UPDATE: Speaking of the wheels coming off the global warming bus, Ed Morrissey has a great interview with Senator Inhofe. Inhofe is releasing a report in which he blasts the IPCC over Climategate, and calls for an investigation. Just as the Obama administration seems ready to double down on their health care takeover with reconciliation, they also apparently intend to proceed full speed ahead with EPA regulation of the plant food that we exhale. Amazing.

I’m thoroughly enjoying watching the wheels come off the global warming bus. Six Meat Buffet asks the critical question: If The Tree of Global Warming Fell In The Living Rooms of The American Press And No One Reported It Would It Make A Sound?

As Ric Locke via Insty points out, “everybody who’s actually been to a Tea Party rally, then watched Teh Newz afterwards, knows from personal experience that the alphabet media are a pack of liars.”  The last 15 years of hyping – instead of investigating and fairly reporting – global warming stories illustrate it as well.  At some point we have to get beyond the benefit of the doubt.  Was the press essentially tricked by scientists who were in turn led astray by the quest for grants and a handful of scam artists?  What did the press know and when did they know it?

I can accept the “conspiracy of shared values” theory – that the press eagerly believed global warming theory because it helped achieve leftist goals with which they agreed.  But at some point, it does go beyond that and even simple incompetence.  And this is that point, as Six Meat points out.  They are willfully not reporting on what Michelle Malkin describes “the global warming scandal of the century” summed up by Viscount Monckton.  The Associate Press has a story, and they’re sticking to it.   So is the Washington Post.

I created the Global Warming/Global Cooling category back in 2007 when I learned that the scaremongering media hype on climate change had been going on for more than a century, switching from cooling to warming every few decades.  I’m old enough to remember the 1970s global cooling scare.  I remember being told to enjoy my summers because it would be cold year-round when I grew up, and hearing conversations between adults on whether they ought to have a backyard greenhouse because it would eventually be too cold to grow produce any other way.  As the Frank Capra video shows, the 70s cooling hype was preceded by the 50s warming hype.  This eye-opening article tracks the hype since 1895.  And since warming is obviously not happening, before too much longer we’ll start hearing more about manmade climate change cooling.  The snow line is indisputably moving south, and my prediction is that the media will surely pick up the pace on the global cooling stories which started nearly three years ago.  Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

Here’s an excellent analysis of the anthropogenic global warming conspiry: Naming and shaming the AGW fraudsters. I’ve written before that this is not your traditional “smoke filled dark room” type conspiracy but more a conspiracy of shared values led by some willfully fraudulent people. Esr’s thinking along the same lines but breaks it down better. And yes, I agree those involved should be severely punished.

Keep in mind, this is by far not the first scam of this nature – we’ve had a climate scare roughly every 30 years since 1895.  That’s not a typo: Eighteen ninety five.  And then there are the other media-driven psuedo-scientific scares that crop up periodically, like the anti-vaccine scare that’s finally coming to an end, or the recent swine flu scare, or the bird flu, the tomato scare, nuclear energy, cyclamates… right down to the DDT demonization that has sacrificed the lives of millions to malaria.  The bad science/media hype combo kills people, and there need to be consequences for that.

This is a must read from American Thinker: a primer on the global warming climate change hoax.

To sum up…

So they cheat. And they lie. And they have from the very beginning.

Greenpeace admits “emotionalizing” global warming at Political Vindication.

Nice to see an interviewer hold their feet to the fire for once.

Added: more from Watts Up With That especially these tools getting their schadenfreudelicious comeuppance:

Gosh, this is becoming a theme. Intrepid sailors/hikers/tourists/scientists/ecologists head for the Arctic with intent to show the world how the Arctic is melting, get stuck in/on the ice, or hopelessly battered, and end up needing rescue by those evil fossil fuel belching rescue ships, helicopters, and planes.

Over at Michelle Malkin’s, a Cap and tax liveblog: Democrats limit debate, stampede toward national energy tax. This is going to be very bad if it passes. Aside from the catastrophic financial repercusssions that even President Obama admits will occur [Read more...]

Watts Up With That? has an ongoing series, “How Not To Measure Temperature.” It illustrates obvious temperature measuring problems – like placing  weather stations next to AC units that blow hot air all around them. Well, there’s been a response:

Apparently, the NWS thought enough of the criticism of the siting next to a/c heat exchangers to do something about it. And, I’ve been hearing from time to time, that stations that volunteers have visited and we have showcased in “How Not To Measure Temperature, Part X” have been quietly cleaned up.

That’s lovely – it’s nice that something is at least being done.  The essential dishonesty of the “quiet” cleanups is disturbing, though.  Not least because it’s going to facilitate the ongoing switch from global warming hype to global cooling hype. [Read more...]

From Red Dot in a Red State

The Obama Administration, through the EPA, is prepared to use the Clean Air Act to enforce mind-numbingly strict regulations upon all elements of our economy which depend upon the burning of carbon-based fuels (story link). While EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is quick to point out that regulations are not imminent, she did make it clear that they are ready to move if Congress fails to curb emissions.

Representative Ed Markey (D-MA), who heads the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee that will craft the legislation over the next few weeks is quoted as saying

It now changes the playing field with respect to legislation. It’s now no longer doing a bill or doing nothing. It is now a choice between regulation and legislation.

The regulatory barrage will be unleashed against six gases and compounds which are claimed to be responsible for “Global Climate Change”: Carbon Dioxide (CO2); Methane (CH4); Nitrous Oxide (N2O); Hydrofluorocarbons (HFC’s); Perfluorocarbons (PFC’s); and Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6).

I’d like to take you through each of these, and try to determine why the EPA is hell-bent on removing these emissions.

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