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Lonecowboy

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Renowned meteorologist Dr. William Gray tells Newsmax that a possible new conspiracy regarding global warming has been uncovered in the U.S.

He also said environmentalists, socialists, governments and businessmen are trying to take advantage of climate change concerns for their own benefit, and declared that cap-and-trade legislation would do “very little” to improve the climate.

Dr. Gray is a pioneer in the science of forecasting hurricanes and a critic of the theory of human-induced global warming. He is a professor emeritus of atmospheric science at Colorado State University and head of the Tropical Meteorology Project at the university’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences.

Manmade global warming proponents in the government “are handling the data in ways to obtain data that shows the globe is warming more than it really is.

“They drop certain data out of their averaging, and the data they’ve dropped out tends to make the globe cooler. You’ll probably be reading a lot about this in the next few weeks or so.”

Gray, who has previously called claims of manmade global warming “the greatest scientific hoax of all time,” added: “Humans are probably doing something [to affect climate] and the CO2 may be warming [the globe] a bit but it’s not doing near what the alarmists have been telling us — that the Greenland ice cap is going to melt, the sea ice near the North Pole will not be there in another 20, 30 years. All these wild claims, there’s no basis for. The ice cap is not going to melt in the next 20, 30 years.”

Walter asked why global warming alarmist Al Gore and his allies refuse to consider any contrary evidence and insist that human-induced global warming is a fact.

“They want to use this to push other hidden agendas they have,” Gray said.

“The environmentalists want to push environmental things and people will become more sensitive to the environment if they think the globe is really warming. There are socialists who want to push a leveling of living standards around the globe. There are governments that want to control peoples’ lives more. There are businessmen who want to get into the new renewable energy. They want to make money on this.
“There’s a whole set of people out there who don’t know much about how the atmosphere ticks but see how they can profit from this global warming hypothesis, and they want to convince the world that this is true.”

Gray declared that there is absolutely no connection between global warming and more frequent and powerful hurricanes, as some alarmists claim.
He also said cap-and-trade legislation restricting C02 emissions, which is supported by President Obama and many Democrats, would do “very little of significance to improve our climate, and we will pay an enormous economic price for it.”

Cap-and-trade will drive up the price of energy, he added, and “the standard of living in the Western world will go down. No one is going to agree to that in the belief that the climate will get slightly better.”

http://newsmax.com/Newsfront/Expert-Warns--Climategate--Conspiracy/2010/01/22/id/347676
 

Lonecowboy

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(AR4), issued in 2007 by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientists wrote that 40 percent of the Amazon rainforest in South America was endangered by global warming.

But that assertion was discredited this week when it emerged that the findings were based on numbers from a study by the World Wildlife Federation that had nothing to do with the issue of global warming -- and that was written by a freelance journalist and green activist.

The IPCC report states that "up to 40 percent of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation" -- highlighting the threat climate change poses to the Earth. The report goes on to say that "it is more probable that forests will be replaced by ecosystems ... such as tropical savannas."

But it has now been revealed that the claim was based on a WWF study titled "Global Review of Forest Fires," a paper barely related to the Amazon rainforest that was written "to secure essential policy reform at national and international level to provide a legislative and economic base for controlling harmful anthropogenic forest fires
EUReferendum, a blog skeptical of global warming, uncovered the WWF association. It noted that the original "40 percent" figure came from a letter published in the journal Nature that discussed harmful logging activities -- and again had nothing to do with global warming.

The reference to the Brazilian rainforest can be found in Chapter 13 of the IPCC Working Group II report, the same section of AR4 in which claims are made that the Himalayan glaciers are rapidly melting because of global warming. Last week, the data leading to this claim were disproved as well, a scandal being labeled "glacier-gate" or "Himalaya-gate."

The Himalaya controversy followed another tempest -- the disclosure of e-mails that suggested that leading global warming scientists in the U.K. and the U.S. had conspired to hide a decline in global temperatures.

"If it is true that IPCC has indeed faked numbers regarding the Amazon, or used unsubstantiated facts, then it is the third nail in the IPCC coffin in less than three months," Andrew Wheeler, former staff director for the U.S. Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee, told FoxNews.com. "For years, we have been told that the IPCC peer review process is the gold standard in scientific review. It now appears it is more of a fool's gold process."

