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I herewith beg you to seriously review your answers to the question of the IPCC being in control, directing companies to make corrections to emissions of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) by taxing companies on this supposed emission claim.


There is professional evidence to show that CO2 cannot produce significant amounts of heat in our atmosphere.


What in the world are they spraying? -  By Michael J. Murphy.  Three weeks ago I was given a DVD by Mr Ray Rabanin of M & R Group Ltd.  This DVD has enough proof to show that there is a world conspiracy in poisoning many designated nations of the world to the belief that they are saving the world from Global Warming.  In fact our Earth is being bombarded between 10 to 20 Million tonnes of Aluminium into our atmosphere, which is poisoning the countryside.  When applying this prime element, and pumped into our atmosphere as an additive to Jet Fuel to cool down the Earth’s surface.  They have not taken the time to finally test their research program, for they have been poisoning the Earth over the last six year.   From snow analysis taken from Mount CHASTA (USA) showed excessive amounts of: Aluminium ug/1 at 61,100 parts per million, Barium 83 parts per million and Strontium with 383 parts per million.  It is obvious that these analyses results are sixteen times over the acceptable limits for human consumption.


The observed information in Geelong to register the chemical elements within our rain fall is observing sulphide sediment from local rains over the past twelve months initiating that there is something going on here, too.  From my record of observed jet trails photographed with a digital camera, show these same jets Chem-trail phenomena that is portrayed on this DVD, we in Australia should be asking.  “What are we being sprayed with?”; “Who is authorizing this?”, and “Why is this allowed in our Australian skies?”  We are slowly being poisoned.  In the United States of America and Hawaii, earth analyses is shown to be at a very low ph level, as it is killing plant growth, aged trees to a point that they cannot survive because of the toxic coatings on their leaves, stopping the natural synthesis cycle to absorb Carbon Dioxide.  No wonder the science is saying that Carbon Dioxide is rising.


It is my belief that these scientific researchers are indeed on the wrong tram line and should be stopped by public demand of our Human rights to occupy the air space that our creator has given to us all.


In fact, there is a greater influence where by adding Aluminium, Barium and Strontium into the mixture of aero Jet fuels, initiates a small amount of heat loss on the Earth’s surface.  This practice has just been unveiled in Australia and the base reason of why this is happening is that it reflects the Sun’s Heat Rays by a factor of some 16 : 1 from entering the surface of the Earth. This practice has been accomplished to stop Global Warming. BUT:


This practice has been asked to a Royal Society member, Mr David Keith who is associated to the University of Calgary.  USA.  He was questioned by Michael J Murphy the editor of: “What in the world are they spraying? and asked.  “So let me clarify.  10 Megatons of Aluminium is diminished into the atmosphere would have no human, health impact?”  David Keith answered “We have not done any research of any serious Aluminium in this area and we could find something terrible that we find tomorrow that we haven’t looked at.”


I now ask you to look seriously at this next part of this interview.  On Mount CHASTA in the USA, scientists Francis Mangels – USDA Biologist has associated Jet Aircraft Trail Tests deposits on this snow covered mountain with this following analysis:  Aluminium ug/1 = 61,100 parts per million: Barium 83 ug/1 = 83 parts per million and Strontium ug/1 383 parts per million.   This is well over acceptable values for snow (H2O) as this snow coverage has been poisoned by these chem.-jet trails, droppings.


I have records of rain falling in Bell Post Hill that show a similar observation of these chemicals.


Already a patent has been taken out to overcome this: Aluminium Resistant Gene Patent #7582809, Granted 1st September 2009 and developed by the Cornel University in Ithaca-New York.  Are they not closing the back door by assuring that their farmers will have to buy this gene to plant crops that are now being killed off by this high aluminium particles reading, as discussed above?


Again, I beg you to seriously consider your thoughts about the claimed, so called Climate Change being caused by Humans.  Now that this climate is a natural event and that our Earth is passing through a Positive Heliosphere sector as my book shows conclusively, showing our environment will again change on or near the 22 December 2012 when our Earth enters again another twenty six thousand year cycle and when we will again experience another eleven year cycle in this new Negative Heliosphere event.


