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From "global warming" to "climate change"

Now that the truth is out, the Progressvies our changing the labels. Joseph Farah blows the wool off that wolf too:

The United Nations banned the news agency most critical of "man-made catastrophic climate" hysteria from coverage of the Copenhagen convention billed as a major leap forward for global governance.

That new agency is my own, of course – WND.

You might think the banning of a news agency, any news agency, would evoke some coverage from colleagues.

Yet, to date, not one story about the censorship has appeared on Fox News, CNN, the New York Times, the Associated Press, ABC, NBC, CBS or any other major news outlet.

I shouldn't be surprised.

With few exceptions, the major press has not yet covered to any measurable degree the biggest development since Al Gore invented "global warming." (By the way, unlike the Internet, he really did invent "global warming" – to his everlasting shame, except in Nobel Prize circles.)

I refer, of course, to what has come to be known as "Climategate" – e-mails from pseudo-scientists at East Anglia University that reveal an effort to spin and even change real temperature data to fit the theory and obscure the facts.

The e-mails were a new discovery, but the lying and manipulation of data is hardly a recent occurrence. It goes back 10 years.

Now, of course, the pseudo-scientists can't even hide the data. Since global temperatures have actually been falling for several years running, there is little talk about "global warming" any longer. Now the alarmists talk only of "climate change."

Well, here's a bulletin for the Copenhagen crowd: Climates do change. They have always changed. Climate change has nothing to do with man's activity on the planet. Climates have been changing for thousands of years – long before the Industrial Revolution, the internal combustion engine, the harnessing of electricity, oil-powered energy plants and before the invention of the "carbon footprint."

Climategate is just the tip of the iceberg

We now have scientific confirmation that unlike man-made global warming, Climategate is for real:

The Colorado scientist described by the Washington Post as "the World's Most Famous Hurricane Expert" says the "ClimateGate" e-mails from the United Kingdom that revealed possible data manipulation are evidence of a conspiracy among "warmists," those who believe man's actions are triggering possibly catastrophic climate change.

"The recent 'ClimateGate' revelations coming out of the UK University of East Anglia are but the tip of a giant iceberg of a well organized international climate warming conspiracy that has been gathering momentum for the last 25 years," said Colorado State University's Dr. William Gray.

His are the annual hurricane forecasts that are the standard for weather prognostications. His work pioneered the science of forecasting hurricanes and he has served as weather forecaster for the United States Air Force. He is Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science at CSU and heads the school's Department of Atmospheric Sciences Tropical Meteorology Project.

He was referring to e-mails and other information that had been obtained by a hacker and posted on a Russian web server that included e-mails among scientists who are part of the cadre of researchers who believe man-made global warming is an impending catastrophe for the world.

One e-mail said: "I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd (sic) from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline."

Another expressed internal doubts: "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't. The CERES data published in the August (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society) 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate."

Further, an e-mail exchange suggested the suppression of information: "Can you delete any e-mails you may have had with Keith re (Assessment Report 4)? Keith will do likewise. He's not in at the moment – minor family crisis."

Gray said, "This conspiracy would become much more manifest if all the e-mails of the publically funded climate research groups of the U.S. and of foreign governments were ever made public."

His comments are in a commentary at the online Climate Depot.com and were posted just as officials from around the globe are conferencing in Copenhagen on the issue of "global warming" and what taxes should be imposed on those who use energy.

"The Cap-and-Trade bill presently before Congress, the likely climate agreements coming out of the Copenhagen Conference, and the EPA's just announced decision to treat CO2 as a pollutant represents a grave threat to the industrial world's continued economic development," Gray warned. "We should not allow these proposals to restrict our economic growth. Any United Nations climate bill our country might sign would act as an infringement on our country's sovereignty."

I'm with stupid

This represents what we learned when both political parties went against Initiated Measure 10:

Why is our president going to Copenhagen?

Chuck Norris has the evidence that questions why anybody would want to be at Copenhagen:

Copenhagen is on fire this week, and there's far more heating up than just the climate.

While heads of state and others gather this week at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (Dec. 7-18), bonfires have already been blazing for weeks on that European front.

