Obama praises Crist

Taped remarks from the prez-elect to the bipartisan Governors' Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles:

"In particular, I want to commend Gov. Sebelius, Gov. Doyle, Gov. Crist, Gov. Blagojevich and your host, Gov. Schwarzenegger -– all of you have shown true leadership in the fight to combat global warming. And we’ve also seen a number of businesses doing their part by investing in clean energy technologies. But too often, Washington has failed to show the same kind of leadership. That will change when I take office."

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Comments

Maybe Crist gets a cabinet appointment after all...

You're a good man Charlie Crist.

Keep up the good work!

Crist for Senator.

President-Elect Obama, Vice-President Gore, President Clinton...

Who else has given praise to our Governor?

What the heck???

Where is Crist? Not in Tallahassee?

Does Crist ever ever ever stay in Tallahassee longer than 24 hours?

Good grief - someone please send us a governor that is interested in Florida and solving its problems.

This would mean something if Crist was serious about climate change. Unfortunately, his environmental activity so far is limited to pushing biofuels and bailing out Big Sugar. Do you suppose Barack can get him to put up or shut up when it comes to REAL green initiatives?

2:27 not even Obama can bring about THAT much change.

2:27 not even Obama can effect THAT much change!

Charlie hearts Obama

You got friends in high places, Charlie. Way to go, bud. Bring us home some bacon. Or any other kind of pork will do nicely as well. Maybe you can get a federally funded stadium for Rick Baker!

Florida Times Classified Ads

WANTED:

One effective committed Republican Governor.

Sincerely,

The Florida voters

I hear where Obama is looking to take the lead on climate change. Ozone Charlie is probably drooling.

I hope Obama can do something about all this cold weather we are having around here. You think?

[Fixed that for you, partisan hack]

Florida Times Classified Ads

WANTED:

One effective committed Governor, regardless of party.

Sincerely,

The Florida voters

[Lulu]

If only Crist put more effort into solving the education crisis in Florida. At the rate we are going our children won't have the education to hold any political office in the future.

The education crisis in Florida is due to several things:

1) Too much time spent away from RRR.

2) Too many misfits in class due to poor parenting

3) Just too many dumb kids (primary cause: see #2)

Wait let's be more specific 4:41

FLORIDA TIMES Classified Ad

WANTED:

One effective committed govenor as in Gov. Jeb Bush.

Sincerely,

The Florida voters

More on Global Warming -

St. Pete Times

November 18, 2008
Starting this afternoon, temperatures begin freefall

Gary Parke walks between his covered strawberry plants at Parke Family HydroFarms in Dover. Brian Cassella, Times

A bitterly cold wind is set to hit the Tampa Bay area this afternoon and into Wednesday morning, bringing the possibility of a record-shattering low and, further north, a quick doom for tender crops.

With temperatures lingering in the 60-degree range the past few days, the days may have already felt unseasonably cool.

No more. The next blast of high pressure air may bring daytime temperatures of 50 degrees or less - as low as upper 30's in parts of Hillsborough, Hernando and Pasco counties, according to the National Weather Service.

"It's time to put away the flip-flops, at least through the weekend," said National Weather Service meteorologist Todd Barron.

In Hillsborough and Pasco counties, officials are planning to open emergency freeze shelters Wednesday.

Barron's advice: along with socks, opt for wearing layers of long sleeved garments and a coat. Bring houseplants inside, and cover plantings in the ground. Pets should be brought indoors.

"Forty degrees in St. Petersburg is going to be pretty cold for any animal out there," Barron said.

Before sundown Tuesday, a cold front will begin blowing into Tampa Bay area, driven by a strong, dry blast of Canadian high pressure, also from the north, Barron said. The system will keep coming through Wednesday.

Combined with a low wind chill, it's going to feel much colder outside. Normal temperatures for this time of year are 62 degrees for St. Petersburg, and 60 for Tampa.

But late Tuesday, it will begin to dip to the lower 40s in St. Petersburg, and temperatures may fall to the lower 30s in eastern Hillsborough county, Barron said.

