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"I learned that in extreme situations when human lives and dignity are at state, neutrality is a sin. It helps the killers, not the victims." Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor who lost his family in the Holocaust - Nobel Prize Author
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"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened." – Norman Thomas
American socialist, 1948
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Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, was asked three times in an interview if he will consider a run for the presidency. Three times Bolton did not say 'no,' but he also did not say 'yes.' The usually straight-talking Bolton alluded to not being electable, but said his candidacy would raise the profile of national security - and that would be a good thing.
John Bolton
In an interview with the Daily Caller's Jamie Weinstein, Bolton answered the first question of a possible presidential run by saying he was honored that anyone would even ask the question. Acknowledging that the economy is first on everyone's mind, he astutely reminds us that "our adversaries overseas are not going to wait for us to get our economic house in order."
Asked again, DC says Bolton "seemed to suggest" that his presence in the race would escalate the national security conversation.
Asked a third time, he said he would not do "anything foolish" because he understands how the media works and that understanding would be a part of any decision he makes.
Bolton is a constant critic of the Obama administration. Everything Obama has done in Afghanistan, Bolton believes he was forced to do, and he believes Obama will never strike Iran. He is equally as critical of Obama's domestic agenda.
Asked if he gives any credit at all to the president for increasing drone attacks against terrorists in Pakistan and elsewhere, and tripling troop levels in Afghanistan – both moves that have upset his left flank – Bolton said they were moves the president was forced to take.
“Well, certainly he has done things that have been unexpected in Afghanistan and certain aspects of the Terrorism. I think those are steps he has taken because it has been impossible – even for him – to avoid taking them,” Bolton proffered. “For example, much of what he has done in terms of interrogation or Guantanamo Bay or aspects of the War on Terrorism are things that are driven either by the imperative of defending executive branch prerogatives under the Constitution or because he has come to realize that the Bush administration looked at a lot of alternatives and couldn’t find any. So it is not that he has done these things happily or willingly.”
Bolton has been the lone voice crying-out in the wilderness, and echoing you and me, national security before all else - or else it will be too late, and that the United Nations is deceitful and wholly corrupt - and wholly against Israel. I would welcome John Bolton into the race for president. It is a sad commentary on our nation that a brilliant man who ultimately supports peace through strength would be lynched and worse by the media. Oh, Ran at Si Vis Pacem asks: ...but what if he ran as Sarah's Veep?
Old Glory has been removed from the Department of Justice (DOJ) website banner and replaced with a black background and white print. A new motto now resides on the webpage - a quote of which its origins are not completely certain, but were greatly admired by former Attorney General Janet Reno in January 2001, something she and Eric Holder apparently have in common. The quote is usually attributed to C. Wilfred Jenks, a Director-General of the U.N.'s International Labor Organization which busies itself with "the promotion of social justice."
Old DOJ Banner
New DOJ Banner
The common law is the will of Mankind issuing from the Life of the People
C. Wilfred Jenks, a Brit and a former Director-General of the International Labour Organization from 1970 to 1973, died in 1973. Anonymous DOJ "career lawyers" have differing opinions of the quotations author. C. Wilfred Jenks is known by conservatives for facilitating "a greater role for socialists and communists at the U.N.," and the global "workers rights movement, but no one is completely confident of the author. Some suggest the quote may have been placed on the building under the authority of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Some believe it was adapted from the writings of Sir William Blackstone. The American Spectator has the story:
Most telling: Jenks, as director of the ILO is credited with putting in place the first Soviet senior member of the UN organization, and also with creating an environment that allowed the ILO to give "observer status" to the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and to issue anti-Israeli statements, which precipitated efforts by the U.S. Congress to withdraw U.S. membership from the ILO. The U.S. actually did withdraw in the mid-1970s due to the organization's leftist leanings.
"It was Jenks's efforts that helped make the ILO a tool of the socialist and communist movement," says one of the DOJ lawyers. "We used to joke about how fitting it was that this was Janet Reno's favorite quote to use in speeches, and now the Obama folks think it encapsulates out department's mission."
