'Junk Science' and the One-World 'Green Religion'

Sloppy Science is Seeping into the Climate Watchdog

By Charles Clover, The Sunday Times
January 24, 2010

You need a steady nerve if, like me, you think it is a matter of evidence, not belief, that the world is warming as a result of human activity.

After Climategate — the emails that appeared to show scientists using tricks to “improve” the evidence for global warming — comes Glaciergate, the disclosure that the Nobel prize-winning panel on the world’s climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published an unsubstantiated assertion that Himalayan glaciers were in danger of melting away by 2035.

When you stop to think about it, the assertion made in 1999 by an Indian scientist, who now disowns the statement, is absurd. Some of the Himalayan glaciers are a third of a mile thick and those on Everest, for instance, start at more than 20,000ft. So even though glaciers the world over are melting, a date for the total disappearance of the ones in the Himalayas is more likely to be nearer 2350, if ever.

How did the 2035 figure get pasted into an IPCC report that was apparently scrutinised by experts from the countries most familiar with the annual Himalayan snow-melt?

While we ponder that question, it looks this weekend as though Glaciergate could be followed by Disastergate, Hurricanegate, Floodgate and Droughtgate. It is beginning to look as though the more alarming assertions published by the IPCC — that climate change is behind the increasing frequency of, and damage caused by, natural disasters — may not have been properly peer-reviewed. They lack the gold standard of credibility that we have been assured the panel’s 3,000-page assessment enshrines.

It is a mess. And politically it couldn’t have come at a worse time, just as the election of a Republican senator in Massachusetts brings the end of Barack Obama’s super-majority in the Senate, in a Congress in which only one party believes in doing anything about global warming. The drip, drip of error gives ammunition to even the most scientifically illiterate Republican senator who wants to talk down Obama’s climate bill. The frail global pact to reduce emissions that survived the ill-fated Copenhagen conference will not survive the defeat of cap-and-trade in America.

Are the CNN bulletins right to suggest that the improper use of “grey” literature — reports that were not peer-reviewed — has undermined the case for concern about global warming and for steep cuts in our emissions?

Absolutely not. The 2035 figure was not central to the IPCC report’s findings or even mentioned in its summary. That is why it has taken so long to be challenged, in the end by another IPCC scientist working on melting glaciers, not a sceptic. Established IPCC rules on sourcing and evaluating “grey” literature say such sources should be identified and actively reviewed. These rules were clearly breached.

To be fair, I think it is understandable that one or two details were missed in a report stretching to 1,500 pages that went through several drafts. Modern scientists are unforgivably prolix and, as any author knows, the longer the book, the more likely it will contain mistakes. Nevertheless it is the job of the IPCC author, the chapter’s author and the working group chairman to spot strong statements that are unsupported by strong evidence. That is their job. In this case they screwed up.

Though their errors are worse than any yet shown to have been committed in an email from a scientist at the University of East Anglia, I think it would still be forgivable if it turned out to be just one incident. We all make mistakes. But if it turns out to be just one example of a general sloppiness creeping through the IPCC, then it will reflect disastrously on the chairmanship of the IPCC itself, currently occupied by Rajendra Pachauri.

Pachauri already stands accused of poor judgment for defending the report’s general conclusions about Himalayan glaciers after they were called “alarmist” by India’s environment minister, Jairam Ramesh. Pachauri accused Ramesh of relying on “voodoo science.” Pachauri looks pretty silly now.

The IPCC chairman also stands accused of making policy statements — for example, encouraging the world to eat less meat — when he is meant to be an adviser to policy makers, not one himself.

Pachauri also seems to have an awful lot of jobs. He already has a full-time job as director general of the Indian Energy and Resources Institute, which seems to benefit from UK government funding. He is also an adviser to Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and the Chicago Climate Exchange — all of which stand to benefit from carbon trading. His predecessors, Bert Bolin, a Swedish scientist, and Bob Watson, now chief scientist at Defra, were part-time, but they put enormous effort into the job. How much time is Pachauri putting in? It doesn’t appear to be a lot.

If we are to have the best possible predictions about climate change, urgent decisions need to be taken. The agreeable but gaffe-prone Pachauri should accept it would be wise to walk now, so some heavy-hitters can step in and prevent a disastrous slide in the IPCC’s credibility. The sooner, the better.



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The Scriptures Must Be Fulfilled, Which Means a One-World Religion and Government Will Be Established

"We shall have world government whether or not you like it, by conquest or consent." - Statement by Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member James Warburg to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 17, 1950 (click here for more quotes)

Despite Research Dispute, the White House Believes 'Climate Change Is Happening'

By Tony Romm, The Hill
November 30, 2009

The White House on Monday made exceptionally clear that it wants nothing to do with the furor over documents that global warming skeptics say prove the phenomenon is not a threat.

Despite the incident, which rocked international headlines last week, climate science is sound, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stressed this afternoon, and the White House nonetheless believes "climate change is happening."

"I don't think that's anything that is, quite frankly, among most people, in dispute anymore," he said during Monday's press briefing.

Climate change skeptics have asserted over the past week that the publication of more than 1,000 private e-mails and documents once housed in the University of East Anglia's computer system refutes most modern global warming evidence.

