The last word on 10:10

Have received all the replies I'm going to get from my 'Write to your MP / MEP' campaign over the abusive images of children in various 'Green' publicity as funded from the public purse. All of the responses have been pretty anodyne, and vaguely patronising, although my local MP in the UK (An apparatchik parachuted in from party HQ, not selected at local level) didn't deign to reply at all. Well there's a surprise. Still, five responses out of seven wasn't too bad, although to my total lack of amazement, there was no response from the office of the Energy Secretary. Probably too embarrassed at the furore created with their money to respond to the outrage.

Despite the lack of political reaction, I'm encouraged by the apparent dearth of further propaganda emanating from the serried sources of climate campaigners. Maybe the money supply to these parasites has been much reduced, or the word has been passed, "Don't use kids again". Maybe they were just made part of the recent UK public sector cull. Perhaps they're just regrouping. Whatever the reason, I'm calling the skirmish over 10:10 a result and applauding all the others who wrote to their MP / MEP to complain about said abuse of public funding. Also kudos are due to the 'No to O2' campaign, and all those who expressed their outrage to the commercial sponsors of what I'm calling 'climate child abuse'. The word is out, and the word is 'don't'.

In other quarters, even the most rabid greens are having the scales peeled from their eyes to realise that all the works of man are not an abuse of the environment. There's been far too much readiness to blame mankind, and not enough research to find the real root causes. Too much "Well we can't think what else it could be." and spectacular performances in the 100 metre conclusion jump.

Overall, I'm encouraged that the scientific method is arising from the ooze in which blinkered campaigners have smothered it with their 'consensus' bullshit, and open discussion is once more (slightly) in favour. Empiricism is being restored to it's proper place. Mostly. Maybe. I hope.

All I have to say is; good show chaps, but heads up and keep those vorpal bayonets fixed. The bastards will return for another go at freedom of speech and thought. Maybe in another guise, but they will be back. Upon that you can depend.

Guess who said this

“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism”

Click on the link to find out.

Scepticism? From this guy? You a feather down me could knocked have with. Holy out of context Blatman? This from the person quoted as calling for 'sceptics' to be thrown in jail back in '08? Good gravy! Will wonders ever begin?

Greenpeace are coming to get you

Seen first at Bishop Hill's blog. Greenpeace just stepped outside the law with this gorgeous piece of foot in mouth disease;

We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work.

And we be many, but you be few.

Of course the challenges were immediate, such as;

Congratulations.

You just crossed the line into being a terrorist organization.

Of course there's been a lot of hurried backtracking and weasel words about 'non-violent means'; but let's say some Greenpeace activists, as they will in their zeal to get at the 'deniers', step over the line; the resultant legal fallout will bury Greenpeace. The first blow struck. The first damage to a sceptics property. The first harassment of a known sceptic in their job, of their family, of their friends. All that can and shall be tracked back to this single Greenpeace sanctioned official threat. Ouch.

With those ill chosen words open warfare has been declared upon the unbelievers over the poor application of scientific method by the church of the true believers in man made climate change. May I, amongst I suspect many others, point out the following;
It wasn't the sceptics making false scare story claims over dubious science.
It wasn't the sceptics who exaggerated.
It wasn't the sceptics failing to fact check.
It wasn't the sceptics who tried to squash debate to advance their own cause.
Who was it?

The fallout I suspect, will be that a well funded media machine has been beaten by a bunch of sceptical amateurs. Amateurs who have done what they did for no other reason than to uphold the integrity of science. Amateurs who broke Climategate when the lamestream wouldn't touch it. Amateurs who found and publicised the false assertions in IPCC reports. Amateurs who offered an open and honest scientific debate and all Green'peace' had to offer of any substance was a direct threat.

Ooh boy. Someone's in trouble and it ain't the sceptics. Guffaw. Chortle.

Today I became rather hacked off because the tail end of a storm knocked the power out while I was half way through cooking supper. I have now been officially cheered up.