The quote that now resides on the website is etched into the wall "of the 9th Street gate," of the DOJ, according to Janet Reno:
There is, on the wall of the 9th Street gate, a saying that I have come to rely on again and again. It says, "The common law derives from the will of mankind, issuing from the life of the people, framed by mutual confidence, and sanctioned by the light of reason."
Unless the law issues from all of the people, some of the people will feel left out. They will come to feel alienated. They will be angry. And this will not be a cohesive democracy. If you don't care about that, they will feel left out, alienated, and they will not have the opportunities that others have to skills, to jobs, to opportunity. That will only hurt America.
He held honorary degrees from many universities throughout the world. He lectured at the British Academy and the Universities of Georgia and Yale and was five times visiting professor at the Hague Academy of International Law. He was one of the international advisers to the American Law Institute on the drafting of its Statement of Essential Human Rights, one of the texts which served as a basis for drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
C. Wilfred Jenks was the author of numerous books with titles that champion globalism. Here are a few:
Law, Freedom and Welfare
International Law in a Changing Word, Orthodoxy and Innovation in the Law of Nations
The World beyond the Charter in Historical Perspective: A Tentative Synthesis of Four States of World Organization
A New World of Law: A Study of the Creative Imagination in International Law
Funniest quote of the year: "The idea here is to keep on turning up the pressure" ~ Barack Obama. The operative word is "keep." We have not been ratcheting up pressure on Iran, so we cannot "keep" ratcheting up the pressure, especially with the veto powers of Commies China and Russia sitting on the U.N. Security Council.
Barack Obama
No worries...no rush. Just let this Iranian banty rooster continue to kill our military, his own citizens and threaten people everywhere.
"In our talks with China it was agreed that tools such as sanctions have lost their effectiveness," he told reporters in Beijing.
I would like to see an American leader say to the Security Council, "screw you, strong letter to follow." I will get a coalition of nations to isolate Iran, thus making my country safer , Israel safer and the surrounding Islamic countries safer. If I fail, then so be it, but it won't be because I didn't try."
Oh, but wait...US Ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice, said Thursday that China is now ready for "serious" talks. Ridiculous. How many times has we gone through this? The answer is over and over, and year after year.
In February, Iranian president Mahmoud Achmadinejad said his country had begun the enrichment of fuel at 20%:
...experts say Iran could convert a stockpile of 20% enriched uranium to weapons grade material within six months.
Former UN Ambassador John Bolton said this week that Obama is naive in thinking sanctions can now stop the country from acquiring a nuclear arsenal:
The test is, can you pass a sanctions resolution that will stop Iran from continuing to pursue nuclear weapons, and the unambiguous answer is no. This continued talk about sanctions is counterproductive because it gives people the kind of a warm and fuzzy and comfortable feeling that we're doing something when in reality we're not."
We let the IAEA's now retired Mohamed El-Baradei, and a Nobel Peace prize awardee, lie to the world for years about Iran's nuclear aggression, and just one month ago, just before he was set to exit the world eye, he said "Iran has not implemented any of the measures called for by the Security Council...." In May 2008, El-Baradei said Iran was not after a bomb:
"We haven't seen indications or any concrete evidence that Iran is building a nuclear weapon and I've been saying that consistently for the last five years," ElBaradei asserted.
The bottom line is this: we have let the U.N. Security Council be dominated by Islamic nations, and we allowed a Muslim to watch the hen house.
Al Gore recently lamented that we can't wish away climate change just because some inaccuracies have been found - referring to the full blown ClimateGate scandal sweeping the entire globe. The climate-magnet says there are "at least two" oopsees! in ClimateGate, just for full disclosure, I suppose. But, Al, Al, Al, there are so many more than two, and they aren't mistakes. They are purposeful manipulations of data, and the inclusion of unsupported stats - meaning no peer review. What a piece of work you are; you make Charlie Rangel's ethics look laudable.
See a video below.
Al Gore
In his New York Times editorial, Gore said no matter ClimateGate, we still face "an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventative measures to protect human civilization...." Of course we do (eye roll). What a diva.
