Don’t worry about your heating bill from last month. Global warming (err, climate change!) scaremongers are hard at work denying your lying eyes.

World warming unhindered by cold spells: scientists

“January, according to satellite (data), was the hottest January we’ve ever seen,” said Nicholls of Monash University’s School of Geography and Environmental Science in Melbourne.

“Last November was the hottest November we’ve ever seen, November-January as a whole is the hottest November-January the world has seen,” he said of the satellite data record since 1979.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in December that 2000-2009 was the hottest decade since records began in 1850, and that 2009 would likely be the fifth warmest year on record. WMO data show that eight out of the 10 hottest years on record have all been since 2000.

But wait! Didn’t Phil Jones just admit there hasn’t been any warming in the last 15 years? Someone lost his sheet music.

Meanwhile, I need to go adjust the settings on my fireplace. There’s a chill in the air.

So Phil Jones, the guy who invented the centerpiece of AlGore’s little PowerPoint presentation, has no fracking clue what happened to the records he based the climate scare on.  He’s a (now) self-admitted disorganized piss-poor record keeper.

Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.

The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.

And to top it off, all that “settled science” now isn’t… settled, nor apparently even science.

Professor Jones departed from this consensus when he said: ‘There is much debate over whether the Medieval Warm Period was global in extent or not. The MWP is most clearly expressed in parts of North America, the North Atlantic and Europe and parts of Asia.

‘For it to be global in extent, the MWP would need to be seen clearly in more records from the tropical regions and the Southern hemisphere. There are very few palaeoclimatic records for these latter two regions.

‘Of course, if the MWP was shown to be global in extent and as warm or warmer than today, then obviously the late 20th Century warmth would not be unprecedented. On the other hand, if the MWP was global, but was less warm than today, then the current warmth would be unprecedented.’

Sceptics said this was the first time a senior scientist working with the IPCC had admitted to the possibility that the Medieval Warming Period could have been global, and therefore the world could have been hotter then than now.

via Climategate U-turn: Astonishment as scientist at centre of global warming email row admits data not well organised | Mail Online.

NOW there’s debate.  Not when the theory was proposed.  Not when the theory was being presented to the world.  Not when stick-up-the-ass Algore was embezzling billions in “carbon credits”.  No, “the science was settled” until these phony eco-fanatics were caught cheating on the numbers.

A whole new rash of “global warming” commercials have come around, most notably (to me) the one where Noah Wiley pisses and moans about the plight of the polar bear. Once again we’re shown the clip of the mama bear and her cub sitting on an ice floe for a minute, then getting up and doing what polar bears do when they want to go somewhere… swimming there. This ice floe is quite small, and the shot is taken looking out to open sea, so we’re supposed to believe this is the last piece of ice for miles around and the bear and her cub were somehow stuck there.

Noah reinforces these images by repeating the same line that’s been used for years now: the ice is all going away, the polar bears will all die. Funny thing is, I’m pretty sure we’re already past the date when they first told us the ice would all be gone, and yet… there’s still ice, and there are still polar bears. If you want to be convincing, go count the bears. Most who actually have been counting tell a different story.

A Canadian Press Newswire story earlier this year reported that, in three Arctic villages, polar bears “are so abundant there’s a public safety issue.” The local polar bear population reportedly increased from about 2,100 in 1997 to as many as 2,600 in 2004. Inuit hunters wanted to be able to kill more bears because they are “fearsome predators.”

An aerial survey of Alaskan polar bears published in Arctic (December 2003) reported a greater polar bear density than previous survey estimates dating back to 1987.

If polar bears really are getting skinnier as the 1999 study suggested, it may actually be due to an increased population subsisting on the same level of available food. After all, the harvesting of Alaskan polar bears has been limited by the Marine Mammal Protection Act and international agreements since 1972.

Polar Bear Scare on Thin Ice

Additional reading: Australian TV Exposes ‘Stranded Polar Bear’ Global Warming Hoax

I don’t get it.  If so many climate scientists have done so much research that “the debate is over”, then why do we still get treated to such emotional bullshit as this?

“This is probably just a perception, but I just have the feeling that the glaciers are melting, the snow capping the mountains is less than it was 12 years ago when I saw it last time,” Thrisk said. “That saddens me a little bit.”

Complete nonsense.  Either the glaciers are melting, or they’re not.  Reporting that an astronaut “feels” like they’re smaller from when he saw them TWELVE YEARS AGO… is not reporting.  Journalism standards fall lower and lower every day.

Time to edit that PowerPoint presentation, Al!

For the second time in little over a year, it looks as though the world may be heading for a serious food crisis, thanks to our old friend “climate change”. In many parts of the world recently the weather has not been too brilliant for farmers. After a fearsomely cold winter, June brought heavy snowfall across large parts of western Canada and the northern states of the American Midwest. In Manitoba last week, it was -4ºC. North Dakota had its first June snow for 60 years.

via Crops under stress as temperatures fall – Telegraph.

