It seems that climate change has become a leftist secular religion, and like all secular, leftist religions, they doctor data and intimidate dissent.
INTIMIDATING DISSENT
“Climate McCarthyism has claimed another victim. Dr Caleb Rossiter – an adjunct professor at American University, Washington DC – has been fired by a progressive think tank after publicly expressing doubt about man-made global warming.” www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/06/13/Climate-McCarthyism-claims-yet-another-victim
Global Warming Skeptics compared to Holocaust deniers: www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/02/09/no_change_in_political_climate/?s_campaign=8315
DOCTORING DATA
Evidence that the oft repeated 97%-consensus figure is nonsense:
www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2012/07/17/that-scientific-global-warming-consensus-not/
online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303480304579578462813553136
wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/18/about-that-overwhelming-98-number-of-scientists-consensus/
I’m sure you’re also aware of Climate Gate and Climate Gate 2.0.
THE INCREASING DIFFICULTY OF MAINTAINING A LIE
The Forbes article (www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2014/06/25/government-data-show-u-s-in-decade-long-cooling/) quotes a very, very simple set of data The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s most accurate, up-to-date temperature data from 114 carefully located and maintained temperature stations. Maintaining the global warming myth seems to increasingly require very complex ideas in order to ignore simple data.
This is evident even in the rhetorical move from Global Warming to Climate Change.
Soon they’re going to have to revise their climate models b/c measured temperatures aren’t matching the predictions: climatism.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/97-of-climate-models-say-that-97-of-climate-scientists-are-wrong/
All specific, easily-measurable claims seem to be the bane of the Global Warming Alarmists. From 2007 — “Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’ – BBC News”
IT IS, SELF-CONSCIOUSLY A LEFTIST IDEOLOGY
See Rudolf Bahro’s book “From Red to Green,” written in reaction to one of the left’s many identity crises. (As reality fails to conform to the left’s world view, over and over, they are repeatedly forced to find other justifications for a powerful state and an all-consuming ideology.)
WHAT SCIENTISTS HAVE SAID ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING
Read these people’s credentials. And get a sense of the environment of intimidation that exists around this issue.
“I am a skeptic. . . Global warming has become a new religion.” – Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.
“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly. . . .As a scientist I remain skeptical.” – Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.”
Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history. . . When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” – UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.
“The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn’t listen to others. It doesn’t have open minds. . . I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists,” – Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet.
“The models and forecasts of the UN IPCC “are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity.” – Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” – U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.
“Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will.” ” . Geoffrey G. Duffy, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the University of Auckland, NZ.
“After reading [UN IPCC chairman] Pachauri’s asinine comment [comparing skeptics to] Flat Earthers, it’s hard to remain quiet.” – Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in the statistics of forecast evaluation, serves on the American Meteorological Society’s Probability and Statistics Committee and is an Associate Editor of Monthly Weather Review.
“For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?” – Geologist Dr. David Gee the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored 130 plus peer reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in Sweden.
“Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp. . . Climate models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact.” – Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, who reversed his belief in man-made warming to become a skeptic, is a former member of the Dutch UN IPCC committee.
“Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.” – Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh.
“Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense. . . The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.” – Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 published articles.