He lashed out at America, and our reluctance to roll over on carbon emission regulations. We are guilty of "exploitive behavior in the marketplace," he said, and we label those trying to fix our behavior, and make the reforms, "socialists. Mr. Gore is distressed.
Our "rule of law as an instrument of human redemption" is at stake, he says. We have a "hubris of market fundamentalism." That hubris led to the "democracy sphere" being pummeled by "the market sphere." Damn capitalism!
Mr. Gore's message goes far beyond climate change. Anyone thinking God wasn't looking our for this country in the Gore-Bush election should think again (don't ask me where God was looking in November 2008).
But Gore buys carbon offsets to cover his footprint. In other words, he pays some amount figured to value a ton of carbon emissions, and whomever he buys the carbon offset (carbon credit) from, pays young boys in third world countries to plant trees in that amount, or something similar. If the trees die, are burned off, plowed under, or the money for trees magically ends up in someone's pocket, nothing is offsetting anything.
Under the radar is Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). While on the Board of the charitable Joyce Foundation, Barack Obama helped award more than $1 million in grants to test the viability of a carbon credit market, and then to launch the privately-owned concern. Gore's partner, Maurice Strong, (more about him a few paragraphs down) is on the Board of CCX. Obama's Cap and Trade legislation will likely be a boon to CCX. Maybe it's a Chicago-thing.
...if the day ever comes when federal government regulations require greenhouse-gas emitters -- and that’s almost everyone -- to participate in cap-and-trade, then those who have created a market for the exchange of carbon credits are in a position to control the outcomes. And that moves Al Gore [and Maurice Strong] front and center.
But here's the kicker. Gore really is on the cutting edge of carbon emissions, because he buys his carbon credits from his own company, Generation Investment Management (GIM)...but it is how he buys the credits from himself that is interesting, and it comes down to this: he buys stock in his own company, and the company loans money to other wealthy individuals or company's who are investing in green technology of some kind. And Gore and company's stock conceivably rises and the profits roll in. More about this below.
In his New York Times op-ed, Gore "wishes" man-made global warming was an illusion - and of course, it is just that, but you and I don't have the intelligence to know it, and to realize that this industry is his personal cash cow...he was the first, and he has the profile.
In the op-ed:
1) Gore admits the U.N. climate change panel, the IPCC, published a "flawed" "over-estimate" of the melting rate of Himayalan glaciers. But it was not an "over-estimate," or an "exaggeration," as Gore says. It was a magazine interview with one climate scientist - no evidence to support the claim, and zero evidence cited.
Yet, the IPCC treated Dr. Syed Hasnain's comments as science and published them under protests from other experts in the filed of glacierology.
Now it appears that conflict of interest charges are about to go to a
higher level.
The “IPCC 2035 glacier error” has been used to solicit funds for new
projects, and guess where the money goes?
This PDF File is from the EU’s HighNoon
website, and shows how the EU set up a project to
research the ‘rapid retreat’ of glaciers in the Himalayas based on the
bogus IPCC report. Some of the EU taxpayers’ money put into this
project has gone to TERI, which is run by Dr. Rajendra Pachauri.
2) Gore regrets the inaccurate information about the Netherlands - which raised the ire of Dutch officials, who said the IPCC's vaunted 2007 report on climate change may "invalidate all claims that the last decades were the hottest ever...."
3) He says it is "worth noting" that scientists "probably underestimated the range of sea-level rise in this century," whatever the word "underestimated" means to him. The oceans are not rising. In 2008, soon-to-be president, Barack Obama said "this was the moment the oceans began to slow...., but no, the oceans never began to rise. The claims of rising oceans have been withdrawn. Nature Magazine published the article making the claims, and now, for the first ever, have retracted the data.
4) Gore mentions the "stolen" e-mail messages from the U.K.'s University of East Anglia, which showed that all manner of data had been manipulated to show false results. After many ignored Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for certain data controlled by leading scientist, Phil Jones, (Gore calls the requests "an onslaught of hostile, make-work demands from climate skeptics) - it appears someone on the inside leaked the telling emails. Gore says Jones and his buddies "may not have adequately followed the requirements of the FOIA" laws. Right. What about the inaccurate data and the efforts to "hide the decline." And then there's the Fudge Factor. Gore doesn't go there.
