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Re: ClimateGate busts things wide open

Postby ronan01 » August 5, 2010, 7:42 am

Michael C - back to name calling and denigrating people who dont agree with his point of view - really very childish - nothing intelligent to say - lets just call them names!!!

Michael has done nothing more than revert to his usual "the majority of scientists agree and the peer review process is superior" arguement, and adds no new information or offer any additional proof that his deeply held belief is true.

He is certain of the superiority of the "peer review" process - but fails to ackwoledge that the peer review process can, and has been, corrupted.

To state that "climategate' was a manufactured news story is misleading. Without climategate we would not have herad the famous words of Phil Jones “from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming”.

As for scientific eveidence - I think that was the whole point of climategate - the warmists ddid their best to hide "evidence" and certainly did not share it with the rest of the scientific community - the very anthesis of science.

Scienticfic Amercan is not an obcsure "denialist" organisation yet they say that the state of climate data and they way it is "hidden" is plain wrong and unscientific. The "temperature data" needs to be subjected to external scrutiny - to be audited - a much more rigorous method than peer review.

Try moving on from "peer review and most scietists agree" - your much loved peer review process is fatally flawed, your AGW "science" is fatally flawed and is NOT agreed by most scientists.

I still think you are the person who wrote words on this website to the effect "its OK to lie as long we are defending the planet".

Is it OK to lie to support (what you believe to be) a good cause?

Make the data avialble to all - including the method that NOAA and equivalnet organisations use to "adjsut" the data.

Publish the data and the methodology and let other "scientists" replicate the results - the true scientific method.

Peer review does not make a bad idea right.
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Re: ClimateGate busts things wide open

Postby ronan01 » August 5, 2010, 8:32 am

A Critical Review of Global Surface Temperature Data Products

Ross McKitrick, Ph.D. Professor of Economics University of Guelph Guelph Ontario Canada

July 26, 2010

http://rossmckitrick.weebly.com/uploads ... review.pdf

Summary


There are three main global temperature histories: the combined CRU-Hadley record (HADCRU), the NASA-GISS (GISTEMP) record, and the NOAA record.

All three global averages depend on the same underlying land data archive, the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN). CRU and GISS supplement it with a small amount of additional data.

Because of this reliance on GHCN, its quality deficiencies will constrain the quality of all derived products.

The number of weather stations providing data to GHCN plunged in 1990 and again in 2005. The sample size has fallen by over 75% from its peak in the early 1970s, and is now smaller than at any time since 1919. The collapse in sample size has not been spatially uniform. It has increased the relative fraction of data coming from airports to about 50 percent (up from about 30 percent in the 1970s). It has also reduced the average latitude of source data and removed relatively more high-altitude monitoring sites.

GHCN applies adjustments to try and correct for sampling discontinuities. These have tended to increase the warming trend over the 20th century. After 1990 the magnitude of the adjustments (positive and negative) gets implausibly large.

CRU has stated that about 98 percent of its input data are from GHCN. GISS also relies on GHCN with some additional US data from the USHCN network, and some additional Antarctic data sources. NOAA relies entirely on the GHCN network.

Oceanic data are based on sea surface temperature (SST) rather than marine air temperature (MAT). All three global products rely on SST series derived from the ICOADS archive, though the Hadley Centre switched to a real time network source after 1998, which may have caused a jump in that series. ICOADS observations were primarily obtained from ships that voluntarily monitored SST.

Prior to the post-war era, coverage of the southern oceans and polar regions was very thin. Coverage has improved partly due to deployment of buoys, as well as use of satellites to support extrapolation. Ship-based readings changed
over the 20th century from bucket-and-thermometer to engine-intake methods, leading to a warm bias as the new readings displaced the old. Until recently it was assumed that bucket methods disappeared after 1941, but this is now believed not to be the case, which may necessitate a major revision to the 20th century ocean record. Adjustments for equipment changes, trends in ship height, etc., have been large and are subject to continuing uncertainties. Relatively few studies have compared SST and MAT in places where both are available. There is evidence that SST trends overstate nearby MAT trends.

Processing methods to create global averages differ slightly among different groups, but they do not seem to make major differences, given the choice of input data. After 1980 the SST products have not trended upwards as much as land air temperature averages.

