Global Warming Charlatans Feel the Heat

By Alan Caruba

The University of Virginia, after vigorously resisting a Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request for data related to the emails of Michael Mann, was the subject of a court order to make them available. While global warming is known worldwide for its claim that manmade warming would doom the Earth, the names and machinations behind the fraud are far less well known.

Mann, a climatologist, was part of a relatively small clique of charlatans who, working for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), conjured up all manner of “proof” that the Earth was on dangerous trajectory, heating up. Mann invented the “hockey stick” graph that demonstrated this bit of climate magic.

With Al Gore as the most famous face of global warming, Mann and others lent credibility to the IPCC that called for massive reductions in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions resulting from energy use of fossil fuels, primarily oil and coal.

Mann’s problem began when the “hockey stick” graph was debunked and demolished as bogus. All this occurred while Mann was on the faculty of the University of Virginia and while large amounts of research grant money were being received by the University to support Mann and others.

Since 1990, it is estimated that $100 billion of taxpayer’s funding went to support “climate research” by thousands of scientists who, it turned out, were unable to find and certainly not measure any evidence of human influence on global temperature.

The same thing was occurring across the Atlantic in England where the University of East Anglia was home to Mann’s IPCC co-conspirators. On May 25th, the Guardian reported that Nobel Laureate, Sir. Paul Nurse, complained that the British version of FOI was being used to “harass” some climate scientists by requesting data and other research materials.

Given the collusion of both the University of Virginia and of East Anglia, it should come as no surprise that both institutions held their own boards of inquiry and cleared the climate scientists on their staffs of any wrongdoing. That explains why the court had to have had dragged them into demonstrating the probity of their activities.

This is far from a spat between some universities and their scientists, and "skeptics" challenging the global warming fraud. It most certainly is a fraud when global warming claims are used to impose a huge cost to consumers when utilities and other large emitters of carbon dioxide are required by law to utilize “alternative” sources such as wind and solar power or to install multi-million dollar technologies to needlessly reduce CO2 emissions.

Plainly stated, CO2 emissions have zero effect on the weather or the climate.

David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, who have brought a law suit, American Electric Power v. Connecticut, all the way to the Supreme Court, note that “It is impossible to determine whether emissions by any particular power plant—or U.S. electricity production as a whole—have affected warming trends and, if so, how.” A decision is pending.

The global warming hoax, which at one point involved a scheme to sell “carbon credits” to industry and businesses so they could continue to emit CO2, enriched those selling the credits in both the U.S. and Europe until the global warming hoax began to implode in November 2009. The exchanges selling the credits closed their doors.

It was in November 2009 that a huge cache of emails between Mann and other IPCC scientists was imported to the Internet where it rapidly became clear that they were very worried that the Earth had entered a natural cooling cycle in 1998 and discussed how to pressure scientific journals to not publish the research of skeptics refuting the hoax.

The IPCC continues to propagate global warming lies, only now it is called “climate change.” Any pubic figure that uses the term “climate change” is lying if for no other reason than the climate of the Earth has been and is always in a state of change.

As courts in the U.S. and England continue to require the global warming charlatans and their universities to make known their alleged “scientific research” and email exchanges to further the hoax, a larger question looms. Should not such activity be deemed a deliberate fraud and should not injured parties, including the whole populations of America and England have a standing in court to see that they are punished?

Unanswered is the role that the mass media played in spreading and defending the global warming hoax. On Memorial Day, when we celebrate the sacrifice of fallen heroes to preserve liberty, the Washington Post published a bizarre editorial criticizing “climate skeptics” for using the FOIA to find out why Mann and the University of Virginia received funding while participating in a massive deception. Unmentioned were comparable Greenpeace FOIA efforts against climate skeptics.

It's worth noting that the global warming/climate change fraud is still being perpetrated in American schools from coast to coast.

Already, a number of Republican candidates for the presidency have refuted global warming or an earlier role in advocating it. For too long, politicians have not just been wrong, but often deliberately ignorant of the truth.

Justice may be slow, but it will be served and that is a lesson the entire scientific community should take note. As more revelations occur, even the mainstream media will be unable to protect the global warming/climate change perpetrators or to be their co-conspirators.

© Alan Caruba, 2011

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Comment by W. Michael King, Ph.D. on June 2, 2011 at 11:41am: You might also be interested in the piece linked below showing carbon storage

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-165&cid=rele...

For one of the media shows about two years ago that included an opportunity for me to discuss Gore's fraud (among other subjects), I facetiously boasted "New Source of Carbon Dioxide Discovered! The source results in 83 BILLION metric Tonnes of Carbon released EACH day into the atmosphere! What shall we DO? TAX it!? Exterminate it!?"

The source, you might have guessed by now is human breath, simply the human lung capacity (assuming best-case, humans at rest) exhaling, multiplied by the number of breaths each day, multiplied by the number of humans on the planet.

Comment by Teo Gilberto on June 1, 2011 at 3:41pm: Good show Alan! You discussed a number of groups and individuals - - so, see below.

They are the epitome of the purveyors of Male Bovine Scatology. The groups and individuals data or theorizing that you mention in your article are completely irrelevant to any factual scientific study or discussion. I would like to make some comments that come from Technical perspectives involved in exploration for commercial hydrocarbons. We have excellent data back in time +/- 12,000 years which is not usable for exploration. There is real good data back – say 65,000,000 years and this is just barely getting into interesting hydrocarbon times. Of prime interest we really look at the times from 100,000,000 to 400,000,000 years ago when plants and animals were flourishing. During these times we have extracted tremendous volumes of data. To me, back beyond 375,000,000 years the data is sketchy but we have some data points that were derived with extreme precision, however, gaps of a million years or a hundred million years do exist. For some facts see below.