But keep in mind that Chris Horner, a writer and researcher, has been forced to sue NASA - right here in the U.S., not the U.K., for copies of warming data that he suspects is cooked by the NASA scientist. And this unfortunate quote from Hansen surfaced today - ...a team of Government scientists has concluded that there has been no significant change in average temperature or rainfall in the U.S. over that entire period [going back nearly 100 years].
So, Gore himself mentions five mistakes, but fails to mention theses:
1) Mountain ice data in the Andes, Alps and in Africa has been discredited. This time, the IPCC accepted a geography student's dissertation as gospel and published it, and then accepted further data from a mountain climber. Both were considered "authoritative assessment,"by the IPCC. They were no such thing.
2) The emails from University of East Anglia (UEA) showed deception in numerous areas, not just one. One of import is American Michael Mann's "hockey stick graph," which omitted the period of Medieval Warming to show more recent warming as the warmest ever. That little adventure by Phil Jones and Michael Mann is known as "hide the decline," taken from an email between the two men. It wasn't a mistake. It was manipulation and deception.
4) The media has been at the heart of every piece of bogus reporting. No challenges...just adoration for these imperious scientists with one goal, to keep the funds flowing in their direction. Where is the vetting from the media? If they are not capable of ferreting out untruths, they have also refused to print dissenting viewpoints. When the hacked emails were made public, no one reported it but the Brits, conservative blogs and FOXNews. From Tom Bethell, The American Spectator:
Here, the betrayers of science have found that public opinion is easily manipulated, especially with press cooperation. The principles that, starting in the 17th century, turned science into one of the great human enterprises can be subverted. Most Americans—most people in the world—know so little about these things that the methods of science can be twisted with hardly anyone noticing.
Today, many scientists and opinion leaders think that if an elite consensus in favor of certain “policies” can be generated, the underlying science must be right. The corrupt system of “peer review” will reliably exclude dissenters, and if the naysayers continue making themselves heard they will be called denialists, tools of right-wing talk radio, etc.
5) Weather data from China was manipulated, and an American scientist at the University of Albany, Dr. Wei-Chyung Wang was a Jones collaborator.
Al Gore is the Chairman of the Board of Alliance for Climate Protection, and Chairman of Generation Investment Management (GIM). Gore and his silent partner, Maurice Strong, a former senior adviser to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, got their groove on back in 1995. Gore, in a speech, trumpeted the exceptional work of Massachusetts-based Molten Metal Technology, Inc. (MMTI). Seems they invented a process for recycling metals from waste in.
In his speech, he failed to note that Strong owned MMTI, along with other close associates like his former top Senate aide, Peter Knight, who is the President of GIM (read about Knight below), and failed to mention that MMTI received in excess of $25 million in Department of Energy grants, but completely failed to prove that their methodology - how to recycle metals - actually worked. Nevermind. They would receive another $8 million in federal funds.
Gore's stock in MMTI soared. When the DOE began to catch on, and Strong and Gore knew that their golden goose had laid the last of its golden eggs, they sold off over $15 million in shares at the high price - then a few days later, quietly on a Sunday, announced the lethal news and left shareholders watching the stock plummet to $5.00 a share from $35.00. Lawsuits followed.
Now about top aide, former lobbyist, former Bill Clinton campaign manager, and current president of MMTI: An investigation was underway to determine how a gift of stock worth $20,000 from MMTI ended up in Peter Knight's son's ownership. Janet Reno came along and shut-down the look-see. It's convoluted but the bottom line is, Franklin Haney, III, the chairman of MMTI, was indicted on 42 counts charging him with making illegal donations to the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign.
Henry Paulson, Bush's Treasury Secretary and former Goldman Sachs CEO, is Gore's co-founder at Generation Investment Management (GIM). Other GIM co-founders also have a background with Goldman Sach.
From Human Events (linked below and a few paragraphs up):
...as GIM chairman, Gore has not been forthcoming, according to Forbes magazine. Little is known about his firm’s finances, where it gets funding and what projects it supports
An Arkansas company, Winrock International, has an employee sitting on the IPCC panel. Winrock provides "carbon-advisory services."
