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http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-w...9904.story

Quote:Reporting from Allentown, Pa. - A Penn State University panel on Wednesday cleared a climate professor of falsifying data, concealing information and misusing confidential information, but ordered a full investigation into whether he violated academic standards in researching global warming.

As if they are going to say it was all a fraud and Penn State should pay back tens of millions stolen research grants.

Even in India, global warming evangelism abandoned for...science!  Wow, science, there's an idea!   Somebody tell AlGore and his greentard clones.

India abandons IPCC, sets up own panel

Quote:05 February 2010 @ 11:10 am ET

The Indian government has moved to establish its own body to address and monitor science surrounding climate change, saying it "cannot rely" on the official United Nation panel.

The move is a severe blow to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) following the revelation parts of its 3000 page 2007 report on climate science was not subjected to peer review.

A primary claim of the report was the Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035, but the claim was not repeated in any peer-reviewed studies and rebuffed by scientists.

India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh announced that the Indian government  will establish a separate National Institute of Himalayan Glaciology to monitor climate change in the region.

"There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism," Ramesh said. "I am for climate science."

Stressing that the IPCC's weakness was that it didn't do original research and derives assessments from published literature, he also announced an Indian IPCC would assess climate change through the region.

"I respect the IPCC. At the same time India is a large country... we can't depend only on IPCC. We will do our own assessment," Ramesh explained.

The first climate change assessment from this body would be brought out in November this year, he said.

The "four by four assessment" would look at four sectors -- agriculture, health, water and forests -- and four regions. These would be  Himalayan ecosystems, coastal areas, western ghats and the northeast.

The move also deals a blow India's own Dr. RK Pachauri, the current chairman of the UN's IPCC.

Pachauri has come under pressure to resign for his handling of the glacier mistake. Although he faces fierce criticism in the media, he continues to have the UN's backing.

Sen. Jim DeMint Wrote:It's going to keep snowing in DC until Al Gore cries "uncle"

http://twitter.com/JimDeMint/status/8863771523


BTW, a greentard glimpse of the future, courtesy of Audi in their "Green Police" ad on the Super Bowl:

Hoax of the Century

Quote:by  Patrick J. Buchanan
03/02/2010

With publication of "On the Origin of Species" in 1859, the hunt was on for the "missing link." Fame and fortune awaited the scientist who found the link proving Darwin right: that man evolved from a monkey.

In 1912, success! In a gravel pit near Piltdown in East Sussex, there was found the cranium of a man with the jaw of an ape.

"Darwin Theory Proved True," ran the banner headline.

Evolution skeptics were pilloried, and three English scientists were knighted for validating Piltdown Man.

It wasn't until 1953, after generations of biology students had been taught about Piltdown Man, that closer inspection discovered that the cranium belonged to a medieval Englishman, the bones had been dyed to look older and the jaw belonged to an orangutan whose teeth had been filed down to look human.

The scientific discovery of the century became the hoax of the century. But Piltdown Man was not alone. There was Nebraska Man.

In 1922, Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum of Natural History, identified a tooth fossil found in Nebraska to be that of an "anthropoid ape." He used his discovery to mock William Jennings Bryan, newly elected to Congress, as "the most distinguished primate which the State of Nebraska has yet produced."

Invited to testify at the Scopes trial, however, Osborn begged off. For, by 1925, Nebraska Man's tooth had been traced to a wild pig, and Creationist Duane Gish, a biochemist, had remarked of Osborn's Nebraska Man, "I believe this is a case in which a scientist made a man out of a pig, and the pig made a monkey out of the scientist."

These stories are wonderfully told in Eugene Windchy's 2009 "The End of Darwinism." But if Piltdown Man and his American cousin Nebraska Man were the hoaxes of the 20th century, global warming is the great hoax of the 21st. In a matter of months, what have we learned:

           -- In its 2007 report claiming that the Himalayan glaciers are melting, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change relied on a 1999 news story in a popular science journal, based on one interview with a little-known Indian scientist who said this was pure "speculation," not supported by any research. The IPCC also misreported the supposed date of the glaciers' meltdown as 2035. The Indian had suggested 2350.

            -- The IPCC report that global warming is going to kill 40 percent of the Amazon rainforest and cut African crop yields 50 percent has been found to be alarmist propaganda.

            -- The IPCC 2007 report declared 55 percent of Holland to be below sea level, an exaggeration of over 100 percent.

            -- While endless keening is heard over the Arctic ice cap, we hear almost nothing of the 2009 report of the British Antarctica Survey that the sea ice cap of Antarctica has been expanding by 100,000 square kilometers a decade for 30 years. That translates into 3,800 square miles of new Antarctic ice every year.

            -- Though America endured one of the worst winters ever, while the 2009 hurricane season was among the mildest, the warmers say this proves nothing. But when our winters were mild and the 2005 hurricane season brought four major storms to the U.S. coast, Katrina among them, the warmers said this validated their theory.

            You can't have it both ways.

