The scandal deepens – IPCC AR4 riddled with non peer reviewed WWF papers

Brian Valentine (18:29:35) :
GRACE is a PAIR of satellites.
In simple terms what is being measured is the difference in distance between the two satellites. As the lead satellite approaches a region of greater mass it accelerates away from the trailing satellite. Then the trailing satellite accelerates as it approaches the same area. Then the lead satellite decelerates as it leaves the area, etc. Given the speed and relative small distance between the satellites and the proximity of the Earth the affect of the Sun and the orbit of the Earth is more or less constant on both the satellites in the pair.
The relative change in distance between the satellites is used to calculate the relative change in the Earths gravity for the area.

Brian Valentine (18:29:35) :
The main purpose of GRACE is to survey underground aquifers, not open water, so there are no waves on the surface of the ground, no storms churning up the underground water, no shipping lanes etc.
http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/publications/press/
GRACE in the Press
Stealing Water from the Future: California’s Massive Groundwater Overdraft Newly Revealed
NASA Report Highlights Need to Retire Drainage Impaired Land in California
GRACE offers broad snapshot of groundwater
Satellite data shows groundwater levels are unsustainable in Central Valley
NASA Calculates California’s Carbon Budget, Monitors Ground Water
Satellite data shows groundwater levels are unsustainable in Central Valley
Stimulus funds drill wells as Calif. water vanishes
NASA data reveal major groundwater loss in California
Stimulus funds drill wells as state water vanishes
NASA Report Highlights Need to Retire Drainage Impaired Land
And so on….

Brian Valentine (19:31:32) :
“No – what I am referring to is the gravitational imbalance that must be perceived by the SATELLITE”
I’m not sure what you mean, but if you are talking about the change in mass and the change in time (interval) caused by the acceleration then I would think that since both satellites in the pair are both measuring their relative distances at all times and both satellites suffer the same change over a given period of time; then the affect of any mass/time change in the two systems could be calculated out of the distance measurement.
Anyway here is the link for more information:
http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/

Brian Valentine (19:31:32) :
“No – what I am referring to is the gravitational imbalance that must be perceived by the SATELLITE”
I’m not sure what you mean, but if you are talking about the increase in mass and the decrease in time (interval) caused by the acceleration then I would think that since both satellites in the pair are both measuring their relative distances at all times and both satellites suffer the same change over a given period of time; then the affect of any mass/time change in the two systems could be calculated out of the distance measurement since they have a common frame of reference (after en event).
Anyway here is the link for more information:
http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/
The partners page will take you to the people that helped build it.

The non news is, the AR/4 isn’t a fit substitute for eco-friendly toilet tissue.
The good news is, it doesn’t matter (not in the USA anyway) because any consequences of AR/4 appear to be DOA in the US Congress.
The only avenue left for greenie weenies to make it relevant is to have the US EPA regulate CO2 under the “endangerment” finding.
[What would armed revolt in the US look like anyway? I don’t think I want to find out and I don’t think the Obama admin has the stomach to find out, either]

“Tarby’s Posts”
Well, I guess we can perhaps surmise where some “Stimulus” money goes? But then to possibly help Tarby produce a work record, especially as to getting responses, I’ll assist Tarby with a response to this valued AGW meme:
Observations *still* match IPCC AR4’s model projections, like it or not.
Then I suppose Trenberth was not using the Models when he asserted that the contemporaneous Ceres data along with diverging GMT and CO2 levels constituted a “travesty”, in relation to the CO2 AGW theory?
If he wasn’t using the Models, it’s fine with me, because they otherwise seem to be consistent with everything whatsoever that happens and thus are not really predicting anything.