Winrock has received government grants from the EPA, USAID and the Departments of Labor, State and Commerce, as well as from the Nature Conservancy (whose chairman used to be Henry Paulson).
I'll end with another quote from Human Events - October 2007:
The bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement says that members of a United Nations-sponsored group called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stand to gain by approving Gore’s carbon-trading enterprise.
The IPCC has devised what it says is a scientific measure of the impact of greenhouse gases on global warming. In fact, the critics charge, the IPCC sanctions a mechanism that mainly promotes the sham concept of carbon exchange.
Thanks to Scotty Starnes Blog for the video reminding us that we cannot control Mother Nature.
Richard Grenell, the Ambassador to the UN during the Bush Administration wrote a damning review of Obama's Ambassador, Susan Rice. Writing in the Huffington Post, he said Rice had been "wildly ineffective" this past year. Grenell was extraordinarily frank. The "wildly ineffective" comment is just the beginning.
Susan Rice
Grenell charged that Rice has been a social butterfly [my interpretation] and ignored her duties on the UN Security Council. Mr. Grenell, as experienced as he is, misses the point. Rice and Obama have no intention of stirring up the Security Council. How uncomfortable would that be? The trouble-makers are all Islamic Countries, with the exception of North Korea, and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) runs the place. The Council will not take action on Iran or North Korea so, why bother, unless showing up if you aren't sanctioning Iran?
Richard Grenell, who served eight years in the Bush administration as
spokesman for four U.S. ambassadors at the U.N., wrote Monday on the Huffington Post
that Rice has been more active "in the social scene of Washington and
the White House" than at the U.N., as suggested by a Security Council
Report study that notes a marked decrease in activity at the Security Council over the past year.
That study in the Report, which is affiliated with Columbia University,
said Council decisions dropped by 26 percent in the Obama
administration's first year to the lowest level since 1991.
"For an Administration that promised to utilize the UN and improve our
reputation around the world, its dinner-party circuit strategy isn't
making America more secure," Grenell wrote.
Grenell mentioned Rice's "larger than normal DC-based staff," plus her 200-person NY based staff, which he says she spends little time with. He spoke of her Annie Leibovitz "glamour spread in Vogue Magazine, shot in an empty Security Council Chamber. She didn't show for the Council's Haiti crisis meeting to expand the UN's peacekeeping mission, and failed to call an emergency meeting to put request more help for the devasted country
...it was UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon that
came to the Security Council to request more troops - the American
Ambassador hadn't bothered."
Nevertheless, Rice said she has had a very productive year.
This time, we go to data for mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and Africa, having already thoroughly discredited data on the Himalayans. Our source today is a geography student's dissertation for a Masters equivalent in Switzerland, and a mountain climbing magazine article written with anecdotal data from "mountaineers." The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) liked what it read, and decided to use them both as "authoratative assessment[s] of scientific evidence on climate change." Update see new GlacierGate video below.
But neither the dissertation or the magazine article cited as sources for this
information were ever subject to the rigorous scientific review process that
research published in scientific journals must undergo....
Experts claim that loss of ice climbs are a poor indicator of a reduction in
mountain ice as climbers can knock ice down and damage ice falls with their
axes and crampons.
Recently, it was revealed the IPCC used "unsubstantiated" data on the Himalayans, some coming from the casual comments of an Indian scientist, and some coming from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The WWF is an advocacy group and use of such data is forbidden for the supposedly, strictly regulated science data needed to prove that the earth is warming. Perhaps you've noticed the WWF ads on television recently on the declining numbers of polar bears (contrary to the opinion of many, many experts).
WWF data was also used to illustrate "reduced rainfall in the Amazon rainforest," and that data was borrowed from an article in the journal Nature.
Rajendra Pauchari, the Director of the IPCC, cannot be shamed. There are calls for his resignation, but he is resisting.
Take a minute for a few laughs and watch the video below: GlacierGate set to the popular Hitler videos making the rounds. Thanks to reader Mr. Xyz.
