AGW – Following the Climategate II emails:


CURRENT UPDATED LISTING OF THE LATEST  FOIA EMAILS:   (Courtesy JoNova and WUWT)

AGW – Significant Support for AGW sceptics/deniers.

Other related posts:

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Fukushima Radiation Dangers – Not everybody has their head in the sand.


One of the posts from “Fukushima Diaries”, dated Dec 1st 2011.

MHLW ignores the medical statistics of Fukushima and a part of Miyagi

Posted by Mochizuki on  December 1st, 2011 ·
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) conducts a patient survey every 3 years.

However, it turned out that they eliminated the data of Fukushima and a part of Miyagi from their statistics this time.

Since a few weeks ago, this “harmful rumor” has been spreading on the internet.

各都道府県の国公立医師会病院の統計によると、今年の4月から10月にかけて、「白血病」と診断された患者数が、昨年の約7倍にのぼったことが21日に判明した。これを受けて、日本医師会会長原中勝征は、原発事故との因果関係は不明として、原因が判明次第発表するとした。 白血病と診断された患者の約60%以上が急性白血病で、統計をとりはじめた1978年以来、このような比率は例が無いという。 また、患者の約80%が東北・関東地方で、福島県が最も多く、次に茨城、栃木、東京の順に多かった。

Translation:

11/21/2011, according to the survey of medical association of each local government, since this April to October, leukemia cases have increased by 7 times over last year.

Having this result, the chairman of medical association, Haranaka Katsumasa, said that the connection between this unusual increase of leukemia cases and the Fukushima accident is not clear, but once they figure out the reason, they will announce it.

60% of the total leukemia cases are acute leukemia. This is the highest ratio since 1978, when they started taking this survey. 80% of the patients are from Northern Japan and the Kanto area. Fukushima has the highest rate while Ibaraki, Tochigi, Tokyo follow.

Though it is very detailed and sounds authorized, Japan Medical Association denied this information on its web site.

To clear up this “confusion”, a Japanese citizen asked Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare for the truth, to which they replied that they take all patients statistics but that this year they eliminated the data from Fukushima and a part of Miyagi from the whole statistics report.

They say it is to support the reconstruction of Fukushima and Miyagi, but we all know that in reality abandoning the survey only makes the situation worse.

On 3/11, earthquake and Tsunami hit Miyagi and Iwate for most of the part while Fukushima suffers from radiation mostly.

If they really wanted to try to “help reconstruction efforts” (sic), they should eliminate the data of those three prefectures, with Iwate and Miyagi given a higher priority.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare does not give any more specific reasons why.

Source: http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/12/mhlw-ignores-the-medical-statistics-of-fukushima-and-a-part-of-miyagi/

These posts are labelled by many as ‘scare-mongering’. The question is – are they the truth? If they are lies, and why would they be?, tell us so. If not, scare-mongering is not the correct word.

Truth which hides facts from the public and protects the authorities should not be hidden or criticised, it is a sign of a sick society, an unacceptable injustice.

It all boils down to people not being prepared to take responsibility for their actions. A serious failure of our society, at whatever level.

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Spotlight of scrutiny scares Prime Minister. Hopeless management! (Aus)


My independence from political associations or persuasions is important to me. I am generally critical of the incumbent government, whichever, whenever. They invariably fail to carry out their promises, display loyalty only to themselves instead of the people, (e.g. currently increasing their salaries while cutting costs affecting the public – a blatant hypocrisy and insult to the voters), and the list goes on.

Given that, I am sufficiently impressed by this extract from the weekly e-Bulletin (2nd December), of Senator Michael Ronaldson, Senator for Victoria, to copy it because I happen to agree with it, strongly!

“Spotlight of scrutiny scares Prime Minister

Tax and borrow, borrow and tax – the appalling mismanagement of the Australian economy under the Labor-Green Government has been exposed once more with hapless Treasurer Wayne Swan’s crisis-driven mid-term budget statement.

Swan’s economic statement this week only confirms that this dysfunctional government is addicted to new taxes, reckless spending and increasing debt.

The Treasurer confirmed the Labor-Green Government would keep on borrowing, artificially fudging the figures to create the impression of a budget heading towards surplus.

But further discrediting Mr Swan’s appalling economic credentials has been a $26 billion blowout in debt.

