On Hiding the Decline and Rebuilding Trust part III (of LXXV): To Serve Mann

By cartoonist Josh, from WUWT

The final nail in the coffin of global warming is nigh! The ultimate truth of the Climategate scandal is revealed. The downfall and disgrace of the Team is finally coming. Teamster Eugene Wahl has spilled the beans.

Mosher at WUWT reports: 

“Sources confirm that a federal inspector has questioned Eugene Wahl and Wahl has confirmed that Mann asked him to delete emails. Wahl has also informed the inspector that he did delete emails as the result of this request.”

We thank this courageous source, probably the brave Senator Inhofe's office.

And Marc Morano: 

“Climategate’s Michael Mann Caught!? Justice to be Served?! Climategate’s Eugene Wahl ‘has confirmed that Mann asked him to delete emails… Wahl did delete emails as the result of this request’”

So the case is clear: Teamster Mann ordered Teamster Wahl to delete emails. Mann was the bloated spider in the center of the web of deceit and deception spun by the Team; the ayatollah behind the Team's reign of climate terror. The emails in questions are reported to be concerned with a clandestine exchange Wahl had with Teamster Briffa, when Briffa asked for Wahl's assistance in corrupting the corrupt IPCC procedures in order to respond to a hockey-stick-related comment from an IPCC reviewer (who actually was our hero Steve McIntyre). The corruption is claimed to consist of Wahl, secretly and most certainly in violation of the corrupted IPCC rules, sending Briffa a paper he co-authored with Teamster Ammann which had not been published at that time, but that is probably just the tip of the non-melting ice-berg. We can only speculate what tricks, decline-hiding, spaghetti cooking and data massaging was going on in that corrupt paper. It is now clear that nothing in the IPCC reports can be trusted. The public is rapidly losing confidence in climate science due to this sordid affair, and justifiably so. This would never have happened of the IPCC had followed my advise to video record all activities of IPCC authors; to log all their computer activities; to record all their communications and conversations; monitor their physiological parameters (temperature, blood pressure, EKG, EEG etc); to regularly test their DNA for mutations; and to make all this information publicly available in real time on the web. I demand that the IPCC complies with my suggestions for the writing of the next report, due in 2035.

The momentous revelation of Mann's involvement has resulted in a grotesque and malicious ad hominem smearing campaign by notorious alarmists like Joe Romm. While it in some sense may be technically correct that Wahl actually didn't say that Mann asked him to delete the emails but only forwarded an email from Briffa, that is immaterial to the case at hand. We know for certain that Mann was master minding a conspiracy to corrupt the IPCC reports. Joe Romm is only trying to attack the messenger in order to divert the attention from Mann's transgressions, in particular not telling the Penn State investigation about the forwarding. Read for yourself if you can stomach it:

A bunch of widely discredited pro-pollution scientist-smearers — Anthony “shout them down” Watts, Chris Horner, Marc Morano, Steve McIntyre — have spun a partially leaked transcript from the IG investigation into a bunch of libelous falsehoods. Sen. Inhofe has now reposted those stories on the Senate EPW website (here). The most plausible theory is that Inhofe himself leaked the information to right-wing fabricators so he could quote those stories (see below).

Outrageous! Although one could argue that Mann didn't explicitly ask Wahl to delete the emails, but instead forwarded an email from Briffa to Wahl, it is clear that Mosher (on Watt's blog), Horner and Morano where justified to report that Mann did ask Wahl to delete the emails. There is nothing libelous in that! On the contrary, Mosher, Horner and Morano are brave and truth-loving and honorable men (who by the way have since made corrections, sort of)! And so is the highly esteemed Senator Inhofe, that beacon of sanity and integrity in the US Senate. Why is Romm so obsessive about whether the information came from Inhofe? The important thing is that the information is true, or at least was in principle (although perhaps not entirely in practice) true at the time it was deliberated. And if some things happened to be "leaked" and some things were not perfectly true - so what? We shouldn't ask for impossible standards of integrity and perfection. Romm and his fellow alarmists must really be getting desperate, but they know that their house of cards is falling down! Therefore, they are burning all their bridges. We will never get any reconciliation and we will never rebuild the public's trust in climate science if people like Romm have their way! Woe, woe, woe! This misery can only be remedied with even more blogging about the hockey-stick and Climate gate.

Yet, it is comforting to see that the public is unimpressed by Romm's fit of rage. Romm's post only got 50 comments, whereas Mosher's WUWT post has received 490 comments when I'm writing this, so it is quite clear who to trust on this matter. I conclude by citing some of the insightful comments to Mosher's piece:

Tastes like pork I am told.

