It is true that the climate panel published a flawed overestimate of the melting rate of debris-covered glaciers in the Himalayas, and used information about the Netherlands provided to it by the government, which was later found to be partly inaccurate. In addition, e-mail messages stolen from the University of East Anglia in Britain showed that scientists besieged by an onslaught of hostile, make-work demands from climate skeptics may not have adequately followed the requirements of the British freedom of information law.
But the scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged. It is also worth noting that the panel’s scientists — acting in good faith on the best information then available to them — probably underestimated the range of sea-level rise in this century, the speed with which the Arctic ice cap is disappearing and the speed with which some of the large glacial flows in Antarctica and Greenland are melting and racing to the sea.
Because these and other effects of global warming are distributed globally, they are difficult to identify and interpret in any particular location. For example, January was seen as unusually cold in much of the United States. Yet from a global perspective, it was the second-hottest January since surface temperatures were first measured 130 years ago.
Similarly, even though climate deniers have speciously argued for several years that there has been no warming in the last decade, scientists confirmed last month that the last 10 years were the hottest decade since modern records have been kept.
The only problem is that his comments and “facts” don’t jive with the head of the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, Phil Jones. On 3/2/10, Prof Phil Jones states it was not standard practice to release data from scientific studies. As quoted in an AFP article on 3/2/2010,
But Phil Jones, of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, defended Monday his decision not to release the data about temperatures from around the world, saying it was not “standard practice” to do so.
This is garbage. The basis of scientific method is to release the data to be peer reviewed and the experiments repeated under the same conditions with the same results.
Also, in reference to fabricated data:
Sceptics claimed they showed evidence scientists were manipulating climate data in a bid to exaggerate the case for manmade global warming as world leaders met to try and strike a new accord on climate change.
Jones — who has said the fallout from the affair prompted him to consider suicide — had referred in one private email to a “trick” being employed to massage temperature statistics to “hide the decline”.
He has since insisted the emails had been taken out of context and labelled allegations that he sought to exaggerate warming evidence as “complete rubbish.”
On Mar 1st, 2010, British Parliament cross-examined researchers about the stolen emails and the questionable research practices. Quotes are from an AP article
The academics were questioned by lawmakers because a cache of emails stolen from the research centre and leaked online last year appeared to show that scientists stonewalled climate skeptics, tried to pervert the scientific peer review process, and discussed ways to dodge Freedom of Information requests.
Questioned Monday by parliament’s science committee on why the centre did not make its raw climate data and methodology public, former UEA climate researcher Phil Jones said the data was withheld because it wasn’t “standard practice” to release it.
“The emails reveal doubts as to the reliability of some of the (temperature) reconstructions and raise questions as to the way in which they have been represented,” the Institute of Physics said.
In fact, Phil Jone’s credibility, as well as East Anglia’s CRU’s reputation has been damaged so badly, Philsy stepped down as the director of the CRU. And, as previously reported , Philsy has admitted that there has been no ’statistically significant warming” in the past 15 years.
So in other words, global warming is all bunk, directly from the hore’s mouth.
Now, if you do what the Dems typically start screaming as soon as something happens that they weren’t asked about prior to it happeneing, “Who knew what, when and where?” and also “Follwo the money.”
Let’s look at who knew what and when. Al Gore has known this for quite some time. He has known this was a fraud since before he was elected VP.
Let’s follow the money. How much has Gore made since he became VP? How much has his wealth increased since then? Who does he work for?
His electric bills for his house in TN for one month are more than those of most people for an entire year.
This is Al Gore, the Nobel Prize winner for global warming, and former VP of the US, under Bill Clinton. This is the inventor of the Internet. Who’s full of bull now?
First, we have the CRU break-in and all the email exposed that showed they were cherry picking the data. This also showed that if they received any official or formal freedom of information requests, they were to deny they had any of the information requested.