It's going to be so cold, it may make history, Barron said. The daily historic lows for Nov. 19 were recorded in 1951: at St. Petersburg's Albert Whitted airport, 40 degrees; at Tampa International, 38 degrees.

Officially, the wind chill advisory goes into effect at 9 p.m. It covers Hernando, Hillsborough, Lee, Pasco, Pinellas, Sarasota and surrounding counties. The wind chill could dip into the mid 20s to mid 30s, forecasters say.

The cold front is expected to stick around for a few days, with at least one other cold night into Thursday.

Meg Kourakis, a spokeswoman for Pinellas County, said county officials are not issuing any weather-related warnings because freezing weather is not expected there.

Hillsborough County spokeswoman Lori Hudson said, "When we believe the temperature could get below 32 degrees, we get very concerned about those who are out and don't have protective shelter.

The Hillsborough shelters are: Salvation Army, at 1514. N. Florida Ave. (for adults); Metropolitan Ministries, at 2010 N. Florida Ave. (for families); Good Samaritan Mission, at 5809 Adina Street (for adults and families). Meals are also being provided at those locations.

Hudson said the county also runs an Emergency Heat Energy Assistance program to help elderly residents who may have trouble paying their energy bill.

In Pasco, where temperatures may fall as low as the upper 20's, officials are planning to open four shelters. Click here for the Pasco County press release.

Further north, a hard freeze warning goes into effect at 2 a.m. for Hernando, Pasco, Levy and Sumter counties. The warning is made when temperatures are expected to stay below 32 degrees for an extended period of time.

In eastern Hillsborough county, farmers with tender crops will be on watch all night long, checking equipment and monitoring alarm-rigged thermometers that warn when the temperature dips to 35, one strawberry grower said.

"Right now. . .there's no strawberries to speak of, but the (strawberry) flowers and the buds are very vunerable, they are very tender," said Jim Meeks, a strawberry grower whose family farms 200 acres of the winter crop in eastern Hillsborough.

With advance warning of frost, farmers can throw ice on top of the tender plants to protect them, Meeks said.

Other growers are tending to tomatoes, yellow squash, zucchni, peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, all tender vegetables that are susceptible to extreme weather.

"It's going to be a challenge," Meeks said.

On the water, the cold front will bring rough seas, and a small-craft advisory is in effect through Thursday.

Luis Perez, Times staff writer

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Sorry Charlie. President-Elect Obama is not going to make you his Sec'y of Energy.

Gosh, Obama was doing so well until he spoke those words...

One and done for the guv. And he WON'T be going to a higher position in Washington. They have enough fluff there already.

[I Heart Tebow]

Don't worry. Adam Putnam will be ready for the governorship soon enough.

Adam Putnam for governor? He couldn't even discern the right Presidential nominee in the FL primary. He wasted his opportunity to provide leadership by backing Fred Thompson instead of the only viable conservative, Mitt Romney.

Scapegoat, where you at? I'm in the mood for bile!

[!]

to the previous poster on the cold weather in Florida.
So what? Its been freakishly hot in Northern California for the past two weeks. Temperatures have been 20 to 30 degrees above normal.
If you're too dense to grasp the difference between climate and weather, don't comment on climate change.

6:52

I'm sorry. I'll be more specific and less "dense." Read at your leisure.

http://www.globalwarmingisafarce.com/

Here begins my global warming is a farce collection:

The Global Warming Myth - Dr Noah Robinson - Telecosm 2007

Guess what? Antarctica's getting colder, not warmer

Editorial--The Columbus Dispatch

Kyoto Count up

Fox News article

Remember “Global Cooling” in the 1970s?

Global Warming - Farce or Comedy?

Scientists respond to Gore's warnings of climate catastrophe

“Oooo its hot out today….ooooo there’s hurricanes—must be global warming is true!”

Hot Air Hysteria

Up, down, up, down…its called the weather

Just because they say so, doesn’t make it so.

More data showing a cooling, not warming

Global Warming: The Origin and Nature of the Alleged Scientific Consensus

Holes in the Greenhouse Effect?

