I got interested in Anthoprogennic Global Warming (AGW) by being challenged by a co-worker. Having some time on my hands between researching HEOA 2008 (a whole other story), I delved into it. At apparently the right time. Just post Emailgate. What I have found is both astonishing and embarrassing. Astonishing for the depth of the deception, and embarrassing to anyone that would like to call the people perpetuating this hypothesis scientists. Clearly they may have the title, but have no other relation to real scientists in other disciplines.
The fraud, deceptions, criminal acts, lies, and data manipulation go far beyond "hiding the decline" or deleting emails (illegal in both countries). Herewith a brief, and far from comprehensive, synopsis of the goings on behind the latest world crises.
First we had GlacierGate.This is where Rajendri Pachauri, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (for the UN), apparently used a climbers magazine (not peer reviewed) and an off hand comment by an Indian scientists to declare that the Himalayan Glaciers would disappear in 25 years. Not even close. the closest anyone can come to such an outrageous claim is that "someone" said they would disappear in 350 years. just a small mistake. But not the last.
Then we had AmazonGate where AGW was destroying 40% of the rainforests! Problem is the publication did not talk about AGW, but rather the residents just clear cutting the forest (for cattle and crops). And the sourced document was not Peer reviewed! (Per the standards imposed by the IPCC on all its sources). So it was just a plain, undocumented lie.
Then there is GreenpeaceGate! This is more far reaching, but never the less, damaging. In no less than 8 places in the IPCC AR4 report (4th Assessment report), the sources used for claims of AGW are none other than puff pieces put out by GreenPeace. Now Greenpeace is a nice organization that does save whales, but they are hardly research scientists, nor are the peer reviewed. They are an advocacy group with an agenda - an agenda against what? Everything Man does. Impartial, they are not.
Not to be outdone, the IPCC AR4 report then goes on to claim that AGW is soiling the Antartic with BootGate! - “The multiple stresses of climate change and increasing human activity on the Antarctic Peninsula represent a clear vulnerability (see Section 15.6.3), and have necessitated the implementation of stringent clothing decontamination guidelines for tourist landings on the Antarctic Peninsula (IAATO, 2005).”
They pulled a cleaning article out of a magazine to show how AGW was now desstroying the pristine wilderness of the antartic. Again, there are 2 problems. One is that it is definitely not peer reviewed, and worse, does not even talk about AGW (or any kind of climate).
But what if you want to find out about these things? Why go to Wiki, right? Not if you want the truth, for we also have WikiGate! How about that folks! Of course you have not heard about dissent (at least if you get any news from Wiki), as the The fix was in!
But where is our watchdog media in all of this? Should they not be protecting us from this scandal? Not if you are the Ny Times! The IPCC AR4 reference reads (Wilgoren and Roane, 1999) and is the source for the following claim: Unreliable electric power, as in minority neighbourhoods during the New York heatwave of 1999, can amplify concerns about health and environmental justice.
So what next? Can the Ar4 get any worse? Perhaps, considering who helped write it - Phil jones and Wei-Chyung Wang seem to have a problem with Chinese Temperatures. Chinagate! Must be all those funny characters, right?
What next? Well, then we have the shenanigans that the CRU and NASA are playing with the numbers. It seems that the number of stations they used to show the blade of the Hockey Stick went from aroun 6000 in 1990 to only about 1500 today. TemperatureStationGate!
Which lead directly to monkeying with the absence of numbers, or the Bolivia Effect! Thisis where the absence of the recording stations leads to global warming higher than the surrounding areas they are using to "extrapolate" the data from. Cute trick.
But in all of this, at least some things are normal. Your (if you are an American) tax dollars at work, with Gavin Schmidt Gate! Ah yes, an employee on the public dole maintaining a PR site for Phil Jones, Michael Mann, et, al. on government time. How do we know? because he follows his leaders well and deletes any dissenting comments from the site! So if real Climate is the only source you are getting your information from, you are getting screwed (twice if you are an American).
But back to the IPCC AR4 report. What has been happening there lately? Can we say Conflict of Interest? Yep! Seems the leader of the IPCC is profiting handsomely from this scare! And not just from his Porn Book. The man is randy!
Ok, so what is left? How about "Steal the Data before it is Quality reviewed!" or lets throw some real religion into this whole sordid affair. How about the IPCC using a paper that was not peer reviewed, but rejected, before it was finally printed in a trade magazine - A year after it was referenced! They dont call that the Jesus Paper for nothing! Seems it died, was resurrected, then used before it was resurrected to promote IPCC AR4!
And then there is the latest scandal to hit the IPCC AR4 - Hurricanegate! It just keeps getting better and better. But it is not over yet. To date, scientists and authors have discovered 9 citatations of a master thesis (it was all supposed to be Peer reviewed? Where is a master thesis coming from??), 2 of which were never published, and 31 PHD theses or dissertations, one that was never published, and 3 from (guess where?) East ANglia!! All in the IPCC AR4 report. And the review has only just started.
yes, we can see that the "Holy Bible" of the AGW movement is rife with problems! But have you heard it in the American Press? Not hardly (at least the Uk is catching up). And are you going to try to "Google" this stuff? Don't bother, because we also have Googlegate! yes, links on google have been disappearing faster than facts from the IPCC AR4 paper. As much as I hate to say it, you are better off with Bing. Someone at google does not want you to hear the truth!
There is a lot more, but this has gone on long enough. So the next time someone tells you to believe them because "The Bible (AR4) tells them so", pop a top sit back, and show them their religion is falling apart.