Update: As suspected, weasel words have taken the place of the offending blog, including this little gem;

Of course the anti-science brigade on the web has seized on the line in Gene’s post and run with it (and will run and run and run), taken it out of context and run with it some more – it’s what the climate contrarians exist to do.

'Anti-science'? That's a bit rich isn't it considering the thinly-veiled-scare-story-press-releases-masquerading-as-scientific-reports that Greensleaze seem to specialise in.

Cheeky sods. One thing Greensleaze doesn't do is science. It does scary stories to frighten the kiddies. Not impressed.

More bullshit and bollocks.....

...from the Man Made Climate Change advocates along the lines of 'Big Oil funds Climate Deniers' rubbish. Complete and utter bollocks. Especially when pitted against the millions fed into the maw of the Climate Change advocacy groups via NGO's etc. On the basis of? A statement attributed to 'Greensleaze'? Hah! To think I once respected them as environmental crusaders. Well, until I found out their integrity has a relative value. My charitable Direct Debit to that organisation got cancelled around the time of their hyper exaggerations about Brent Spar.

By the way, if anyone is interested, the Climategate Enquiry report is here, and surprise, surprise, it's full of weaselling out of the accusations regarding failures to honour FOI requests, and lawyerish side steps of the core issue of scientific integrity. The report 'raises concerns' rather than addresses them, but is hardly astounding reading. Too much public money has been pumped into the Climate Change industry and much face saving has to be done. The Man Made Climate Change Emperor may have no clothes, but his highly placed advocates can't give it up because then they'll look stupid and all that nice money will go away, and we can't have that happen to the poor dears can we?

Oh stuff it. I've got work to do. There's no 'big oil' to fund this blog. Nor, I suspect, the 'deniers' opposed to the High Church of what my comrade in words, the Angry Exile, calls 'Warble Gloaming'. If we of a sceptical nature were that wrong, then the Man Made CO2 Climate Change Advocates wouldn't have to resort to name calling or declare 'war' on sceptics, would they?

BTW:
Gulf stream not shutting down
Tropical UK as far away as ever
Global ice cover above 'normal'
Polar Bears fine
Yadada yadada....

H/T to Wattsupwithat for the Climategate report Pdf location.

John Coleman: Global warming meltdown

My brief description of each section as broadcast on KUSI. Worth a look

Part 1: Intro by John Coleman


Part 2: Pachauri caught lying at Copenhagen? (Glaciergate)


Part 3: More IPCC report 'errors' and advocacy based entries.


Part 4: Observations on 'Radiative forcing'. Scripps Institute refuse to debate on Coleman's special broadcast, as "They felt they would not be treated fairly". As fairly as some have treated those with sceptical views? Hmm?


Part 5: About the 'loss' and 'correction' of temperature records by the NCDC.


Part 6: A small reshowing of the M4GW remake of the Who's Teenage Wasteland (Baba O'Reilly).


Part 7: A tip of the hat to the surfacestations.org project and how it was born.


Part 8: The 'Green Police' spoof ads by Audi and 'Carbon footprints' with an interview with Dr John Christy from the University of Huntsville, Alabama. NASA GISS 'Deficient'?


Part 9: Al Gore being 'Hounded' and challenged for his lack of understanding? BTW, Gore isn't being sued by Coleman - pity.


So much for 'settled science'. Time for coffee.

Beyond parody

Well there it is; out in the open from no less a person than Dr Philip Jones of Hadley Climate Research Unit. His data does not support the warming hypothesis because it is 'disorganised'.

In effect these guys have been trying too hard to prove the warming hypothesis with, to be charitable, perhaps not 'dodgy' data, but definitely inconclusive data. The Emperor of Climate Change is perhaps wearing the briefest of see through G-strings, but definitely not the full panoply of garments as claimed by his many vociferous acolytes.