The documents, unearthed by a blogger who hacked into Climate Research Unit's (CRU) private system, have since touched off an international debate over the veracity of those scientists' works.

But the dispute is proving especially troublesome for the Obama administration as it prepares to head to Copenhagen next week for a climate change summit -- a forum the president will attend.

Not only has the White House faced criticism from the left for offering too few concessions ahead of the meet, it is now fielding dissatisfaction from the right for participating in a summit sponsored in part by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- one of the research organs touched by the CRU spat.

"I think there's no real scientific basis for the dispute of this," responded Gibbs to questions about those scientists' credibility.

Nevertheless, congressional Republicans this week hope to ramp up their criticism of both global warming policy and the science that informs it.

Most vocal seems to be Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee. Inhofe demanded on Friday a hearing into the IPCC's research to determine whether it "cooked the science to make this thing look as if the science was settled, when all the time of course we knew it was not."

"[T]his thing is serious, you think about the literally millions of dollars that have been thrown away on some of this stuff that they came out with," he told reporters, noting it was "interesting" the e-mails surfaced before the Copenhagen summit.

The Meaning of Climategate

By William Anderson, LewRockwell.com
December 12, 2009

Almost anyone who can read has heard about the "Climategate" scandal in which emails between the scientists that have been at the forefront of promoting the apocalyptic views of "climate change" were hacked and then made public. The snippets I have read confirm my worst fears, as we are seeing exactly what happens when the political process completely hijacks science.

As an Austrian economist, I don't worship at the feet of the "scientific community," in large part because the "scientific community" is able to engage in trickery but defend its actions in the name of "preserving science." However, because of my own experience in publishing papers in refereed journals and knowing the experiences of others, I can see what has been happening over the past decade in "climate science," and I can tell you that while it is not rigged, it is close to being so.

Modern science is all about receiving grants, and the biggest checkbooks are those wielded by governments, and governments expect certain results. For example, the government two decades ago funded research into the alleged "acid rain" problems, and the researchers reached very different conclusions than what the U.S. Government, and especially Congress and the George H.W. Bush administration (and his William Reilly-led EPA), had wanted to see.

Acid rain, apparently, was not going to destroy U.S. forests, lakes, and rivers; and the government was ticked, really ticked. The EPA attempted to destroy the career of one scientist, Edward Krug, who had a paper in the prestigious Science in 1983 that demonstrated that lakes with high acidity were located in watersheds where the soil happened to be acidic. Furthermore, as Krug and other researchers noted, acid lakes existed in many places around the globe hundreds of years before "industrial society" became the norm.
This researched "watershed-based" conclusion (which now is the accepted theory of lake and stream acidification, not "acid rain") was unacceptable to the EPA, and the agency engaged in a shameful campaign against Krug, something I documented in a January, 1992, cover story article in Reason. During my research for the article, one person told me that there would be no such government study for "global warming," indicating that the government would ramrod through the policies it wanted whether or not they actually were necessary.

However politicized "acid rain" might be, it did not fire up the environmentalist and leftist communities like "global warming" (later changed to "climate change").
 
This was not the first time that the environmentalists had tried to claim that capitalism was creating hazards with the weather. In 1975, Newsweek had a cover story in which it claimed that industrial society was pushing the globe into a new Ice Age. However, in a move that mirrored George Orwell's 1984 (in which the people of Oceania are told that they are not at war with Eurasia, but rather East Asia, and that Goldstein had tricked them), in little more than a decade, the movement had turned not from cooling but to warming.
 
All the movement needed was a figurehead, and to the forefront came two men, James Hansen, a NASA scientist, and Al Gore, who had been a U.S. Senator, Vice-President to Bill Clinton, and the loser of a highly-controversial U.S. Presidential election. Gore already had published his apocalyptic tome, Earth in the Balance, before becoming Veep, in which he claimed that industrial society was killing the planet and only a global "Marshall Plan" complete with near-dictatorship by the authorities could "save" us.

Gore had latched onto the "global warming" mantra in the late 1980s and championed Hansen, who told a congressional committee in 1988 that a drought that year was being caused by "unprecedented global warming." (The summer of 1989 was cool and wet, but the True Believers also laid that situation at the feet of "climate change.") However, the people-are-causing "global warming" advocates needed something to jump-start their campaign, and three researchers, including Michael E. Mann of Penn State, came to the rescue with the infamous "hockey stick" study.

Anyone who was familiar with the history of climate is familiar with the Medieval Warm Period of 1,000 years ago, as well as the "Little Ice Age," a period of cooling that lasted from the mid-1500s to the late 1800s. These periods of warming and cooling occurred long before what we know as a modern economy with its supposed "spewing" of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which means that both of these climate patterns could not have been caused by human activity.

Obviously, this was of huge concern to those who claim that people are causing the changes in temperature, so the "scientists" simply made the Medieval Warm Period disappear by tricking the data. In 1999, three scientists, including Mann, published a paper which showed average global temperatures to be relatively steady for thousands of years, but suddenly shooting up in the last few decades, a "hockey stick" approach. Gore and his environmental allies now had the ammunition they needed.

