Australian blogger Jo Nova provides a quick recap to help the casual reader keep track of the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scandals.
The Four ‘Gates’ of the IPCC
Let’s see. There’s
- Climate Gate, showing that the peer review process has descended into a criminal farce of scientific malpractice …
- PachuriGate, showing that the man in charge of the IPCC was chairman of boards of companies that profit handsomely as the scare-factor is ramped up…
- GlacierGate, about the IPCC “accidentally” using a World Wildlife Fund report instead of peer reviewed science… And now…
- AmazonGate: The IPCC fabricates disastrous claims about the Amazon forest, and references a document written by activists that doesn’t even support the claim.
Adding insult to injury, not only is that Amazon paper not peer-reviewed, its authors are a PhD forester and fire management expert (not a climatologist), and a journalist. The paper they co-wrote was for the WWF in conjunction with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
OK, so let’s juxtapose this scientific issue with a shaky foundation with the standing of Global Warming as a political issue. From a study released January 25th by the Pew Research Center, a left-leaning think tank:
Public’s Priorities for 2010: Economy, Jobs, Terrorism
Global Warming ranks behind Trade Policy, Lobbyists, Moral Decline, and Finance Regulation. Which inspires some level of confidence in the collective wisdom of the American people, less and except the Democratic base.
Dealing with global warming ranks at the bottom of the public’s list of priorities; just 28% consider this a top priority, the lowest measure for any issue tested in the survey. Since 2007, when the item was first included on the priorities list, dealing with global warming has consistently ranked at or near the bottom. Even so, the percentage that now says addressing global warming should be a top priority has fallen 10 points from 2007, when 38% considered it a top priority. Such a low ranking is driven in part by indifference among Republicans: just 11% consider global warming a top priority, compared with 43% of Democrats and 25% of independents.
Considering that AGW offers the ultimate bogeyman (The End Of Life As We Know It!), it’s hard to see the issue getting trumped by, say, Trade Policy if people were buying the story. Let’s face it: Global Warming has become the Gigli of political issues:
Cross-posted at VladEnBlog.
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It would be funny if the consequences were not so severe
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 12:38AM EST (link)Their hoax was perpetrated by evil, self-serving men including a bunch of turncoat “scientists”. It was leftist crusaders in the media that gave it the power. It was crooks in the American left and world-wide left that used it to punish achievement and freedom-loving people.
And it was a whole bunch of SUCKERS among the great unwashed, and among the squishy-right that allowed this obvious hoax to be perpetrated without asking serious questions.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
evil, self-serving men are small potatoes. YOU got suckered...
Veronica (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 1:14AM EST (link)..and were redirected and refocused.
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Not me, sister
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 1:42AM EST (link)I was on top of this before this was a *this*. I’ve been preaching, here at RedState and elsewhere, from the beginning, that the whole thing was a hoax, that IPCC was bought and paid for by leftist America haters (aka the UN), that not only was global warming NOT man-made, but that there wasn’t even global warming.
I was a biology major back in the 80s when the quack “scientists” were having hypo needle fights over whether there was global warming or global cooling.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
it is completely IRRELEVANT that ranks X on American's list of priorities
Veronica (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 1:09AM EST (link)you two are missing the BOAT COMPLETELY.
what we should be focusing on is that here we have an example of 2, 3 NGOs — IPCC, WWF and International Union for the Conservation of Nature — that are directing the entire world into believing/not believing this facade.
Whether or not global warming is true is not the issue.
You’re seeing organizations that are hooked into the UN.
They create research, briefs and documents from their task forces/meetings/hoopla and funnel it into the UN to shape world policy.
World policy that’s not the best interest of the United States — Copenhagen was proof of this. The money wasted on very Barry, Dick and Harold flying over there IN THE MIDDLE OF A RECESSION is proof of this, too.
PLEASE — peruse the sites Vladimire mentions — google IPCC, visit WWF and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and see what they do, what they say, where they go.
Clearly, none of it is in America’s best interests.
Don’t think so? When other nations want our cash on the cheap (as in, cheap science) it smells, it REEKS of anti-Americanism.
AGAIN — this isn’t about if the voters give a damn about this as a voting issue — this is about the leftists in this country picking up the socialist agenda -*that is worldwide* and forcing it down our throats and imbedding it in our culture (damn global warming)
If you give a damn about our national identity, you will address how these are ideas on the world stage that are trying to work their way into Americana — global warming! hello!
The voting/top priority issue is secondary.
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If the EPU/Vladimir tag team isn't *strident* enough for you, Ms. Estrada...
Steve Maley (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 8:49AM EST (link)…methinks you’d be happier blogging somewhere else.
The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.
Mrs. Estrada,
Steph C (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 9:46AM EST (link)Don’t you think it might be prudent to peruse some past diaries by the author and the commentator you just castigated before you jump down their collective throats?
You’ve been here all of 2 months and 4 days. While I don’t doubt your sincerity, it’s wise to look before you leap. Both Vlad and EPU have been regular diarists on this and other subjects, quite probably long before you concerned yourself with the topic.
