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Climategate: Knowledge, Belief, and Global Warming

Written by Dan Miller, PJTV | 15 March 2010

I don’t know whether the Earth is warming, cooling, doing both, or doing neither. Nor, if it is doing one of the first three, do I know whether or to what extent it is caused by changeable human behavior or, if so, what if anything can or should be done about it.

The law of unintended consequences suggests that any cure may be worse than the disease, if both the disease and a cure for it actually exist. If the disease does not exist, the results are likely to be even worse.

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Al Gore's back: 'Gearing up for a grassroots nationwide effort to influence lawmakers' as Obama Bucks Dems, Backs Cheney on Energy

Written by Italia Federici, Climate Depot | 15 March 2010

Special to Climate Depot. Reprinted with Permission.

Al Gore is back.

Fresh from his recent flurry of climate-gate-related mea culpas and bitter explanations about the scientific fraud that underpinned his Nobel Prize winning work, Al Gore is turning his attention to Capitol Hill.

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Tea Partying Diggs Brown on global warming: ‘Dinosaurs weren’t driving cars’

Written by John Tomasic, Colorado Independent | 15 March 2010

Revealed! Fred Flintstone caused the earth to heat up, dooming the dinosaurs.

Nothing goes over at a Tea Party forum quite like jokes about Al Gore and global warming. National Guardsman Diggs Brown, who is running for Betsy Markey’s 4th District Congressional seat, drew laughs Thursday at the Northern Colorado Tea Party candidate forum in Loveland with his folksy response to a question on climate change. Brown seemed to tap into what everyone on the stage and in the audience of 400 were thinking.

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America Snickers: Jim Inhofe slams Al Gore on climate 'hoax'

Written by Meredith Shiner, Politico | 15 March 2010

James Inhofe (above) takes Gore to task.

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) attacked former Vice President Al Gore on the Senate floor Monday, calling climate change "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people" and claiming that Gore is now "running for cover."

The “hoax” line is an Inhofe standby, but he raised the level of attack on Monday.

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The Big Wind-Power Cover-Up

Written by Investor's Business Daily | 15 March 2010

Spain exposed the boondoggle of wind power in 2009, discrediting an idea touted by the Obama administration. In response, U.S. officials banded with trade lobbyists to hide the facts.

It was a cold day at the Energy Department when researchers at King Juan Carlos University in Spain released a study showing that every "green job" created by the wind industry killed off 4.27 other jobs elsewhere in the Spanish economy.

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Ad industry OKs climate porn

Written by Andrew Orlowski, The Register | 15 March 2010

The UK advertising industry has bravely decided it can continue to accept millions of pounds from the state to create alarming climate advertisements, despite inaccuracies and a storm of complaints from parents. The principled decision, from the admen's self-regulatory body the ASA, follows 939 complaints about the UK energy ministry DECC's "Drowning Dog" prime time TV and cinema ad (aka "Bedtime Story") , which cost £6m, and four related posters.

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British government's global warming ads banned for false warning of extreme weather

Written by Tony Hake, Climate Change Examiner | 15 March 2010

Scare tactic newspaper advertisements from Britain’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have been banned by a government advertising watchdog agency. Two ads in a series which used child nursery rhymes to warn about the purported dangers of manmade climate change were found to have unsubstantiated claims in them.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) reviewed the ads after receiving more than 900 complaints from British citizens – the most complaints it received on any ad last year.

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Minister's global warming nursery rhyme adverts banned for overstating the risks

Written by Sara Nelson, Mail Online | 15 March 2010

[H/T to Mark] Two government advertisements which use nursery rhymes to warn of the dangers of climate change have been banned for exaggerating the threat.

Commissioned by Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, the adverts are based on children’s poems Jack and Jill and Rub-A-Dub-Dub and assert that climate change will cause flooding and drought.

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IPCC likely to backtrack on claim that global warming will destroy rainforests

Written by TImes of India | 15 March 2010

Pachauri: Oops, I did it again…

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is the world's leading climate change group, is expected to backtrack over its claims about how rainforests would be devastated by rising temperatures, as one of its own scientists has said that the claim is "totally wrong".

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Monday Meltdown: March 15, 2010

Written by The Daily Bayonet | 15 March 2010

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Hippies Behaving Badly

Odious leftie Bill Maher took on the topic of global warming, and was shown to be completely ignorant of the facts. If Maher was twice as smart as he thinks he is, he’d still be full retard.

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Bear Necessity

Written by The Daily Bayonet | 14 March 2010

The US Government wants to save the polar bear, even though Ursus Maritimus is doing just fine, even without the stigma of being called ‘endangered’.

Melting sea ice in the Arctic will kill thousands of bears in coming years, the US says, and continued commercial trade must not be allowed to make the situation worse. Other countries, including US neighbours and keen polar bear traders, Canada, disagree.

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Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen

Written by Peter Berkowitz, Wall Street Journal | 14 March 2010

The notion of objective truth has been abandoned and the peer review process gives scholars ample opportunity to reward friends and punish enemies.

Last fall, emails revealed that scientists at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England and colleagues in the U.S. and around the globe deliberately distorted data to support dire global warming scenarios and sought to block scholars with a different view from getting published. What does this scandal say generally about the intellectual habits and norms at our universities?

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Global Warming and Cold War Thinking

Written by William R. Hawkins, American Thinker | 14 March 2010

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi

China sees climate change as another opportunity to help topple the United States from global preeminence, which remains its primary strategic goal in world politics.

On March 7, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi held a press conference at the 3^rd Session of 11^th National People's Congress meeting in Beijing. He presented a masterful example of the diplomatic art of using the language of international peace and cooperation while at the same time promising that "[w]e will continue to firmly uphold China's sovereignty, security, and development interests and conduct all-round diplomacy."

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Climategate: Knowledge, Belief, and Global Warming

Al Gore's back: 'Gearing up for a grassroots nationwide effort to influence lawmakers' as Obama Bucks Dems, Backs Cheney on Energy

Tea Partying Diggs Brown on global warming: ‘Dinosaurs weren’t driving cars’

America Snickers: Jim Inhofe slams Al Gore on climate 'hoax'

The Big Wind-Power Cover-Up

Ad industry OKs climate porn

British government's global warming ads banned for false warning of extreme weather

Minister's global warming nursery rhyme adverts banned for overstating the risks

IPCC likely to backtrack on claim that global warming will destroy rainforests

Monday Meltdown: March 15, 2010

Hippies Behaving Badly

Bear Necessity

Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen

The notion of objective truth has been abandoned and the peer review process gives scholars ample opportunity to reward friends and punish enemies.

Global Warming and Cold War Thinking