Missing from the mid-term economic announcement, however, was Prime Minister Gillard.

Under siege within the Labor Party ahead of a confronting national conference when disgruntled and disappointed union heavies and rank and file members will raise the border protection debacle, the Prime Minister’s absence was of no surprise.

Julia Gillard has not held a press conference since November 23, she has not done a radio interview since November 14 or a TV interview since November 12.

It is not the first time the Prime Minister has been missing from the action since the political assassination of Kevin Rudd. The Prime Minister, at the insistence of the Greens, walked away from the solemn vow that were would be “no carbon tax under the government I lead” and then backed away from a national tour to sell the toxic tax of betrayal.

The Labor-Green Government would rather embark of another round of reckless spending to promote a carbon tax that Australians do not want and one that will deliver no benefits to the environment.

Here are three examples this week from Treasurer Swan, totalling more than $100 million

􀁺Clean Energy Future – Implementation: $32.6 million over two years The mid-term budget paper says: “This funding includes the establishment of a Clean Energy Future Program Office within the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, to review, assess and support the implementation of the plan and funding to provide information to Australian households, businesses and communities about the plan.”

􀁺Clean Energy Future – Improving Energy Efficiency – household advice: $5.8 million over four years. “The Government will provide $5.8 million over four years to deliver information to households on the impact of the carbon price on electricity bills…”

􀁺Clean Energy Future – Supporting Jobs – Energy Efficiency Information Grants: $40 million over four years. “The Government will provide $40 million over four years to assist industry associations and non-government organisations to deliver information about the implications of a carbon price . . . ”

Since coming to office Labor has lifted the government’s borrowing cap from $75 billion to an unprecedented $250 billion in order to fund its reckless spending and waste. (My emphasis).

Any budget surplus touted by Mr Swan will be an artificial representation of the economic picture he seeks to paint.

As I have said before, if Julia Gillard thought the Rudd Government had lost its way, this current alliance dominated by the zealous will and dangerous ideology of Bob Brown and the Greens, has simply never found its way.

The Prime Minister goes missing whenever the spotlight of scrutiny glares down on a government already judged as the worst government in Australian history.

But the most probing act of scrutiny for Ms Gillard will come at the next election. The Prime Minister will not be able to avoid that.

The election could come at any time.

Let’s be ready.

This assessment is exactly correct, in my opinion. It deserves to be in bold emphasis. The debacle of the Carbon Tax is a disgrace and an embarassment. The above expenditures on promotion and propaganda highlight the unbelievably ludicrous policies of the Labour Government.

Only trouble is, what can we expect from the Coalition???? This question takes nothing away from the Senator’s words and my agreement with them.

I don’t have a source reference but the Senator’s email is per chris.earl@aph.gov.au

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USA – Setting an Example of ?, among other things – hypocricy.


The US has long been the world’s leader in espousing human rights and respect for civil liberties. They still preach this ideal to other countries.

Their Constitution with appropriate Amendments guarantees their citizens these rights in the name of ‘Liberty, Equality and Justice’.  Some extracts:

“Preamble Note

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordainand establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

“Amendment 1 – Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

“Amendment 4 – Search and Seizure. Ratified 12/15/1791.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

“Amendment 5 – Trial and Punishment, Compensation for Takings. Ratified12/15/1791.

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”

And for the President himself, (one having been video’d crossing his fingers during the oath:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

And yet, we have this post from ‘WIRED”, titled “Senate Wants the Military to Lock You Up Without Trial” telling us that all is not well in the USA.

“Here’s the best thing that can be said about the new detention powers the Senate has tucked into next year’s defense bill: They don’t force the military to detain American citizens indefinitely without a trial. They just letthe military do that. And even though the leaders of the military and the spy community have said they want no such power, the Senate is poised to pass its bill as early as tonight.

There are still changes swirling around the Senate, but this looks like the basic shape of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. Someone the government says is “a member of, or part of, al-Qaida or an associated force” can be held in military custody “without trial until the end of the hostilities authorized by the Authorization for Use of Military Force.” Those hostilities are currently scheduled to end the Wednesday after never. The move would shut down criminal trials for terror suspects.