HDP-Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

HDP Guide Home Page

Kyoto Protocol "a useless appendage to an irrelevant treaty"

Global Warming: THE ANATOMY OF A DEBATE

Cato Books: Why We Shouldn't Worry About Global Warming

Desperately Seeking Mission: Why the State Department's Gone Green

The Consequences of Kyoto

The Heated Rhetoric of Global Warming

Reason Public Policy Institute

RPPI News Release

Faulty Forecasts

Nine Lies About Global Warming

Chill out over global warming–Denver Post/Colorado State University's Bill Gray, perhaps the world's foremost hurricane expert

One-Sided Global Warming Fear-Mongering

Gust of Hot Air BlogSpot

Bjørn Lomborg

Man and the Environment

Newsweek - The Cooling World - Newsweek article from 1975 on the dangers of Global Cooling.

Skepticism - Global Warming Links

A convenient lie By John Stossel

Global Warming and the Politics of Fear

Still Waiting For Greenhouse

Forecaster Blasts Gore on Global Warming

Garth George: Ignore all that hot air about global warming

Climate Hysteria

Scientists: Gore Goes Too Far in 'An Inconvenient Truth'

Temperatures in Antarctica Haven’t Climbed as Predicted By Climate Models

On Global Warming: Follow the Money Indeed!

The Great Global Warming Swindle

The gods are laughing

Global Warming Facts

Global Warming Snowjob

Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming ‘Greatest Scam in History’

Global Warming Skeptics

Study: Part of Global-Warming Model May Be Wrong

DEBUNKING GLOBAL WARMING

Survey: Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory

The global warming farce

The lighter side of global warming

Weather Channel Founder: Sue Al Gore for Fraud

John Coleman’s (Weather Channel founder) briefs on global warming

John Coleman's Comments Before the San Diego Chamber of Commerce

MIT Climatologist Richard Lindzen Information:

Overview

Wall Street Journal editorial (June 11, 2001)

Canadian Reactions To Sir David King

Climate of Fear: Global-warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence

RealClimate article

Don't Believe the Hype- Wall Street Journal opinion

Publications

Testimonies:

Testimony of Richard S. Lindzen before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee

Testimony of Richard S. Lindzen Before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works 2001

Effects of Proposals for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction

U.N. GLOBAL CLIMATE TREATY

Senate Briefing on Global Warming: The Other Side of the Story

Commentaries:

ABC and Al Gore: A Global Warming Love Story?

Global Warming: Try It, You Might Like It

Warmer Earth Might Be Welcome Trend

Beware El Nino Combined With Global Warming? Nah!

Hot Air vs. Warm Temperatures

Gore Shouts "Fire" in Crowded Greenhouse

Organizations, Think Tanks, Reports and Studies:

The United Kingdom House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs (UK)

Study: Oceans have cooled in recent years (US)

The search for an explanation of the apparent lack of dramatic and damaging global warming (Australia)

Friends of Science: Providing Insight into Earth Science (Canada)

Competitive Enterprise Institute (US)

Institute of Public Affairs--Inconvenient Truths (Australia)

Natural Resources Stewardship Project—Understanding Climate Change (Canada)

New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

The Lavoisier Group (Australia)

George C. Marshall Institute-Climate Change (US)

Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine - Global Warming Lecture Video Dr. Art Robinson (US)

Global Warming Petition Project - Signed by over 31,000 scientists

Science & Environmental Policy Project - Founded by atmospheric physicist S. Fred Singer

Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change

“Well, you know, in -- a few decades ago, IBM predicted that the total market

worldwide for computers would be a few dozen. Those predictions turned out to

be wrong. Other predictions of the future have been famously wrong because

they didn't take into account what the reality is.” -- Ironic that this statement was

made by Al Gore (in an interview with Wolf Blitzer in which he claimed to have taken the

initiative in “creating the internet.”)

[Jack]

Gov. Crist supported Amendment Two. Enough said. He's a bigot even though he does have some praise worthy accomplishments.

He thought he was supporting the Second Amendment.

[Comrades]

President Obama and Negative Rights
Barack Obama concisely sums it up:

It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change.

Exactly.

Imagine you are on a desert island with only one other person, and you are hungry. His negative right would constrain you from taking his food. But your positive right would compel him to give you his food.

