Climategate - East Anglia Climate Research Unit Hacked

[Guest ALWAYSRED]

According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), the November 2009 Northern Hemisphere sea ice extent—which is measured from passive microwave instruments onboard NOAA satellites—was 10.3 million square kilometers (9.3 percent or 1.1 million square kilometers below the 1979–2000 average), resulting in the third lowest November sea ice extent since satellite records began, behind 2006 and 2007. When compared to November 2007 "the record low" 2009 was 900,000 square kilometers above the record low. This was the 16th consecutive November with sea ice extent below average. November 1993 was the last year that had above-average sea extent. November Arctic sea ice extent has decreased at an average rate of 4.5 percent per decade since 1979. Arctic sea ice usually expands during the cold season to a March maximum, then contracts during the warm season to a September minimum.

 

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/?report=global&year=2009&month=11&submitted=Get+Report

[Guest ALWAYSRED]

According to a story at WashingtonTimes.com:

 

As described in The Washington Times' Inside the Beltway column Tuesday, the multimedia public event to promote Mr. Gore's new book, "Our Choice," included $1,209 VIP tickets that granted the holder a photo opportunity with Mr. Gore and a "light snack."

 

Berlingkse Media, a Danish group coordinating ticket sales and publicity for the event, said that "great annoyance" was a factor in the cancellation, along with unforeseen changes in Mr. Gore's program for the climate summit. The decision affected 3,000 ticket holders.

 

"We have had a clear-cut agreement, and it is unusual with great disappointment that we have to announce that Al Gore cancels. We had a huge expectation for the event. . . . We do not yet know the detailed reasons for the cancellation," said Lisbeth Knudsen, CEO of Berlingske Media, in a statement posted by the company.

[Guest ALWAYSRED]

U.N. climate chief cashes in on carbon

Tied to conglomerate that stands to make hundreds of millions in emissions scheme

 

The climate scandal emerging out of Britain suggests "follow the money" may explain the enthusiasm of the United Nations to pursue caps on carbon emissions, despite doubts surfacing in the scientific community about the validity of the underlying global warming hypothesis.

 

A Mumbai-based Indian multinational conglomerate with business ties to Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman since 2002 of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, stands to make several hundred million dollars in European Union carbon credits simply by closing a steel production facility in Britain with the loss of 1,700 jobs.

 

The Tata Group headquartered in Mumbai anticipates receiving windfall profits of up to nearly $2 billion from closing the Corus Redcar steelmaking plant in Britain, with about half of the savings expected to result from cashing in on carbon credits granted the steelmaker by the European Union under the EU's emissions trading scheme, or ETS.

 

Corus has accumulated 7.5 million European Union surplus carbon allowances, or EUAs, given the company free by the EU, after corporate officials lobbied EU officials aggressively in Brussels.

 

The British government also announced Wednesday it would auction off rather than cancel the millions of carbon permits resulting from the Corus Redcar steel plant closing The Corus Redcar facility is scheduled to be closed in January, and if the facility is to be closed more than 50 days, Corus would not be entitled to receive the permits, worth about $147.5 million per year at current market rates.

 

How does the closing of a steelmaker in Britain tie to the chairman of the U.N.'s global warming science committee?

 

In 1974, the TATA Group provided the financial resources to found the Tata Energy Research Institute, or TERI, a policy organization headquartered in New Dehli, India, of which Pachauri has been chairman since the group was formed.

 

Continued business ties between TERI and TATA are demonstrated by a press announcement on the TERI website dated Feb. 4 in which Jairam Ramesh, the Indian minister of state for commerce and industry as well as minister of state for power, announced a joint venture with TERI and TATA power to extract and use carbon dioxide for the propagation of micro-algae.

 

On Dec. 10, 2007, Pachauri shared with Al Gore the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming. At the Nobel ceremonies, Pachauri in his Nobel lecture openly represented the U.N.'s IPCC.

 

The TATA Group decision to close the Corus steelmaking plant has caused the Labour government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown political difficulties. Manufacturing accounted for 22.5 percent of Britain's economic output when Labour came to power in 1997, while it accounts for little more than 11 percent today, according to the London Times.

 

Arguing that the Brown government needs to provide financial assistance to manufacturing in Britain, Kirby Adams, the chief executive officer of Corus told the newspaper, "Jobs paying £30,000 ($50,000) a year are only in manufacturing sectors or sectors where you are adding value – you are not going to make that flipping burgers."

 

He added: "In some way I hope that this [decision to close Corus Redcar] will be the final wake-up call or alarm bell to get things across to people in Whitehall and Westminster – we need to help other sectors of the economy, not just the columns of the Bank of England."

 

In July, thousands of steelworkers marched in Redcar, North Yorks, England, protesting the proposed closing of the Corus steelmaking facility.

 

The European Union Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading System began operations in January 2005, billing itself as "the largest multi-country, multi-sector Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading system world-wide."

 

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=118659

[Guest LPAC]

What we are actually looking at is the conflict of two dynamic processes: the British Empire, which has been dominating the planet for decades; and the dynamic of the mass strike, which is reflected both in the fight for national sovereignty against globalization in Copenhagen.

