Scottish Sceptic

A short video, with English subtitles and well worth watching

PS. This was originally posted at Changement Climatique

This is a relatively long video, low on action, but well worth watching as it ties in with my own (fairly short) experience in the Scottish Green party. Yes, these kinds of activists mean well, but my experience was that they were entirely clueless about the science, engineering and as a result had no idea just how much environmental damage would be done by the very thing these “environmentalists” were advocating.
And … I suppose, it was because I was one of the very few who understood the science or engineering, that perhaps I started checking to make sure the science actually backed up the claims about global warming … and hence my eventual realisation it did not.

With #NOAAgate & the gagging order, more or less proving NOAA have something to hide on their warming adjustments to global temperature, with NASA having been pulled up time and time again for their own warming, and now with the same NASA’s study showing that Antarctic ice is increasing, the “Dead Parrot Talks” as I’ve been referring to them, might not be the “dead parrot” I had imagined!
Because, far from not coming to agreement to do something, it is fast looking possible that the talks may focus less on future warming, and more on past fabricated warming. Less on what will happen to Antarctic Ice and more on why the world was so emphatically told that Antarctic ice was melting when it does not appear to be (if the latest study is any better than other NASA work).
And let’s put it this way, if you put a lot of people together, many of whom have been promised billions in “compensation” … and then they are informed that actually there is nothing to compensate them about … knowing human nature, they have probably already earmarked that money for some new luxury air-conditioned palaces and they will not be at all happy. And, who can everyone, both west and east, north and south, blame without any concern? The “climate extremists”. In other words the west will use the excuse: “it was not us gov … we was misled!”
So, one potential, albeit still unlikely outcome (as yet … but what else will appear??) is that the talks may actually come to an agreement … to open investigations into “those responsible” for misleading all these politicians. If so, it could be one of the most dramatic swings ever seen, potentially, going from self-proclaimed: “Nobel laureate” and darling of the gullible=green rich, one year, to “in the penn” the next.

Addendum

I forgot to mention the Phillipe Verdier scandal, sacked for the audacity of being honest that global warming is a scam.With NASA’s Antarctic study and NOAAgate, that decision now looks foolish. Just to keep tally here are the latest strands to this developing scandal:

• Phillipe Verdier scandal
• NASA caught adding warming to the historic temperature.
• NOAAgate: NOAA’s refusal to defend their own upjustments
• NASA’s Antarctic ice study showing that Antarctic ice is growing (at a time global sea ice is back to “normal”).
• RICOgate & the $63million in questionable funding.

Then there’s the way IPCC lead authors are politically active. There’s the Hockeystick scandal. The false “Nobel laureate” scandal (not scientific, but it shows the kind of mindset within the subject). There’s the failed forecasts, the hate campaigns against sceptics, etc.

It’s too late for me to check this news from geoengineering in detail, but it looks like #NOAAgate is just the tip of the iceberg with growing discontent in various agency staff, which has got to end up in a leak somewhere by a real scientist fed up with the Climate Extremists who seem to run these agencies under Obama:
The power structure is beginning to panic as the public wakes up to the criminal climate engineering insanity. The growing police state is completely out of control and becoming unimaginably blatant with their actions. In recent weeks Washington has placed “gag orders” on the following agency employees, “The National Weather Service”, the “National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration”, and the “US Department of Commerce”. This is a massive red flag that should trigger alarm bells everywhere.
Bill Hopkins, the executive vice president for the National Weather Service employees organization (NWSEO) said this:

“As a taxpayer, I find it highly disturbing that a government agency continues to push gag orders to hide how they operate. This is the work of the American government, owned by the American public, and should be open to the American public.”

Jeff Ruch, the executive director “PEER” (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) said this about the “gag orders”.

“The National Weather Service is about the last place where national security-style secrecy rules need to be enforced,” Ruch noted that the broad scope of the gag orders put much of what goes on inside the agency under wraps.  “Everyone is free to talk about the weather except for the people working inside the National Weather Service. Go figure.”

Some time ago I personally spoke to an NOAA scientist that said “we all know it is going on (climate engineering) but we are afraid to speak out, we have no first amendment protection”. The new “gag order” is a further muzzling of the NWS and NOAA. It is likely there are many in the National Weather Service and NOAA that have had enough of lying about what is really going on in our skies.

With Lamar Smith’s help NOAAgate is going to turn into a big scandal, if for no other reason than that the Republicans are going to enjoy dragging NOAA’s and by them Obama and the Democrat’s reputations through the dirt.
However, as they are the steam engine that’s going to pull this reluctanct scam into the glare of public scrutiny, the time table is going to be theirs to pick and choose.
What sceptics can do to help
First, we’ve got to keep up the pressure on climate to demonstrate that NOAAgate is a vote winner. That is particularly important for US sKeptics. The politicians have to be reminded as often as possible that climate & energy is a key election issue – for whilst we have great friends in the Republican party, they too are fighting their corner to ensure climate is high up on the campaign hit list.
Second, we need to “hit the floor running” with this scam. So, when the Republicans choose to go with it, then we sceptics/skeptics have to be ready to put in the time and energy to make a real buzz. That doesn’t mean going to WUWT and having a moan, instead it means going onto normal newsmedia sites and getting stuck in with people who may have no scientific qualification at all and need our help to understand the shear appalling nature of the scam.
Also, we need to do what we can to prepare for NOAAgate even though we cannot be sure exactly what form it will take. So, e.g. I’ve spent a bit of time taking the nearly 100 press articles on NOAAgate and tweeting them under the hashtag <a href=”https://twitter.com/search?q=%23noaagate&src=typd”>#NOAAgate</a>
And please do make further suggestions about what we can do to make sure this scam really does take off this time.
Mike
Addendum
Just a thought – with NASA up to the same tricks and NOAA – perhaps we ought to start tweeting under “NASAgate” also?