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The house of cards will soon be coming down.

Kudos to all those stalwart individuals that have doggedly pursued this noble cause. I have never made a “charitable” donation that made more sense and gave better results than supporting this and other climate realist organizations.

Well done!

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If Wahl admitted this… wait my brain is trying to understand why there are no criminal proceedings going on right now.

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Nothing will happen. Orthodox Party members never get in trouble. Only heretics and truth-tellers get in trouble.

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Penn State (and Penn State alumni) better realize that they are NOT too big for this cover-up to severely damage their reputation.

Humungous US Funding of Evil and Corrupt IPCC Will Be Stopped!

Stop the flow of money into the deep pockets of these guys (al'Gore and Pachauri)!

The US House of Representatives has voted with the figures 244 for and 179 votes against to stop funding the monumentally corrupt and thoroughly evil organization IPCC!
The US has been paying the enormous sum of $2.3 million millions, or $2.3 trillions, every year to the monstrous bureaucracy of the IPCC. This is roughly 1/6th of the entire US GDP, or 4 times the US military budget. These huge amounts have forced the US to borrow large sums from China, and the money has gone to an organization hell-bent on destroying the Western way of life. An organization fraught with waste and abuse, which cannot get even the most basic figures right (remember Himalaya-gate).
I have already warned about the danger of letting policy be influenced by science. Politicians are gullible and easily manipulated by scientists with a hidden and sinister agenda and an insatiable hunger for more and more grant money (or worse: the politicians themselves are part of the scam, like al’Gore). Finally, the House of Representatives has put down its foot. We can only hope that the Senate follows suit. Then we might finally end the reign of terror of the IPCC.
I will end this post with the immortal words of Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Missouri):

Scientists manipulated climate data, suppressed legitimate arguments in peer-reviewed journals, and researchers were asked to destroy emails, so that a small number of climate alarmists could continue to advance their environmental agenda.
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Mr. Chairman, if the families in my district have been able to tighten their belts, surely the federal government can do the same and stop funding an organization that is fraught with waste and abuse. My amendment simply says that no funds in this bill can go to the IPCC. This would save taxpayers millions of dollars this year and millions of dollars in years to come. In fact, the President has requested an additional $13 million in his fiscal 2012 budget request.
My constituents should not have to continue to foot the bill for an organization to keep producing corrupt findings that can be used as justification to impose a massive new energy tax on every American.

Corruptisima re publica plurimae leges

Great Scandal in First IPCC report

All well-informed people must have heard of the notorious so-called Hockey Stick graph by the equally notorious Michael Mann and his accomplices. An alleged attempt to reconstruct northern hemisphere temperatures during the last millennium, it featured prominently in the third IPCC report, published in 2001. Its inclusion in that report is considered to be one of the greatest scientific scandals ever.
But there is an ever greater scandal that is waiting to have its story told. It concerns the first IPCC report, published in 1990. This report features another millennial temperature reconstruction (below).

This graph is commonly referred to as the “Sickle graph” because of its sickle-like shape (compare to the picture below).

Note that the sickle is a commonly used symbol for communism.

The “Sickle graph” is based on the work of Hubert Lamb, who also is the founder of the notorious Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University, of Climate Gate infamy (hardly a mere coincident). And if one investigates the origin of the graph, it turns out that it is not at all global, as claimed by the IPCC, but merely covers Central England!
This was in 1990, which was much closer to the medieval period than 2010 (ie the present year), and yet this was the best they could do. A crudely drawn graph for Central England (loaded with communist symbolism), and not even calibrated against present temperatures! Then one can only imagine how much worse our knowledge of medieval temperatures must be today, twenty years later.
Do you all see now what a terrible fraud this is? And the fraud has been successful: even many skeptics unknowingly use this disgraceful and discredited graph, a cruel mockery of everything that is good and pure in science! It is utterly unacceptable. Don’t let the alarmists keep this outrageousity buried any longer. After all, this is in the primary IPCC report – the most important of them all. This scandal will bring down the IPCC once and for all, and put an end to its reign of terror. And in particular, Bert Bolin must immediately resign as the first IPCC chair!

All skeptical bloggers must write about this scam of unprecedented proportions! Anthony Whats, Steve McIntyre – you must immediately help me to let the entire world know! Professor Wegman must immediately start a new investigation, and congressman Joe Barton must commission it!

My dear fellow skeptics, pit bulls for truth: this time we surely have the IPCC by the balls, and we will not let go!

Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi

Reforming the IPCC: how to do it properly!