Second, we have Prof Phil Jones admit, “there has been no statistically significant warming in the past 15 years.” This is the clown who developed the ‘hockey stick’ graph that the IPCC used to justify yelling “the sky is falling!”
Third, the study that suggested the seas would rise at least one meter, has been withdrawn from Nature due to some significant errors in the data used to arrive at two separate conclusions, specifically those used by the IPCC to yell “the sky is falling!”.
Fourth, the head wank at the UN Climate Division resigns because he sees the writing on the outhouse wall.
If you notice, the progressives, the environuts, and the left wing Dims are acting like the rub has been pulled out from under them. They are beginning to realize they are not going to get their global redistribution of wealth and green energy frauds passed into law by any major government.
Why do you think Obama wanted this crap passed within his first year? He knew that a lie was only good for so long before the thin film of what appeared to be truth began to fail and the truth showed through the cracks.
Good job to all those who continue to apply the pressure! Keep it up!
Here are today’s load. It’s amazing how all of this is starting to come out. It’s stuff people have been saying and shouted down for for years, and now it’s becoming more mainstream. Of course, you will notice that the mainstream media isn’t picking it up.
Study: Slowdown in warming last year not permanent…
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9CCLC8O0&show_article=1
Rep. Issa: White House refusal to investigate ‘Climategate’ is ‘unconscionable’…
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/70653-rep-issa-white-house-refusal-to-investigate-climategate-is-unconscionable-
Day Fourteen and Counting: Major U.S. Networks Still Silent…
http://mrc.org/press/releases/2009/20091204124643.aspx
Danish Speaker of Parliament: Climate Change ‘Very Dangerous Claim’…
http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article851820.ece
Denmark: not as green as you thought…
http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2430374.ece/Denmark_not_as_green_as_you_thought
I have some links for you. These are from DrudgeReport.com that I have collected over the past 5 days or so. If you get the chance, you need to read these and then do your own research. I think you will find, even if you are a hard core believer, there are some serious flaws in all of this research, and certainly enough that this needs to be researched by a whole lot more people than those being funded by pro-green cash sources.
The results of that research needs to be verified by other groups and published in real peer review journals, not those created for the specific purpose of faking a review process.
Anyway, the oldest links are at the bottom, newest at the top.
Professors in U-turn, will publish all data…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6678469/Climategate-University-of-East-Anglia-U-turn-in-climate-change-row.html
Isn’t that last link a doosey? Even with all of this evidence, Obama is still willing to destroy the way of life of the First World countries so he can rid himself of the guilt associated with living in the US.
What is a woman called who trades favors for money? Let’s look up the definition
Here’s a definition of ‘whore’ from Princeton
1) work as a prostitute
2) have unlawful sex with a whore
3) compromise oneself for money or other gains; “She whored herself to Hollywood“
4) prostitute: a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
Now let’s examine one of the crucial votes the Democrats needed in the Senate over the weekend, in order to get the raping and pillaging of this country’s Middle Class started.
From the Washington ComPost, we have
“On the eve of Saturday’s showdown in the Senate over health-care reform, Democratic leaders still hadn’t secured the support of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the 60 votes needed to keep the legislation alive. The wavering lawmaker was offered a sweetener: at least $100 million in extra federal money for her home state.”
Ok, so what they are really saying is that in order to get Landrieu to vote their way, she was going to have to have something to take to her constituents and say “Here’s what they offered if I voted you into involuntary servitude”.
“And so it came to pass that Landrieu walked onto the Senate floor midafternoon Saturday to announce her aye vote — and to trumpet the financial “fix” she had arranged for Louisiana. “I am not going to be defensive,” she declared. “And it’s not a $100 million fix. It’s a $300 million fix.”
Ok, so she was bought like a common streetwalker for $300 million. Ok, not quite so common for a hooker.
Let’s look at the next one, Lincoln from Arkansas.
