Rajendra Pachauri bypasses national governments; appeals to citizens to engage in "urgent grassroots action"

Since when does someone speaking with the authority of the United Nations deliberately bypass the national governments of member states and appeal to the citizenry of that nation to take action?

That's exactly what Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the IPCC, is doing in an opinion piece published today.

I wonder is Pachauri will be called to account for this.

To my compatriots in the UK: Beware of Ed Miliband's war on skeptics

Climate secretary Ed Miliband has declared was on global warming skeptics.  I think UK bloggers ought to keep on Ed Miliband.  He seems to promising only moral support for global warming alarmists in fighting this war, but frankly, I don't trust him.

Climate scandals hit an inversion point

The latest scandal from the steady stream of revelations has altered the dynamic in a profound way.  Until now, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajenda Pachauri, has been defending others in the IPCC for profound mistakes.

Now with allegations that Pachauri himself lied, the question is who in the IPCC organization is going to leap to his defense, and who will demand that he go.

NASA scientists beginning to abandon global warming alarmist dogma

In a remarkable report that I think is fair to say would not have seen the light six months ago, NASA scientists are dramatically lessening the presumed impact of carbon dioxide on the climate.

This flies in the face of global warming dogma.

But even more interesting than this is the way the scientists involved talk about their research being at odds with research by "global warming advocates".  They talk about how they are trying to be "open" and "honest".

I predicted that scientists would abandon the global warming religion, hollowing it out.  That was just two days ago.

Meteorologist: Global warming is about ethics not science

A meteorologist at Penn State has made an outstanding declaration.  We have all been deceived into thinking that global warming was about science.  It's been about ethics.

Borys Wrzesnewskyj really knows how to find the worst possible thing to say

I know that Borys Wrzesnewskyj's has already been forced to apologize for comments he made disparaging Jason Kenney's visit to Poland for the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the death camps, but what a lot of people don't realize is that when a Ukrainian makes comments like these, Poles get very very upset.

The idiot should have known that.

Scientific apostasy will hollow out the Global Warming religion

I am about to prognosticate.  I predict a major split will happen in the environmental movement over the global warming fiasco.

The split will happen because of the question of imminent danger, and it will cause the most useful faction of the global warming pseudo-religion to split away.  This apostasy may spell the end of the global warming panic.

It's already begun.

IPCC neglects to accurately describe link (or lack thereof) between global warming and hurricanes

I swear, I think we need to make hourly updates when it comes to discussing the howlers included in the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "peer reviewed" reports.

I've two in my backlog. 

Yes, a backlog.  I can't post quickly enough when it comes to discussing IPCC incompetence.

Anyway, here's the first one.  Al Gore likes this one.  It's about how global warming is causing stronger hurricanes.

It isn't, but worse than just getting it wrong, the IPCC knew the the authors had pulled back from their original conclusion.  The IPCC simply decided to ignore that bit, and selectively quote the parts they liked, inverting the conclusion.

Pachauri is feeling the heat after personally profiting from IPCC lies

Is the planet heating up?  Maybe, but it's not our fault.  More and more people understand that to be true.

If there is any heat that can be attributed to human activity, it is the heat being applied to Raj Pachauri as a result of his own questionable activities.

It's not just that the IPCC report contained errors and fabrications, put there on purpose to scare politicians, but that it seems like Raj Pachauri has used those errors and fabrications  to profit personally.

Hey, how long before Pachauri is officially investigated?  I can hardly wait.  This is better than the build-up to Christmas.

Finally, some truth from the global warming alarmists!

It's ironic that the truth is that they lied.  But I suppose it's a start for them.

I guess that makes it doubly ironic that the start means that they're scam might also be coming to an end.

In any case, that glacier melting thing?  You know, no Himalayan glaciers by 2035?  Not just a mistake, but a lie, deliberately told purely for the political impact that the lie would have.

So let's tell our politicians they don't have to put up with the lies any longer.

NASA and NOAA cherry-picking Canadian weather stations (but it could have been much worse!)

More shocking news!

Actually, it's not all that shocking.  It's become rather boring.  The global warming alarmists have been caught screwing with the data to make it look like things have gotten warmer.

Sorry, that is to say, they've been caught again.

See what I mean?  After a while, it's not so shocking.

But when it comes to cherry-picking Canadian weather data to filter out cold Canadian data, just remember, it could have been much worse.

Had history played out a bit differently, those global warming frauds would be reporting Canada's average temperature today to be a balmy 29 degrees Celsius.

UN no longer too stressed about global warming, it seems

The Copenhagen global warming summit was seen by most to be a failure.  But there was a deadline set for January 31.  At the end of this month, industrialized countries would announced their reduction commitments.

This was seen as the best compromise that could be reached.  Global warming alarmists wanted legally binding limits to be set at the summit, but clearly that was not going to happen.

Well, guess what?  That deadline?  Gone.  Yup.  If you're an Annex I nation, the UN is not going to stress if you don't set new targets.

OK, is it just me, or does it seem that no one is taking global warming all too seriously nowadays?

Democrats insult Massachusetts voters in aftermath of Scott Brown win

By characterizing the special election in Massachusetts for the Senate seat formerly held by the late Ted Kennedy as a popularity contest, Democrats are insulting the voters in that state.

In-and-Out Ruling: Liberal idiocy abounds

A Liberal complains that thanks to yesterday's ruling that saw the Conservatives win their argument with Elections Canada, the Conservatives will continue to use election laws to win elections.

What?!

Tories win In-and-Out Case

Great news for the Conservative Party, and I would argue, good news for Elections Canada too.

Is IPCC credibility melting faster than Himalayan glaciers?

The IPCC, the UN's global warming alarmist team, declared that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035.  Global warming was the cause.  Those who disagreed were practicing "voodoo" science.

Now the IPCC is on the verge of retracting that 2035 timeline.  Apparently it was lifted from a magazine article.

What next?  The IPCC starts quoting from The National Enquirer?

Elizabeth May: Stay away from Latin

It's a niggling point, but frankly people like Elizabeth May ought to stay away from using Latin phrases they clearly do not understand.  Their attempts to look intellectual backfire, at least to those who actually understand Latin phrases.

Online politics goes viral! But not this time.

The magic number is 570,000!

Errol Mendes: Full of Liberal opinions

University of Ottawa law professor Errol Mendes has been in the news a lot lately, offering his opinion about just how wrong the Conservatives are about this or that.

His opinion?  Well, Liberal Party opinions, anyway.  But the media has forgotten to mention that.

In America, promoting global warming fears is a charitable enterprise

Remember when a charity helped people in need?  Apparently, people need to have the bejeebus scared out of them by global warming alarmists.  And if you are a US government employee, it's easy for you to help with payroll deductions, since this is considered a charitable effort under the Combined Federal Campaign.

Michael Ignatieff is going after low hanging fruit

This is not a good sign.  Michael Ignatieff is talking to students.

Um, well, that's nice...but when is he going to do something that makes a difference to the Liberal Party?

Or is he just content to take the easy route whenever it is presented to him?

Opposing prorogation -- by the numbers

There is a Facebook group for people upset by the decision to prorogue Parliament. 

Using what I've learned from the global warming alarmists, I give you rock solid numerical analysis.  I have the raw data, but you can't have it.

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