Global Warming Alarmists in Retreat. Glaciers, Not So Much.

If you don’t like the science, at least keep an open mind.
bayam on January 29, 2011 at 6:20 PM

It’s not about “not liking the science”…
It’s about asking people to believe “scientist” that have been shown to have lied,manipulate data,make bogus prediction after bogus prediction,and collect billions of dollars in the process.

bayam…you are continuously railing about the “science” when we have the leaders of the Global Warming sect that can’t even produce their work.
That’s not scientific.

Most of the major claims by the eco-fundamentalist crowd have been shown to either be based on manipulated data or to just be plain false:

UN climate chief admits mistake on Himalayan glaciers warning

Jeremy Page, South Asia Correspondent

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said yesterday that the prediction in its landmark 2007 report was “poorly substantiated” and resulted from a lapse in standards. “In drafting the paragraph in question the clear and well-established standards of evidence, required by the IPCC procedures, were not applied properly,” the panel said. “The chair, vice-chair and co-chairs of the IPCC regret the poor application of IPCC procedures in this instance.”

….this report of falsified data also earned this board the Nobel Prize.
Well at least it probably took them longer to cut’n'paste this than the 9 days it took Obama to earn his Nobel Prize.

UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article
The United Nations’ expert panel on climate change based claims about ice disappearing from the world’s mountain tops on a student’s dissertation and an article in a mountaineering magazine.

In its most recent report, it stated that observed reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and Africa was being caused by global warming, citing two papers as the source of the information.
However, it can be revealed that one of the sources quoted was a feature article published in a popular magazine for climbers which was based on anecdotal evidence from mountaineers about the changes they were witnessing on the mountainsides around them.
The other was a dissertation written by a geography student, studying for the equivalent of a master’s degree, at the University of Berne in Switzerland that quoted interviews with mountain guides in the Alps.

What’s next….they going to start basing their conclusions on the rants coming from Rosanne Barr’s blog??????

UN wrongly linked global warming to natural disasters
Jonathan Leake, Science and Environment Editor

THE United Nations climate science panel faces new controversy for wrongly linking global warming to an increase in the number and severity of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods.
It based the claims on an unpublished report that had not been subjected to routine scientific scrutiny — and ignored warnings from scientific advisers that the evidence supporting the link too weak. The report’s own authors later withdrew the claim because they felt the evidence was not strong enough.

Wow….
…this is the definition of activism….not science.

After Climategate, Pachaurigate and Glaciergate: Amazongate
 
By James Delingpole Politics Last updated: January 25th, 2010
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100023598/after-climategate-pachaurigate-and-glaciergate-amazongate/

But the IPCC’s shamelessness did not end there. Dr North has searched the WWF’s reports high and low but can find no evidence of a statement to support the IPCC’s claim that “40 per cent” of the Amazon is threatened by climate change. (Logging and farm expansion are a much more plausible threat).
Watts Up With That provides a further, worryingly long list of the non-peer-reviewed papers from the World Wildlife Fund cited as evidence in the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment report. Time, it asks, for the IPCC to be stripped of its Nobel Peace Prize?

IPCC warnings about African crops also bogus
posted at 9:30 am on February 15, 2010 by Ed Morrissey

Another key element of the IPCC report on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) turns out to be based on deliberate decisions to use the most hysterical claims by advocates rather than on science.  The IPCC warnings of the African crop projections have a more demonstrably corrupt basis, as the report deliberately ignored actual science that showed little risk of crop yields — science funded by the British government at a cost of over £2.5 million.  Who compiled the IPCC Synthesis that ignored peer-reviewed science for the speculation of one Moroccan activist, whose report didn’t even agree with its cited sources?  Rajendra Pachauri’s own business — and he got over £400,000 for the work:

Works out pretty good…
….cook the books to help us push our agenda and get paid big bucks…

How scientific!!!!!

Glacier scientist: I knew data hadn’t been verified

By David Rose
Last updated at 12:54 AM on 24th January 2010

The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.

However, an analysis of those 500-plus formal review comments, to be published tomorrow by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the new body founded by former Chancellor Nigel Lawson, suggests that when reviewers did raise issues that called the claim into question, Dr Lal and his colleagues simply ignored them.

…So lets include false data to put pressure on politicians so that they will support our agenda..

How scientific!!!!!!

Rise of sea levels is ‘the greatest lie ever told’
The uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story, writes Christopher Booker.

Christopher Booker
Published: 6:25PM GMT 28 Mar 2009

But if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change. And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story.

….over and over and over and over the politics of fear and predictions of disaster are exposed as lies pushed by nothing but money hungry frauds.

….but according to the “adults”…
………if you don’t take their word the Global Warming science is settled…..you are a dumb, right wing idiot, that doesn’t “believe in science”.

I certainly believe what this scientist stated:

If you have to argue your science by using fraud, your science is not valid.