Multiply that by millions and millions of people, and you can see how negative rights leads to exploitation of the worker, and how positive rights leads to the liberation of the worker.

And that is one of the biggest problems with Amerikkka's KKKonstitution. That is, the warped concept of "negative liberties" constrains the government. It says that the government has no right to help its people. That the people lack the positive right to demand what they need.

So, the new constitution must be reformulated with positive liberties. That is, the right of the people to get what they need. To demand food, shelter, clothing, healthcare, education, a media free of fascist thought, a world without Zionism, etc.

In short, a proper constitution would be an living and breathing orgy of emotional eruptions that would satisfy the peoples' cries for social and economic justice.

Remember: If something, anything, is demanded, then someone else ought to be compelled to provide it. It is your positive right that makes this happen.

[Counter-Revolutionary]

It's the Sun, Stupid!

[drinklime]

jesus christ some of you people are idiots.

[Patrick]

Charlie Crist is ineffective and useless. We need have taken it in the shorts since he was elected.

[Professor]

Comrades
How are they negative rights?

The Declaration of Independences states '...all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, and among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.'

If it wasn't for this creed, half-White would be full-black and in Africa where he belongs.

'The Bill of Rights' restrains government from excessive power over the individual. This country was founded on individual rights not collectivism.

"It's a Wonder to Learn!"

[Nutty Professor]

10:53 I respect your right not to take those meds, but do you need to share the results with the public?

"Somebody call 911!"

[To 10:53]

For the sake of students, I hope you are not a professor. If you do not know the difference between Negative and Positive Rights, then there is no hope. Go study.

[Professor]

Negative and Positive Rights??

Is that the politico psychobabble that is going around? There is no such thing!

So your 'negative right' is my 'positive right.'

When my political party is in power my 'positive rights' trump your 'positive rights or do your rights become negative?' That must come under the category of 'moron-think.'

Many years ago a book was written call 'The Managerial Society,' I think.

The book spells out 'freedoms from' and 'freedoms to.'

The Freedom from poverty, Freedom from discrimination as apposed to the Freedom to be poor and the freedom to discriminate.

"It's a Wonder to Learn!"

[GOBama08-16!]

Freedom from neo-con blather is golden!

[Idiot Professor 3:32]

negative rights means the gov't has no authority to enter into the realm with laws----such as the prohibition to Congress from enacting laws the abridge the freedom of speech.

Barack wants positive rights such as the right to a job, the right to have a chicken in every pot, the right to free health care meaning that gov't must provide that thru legislation.

gee whiz.

in other words----conservatives are all about negative rights (limited Gov't) and liberals are all about positive rights (Big Gov't)

[Professor]

7:19
IF; "the gov't has no authority to enter into the realm with law----such as the prohibition to Congress from enacting laws the abridge the freedom of speech" IT would simply be un-Constitutional. That is it! Nothing more .. period.

-But there are laws against yelling fire in a theater, inciting a riot,.. etc.

Moreover, there is no right to a job, there is no right to health care and their is no such thing as positive or negative rights. Saying such is psychobabble.

The politicians use the heath care issues as a hook to persuade the weak, feeble minded idiots to vote for them. In fact Pres. Truman promised health care in the late '40s.

Just like Lucy pulling the football up on Charlie Brown each year, the idiots that actually vote for these dirtbag criminal politicians believe the promises they make. Those voters are just as bad as the mud they are voting for; when they expect something for nothing, or worse yet, having the govt do the robbing for them.

"It's a Wonder to Learn!"

conservatives = dirtbag criminal politicians.

"It's a wonder to state the obvious!"

[Silly Professor]

You just elected a President who is quite versed in the differences of positive rights and negative rights and he will make positive rights constitutional. Beware Professor Beware. you elected him.

[CO2 Hoax. Its the Sun Stupid]

November 22, 2008

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November 21, 2008
Global Warming? Bring it On!
By Gregory Young
The argument propounded by the dubious United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on Anthropogenic (human-induced) Global Warming (AGW) is willfully fraudulent. The report has been vigorously and critically undermined, scientifically denounced and found wanting from both notable scientists here and abroad.

