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Based On Unpublished Student Dissertations?

Even more problems found in IPCC report on AGW

First, the IPCC  Himalayan glaciers claim turned out to be based on speculation from an interview — and copied incorrectly.  Almost immediately after that scandal, the claim that anthropogenic global warming could kill off 40% of the rainforest was exposed as an unsubstantiated claim from the World Wildlife Fund, postulated by two activists, neither of whom were climate scientists.  It just seemed like a matter of time before someone started digging through the IPCC’s report to knock down the entire house of cards.  Today the Telegraph reports on its research into the basis for the IPCC’s claims on AGW and discovers that much of its foundation consists of highly suspect components (via Newsbeat1)

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The Tip Of The Glacier

IPCC based claims on a student dissertation and a magazine article

This story just keeps getting better

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A Real No-Spin Zone

Minnesota wind turbines won’t work in cold weather

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Melting

IPCC chief hid glacier information for months

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Can't Make It Up

Global warming fear mongers are now blaming this winter's cold weather on global warming.
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Wind Power

A Fantastic Story on Noisy, Idiotic Wind Turbines

Turbines.  I love this.  You know, all these people, all of you gullible, you big-hearted, lovable but gullible people who, because you think you really care and you really have caused a problem with your life so you buy into this green technology garbage, you buy into all of this climate change stuff, alternative energy sources, like windmills.  Have you ever wondered why the liberals do not want windmills where they live?  Ted Kennedy didn't want them anywhere near his compound out there in Hyannis Port.  I have a story here from the Portland Press Herald in Maine: "Turbines Turn into Headache for Vinalhaven -- Noise complaints energize opponents of wind power and complicate Maine's renewable energy efforts."  You won't find a bigger collection of well-intentioned, big-hearted liberals than in Maine. 

"Cheryl Lindgren was excited when the three wind turbines down the road began turning in November, but within days her excitement turned to disbelief. The sound at her house, a half-mile or so away, wasn't what she had expected. As she sat reading in her quiet living room, she could detect a repetitive 'whump, whump' coming from outside. 'I can feel this sound,' she recalled thinking. 'It's going right through me. I thought, "Is this what's it's going to be like for the rest of my life?"'"  Hey, Cheryl, makes that coal power sound pretty good now, right?  "Dedicated two months ago with great fanfare, the Fox Islands Wind Project is producing plenty of power, but also, a sense of shock among some neighbors." I really question how much power these things produce.  "They say the noise, which varies with wind speed and direction, ranges from mildly annoying to so intrusive that it disturbs their sleep. And they say they lament losing the subtle silence they cherish living in the middle of Penobscot Bay -- the muffled crash of surf on the ledges and the whisper of falling snow."  Poor people.  It's what happens with alternative energy.  Such a scam.  It's all such a scam. 
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AGW?

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change  has retracted its 2007 claim that the Himalayan glaciers are likely to disappear by 2035. The IPCC now says there is little scientific evidence to back up their claim.
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Plus, A Peek Inside The AGW Think Tank … So To Speak

Oops: IPCC to withdraw claim that AGW will wipe out Himalayan glaciers by 2035

The UN agency for “climate change” will withdraw a years-old claim that man-made climate change will destroy the Himalayan glaciers within 25 years — after its highly unscientific method of reaching this conclusion got exposed this week. Instead of conducting actual science themselves, with open and transparent methods, the IPCC apparently just read the claim in an interview and decided to adopt it. Now the original reporter in the interview claims that not only did the IPCC simply lift the claim without any investigation, they didn’t understand it correctly in the first place

The Times of London makes a mistake in this opening. The blunders weren’t “scientific” in nature — in other words, the errors did not stem from bad modeling, data, or assumptions in a scientific inquiry. The IPCC adopted the claim without doing any science on their own at all.  They never tested the hypothesis that they read in the New Scientist.  It matched their politics, not any kind of science they conducted or reviewed.

Um, okay.  So the IPCC read the interview in which Hasnain speculated — with no scientific evidence whatsoever — that a portion of the Himalayan glaciers would melt at some indeterminate time, and concluded that the entirety of the massif would evaporate by 2035.  They never even bothered to wait for Hasnain’s report to see exactly what he claimed, and why.  Instead, they just inflated the unsubstantiated speculation with a zeppelin of greenhouse-gas hyperbole and stated categorically that the entire glacial structure in the Himalayas would be gone in a quarter-century.

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Sicko

Cuban cold snap kills 26 patients in mental hospital

I’m wondering whether Michael Moore will add this to a later edition of the Sicko DVD.  Twenty-six patients in a Cuban mental hospital died from hypothermia during an unusually cold winter in Havana

My goodness, it’s a good thing that Michael Moore decided to lecture Americans on the superiority of the Cuban health-care system in his feature-length diatribe, isn’t it?  Otherwise, we wouldn’t be demanding a government takeover of our own health-care system to achieve parity with Fidel’s paradise.

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What A Fool

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Recipe For Government Manipulation

Plug in cars won’t pay off for consumers for 15 years

In other words, the only way this works is either a miracle breakthrough on something we’re not even approaching yet, or government taxes the hell out of all the other consumer options.  Don’t be surprised to see the gas taxes approach proposed by Congress or the White House in the coming months — while they still can pass it themselves.

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Go Green

Obama's Green Jobs Program: $135,294 Per Job...
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Here Comes Another Multi-Billion-Dollar Green Jobs Boondoggle

By Michelle Malkin  •  January 8, 2010 01:08 PM

Gird your loins.

The latest job numbers are out and they’re worse than expected.

Which means it’s time for another White House green jobs boondoggle campaign

As I noted yesterday, “Green Jobs” really should be called “Purple Jobs” — for the SEIU and Big Labor beneficiaries of the enviro-slush fund. A reminder of what the green jobs black hole cost Spain

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