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The Daily Show's Take On Climategate

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Friday, December 04, 2009 7:15:17 PM
   I am not a particular fan of the The Daily Show; actually I have never watched a whole episode because his humor is boring after about 10 minutes. But Since Jon Stewart's show is so popular, you have to include his take on things.
 
So here you go... (Via M4GW)
 
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Scientists Hide Global Warming Data
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show
Full Episodes		 Political Humor Health Care Crisis
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10 Craziest Ideas To Solve AGW

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Friday, December 04, 2009 6:57:50 PM
   Here is a list of the 10 craziest ideas to solve global warming submitted by Yahoo.news/Live Science.
I will have to do one of my own. There are a couple of good ones,  but I think I have heard some other solutions that were quite unusual.
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New Viginia Tech Shooting Scandal

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Friday, December 04, 2009 11:39:02 AM
   No problem here...

The report indicates that students who were initially locked down at West Ambler Johnston residence hall, where the spree began, were later released from the building by the police and allowed to attend their 9 a.m. classes. Two of those students then went to class in Norris Hall, where they were killed by the shooter.
 
At least two members of the university’s Policy Group, which was assembled to manage the crisis, let their own families know of the first two shootings, in the residence hall, more than 90 minutes before the group warned the rest of the campus. The new report also says that the university president’s office was locked down about 30 minutes before a formal warning was issued to the rest of the campus.
 
    This is nothing short of criminal. Hopefully some heads will roll. My prayers go out the families who lost loved ones because of Virginia Tech's "policy groups" selfishness. Sadness...
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Got to love Steyn's Take On Climategate

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Friday, December 04, 2009 11:14:58 AM
   Mark Steyn has a great way of putting things, and this column is no different.

   Yet perhaps the most important revelation is not the collusion, the bullying, the politicization and the evidence-planting, but the fact that, even if you wanted to do honest “climate research” at the Climatic Research Unit, the data and the models are now so diseased by the above that they’re all but useless. Let Ian “Harry” Harris, who works in “climate scenario development and data manipulation” at the CRU, sum it up. Mr. Harris was attempting to duplicate previous results - i.e., to duplicate all that science that’s supposedly settled, and the questioning of which consigns you to the Climate Branch of the Flat Earth Society. How hard should it be to confirm settled science? After much cyber-gnashing of teeth, Harry throws in the towel:

“ARGH. Just went back to check on synthetic production. Apparently - I have no memory of this at all - we’re not doing observed rain days! It’s all synthetic from 1990 onwards. So I’m going to need conditionals in the update program to handle that. And separate gridding before 1989. And what TF happens to station counts?

“OH F-K THIS. It’s Sunday evening, I’ve worked all weekend, and just when I thought it was done I’m hitting yet another problem that’s based on the hopeless state of our databases. There is no uniform data integrity, it’s just a catalogue of issues that continues to grow as they’re found.”

Thus spake the Settled Scientist: “OH F-K THIS.” And on the basis of “OH F-K THIS” the world’s enlightened progressives will assemble at Copenhagen for the single greatest advance in punitive liberalism ever perpetrated on the developed world.
 
   The truth in the emails is teriffying isn't it? I am beginning to wonder if the whole global warming thing should be postponed until all the science is in. Ha!
 
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U.N. To Investigate Itself

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Friday, December 04, 2009 11:01:02 AM
 
 A top UN panel is to probe claims that British scientists sought to suppress data backing climate change sceptics' views, its head said on Friday ahead of the landmark Copenhagen summit.
Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the claims -- which led a top expert to leave his post temporarily this week -- were serious and needed to be investigated.
 
"We certainly don't want to brush anything under the carpet. This is a serious issue and we will look into it in detail," he added.
 
   Nothoing like internal investigations; they tend to lead no where.
 
   I would like to see an independent panel of scientists from varying fields, equally distributed between believers and skeptics to investigate this scandal. That will never happen of course. Instead, Jones was predicted to be the fall-guy and he was. And you can bet that the  investigating U.N. panel will most certainly sweep anything that might convict one of their own under rug without a second thought.
 
   As you can tell, I do not trust the U.N....period.
   
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Christian Climategate?

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Thursday, December 03, 2009 7:42:15 PM
   Here is a unusual story from OpenMarket.org. It seems that the one of the programmers in the leaked emails liked to link his climate work to biblical teachings.
 
The “Harry” file tells the tortured story of a programmer at CRU struggling to make sense of inconsistent, missing, and incompatible data files and seemingly to try to replicate them.  Many of those files had earlier been compiled by someone named “Tim,” who seems to have really made a mess of things.  According to the commenter, this “Tim” seems to be Tim Mitchell - who worked at the Climactic Research Unit at University of East Anglia when he was a Ph.D. student and then received his degree.  At the time, he also was a member of — no joke — South Park Evangelical Church, as he notes in his religious writings on climate change and religion.