Mr G. Edwards Griffin – Geologist who has stated that the spraying appears to be over NATO countries, such as, North West Africa, Wales, Scotland, Switzland, Turkey, Scotland, China, France, and Canada. (And in Australia, but not positively proven)  It is politically motivated.  It must be stopped.  Follow the Money and you will find the source.


My book: Climate Change-Explained by Magnetism has been acclaimed by several science personnel in Australia and England and I ask you again to take a step back to review the information that has been presented to you via the IPCC and the Australian Government and ask. Have they shown me the true extent to how Carbon Dioxide is capable of changing our Earth’s Atmosphere?  When you find that there is no such answer, and then maybe you will ask:  What have we been fed to believe that Humans are responsible?  When you find out that it is the Governments are using this scheme to apply a taxation to gain them payment of the huge expenses that they have accumulated over the last few years.


Thomas T S Watson

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James Delingpole is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who is right about everything. He is the author of numerous fantastically entertaining books including Welcome To Obamaland: I’ve Seen Your Future And It Doesn’t Work, How To Be Right, and the Coward series of WWII adventure novels. His website is www.jamesdelingpole.com.



US physics professor: ‘Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life’

By James Delingpole Politics Last updated: October 9th, 2010

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Newton: "Fie on you, Hansen, Mann, Jones et al! You are not worthy of the name scientists! May the pox consume your shrivelled peterkins!"

Newton: “Fie on you, Hansen, Mann, Jones et al! You are not worthy of the name scientists! May the pox consume your shrivelled peterkins!”


Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Here is his letter of resignation to Curtis G. Callan Jr, Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society.

Anthony Watts describes it thus:   This is an important moment in science history. I would describe it as a letter on the scale of Martin Luther, nailing his 95 theses to the Wittenburg church door. It is worthy of repeating this letter in entirety on every blog that discusses science. It’s so utterly damning that I’m going to run it in full without further comment. (H/T GWPF, Richard Brearley).

 

 

Dear Curt:
When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago). Indeed, the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence—it was World War II that changed all that. The prospect of worldly gain drove few physicists. As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I chaired the first APS study of a contentious social/scientific issue, The Reactor Safety Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. We were therefore able to produce what I believe was and is an honest appraisal of the situation at that time. We were further enabled by the presence of an oversight committee consisting of Pief Panofsky, Vicki Weisskopf, and Hans Bethe, all towering physicists beyond reproach. I was proud of what we did in a charged atmosphere. In the end the oversight committee, in its report to the APS President, noted the complete independence in which we did the job, and predicted that the report would be attacked from both sides. What greater tribute could there be?

How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.

It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.

So what has the APS, as an organization, done in the face of this challenge? It has accepted the corruption as the norm, and gone along with it. For example:

 

1. About a year ago a few of us sent an e-mail on the subject to a fraction of the membership. APS ignored the issues, but the then President immediately launched a hostile investigation of where we got the e-mail addresses. In its better days, APS used to encourage discussion of important issues, and indeed the Constitution cites that as its principal purpose. No more. Everything that has been done in the last year has been designed to silence debate

 

2. The appallingly tendentious APS statement on Climate Change was apparently written in a hurry by a few people over lunch, and is certainly not representative of the talents of APS members as I have long known them. So a few of us petitioned the Council to reconsider it. One of the outstanding marks of (in)distinction in the Statement was the poison word incontrovertible, which describes few items in physics, certainly not this one. In response APS appointed a secret committee that never met, never troubled to speak to any skeptics, yet endorsed the Statement in its entirety. (They did admit that the tone was a bit strong, but amazingly kept the poison word incontrovertible to describe the evidence, a position supported by no one.) In the end, the Council kept the original statement, word for word, but approved a far longer “explanatory” screed, admitting that there were uncertainties, but brushing them aside to give blanket approval to the original. The original Statement, which still stands as the APS position, also contains what I consider pompous and asinine advice to all world governments, as if the APS were master of the universe. It is not, and I am embarrassed that our leaders seem to think it is. This is not fun and games, these are serious matters involving vast fractions of our national substance, and the reputation of the Society as a scientific society is at stake.