In his Oscar-winning movie, An Inconvenient Truth (which departed from the truth in many places), Gore used the "hockey stick" graph as "proof" that the discussion over global warming needed to end. The results were in, and now what was needed was action, ACTION! The fact that the scientists refused to release the data used in their study, which is a fundamental breach of what is supposed to be scientific method, was shooed away as being something akin to a conspiracy theory by the "deniers," who were labeled Enemies of the People. Scientists who dissented found themselves being bullied (journals refusing to publish their papers) and being denounced by environmentalists, other scientists, government officials and, of course, Gore and Hansen. (Both Gore and Hansen have called for criminal prosecutions of corporate executives of companies that have helped to fund any study that disagrees with what Gore and Hansen declare to be the truth.)

In the Climategate emails, the scientists described their strategy of reviewing each others' papers, shutting down scientists who disagreed, hiding their data, and admitting to fudging the numbers in order to obtain the results they wanted. Furthermore, because many of them were using funds allocated by U.S. Government agencies, what they did was fraud, and many people have gone to prison for much less.

Austrian economists are quite familiar with the drill here. First, the advocates of a position, be it mainstream economics or human-caused climate change, make sure that no dissenting papers can be published. Second, after having successfully shut out the opposition, they claim that the theories of the Austrians or dissenters "fail the market test" because their views don't appear in the mainstream literature. The logic is circular, but it sure appeals to the True Believers.

It is interesting to see the response of Gore, the New York Times, the White House, and others who have been demanding that modern life be shut down for an economic regime that is more to the liking of the global-warming crowd. (The economic and political elites pushing these bogus theories have wonderful futures planned for us; they just have no intention of joining us for meals in unheated buildings, while we eat our gruel. Heated and cooled residences with plenty of good food will be their future.)

So far, the response from The Usual Suspects has been a repeat of the "Wizard of Oz" in which the Wiz bellows, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" The New York Times recently editorialized:

The theft of thousands of private e-mail messages and files from computer servers at a leading British climate research center has been a political windfall for skeptics who claim the documents prove that mainstream scientists have conspired to overstate the case for human influence on climate change.

They are using the e-mail to blast the Obama administration's climate policies. And they clearly hope that the e-mail will undermine negotiations for a new climate change treaty that begin in Copenhagen this week.

No one should be misled by all the noise. The e-mail messages represent years' worth of exchanges among prominent American and British climatologists. Some are mean-spirited, others intemperate. But they don't change the underlying scientific facts about climate change.

Funny, when the Times runs stories using material that has been stolen, they never refer to it as "stolen." Indeed, as one who has published many academic papers (and I always make my data available for inspection), I can smell a fix as well as the next person.
 
Of course, with the Times, it only gets better. The public editor who defended the newspaper's abysmal and utterly dishonest coverage in the infamous Duke Lacrosse Non-Rape Case, had this to say about the recent events:

As for not posting the e-mail, Revkin said he should have used better language in his blog, Dot Earth, to explain the decision, which was driven by advice from a Times attorney. The lawyer, George Freeman, told me that there is a large legal distinction between government documents like the Pentagon Papers, which the Times published over the objections of the Nixon administration, and e-mail between private individuals, even if they may receive some government money for their work. He said the Constitution protects the publication of leaked government information, as long as it is newsworthy and the media did not obtain it illegally. But the purloined e-mail, he said, was covered by copyright law in the United States and Britain.

This is a howler, a real howler. This is the same New York Times that gleefully published illegal leaks from federal prosecutors in the Michael Milken and Martha Stewart cases, which meant that the newspaper was aiding and abetting the commission of real felonies. The Times is a newspaper that does what it wants from publishing illegal (and untrue) material to seizing property by eminent domain so the paper could build a brand new headquarters in Manhattan. The idea that the paper suddenly decided to be "law-abiding" by not breaking "copyright law" is a joke, a real joke. Please do not tell me that the 800-pound gorilla is afraid of a few mice!

As governments are meeting in Denmark for yet another "climate change" summit, I am reminded that what really is happening is that the economic and political elites have decided they have had enough of the rabble and are going to put us in our places. That their actions are violent and fraudulent and have been duly exposed clearly is not a hindrance to them.
 
Keep in mind that I am not presenting my own "hockey stick" view of global temperatures. Indeed, for the last century or so, global temperatures have risen, but one must remember that the period preceding them was very cold, and cold weather means crop failures and starvation. Furthermore, the issue is not whether we have seen changes in temperatures around the world, but whether or not the human issuance of a gas that makes up approximately 0.4 of one percent of the atmosphere is the cause.

However, instead of wanting to know the truth, the elites have decided what we are supposed to believe as the truth. In my view, the release of these emails is as important in exposing the dishonesty of the "climate change" crowd as the Pentagon Papers were in exposing the dishonesty of the U.S. Government as it was ravaging Vietnam. 

William L. Anderson, Ph.D. [send him mail], teaches economics at Frostburg State University in Maryland, and is an adjunct scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He also is a consultant with American Economic Services. Visit his blog.

Copyright © 2009 by LewRockwell.com. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given. 

Climate Smokescreen At the New York Times

By K. Daniel Glover, Accuracy In Media
November 25, 2009

When holier-than-thou New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin decided not to publish e-mails that expose climate scientists as frauds because they were obtained illegally, Times watchers (including this one) rightly cried “Hypocrisy!”

