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Happy Birthday Boy Scouts!

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, February 08, 2010 4:26:14 PM
   Today is the Boy Scouts of America's 100 birthday. Conratulations!
 
 
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Green Groups Don't Like Palin Much Either

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, February 08, 2010 11:52:39 AM
   Ran across this story from the ClimateProgress. They pick on Sarah Palin because she made a note on her hand. Then they go on to explain why her blaming Obama for generational theft is more liinked to conservatives than to Obama.  

Seriously.

The Bush tax cuts for the wealthy — that would be generational theft.

The Iraq war and its trillion dollar liability, including hundreds of billions of dollars in Veteran’s costs for decades to come, all “paid for” with money borrowed from our children — that would be generational theft.
 
   The whole point of the Tea Party movement is less government and less debt. They are not fans of G.W. Bush bailouts and overspending. But here is a graph I have posted before that shows just what generational theft really means:
 
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   Bush started us down the debt road, but Obama has quadrupled it...in ONE YEAR. Let's be clear here, Bush did what he thought needed to be done, and so has Obama. So which is more complicite, according to the graph?
 
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IPCC's Credibility Under Fire...Again

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, February 08, 2010 10:53:49 AM
   First it was the rain forest screw-up, then came the Himalayan Glacier business, now we have another slight error. (Via Instapundit)
 
 A report in Sunday’s London Times highlights new humiliations for the IPCC.

The most important is a claim that global warming could cut rain-fed north African crop production by up to 50% by 2020, a remarkably short time for such a dramatic change. The claim has been quoted in speeches by Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, and by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general.

There is however one teensy-weensy little problem.  As Professor Chris Field, the lead author of the IPCC’s climate impact team has now told reporters that he can find “no evidence” to support the claim in the IPCC’s 2007 report.
 
   How much more of this can the IPCC take before they come out and retract the whole fourth assessment, and admit they haven't a clue.
Obviously, you wouldn't want to hold your breath, because as Mark Steyn points out, it is still the same old business in the MSM's.
 
Like all the poodles of the environmental beat, Margot O'Neill repeats those magic words "peer review" every couple of paragraphs like a talisman to ward off evil deniers. But, in the course of invoking the phrase "peer review," she never bothers to look at whether the IPCC actually does it. By contrast, without benefit of the resources of a national TV news operation plus salary and benefits, lone blogger Donna Laframboise did a couple of text searches on the IPCC report and discovered multiple predictions of doom — on Himalayan glacier melt and much else — resting not on peer-reviewed science but merely on activist groups such as the World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace.
 
   Investigative reporting in big media is undeniably missing. But it is being revealed in new media; blogs and other internet based journalism. The days of NBC, CBS, ABC and others are numbered and the new media is taking control. It is exciting! But, as with the O'Keefe story, you have got to be smart. MSM stil has some power, and they won't go down without a fight.
   
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India's Giving Up On The IPCC

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Friday, February 05, 2010 7:02:06 PM
   India has decided that the IPCC can no longer be trusted with climate research, so they will start there own climate panel.
 
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More Mark Steyn On Climategate

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Friday, February 05, 2010 6:59:40 PM
   He explains the Himalayan glacier melting mess that led to info from the WWF being put in the IPCC's fourth climate assessment which has now been rejected.
 
...Himalayan claims rest on a 2005 World Wildlife Fund report called “An Overview of Glaciers.”

WWF? Aren’t they something to do with pandas and the Duke of Edinburgh? True. But they wouldn’t be saying this stuff if they hadn’t got the science nailed down, would they? The WWF report relies on an article published in the New Scientist in 1999 by Fred Pearce.

That’s it? One article from 12 years ago in a pop-science mag? Oh, but don’t worry, back in 1999 Fred did a quickie telephone interview with a chap called Syed Hasnain of Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. And this Syed Hasnain cove presumably knows a thing or two about glaciers.

Well, yes. But he now says he was just idly “speculating”; he didn’t do any research or anything like that.
 
   I have to wonder how much of that applies to the rest of the assessment?
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Climategate Justice?