This comment reminds me of that critique of one of Neil’s diaries on Net Neutrality, which for us regulars, was a mere update following months upon months of past research into the subject.
This site is searchable. I suggest you use that function before leaping once again before you look.
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nessa (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 1:19AM EST (link)James Hansen: Would you buy a used temperature data set from THIS man?
Then remind yourself, Obama, everyone in the administration, every Democrat in Congress and a fair portion of the Republicans (Like McLame) support this crap!
“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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A fair portion of Republicans support this crap?
jayburd (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 4:43AM EST (link)Why it’s in their platform!-
International Cooperation
Because the issue of climate change is global, it must become a truly global concern as well.
One of my heroes- Ralph Smeed’s blog- http://smeedonstate-ism.com/index.htm
“What’s the matter? Don’t you want to win the war?” – Capt. John Birch
“If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill.
The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The
difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the
money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%.Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.” – Thomas A. Edison
"Their?"
Neil Stevens (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 5:23AM EST (link)What are you then, if not a Republican? And why are you here?
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It sure as hell ain't my platform, I'm here to change it!
jayburd (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 2:28PM EST (link)If it’s your platform, including that International Cooperation bit, what does that make you?
One of my heroes- Ralph Smeed’s blog- http://smeedonstate-ism.com/index.htm
“What’s the matter? Don’t you want to win the war?” – Capt. John Birch
“If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill.
The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The
difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the
money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%.Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.” – Thomas A. Edison
And what are you doing to change it?
Neil Stevens (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 2:31PM EST (link)Being an Internet tough guy?
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Internet toughguy? Is that anything like a jerky moderator? nt
jayburd (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 3:04PM EST (link)I can understand if you are ashamed of the GOP platform. It is “squishy”. But to attack me doesn’t change it.
One of my heroes- Ralph Smeed’s blog- http://smeedonstate-ism.com/index.htm
“What’s the matter? Don’t you want to win the war?” – Capt. John Birch
“If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill.
The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The
difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the
money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%.Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.” – Thomas A. Edison
I'll be blunt
Neil Stevens (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 3:10PM EST (link)I’m trying to figure out if you belong here, or if you’re just here to bash Republicans.
If I don’t decide in your favor I ban you.
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That's fine, but politics in the US
aesthete (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 2:43PM EST (link)is binary. I’d rather work in an organization that mostly agrees with me, and hopefully enact changes to my favor, than remain as an outsider with little to no leverage in a system where leverage is all that matters.
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton
Well, then *make* it your platform!! If you're not a
eburke (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 3:32PM EST (link)precinct committeeman than you’re part of the problem because you’re not part of the solution.
I’m just sayin’……
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55555 eburke!! Here is a good place to LEARN how to change it
nessa (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 3:47PM EST (link)but the place to actually change it is in your local GOP!! The Precinct Project Blog.
“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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I am engaged to the party.
jayburd (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 3:59PM EST (link)I know it’s getting bad when I have to try to convince little old ladies in the local Republican Woman’s club that the polar bears are not in danger. But I still love them dearly. The ladies, that is. And the bears too, from a distance.
One of my heroes- Ralph Smeed’s blog- http://smeedonstate-ism.com/index.htm
“What’s the matter? Don’t you want to win the war?” – Capt. John Birch
“If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill.
The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The
difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the
money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%.Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.” – Thomas A. Edison
Then we're all on the same sheet of music!! nt
nessa (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 4:26PM EST (link)“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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teh twitter
Then why snap at me for the platform?
Neil Stevens (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 11:40PM EST (link)We’re all in this together. It *is* our party platform just like Obama *is* our President.
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This is a great post...
LaborUnionReport (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 1:31AM EST (link)…and a hilariously fitting video.
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great? take your own quote to heart. /nt
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Let's not forget what policys global warming hoax has lead to...
deevee Wednesday, January 27th at 4:14AM EST (link)such as renewable energy. Wind turbines are as big a hoax on the public as anything. The carpetbaggers come into communities with misleading information and “money” – our tax dollars as subsidies and increases in electric rates. The Public Service Commissions are the bag and there go property rights, personal rights, and quality of life for those caught in this web.
Wake up just because it is not in your backyard does not mean it does not negatively affect you.
Then there's the fifth "gate".
skorrent1 (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 3:38PM EST (link)The people who have been looking at the way NOAA and NASA manipulate the data by “cherry-picking” which thermometer readings to include in the data base, and then “adjusting” the data, which always seems to increase the warming trend.
No wonder UEA/CRU threw out the “raw” data. Their manipulations would be that much more obvious.
h/t: icecap.us
when the final chapters are written on this scare hoax
kyle8 (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 4:12PM EST (link)It would be advantageous to go back and take a second look at previous “scientific’ scares like the Ozone hole and Acid rain.
My guess is that it was all BS designed to scare you out of your money.
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Kyle