Here’s an example:

The government urges us to reduce our energy usage so that we may indulge ourselves in other ways, but we have a higher motive for reducing waste (1 Timothy 6.17-19). Although I have yet to see any evidence that climate change is a sign of Christ’s imminent return, human pollution is clearly another of the birth pangs of creation, as it eagerly awaits being delivered from the bondage of corruption (Romans. 19-22).
 
   My reading of 1 Timothy 6: 17-19 tells me that rich people should not put their hopes in riches, but should share it, and instead store up riches in heaven with good works. My guess is he sees this passage as the"transfer of wealth" idea they are all so fond of.
   Who knows? Maybe climate change will be one of the "birthing pains" of the end times. If that indeed is the case, then it would be a utter waste of time to try and stop it; don't you agree?
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Gore Just Left The Kitchen

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Thursday, December 03, 2009 7:21:32 PM
   You can't say Al Gore is an idiot. He knows when it's too hot in the proverbial kitchen.
 
It seems the uncertainty about Copenhagen is growing. When Al baby pulls the plug, you know it’s hosed.
 
Al Gore cancels lecture during COP15

Former U.S. vice president has canceled his event, more than 3,000 Danes have purchased a ticket. Photo: JOSE MENDEZ

Looks like they will get a refund though. Might be worth more as a collectors item in ten years though.

I wonder how many people have shelled out $1200 to shake Al’s hand? Maybe not enough and he couldn’t cover the expenses for his private jet?
 
   Well, the good thing is he will be spared the MSM press about bailing out of the talks.
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Climategate Is Gaining Some Traction

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Thursday, December 03, 2009 7:16:18 PM
   Over at SmallDeadAnimals, she posts on the Canadian news finally reporting on the scandal.
 
 
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Still Pumping Out The Scare Stories

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Thursday, December 03, 2009 7:10:43 PM
   Here is a good global warming story in today's USA Today online edition. Talk about bought and sold...
 
With the world losing the battle against global warming so far, experts are warning that humans need to follow nature's example: Adapt or die.
That means elevating buildings, making taller and stronger dams and seawalls, rerouting water systems, restricting certain developments, changing farming practices and ultimately moving people, plants and animals out of harm's way.

Adapting to rising seas and higher temperatures is expected to be a big topic at the U.N. climate-change talks in Copenhagen next week, along with the projected cost — hundreds of billions of dollars, much of it going to countries that cannot afford it.

   Adapt or die? And by giving money to poor countries that is going to do what exactly besides make some countries crooked leader wealthy? I have a better idea. Let's take those billions of dollars and invest in snow making machines. Okay, maybe not. But seriously, it would probably end up being a better investment than giving it to a bunch of countries that will certainly not use it for its intended purpose. And besides, how much of that money would get to those countries anyway? Certainly a large percentage of that  money would line several pockets in the U.N. We have seen it before in the Oil For Food Scandal. The last thing I would do is give large sums of money to the U.N. to distribute. That would be akin to giving your teenage son $50,000 in cash but he is not to spend it. It's not going to happen.
 
   As I have mentioned before, this is nothing but a transfer of wealth, plain and simple.
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The Past Has Repeated Itself

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Thursday, December 03, 2009 1:15:00 PM
   Does this look familiar?
 

Big Freeze: Earth Could Plunge into Sudden Ice Age

 
   Yes, they have done it again. Maybe another ice age is coming. Or maybe not. We rarely learn from the past, and it is clear the media hasn't either.
 

Starting roughly 12,800 years ago, the Northern Hemisphere was gripped by a chill that lasted some 1,300 years. Known by scientists as the Younger Dryas and nicknamed the "Big Freeze," geological evidence suggests it was brought on when a vast pulse of fresh water - a greater volume than all of North America's Great Lakes combined - poured into the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.

This abrupt influx, caused when the glacial Lake Agassiz in North America burst its banks, diluted the circulation of warmer water in the North Atlantic, bringing this "conveyer belt" to a halt. Without this warming influence, evidence shows that temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere plummeted.

No time to react

Previous evidence from Greenland ice samples had suggested this abrupt shift in climate happened over the span of a decade or so. Now researchers say it surprisingly may have taken place over the course of a few months, or a year or two at most.
 
   Wow! You mean this is a natural occurence?
 

The e-mails from a British university's climate center were obtained by computer hackers and posted online about two weeks ago. Climate change skeptics contend the messages reveal that researchers manipulated and suppressed data and stifled dissent, and conservative bloggers are dubbing it "Climategate."

In the first Capitol Hill airing of the issue, House Republicans Wednesday read excerpts from at least eight of the e-mails, saying they showed the world needs to re-examine experts' claims that the science on warming is settled. One e-mail from 2003 was by John Holdren, then of Harvard University and now the president's science adviser.

The exploding controversy led Phil Jones to step aside as head of the climate research unit at the University of East Anglia, the source of the e-mail exchanges. The university is investigating the matter. Penn State University also is looking into e-mails by its own researcher, Michael Mann. House Republicans asked for a separate hearing or investigation into the issue, but were rebuffed by Democrats.
 
   What a surprise, Michael Mann is going to investigate his own emails. I am sure he will be thorough and unbiased....
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