One recent and one distant case of the newspaper rejecting Revkin’s new standard of journalistic ethics leapt to mind. In December 2005, the Times ran a front-page expose on the Bush administration’s covert wiretapping program against presumed terrorists even after being warned that it could jeopardize national security. And in 1971, the Times made history by publishing the Pentagon Papers about U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.

But a far better example of the paper’s hypocrisy has escaped notice — until now. In May 1994, the Times published a series of stories about the tobacco industry that were based on the pre-Internet equivalent of leaked e-mails. The paper’s coverage later led to a book by reporter Philip J. Hilts titled Smokescreen: The Truth Behind The Tobacco Industry Cover-up.

The circumstances surrounding the tobacco industry then and the climate science community now are remarkably similar, yet the Times reached exact opposite conclusions about how to cover the news. This time Revkin and the paper, as well as much of the mainstream media, have created a smokescreen to protect fraudulent scientists whose agenda they support.

Tobacco Under Fire

Democrats began targeting the tobacco industry after Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., led the charge as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.

Waxman’s probe led to a dramatic April 14, 1994 hearing where top executives from tobacco companies swore under oath that nicotine is not addictive. At about the same time, a whistleblower contacted Hilts and handed over internal memorandums that proved the Brown & Williamson tobacco company had known the health dangers of tobacco for decades.

Like “hide the decline” from the hacked global warming e-mails, the Brown & Williamson documents had a memorable money quote:

“Moreover, nicotine is addictive… We are, then, in the business of selling nicotine, an addictive drug.”

Hilts described the revelations in an interview with PBS for its “Smoke In The Eye” special:

Once we got these papers in hand, it became very clear that they knew a lot very early on, that they were deliberately hiding things, and that they were deliberately trying to keep them out of court and so on — at the same time saying these things were not true, saying cigarettes are not addictive, and yet they have their own studies which show how addictive it is and exactly how the addiction works and so on… They did all kinds of studies on the hazards of cigarettes and inhalation of tobacco and so on and found a lot of problems. Well, we never heard about this, but they knew it all early on.

Brown & Williamson, along with the rest of the tobacco industry, understandably wanted to quash publicity of the documents. The company convinced a judge in tobacco-friendly Kentucky to impose an injunction against their release because Merrill Williams, a temporary paralegal assigned to Brown & Williamson, allegedly stole them.

The company felt compelled to fight release of the documents.

“They’ve been hiding this for years,” Hilts told PBS. “It would make them lose case after case in court.”

But the Times, motivated by a commitment to journalistic integrity and the First Amendment, defied the injunction and published its stories.

“Oddly enough there were virtually no legal concerns at the Times,” Hilts said, adding that “all the way along, the lawyers … were very supportive. They really wanted to see the stories in the paper.”

Hilts criticized ABC for not reporting on the documents even though the network had them before he did.

“Lawyers for the entertainment business are more skittish, are more difficult,” he told PBS, “and in fact they get involved in the news more, probably more than they should… I don’t think, in newspapers, reporters would put up with that.”

Hot Global Warming E-mails
 
Print reporters without links to the entertainment industry may well be more committed to battling media lawyers in order to break major news, but they clearly are not immune to self-censorship. Unlike Hilts, Revkin chose not to post the global warming e-mails.
His defense:

“The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye.”

If Hilts and other journalists had neglected their duty like Revkin and company are in covering “ClimateGate,” the tobacco industry never would have been forced to settle with state prosecutors in 1998 and might not have been subjected to federal regulation this year.

Michael Moore, the former Mississippi attorney general who led the legal fight against the tobacco industry in the 1990s, called the Brown & Williamson papers “probably still the most damming documents ever produced against the industry.” Hilts said they “probably are the single-most important pieces of paper in the history of tobacco versus public health.”

The global warming e-mails revealed last week are just as significant. “This is not a smoking gun; this is a mushroom cloud,” climate expert Patrick Michaels said. Even British writer and environmental activist George Monbiot acknowledged that the e-mails are a “major blow” and urged Phil Jones, the head of the climate research unit that was hacked, to resign. 

The timing of the climate e-mail hacking also is reminiscent of the tobacco timeline in 1994 — and thus equally newsworthy. Just as whistleblowers started pushing documents into the media while the Food and Drug Administration and Congress weighed tobacco regulation, the global warming e-mails were posted online days before world leaders gather in Copenhagen next month to ponder draconian rules to limit carbon dioxide emissions.

And as with the tobacco documents, the global warming e-mails focus on scientific research.

“These behind-the-scenes discussions among leading global-warming exponents are remarkable both in their candor and in their sheer contempt for scientific objectivity,” Rochester Institute of Technology professor Ivan Kenneally wrote in The New Atlantis.

“There can be little doubt after even a casual perusal that the scientific case for global warming and the policy that springs from it are based upon a volatile combination of political ideology, unapologetic mendacity and simmering contempt for even the best-intentioned disagreement.”

It’s the News Judgment, Stupid
 
The hacking angle to ClimateGate is a legitimate one to pursue, but it is not the most important angle. The appropriate response is for journalists at The New York Times and elsewhere to behave as they did after Hilts exposed the stolen tobacco documents in 1994.