Dear readers,
Following the mercilessly critical report from IAC about the IPCC there have been plenty of discussions about what to do with the IPCC. It might be tempting to just disband the thoroughly discredited organization. However, I am an honest broker who only wants to mediate between the two sides in the climate controversy. I take no sides - I just want the objective truth. Fairness and balance are very important valued to me. After a careful and informed analysis of the situation, I have come to the conclusion that a thoroughly revised IPCC might be instrumental in finally putting the AGW scam to rest in a coffin full of nails. The IPCC could be turned into a powerful weapon against the eco-fascists. As they are inherently authority-believing, the eco-fascists might change their minds if the IPCC stated that there is no AGW problem (that is provided that their belief in authority is stronger than their hatred towards mankind). The following measures are intended to turn the IPCC and its future assessment reports into vehicles for Truth and Reason instead of vehicles for Eco-Fascist Fraud and Deception, as they have been so far.

1. No communists like Hansen and Mann should be allowed to participate. Only politically independent and objective people should be allowed. Thus, alls participants must have read and memorized “Atlas Shrugged”.
   


2. No people who receive grants for doing climate science should be allowed to participate. Such people will just make up scary things so they can get even more grants. Only economically independent people should be allowed.
   


3. Likewise, no people who publish climate science articles in peer-reviewed journals should be allowed. They just want to cite their own papers and those of their tribe.
   


4. No Chinese or Indians, who just want to weaken the competiveness of the West. Tricky bastards!


5. No previous IPCC participant can participate in the new IPCC (in particular not Pachauri)! . As everybody who has any experience with management knows, if you want to change an organization the first thing you must do is to get rid of all members/employees.
   


6. All previous IPCC participants must release all the email correspondence they have ever had. Releasing email correspondence is vital for the auditing of science and to guarantee repeatability and transparency.
   


7. All IPCC prisoners must be released and all weapons of mass destructions must be disarmed.
   


8. Any IPCC participant that claims that CO2 can affect the climate must, in order to be credible, abstain from travelling in airplanes and in cars, living indoors, eating warmed food and breathing.
   


9. No use of models. Good science is based on empirical observations, and not models. In particular, any “predictions” and “projections” about the future must be entirely based on observations, and not models. If Galileo and Newton and Maxwell and Einstein had bee diddling with models, science would never have progressed.
   


10. No use of temperature data. Temperature data, whether from thermometers on the ground or those mounted on satellites, are notoriously unreliable and affected by the urban heat island effect.
    


11. Likewise, sea level data, carbon dioxide data, precipitation data, arctic ice volume data and climate proxies must be avoided, as they are inherently unreliable and unscientific.
    


12. Climate data from other planets must be included, so we can compare the warming on Earth, the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Haley’s comet and the iron-core Sun. No theory that cannot explain all these warming incidents should be taken seriously.
    


13. Anecdotal evidence, such as medieval Chinese fleets navigating around the North Pole, should not be dismissed unless proven wrong beyond the shadow of a doubt. To rely more on instruments than on human observers and chroniclers is elitistic and in its essence anti-human.
    


14. No references should be allowed to any shady grey literature, like WWF reports. Only shiningly white NGOs working for the benefit of mankind, like the Heartland Institute, should be referenced. White humans are more important than grey frogs!
    


15. No references should be allowed to journals like Nature and Science, which have been participating in the suppression of AGW-skeptical papers. Only truly openminded and unbiased journals like Energy & Environment should be referenced.
    


16. For each unbalanced alarmist reference, there must be at least one skeptical reference in order to assure fairness and balance.
    


17. Uncertainty should be specified according to the scale “Uncertain”, “Highly uncertain”, “Extremely uncertain” and “Completely wrong”.
    


18. The best science nowadays is done on blogs, were new ideas easily can be proposed and peer review is instant. Hence, the focus of the assessment reports should be moved from reviewing what is published in the ivory-tower journals to what is published on the blog science blogs. The blogs belonging to journals like Science and Nature do not count – they are just ivory tower blogs masquerading as blog science blogs.
    


19. The assessment reports should not exceed 20 pages, and all information should be presented as comic strips. In that way, even illiterate people with a limited attention span will be able to comprehend it. (Like Al Gore, he he!)
    


20. In order to ensure its independence, the IPCC should not receive any funding from governments. Instead, it has find its own financing, for instance by selling advertisements in the assessment reports. The taxpayer money that is saved can be used for more important things, like eradicating malaria and giving tax cuts for productive citizens.

You might ask yourself, dear reader, “Why did they not do like this from the beginning? These proposals are bloody brilliant!” There are many answers to this, but I believe that the most important ones are:

• IPCC was started by eco-fascists driven by a hatred for mankind.