“After Landrieu threw in her support (she asserted that the extra Medicaid funds were “not the reason” for her vote), the lone holdout in the 60-member Democratic caucus was Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas. Like other Democratic moderates who knew a single vote could kill the bill, she took a streetcar named Opportunism, transferred to one called Wavering and made off with concessions of her own. Indeed, the all-Saturday debate, which ended with an 8 p.m. vote, occurred only because Democratic leaders had yielded to her request for more time.
Even when she finally announced her support, at 2:30 in the afternoon, Lincoln made clear that she still planned to hold out for many more concessions in the debate that will consume the next month. “My decision to vote on the motion to proceed is not my last, nor only, chance to have an impact on health-care reform,” she announced. “
Once again, another politician has held out until she got what she wanted. Even though these are only two pronounced examples, you can bet there were many more that happened prior to Saturday’s vote. Because they weren’t the last couple of hold outs, they didn’t get the media exposure.
Another example was for Wyden of Oregon and for Nelson of Nebraska (the other late term holdout).
“Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) won a promise from Reid to support his plan to expand eligibility for health insurance. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) got Reid to jettison a provision stripping health insurers of their antitrust exemption.”
It’s funny how all the libs and the pro-health care reform idjits have been screaming about stripping the antitrust exemptions from the insurance companies, here’s an example of where the senator wanted it kept *in*. Remember, the antitrust exemptions are STATE laws, not federal laws.
In summary, listen to the Whore from Louisiana, this is not done yet. She still has not been paid enough and she admits it in public.
“But Landrieu had already made up her mind. She went to the floor during the lunch hour to say that she would vote to proceed with the debate — but that she’d be looking for much bigger concessions before she gives her blessing to a final version of the bill.
“My vote today,” she said in a soft Southern accent that masked the hard politics at play, “should in no way be construed by the supporters of this current framework as an indication of how I might vote as this debate comes to an end.” Among the concessions she’ll seek: more tax credits for small business and a removal of the version of the “public option” now in the bill. “
I want to thank all of the veterans who have served in our armed forces. It is your willingness to sacrifice a part of your life in order to protect this country’s ideals that is what makes you such valuable people in our society.
Thanks to all of you, we are allowed to speak our minds, be the best we can be, and raise our families the way we see fit.
Even though Fox News has been beating out most other TV media outlets, hands down, they still stood up for what was right - the 1st Amendment to free speech.
White House Loses Bid to Exclude Fox News From Pay Czar Interview
The Obama administration on Thursday tried to make “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg available for interviews to every member of the White House pool except Fox News. But the Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV networks decided that none of their reporters would interview Feinberg unless Fox News was included.
Friday, October 23, 2009
The Obama administration on Thursday failed in its attempt to manipulate other news networks into isolating and excluding Fox News, as Republicans on Capitol Hill stepped up their criticism of the hardball tactics employed by the White House.
The Obama administration on Thursday tried to make “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg available for interviews to every member of the White House pool except Fox News. The pool is the five-network rotation that for decades has shared the costs and duties of daily coverage of the presidency.
But the Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV networks consulted and decided that none of their reporters would interview Feinberg unless Fox News was included.
The administration relented, making Feinberg available for all five pool members and Bloomberg TV.
The pushback came after White House senior adviser David Axelrod told ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday that Fox News is not a real news organization and other news networks “ought not to treat them that way.”
Media analysts cheered the decision to boycott the Feinberg interview unless Fox News was included, saying the administration’s gambit was taking its feud with Fox News too far. President Obama has already declined to go on “Fox News Sunday,” even while appearing on the other Sunday shows.
“I’m really cheered by the other members saying “No, if Fox can’t be part of it, we won’t be part of it,’” said Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik, calling the move to limit Feinberg’s availability “outrageous.”
“What it’s really about to me is the Executive Branch of the government trying to tell the press how it should behave. I mean, this democracy — we know this — only works with a free and unfettered press to provide information,” he said.
Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. said the administration was potentially in violation of the Constitution with its attempt to restrict access to the “eyes and ears” of the country.
“What was averted was a very serious constitutional violation by the White House,” Johnson said. “There cannot be selective and arbitrary access to the White House based on some subjective determination.”
