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After passing along thousands of messages from dead people to their loved ones, Karen Forrest is accustomed to telling other people's stories.
Forrest, a professional medium who works out of Dartmouth, says she has frequent conversations with God, and interacts with angels, fairies and dead people.
After writing three books cataloguing accounts of heavenly encounters in the Maritimes and across Canada, Forrest's latest — Angel Lady of the Maritimes — is the story of her own life.
"I received so many questions from my clients and people who listened to me talk about my life, in how I went from a military background to a spiritual counsellor. So it was one way of addressing everyone's questions about my background."
Growing up in Halifax in a military family, Forrest was raised Roman Catholic and had a nun for a grandmother. From the time she was a teenager, Forrest said, she talked to God all the time, asking for advice and direction on her life path.
"When I hear God, it sounds like my own voice. So I don't hear a deep booming voice coming down from heaven unless it's an emergency and I'll hear it like that, but my normal, everyday interactions, it's like I'm talking to myself."
She said she can tell it's God because there is a sense of guidance, love and support interwoven in the conversation.
Her first life-changing event was a car accident in 1992 in New Brunswick; she survived a run-in with an 18-wheeler. Another came in 2002, when she felt Archangel Michael's hands take the wheel to avoid a head-on collision, she said.
Forrest spent 17 years in the military, with deployments to Bosnia and Israel. She started out in communications but, after an encouraging conversation with God, she switched to mental health nursing, she said.
It was while she was counselling a group of soldiers who had returned from Afghanistan that she had her first "I see dead people" experience.
"During one of the sessions, one of the soldiers who had been killed started talking to me, and I was quite alarmed at first because I thought, 'Why is this guy talking to me? Why do I hear him and what am I supposed to do with this?'"
She said she could hear the soldier's voice and feel his presence, but she didn't tell his friend because she didn't feel it was her role as a mental health nurse. So she ignored the deceased visitor.
"But he kept saying, 'I know you can hear me,' and he said, 'Tell these guys I'm OK' and 'You've got to pass on this message.' And I'm sitting there trying not to react as though I'm hearing something."
She said she saw her first ghost in 2004 during a trip to Gettysburg, Pa., where she glimpsed a wounded Confederate soldier on the battlefield.
That same year, Forrest started training in angel therapy, spiritual teaching and a medium mentoring program. She retired from the military in 2006.
Forrest gives readings, and is scheduled to give several speeches throughout the Maritimes this fall.
Angel Lady of the Maritimes is published by Pottersfield Press. Forrest's first three books — Angels of the Maritimes (2008), Canadian Angels (2009) and Angels of the Maritimes Volume Two (2012) — tell of other people's alleged encounters with angels.


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really hope Jayasuriya is not opening tomorrow. Wont mind him batting at number 7/8 and bowling about 2-3 overs of spin at the English.
If he is opening this is the motivational video he should be watching of facing Bresnan.
Too bad he is no longer "only 37 yrs old".

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New York Times: Homeownership is Best Way To Build Wealth
December 29, 2014
The New York Times recently published an editorial entitled, "Homeownership and Wealth Creation." The housing market has made a strong recovery, not only in sales and prices, but also in the confidence of consumers and experts as an investment. The article explains:
"Homeownership long has been central to Americans' ability to amass wealth; even with the substantial decline in wealth after the housing bust, the net worth of homeowners over time has significantly outpaced that of renters, who tend as a group to accumulate little if any wealth."
Many of the points that were made in the article are on track with the research that the Federal Reserve has also conducted in their Survey of Consumer Finances.
The study found that the average net worth of a homeowner ($194,500) is 36x greater than that of a renter ($5,400).
One reason for this large discrepancy in net worth is the concept of 'forced savings' created by having a mortgage payment and was explained by the Times:
"Homeownership requires potential buyers to save for a down payment, and forces them to continue to save
by paying down a portion of the mortgage principal each month."
"Even in instances where renters have excess cash, saving a substantial amount is difficult without a near- term goal, like a down payment. It is also difficult to systematically invest each month in stocks, bonds or other assets without being compelled to do so."
Bottom Line
"As a means to building wealth, there is no practical substitute for homeownership." If you are a renter who is considering making a purchase, sit with a Long Realty professional who can explain the benefits of signing a contract to purchase over renewing your lease!
Source: www.KeepingCurrentMatters.com
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Al Gore's "[[schlockumentary]]," ''[[An Inconvenient Truth]]'', is perhaps the earliest known Climategate fraud and most widely known global warming hoax. The film was designed to promote fear of global warming with false claims, [[junk science]]
Al Gore's "[[schlockumentary]]," ''[[An Inconvenient Truth]]'', is perhaps the earliest known Climategate fraud and most widely known global warming hoax. The film was designed to promote fear of global warming with false claims, [[junk science]] and digitally enhanced lies, proclaiming the end of the world. During Al Gore's promotional efforts for his film and to raise alarm on the effects of global warming, he boldly predicted we have ten years to doom.<ref>[[Rush Limbaugh]]. [http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/free_estack_pages/algore10yearstodoom.guest.html Algore: We Have Ten Years Left Before Earth Cooks], RushLimbaugh.com, January 27, 2006.</ref> At the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, [[Larry David]] commented on Gore's promotional efforts to raise awareness about his schlockumentary and said, "You know, Al is a funny guy, but he's also a very serious guy who believes humans may have only 10 years left to save the planet from turning into a total frying pan."
''An Inconvenient Truth'' inspired fear using junk science; Gore spread [[alarmist]] [[propaganda]] and claimed burning fossil fuels such as [[coal]], [[gas]] and [[oil]] have dramatically increased the Earth's temperatures. Scientific inaccuracies in the film were enhanced with [[Hollywood]] special effects, as a deceptive tactic, to spread fear of doom on his one-sided account of the anthropogenic global warming theory. Most notably, Al Gore created a scene in his movie that shows the [[Antarctic]] ice shelf breaking up and virtually disintegrating, supposedly providing visual evidence to back up his claim that glaciers are melting. The problem is that it wasn't real ice melting. It was styrofoam.<ref>[http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005744/posts Al Gore Fakes It], ''Free Republic'', April 23, 2008.</ref> ''[[ABC News]]'' reported Al Gore also took footage of digitally enhanced melting ice from the fictional movie, ''The Day After Tomorrow'', and then used it in his schlockumentary. The real truth behind this hoax is ideology, motivated by money and power.<ref>Steve Rowitt, Th.M., Ph.D. [http://www.creationstudies.org/operationsalt/global_warming_hoax.html Global Warming: The Biggest Hoax of the 21st Century], creationstudies.org, (2010).</ref><ref>Cliff Mason. [http://www.cnbc.com/id/28317874 War On Climate Change Over—And It Won], ''[[CNBC]]'', December 19, 2008.</ref>
''An Inconvenient Truth'' inspired fear using junk science; Gore spread [[alarmist]] [[propaganda]] and claimed burning fossil fuels such as [[coal]], [[gas]] and [[oil]] have dramatically increased the Earth's temperatures. Scientific inaccuracies in the film were enhanced with [[Hollywood]] special effects, as a deceptive tactic, to spread fear of doom on his one-sided account of the anthropogenic global warming theory. Most notably, Al Gore created a scene in his movie that shows the [[Antarctic]] ice shelf breaking up and virtually disintegrating, supposedly providing visual evidence to back up his claim that glaciers are melting. The problem is that it wasn't real ice melting. It was styrofoam.<ref>[http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005744/posts Al Gore Fakes It], ''Free Republic'', April 23, 2008.</ref> ''[[ABC News]]'' reported Al Gore also took footage of digitally enhanced melting ice from the fictional movie, ''The Day After Tomorrow'', and then used it in his schlockumentary. The real truth behind this hoax is ideology, motivated by money and power.<ref>Steve Rowitt, Th.M., Ph.D. [http://www.creationstudies.org/operationsalt/global_warming_hoax.html Global Warming: The Biggest Hoax of the 21st Century], creationstudies.org, (2010).</ref><ref>Cliff Mason. [http://www.cnbc.com/id/28317874 War On Climate Change Over—And It Won], ''[[CNBC]]'', December 19, 2008.</ref>
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The Climategate scandal erupted when emails were exposed, showing fraud and manipulations by scientists concerning the Global Warming Theory, which asserts that human activity causes dangerous increases in temperatures and thus climate change. On November 19, 2009, climate science was severely shaken by the release of a collection of e-mail messages, together with a collection of data and data processing programs, that were hacked or revealed by a whistle blower from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in the UK, one of the key centers of global warming research.[1] The Climategate emails and climate data have been the subject of intense debate, calling to question assumptions on anthropogenic (man-made) global warming; evidence revealed told the truth about man-made global warming: it's a fraud.[2][3][4][5][6] The scandal that the suffix –gate implies is the state of climate science over the past decade revealed by a thousand emails, documents, and computer code sets between various prominent scientists released following the leaked data from the Climatic Research Unit.[7] Climategate is said to have revealed the biggest scientific hoax in world history as the worst scandal of this generation.[8][9]
Despite the significance of the scandal and its impact on climate science, in a profoundly bizarre situation the Mainstream media attempted to bury the Climategate story.[10] At the same time, liberal Wikipedia quickly censored Climategate and referred to it as an illegal "incident," as the work of computer hackers stealing data — despite Freedom of Information Act requests. Contrary to the liberal media's attempt to hide the scandal, Climategate has received news coverage from notable sources in the media. Commentators and others in the media have covered news on Climategate, many of which have outlined important takeaways about specific information valuable to the public.[11]
- 1 Climategate Scandal
- 2 Climategate Emails
- 3 Global Reactions to Climategate
- 4 Climategate Media Coverage
- 5 Videos
- 6 References
- 7 Also See
- 8 External Links
Climategate Scandal
Climate science was troubled after news reports of the Climategate scandal went public, after the release of a thousand email messages and a collection of data and data processing programs from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit.[12] The trustworthiness of the scientific community's global warming data pool was called into question. On November 29, with the publication of a report by The Sunday Times of London, it was reported that scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit in the United Kingdom confessed to throwing out most of the raw temperature data on which the theory of global warming is founded.[13] The admittance occurred following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.
