AGU backs away from "climate rapid response team" citing faulty reporting

I thank these folks …

David M Brooks [November 8, 2010 at 4:33 pm]
John from CA [November 8, 2010 at 6:47 pm]

… for pointing out the AGU Position Statement. Repeated once again with selected emphasis:

“The Earth’s climate is now clearly out of balance and is warming. Many components of the climate system—including the temperatures of the atmosphere, land and ocean, the extent of sea ice and mountain glaciers, the sea level, the distribution of precipitation, and the length of seasons—are now changing at rates and in patterns that are not natural and are best explained by the increased atmospheric abundances of greenhouse gases and aerosols generated by human activity during the 20th century. Global average surface temperatures increased on average by about 0.6°C over the period 1956–2006. As of 2006, eleven of the previous twelve years were warmer than any others since 1850. The observed rapid retreat of Arctic sea ice is expected to continue and lead to the disappearance of summertime ice within this century. Evidence from most oceans and all continents except Antarctica shows warming attributable to human activities. Recent changes in many physical and biological systems are linked with this regional climate change. A sustained research effort, involving many AGU members and summarized in the 2007 assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, continues to improve our scientific understanding of the climate.”
“During recent millennia of relatively stable climate, civilization became established and populations have grown rapidly. In the next 50 years, even the lower limit of impending climate change—an additional global mean warming of 1°C above the last decade—is far beyond the range of climate variability experienced during the past thousand years and poses global problems in planning for and adapting to it. Warming greater than 2°C above 19th century levels is projected to be disruptive, reducing global agricultural productivity, causing widespread loss of biodiversity, and—if sustained over centuries—melting much of the Greenland ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea level of several meters. If this 2°C warming is to be avoided, then our net annual emissions of CO2 must be reduced by more than 50 percent within this century. With such projections, there are many sources of scientific uncertainty, but none are known that could make the impact of climate change inconsequential. Given the uncertainty in climate projections, there can be surprises that may cause more dramatic disruptions than anticipated from the most probable model projections.”
“With climate change, as with ozone depletion, the human footprint on Earth is apparent. The cause of disruptive climate change, unlike ozone depletion, is tied to energy use and runs through modern society. Solutions will necessarily involve all aspects of society. Mitigation strategies and adaptation responses will call for collaborations across science, technology, industry, and government. Members of the AGU, as part of the scientific community, collectively have special responsibilities: to pursue research needed to understand it; to educate the public on the causes, risks, and hazards; and to communicate clearly and objectively with those who can implement policies to shape future climate.”

These people are unhinged kooks. This propaganda practically demands a SARC tag as it almost appears as a spoof of the ever-growing WarmList. Let me say it clearly for the Google indexing bots: (IMHO) the American Geophysical Union, aka AGU, is a crackpot organization clearly part of the worldwide AGW death-cult cabal, or at least its leadership is. If the members are not crackpots they have an obligation to their own integrity to fix it. They can start with that almost insane statement: “During recent millennia of relatively stable climate …”.
Has this ever happened before in human history where scientists the world over simultaneously went insane? Have they ever crawled this far out on a limb apparently daring us to saw it off and watch them fall on their @ss? This current crowd of kooks has clearly far exceeded the late 1970’s pop-science Ice Age fearmongers. The closest comparison I can think of is the Heaven’s Gate comet death-cult. Certainly we are witnessing a mass scientific suicidal movement, that which will wipe out some careers and reputations (thankfully) but I am beginning to fear that Science as a rigorous discipline will itself be killed. The question is whether the cause of death will be murder or suicide.

Good grief! These incompetent people can’t even issue a presser without confusion.

““AGU is a scientific society, not an advocacy organization,” says climate scientist and AGU President Michael J. McPhaden”
Definently no politics then… riiight…

WORTH REPEATING AND ADDING TO:
Glenn says:
November 8, 2010 at 5:17 pm
“AGU is a scientific society, not an advocacy organization,” says climate scientist and AGU President Michael J. McPhaden. ”
Yea, right.
“This AGU Letter to the Editor applauds the denial of a demand by the Virginia Attorney General for private e-mails and other documents related to the research of climate scientist and former University of Virginia professor Michael Mann.”
http://www.agu.org/
ADDITIONAL NOTE FROM TOM:
The AGU president also labeled a public official as a “climate change denier” in his letter to the editor. This is not a science lable but a political one.
Perhaps they aspite to be “a scientific society, not an advocacy organization” but they are clearly an advocacy organization of the first order.