But far more dramatically, the detention mandate to use indefinite military detention in terrorism cases isn’t limited to foreigners. It’s confusing, because two different sections of the bill seem to contradict each other, but in the judgment of the University of Texas’ Robert Chesney — a nonpartisan authority on military detention — “U.S. citizens are included in the grant of detention authority.”

An amendment that would limit military detentions to people captured overseas failed on Thursday afternoon. The Senate soundly defeated a measure to strip out all the detention provisions on Tuesday.

So despite the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a right to trial, the Senate bill would let the government lock up any citizen it swears is a terrorist, without the burden of proving its case to an independent judge, and for the lifespan of an amorphous war that conceivably will never end. And because the Senate is using the bill that authorizes funding for the military as its vehicle for this dramatic constitutional claim, it’s pretty likely to pass.

It would be one thing if the military was clamoring for the authority to become the nation’s jailer. But to the contrary: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta opposes the maneuver. So does CIA Director David Petraeus, who usually commands deference from senators in both parties. Pretty much every security official has lined up against the Senate detention provisions, from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to FBI Director Robert Mueller, who worry that they’ll get in the way of FBI investigations of domestic terrorists. President Obama has promised to veto the bill.

Which is ironic. After all, Obama approved of the execution without trial of Anwar al-Awlaki, al-Qaida’s YouTube preacher, based entirely on the unproven assertion that Awlaki was dangerous. Awlaki was an American citizen. So Obama thinks he has the right to kill Americans the government says are terrorists, but he doesn’t want the military to lock them up forever without trial. OK then.

Weirder still, the bill’s chief architect, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), tried to persuade skeptics that the bill wasn’t so bad. His pitch? “The requirement to detain a person in military custody under this section does not extend to citizens of the United States,” he said on the Senate floor on Monday. The bill would just let the government detain a citizen in military custody, not force it to do that. Reassured yet?”

Civil libertarians aren’t. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) said it “denigrates the very foundations of this country.” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) added, “it puts every single American citizen at risk.”

But there’s a reason this measure goes into the defense bill: Voting against the defense bill is usually considered political suicide. That’s why the bill will almost certainly pass tonight. If Obama backs down from his veto threat, get ready to see Americans at Guantanamo Bay.

This is the country that the Australia  leaders wish to ally/align themselves to, without reference to our citizens, without proper government processing. Even let the US military have a presence here, creating an image of Australia which will be equated to that of the USA. One which is revealed above as undesirable to decent peace-loving and freedom-loving citizens. Maybe the President will veto this, maybe!. Yet this is what his senate want and he is responsible for many misdeeds.

Not something to be desired! If hypocrisy was the worst thing it is still abhorrent, yet their sins are far worse.

Read the ‘Wired’ article here.

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AGW – Hiding the facts – on sea level rises


You know how we are told about the AGW science being settled and solid? This is true only if you hide any contradictory evidence, in other words, not true!

Perhaps a minor aspect in the big picture , but it is close to home (Australia) where there is evidence that similar lack of transparency and honesty exists in the temperature record utilisation.  Claims by the IPCC organization of dangerously increasing sea levels are now seen to be lacking scientific support.

Malcolm Holland, The Daily Telegraph, posted this article.

SENIOR bureaucrats in the state government’s environment department have routinely stopped publishing scientific papers which challenge the federal government’s claims of sea level rises threatening Australia’s coastline, a former senior public servant said yesterday.

Doug Lord helped prepare six scientific papers which examined 120 years of tidal data from a gauge at Fort Denison in Sydney Harbour.

The tide data revealed sea levels were rising at a rate of about 1mm a year or less – and the rise was not accelerating but was constant.

“The tidal data we found would mean sea levels would rise by about 100mm by the end of the century,” Mr Lord said yesterday.

“However the (federal) government benchmark which drives their climate change policy is that sea levels are expected to rise by 900mm by the end of the century and the rate of rise is accelerating.”

Mr Lord, who has 35 years experience in coastal engineering, said senior bureaucrats within the then Department of Environment Climate Change and Water had rejected or stopped publication of five papers between late 2009 and September this year.

“This was very thorough research, peer reviewed and getting the highest ranking from various people, and one of the papers got a nine out of 10 for the quality of the work,” he said.

“You have to ask yourself why they were rejected, considering they had been peer reviewed, and the Fort Denison tide data is among the longest continuous data of its type available in the world.

