Climate Change Coverup News (Sunday morning update)

Still tumbleweed on the BBC who are clearly hoping that this story disappears and they can go back to pushing the pro-Man Made Climate Change agenda and associated "green taxes" and world political control agenda, as they have been doing for so long now.

In the rest of the media this story has not gained much traction, I suppose because so much of the MSM has invested so much in pushing the same flawed agenda. The Mail reports the story in a fairly straight manner under the headline

"Hackers 'expose global warming con': Sceptics claim that leaked emails reveal research centre massaged temperature data"

I can see nothing in The Times about this story in fact they keep up the pro-Man Made Climate Change agenda with a piece entitled "Climate change to lash Britain with tropical storms". Allegedly

"BRITAIN should brace itself for more tropical-style deluges of the kind that wreaked havoc on Cockermouth, according to climate experts.

They warn that, although no single event can be attributed to climate change, the warming of the atmosphere caused by greenhouse gases means such disasters will become more frequent."

The Guardian have nothing on their front page but on their Science and Environment page I found this article that restricts the headline to "Climate sceptics claim leaked emails are evidence of collusion among scientists" - "collusion" is that the worst of the claims? The Guardian are slightly torn here between supporting the agenda that they have pushed for so long and exposing a fraud. Reading the whole article is interesting as the conflict is clear as they worry about the veracity of the emails whilst pointing out the evasiveness of some of the scientists.

How about The Independent? Nothing on the front page so I looked at their Climate Change front page, and unsurprisingly for a media outlet that has its own Climate Change section... Not a word, not a mention. It would seem that nothing must be allowed to pierce the absolute certainty of Man Made Climate Change in the minds of Independent readers.

I may look at the other papers later but it looks like good marks for The Telegraph and Mail, a "could do better" to The Guardian and "nil points" to The Times, The Independent and The BBC.

Climate Change Coverup News (Further Update)

Whilst the BBC's report on the UEA Climate Research Centre hack refers just to the hacking and makes no reference to the deceit uncovered, they do fin the space to report yet another shock-horror story about the claimed effects of higher CO2 levels. This time the scare story is that:

"Ocean acidification could cause fish to become "fatally attracted" to their predators, according to scientists.

A team studying the effects of acidification - caused by dissolved CO2 - on ocean reefs found that it leaves fish unable to "smell danger". "

Meanwhile The Telegraph do at least report the real story thus:

"Climate scientists accused of 'manipulating global warming data' - Some of the world’s top climate scientists have been accused of manipulating data on global warming after hundreds of private emails were stolen by hackers and published online."

This report includes one of the clips that I referred to yesterday:

"One of the emails under scrutiny, dated November 1999, reads: "I've just completed Mike's Nature [the science journal] trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie, from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline.""

and the unsurprising news that

"Scientists who are alleged to be the authors of the emails in question have declined to comment on the matter. "

This story must not be allowed to wither away as the BBC hope, so keep pushing the story folks...

Climate Change Coverup News (update)

The actual emails referred to here are no longer on the FTP site. Climate Audit and Watts Up With That are having problems with the amount of traffic coming to their sites re this expose which, if true, is dynamite.

The Watts Up With That page that you should take a read of is this one with plentry of example emails, here's one example to whet your appetite (my emphasis):

"I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from
1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. Mike’s series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999
for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998."

You might also like to follow the debate at The Examiner who fisrt broke the story.

Climate Change coverup news

Biased BBC report some very interesting news from The Examiner:

"The University of East Anglia's Hadley Climatic Research Centre appears to have suffered a security breach earlier today, when an unknown hacker apparently downloaded 1079 e-mails and 72 documents of various types and published them to an anonymous FTP server. These files appear to contain highly sensitive information that, if genuine, could prove extremely embarrassing to the authors of the e-mails involved. Those authors include some of the most celebrated names among proponents of the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW)."

Interesting in itself, but it gets even more interesting as Biased BBC report (my emphasis):

"Hadley has confirmed that it has been hacked and it has cancelled all existing passwords. If you see or hear any mention of this on the BBC please point it out in the comments so we can monitor how this story is spun, both by Hadley and the BBC.

Update 13.45. Andrew Bolt has been picking through the emails and documents and, if they are all genuine, the information in them is simply astonishing.

