Link Dump: the death of AGW alarmism?

Fascinating to see which media are or aren't talking about the hacked data showing that yes, AGW really was a manufactured lie.  With that in mind, here are some links to look at what you might not be finding anywhere else.

Global Warming Fraud Exposed has a number of links to follow.
Climate Depot has, at the moment, a great many stories to check out.
Watts Up With That, the blog alarmists love to hate, has plenty of good stuff.
Tom Nelson, as always, has lots of links to all stories climate related and is frequently upated.
Climate Realists is following the stories, too.
Icecap provides even more.
And you can't miss Mann's nemesis at Climate Audit.

Enjoy reading.  Me?  I'm going to start cooking for a pioneer themed dinner we're hosting tonight.  Canadian prairies, pre-1850, settler.  Researching for this has been quite fascinating.  A lot of people starved because they couldn't grow the foods they'd brought with them, due to the short growing season and cold.  Those that didn't know how to hunt or couldn't buy/trade for food from local Natives or nearby forts were often in dire straights.  Almost no grains of any kind, few vegetables, wild foods limited by season, difficulties preserving food for the winter.  I couldn't help but see the irony of how nutritional deprivation was such a danger because they only foods they had were local and seasonal - which is what we're being told we should be doing for the sake of the environment.

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No time to comment, but I wanted to at least pass on a few interesting editorials I came upon today.

Kids live in fear

Do not read this column

Green is the new red ink

As for me, I'm keeping and eye out on the snow we're having right now. I thought it would turn to rain as the day got warmer, but the day isn't getting warmer yet, and the snow is getting heavier. Dh and Eldest are out driving in that.

How's spring where you are?

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Still having a rough time, health wise. Cold is mostly gone, but the coughing fits are still a problem. Don't trust myself to drive, actually. Last thing I need is to be behind the wheel when one of them hits. :-P

So, in lieu of posting, may I direct your attention to these interesting stories, most courtesy of Tom Nelson.

Enjoy.

The Chilling Costs of Climate Catastrophism

The Marxist Roots of the Global Warming Scare

Global Warming? No.

The Making of a Climate Skeptic

A Big Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Study: Trees twice as large in cities, stunted in rural areas

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A few articles of interest, with credit to Tom Nelson's blog for most of them.

Argo's cool reception - editorial from the Washington Times

Letters from Sixth Grade Students reveal Global Warming Indoctrination - American Chronicle
Source with the actual letters (names covered for privacy, of course) at Heartland
related - Are you smarter than a 6th grader indoctrinated into the Church of Global Warming? - American blogger addresses the issues brought up in the letters.

Challenging ABC News' Attack on Climate Scientist, Fred Singer - SunHerald


Vast Antarctic Ice Shelf on the Verge of Collapse - msnbc article blaming the collapse on global warming.

more info:

Global warming cleared on ice shelf collapse - The Register
Surprise! There's an active volcano under Antarctic ice - Watt's Up with That
Antarctic Temperature Trend 1982-2004 - Earth Observatory, NASA (note the temperatures fluctuations range from -0.2 to +0.2 C per year)

A list of links

Here's a list of my favourite climate related sites that I'm posting for Krazy at Dust My Broom. I hope these are useful for you.

These are my favourite sites on the subject.
http://climateaudit.org/ (the best, in my view)
http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/ together with http://www.surfacestations.org/
http://www.worldclimatereport.com
http://climatesci.org/
http://www.climate-skeptic.com/
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/ (this one is news headlines and the like)
http://icecap.us/ (news articles)
http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/Index.jsp

story link without comment

Science reading for Bali's beach
Terence Corcoran, Financial Post
Published: Wednesday, December 05, 2007

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Stripped of its 2,000-year sensation, the IPCC now trumpets a new chart as the official Global Temperature Record. This is the first graphic in the IPCC's latest official pre-Bali "synthesis" report on climate science. It's another scientific icon that purports to show temperatures soaring over the last 25 years. The recent jump, the IPCC says, is "very likely" due to man-made carbon emissions.

But a new paper by Ross McKitrick of Guelph University and Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute suggests the latest IPCC climate-change icon could be as flawed as the hockey stick. One of the main problems with the 2,000-year graphic is that it wiped out a well-known Medieval Warm Period from 1,000 years ago. The McKitrick/Michaels analysis looks at the other end of the time spectrum and finds that much of the recent warming trend may be a function of faulty, contaminated data. It may simply be wrong.

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Obligatory disclaimer...Just a few recent articles and op eds I wanted to share.

How Hot IS It?
The records tell unsettling tales.

Dr Vincent Gray, a member of the UN IPCC Expert Reviewers Panel since its inception, has written to Professor David Henderson, to support the latter’s call for a review of the IPCC and its procedures.


Al Gore's Inconvenient Mistake


Global Warming Delusions


Inconvenient Corrections Al Gore's Wacky Facts


Drunken Trees

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Obligatory disclaimer...

Some interesting reads...

Fallacies of Global Warming
This one looks full face into a lot of basic assumptions we have, including many I had myself before I started doing my own research.

Carbon Dioxide and Global Climate Change: Separating Scientific Fact from Personal Opinion.
Read this one when you've got some time on your hands, as it's quite long.  Highly informative.

British Truck Driver Sues to Ban Al Gore's Film from Schools (op ed)
Lorry Driver in Challenge to Gore School Film (article)
The interesting thing about this case is that the gentleman in question isn't a "skeptic" at all.  He rightly points out that partisan politics doesn't belong in schools, not just ethically, but legally.

ABC's Liberal Weatherman Touts Emotional Benefits to Carbon Offsets.
This op ed includes a transcript of the show in question.  It's almost embarrassing to read, they're so misinformed.  Just as an example...
Ed Begley Jr. (Living With Ed): "Coal is a natural gas, but there's a lot of coal burned in this country to make kilowatts."

Coal is a natural gas, is it?  *shudder*

Serious Dough
An article about the effects "green fuel" subsidies are having on food prices.

On a similar note:
Biofuels: is the Cure Worse than the Disease.
This is a 57 page pdf you can download and read at your leisure (hah! sorry. Leisure.  That's a good one... :-) )

Here's a couple for all us breeders that are destroying the earth...

Global Swarming: Is is Time for Americans to Start Cutting our Baby Emissions
Having Large Families 'is an eco-crime'

You know, only a generation or two ago, a "large" family had 10 or more kids.  Now, a large family is anything more than 2, and now we're supposed to feel guilty for even having that many!

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Obligatory disclaimer...

Food for thought...

Warning. Some of these articles are written by people who are supposedly in the pay of Exxon/Mobile, if conspiracy site exxonsecrets.org is to be believed.

British Yachtsman who Counted on Global Warming to Cross Arctic Now Trapped by Ice

Antarctica: Warming, Cooling, or Both?

The 2007 IPCC Assessment Process - Its Obvious Conflict of Interest

Models trump measurements

The New Math on Global Warming

Thoughts on the Arctic Passage

Global-warming believers fear an honest debate