 

3. In the interim the ClimateGate scandal broke into the news, and the machinations of the principal alarmists were revealed to the world. It was a fraud on a scale I have never seen, and I lack the words to describe its enormity. Effect on the APS position: none. None at all. This is not science; other forces are at work.

 

4. So a few of us tried to bring science into the act (that is, after all, the alleged and historic purpose of APS), and collected the necessary 200+ signatures to bring to the Council a proposal for a Topical Group on Climate Science, thinking that open discussion of the scientific issues, in the best tradition of physics, would be beneficial to all, and also a contribution to the nation. I might note that it was not easy to collect the signatures, since you denied us the use of the APS membership list. We conformed in every way with the requirements of the APS Constitution, and described in great detail what we had in mind—simply to bring the subject into the open.

 

5. To our amazement, Constitution be damned, you declined to accept our petition, but instead used your own control of the mailing list to run a poll on the members’ interest in a TG on Climate and the Environment. You did ask the members if they would sign a petition to form a TG on your yet-to-be-defined subject, but provided no petition, and got lots of affirmative responses. (If you had asked about sex you would have gotten more expressions of interest.) There was of course no such petition or proposal, and you have now dropped the Environment part, so the whole matter is moot. (Any lawyer will tell you that you cannot collect signatures on a vague petition, and then fill in whatever you like.) The entire purpose of this exercise was to avoid your constitutional responsibility to take our petition to the Council.

 

6. As of now you have formed still another secret and stacked committee to organize your own TG, simply ignoring our lawful petition.

APS management has gamed the problem from the beginning, to suppress serious conversation about the merits of the climate change claims. Do you wonder that I have lost confidence in the organization?

I do feel the need to add one note, and this is conjecture, since it is always risky to discuss other people’s motives. This scheming at APS HQ is so bizarre that there cannot be a simple explanation for it. Some have held that the physicists of today are not as smart as they used to be, but I don’t think that is an issue. I think it is the money, exactly what Eisenhower warned about a half-century ago. There are indeed trillions of dollars involved, to say nothing of the fame and glory (and frequent trips to exotic islands) that go with being a member of the club. Your own Physics Department (of which you are chairman) would lose millions a year if the global warming bubble burst. When Penn State absolved Mike Mann of wrongdoing, and the University of East Anglia did the same for Phil Jones, they cannot have been unaware of the financial penalty for doing otherwise. As the old saying goes, you don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. Since I am no philosopher, I’m not going to explore at just which point enlightened self-interest crosses the line into corruption, but a careful reading of the ClimateGate releases makes it clear that this is not an academic question.

I want no part of it, so please accept my resignation. APS no longer represents me, but I hope we are still friends.
Hal



Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, former Chairman; Former member Defense Science Board, chmn of Technology panel; Chairman DSB study on Nuclear Winter; Former member Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Former member, President’s Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee; Chairman APS study on Nuclear Reactor Safety
Chairman Risk Assessment Review Group; Co-founder and former Chairman of JASON; Former member USAF Scientific Advisory Board; Served in US Navy in WW II; books: Technological Risk (about, surprise, technological risk) and Why Flip a Coin (about decision making)

