Peer reviewing climate change

Watts Up with That has an interesting piece about a peer reviewed article, take a read of the whole article, but hee's an extract:

'The results in the paper are generally similar to the in-process analysis that was posted at CA and here prior to the submission. Overall, we find that the Steig reconstruction overestimated the continental trends and underestimated the Peninsula – though our analysis found that the trend in West Antarctica was, indeed, statistically significant. I would hope that our paper is not seen as a repudiation of Steig’s results, but rather as an improvement.

In my opinion, the Steig reconstruction was quite clever, and the general concept was sound. A few of the choices made during implementation were incorrect; a few were suboptimal. Importantly, if those are corrected, some of the results change. Also importantly, some do not. Hopefully some of the cautions outlined in our paper are incorporated into other, future work. Time will tell!'

The importance of peer review...

Some interesting videos about Climate Change - mainly Newt Gingrich and/or Al Gore related

Did you catch that point about sea level rises?



Newt Gigrich and Rep. Waxman (Democrat), I don't think Rep. Waxman likes being questioned.



Oddly neither does Al Gore... "I want to address the point..." But he doesn't.



Oh looks it Rep. Waxman - "I don't know the details. I rely on the scientists."



And here's Al Gore again not wanting to discuss $646bn in new taxes and stuttering when answering the question about Enron's Ken Lay and Goldman Sachs. Carbon Future Swaps it's where the money will be made. Answer the question Al Gore...



Some more on the missing nuclear part of 'The Bill' and more non-answers from Al Gore.



More on Gap & Trade and environmentalists.


All interesting stuff.

Is Tuvalu sinking

Over the last few years the BBC have been pushing the narrative that Tuvalu (amongst other countries) is sinking and its the fault of Man Made Climate Change. Here a few examples:
This from December 2009's Copenhagen Conference tells us that:

'Ian Fry of Tuvalu, a tiny Pacific island that is threatened by rising sea levels, told the conference that he could not accept the agreement.'

This from the same month tells us that:

'Annie, 15, from Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, explains how a woman from Tuvalu, an island under threat of disappearing beneath the Pacific Ocean, inspired others to stand up for her homeland.'

This from the BBC's environment correspondebt, Richard Black, tells us that:

'The UN climate convention sets the principle that poor countries likely to be hardest hit by climate change are able to negotiate deeper carbon cuts in the wealthy world.

In brutal terms, if Tuvalu is going to disappear under the sea, it can tell the US, Japan and so on that they must cut emissions faster than they've pledged to, and have some expectation that it will be listened to.'

Here is the same Richard Black telling us that:

'Tuvalu said it couldn't accept the deal, because it amounted to "30 pieces of silver to sell our country".'

Finally here is the same Richard Black telling us all that:

'According to Tuvalu's negotiator Ian Fry...

"I have the feeling that we are on the Titanic and sinking fast; but we can't launch any lifeboats because a member of the crew has decided we're not sinking and has decided to launch informal consultations."

Shipwreck or safe arrival? Bizarrely, just two days before governments are supposed to solve a problem that so many claim as a huge threat to the human race, the Titanic struggles of the negotiators are in danger of being swamped by the fast and loose launches of political expediency.'

All this coverage comes after Pacific islands (including Tuvalu) became the tragic poster children of Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth and the BBC called the Maldives "a paradise faced with extinction".


I wonder if Richard Black will report that the news that:

'Huge compensation claims filed by Pacific states including Tuvalu have been hit by a three-year old study, dramatically "rediscovered" by New Scientist magazine today. The study concluded that many Micronesian islands are growing, not shrinking.

“It has been thought that as the sea level goes up, islands will sit there and drown. But they won’t," Professor Kench at the University of Auckland in New Zealand told the mag.

Kench has been saying us much for a while, but most editors shunned the news.'

And here's another inconvenient truth for Al Gore and his fan-boys at the BBC:

'In written evidence to Parliament in 2005, the former president of the INQUA Commission on Seal Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, Nils-Axel Mörner, concluded there had been no acceleration in sea level rises, and no net rise since 1970.'

So let's see if the BBC cover this story with the BLARING HEADLINES that normally accompany the scare stories about global warming; somehow I doubt it...

