PowerLine article entitled:The Hockey Stick Hoax

I can't put this stuff into sentences when it really counts, but some otherwise very smart people have just swallowed this theory whole. They think it is because I don't understand the science. I'm sure there is lots of climate temperature transference physics that I could use a brush up with, but I understand human nature all too well, including the drive for dominance, and greed.

More recent scientific work has thoroughly debunked the Mann "hockey stick" analysis. It has been shown to rest on "collation errors, unjustified truncation or extrapolation of source data, obsolete data, incorrect principal component calculations, geographical mislocations and other serious defects," as well as "incorrect mathematics." There are indications, at least, that some of the errors on the part of Mann and his collaborators were deliberate--an instance of the corruption of science by politics and perverse financial incentives that underlies the entire global warming movement.

CO2 sceptics has a good set of articles, original perhaps.

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Some Global Warming

That Al Gore has trouble with the truth is fairly well established. His "An Inconvenient Truth" has scared the bejeepers out of enough folks though, that responses fall on frightfully deaf ears. Manipulation is much easier if fear, guilt, and contempt can be planted in a willfully ignorant mind. Intimidation is the tool of the weak argument.
It's not that difficult to recognize the behavior. I have survived a tornado, I know the definition of "urgent." Global Warming is a tactic against those who are stridently, and believably vocal about their opposition to any sort of globally dominant entity for the purpose (it is my belief) of establishing a globally dominant entity. They are fools following idiots, liars, and opportunists.
There is a State Rep from Gore's home state of Tennessee, Stacey Campfield of Knoxville, that is embarrassed enough to have put together a resolution, that he sadly will not enter, that gives a little perspective to the global warming scare. Just a couple paragraphs of a fairly lengthy document...

WHEREAS, An Inconvenient Truth never acknowledges the indispensable role of fossil fuels in alleviating hunger and poverty, extending human life spans, and democratizing consumer goods, literacy, leisure, and personal mobility; and

WHEREAS, An Inconvenient Truth never acknowledges the environmental, health, and economic benefits of climatic warmth and the ongoing rise in the air's CO 2 content; and

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Global Warming In The News Again

First, a democratic congress that refuses to will a victory for the U.S. in Iraq, and now - it had to happen, man-made climate change hysteria. In the IndyStar, from AP in Paris...

However, the panel also said its best estimate was for temperature rises of 3.2-7.1 degrees Fahrenheit. In 2001, all the panel gave was a range of 2.5-10.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
On sea levels, the report projects rises of 7-23 inches

Some nerve, calling THAT kind of cushion "science!" Isn't that like saying tomorrow's temperature will be somewher between -20 and +70 degrees?

by the end of the century. An additional 3.9-7.8 inches are possible if recent, surprising melting of polar ice sheets continues.

Did you know that England, long ago, used to grow wine grapes just like France? That was way back when England was much warmer than it is now. Yup. The Vikings of Norway used to sail their long ships to Iceland and Greenland, and even to the Americas...back when it was warmer.

"It's very conservative. Scientists by their nature are skeptics."

Especially when threatened with de-certification for holding beliefs considered heretical to orthodox "science."

While critics call the panel "overly alarmist, it is by nature relatively cautious because it relies on hundreds of scientists, including skeptics.

Why do they keep saying that? So anyway, The Norse settlers in Iceland had to abandon the homes (or they stayed and starved to death) because their growing seasons got shorter and the winters became longer and colder. French wine making moved south to the Mediterranean while the British grew hops and other short season grains, and made ale and beer (which explains why we Americans drink more beer than wine). Don't let me interrupt the global panic!

Authors of the report called it conservative: It used only peer-reviewed published science and was edited by representatives of 113 governments who had to agree to every word.

I live in Indianapolis (GO COLTS!!) which at one time was under a mile or two of ice. It's probable that the planet has warmed some since. That and the fact that no one ever guaranteed us a right to a stable climate draws me to agree somewhat with the concept of global warming. Still, there's something troubling to me about the way man's interference is being "marketed" - as the cause - to us. You can tell when the voice at the other end of the phone line is informing you of, say, a prescription that is ready for pickup - and when they are trying to sell a new medicine to you that you've never needed before. Professor Gray saysgive it time.

"They've been brainwashing us for 20 years," Gray says. "Starting with the nuclear winter and now with the global warming. This scare will also run its course. In 15-20 years, we'll look back and see what a hoax this was."
Gray directs me to a 1975 Newsweek article that whipped up a different fear: a coming ice age.
"Climatologists," reads the piece, "are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change. ... The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality."
Thank God they did nothing. Imagine how warm we'd be?

"We are the world's fastest scaredy cats."

The stoves are burning around the clock in Germany. You'll never guess why.

We're afraid of the atom, so the government has agreed to shut down its nuclear power plants. At the same time, we're afraid of global warming, so coal-fired plants are also unpopular. That's why we've built nearly 20,000 windmills. They provide electricity when the wind blows, but not necessarily when it's needed. And they are, logically, located in places where it storms, but not generally where industry and consumers live. For both reasons, new high-tension power lines are urgently needed to transport the energy. In northern Germany, every fifth windmill is now turned off when the wind is strong because the electricity grid can't deal with the sudden power surge.

I'm going to try to remember the author, Dirk Maxeiner, he has a delightful style.

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