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Al Gore’s Nine Lies Written by Investor’s Business Daily | 24 February 2010 newsweek gore The godfather of climate hysteria is in hiding as another of his wild claims unravels — this one about global warming causing seas to swallow us up. We’ve not seen or heard much of the former vice president, Oscar winner and Nobel Prize recipient recently as the case for disastrous man-made climate change collapses. Perhaps he’s off reading how scientists were forced to withdraw a study on a projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding two “technical” mistakes that undermined the findings. The study, published in 2009 in Nature Geoscience, allegedly confirmed the conclusions of the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that sea levels would rise due to climate change. The IPCC put the rise at 59 centimeters by 2100. The Nature Geoscience study put it at up to 82 centimeters. Many considered the study and the IPCC’s estimates too conservative in their warnings. After all, Al Gore, in his award-winning opus, “An Inconvenient Truth,” laughingly called a documentary, foretold an apocalyptic vision of the devastation caused by a 20-foot rise in sea levels due to melting polar ice caps “in the near future.” Now Mark Siddall, from the Earth Sciences Department at England’s University of Bristol, has formally retracted the study. “One mistake was a miscalculation; the other was not to allow fully for temperature change over the past 2,000 years,” he said. According to Siddall, “People make mistakes, and mistakes happen in science.” They seem to be happening a lot lately, and more than just mistakes. We are talking about outright fraud, the deliberate manipulation and destruction of data. Last November, Al Gore was hailed by Newsweek as “The Thinking Man’s Thinking Man.” Since then we and he have been given much to think about, starting with the damning e-mails from researchers associated with the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Britain. The e-mails revealed an organized attempt to “hide the decline” in global temperatures, to manipulate data to fit preconceived conclusions, and to discredit and shun reputable skeptics. A key finding of the IPCC, which along with Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, was revealed last month to be utterly bogus. The IPCC claimed glaciers in the Himalayas would likely disappear by 2035. The only thing they had to back it up was a 1999 non-peer reviewed article in an Indian mass-market science magazine. It’s been revealed that researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have been systematically eliminating weather stations, with a clear bias toward removing colder latitude and altitude locations. The number of reporting stations in Canada dropped from 600 to 35, with only one station used by the NOAA as a temperature gauge for Canadian territory above the Arctic Circle. The past is prologue. Two years ago, Justice Michael Burton of London’s High Court ruled Gore’s film could be shown in British schools only if material explaining its errors were included in the curriculum. Burton documented nine significant errors in Gore’s film and wrote that some of Gore’s claims arose from “alarmism and exaggeration.” The first error Gore made, according to Burton, was in his apocalyptic vision of the devastation caused by a rise in sea levels caused by melting polar ice caps. Burton wrote that Gore’s predicted 20-foot rise could occur “only after, and over, millennia” and to suggest otherwise “is not in line with the scientific consensus.” One by one, Gore’s prophecies of doom and those of the climate charlatans he inspired are being exposed as the work of con artists. From the CRU to the IPCC, the climate dominoes are falling one by one. His silence speaks volumes. Goodnight, Mr. Gore, wherever you are. Source

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UNCENSORED. An excellent news magazine that does not hide from the truth. see Uncensored
As a long time environmentalist (50 years!) and staunch supporter of all manner of worthy green and liberationist causes, I am hopping mad at this “Climategate” scandal. Ladies and gentlemen, the good people in the environmental movement (to say nothing of the rest of the world) have been had by Al Gore and the slick, slack, lying “scientific” establishment.Now the whole sordid truth about how they lied has been laid bare. Here’s a short vid which sums the whole thing up:


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Letter to the Editor

I am in agreement, our climate is changing; it changed because of our Sun’s Heliosphere reversal on the 15th. February 2001’

This reversal directly affected our Earth’s Magnetosphere and our atmosphere has changed the barometric pressures. Last year on the 1st. June 2009, we experienced a High over Australia of 1041millibars and a Low of 1016mb. While on the 7th. February 2009, we experienced a Low of 996mb and a High of 1016mb. (The latter here are winter barometric readings, not summer)

Experiencing these Highs in winter brought about the drought condition, forcing clouds to a higher altitude, while in summer the clouds flowed at a much lower altitude, bringing heavy rain..

155mm/M² of rain fell in Bell Post Hill, Geelong since December 1st, 2009 to now. This is almost 1mm/M² per day. There is no drought here.

Our Corio Bay has not been inundated with rising waters and overpowering our beautiful City by the Bay concept. Temperatures here during summer were cooler because of the effects of the rainy conditions we endured, while during winter, it was substantially warmer with little rain.

In the northern hemisphere, the same overall effect is occurring during their seasons and I understand why scientists are deeply concerned. In their signed testimony letter saying that the Earth is warming they have not considered the Sun’s Influence to initiate climate change, (They have not heard of me.) the barometric pressures indirectly affecting cloud altitudes. Instead, they looked for the Al Gore excuse that it is human activity and industrial gas production of Carbon Dioxide is to blame.

