NASA researcher Mark Richardson has completed a study which compares historical observations with climate model output, and has concluded that historical observations have to be adjusted, to reconcile them with the climate models.
Who you gonna believe—me, or your lying data?
This is how out of touch the Democratic Party and this administration is.
Secretary of State John Kerry said in Vienna on Friday that air conditioners and refrigerators are as big of a threat to life as the threat of terrorism posed by groups like the Islamic State.
That’s just breathtaking.
Of course, it’s also true that a man said that in America a man has the right to be stupid if he wants to be.
…via Watts Up With That?
On the matter of Earth suffering the fate of Venus [boldface emphasis in the original, italics emphasis added]:
On the matter of Earth’s own history. From our Eocene period (56 million to 34 million years ago, the age when mammals began taking over from the dinosaurs):
That last, especially, would seem to be a period beyond the useful timeframe of even the most hubristic climatista’s policy demands.
Recall that Democratic Party State Attorneys General and the Virgin Islands territorial Attorney General have subpoenaed private enterprises for all correspondence related to objections to political agendas touting climate warming and the need to redistribute wealth to “green” energy crony companies. These subpoenas are intended to gain access to correspondence with anyone at all, and the companies have been threatened by these AGs with RICO proceedings if the victim target companies don’t comply.
In response to that, several of those target companies have countersued, demanding the AGs’ documents related to the AG cases, among other things under FOIA. The AGs have refused to supply the requested documents, citing…secrecy.
Democratic attorneys general led by New York’s Eric Schneiderman are seeking to block efforts to obtain documents about their efforts by invoking an overbroad claim to secrecy in ongoing legal proceedings, according to the Energy and Environment (E&E) Legal Institute.
According to Chris Horner of E&E,
These activist AGs are trying to write themselves out from freedom of information laws their legislatures have written them into. …they are hiding behavior that seems to be precisely the sort of abuse lawmakers sought to expose to sunlight when deciding to cover their States’ chief law enforcement officers under FOIA laws….
In fact, these AGs appear to have preemptively colluded in their secrecy. The AGs involved
circulated a common interest agreement in March that detailed their cooperation in the Exxon matter. It explicitly prohibited signatories from sharing information about the legal campaign.
The agreement stipulated that if any relevant information “is demanded under a public records law, the party receiving the request shall … refuse to disclose any shared information unless otherwise required by law.”
Oddly, that agreement was discovered in the course of a prior E&E FOIA request; hence the apparent effort to ignore current FOIAs.
Because facts upset their predetermined narrative and undermine their political standing.
Here are the comments of a number of those pushing climate change/global warming/global cooling without regard to whether humans play any sort of significant role in…whatever it is.
Stephen Schneider:
On the one hand we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but, which means that we must include all the doubts, caveats, ifs and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists, but human beings as well. … So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.
Ottmar Edenhofer:
One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole…. We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy[.]
Christiana Figueres:
This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution[.]
Timothy Wirth:
We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing.…
In sum: lie, it’s for a good cause.