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Friday, February 05, 2010 6:48:47 PM
   At least the Brit's are looking at it. Doubt anything will comeof it, but at least there impenetrable glass bubble they have been living in is starting to crack.
 
The British Parliament has convened hearings to investigate East Anglia University and the Climate Research Unit to uncover unethical and illegal activities.  As more information is revealed, the whole Climategate affair begins to take on the makings of a good mystery novel. Like any good mystery or crime plot, the web of involvement is widespread.
 
   The don't have the death penalty in Britain, so the best we can hope for is life imprisonment. Just kidding...
I bet is no one even loses there job over this. I can even give you a reason: too many people in the british government would be exposed as complicant in the debacle. Just a guess.
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EU Carbon Trading Scam

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:39:25 AM
   Some cyber thiefs manage to break into the EU carbon trading data base, steal credits and resell them making millions. The punchline?
Read below:
 
According to a report in the Wednesday edition of the Financial Times Deutschland, hackers sent e-mails last Thursday to several companies in Europe, Japan and New Zealand which appeared to originate from the Potsdam-based German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt), part of the EU's Emission Trading System (EU ETS).
 
Although allowances can still be traded on the European Energy Exchange (EEX) or via brokers, it is currently not possible to register the trades with the DEHSt, as is required by law. The Potsdam-based authority suspended the registering of transactions last Friday, and a spokesperson told the Financial Times Deutschland that the suspension would continue "at least for the rest of this week."
 
   What a surprise. It's a scam to begin with, and no someone is scamming the scammers.
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Romance Novels Are Really Hot When Written By Climate Scientists

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, February 01, 2010 3:31:13 PM
   Just when you thought the romance novel industry was getting cold, it got a shot in the arm from who else but Dr Rajendra Pachauri. Yes, the head of the U.N.'s panel on climate change.

As the UN's climate change chief, Dr Rajendra Pachauri has spent his career writing only the driest of academic articles. But the latest offering from the chairman of the UN’s climate change panel is an altogether racier tome.

Some might even suggest Dr Pachauri’s first novel is frankly smutty.

Return to Almora, published in Dr Pachauri’s native India earlier this month, tells the story of Sanjay Nath, an academic in his 60s reminiscing on his "spiritual journey" through India, Peru and the US.

On the way he encounters, among others, Shirley MacLaine, the actress, who appears as a character in the book. While relations between Sanjay and MacLaine remain platonic, he enjoys sex – a lot of sex – with a lot of women.
 
   I guess all that global warming business has got him so hot he needs to express it in other ways besides boring climate papers.
 
   Actually, I am okay with this. What is he going to do with himself after this whole global warming thing falls on its face? Better to have another line of work ready to go... just in case.
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Climate Scientists Break Law - Get Away With It

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, February 01, 2010 3:16:30 PM
   It was determined that the climate scientists at the University of East Anglia broke the law by not releasing climate data under Britains Freedom of Information act. But lucky for them, it all worked out okay...
 
But while the public research university in Norwich, England, may have broken the law, it will not be prosecuted because a six-month time limit for prosecutions elapsed, The Times of London reported the independent regulatory office under the justice ministry as saying.
 
   How convenient.
 
 
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News Alert: Bin Laden Is Concerend With Climate Change!

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, February 01, 2010 2:49:40 PM
     Al Jazeera has an audio tape it claims it got from Bin Laden claiming climate change is real. Via Climate Feedback Blog

"This is a message to the whole world about those responsible for climate change and its repercussions - whether intentionally or unintentionally - and about the action we must take," says bin Laden.

"Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury - the phenomenon is an actual fact."

Bin Laden blames all western economies for doing too little to curb greenhouse gas emissions, but in particular condemns former US president George W. Bush for not having ratified the Kyoto Protocol.

“George Bush junior, preceded by [the US] congress, dismissed the agreement to placate giant corporations. And they are themselves standing behind speculation, monopoly and soaring living,” Bin Laden says.

The message contains no direct threats of terror acts. Intelligence analysts have not yet confirmed the authenticity of the tape.
 
   The "great satan" is responsible for global warming as well. Nothing surprising there.
   
