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So academics at accredited universities invented global warming and turned non-believers into academic pariahs. It was all a fraud, apparently done to keep the grant money flowing. Will they have to repay the grants for the faudulent research? Will they lose their jobs? Sounds like academic business as usual.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/21/cr...ow-online/

The bastards tried to destroy the world economy chasing a phantom.? At least they didn't run an unaccredited school.

Global Warming Fraud: Somebody Needs to Go to Jail

Quote:By Alan Caruba? Tuesday, November 24, 2009

The revelations that scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) doctored the data supporting the global warming claims of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) means that EVERYTHING attributed to or based upon "global warming" is invalid.

It means the Kyoto Climate Protocols that nations agreed to on December 11, 1997 and which entered into force on February 16 2005, and all subsequent agreements based on "global warming" have no validity, scientifically or as the basis for public action by any nation, state, province, city or town.

It means that Al Gore's pusillanimous "documentary" is a fraud along with just about every other statement uttered by any scientist, academician, or politician claiming that something, anything, should be done to avoid "global warming."

There is no "global warming", if by that discredited term, you mean a dramatic increase in the Earth's temperature, the vast rising of ocean levels, the melting of the polar ice caps, and the thousands of other things attributed to a massive fraud orchestrated by the IPCC and a vast network of scientists and environmental groups that benefited from the billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars they received in grants and other payments for their "research."

Global warming, allegedly the result of rising levels of "greenhouse gas emissions", primarily carbon dioxide (C02), underwrites the sale of "carbon credits" that industries, utilities, and other entities purchased for the "right" to use energy and as further revelations about the doctoring and virtual invention of false scientific data become known, it means those sales were a complete fraud.

It was never really a secret. You could have read about in "Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know" and a dozen other books I can put my hand on this very moment. The only thing missing was the proverbial "smoking gun" and the revelations about the CRU now confirms what the "deniers" and "skeptics" kept saying.

It's worth keeping in mind that in several Northeastern States, utilities were required by law to purchase these worthless carbon credits and spend millions, not on improvements to the electric grid, not on building more capacity to serve their customers, but on what is worthless paper.

Someone needs to go to jail
The release of thousands of emails and other data, now believed to be the work of a conscious-stricken CRU insider, will as they are examined in detail reveal what has long been known to those actively opposing the "global warming" fraud. As Christopher Horner, the author of "Red Hot Lies", recently noted, the CRU and its lead scientists refused for years to release the data which they alleged proved that "global warming" was happening.

This data and the periodic reports of the IPCC are the basis for the existence of the IPCC, the Kyoto Protocol, and the "cap-and-trade" legislation awaiting a vote in the U.S. Congress. Horner observed "After running out of excuses, in September CRU's Phil Jones simply claimed that he had lost the data so, sorry, no one can check it." Horner called it "implausible beyond comprehension."

And yet the United States and the representatives of many other nations will gather in Copenhagen in December for yet another UN conference on climate change, the now preferred synonym for "global warming."? Basing any international treaty on climate change or global warming is an utterly deceitful act.

The IPCC conference is based on the original Kyoto Protocol and, since there is no global warming, and since the science supporting it has been revealed to be false and misleading, no action should be taken other to disband the IPCC entirely.

All U.S. laws and regulations based on the so-called "global warming" should be reexamined and exorcised from the Congressional Register and from all state bodies of law. Most certainly, "cap-and-trade" should be withdrawn from further consideration.

Beyond that, school books about the environment must now be reviewed to determine how much of their content is invalid as well.

The undoing of this fraud must begin and begin NOW!

Anyone who lets their leaders do one single thing based on the fraud is an ass. Stop it all right now and start the lawsuits.

Many more similar stories reported at the Climate Change Fraud website.

Can't help but appreciate the irony: the stolen emails were posted on a Russian server. Спасибо, and let freedom ring.

Quote:East Anglia University in England is one of the preeminent climate research centers in the world. Last week, somebody hacked into its computers, stole thousands of e-mails [download] going back to the 1990s and posted them on a Russian server, from where they quickly became known worldwide.

I am glad some morons start falling from trees...
In the late XVIII a volcanic eruption in Iceland caused a series of extended winters...some argue the famine it caused helped propel the French revolution...in Iceland a fat percentage of the population died. Experts estimate seas of cubic meters of acids were released into the atmosphere...as far as London the sky took a yellow tinge to reflect the atmosphere's poisonous content.
Another volcanic eruption a few decades later caused another row of world climate changes; the the ensuing bizarre changes inspired Mary Shelley while she was writing Frankenstein.
In prehistoric times, an eruption in Asia caused a mass extinction of apemen.
Today, Hawaii's active volcanoes poison the atmosphere with industrial quantities of greenhouse gases; can volcanoes really be that bad? Just see the volcanic greenhouse hell that Venus has become.
What is exactly that social-communist alchemists are missing?
But of course fancy plans to do the meek flock good translate into new jobs to dope the statistics...new studies...new chairs to appoint that nice militant to...while little hulkamaniacs foot the bill...

