How to blame humans for anything

Written by Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun blogs | February 08 2010

Niche modeller David Stockwell is profoundly unimpressed with what’s billed as the latest “proof” of man-made warming - that winds are now pushing rain away from Western Australia, and dumping snow on Antarctica. And the funny thing is that not even the man spruiking this ”proof”, Professor Tas van Ommen, seems to have much faith in it:

The basic conclusion is that if this is being driven by human impact then you would expect it to continue but as climate change continues to change, the current situation changes too.

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Democratic Climate Revolt

Written by Wall Street Journal Editorial | February 08 2010

Putting the kibosh on Jackson's grab for world domination.

The Obama Administration has been moving full-speed ahead on anticarbon regulation, never mind waiting for Congress to pass a bill. But now opposition is building among senior Democrats, with two powerful committee Chairmen introducing a bill last week to bar the Environmental Protection Agency from declaring that carbon is a dangerous pollutant.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is busy writing new rules that would let her drive a tax-and-regulation bulldozer through the U.S. economy under laws never meant to apply to greenhouse gases. Ms. Jackson is expected to issue new anticarbon regulations for cars and trucks next month before moving on to power plants and other industries.

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The Great Unraveling

Written by Investor's Business Daily | February 08 2010

Professional global warming alarmists better think about looking for new jobs. It looks like they're in for a long, cold winter — and a frigid spring and summer as well.

Those who've been spreading global-warming fears must be waking up each morning and asking themselves: What's going to happen today? A new revelation about the corruption of climate science has become almost a daily event.

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Panel on Climate Faces Challenges

Written by Keith Johnson, Wall Street Journal | February 08 2010

Pachauri: One more IPCC error and I'll resign. Promise. Really! I swear on all that is holy I will! Trust me!

The Nobel-prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change faces new challenges following a call for an investigation of its conduct and for its chairman to resign amid continuing criticism of the scientific basis of its reports.

Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming called on Thursday for the independent investigation and for Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Geneva-based panel, to resign.

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I thought of killing myself, says climate scandal professor Phil Jones

Written by Richard Girling, Times Online | February 08 2010

Prof. Phil Jones on suicide watch?

THE scientist at the centre of the “climategate” email scandal has revealed that he was so traumatised by the global backlash against him that he contemplated suicide.

Professor Phil Jones said in an exclusive interview with The Sunday Times that he had thought about killing himself “several times”. He acknowledged similarities to Dr David Kelly, the scientist who committed suicide after being exposed as the source for a BBC report that alleged the government had “sexed up” evidence to justify the invasion of Iraq.

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IPCC faces another desertion – its own past chair!

Written by Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post | February 08 2010

The past chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has joined the growing list of IPCC critics. According to the Sunday Telegraph, Rajendra Pachauri, the disgraced current IPCC chair, now faces criticism from his immediate predecessor, Robert Watson. The Telegraph reports that Watson “stressed that the chairman must take responsibility for correcting errors.”  In another indication that Watson is taking pains to distance himself from the organization he once headed, the Sunday Times, in a story entitled Top British scientist says UN panel is losing credibility, reports that Watson warned the IPCC that it must tackle its blunders.

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Written by James Delingpole, Telegraph | February 08 2010

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“Snowmageddon” Versus “Overwhelming Scientific Evidence”

Written by Kevin Mooney, American Spectator | February 08 2010

Washington D.C. and the Mid-Atlantic States have been hammered by another major snow storm, which exceeds the Dec. 19, 2009 storm that forced President Obama to curtail his time in Copenhagen.

This is the first time since record keeping started that two storms of such magnitude have hit the region during one winter. Already some localities are reporting the largest snowfall ever recorded.

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Busted! Rajendra Pachauri: head of UN climate change panel clocks up half a million miles of air travel

Written by Martin Evans, Telegraph | February 08 2010

The embattled head of the United Nations’ climate change panel clocked up more than half a million miles of air travel in a year and a half as he travelled the world warning of the global warming threat, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

On his international missions, Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), called for radical action to stave off environmental disaster.

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State of Denial: U.N. deflects climate-change criticism

Written by UPI | February 08 2010

Achim Steiner, the head of the U.N. Environment Program, still doesn't "get" it.

Scientific evidence from the environmental community suggests global warming trends are the result of human activity, a U.N. official said in Ankara.

Achim Steiner, the head of the U.N. Environment Program, deflected criticism of a U.N.-backed panel that admitted to errors in its reporting on the rate of climate change.

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How Met Office blocked questions on its own man's role in 'hockey stick' climate row

Written by David Rose, Daily Mail | February 08 2010

Professor Mitchell

The Meteorological Office is blocking public scrutiny of the central role played by its top climate scientist in a highly controversial report by the beleaguered United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Professor John Mitchell, the Met Office’s Director of Climate Science, shared responsibility for the most worrying headline in the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning IPCC report – that the Earth is now hotter than at any time in the past 1,300 years.

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