“There’s never been a sensible explanation of why they have stopped these papers.”

Mr Lord left government work in 2010 but continued to co-author the tidal data papers with experts still working for the state government.

The latest incident came in September when organisers of the Coasts and Ports 2011 Conference in Perth accepted one of the studies, only to have senior OEH bureaucrats tell them it had to be withdrawn.

“They were able to do this because my co-author of this study, and the co-authors of the other rejected studies done after I left government work, still work for the government,” Mr Lord said.

“As far as I am aware the minister has not been made aware by her department that this has been happening.”

So Much Evidence of Unsettled or Unsound Science!

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The Fictional Enemy – China: The New Bin Laden


A post by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts sub-titled “Orwell Wrote The Script’.  Acknowledgements to ‘Global Research’.

George Orwell, the pen name by which Eric Blair is known, had the gift of prophecy, or else blind luck. In 1949 in his novel, 1984, he described the Amerika of today and, I fear, also his native Great Britain, which is no longer great and follows Washington, licking the jackboot and submitting to Washington’s hegemony over England and Europe and exhausting itself financially and morally in order to support Amerikan hegemony over the rest of the world.

In Orwell’s prophecy, Big Brother’s government rules over unquestioning people, incapable of independent thought, who are constantly spied upon. In 1949 there was no Internet, Facebook, twitter, GPS, etc. Big Brother’s spying was done through cameras and microphones in public areas, as in England today, and through television equipped with surveillance devices in homes. As everyone thought what the government intended for them to think, it was easy to identify the few who had suspicions.

Fear and war were used to keep everyone in line, but not even Orwell anticipated Homeland Security feeling up the genitals of air travelers and shopping center customers. Every day in people’s lives, there came over the TV the Two Minutes of Hate. An image of Emmanuel Goldstein, a propaganda creation of the Ministry of Truth, who is designated as Oceania’s Number One Enemy, appeared on the screen. Goldstein was the non-existent “enemy of the state” whose non-existent organization, “The Brotherhood,” was Oceania’s terrorist enemy. The Goldstein Threat justified the “Homeland Security” that violated all known Rights of Englishmen and kept Oceania’s subjects “safe.”

Since 9/11, with some diversions into Sheik Mohammed and Mohamed Atta, the two rivals to bin Laden as the “Mastermind of 9/11,” Osama bin Laden has played the 21st century roll of Emmanuel Goldstein. Now that the Obama Regime has announced the murder of the modern-day Goldstein, a new demon must be constructed before Oceania’s wars run out of justifications.

Hillary Clinton, the low-grade moron who is US Secretary of State, is busy at work making China the new enemy of Oceania. China is Amerika’s largest creditor, but this did not inhibit the idiot Hilary from, this week in front of high Chinese officials, denouncing China for “human rights violations” and for the absence of democracy.

While Hilary was enjoying her rant and displaying unspeakable Amerkan hypocrisy, Homeland Security thugs had organized local police and sheriffs in a small town that is the home of Western Illinois University and set upon peaceful students who were enjoying their annual street party. There was no rioting, no property damage, but the riot police or Homeland Security SWAT teams showed up with sound cannons, gassed the students and beat them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufKv-5t0t4E
Indeed, if anyone pays any attention to what is happening in Amerika today, a militarized police and Homeland Security are destroying constitutional rights of peaceful assembly, protest, and free speech.

For practical purposes, the U.S. Constitution no longer exists. The police can beat, taser, abuse, and falsely arrest American citizens and experience no adverse consequences.

The executive branch of the federal government, to whom we used to look to protect us from abuses at the state and local level, acquired the right under the Bush regime to ignore both US and international law, along with the US Constitution and the constitutional powers of Congress and the judiciary. As long as there is a “state of war,” such as the open-ended “war on terror,” the executive branch is higher than the law and is unaccountable to law. Amerika is not a democracy, but a country ruled by an executive branch Caesar.

Hillary, of course, like the rest of the U.S. Government, is scared by the recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) report that China will be the most powerful economy in five years.

Just as the military/security complex pressured President John F. Kennedy to start a war with the Soviet Union over the Cuban missile crisis while the US still had the nuclear advantage, Hillary is now moving China into the role of Emmanuel Goldstein. Hate has to be mobilized, before Washington can move the ignorant patriotic masses to war.