A global warming hoax
A global flew epidemic that is a hoax
Both promoted heavily by the US Government
A USA administration who is being propped up and edifying the UNITED NATION as a ruling body that we all should become subservient too.
Wag the tail so no one pays attention. Let the associated press be silent while historic things take place in American law.
Wag the tail with national health care that would have enslaved the nation, pit them against one another, while this administration surrendered US sovereignty.
A 9/11 scam that surrenders US freedoms and enslaves the people. War that squanders their wealth and keeps them in fear, so that they will give up freedom for bondage freely of their own volition.
The 9/11 deception that the house of cards rests upon, that the adminstration can’t allow to be investigated
A second attack on American Sovereignty as the government lets thousand cross the US boarders. Working toward the Tri-lateral union which will nullify the American constitution. Also allowing foreign votes to tip the scale toward a new govement that panders to immigrants for its own agenda and the surrender US sovereignty.
A war on terror meant to separate Americas wealth from its citizens. so they loose the power and wealth to speak out. (a war on a military tactic not even a real person)
A US debt that can never be paid down through taxes, as the taxes are always diverted to other countries, or to well fair projects. Keeping America in debt is a necessity.
Moneys being spent with with no fiscal responsibly!! This isn’t ignorance!! this is calculated.
A one world government is the goal, and they need to crash the American dollar. When that happens, all the money’s in US currency held in reserve by all the country’s of the world will also topple.
And what they couldn’t achieve through climate gate, or international law, or the Tri-lateral Union to eradicate the constitution they will achieve through control of the monetary system.
Welcome to the reality of The massive Beast. The world waits to see if it becomes the UN who is the mouth piece to the world or if there is another, who will forth tells how things will be.
Let him who has ears hear and eyes to see, see and hear.
Rev 22:16

*Second Post – the first I wasn’t logged in properly.
I found this CRU document where (at the bottom) they thank funders: WWF, British Petroleum, etc.
http://tinyurl.com/yeh43bx

[quote]commonsense (16:49:28) :
Read with attention this one, about REAL Sea Level Rise vs. IPCC predictions:[/quote]
Er, commonsense, model projections are not “REAL sea level rise.” Not the IPCC’s, not Vermeer’s. The “real” sea level rise has averaged about 1.8 mm/yr for the last 120+ years. The slope of that curve had not changed appreciably over the course of the extant record, after smoothing for decadal variations — until 1993, when the trend line began to be extended with satellite altimetry, and suddenly jumped to 3.2 mm/yr. But then, that is only 17 years of data.
http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2009/07/22/sea-level-rise-an-update-shows-a-slowdown/
Come back when you have some data, not just model prognostications.

commonsense (16:49:28) :
“Read with attention this one, about REAL Sea Level Rise vs. IPCC predictions.”
The sole source of this graph appears to be from Allison et al, but the link does not actually link to that paper. So the question is, are the Allison results based on GRACE alone as you seem to be implying? If so, you cannot make the conclusion you have posted.
SLR measurement is based on a “triangulation” between GRACE, altimetry and ARGO temperature measurements, and we know from Cazanave 2008 that rate of SLR has diminished to 1.9mm/yr since 2003. Interestingly, the largest decline is in the steric component, showing a steep fall in expansion due to warming.

The “skeptics” have been playing “whack-a-mole” with IPCC reports for years.
Right now the landscape seems fairly clear of moles popping up – can’t get them “all,” of course, because IPCC still has their model projections.
If that’s all that’s left, then I’d say IPCC is defeated.
[It may be too Pollyanna-ish of me to suggest that]

Think! (11:08:34)
Today’s world is different. there is no communism.

Strange, isn’t it, how someone forgot to tell the Communists “there is no communism”?