An undercover child sex sting allegedly caught Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector, and columnist for al-Jazeera, conversing in an Internet chat room, and masturbating on camera for someone he thought was a 15-year-old girl.
This report says
Ritter was also charged in June 2001 in a NY sex sting but the case was
dismissed. That case involved child endangerment and attempting to meet
a 16-year-old girl at a restaurant. The New York post reported that
there was yet another incident in April 2001 involving a 14-year-old
but charges were not filed. Nothing but a child predator here if these charges are true. Think of those who never received justice for the crimes of Scott Ritter.
Ritter, 48, lives in Delmar, NY. He was a UN weapons inspector in Iraq until he quit under protest of the lack of U.N. action when Saddam Hussein threw the weapons inspectors out of the country. Ritter claimed Iraq had obstructed the UN work, and hid the necessary documentation and equipment to restart the program. He was outraged that the CIA may have tried to infiltrate the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), under which he worked, and use inspectors to gather intelligence.
Ritter outraged Americans when he joined al-Jazeera as a columnist, praised the Iraqi resistance, and suggested the only way out for America was to fail. As of December 2009 he was still writing for al-Jazeera, and in fact titled his article about Afghanistan, Our Murderers in the Sky.
According to Mr. Ritter, “The highly vaunted U.S. military machine, laurelled and praised for its historic march on Baghdad (search)
in March and April of 2003, today finds itself a broken force, on the
defensive in a land that it may occupy in part, but does not control.”
Offering no proof whatsoever, Mr. Ritter accuses the U.S. of conspiring with Iraqi assassination squads (search),
and that, not foreign terrorists or former Saddam officials, is what
started the post-war violence in Iraq: “Having started the game of
politically motivated assassination, the U.S. has once again found
itself trumped by forces inside Iraq it does not understand, and as
such will never be able to defeat.”
As for the enemy, which he calls a “genuine
grassroots national liberation movement,” Ritter is generous: “History
will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi
resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and
their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.”
At that time, BlackFive wrote "he's a lying disgrace and his column could incite violence against Americans. So this al-Jazeera columnist, Ritter, reportedly used the web I.D. "delmarm4fun," and at least the first contact with the girl (cop) was in February 2009. The policeman told Ritter he was a 14 year old girl from the Poconos in Pennsylvania. He asked for a photo of the girl, known as "Emily."
Ritter then sent a link to his Web camera and
began to masturbate while it was focused on his genitals, according to
the affidavit. The former U.N. official then allegedly provided his
cell phone number.
"He then continued to
masturbate on web cam and he again asked how old I was," the affidavit
continued. "He was advised again that I was 15 years old. He said he
didn't realize that I was 15 years old and turned off his web camera.
He stated that he didn't want to get in trouble."
Ritter
then allegedly told the "girl" that he fantasized about having sex with
her, to which the officer replied, "guess u turned it off [no problem]."
Ritter
then asked the girl if she "want[ed] to see it finish" before
reactivating his Web camera and ejaculating, the affidavit read.
Assuming Scott Ritter spends a good, longtime behind bars for attempting to corrupt, perhaps rape, at least molest a minor, it couldn't happen to a more deserving UN worker, former employee or not. The culture of corruption within the U.N. is flagrant, and after raping, abusing and torturing children in vulnerable countries, while getting paid to be a peacekeeper, losing a job is usually the only punishment. Let's hope Ritter's outcome keeps him away from children for a very long time.
With the release of thousands of emails and documents that seem to show that climate change and global warming data has been manipulated to prove that "warming" exists, we see that the "warmist" theories have been brought about by just a very few men who are now known to be liars and cheats.
Phil Jones
Phil Jones is the chief liar and cheat. He is joined by a small bevy of elite alarmists. He instructed others to delete critical data to avoid the Freedom of Information Act requests, and explored other ways to keep his flawed research secret. Jones was in the driver's seat as this small group tried to "lower temperatures and "adjust" recent temperatures upwards."
Jones is in charge of the key data furnished to the UN's IPCC (Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change) - and determines the data used for the report. Jones is the director of Hadley's Climate Research Unit (CRU) and Hadley (Phil Jones) "selects most of the IPCC's key scientific contributors."
