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In the same way that some Americans woke up to find out that Van Jones had left the Obama adminstration (”Who?” “Why?”) and the same way that some still do not know how badly ACORN has been soiled (”They videoed this behaviour at how many offices?”) or learned that hundreds of thousands of Americans have been protesting against government spending (”There was something called a Tea Party here the other day, apparently.”), news of the incredible climate manipulations will eventually get around the gatekeepers and leave them looking even more compromised and irrelevant.  It is Tuesday afternoon and the Globe and CBC have still not touched the story, so far as I can tell.  Maybe they will never run it, or run it only when it has been minimized and marginalized and sanitized. I do not care any more.  Anything to hasten the disbanding of the CBC and the bankruptcy of the Globe that I can honestly do, I will do, but my best efforts cannot even come close to their own.

The Wall Street Journal reports that various senators are showing interest in the climate fraud.

A more moderate interpetation of the behaviour of the Climate Club scientists appears today at the Air Vent. This is a letter from a climate skeptic to the New York Times reporter,  Andy Revkin, who it appears from the hacked data, has been working hand in glove with the Climate Club scientists. Identified as Ryan O, he writes:

“These (a selection of emails) serve to illustrate not that the scientists involved are engaged in fraudulent behavior for personal gain, but rather that they feel that it is their right or duty to be the gatekeepers of what information is allowed to be seen. I think it is clear that the scientists believe that they are correct. I think it is clear that they use this belief to justify actively engage in censoring their own results (and pressure others to censor theirs) to prevent full disclosure of the uncertainties involved in the methods they employ. I think it is clear that they use this belief to justify attempts to discredit legitimate criticisms, in some cases with the knowledge that those criticisms are accurate. I think it is clear that they use this belief to advocate suppressing free expression on the internet. I think it is clear that they use this belief to attempt to manipulate the peer review process to present their results in a way that lends more credibility to their conclusions than otherwise would be the case. This is advocacy, not science. It in no way invalidates AGW theory, but it does call into question the certainty with which these scientists claim to understand the magnitude of the AGW effect – and, by extension, the magnitude and timing of the anticipated consequences.”

“This naturally leads into another important lesson: the insular nature of this relatively small, yet incredibly influential, group of scientists leads them to believe that it is their right to decide who should be privy to data and code. As a party to several of the FOIA requests of the University of East Anglia and CRU, I find myself appalled at the cavalier manner in which several key individuals handled FOIA requests.”

An excellent review of the nature of the offences against science is given at Pajamas Media: “Three things you absolutely must know about climategate“, by Iain Murray. He states that the data released show unequivocally that:

1. They have manipulated data to produce predetermined results (NB All computer modelling does this to some extent).

2. They have discussed methods of subverting the scientific peer review process to ensure that skeptical papers had no access to publication. (ANd then said that opponents, such as Stephen McIntyre,  should not be listened to because they have not been published in peer-reviewed journals.

3. They have worked to circumvent the Freedom of Information process of the United Kingdom.

All this is unequivocal. What is alluded to but not mentioned in Murray’s article is that the data does not produce the published results when it is run through the algorithms they say they have used. Too many “parameterizations”, what we know as fudge factors, have been employed, I reckon. We will be hearing more about this aspect soon.

“…in the same manner that Al Gore can fly around the world in a private jet without polluting, I have negated my bad code footprint through the purchase of Bad Code Offsets.”
The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology (24 November 2009)
http://thedailywtf.com/
http://snipurl.com/teh35

See here.

And more will follow.
 
From the Australian Herald Sun, news that a major propagandist for man caused global warming recants.

None of this would matter in the least if trillions of dollars in cap and trade, and other major policy initiatives, were not at stake.

As one physicist said, if information is lost in black holes, that is a genuine scientific dispute. The second law of thermodynamics would be violated, and Stephen Hawking would have some explaining to do.

Whether the planet is cooling or warming is not really a genuine scientific dispute, unless the measurement is intended to drive a vast transfer of wealth from productive societies to unproductive ones.  Who gives a damn if the planet cools or warms by two degrees centigrade? You care only if the warming is the harbinger of an irreversible crisis. If it is the normal variation (it is) in a planet wobbling between ice ages, then global warming should be relished while it lasts.

Meanwhile, the ships of state plow forward.The government of Quebec yesterday announced a major policy on greenhouse gas reductions, with the Premier of Quebec blasting Ottawa for failing to do more of the same. Premier Jean Charest said that climate warming was “real”. Probably he is judging climate change by how late the golf courses are open this year, the same way everyone else does.

We have much to celebrate. On Friday last week, it was revealed that the basis of the man-caused global warming scare was, in strict terms, fraudulent. The means: the server at the Climate Research Unit and East Anglia University was hacked. Ten years of data and email was put on the Internet.

Jay Currie points out that more than damage the theory of man-caused global warming, it reveals the cynical and possibly illegal activities of a cabal of climate scientists at the core of the movement.

