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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on March 1, 2010

The worst winter snow in decades hits Britain and Europe in January 2010

The global warming/climate change scare stories that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, aka IPCC, has perpetuated to push through its global warming agenda are unraveling like scraps of old, tattered cloth.

Investigations into the junk science, suppression and manipulation of data, and despicable, deliberate lies are now being investigated, as more record winter storms devastated France, the UK, and parts of Europe over the weekend. The IPPC’s farce of anthropogenic global warming is being beaten down by Mother Nature and natural climate cycles.

Winter storm batters France with hurricane-strength winds this weekend

British journalist Christopher Booker wrote the following article for the UK’s Telegraph. Booker wrote the 2009 book The Real Global Warming Disaster, which was described in The Guardian as “the definitive climate sceptics’ manual.” This is just a portion of the post.

From Christopher Booker, Telegraph, A perfect storm is brewing for the IPCC:

The news from sunny Bali that there is to be an international investigation into the conduct of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its chairman Dr Rajendra Pachauri would have made front-page headlines a few weeks back. But while Scotland and North America are still swept by blizzards, in their worst winter for decades, there has been something of a lull in the global warming storm – after three months when the IPCC and Dr Pachauri were themselves battered by almost daily blizzards of new scandals and revelations. And one reason for this lull is that the real message of all the scandals has been lost.

The chief defence offered by the warmists to all those revelations centred on the IPCC’s last 2007 report is that they were only a few marginal mistakes scattered through a vast, 3,000-page document. OK, they say, it might have been wrong to predict that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035; that global warming was about to destroy 40 per cent of the Amazon rainforest and cut African crop yields by 50 per cent; that sea levels were rising dangerously; that hurricanes, droughts and other “extreme weather events” were getting worse. These were a handful of isolated errors in a massive report; behind them the mighty edifice of global warming orthodoxy remains unscathed. The “science is settled”, the “consensus” is intact.

But this completely misses the point. Put the errors together and it can be seen that one after another they tick off all the central, iconic issues of the entire global warming saga. Apart from those non-vanishing polar bears, no fears of climate change have been played on more insistently than these: the destruction of Himalayan glaciers and Amazonian rainforest; famine in Africa; fast-rising sea levels; the threat of hurricanes, droughts, floods and heatwaves all becoming more frequent.

All these alarms were given special prominence in the IPCC’s 2007 report and each of them has now been shown to be based, not on hard evidence, but on scare stories, derived not from proper scientists but from environmental activists. Those glaciers are not vanishing; the damage to the rainforest is not from climate change but logging and agriculture; African crop yields are more likely to increase than diminish; the modest rise in sea levels is slowing not accelerating; hurricane activity is lower than it was 60 years ago; droughts were more frequent in the past; there has been no increase in floods or heatwaves.

Furthermore, it has also emerged in almost every case that the decision to include these scare stories rather than hard scientific evidence was deliberate. As several IPCC scientists have pointed out about the scare over Himalayan glaciers, for instance, those responsible for including it were well aware that proper science said something quite different. But it was inserted nevertheless – because that was the story wanted by those in charge.

In addition, we can now read in shocking detail the truth of the outrageous efforts made to ensure that the same 2007 report was able to keep on board IPCC’s most shameless stunt of all – the notorious “hockey stick” graph purporting to show that in the late 20th century, temperatures had been hurtling up to unprecedented levels. This was deemed necessary because, after the graph was made the centrepiece of the IPCC’s 2001 report, it had been exposed as no more than a statistical illusion. (For a full account see Andrew Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion, and also my own book The Real Global Warming Disaster.)

In other words, in crucial respects the IPCC’s 2007 report was no more than reckless propaganda, designed to panic the world’s politicians into agreeing at Copenhagen in 2009 that we should all pay by far the largest single bill ever presented to the human race, amounting to tens of trillions of dollars. And as we know, faced with the prospect of this financial and economic abyss, December’s Copenhagen conference ended in shambles, with virtually nothing agreed.