Let me see if I can summarize the chestnuts roasting on that Copenhagen fire.

Shocking e-mail exchanges from scientists at an eminent global-warming research center in the United Kingdom have proven that key climate-change scientists have suppressed evidence to "trick" or "hide the decline" of global temperatures.

Rather than focus on the audacity of the climate-gate cover up, Obama's top science adviser, John Holdren, downplayed the e-mails, telling Congress that the controversy involved a small group of scientists. And others like Sen. Barbara Boxer blamed the hackers who exposed the e-mails rather than the scientists who deceived the world with false global climate reports.

Similarly, the U.N. was caught recently deleting documents that would disclose how member states are leading (or not leading) the way in self-greening efforts.

The scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters documented that ice melt on Antarctica was the lowest in 30 years during the 2008-2009, a fact being intentionally ignored by NASA.

A U.S. scholar is threatening to sue NASA to prompt the agency to release climate-change data, which he says has been manipulated just like over in Britain.

Officials in the Environmental Protection Agency gagged one of their own senior researchers after the 38-year employee submitted an internal critique of the EPA's climate change position.

Unlike the U.S., China and India have already opposed foreign climate governance because it would jeopardize their national sovereignty.

Nearly two months ago Lord Christopher Monckton, once science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, warned us that the real purpose of the conference was more about global government than global warming.

In my former column, titled "Obama's one-world government," I've already detailed more than a dozen actual statements in the proposed summit treaty that threatens our national sovereignty, could severely cripple our already depressed economy and are so globally socialistic that they would make even a communist blush.

Al Gore actually made statements in July 2009 at Oxford that change will be driven through "global governance."

Based upon the cover-up of declining global temperatures at the leading British research center, two members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released a statement Thursday calling for the Academy to revoke Al Gore's Oscar for his global warming treatise, "An Inconvenient Truth."

The U.N. climate chief, Yvo de Boer, reported that $10-12 billion annually will be needed from developed countries (like the U.S.) through 2012 to "kick-start" things. According the World Bank, adapting for global warming (like building larger dams or higher bridges) will cost an additional $75 billion to $100 billion a year over the next 40 years. (A business professor at the University of Cambridge says it could be as high as $200-$300 billion.)

WND reported that the Coca-Cola corporation is spearheading its own coalition of more than 100 companies "pushing a United Nations climate treaty to bind the U.S. to cap-and-trade emissions regulation, commit the world's wealthiest nations to a potential $10 trillion in foreign aid and, possibly, form a proposed international 'super-grid' for regulating and distributing electric power worldwide."

Japan's Energy Commission revealed the majority of Japanese scientists reject U.N. and Western-backed theories of climate change.

Thousands of leading international scientists from premier scientific and academic institutions (like MIT, Harvard, USC, Princeton, Carleton University in Canada, University of Bologna, Pulvoko Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Danish National Space Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute of Geophysics in Paris, University of Auckland, etc.) oppose what are being called mainstream scientific assessments on global warming.

Despite calls from U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, for members of Congress to consider the joint opinion of more than 32,000 U.S. scientists, including more than 9,000 Ph.D.s, who believe humans likely have little or no part in the creation of "global warming," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs justified the White House position and waved away opposition by tritely retorting "most people believe in global warming," despite Americans' belief in global warming has declined and is at a 12-year low.

With 16,500 delegates descending upon Copenhagen, including 140 aircraft carrying world leaders, heads of state and VIPs, the U.N. estimates the 12-day conference will create 40,584 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents. And could it be merely coincidental that all these planes are amassing on one place on Dec. 7 – the very anniversary date of Pearl Harbor? Or are these all signs that our real enemies are looming on the horizon?

As I consider all of these chestnuts roasting on the Copenhagen fire, the questions that keep coming to my mind are:

Why is our president going to Copenhagen?

The inner workings at Copenhagen

Henry Lamb provides us with what will happen at Copenhagen:

More than 14,000 people have pre-registered to attend the shindig in Copenhagen next week, none of whom are delegates. The facility, which accommodates only 15,000 people, will be overrun by special-interest groups, all clamoring for attention and a piece of the $94 billion pie that is divided annually among the global-warming congregation.