TICKTIN’S REVISIONIST CAMPAIGN
On November 4, 2006, in London, a conference was held to launch ‘The Campaign for a New Marxist Party’. Those attending were Hillel Ticktin and supporters of Critique journal, the Communist Party of Great Britain, i.e., Weekly Worker, the Democratic Socialist Alliance, New Interventions, and the Republican Democratic Group. All the participants of this conference defend, to one degree or another, the Trotskyist tradition.[1]
This conference of left-wing revisionists decided on a sixteen-point platform as the basis for their campaign for a new Marxist Party.[…]
‘We are calling for the building of a party because we think that the time demands a party and because there are no left-wing parties at the present time’. (P.4)
While many people will agree, including us, that the times demand a party, they will dismiss the ultra-sectarian, Ticktinite view that there are no left-wing parties now. This position that there are no left-wing parties at the present time seems to be a central component of Ticktin’s campaign because he further writes
‘We are openly declaring that there are no Marxist parties or would-be Marxist parties or groups in existence’. (P. 4)
So according to Ticktin’s campaign there are no left-wing parties in existence anywhere, further, there are no Marxist, or would-be Marxist parties or groups in existence. Since they don’t qualify this statement we have to assume they mean this internationally.
This is the position of a true academic – in the negative sense of the term – completely divorced from real, dialectical, concrete reality. Now that Ticktin, wallowing in subjectivity and with a stroke of a pen, so to speak, can declare that the left doesn’t exist in the form of parties and groups, Marxist or otherwise, he can invent a left, in his own image, and even determine, on this basis, who belongs to the category of the left and who does not. Not surprisingly, the more politically sensible part of the left boycotted Ticktin’s conference.
http://www.oneparty.co.uk/index.html?http%3A//www.oneparty.co.uk/html/tctick01.html

Since you appear to be adopting “TICKTIN’S REVISIONIST CAMPAIGN” by asserting there is no more communism, perhaps we should accord your comments the same respect and credence we would give those coming from Hillel Ticktin and his…whatever…supporters.

Canadian State of the Union
Friday, November 27, 2009
Two Communists & One Anarchist Demand Canada’s Immediate Ouster From The Commonwealth For Its Genocidal “Carbon Footprint”
Leaders of Greenpeace may indeed support the goal of a WORLD GOVERNMENT, which is also a Soviet goal. The February 1990 issue of World Marxist Review, policy journal for the Communist Parties throughout the world, featured an interview with David McTaggart, chairman of Greenpeace International. He described his efforts as “helping to erase the borders between East and West, North and South.” He emphasized that “you can’t talk about the survival of your nation or your economic system or your way of life at the expense of the survival of the planet we live on.” When asked what he thought were the main obstacles to global environmentalist efforts, he responded, “To my mind, nationalism is the biggest enemy of global thinking.”

Lest you are tempted to repeat the claim communism is no more, in recent news:

The United Nations Climate Change Conference web site dated 27 November 2009 18h50 says:
“PROPOSAL TO EXCLUDE CANADA FROM THE COMMONWEALTH”
“The World Development Movement, the Polaris Institute in Canada and Greenpeace have called for Canada to be suspended from the Commonwealth over its climate change policies, the Guardian reports.”
This “proposal to exclude Canada from the Commonwealth” pushed by Greenpeace et als is part of a lead-up to the Copenhagen climate-change conference scheduled for December 7th to 18th, 2009 — where, according to Lord Christopher Monckton (same link as above), an agreement will be signed to formally initiate a communist world government.
Who are Greenpeace, Polaris Institute and the Anarchiest World Development Movement?
1 – Here is a poster online featuring a teach-in by the Communist Party of Canada, Polaris Institute and others (Polaris is Marxist-Leninist):
Original url: http://www.nowar-paix.ca/Posters/anti-imperialismteachinposter.pdf

Then we have news reports, audio, and video of the Communists marching in mass protests at the Copenhagen COP15 summit last month.

Reds Turn Green in Copenhagen. Save the Planet, Scrap Capitalism! – Reds Turn Green in Copenhagen
CFACT exclusive, shocking video and interviews of prominent socialist and communist participation in “People’s Rally” for climate action at Copenhagen Summit
[….]
“It was truly shocking to arrive at a climate action rally in Copenhagen and literally see a sea of red flags and banners with hammers and sickles,” says CFACT President David Rothbard. “I don’t believe most environmentalists are secretly communists, but it interesting to see that many communists believe the green agenda is the best path toward socialist policies.”
Some marchers wore hats saying, “Save the Planet. Scrap Capitalism.” One marcher said, “We fight for a socialist society and a socialist program for the climate.[….]
http://www.cfact.tv/2009/12/14/reds-turn-green-in-copenhagen/

Pretty active bunch of zombies for people and political parties which you say do not exist….