What is staggering is the speed and the scale of the unravelling – assisted of course, just before Copenhagen, by “Climategate”, the emails and computer codes leaked from East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit. Their significance was the light they shone on the activities of a small group of British and US scientists at the heart of the IPCC, as they discussed ways of manipulating data to show the world warming faster than the evidence justified; fighting off legitimate requests for data from outside experts to hide their manipulations; and conspiring to silence their critics by excluding their work from scientific journals and the IPCC’s 2007 report itself. (Again, a devastating analysis of this story has just been published by Stephen Mosher and Tom Fuller in Climategate: The CRUtape Letters).

Al Gore is no longer missing, and has published a desperate op-ed piece at The New York Times that frantically grabs onto what remaining threads of the AGW bunk fabric it can grasp. So what if the IPCC made a few mistakes? So what if their claims can’t be substantiated by real science? So what if there has been major snowfall around the world? So what if carbon dioxide is a natural by-product of breathing creatures? Gore says that the “overwhelming consensus on global warming can’t be changed,” that the sea is rising, the ice caps rapidly melting.

Gore continues his AGW lunacy in the NYT piece by claiming that last month was the second-hottest on record. China, South Korea, UK, and other countries would disagree — for many areas of the world, the snowfall and cold broke all existing records. But Gore is still in denial and, in his article, disregards those nations that experienced record snow storms and below average temperatures in January 2010:

Because these and other effects of global warming are distributed globally, they are difficult to identify and interpret in any particular location. For example, January was seen as unusually cold in much of the United States. Yet from a global perspective, it was the second-hottest January since surface temperatures were first measured 130 years ago.

Gore also claims that “the last 10 years were the hottest decade since modern records have been kept,” despite the fact that head global warming guru Dr. Phil Jones just confessed two weeks ago that no such data exists, and that there has been no measurable global warming in the past 15 years. Global warming is a fraud, Mr. Gore.

With the escalating climate change scandals and the record-breaking global cold, I don’t blame Dr. Raj Pachauri for suddenly cancelling his tour of the United States. If hiding out is good enough for Gore, it’s good enough for the major hoaxer, Dr. Pachauri.

Recent IPCC global warming scandals being ignored by Al Gore and the Obama leftist media:
Now It’s “AfricaGate”: More IPCC Global Warming Errors & Junk Science… Add It to ClimateGate, GlacierGate, & AmazonGate
IPCC’s False Global Warming Data & Protocol Breeches: Virginia AG Cuccinelli Has Filed for Extension on Climate Change Ruling, Wants EPA’s CO2 Findings to Be Reviewed
More AGW Lies: IPPC’s False Global Warming Hurricane Data, Donald Trump Slams Al Gore & Demands Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize Be Returned
Pathological Liars? More IPCC Data Fraud Exposed… Amazon Rainforest Not Affected by Global Warming Claims
Glaciergate: Global Warming Is Bogus, Just a Money Scam… IPCC Admits Himalayan Glaciers AREN’T Melting Away
More Global Warming Deception Uncovered: Climate Chief Told of False Glacier Info, Kept It Secret — Many Himalayan Glaciers Are Growing, Obama Still Clueless (video)
Liar, Liar, EPA Chief Lisa Jackson’s Pants Are on Fire… about Her Contrived “Air Is Bad for People” Announcement

Gore rambles on, and with his tiny, angry fists, beats on the United States for not taxing everyone to kingdom come to save the earth, for not being the leader in the AGW Hoax Parade, for not believing in the scare stories.

Sorry, Al… people are waking up to the IPCC’s arrogant lies, bogus science, and deliberate scare tactics to push through the most expensive hoax in history.

And Al, they’re waking up to YOU and your part in the scam.

