30 Years of Global Cooling Are Coming, Retarded pseudo-Journalists Say

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The raw data, collected from hundreds of weather stations around the world and analysed by his unit, has been used for years to bolster efforts by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

It's only ONE of numerous sources, and far from the whole research effort of global climate change rests on their research...

And even the emails that were illegally hacked show that their "lies" were more about having to debate Global Warming/Climate Change sophistical as a public one rather than a scientific one...

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Nice try.

"The panel expressed regret last month after admitting that the 2007 report exaggerated the pace of melt of the Himalayan glaciers"

Yeah, they're not quite melting as fast as we thought. Right, so Global Warming is slower than anticipated which is good news. It also means that regional weather patterns such as El Nino, La Nina, or below average precipitation can temporarily alter climates and provide a minor respite

An exaggeration is not a mistake, retard (back at ya) .

Um, and unintentional exaggeration is EXACTLY a mistake. Double retard coming your way...

Love the name calling from our Mods elite. Perhaps a direct reflection of their childlike mentality of the world?

Right, just like I love the fact that you have nothing to offer other than mindless, repetitive cut and pastes amounting to spam. Some of which are so fucking absurd and misleading--you've been shown to unselfconsciously own yourself on numerous occasions...

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Right, just like I love the fact that you have nothing to offer other than mindless, repetitive cut and pastes amounting to spam. Some of which are so fucking absurd and misleading...

Like this one Cumloverdfresh?

Lake Erie Frozen over; First Time in 14 Years
Following a cold snap in the Northeast, Lake Erie's surface is virtually frozen over for the first time in about 14 years.


The ice ranges in thickness between paper thin along the northern shore and several inches along the southern shore, where many people are ice skating.


GoErie.com reports that the lake hasn't completely frozen since the winter of 1995-1996.


Although the ice cover is considered complete, prevailing winds have created some cracks in the ice.


There are also reportedly ice chunks floating off the coast of Dunkirk, N.Y., which is one of the deepest parts of the lake and would naturally be one of the last places to freeze.


Lake Erie, with an average depth of 62 feet, is the most shallow of the five Great Lakes, which is why it is the only one that completely freezes over.


Since lake-effect snow depends on warmer lake temperatures compared to the air, the frozen lake will deter large amounts of snowfall to the lee of the lake.


The current cold snap will keep the lake mostly, if not completely, frozen for at least the rest of the month.


Story by AccuWeather.com's Gina Cherundolo

http://www.accuweather.com/news-story.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&article=2

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Yeah, they're not quite melting as fast as we thought.

Oh, so you are a discredited scientist too? Fucking Obama loving, dick sucking, no nothing DLR fansite Mod. HA!

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Right, just like I love the fact that you have nothing to offer other than mindless, repetitive cut and pastes amounting to spam. Some of which are so fucking absurd and misleading--you've been shown to unselfconsciously own yourself on numerous occasions...

Is this one absurd too Ballsacgobbler? Cause you know the Wall Street Journal is so misleading.

The Continuing Climate Meltdown
More embarrassments for the U.N. and 'settled' science

It has been a bad—make that dreadful—few weeks for what used to be called the "settled science" of global warming, and especially for the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that is supposed to be its gold standard.

First it turns out that the Himalayan glaciers are not going to melt anytime soon, notwithstanding dire U.N. predictions. Next came news that an IPCC claim that global warming could destroy 40% of the Amazon was based on a report by an environmental pressure group. Other IPCC sources of scholarly note have included a mountaineering magazine and a student paper.

Since the climategate email story broke in November, the standard defense is that while the scandal may have revealed some all-too-human behavior by a handful of leading climatologists, it made no difference to the underlying science. We think the science is still disputable. But there's no doubt that climategate has spurred at least some reporters to scrutinize the IPCC's headline-grabbing claims in a way they had rarely done previously.

Take the rain forest claim. In its 2007 report, the IPCC wrote that "up to 40% of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, hydrology and climate system in South America could change very rapidly to another steady state."

But as Jonathan Leake of London's Sunday Times reported last month, those claims were based on a report from the World Wildlife Fund, which in turn had fundamentally misrepresented a study in the journal Nature. The Nature study, Mr. Leake writes, "did not assess rainfall but in fact looked at the impact on the forest of human activity such as logging and burning."