Michelle Malkin reported on the University of East Anglia, the research institution at the center of Climategate. She detailed one of the many problems that will occur as a result of such data loss, "It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years."[14] The Climategate scandal is a worldwide corruption of climate science and is not confined to just Britain's CRU climate research centre. It was discovered that the reported warming trend in New Zealand over the past 156 years (from 1853 to 2008) was created by man-made adjustments of the temperature data.[15] The centerpiece of New Zealand's National Institute of Water & Atmospheric research temperature claims have been proven false.[16] This data contributes to global temperature statistics and the IPCC reports. It is partly why the Obama administration is insisting on participating in the climate conference in Copenhagen.
The CRU scientists deliberately falsified data then used the results of the falsification to obtain additional research funding. This is criminal fraud under English Law. Because of the worldwide fraud revealed from Climategate and the burden it has caused to the global scientific community, on December 01, 2009, Phil Jones, the director of the embattled Climatic Research Unit in the United Kingdom stepped down pending the investigation into allegations that he overstated the case for man-made climate change.[17] On January 28, 2010, from the London Times, inquiry over the Climategate emails found Phil Jones broke the law by refusing to hand over its raw data for public scrutiny.[18] Michael Mann is still under investigation by Pennsylvania State University.[19]
From the United States Climategate, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) had their attorneys file three Notices of Intent to File Suit against NASA. Chris Horner, representing CEI, said the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies failed to comply with the Freedom of Information Act for the past three years.[20] The Climategate emails, originating from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, showed how all the data centers worldwide, including NOAA and NASA, conspired in the manipulation of global temperature records to suggest that temperatures in the 20th century rose faster than they actually did.[21] NASA's two primary climate centers, the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, N.C., and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University in New York City, "systematically eliminated 75% of the world's stations with a clear bias toward removing higher-latitude, high-altitude and rural locations."[22]
- The number of actual weather stations used to calculate average global temperatures was reduced from about 6,000 in the 1970s to about 1,500 today.
- The number of reporting stations in Canada dropped from 600 to 35.
Stations in places such as the Andes and Bolivia have virtually vanished, and temperatures from these areas are now "determined by interpolation from stations hundreds of miles away on the coast or in the Amazon." Average temperatures were extrapolated from readings in other cities across the world. This selectivity of locations made NASA's data and climate change conclusions skewed to to advance the global warming agenda rather than create data based on scientific facts. The Climategate emails showed that climatologists had conspired to suppress research challenged the global warming orthodoxy.[23]
The CRU scientists, from the Climategate emails, on several occasions discussed methods of subverting the scientific peer review process to ensure that skeptical papers had no access to publication. As scientific data began showing a downtrend after 2001, the Climategate emails show a criminal intent to create fraudulent data, and defraud the public of massive amounts of money with a cap and trade scheme as part of a Global Warming movement. Climate scientists at the CRU worked to circumvent the Freedom of Information Act process in the UK. The Freedom of Information Act explicitly forbids deletion of any material subject to a FOIA request. The penalty for such a criminal act is a fine of up to £5,000. Presumably being found guilty of such an act, or even suggesting it, would also bring about significant disciplinary procedures at any reputable university.
The CBC's Rex Murphy discussed Climategate in an editorial on December 03, 2009.
|...Climate science has shown to be, in part, a sub-branch of climate politics. It is a situation intolerable even to serious minds who are on side with Global warming. Such as Clive Crook, who wrote in Atlantic magazine about this scandal as follows: 'the stink of intellectual corruption is overpowering'. Climate science needs its own reset button. And Climategate should be seen not primarily as a set-back, but as an opportunity to cleanse scientific method, to take science away from politics, good causes and alarmists. And vest climate science in bodies of guaranteed neutrality, openness, real in vigorous debate; and away from the lobbyists, the advocates, the Gore's, and professional environmentalists of all kinds. Too many of the current leadership on Global warming are more players than observers, gatekeepers and not investigators, angry partisans of some global engineering, rather than the humble servants of the facts of the case. Read the e-mails, you'll never think of climate science quite the same way again.[24][25]
Iain Murray at Pajamas Media pointed out three takeaways that people must know about Climategate.[7]
- First, the scientists discuss manipulating data to get their preferred results. The most prominently featured scientists are paleoclimatologists, who reconstruct historical temperatures and who were responsible for a series of reconstructions that seemed to show a sharp rise in temperatures well above historical variation in recent decades.
- Secondly, scientists on several occasions discussed methods of subverting the scientific peer review process to ensure that skeptical papers had no access to publication. In 2003, Tom Wigley of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, complained that paleoclimatologist Hans von Storch was responsible for "the publication of crap science 'in order to stimulate debate'" and that they "must get rid of von Storch" (1051190249) as an editor of the journal Climate Research (he indeed subsequently resigned).
