The Real Climategate Scandal

The global warming scandal keeps getting worse. Revelations over the last few weeks show that many important assertions in the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were based on misquotes and false claims from environmental groups, not on published academic research as originally claimed. This is on top of the recent mess regarding data, where the three most relied-on data series used by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 assessment report still not been released. Other information indicates that data have been systematically biased to produce a rise in measured temperatures when actual temperatures were falling or flat.

Take some of the false claims in the 2007 IPCC report.

– The IPCC claims that the Himalayan glaciers could melt away as soon as 2035. The forecast was based on a media interview with a single Indian glaciologist in 1999, and the Indian glaciologist who was interviewed, Syed Hasnain, says that he was misquoted, indeed he had provide no date. Professor Hasnain discovered the mistake in 2008 when he read the IPCC’s published report, but he said: “There are many mistakes in it. It is a very poorly made report. . . . My job is not to point out mistakes. And you know the might of the IPCC. What about all the other glaciologists around the world who did not speak out?”

Even more disturbingly, Rajendra Pachauri, the U.N.’s climate chief, first denied that he knew about the error before the Copenhagen global warming conference. He only admitted that he knew about it before the conference when a writer for the journal Science, Pallava Bagla, pointed to email correspondence that he had with Pachauri last fall.

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Tags: Amazon Rainforest, climate change, Climate Research Unit, climategate, global warming
Posted Feb 11th 2010 at 8:39 am in Economics, Environment | 73394427 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/jlott/2010/02/11/the-real-climategate-scandal/The+Real+Climategate+Scandal2010-02-11+16%3A39%3A11John+Lott

Disputed Science Can Lead to Disastrous Decisions in Copenhagen

As President Obama jets off to Denmark for the UN’s climate conference, I hope he will take some time as he flies over the Atlantic Ocean to revisit the science that led him to this trip.

The EPA sure didn’t.

Last week, unelected officials at the EPA abruptly put an end to honest debate by unilaterally declaring carbon dioxide a “harmful substance” and putting themselves in position to begin regulating emissions from every business and farm in America.

In making this rash decision, they have relied heavily upon findings by climate-change scientists that have been subsequently discredited by the scientists’ own e-mails, which indicate data manipulation and the exile of fellow researchers who didn’t agree with the group’s accepted, foregone conclusions.

As governor of a state that will be unfairly and dramatically impacted by the EPA’s ill-informed decision – one that will cost each Texas family $1,136 annually in higher costs and eliminate as many as 400,000 Texas jobs – this is simply unacceptable.

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Tags: Barack Obama, cap-and-trade, carbon caps, carbon emissions, climate change
Posted Dec 17th 2009 at 10:29 am in Environment, Featured Story | 48490235 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/rperry/2009/12/17/disputed-science-can-lead-to-disastrous-decisions-in-copenhagen/Disputed+Science+Can+Lead+to+Disastrous+Decisions+in+Copenhagen2009-12-17+18%3A29%3A20Gov.+Rick+Perry+%28R-TX%29

Obama Threatens the Peace of the World, How I Learned to Love the Bomb

This week, President Obama took the unprecedented step of personally chairing a meeting of the United Nations Security Council. In an address to the General Assembly the day before, The President of the United States, with American power and influence on the decline around the world, declared yet again that, “No world order that elevates one nation… over another will succeed.”

It seems lost on the American President that he was not elected to create or perfect a world order, but to elevate the interests of the United States. He was not selected by a world assembly but by Americans, who extracted from him a sworn oath to defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign or domestic. That same Constitution calls the president the Chief Executive of the Untied States. Imagine if the chief executive of Wal-Mart attended an economic forum and suggested a willingness to make his company less successful in the interest of promoting the perceived success of his competitors. It is unlikely that he would remain CEO for long… (more…)

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Tags: Atomic bomb, Hiroshima, nuclear bomb, Obama, Security Council
Posted Sep 26th 2009 at 12:58 pm in Defense, Obama, Politics | 9150203 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/jdboreing/2009/09/26/obama-threatens-the-peace-of-the-world-how-i-learned-to-love-the-bomb/Obama+Threatens+the+Peace+of+the+World%2C+How+I+Learned+to+Love+the+Bomb2009-09-26+19%3A58%3A01Jeremy+D.+Boreing