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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (25888)	11/27/2009 12:53:55 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 36917

The Copenhagen Climate Con Last Updated: 3:25 AM, November 27, 2009 Posted: 12:33 AM, November 27, 2009 The White House announced Wednesday that President Obama will travel next month to Copenhagen to participate in the United Nations' Climate-Change Conference. Here's hoping he does better than he did the last time he stopped by that city. Or, more to the point, here's hoping he doesn't allow America's pockets to be picked totally clean by the shamsters, scam artists and assorted "global-warming" opportunists who also will be in town for the occasion. For, make no mistake: The whole point of the exercise is to transfer a trillion bucks from the economies of the world's developed nations to Third World kleptocrats -- with God-only-knows how much cash sticking to the fingers of well-connected UN bureaucrats. (Remember Oil For Food? Chump change compared to what the world body could be up to this time.) This will be Obama's second highly publicized visit to the land of Hans Christian Andersen in two months. In October, he led a delegation that included his wife Michelle, Oprah Winfrey, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and other Second City VIPs on a quest to obtain the 2016 Summer Games. The foray turned into a major embarrassment: Chicago, one of four finalists, was eliminated on the first ballot. (If the process had been an Olympic event, Chicago wouldn't even have copped the bronze medal.) This time Obama will appear before the UN's climate-control confab. He reportedly intends to offer a goal of cutting US greenhouse emissions by 17 percent of 2005 levels by 2020. The White House won't declare exactly what sort of an impact that goal will have on the US economy. Or, more likely, it just doesn't know how much wreckage it will cause. Rest assured, though: It will be a lot. And, of course, it's not even clear to what purpose the damage is being done. As is becoming increasingly clear from those hacked e-mails from the British University of East Anglia's Climactic Research Unit, a lot of the "science" underlying the Copenhagen conference needs to be reconsidered. The president should be rethinking his policies, as well. newsbusters.org

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (25888)	11/27/2009 1:04:09 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 36917

MSM Goes to Ridiculous Lengths to Avoid Climategate by Ignoring IPCC Chairman Response to Scandal By P.J. Gladnick November 27, 2009 - 08:21 ET Big news on the Climategate front. The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, has issued a major response to the Climategate scandal. As a result a big rift has developed between the IPCC and a delegate to that organization on the topic of Climategate. This is big news, is it not? Does this not sound like a huge news story? Well, guess how many MSM reporters have covered this story? The answer as of this moment is one. ONE! The sole reporter who went where the rest of the MSM dares not tread was Andrew Revkin, the New York Times environmental reporter, who covered this story in his Dot Earth blog. Revkin is hardly what one would call a global warming "denier" or skeptic but to give him credit he will report on breaking climate stories even if contradicts the prevailing MSM agenda on this topic. And his latest report covers both the IPCC chairman's response as well as the huge rift over Climategate that has now developed as resuult of that scandal: Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has distributed a statement on the unauthorized disclosure of thousands of e-mail messages and documents involving a variety of contributors to the panel’s reports. One e-mail message from July 8, 2004, particularly related to the workings of the climate panel, has been the subject of much discussion. In it, Phil Jones, the now-embattled head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, the source of the leaked files, discusses several papers that challenge the status quo with Michael Mann, a longtime colleague from Pennsylvania State University. This is the take-home line, now reverberating around skeptics’ Web sites: I can’t see either of these papers being in the next I.P.C.C. report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is! Here’s Dr. Pachauri’s statement defending the climate panel’s procedures: Statement on news reports regarding hacking of the East Anglia University email communications It is unfortunate that an illegal act of accessing private email communications between scientists who have been involved as authors in I.P.C.C. assessments in the past has led to several questions and concerns. It is important for me to clarify that the I.P.C.C. as a body follows impartial, open and objective assessment of every aspect of climate change carried out with complete transparency. IPCC relies entirely on peer reviewed literature in carrying out its assessment and follows a process that renders it unlikely that any peer reviewed piece of literature, however contrary to the views of any individual author, would be left out. The entire report writing process of the I.P.C.C. is subjected to extensive and repeated review by experts as well as governments. Consequently, there is at every stage full opportunity for experts in the field to draw attention to any piece of literature and its basic findings that would ensure inclusion of a wide range of views. There is, therefore, no possibility of exclusion of any contrarian views, if they have been published in established journals or other publications which are peer reviewed. Dr. Pachauri goes on at greater length defending the IPCC peer review process which you can read in the rest of Revkin's report. However, if it weren't newsworthy enough that the IPCC chairman has responded to the Climategate scandal at length, it turns out that a delegate of that organization strongly disagrees with the chairman's assessment of the scandal. Here is the reaction to the IPCC chairman's response to Climategate from Saudi Arabia's liaison to that organization, Mohammad Al-Sabban. Note that he does not use vague diplomatic language in his very direct reaction to the position of IPCC chairman: A lot of damage has already been done to this international scientific body and I do not think the attached response by Dr. Pachauri was convincing enough to remove such a damage. So there you have it. The IPCC chairman gives a lengthy response to the Climategate and a liaison to that organization claims a lot of damage has been caused by that scandal and is unsatisfied with the excuses provided. And yet the MSM still does not think this worthy of coverage. The lengths that the MSM has gone to avoid mentioning Climategate has now entered the realm of the absurd. It is the scandal that dare not speak its name as far as the MSM is concerned. Of course, they risk embarrassing themselves yet again if Climategate explodes as an issue at the Copenhagen summit which President Obama will be attending. Then the MSM, as in the case of the ACORN and Van Jones scandals, will have to go through the embarrassing task of explaining to its readers and viewers what Climategate is all about even though most folks familiar with the Web would have already known all about it...no thanks to their ridiculous non-reporting of this major event. Oh, and a big round of applause to Andrew Revkin for reporting on all aspects of climate news...including Climategate. —P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog. newsbusters.org