The cheerleaders for catastrophic man made global climate change really do need to be put through the total perspective vortex to see that we as a species have no more effect on climate that a man swimming the English Channel. Locally we might splash a bit, but on geologic timescales we are an invisible dot on an invisible dot. Insignificant. Deep time will be the proof of that.

I like Monckton.....

As seen in Melbourne, Australia.

Erudite and amusing. Unlike the doomsayers.

Part 2 here.


H/T This article on Wattsupwiththat.

It's Groundhog day!

Six more weeks of Winter, at least according to weather prognosticators with a better track record than the Met Office and their dodgy computer models.

Not so bad over here on the western side of BC, although the 2010 Olympics organisers are having to truck in snow. It's rather grey and claggy on our part of the island, and I'm keen to see some sunshine soonest. The view is fine, but the brightness and contrast need turning up a bit, and maybe some blue airbrushed in. At the moment our local climatic photoshop palette is set to greyscale, which I'm looking forward to seeing the back of. Apparently this is what it's supposed to be like around here during Winter, not half a metre of snow like last year.

Hey ho. Logs to cut, work to do. Spring and my permanent residency card will be along in their own sweet time.

First we had....

'Climategate'; the release of emails, code, and programmers annotations which basically began the collapse of all the "It's all CO2, and we're all guilty" assertions.

Then we had 'Glaciergate'; the exposure of the lack of basic research upon which much of the "OMG! Breathing out will kill us all you filthy Deniers!" hysteria has been based.

Now we have 'Amazongate'; The assertion that an atmospheric trace gas would wreck the Amazon Rainforests, which has turned out to be the exact opposite of reality. Based on assertions from amounts to little more than a World Wildlife Fund press release. Hardly the grounds for 'Immediate action'. Sheesh. Some people will believe anything.

I'm still waiting for 'Oceangate' where spurious claims that absorption of 'excess' CO2 will harm the worlds oceans are proved to have originated off some obscure warmist blog because no-one wanted to spend time doing original research. Ho bloody ho. I'm so not amused.

Each and every time that CO2 has been pointed at as the villain of the climate modifiers, the panic mongers assertions have been proven groundless, even dangerously wrong. When even Bin Laden's voice is heard (From beyond the grave?) saying his followers should promote 'Global Warming' well I'd say that kind of wraps it up for man made climate change / global warming / whatever.

I tell you one thing though; David Cameron and his band of merry centre ground Blue Labourites aren't getting this (or Mrs S's) UK expatriates postal vote with their spurious claims of 'greener than thou'. He and his cohorts are just as bad as Jonah Brown and his not so merry men who are currently fucking the British economy. Will Cameron be any better? I say not. He's going to take the fall just like Edward Heath did in the early 1970's.

And another not so thrilling episode of.....

Herlock Soames and the case of the missing thermometers; Part 2

Now the story can be told in another of the three (Two? Four? Five? Who gives a shit?) not so chilling episodes.

Scene: A darkened warehouse-like room where three men sit around in high backed chairs facing away from each other. Number One is fiercely gripping an oversize barometer. Number Two sits behind a stack of papers, waist high, upon the top page of which can be seen the legend ‘IPCC AR4’. Number Three is stroking a white Persian Cat. Their faces remain in shadow.