The quality of data over land, namely the raw temperature data in GHCN, depends on the validity of adjustments for known problems due to urbanization and land-use change. The adequacy of these adjustments has been tested in three different ways, with two of the three finding evidence that they do not suffice to remove warming biases.

The overall conclusion of this report is that there are serious quality problems in the surface temperature data sets that call into question whether the global temperature history, especially over land, can be
considered both continuous and precise. Users should be aware of these limitations, especially in policy sensitive applications.
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Re: ClimateGate busts things wide open

Postby jackspratt » August 5, 2010, 8:41 am

ronan01 wrote:Scienticfic Amercan is not an obcsure "denialist" organisation yet they say that the state of climate data and they way it is "hidden" is plain wrong and unscientific. The "temperature data" needs to be subjected to external scrutiny - to be audited - a much more rigorous method than peer review.


Well you have got me here ronan. :D

I have googled every combination of "scientific american", "climate data", "hidden", "wrong" and "unscientific", and come up blank. :-k

I then searched for the same words within the SA website, with a similar outcome. :-k :-k

Perhaps you could point to the link where I can find these words (in some kind of context) within SA.

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Re: ClimateGate busts things wide open

Postby ronan01 » August 5, 2010, 9:22 am

jackspratt wrote:
ronan01 wrote:Scienticfic Amercan is not an obcsure "denialist" organisation yet they say that the state of climate data and they way it is "hidden" is plain wrong and unscientific. The "temperature data" needs to be subjected to external scrutiny - to be audited - a much more rigorous method than peer review.


Well you have got me here ronan. :D

I have googled every combination of "scientific american", "climate data", "hidden", "wrong" and "unscientific", and come up blank. :-k

I then searched for the same words within the SA website, with a similar outcome. :-k :-k

Perhaps you could point to the link where I can find these words (in some kind of context) within SA.

Thanks



Meant to write "NEW SCIENTIST" ...... as per following:

ronan01 wrote:Without candour, we can't trust climate science 14 July 2010

IS CLIMATEGATE finally over? It ought to be, with the publication of the third UK report into the emails leaked from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU). Incredibly, none looked at the quality of the science itself.

The MPs' inquiry - rushed out before the UK general election on 6 May - ducked the science because the university said it was setting up an "independent scientific assessment panel" chaired by geologist Ron Oxburgh.

After publishing his five-page epistle, Oxburgh declared "the science was not the subject of our study". Finally, last week came former civil servant Muir Russell's 150-page report. Like the others, he lambasted the CRU for its secrecy but upheld its integrity - despite declaring his study "was not about... the content or quality of [CRU's] scientific work" (see "Scientists respond to Muir Russell report").

Though the case for action to cut greenhouse gases remains strong, this omission matters. How can we know whether CRU researchers were properly exercising their judgment? Without dipping his toes into the science, how could Russell tell whether they were misusing their power as peer reviewers to reject papers critical of their own research, or keep sceptical research out of reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?

Russell's report was much tougher on data secrecy, finding a "consistent pattern of failing to display the proper degree of openness". Key data on matters of public importance - like CRU's assembly of 160 years of global thermometer data - cannot be regarded as private property. Even so, he ought to have joined Oxburgh in calling for greater documentation of the "judgmental decisions" that turned raw data into the graphs of global average temperatures. Data manipulation is the stuff of science, but that manipulation has to be as open and transparent as the data itself.

Global thermometer data going back 160 years cannot be regarded as private property.

Russell's team left other stones unturned. They decided against detailed analysis of all the emails in the public domain. They examined just three instances of possible abuse of peer review, and just two cases when CRU researchers may have abused their roles as authors of IPCC reports. There were others. They have not studied hundreds of thousands more unpublished emails from the CRU. Surely openness would require their release.

All this, plus the failure to investigate whether emails were deleted to prevent their release under freedom of information laws, makes it harder to accept Russell's conclusion that the "rigour and honesty" of the scientists concerned "are not in doubt".