How can Oceania continue if the declared enemy, Osama bin Laden, is dead. Big Brother must immediately invent another “enemy of the people.”

But Hillary, being a total idiot, has chosen a country that has other than military weapons. While the Amerikans support “dissidents” in China, who are sufficiently stupid to believe that democracy exists in Amerika, the insulted Chinese government sits on $2 trillion in US dollar-denominated assets that can be dumped, thus destroying the US dollar’s exchange value and the dollar as reserve currency, the main source of US power.

Hillary, in an unprecedented act of hypocrisy, denounced China for “human rights violations.” This from a country that has violated the human rights of millions of victims in our own time in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, secret CIA prisons dotted all over the planet, in US courts of law, and in the arrests and seizure of documents of American war protestors. There is no worst violator of human rights on the planet than the US government, and the world knows it.

The hubris and arrogance of US policymakers, and the lies that they inculcate in the American public, have exposed Washington to war with the most populous country on earth, a country that has a military alliance with Russia, which has sufficient nuclear weapons to wipe out all life on earth. The scared idiots in Washington are desperate to set up China as the new Osama bin Laden, the figure of two minutes of hate every news hour, so that the World’s Only Superpower can take out the Chinese before they surpass the US as the Number One Power.

No country on earth has a less responsible government and a less accountable government than the Americans. However, Americans will defend their own oppression, and that of the world, to the bitter end.

Read the original article here.

And bitter end it may well be!

Paul says it how it is! He uncovers the spin, the lies, the hypocrisy, the cover-ups. His laying the blame squarely at the US, is appropriate because they are the instrument, the weapon, the manpower, the administrative decision makers and the primary funders, their leader says yay or nay! However, to delve deeper into the prime movers of the US actions, would probably reveal much.

To me, the current warmongering, besides risking a catastrophic WW3 Armageddon, surely has logically to be the ultimate display of collective insanity of our human, so-called civilization. Our behaviour is that of animals, lacking intelligence,  overwhelmed by animalistic greed and driven by psychopathic desires to eliminate everything in the way of their dreams of glory, winning and misguided ideals.  All unjustified and avoidable if the US has stayed at home looking after their own people.

How can our children possibly understand  this pathetic adult behaviour? Watching computer killing games enacted in real life by sick adult people. What will our future generations think of us when they say “My God, the fools really went and did it!”

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IRAN: THE NEXT WAR?


Britain’s Sabre Rattling against Iran. The Threat to Global Security is Israel. by Julie Webb-Pullman.   A ‘Global Research’ post.

“As Britain tastes the fruits of its foreign policy in Iran, the international community would do well consider the implications – not only for an ill-advised offensive against Iran based on hypocritical allegations of preparations for nuclear weapon capability – after all, neighbouring Israel has been permitted to develop and use such weapons against its neighbours for decades, without a peep out of them – but also for just and equitable relations between sovereign nations.

While it is clearly desirable for every government to guarantee the safety of diplomatic missions within its territory, it is equally clear that the people are no longer prepared to sit by when they perceive gross injustices against them, either committed by their own governments, or others. Think Tunisia, think Egypt.

While it is clearly desirable that less dangerous alternatives to nuclear energy are pursued, while any sovereign state is permitted the right to develop and use nuclear power, so must Iran and any other sovereign state be accorded those same rights. Think Britain, think the USA, think France.”


“Britain’s sabre-rattling over the past month, threatening the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iranians citizens, has had consequences – consequences that any government with any real intelligence should have foreseen. Foreign policy does not occur in a vacuum, but in a context, and the British government appears incapable of appreciating the Middle Eastern context, let alone respecting its peoples or governments with policies and interests independent of the UK/USA/European cartel.

It is worth noting that Iran has not launched an attack or invasion of another country for over 200 years, has stated no intention to do so, and does not have any nuclear warheads. The same cannot be said of the cheer-leader behind the latest frenzy against Iran – its already-nuclear-capable neighbour Israel, who has been using nuclear weapons in attacks against Lebanon and Gaza since 2005. The same cannot be said of the furies at the forefront of this latest frenzy – Britain, with a nuclear arsenal of at least 225 warheads, France with an arsenal of 300, and the USA with an arsenal of more than 8,000 – all of whom have participated in attacks and invasions in middle eastern countries in the past five years, and have declared their intention to continue to do so – specifically against Iran.

