Post by Admin on Nov 7, 2019 8:39:43 GMT
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The “mainstream climatologist” view is generally embodied by the IPCC. In 2007, the IPCC shared the Nobel Prize with Al Gore. Once I started to learn about the IPCC and the people who have left it and why, I started to question their motivations. The big shift came when I read a book called The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert by Donna LaFramboise, detailing the methods and motivations of the IPCC. I highly recommend reading Laframboise’s book*; here are a few highlights:
The IPCC operates in secrecy, leaves out critical pieces of data, relies too heavily on unproven measuring schemes, and tends to make unsupported sensationalist claims that support a politically-motivated, pre-determined agenda.
Chris Landsea, a hurricane expert, resigned from the IPCC after a lead author for the IPCC and its chairman claimed that there would be more intense and more frequent storms as a result of man-made greenhouse gases. In his resignation letter, he wrote “I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound.”
There is a growing list of scientists who have resigned from the IPCC* on the grounds that “scientific conclusions are re-written by politicians and presented to the public as valid science.”
The IPCC claims to only use peer-reviewed papers from respected journals, but as Laframboise and a team of volunteers showed, thirty percent of the source material — more than 5,000 articles — for the IPCC reports is not peer-reviewed, and some of it is Greenpeace literature and press releases.
Here is a list of more than one thousand published peer-reviewed papers questioning the science behind the IPCC reports.
There is a growing list of distinguished climatologists who find no evidence for significant human-induced warming.
The IPCC deliberately manipulates the peer-review process at the top journals*.
Because the IPCC narrative is so dominant, speaking up has consequences. A few people have put their careers on the line to defend scientific principles, several have been targeted by Greenpeace and others, while many scientists have simply played the game to win positions, research grants, publication, and lucrative consulting and side contracts.
Wikipedia
Unfortunately, Wikipedia can’t be trusted on climate issues, thanks to the efforts of people who constantly maintain the alarmist message. While this sounds incredible, it’s far more common than people think. PR firms focus their efforts on Wikipedia articles because they rank high in search results. For climate change, the action is particularly fierce. This is called sock puppetry. One study confirms that political topics are carefully tended and defended.
So I did an experiment. I added a single sentence to one section of Michael Mann’s Wikipedia page. Here it is with my sentence highlighted:
I timed it. It took five minutes for the page to go back the way it was before. You can try this yourself on any of thousands of climate-related Wikipedia pages.
Realclimate.org
Set up by a PR firm and run by IPCC core elite, the site claims to bring a fair and balanced view of the debate. They don’t allow dissenting comments. This piece describes their tactics and gives several references. One of their founders, William Connolley, known as “the climate doctor,” was once banned by Wikipedia from continually revising thousands of climate-related pages, though he is now back on Wikipedia updating pages at a furious pace.
There are dozens of sites designed to promote global warming, demote skeptics, confuse the public, and get to the top of Google searches. An example is SkepticalScience.com, run by a former cartoonist who optimizes the content to dominate search engine rankings.
NASA and NOAA
As director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) from 1981 to 2013, James Hansen kept his team pumping out papers and articles to help evangelize his views, even though his predictions keep turning out to be wrong. Hansen’s former boss, Dr. John S. Theon, now joins the ranks of many ex-NASA employees who believe Hansen is wrong. Fortunately, things are starting to change. NASA recently acknowledged this important paper showing how even tiny changes in the sun’s output has dramatic effects on the earth’s temperature*.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration follows NASA’s lead in manufacturing data to suit the agenda. Did you know that NASA, NOAA, and the National Science Foundation together split about a billion dollars of a $2 billion US annual budget spend on climate-change research? Anthony Watts and others have shown the NOAA data to be strongly biased to support a global-warming scare.
Unfortunately, you can’t trust Nature or Science magazines, either. Like many of today’s peer-reviewed journals, they show strong publication bias. Dr. Marcia McNutt, chief editor of Science, is the latest in a long line of activist editors. They won’t publish any scientific findings that go against their agenda.
Al Gore
Gore built a PR business around decarbonizing the energy industry to save us from a looming apocalypse. The poster for his film depicts a factory with a (Southern hemisphere) tropical storm coming out of the smoke stack. He predicted an Arctic Ocean free of ice, more intense storms, a malaria epidemic, and many more invented plagues that haven’t and likely won’t come true.
Barack Obama
I wish I could say that Obama — whom I voted for twice — is calm, cool, and collected on climate change, but he’s far too hot under the collar. He is dedicated to reducing carbon emissions and has built his faith-based initiative into the national security agenda. On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton sees decarbonization as a vote-getter.
MoveOn.org
This effective political action group seems to have swallowed an entire bottle of Hansen/Gore pills, even though they are supposed to help Americans “move on” and do what really matters.
Greenpeace
Greenpeace takes extremely complex issues and boils them down to a single slogan that promotes their agenda. Though they are usually wrong, they use simple messages, daring acts of vandalism, and paid street canvassers to raise money. Patrick Moore, a founder, now says, “I fear an intellectual Gulag with Greenpeace as my prison guards.”
The Mainstream Press CNN, the BBC, and the mainstream networks all buy the decarbonization agenda without question. The Atlantic, New York Times, Scientific American, National Geographic, Slate, The LA Times, and Rolling Stone all turned down my request to publish this essay. Fair and balanced? They never publish opposing views or research by respected scientists. Look at TED.com’s climate page — not a single dissenting voice (they don’t want to piss off Al Gore — he’s a big draw at the conferences). It’s sad that only FOX News is on the other side of this debate, since they are also politically motivated and can’t possibly understand the science.