There's a document by Hadley's Professor Phil Jones which shows that he was so concerned by Freedom Of Information requests for raw data that he was contemplating ways to remove key information and reconstruct the data to make it fit the preferred conclusions.
There's an email from American climate scientist Tom Wigley advising Professor Jones how to manipulate some data to emphasise warming trends.
There's an email from Jones telling his colleagues to delete incriminatory emails.
There's another from Jones in which he tells a colleague that he's used the same "trick" as Michael Mann (Mr Hockey Stick) "to hide the decline", and in yet another he calls the reported death of a climate sceptic "cheering news".
There's an email from Mann himself promising senior Hadley staff that they can use the RealClimate website to post articles and he will ensure the censorship of any comments from sceptics challenging what they've written.
There's an email from senior IPCC scientist Kevin Trenberth in which he asks, "Where the heck is global warming?…The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t."
There's an email in which Hadley staff promise to blackball scientists from the IPCC report whose work doesn't conform to their alarmist predictions: "keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is !""

Is this the smoking gun on climate change?

The BBC report the news in a way that ignores any of the emerging information. The BBC prefer to report that:

"The e-mail system of one the world's leading climate research units has been breached by hackers.

E-mails reportedly from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), including personal exchanges, appeared on the internet on Thursday.

A university spokesman confirmed the email system had been hacked and that information was taken and published without permission. "

Apparently

"Researchers at CRU, considered to be one of the world's leading research bodies on natural and human-induced climate change, played a key role in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, which is considered to be the most authoritative report of its kind."

Maybe the BBC's environment analyst, Roger Harrabin, who has no science degree but did study English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge would like to pass comment on the facts being revealed...

Keep an aye on Biased BBC for updates.

Gold update

the BBC report that:

"The Royal Mint has more than quadrupled its production of gold coins in recent months, as the record price of the metal has caused demand to soar.

Its output of gold coins during July, August and September rose to 32,736 ounces, compared with 7,500 ounces for the same period last year.

On Wednesday, gold hit an all-time high of $1,152.75 an ounce, and has climbed more than 30% so far this year.

The Mint has also increased production of silver coins, up 56% in the quarter. "

Hyper inflation here we come.

All Hamas are saying is "give us a soldier"

Berman Post report that:

"A charity run by the interior minister of Hamas has offered $1.4 Million for a captured Israeli soldier. Given how much they keep talking about wanting peace, I assume that they only want to talk to the soldier and then will let him go. You know, the way they are talking to Gilad Shalit."

Well that's where Israel's trading prisoners for a video of one captured soldier, Gilad Shalit, has got them. Now Hamas know that to get even more money and prisoners they need to capture more Israeli soldiers.

I expect the West's human rights organisations will be complaining about this tactic any moment...

Al Gore update

I read that:

"This is big. Al Gore is now saying carbon dioxide isn’t actually to blame for most of the warming we saw until 2001:

Gore explored new studies - published only last week - that show methane and black carbon or soot had a far greater impact on global warming than previously thought. Carbon dioxide – while the focus of the politics of climate change – produces around 40% of the actual warming. Gore acknowledged to Newsweek that the findings could complicate efforts to build a political consensus around the need to limit carbon emissions.

Which suggests not only that was Gore wrong to claim the science was “settled”, but that the hugely expensive schemes to “stop” warming by slashing carbon dixoide emissions will be less than half as effective as claimed. "

Should anyone be surprised that Al Gore got the "science" of Climate Change so wrong, after all I read that :

"For all of Gore's later fascination with science and technology, he often struggled academically in those subjects. The political champion of the natural world received that sophomore D in Natural Sciences 6 (Man's Place in Nature) and then got a C-plus in Natural Sciences 118 his senior year."

I suppose that still makes him better qualified in science than the BBC's environment analyst Roger Harrabin who studied English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

Here's the science expert Al Gore in an interview with Conan O'Brien recently:

"Al: It definitely is, and it's a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy -- when they think about it at all -- in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, 'cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot"

Several million degrees, wow that's hot, like really hot; especially when you realise that the temperature at the surface of the sun is around 6,000 degrees celsius and the sun's core around 12,000 degrees celsius. According to what I have read the temperature of the Earth around two kilometres down is around 60 degrees celsius. The temperature at the earth's core is quoted as variously 5,000 degrees celsius or less or 9,000 degrees.

