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Global Warming – It’s All a Hoax

Andrew — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:09:07 +0000

Readers of this blog should not be surprised that Global Warming is nothing more than a hoax. The lack of any real scienceinvolved in Global Warming was obvious by its absence. The aggressive silencing of dissenting views was equally persuasive. But the final nail in the coffin was the clear flow of money to certain Global Warming advocates: Al Gore, Goldman Sachs, et. al. Global Warming was, is, and always will be, a hoax.

For a chronological list of articles just this year alone on the Global Warming fraud can be found here.

For those that were duped by the media uproar of Global Warming over the last 15+ years, do not beat yourself up too badly. The take away from all this is something of great value: Always, always, always, always consider the source of what you read, hear or see. Everyone has motive, everything is opinion.

Let me reveal my motivation. I do not want to pay higher taxes, or see jobs flow out of this country to India or China just because Al Gore says so. I do not wish to watch my beloved country sink into an under-developing morass, trading our ingenuity and pioneering spirit for the approval of other nations.

And what about the motivations of the mainstream media? Strangely, they are eerily silent after Professor Phil Jones’ admission that there is no truth to Global Warming, especially given how strident they have been on this issue year after year. But is that really so strange? I don’t think so. Not when you consider that media stations like NBC and its sister stations are owned by GE. GE stands to make billions off of you and your fear of Global Warming. Michael Walsh has a great article on this media silence. Remember, this is the same mainstream media that blamed the blizzard that buried the east coast last week on Global Warming. In fact, they also blamed a lack of snow for the Olympics in Vancouver on Global Warming too. As the Heritage Foundation article put it, “Global Warming – Is There Anything It Can’t Do?”

If confronted by a Global Warming follower, you might hear that somehow the onus is on you to prove that Global Warming is false. They’re sort of right, but not really. Science works by putting forth a theory and then working hard to find evidence that disproves your own theory. So the onus is actually on them, the Global Warming advocates, to seek evidence to the contrary; this is the point of the white swans thought exercise (i.e., if all swans are believed to be white, finding one black swan disproves the theory). And then remind the Global Warming adherents that every time someone has compiled hard evidence that disproves Global Warming, they have been aggressively silenced or ignored by the mainstream media. And also remind them of Al Gore’s statements on this issue: “The debate is over.” That is not how science works.

Finally, do your own research. With today’s access to information, this is relatively simple with just a few minutes of time. Read both sides of any issue and always follow the money.

Additional Sources: BBC Video Interview

UPDATE: Phil Jones retreats further from Global Warming

Astronomy vs. Climatology – A Contrast in Disciplines

Andrew — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:04:52 +0000

Recently, ClimateGate revealed that many who work in the Climatology discipline have been blinded by greed, or blind faith akin to religion, or both, forsaking the pure pursuit of truth normally associated with scientists. I cannot help but be shocked by the disparity in the behavior of scientists in the Climatology discipline versus those in other disciplines like Physics, Astronomy, and Astrophysics.

Granted, there isn’t the money involved in these other disciplines as compared to Climatology, but really, this is shameful. Scientists should hold themselves to the highest standard, like Petr Horava.

In a recent article in the December 2009 issue of Scientific American about gravity, time and space, a new theory on gravity was discussed. The scientist proposing the new theory, Petr Horava, is a scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. The article works through his theory and describes other scientists who agree with it, and others who don’t. In fact, the article describes how one scientist, Diego Blas of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, has re-worked Horava’s theory. Horava’s response? He completely welcomes the changes:

“When I proposed this, I didn’t claim I had the final theory. I want other people to examine it and improve it.” –Petr Horava

Perhaps one day, real scientists who have the same attitude as Petr Horava will outnumber the pseudo-scientists currently dominating the Climatology discipline.

The Hoax that is ClimateGate

Andrew — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:54:35 +0000

The Hoax that is ClimateGate

As I have said before, just because Al Gore says the “debate is over,” doesn’t mean it’s so. In fact, scientists, real scientists, would hold that according to the Scientific Method, it is never over. That’s the whole point. I’ve discussed this before, but it is worth repeating. Science works by iterating and refining its take on reality, forever getting closer but never reaching the finish line. That’s because there’s always more to learn, new evidence to process, new ideas to debate.

Did Albert Einstein simply accept Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of gravity as the last word? Did Newton himself even pretend to say that the “debate was over” on how gravity works? It’s a good thing neither of them did. And it is what makes both of them intellectual giants. And it’s what makes Al Gore, well, insignificant, at best, in comparison.

Let’s set Al Gore and the money he makes from the global warming hoax aside. Instead, let’s focus on what happened recently with the security breach at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU). What was revealed is what many have known for some time: global warming is not science, but religion. ClimateGate, as it is now known, has revealed the lengths some people will go to perpetrate a hoax. Andrew Bolt, an Australian journalist, provided an excellent overview of ClimateGate as it broke. He continues to examine ClimateGate today by highlighting a paper that concludes that the global warming hoax is just another scare –like the 26 before it.

In manipulating the data, scientists forfeited their integrity. In squashing opposing viewpoints, those in charge shrugged off ethics. In the end, the study of the earth’s climate was displaced from the high intensity light of science and moved to the murky darkness of suspicion and rumor.

Over the years, I have heard several scientists come forward to discuss what it was like to work in these research groups. They discussed why they felt compelled to leave and why others remained. As always, it came down to a battle of one’s individual ethics versus the lure of money and power.

This week, the Copenhagen Climate Conference began in light of all the damning evidence revealed by ClimateGate. Ironically, the U.N. estimates that during this 12 day conference, 40,584 tons of carbon dioxide will be produced. That’s equivalent to all of the CO2 emissions of Morocco during the entire year of 2006! This conference is not about the climate, mind you. It is once again about money.

Similarly, the EPA announced this week, with the consent of President Obama, that CO2 is now a danger to the health and welfare of the public. That’s us. We humans. The very ones that inhale oxygen and emit carbon dioxide. The same carbon dioxide that is inhaled by plants, which in turn emit oxygen. This symbiotic relationship between plants and animals is the way life on this planet has worked for billions and billions of years. Except now, the EPA has stepped in to educate us all on the dangers of carbon dioxide. This is not about science and fact. It is only about money. This move by the EPA will allow Obama to put pressure on Congress to pass the Cap and Trade bill (more on that in a moment).

The study of the earth’s climate is now tainted forever as we have lost years of raw data, we have seen scientists forsake their duty to uphold the Scientific Method, and we have seen those that try to stand up and blow the whistle be squashed and silenced. A glitch in a satellite study showed the polar ice caps shrinking dramatically, when in truth, they have not changed over much at all. Polar bears are supposedly on their way out, when in truth, their numbers have grown five-fold over the last thirty years.

Fight for the truth. Fight against the Cap and Trade bill, which, in Obama’s own words, will force your electric bill to necessarily skyrocket. Don’t let Obama redistribute our wealth and jobs out of this country and into the rest of the world. If he succeeds, the U.S.A. will sag into being nothing more than a third-world country. Stand up for science. Stand up for the truth.