The number of delegates that attend these meetings usually reaches 4,000, and the press adds another thousand or so. The conference is an economic boon to the host city, an opportunity to party for the attendees – and a potential disaster for everyone else in the world.

The Copenhagen meeting is the 15th official meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change. This is the annual "biggie"; delegates and special-interest groups meet four or more times each year, each meeting drawing 5,000 to 10,000 people. The U.N. actually pays a per diem to the majority of the delegates; expenses for most of the special-interest groups come from grants from various governments, or from major foundations.

The U.N. works hard to see that a good time is had by all; they screen attendees tighter than the Secret Service screens state dinners at the White House. WorldNetDaily, for example, is not allowed to attend; they may report something that the U.N. does not want reported. The press that is allowed to attend may not film or record the meetings. They may not even carry their equipment into the area where the meetings are held without an official U.N. "minder" with them. Everyone is free to photograph and record in the public areas such as the restaurants and the exhibit area.

The actual meetings are another matter. Much of the time the delegates are divided into different groups, working to remove the [brackets] from the brain-numbing language that may eventually evolve into a treaty. The brackets indicate language that some, but not all, delegates want in the treaty. These sessions are interrupted by mass meetings where all the delegates assemble to listen to translators reveal the speaker's latest vision of cataclysmic eschatology dispersed by the despicable demons in the West. These "hate America" sessions provide the inspiration for the delegates to endure another day of bracket-removing.

By the end of the meeting, all the brackets will be removed and the delegates will produce some kind of a document in which they all agree to something. Everyone will hug, wave, say goodbye and go home to begin preparing for the next meeting.

The new state religion

Vox Day also sees the religous aspect of the Global Warming church:

In his book, "Liberal Fascism," Jonah Goldberg explains that the primary mechanism utilized by progressives in restructuring society to their liking is to disassociate every step in the program from the preceding and following ones. "It's just this one little brick," they explain to the conservative who is opposed to the idea of the proposed wall. "Don't be so paranoid ... you didn't mean to take it seriously when we said we intended to build an entire wall. What's the matter with this one brick?"

Of course, the minute that the conservative foolishly accedes to progressive blandishments and allows the brick to be placed, the progressive immediately declares the pressing need to move on to the next brick in the wall. Climategate notwithstanding, Al Gore must feel that the present brick is being satisfactorily laid at Copenhagen, because he has already moved on to declaring the need to further handicap the global economy by reducing the carbon emissions 25 percent more than the climate agreement that will be announced next week.

Even if a deal is reached at the U.N. climate change talks in Copenhagen next week, it will only be the first step toward the far more radical cuts that are needed in global carbon emissions, Al Gore, former vice president, told the Times last night. Gore said that to avoid the worst ravages of climate change world leaders would have to come together again to set more drastic reductions than those now planned. …

He insisted that the present goal set for Copenhagen of stabilizing world emissions of carbon dioxide at or below 450 parts per million – enough to prevent a rise in average global temperatures of no more than 2 degrees Celsius – was insufficient and a safer target would be 350 parts per million.

This is insane from historical, scientific, economic and political perspectives. It is historically insane because we know the planet was more than two degrees warmer as recently as 500 years ago. It is scientifically insane because we know beyond any shadow of a doubt that the world is not warming according to any of the predictions based on models which are based on the idea that higher carbon dioxide levels produce higher temperatures. It is economically insane because it strengthens the contractionary forces that are already in the process of plunging the world into the greatest depression of the modern era. It is politically insane because it reverses more than 300 years of advancing human liberty and democracy.

The global climate-change crusade is nothing more than the latest in a very long line of schemes permitting the governing elite to maintain and expand their power. It will likely succeed, since the larger part of the population that is in a position to stop the crusade is too fat, unimaginative and apathetic to have much interest in what their nominal public servants have in mind for them. The beauty and the curse of a representative democracy is that the people usually get the government they deserve, and what comes out of Copenhagen should accurately testify to what the last 50 years of European and American democracy have merited.