The cloudy, chilly and rainy open to June here has been the talk of the town. So far this June is running more than 12 degrees cooler than last year, and the clouds, rain and chilly lake winds have been persistent. The average temperature at O’Hare International Airport through Friday has been only 59.5 degrees: nearly 7 degrees below normal and the coldest since records there began 50 years ago.

via So far, June’s chill is one for the records – WGN Weather Center Blog.

(found on Drudge)

President ‘has four years to save Earth’

Soaring carbon emissions are already causing ice-cap melting and threaten to trigger global flooding, widespread species loss and major disruptions of weather patterns in the near future. “We cannot afford to put off change any longer,” said Hansen. “We have to get on a new path within this new administration. We have only four years left for Obama to set an example to the rest of the world. America must take the lead.”

Of course, this is the guy apparently responsible for creating statistics to support his fanaticism.  (NASA Chief James E. Hansen cooked the books on Global Warming)

Headlines that don’t evoke images of doom and gloom don’t sell papers, though.  Perhaps that “fairness doctrine” they keep yelling for on radio should apply to the print media as well?  Here’s another, equally qualified opinion:

Professor denies global warming theory

“This is George Orwell. This is the ‘Germans are the master race. The Jews are the scum of the earth.’ It’s that kind of propaganda,” Happer, the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics, said in an interview. “Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Every time you exhale, you exhale air that has 4 percent carbon dioxide. To say that that’s a pollutant just boggles my mind. What used to be science has turned into a cult.”

Happer served as director of the Office of Energy Research in the U.S. Department of Energy under President George H.W. Bush and was subsequently fired by Vice President Al Gore, reportedly for his refusal to support Gore’s views on climate change. He asked last month to be added to a list of global warming dissenters in a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee report. The list includes more than 650 experts who challenge the belief that human activity is contributing to global warming

But the dissenting opinions don’t get the headlines – the religion of global warming (oops… “climate change”) has banished such talk to the side channels.

We may never know the truth, but I’m sure that regardless the outcome (freezing cold, burning heat, drowning in deep water, dried out husks…) someone with a gift for eloquent, convincing speech will find a way to use that event to control some portion of humanity.  After all, most of us are idiot followers looking for someone else to lead.  Fortunately for the rest of you, there are enough cynics like me in the world who can tell you just how stupid you’re being.  All you have to do is listen.

Their title, not mine… personally, I think Al Gore is at least a bit evil as well as a lot wrong.

I can’t wait for the DVD.

Meet the Nobel Prize winning, self-aggrandizing, unparalleled scam artist that is Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.

Yes, the creator (and single greatest benefactor) of the carbon offset, is an energy sucking behemoth. Go figure.

Energy Guzzled by Al Gore’s Home in Past Year Could Power 232 U.S. Homes for a Month

In February 2007, An Inconvenient Truth, a film based on a climate change speech developed by Gore, won an Academy Award for best documentary feature. The next day, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research uncovered that Gore’s Nashville home guzzled 20 times more electricity than the average American household.

After the Tennessee Center for Policy Research exposed Gore’s massive home energy use, the former Vice President scurried to make his home more energy-efficient. Despite adding solar panels, installing a geothermal system, replacing existing light bulbs with more efficient models, and overhauling the home’s windows and ductwork, Gore now consumes more electricity than before the “green” overhaul.

Painting by numbers: NASA’s peculiar thermometer

Viewing the NASA 250-mile map for March below, what immediately grabs the attention is that NASA has essentially no data (gray areas) in most of Canada, most of Africa, the Greenland ice sheet, and most of Antarctica. This begs the question, how can one calculate an accurate “global temperature” while lacking any data from large contiguous regions of three continents?

With all the bullshit being slung about by the likes of big, fat, ugly Al Gore and his ilk… it’s really sad to discover such glaring discrepancies in the very science that’s supposed to be helping us figure this mess out. Who are we supposed to believe? How can anyone pretend that “the science is settled”, when they’re fucking LYING to us to blatantly?

Drill for the oil. Build the nuclear power plants. Give us our dignity back.

Clean up the environment… of course. Just quit making up new crying Indians to shame the ignorant into doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.

And stop being the ignorant.

I’m guessing John Coleman doesn’t get invited to ride on Al Gore’s private jet…

Weather Channel Founder’s Forecast

Currently, John Coleman is a TV weatherman for KUSI News in San Diego. But Coleman is most famous for being founder of the Weather Channel. He has had a long career in predicting the weather, working for the first time as a TV weatherman during his freshman year in college in 1953. With this extensive background, we might take John Coleman seriously when he states bluntly that global warming “is the greatest scam in history.”

The really sad part is that even President Bush has recently started to support the global-warming fruitcakes.

Well, all of this is predicated on carbon being a dirty word. And the carbon we’re talking about is carbon dioxide. Now, it’s the last remaining cornerstone of global warming.

The hockey-stick chart, that ridiculous scientific fraud, got shot down. The pronouncements by NASA about global temperature averages going up have been corrected, and now we know the warmest U.S. decade was the 1930s not the ’90s.

Let’s not forget, the American north is being nailed with yet more snow right now… and it’s the end of April.