- Finally, the scientists worked to circumvent the Freedom of Information process of the United Kingdom.[26][27]
Data Manipulation
The primary issue from Climategate is the data manipulation. Science requires data, and inadequacy of the climate record was always a problem even before Climategate became known to the public. Dr. Tim Ball wrote in the Canada Free Press on the primary issue from Climategate:
|Climatology recognizes three distinct periods: The very recent instrumental period; the historical period to 3000 years, and the geologic [and] biologic for the rest. The [Climatic Research Unit scientists] manipulated data in all three but the first is critical because it is the source of material for the computer models, the vehicle of their deception. [...] They claim [the emails] are taken out of context. In context the fullness of their criminality is exposed. They claim there's nothing of consequence in the emails, but [the emails show] a litany of manipulation of, the data, the process, publications, peer review, and personal attacks.[28]
Climategate shows strong evidence of fraud, and may show smoking-gun proof of a cover-up by CRU scientists to exaggerate the existence, causation, and threat of global warming.[29][30][31] From Cube Antics, by Robert Greiner, who is a scientist and engineer "with an agnostic stand on global warming," he offered a statement about the research methods of the CRU scientists, attempting to show proof that they had the means and intent to falsify data. Greiner pointed out that the Climategate emails alone do not provide sufficient proof that the CRU was deliberately tampering with their data. What the Climategate emails do show is that climate scientists may have committed a felony using government funded money; moreover, within the collection of data and data processing programs revealed from Climategate, code from the CRU shows proof that valid temperature station readings were taken and skewed to fabricate the results the "scientists" wanted to believe, not what actually occurred.[32] Analysis of the CRU's code revealed the foundation for the manipulated temperature readings. Greiner reiterated his findings:
|First and foremost, this doesn't necessarily prove anything about global warming as science. It just shows that all of the data that was the chief result of most of the environmental legislation created over the last decade was a farce. This means that all of those billions of dollars we spent as a global community to combat global warming may have been for nothing. If news station anchors and politicians were trained as engineers, they would be able to find real proof and not just speculate about the meaning of emails that only made it appear as if something illegal happened.[32]
On December 05, 2009, Robert Greiner pointed out the four most frequent concerns dealing with the CRU's source code uncovered from Climategate:[33]
- 1. The source code that actually printed the graph was commented out and, therefore, is not valid proof.
- 2. No proof exists that shows this code was used in publishing results.
- 3. Interpolation is a normal part of dealing with large data sets, this is no different.
- 4. You need the raw climate data to prove that foul play occurred.
After further analysis, his first concern pointed out that the source code that printed the graph was commented out and thus is not valid proof. On the second concern, Greiner clarified that, "Enough proof exists that the CRU had both the means and intent to intentionally falsify data. This means that all of their research results cannot be trusted until they are verified. Period." The third concern as pointed out by Greiner is not about the fact that the CRU researchers used interpolation; the issue is the weight of the "valadj" array with respect to the raw data. Greiner said, "valadj simply introduces too large of an influence to the original data to do anything productive with it." Fourthly, Greiner said that raw climate data is needed to prove that foul play has actually occurred. He said, "It simply doesn't matter if the raw climate data are correct or not to demonstrate the extreme bias the valadj array forces on the raw data. So, the raw data could actually be temperature data or corporate sales figures, the result is the same; a severe manipulation of data."[33]
Integrity of Data
Climategate has jeopardized the integrity of worldwide scientific data on climate change.[34][35] There are two objections that question the validity of temperature data from the IPCC report released in 2007, one of which Climategate does not affect. The earth has generally been warming since the Little Ice Age, around AD 1650 (Akasofu, 2007).[36] The second objection has questioned the integrity of the data, as pointed out from Watts Up With That? in an article written by Willis Eschenbach. There are three main global temperature datasets, as clarified by Eschenbach.
The three groups take raw data, and they "homogenize" it to remove temperature discrepancy's that occur when a station is moved to a warmer or colder location. One of the things that was revealed in the released CRU emails is that the CRU basically uses the Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN) dataset for its raw data.[37] This raw data is downloaded from GISS, but GISS uses the GHCN raw data as the starting point for their analysis. Both GISS and CRU get almost all of their raw data from GHCN. But the IPCC uses the "adjusted" data; GHCN adjusts the data to remove what it calls "inhomogeneities."
At Darwin Airport there are five separate individual station records that are combined to make up the final Darwin record.[38] In 1941, a station was moved to Darwin Airport. The GHCN then removed the inhomogeneities to adjust the data. Of the five raw datasets at Darwin, the GHCN discarded two. The three remaining records were first homogenized and then averaged to give the "GHCN Adjusted" temperature record for Darwin. Before the GHCN homogenized the data, temperatures in Darwin were falling at 0.7 Celcius per century. After the homogenization, they were warming at 1.2 Celcius per century.
Willis Eschenbach looked into it further and started with the earliest record, "Station Zero" at Darwin. The five different station records (raw data) covering Darwin from 1941 on all agreed almost exactly. What Eschenbach found was that there is "indisputable evidence that the 'homogenized' data has been changed to fit someone's preconceptions about whether the earth is warming." The blatantly bogus GHCN adjustment for this one station shows that at least one part of the data is bad at Darwin Zero.
|They've just added a huge, artificial, totally imaginary trend to the last half of the raw data! A six degree per century trend? What's up with that? [...] The GHCN adjusted Station 1 to match Darwin Zero's strange adjustment, but they left Station 2 totally untouched. They only homogenized two of the three. Then they averaged them. That way, you get an average that looks kinda real, I guess, it 'hides the decline.' [...] Care to know the way that GISS deals with this problem? They only use the Darwin data after 1963, a fine way to throw away all of the inconveniently colder data prior to 1941. Every time the data gets revised and homogenized, the trends keep increasing. What this does show is that there is at least one temperature station where the trend has been artificially increased to give a false warming where the raw data shows cooling.[34]
Separate from GHCN, GISS takes the raw temperature data and does their own adjustments. However, GISS verified that their adjusted, homogenized data is the same as GHCN.[39] The data is questionable because the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) manipulates the data prior to its use by others; this process was described as homogenizing. The CRU apparently "lost" their data. Scientists at the CRU, who produce global annual average temperatures, select stations that create the results they want, then adjust the data again for fraudulent purposes.[28] Climategate revealed a fact that, until all of the station "adjustments" are examined, adjustments of CRU, GHCN, and GISS cannot be trusted if using homogenized numbers.
Hockey Stick Graph
In one Climategate e-mail dated November 1999, CRU chief P.D. Jones wrote to Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley, and Malcolm Hughes:
|I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline.[40]
Michael Mann's hockey stick graph hid the real declining temperatures and instead showed a warming trend.[41] Mann's graph portrayed temperatures as steadily declining since medieval times and then sharply rising in the last century and a half. Notably, his reconstruction fueled claims that 1998 and following years had the highest temperatures in 1,000 years. Once it became publicly known that man-made global warming is a hoax, as a direct result of the e-mail discussing a "trick" for adding data to each temperature series for the last 20 years, Climategate motivated the making of a video called, "Hide The Decline."[42]
Critique of the Hockey Stick Reconstruction
- Corrections To The Mann et. al. (1998) Proxy Data Base And Northern Hemispheric Average Temperature Series by Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, Energy & Enviornment volume 14, 2003.
- The Decay of the Hockey Stick by Von Storch published on the journal Nature's blog, May 3, 2007.
- A Global Warming Bombshell by Richard A. Muller, Technology Review , Oct. 2004; calls into question famous graph by Michael Mann.
- Reconstructing Past Climate from Noisy Data by Hans von Storch, Eduardo Zorita, Julie M. Jones, Yegor Dimitriev, Fidel González-Rouco, Simon F. B. Tett, Science magazine, 22 October 2004.
- The 'hockey stick' and the 1990s: a statistical perspective on reconstructing hemispheric temperatures by Bo Li, Douglas W. Nychka and Casper M. Ammann, Institute for Mathmatics Applied to Geosciences; (Manuscript received 22 March 2007; in final form 28 June 2007).
- Ice Core Data Show No Carbon Dioxide Increase by Zbigniew Jaworowski, Ph.D., Spring 1997; this article examines one of the main pillars of the global warming thesis.
- The M&M Critique of the MBH98 Northern Hemisphere Climate Index: Update and Implications (Energy & Environment, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 69-100, January 2005) - Stephen McIntyre, Ross McKitrick
- Hockey sticks, principal components, and spurious significance (Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 32, February 2005) - Stephen McIntyre, Ross McKitrick
Videos on Hockey Stick Graph
- The Hockey Stick vs. Ice Core Data, the "unprecedented" temperatures of the present day when put in perspective of geologic time.
- Hi-Definition: Historical perspective slide show (.GIF), "unprecedented" global warming in the context of scale.
- Low-res: Historical perspective slide show (.GIF), "unprecedented" global warming in the context of scale.