• They did not involve anybody who really knew how to do things the right way, like me. After all, they were all ivory-tower academics with no experience from real life.


• They are not nearly as intelligent and well-informed as us sceptics.


• IPCC has been a gigantic and self-generating bureaucracy, and a gray-train for those incapable of sustaining themselves out in the real world.
  

But will the IPCC cabal not try to resist these very reasonable, objective and balanced changes? No, they are simply too stupid and gullible to understand what the consequences will be. They could get away with their IPCC idiocy the first time only because we thinking people didn’t take them seriously enough. After their reign of terror, we will not make that mistake again. This time we will be on top of things!

Alea iacta est!

Correlation - what correlation?

The graph to the left shows the global temperature according to NASA (in degrees Kevin, red line) and the CO2 measurements (parts per millions) from Manua Loa (a volcano)!

The temperature is really completely flat, while the CO2 is going up a tiny tiny bit.

This simple graph disproves two of the most egregarious lies of the IPCC cabal: (1) it is getting warmer and (2) the warming is due to CO2. There is clearly no correlation between temperature and CO2! The increase in CO2 is instead caused by the medieval warming period: as we know from the ice cores, CO2 lags 800 years behind temperature.

Using the current CO2 levels as a proxy for past temperatures, we can also conclude that it was about 100 degrees warmer 800 years ago, a period of great prosperity when they built the great cathedrals in Europe, Richard Lionheart (to the right) defeated the islamofascists, Chinese fleets sailed around the Arctic ocean and the Inca and Aztec civilizations were at their peaks. If 100 degrees Kevin was so good for humans 800 years ago, why should we worry about a couple of tens of degrees during the 21st centuries? Only the bedwetting ninnies and nincompoops of the IPCC watermelon (green outside, red inside) fruit sallad could object, because they hate humankind!

Ceterum censeo IPCCem esse delendam!

20 definite disproofs against global warming

According to IPCC, the world is getting warmer and this is due to human emissions of carbon dioxide. Dear reader, I have to admit that also I once believed in the IPCC dogma, until I started to independently investigate the science. I soon discovered that the AGW theory (ie hypothesis) can easily be disproved by a number of indisputable scientific facts supported by thousands of scientific articles, blog entries and youtube videos which for obvious (nudge nudge) reasons didn’t make it into the IPCC propaganda reports. Learn these facts verbatim, and you will emerge victorious from every debate with the warmist scum!

1. Temperatures have never increased – global warming stopped in 1998.
2. We cannot accurately measure temperature. A single thermometer has an error of plus/minus several degrees Kevin, and if you use a thousand thermometers, the error is magnified to plus/minus several thousands degrees Kevin (law of large numbers).
3. The level of carbon dioxide has not increased.
4. We cannot measure carbon dioxide in the air with any meaningful accuracy – the atoms are transparent, and the amounts are too small (parts of billions).
5. Carbon dioxide is an insignificant trace gas.
6. Human emissions of carbon dioxide are dwarfed by the emissions of nature, in particular from volcanoes and fish.
7. There is no way emissions of carbon dioxide can change the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. That level is determined by other factors, such as temperature.
8. There is no correlations whatsoever between temperature and carbon dioxide.
9. Correlation is not causation.
10. There are thousands of natural factors that control the climate much more than any human activities and we know very little about these factors. The uncertainty is gargantuan!
11. There is no proven physical theory that supports the notion that carbon dioxide can cause warming.
12. AGW theory is based on quantum mechanics, which was disproved by Einstein: God does not play dice (alea iacta est).
13. If carbon dioxide hypothetically would have any effect on temperature, it would have been saturated by now.
14. The greenhouse effect violates the second law of thermodynamics.
15. The greenhouse effect is a misnomer – there is nothing like the glass panels of a greenhouse.
16. It was much warmer during previous historical periods when there was no carbon dioxide. For instance, it was several degrees warmer during the medieval warm period (MWP) when Greenland was green and covered by grape vines.
17. The computer models which are the only support for the AGW hypothesis are nothing more than glorified computer games, which only do what you program them to do. Garbage in, garbage out as any programmer can testify!
18. Computer models of the climate do not take into account clouds, water vapour, the oceans, geothermal energy, the sun and that Earth is spherical. Therefore, they are completely unrealistic.
19. AGW theory cannot explain the medieval warming period, the little ice age, the big ice age, the Roman warming period, the Minoan warming period, the ice on the Themes and the extinction of the dinosaurs.
20. AGW theory is not falsifiable, and hence not a scientific theory according to Popper!

Cognito ergo sum!