“We had more papers after that,” Hilts said. “We went around and found more stuff. More people started coming out of the woodwork and so on. So it was a pivotal moment.”

Fourteen years ago, the Times scolded CBS for self-censorship when it decided to spike an interview with tobacco whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand, who later became the central character in the 1999 movie “The Insider.” The network later reversed course and aired the interview.

Hopefully Andrew Revkin and the Times will redeem themselves and do likewise by giving the global warming e-mails the scrutiny they deserve.

(Author’s note: I covered the 1994 tobacco debate for Congressional Quarterly and attended the game-changing hearings with Hilts. Thanks to blogger James Joyner for jogging my memory.)

K. Daniel Glover is the online communications strategist for Accuracy In Media. He has worked as an editor, writer and new media specialist in the Washington area since 1991, spending most of that time at National Journal and Congressional Quarterly.

Who’s to Blame for Climategate?

By Gordon Rayner, Telegraph
November 27, 2009

The drab, drum-shaped home of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit is an anonymous little outpost, blending seamlessly with its chunky concrete neighbours on a windswept campus just outside Norwich. To the uninitiated, it has the look of a Seventies bus station waiting for the council to pull it down.

Unlikely as it may seem, however, this little corner of East Anglia is now ground zero in a controversy which just might influence the entire future of our planet.

A little over a week ago, hundreds of internal emails written by scientists working at the CRU were obtained by a hacker and posted on the internet, some of which appeared to show that researchers had deliberately faked evidence of global warming by manipulating statistics.
At first, the fallout was restricted to a row between climate change experts, played out in scientific journals and specialist internet blogs, but in the past few days, as the ripples have spread around the globe, “Climategate” has become a white hot political issue which has been seized upon by global warming sceptics and now threatens to overshadow next month’s crucial climate change conference in Copenhagen...

Phil Jones, the 57-year-old director of the CRU, is the man who has suddenly found himself the number one target of climate change conspiracy theorists the world over after he sent the most damaging of all the emails exposed by the anonymous hacker.

In one message, dated November 1999, he wrote:

“I’ve just completed Mike’s trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 to hide the decline.”

Gotcha! say the global warming sceptics who have argued for years that average temperatures on Earth are, in reality, either stable or going down. Professor Jones defended himself by claiming the word “trick” was used out of context and simply referred to a legitimate method of handling data. But there was more.

An email sent by one of Prof Jones’s colleagues said:

“The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.”

Prof Jones, whose department has for years refused to release its raw data on temperatures, wrote another email in which he said:

Sceptics “have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I’ll delete the file rather than send it to anyone.”

By chance, he now admits he has “accidentally” deleted some of the raw data.

Another message said the CRU’s method of collating data “renders the station counts totally meaningless… so, we can have a proper result, but only by including a load of garbage!”
Prof Jones, who at first refused to confirm even that the emails were genuine, finally issued a statement on Wednesday, in which he said:

“My colleagues and I accept that some of the published emails do not read well.”

On that point, at least, no one is likely to argue with him.

Although Prof Jones is not what you could call a household name (though he soon might be) he is, without doubt, one of the world’s most influential proponents of the theory of man-made global warming.

The CRU has the largest archive of global temperature data in the world, and its research formed the basis of the United Nations’ key document on global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report of 2007.

But Prof Jones has been embroiled in controversy before. Three years ago, a report commissioned by the US House of Representatives energy and commerce committee claimed that a clique of just 43 scientists, including Prof Jones and one of his CRU colleagues, was stifling open debate on climate change.

Little wonder, then, that climate change deniers are hailing the emails as final proof that global warming is nothing more than a hoax which is being covered up by governments who have themselves been duped.

Suddenly, Phil Jones is the name on the lips of every Right-wing commentator in the US, some of whom have warned that President Obama is being tricked into making the most expensive mistake in history by backing emission caps and carbon trading legislation that will cost US taxpayers trillions of dollars.

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News has described the emails as a “game-changer” for Obama cap and trade bills. Fox’s climate change commentator, John Lott, suggested that Prof Jones was guilty of an “unprecedented co-ordinated campaign to hide scientific information.” Meanwhile Matt Drudge, arguably the most influential reporter on the internet and the man who broke the story of President Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, has helped direct millions of hits to websites reporting on the email scandal by featuring it prominently on his Drudge Report website...

Prof Jones is in little doubt that the timing of the leak – two weeks before the start of the Copenhagen conference – was a “concerted attempt to put a question mark over the science of climate change” at the most sensitive possible time. Next month’s Copenhagen conference has been billed as the last chance for world leaders to prevent an irreversible change to the planet’s climate. Unless they can reach a binding agreement on reducing global emissions, mankind could face a bleak future, according to the majority of the scientific community.

The hacker who exposed the emails no doubt hopes Climategate will tip the scales decisively against an agreement – an outcome which is likely to be supported by a minority of hardliners in the US, such as Bryan Zumwalt, legislative counsel for Republican senator David Vitter, who said earlier this week that:

The CRU emails were evidence of what “could well be the greatest act of scientific fraud in history” and suggested that “nearly all of the international data and models supporting the theory of global warming would have been influenced by data corruption and fraud.”