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/28/save-rainforest-climate-change-scandal-chopped-facts/
 

hypocritexposer

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Harper urges 'enlightened' foreign policy, but faces criticism on climate
28/01/2010 5:21:00 PM

DAVOS, Switzerland - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is calling on world leaders to embrace an "enlightened sovereignty" that puts the global good ahead of each country's immediate self-interest.


But within minutes of introducing the idea Thursday in a major foreign policy speech at the Davos World Economic Forum, Harper had to fend off suggestions that he's being short-sighted on climate change.

Countries don't commit to hard targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions for a very good reason, he told a roundtable discussion with other leaders - because such action has "very significant impacts on the economy" of each country.

"There are real serious tradeoffs to be made with economic imperatives in the short term.

"We all blame each other for not dealing adequately on climate change, when all every country is trying to do is simply deal with the very real impacts these measures could have on jobs and economic growth. The legitimacy of that concern has to be acknowledged."

Other leaders quickly responded that adapting to climate change can actually make a country's economy grow, if handled correctly. And even if there is a cost to some parts of the economy, it's a price worth paying, they argued.

"There's nothing that leads us to believe it would cause lower economic growth," said Spanish Prime Minister Jose Zapatero, seated near Harper before an audience of business executives, other politicians and renowned thinkers.

Without a concerted effort to find ways to cut emissions "our future is very dark," Zapatero said.

The leaders on stage with Harper suggested that putting the economy before environment is too short-sighted - exactly the kind of approach he criticized in his keynote speech.

In that speech, Harper said that when it comes to dealing with banking regulations or currency valuations or protectionist measures, countries need to ignore the short-term costs and think only of the long-term benefits.

Countries belonging to the G20, he said, need to make sure their discussions are "less about narrow self-interest in sovereignty's name."

Instead, he called for "an expanded view of mutual interest, in which there is room for all to grow and prosper. Enlightened sovereignty, then - the natural extension of enlightened self-interest."

Harper warned other G20 leaders that the very body that eased the world out of recession could fail unless countries put their differences aside.

"The G20 will stand or fall on its ability to demonstrate in the months to come the same co-operative spirit it has shown over the past year," he said in the speech meant to set the tone for the G20 and G8 summits Canada will host in June.

Economists have become increasingly concerned as countries go off in all directions in their efforts to crack down on banking practices. And the banking sector was out in full force at the Davos meeting, arguing that stricter rules could undermine the fragile economic recovery.

In his speech, Harper highlighted Canada's banking regulations as striking the right balance between controlling bad behaviour and allowing financial institutions freedom to grow. But the bickering and the disjointed approach of world authorities has to stop, he said.

"In fact, if inadequate regulation is not addressed, I believe the consequences could actually be worse than before this crisis."

As for the G8, Harper reiterated that he will make maternal and child health care in developing countries a top priority. The summit will also address nuclear weapons, terrorism and piracy, he added.

Harper skimmed over the importance of climate change at the summits - a topic his own officials have acknowledged will have to play a central role at both the G20 and G8 summits. The prime minister made only one mention of it in his speech.

Previous G20 summits have committed countries to finding tens of billions of dollars to finance adaptation efforts that will inevitably be required in developing countries. And the G8 - now that it has ceded its role in economics to the G20 - will increasingly become focused on environmental and security concerns.

The federal Liberals said Harper's approach to climate change was far from "enlightened."

"Mr. Harper has not earned a reputation for 'enlightenment' on the international stage," said Scott Brison, the Liberals' international trade critic who was also at the Davos conference.

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff said Harper was making excuses for not targeting climate change.

Still, Harper won praise at the Davos meeting.

Klaus Schwab, the economist who is behind the storied conference, went out of his way to highlight the "resilience and soundness" of Canada's banks.

Philanthropist Bill Gates thanked Harper for his plan to throw G8 resources at maternal and child health in developing countries.

And former U.S. president Bill Clinton singled out Canadians' response to the Haiti earthquake, and partly credited Ottawa's offer to match personal donations dollar for dollar.

"It has been unbelievable. First, the Canadian people are so generous," Clinton said. "I'll bet you on a per capita basis, they're number one in the world now in helping Haiti."

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