The hypocrisy is so blatant, and so extensive, that it is little wonder that Iranian citizens, like those elsewhere in the Middle East and throughout the world, are taking matters into their own hands.

The silence and inaction of the international community in general, and the United Nations in particular, in the face of numerous reports documenting Israel’s use of nuclear weapons against its neighbours, and recommendations in those such as the Goldstone Report, that Israel be referred to the International Criminal Court for investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity, does nothing to reassure either citizens or governments of Middle Eastern countries that they can expect any protection, or justice, from international law.

The reality is that the United Nations and the international community has failed to hold Israel accountable for things it has ALREADY DONE, but is implicitly condoning attacking Iran for things they say it MIGHT DO IN THE FUTURE.  As would any first-year law student, the peoples and governments of the region are rejecting this scenario outright.

According to an October 2010 poll carried out in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and other pro-western Arab states by US pollsters Zogby and Maryland University, when asked which countries threatened their security, 88% of respondents replied Israel, 77% the US and just 10% Iran.
The greatest nuclear threat to the region is Israel, not Iran. The greatest threat to peace in the region is Israel, not Iran.

Unless and until Britain and the rest of its cartel get this through their foreign policy heads, and until the United Nations in particular and the international community in general, stand up to Israel’s gross and ongoing breaches of international law and end its impunity, it will remain in the hands of the people to do so – and they are showing unequivocally that they will no longer hesitate to raise, and to use them.
Whilst the British government chokes on the bitter pill of Iranian popular sentiment, and the Israeli government gloats over their latest attack on an Iranian nuclear facility in direct contravention of international law, their publics, and those of every other country, wonder just how long it will be before their governments adopt prinicipled and equitable foreign policies, how long it will be before the UN applies the principles of international law without fear or favour – and whether they have the patience to wait.”

 Julie Webb-Pullman is a New Zealander now based in Gaza, who has been writing for independent news websites including SCOOP, Dissident Voice, Global Research and others, since 2003.

A good overview and assessment.

how long it will be before the UN applies the principles of international law without fear or favour – and whether they have the patience to wait”  I suspect the days are long gone when we would expect the UN to behave in a globally responsible manner. Their recent involvement in the Middle East and Africa clearly places them onside with the “Coalition of the Willing Warring).

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AGW – Question of warming or not?


Again from the afore-mentioned emails, another I feel actually proves something significant.  From Dr Phil Jones:

Email 4195

Tim, Chris, I hope you’re not right about the lack of warming lasting till about 2020. … I seem to be getting an email a week from skeptics saying where’s the warming gone. I know the warming is on the decadal scale, but it would be nice to wear their smug grins away.

Maybe he needs a backup plan:

MacCracken suggests that Phil Jones start working on a “backup” in case Jones’ prediction of warming is wrong

ClimateGate FOIA grepper! – if the sulfate hypothesis is right, then your prediction of warming might end up being wrong

In any case, if the sulfate hypothesis is right, then your prediction of warming might end up being wrong. I think we have been too readily explaining the slow changes over past decade as a result of variability–that explanation is wearing thin. I would just suggest, as a backup to your prediction, that you also do some checking on the sulfate issue, just so you might have a quantified explanation in case the prediction is wrong. Otherwise, the Skeptics will be all over us–the world is really cooling, the models are no good, etc. And all this just as the US is about ready to get serious on the issue.

We all, and you all in particular, need to be prepared.

Best, Mike MacCracken [Note that Obama’s chief science advisor, John Holdren, is copied on this email]

A number of vitally important conclusions can be made here, an indictment against both Dr Jones and the AGW warmist supporting “science”.

1.  ” I hope you’re not right about the lack of warming lasting till about 2020.”

Firstly, Dr Jones confesses his lack of faith in the AGW “science” and its claims. Claims that have been accepted world-wide and are the basis for well established and continuing  global, civilization-changing,  socio-economic upheavals.

Secondly, Dr Jones would prefer the warming to be real even if it means “disaster for the planet”, because otherwise he will be proven wrong about the “science”. Perhaps this is an expected human response, but it would be nice to think that our scientific “leaders” would have some social responsibilty.