Professor Pilmer

Baxter Greene on January 29, 2011 at 9:02 PM

I love this part of the article.

Dr Pachauri, head of the Nobel prize-winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has remained silent on the matter since he was forced to admit his report’s claim that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 was an error and had not been sourced from a peer-reviewed scientific journal. It came from a World Wildlife Fund report.

He angered India’s environment minister and the country’s leading glaciologist when he attacked those who questioned his claim as purveyors of “voodoo science”.

Love the fact that when you expose the fraud of activists they go straight to the condescending name calling.

Just like here when you expose the fraud of Global Warming alarmist….you are a “dumb,right wing,flat earther.

Support our Soldiers and their mission in Iraq/Afghanistan…you are a blood thirsty,nazi,and a war monger…

Got to love all that intelligence and civility coming from the left.

Baxter Greene on January 29, 2011 at 9:24 PM

blink on January 29, 2011 at 9:25 PM

Actually….only a few years ago….the eco-fundamentalist stated that global warming did reduce moisture in the air:

Al’s Latest Global-Warming Whopper
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/02/als-latest-global-warming-whopper/?test=latestnews

According to “State of the Climate” from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “Global precipitation in 2009 was near the 1961-1990 average.” And there was certainly no pattern of increasing rain and snow on America’s East Coast during the post-1976 years, when NOAA says the globe began to heat up.

In late January, Scientific American reported: “A mysterious drop in water vapor in the lower stratosphere might be slowing climate change,” and noted that “an apparent increase in water vapor in this region in the 1980s and 1990s exacerbated global warming.”

The new study came from a group of scientists, mainly from the NOAA lab in Boulder. The scientists found: “Stratospheric water-vapor concentrations decreased by about 10 percent after the year 2000 . . . This acted to slow the rate of increase in global surface temperature over 2000 to 2009 by about 25 percent.”

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past
By Charles Onians
Monday, 20 March 2000
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html

winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.
Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain’s culture, as warmer winters – which scientists are attributing to global climate change – produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries.

However, the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.

Plus many democrats on the Hill stated that the lack of snow was the result of Global Warming and stated that the IPCC backed this up:

INSLEE 2005: The ski industry in the Cascade Mountains in Washington essentially was shut down this year. My son’s on ski patrol and he worked for three days this year, there was no snow. And having no snow is consistent with what the models will predict will become a significant problem for us in the future.

…Now that Countries all over the world are getting buried in Snow….
………….The adults claim “We always said that Global warming meant more snow”….

..and that it was proof the Glaciers were melting…

………..and that it caused severe weather like increased Hurricane activity…

………and that it was proof the oceans would rise…

………….and that the Amazon forest was being destroyed

….and….and…and..since we can;t back any of this up with valid data,our predictions have all been wrong,and we have been caught cooking the books….
…….well then …………….it must be Palin’s fault.

Baxter Greene on January 29, 2011 at 9:50 PM

2010 is the hottest year in recorded global history (along with 2005).

Only 9,099 Of Last 10,500 Years Warmer Than 2010
December 30, 2010 9:00 A.M.
By Brian Bolduc
http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/256079/only-9099-last-10500-years-warmer-2010-brian-bolduc

So where do the 1934/1998/2010 warm years rank in the long-term list of warm years? Of the past 10,500 years, 9,100 were warmer than 1934/1998/2010.  Thus, regardless of which year ( 1934, 1998, or 2010) turns out to be the warmest of the past century, that year will rank number 9,099 in the long-term list.

…When is someone going to provide links or irrefutable data that proves there is global warming and that it is responsible for the seas rising…

………the glaciers melting..

………………the destruction of the Amazon forest

…………………….increase in Hurricanes

…………………………increase in snow storms (would like to see how they refute the claims of “less snow” being because of global warming just a few years ago).

and proof that the core of the earth is over 1 MILLION DEGREES!!! according to the fantastic climate expert (in liberal circles) Al Gore.

Baxter Greene on January 29, 2011 at 10:10 PM

Also, I don’t understand where you get the “intentional moving of sensors into hotter locations”.

This has been well documented:

Strange case of moving weather posts and a scientist under siege
In the first part of a major investigation of the so-called ‘climategate’ emails, one of Britain’s top science writers reveals how researchers tried to hide flaws in a key study
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/01/dispute-weather-fraud

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.

The paper became a key reference source for the conclusions of succeeding reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – including a chapter in the 2007 one co-authored by Jones. It said that globally “the urbanisation influence … is, at most, an order of magnitude less than the warming seen on a century timescale”. In other words, it is tiny.

He pointed out that the data showed that 49 of the Chinese meteorological stations had no histories of their location or other details. These mysterious stations included 40 of the 42 rural stations. Of the rest, 18 had certainly been moved during the study period, perhaps invalidating their data.