Checking mainstream news media in Canada and places like Inside Higher Ed, there is no mention of the biggest and costliest academic or non-academic fraud ever. I suspect they all drank the global warming Kool-Aid and hope the story will go away. Until new and verifiable research is done, there is no global warming and those who are pursuing a fantasy agenda are asses, ignorant asses. Maybe it's time to worry about the global cooling of the last 7 years and start pumping out more CO2 to fix it.

Dennis?Ruhl Wrote:At least they didn't run an unaccredited school.

This fraud proves why unaccredited schools are necessary. That is, not just "should be tolerated," but are necessary, i.e., vital, indispensible, imperative.

When the mindguards control the government and the government controls education, education simply reinforces the mindguards' agenda. Ruthless, immoral people engaging in ruthless, immoral conduct. Global warming? Kill all the Jews? What have you got?

Martin?Eisenstadt Wrote:

Dennis?Ruhl Wrote:At least they didn't run an unaccredited school.

This fraud proves why unaccredited schools are necessary. That is, not just "should be tolerated," but are necessary, i.e., vital, indispensible, imperative.

When the mindguards control the government and the government controls education, education simply reinforces the mindguards' agenda. Ruthless, immoral people engaging in ruthless, immoral conduct. Global warming? Kill all the Jews? What have you got?

Well, honestly I don't see unaccredited schools as uncompromising guardians of truth...many are religious schools busy counting the angels who dance on the head of a pin...many others are for profit businesses to do good to the owner's retirement...
Being a gregarious idiot has nothing to do with the school one attended...I mostly attended militant left or clergy schools.

ham Wrote:Well, honestly I don't see unaccredited schools as uncompromising guardians of truth...many are religious schools busy counting the angels who dance on the head of a pin...many others are for profit businesses to do good to the owner's retirement...

Consider the symptoms of "groupthink" as devised by Janis:

Quote:To make groupthink testable, Irving Janis devised eight symptoms indicative of groupthink (1977).

1. Illusions of invulnerability creating excessive optimism and encouraging risk taking.
2. Rationalizing warnings that might challenge the group's assumptions.
3. Unquestioned belief in the morality of the group, causing members to ignore the consequences of their actions.
4. Stereotyping those who are opposed to the group as weak, evil, biased, spiteful, disfigured, impotent, or stupid.
5. Direct pressure to conform placed on any member who questions the group, couched in terms of "disloyalty".
6. Self censorship of ideas that deviate from the apparent group consensus.
7. Illusions of unanimity among group members, silence is viewed as agreement.
8. Mind guards -- self-appointed members who shield the group from dissenting information.

Groupthink, resulting from the symptoms listed above, results in defective decision making. That is, consensus-driven decisions are the result of the following practices of groupthinking[5]

1. Incomplete survey of alternatives
2. Incomplete survey of objectives
3. Failure to examine risks of preferred choice
4. Failure to reevaluate previously rejected alternatives
5. Poor information search
6. Selection bias in collecting information
7. Failure to work out contingency plans.

He didn't specifically say "flat ass, unmitigated fraud" but presumably that is implicitly included within the categories.

Quote:According to Irving Janis, decision making groups are not necessarily destined to groupthink. He devised seven ways of preventing groupthink (209-15):

1. Leaders should assign each member the role of "critical evaluator. This allows each member to freely air objections and doubts.
2. Higher-ups should not express an opinion when assigning a task to a group.
3. The organization should set up several independent groups, working on the same problem.
4. All effective alternatives should be examined.
5. Each member should discuss the group's ideas with trusted people outside of the group.
6. The group should invite outside experts into meetings. Group members should be allowed to discuss with and question the outside experts.
7. At least one group member should be assigned the role of Devil's advocate. This should be a different person for each meeting.

So, for example, where do members of the higher education cartel go to find "outside experts" if all the "outside experts" are themselves part of the cartel? How can "effective alternatives" be examined when they have already been legislated out of existence? How can truly "independent groups" be established when anyone showing an iota of independence is serving time in a federal prison?

That is why I say that schools of the "alternative," "non-traditional," "unaccredited" or whatever label you care to apply variety are by definition essential to avoid this sort of mass academic fraud.

Quote:So, for example, where do members of the higher education cartel go to find "outside experts" if all the "outside experts" are themselves part of the cartel?

More discoveries have been made during the age of self-styled and self-supported scholars than in the age of tenured hacks busy wh-ring for grant money.
Academics are busy rolling high and have no intention of spoiling the groupthink atmosphere of oneness...which would always come with a price.
Because he swam against the tide in minor matters of no consequence outside the university, a professor i knew was framed and guess what?
Ten people sprung up accusing him of sexual harassment...so, what are you going to be? The hack in the background safely collecting his princely wage screaming with the crowd...or the outcast who tells the truth?