Climategate Fraud
Al Gore's "schlockumentary," An Inconvenient Truth, is perhaps the earliest known Climategate fraud and most widely known global warming hoax. The film was designed to promote fear of global warming with false claims, junk science and digitally enhanced lies, proclaiming the end of the world. During Al Gore's promotional efforts for his film and to raise alarm on the effects of global warming, he boldly predicted we have ten years to doom.[43] At the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Larry David commented on Gore's promotional efforts to raise awareness about his schlockumentary and said, "You know, Al is a funny guy, but he's also a very serious guy who believes humans may have only 10 years left to save the planet from turning into a total frying pan."
An Inconvenient Truth inspired fear using junk science; Gore spread alarmist propaganda and claimed burning fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil have dramatically increased the Earth's temperatures. Scientific inaccuracies in the film were enhanced with Hollywood special effects, as a deceptive tactic, to spread fear of doom on his one-sided account of the anthropogenic global warming theory. Most notably, Al Gore created a scene in his movie that shows the Antarctic ice shelf breaking up and virtually disintegrating, supposedly providing visual evidence to back up his claim that glaciers are melting. The problem is that it wasn't real ice melting. It was styrofoam.[44] ABC News reported Al Gore also took footage of digitally enhanced melting ice from the fictional movie, The Day After Tomorrow, and then used it in his schlockumentary. The real truth behind this hoax is ideology, motivated by money and power.[45][46]
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in its 2007 benchmark report that even a slight change in rainfall could see swathes of the rain forest rapidly replaced by savanna grassland. However, Climategate forced the United Nations climate watchdog to admit intentionally publishing false claims; the IPCC claims about melting ice in the Alps, the Andes, and in Africa did not come from peer reviewed scientific literature—but from Climbing Magazine, and from a student dissertation—written by a climate change activist who was studying for a degree in Geography.[47] The IPCC claims that global warming might wipe out 40% of the Amazon rainforest was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise.[48][49]
Greenpeace leader Gerd Leipold admitted that his organization issued misleading about man-made global warming and said the organization exaggerated information when it claimed that Arctic ice would disappear completely by 2030.[50] Despite the admission that a panel report warning Himalayan glaciers could be gone by 2035 was hundreds of years off, and regardless of the fraud, deceit and lies the Greenpeace organization spread about global warming, Gerd Leipold said he would not resign.[51]
In 2010, as the East Coast of the United States was hammered by strong winter storms of snow and ice, President Obama claimed this as further evidence of global warming. The president of the United States ignored facts to push a political agenda. Obama lied about global warming when he said the following.
|We just got five feet of snow in Washington and so everybody is like, a lot of people who are opponents of climate change, they say, 'See, look at that, there's all that snow on the ground, you know, this doesn't mean anything.' I want to just be clear that the science of climate change doesn't mean that every place is getting warmer. It means the planet as a whole is getting warmer. As the planet as a whole gets warmer you start seeing changing weather patterns. And that creates more violent storm systems, more unpredictable weather, so any single place might end up being warmer. Another place might end up being a little bit cooler, there might end up being more precipitation in the air, more monsoons, more hurricanes, more tornadoes.[52]
Global Warming Facts
Scientists have cast doubt on the IPCC's claim that global temperatures are rising because of human pollution.[53]
- Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missing
- There has been no global warming since 1995
- Warming periods have happened before - but not due to man-made changes
Professor Phil Jones admitted during an interview with the BBC his record keeping is "not as good as it should be," and that he "did not do a thorough job" of keeping track of his own records. Colleagues say that the reason Phil Jones refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers. The data is crucial to the famous hockey stick graph used by climate change advocates to support the theory.[54][55] Professor Jones also said that there is little difference between global warming rates in the 1990's and in two previous periods since 1860, leaving open the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – that the Medieval Warm Period from 800 to 1300 AD was warmer than the present period, and it could have encompassed the entire globe. Phil Jones also accepted a fact that from 1995 to 2010, for the past 15 years, there has been no statistically significant warming. He conceded the possibility suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.
Climategate Emails
The Climategate emails discussed methods of subverting the scientific peer review process to ensure dissenting papers had no access to publication. The Climategate emails show that climate scientists may have committed a felony using government funded money, deliberately falsified data then used the results of the falsification to obtain additional research funding. The collection of data and data processing programs, code from the CRU shows proof that valid temperature station readings were taken and skewed to fabricate the results the "scientists" wanted to believe, not what actually occurred.[56]
On the climate science environmental agenda and the scandal that Climategate revealed all together, Glenn Beck commented on the emails:
|[The scientists] were asking each other to delete messages to avoid Freedom of Information Act requests. That doesn't sound legal. Scientists are working together to try and change the definition of peer review journals so that anybody who said global warming wasn't real couldn't get their papers published. ... [And then with] these thousands of E-mails ... Shouldn't this be - oh, I don't know - everywhere now? All of them are, to varying degrees, important. But how much could any of those actually cost you? This scandal will literally cost you trillions of dollars. That's what's at stake worldwide. It's on how we deal with the climate.[57]
According to Rush Limbaugh, another theme of the e-mails that have been released is how people at the Climatic Research Unit were constantly trying to "shake down" the oil companies (ie. Exxon, Shell) for money and for partnerships.[58] On this reoccurring theme, Limbaugh mentioned the following:
|They talk about it openly, how they're constantly trying to shake down the oil companies. The only thing man-made about global warming is the theory behind it. What you are going to do with people who are even willing to lie about the weather?[59]
IPCC and the CRU's 'Trick'
Further analysis of the word "trick" and how it was used in the Climategate emails from the CRU provided interesting feedback. It showed that CRU did indeed truncate tree ring data, so that the real decline in global temperature is not shown in the IPCC report, as referenced by Steve McIntyre.[60] McIntyre brought this to attention as an expert reviewer in the IPCC process in 2005, but at the time of inquiry his dissent was stifled and the discussion was never presented to external peer reviewers.
The explanation for the use of the word "trick" came quickly from CRU director Dr. Phil Jones in his official announcement on November 23rd. He claimed, "The word 'trick' was used here colloquially as in a clever thing to do. It is ludicrous to suggest that it refers to anything untoward." If Dr. Jones used such colloquialisms regularly, it stood to reason that further analysis should find a number of similar instances of the word "trick" in the CRU Climategate emails over the decade that the emails spanned. A file search program with a simple mission to scan the email folders for all file content with instances of the word "trick" used by itself (excluding other words like "Patrick" that would have "trick" embedded in it) returned eight files with that condition:[61]
- 0843161829.txt
- 0942777075.txt
- 1065206624.txt
- 1065636937.txt
- 1103236623.txt
- 1179416790.txt
- 1188508827.txt
- 1200162026.txt
After a second file search was executed to double check how many of the Climategate emails contained some permutation of the letters "t r i c k," it revealed 29 emails out of the 1079 emails in the FOIA2009.zip file. Only one instance was found where Dr. Jones used the word "trick" in reference to a procedure on data. There are other uses and variations of the word "trick" in other emails, but only one instance attributed to Jones where he refers to this data issue. As Dr. Jones put it: The word 'trick' was used in the lone instance colloquially as in a clever thing to do (eg. "that'll do the trick"). But it was questioned that one would expect to see it in general use by Dr. Jones in other emails if it was indeed a colloquialism. In the thousand plus Climategate emails, there's no other use of the word "trick" by Dr. Jones related to data truncation or otherwise, though there are other colloquial uses of the word by other authors.[61]
Lawrence Solomon from the National Post discovered from the Climategate emails how a small band of climatologists plotted to rewrite history as well as science, particularly by eliminating the Medieval Warm Period.[62] The Climategate emails revealed the enlistment of Wikipedia in their attempt at rewriting history. It was revealed how Wikipedia's "green doctor," a U.K. scientist and Green Party activist, rewrote 5,428 climate articles. The recruited Wikipedia administrator, William Connolley, literally rewrote history and then abused his administrative privileges to stifle criticism of the global warming orthodoxy.[63] Lawrence Solomon wrote on this revelation and on Wikipedia's loss of integrity as a source of factual information, and on the clear abuse of power from administrative authorities within Wikipedia:
|Starting in February 2003, Connolley set to work on the Wikipedia site. He rewrote Wikipedia's articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period. In October, he turned his attention to the hockey stick graph. He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists who were skeptical of the band. Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer, two of the world's most distinguished climate scientists, were among his early targets, followed by others that the band especially hated, such as Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, authorities on the Medieval Warm Period. All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn't like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions.[64]
Global Reactions to Climategate
|Climategate Scandal Spreads Worldwide
|Involvement in corruption of climate science
|Penn State is investigating Michael Mann for his role in Climategate. Barack Obama is "doubling down" on his commitment to combat anthropogenic global warming; the Obama administration dumped more U.S. taxpayer dollars into a global $100 billion European Union climate change fund.