Some will argue it is time to leave climategate behind. But it is difficult to justify the conclusion of Edward Acton, University of East Anglia vice-chancellor, that the CRU has been "completely exonerated". Openness in sharing data, even with your critics, is a legal requirement.
But what happened to intellectual candour - especially in conceding the shortcomings of these inquiries and discussing the way that science is done. Without candour, public trust in climate science cannot be restored, nor should it be.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 ... ience.html
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Re: ClimateGate busts things wide open

Postby ronan01 » August 5, 2010, 11:12 am

800 Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism of "Man-Made" Global Warming (AGW) Alarm

http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/1 ... rting.html

"I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told by AGW voices that there are NO qualified skeptics or peer reviewed/published work by them. Including right here by RC regulars. In truth there is serious work and questions raised by significant work by very qualified skeptics which has been peer reviewed and published. It should be at least a bit disturbing for this type of denial to have been perpetrated with such a chorus. It’s one thing to engage and refute. But it’s not right to misrepresent as not even existing the counter viewpoints. I fully recognize the adversarial environment between the two opposing camps which RC and CA/WUWT represent, but the the perpetual declaration that there is no legitimate rejection of AGW is out of line."

- John H., deleted comment at RealClimate.org
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Re: ClimateGate busts things wide open

Postby Michael C » August 8, 2010, 6:04 pm

Here is a name for you ronan01: LIAR! Just like the rest of you deniers, whether through willful ignorance or through use of a calculated lie.

ronan01 wrote:I still think you are the person who wrote words on this website to the effect "its OK to lie as long we are defending the planet".


I challange you ronan01, since this is the second time that you lied about what I have posted, show were I have written this. As the old saying goes: "Put up or shut up!"

I am quite happy just to show what a liar you really are. Still digging up trash from sources that have no idea what they are talking about I see- a professor of economics speaking on a science topic (why did you not just post a story from a theology professor?) :roll:

Yes, we are much better off letting fully unqualified people and laughable procedures such as blogging to conduct science (deep sarcasm).
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Re: ClimateGate busts things wide open

Postby Farang1 » August 9, 2010, 6:39 am

Global warming.....many say it is caused by human generated CO2. Whether or not that is true, I don't know.

But, for the governments and pro-warmers, it about money. How much are the people going to be taxed and how much will be given to science to "fix" the problem.

All these people that are concerned about the amount of CO2 being spewed into the atmosphere and showing their concern by jetting all around the world. Delegates from 120 countries go to Copenhagen and can't come to an agreement. OK, let's all go to Bonn, Germany, maybe we can come up with something there...Nope. Maybe Cancun will have better luck there. And then on to China. All this jetting about to these vacation spots is contributing how much global warming CO2 to the atmosphere?

It is interesting to note that, the negotiations are about money that will be shifted around to different countries. Who pays, who collects, who is exempt. It is a bunch of political crap.

Figueres said the objective of Cancun was a set of operational decisions that could later be turned into an international treaty. They include the transfer of billions of dollars a year and cutting-edge energy technology from industrial to developing countries and giving them the skills to adapt to changing weather patterns, she said.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100806/ap_ ... RldGFsa3M-

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Re: ClimateGate busts things wide open

Postby jackspratt » August 9, 2010, 9:54 pm

What point are you trying to make F1?

Vacations spots?

Do you think that the problem (if you believe there is one) will be be sorted out by the decision makers all sitting on their arses in their respective home countries?

If one (or more) of these conferences manages to arrive at some sort of compromise and agreement on reining in or slowing down global warming, it will be well worth the CO2 produced in the process of getting them (the decision makers) there. =D>
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Re: ClimateGate busts things wide open

Postby Farang1 » August 10, 2010, 3:53 am

jackspratt wrote:What point are you trying to make F1?


My point is...It's all just a bunch of political crap!

The "decision makers" 1st priority is to line pockets. That's why they come up with some complicated tax scheme of buying and selling "carbon credits" to give to third world countries along with "cutting-edge technology" to curb greenhouse gas emissions. But, we all know from passed experience that, 3rd world countries aren't interested. They take the money to line pockets of the powers that be and implementation of the technology will be extremely limited if at all.

The reality is, and this is just my opinion, it's not that more CO2 is being produced. It's that, because of global deforestation, there are less atmospheric filters (trees) to remove the CO2 from the air. The solution is to simple for government "decision makers" to want to accept because, there is no money in it. That is, reforestation....plant trees.