Various other blogs have carried the unfolding news.

http://motls.blogspot.com/2009/11/hacked-hadley-cru-foi2009-files.html#more
http://www.climatedepot.com/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/
http://www.devilskitchen.me.uk/2009/11/data-horribilis-harryreadmetxt-file.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20TheDevilsKitchen%20%28The%20Devil%27s%20Kitchen%29

The damage to the AGW cause will be irreversible. The miracle is that they got as far as they did. Future historians will ask:

How did they manage to persuade us that
a) the earth is on average warming when it has been steady or cooling for the last 15 years?
b) humans are the principal if not exclusive cause, when volcanism, solar output, plate tectonics, sea currents, astrophysical phenomena, among many others, play vastly more important roles?
c) global warming is a danger to human and other life, rather than a net benefit?
d) the various warm periods and colder snaps of the last two millennia have not occurred?
d) we should return to the energy consumption levels of America in the 1890’s in order to prevent the averge global air temperature from rising some 2.5 to 5 degrees centigrade?

e) we should establish unaccountable world government to transfer billions of our wealth to the third world on no other basis than this will  cause them to be rich and us to be poor, while we atone to Mother Gaia for industrializing?

The rearguard of the main stream media will do its best to deny, disparage, and obfuscate the importance of these revelations.  Many large interests have too much invested in the global warming industry to give up its tax credits, carbon trading caps, and opportunities to tell everyone what to do. But given the essentially fantastic nature of the claims to govern all carbon dioxide production, inlcuding your breathing, through comprehensive, unaccountable world government, only the most desperate measures would suffice.  They have been tried. They have failed.

I am reminded of Charles de Gaulle’s comment when he flew over Stalingrad. Viewing the city out of a plane window he was overheard to say “Quel peuple magnifique!”. The Russians were pleased to be so admired for their sucessful defence of Stalingrad. No, he corrected. He was referring to the Germans, for having gone so far into Russia. Perhaps we owe the climate fraudsters the same some grudging admiration, before burying them in mass graves.

I will get the bulldozer. You get the guns.

In what appears to be a repeat of “lighten the top and keep the bottom” strategy,  US forces seem to be trying to prove that Gen. Thieu was right in 1975.    Threat Watch reports the following.

It comes to our attention that the MEMRI Blog highlights an article from the Saudi _al-Watan_ in Arabic that – according to an Afghan source – the United States is talking to the Taliban seeking to trade control of 5 provinces in exchange for the cessation of attacks on US bases. MEMRI summarizes:

An Afghan source in Kabul reports that U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry is holding secret talks with Taliban elements headed by the movement’s foreign minister, Ahmad Mutawakil, at a secret location in Kabul. According to the source, the U.S. has offered the Taliban control of the Kandahar, Helmand, Oruzgan, Kunar and Nuristan provinces in return for a halt to the Taliban missile attacks on U.S. bases.

An elegant chaos

German left-wing magazine Spiegel is crying the blues.

Obama Lied to the Europeans

Barack Obama cast himself as a “citizen of the world” when he delivered his well-received campaign speech in Berlin in the summer of 2008. But the US president has now betrayed this claim. In his Berlin speech, he was dishonest with Europe….

Americans Do Not Look Beyond their Own Borders

Obama’s priorities are wrong…

Obama has proven himself to be unable to put an end to the lies that modern American society is based on.

Executive Summary: It is always easy to write autobiographies and make speeches.

Your correspondent is sure that Spiegel wishes that Obama did more and that Hitler did less given the propensity of both of them when it comes to autobiographies and speeches.

Your correspondent has been ambivalent toward the Carter-Obama analogy, but now it seems the pieces are starting to fit together in the form of KSM trial.  What killed the Carter presidency was the daily news drip about the Iran hostage crisis along with the hostage crisis day-count.  Obama has assured himself that sort of daily coverage with the KSM trial.  Once the trial starts the events will ratchet beyond his control and it will be a leap into the unknown, i.e. Axelrod’s ability to plan will be limited with random developments in the trial.

This is a presidency on training wheels and it is entirely possible, as your correspondent noted in an earlier post, that this administration will change its mind given that this decision is polling badly.

It is slowly grinding the Liberals under. Personally, there is a part of me that thinks they deserve to sit on the sidelines for a couple of generations while we, the rest of us, take back the country from their Volvo-driving hands.

John Ivison – Liberals Can’t Stop a Slide to Tory Majority

Steve Janke – The Game Changes, but the Liberals are Still not Playing

Stephen Chase and Daniel Leblanc – With Quebec Win, Tories Edge closer to a Majority

It is clear the two important constituencies are beginning to see the virtue of the Conservatives: French-Canadians outside Montreal, and English Canadians in the suburbs of Toronto and the cities of Ontario, like London. These voters are not natural Conservatives; they are going with whom they think will be the winner.

I was riding in the back seat of a taxi, about a decade ago. The driver was a Lebanese Christian. We saw some girls walking along the street, looking quite attractive, as young women tend to be. We were talking about Muslim immigration, the Lebanese civil war, how things were different in Canada. Considering his Muslim countrymen now in Canada, and the girls looking attractive, he said: “This society will drive them crazy. Everything about it. Especially the freedom of women.”

The head of Ottawa’s taxi union, a Muslim man, was sentenced to a year in jail for criminal harassment of his daughter.