2. “do some checking on the sulfate issue, just so you might have a quantified explanation in case the prediction is wrong.”

So they are aware of other influences of significance on global temperatures, (and are in denial about cosmic rays and cloud feedback parameters, Ken Mc), and have no confidence in their warming prediction (hence CO2 theory), being correct.

3. “that explanation is wearing thin.”  No comment required.

Come on! What more do we need to be absolutely confident that “our” science is every bit as good as theirs, probably better. There are no grounds for “us” to be  shifty, prepared for failure, secretive or elusive.

Thank you FOIA, WUWT and JoNova.

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Mad Scientists really do exist.


If we needed proof that we live in an out-of-logical-control world, here it is:

Bird Flu: Scientists Develop New Strain Of H5N1, Avian Influenza, That Could Kill Millions. (The Huffington Post )

It sounds like the setup for a Hollywood thriller: scientists in a lab create a virus as contagious as the flu that kills half of those infected. We’re safe as long as the virus remains locked up, but if it escapes or gets into the hands of bioterrorists, it has the potential to become a pandemic and kill millions around the world.

But this isn’t the latest summer blockbuster. According to New Scientist magazine, researchers in the Netherlands studying H5N1 — commonly referred to as the bird flu or avian influenza — have created a strain of the virus that’s easily passed between mammals, and it’s just as lethal as the original virus.

According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, the H5N1 virus has infected more than 500 people in more than a dozen countries and is known to kill around 60 percent of those that become infected.

Ron Fouchier, a researcher at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, led the team that successfully created the mutation. Fouchier presented the findings at a conference in Malta in September and, according to NPR, is now seeking publication of his results.

But some in the scientific community are debating whether or not that’s a good idea.

“It’s just a bad idea for scientists to turn a lethal virus into a lethal and highly contagious virus. And it’s a second bad idea for them to publish how they did it so others can copy it,” Dr. Thomas Inglesby, the director and CEO of the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh, told NPR.

Others, like Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), told Science magazine that “These studies are very important.”

From the Science magazine blog Science Insider:

The researchers “have the full support of the influenza community,” Osterholm says, because there are potential benefits for public health. For instance, the results show that those downplaying the risks of an H5N1 pandemic should think again, he says.

The study is currently being reviewed by the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, a “federal advisory committee chartered to provide advice, guidance, and leadership regarding…biological research with legitimate scientific purpose that may be misused to pose a biologic threat to public health and/or national security.”

Sort of makes one wonder about mankind’s collective sanity? That scientists can conceive and go ahead with highly potential murderous plans without general approval. That there are some people who don’t find this abhorrent. That our social, academic and political systems have evolved to allow this to happen.

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AGW – Fudging the “science”


From the ‘Climategate II” email issue, covered extensively by WUWT and JoNova as referenced in other GTRule posts, I have selected one email of great value.

Nowhere here is there any support for the application of scientific techniques, principles or morals. Belief in this science of the warmists is certainly more faith than logic.

Text of an email from Mike Hume, UEA to associates.

