She Flies With Her Own Wings

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Washington Times:The fight over global warming science is about to cross the Atlantic with a U.S. researcher poised to sue NASA, demanding release of the same kind of climate data that has landed a leading British center in hot water over charges it skewed its data.Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said NASA has refused for two years to provide information under the Freedom of Information Act that would show how the agency has shaped its climate data and would explain why the agency has repeatedly had to correct its data going as far back as the 1930s. Chris Horner, researcher.Christopher C. Horner serves as a Senior Fellow at CEI. As an attorney in Washington, DC Horner has represented CEI as ... Read the rest of "Senior Fellow, Competitive Research Institute"

Michelle Malkin then:Hacking e-mail is a federal crime. A TV anchor who broke into his colleague’s e-mail account recently pleaded guilty and faces a maximum five years in prison.The law will catch up to the hackers, but what about the lowlifes who are now gleefully splashing the alleged contents of Palin’s private e-mail account all over the Internet?Michelle Malkin now:“The science is settled,” we’ve been told for decades by zealous proponents of man-made global warming hysteria. Thanks to an earth-shaking hacki... Read the rest of "4chan.org/r/wingnut"

Leaving aside the obviously intentional mis-interpretation of the hacked CRU e-mails known collectively as "Climategate"...“For instance,” Inhofe wrote, “one scientist wrote of a ‘trick he employed to ‘hide the decline’ in global temperature trends, as well as discussed attempts to ‘redefine what the peer-review literature is’ to prevent papers raising questions about anthropogenic global warming from appearing in IPCC reports. “Another scientist stated, ‘The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming and it is a travesty that we can’t.’ Still another wrote, “I tried hard to balance the needs of the science and the IPCC, which were not always the same,’” Inhofe added.Wow. It's amazing how this man can consistently dumb things down so radically and get away with it. The bigger question that arises here is how can a... Read the rest of "James Inhofe's inbox"

You almost had me there, until I read this:Today these groups form a kind of ecosystem of their own. They include not just old standbys like the Sierra Club or Greenpeace, but also Ozone Action, Clean Air Cool Planet, Americans for Equitable Climate Change Solutions, the Alternative Energy Resources Association, the California Climate Action Registry and so on and on. All of them have been on the receiving end of climate change-related funding, so all of them must believe in the reality (and catastrophic imminence) of global warming just as a priest must believe in the existence of God.Eh, yeah...if you're going to cite the entire federal, state and private research apparatus, international funding agencies, every dime that doesn't get spent on gasoline or coal, and every environmental organization known to mankind, you might want to include in ... Read the rest of "Dear Bret,"

I've long thought that the world needs more op-ed articles that repeatedly italicize the word trillions:British scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit now claim that the key data underpinning the man-made-warming theory was . . . thrown out: Original climate data stored on magnetic tape and paper were dumped, supposedly when the CRU moved to new quarters.I'm so old, I just barely remember a time when computers used magnetic tape. Turns out, of course, that the raw data (the site-corrected data are of course all freely available) were thrown out back in the mid 80s. Wasn't that back when we were supposedly still mislead by the great Global Cooling Scam™?Their story strains credulity: Who'd toss out data critical to the idea that the earth is rapidly warming... Read the rest of "TRILLIONS, BABY TRILLIONS!"

While we're arguing over whether "trick" means "trick", el Niño is heating up again. It might be time to start changing the excuse from "NO WARMING THE LAST 10 YEARS!!!1!" back to "aw, shucks, even if there is warming, it's not going to be so bad." Just sayin'.... Read the rest of "Hey, skeptics..."

To be unveiled at next month's LA auto show:"The sleek-looking, low to the ground, high-performance supercar definitely raises hybrid's cool factor on several levels," stated Jim Crouse, Capstone's Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "The CMT-380's design performance numbers speak for themselves: 0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds, 150 mph top speed, and an unheard-of driving range of up to 500 miles on a single tank of fuel, all with ultra-low exhaust emissions that rival any hybrid on the market today," added Crouse.A jet engine inside a car that allows it drive faster and farther. The turbine company is working together with two auto manufacturers to bring the pricetag down to a reasonable range.... Read the rest of "The Coolest Hybrid Car Ever!"

As usual, when surrounded by copious amounts of noise, I don't really get it. Data stored on floppy disks no one can read anymore was thrown out over 20 years ago. However, the corrected data still exists and with the correction factors known, the original numbers can be reconstructed. That will make the debate about the appropriateness of the use of those particular correction factors. Possibly a huge waste of time, but hardly a Copenhagen deal-breaker.Scientists decided to stop sending manuscripts to a journal that publishes crap. The scientific editor probably... Read the rest of "So?"

An open letter to climate science graduate students and an interview with Mike Hulme, both of which very conciliatory to the climate skeptic community as a whole, were posted yesterday. But is that enough to satisfy the political community? Of course not:We really need to remove a wholly political organization, the United Nations, from science.Leaving in place such wholly apolitical organizations as the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Heartland Institute, etc.... Read the rest of "Give 'em an inch..."

Shocking! Cover-up! Manipulation! Why won't scientific journals allow us to publish this? When will the socialist MSM tell us Al Gore lied?Oh wait, ... Read the rest of "Ow, the stupid, it hurts!"