Russian IEA claims CRU tampered with climate data – cherrypicked warmest stations
16 12 2009
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/16/russian-iea-claims-cru-tampered-with-climate-data-cherrypicked-warmest-stations/

It’s true, and it’s huge. Today another example of CRU having their foot on the scale, Russian papers are reporting that the Russian surface station data was sorted by CRU to use the highest warming stations only.

Was there any actual warming to begin with?
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/14/was-there-any-actual-warming-to-begin-with/

“The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change,” said John Christy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a former lead author on the IPCC.
The doubts of Christy and a number of other researchers focus on the thousands of weather stations around the world, which have been used to collect temperature data over the past 150 years.
These stations, they believe, have been seriously compromised by factors such as urbanisation, changes in land use and, in many cases, being moved from site to site.

…Oakland has yet to back up any of his claims..
…….continues to move the goal posts when his claims don’t hold water and distract by throwing out other questions…..

…….and has yet to provide any proof to back up anything he states and yet demands others show proof.

How scientific!!!!!

Baxter Greene on January 29, 2011 at 10:39 PM

and by the “hockey stick”. Until you can define those terms to me to your satisfaction, I can’t answer what I “believe” in.

And, why would you be so concerned about what I, a non-expert, might “believe” in?

oakland on January 29, 2011 at 10:25 PM

What a pathetic dodge…..

James Hansen at NASA was minded concerning a mistake in his analysis concerning temperature data. He thanked the contributor and made the correction. This is the way science is done.

Now, what “shennanigans” are you referring to?

oakland on January 29, 2011 at 10:22 PM

Once again revealing how clueless you are:

Leading climate change cheerleader James Hansen has ‘lost the plot’
 
By Milo Yiannopoulos Last updated: February 17th, 2009
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/miloyiannopoulos/8607047/Leading_climate_change_cheerleader_James_Hansen_has_lost_the_plot/

My dear colleague Professor Hansen, I believe, has finally gone off the deep end. When you have dedicated the bulk of your career to a cause, and it turns out the cause has been proven false, most people cannot bring themselves to admit the truth. [Hansen's recent claims] contain neither reason nor truth when compared to the volumes of daily literature being published in scientific journals today on climate change. It is not difficult to refute the words of Professor Hansen. On the contrary, one feels it is almost unfair. [...] The global warming ‘time bomb’, the ‘present, dangerous situation’, ‘the perfect storm’, ‘global cataclysm’, ‘disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity’s control.’ These are the words of an apocalyptic prophet, not a rational scientist.

James Hansen’s Former NASA Supervisor Declares Himself a Skeptic – Says Hansen ‘Embarrassed NASA’, ‘Was Never Muzzled’, & Models ‘Useless’
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/27/james-hansens-former-nasa-supervisor-declares-himself-a-skeptic-says-hansen-embarrassed-nasa-was-never-muzzled/

“Hansen was never muzzled even though he violated NASA’s official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind’s effect on it). Hansen thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress,” Theon wrote. [Note: NASA scientist James Hansen has created worldwide media frenzy with his dire climate warning, his call for trials against those who dissent against man-made global warming fear, and his claims that he was allegedly muzzled by the Bush administration despite doing 1,400 on-the-job media interviews!

Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist

James Hansen, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming

Washington Times: Scientist Hansen who alleged Bush administration muzzled him — did 1,400 on-the-job media interviews – March 20, 2007

Excerpt: Hansen Claims NASA Muzzled Him – But – A NASA scientist who said the Bush administration muzzled him because of his belief in global warming yesterday acknowledged to Congress that he’d done more than 1,400 on-the-job interviews in recent years.

James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who argues global warming could be catastrophic, said NASA staffers denied his request to do a National Public Radio interview because they didn’t want his message to get out. But Republicans told him the hundreds of other interviews he did belie his broad claim he was being silenced. “We have over 1,400 opportunities that you’ve availed yourself to, and yet you call it, you know, being stifled,” said Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican.

James Hansen’s Boldest Lie To Date **Update**
by Bill Hennessy on November 10, 2008 · View Comments

Dr. Hansen apparently believes the world is as stupid as, well, as stupid as the world seems to be.

All of the October surface station temperature from Russia was corrupted. So what did Hansen do? He simply copied and pasted Russia’s temperatures for September into October and reported that October 2008 was the hottest October on record.

……..these “shenanigans” genius……

Baxter Greene on January 29, 2011 at 11:06 PM

Wow! You guys are great! The warmies got PWNED, as my teen age son would say!

Baxter Greene, outstanding research, as usual.

JannyMae on January 29, 2011 at 11:30 PM

Thanks..

This is not huffpo…..
Hot Air is not the place for pushing baseless,ignorant talking points.

Baxter Greene on January 29, 2011 at 11:35 PM