Al Gore - scientist, humanitarian, rich man - and getting richer all the time as his eco-companies rake in your taxes...


More on climate change lies later today, there's a lot around!

Compare and contrast - Hand of God and Hand of Frog

Diega Maradonna's "Hand of God" goal and Thierry Henry's "Hand of Frog" goal

Even Barack Obama understands that there is a need for deficit reduction and maybe even tax cuts, any chance of Gordon Brown twigging this?

The Guardian report that:

"Barack Obama has warned that the US economy could head into a “double-dip recession” unless urgent steps were taken to rein back America’s mounting levels of public debt.

With the US unemployment rate now running at 10.2 per cent, the President said his administration faced a delicate balance of trying to boost the economy and spur job creation while bringing the rising deficit and debt under control.

“I think it is important though to recognise that if we keep on adding to the debt, even in the midst of this recovery, that at some point, people could lose confidence in the US economy in a way that could actually lead to a double-dip recession.”

“One of the trickiest things we’re doing right now, is to on the one hand make sure the recovery is supported and not withdraw a lot of money either with tax increases or big spending ... at the same time, making sure that we’re setting up a pathway long term for deficit reduction,” he said. “It’s about as hard of a play as there is.

...

Mr Obama said that his administration is weighing tax breaks that could encourage businesses to begin hiring again.

“There may be some tax provisions that can encourage businesses to hire sooner rather than sitting on the sidelines. So we’re taking a look at those,” he said.
"

Meanwhile Société Générale, the French Bank, warned in a report entitled Worst-case debt scenario that current debt national levels, run up as a direct result of state stimulus packages, risked creating another crisis.

The underlying debt burden is greater than it was after the Second World War, when nominal levels looked similar. Ageing populations will make it harder to erode debt through growth. "High public debt looks entirely unsustainable in the long run. We have almost reached a point of no return for government debt," it said.


Depressed, you bloody well should be; the west's economies are shot to pieces and those of us in work, over the age of 40 and under the age of 70, will be paying off the debt for the rest of our working lives.

Democracy EU style (part 2)

The unelected Labour peer Baroness Ashton has been selected as the EU's high representative of foreign affairs and security by the leaders of the EU's 27 member states at a meeting in Brussels.

Does anyone else feel that the way that a woman who has never been elected to a political position will now be one of the most powerful people in the EU is somewhat symbolic of the lack of democracy in the EU.

Let's look at Baroness Ashton's CV:
1977 to 1979 worked at the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament before being elected as its national treasurer and then a vice-chair. So the vice chair of CND whose organisation undermined western security is now nominally responsible for the EU's "Security", maybe Marxism has won...
1983 worked for the Social Work Training Council.
1983 to 1989 Director of Business in the Community working with business to tackle inequality
1998-2001 chaired the Health Authority in Hertfordshire and became a Vice President of the National Council for One Parent Families
June 2001 made a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Education and Skills
2002 appointed minister for Sure Start in the same department
September 2004 made a Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Department for Constitutional Affairs
2006 sworn into the Privy Council
May 2007 became Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the new Ministry of Justice
June 2007 Gordon Brown, appointed her to the Cabinet as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council
3 October 2008 nominated as the UK's European Commissioner in the European Commission
November 2009, she became the first EU foreign minister

So the "noble lady" has managed to make it from working at CND to being High Representative of Foreign Affairs and Security without being democratically elected to any public office.

Isn't modern Labour and EU democracy simply marvellous, absolutely no need for elections at all. The people have no say, just the requirement to pay taxes and obey the multitude of laws introduced by their lords and masters.

Energy saving lightbulbs update

It seems that not only are these new bulbs hideously expensive, contain poison, flicker annoyingly and cast an oddly hued light, they also "lose on average 22% of their brightness over their lifetime".

Thank you EU for imposing these bulbs on us in the name of preventing Climate Change. The public suffer because of your misplaced obsession with a nonsense theory.

BBC bias alert

The BBC report that

"Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third, a major study suggests.

The Spanish research involving more than 15,500 men and 26,000 women found large quantities of alcohol could be even more beneficial for men.