|Liberal Party members within Australia's parliament resigned their portfolios rather than voted for a cap and trade scheme based on flawed science.
|Recent scandals involving the IPCC have undercut its creditability to such an extent that the nation of India plans to look for an independent assessment.
|Saudi Arabia called for an independent investigation into Climategate.
|Where exactly 42 weather monitoring stations in China exist, and how it affects an important set of data on global warming, has led to accusations of scientific fraud and may yet result in a significant revision of a scientific paper that is still cited by the UN's top climate science body.
|The centerpiece of New Zealand's National Institute of Water & Atmospheric research temperature claims are proven false: PDF
|The UK's CRU director Phil Jones stepped down.
|Russia admitted the CRU emails were uploaded on a Siberian Internet server and denied involved, but "confirmed" that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming.
Sarah Palin called for President Obama to skip Copenhagen, the climate summit in Denmark, because of the information Climategate exposed. She commented on Facebook that the president should reconsider his trip until the e-mails can be investigated, "Boycotting Copenhagen while this scandal is thoroughly investigated would send a strong message that the United States government will not be a party to fraudulent scientific practices."[65] Instead, the White House attempted to downplay the controversial leaked e-mails of climate scientists. President Obama announced that he was "doubling down" on his commitment to the worldwide environmental agenda, pushing forward with a cap and trade scheme that is based on flawed science, and hoping to secure a "meaningful" agreement. The President made it clear that he will invest more energy and taxpayer dollars to help advance the global warming hoax.
Originally, the President was supposed to attend the U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen for the beginning of the conference, "bless the occasion and leave," said Roger Simon of Pajamas Media. After Climategate became known, Pajamas Media reported that President Obama, "[S]witched his itinerary to be there at the end of the two weeks in order to give his blessing and impetus to the decision itself."[66]
Obama Administration
In a case of see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing, the Obama administration showed commitment to climate change legislation and at the same time dismissive of Climategate. Though evidence revealed from the e-mail messages from the CRU shows that researchers manipulated data, suppressed data and stifled dissent, John Holdren, Obama's science czar who is directly involved in the Climategate scandal stated boldly, "The science is proper and this is about a small fraction of research on the issue."[67][68][69] The reality is that this small 'fraction of research' — the theory which is the foundation of anthropogenic global warming — the data used by CRU scientists, it is proven fraudulent. The theory which used to hold human beings responsible: it is nothing more than a Global warming scam, according to Jim O'Neill from the Canada Free Press.[70] The scientists at the CRU, from the evidence found in their e-mails and documents, show a criminal intent to defraud the public of massive amounts of money, and at the same time advance an ideological Leftist agenda.[71]
U.S. Congressional Comments
When House Republicans asked for a hearing or investigation into the Climategate scandal, independent from the Penn State University which is looking into the Climategate emails by its own researcher, Michael Mann, calls for further investigation were criticized and then rejected by Democrats. U.S. Representative James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisconsin) said, "These e-mails show a pattern of suppression, manipulation and secrecy that was inspired by ideology, condescension and profit."[72] Democrats harbored ill will against the facts and continued to theorize that the earth is warming, insisting that the fraudulent data "[does] nothing to undermine the very strong scientific consensus," which showed a warming trend and claimed it is largely a result of human activity. The top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Barbara Boxer, a global warming alarmist, said of the scandal, "You call it 'Climategate'; I call it 'E-mail-theft-gate." Rather than investigate the fraud and manipulation of scientific data that was used by climate science researchers, Boxer hoped to get her hands on the so-called 'real' criminals, those who released e-mails and data to the public.[73]
Other Countries Take Notice
While U.S. Democratic politicians downplayed the Climategate controversy, and despite the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scoffing at Climategate by suggesting it provided no basis for questioning the science behind global warming, global reactions from other countries around the world took notice of the scandal. Saudi Arabia called for an independent investigation into Climategate, warning that the scandal over stolen e-mails threatened to undermine the global-warming negotiations. "The level of confidence is certainty shaken," said the Saudi Arabian negotiator. "We believe this scandal — or what has been referred to as the 'Climategate' scandal — we think this is definitely going to affect the nature of what could be trusted in our deliberations."[74]
Australia had planned on setting an example to lead in the fight on climate change, to become one of the first countries to install a cap and trade system. However, Liberal Party members within Australia's parliament realized that cap and trade is based on flawed science, and resigned their portfolios rather than voting for an "emissions trading scheme".[75] According to a report from the Hindustan Times, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh believes his country cannot depend solely on reports from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). India plans to create its own panel to do an independent analysis of climate change science.[76]
Climategate Media Coverage
The Climategate media coverage refers to the journalistic methods used by the the Mainstream media to deceive the public from learning more specific details about the fraudulent climate data. In the wake of the Climategate scandal, a truly bizarre situation happened; the mainstream media stories about global warming pretended the uncovered documents never happened. This worldwide Climategate cover-up also occurred before the public had learned about Climategate, too. The U.K. Daily Mail pointed out that, a month prior to November 19, 2009, the first unreported instance where political ideology reigned over journalistic duties happened over at BBC News:
|The BBC received copies of some of the CRU emails more than a month ago, but did nothing about them, sitting on explosive evidence of fraud.[77]
Climategate coverage of the scandal is a media-focused overview from the most notable discussions covering Climategate: the revealed data, e-mails and manipulated code sets. As details emerged from the Climategate scandal, Climatic Research Unit scientists at the University of East Anglia were exposed. Despite the significance of the scandal and its impact on climate science, the leftist media ignored it, and then focused on pushing forward with the global warming hoax.[78] Coverage of Climategate showed just how bias the liberal media has become in order to advance an environmental agenda.
As Climategate was totally ignored by most TV news outlets, Fox News appeared to be the only national news media in America interested in the growing scandal.[79][10] Perhaps the MSM felt that by ignoring Climategate entirely that it would have just gone away. However, just as the case was during the Tea Party Movement, notably during the Tax Day Tea Party, bloggers and the readers of the global warming stories kept bringing up the inconvenient truth of Climategate by mentioning the scandal "over and over and over again."[80]
Global Warming Hoax
On December 08, the second day of Copenhagen, news from the UK Telegraph headlined a Global warming hoax, "Starving Polar Bears Turn to Cannibalism."
|New pictures show that polar bears are beginning to cannibalize each other as global warming destroys its hunting grounds. The images, taken in Hudson Bay, Canada, around 200 miles north of the town of Churchill, Manitoba, show a male polar bear carrying the bloodied head of a polar bear cub it has killed for food. Polar bears usually subsist on seals, which they hunt from a platform of sea ice. But the melting of sea ice as a result of rising global temperatures has made it more difficult for polar bears to hunt seals at sea.[81]
Rush Limbaugh blasted the Global Warming hoax and commented, "None of this is true" (Dyck, M.G., 2007).[82] He rebuked the false claims about polar bears and at the same time pointed out the continuation of fraudulent stories from the media despite Climategate; Limbaugh revealed another hoax blaming a natural event on global warming.
|If you know anything about polar bears, you know that there are any number of reasons why polar bears attack each other. But did you know that polar bear males are well known for eating their young if given half a chance? They do. The mother, the female polar bear has to protect the cubs from the father and other males. Polar bears are a vicious species. They're not this cuddly little old English sheepdog type thing. People go out on ice floes to study these things, and if they attack they have to shoot them. They're not at all in any way tame, and they're huge. They can rip you to shreds inside of five seconds, they wouldn't care, and Reuters would run a picture and blame it all on global warming, not the fact that a polar bear is a polar bear. Polar bears eat their young, if given half the chance, males do. So another hoax, 100% total fraud on the second day of Copenhagen.[78]
Climategate Unreported and Censored
Fourteen days after the story broke worldwide, the Climategate scandal had been mentioned by ABC, CBS and NBC a total of zero times. Because the story affects Cap and trade legislation, the White House, in their daily collusion with liberal media sources, may have told news channels to bury the story.[83] From NewsBusters, it was reported that Glenn Beck used the news source to, "Demonstrate that much as in [the mainstream media's] boycott of the ACORN scandal and green jobs czar Van Jones's peculiar associations, the television press are once again hiding important information from the public hoping it will all just go away."[57]
- ClimateGate... What??, Glen Beck on ClimateGate censorship.
