The Emperor Has No Lab Coat

As I raised my children, I read to them every day. One story we enjoyed was the classic tale by Hans C. Andersen, “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Here’s the story:

An Emperor who cares for nothing but his clothes hires a couple of weavers who promise him the finest suit of clothes from a fabric invisible to anyone who is unfit for his position or "just hopelessly stupid". The Emperor can’t see the fabric himself, but pretends that does so so as not to appear stupid or unfit. His ministers do likewise. When the swindlers report the new outfit is finished, they pretend to dress him, then the Emperor parades in front of his subjects. A child in the crowd calls out “the Emperor is has no clothes!” Soon everyone admits what is in front of their eyes. The Emperor cringes but continues to act proudly and continues the charade, I mean parade.

This seems an apt parable for the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) “crisis.” Those of us who disbelieve the theory are labeled “just hopelessly stupid” because we don’t believe. Yet the AGW weavers, the swindlers, have convinced our Emperors (government officials) that it’s true, and they proudly continue the parade.

In the meantime, some of our southern-most cities have been caught “naked” without adequate road salt and snow-removal equipment because they were convinced their winters were getting milder and warmer by the decade.

Here are a list of bogus AGW alarmist claims that came from “experts.”

AmazonGate - the IPCC claim that global warming will wipe out rain forests was fraudulent, based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise and lifted from a report from the World Wildlife Fund, an environmental pressure group. The "research" was based on a popular science magazine report that didn't bother to assess rainfall, but looked at the impact of logging and burning. No lab coats here, just greenie weenies.

ChinaGate - Many Chinese weather station measurements were seriously flawed, and 42 rural stations couldn’t even be located!! This biased readings in favor of urban stations. No white lab coats here, just red faces.

HimalayaGate – the claim that Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 was an exaggeration to spur governments to action and to get massive research funding. This was based on speculation from a popular hiking magazine. No lab coat here, just butcher uniforms for lots of pork processing.

SternGate I & II –
I - One excuse for imposing worldwide climate crackdown has been the U.K.'s 2006 Stern Report, an economic doomsday prediction. Now the U.K. Telegraph reports . . . the scientific evidence on which they were based could not be verified. II– A researcher claims the Stern Report misquoted his work to suggest a firm link between global warming and more-frequent and severe floods and hurricanes. Robert Muir-Wood said his original research showed no such link. No lab coats, just hood-winks.

PeerReviewGate –at least 16 NON-peer-reviewed reports from the advocacy group World Wildlife Fund were used in the IPCC's climate change bible, which calls for capping manmade greenhouse gases. No meteorological lab coats in those reports, just Monkey-Monk hype.

RussiaGates - I – Russian investigators evaluated thousands of documents and e-mails leaked from the East Anglia research center and concluded readings from the coldest regions of their nation had been omitted, driving average temperatures up about half a degree. II – A presentation to the Geological Society of America showed how tree-ring data from Russia indicated COOLING after 1961, but was deceptively truncated in IPCC publications. Just say “NYET!”

U.S.Gate – Is Uncle Sam more accurate? 40 years ago there were 6,000 surface-temperature measuring stations, but only 1,500 by 1990. Most of the deleted stations were in COLDER regions, just as in the Russian case, resulting in misleading higher average temperatures.

IceGate –The IPCC based its findings of reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and in Africa on a feature story of climbers' anecdotes in a popular mountaineering magazine, and one dissertation by a student. Mostly hyping boots here, I mean hiking boots. How about let’s give THEM “the boot!”

ReefGate – The alleged link between climate change and coral reef degradation cam not from peer-reviewed literature, but from solely from advocacy articles by publicity-hungry Greenpeace. Another whale of a tale.

AlaskaGate – Geologists for Space Studies in Geophysics and Oceanography and their U.S. and Canadian colleagues say previous studies largely overestimated by 40 percent Alaskan glacier loss for 40 years. This flawed data are fed into those computers to predict future warming. Perhaps there weren’t enough intrepid lab coats making the trek to icy “Last Frontier?”

There are more “Climate-Gates” in this link.

R. K. Pachauri, who is head of IPCC, is not a climate scientist, but an economist.

Al Gore is not a scientist of any sort, but a high priest of AGW. His “documentary” had so many inaccuracies that British schools could only show it when accompanied by a list of corrections. By the way, where is Mr. Gore? Did someone send him to a WitLess Protection Program?

Even Phil Jones, who IS a climatologist, recently admitted “that in the last 15 years there had been no ‘statistically significant’ warming . . OOPS!!

“Scientists have underestimated the role that water vapour plays in determining global temperature changes . . . . The research, led by one of the world's top climate scientists, suggests that almost one-third of the global warming recorded during the 1990s was due to an increase in water vapour in the high atmosphere, not human emissions of greenhouse gases. . . . . Until now, scientists have struggled to explain the temperature slowdown in the years since 2000. OOPS!!

Mother Nature may be getting the last laugh. Her lab coat is the purest white . . . last week all 50 states in the US had snow . . . for the first time ever!

Last week, MSNBC and Time argued that the massive amounts of snow hitting the mid-Atlantic region proves AGW, yet in 2002 it was said that the LACK of snow in that same region proved AGW. They can’t have it both ways.

I just saw a weatherman say that “. . . because of global warming, the air holds more water at ALL temperatures.” So now AGW changes the laws of PHYSICS?

Estimates of “Cap and Trade” costs per family vary from $1,500 to $3,000 per year.
Using the lower estimate, that’s an additional cost nearly of $30,000 during the 18-19 years of raising a child, making the total cost over $230,000! (See my first blog entry).

When you see the Emperor has no clothes, SAY something!! Otherwise, the same swindlers will steal the shirt off your back!!

Even the Defense Department turning green around the gills.

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I’d been working on this blog for a couple of weeks, and just yesterday we see another tear in the invisible fabric of the AGW space-time continuum.

The journal Nature Geoscience retracted its 2009 claim that sea levels would rise up to 32 inches by the end of the century. There are two separate mistakes in the paper, which were pointed out by scientists after it had been published. (So much for “peer review”!)