If you're wondering why the national political news focus has been on health care and not on the aftermath of the historic conference in Copenhagen, Denmark which ended less than a week ago...it's because nothing productive happened there. Even worse, more lies have been exposed from the IPCC report, more agendas uncovered about leaders at the United Nations and the "accord" that was supposedly reached at the 11th hour in Denmark is already falling apart. In addition, the planet continues to cool and we'll likely see that cooling accelerate in the coming years. I touch on these topics and more in a podcast interview you can listen to here.
Here are just a few of the stories developing since the Copenhagen conference, which cost the United States millions of dollars in travel and accommodations alone and left a huge carbon footprint from 1,200 limousines and hundreds of private jets.
First, it was fitting that President Obama returned to Washington D.C. in a snowstorm. However, aside from Air Force One, he brought little else back from the conference. Here is a story from the UK Guardian.
The accord is already in trouble and may fall apart soon. Just days after the conference ended we have this story from the Financial Times. For what it's worth, there wasn't much of an agreement anyway since it was all about the United States and other "wealthy" (and cleaner) countries sending billions of dollars to developing (third-world and more polluted) nations. That's it, nothing more. There was no science discussed, no sharing of ideas from both sides and certainly no acknowledgement of reality from the leaders of more than 100 countries. Instead, there was an agreement to transfer our hard-earned money to other countries and to meet again in the near future. I want to personally thank every leader involved for this fantastic failure...the best possible outcome of this conference.
But wait, there is much more. It turns out that the head of the UN's Climate Change panel has some conflicts of interest and stands to make millions of dollars because of the global warming fraud. Here's the story from the UK Telegraph. Apparently, Dr Rajendra Pachauri has vested interests in a number of companies that benefit greatly from carbon trading...and this is the supposedly unbiased head of a panel on climate change, which I have known all along was a fraud consisting of hand-picked scientists (only 50 to 60, not the 2,500 or more you heard about) who support the global warming (GW) religion.
And it continues with revelations that Wikipedia has (or had) an administrator with a warming bias who routinely edited articles to his world view and rejected editing by those who know the truth. You can read more about this huge Wikipedia scam here and here. There is an additional update here.
I also just read a lengthy but interesting article about the abuse of the "peer-review" process in which climate skeptics had research put on the shelf for months before being approved while research that supported global warming was fast-tracked for publication. Read that scary account here.
One journalist who was a big GW believer has now seen the light and discusses it in this article. Remember, all of the above have happened since the end of the Copenhagen conference, and we're not finished yet.
A new study indicates that CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) and Cosmic Rays may be the real culprit in any warming and cooling we have seen in recent decades, and you can read that here. No matter what the cause or causes, one thing is clear. We really don't know how or why our climate changes the way it does. This is something that scientists are still trying to figure out...but nothing is "settled" except the fact that we just don't know.
You think that's enough? Well...there's more. The State Climatologist in Texas found a HUGE error in the IPCC's latest report concerning the melting of glaciers. You have been hearing that most glaciers will disappear by 2050, right? Did you know that the original report listed a date that was 200 to 300 years later and that the study quoted by the IPCC was never peer-reviewed? The shocking details here.
Remember that arctic ice which was supposedly melting away? Well, we know Al Gore got that horribly wrong, but since I am highlighting new articles just in the past few days as the Copenhagen conference collapsed, I won't go over that again, but I need to let you know that a new study shows that we had much less ice thousands of years ago and what we're seeing now (ice levels have returned to normal levels) is nothing unusual in earth's history. Read the highlights of that breaking news here.
Finally, the sick scare tactics of the GW alarmists and worshipers continue with this from a company that should fold up its tent and go home...Build-A-Bear. Check out their pathetic attempt to frighten children here.
The party is over for Al Gore and all the corrupt scientists involved in Climate Gate, the IPCC, the Hadley Climatic Research Unit, and in some departments at NASA, NOAA / NCDC and Penn State University.
This may be the Merriam-Webster definition of Failure, but I think we can shorten that to: Copenhagen!
Rich Apuzzo
Chief Meteorologist
Skyeye Weather LLC
www.skyeyeweather.com
Comments
Science Fiction from the Climate Research Unit.
The CRU is has not been practicing the scientific method for almost two decades. The scientific method requires that the researcher publish the original data, models and procedures needed for a skeptical analysis of any of their work. Since they are not using the scientific method then they simply are not doing science, they are writing fiction.
Ponds and Fleishman may have been wrong about cold fusion, but they were at least real scientists. They did their experiments, published the results and their data, procedures and description of the apparatus and the methods. They where shown to be in error, fine, but they were still scientific in their work. The outputs from the CRU are in comparison junk, so I ask, why are these fictional 'research' papers allowed to remain in the realm of scientific publications? Why do people continue to quote the CRU as if they were the work of Einstein rather then the work of Mark Twain?
REAL environmentalists are happy and relieved that this climate crisis is not going to happen after all thanks to the smoking icebergs of Climate Gate. The rest of you will be cursed in the history books. THE PLANET IS NOT DYING FROM HUMAN MONKEY'S CO2!!
Rich! Well Written!
Thank You!
Great work, we need to keep religious climate fanatics on the run, pound this AGW fraud into the ground till it never rise again!
And in the meantime, we need to get rid of all the doomsayers. We have all the energy resources we need for generations to come, oil/gas/coal for 2-300 years. Add in nuclear power plants, and we have a millenium of readily available energy resources. And that does not even account for fusion that is expected to start coming online 2040-2050.
One of the problems people point to is that gas is still needed for transportation (cars, airplanes etc). However, this problem is already solved too, and gas/coal to diesel refineries are being build all over the world, producing diesel at $50-$60/bbl:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_fuel
And how about nuclear power? China is building 8 nuclear power plants as we speak, expected to go online in 2010. The listen and learn!
