I had a
tough time deciding if this should go in this thread or in one of the political threads. It does have a lot to do
with the state of politics in the world because global warming is justifiably a political issue instead of a
scientific one, at this
point.
Bel.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20100125...100125issues01
Climate Flimflam Flaming
Out
– Mon Jan 25, 6:41 pm ET
Environment:
The United Nations makes a claim that can't be supported by science, and U.S. researchers ignore temperature data
from frigid regions. The crack-up of the global warming fraud is picking up
speed.
With so much of the science behind climate change coming under attack,
especially among scientists, it's been a harsh winter for the global warming
crowd:
In late November, thousands of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit of
the University of East Anglia were leaked to the public. The evidence strongly suggests that researchers colluded to
prove the global warming scientific "consensus" by rigging, burying and destroying data that ran counter to their
political agenda.
Last week, the public learned that claims made by the U.N.'s
International Panel on Climate Change were not based on science, but on speculation. Specifically, the IPCC's 2007
report said the Himalayan glaciers will be gone by 2035 due to man-made global
warming.
The claim, used at the U.N. Copenhagen climate change conference in
cold and snowy December to rush through a restrictive greenhouse-gas-emissions treaty, was not based on a scientific
study. It was based on a telephone call that a reporter had with a scientist who was
speculating.
The IPCC has withdrawn the claim. Murari Lal, the scientist who
included the contention in the U.N. report, admitted that he knew it wasn't based on peer-reviewed scientific
research.
Also in the last week, it was revealed that U.S. researchers working
for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are excluding temperature data from cold regions for a
database used by the U.N. in its global warming scare campaign.
Canwest News
Service, a Canadian agency that also owns a chain of newspapers, reported Friday, "In the 1970s, nearly 600 Canadian
weather stations fed surface temperature readings into a global database assembled by the U.S. National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration. Today, NOAA only collects data from 35 stations across
Canada.
"Worse, only one station -- at Eureka on Ellesmere Island -- is now
used by NOAA as a temperature gauge for all Canadian territory above the Arctic
Circle.
"The Canadian government, meanwhile, operates 1,400 surface weather
stations across the country, and more than 100 above the Arctic Circle, according to Environment
Canada."
Canwest also reports that Americans Joseph D'Aleo, a meteorologist,
and E. Michael Smith, a computer programmer, say that the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies has "reduced the
total number of Canadian weather stations in the database" and has "cherry-picked" the stations.
The NASA agency uses data from "sites in relatively warmer places, including
more southerly locations, or sites closer to airports, cities or the sea -- which has a warming effect on winter
weather."
In a paper published on the Science and Public Policy Institute Web
site, D'Aleo and Smith say the "NOAA ... systematically eliminated 75% of the world's stations with a clear bias
toward removing higher-latitude, high-altitude and rural locations, all of which had a tendency to be
cooler.
"The thermometers, in a sense, marched toward the tropics, the sea and
to airport tarmacs."
Then, just last weekend, we find that same 2007 IPCC
report included another phony claim: that "the rapidly rising costs" of natural disasters since the 1970s is linked
to global warming.
British newspapers reported Sunday that that assertion was
neither peer-reviewed nor published in a scientific paper when the IPCC report was issued. When the paper that the
claim was based on was published in 2008, its authors said:
"We find
insufficient evidence to claim a statistical relationship between global temperature increase and catastrophe
losses."
Now the IPCC says it is "reassessing the evidence."
All threads of fiction unravel eventually, and the deterioration flies out of
control as the end nears.
Is this what we are seeing with the contention that
man-made greenhouse-gas emissions are causing the planet to overheat?
We
can't see into the future, but this myth has taken so many hits from the truth that its survival is in
doubt