- ClimateGate, Glenn Beck on ClimateGate scandal.
The liberal Wikipedia has cited various references to contend against the facts uncovered with Climategate and has claimed that the e-mail files were illegally stolen by computer hackers, despite repeated requests for the data files under the FOIA. Though unreported by the MSM and at the same time censored by liberal Wikipedia, there is strong evidence to suggest the data was released by a fellow employee, a "whistle blower" within the Climatic Research Unit.[84]
- There was no "security breach" at CRU that "stole" these files
- The files appear genuine and to have been prepared by CRU staff, not edited by malicious hackers
- The information was accidentally or deliberately released by CRU staff
- Selection criteria appears to be compliance with an or several FOIA request(s)
The U.K. Daily Mail pointed out the following:
|The BBC received copies of some of the CRU emails more than a month ago, but did nothing about them, sitting on explosive evidence of fraud.[77]
Liberal Media Missed the Mark
The first liberal media source to openly discuss Climategate on American television was during a segment on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, a slapstick entertainment news program. After more than two weeks had passed since Climategate went public, CBS News eventually reported on the scandal.[85][86] CBS News aired a short video of an interview with Kevin Trenberth. Dr. Trenberth in the past has said this in one of the Climategate e-mails:
|The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't.[87]
It was reported that, despite Climategate related pages being the most-read articles of the UK's Telegraph entire online operation, mysteriously when attempting to search using Google – it didn't feature links related to Climategate.[88] James Delingpole from the Telegraph noted, "Instead, the top-featured item is a blogger pushing Al Gore's AGW agenda. Perhaps there's nothing sinister in this. Perhaps some Google-savvy reader can enlighten me."[89] Google.com has been accused before of interfering with its own search algorithms in order to interfere with searches for material deemed "not politically correct."[90][91] Through December 3rd, despite the rising search popularity for the query "Climategate," or "Climategate scandal," and attempted "Climate-Gate" keywords from about 26,400,000 articles on the Web, Google's "autosuggestion" function in the search box was not suggesting "climategate." But rather, instead, Google and other search engines also began to suggest to Web searchers if they meant to search for "Climate Gate" rather than the intended query, "Climategate" or otherwise "Climategate scandal." However, by December 7th, Google was correctly displaying "climate-gate" in the autosuggest list, which led to a full list of search results about this scandal.
Al Gore's position on Google's senior advisory board is likely bearing responsibility; in Gore's bio he says:
|A member of the Board of Directors of Apple Computer, Inc. and a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. Gore is also Visiting Professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.[92]
According to NewsBusters, Al Gore has done some "advising" of Google's search quality in the past.[93] There is some history between Google and Al Gore that has some bearing on the current situation.[94] In the case of "Climategate," Mr. Gore's ability to continue his current speaking engagements might be hampered. Thus, there could well be a motive for him doing some "advising" in this case. A phone call might be all it took.
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- 'Hide The Decline', satire starring Michael Mann.
- 'The Twelve Days of Global Warming', satire starring Al Gore.
- It's A Climategate Christmas, satire on Global warming post-ClimateGate.
- Imagine There's No Global Warming, satire of John Lennon's song "Imagine" turned politically incorrect.
- Global Warming, Or A Lot of Hot Air? Fox News reporting: Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6
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- ↑ Jim O'Neill. Attention Lawyers! Make Millions Off Of Climategate Crooks!, Canada Free Press, November 30, 2009 .
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- ↑ Seth Borenstein. Obama science advisers grilled over hacked e-mails, The Seattle Times, December 3, 2009.
- ↑ Sen. Boxer Attempts to Turn Climategate Into 'Email-Theft-Gate' as Warmist Scandal Grows, The PoliJAM Times Blog, December 2, 2009.
- ↑ Lisa Lerer. Saudi Arabia calls for 'climategate' investigation, Politico, December 07, 2009.
- ↑ Emma Rodgers. Senior Liberals Desert Turnbull, ABC News, November 26, 2009.
- ↑ India to Pull Back From IPCC, Create Independent Climate Panel, FOXNews.com, February 04, 2010.
- ↑ 77.0 77.1 BBC weatherman 'ignored' leaked climate row emails, dailymail.co.uk, November 28, 2009.
- ↑ 78.0 78.1 Rush Limbaugh. Hoax: Climate Change Makes Polar Bears Turn to Cannibalism, RushLimbaugh.com, December 8, 2009.
- ↑ John Lott. Why You Should Be Hot and Bothered About 'Climate-gate', FOXNews.com, November 24, 2009.
- ↑ P.J. Gladnick. Climategate: MSM Writers Try to Ignore Scandal in Global Warming Stories But Readers Bring Them Back to Reality, NewsBusters, November 24, 2009.
- ↑ Jonathan Liew. Starving polar bears turn to cannibalism, Telegraph.co.uk, December 08, 2009.
- ↑ Dyck, M.G. et al., Polar bears of western Hudson Bay and climate change: Are warming spring air temperatures the ''ultimate'' survival control factor?, Ecol. Complex. (2007), doi:10.1016/j.ecocom.2007.03.002
- ↑ Diane Macedo. Comedy Central Scoops Network News on Climate-Gate Scandal, Fox News, December 02, 2009.
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"hacked"released CRU files, JunkScience.com, December 03, 2009.
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- ↑ Anthony Watts. "Climategate" surpasses "Global Warming" on Google, Watts Up With That?, November 28, 2009.
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Also See
- Corrections to the Mann et al. (1998) Proxy Data Base and Northern Hemisphere Average Temperature Series (Energy & Environment, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 751-771, November 2003) - Stephen McIntyre, Ross McKitrick
- The M&M Critique of the MBH98 Northern Hemisphere Climate Index: Update and Implications (Energy & Environment, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 69-100, January 2005) - Stephen McIntyre, Ross McKitrick
- Hockey sticks, principal components, and spurious significance (Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 32, February 2005) - Stephen McIntyre, Ross McKitrick
- Reply to comment by Huybers on "Hockey sticks, principal components, and spurious significance" (Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 32, October 2005) - Stephen McIntyre, Ross McKitrick
- Reply to comment by von Storch and Zorita on "Hockey sticks, principal components, and spurious significance" (Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 32, October 2005) - Stephen McIntyre, Ross McKitrick
- Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed (November 11, 2008) by Christopher C. Horner ISBN 1596985380
External Links
- Watts Up With That? - Commentary on puzzling things in life, nature, science, weather, climate change, technology, and recent news by Anthony Watts
- Climate Depot - Continuously Updated 'ClimateGate' News Round Up
- PJTV Covers Climategate - Full coverage of how scientists cooked data on climate change
- ClimateGate - Facts on climate change
- The CRU emails - East Anglia confirmed emails from the Climatic Research Unit


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The Christmas holiday will mark the 200 S. McGee hospital facility being 75% complete in the asbestos abatement process. Basement flooring, pipe fittings, and duct work are what will remain to be abated after the holiday. A few questionable items are being tested and pending results, will be abated if they return positive for asbestos. The initial target date for all interior asbestos removal is the second week of January, unless the items return a positive result. Consultation with the contractors will be necessary to determine a new target date and additional expense.Demolition will consist of the interior materials being stripped and sorted into roll off dumpsters. Once the interior of the building is complete they will move to the exterior. Heavy equipment will begin stripping the exterior and sorting materials. Once the materials are sorted and removed, the utilities will be capped, the basement will be filled and the ground will be put at grade. We have been as conscientious as possible where recyclable materials are concerned. Golden Plains Community Hospital will keep you updated on the continued progress of demolition at 200 South McGee.