Related info on the 2010 record storms and blizzard and the global warming scam:
Hot Air: Former CRU chief: Hiding data is a critical part of science! and Former CRU chief admits warming may not be unprecedented and Breitbart TV looks back on Byrd, Boxer, Klobuchar blaming lack of snow on AGW
Sister Toldjah: Fox News: In light of climate scandals, where’s the Goracle been?
The Washington Post: Virginia challenges U.S. greenhouse gas curbs
Times Online: I thought of killing myself, says climate scandal professor Phil Jones
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: He’s Back and Backier Than Ever
Mudville Gazette: Like a hurricane
Ace of Spades HQ: Surprising No One: Liberal Media Completely Embargoes Phil Jones Admissions
Charging Elephant: Gore to Face Trial Over Climate Fraud: Where The Hell is Al? and IPCC Corruption Included Ignoring Facts and Science
HillBuzz: The collapse of the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming could take the entire Democrat Party and American Media down with it
Patterico’s Pontifications: ClimateGate’s Dr. Phil Jones and More Global Warming Doubts
Pirate’s Cove: Collapsing Science Today Continues To Collapse
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: What If This Were the Warmest Winter? and The Coming “Green” Collapse
Vets On The Watch: Major ClimateGate Scientist Comes Clean On Green
Nice Deb: New Emails Reveal Global Warmists Plotting and Scheming To Strike Back At Skeptics and Al Gore Speaks and MSM Still AWOL On Climategate and Perfect Storm Will Mean Snow On Ground In All 50 States and John Kerry Determined To Slay ManBearPig
Doug Bandow, American Spectator: Time for a Sacrifice to the Snow Gods
Gateway Pundit: Junk Scientist Al Gore Still Beating Dead Horse and MSNBC Reporter Insists Record Snow Out East Is Due to Global Warming (Video) and Climate Chief Knew About Bogus Glacier Data Before Copenhagen Summit …Update: They Fudged Rain Forest Data Too! and Unreal. Climategate Junk Scientist Michael Mann Awarded Half a Million in Stimulus Cash and Brrrr… Climate Scientists Say Mini Ice Age Likely For 20-30 Years and UN Officials Lied About Melting Glaciers to Win Hundreds of Thousands in Grant Money
The Powers That Be: Another: Senate Global Warming Hearing Canceled Due to Blizzard
Frugal Café Blog Zone: More AGW Lies: IPPC’s False Global Warming Hurricane Data, Donald Trump Slams Al Gore & Demands Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize Be Returned and Record-Breaking Carbon Footprint in Copenhagen: Global Warming Leaders Biggest Pigs in Consumption (video) and Washington DC Not Prepared for Snowmaggedon Blizzard, 25% of Snow Plows Broken, Salt Rationing Necessary and Snowmageddon: Epic, Record-Breaking Snow Storm Buries NE US… Storm Not Over, More on Tuesday (video) – Updated and Pathological Liars? More IPCC Data Fraud Exposed… Amazon Rainforest Not Affected by Global Warming Claims and Glaciergate: Global Warming Is Bogus, Just a Money Scam… IPCC Admits Himalayan Glaciers AREN’T Melting Away
Mcnorman’s Weblog: Donald Trump Take Away Al’s Nobel
Flopping Aces: The Death of Global Warming and Latest Shoe in the Global Warming Hoax Drops and Quick Takes
Pierre Legrand’s Pink Flamingo Bar: Robert F Kennedy Jr…Errr ooops
Michelle Malkin: Look who’s opposing EPA’s war on carbon now
ScienceNews: IPCC’s Himalayan glacier ‘mistake’ not an accident
Power Line: Global Warming Causes Blizzards!
Chris Horner, American Spectator: NYT in Full Warming Meltdown
Christopher C. Horner, Big Government: ClimateGate: This Can’t Help
Watts Up With That?: IPCC’s “Africagate” blunder as told by Dr. Richard North
NewsReal Blog: Where are the snows of yesteryear?

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