An inconvenient truth disected

Take a trip over to Not Evil Just Wrong and read that:

"See what the elite media won't tell you. See the staggering impact of extreme legislation Gore and his friends want. On jobs. On our troubled economy. On America's ability to compete with other nations. On real people and real families who face financial ruin when severe restrictions on fossil energy are passed into law."

I wonder if the UK schools system will force all children to watch this film as well as Al Gores "An inconvenient truth"... I think not.

Al Gore's latest 'exaggeration'

The Times reports an intersting story from Copenhagen about the tireless Climate Change profiteer:

"There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday.

The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row.

Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years.

In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.”

However, the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon dropped the former Vice-President in the water with an icy blast.

“It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr Maslowski said. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”

Mr Gore’s office later admitted that the 75 per cent figure was one used by Dr Maslowksi as a “ballpark figure” several years ago in a conversation with Mr Gore."

Don't you think that facts are dull, what the Climate Change 'debate' needs are exaggerations and spin, after all the science is settled...

Al Gore update (the video)

Further to this piece I have found the video of Al Gore's idiotic remark that

"...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"

The man is no expert on climate change or geothermal energy but he is very good at making money.

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!

What carbon footprint

I see that Barack Obama is following in Al Gore's eco-warrior footsteps: via CNN's Ed Henry on Twitter :

"President Obama has a 71-car motorcade from the Beijing airport, including Chinese greeting vehicles !"

Global warming - follow the money

The New York Times have a fascinating report entitled "Gore’s Dual Role: Advocate and Investor". This informs us that:

"Former Vice President Al Gore thought he had spotted a winner last year when a small California firm sought financing for an energy-saving technology from the venture capital firm where Mr. Gore is a partner.

The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient. It came to Mr. Gore’s firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital providers, looking for $75 million to expand its partnerships with utilities seeking to install millions of so-called smart meters in homes and businesses.

Mr. Gore and his partners decided to back the company, and in gratitude Silver Spring retained him and John Doerr, another Kleiner Perkins partner, as unpaid corporate advisers.

The deal appeared to pay off in a big way last week, when the Energy Department announced $3.4 billion in smart grid grants. Of the total, more than $560 million went to utilities with which Silver Spring has contracts. Kleiner Perkins and its partners, including Mr. Gore, could recoup their investment many times over in coming years.

Silver Spring Networks is a foot soldier in the global green energy revolution Mr. Gore hopes to lead. Few people have been as vocal about the urgency of global warming and the need to reinvent the way the world produces and consumes energy. And few have put as much money behind their advocacy as Mr. Gore and are as well positioned to profit from this green transformation, if and when it comes.

Critics, mostly on the political right and among global warming skeptics, say Mr. Gore is poised to become the world’s first “carbon billionaire,” profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in. "

Do read the whole article and then take a trip over to NewsBusters for their excellent analysis of this story.

No dissent allowed on Man Made Climate Change

Canada Free Press have an interesting article and video showing what happens if you dare to question Al Gore and the eco-certainties he spreads.

The BBC and global warming

The BBC, and especially the Radio 4 Today programme, are obsessed with Global Warming. A survey on bird distribution in the UK becomes an excuse to blame Global warming, flooding in English towns and Global Warming is brought up; some mornings it seems that Global Warming is the only problem in the world. So the huge volcano off the Tongan coast that is creating a new island in the sea set me thinking. The BBC report complete with video describes the volcano as "shooting smoke, steam and ash into the air". I wonder is it not also spewing water vapour and CO2 (as well as methane and nitrous oxide). So I did a little Wikipedia researching amd guess what? The main Greenhouse gases "ranked by their contribution to the greenhouse effect ... are:

* water vapor, which contributes 36–70%
* carbon dioxide, which contributes 9–26%
* methane, which contributes 4–9%
* ozone, which contributes 3–7%"

And the principal components of volcanic gases given of by an erupting volcano are:

"water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), sulfur either as sulfur dioxide (SO2) (high-temperature volcanic gases) or hydrogen sulfide (H2S) (low-temperature volcanic gases), nitrogen, argon, helium, neon, methane, carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Other compounds detected in volcanic gases are oxygen (meteoric), hydrogen chloride, hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen bromide, nitrogen oxide (NOx), sulfur hexafluoride, carbonyl sulfide, and organic compounds. Exotic trace compounds include methyl mercury, halocarbons (including CFCs), and halogen oxide radicals.

