expanded from a guest post at Bishop Hill
Since the beginning of November the Campaign Against Climate Change has been heavily targeting the Bishop Hill blog in their Skeptic Alerts emails to their activists. I imagine this may be why Bishop Hill has had rather more ‘warmist’ guests than usual.
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Update: Some have queried the use of ‘alarmist’ in the headline, this was chosen becuase of the connection to 10:10 ‘No Pressure’ video,(here, here, here, here , and the rest of the civilised world) and 10:10’s message of 300,000 deaths due to climate change, despite no evidence of this.
On the Anniversary of Climategate a CAGW alarmist has entered the Houses of Parliament…….
……. not by the traditional environmental ‘climate change’ activist method, of climbing onto the roof holding ‘Save the Planet’ banners, but invited in and made a peer by Labour Party leader Ed Milliband
“Bryony Worthington, Sandbag’s founder, has been appointed as a Labour peer in the UK Parliament’s House of Lords, recognising over a decade of work for effective action on climate change.
Ed Milliband, who as Minister of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change in the previous UK government, was responsible for introducing the 2008 Climate Change Act (80% reductions in CO2 by 2050) has brought Bryony into the House of Lords to help push the Climate Change Act that they both were instrumental in creating.
“First on her agenda will be the energy market reform planned by the coalition government, “unfinished business” from the Climate Change Act which she was instrumental in writing, such as setting stronger carbon caps in the UK, and how to boost investment in green projects.”
Bryony has some good ‘climate change’ connections, Friends of the Earth, DEFRA, Sandbag, SSE, Bryony is also a board member of the 10:10 Campaign and apparently has had some ‘good ideas’ in the past,
“Whilst at SSE, she was seconded to government to take part in writing the climate change bill, which is now law and binds the UK to cutting its carbon emissions. The idea of national carbon budgets, now in law, was hers”
In the Guardian on the anniversary of Climategate:
Are Computer Models Reliable – can they be used to predict the future climate?
Government climate change propagands vs actual science
Yes: says the Met Office (link on the Act On CO2 Uk Government website)
Are computer models reliable? (pg 12)
Yes. Computer models are an essential tool in understanding how the climate will respond to changes in greenhouse gas concentrations, and other external effects, such as solar output and volcanoes. Computer models are the only reliable way to predict changes in climate. Their reliability is tested by seeing if they are able to reproduce the past climate, which gives scientists confidence that they can also predict the future. But computer models cannot predict the future exactly. They depend, for example, on assumptions made about the levels of future greenhouse gas emissions.
No: says the IPCC (Chapter 14, 14.2.2.2, Working Group 1, The Scientific Basis)
Third Assessment Report: “In sum, a strategy must recognise what is possible. In climate research and modeling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled nonlinear chaotic system, and therefore that long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.”
A UK Government’s definition of ‘Climate Change’ – EXCLUDES any natural causes:
from the Glossary:
“Climate ChangeThe process of changing weather patterns caused by the increased number of greenhouse gases in the global atmosphere as a result of human activity since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.”
‘A guide to carbon offsetting for the public sector’ – Department of Energy and Climate Change
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It is one year to the day that thousands of emails and documents from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia were leaked to the world. The act of whistleblowing, hacking or leaking (depending on your perspective) of this information and the resulting ‘discussion’ of contents of the FOIA2009.zip file, became known as the Climategate scandal.
Where it all began in the comments section, on a blog called the Air Vent:
We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps.
We hereby release a random selection of correspondence, code, and documents. Hopefully it will give some insight into the science and the people behind it.
The responses then and over the following months by the Mainstream Media, Politicians and Environmental lobby groups was perhaps to many the greater scandal. Climategate showed the political message that the ‘science is settled’ to be an illusion to many more members of the public. This and the failure of Copenhagen Cop 15 to reach any serious agreement, following all the hype and hysteria about ‘last chance to save the planet’, may have been the tipping point to the beginning of the end of the man made climate change global panic.
Unsettled Climate 