The forecast calls for 22 degrees and snow tonight for International Falls, MN; while not a record, it’s below the average for the month.

(source: The Weather Channel)

Despite the ramblings of alarmists, scientists who might just know better keep telling us there’s something else going on here. For some time, solar activity has been looked at as the real cause behind climate change, and now we learn cyclical wind patterns weren’t even computed into the arctic models… so are carbon credits are this decade’s version of dot-com stocks?

Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age

In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950.

And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its “lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.

The ice is back.

Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.

I may soon be glad I am living in a southern state…

Last month, Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, shrugged off manmade climate change as “a drop in the bucket.” Showing that solar activity has entered an inactive phase, Prof. Sorokhtin advised people to “stock up on fur coats.”

He is not alone. Kenneth Tapping of our own National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a long period of severely cold weather if sunspot activity does not pick up soon.

Maybe Al Gore will roll some of his ill-gotten gains into extreme cold weather gear for the poor? Yeah, bet on that…

And then there’s this:

Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling

Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn’t itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.

Let’s hope those factors stop fast. Cold is more damaging than heat. The mean temperature of the planet is about 54 degrees. Humans — and most of the crops and animals we depend on — prefer a temperature closer to 70.

Historically, the warm periods such as the Medieval Climate Optimum were beneficial for civilization. Corresponding cooling events such as the Little Ice Age, though, were uniformly bad news.

This would be hilarious, if the end result either way wasn’t so devastating.

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor’s Business Daily — The Sun Also Sets

Back in 1991, before Al Gore first shouted that the Earth was in the balance, the Danish Meteorological Institute released a study using data that went back centuries that showed that global temperatures closely tracked solar cycles. To many, those data were convincing. Now, Canadian scientists are seeking additional funding for more and better “eyes” with which to observe our sun, which has a bigger impact on Earth’s climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks on our planet combined. And they’re worried about global cooling, not warming.

So the logical answer – that the sun has cycles, and those cycles affect earth’s climate – may be forced back onto center stage. Will Al Gore apologize and give back the billions his globally executed fraud continues to steal from well-intentioned (albeit utterly gullible) people?

I can’t help but remember the news broadcasting fears of “global cooling” in the 70’s, and I’ve read plenty about the often forgotten “little ice age” of the 1700’s. Will a year-round frozen Hudson River be enough to wake up the global warming fanatics, or will they find a way to blame FROZEN RIVERS on global warming? I can’t wait. Maybe someday we’ll get a handle on the REAL climate, but as of right now, the best scientists can do is GUESS.

And morons who want to dictate policy based on GUESSES (especially ones biased by that entire segment of our population lost to the 60’s) don’t need to be making important decisions. Generation X, your LSD induced fantasies aren’t where we’ll find the answers. I know it seemed real, but the wind and trees weren’t really whispering in your ear.

Thanks to the American Thinker for linking that article.

How many holes in Al’s little Powerpoint presentation have to be punched before the whole thing collapses around his ears? Why is the “settled science” of man-induced global warming being challenged by more and more of the leading scientists in the world?

Why is big dumb Al so interested in scaring you into buying make-believe credits from companies he helped to create (and likely profits from heavily)?

Money, of course. Big dumb Al wants yours. And he wants to “be somebody”, of course… his political failures have turned the ego maniac that is Al Gore into a monster of another kind — with the liberal media (and the Norwegians) firmly at his back. What a sad, sad in-duh-vidual.

Gore gets a cold shoulder

ONE of the world’s foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize “ridiculous” and the product of “people who don’t understand how the atmosphere works”.

Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth.

His comments came on the same day that the Nobel committee honoured Mr Gore for his work in support of the link between humans and global warming.

“We’re brainwashing our children,” said Dr Gray, 78, a long-time professor at Colorado State University. “They’re going to the Gore movie [An Inconvenient Truth] and being fed all this. It’s ridiculous.”

And the dreaded “hockey stick” diagram is as stupid as it sounds? Wow…

Red faces at NASA over climate-change blunder

In the United States, the calendar year 1998 ranked as the hottest of them all – until someone checked the math.

After a Toronto skeptic tipped NASA this month to one flaw in its climate calculations, the U.S. agency ordered a full data review.

Days later, it put out a revised list of all-time hottest years. The Dust Bowl year of 1934 now ranks as hottest ever in the U.S. – not 1998.

More significantly, the agency reduced the mean U.S. “temperature anomalies” for the years 2000 to 2006 by 0.15 degrees Celsius.

It was hotter 73 years ago than it is now… shall we go look at sunspot records for that time frame now? Or should we play it safe and see if there was an excess of cow flatulance that year?

Puzzled by a bizarre “jump” in the U.S. anomalies from 1999 to 2000, McIntyre discovered the data after 1999 wasn’t being fractionally adjusted to allow for the times of day that readings were taken or the locations of the monitoring stations.

McIntyre emailed his finding to NASA’s Goddard Institute, triggering the data review.

“They moved pretty fast on this,” McIntyre said. “There must have been some long faces.”

I expect Al Gore’s face won’t get any longer. He’ll either ignore the corrections, or excuse them somehow.