Number Three; So gentlemen, have we decided what the weather is to be for the next fifty years?
Number Two; (Hastily riffling through the stack of paper in front of him) Er, hotter, much hotter! Glaciers and ice caps gone. Not even enough ice for a Martini gone! The report says so, so it must be true.
Number Three; How much hotter?
Number Two; Er… Don’t know, Number One won’t let me look at his Barometer.
Number One; (Petulantly) It’s my Barometer, and I don’t see why I should let you see it! It’s mine, and you’d only misquote me if I did!
Number Three; Very well. We shall announce that the Earth will warm by ten degrees Celsius and all the Penguins will melt if people don’t give us all their money. Does anyone have Moonbats phone number? He’ll believe anything we say.
Number One; Deniers! Filthy scum! Hate them all! They can’t see my Barometer! It’s mine I tell you! Mine!
Number Three; Have we dealt with the Thermometer issue?
Number One; Har har har! Thermometers? We don’ need no stinkin’ thermometers!
Number Three; Excellent. Gore can deliver the message, as usual. Number Two?
Number Two; Sir?
Number Three; Have you got Google to delete all the blogs of those wicked Deniers?
Number Two; Cunleys doing it sir!
Number Three; Has he succeeded?
Number Two; No sir.
Number Three; Oh dear, this is so troublesome. Measures must be taken.
Number Two; Shall I call him in?
Number Three; Immediately. (Enter Cunley, a tall hippie like man carrying a toy Polar Bear) Ah, Cunley. We understand we gave you a task.
Cunley; (Visibly nervous) The Denier blogs?
Number Three; Yes. Are they deleted?
Cunley; (Swallows nervously) No sir, Google won’t do it. Not even in the name of Al Gore.
Number One; (Mumbling feverishly) Denier scum wrecking my work!
Number Two; You know the penalty for failure Cunley.
Cunley; (Panicking) But Google wouldn’t do it because they said it suppressed free speech.
Number Three; Hmm?
Cunley; (Falls to his knees, openly pleading) Please give me another chance! I won’t fail you again.
Number One; Only one penalty, har har har.
Number Three; Cunley, I’m sorry to do this but you really do leave me no option.
Number Two; Only one penalty for failure.
Number Three; Indeed (Pause) I will have to cut off Number Two’s funding.
Number Two; (Screams and falls to floor twitching knocking papers everywhere) NOOOOOOOO! Ah! No funding! ARGH! No career! NOOOOOOOOO! (Two white coated men enter and drag his feverishly twitching body into the shadows)
Number Three; (To Cunley) Sit down please. (Cunley takes Number Two’s chair) You are the new Number Two.
New Number Two; Who is Number One?
Number Three; You are Number Two.
New Number Two; Can I be Number One next week?
Number Three; No.
New Number Two; Owwww.

From the deepest shadows in the warehouse-like room a soft voice, barely more than a whisper is heard.

Soames; The fiends!

Thats ends episode two of the case of Herlock Soames and the missing thermometers. Can you wait another week for the next thrilling installment? Would you want to? Well tough monkeys…..

Global warming was a WWF press release?

Well, there's a turn up for the books. The IPCC's AR4 report appears to be in deeper trouble than even those of a sceptical mindset first surmised.

If those sharp cookies over at Wattsupwiththat.com and noconcensus.org are correct then all the concerns that the planet is warming uncontrollably have no more authority than a, a press release? "Hey! Give us all your money or the world's going to end!" Is that all there ever was to it? Ouch. That's gonna hurt.

There was a time when the World Wildlife Fund was a respected organisation, who dedicated untold hours of their time into saving endangered species. Now their, and by the same token, the IPCC's credibility is breaking up and slipping Titanic-like into the depths, ne'er to be seen in several lifetimes.

Perhaps some future Bob Ballard like character will find the rusticle encrusted hulk of their failed political science two and a half miles down. "Looks like it broke it's back under the weight of falsehoods when it ran into a berg like mass of empirical evidence." He might say when asked to give a reason for the cataclysm. "The not so good ship Global Warming was poorly designed, and although deemed unsinkable, brought the reputations and careers of many Scientific Researchers and Environmental Journalists to an untimely end as their funding sank without trace. It's very sad."

Glug...glug...glug.......... (Evil snigger)

and tonight's thrilling episode of.......

Herlock Soames and the case of the missing thermometers; Part 1

Now the story can be told in three (Two? Four?) not so chilling episodes.

Scene: A small set of ‘rooms’ not very far from Baker St, London, England. Present are Herlock Soames, investigative journalist and his friend (But only in the most platonic of senses), Hodson.