In spite of this fact, it is likely that the new U.S. Democratic Congress and Administration will once again proclaim that they know better than we do about such things. Get ready for them to move surreptitiously under the guise of Global Climate Control in an effort to enhance their own legacies and pocketbooks. To be sure, the Left hears nothing but their own incestuous voices, despite the voices of clarity and reason that abound around them. And there are many, many distinguished dissenters against the charade of AGW.

Take for instance the Founder of the Weather Channel and eminent Meteorologist John Coleman who has stated:

There is no significant man made global warming. There has not been any in the past, there is none now and there is no reason to fear any in the future. The climate of Earth is changing. It has always changed. But mankind's activities have not overwhelmed or significantly modified the natural forces.

Through all history, Earth has shifted between two basic climate regimes: ice ages and what paleoclimatologists call "Interglacial periods". For the past 10 thousand years the Earth has been in an interglacial period.... [where] the Earth warms up, the glaciers melt and life flourishes. Clearly from our point of view, an interglacial period is greatly preferred to the deadly rigors of an ice age. Mr. Gore and his crowd would have us believe that the activities of man have overwhelmed nature during this interglacial period and are producing an unprecedented, out of control warming.

Well, it is simply not happening. Worldwide there was a significant natural warming trend in the 1980's and 1990's as a Solar cycle peaked with lots of sunspots and solar flares. That ended in 1998 and now the Sun has gone quiet with fewer and fewer Sun spots, and the global temperatures have gone into decline. Earth has cooled for almost ten straight years. So, I ask Al Gore, where's the global warming?

There is an abundance of solid data to back these conclusions up. For example, new measurements from the NASA/ESA spacecraft Ulysses show that the sun's current period of low activity goes beyond an extended dearth of sunspots. Solar activity has dropped to the lowest levels since recording began some 50 years ago. Current experts, such as Veizer, Shaviv, and most recently Svensmark et al., and Patterson, suggest that changes in the output of the sun caused the most recent climate change. They convincingly argue that increased cosmic radiation acts as a catalyst for cloud formation in earth's atmosphere. This, in turn, leads to a general cooling of the world's climate if the pattern persists.

Ironically, during the 1970s while some (including NASA's James Hansen) were hysterically promoting the schizoid fears of a new ice age hitting the world in a few decades, a new frenzy over Global Warming and Climate Change was just beginning at Scripps Ocenaographic Institute in San Diego, CA. It was started by one of their most esteemed scientists Roger Revelle, the father of Oceanography. His work correlated the increases in carbon dioxide, CO2 (a laboratory defined greenhouse gas) to atmospheric warming. Revelle later moved to Harvard and encouraged his students, including Al Gore, to rehash the data.

Since then the research methods have clearly gotten out of hand. Many avenues of research have proven repeatedly useless. Even Roger Revelle understood that there were greater variables at play than the trace gas of CO2.

Before he died, Revelle gave interviews and wrote letters stating that CO2 and its greenhouse effect did not warrant extreme countermeasures. He told Omni Magazine, in March 1984, that "CO2 increase is predicted to temper weather extremes" -- not cause them. One cannot argue that CO2 was a causative factor -- especially since CO2 was apparently following temperature trend -- not moderating it. It seems none of his followers, Gore in particular, heeded his words.

There is a huge problem with the idea that Carbon Dioxide, or CO2, is a globally polluting gas, much less one that causes climate change and global warming. Even though some data seemed to initially substantiate the AGW thesis, these ideas were later proven to be wrong. (Those derived from ice core data were especially damning.) Australian Climatologist Dr. David Evans has done yeoman's work on this issue.

Often forgotten in the argument is the fact that CO2 is only a trace component of the atmosphere. For every million molecules of other gases in the atmosphere (such as nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen), there are only 385 molecules of CO2.

It is a fact that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have varied widely over geological time. The peak was estimated to be some 20-fold higher than at present (+6,000 ppm) -- and the low about 200 ppm below today's. (Everyday office air concentrations often exceed 1,000 ppm CO2.)