            -- The Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia University, which provides the scientific backup for the IPCC, apparently threw out the basic data on which it based claims of a rise in global temperatures for the century. And a hacker into its e-mail files found CRU "scientists" had squelched the publication of dissenting views.

What we learned in a year's time: Polar bears are not vanishing. Sea levels are not rising at anything like the 20-foot surge this century was to bring. Cities are not sinking. Beaches are not disappearing. Temperatures have not been rising since the late 1990s. And, in historic terms, our global warming is not at all unprecedented.

How horrible was it?

"The Vikings discovered and settled Greenland around A.D. 950. Greenland was then so warm that thousands of colonists supported themselves by pasturing cattle on what is now frozen tundra. During this great global warming, Europe built the looming castles and soaring cathedrals that even today stun tourists with their size, beauty and engineering excellence. These colossal buildings required the investment of millions of man-hours -- which could be spared from farming because of higher crop yields."

Today's global warming hysteria is the hoax of the 21st century. H.L. Mencken had it right: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

Albert Hidel Wrote:            -- The IPCC 2007 report declared 55 percent of Holland to be below sea level, an exaggeration of over 100 percent.

Doesn't the IPPC know that the Dutch diked and drained the seas? What else did they miss in elementary school?

Cuccinelli targets grants to climate scientist

Quote:By: William C. Flook
Examiner Staff Writer
May 4, 2010


Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is invoking a state anti-fraud law to demand the University of Virginia turn over years worth of documents related to climate scientist Michael Mann, targeting about $500,000 in grants that funded Mann's studies.

Cuccinelli, a Republican who is separately suing the federal government over regulation of carbon emissions, issued the school a civil subpoena late last month probing "possible violations" of the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act by the former U.Va. professor. Mann, now a professor at Penn State, is famous for creating the controversial "hockey stick" graph charting a spike in global temperatures.

That law, similar to the Federal False Claims Act, is more commonly used to combat Medicaid fraud, said Zachary Kitts, a Fairfax lawyer and expert on the state law. Cuccinelli, however, has "really sent a message that he's going to use the statute more than his predecessors," Kitts said.

The threshold to be sued under Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act is not as high as a fraud case, Kitts said. Essentially, "all you got to do is make a knowingly false statement to get paid with government money," he said.

Mann was among the scientists accused in the Climategate e-mail scandal of manipulating climate data to support the idea of man-made global warming. A Penn State panel cleared him of scientific misconduct in February.

Cuccinelli's subpoena mentions five state-funded studies involving the climatologist, who worked at the Virginia university from 1999 to 2005.

Critics of the attorney general accused him of starting a politically driven "witch hunt" against Mann. The subpoena "strikes me as very grasping," said state Sen. Chap Petersen, D-Fairfax.

"He has a constitutional duty to represent the state, represent the taxpayer," Petersen said. "A lot of this just seem to me agenda-driven."

Mann could not be reached for comment. The attorney general declined through a spokesman to comment on the probe.

The supoena was first reported by the Hook, a weekly newspaper in Charlottesville.

I still expect to see some claims made under whisle blower laws. Some humble research assistant could become wealthy beyond his dreams. He could buy his own university if it can be proven the research was faked.

Let's say, hypothetically, that Global Warming is a fraud. I guess that makes gluttonous burning of fuels pretty safe, when you consider that the only real issues that it causes are:

*Bronchitis
*Lung Disease
*Heart Disease
*Cancer (Heart, Lung, Throat, Prostate, you name it)
*Asthma
*Alergies
*Destruction of ecosystems.
*Depletion of natural resources.
*Environmental disasters.
*Sustained, willful ignorance and dismissal of facts contrary to the hegemonic paradigm.

Cogito Ergo Odi Wrote:Let's say, hypothetically, that Global Warming is a fraud. I guess that makes gluttonous burning of fuels pretty safe, when you consider that the only real issues that it causes are:

*Bronchitis
*Lung Disease
*Heart Disease
*Cancer (Heart, Lung, Throat, Prostate, you name it)
*Asthma
*Alergies
*Destruction of ecosystems.
*Depletion of natural resources.
*Environmental disasters.
*Sustained, willful ignorance and dismissal of facts contrary to the hegemonic paradigm.

Don't get me started...I am still angry at those filthy Nazis for what they did to my granpa at Katyn...and f-ck those bastards who say it was Stalin who did it...it makes no sense...Soviet Russia was good, right?

Cogito Ergo Odi Wrote:Let's say, hypothetically, that Global Warming is a fraud. I guess that makes gluttonous burning of fuels pretty safe, when you consider that the only real issues that it causes are:

*Bronchitis
*Lung Disease
*Heart Disease
*Cancer (Heart, Lung, Throat, Prostate, you name it)
*Asthma
*Alergies
*Destruction of ecosystems.
*Depletion of natural resources.
*Environmental disasters.
*Sustained, willful ignorance and dismissal of facts contrary to the hegemonic paradigm.

WTF does your Saturn burn?