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The science is “robust”.

Credit to: Nate Beeler from the Washington Examiner

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h/t to WUWT reader “pops”

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Henry chance
December 7, 2009 3:19 pm

maarten (15:01:01) :
Here in Canada, during the buildup to and on the Eve of Carbonhagen summit, our trusty MSM channels were busy brainwashing the sheople by such gems as
It is still going to be cold in Canadia. Don’t get your hopes up.

December 7, 2009 3:23 pm

Dahlinks! You’ve got it all wrong ….
Professor Watson say all Phil was doing was designing some artwork and he wanted the picture to look pretty!
You silly boys and grils! All that fuss over nothing!
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/12/fuss-about-artwork.html

December 7, 2009 3:25 pm

the science is ro-“busted”.

Kitefreak
December 7, 2009 3:29 pm

Ed Scott (14:43:49) :
George would have been an excellent keynote speaker at COP-15.
Just want to recommend and second your comment.
Carlin is (was) brilliant!

Jeremy
December 7, 2009 3:33 pm

I expect the CEI lawsuit to block the EPA will be mostly a battle to get it inside a courtroom. I wish them luck, because a courtroom is exactly what this issue needs, and precisely what the EPA and alarmists should wish to avoid.
However, if this issue ever does go into a courtroom, it could mean a major realignment of executive power/authority. Just imagine this being a precedent for things like marijuana legalization. The list of controlled substances has never gone through any sort of congressional review to determine what should be where. Frankly these sorts of things should be decided by congress, that’s what Congress is for.

rbateman
December 7, 2009 3:37 pm

Ed Scott (14:58:46) :
Hide the decline was preceeded by Hide the Correlation:
By doctoring the GHCN data, the CRU could ensure that Solar Activity does NOT correlate with their data set, whether it originally did or did not.
Sidelinging Solar Activity as a primary climate driver would have been a key target for CRU. Hide the decline takes on the MWP and the literary record.
BIngo. They get to trumpet C02 warming as “what else can it be”.

Dr A Burns
December 7, 2009 3:37 pm

Statement from the IPCC working group No1 (the Hadley Centre), in bed with CRU:
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/WGIstatement04122009.pdf
Somehow it seemed unlikely that they were going to put out a statement such as:
“We at the Hadley Centre and the CRU are a bunch of fraudsters. We have been responsible for pulling off the scam of the century”

pwl
December 7, 2009 3:43 pm

EPA Issues STOP BREATHING and Exhaling CO2 Fatwa against all Americans!
EPA moves to cut off essential nutrient for plants!
http://pathstoknowledge.net/2009/12/07/epa-moves-to-cut-off-essential-nutrient-for-plants-and-wants-you-to-stop-breathing

SueBerry
December 7, 2009 3:43 pm

It is blatantly clear that google has supressed “climategate”. Another one apparently Murdochs wife (who controls 90% world media) is a fanatical AGW believer. This may explain the slow take off in mainstream newspapers. They may realize after this is all over that they may have made a fatal mistake because people will remember and they don’t like being taken for a ride (even Montbiot does not like it!)

Alan The Other Brit
December 7, 2009 3:44 pm

I have lurked for a couple of years and this is the first time I’ve commented here. So first I would like to say a big thanks to everyone for this entertaining and informative blog.
I have a question on the “hide the decline” issue. I have read a lot of comments about how this downward trend in the proxy data highlights a fatal flaw with tree rings as a temperature proxy. Isn’t it possible that the tree rings are correct and the instrumental temperature record is wrong? Is it possible that the proxy data is highlighting the problem with the instrumental temperature records?

royfomr
December 7, 2009 3:45 pm

I think you’re going to need a lot funnier cartoon than that Anthony to lift our spirits on this the blackest of Mondays.
It started badly with our Dear Leaders decision to sabotage the hard-won Freedoms of our heritage by letting the travesty that is in Copehagen happen.
Copenhagen will, if sense is to prevail, become a collective noun for a gathering hysterical, self-seeking, scientifically ignorant and myopic self-haters.
I tried not to watch any of the predicted outporings of the BBC today, I failed.
The morbid fascination of watching a disaster unfold finally overcame my resolution and I put the TV on.
I managed to keep my anger down as the impartial Beeb presenters faux-questioned fellow-travellers with opportunities to present the same old cliched responses when challenged by a “sceptic”. I know something of Goebbelian tactics, even though I can’t spell it, dear old aunties employs experts.
I coped with the business as usual and doom laden sepulchral voices that intoned the litany of forthcoming hellfire and damnation. As a child I was brought up Church of Scotland after all, so it all seemed relatively benign!
Even when an angry Sudanese gentleman harangued the Wicked West for trying to wriggle away from paying full financial reparations for the Climate Genocide that it has brought upon the world, I barely raised an eye-brow. The word “Darfur” only briefly went through my thoughts.
I started to lose it, sadly, when an act of child-abuse dressed up as theatre, was dished up. A childs nightmare of climate hell. These people have no moral limits. They are beneath contempt.
Then I found out what the esteemed and most generous POTUS had put on the table at Copenhagen to underline his commitment to the New Age.
RIP, the Carbon Cycle and welcome to the Cyanide Pill of the 21st Century.
Guys, you threw us out for taxing a benign beverage. At least we never taxed the air.