Meteorologist John Coleman perspicaciously asks:

How can this tiny trace upset the entire balance of the climate of Earth? How can a trace element possibly be the cause of systemic Global Warming? It can't. That's all there is to it; it can't.... Carbon dioxide does not cause significant global warming.

Increased levels of CO2 has more likely benefited all life forms on the planet, summarizes Coleman. Many other scientists have come to the same conclusion.

Robinson, Robinson & Soon, in their cogent 2007 published research paper found here, provided empirical evidence that invalidates AGW alarmists hypotheses. They also found overwhelming support for the general benefits that are derived from natural global warming.

Here is the summary of their findings:

1- A review of the research literature concerning the environmental consequences of increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide leads to the conclusion that increases during the 20th and early 21st centuries have produced no deleterious effects upon Earth's weather and climate. There are no experimental data to support the hypothesis that increases in human hydrocarbon use or in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other green house gases are causing or can be expected to cause unfavorable changes in global temperatures, weather, or landscape. There is no reason to limit human production of CO2, CH4, and other minor green house gases as has been proposed.

2- Predictions of catastrophic global warming are based on computer climate modeling, a branch of science still in its infancy. The empirical evidence - actual measurements of Earth's temperature and climate - shows no man-made warming trend. Indeed, during four of the seven decades since 1940 when average CO2 levels steadily increased, U.S. average temperatures were actually decreasing.

3- Increased carbon dioxide has, however, markedly increased plant growth. Predictions of harmful climatic effects due to future increases in hydrocarbon use and minor greenhouse gases like CO2 do not conform to current experimental knowledge.

4- While major green house gas H2O substantially warms the Earth, minor green house gases such as CO2 have little effect.... The 6-fold increase in hydrocarbon use since 1940 has had no noticeable effect on atmospheric temperature or on the trend in glacier length.

5- Solar activity and U.S. surface temperature are closely correlated...., but U.S. surface temperature and world hydrocarbon use are not correlated.

6- We also need not worry about environmental calamities even if the current natural warming trend continues. The Earth has been much warmer during the past 3,000 years without catastrophic effects. Warmer weather extends growing seasons and generally improves the habitability of colder regions.

7- Human use of coal, oil, and natural gas has not harmfully warmed the Earth, and the extrapolation of current trends shows that it will not do so in the foreseeable future. The CO2 produced does, however, accelerate the growth rates of plants and also permits plants to grow in drier regions. Animal life, which depends upon plants, also flourishes, and the diversity of plant and animal life is increased.

Dr. Michael Griffin, the new NASA Administrator, looks at climate change in a refreshingly contrarian fashion. He has stated:

To assume that [climate change] is a problem is to assume that the state of earth's climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever have had and that we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn't change.

There are other fundamental objections to the AGW theory:

(1) The infamous "Hockey Stick" statistical debacle, nicely summarized here, effectively cherry-picked data from tree rings to estimate temperature change over the past 1000 years. The report erroneously declared that the largest increases in world temperature occurred in the 20th century. These results could not be reproduced by anyone. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) later found the statistical methods first employed inappropriate and the findings bogus.

(2) The reported NASA temperature data glitch discovered by Canadian Computer Analyst Steve McIntyre that wrongly kicked all temperature records up several tenths of a degree was a severe setback for AGW modelers. This software "failure" was overseen by one of AGW's fiercest proponents, the notorious Dr. James Hanson. NASA's GISS and Hanson have recently come under fire again for poor data collection methods and questionable accuracy.

(3) As recently presented in American Thinker, Lord Monckton competently summarizes for us that many of the highly publicized AGW "facts" are simple documented anomalies of natural climate cycling -- designedly misrepresented for the cause of AGW.

To wit: The Oceans are not catastrophically rising nor are they warming. In fact, the oceans have been cooling since 2003. The Snows of Kilimanjaro are not melting but ablating because of friction due to a cooling atmosphere and natural cooling trends. The world's 160,000 glaciers are not suddenly receding, but appear to be re-advancing, including those ice shelves in Antarctic and the polar ice sheets, all of which cycle regularly in ice mass. Lord Monckton, a science-journalist, provides even more evidence here.