There have been some requests re. CO2 and associated scenario data for the S550 and S750 runs. For now, let me suggest the following. This may require more debate on May 12th.
1. S550 CO2 concentrations are as listed in my Fast-track note of 21 July 1998, namely:
1961-90 = 334ppmv 1990 = 354ppmv 2020s = 410ppmv 2050s = 458 2080s = 498 2110s = 530 2140s = 546 2170s (and thereafter) = 550ppmv
[Note: these are 1-2 ppmv different from what I have just recalculated now (19/4/99), but if anyone’s model is that sensitive to 1-2 ppmv differences then we really are kidding ourselves about what we are up to].
IMPORTANT: This scenario says nothing about non-CO2 gases, i.e., stabilisation at 550ppmv is CO2 stabilisation at 550ppmv *not* anthropogenic forcing stabilisation at 550ppmv CO2-equivalent. If people want the latter then we are in to a completely new ball game because: a) IPCC do not specify non-CO2 species for stabilisation scenarios (IPCC Tech. Note simply explores effects of different assumption), and b) it brings us back to the role of aerosol forcing. In the original Enting/Wigley stabilisation scenarios they explored a number of different assumptions for these non-CO2 species, but made it clear that none of them were a priori consistent (see Comment 3 below). In effect, you could think of my suggestion as assuming that non-CO2 GHG and aerosol forcings cancel out and we are left with CO2-only forcing. Of course, this may not be what DETR had in mind when thinking about stabilisation since it does not meet the Article 2 FCCC definition of stabilisation which is ‘greenhouse gas stabilisation’ and not CO2-only stabilisation (but note: the FCCC Article 2 says nothing about aerosols so are we supposed to ignore them?!).
***************** So if people have a problem with this then they better shout now and loud, because the alternative will take some thought and more time than I have right now. *****************
2. For S750 CO2 concentrations we (i.e., Hadley and I) have determined the following, but are calculated with the same assumption as for S550 (i.e., it is CO2 that is stabilised at 750ppmv and we are assuming that non-CO2 GHG and aerosol forcings cancel):
1961-90 = 334ppmv 1990 = 354ppmv 2020s = 424ppmv 2050s = 501ppmv 2080s = 577ppmv 2110s = 643ppmv 2140s = 692ppmv 2170s = 724ppmv 2200s = 742ppmv 2230s = 749ppmv
3. Socio-economic assumptions. This is a really difficult issue, to which there are at least three solutions (see below). It is a difficult issue because IPCC (and may be no-one else yet) have created a set of consistent socio-economic indicators to accompany stabilisation scenarios. And, furthermore, it all depends on how stabilisation is reached. e.g. is S550 reached through climate policy in a world that looks like IS92a or SRES A1, or is it reached through climate policy in a world that otherwise would have looked liked IS92d or SRES B1? And what sort of climate policies and what effect do they have on economic production? If you believe the economic skeptics then any climate policy will have a detrimental effect on world production, thus lowering GDP whether from an IS92a or IS92d-type world! The three solutions are:
Solution 1: fudge the issue. Just accept that we are Fast-trackers and can therefore get away with anything. The best thing may be to take IS92d-type assumptions for S550 and stick with IS92a assumptions for S750. From the socio-economics perspective this is incorrect and we miss an interesting issue in thinking about the effects that climate policy has on future world growth. But it will give us something to work with.
Solution 2: try and tap in to emerging work in this area by IIASA (Arnulf Grubler). He has run the IIASA economic model (the one used by SRES) to generate consistent socio-economic indicators for a S550 outcome in a SRES-A1 type world. He is also (in principle) willing to re-run the model for us to generate an S750 outcome in a SRES-A2 (I think) world. Note: S750 is a daft outcome in B1, B2 and A1 world’s since 750ppmv is never reached anyway. I will need to investigate just what we can get and when but Arnulf has shown willing.
Solution 3: wait to see what IPCC decide. There is a WGIII meeting the first week of June in Copenhagen when mitigation/stabilisation scenarios is the focal point. There is some pressure for WGIII to come up with something on this (SRES will not do it), something that thinks through the issue of just what stabilisation scenarios mean for gas species (non-CO2, see point 1 above) and socio-economic indicators (e.g. effect of different climate policies on economics). Needless to say this is sensitive material and it is not clear how WGIII will handle it.
So this is the situation as seen by me right now. I guess Solution 1 would not pass decent Nature reviewers and Solution 3 may never materialise. If people want Solution 2 then I can ask Grubler for what he can give us.

Particular gems are:  (my emphasis’)

“if anyone’s model is that sensitive to 1-2 ppmv differences then we REALLY ARE kidding ourselves about what we are up to

“since it does not meet the Article 2 FCCC definition of stabilisation which is ‘greenhouse gas stabilisation’ and not CO2-only stabilisation (but note: the FCCC Article 2 says nothing about aerosols so are we supposed to ignore them?!). ”

fudge the issue. Just accept that we are Fast-trackers and can therefore get away with anything.”

“He is also (in principle) willing to re-run the model for us to generate an S750 outcome”  (Helloo!)

This does not sound like science to me!  The whole email content reveals the inexactness of the climate assessment, their approach to work things to suit the outcome and the underlying socio-economic factor which obviously drives the whole excercise.

To my reader friends who like to deny my version of the whole issue, please explain how the above does not prove my understanding to be correct.

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