Dr. Scotese and Dr. Gerhard did excellent scientific data accumulation. http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/PageMill_Images/image277.gif

Anthropogenic warming is a joke - - 0.28% is really nothing! http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2007/07005gerhard/images/04.htm

Now for something else of interest – The most important nutrient for plants is CO2 and Di-Hydrogen Mon-Oxide. Two very important chemicals.

http://www.ncagr.gov/cyber/kidswrld/plant/nutrient.htm

Can anyone name a human or animal food that is not a carbon compound. Yes, animal meat is also a carbon compound!

Without Green House Gasses indications are there would be a very rapid temperature drop. I would predict that our earth temperature would be -40°F in 24 hours. Yes, that is 40 degrees below Zero Centigrade or Fahrenheit! The most important GH gas is water vapor which is responsible for maintaining 95% of our global temperature keeping us from freezing to death. Ocean Biologic, Volcanic, decaying vegetation and animal activity, etc., amounts to less than 5% of the very necessary and important GH warming.

Our Sun is about 12 to14 Billion years old and it has used (burned up) about half of the (its) fuel that keeps us warm and keeps it “shining”!

CO2 is a heavy gas and tends to fall or settle to ground level rather than rising to the +/- stratosphere. Atmospheric CO2 is scrubbed from the air and is then transferred to vegetation making photosynthesis possible. rainforests require tremendous amounts of CO2 to grow or in actuality - to survive.

Sufficient carbon is not available to be absorbed by plants from the soil – it is primarily provided by CO2 absorbed from rain / irrigation water. For optimum plant growth it appears to require +/- 1200 ppm and now days our atmosphere contains about 250 and 300 ppm. Some recent papers written by the ChiComs indicates that, for tomatoes, CO2 in the range of 1200 ppm is optimum. The Handbook of Horticulture indicates that cannabis production is best with atmosphere CO2 of about 1200 ppm - Marijuana grown in Hot Houses in Europe are fed additional CO2 to maintain an atmospheric level of 1200 ppm which is fed by and through the mist spray on to the plants.

Yes, we are now in a period of Global Cooling and have been for 60 or so million years with a few warming spasms.

Comment by W. Michael King, Ph.D. on June 1, 2011 at 2:23pm: To: John Lynn,

I have a significant compilation of research reports if you're interested. I think you can contact me through my profile, and if you send your e/mail address, I'll send them to you.

Comment by Mark Edward Combs on June 1, 2011 at 12:23pm: It would have easier to believe Global Cooling.

Comment by Dick Neusse on June 1, 2011 at 8:15am: When looking down from the 37,500 feet of most cross country flights, you begin to see how insignificant in scope the population of the world is. My wife and I spent 2 weeks in China in 2007. We saw emptiness between big cities. Farmers growing food in methods used 3000 years ago. China and India have so many people that need jobs, the govt's are not interested in efficiency in the countryside. If they help farmers with technology, the excess people will move illegally into their cities. NO room there.

Comment by Mike Richmond on June 1, 2011 at 7:18am: Amen, ya'll! The matter of alleged manmade climate change must become a major issue in the next election cycle. Press the politicians on their views. http://www.zazzle.com/mprichmond/gifts?cg=196475705518780433

Comment by Kelvin Gardner on May 31, 2011 at 11:20pm: A good rule of thumb is.

Never trust the 'science' of of anyone who's solution is bigger government, are more taxes.

Comment by Gail Cohen on May 31, 2011 at 10:57pm: The outrageous quotes like " humanity is the real enemy" should be thrown out in a debate - Obama should be made to answer if that is what he believes - and if so what are the consequences of such a belief. He should be put on the spot - unfortunately in the debates the MSM make up the questions and of course they will be slanted so Obama can answer (lie ) easily - and make any opposition look like they do not know what they are talking about..

Comment by joseph C Avila on May 31, 2011 at 4:39pm: "It's all about money"! The Universities and scientist, wearing their degrees on their sleeves to impress the public of their all knowing abilities, when in fact they are either educated morons or crooks.

Crooks because they are only after our hard money to finance their "chicken little" imitations on global warming.

If these scientist were true researchers they would have found out as I have that our global climate has been cycling since the "big bang".

I can't help thinking our congress is part of the scam too. The congress can allocate our tax dollars to these shysters and in return get the Universities to provide more "false evidence" which the liberal news media is more than happy to report to further "brainwash" the public so there will be a public support for the

"cap and trade" bill which will scam billions more dollars from us for the government and the researchers.

So I say they are either morons or crooks. What's your take?

Comment by Wordwaryor on May 31, 2011 at 1:02pm: I watched a very entertaining and informative video by Real Climate scientists who refute the IPCC and Al Gore version of man made Global Warming........ The link here has several videos ...... the last one down on the page is the longest and the best documentary AGAINST man made global warming I have personally ever seen. It is about 1 hour and 15 minutes long ...... and Well Worth watching. They are all worth watching ... but the last one is the best.

Here's the link. http://www.the912project.us/forum/topics/co2-science-seeing-is

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