Stefan
December 7, 2009 4:08 pm

Jeremy
Interesting, a few months ago the BBC line was that they shouldn’t even cover the sceptic side of the story because that would suggest to the public that there were two sides to the story, whereas in “reality” the science is “settled”.
How different it is now, seeing their efforts to address the sceptic side of the story. It is rather pathetic though. I sat here with my wife and asked her to read a sceptic point and then read the warmist counter argument, and asked her to tell me if the counter argument was in any way an answer, or whether it was even self consistent in a rational way. But it was waffle to her too.
I really take interest when reading the counter arguments to sceptic points, because I do actually enjoy being surprised and having my mind changed. I get bored with my opinions and I like the novelty of having to change them. But the counter arguments are so weak they fail the simple common sense test. Perhaps they have simply dumbed down the science too much, but so be it, if I can read more sense on sceptic web sites, then so be it, and the sceptics will continue to be the better view.
I do hope all this blows over in a decade, because it does sound a bit too much like propaganda. I appreciate they want to unite the world. They can try. Doesn’t mean this is the time to do it, and it doesn’t mean the world is ready for it, no matter how many limos turn up to Copenhagen.

Kitefreak
December 7, 2009 4:21 pm

royfomr (15:45:39) :
Aye! Scots against global (Goebbels) warming.
Load a p*sh if ye ask me. Aye tryin’ tae mak ye believe p*sh – dirty b*st*rds….
Sorry mod – snip if you want, but the turbulence is gettin’ severe, capn. She’ll no tak it. The ship was never built to withstand this kind of stress captn.
Captn?
Jim?

Greg Cavanagh
December 7, 2009 4:27 pm

Local TV station 7 (Australia) has not even mentioned climategate one iota. But this morning gave a a bunch of short films lasing about 10 minutes total, all very pro AGW in honor of Copenhagen.
Good thing the news isn’t biased in any way. I can’t fathom why they have such a vested interest in someone elses theory.

December 7, 2009 4:28 pm

I think sanity has humor on its side, and funniest of all, regarding Copenhagen, is the 56 newspapers singing from the same hymnbook.
See “Ideology of news: The drowning”:
http://vulgarmorality.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/ideology-of-news-the-drowning/

Editor
December 7, 2009 4:34 pm

Alan The Other Brit (15:44:25) :
> Isn’t it possible that the tree rings are correct and the instrumental
> temperature record is wrong? Is it possible that the proxy data is
> highlighting the problem with the instrumental temperature records?
I don’t think tht’s the case. Rather, I think that trees are affected by much more than temperature. I can easily see a tree in hot, dry summers growing less than in slightly cooler, but wetter summers. A tree probably makes a better proxy hygrometer than a proxy thermometer.

Kitefreak
December 7, 2009 4:49 pm

vulgarmorality (16:28:19) :
I find the 56 newspapers singing from the same hymn sheet the most worrying thing of all. That says is all really – in terms of the mass conciousness being manipulated by, well, maybe we need to do some research in that area, all of us.

J.Hansford
December 7, 2009 6:16 pm

ROTFL!!! ……… Now that is funny.

Greg Cavanagh
December 7, 2009 6:56 pm

My own conclusion: The effects of “Global Warming” are real; it can be measured in the rapid increase in taxes and laws.
It would be a great opportunity for some social science professors to conduct some studies I think, as we are on the very verge of something profound.

David Hoyle
December 7, 2009 8:24 pm
Deadman
December 7, 2009 8:41 pm

My unauthorised amendment of Al Gore’s moving poem from his book, Our Choice is here.

December 7, 2009 11:18 pm

I like his boxer. lol..

Phil A
December 8, 2009 12:24 am
Paul R
December 8, 2009 1:02 am

There’s one thing that “Climategate” has been really good at just like in the picture, pulling the pants down on alarmists all over the intrernet thingy.