Female drinkers did not benefit to the same extent, the study in Heart found. "

But as this does not fit their world view that alcohol is evil, how sharia law compliant of them, they have to immediately state that:

"Experts are critical, warning heavy drinking can increase the risk of other diseases, with alcohol responsible for 1.8 million deaths globally per year.

The study was conducted in Spain, a country with relatively high rates of alcohol consumption and low rates of coronary heart disease. "

Oddly the BBC never issue "health warnings" about reports that state how dangerous alcohol drinking is even when they are later proved to have conclusions that are almost entirely fictional.

Democracy EU style

"European Union leaders are gathering in Brussels to select their first full-time president and foreign affairs high representative."

So the BBC advise us tonight.

That's nice I don't suppose it ever occurred to anyone in the EU that maybe the people who pay for the EU might be allowed a say.

Democracy, don't make me laugh.

Googling

I see that this blog is now number one on google.co.uk for - gordon brown university pamphlet welfare - for this fascinating article. Do read the whole piece for some worthwhile background on our "freeloader" Prime Minister.

Public sector debt literally off the chart

There you go, from National Statistics itself, as published today, the Cumulative public sector current budget is so bad that it is actually off the graph!

Gordon Brown hard at work tackling the important issues

I note that Gordon an "end to celebrity culture" has once again felt the need to modify his position on a deeply important question. Apparently

"Gordon Brown has admitted that he regrets the way he worded his recent criticism of X Factor duo John & Edward.

Earlier this month, the Prime Minister branded the pair "not very good" as he discussed the ITV1 talent show in a radio interview.

Speaking on This Morning today, Brown admitted: "I got into a bit of a problem because I said I did not think they were very good at singing - but they are very good at other things.

"I don't know who's going to win, but I rather burned my boats with Jedward."

After confirming that he would like the twins to "do well", the politician added that he and his young sons are supporters of the programme's last remaining female act Stacey Solomon.

Brown also said that his children enjoy Danyl Johnson's performances, but mistakenly referred to the teacher as "Daryl"."

I wonder how much foucus grouping was done to come up with an answer that compliments so many and plumps for the only female contestant left? This smacks of a repeat of "biscuitgate".

Meanwhile I heard yesterday that Boris Johnson when asked about who he wanted to win some reality show, or some other equally puerile question, replied along the lines that he didn't watch the programme and did that really reduce his credibility. Well said Boris; most of these programmes are utter drivel and any politician that desperate to appear one of the people that they pretend to like these programmes deserves nothing but disdain.

From David Cameron's speech yesterday in reply to the Queen's Speech

"Let us be clear about the aim of halving the deficit. Next year the deficit is forecast to be 14 per cent. When Denis Healey was Chancellor and Britain nearly went bust, it was 7 per cent. So under this Prime Minister's magnificent plan to halve the deficit, we will be back to where we were-virtually bankrupt-last time Labour wrecked our economy."

Point well made.

Reducing the deficit is not the same as reducing the debt

I know I blogged about this yesterday but people still seem to be confused. The BBC report the promise thus:

"Fiscal Responsibility Bill -
Provides a "firm and binding statutory basis" for the government's promise to halve its budget deficit within four years."

Hansard report this part of the Queen's Speech thus:

"As the economic recovery is established (sic), my Government will reduce the budget deficit and ensure that national debt is on a sustainable path. Legislation will be brought forward to halve the deficit."

Let nobody be in any doubt that the promise to cut the deficit by 50% over the next four years would mean the National Debt rising by over £550 billion (assuming an even yearly reduction in the deficit). And nowhere on the BBC can I see this point being made. Now most of the UK population does not understand the difference between "deficit" and "debt" so why does the BBC not follow its mission to educate and explain the difference? Is the BBC colluding with a Labour government by seeming to indicate that the economic position is not that bad and that the country's debt can be halved in four years?

Lady Gaga before she became lady Gaga

That was Stefani Germanotta, now known as Lady Gaga, performing at an NYU talent show in 2005.


That was Rare Stefani Germanotta live at the Bitter End in January 2006 performing "Hollywood".


And here's Lady Gaga doing what she is better known for today...




Thanks to PopBitch for the spots.

Not bad for a Brit

You can take this very US centric quiz here.


Thanks to Theo Spark for the spot, but not for outscoring me by two...