The abundance of gases varies considerably from volcano to volcano. However, water vapor is consistently the most common volcanic gas, normally comprising more than 60% of total emissions. Carbon dioxide typically accounts for 10 to 40% of emissions."

Maybe a scientist could calculate the effect on world H20 and CO2 levels of the Tongan volcano and maybe Al Gore and Gordon Brown could work out how to tax this polluting volcano or maybe Tonga itself.

One year down, four more to go before the North Pole ice caps disappear in the summer months

One year ago it was reported that:

in "a January 24 Agence France Press news story out of the Davos meeting of business and political elite. Gore asserted that, “the North Pole ice caps may disappear entirely during summer months within five years…”"

How did the North Pole ice caps fare last summer?

I have read that:
"Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979"
Alaska experienced "a net increase or advance in glaciers"
"Sea Ice Growing at Fastest Pace on Record"
"Antarctica Ice Cap Growth Reaches Record High Levels "
"The Disappearing Arctic Ice Is Back And It's Thick"
"Record cold wave blasts Mumbai"
"China Suffers Coldest Winter in 100 Years"
But those are facts and we know that the Man Made Climate Change industry hate facts.

Just like most, if not all, of the environmentalist lobby's predictions, this one will slip away or be revised back a few years. The reality is of no importance, what matters is fear and using that fear to gain control.

Man Made Climate Change

If you want to learn some facts about Man Made Climate Change rather than just rely on the BBC and the Independent then please take a trip to Climate Skeptic. Their latest article highlights another Al Gore lie and the subject of settled science and there is also an excellent piece on Climate Change modelling.

Al Gore - Nobel Peace Prize!

Watch and think.



Thanks to Theo Spark for the spot.

Man Made Climate Change

I find that although I have been reading a fair bit on the lie that is Man Made Climate Change, I have not posted anything for quite some time. To remedy that here is a link to an excellent demolition of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth". At that site you will find "35 serious scientific errors or exaggerations, all pointing towards invention of a threat that does not exist at all, or exaggerations of phenomena that do exist, do not reflect credit on the presenter of the movie or on those who advised him."

Global warming?

John Coleman can see what's going on.






Thanks to Grouchy Old Cripple for the spot.

An alternative source of power?

The Peoples Cube may have a solution - "Uncle Gore's CarbonKid™ BabyPower Generator" - It could work!

More Gordon Brown related sleaze

The revelations just keep on coming, today we can claims that "GORDON BROWN’S most senior aide has been accused of deceiving thousands of shareholders during his former business career, according to court documents.

Stephen Carter, who was last week appointed the prime minister’s chief of strategy and principal adviser, is said in the documents to have told a fellow executive who feared he had misled shareholders: “What I tell them is nine-tenths bullshit and one-tenth selected facts.” "

If that statement is true then Stephen Carter is the ideal man to be Gordon Brown's chief of strategy, although he may have to up the percentage of bullshit from 90%.

An inconvenient truth (part 2)

Following on from this article there was a lot of publicity about an email sent by Roger Harrabin last week saying

"From Roger Harrabin
BBC Environment Analyst

In any future reporting of Gore we should be careful not to suggest that the High Court says Gore was wrong on climate.......

We might say something like: "Al Gore whose film was judged by the High Court to have used some debatable science" or "Al Gore whose film was judged in the High Court to be controversial in parts".

The key is to avoid suggesting that the judge disagreed with the main climate change thesis."

Now he is rowing back, see this article at Devils Kitchen.

Oh how I hate these eco-nuts.

Gore and UN panel win Nobel prize

When Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, the distinguished musical satirist Tom Lehrer declared "It was at that moment that satire died". If that was so then now it has been well and truly buried. I read that "Climate change campaigner Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The committee said they had been chosen for "their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change"." This is the same Al Gore within whose campaigning film "An inconvenient truth" a UK High Court judge identified nine significant errors.
"Mr Justice Burton identified nine significant errors within the former presidential candidate’s documentary as he assessed whether it should be shown to school children. He agreed that Mr Gore’s film was “broadly accurate” in its presentation of the causes and likely effects of climate change but said that some of the claims were wrong and had arisen in “the context of alarmism and exaggeration”. You can read the rest here.

I note that the aforementioned BBC report does not mention the recent court case, probably an accidental omission! You can add your comments about Mr Gore's Nobel Peace Prize here.