Republics, like empires, rise and fall over time. What we appear to be witnessing this week as the global leaders go through the ritualized dance of reaching a public agreement is a significant step toward the fall of the American republic and the rise of what increasingly looks like one of the mightiest empires the world has ever known. This is not the first brick in the great pyramid of the new state religion, nor, as Al Gore has made abundantly clear, will it be the last one. We can only hope that this new secular priesthood is more circumspect and less bloody-minded than their historical predecessors.

The Church of Global Warming

Found the church that Cory Heidelberger worships:

I'm sure you've all heard about the scandal coming out of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, in which some bozos cooked the raw data on temperatures from around the world when those data didn't reflect their global-warming agenda.

These guys apparently weren't hamstrung by the Scientific Method, which has the audacity to suggest that the process of establishing a theory (such as global warming) be "objective to reduce biased interpretations of the results. Another basic expectation is to document, archive and share all data and methodology so they are available for careful scrutiny by other scientists, thereby allowing other researchers the opportunity to verify results by attempting to reproduce them. This practice, called 'full disclosure,' also allows statistical measures of the reliability of these data to be established."

Unencumbered by such quaint scientific protocol, these guys knew the raw data they obtained were an inconvenient truth, so they "lost" them. These "scientists" were determined to prove global warming by faith alone, not by any credible methodology or empirical evidence.

To those of us who have long been skeptical about man's influence on global temperatures, the timing of these leaked e-mails just ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit couldn't be better. But wait, something's wrong. The damning evidence hasn't raised a peep of alarm from the global-warming cultists.

Professor Trevor Davies of the East Anglia CRU called the hacked e-mails "the latest example of a campaign intended 'to distract from reasoned debate' about global climate change ahead of the Copenhagen summit."

Reasoned debate. Ha ha, that's a good one. It's well-documented that any scientist who argues against global warming is ridiculed and discredited. Global warming has gone beyond the realm of science into the mysticism of religion. It can only be believed on faith, not facts. No one dares question the Church of Global Warming. Reasoned debate has no place in climate change discussions for the simple reason that its believers aren't scientists – they're religious converts who think altering the data and silencing critics is fine if it advances the cause.

The Church of Global Warming's goal is to pass laws that will make your life miserable. This church wants you to be fined and/or jailed if you don't obey its precepts to live as the High Priests have determined you should live. Conveniently, these High Priests are exempt from similar restrictions and can still live lavish consumerist lifestyles (Al Gore, anyone?) while preaching the gospel of poverty to save Gaia.

Just like a true religion, the Church of Global Warming has its (ahem) "Sunday" school. But this isn't a one-hour class once a week. It's seven hours a day of compulsory indoctrination (otherwise known as public schools) where little kids are brainwashed into believing humans are a blot on the planet. They learn to sing catchy ditties that "scold … selfish adults (that would be us) for polluting our planet and causing a warming scourge that would, in no short order, kill all the polar bears and threaten the birds and bees."

Will the South Dakota GOP turn itself over to the Tea Party movement?

On Saturday another Tea Party gathering formed in Pierre:

Hofer was one of more than 100 conservatives and curious locals who filled the Capitol Lake Visitors Center Saturday for a “tea party” rally featuring prominent conservative activists and politicians. Bearing signs and clothing attacking progressive health care and environmental policies, attendees heard speakers lay into the Obama administration and the political left.

“Today the greatest enemy of our country is not an outside enemy, it’s a philosophy — a philosophy that says the individual is no longer economically responsible for his welfare, nor is he morally responsible for his own conduct,” said Dr. Allen Unruh, a conservative activist who spoke at the rally. “That philosophy will destroy America.”

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The rally was part of the national “tea party” movement, a network of conservative, anti-tax protests around the country since President Barack Obama’s inauguration. While tea party protests — including Saturday’s — draw on Revolutionary War themes, Sheehan branded his rally as the “New Pony Congress” after the first Dakota Territory legislature.

Here is Pat Powers' take:

You’d have thought they were burned in effigy (or at the stake) as much as some of the looneyleftblogs were whining about this rally.