Soames; (Lighting highly illegal ‘herbal’ cigarillo and wafting the fragrant smoke into Hodson’s face) They’re missing, Hodson.
Hodson; What are?
Soames; (Cryptically) Thermometers Hodson, thermometers.
Hodson; No it isn’t, I can see ours from here, it says minus eight. I can’t wait for this global warming to kick in.
Soames; (Sighs heavily) I do not refer to our amusing combined barometer, clock and temperature gauge where the little man comes out, drops his trousers and farts the hours. I speak of the world wide temperature records upon which ‘the science of Global warming’ is based.
Hodson; Pardon?
Soames; Like you my dear Hodson, they are apparently missing something.
Hodson; Don’t be ridiculous Soames. Who would want to steal climate science?
Soames; Climate thieves, Hodson. Devilishly clever Climate thieves. Evil men without scruple.
Hodson; Soames, you‘re being more cryptic than usual. How can anyone steal the climate?
Soames; Not the climate Hodson, the temperature record.
Hodson; Why on earth would anyone steal temperature records Soames? I do wish you’d lay off the wacky baccy, it makes you too obtuse by far.
Soames; I speak of a villainous cabal led by my old arch enemy, Manniarty.
Hodson; (Shocked) Not old ‘ringer’ Manniarty?
Soames; The very same.
Hodson; Good God Soames, the fiendish sidekick of the wicked Prince of Yamal?
Soames; None other but the Pennsylvania hockey stick maniac.
Hodson; My God Soames! We must act!
Soames; I already am acting Hodson, do you think I speak like this in real life?
Hodson; Well I had wondered….
Soames; There is no time to waste Hodson! We must thwart their evil plans.
Hodson; But how? Manniarty has the whole of CRU and even worse, the BBC, behind him.
Soames; There is nothing else for it. We must find each missing thermometer in the climate record, Hodson. Every last single one.
Hodson; But, but, they deleted the source data, Soames. The original records are gone. Thousands upon thousands of temperature records through the shredder and deleted from hard drives. It’s an impossible task! Only a fool would even attempt it.
Soames; (Turns around swiftly) Am I a fool, Hodson?
Hodson; No, no, of course not Soames, and would you kindly take that ornate but razor sharp Malay disemboweling dagger away from the vicinity of my testicles please? It always makes me nervous when you do that.
Soames; Sorry Hodson, force of habit.
Hodson; (Nervous swallow) Thank you.
Soames; Hodson! We must away! The game’s afoot! Break out the sled dogs!
Hodson; We ate them last week. Don’t you remember? PETA said keeping dogs as pets was bad for our carbon footprint.
Soames; The fiends! No matter, I have a plan.
Hodson; This wouldn’t be a cunning plan would it?
Soames; Is there any other kind?
Hodson; (Sighs heavily) No, I suppose not.
Soames; We must catch these climate thieves by the most devious means available. Hodson, you must travel to East Anglia disguised as a snowman. There you will introduce yourself as a bosom friend of Al Gore and illicitly gain entry. Once inside you will find the secret data files, stuff them into the pockets sewn inside your snowman suit, and saunter out, whistling the theme from ‘the great escape’.
Hodson; (Wearily) So I have to wear the silly costume as usual.
Soames; Correct! Off you go.
(Exit Hodson carrying white snowman disguise)

Whatever will our two desperate heroes do next? Can you wait for the next scintillating episode? No? Do you care? No? Oh what the hell.

The truth behind our changing climate

Yes, yes. It's a piss take of the BBC scary carbon advert, but a chillingly truthful one.

H/T The Filthy Engineer and Freedom 2 Choose

Nobel thoughts

Minor case of the pre-festive lurgi which has robbed me of sleep and caused excessive tiredness. Tell you the truth, I'm a little bored which is a bit of an oddity for me. Mrs S has exhorted me to go and get some new kit for myself, but I don't want to spend the money on myself at present. There will be sales in January with deeper discounts which I intend to take full advantage of. That, and I don't want to be bothered with braving the scrum of Christmas shoppers right now.