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Anthony Davis' Absence Proving Critical Importance to New Orleans PelicansDecember 13, 2013
Anthony Davis has proved that he's among the NBA's most talented players this season, but it's his time off the court that has revealed just how much he means to the New Orleans Pelicans.
It feels like the Brow has been missing for forever, only because the highlight-reel blocks and arms that seemed to stretch across the entire baseline had become such a constant part of the 2013-14 season in New Orleans. There wasn't a night the Pelicans played that didn't feature an awe-inspiring moment from Davis.
Since Davis was lost to a hand injury on Dec. 1 against the New York Knicks, the Pelicans have avoided going completely off the rails. However, refusing to fold like a tent isn't good enough for a team that came into the season with high expectations.
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The Pelicans are devoid of shot-blocking talent behind Davis. Their big man is averaging 3.9 blocks per game, but in his absence, the Pelicans have averaged 4.75 blocks per game—as a team. That's a precipitous drop-off.
Counting blocks isn't necessarily an indication that the Pelicans defense has gotten worse. In fact, it's often a misleading number. Deandre Jordan is always one of the league leaders in blocks per game, but he's prone to overselling in order to chase big blocks that aren't necessarily there.
Perhaps a bigger sign of Davis' loss is the number of free-throw attempts by the Pelicans' opponents. When Davis is roaming in the paint, the threat of his leaping ability and pristine timing is enough to steer potential drivers away from the rim.
Seriously, who wants to come down the lane to meet this?
An important marker for free-throw "defense" is the 25-attempt mark. It's the average number given up by the Pelicans this season, and it's the dividing line between the 10 lowest ranking teams and the rest of the NBA.
|Free Throws Against Per Game
|New York Knicks
|Dallas Mavericks
|Los Angeles Clippers
|Utah Jazz
|Milwaukee Bucks
|Golden State Warriors
|New Orleans Pelicans
|Oklahoma City Thunder
|Boston Celtics
|Miami Heat
Without Davis on the court, opponents attempted 25 or more free throws against the Pelicans in three of their first four games. In the four games immediately preceding his injury, no New Orleans opponents reached 25 foul shots.
Most of the NBA's other bottom-dwellers when it comes to sending other teams to the line have a serious void inside. From Miami's wing-heavy outfit to the Tyson Chandler-less Knicks, almost every team listed is either reliant on a high-octane offense or is is just plain bad.
Even with Davis, the Pelicans have allowed too many players to get into the lane and draw fouls. When you're surrendering the most efficient shot in basketball at a high rate, it's going to be tough to get wins, regardless of the opponent.
The Pelicans haven't quite been running their offense through Davis this season, but that's because they don't necessarily have to.
Davis has excelled in several key areas offensively this season, but the most jarring number is his impact in transition. While you'd expect one of the league's high-flying wings—like LeBron James or Kevin Durant—to lead the league in transition efficiency, Davis has reigned supreme.
According to MySynergySports.com (subscription required), Davis is averaging 1.64 points per possession on transition opportunities. Watching him play, it's pretty obvious why he's so good on the break. Not only is he a freak athlete, but Davis also busts his butt to get down the floor and get in a good position to make a play.
|Points Per Possession In Transition
|PPP (Transition)
|Anthony Davis
|LeBron James
|Kevin Durant
|James Harden
|Paul George
Davis isn't ahead of the league's best finishers by a slim margin. He's head and shoulders above some of his peers, literally and figuratively.
Davis' other outlet for his out-of-this-world athleticism is on the pick-and-roll, where he has transformed into the league's best roll man. MySynergySports.com charts him at 1.35 points per possession, which also tops the rankings.
Plays like this are simply unguardable:
So, how much has the loss of Davis' two elite skills hurt the Pelicans while he has been out? Two overtime games during his absence complicate matters, but if we look at scoring during regulation time, the Pelicans have failed to reach their average of 103.4 points even once without Davis in the lineup.
Beyond Davis' ruthless efficiency, not having him in the lineup is a huge hindrance for the team's young guards. Think of Davis as a safety valve. When someone like Jrue Holiday gets trapped on a pick-and-roll, he can throw the ball up for grabs and ask his long, athletic partner to go get it. To use a football analogy, Davis' "catch radius" is second to none.
Coming up short of their scoring average against teams like Oklahoma City and Chicago is one thing. Both of those opponents present unique challenges for opposing offenses. But to fail to eclipse the century mark in 48 minutes against teams like Dallas and Detroit is puzzling considering the offensive talent at Monty Williams' disposal.
If there's a silver lining to losing an All-Star candidate and franchise centerpiece to injury, it's seeing the team's complementary players prove they can fill some of the void.
At the center of that conversation is Ryan Anderson, who has given the Pelicans a huge boost since returning from injury in mid-November. Anderson has taken over the team's scoring lead since re-entering the lineup, showing the extra dimension that he brings to the Pelicans almost immediately.
Jrue Holiday's play has also been trending upward as of late, with the UCLA product playing some of his most efficient basketball of the season. Though his turnover numbers (3.5 per game) have remained the same, he has scored 20.5 points and dished 8.5 assists with 51 percent shooting in Davis' absence, all upticks from his season averages.
An easy explanation would be to say that that Holiday's boosts have come from increased opportunities without the team's best player in tow, but his efficiency increasing says otherwise. That could be a sign of the team's many talents finally gelling.
The overall picture, however, indicates that this is a better team with Davis in the lineup than without him. If the basketball gods are just, his return will come sooner rather than later, so the world can once again bask in the glory of the Unibrow.
*All stats current as of Dec. 12, 2013
Kyle Neubeck is a Featured Columnist covering the New Orleans Pelicans. He can be reached on Twitter @Neubeck_NBA


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Abibatou Dia and Jesse Mandela Donahue of Campbellsville announce the birth of a son, Jesse Mandela Donahue Jr., at 6:19 p.m. on Aug. 5 at Taylor Regional Hospital in Campbellsville. He weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces and was 20 inches long.
Grandparents are Rodney Donahue of Madisonville, Maria Donahue of the Dominican Republic and Amadou Daouda Dia and Madjiguene Diouf, both of Semegal in West Africa.
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Five generations of a local family gathered recently for a photo.
Pictured are Adam Burress holding his son, Peyton Burress, 7 months, great-grandmother Rose Miller, grandmother Toni Burress and Elmer Hatfield, great-great-grandfather.
Two couples recently graduated from prenatal and childbirth classes taught by Taylor Regional Hospital this month. They are Lamesha Pettus and Anthony Smothers of Campbellsville and Emillee and Jonathan Whitlow of Greensburg.
Classes are taught on Tuesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. and the first Saturday of every month from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at TRH's meeting room. Classes are free to anyone delivering at TRH.
The class is taught by Nicole Collins, RN, CCE.
Taylor Regional Hospital recently recognized its new team members for their first 90 days of service with a breakfast.
New team members are Holly Abell, Pam Colvin, Mary Kay Cox, Kayla Newton, Tyler Tucker, Connie Wright and Tommy Wright.
Campbellsville University's new staff members recently attended a workshop.