But note what the organizer had to say about it – “the event was designed to get people talking about issues and to get them involved.” No wonder they were complaining. Conservatives getting involved and called to action.

They’re terrified that conservative voters see their offerings – socialized medicine, porkulous, cap and tax, and the like – for what they really are. Big government solutions that take money out of their pockets at the same time they reduce our rights, and they chip away at our liberties.

Best of all, they’re terrified that conservatives are experiencing a resurgence the likes that have not been seen since Ronald Reagan.  And they’re right.

I’ve said on several occasions that we had to go through Jimmy Carter before we would elect Ronald Reagan. We had to have the worst of the worst before we’d find our way out of the wilderness.

Well, under the current administration, the wilderness is looking pretty think.

But we can hear the calls in the distance. And we’re starting to cut a path.

I thought it was only in the land of the hillbillies that the wilderness was "think". But I digress.

If Pat Powers thinks that this is a sign of a GOP return to power, this Rasmussen report should give him reason for pause:

Running under the Tea Party brand may be better in congressional races than being a Republican.

In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided.

Among voters not affiliated with either major party, the Tea Party comes out on top. Thirty-three percent (33%) prefer the Tea Party candidate, and 30% are undecided. Twenty-five percent (25%) would vote for a Democrat, and just 12% prefer the GOP.

Among Republican voters, 39% say they’d vote for the GOP candidate, but 33% favor the Tea Party option.

For this survey, the respondents were asked to assume that the Tea Party movement organized as a new political party. In practical terms, it is unlikely that a true third-party option would perform as well as the polling data indicates. The rules of the election process—written by Republicans and Democrats--provide substantial advantages for the two established major parties. The more conventional route in the United States is for a potential third-party force to overtake one of the existing parties.

So will the South Dakota GOP allow itsef to be taken over by those of us who are true Tea Party cponservatives? If not, then Heidelberger's thought of a third party is an option. Perhaps I will test them by seeing if they are willing to reject far-left Progressive Mike Vehe and push forward a true Tea Party conservative.

Rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28

This should cause concern among the Progressives of both parties:

Now, Beck has announced a massive rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, which gives the socialist oligarchy in Washington nine months to think about it. Unless they do something to stop him, that massive gathering of anti-government-corruption folks – I'm guessing it will be at least 1-2 million strong – will overwhelm the lies and treasonous acts of Obama and his progressive allies in Congress.

The repression of truth by the progressive fascists is becoming shakier by the day. Let's make sure that it spreads throughout the land before they resort to iron-fist tactics and establish an outright dictatorship in place of the shadow dictatorship that is now in place.

Anyone who fails to take seriously the greatest threat to America's liberty in our history is not only making a naïve mistake but a grave one. You can be sure that I'll be at the D.C. rally on Aug. 28. Will you?

Progressive GOP establishmemt oppose Glenn Beck

This Robert Ringer column supports my theme that the Progressive Movement has control of both parties and Glenn Beck is not liked by either party leadership. Kind of like the South Dakota Conservative action Council and me:

After the League of American Voters ran ads in Arkansas, North Dakota and Maine, the under-30 crowd changed its tune and now opposes the Democrats' Orwellian legislation by an eye-opening 65-25. Which proves again that what I first wrote about in 1979 in "Restoring the American Dream" is true: Short of a violent counterrevolution, education of the masses is the key to defeating the progressive movement to socialize America.

Informed people know that government-run health care has nothing to do with helping those who are uninsured … that global warming is a scam … that the purpose of cap-and-trade is to raise taxes and control people's lives … that most members of Congress are totally corrupt and that a large number of them are guilty of treason … to name but a few of the more egregious items. Yet the government keeps inundating us with its trickle-down lies.

But the times they are a changin'. The progressives are now getting it from all sides, thanks to Fox News, conservative talk radio, conservative and libertarian bloggers, and, above all, a strange humanoid by the name of Glenn Beck to whom God handed a divine mission.

Though the Republican establishment (that's right, Republican) is up in arms over Beck, they're too late. The only thing that can stop him is an assassin's bullet, and let's hope that doesn't happen. And if it did, it might just trigger an acceleration in the citizen revolt that is now well under way.