The IPCC has relied on World Wildlife Fund studies regarding the "transformation of natural coastal areas," the "destruction of more mangroves," "glacial lake outbursts causing mudflows and avalanches," changes in the ecosystem of the "Mesoamerican reef," and so on. The Wildlife Fund is a green lobby that believes in global warming, and its "research" reflects its advocacy, not the scientific method.

The IPCC has also cited a study by British climatologist Nigel Arnell claiming that global warming could deplete water resources for as many as 4.5 billion people by the year 2085. But as our Anne Jolis reported in our European edition, the IPCC neglected to include Mr. Arnell's corollary finding, which is that global warming could also increase water resources for as many as six billion people.

The IPCC report made aggressive claims that "extreme weather-related events" had led to "rapidly rising costs." Never mind that the link between global warming and storms like Hurricane Katrina remains tenuous at best. More astonishing (or, maybe, not so astonishing) is that the IPCC again based its assertion on a single study that was not peer-reviewed. In fact, nobody can reliably establish a quantifiable connection between global warming and increased disaster-related costs. In Holland, there's even a minor uproar over the report's claim that 55% of the country is below sea level. It's 26%.

Meanwhile, one of the scientists at the center of the climategate fiasco has called into question other issues that the climate lobby has claimed are indisputable. Phil Jones, who stepped down as head of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit amid the climate email scandal, told the BBC that the world may well have been warmer during medieval times than it is now.

This raises doubts about how much our current warming is man-made as opposed to merely another of the natural climate shifts that have taken place over the centuries. Mr. Jones also told the BBC there has been no "statistically significant" warming over the past 15 years, though he considers this to be temporary.

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All of this matters because the IPCC has been advertised as the last and definitive word on climate science. Its reports are the basis on which Al Gore, President Obama and others have claimed that climate ruin is inevitable unless the world reorganizes its economies with huge new taxes on carbon. Now we are discovering the U.N. reports are sloppy political documents intended to drive the climate lobby's regulatory agenda.

The lesson of climategate and now the IPCC's shoddy sourcing is that the claims of the global warming lobby need far more rigorous scrutiny.

The Continuing Climate Meltdown - WSJ.com

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Lake Erie Frozen over; First Time in 14 Years
Following a cold snap in the Northeast, Lake Erie's surface is virtually frozen over for the first time in about 14 years.
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Story by AccuWeather.com's Gina Cherundolo

AccuWeather.com - Weather News Headlines - Weather News

You call this a "cold snap?" The first part of February has been a bit below average, but we're now getting back to seasonal temps. I believe that January was above average aside from a few days of extreme lows which finally caused the freezing. And we've had a relatively mild winter here as the Baltimore-Washington area has received far more snowfall than we have!

Secondly, you'd be proving my points as Lake Erie traditionally has always frozen and tends to freeze sooner than it did this year, which then reduces our snowfall significantly. Incidentally, it's not technically fully frozen over and will in all likelihood begin to open over the next week or so as sun and higher temps hit it..

BTW, WTF is any of this supposed to mean?

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Oh, so you are a discredited scientist too? Fucking Obama loving, dick sucking, no nothing DLR fansite Mod. HA!

I've never said I was a scientist credited, nor discredited.

And ever since you've gotten off Bush's cock, you're all uppity now!

Go back to the Links, Hagar douche...

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Is this one absurd too Ballsacgobbler?[/qauote]

I dunno, sperm-huffer. Let's take a look...

Cause you know the Wall Street Journal is so misleading.

Actually, they're considered right wing and "pro-business" whose interests largely fund the anti-Global Climate Change. But yes, they are generally at least somewhat credible and have decent opines sometimes...

The Continuing Climate Meltdown
More embarrassments for the U.N. and 'settled' science

It has been a bad—make that dreadful—few weeks for what used to be called the "settled science" of global warming, and especially for the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that is supposed to be its gold standard.

First it turns out that the Himalayan glaciers are not going to melt anytime soon, notwithstanding dire U.N. predictions. Next came news that an IPCC claim that global warming could destroy 40% of the Amazon was based on a report by an environmental pressure group....
The Continuing Climate Meltdown - WSJ.com

The Wall Street Journal has a long history on posting articles questioning Global Warming, and if they like to critique the honesty of the IPCC, then their right wing editorial staff ranging from intellectually conservative writers with an interesting view point to corporate whore mongers engaging in the typical twisting of facts for their own agenda:

Thursday, January 14, 2010
The Wall Street Journal is Bad for Business

One of my favorite blogs over the last year-and-a-half has been the Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital, which covers issues at the intersection of business and the environment: energy prices, sustainable business practies, new technologies, science, politics, etc. While I didn't always agree with the blog's analysis, its even-handedness and objectivity is a breath of fresh air on a publication given to writing outright falsehoods in its editorial page. And as a 24-year-old with long-term career ambitions in the clean energy business, it is a daily must-read, as one of the best sources of sustainable business news and analysis on the internet.