It is pleasing to see the Court’s condemnation made no allowance for his Islamic cultural-religious belief system about women. The article by Andrew Seymour reads:

“Ontario Superior Court Justice Lynn Ratushny said the jail sentence was the minimum penalty that Yusef Al Mezel could serve to address the “strong need” for denunciation and general deterrence after he implied that the actions of his 23-year-old daughter would be met with violence because she had shamed and dishonoured her family.

“While the judge recognized Al-Mezel was a respected community leader whose threats would not likely result in an honour killing, she said they do remain as threats of some possible form of violence in the name of honour that required significant condemnation.

“They invoke a seriously dangerous belief system that can and has led to violence against women,” Judge Ratushny said. ”

Hurrah! “A seriously dangerous belief system” indeed.

The article continues:

“In the message, he also wrote of “the Sharaf of the family,” which Eman Al-Mezel later explained to police was the belief that she had shamed and dishonoured her family because she had run away from home and shed her hijab and Muslim beliefs.”

Is this the one place where western society will not invoke multi-culti rationalizations for bad behaviour, the status of women? It seems to be an excellent hill on which to stand. It rounds up both men and women in defence of commonly-held culture against the attacks of the barbarians. It invokes neither Deity nor denomination. It says: this is the way we do things here. , Obviously, some people just need to be told, and when they do not heed, to throw them in jail for a while to reflect upon the message.

Forgive me for stating the obvious. There must be dozens out there pointing out the same thing – the total lack of leadership and moral clarity by the US President, the US Chief of Staff and the media on the subject of the plain-as-day motives of our jihadi shrink gone bad.

Some people who are being clear are:

 Laurence Auster in View from the Right

Dennis Prager in Front Page Mag

Colby Cosh in the National Post

Irshad Manji, in a way that would survive Globe and Mail sensitivities.

Ron Radosh at Pajamas Media.

Lorne Gunter, in the National Post

Lorne Gunter writes:
“It is one thing to be tolerant of others’ views and beliefs, so long as those others are respectful of your creed and ideology in return. That has long been a hallmark of our pluralistic democracies. It is still. No matter how bad human rights commissions, Toronto Star columnists or special interest cause pleaders may claim discrimination is in Western societies, tolerance is and always has been at its greatest in the West.

The trouble with political correctness is that it doesn’t require that others be respectful in return.”

Prager writes:
“The deaths and maiming at Fort Hood are heartbreaking and angering. But ultimately far more injurious to America than the act of evil that caused those deaths and injuries is the massive self-deception American society engages in out of fear of being called bigoted, racist or “Islamaphobic.””

John King’s interview with General Casey skips over Islam (the only issue is possible backlash) to the question of stress in the military.

I am waiting for the explosion of Islamophobia. Have not heard it yet. I have barely seen any analysis let alone rioting and murder.

The previous examples of “Hand of God” have been on shaky ground but this example might be more compelling.  An earlier article in NYT discussed how the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was being sabotaged by its own future.  It stated the following.

A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather….

This malign influence from the future, they argue, could explain why the United States Superconducting Supercollider, also designed to find the Higgs, was canceled in 1993 after billions of dollars had already been spent, an event so unlikely that Dr. Nielsen calls it an “anti-miracle.”…

Dr. Nielsen and Dr. Ninomiya have proposed a kind of test: that CERN engage in a game of chance, a “card-drawing” exercise using perhaps a random-number generator, in order to discern bad luck from the future. If the outcome was sufficiently unlikely, say drawing the one spade in a deck with 100 million hearts, the machine would either not run at all, or only at low energies unlikely to find the Higgs.

Odd as it may seem the events are starting to bear this hypothesis correct.  A Popular Science article notes the follow.

First, a coolant leak destroyed some of the magnets that guide the energy beam. Then LHC officials postponed the restart of the machine to add additional safety features. Now, a bird dropping a piece of bread on a section of the accelerator has, according to the Register, shut down the whole operation.

The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.

Hand of God?  Only Maradona knows!

Obama and Iran

May 19th, 2008. Obama pooh-poohs danger from ‘tiny’ Iran

Leading Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama  pooh-poohed the idea that Iran or any of a few other “tiny” nations around the world offer a serious potential threat to the United States or the free world.

July 23rd, 2008. Obama says nuclear Iran poses “grave threat”

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Wednesday a nuclear Iran would pose a “grave threat” and that the world must stop Tehran from obtaining an atomic weapon.

Obama and Poland

Sept 17th, 2009. Obama nixes Europe missile shield plans

US President Barack Obama on Thursday shelved a Bush-era plan for an Eastern European missile defense plan that has been a major irritant in US relations with Russia. He said a redesigned defensive system would be cheaper, quicker and more effective against the threat from Iranian missiles.

Oct 21st, 2009. Biden, Polish leaders agree on revised missile plan

The Obama administration reached a new agreement Wednesday with top Polish government officials to place a new generation of missile interceptors on Polish soil, a surprising turnabout from just a few weeks earlier when it appeared the United States was ready to abandon its missile defense program in Eastern Europe.

In leftist circles this is “smart diplomacy“.