(11 Nov 07) With out doubt this 4 part presentation by Professor Bob Carter from James Cook University , once and for all slays the dragon and the zealotry of the Global Warming religion. Even if you only view part one you'll see how Carter lifts the lid on the greatest scam of our time. Each Part runs 8 to 9 minutes
Climate Change/ Global Warming
(21 Nov 07) The most comprehensive site yet on the Climate Change/ Global Warming
Global warming' shocker – Who's minding thermometers
(19 Nov 07) “…Dire "global warming" predictions are based on bad science from the very start, says a veteran meteorologist who found surface temperatures recorded throughout the U.S. are done so with almost no regard to scientific standards. As a result of his shocking initial findings that temperature monitoring stations were constructed and placed without regard to achieving accurate recordings of natural temperatures, Anthony Watts set out to investigate the facilities used by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…” Global warming' shocker – Who's minding thermometers ? “… To qualify as a properly maintained temperature station, sensors must be placed in elevated, slatted boxes on flat ground surrounded by a clear surface on a slope of less than 19 degrees with surrounding grass and vegetations ground cover of less than 10 centimeters high. The sensors must be located at least 100 meters from artificial heating or reflecting surfaces, such as buildings, concrete surfaces and parking lots. Watts ' concerns about the temperatures being used to gauge whether global warming is actually taking place began when he read a 1997 study by the U.S. National Research Council that concluded the consistency and quality of temperature stations was "inadequate and deteriorating." Meanwhile, he learned, the U.S. Historical Climatological Network, responsible for maintaining the stations, was doing nothing to address the problems….”
Interactive representation of sea levels around Australia
(16 Nov 07) This is an absolutely fascinating link. It presents an interactive representation of sea levels around Australia over the last 100000 years . Have a tool around
Our World: Islam and the nation-state
(15 Nov 07) “….Throughout the world, one of the most prevalent causes of war, terrorism and political instability is the ongoing weakening of the nation-state system. There are several reasons that the nation-state as a political unit of sovereignty is under threat. One of the most basic causes of this continuous erosion of national power throughout the world is the transformation of minority-dominated enclaves within nation-states into ungovernable areas where state power is either not applied or applied in a haphazard and generally unconstructive manner….the current turbulence constitutes a unique challenge to the nation-state system. This is because much of the internal strife between minority and majority populations within states today is financed and often directed from outside the country…..Traditionally, minorities used various local means to engage the majority population in a bid to influence the political direction or cultural norms of the nation state….” Our World: Islam and the nation-state , Caroline Glick, The Jerusalem Post “…Today while similar movements continue to flourish, they are now being superseded by a new type of minority challenge to national majorities. This challenge is not primarily the result of domestic injustice but the consequence of foreign agitation. The roots of these minority challenges are found outside the borders of the targeted states….Muslim Minorities throughout the world are being financed and ideologically trained in Saudi and UAE funded mosques and Islamic centers. These minorities act in strikingly similar manners in the countries where they are situated throughout the world. On the one hand, their local political leaders demand extraordinary communal rights, rights accorded neither to the national majority nor to other minority populations. On the other hand, Muslim neighborhoods, particularly in Europe, but also in Israel , the Philippines and Australia , are rendered increasingly ungovernable as arms of the state like the police and tax authorities come under attack when they attempt to assert state power in these Muslim communities….”
Britain's Escalating War on Christianity
(9 Nov 07) “…The war being waged by the quasi-establishment and quasi-government Left in Britain against the nation's own traditions, values, identity and, perhaps most of all, religion, has been escalated and its battle-lines redefined with a report by a leading Labour Party-aligned think-tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research, recommending that Christmas, which cannot be obliterated, should be down-graded to promote multiculturalism…Now the Institute is not some relic of communist days clinging to existence in a squalid slum attic. On the contrary, it has very close links with the government. The report was commissioned when Nick Pearce, now head of public policy in the Prime Minister's Office, was its director. He was described in an interview on the Australian Broadcasting Commission's "Sunday Profile" recently as "One of the leading policy-makers in Great Britain . " Before heading the IPPR he was a special advisor to Labour Home Secretary David Blunkett…..The report's recommendations are probably the most radical that have been made so far by a body with real political influence for the destruction of Britain's Christian identity and historic culture. However, the thrust of its recommendations are really nothing new, and are squarely in line with concerted and unremitting political/culture-war attacks on Christianity and Britain's historic identity which have been going on for at least a decade, not at the level of national Parliamentary government, where an electorate might show its displeasure, but in a shadowy, Gramscian way at quasi-governmental level and in localized areas with entrenched Labour/left control of councils, Parliamentary seats and other institutions…. Britain's Escalating War on Christianity , by Hal Colebatch, American Spectator “….The report proposes Christening services be replaced by "birth ceremonies" in which the parents of children and the State agree to "work in partnership" to raise children… The report also proposes an end to "sectarian" religious education -- it is hard to know what this means, or whether it is proposed to go as far as actually banning Christian schools…. We can no longer define ourselves as a Christian nation, nor an especially religious one in any sense." This is very peculiar, and may be an exercise in wishful thinking on the part of the report's authors because the last census for which figures are available, that of 2001, actually showed 71.6% of the population was Christian, and the total of all religious believers who answered the census was 76.8% of the population…..The report adds: "Any liberal state should recast the civic oaths and national ceremonies, or institutions like Parliament and the monarchy, in a more multi-religious or secular form and make religious education less sectarian….”
Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming Greatest Scam in History
(9 Nov 07) “…John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, has written an article in which he calls the idea of man-made global warming 'a scam:" It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM…Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create in [sic] allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the "research" to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims…Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going….” Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming Greatest Scam in History , American Thinker “….Soon they claimed to be a consensus. Environmental extremists, notable politicians among them, then teamed up with movie, media and other liberal, environmentalist journalists to create this wild "scientific" scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming unless we adhere to their radical agenda….Now their ridiculous manipulated science has been accepted as fact and become a cornerstone issue for CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic Political Party, the Governor of California, school teachers and, in many cases, well informed but very gullible environmental conscientious citizens….There is no run away climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril. I am incensed by the incredible media glamour, the politically correct silliness and rude dismissal of counter arguments by the high priest of Global Warming. In time, a decade or two, the outrageous scam will be obvious….”
Global Warming as Pathological Science
(4 Nov 07) “… Trofimko Lysenko is not a household name; but it should be, because he was the model for all the Politically Correct "science" in the last hundred years. Lysenko was Stalin's favorite agricultural "scientist," peddling the myth that crops could be just trained into growing bigger and better . You didn't have to breed better plants over generations, as farmers have been doing for ages. It was a fantasy of the all-powerful Soviet State . Lysenko sold Stalin on that fraud in plant genetics, and Stalin told Soviet scientists to fall into line --- in spite of the fact that nobody really believed it. Hundreds of thousands of peasants starved during Stalin's famines, in good part because of fraudulent science….Freeman Dyson, one of the great physicists alive today, put it plainly enough in his autobiography: "...all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated. Here I am opposing the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens who believe the numbers predicted by the computer models..”…When the scientific establishment starts to peddle fraud, we get corrupt science. The Boomer Left came to power in the 1970s harboring a real hatred toward science. They called it "post-modernism," and "deconstructionism" --- and we saw all kinds of damage as a result…. Pathological science kills people and ruins lives. Such fake science is still peddled by the PC establishment in Europe and America ….” Global Warming as Pathological Science , James Lewis, American Thinker “…Global Warming is only the most recent case. Rachel Carson's screed against DDT caused malaria to re-emerge in Africa , killing hundreds of thousands of human beings. Those human-caused disasters have never been discussed honestly in the media, and rarely if ever in science journals. The DDT scandal is still suppressed….Pathological science has erupted most often in the last hundred years in the field of education, where "whole-word reading" fraud undermined the reading abilities of whole generations of American kids. Young adults can no longer tell the difference between "it's" and "its," even though their grandparents learned it in grammar school. The field of education is gullible and fad-prone, and is very unhealthy as a result. That's why new teachers are taught to peddle PC --- ideology is all they have…. Modern science fraud seems to come from the Left, which makes it especially weird because the Left claims to be all in favor of science. Marxism itself was a scientific fraud, of course. In 1848 Marx and Engels claimed to have a "scientific" ( wissenschaftlich ) theory of history. They predicted that communism would first arise in England , because it was the most advanced capitalist nation. ( Not ) They predicted that centralized planning would work. ( Not ) They predicted that the peasants and workers would dedicate their lives to the Socialist State , and stop caring about themselves and their families. ( Not ). They predicted that sovietization would lead to greater economic performance. ( Not ). And then, when seventy years of Soviet, Chinese, Eastern European, and North Korean history showed Marx's predictions to be wrong, wrong and wrong again , they still claimed to be "scientific." That's pathological science --- fraud masquerading as science…When the truth-tellers in society begin to sell out and tell lies for some ideological goal, people end up dying…”
Mother Nature's Inconvenient Truths
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite data we analyse at the University of Alabama in Huntsville does show modest warming: about 1.4C a century, if warming trends of 0.14C a decade continue.
(4 Nov 07) “….I've had a lot of fun recently with my tiny (and unofficial) slice of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But, though I was one of thousands of IPCC participants, I don't think I will add "0.0001 Nobel laureate" to my resume. The other half of the prize was awarded to former US vice-president Al Gore…I'm sure the majority (but not all) of my IPCC colleagues cringe when I say this, but I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see. Rather, I see a reliance on climate models (useful but never proof) and the coincidence that changes in carbon dioxide and global temperatures have loose similarity over time….As we build climate data sets from scratch and look into the guts of the climate system, however, we don't find the alarmist theory matching observations….I see jump-to-conclusions advocates and, unfortunately, some scientists who see in every weather anomaly the spectre of a global warming apocalypse. Explaining each successive phenomenon as a result of human action gives them comfort and an easy answer….Sea levels rise and fall continually….” Mother Nature's Inconvenient Truths, John Christy, (IPCC Scientist) “…The Arctic icecap has shrunk before. One millennium there are hippos swimming in the Thames, and a geological blink later there is an ice bridge linking Asia and North America….The recent CNN report Planet in Peril, for instance, spent considerable time discussing shrinking Arctic Sea ice cover. CNN did not note that winter sea ice around Antarctica last month set a record maximum for coverage since aerial measurements started… California and some northeastern US states have decided to force their residents within the next decade to buy cars that average 18km a litre. Even if you applied this law to the entire world, the net effect would reduce projected warming by about 0.03C by 2100, an amount so minuscule as to be undetectable. Global temperatures vary more than that from day to day….Bjorn Lomborg's Copenhagen Consensus 2004, a cost-benefit analysis of health issues by leading economists (including three Nobel laureates), calculated that spending on health issues such as micronutrients for children, HIV-AIDS and water purification has benefits 50 to 200 times those of attempting to marginally limit "global warming"….Given the scientific uncertainty and our relative impotence regarding climate change, the moral imperative here seems clear to me….”
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