(4) Finally let us not forget the astute investigation of automated weather stations by US Meteorologist Anthony Watts. Watts painstakingly discovered that a large fraction of the nation's 1,200 stations have been wrongly sited in man-made heat-absorbing centers. (Examples include locations on rooftops, on slabs of heat absorbing concrete, next to air conditioners, diesel generators and asphalt parking lots, even at sewage treatment plants. Some are located in areas experiencing excessive nighttime humidity, and at non-standard observing heights, including one actually sinking into a swamp.) Watts' discovery profoundly undermined the veracity of historical temperature data documented in the United States -- data that had been used by AGW proponents.

There are three indisputable and fundamental facts that were wantonly ignored in the UN's IPCC sham of a report. The UN breathlessly but insidiously "forgot" to include the specifics that:

(1) The Earth has largely benefited by past warming cycle's and that these previous "warmings" had nothing to do with man's activities. These earlier natural cycles were not catastrophic events; they were, in fact, beneficial to all life forms. They provided warmer and longer growing seasons, more areas available for crops, etc. We know, for instance, that Greenland was once green, that Eric the Red planted and grew grapes in what is now Nova Scotia, Canada, that the Romans planted grapes in England, etc.

(2) Solar/Sun Spot activity is the originator of most climatic change and most weather patterns on Earth. It is king. There is no larger factor of influence. CO2 influence is negligible and pales in comparison. CO2 follows the trend of temperature; it does not cause it.

(3) Subordinate to solar activity alone, atmospheric water vapor/cloud formation and movement is the largest known variable that influences temperature changes in the atmosphere of the earth, and the earth's oceans. Water vapor in the atmosphere is around 1000-10,000 times as important as atmospheric CO2.

These three quintessential and pivotal factors are not even discussed in the UN's IPCC report. This exclusion should raise a red flag in any intelligent mind. That's why so many of us are yelling from the rooftops about the absurdity of the report itself!

Instead of a true and open discourse, we see the daily dribble from the MSM and various liberally usurped science journals, dishonestly and falsely alleging a "consensus" when there is none.

Indeed, arrayed against the arcane burlesque of the United Nations IPCC with its politically selected 2500 Scientists, of which a core group of 600 exists, and a relatively small number of mediocre "scientists" here and there across the American landscape who have suddenly found notoriety or grant money in the global warming cause, are 31,072+ legitimate and viable scientists (of which I am one) who signed the American Petition Project declaring the Global Warming Hypothesis bogus found here, here and here. We openly refute the UN's conclusions.

Here's the Petition Statement we dissenters signed in opposition:

"We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.

"There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth."

Let me assure you that we're not in good humor, nor take it kindly to be slurred and ridiculed by taking the other side in this debate. And our numbers are still growing. Indeed, we're angry that the vast majority of American Scientists will not be heard by the media. We're dismayed over the fact that the Global Warming fiasco has become politically popular and expedient to those left-wing politicians and power-brokers whose sole aim is to literally tax everything with a carbon footprint and give them control over all life, hidden within their PC guileful pretence to save the planet. They wish to save no one but themselves.

And the tide turns further. Of the 2500 originally aligned scientists and putative authors of the UN's IPCC report some 500 are no longer faithful to Big Al's errand. Many of these scientists discovered that their individual findings and comments were willfully misrepresented. All participant conclusions were unilaterally changed to adhere strictly to the United Nations objective of building support for world taxation and rationing of industrially useful energy. Since the original IPCC report (and there have been some 4 others now formally issued), the defecting 500 scientists have issued public statements challenging global warming. Approximately 100 of these scientists are now open defectors. Others are currently suing the UN for the misuse of their good names and research. It is difficult to see why a thinking person would even consider the IPCC report as legitimate.

The entire IPCC process is but obfuscation by the secular and atheist Left. It has allowed the Left to conflate the vanity of secular opinion with scientific and/or moral truth. There is an easy and immediate remedy for their debacle. Will Rogers stated it simply: "When you are in a hole ... stop digging.... Please!"

Dr. Gregory Young is a neuroscientist and physicist, a doctoral graduate of the University of Oxford, Oxford, England. He is currently involved with a privately funded think-tank engaged in experimental biophysical research.