So I was a bit shocked to visit the site today and find myself greeted by a headline announcing its cancellation: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.

Now, I know the Wall Street Journal's editorial page is a right-wing pigpen of nonsense, but this seems like this is a bad move for the WSJ from a BUSINESS standpoint - and you'd think that business concerns would ultimately trump ideology.

Granted, Environmental Capital probably doesn't generate a positive ROI in the PRESENT. But as a top source of news for those working in the clean energy and sustainability space, it would seem poised to grow its readership as the clean tech space takes off. Indeed, given that this is the fastest growing sector of the global economy, it seems like particularly strange timing to punt on the issue. Just look at US venture capital funding for clean tech over the last few years:


True, VC funding of clean tech fell by 34% from 2008-09, but TOTAL VC funding fell by a much greater 55%, and the deal volume barely changed. Since 2003, clean tech's share of VC funding has risen from just 3% to 25%.


Looking forward, the evidence is even more compelling that clean technologies will be the next great industry. A Deloitte survey found that clean technologies are the only category in which a majority of VC firms plan to increase their investments across the next three years - nearly twice as many as the next highest category (medical devices and equipment). Only 6% plan to decrease investments:





So it's absolutely flabbergasting that the WSJ is canceling its well-regarded blog on the subject. In doing so, the WSJ is abandoning its opportunity to grow with the clean economy. Moreover, they're virtually ensuring they'll lose their share of readers in the 18-35 demographic, a growing percentage of which will find themselves employed in clean technologies over the coming years.



The only explanation for the WSJ's decision is ideology: the editors concluded that Environmental Capital was a little too friendly to the environment, and decided an ideological purge was necessary. From now on, it's likely that all WSJ publications will toe the party line of "clean energy bad, global warming fake," or risk crackdown and expulsion.


This too seems like bad business. The paper must figure that no matter the politics of its business audience, they will still be captive customers to the country's top source of business news; a right-wing ideology only broadens its appeal beyond the business community by establishing itself as the leading paper for political conservatives. But this is excessively short-term. Young businesspersons are increasingly liberal on issues of science and climate change, and will increasingly distrust a paper that chooses to ignore the facts in favor of ideology.


It's a sad trend for a paper that was once--and still considers itself to be--the paper of repute for people of business. The creep of right-wing orthodoxy seems to be reaching its tentacles into all aspects of the paper's coverage, even supposedly objective sections. How can you trust the paper on business issues and investment advice when it bails on the fastest growing sector of the economy, when its coverage is driven more by ideology than business sense?


The blog's authors don't leave without a parting shot, which I think is further evidence that this was an ideological decision. As Joe Romm points out, the title "So long, and thanks for all the fish" comes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

The phrase also carries a profoundly ironic underlying meaning given the context and the subject area of the blog. Wikipedia’s entry on the not-bad film version explains:

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Stephen Fry) narrates that the dolphins, the second most-intelligent creatures on Earth, attempted to warn mankind about the planet’s impending destruction, but humans interpreted the dolphins’ communications as tricks. The dolphins left the planet, leaving their final message to humans as “So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

Was this intentional by Johnson? You decide.

And the blog's second-to-final post was entitled, Who's Afraid of a Clean Energy Future? I guess now we know who.

Smart businessmen know it's better to love the future than fear it.

WAG: The Wall Street Journal is Bad for Business

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The Wall Street Journal was once a respectable newspaper, despite the right wing leanings of the editorial page. But that was before Murdoch took over. Now it might as well be the NY Post II.

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I've never said I was a scientist credited, nor discredited.

And ever since you've gotten off Bush's cock, you're all uppity now!

Go back to the Links, Hagar douche...

Don't push your Fag ways on me, I'm not willing to learn the ways of the Douchedfresh. You can have all the cocks.

I never like Hagar, but I heard he needed a new fuck buddy, give him a call. Fucking Mod, get a job. I get it, you are one of those useless out of work Mother Fuckers who love Obama's socialist agenda. Take from the rich (those of us who work) and Give to CumloverDFresh so he doesn't have to work.

