What
to Say to a Global Warming Alarmist
By MARK LANDSBAUM
Register editorial writer
and columnist
mlandsbaum@ocregister.com
This is the most informative
article listing much of the gross fraud of Global Warming Inc. This article exposes the utter fraud of UN and
International efforts to tax and legislate the common people
and all industry in the world.
It has been tough to keep up with all the bad news for global
warming alarmists. We're on the edge of our chair, waiting for the next shoe to
drop. This has been an Imelda Marcos kind of season for shoe-dropping
about global warming.
At your next dinner party, here are some
of the latest talking points to bring up when someone reminds you that Al
Gore and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won Nobel
prizes for their work on global warming.
FOIGate –
The British government has since determined someone at
ChinaGate – An investigation by the
HimalayaGate – An Indian climate official admitted in
January that, as lead author of the IPCC's Asian report,
he intentionally exaggerated when claiming Himalayan glaciers would melt away
by 2035 in order to prod governments into action. This fraudulent claim was not
based on scientific research or peer-reviewed. Instead it was originally
advanced by a researcher, since hired by a global warming research
organization, who later admitted it was "speculation" lifted from a
popular magazine. This political, not scientific, motivation at least got some
researcher funded.
PachauriGate– Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman who accepted
with Al Gore the Nobel Prize for scaring people witless, at first
defended the
PachauriGate
II – Pachauri also
claimed he didn't know before the 192-nation climate summit meeting in
SternGate – One excuse for imposing worldwide climate
crackdown has been the
SternGate II – A researcher now claims the Stern
Report misquoted his work to suggest a firm link between global warming and
more-frequent and severe floods and hurricanes. Robert Muir-Wood said his
original research showed no such link. He accused Stern of "going far
beyond what was an acceptable extrapolation of the evidence." We're
shocked.
AmazonGate– The London
Times exposed another shocker: the IPCC claim that global warming will wipe out
rain forests was fraudulent, yet advanced as "peer-reveiwed" science.
The Times said the assertion actually "was based on an unsubstantiated
claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise,"
"authored by two green activists" and lifted from a report from the World Wildlife Fund, an environmental pressure
group. The "research" was based on a popular science magazine report
that didn't bother to assess rainfall. Instead, it looked at the impact of
logging and burning. The original report suggested "up to 40 percent"
of Brazilian rain forest was extremely sensitive to small reductions in the
amount of rainfall, but the IPCC expanded that to cover the entire Amazon, the
Times reported.
PeerReviewGate – The U.K. Sunday Telegraph has
documented at least 16 nonpeer-reviewed reports (so far) from the advocacy
group World Wildlife Fund that were used in the IPCC's climate change bible,
which calls for capping manmade greenhouse gases.
RussiaGate – Even when global warming alarmists
base claims on scientific measurements, they've often had their finger on the
scale. Russian think tank investigators evaluated thousands of documents and
e-mails leaked from the
Russia-Gate
II – Speaking of
U.S.Gate – If Brits can't be trusted, are Yanks
more reliable? The U.S. National Climate Data Center has been manipulating
weather data too, say computer expert E. Michael Smith and meteorologist Joesph
D'Aleo. Forty years ago there were 6,000 surface-temperature measuring
stations, but only 1,500 by 1990, which coincides with what global warming
alarmists say was a record temperature increase. Most of the deleted stations
were in colder regions, just as in the Russian case, resulting in misleading
higher average temperatures.
IceGate – Hardly a continent has escaped global
warming skewing. The IPCC based its findings of reductions in mountain ice in
the Andes, Alps and in Africa on a feature story of climbers' anecdotes in a
popular mountaineering magazine, and a dissertation by a
ResearchGate– The global warming camp is reeling so
much lately it must have seemed like a major victory when a Penn State University inquiry into climate
scientist Michael Mann found no misconduct regarding three
accusations of climate research impropriety. But the university did find
"further investigation is warranted" to determine whether Mann
engaged in actions that "seriously deviated from accepted practices for
proposing, conducting or reporting research or other scholarly
activities." Being investigated for only one fraud is a global warming
victory these days.
ReefGate– Let's not forget
the alleged link between climate change and coral reef degradation. The IPCC
cited not peer-reviewed literature, but advocacy articles by Greenpeace,
the publicity-hungry advocacy group, as its sole source for this claim.
AfricaGate – The IPCC claim that rising
temperatures could cut in half agricultural yields in African countries turns
out to have come from a 2003 paper published by a Canadian environmental think
tank – not a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
DutchGate – The IPCC also claimed rising sea
levels endanger the 55 percent of the
AlaskaGate – Geologists for Space Studies in
Geophysics and Oceanography and their U.S. and Canadian colleagues say previous
studies largely overestimated by 40 percent Alaskan glacier loss for 40 years.
This flawed data are fed into those computers to predict future warming.
Fold this column up and lay it next to
your napkin the next time you have Al Gore or his ilk to dine. It should make
interesting after-dinner conversation.