However Bob Ward, a climate change expert at the London School of Economics and Political Science, believes world leaders will pay little attention to the scandal surrounding the CRU, arguing that politics, not science, will decide the fate of the Copenhagen summit.

“The politicians won’t be swayed by this,” he said. “It’s basic physics that the world is being warmed by greenhouse gases, and politicians can see through the sceptics’ arguments. If Copenhagen fails to produce an agreement, it won’t be because of these emails. And in the US, President Obama’s cap and trade bills will be decided by 12 or 13 Democratic senators who represent states with large coal and oil reserves.”

Mr Ward does not believe the emails reveal any evidence of impropriety, but supported Lord Lawson’s calls for an independent investigation so the matter can be cleared up. He said:

“I don’t believe there is any evidence here of fraud, but it’s regrettable that this has happened and I regret the fact that some members of the research community have dismissed out of hand those who have tried to make a counter-argument.”

Whether or not Climategate influences the outcome of the Copenhagen summit, it seems that its long-term legacy will be to make the ongoing war of words between “warmists” and “coolists” more poisonous than ever.

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The Banksters' Plan to Rule the World

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: a man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease. - Ecclesiastes 6:1-2

Almost every nation has a central bank. The bank does three things: (1) it supplies the government with funds at low interest rates; (2) it limits the expansion of money by the commercial banks; (3) it bails out the largest banks when a banking crisis hits. It officially promotes the first two goals. It does not talk about the third. - Gary North, Taxpayers In Revolt, State Bankster System In Europe Is Collapsing, Next Stop USA, Market Oracle, November 9, 2011

Can America Stop the Coming Oppression?

By J. Hapiak, People for Freedom
December 1, 2009

Could Climategate Unravel the UN’s Plan to Rule the World?

In a matter of days, President Obama will write a brand new chapter in American history, one that fulfils the promise of change that the Americans asked for, but not necessarily the change that they hoped for. What I am speaking about is the Copenhagen Climate Treaty that President Obama had promised to sign around December 9, 2009, that could forever surrender American sovereignty.

Now with the emergence of Climategate as reported all over the internet, and Senator Inhofe’s calling for an investigation into that matter, which implies that the top UN climate scientists had cooked the science of climate change for profit . . . the signing of this document has been supposedly postponed, but the President still has plans to make the trip to Copenhagen anyhow.

Will President Obama sign this treaty behind closed doors despite the allegations that Climate Change may be a fraud? Will he sign it like President George W. Bush signed the Security and Prosperity Partnership* (SPP) in Ottawa, in secret? No one knows for sure.

The mainstream media isn’t saying much about anything, and they certainly aren’t warning the American people that this treaty is less about the climate and more about establishing an international carbon tax and finalizing the framework for a new layer of government, one that is international in scope and whose “rules of law” will govern the conduct of all UN member nations. What else they aren’t saying is that there will be no pulling back out of this agreement without the unanimous consent of every UN member nation.

This movement has been fueled for many decades, but it went virtually unnoticed until 1991 when George H. W. Bush announced to Congress the coming of a New World Order, the first steps to setting up a global community and changing the way America conducts its business forever. A few months later on February 1, 1992, he made another speech to the United Nations General Assembly, and stated:

“It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance.”

Ever since making this declaration, every other elected President has endorsed the same allegiance to the United Nations without the consent of the American people or Congress.

The United Nations

Since its inception, the UN has demonstrated a long train of abuses against all member and non-member nations alike, which suggests that once they are in charge, the possibility is there that they can and will exploit any government they choose by pressuring them to sponsor their cause, not by freedom of choice, but through coercion. With most of the G20 nation heads still promising to sign this climate treaty, the UN and the international banking system, according to some, will be able to finally establish themselves as the supreme authority, second to no other government in the world.

America was born on the principle that promised our nation would always remain free and independent. It was hopeful that all other nations would adopt the same principles. But throughout history, there has always been an underlying desire by a select few to control the world, and some of these individuals have found that if they can control the issuance of fractional currency and lend it out with interest, in time, they can burden whole nations with accumulated debt and could actually get political leaders to wager collateral in exchange for the money they need to keep their nations economy afloat.

Debt and a nation's continuous need for more money gave international bankers an easy way to pressure our government into signing agreements like NAFTA, the WTO, Agenda 21, Codex Alimentarious, Universal Health Care in exchange for a loan. What wasn’t known by the American people then is certainly well known now, that these agreements have forced all nations to incrementally transfer – directly into the hands of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank - control of their:

1. Assets like property, rivers, lakes, natural resources; and


2. The power over trade, agriculture, manufacturing, cyber security, media communication, healthcare, military, gold reserves, politicians and even the rights of its people.

This in effect, puts the entire American economy, the laws of the nation, and collateral under the control of the private Federal Reserve System, outside the reaches of the US Government. In the United Kingdom the story is the same: the control of the nation's assets and power over the people were transferred to the Bank of England. In fact, all over the world, nations are now signing agreements and giving up everything to the central banking system in exchange for more loans.

