Oops! The Himalayas Aren't Really Melting After All...

The Global Warming Fraud Continues to Unravel

The scary Himalayan glacier prediction (all melted by 2035!) was not based upon any scientific study, but someone's very unscientific interpretation of a telephone interview.

As Gomer Pyle would say, Surprise!  Surprise! Surprise!

Excerpts from Times Online:

A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.

In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published eight years before the IPCC's 2007 report.


It has also emerged that the New Scientist report was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist then based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.

Hasnain has since admitted that the claim was "speculation" and was not supported by any formal research.

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Global Grab and Rape

Global climate schemes destroy wealth and displace productive economic activity, enriching international shysters who produce nothing

The biggest lie about Europeans is that they are unconcerned about wealth.  Remember the UN "Oil for Food" scheme they had going with Saddam?  It allowed the dictator to starve his people while providing cheap oil to Europe and under-the-table bribes to the continent's crooked politico-business class.

Massive Fraud in European Carbon Credit Market

Well, another decade, another scandal, this one involving massive fraud in Europe's carbon credit markets (The ridiculous practice of buying and selling of pollution)

This resulted in losses of approximately 5 billion euros for several national tax revenues. It is estimated that in some countries, up to 90% of the whole market volume was caused by fraudulent activities.

Crafty people who produce nothing of value find ways to insert themselves into the revenue stream and exact their parasitic toll.  It's called Rent Seeking.  Think DC politicians. 

The NY Post editors get to the crux of it:

The whole point of the exercise is to transfer a trillion bucks from the economies of the world's developed nations to Third World kleptocrats -- with God-only-knows how much cash sticking to the fingers of well-connected UN bureaucrats.

Global climate treaties are stick-ups perpetrated by international shysters to enrich themselves while assuaging liberal guilt.

Cap and Trade market schemes waste money in the form of transaction fees gobbled up by people trading smoke. 

Smoke and mirrors is more like it. 

Volokh

The Fudge-inci Code: Behind The Global Warming Conspiracy

1) Collect Raw Data  >>  2) "Correct" the Data >> 3) Model/Share the "Corrected" Data >> 4) Trash the Raw Data

The leaked e-mails from the Global Warming Swindlers are titillating, but the tangle of manipulated data and computer code is where the real fraud takes place

It took some mighty creative human intervention to fudge out the desired results.  (Watts Up With That - Hide the Decline Codified)

Charlie Martin, a computer scientist from Colorado has written a highly entertaining piece describing the travails of one poor programmer's unsuccessful attempt to untangle the code and reconstruct the data to suit his mendacious masters.

Poor Harry is in the first circle of programmer hell: the program runs fine; the output is wrong.

To make it worse yet, Times Online reports that...

"scientists" admit they threw away "much of the raw temperature data," making independent verification impossible. 

How convenient.

Secrecy is For Mad Scientists
As  London Imperial College and MIT researcher Michael Schrage tells us, secrecy and science do not go hand in hand, unless you're a mad scientist plotting to fleece the world.  Sounds like a James Bond movie, doesn't it? (FT - Secrecy in Science)

Here are comments from two readers:

dxbecker wrote:

I am a scientist and it astonishes me that respected journals would accept submissions, much less publish works, from scientists who refused to disclose their raw data and computer codes to other scientists who want to evaluate their work. [...]

This is one of the many real scandals in this whole affair. A lot of journal editors should be fired and peer reviewers removed from their positions as neutral arbiters of the quality of scientific work.

johnbowman said:
The real fraud is that "scientists" are passing off correlation as evidence, and manipulating the data to show correlation, when it is a basic principle of science that correlation is NOT evidence of causal link.

Manipulating the data is even more important now because observed data over the past 11 years has shown no correlation between global mean temperatures and rise in CO2, and, non-correlation IS accepted as scientific evidence of NO causal link.

This is the real scandal of that "scientists" have so easily deceived a target audience apparently easily, if not wittingly, deceived.

A Shared, Flawed Premise
The fudged data is the source of all further study, so it's a flawed premise.  When warmists argue that it's all been reviewed, yeah, it has, but "it" is the "adjusted" data.  The underlying raw data is gone.  They all start from this manipulated "adjusted" data set, and then all reach the same flawed conclusion.     

Peer review means you hand over the raw data and allow other researchers to attempt to verify or refute your conclusion.  That didn't happen, so there was no peer review per accepted scientific standards.  This is a fraud of global dimensions. 

For more explanation read:  American Thinker - Marc Sheppard

Double Dip With A Swirl

The Feral Government is a giant self-licking ice cream cone, a perpetual motion money-gobbling machine.

Here's a headline from Reuters:

FBI to Investigate Tarp, Stimulus Fraud

A chain of events has led to a downward spiral

Congress put laws in place that socialized losses but privatized profits for the financial industry, creating economic collapse.

In response, Congress and The White House borrowed trillions from China and gave it to the same irresponsible people who drove our economy over a cliff.

We now have Tarp- and bailout-related fraud, which will keep the FBI and legions of other alphabet soup agencies at full employment for a decade or more.

The economy will sputter along, necessitating more government intervention, more laws, more spending, more fraud, more investigations, pointing to more government solutions...

Feel your head spinning? It's caused by the swirl of our country being flushed down the toilet.

Reuters

You Know What's Going on? Really?

Robert Heinlein once said that every story you read in the paper is invariably true, except for that rare story in which you witnessed the event yourself.

While I was living in Los Angeles an old contracting officer explained to me how the official inflation numbers were thoroughly cooked. This fellow was no lightweight - when the government purchased a GPS satellite, he was the one who signed the check. It started me thinking and doing some research.

It doesn't end there with the CPI. Debt, terrorism, unemployment, the climate... the list goes on and on. I'll present some of the information here, and hopefully it will build some healthy scepticism in your mind about what you hear and see in the press.

The Real CPI

Debt

Unemployment

Terrorism and Suspicious Incidents

Climate

Consider that we have a surrogate foreign workforce in Asia numbering in the millions - who are looking shortly to be unemployed. In the 1930's they would have been included in the unemployment rate since most of our goods were domestically produced.

Time would fail me to discuss the methods by which these figures are massaged, twisted, or pulled out of thin air. The main point here is that most of the "statistics" that are being reported are off by a significant amount. Be sceptical.

- Hugh Farnham