   If he is that concerened with the climate, maybe we could bring a little winter his way...nuclear winter, if you catch my drift.
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Owning Guns In India

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, February 01, 2010 2:33:09 PM
   Snowflakes In Hell has a link to a Washington Post article on Indians looking into gun ownership after the attacks a couple of years ago in Mumbai. As Sebastian says, hopefully they will be a leader in the part of the world as it pertains to citizen gun ownership.
 
   We just need to make sure we stay on there good side...
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The Looming Crises In The Year 2030

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, February 01, 2010 2:13:31 PM
   According to some "experts" this SF Gate article lists some scenerios that could be possible come 2030 regarding global warming.
 
How much do they pay these bozo's to write this crap? I can make up all kinds of global warming scenario's, and mine would be more interesting!
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New Report On Climate-Lots Of Blame To Go Around

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, February 01, 2010 2:04:09 PM
   Seems now that NASA and NOAA are complicite in the mining of favorable data. Of course, we already suspected that did we not?

There was a major station dropout — and an increase in missing data from remaining stations — which occurred suddenly around 1990. Just about the time the global warming issue was being elevated to importance in political and environmental circles.

A clear bias was found towards removing higher elevation, higher latitude, and rural stations — the cooler stations — during this culling process, though that data was not also removed from the base periods from which “averages,” and then anomalies, were computed.

The data also suffers contamination by urbanization and other local factors, such as land-use/land-cover changes and improper siting.

There are also uncertainties in ocean temperatures. This is no small issue, as oceans cover 71% of Earth’s surface.
 
   Surprise, surprise, surpise...
 
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More Backlash From the Himalayan Glacier Business

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, February 01, 2010 1:50:09 PM
   Last Month, the IPCC came out to retract their assertion of massive glacial melt on the Himalaya's, and glacier disappaerance by 2035.
Now we find out that the WWF, or the World Wildlife Fund has been getting funded by the European Union to the tune of around 8 million euro's a year.
 
For exactly what sort of activist organization is WWF? It is commonly assumed that it is a private advocacy organization funded by donations from the public: in other words, a “non-governmental Organization” or “NGO.” But closer inspection of WWF’s finances reveals that the “NGO” moniker is here — as indeed in so many cases — a misnomer. It would be more accurate to describe WWF rather as a “PGO”: a para-governmental organization. In fact, WWF receives massive funding from states. Moreover, it receives massive funding not from just any states, but from precisely that federation of states that has made combating supposed “global warming” into one of its highest policy priorities, if not indeed its highest priority — namely, the European Union.

According to European Commission data, WWF was awarded nearly €9 million in EU support in 2008 alone. In 2007, the figure was over €7.5 million.

But what is even more revealing is this:
 
Indeed, Debbie Framboise has turned up dozens of citations of WWF in the IPCC’s 2007 “Fourth Assessment Report,” on everything from “mudflows and avalanches” to the allegedly destructive effects of climate change on “marine fish and shellfish.” Richard North of the EUReferendum blog has uncovered yet another dodgy WWF-referenced claim on the alleged effects of climate change on the Amazonian forests.
That the IPCC’s assessment would rely so heavily on the claims of an activist organization raises obvious questions about its objectivity.
 
    I can't say it enough: This is why you can't trust anything that comes from the U.N. and especially the IPCC.
 
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More Proof That All Things Are Linked To Global Warming

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Friday, January 29, 2010 7:08:27 PM
   A new study out from the University of Leeds anounced last tuesday that the mending of the ozone hole around the Antarctic may actually make global warming worse.

The Antarctic ozone hole was once regarded as one of the biggest environmental threats, but the discovery of a previously undiscovered feedback shows that it has instead helped to shield this region from carbon-induced warming over the past two decades.

High-speed winds in the area beneath the hole have led to the formation of brighter summertime clouds, which reflect more of the sun's powerful rays.
 
   Well, there you have it. Who would have guessed that putting CFC's in the atmosphere would actually be saving the penquins from the harmful effects of global warming?
 
   Clearly, this once again proves that all things are only 6 steps from global warming...
 
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