Deforestation is a contributor to global warming,[25][26] and is often cited as one of the major causes of the enhanced greenhouse effect. Tropical deforestation is responsible for approximately 20% of world greenhouse gas emissions.[27] According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change deforestation, mainly in tropical areas, could account for up to one-third of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions


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Re: ClimateGate busts things wide open

Postby nevket240 » August 10, 2010, 4:36 am

Doomed Planet
“Today’s debate about global warming is essentially a debate about freedom. The environmentalists would like to mastermind each and every possible (and impossible) aspect of our lives.”

Vaclav Klaus
Blue Planet in Green Shackles


Discovering Maurice Strong
by John Izzard

January 31, 2010

The Yellow Brick Road to Climate Change

January has certainly been a defining month in the quest for truth about climate change, and the custodians of that “truth” aren’t looking that flash at the moment. Indeed in the month of January some of the major doomsday prophecies unravelled and the prophets themselves seemed to undergo vows of silence. Kevin Rudd, Penny Wong, Tim Flannery — who are never lost for words — seemed, well… totally lost for words!

Like Dorothy, Lion, Tin Man and Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, we’ve all been dancing down the Yellow Brick Road of “settled science” in search of answers from the Emerald City, only to find that what we suspected all along — the Wizard has been telling us fibs.

But who exactly is the Wizard? And where did this seeming-madness all begin?

Undoubtedly there are many “wizards”, but the man behind the green curtain, the man who managed to get the climate industry to where it is today is a mild mannered character by the name of Maurice Strong. The whole climate change business, and it is a business, started with Mr Strong.

Maurice Strong, a self-confessed socialist, was the man who put the United Nations into the environmental business, being the shadowy-figure behind the UN secretaries general from U Thant to Kofi Annan. His reign of influence in world affairs lasted from 1962 to 2005. Strong has been variously called “the international man of mystery”, the “new guy in your future” and “a very dangerous ideologue”.

Strong made his fortune in the oil and energy business running companies such as Petro Canada, Power Corporation, CalTex Africa, Hydro Canada, the Colorado Land and Cattle Company, Ajax Petroleum, Canadian Industrial Oil and Gas— to name just a few.His private interests always seemed to be in conflict with his public persona and his work on the world stage. Strong’s extensive range of contacts within the power brokers of the world was exceptional. One admirer christened him “the Michelangelo of networking”.

Maurice Strong described himself as “a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology”.

In 1972 he organised for U Thant the first Earth Summit, The Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. This led to the formation of UN Environment Program with Maurice Strong at its head. Later, as the UNEP boss he organised the first international expert group meeting on climate change.

This led to exotic UN sponsored organizations such at Earth Council and Earth Charter, The World Resources Institute, the World Wildlife Fund and later The Commission for World Governance and the UN’s University for Peace. Strong was the driving force behind the idea of world governance by the United Nations when he dreamt up a world tax on monetary transactions of 0.5% which would have given theUN an annual income of $1.5 trillion. About equal then to the income of the USA.

The stumbling block was the Security Council, and their power of veto. He devised a plan to get rid of the Security Council but failed to get it implemented. Then came along the idea that global warming might just be the device to get his World Governance proposal up and running.

In 1989 Maurice Strong was appointed Secretary General of the Earth Summit and in 1992, addressing Earth Summit II in Rio, he told the thousands of climate change delegates:

It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class— involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburbanhousing — are not sustainable.

There goes the Sunday roast, a house to live in, the car, the occasional hamburger and generally, life on earth as we know it. But what Strong didn’t tell the delegates was that he was involved in the purchase of the Colorado Land and Cattle Company, which he bought from Adnan Khashoggi, an arms dealer who had strong connections with the Bin Laden family.

This 200,000 acre cattle property, called the Baca had two hidden secrets. One was that it sat above vast underground water systems, which Strong wanted to remove. He formed the American Water Development Corporation to exploit the water by pumping it out for commercial intent but was stopped by the locals as they feared it would destroy the delicate environment.

The second secret was that Maurice Strong had been told by a mystic that:

The Baca would become the centre for a new planetary order which would evolve from the economic collapse and environmental catastrophes that would sweep the globe in the years to come.

As a result of these revelations Strong created the Manitou Foundation, a New Age institution located at the Baca ranch — above the sacred waters that Strong had been denied permission to pump out. This hocus-pocus continued with the foundation of The Conservation Fund (with financial help of Laurance Rockefeller) to study the mystical properties of the Manitou Mountain. At the Baca ranch there is a circular temple devoted to the world’s mystical and religious movements.