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How about the BBC? Next your gonna tell me the BBC isn't a credible source...

I don't think you read it all.

To be honest I'm becoming not that bothered either way. I'm not going to waste too much of my time arguing with people whose environment is far more likely than mine to be fucked by climate change.

I could easily cope with a 10 degree rise here...

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What to say to a global warming alarmist

It has been tough to keep up with all the bad news for global warming alarmists. We're on the edge of our chair, waiting for the next shoe to drop. This has been an Imelda Marcos kind of season for shoe-dropping about global warming.

At your next dinner party, here are some of the latest talking points to bring up when someone reminds you that Al Gore and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won Nobel prizes for their work on global warming.

ClimateGate – This scandal began the latest round of revelations when thousands of leaked documents from Britain's East Anglia Climate Research Unit showed systematic suppression and discrediting of climate skeptics' views and discarding of temperature data, suggesting a bias for making the case for warming. Why do such a thing if, as global warming defenders contend, the "science is settled?"

FOIGate – The British government has since determined someone at East Anglia committed a crime by refusing to release global warming documents sought in 95 Freedom of Information Act requests. The CRU is one of three international agencies compiling global temperature data. If their stuff's so solid, why the secrecy?

ChinaGate – An investigation by the U.K.'s left-leaning Guardian newspaper found evidence that Chinese weather station measurements not only were seriously flawed, but couldn't be located. "Where exactly are 42 weather monitoring stations in remote parts of rural China?" the paper asked. The paper's investigation also couldn't find corroboration of what Chinese scientists turned over to American scientists, leaving unanswered, "how much of the warming seen in recent decades is due to the local effects of spreading cities, rather than global warming?" The Guardian contends that researchers covered up the missing data for years.

HimalayaGate – An Indian climate official admitted in January that, as lead author of the IPCC's Asian report, he intentionally exaggerated when claiming Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035 in order to prod governments into action. This fraudulent claim was not based on scientific research or peer-reviewed. Instead it was originally advanced by a researcher, since hired by a global warming research organization, who later admitted it was "speculation" lifted from a popular magazine. This political, not scientific, motivation at least got some researcher funded.

PachauriGate – Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman who accepted with Al Gore the Nobel Prize for scaring people witless, at first defended the Himalaya melting scenario. Critics, he said, practiced "voodoo science." After the melting-scam perpetrator 'fessed up, Pachauri admitted to making a mistake. But, he insisted, we still should trust him.

PachauriGate II – Pachauri also claimed he didn't know before the 192-nation climate summit meeting in Copenhagen in December that the bogus Himalayan glacier claim was sheer speculation. But the London Times reported that a prominent science journalist said he had pointed out those errors in several e-mails and discussions to Pachauri, who "decided to overlook it." Stonewalling? Cover up? Pachauri says he was "preoccupied." Well, no sense spoiling the Copenhagen party, where countries like Pachauri's India hoped to wrench billions from countries like the United States to combat global warming's melting glaciers. Now there are calls for Pachauri's resignation.

SternGate – One excuse for imposing worldwide climate crackdown has been the U.K.'s 2006 Stern Report, an economic doomsday prediction commissioned by the government. Now the U.K. Telegraph reports that quietly after publication "some of these predictions had been watered down because the scientific evidence on which they were based could not be verified." Among original claims now deleted were that northwest Australia has had stronger typhoons in recent decades, and that southern Australia lost rainfall because of rising ocean temperatures. Exaggerated claims get headlines. Later, news reporters disclose the truth. Why is that?

SternGate II – A researcher now claims the Stern Report misquoted his work to suggest a firm link between global warming and more-frequent and severe floods and hurricanes. Robert Muir-Wood said his original research showed no such link. He accused Stern of "going far beyond what was an acceptable extrapolation of the evidence." We're shocked.

AmazonGate – The London Times exposed another shocker: the IPCC claim that global warming will wipe out rain forests was fraudulent, yet advanced as "peer-reveiwed" science. The Times said the assertion actually "was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise," "authored by two green activists" and lifted from a report from the World Wildlife Fund, an environmental pressure group. The "research" was based on a popular science magazine report that didn't bother to assess rainfall. Instead, it looked at the impact of logging and burning. The original report suggested "up to 40 percent" of Brazilian rain forest was extremely sensitive to small reductions in the amount of rainfall, but the IPCC expanded that to cover the entire Amazon, the Times reported.

