Despite the hot air, the Antarctic is not warming up

Christopher Booker in the UK telegraph says "A deeply flawed new report will be cited ad nauseam by everyone from the BBC to Al Gore."

Antarctica has long been a major embarrassment to the warmists. Al Gore and co may have wanted to scare us that the continent which contains 90 per cent of all the ice on the planet is heating up, because that would be the source of all the meltwater which they claim will raise sea levels by 20 feet. However, to provide all their pictures of ice-shelves "the size of Texas" calving off into the sea, they have had to draw on one tiny region of the continent, the Antarctic Peninsula – the only part that has been warming.

Actually they had to rely on fake computer generated footage -http://talbyv.blogspot.com/2009/01/gore-fraud-fake-footage-in-inconvenient.html

One of the first to express astonishment was Dr Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and a convinced believer in global warming, who wryly observed "it is hard to make data where none exists". A disbelieving Ross Hayes, an atmospheric scientist who has often visited the Antarctic for Nasa, sent Professor Steig a caustic email (http://icecap.us/index.php/go/they-said-it/with_statistics_you_can_make_numbers_go_to_almost_any_conclusion_you_want_i/) ending: "with statistics you can make numbers go to any conclusion you want. It saddens me to see members of the scientific community do this for media coverage."
But it was also noticed that among the members of Steig's team was Michael Mann, author of the "hockey stick", the most celebrated of all attempts by the warmists to rewrite the scientific evidence to promote their cause.

The World was much warmer during the Mediaeval Warm Period. Dr David Deming has confirmed to me that he was told in an email from one of the IPCC lead authors that they had to get rid of the MWP. Subsequently Mann, Bradley and Hughes produced the fraudulent "hockey stick." Steve McIntyre fed in telephone numbers and it still produced the same graph!

Experts Warn of Global Cooling

Video of Joe D'Aleo (Icecap) and Jay Lehr (Heartland Institute)

D'Aleo: "If you look at the satellite data, .... 2008 was the 14th coldest in 30 years."

Lehr: "Not only in a Cooling period; we're going to be staying in it for a couple of decades."

           "Hopeful that this change in the sun's output will put some common sense into the       legislature - not to pass any cap-and-tradr or carbon tax legislation that will set us in a far deeper hole."

Good Advice also for Kevin747Rudd and Penny Wong.

Professor denies Global Warming Theory

From  Joe D'Aleo's Ice-cap.US

'Physics Professor William Happer had some tough words for scientists who believe that carbon dioxide is causing global warming. "This is George Orwell. This is the 'Germans are the master race. The Jews are the scum of the earth.' It's that kind of propaganda. Every time you exhale, you exhale air that has 4% carbon dioxide. To say that's a pollutant just boggles my mind. What used to be science has turned into a cult." '

 

Happer was the director of the Office of Energy Research under Pres. Bush Snr. He subsequently was fired by VP Al Gore.

As I've said before, if CO2 is a dangerous pollutant, we have to ban wine, beer, coke, soda and exhaling.

Fred's Fearless Forecast -2009

From Joe D'Aleo's ICECAP;

S Fred Singer Ph.D., President, Science and Environmental Policy Project  - forecasts for 2009

"Obama's three - Chu, John Holdren and Jane Luchenco. All with sterling credentials - a Nobel laureate in physics, a recent president of the AAAS, a recent head of the International Council of Scientific Unions - but with minmal knowledge of climate science, except what they may have gleaned from reading the IPCC summary."  ...

"I think that Obama is much too smart to devote political capital to doomed climate legislation. ...  Climate science isn't going to figure prominently in the congressional debates - alas; it's all about economics and politics."

Like Kevin747, talk it up before you get in, but whimp out on the practical at action time!