The valley in which the Baca establishment is located is also traditional home for various Navajo tribes. They believe that their ancestors were led underground here by “Ant People” and according to Navajo tradition they were warned of a coming cataclysm by “sky katchinas” (sky spirits). No wonder Strong wanted to buy the Baca.

Meanwhile Maurice was also busy founding the Earth Council Institute in 1992 and recruiting world luminaries such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, Al Gore and David Rockefeller. In 2000 Earth Charter was formed as a further push by Strong to create a world governing body.

Unfortunately, in 2005, the most powerful man in the push to save of humanity — by steady promotion of the theory of human induced greenhouse gases — was caught with his hand in the till.

Investigations into the UN’s Oil-for-Food-Program found that Strong had endorsed a cheque for $988,885 made out to M. Strong — issued by a Jordanian bank. The man who gave the cheque, South Korean business man Tongsun Park was convicted in 2006 in a US Federal court of conspiring to bribe UN officials. Strong resigned and fled to Canada and thence to China where he has been living ever since.

Strong is believed to have sanctuary in China because of his cousin, Anne Louise Strong, a Marxist who lived with Mao Tse Tung for two years, and when she died in 1970, her funeral was arranged by Premier Chou En-Lai. Anne Louise Strong was a Comintern member — an organization formed in 1919 as the Third International, with one of its aims to use “by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie…”

Maurice Strong, as an 18-year-old Canadian from Manitoba, started work at the United Nations in 1947 as a junior officer in the UN Security Section, living with the UN Treasurer, Noah Monod. Following his exposure for bribery and corruption in the UN’s Oil-for-Food scandal Maurice Strong was stripped of many of his 53 international awards and honours he had collected during his lifetime working in dual role of arch conservationist and ruthless businessman.

The exposure and downfall of climate change’s most powerful wizard? Dorothy and Toto would have loved it!

http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed ... ice-strong

Its just another DoomsDay Cult with very nasty under-pinnings.

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Re: ClimateGate busts things wide open

Postby ronan01 » August 10, 2010, 6:57 am

Michael C wrote:Here is a name for you ronan01: LIAR! Just like the rest of you deniers, whether through willful ignorance or through use of a calculated lie.

ronan01 wrote:I still think you are the person who wrote words on this website to the effect "its OK to lie as long we are defending the planet".


I challange you ronan01, since this is the second time that you lied about what I have posted, show were I have written this. As the old saying goes: "Put up or shut up!"

I am quite happy just to show what a liar you really are. Still digging up trash from sources that have no idea what they are talking about I see- a professor of economics speaking on a science topic (why did you not just post a story from a theology professor?) :roll:

Yes, we are much better off letting fully unqualified people and laughable procedures such as blogging to conduct science (deep sarcasm).


Well I did say "I think" you said that - when I get some time I will look at past posts - if I am wrong I will retract.

But I am certain you were the cringing apologist you attempted to defend the IPCC claim that Himalayan claciers would be gone by 2035 - you actually told people it was a typo and they really meant it to be 2350 - WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR INFORMATION THAT IT WAS A TYPO - REFERENCE YOUR SOURCE ON THAT ONE.

And as for your denigration of a professor of economics who dares to comment on matters climate - perhaps you might explain how Pachauri - AS A RAILWAY ENGINEER - can comment on matters environmental and actually "represent" humanity on this matter.

I would also appreciate another one of yoUr diatribes on the supriority of the peer review process - a casual review of the climagate affair shows how easily this "rigorous" process was abused by the team. I do get a good laugh from how you desctribe only the 'best" ideas get through the process.
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Re: ClimateGate busts things wide open

Postby ronan01 » August 10, 2010, 7:30 am

Michael C wrote:I am quite happy just to show what a liar you really are. Still digging up trash from sources that have no idea what they are talking about I see- a professor of economics speaking on a science topic (why did you not just post a story from a theology professor?) :roll:

Yes, we are much better off letting fully unqualified people and laughable procedures such as blogging to conduct science (deep sarcasm).


And here is what an "unqualified' person found out about how "qualified and responsible climate scientists" conduct "peer review":

The scientist who runs the CRU and takes primary responsibility for the quality of the data is Phil Jones. According to the climategate emails (eastangliaemails.com), on July 8 2004 Phil Jones wrote to Michael Mann as follows.