Several top White House advisers have appeared on other news channels to criticize Fox News’ coverage of the administration, dismiss the network as the mouthpiece of the Republican Party and urge other news organizations not to treat Fox News as a legitimate news network.
On Wednesday, Obama, speaking publicly for the first time about his administration’s portrayal of Fox News as illegitimate, said he’s not “losing sleep” over the controversy.
“I think that what our advisers simply said is, is that we are going to take media as it comes,” Obama said when asked about his advisers targeting the network openly. “And if media is operating, basically, as a talk radio format, then that’s one thing. And if it’s operating as a news outlet, then that’s another. But it’s not something I’m losing a lot of sleep over.”
Obama’s comments also came after he met Monday with political commentators Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow of MSNBC; Eugene Robinson and E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post; Ron Brownstein of the National Journal; John Dickerson of Slate; Frank Rich, Maureen Dowd and Bob Herbert of the New York Times; Jerry Seib of the Wall Street Journal, Gloria Borger of CNN and U.S. News and World Report, and Gwen Ifill of PBS.
House Republican leaders rushed to the defense of conservative commentators Thursday after the president’s comments.
Rep. Mike Pence, chairman of the House Republican Conference, said conservative commentators speak more for Americans than the national media outlets that have targeted them for criticism.
“Goaded on by a White House increasingly intolerant of criticism, lately the national media has taken aim at conservative commentators in radio and television,” the Indiana Republican said on the House floor. “Suggesting that they only speak for a small group of activists and even suggesting in one report today that Republicans in Washington are ‘worried about their electoral effect.’ Well, that’s hogwash.”
This is proof that maybe Obama’s corruption is beginning to be noticed by the rest of the media in the US and they are beginning to fight back. No longer will the ‘preferred’ media allow the President to bully those who expose him and his cabinet for their corrpuption in order to keep it all under wraps.
Could we be seeing the beginning of the fall from grace of The Messiah?
Congress Plays Hooky on Fridays Despite Pledge by Democrats to Work All Week
Democratic leaders promised when their party regained control of the House three years ago that lawmakers would work five-day weeks, but that plan apparently didn’t work.
But a recent analysis found that after a fairly energetic first half of this year, the House has settled into what Politico calls a “rather leisurely routine” of two-and-a-half day workweeks.
For example, only one vote has been held on a Friday since the House returned for its fall session Sept. 8.
“We will, then, not plan to be here on Friday. I know that disappoints all of you,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said to applause and groans on Thursday.
Asked why the House isn’t in session Friday, Hoyer blamed the Senate, where key spending bills have been held up.
“I’m not going to hold people here to twiddle our thumbs,” he said.
The issue even made a rare appearance on the House floor this week.
“We don’t have some other bills, because, frankly, we can’t get 60 votes to consider them on the floor of the United States Senate,” he said. “I think that’s lamentable.”
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Aides to the Democratic leadership contended that, for lawmakers, time spent off the House or Senate floor, or back in home districts, hardly amounts to a holiday.
And they said that under GOP leadership, the House work ethic was even worse.
With members breezing in on Tuesday afternoons, working hard on Wednesdays an jetting out of the Capitol by Thursday afternoon.
It appears even the leaders have no clue how to lead. Party doesn’t matter, this isn’t just the affliction of the Democrats, the Republicans are just as guilty. Imagine how long we would have our jobs if we only worked two and a half days each week…
I guess the taxpayers end up the winners in this whole issue; if they aren;t there, they can’t vote. If they can’t vote, they aren’t pissing our money down a rat hole.
Lawmakers Eye Untapped Stimulus Funds as Obama Proposes New Spending
After President Obama called on Congress to approve $250 payments to Social Security recipients to make up for not getting a cost-of-living increase, House Minority Leader John Boehner said he’d be “happy” to support it — so long as Congress takes the money out of the stimulus package.