...his global temperature record is the most
important of the four sets of temperature data on which the IPCC and
governments rely – not least for their predictions that the world will warm
to catastrophic levels unless trillions of dollars are spent to avert it.
Jones was instrumental in getting the world to accept Michael Mann's theory that there was no global warming in the Medieval period. This theory, believed to have been proven through Mann's now debunked "hockey stick" graph, and the 2001 IPCC report even supported no evidence of "a Medieval Warm Period." Because of Phil Jones and Michael Mann, the world's climate alarmists, even at the level of the UN, revised known history and even claimed that Earth may have been "slightly cooler" during that period.
Without Professor Jones' support, Mann's theory would have likely been ignored.
Dr Jones is also a key part of the closely knit group of American and British
scientists responsible for promoting that picture of world temperatures
conveyed by Michael Mann's "hockey stick" graph which 10 years ago
turned climate history on its head by showing that, after 1,000 years of
decline, global temperatures have recently shot up to their highest level in
recorded history.
Given star billing by the IPCC, not least for the way it appeared to eliminate
the long-accepted Mediaeval Warm Period when temperatures were higher they
are today, the graph became the central icon of the entire man-made global
warming movement.
Steven McIntyre, a Canadian statistician, through his blog ClimateAudit, began questioning Mann's methodology and found it "fundamentally flawed." Jones and Mann have waged a war against McIntyre and taken pained steps to keep him from receiving documents through the FOI:
Mann's supporters, calling themselves "the Hockey Team",
and McIntyre and his own allies, as they have ever more devastatingly called
into question the entire statistical basis on which the IPCC and CRU
construct their case.
Back in 2006, when the eminent US statistician Professor Edward Wegman
produced an expert report for the US Congress vindicating Steve McIntyre's
demolition of the "hockey stick", he excoriated the way in which
this same "tightly knit group" of academics seemed only too keen
to collaborate with each other and to "peer review" each other's
papers in order to dominate the findings of those IPCC reports on which much
of the future of the US and world economy may hang.
McIntyre had already humilitated James Hansen, the famous NASA scientist who is also a part of this small group of alarmists:
This is what Mr McIntyre caught Dr Hansen doing with
his GISS temperature record last year (after which Hansen was forced to
revise his record), and two further shocking examples have now come to light
from Australia and New Zealand.
...In each case it is clear that the same trick has been
played – to turn an essentially flat temperature chart into a graph which
shows temperatures steadily rising. And in each case this manipulation was
carried out under the influence of the CRU.
Don't miss the fact that Hansen was forced to revise his records.
With Jones in the lead in global warming fraud, these self-acknowledged and self-appointed scientific warming elitists have managed to keep opposition research from being published.
The third shocking revelation of these documents is the ruthless way in which
these academics have been determined to silence any expert questioning of
the findings they have arrived at by such dubious methods – not just by
refusing to disclose their basic data but by discrediting and freezing out
any scientific journal which dares to publish their critics' work. It seems
they are prepared to stop at nothing to stifle scientific debate in this
way, not least by ensuring that no dissenting research should find its way
into the pages of IPCC reports.
Phil Jones has consistently refused to release the "basis data" used to conclude that Earth is warming, and is warming due to anthropogenic (man-made) causes. Not only did Jones refuse to allow other interested parties to review his work, about a year ago Jones said much of his original data "from all over the world" is now missing. It got "lost." Now we know through the released emails that this sorry bunch has
gathered together to knowingly defraud the world, and used errant and insidiously manipulated data to further their own interests.
If they ever hear there is a Freedom
of Information Act now in the UK, I think I'll delete the file rather than
send it to anyone". By chance, he now admits he has "accidentally"
deleted some of the raw data.
Another message said the CRU's method of collating data "renders the
station counts totally meaningless... so, we can have a proper result, but
only by including a load of garbage!"
What is the esteemed Prof. Jones' saying about his own orchestrated ruse? This is it:
My
colleagues and I accept that some of the published emails do not read well."
The whole world is calling for investigations. Now we need to watch to see who heads the scrutiny. Will it be the fox watching the hen house? Probably.
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