From: Phil Jones <p.jones@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "Michael E. Mann" <mann@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL
Date: Thu Jul 8 16:30:16 2004

Mike,

Only have it in the pdf form. FYI ONLY - don't pass on. Relevant paras are the last 2 in section 4 on p13. As I said it is worded carefully due to Adrian knowing Eugenia for years. He knows the're wrong, but he succumbed to her almost pleading with him to tone it down as it might affect her proposals in the future !

I didn't say any of this, so be careful how you use it - if at all. Keep quiet also that you have the pdf. The attachment is a very good paper - I've been pushing Adrian over the last weeks to get it submitted to JGR or J. Climate. The
main results are great for CRU and also for ERA-40. The basic message is clear - you have to put enough surface and sonde obs into a model to produce Reanalyses. The jumps when the data input change stand out so clearly. NCEP does many odd things also around sea ice and over snow and ice.

The other paper by MM is just garbage - as you knew. De Freitas again. Pielke is also losing all credibility as well by replying to the mad Finn as well - frequently as I see it. I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow - even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is !

Cheers

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Re: ClimateGate busts things wide open

Postby Bandung_Dero » August 10, 2010, 9:08 am

I haven't read all 33 pages here so I don't know if this has been bought up:-

I see on a number of airline web sites where during the purchase of a ticket you are asked if you want to make a donation to the emissions thingy, where does this money go?

Also, IMO these so called CO2 taxes have to be spent in the 3rd world firstly to stop the rape of natural forests Amazon, Indonesia, etc. I'm not an expert but isn't it the photosynthisis process in vegetation that converts CO2 to Oxygen?
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Re: ClimateGate busts things wide open

Postby rick » August 11, 2010, 5:38 am

Dero, Yes, Photosynthesis uses CO2 to produce oxygen. But carbon taxes can be used anyway that reduces the production of CO2; some may be ring fenced for specific things but no rules about who or what can use them in theory.

To save Michael C the time, here is a link to the misquoted figure of 2035 instead of 2350 from the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/01/21 ... 25267.html

Also, for all of you who wonder why us Global warming believers get upset when hoary old chestnuts keep getting resurrected by the non-believers, here is a link which answers just about all the claims they have made over the last 5 years (or more). It is brief enough and not to technical so most people can understand it. Of course, you may think the New Scientist is lying too.

Just scroll down and select the 'myth' you want to know about

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... lexed.html

it is always easy to repeat a myth, but takes effort to check if it is right.
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Re: ClimateGate busts things wide open

Postby ronan01 » August 11, 2010, 8:30 am

[quote="rick"]Dero, Yes, Photosynthesis uses CO2 to produce oxygen. But carbon taxes can be used anyway that reduces the production of CO2; some may be ring fenced for specific things but no rules about who or what can use them in theory.

To save Michael C the time, here is a link to the misquoted figure of 2035 instead of 2350 from the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/01/21 ... 25267.html

Ah Yes - the "majority of scientists agree and the peer review process" guarantees logical outcomes - the original alarmist cry was the glaciers would melt by 2035 and we must do something NOW:

Mr Cogley says it is astonishing that none of the 10 authors of the 2007 IPCC report could spot the error and "misread 2350 as 2035".

"I do suggest that the glaciological community might consider advising the IPCC about ways to avoid such egregious errors as the 2035 versus 2350 confusion in the future," says Mr Cogley.


The IPCC relied on three documents to arrive at 2035 as the "outer year" for shrinkage of glaciers.

They are: a 2005 World Wide Fund for Nature report on glaciers; a 1996 Unesco document on hydrology; and a 1999 news report in New Scientist.

Incidentally, none of these documents have been reviewed by peer professionals, which is what the IPCC is mandated to be doing.

Murari Lal, a climate expert who was one of the leading authors of the 2007 IPCC report, denied it had its facts wrong about melting Himalayan glaciers.

But he admitted the report relied on non-peer reviewed - or 'unpublished' - documents when assessing the status of the glaciers.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8387737.stm

If the so called "sceptics" did not challenge the "warmist alarmism" we would still be told it is a SCIENTIFIC FACT that the glaciers will be gone gone by 2035.

Thankfully some people challenged this assertion and removed this myth from the headlines.
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