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Save the planet, kill a vulture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RcTjdY1aN4&feature=player_embedded

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/7778917/Royal-Society-to-publish-guide-on-climate-change-to-counter-claims-of-exaggeration.html

[Sergio Stefanuto]

Here's a shock.

Thinning ice in West Antartica may have a totally natural explanation, say British Antarctica Survey

[bacasper]

Is this headline misleading? I still don't know what to think on all this.

'Climategate' inquiry mostly vindicates scientists

By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press Writer � Wed Jul 7, 1:42 pm ET

LONDON � An independent report into the leak of hundreds of e-mails from one of the world's leading climate research centers on Wednesday largely vindicated the scientists involved, saying they acted honestly and that their research was reliable.

But the panel of inquiry, led by former U.K. civil servant Muir Russell, did chide scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit for failing to share their data with critics.

"We find that their rigor and honesty as scientists are not in doubt," Russell said. "But we do find that there has been a consistent pattern of failing to display the proper degree of openness."
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They caused a sensation when they were published online in November. The stolen correspondence captured researchers speaking in scathing terms about their critics, discussing ways to stonewall skeptics of man-made climate change, and talking about how to freeze opponents out of peer-reviewed journals.
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The carefully worded report mostly defended the scientists from attacks, saying there was no evidence Jones had destroyed evidence that he knew critics were seeking, or that he or others perverted the peer review process.

It also largely excused the intemperate language that helped make the e-mails such an Internet sensation, saying that the more extreme exchanges � such as when one scientist cheers the death of a skeptic and another jokingly threatened to beat a prominent critic � were typical of often over-the-top electronic missives friends and colleagues trade every day.

But the report did dole out some criticism, saying that Jones clearly pushed others to delete e-mails that he thought might provide ammunition to skeptics, and that the University of East Anglia had been "unhelpful" in dealing with Freedom of Information Act requests � an issue Britain's data-protection watchdog has also flagged.

Importantly, the report also revisited the now infamous e-mail exchange between Jones and a colleague in which the climatologist refers to a "trick" used to "hide the decline" in a chart used to track global temperatures.
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Jones' critics were only partially mollified. Canadian economics professor Ross McKitrick welcomed the conclusion that the 1999 chart was misleading. But he still said that the inquiry seemed "unduly concerned to downplay the problems they found" and offer excuses for the researchers involved.

University of East Anglia Vice-Chancellor Edward Acton claimed that the report had "completely exonerated" Jones, who is returning to the Climatic Research Unit as director of research.

But Benny Feiser, who runs the skeptic-leaning Global Warming Policy Foundation, said there was strong evidence that legitimate requests for information had been repeatedly stifled.

"I don't think the university can just claim that this is a vindication," he said. He promised his own inquiry into the matter, to publish its report in August.

complete story at link

[The Happy Warrior]

The headline is true. I believe two other investigations exonerated the researchers of deliberate distortion. Of course, they should have been more open with their data.

The reason it seems excuses were offered for the researchers is because the researchers are flawed human beings under attack by disingenuous denialists.*

*Skepticism and Denialism are very different.

[TheUrbanMyth]

While Mann may have been exonerated by his university (big surprise there ) he's not out of the woods yet.


http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/29/oh-mann-cuccinelli-targets-uva-papers-in-climategate-salvo/

And if the report (mentioned above by Mr. bacasper) found Jones had clearly pushed others to delete e-mails...I don't see how that's complete exoneration.
Guess it's natural for the AGW proponents to stick together. The more things change the more they stay the same.

[bacasper]

Left-wing Env. Scientist Bails Out Of Global Warming Movement: Declares it a 'corrupt social phenomenon...strictly an imaginary problem of the 1st World middleclass'

Exclusive New Video: Calls cap-and-trade an 'horrendous scam' -- Joins other left of center scientific and activist dissenters

Monday, July 26, 2010By Marc Morano � Climate Depot

Physicist Dr. Denis Rancourt, a former professor and environmental science researcher at the University of Ottawa, has officially bailed out of the man-made global warming movement.

In a hard-hitting and exclusive new exclusive video just released by Climate Depot, Dr. Rancourt declares that the entire man-made global warming movement is nothing more than a �corrupt social phenomenon.� �It is as much psychological and social phenomenon as anything else,� Rancourt, who has published peer-reviewed research, explained in a June 8, 2010 essay. (Rancourt's email: [email protected])

Watch Rancourt video here.

�I argue that by far the most destructive force on the planet is power-driven financiers and profit-driven corporations and their cartels backed by military might; and that the global warming myth is a red herring that contributes to hiding this truth. In my opinion, activists who, using any justification, feed the global warming myth have effectively been co-opted, or at best neutralized,� Rancourt said.

�Global warming is strictly an imaginary problem of the First World middleclass,� he stated.

Environmental censorship

Rancourt's dissent on man-made climate fears has not set well with many of his fellow green friends. �When I tell environmental activists that global warming is not something to be concerned about, they attack me -- they shun me, they do not allow me to have my materials published in their magazines,� Rancourt explained to Climate Depot.

Rancourt bluntly examines why his fellow environmentalists are wrapped up in promoting climate alarm. (Note: Rancourt also ridicules environmental concern over acid rain and the ozone hole. See below)

�They look for comfortable lies that they can settle into and alleviate the guilt they feel about being on privileged end of the planet -- a kind of survivors guilt. A lot of these environmentalists are guilt laden individuals who need to alleviate the guilt without taking risks,� he said. �They are weekend activists...looking for lies to hitch onto.�

�The modern environmental move has hijacked itself by looking for an excuse to stay comfortable and stay away from actual battle. Ward Churchill has called this pacifism as pathology,� he explained. �If you are really concerned about saving world's forests or habitat destruction, then fight against habitat destruction, don't go off in tenuous thing about co2 concentration in the atmosphere. Actually address the question; otherwise you are weakening your effect as an activist.�

Gore's film makes him 'ill'

Rancourt openly expresses his hostility for former Vice President Al Gore's 2006 documentary �An Inconvenient Truth.�

�I felt ill walking out of the theatre. It's terrible. It does not respect the intelligence of the viewer. The film does not acknowledge people can think for themselves at all,� Rancourt said.

Rancourt lamented how �environmentalists could just gobble this up and agree with [Gore's film] in a non critical fashion.�

Gore �strikes me as someone working for someone -- as someone who will financially benefit from this. He does not give me impression of someone who genuinely cares about environmental or social justice.

continues at link

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http://sppiblog.org/news/official-satellite-failure-means-decade-of-global-warming-data-doubtful#more-2332

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http://www.kidsnewsroom.org/elmer/infocentral/frameset/meterology/Bad/BadGreenhouse.html

by Alistair B. Fraser
Emeritus Professor of Meteorology
Pennsylvania State University

My favorite

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/climate-panel-must-be-purged/story-e6frg6zo-1225914025436

Climate panel must be purged

by Matt Ridley

[Sergio Stefanuto]

It can't be too far in the future when catastrophic climate change is given the same weight as astrology and relegated to the entertainment section of newspapers.

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http://www.theresilientearth.com/?q=content/climate-co2-sensitivity-overestimated

Submitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:49

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[Axiom]

Unbelievable.. eco-fascism at its worst.

Warning .. kiddies and those with a squeamish stomach shouldn't watch. Its graphic.
Mods, if its to much I will delete.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKgtWWCGQZ8

Big Bird.. justify that. Or are you like 10:10 you think it is funny.


Some rare honesty from the green fascist crowd - conform, or else.