Climate Change News and Article Collection

[Greg Burnham]

[I think that prior to accepting the conclusion that humans are significantly capable of, and currently are, contributing to global warming one must consider where, when, and by whom these allegations originally emerged. When one bothers to do their homework it becomes evident that "anthropogenic global warming" has now evolved into "man-made climate change" for no apparent reason beyond a CYA fallback position by the peddlers of the myth. Moreover, the same scientists who originated this "theory" failed to admit that it was a theory at all--rather selling it as settled science. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Indeed, the scientific practices themselves do not stand up to even rudimentary scrutiny. There was deception on a mass scale, apparently, in order to continue funding the "research" from which these scientists receive their salaries. The following was written by John O'Sullivan regarding the work of my good friend, John Costella, Ph.D., of Australia.]

Good old-fashioned honest journalism by Pittsburghlive.com pointedly embarrasses Penn State and their pernicious professor, Michael Mann. Their editorial reviewing the "Climategate Analysis," by Australian physicist, Dr. John P. Costella and now available from the non-profit Science & Public Policy Institute (scienceandpublicpolicy.org), has really caught the attention of Pennsylvanian readers. Since running the editorial on Dr. Costella's latest exposé, the Tribune-Review's (local paper) found its circulation jumped 14.8 percent from 146,520 to 168,218 on the back of Costella's story. Dr. Costella was clearly delighted with the response, "I'll give you 168,218 to 1 that it ruined at least one of Mann's meals!" Thanks to Costella's newly re-published analysis of the leaked emails from on the world's key Climatic Research Units at the University of East Anglia, researchers into the Climategate scandal have been having a field day unpicking 13-years'worth of lies, deceit and fraudulent junk science all perpetrated at taxpayers' expense. The cost to the U.S. economy for implementing policies based in such junk could run into trillions of dollars. In the wake of the Climategate scandal has come a flood of other shocking revelations to derail the juggernaut of pro-green climate policy pursued by world governments. After Climategate, Pachaurigate, Glaciergate and Amazongate, now President Obama's U.S. Administration is expected to be defeated in Congress on its unpopular and expensive climate cap-and-trade bill after Republican, Scott Brown, scored a sensational victory capturing the staunch Democrat seat of recently deceased Edward Kennedy. The true depths of the climate scandal is causing great interest in the Pennsylvania heartlands of disgraced dodgy tree-ring counter, Michael Mann. Pittsburghers have been fascinated to find that the greatest fraud ever committed in the history of science was being perpetrated within their midst. Michael E. Mann is famous for his hockey stick' graph often used by former U.S. Vice President, Al Gore when preaching his sermons on the terrible threat' of global warming. Mann's graphs were much trumpeted by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) before being debunked as fraudulent by independent analysts. The impact in the hometown of disgraced climatologist Michael Mann has been so great it will surely add to the pressure on Penn State. The university's own investigations to root out all the rotten apples in this scandal. In 2009 Mann was appointed Professor at Pennsylvania State University, in the Department of Meteorology and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute. Since 2005 he has been Director of the university's interdepartmental Earth System Science Center. He previously taught at the University of Virginia, in the Department of Environmental Sciences (1999 2005). John Costella's study has been accepted by all sides of the global warming debate as a faultless exposure of the trickery and deceit of public-funded climate scientists intent on bolstering the now discredited theory of man made global warming. Pittsburghlive.com explains,"John P. Costella, the 149-page report's author, does a tremendous service by documenting, step by step, how science was perverted to advance misguided ideology, cynical politics and personal and professional interests. Costella proved that there was massive research' funding with strings attached requiring production of evidence' backing preordained eco-wacko findings.' The fakery that took place in Penn. State Uni. and other government-funded institutions helped spread such venality far and wide among scientists.' What Climategate reveals and his report itemizes is science' unworthy of the name and on a vast scale." Costella was ably assisted by retired British nuclear physicist, Dr. Phillip Bratby, who edited and proofread this sterling analysis before Costella presents all the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit in precise chronological order, with an insightful scientific commentary. Pittsburghlive.com broke to Costella the news of his article's succes late into the night, Australian time.John says, "I used some of the Australia Day public holiday yesterday to read the SPPI Reprint myself. Although I've visited the U.S. three times, I've never been to Pennsylvania (the closest I got was D.C.). But if plans to fly me over in the coming months pan out, I will most certainly be visiting the good folk of Pittsburgh. I like them already. "The SPPI Reprint is at:
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The original web page is at: http://johncostella.webs.com/ "The only differences are very small edits and typos that I continue to make to the web page as they are picked up. (The SPPI Reprint seems to have lost all italics, and occasional spaces, but that is of little consequence)," John said. "However, the SPPI Reprint, with its inclusion of my op-ed piece as an Introductory Essay', seems to have spread like wildfire, not least of which being an incredible discussion at the legendary Watts Up With That site a few days ago, "Yesterday, another top climatologist caught up in the Climategate conspiracy Alabama State Climatologist and UN IPCC lead author, Dr. John Christy was dismayed at the unethical conduct of Michael Mann and other climatologists, has demanded that the IPCC seek to restore its damaged reputation in their next climate report by providing "an alternative view section written by well-credentialed climate scientists." Thanks to John Costella and other brave scientists who have stepped forward, it is hoped a Federal Department of Justice criminal investigation will bring down this blatant racketeering.