By Here is a perfect example of the mainstream covering up the climate fraud currently being uncovered in the wake of the ClimateGate scandal:
Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, told The Associated Press that recent scandals over climate data have not discredited the scientific evidence that global warming exists and must be countered.
“What’s happened, it’s unfortunate, it’s bad, it’s wrong, but I don’t think it has damaged the basic science,” he said in an interview late Thursday.
Global warming skeptics have expressed anger after a U.N. report warning that Himalayan glaciers could be gone by 2035 turned out to be off by hundreds of years because of a typo — the actual year was 2350 — and over stolen e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s climate science unit.
“Concluding that the Himalayan glaciers are going to disappear later is like being happy about the fact that the Titanic is sinking more slowly than we had originally feared, even though it’s still going to sink,” de Boer said. [Associated Press - Angela Charlton & Matt Moore]
First of all Yvo de Boer makes it sound like something supposedly happening 340 years from now is like right around the corner. Secondly the prediction is based on if the warming trend continues for 340 years, which as the recent global cooling shows the models predicting a warming trend are flawed.
With that said the IPCC report about the Himalayan glaciers did not contain a typo. The 2035 date was intentionally put in there by the IPCC in order to put political pressure on world leaders:
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.
Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.
In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Dr Lal, the co-ordinating lead author of the report’s chapter on Asia, said: ‘It related to several countries in this region and their water sources. We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.
‘It had importance for the region, so we thought we should put it in.’ [DailyMail]
Then you add in the fact the IPCC head Dr. Rajenda Pachauri is linked to the scandal and had huge conflicts of interest in regards to his business being paid with taxpayer dollars to do research on the melting glaciers when he in fact knew the claim was bogus. This is apparently a huge story over in India due to the fear the IPCC report created about the country losing its water supply and much taxpayer dollars being spent to address it when it was a fraud. This cartoon is from the Times of India:
How could the AP reporters have missed such key facts and not even mention Pachauri or the host of other climate scandals currently being uncovered? It is either because they are incompetent or willfully misleading readers to defend the global warming faith. Neither conclusion looks favorably upon the AP, not that I am surprised.
Thanks I got fixed.
8:34 am on January 29th, 2010 1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35141796/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/
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4:33 pm on January 29th, 2010 2
Scientific American published a similar article attempting to explain away the fraud known as AGW. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrO4YZeyl0I
What was especially heartening was the comments online ripping them for doing so. I mean, the readership of this mag is not the typical “anti-science” skeptic, and they are outraged and offended at what is being done in the name of Science.
Here’s an example:
Shame on SA for publishing such a blatantly biased apology for what appear to have been long lasting and willful manipulations on an issue of the greatest importance to us all. Casual dismissal of Climategate as “a record of how Science is actually done” is deeply offensive to me. No this is not the way Science is actually done! Climategate has brought to public light all kinds of behaviors anathema to Science: Groupthink, restricted and/or proprietary access to data, significant use of poorly documented yet “highly complex” data processing techniques, primary reliance on extrapolations or “proxies”, and most damningly, offhand dismissal of skeptics as crackpots, quickly come to my mind. As a scientifically trained person, I am genuinely embarrassed that the Wall Street Journal, as opposed to SA, has understood the great concerns raised by Climategate.
Dr Thierry Copie
Ph.D Physics 1988, Cornell U.
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6:05 pm on January 29th, 2010 3
You’ll love this one:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/world/middleeast/30binladen.html
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8:47 pm on January 29th, 2010 4
…and then Obama kill’s NASA’s moon program…
…but…
“the White House will direct NASA to concentrate on Earth-science projects — principally, researching and monitoring climate change ”
India and China, however, are going to emit all the carbon they have to as they get their economies and their space programs going.
Why does Obama hate America?
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January 30th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
Stop buying cheap Chinese products.
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2:15 pm on January 30th, 2010 5
And who will we pay to take us to the ISS? China or Russia.
Good question! Why DOES Obama hate America?
Too bad he isn’t more like JFK.
How many jobs will be lost because of the Constellation program’s death?
But he is NOW all about jobs. My asss! He is all about increasing the government and government bailouts, programs and give a ways like the so called “health care”.
I only hope the “american idol” generation of voters will learn something.
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January 31st, 2010 at 3:58 am
It’s a travesty. NASA’s budget and those programs are a teeny tiny drop in the bucket. The payback is very high. What a damn shame than if nothing else it’s embarrassing.
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3:45 am on January 31st, 2010 6
“Stop buying cheap Chinese products.”
It is no longer that easy.
Now, a couple billion Chinese and Indians are able to buy cheap Chinese and Indian products… American purchases are becoming less and less required.
China’s middle class is likely bigger than the entire population of the United States… and they want to buy, buy, buy.
The deteriorating purchasing power of North America is having less and less influence on these countries… who will increasingly resist foreign influence.
The only real outcome will be war, of course.
China and India will pollute, emit carbon and block Western economic and resource interests as they do anything necessary to build their countries and their economies.
A blockade of foreign resources, even ones they have legally secured, in the guise of “climate protection” or some-such will be the only thing that controls them (they see this coming, of course, hence stuff like the String of Pearls).
The same thing was done to Japan in the years leading up to Pearl Harbor.
…or, off the top of my head, this theory makes sense. Anybody agree or not?
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February 1st, 2010 at 12:44 am
Not really possible. China still doesn’t have any recognizable form of a middle class, this is deliberately caused by the government.
If the Chinese develop a middle class then that “cheap labor” goes away, then products become more expensive and foreign companies stop pouring money into the Chinese economy. That money would then move to Vietnam or other underdeveloped nation where a manufacturer can produce products cheaply. The Chinese government knows this, it knows foreign countries buying their products from China is how it keeps its economy growing, if that goes away then their economy starts to take hits, then their population becomes less easy to control. This is why the Chinese currency is not legally to exchange outside China. The exchange rate is set by the Chinese government to keep internal products cheap and keep their population poor (relatively).
Of course economics being what they are, a middle class will eventually develop. This middle class will demand more freedoms then previously given, they already are. This middle class will also require / demand higher paid jobs that support a lifestyle filled with more materialistic *stuff*, similar to every other modern society in the world. This has already happened in places like Japan, South Korea and ironically enough Taiwan. Its just a matter of time until we move our manufacturing base to another country.
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