 

There is no agreement on any major issue — from finance, to emissions targets, to enforcement — at Copenhagen. The British are basically running the show, and have put their authority on the line. First there was Prince Philip at Windsor Castle in November, then the Queen at the Commonwealth meeting, then Charles, and now Gordon Brown trying to run the negotiations. Their major stumbling block is the stated, and very real, determination by the Chinese and the Indians to preserve their national sovereignty against enforcement. This is the crucial element, and if they have the guts to stick to it, the British can't get their plans through.

 

If the British are defeated in Copenhagen, it will have devastating consequences for their British puppet in Washington, who is already suffering paroxysms of rage and fear.

[Guest Human]

It's Japan who is leading the summit with a push of some 19 billion dollars "or 19.5 billion", and the Western countries thinking in how much that they will be putting into the piggy bank for climate change.

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle09.asp?xfile=data/international/2009/December/international_December900.xml&section=international

 

Plus if the senate passes Cap and Trade that would be a real kick in the head to the economy.

Add to that, that the smart meters are hackable; That aint going work for now.

 

http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hacking-the-smart-grid-new-generations-of-meters-could-be-vulnerable-to-attack/

 

The funding for smart meters right now is Zero "for the reason stated above.

 

Now do I think that there is climate change? Sure!!

But it could be a cycle with in the earths climate. The data is still not conclusive either way.

[Guest Human]

By the way; Alwaysred you do bring up very good points that the american public should consider.

[Luke_Wilbur]

It is hard to talk about "Global Warming" when we are about to have a blizzard of snow. Kidding.... I do believe in climate change. My cherry blossoms and forsythias were blooming two weeks ago. The weather is very unpredictable. But, I think we may have a WHITE CHRISTMAS. I got this email from Fact Check.

 

Palin vs. Gore Climate Showdown

 

The former vice president and former vice presidential candidate both offer distortions on global warming.

 

December 18, 2009

 

Summary

 

On Dec. 9, an op-ed by Sarah Palin on climate change ran in the Washington Post. Al Gore responded to Palin's piece and made some fresh claims of his own later that day in an interview with MSNBC. We find that both engaged in some distortions and have been rightly called out by experts in the field.

 

* Gore said that 40 percent of the polar ice cap is already gone.That's an outdated figure -- it has recovered in the last two years,and is now about 24 percent smaller than the 1979-2000 average.

* Gore's claim that all Arctic ice would "go completely" over the next decade is greatly exaggerated. The scientist he is citing was actually talking about nearly ice-free conditions, and only in the summer months.

* Gore and Palin both left out information when discussing the economic impact of climate legislation. Gore dodged a question about job losses, and Palin ignored the potentially severe effects of doing nothing.

* Palin misrepresented the contents of the leaked e-mails from the Climate Research Unit, saying that they show "fraudulent scientific practices." That's not the case

Edited December 19, 2009 by Luke_Wilbur

[Guest Human]

With this blizzard 12/19/09, wouldn't mind global warming right now.

[Guest SpareParts2']

The fact that these "scientists" won't release the original data and processing algorithms pretty much says it all. The Anthropogenic Global Warming Hypothesis must be supported by data and subjected by review by anyone who asks. Unfortunately for the Global Warmers, McIntyre seems to demolish AGW with every dataset he gets his hands onto.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu_ok37HDuE

[Guest Fan of Jim Inhofe]

Sen. Inhofe is calling for criminal investigations into scientists involved with ClimateGate!

 

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Hello, I'm Senator Jim Inhofe, the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. I want to give you a sneak-peek into a major new Senate report on my Committee's investigation into the scandal commonly known as Climategate.

 

What emerges from our review of the emails and documents, which span a 13-year period from 1996 through November 2009, is much more than, as EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson put it, scientists who "lack interpersonal skills." Rather, the emails show the world's leading climate scientists discussing, among other things:

 

Obstructing the release of damaging data and information;

Manipulating data to reach preconceived conclusions;

threatening journal editors who published work questioning the climate science "consensus"; and

Assuming activist roles to influence the political process.

The correspondence also reveals a fractured consensus on the state of climate science. Contrary to repeated assertions that the "science is settled," the emails show the world's leading climate scientists arguing over critical issues, questioning key methods and statistical techniques, and doubting whether there is "consensus" on the causes and the extent of climate change.

 

If you're interested in reading key passages of the report to be released this morning, visit my website at www.epw.senate.gov/inhofe

 

As even some of the most ardent global warming alarmists now admit, the past few months have been bad news for their cause. I suspect climategate is only the beginning.

 

We knew they were cooking the science to support the flawed UN IPCC agenda. As I said on the Senate floor back in 2005 that "the IPCC has demonstrated an unreasoning resistance to accepting constructive critiques of its scientific and economic methods, even in the report itself...this is a recipe for de-legitimizing the entire endeavor in terms of providing credible information that is useful to policy makers."

 

And back in 2003 I said blaming global warming on CO2 and other man made gases is the 'greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." I was right.