Let me repeat, we are NOT running out of energy and we are NOT running out of chea
Rich has written again and again about scams and hoaxs and really gets his congregation of followers up in a tizzy.
Andrew claims the CRU has been wrong for 20 years. Andrew, why would you know this? Did you read something or were you there all along? Are you secretly in love with Sarah Palin?
Meme mentions climategate. Meme, there was no climatgate except in your mind. I wouldn't expect you to know the difference.
Nikki says religious climate fanatics are on the run. It is common for people to think because they say or write something that means it is true. Climate scientists continue to test theories and have nothing to run from or towards.
Climate scientists don't care what non-scientists think and that is why you don't see any trying to discuss this issue with Rich. Rich has locked onto a very negative attitude regarding weather related controversy for reasons outside climate science.
Rich said we will have a weak El Nino, he is wrong. Sunspots are back too!! Ooops
Anyone want to add up how many soldiers were killed to fill your gas tank? How much fuel was expended moving a carrier task force in and out of the persian gulf for the past 70 years?
Anyone want to argue about how many pregnant 3rd world women were slaughtered along with their husbands and other children to fill your tank?
Anyone want to discuss how many shorelines were permanently destroyed from oil spills?
Anyone want to count the water sources contaminated by oil and gas exploration? Anyone want to look at the facts?
Didn't think so.
Earl E. - Enough of your socialist obfuscations by changing the subject. (significant)MAN MADE climate change has NOT been proven. There is more solid evidence against it than for it. The whole Copenhagen thing is a marxist lie. Like all you socialist/marxists/progressives - you hide behind one lie after another NEVER admitting you're wrong. YOUR ban of DDT has killed MILLIONS from malaria. Our Military has kept pin head socialist tyrants and religions fanatics from opressing millions. Worth every drop of gas in those aircraft carriers. Permanently distroyed shorelines - Permanent is for ever... are you saying they will never recover? - They recover - maybe not in your lifetime- Hawaii's shores are constantly destroyed by lava...- You are a hypocrite that leaches off society and complains about others that enjoy the same quality of life dependent on the things you profess to hate.
Great work, we need to keep religious climate fanatics on the run, pound this AGW fraud into the ground till it never rise again!
And in the meantime, we need to get rid of all the doomsayers. We have all the energy resources we need for generations to come, oil/gas/coal for 2-300 years. Add in nuclear power plants, and we have a millenium of readily available energy resources. And that does not even account for fusion that is expected to start coming online 2040-2050.
One of the problems people point to is that gas is still needed for transportation (cars, airplanes etc). However, this problem is already solved too, and gas/coal to diesel refineries are being build all over the world, producing diesel at $50-$60/bbl:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_fuel
And how about nuclear power? China is building 8 nuclear power plants as we speak, expected to go online in 2010. The listen and learn!
Let me repeat, we are NOT running out of energy and we are NOT running out of chea
The use of US military forces to allow private corporate profits is socialism. Exxon now is engaging US installed Iraqi governments to gain market share. We uninstalled Saddam, installed Malaki, and now Exxon and 3 other corporations are paying Malaki 63 billion to rebuild the oil production and reap the rewards.
Socialism is alive and well in the USA and has been since 1952 when we installed the Shah of Iran.
The tide has turned, this is the beginning of the end for the socialist green movement's impact on the developed world. Notice how the AGW fanatics are outgunned more than 10-to-1 in all internet discussions.
By the way, it is kind of funny how realclimate still proudly states 'climate science from climate scientists'. Keep up the good work, proudly announcing to the world that you are the web-site of fraudulent climatologists.
Let me add a couple of goodies, first some insight from real scientists into the corruption of the peer-review process:
wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/21/gaming-the-peer-review-system-ipcc-scientists-behaving-badly/
And we are also learning how the top-IPCC crook has been profiting big time from the climate fraud:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6847227/Questions-over-business-deals-of-UN-climate-change-guru-Dr-Rajendra-Pachauri.html
Climate is only measurable by the lifeforms you use in your analysis.
To dam a river is to change the gas climate to a submerged climate. Trees don't move, they drown. Man builds a dam, man changes the entire ecosystem(and the natural forces that apply to that region) as long as the dam holds water.
The native American Indians whom live in the Puget Sound watershed have watched the Shell Oil refinery dump so many toxins into the watershed that the shellfish that survive and are eaten are poisoning the tribe.
In America, if you don't have enough money to mount a legal challenge to corporations, your rights are useless.
Let them eat poison shellfish, they have no legal power to fight for their rights, so kill them. When they are dead, we can dump all we want without any liability.
American values are no longer of any value at all.
Let's believe scientists until they tell us something we don't want to hear, then let's trash the science and the scientist so we can keep burning our poisons and sleep.
As long as we rape other countries, we can still drink clean water. If they are stupid and poor, take it. They cannot stop the mighty power of America and her drone bomber force of robots.
Kill all who oppose us taking what we want and defacating whatever we want on their graves.
Earl, we're talking about a massive hoax here to extort billions from taxpayers to enrich the usual Goldman Sachs crowd. Given your scream for justice, one would think you would be on the side of those exposing the lies, manipulation, and deceit, and condemning it.
www.infowars.com/climate-change-questions/
1. Are human activities contributing to climate change? How do we know the atmosphere build up of greenhouse gases is due to human activity? Answer at: infowars.com/climate-change-questions/
Check out what Government is doing behind your back at: youtube.com/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU
Al Gore is making millions off of this too. He's selling carbon credits like they're hot dogs or something. He has made millions off of this fraud and needs to be investigated. Who's going to take him on?
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