Carbon Dioxide will continue to rise for at least another 100 odd years and humans will never stop this from happening. Rising and falling Carbon Dioxide emissions is a cyclic format for over 400,000 years. The Russian Scientist, Professor Vostock proved at the Arctic and Antarctic study of Ice Cores that Carbon Dioxide is a natural cycle and follows the rise and fall of the Earth’s temperature by some 180 to 800 years, every 120,000 odd years happens. We are about to end this cycle, soon.

I need a commercial news paper to take me seriously, and say: Our Sun decides our weather, for it has since the beginning of recorded time.

Thomas T. S. Watson: (Author of: Climate Change-Explained by Magnetism?)

ISBN 978-0-646-47722-0

32 Kinlock Street

Bell Post Hill

Geelong 3215

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CBC – Global Warming Doomsday Called Off
43:592 years ago
A very informative documentary about the real cause of global warming. It clearly discuss about the fact that CO2 is not cause of global warming. Take a look also at the Great Global Warming Swindle and Green House Conspiracy in google video. This documentary discusses many topics that are not covered in the Swindle such as the hockey stick graph, from the viewpoint of Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas. Very good scientific informations on the subject here: http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/environment/story.html?id=c6a32614-f906-4597-993d-f181196a6d71&k=0 http://infowars.net/articles/august2007/300807Warming.htm TAKE ACTION: Go sign this petition to force Al Gore to debate himself over is lies: http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?agdgw
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This gentleman was interviewed on the ABC Late Line. He is pro warming but one key question Tony Eastly did not ask was how much Humans are contributing to it. It would be good to hear him and Prof. Plimmer meet head to head and see how their arguments stand up. However he does make alot of sense and he does have some good advice on how the carbon tax could be implimented and given back to the people for innovation and use for alternative technologies. We hope Tony Abbott may sit up and take notice. However we must keep in mind that the forces driving the climate
change agenda are the big boys only interested in big money and world institutions for world control. The old New World Order agenda. We only have to observe the madness that has overtaken Rudd and his Rush to push this thing through while keeping the people in the dark and of course Mr Turnbull is a Banker and should defect to labour as he is so keen on bleeding us all for the corporate sins. James Hansen on Late Line made the point that while we are doing deals to sell more coal there is no way carbon emissions will reduce. That makes a lier of Rudd and all the others screaming out for reductions..
We in the Association know that we could have had clean technology for the last 100 years since Tesla but the J.P. Morgans and co have made sure it has never seen the light of day. How sad.
We endorse clean energy programs through incentives rather than massive tax penalties placed on the people.

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Exclusive: World’s leading climate change expert says summit talks so flawed that deal would be a disaster

‘We don’t have a leader who is able to grasp [the issue] and say what is really needed. Instead we are trying to continue business as usual,’ say James Hansen. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

The scientist who convinced the world to take notice of the looming danger of global warming says it would be better for the planet and for future generations if next week’s Copenhagen climate change summit ended in collapse.


James Hansen talks to Suzanne Goldenberg Link to this audio In an interview with the Guardian, James Hansen, the world’s pre-eminent climate scientist, said any agreement likely to emerge from the negotiations would be so deeply flawed that it would be better to start again from scratch.

“I would rather it not happen if people accept that as being the right track because it’s a disaster track,” said Hansen, who heads the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.

“The whole approach is so fundamentally wrong that it is better to reassess the situation. If it is going to be the Kyoto-type thing then [people] will spend years trying to determine exactly what that means.” He was speaking as progress towards a deal in Copenhagen received a boost today, with India revealing a target to curb its carbon emissions. All four of the major emitters – the US, China, EU and India – have now tabled offers on emissions, although the equally vexed issue of funding for developing nations to deal with global warming remains deadlocked.

Hansen, in repeated appearances before Congress beginning in 1989, has done more than any other scientist to educate politicians about the causes of global warming and to prod them into action to avoid its most catastrophic consequences. But he is vehemently opposed to the carbon market schemes – in which permits to pollute are bought and sold – which are seen by the EU and other governments as the most efficient way to cut emissions and move to a new clean energy economy.

