The $10,000 Global Warming Challenge!

The $10,000 Global Warming alarmist Challenge!
I have heard global warming alarmists make all sorts of statements about how the science supports their claims of man-made climate change. I have found all of those statements to be empty and without any kind of supporting evidence. I have, in turn, stated that it is not possible for the alarmists to prove their claims. And, I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is.
I am announcing the start of the $10,000 Global Warming Alarmist Challenge. The rules are easy:
1. I will award $10,000 of my own money to anyone that can prove, via the scientific method, that man-made global warming is currently occurring;
2. There is no entry fee;
3. I am the final judge of all entries but will provide my comments on why any entry fails to prove the point.
That’s it! I know you are not going to get rich with $10,000. But, tell me, wouldn’t you like to have a spare $10,000? After all, the alarmists all claim it is a simple matter, and it doesn’t even have to be original. If it is so easy, just cut and paste the proof from somewhere. Provide the scientific evidence and prove your point and the $10,000 is yours!
If someone can provide a proof that I can’t refute, using scientific evidence, then I will write them a cheque.
But, I am sure I will never have to because it can’t be proven. There is no scientific evidence for global warming and no one can prove otherwise.
Any takers?
NOTES:

  1. The scientific method means a Scientific hypothesis about a data set that is tested against real data from that data set.
  2. By current warming I mean a rise in surface temperature data over the previous 15 years (So no “the ocean eat my heat” responses please).
  3. I am the final judge and my response to anyone who enters is this will be: “there is currently no warming, no one predicted this and so I will not be paying out any money”.

Explanation
The reason I’ve put out this challenge is to show that any numpty can put up a challenge asking for evidence. But unlike all the other numpties (like this) asking for evidence to disprove man-made global warming – for which there is no funding at all, I’m asking for evidence that proves man-made global warming something which has received 100s of millions if not billions and is supposedly “settled science”.

Addendum

It has righly been pointed out that Peter Laux issued a very similar challenge which is on Dennis Rancourt’s Climate Guy blog. http://climateguy.blogspot.se/2010/11/10k-climate-challenge.html
The comments are worth reading.

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Oh no not more evidence they've fabricated the data.

There was a time I’d get excited by this kind of story – but there was a time that I thought newspaper journalists would care two hoots about it.
Cue the deafening silence from the press:

Scientists at two of the world’s leading climate centres – NASA and NOAA – have been caught out manipulating temperature data to overstate the extent of the 20th century “global warming”.

The evidence of their tinkering can clearly be seen at Real Science, where blogger Steven Goddard has posted a series of graphs which show “climate change” before and after the adjustments.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/06/23/Global-warming-Fabricated-by-NASA-and-NOAA

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Greenpeace in the News

Here are some recent stories that have in some way been linked to green peace

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Something's changed

There was a time when I would comment on line as the only skeptic and wait months before a good news story came along.
Then we had climategate – it gradually became respectable to be a skeptic, and after a few years, I started to find the one or two alarmists were being answered by so many skeptics on the forums, that it was difficult to have a conversation.
Slowly the number of “good news” stories rose until by the beginning of this year, I would say the pro-skeptic stories were clearly more numerous than the pro-warmist.
However, recently I’ve noticed not only a resurgence in alarmists – but also a drop in skeptic posts – but also a massive increase in quality “good news” stories in the “media”.
#Frackinggate was an obvious example – and perhaps the first example of a large scale media coverage of a skeptic-like story since climategate, and then today (possibly from the same stable) comes news that Greenpeace aren’t exactly green nor at peace internally. Related to this was the Holywood sting catching celebrities  willing to take money to undermine the US economy. The other mega story was the US officials who refused to back Obama’s rantings on climate. Not forgetting the academic who was “fired” for helping the GWPF. And then there have been many other minor stories like the “expected” falling apart of the climate talks.
Is this internal war in the green groups? Is it a growing hostility by officialdom to these green groups and their poisoning of the western economy? Is it increased funding to skeptic lobbyists?
Whatever is happening, the GWPF seemed to have stepped up a gear and I would guess are now issuing twice the stories they were a few months ago. Is this just a passive response because there are more stories – or are they somehow involved in creating more stories?

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#Frackinggate – which major news outlet still holding back?

When the BBC – or at least BBC world service – finally covered #frackinggate,  it seemed we skeptics had finally got all the press to cover this story.
That mainstream news outlet is WattsUpWithThat.com
And to rub salt into the wounds – even the warmists like grist are starting to cover the story.
And whilst I would love to comment as to why Watts will not be covering it – it wouldn’t be ethical.

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#frackinggate – BBC finally mention it!

Latest news – the BBC world service (not quite the BBC news)
Listen to the first few minutes. This contains the original statement by Rasmussen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p020wmlm

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#frackinggate – great analysis by Sun News!

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/world/archives/2014/06/20140620-095409.html
Video: http://bcove.me/4i04fl0y
“They[Greenpeace/span] didn’t bother to do an audit of themselves to see have we been the victim of a sophisticated trick by a malevolent government – they just said ‘huh us?  We’re perfect”

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#BBC – still quiet on #frackinggate

Eight hours after I first spotted the story in the Guardian, the BBC still have not mentioned “Frackinggate”.

Nato Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the Russians had mounted a highly developed disinformation campaign to undermine attempts to exploit alternative energy sources such as shale gas (Daily Mail)

For some reason a Boney M song comes to mind:

There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
He could preach the bible like a preacher
Full of ecstacy and fire
But he also was the kind of teacher
Women would desire

RA RA RASMUSSEN
Lover of the Russian queen

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Greenpeace openly colluding with Russia Today!

I imagines the first rule when someone suggests organisations are colluding … is not to produce a joint news release! But instead what do I find in Russia Today:

‘What are they smoking?’ Greenpeace ridicules NATO claims of Russian fracking plot

Come on! They could have at least found some other stooge organisation like the BBC or Guardian to publish it first and not gone crying to their friends and made it blatantly obvious that Greenpeace have very close ties to the Russians!

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More #frackinggate

“My client’s interest is to end American energy independence. Your interest is to end fracking … we don’t care who is funding it, if it comes out it is funded by middle eastern oil … we work for whoever shows up, etc.”

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