PeerReviewGate – The U.K. Sunday Telegraph has documented at least 16 nonpeer-reviewed reports (so far) from the advocacy group World Wildlife Fund that were used in the IPCC's climate change bible, which calls for capping manmade greenhouse gases.

RussiaGate – Even when global warming alarmists base claims on scientific measurements, they've often had their finger on the scale. Russian think tank investigators evaluated thousands of documents and e-mails leaked from the East Anglia research center and concluded readings from the coldest regions of their nation had been omitted, driving average temperatures up about half a degree.

Russia-Gate II – Speaking of Russia, a presentation last October to the Geological Society of America showed how tree-ring data from Russia indicated cooling after 1961, but was deceptively truncated and only artfully discussed in IPCC publications. Well, at least the tree-ring data made it into the IPCC report, albeit disguised and misrepresented.

U.S.Gate – If Brits can't be trusted, are Yanks more reliable? The U.S. National Climate Data Center has been manipulating weather data too, say computer expert E. Michael Smith and meteorologist Joesph D'Aleo. Forty years ago there were 6,000 surface-temperature measuring stations, but only 1,500 by 1990, which coincides with what global warming alarmists say was a record temperature increase. Most of the deleted stations were in colder regions, just as in the Russian case, resulting in misleading higher average temperatures.

IceGate – Hardly a continent has escaped global warming skewing. The IPCC based its findings of reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and in Africa on a feature story of climbers' anecdotes in a popular mountaineering magazine, and a dissertation by a Switzerland university student, quoting mountain guides. Peer-reviewed? Hype? Worse?

ResearchGate – The global warming camp is reeling so much lately it must have seemed like a major victory when a Penn State University inquiry into climate scientist Michael Mann found no misconduct regarding three accusations of climate research impropriety. But the university did find "further investigation is warranted" to determine whether Mann engaged in actions that "seriously deviated from accepted practices for proposing, conducting or reporting research or other scholarly activities." Being investigated for only one fraud is a global warming victory these days.

ReefGate – Let's not forget the alleged link between climate change and coral reef degradation. The IPCC cited not peer-reviewed literature, but advocacy articles by Greenpeace, the publicity-hungry advocacy group, as its sole source for this claim.

AfricaGate – The IPCC claim that rising temperatures could cut in half agricultural yields in African countries turns out to have come from a 2003 paper published by a Canadian environmental think tank – not a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

DutchGate – The IPCC also claimed rising sea levels endanger the 55 percent of the Netherlands it says is below sea level. The portion of the Netherlands below sea level actually is 20 percent. The Dutch environment minister said she will no longer tolerate climate researchers' errors.

AlaskaGate – Geologists for Space Studies in Geophysics and Oceanography and their U.S. and Canadian colleagues say previous studies largely overestimated by 40 percent Alaskan glacier loss for 40 years. This flawed data are fed into those computers to predict future warming.

Fold this column up and lay it next to your napkin the next time you have Al Gore or his ilk to dine. It should make interesting after-dinner conversation.

Contact the writer: mlandsbaum@ocregister.comor 714-796-5025

Print Article: Mark Landsbaum: What to say to a global warming alarmist

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Don't push your Fag ways on me, I'm not willing to learn the ways of the Douchedfresh. You can have all the cocks.

Wow, just when you couldn't look like more of a fucking retard...

You talk so dirty!

I never like Hagar, but I heard he needed a new fuck buddy, give him a call. Fucking Mod, get a job. I get it, you are one of those useless out of work Mother Fuckers who love Obama's socialist agenda. Take from the rich (those of us who work) and Give to CumloverDFresh so he doesn't have to work.

I can tell how you never "like" Van Hagar by your Links posts, Homopotamus. But you and I both know you've extensively posted there under different user names...

Funny how I'm the one "out of work," yet you're the one posting here steadily throughout the afternoon. But tell us how "rich" you are again, fast food worker...

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I can tell how you never "like" Van Hagar by your Links posts, Homopotamus. But you and I both know you've extensively posted there under different user names...

Funny how I'm the one "out of work," yet you're the one posting here steadily throughout the afternoon. But tell us how "rich" you are again, fast food worker...

What a fool, I post while I'm in the office.

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I can tell how you never "like" Van Hagar by your Links posts, Homopotamus. But you and I both know you've extensively posted there under different user names...

Funny how I'm the one "out of work," yet you're the one posting here steadily throughout the afternoon. But tell us how "rich" you are again, fast food worker...

Yea whatever DLR mod. You're not worth my time.