Hansen is also fiercely critical of Barack Obama – and even Al Gore, who won a Nobel peace prize for his efforts to get the world to act on climate change – saying politicians have failed to meet what he regards as the moral challenge of our age.

In Hansen’s view, dealing with climate change allows no room for the compromises that rule the world of elected politics. “This is analagous to the issue of slavery faced by Abraham Lincoln or the issue of Nazism faced by Winston Churchill,” he said. “On those kind of issues you cannot compromise. You can’t say let’s reduce slavery, let’s find a compromise and reduce it 50% or reduce it 40%.”

He added: “We don’t have a leader who is able to grasp it and say what is really needed. Instead we are trying to continue business as usual.”

The understated Iowan’s journey from climate scientist to activist accelerated in the last years of the Bush administration. Hansen, a reluctant public speaker, says he was forced into the public realm by the increasingly clear looming spectre of droughts, floods, famines and drowned cities indicated by the science.

That enormous body of scientific evidence has been put under a microscope by climate sceptics after last month’s release online of hacked emails sent by respected researchers at the climate research unit of the University of East Anglia. Hansen admitted the controversy could shake public’s trust, and called for an investigation. “All that stuff they are arguing about the data doesn’t really change the analysis at all, but it does leave a very bad impression,” he said.

The row reached Congress today, with Republicans accusing the researchers of engaging in “scientific fascism” and pressing the Obama administration’s top science adviser, John Holdren, to condemn the email. Holdren, a climate scientist who wrote one of the emails in the UEA trove, said he was prepared to denounce any misuse of data by the scientists – if one is proved.

Hansen has emerged as a leading campaigner against the coal industry, which produces more greenhouse gas emissions than any other fuel source.

He has become a fixture at campus demonstrations and last summer was arrested at a protest against mountaintop mining in West Virginia, where he called the Obama government’s policies “half-assed”.

He has irked some environmentalists by espousing a direct carbon tax on fuel use. Some see that as a distraction from rallying support in Congress for cap-and-trade legislation that is on the table.

He is scathing of that approach. “This is analagous to the indulgences that the Catholic church sold in the middle ages. The bishops collected lots of money and the sinners got redemption. Both parties liked that arrangement despite its absurdity. That is exactly what’s happening,” he said. “We’ve got the developed countries who want to continue more or less business as usual and then these developing countries who want money and that is what they can get through offsets [sold through the carbon markets].”

For all Hansen’s pessimism, he insists there is still hope. “It may be that we have already committed to a future sea level rise of a metre or even more but that doesn’t mean that you give up.

“Because if you give up you could be talking about tens of metres. So I find it screwy that people say you passed a tipping point so it’s too late. In that case what are you thinking: that we are going to abandon the planet? You want to minimise the damage.”

• James Hansen’s book Storms of My Grandchildren is published by Bloomsbury, £18.99

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Glacier Meltdown: Another Scientific Scandal Involving the IPCC Climate Research Group

By F. William Engdahl

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17155

Global Research, January 23, 2010

Only days after the failed Copenhagen Global Warming Summit, yet a new scandal over the scientific accuracy of the UN IPCC 2007 climate report has emerged. Following the major data-manipulation scandals from the UN-tied research center at Britain’s East Anglia University late 2009, the picture emerges of one of the most massive scientific frauds of recent history.

Senior members of the UN climate project, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been forced to admit a major error in the 2007 IPCC UN report that triggered the recent global campaign for urgent measures to reduce “manmade emissions” of CO2. The IPCC’s 2007 report stated, “glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world.” Given that this is the world’s highest mountain range and meltdown implies a massive flooding of India, China and the entire Asian region, it was a major scare “selling point” for the IPCC agenda. As well, the statement on the glacier melt in the 2007 IPCC report contains other serious errors such as the statement that “Its total area will likely shrink from the present 500,000 to 100,000 square kilometers by the year 2035.” There are only 33,000 square kilometers of glaciers in the Himalayas. And a table in the report says that between 1845 and 1965, the Pindari Glacier shrank by 2,840 meters. Then comes a math mistake: It says that’s a rate of 135.2 meters a year, when it really is only 23.5 meters a year. Now scientists around the world are scouring the entire IPCC report for indications of similar lack of scientific rigor.

