Another “unprecedented” decline due to Climategate

What the …………….!
http://arctic-roos.org/observations/satellite-data/sea-ice/observation_images/ssmi1_ice_ext.png
Has happened to all the ice!

Hide the decline of dog and pony shows.

Wow, no more ice, Polar Bears will be floating in the North Atlantic like ice bergs…….
It looks so bad I checked my frezzer to see if my “Scotch on the Rocks” ice was ok.
whew……..
VY 73

Murray Carpenter says:
September 14, 2010 at 1:54 pm
I was referring to the link:
http://arctic-roos.org/observations/satellite-data/sea-ice/observation_images/ssmi1_ice_ext.png

“We congratulate the performance of TCP fans who managed to mobilize 19,613 conferences so far!”
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Is that 19,613 conferences at $100,000 each??

Reference book of the future — —
Al Gore –
A rather obscure minor politician of the United States from the late twentieth century. Later attempted to rise out of obscurity during the early years of the twenty-first century by mobilizing a mass movement best described as quasi-religious with emphasis on weather. A number of scandals impacting other groups loosely related to his movement as well as his own control issues began to impact his movement. Ultimately, weather events did not conform to the movement’s revelations, resulting in a huge collapse in the membership rolls, except for a few hundred bitter, hard-core members. He later died alone of exposure and in obscurity in one of his mansions, after the solar panels failed after being covered by snow. Little else is known of him or of his briefly popular mass movement.

But Anthony, to link to WUWT from other sites, I would have to go to other (comment accepting) sites! What the point in that? There’s more than enough content right here!
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Couldn’t have happened to a bigger [snip]. I loathe this guy…

In the UK, schools cannot show “An Inconvenient Truth” without informing the pupils that it’s a political piece and contains innacuracies, after a father went to the High Court complaining of brainwashing.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-485336/Schools-warn-Gore-climate-film-bias.html
Perhaps adults have eventually seen that these inconvenient truths also apply to speeches and presentations.

Pierre Gosselin at NoTricksZone has done some Mannian Statistics on this, giving a rather nice “inverted hockey stick“. Code unavailable, of course. 🙂
/dr.bill

An illustration of the extent to which people here are subject to AGW propaganda is contained in ‘Scotland’s Climate Change Declaration’, (2008), fully backed by national government and supported by all 32 local authorities. Here’s a flavour of the general tenor of the Agreement:
“Climate Change: truths & myths
One of the most common psychological responses to a discussion of climate change is scepticism. This may be a refusal to engage with the immensity of the challenge, or may simply be a response to much of the confusion that is created through often contradictory media reports.
In March 2007. scepticism of climate change was fuelled by the Channel Four documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle.
The evidence presented in that programme was strongly refuted by the scientific community, including the Met Office and Carl Wunsch, a scientist who was interviewed for the programme. He later said that the programme was “…an out-and-out propaganda piece, in which there is not even a gesture toward balance or explanation of why many of the extended inferences drawn in the film are not widely accepted by the scientific community”.
There are a number of useful guides available online that seek to clarify and explain the scientific debate around climate change. The Royal Society has published Climate Change Controversies: A Simple Guide, which seeks to present an accurate account of the weight of scientific evidence. See also the New Scientist’s article, “Climate Change: A Guide for the Perplexed”. Grist, a not-for-profit environmental journalism portal, also features a comprehensive page on “Responses to the Most Common Skeptical Arguments on Global Warming”.
For the definitive source, download the IPCC’s publication Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report, which describes observed changes in climate, the effect of observed changes, the causes of climate change, projected climate change and its impacts, and adaptation and mitigation options. A 22-page Summary for Policymakers is also available.”
The Met Office / New Scientist / Royal Society, eh? WTF?
Further, there is a page allocated to ‘Materials and Resources’ which offers guidance to finding suitable information to enhance the ‘message’ and including a hotlink to – you’ve guessed – Gore’s TCP. “It is possible to organise screenings of Al Gore’s 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth and Franny Armstrong’s 2009 film The Age of Stupid to raise awareness about climate change.
Usually, a licence will be required to screen these films. A licence to screen The Age of Stupid can be purchased directly from the film’s website. A licence to screen An Inconvenient Truth can be purchased through Filmbank Distributors Limited.”
Aah, no thanks – ‘Pale Rider’ will do much better….
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Amongst the Scottish contingent of ‘presenters’ are (there may be more), ‘Evan Williams – UK Director,’ who’s blurb states, “He has been interested in the economics of climate change since writing a masters thesis on the practicality of introducing carbon taxes nearly 15 years ago…. Evan met Al Gore at the Edinburgh Book festival in 2006 and subsequently volunteered and was trained by Al Gore in Nashville Tennessee and has worked with his Climate Project ever since giving more than 100 presentations to business and community audiences around Scotland and the UK”, and Lindsay Cronin, who we are told, “… is a business consultant with the AEA Group, a leading climate change consultancy. With a BSc (hons) in Environmental Technology & Marketing from the University of Strathclyde Lindsay is passionate about helping address the challenges of climate change through a commercial lens. Lindsay’s skills lie in behavioral change, stakeholder & relationship management and strategy formulation. Recently Lindsay’s career has focused at the strategic level developing the AEA Group’s European business strategy and managing many of the activities to integrate the North American operation, including building a global resourcing model and proposition development.”
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How can anyone not be sceptical given the obvious links between self-promotion and advocacy? The quicker this scam is dragged into the light, the better for all.