Come tomorrow or the day after I shall be as full of beans as ever. Supper will have to be a take-out tonight as our Landlady forgot to re-order propane, which means I can't use our apartments gas stove. Bit of a nuisance, but not a big deal.

Paused at Wattsupwiththat at this post to make the following comment;

It was never the actual science, the problem has always been in the way the science has been reported to the public. A balance which Anthony and friends should be lauded for their efforts in redressing.

Anyone else think the WUWT team and Steve McIntyre should be put forward for a joint Nobel prize?

Then I popped over to the Nobel.org website to see what could be done in that regard.....oh.

Unless you belong to a pretty elite club, you have no chance of being proposed, no matter how deserving. Seeing as the qualifying people are mainly part of the group pushing the opposing agenda......Sorry guys.

As previously speculated

Well, well. Re this post. Piers Corbyn 1 Warmists 0. A late score from plucky Mr Corbyn, but he still got his forecast for snow and biting winds over the southern Scandinavian area mostly right. The UK Met office might be well advised to consider using Mr Corbyn's service as an alternative to that overhyped PC they're using at present.

Relatives in the UK are complaining about the snow. As usual half the UK grinds to a halt at the merest flurry. Even here on Vancouver Island, three inches of snow is nothing, and saying that you can't get in to work through that much might earn you your Canadian version of a P45. What white stuff we had has come and gone, with only the frosting on Mount Benson remaining.

From Guido Fawkes; Gordon Brown and Al Gore go into broom cupboard and, as one of Guido's many co-conspiritors pointed out, come out with their jackets unbuttoned. What were they up to in there? Checking the global temperature index?

Currently v.bored kicking my heels awaiting my final package of forms and confirmation of appointment for final immigration medical.

Amusing myself as best I can.

Skeptics handbook 2

Skeptics handbook 2 now out.

Science and Public Policy website added to sidebar.

That is all.

So, we're not all doomed then?

Well the climate change house of cards appears to be collapsing despite all the hot air expelled in vain efforts to prevent it's fall. Gore discredited in public by the very scientist whose work he was supposedly quoting. The UK Daily Excess coming up with "100 reasons why climate change is natural". The UK Daily Telegraph has cited the same report. Even the BBC have doing a vague 180 on the issue. I'm vaguely uneasy about having people like this on the sceptical side of the argument, but as they say in diplomacy and warfare "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." He happens to be repeating what many sceptics have been saying for a long time. e.g. Biofuels create more problems than they solve.

Al Gore's prediction of 2013 or 2014 'ice free Arctic' is hereby redacted from the Apocalypse sweepstake. The Emperor of Climate Change has been found to be (Gasp! Shock! Horror!) naked all along. Oh yes, and the American DOE is sitting up and taking legal notice by the sound of things.

So we're not doomed then? That's nice, and just in time for Christmas.

Time for coffee.

Update: to clarify, this blog is not, and never has been in favour of the left wing agenda of the BNP. Just because their leader has been agreeing with the sceptical side of the climate change argument does not mean any ex-pat votes will be going their way from this address. Not even in protest. Now if you'll excuse me, I have several much nicer parties to attend. Those with wine, food, and easy conversation in copious quantities.

Happy Climategate

From the splendidly risible Minnesotans for Global Warming. Show them some seasonal Interweb affection, for yea and verily, the video and MP3 is only USD$1.99.

Out of the mouths.....

Well, if it's so simple a 6th grader (With some help from his Dad) can work it out, why didn't those terribly clever climate science johnnies at NASA or CRU? As sweet a proof of the Urban Heat Island effect as I've ever seen. Found at this post at Wattsupwiththat.

Time for tea.

Interesting.

Seen over the Island Highway footway overpass at the Long Lake junction. A crude banner protest sign. White print on black background, about three feet high by ten feet long had been erected which read thus;

Exposed. CLIMATEGATE. N.W.O..

Another one of those 'should have had my camera with me' moments.

Wonder if it will still be up by Friday?