They are Lorri Hardy, secretary for football, baseball and human performance and part-time assistant cheerleading coach; Rebecca Lawless, graduate admissions counselor; Lesley Newton, assistant director of student activities; Julie Kessler, accounts payable manager; Carman Queen, data specialist, Office of Student Records; Angela Russell, custodian; Kay Bell, secretary, Center for International Education;
About 50 children and adults came to Taylor County Public Library on Monday to see Farmer Minor and his pig, Daisy, and his pugs Lily Pug and Dixie Cup.
Farmer Minor, who is from Connecticut, said Daisy is one of the most famous pigs in the world and has traveled to libraries all over the United States.
He said Daisy loves listening to stories about pigs and they both encourage children to read.
Daisy is five and a half years old and weighs 155 pounds.
Richard and Virginia Barnett of Campbellsville celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary on Aug. 6.
They have two children, Ricky and Tiny.
Red Cross officials spoke at a meeting at Lowell Avenue Baptist Church on Monday.
The officials were asked to talk about the local Red Cross disaster team.
Those attending the meeting donated more than 400 items for the disaster team's emergency care kits.
Using everyday items commonly found in junk drawers, local youth worked together to build a balance beam and robotic arms at Taylor County 4-H Youth Development Junk Drawer Robotics Day Camp last Thursday.
4-H assistant Jordan Stapp said youth learned about various design and engineering principles such as pivot points and torque force and applied them to their projects.
Central Kentucky Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #22 recently donated more than $5,000 to local schools to buy clothing and other supplies for students.
Lodge president Rick Benningfield presented $2,571 gift cards to Campbellsville Family Resource and Youth Services Center coordinator Sue Crabtree and April Melton, coordinator of the Taylor County Family Resource and Youth Services Center for its middle and high schools.
FOP members solicited donations in the community.
Katherine Leigh Waggoner and Grant Hall Samples of Mayfield announce their engagement.
Waggoner is the daughter of Joseph and Becky Waggoner of Mayfield.
She is the granddaughter of Ruth McConnell of Hopkinsville and Joe and Betty Waggoner of Mayfield.
Waggoner is a 2010 graduate of Graves County High School and a 2014 graduate of Murray State University, with a degree in graphic design. She is a member of Alpha Omicron Pi.
Samples is the son of Kenny and Debbie Samples of Mayfield.
Ashley Shaine' Burdine and Thornton Crum Jr. of Campbellsville announce their engagement.
Burdine is the daughter of Doug and Tara Burdine of Campbellsville. She is the granddaughter of Sharon and Dennis SoFiak and Sonny and Phyllis Lyons, all of Campbellsville, and Anne McKeehan and Bill Burdine of London.
She is a 2009 graduate of Taylor County High School and is employed by Walmart.
Crum is the son of the late Thornton and Lois Crum. His grandparents are the late Willy and Goldie Crum and James Peanut and Ella Lois Endicott.
Meaghan Rankin of Louisville and Avery Hill of Nashville, Tenn., announce the birth of a son, Avery Hill Jr., at 10 a.m. on July 13 at Taylor Regional Hospital in Campbellsville. He weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces and was 21 inches long.
Grandparents are Connie Maye of Louisville, Timothy Rankin Sr. of Lexington and Sherri Murphy of Nashville.
Great-grandparents are Robert Johnson of Louisville and Paulette Hill of Lewisburg, Tenn.
Taylor County Historical Society had its annual picnic at the Homeplace on Green River on June 12.
Twenty-three people attended.
Ken Forman, president of the Homeplace Association, gave a brief history about the Homeplace.
Twins Reili and Keelie Farmer, 10 1/2, grew a 22-1/2 pound cabbage at their grandmother Rena Hubbard's house on West Main Street.
The cabbage fed six families with many leftovers.
Green River Ministries recently hosted a golf scramble and raised nearly $4,000.
The money raised will be used to pay the mortgage on the GRM building for about four months.
Winners of the golf scramble are Charlotte Bratcher and Janey Read, and, in back, Sandy Gaskins and Pam Huber.
H&W Sport Shop owner Ronnie Hord, right, and "Survivor" contestant Jefra Bland Hines presented a $968 check to Marietta Moyers, long-time volunteer at the Taylor County Ministerial Association Food Pantry.
H&W, which printed "Survivor" T-shirts promoting Hines' time on the show, donated a portion of money from each T-shirt sold to the food pantry.
Landon Wood, 7, of Campbellsville, placed first in the Taylor County Farm Bureau and Taylor County FFA pedal tractor pull at the Campbellsville/Taylor County Fourth of July celebration.
Wood is the son of Adam and Holly Wood.
More than 7,000 Family, Career and Community Leaders of America members, advisers, alumni and guests from across the country gathered in San Antonio, Texas recently for the 2014 National Leadership Conference. The conference is based on the student-originated theme "SOAR." Cheyenne Milby, a graduating senior at Campbellsville High School, was among the members and took part in STAR Event Competitions at the conference. She was accompanied by her adviser, Deanna Campbell.
Happy cows make good cheese, he said. And he should know.
Kenny Mattingly's family has owned a dairy farm since the 1970s. In 1998, they began to make cheese. And now, Kenny's Farmhouse Cheese, located in Barren County, produces 14,000 pounds of about 30 varieties of cheeses each month. About 12,000 pounds is sold each month to grocery stores, restaurants, farmers' markets and individuals via the Internet.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
won't you stay christmas?
i wish christmas would last until valentines day. would it be so awful if i left up my tree for most of january? is it any different than my friends who put theirs up before thanksgiving? we are having a lovely christmas. we went to georgia and enjoyed time with my mother's family where we had southern deep fried turkey, senator russell sweet potatoes, cornbread dressing and all the other fixings. it was so lovely. i stood outside and breathed in the georgia air and it felt like home. we also went to my grandmothers where we had honey baked home and the most delicious melt in your mouth rolls made by my aunt made from butter, butter and more butter. we even got to stop by to see one of my very oldest and dearest friends at her new restaurant in lagrange, ga called "low country" featuring "coastal southern cuisine". they redecorated and renovated an old victorian house and made it beautiful with a blend of pottery barn modern and a touch of nautical. then there's the food.......coca cola in the bottle, sweet tea, hand battered fried chicken, bourbon pecan pie. mouth wateringly good food at a reasonable price. so as you can see we ate our way through christmas and it's not over yet. we are home now. the tree is lit and the vintage ornaments shine and make this room so cozy. there's dinner in the oven to be taken to friends with a brandy new baby. there's a pancake breakfast to be made in the morning with another very special friend who just got engaged. then a new years party with music and friends. new years day will bring our christmas celebration with my husband's side of the family. then we get to bask in the glow of it all and enjoy the snow and so many reasons to be thankful.
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- mommy zabs said...
Oh that look delish... However I'm more of a tree up before thanksgiving, down before new years type girl :) I love to bring it on, but am ready to bring it out. :) Glad you had a good time going home- this will be a very blessed year for you. Happy New Year!
- nathansmart said...
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WESTERVILLE, OH — More than 1,700 Westerville area residents have discovered FitQuest, Westerville, OH's free community fitness initiative developed by the Parks and Recreation Department, launched last January. But, a new kid is in town (pun intended).
In June, Westerville Parks and Rec partnered with Columbus Children's Hospital for the FitQuest Kids' Club to address the obesity epidemic among children. The hospital's Center for Healthy Weight and Nutrition is a partner of the new club that helps educate children and their parents about the importance of healthy eating, physical activity and decreased exposure to television, computer screens and video games. The center will provide nutrition guidance for a weekly nutrition and activity calendar for children aged 5-12.
"We introduced this program to summer camp programs, and charts are available at Westerville pediatrician offices, the Westerville Community Center and Westerville Public Library," says Mike Herron, fitness manager of Westerville Parks and Rec.
The department also began an outreach project with Hanby Elementary School where measurable outcomes are being calculated throughout the school year to track progress. Sports will also play a role in the Kids' FitQuest as Children's Sports Medicine will offer a variety of classes at the Westerville Community Center to address conditioning and injury prevention in a variety of sports.