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To: Skywatcher who wrote (163973)	1/27/2010 12:41:28 PM
From: jlallen	3 Recommendations Respond to of 173976

The ACORN tapes were not fakes....try not to sound like such an ignorant putz for a change.

To: Skywatcher who wrote (163973)	1/27/2010 2:07:45 PM
From: jlallen	2 Recommendations Respond to of 173976

OOOPS!!!! It has been reported that O'Keefe and company did not have any wire tapping equipment with them....lol It amazing how the media was all over this story and ignored the mulitple crimes of ACORN exposed by O'Keefe....

To: Skywatcher who wrote (163973)	1/27/2010 11:37:44 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 173976

Global Warming: If we're serious about restoring science to its rightful place, the head of the U.N.'s panel on climate change should step down. Evidence shows he quarterbacked a deliberate and premeditated fraud. The U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been forced to back off its now-discredited claim that the Himalayan glaciers would soon disappear. But it's not true, the panel's vice chairman, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, told the BBC, that it was simply a "human mistake." The panel's chairman, Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, who was forced to admit the claim had no basis in observable scientific fact, said its inclusion was merely a "poor application" of IPCC procedures, acting as if the original source of the claim, Indian scientist Dr. Syed Hasnain, was a total stranger. In fact, as Christopher Booker of the London Telegraph points out, Dr. Hasnain "has for the past two years been working as a senior employee of the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), the Delhi-based company of which Dr. Pachauri was director-general." So after the 2007 assessment that included Hasnain's claim, Pachauri was impressed enough to hire him as an employee. Pachauri should have been familiar with both his work and the fact the claim had not been peer-reviewed, and aware that it had been challenged by reputable geologists. Before the 2007 report was published, Hasnain's claim was challenged by another of its lead authors, Austrian glaciologist Dr. Georg Kaser. He described Hasnain's prediction of glaciers vanishing by 2035 as "so wrong that it is not even worth dismissing." So why was it included in the 2007 IPCC assessment? In an interview with the London Daily Mail on Sunday, Dr. Murari Lal, the coordinating lead author of the chapter on Asia, gave a disturbing answer. "It related to several countries in the region and their water sources," he said. "We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policymakers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action." In other words, the motive was political, not scientific, in contradiction to the IPCC mission statement that says its role is "to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis, scientific, technical and socioeconomic information — the IPCC reports should be neutral with respect to policy." Was money another motivation? Booker points out that Hasnain's claim "helped TERI win a substantial share of a $300,000 grant from one of America's leading charities, along with a share in a 3-million-euro research study funded by the EU." Deception and manipulation are apparently established practices at the IPCC, just as they were with the researchers at Britain's Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. Marc Morano at Climate Depot, who has done yeoman work exposing climate fraud, relates the witness of Dr. John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Christy served as an IPCC lead author in 2001 for the third assessment report and personally witnessed U.N. scientists trying to distort the science for political purposes. "I was at the table with three Europeans, and we were having lunch. And they were talking about their role as lead authors. And they were talking about how they were trying to make the report so dramatic that the United States would just have to sign that Kyoto Protocol," Christy told CNN on May 2, 2007. Twenty years ago, Stanford University environmentalist Stephen Schneider told Discover magazine that it's perfectly fine "to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts we might have. ... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." The IPCC of Dr. Pachauri has turned out to be neither. Under his tutelage, it has continued to foster climate fraud in the face of contrary evidence. Scary scenarios are offered up, but little else. As his and then IPCC's credibility melts away faster that the Himalayan glaciers, he should resign or be fired.