming fund ? and, $1 million from Kevin Rudd (the then Australian Prime Minister)! $1 million of Australian taxpayers' money has been given to this charlatan.
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The IPCC cited two "experts" to support the assertion that 40% of Amazonian forest is at risk due to global warming. One of the "experts", Dr R. F. Moore, is a 'policy analyst' with a background of advising on native vegetation legislation and water pricing amongst other things. The other, A. Rowell, is a journalist with the Guardian (formerly known by the soubriquet of the Moscow Gazette), and a green activist. Needless to say their assertions were fraudulent.
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The "Climategate". Dr Phil Jones and his colleagues at the University of East Anglia have been shown to have indulged in a years long campaign of fraudulently manipulating data to promote the concept of global warming caused by anthropogenic carbon dioxide. They have been instrumental in falsifying records, in destroying records that didn't suit their purpose, in suppressing contrary data and in black listing scientists who did not accord with their views. The extraordinary thing about this affair is that the IPCC, other protagonists of global warming, and the media have all closed ranks in support of Jones and his cronies and have stated that "the science has not changed". This, in the face of the fact that the so-called science was based on the very same fraudulent data manipulated by Jones et al. There seems to be every reason to believe that the University of East Anglia will do a cover-up in the same way as the State University of New York at Albany did (see below). [see 'Climategate Analysis' J. P. Costella SPPI Reprint Series, 20th January 2010] In this context it is worth noting the recent comments of Xie Zhenhua, the vice-chairman of the China National Development and Reform Commission. He said that the IPCC should report opposing views; and that there is a well-established view that climate change was due to the cyclical elements of nature itself. He went on to say that China is not convinced that emissions from industrial development were the cause of climate change.
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Professor W. C. Wong at the State University of New York at Albany fraudulently changed data from a wide range of Chinese weather stations to make it appear that the climate was warming. Dr D. Keenan, on examining this data, found it to be not only wrong but so wrong that it could only have been done purposely, and hence fraudulently. He raised the matter with the University which, after long delays, did a cover-up. Dr Keenan has since alleged criminal fraud in the New York State jurisdiction. It appears that Prof Wong has received as much as $7 million in research grants from the United States government on the basis of his "climate research".
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Dr Michael Mann and his colleagues at Penn State University produced the notorious "hockey stick" which purported to show declining temperatures until the middle of the 20th century and then a sharp increase in temperature supposedly as a result of man-made carbon dioxide. It has been shown that this result was achieved by not only selecting data that suited their purpose and discarding data which showed the opposite, but by using an algorithm in their computer program which produced a hockey stick graph even if random numbers were fed into it. Dr Mann was one of Dr Jones correspondents in
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the Climategate affair. He is, as far as I know, still receiving grants for climate research.
Dr James Hanson, head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who; apart from supporting Keith Farnish who in turn advocates the destruction of Western civilisation; was recently arrested in an attempt to close a coalmine in the US. He has been shown to consistently manipulate data from his Institute to promote the proposition of anthropogenic global warming. Kofi Annan - ex UN Secretary General - now in a cosy, and no doubt well paid, job as president of the "Global Humanitarian Forum" (no less!), issued a report last year full of the usual dire warnings, all of them fraudulent; including the assertion that more than 300,000 people per annum were dying because of global warming! All this under the imprimatur of the " Forum".
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William Connelly, a UK "scientist" and green activist, has effectively turned Wikipedia into a global warming propaganda site. He obtained a position as Web site administrator at Wikipedia and wrote or rewrote 5428 articles promoting the global warming fraud. He blocked over 2000 contributors who opposed his views and of course gave free rein to all global warming fanatics who wished to contribute.
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The BBC recently claimed that the "North East passage" had been opened for the first time ever due to global warming. The North East passage is that strip of water extending from the Barents Sea across the northern coast of Siberia to the Bering Straight between Russia and Alaska. Contrary to the BBC's assertion, it has been in more or less regular use during the summer months for the past 80 years! It had been successfully navigated before then, but only since the advent of more advanced steam propulsion and better navigation aids has it come into regular use.
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Less than two weeks before the US Environmental Protection Agency presented a pro- regulation recommendation to the White House, it quashed a 98 page internal report that said that global temperature was declining and in any case global warming was not due to anthropogenic carbon dioxide. The leading researcher, Alan Carlin, was told that the report "did not help the Agency's legal or policy case".
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In June 2009 one of the world's leading experts on polar bears, Mitchell Taylor, with a record of more than 30 years of academic research and fieldwork - who stated that polar bears were not at risk and that anthropogenic carbon dioxide was not the cause of global warming -was barred from the UN's Polar Bear Specialist Group.
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The subsequently disgraced US conglomerate Enron was one of the first corporations in the field of carbon trading and "environmental" activities. It paid large sums, totalling millions of dollars, to groups such as Greenpeace, WWF, Worldwatch etc.; and to individuals, such as James Hanson (op. cit.), in influential positions. It became an adviser to the Clinton administration, and was instrumental in the development of the Kyoto Protocol. Until its final disgrace and the gaoling of members of its senior management it accrued billions of dollars from its "environmental" enterprises. Lehman Brothers, whose collapse many believe precipitated the global financial crisis, enthusiastically embraced the idea of carbon trading. In its 2007 report it claimed that its aim was to become a prime brokerage for emissions permits. Presumably it meant to make money not only from dodgy mortgages but also from trading in thin air.
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The CSIRO and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology recently produced a pamphlet entitled "State of the Climate" which has been exposed as having wrongfully (fraudulently?) made a number of assertions about climate change, ocean acidity, global warming, the incidence of methane in the atmosphere, temperature records, sea level and temperature, and rainfall. These assertions have been examined in detail by a number of highly qualified scientists and shown to be significantly false.
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If the perpetrators of the frauds described above were Australian company directors they
would be in gaol.
In the meantime the world? s largest private sector coal business, the Peabody Energy Company (PEC) has filed a mammoth 240-page ? Petition for Reconsideration,? a full-blown legal challenge against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This action, in the Court of Appeal in the US, will be much more shattering to the global warming fraud than the English High Court case which found Gore's film on global warming to be false on at least eleven counts.
Moreover, PEC is demanding that the EPA shall convene a full evidentiary hearing as a part of such reconsideration. If this element of the petition were granted it is highly probable that the weight of the new evidence now freely available since Climategate would expose the criminal and fraudulent component within the science of man-made global warming, and would more than likely succeed in having all the EPA? s findings on carbon dioxide invalidated.
Thereby, from accomplishing their civil task Peabody will lend further weight to the likelihood of criminal charges being brought against those individuals implicated in international fraud on the largest scale never known.