My normal attitude to politicians is “a curse on all their parties” and there’s few I can honestly say I voted for rather than voting against the person they’re standing for, but from what I’ve seen of Ted Cruz, he comes across as intelligent, articulate, focussed on the important issues & best of all he runs rings around climate extremists:

This is a quick report re NOAA-gate. After posting the scandal online on a few forums I was inundated with extremely annoyed climate extremists trying to use every trick in the book to attack me. But it failed for very simple reasons:

• I wasn’t the one caught upjusting global temperatures
• I wasn’t the one denying legally sanctioned oversight by the committee whose duty it is to carry out oversight.
• So, I wasn’t the one now acting illegally
• And I wasn’t the one whose reputation and credibility is now in the gutter

Basically the argument goes like this:

NOAA have refused to defend their warming adjustments to global temperature to the Congressional committee charged with oversight. As such it now appears that the reason the “human adjusted” global temperatures show warming is because of that global warming. And now as there’s no smoke without fire, the whole work of NOAA is suspect. That means that NOAA, and ALL it’s work, and ALL who work for it are now suspect unless or until it submits to the duly sanctioned and legal scrutiny of the committee duty body to carry out that oversight.

For example one climate extremist got so annoyed, that by the time I went out there were around a couple dozen of his posts that he wanted me to answer.
LIVID!! That’s what they were. This NOAA-gate looks like dynamite as it really gets up the noses of the extremists!

One thing I could never understand from the #ClimateExtremists, was how they could say “it’s the world’s greatest problem” in one breath and in the next “we can’t release that because we can’t get permission”.
Surely, if it really were the world’s greatest problem, then a simple problem like obtaining permission to release data or documents would be almost insignificant and not at all something that could be allowed to stop the #ClimateExtremists convincing the public by releasing the data.
It’s a bit like a disaster movie – the boat is sinking, the passengers are running to the lifeboats, and then they are handed a form to fill out before getting on the life-boat. It’s either an emergency – in which case all the normal protocols go by the way, or it’s just another boat trip in which case, yes there might be forms to fill in.
And now by the most recent behaviour of NOAA, we see that “global warming” is so unimportant that they will fight tooth and nail to stop publishing something they say proves their case … as if anyone believes the fraudsters any longer!
But come on! When sceptics ask for evidence … we get told it’s the world’s greatest problem and we should be so petty as to need evidence. But when it comes to manufacturing petty bureaucracy to obfuscate due oversight, nothing is too small an issue to put a break on due oversight.

• Back in 2009, academics are UES broke criminal law by refusing legitimate FOI requests.
• Now in 2015, NOAA climate extremists are breaking US law by refusing legitimate congressional requests.

The similarity is striking, but so also the difference. Back in 2009, it was a few climate “nerds” like me creating petitions and trying to stoke up interest. Now, it is highly professional politicians, with crushing scientific evidence of 18 years without warming, in a run up to a US election, who have have the bit between their teeth.
I remember Climategate – and I remember thinking it was all over even before it had really started. And then it just took off! And so I’ve not lightly dismissed the various other scams as they came along – but none got traction with the public – mainly because it was still only a few nerds pushing it.
But something is really different this time. This time the forums are filled to the brim, not only with those like me who understand the issue, but an even greater number who appear to be only just coming to grips with the shear scale and audacity of this scam. The Republicans have introduced a whole new audience to this scam.
Also, this “Gate” is very different in nature from what we sceptics have been used to, because it is no longer an issue on its own. Instead it is now tied up in a raft of actions including the notorious wiping of emails by Hilary Clinton, and the rule by executive decree by the US EPA (environmental agency), which the Republicans are skilfully putting together. So, at best this “NOAA-gate” as I’m sure someone will call it, is just another issue in their armoury. If the Republicans can run with it (which now looks certain with the NOAA refusal which plays straight into their hands), then they will use it. If however, it doesn’t look like it’s spilling the dirt – it’ll get sidelined as they focus elsewhere.
But more than likely this NOAA-gate will be more like an orchestra – at times the republicans will ask the string to play – but before they audience gets fed up – they’ll bring about a new melody on the woodwind – Then change the tune with some drums – before going back to the wind (scam).
For those in the US, it will sound like one harmonious onslaught on Obama changing smoothly from subject to subject to create hell for the Democrats across a raft of areas. But for us outside the US with a focus on climate, it will seem as if climate suddenly becomes important – then even before it reaches a conclusion – to our amazement, it will disappear from the news.
But like all music – they real climate will come at the end, and unless I’m very mistaken 🙂 there will be a climax.

There’s “No ambiguity there” says an article in “Scientific Method“,”[Congressman] Smith is clearly suggesting that the NOAA is manipulating its results to further an external agenda.” The full statement, which Rep. Smith’s office provided to Ars, reads as follows:

It was inconvenient for this administration that climate data has clearly showed no warming for the past two decades. The American people have every right to be suspicious when NOAA alters data to get the politically correct results they want and then refuses to reveal how those decisions were made. NOAA needs to come clean about why they altered the data to get the results they needed to advance this administration’s extreme climate change agenda. The agency has yet to identify any legal basis for withholding these documents. The Committee intends to use all tools at its disposal to undertake its Constitutionally-mandated oversight responsibilities.

Now Smith has called out Obama and NOAA as climate extremists manipulating the data for political ends, and not without compelling evidence, this issue now boils down to one single question: “who runs America?” Is it unelected bureaucrats pushing an eco-political agenda with nothing but a thin veneer of “science” to hide their lies and deceit, or is it the duly elected representatives in Congress who have a duty to carry out oversight of these bureaucrats?