What is planned next is most likely the consolidation of all central banks in the world and placing them under the control of the UN and the IMF / Bank of the World. According to the draft agenda of London’s G20 Summit held in March 2009, they have already started the process of making these changes. The Copenhagen Climate Treaty could likely be one instrument they need to make that transformation complete and permanent.

Who Controls the Money Controls Everything

Thomas Jefferson warned the Congress about this very problem and, in one quote, he implied that the lenders are more menacing to our freedoms than a standing army. And that’s why our founding fathers were adamant that the United States issue their own “interest free” currency, and the reason is clear - so America would never become a slave to debt or to the lenders. Yet that all changed in 1913, when the Senate ratified, with minimal debate or opposition, the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve System, with a 2/3 majority vote during the Christmas vacation, and after the Senate had already broke for the Holiday.

Many opponents felt that the New York bankers Morgan and Rockefeller and also Paul Warburg, who was directly connected to the Bank of England, duped the United States. Soon after the Federal Reserve System was formed, officials from the Bank of England were quick to establish the League of Nations, which in 1945 became the United Nations. They were also connected to forming the International Money Fund (IMF) in 1944.

Chartered in 1694, the privately-owned Bank of England happens to be the same banking cartel that pressured King George III to pay back his European war debt. By 1742, the Parliament passed the British Resumption Act that required all taxes and debts be paid in gold. In order for the King to pay just the interest on his debt to the Bank of England, he imposed huge taxes on the American colonies and required them to pay in gold as well.

With shortages of gold in the colonies, this change caused a long term depression, so the colonies began experimenting with different types of currencies and eventually settled on a fiat currency, called Colonial Scrip, which brought about a new age of prosperity. When officials from the Bank of England learned about their newfound wealth, they questioned Benjamin Franklin and discovered that the colonies learned the benefits of issuing their own currency and how currency works. As a result, the Currency Act of 1764 was quickly passed, thus prohibiting the Colonial officials from issuing their own currency. This made Colonial Scrip worthless and again drove the colonies back into a depression.

The oppressive laws of the King along with the depression that was caused by the Bank of England . . . eventually led the Colonialists to declare independence from England and their European bankers. Soon afterwards, England attacked the Colonies and the Revolutionary War began . . . But it didn’t end there. That battle for power still goes on today.

In March of 2009, President Obama attended the G20 summit meeting in London. According to the G20 draft agenda, they discussed the Coordination of International Regulation which, in effect, places the control of the Federal Reserve System, Securities and Exchange Commission, the collateral that the institution controls, and the entire American economy under the control of Europe’s IMF / Bank of the World. The IMF is rooted directly to the same group of lenders that the Colonies fought off 250 years before.

How the UN Retains Control of the Nations

The UN/IMF has accomplished many tasks that they set forth by using agreements and treaties like the WTO and Agenda 21 to control all manufacturing and agricultural output throughout the world. The treaties and agreements encourage international trade instead of supporting local trade, thus profiting no one except for the corporate leaders and also the banking elite who control the financial institutions and lend money to the large corporations and governments at interest.

The UN/IMF seeks dominion by controlling the elements of power that naturally propel a nation forward. Don’t be fooled, the ideology of the World Trade Organization is not about creating an environment that encourages new competition and business growth locally, but rather it is an engineered plan to stop small business growth and to create international duopolies and monopolies formed from business mergers and consolidation that can be easily controlled by the international bankers.

Instead of new competition growing out of invention, the international treaties and agreements are inhibiting this growth by distancing the very supply lines that are needed locally by the entrepreneurs who possess the new ideas and can build the new companies. As a result, today’s entrepreneurs cannot easily obtain access to the raw materials, supplies, engineers, skilled trades people, or the machines that they need to develop new products without traveling abroad to foreign lands and making huge investments that often involve banks and foreign partnerships. This means new competition can never grow like it once did in America from the kitchen table to a garage, shop or factory without a huge input of borrowed cash, thus slowing down the invention process and stopping manufacturing growth forever.

For over 200 years the strong and powerful American market was protected by tariffs and quotas. When the American economy slowed, tariffs were artificially raised by the government in order to increase the price of foreign imports. This helped to keep American manufacturing competitive locally, while stimulating manufacturing and protecting jobs at the same time. Foreign countries that wanted to sell their products in the huge American market had two choices:

1. Either pay the tariffs to America, or
2. Pay the workers in their country more money so they could afford to buy the American-made products.

As a result, this ideology created fairer trade and raised the standard of living in every nation that we traded with, such as South Korea, England, France, Germany, Belgium, Japan, Taiwan, Israel, to name a few.

The Change of Ideology

The progressive NAFTA and the WTO agreements turned the old protectionist way that America traded, inside out. Under this new international rule of law, the UN is now in control of American trade and enforces it by penalizing the United States with trade sanctions, fines and other deterrents every single time that America tries to collect tariffs or set quotas on imports, or tries to pre-qualify our trading partners with certain rules. The UN/WTO agreement allows most UN member nations to flood the American market with cheap imports, which only undermines American manufacturing and the middle class at its core.

George Carlin - Who Owns You?