With the bulk of the $787 billion stimulus package still unspent, some lawmakers say, President Obama should not be adding yet another $13 billion to the deficit by funding a one-time $250 Social Security payment.
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“The stimulus bill is not working. The American people are asking, ‘Where are the jobs?’ And if we’re going to provide this benefit to our seniors, why don’t we take it from stimulus funds that clearly aren’t getting the job done?” Boehner said.
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James Horney, director of federal fiscal policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said calls to divert the stimulus money are unwarranted. He said one of the reasons that economic growth is projected for next year is that a large portion of the stimulus is yet to be spent.
“The idea that somehow because it hasn’t been spent, that it’s not important for getting the economy going, is misguided,” he said.
But some, including the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, are warning about the clamor for new spending. Obama’s call for additional Social Security payments, for instance, drew recriminations on Friday’s newspaper editorial pages. Since seniors received a 5.8 percent boost in January, the additional $250 check was seen more as a political move than a necessary effort to relieve seniors. The Washington Post called it a bid to “buy off” seniors while adding another $13 billion to the national debt.
Horney said there’s “no justification” for the increase in terms of inflation, since overall consumer prices have fallen.
So now that they can’t spend it fast enough on shovel-ready projects, they want to still spend it, just give it away. I am not knocking the seniors getting a bit more, but you know, my last raise, a year ago, was 2.25%. I haven’t had a raise this year, and with the way things are going, you can bet there won’t be a cost of living adjustment, because I’m not a government employee or a union grunt. Of course, I pay a LOT of taxes. Where’s mine?
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HARRY REID: “He talked about CBO saying that there would be $54 billion saved each year if we put caps on medical malpractice and put some restrictions — tort reform — $54 billion. Sounds like a lot of money, doesnt it, Mr. President? The answer is yes. But remember, were talking about $2 trillion, $54 billion compared to $2 trillion. You can do the math. We can all do the math. Its a very small percent.”
The site is one of 8,000 road and bridge projects approved under the $787 billion economic stimulus bill Obama signed just after taking office. Construction is under way on nearly 5,000 of those projects. Obama said many are coming in 10 to 20 percent under budget, which will allow the government to invest in more projects.
Obama said the current phase of the Fairfax parkway project will create new private sector jobs. His goal, he said, is an economy “where our stock market isn’t only rising again but our businesses are hiring again.”
Ok, I’m calling BS on this. Since when has a government road project EVER come in UNDER budget? Ever? And in VA? Are you serious? WHo believes this crap?
The problem here is that Obama is realizing his spend-a-thon is not working. Although they have spent 40% of the money so far, the rate of increase in unemployment hasn’t slowed, he is having a hard time explaining where all the “saved jobs” are, and he surely can;t explain why the unemployment rate breached 8% when he promised it wouldn;t if we threw the government printing presses at it.
The more this president speaks, the mroe trouble he gets himself in to. He can’t lead, he never has shown a penchant for leadership, and those he surrounded himself with as advisors, thugs, muscle, etc, are just as bad. They can all drive the getaway car but not many of them have any idea on how to get where they are going or who is going to go in the bank door first.
I don’t know why the Senate dweebs decided to actually post the current healthcare bill, because any resolutions to do just that were voted down by a party line vote (Dems voting against revealing it), but anyway, it has been posted.
The Congressional Budget Office is supposed to be a non-partisan orgianization that is supposed to go through all of these spending bills and give an honest, non-political opinion of what each bill will cost. Here is the Director’s opinion of this bill, as it was submitted above.
The Senate Finance Committee will be voting on this on Tuesday October 13th, 2009. Make sure you call these people and let them know they are barking up the wrong tree. Call them, fax them, email them. Do this to their offices in DC, do it to all of their home offices back in their states. You can call the Committee’s office at (202) 224-4515.
The two main people running this circus are Max Baucus (D-MT) and Chuck Grassley (R-NE). These are not the only people, the rest are listed here. Make sure you let them know that anything less than what you expect is unacceptable.
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