It emerges that the basis of the stark IPCC glacier meltdown statement of 2007 was not even a scientific study of melting data. Rather it was a reference to a newspaper article cited by a pro-global warming ecological advocacy group, WWF.

The original source of the IPCC statement, it turns out, appeared in a 1999 report in the British magazine, New Scientist that was cited in passing by WWF. The New Scientist author, Fred Pierce, wrote then, “The inclusion of this statement has angered many glaciologists, who regard it as unjustified. Vijay Raina, a leading Indian glaciologist, wrote in a paper published by the Indian Government in November that there is no sign of “abnormal” retreat in Himalayan glaciers. India’s environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, accused the IPCC of being “alarmist.” The IPCC’s chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, has hit back, denouncing the Indian government report as “voodoo science” lacking peer review. He adds that “we have a very clear idea of what is happening” in the Himalayas.” [1]

The same Pachauri, co-awardee of the Nobel Prize with Al Gore, has recently been under attack for huge conflicts of interest related to his business interests that profit from the CO2 global warming agenda he promotes.[2]

Pearce notes that the original claim made by Indian glaciologist Syed Hasnain, in a 1999 email interview with Pearce, namely that all the glaciers in the central and eastern Himalayas could disappear by 2035, never was repeated by Hasnain in any peer-reviewed scientific journal, and that Hasnain now says the remark was “speculative”.

Despite the lack of scientific validation, the 10-year-old claim ended up in the IPCC fourth assessment report published in 2007. Moreover the claim was extrapolated to include all glaciers in the Himalayas.

Since publication of the latest New Scientist article, the IPCC officially has been forced to issue the following statement: “the IPCC said the paragraph “refers to poorly substantiated estimates of rate of recession and date for the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers. In drafting the paragraph in question, the clear and well-established standards of evidence, required by the IPCC procedures, were not applied properly.”

The IPCC adds, “The IPCC regrets the poor application of well-established IPCC procedures in this instance.” But the statement calls for no action beyond stating a need for absolute adherence to IPCC quality control processes. “We reaffirm our strong commitment to ensuring this level of performance,” the statement said.” [3]

In an indication of the defensiveness prevailing within the UN’s IPCC, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, vice-chair of the IPCC, insists that the mistake did nothing to undermine the large body of evidence that showed the climate was warming and that human activity was largely to blame. He told BBC News: “I don’t see how one mistake in a 3,000-page report can damage the credibility of the overall report.”

Some serious scientists disagree. Georg Kaser, an expert in glaciology with University of Innsbruck in Austria and a lead author for the IPCC, gave a damning different assessment of the implications of the latest scandal affecting the credibility of the IPCC. Kaser says he had warned that the 2035 prediction was clearly wrong in 2006, months before the IPCC report was published. “This [date] is not just a little bit wrong, but far out of any order of magnitude. All the responsible people are aware of this weakness in the fourth assessment. All are aware of the mistakes made. If it had not been the focus of so much public opinion, we would have said ‘we will do better next time’. It is clear now that working group II has to be restructured.” [4]

The chairman of the IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri, has made no personal comment on the glacier claim. It appears he is as well shaken by the wave of recent scandals. He told a conference in Dubai on energy recently, “They can’t attack the science so they attack the chairman. But they won’t sink me. I am the unsinkable Molly Brown (sic). In fact, I will float much higher,” he told the Guardian. His remarks suggest more the ‘spirit of Woodstock’ in 1969 than of what is supposed to be the world’s leading climate authority.

F. William Engdahl is the author of Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order

Notes

[1] Fred Pearce, Debate heats up over IPCC melting glaciers claim, 11 January 2010, accessed in http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18363-debate-heats-up-over-ipcc-melting-glaciers-claim.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news.

[2] F. William Engdahl, UN IPCC Climate Change chief in Conflict of Interest Scandal, December 27, 2009.

[3] Seth Borenstein, UN climate report riddled with errors on glaciers, AP, January 20, 2010.

[4] Ibid.

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