If we were to grant the skeptics the greatest benefit of the doubt for a moment, we can say that this week's "scandal" might, if their worst-case allegations are verified, indicate that the Earth is warming slightly slower than had been feared. It's still warming and it's still being caused by GHG emissions.If that eventually does prove to be the case, the whole host of characters on the right cheering about these stolen e-mails should whole-heartled endorse Obama's cautious Copenhagen targets:At the international climate summit in Copenhagen next month, Mr. Obama will tell the delegates that the United States intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions “in the range of” 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050, officials said, reflecting the targets specified by legislation that passed the House in June but is stalled in the Senate.... Read the rest of "What we can learn from Climategate"

Interestingly, neither Inhofe's inquiry nor the Competitive Enterprise Institute's FOIA request seem to be interested in how the e-mails were obtained. - those relating to the content, importance or propriety of workday-hour posts or entries by GISS/NASA employee Gavin A. Schmidt on the weblog or "blog" RealClimate, which is owned by the advocacy Environmental Media Services and was started as an effort to defend the debunked "Hockey Stick" that is so central to the CRU files. RealClimate.org is implicated in the leaked files, expressly offered as a tool to be used "in any way you think would be helpful" to a certain advocacy campaign, including an assertion of Schmidt's active involvement in, e.g., delaying and/or screening out unhelpful input by "skeptics" at... Read the rest of "I'm that's because it's all about the "science""

I generally agree with Monbiot. The leaked CRU e-mails suck, but they don't show nearly the kind of conspiracy that free-market think tanks would like us to believe. Having read through a number of e-mail threads from the hacked CRU database, it strikes me how, in many cases at least, innocent of conspiracy these scientists actually are; and how rigorous their e-mail debates tend to get. Here's an example where they find use of fraudulent data by a prominent climate skeptic. They wonder what to do, discuss it at length, and check and re-check their data before taking any action. No wonder they're not all that happy with journal editors who publish manuscripts by those very same climate skeptics: the risk of having ... Read the rest of "One post without sarcasm or ridicule"

From the CLIMATEGATE e-mails:As I see it, there are two key issues here. First, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and Pat Michaels are arguing that Phil Jones and colleagues at the CRU [Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK ] willfully, intentionally, and suspiciously "destroyed" some of the raw surface temperature data used in the construction of the gridded surface temperature datasets. Second, the CEI and Pat Michaels contend that the CRU surface temperature datasets provided the sole basis for IPCC "discernible human influence" conclusions.Both of these arguments are incorrect. First, there was no intentional destruction of the primary source data. I am sure that, over 20 years ago, the CRU cou... Read the rest of "Reading CRU e-mails with CEI-colored glasses"

So I was talking with a treehugger hippie friend of mine over beers during the football game yesterday. I do have friends like that, though I know they are clueless. But I usually can convince them to see the light and change their minds. This is how our conversation went. Treehugger hippie: What if Newton's personal communications had been stolen and held up to the same scrutiny as the Hadley CRU climate scientists? Would we then not have learned gravity theory and possibly missed out on the Enlightenment entirely?So I sez: Look, the worst that would have happened in that case would have been that we didn't know why the apple hit us upside our heads. With climate change legislation, we're facing ... Read the rest of "Monday Morning Quarterbacking"

The Wall Street Journal provides further background on Climategate:The tension between those two camps is apparent in the emails. More recent messages showed climate scientists were increasingly concerned about blog postings and articles on leading skeptical Web sites. Much of the internal discussion over scientific papers centered on how to pre-empt attacks from prominent skeptics, for example.The horrifying revelations about scientific abuses over the last few days have brought us numerous challenges, but also given us an opportunity to reflect on our mission and refocus our goals. Some of our inspiration might come from fellow bloggers. For instance, Mark Steyn at National Review's Corner blogs:"Climate change" and "health care"... Read the rest of "Like Paul Joseph, without the smile."

You think the revelations of climate fraud are bad? Wait till you see what we've uncovered in their spam filter:Subject: East Anglican models with mad data skillzYou can't account for her lack of warming? Are you having trouble hiding your decline? Your observing system is not inadequate. Trick her into manipulating your hockey stick tonight! Order your hemispheric reconstruction kit today and so you won't have to contain your MWP any longer.Emphasis added. This is the biggest science spam in history.... Read the rest of "Climategate reveals additional e-mails"

By now many of us will have heard the shocking revelation that an anonymous hacker has posted damning evidence showing climate sciencofascists used real data in their models, debated over whether to ask the US Congress to take climate science seriously, questioned their theories during unseasonably cold nights and disagreed over the review process and editorial decisions of certain journals. I know. I can't believe this either. Scientists shoul... Read the rest of "Friday's science.e-news commentary"

You might have wondered what's happened to good ole' Sir Oolius these past few months. Well, I have to admit that after much navel-gazing, the contrarian in me won out and I feel compelled to join forces with the side of the truest truth of truer truths. Over the past 9 months, I have come to realize that I strongly believe that the free market is under attack by a vicious and heartless socialist conspiracy and that global warming is the issue with which they plan to force us into slavery. And death. Lots of death. I fear the death that is to be bestowed upon our freedom-loving nation. To all my previous readers: I WILL NOT apologize! You must join me and the mission of this mighty blog in resisting this effort on the part of our enemies by every means possible! Rise up and fight!Now that we've gotten that out of the way, how better to get things going again here than with climate denier [dammit, things like this still slip out from time to time] po... Read the rest of "I gotta start 'splainin myself sometime"