Through compliance of international regulation and law, the UN/IMF rewards one nation with prosperity, while it punishes other nations for not conforming to their rule of law. This is not a freedom of choice, but rather extortion that is imposed on countries by the UN/IMF. When all manufacturing is eventually controlled by this select few, then the elitists will continue to have all the money they need to loan while the masses under this socialist rule remain unemployed, poor and servants to the banks. If we don’t stop this atrocity now, then under this form of government, contraction of the economy and the merging of all nations will never cease until there is only one left standing, and that will be the UN, its banking system called the IMF, and their few industries that they control in the world.

The Progressive Ideology Takes Hold in the Fed and at the State Level Against the People

Taking its lead from the United Nations, now the Federal Government is doing the same thing to the States in the Union. If the states won’t comply with the international rule of law, then the Federal Government threatens to cut the states funding for projects, Medicare, unemployment etc. This is not freedom of choice; this again is coercion to get the states to cooperate.

In turn, the states comply to the UN mandates and imposes new laws that work toward building a police state by militarizing the police, requiring a thumb print to acquire a driver's license, creating checkpoints on the highways, disrupting and arresting protestors, allowing illegal search and seizure and the confiscation of weapons against innocent American citizens, such as in the events that occurred in New Orleans. The list goes on and on. This again is not freedom of choice, but rather coercion to control the masses.

Our founding fathers believed that manufacturing is the tree where wealth and a nation's security grows from invention. But according to the international bankers, a debt-based economy and borrowing money against personal assets is the wave of the future. This fascist approach to government only compounds the problems because it disposes the natural abilities of every person, while it empowers the international bankers who are all socialists.

I am urging all Americans to remember that there is a ray of hope for America and that is Article VI of the US Constitution and the 10th Amendment of the Bill of Rights, which empowers the states and the people to throw off the government or to abolish the government and replace it in its in entirety.

Even though the states have the power to tell Washington to take a hike, we must remember that Washington still holds the purse strings and can retaliate by blocking the funds that the states need for projects, Medicare, unemployment, etc.

Other abuses against the states include the UN’s WTO mandate that forces the US government to keep tariffs on imports intentionally low. The WTO dismantles the states ability to manufacture goods and stay competitive within our own American market, thus reducing the job opportunities that are needed by the American people while increasing the pressure on the states for more welfare funding at the same time.

In other words, the WTO agreement starts an unending downward spiral that slows the economy and makes the American people more dependent on the states welfare program, thus forcing the states to become compliant with the global movement so they can still acquire more welfare funding from Washington.

If the States are divided and begin seceding from the Union, they can lose their vested interest and protection from the other Union States. If a state secedes, what stops UN troops from invading the shores and capturing the state and its resources? Nothing!

This means Washington or the UN can pick off the defectors one by one. This means that the states must stand together and cannot be divided, and they must not secede from the Union at any cost, and they must use their united power to overturn the Fed and these ridiculous agreements and treaties.

It is essential that all American people begin throwing off their two-party affiliation and start taking the time to thoroughly research all candidates and only vote for people at the federal, state and local level who are wholeheartedly in support of the US Constitution and not the globalist agenda.

Under the WTO, our nation's production is pushed to the side and the American economy is constantly shrinking, making Washington more dependent on borrowed money from the international bankers just to keep the nation's economy stimulated. This creates more debt that will be compounded with interest, thus driving up taxes at the same time on the American people who are already being enslaved. Without production, the debt can’t be paid. This is a no-win situation if the states don’t stand up against the socialist Federal Government and the United Nations and also their treaties and agreements that promote international taxation while preventing the US from collecting tariffs and setting quotas on foreign imports. Under this regime, the American citizens lose all the way around.

If things don’t change, this is the bottom line . . .

Under the WTO, the states must become compliant with the United Nations mandates in order for them to continue receiving welfare funding from Washington for the people. Under this agreement the States must also support and make preparations to adopt the following:

1) The Codex Alimentarious (UN takeover of the food code and classifying vitamins as toxins, while making outlawed toxins legal)

2) Universal Health Care (UN takeover of health care, population control, firearms control)

3) Agenda 21 (UN takeover of America’s agricultural output, farmland and water rights, relocation of people)

4) World Trade Organization (UN takeover of all manufacturing and trade)

5) Security and Prosperity Partnership* (open borders with Canada and Mexico, the forming of the North American Union and creating a gold or silver backed universal currency)

6) Cap-and-Trade and the Copenhagen Climate Agenda (UN takeover of all taxation, transportation, energy, etc.)

7) Coordination of International Regulation (The UN takeover of the Federal Reserve System, the Securities and Exchange Commission, all issuing of currency, all government loans, collateral and the economy).

The list goes on and on . . .

Let the truth be known to all: Until the American people realize that the United Nations is the oppressor, despotism will always be on our doorstep.

* The Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas, which some have dubbed PPA, was first launched by the Bush administration in September of 2008 in an effort to further deepen existing economic partnerships in the region. Many speculated that it was a last ditch effort by Bush to resurrect a revised version of the failed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). The Obama administration has continued with the PPA and is set to re-launch and expand the initiative which would lead to greater integration in the Americas. Some aspects of the PPA are similar to the defunct Security and Prosperity Partnership and could spread SPP objectives to other parts of the Western Hemisphere. - Dana Gabriel, Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas, Borderfire Report, September 7, 2009

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