Why would I recant? The e-mails of the researchers clearly say what they said. They said they fabricated the data in order to hide the fact that the data showed no warming trend. Please watch the John Stewart clip. He lays out the facts nicely, quoting the e-mails and news reports.

You see DK, investigations the don’t take into account admissions by the wrong-doers are not at all convincing. Particularly when the admissions of the wrong-doers were made in private and they thought they would never get out. Clearly the data was fabricated, they explained in e-mails that they needed to hide the lack of a warming trend, and then they discarded the raw data.

Please use your head, will you?

-Gene

The Zohan no observe diz XMAS festivity. But Heppy Holiday to one and all nonetheless.
Unfortunately for the Zohan, his apple sauce run out and the old lattke (lat-keh =deep fried potatoes eaten during Hebraic holiday of Hanukkah =miracle of no Peak Oil) they no taste good no more.

My good friend Gene say that the Step Back ignore zis NASA data.

Person by name of James Hansen, he is a prominent scientist at NASA, no?

He publish recent paper at following web site, yes?
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2009/20091216_TemperatureOfScience.pdf

You go to page to Page 6, Fig. 4 of his PDF and you see big oy vey problem.
This year 2009 (CE) is in coolest part of 11 year solar hot/cold cycle.
In another 5-6 years things will get hotter again. Oy vey.

If you go to page 2, Fig. 1 of information-filled Hansen paper, you see there was no “cooling” in last 10 years. Global warming continues unabated.

The Zohan would like very much that all this is big hoax and that Hansen and all other scientists in world are part of smokey room conspiracy.

There is indeed a smokey room conspiracy. It is called Industrial Age.

Since around mid 1800′s the good peoples from all around world have begun to pump geometrically increasing amounts of unnatural chemicals into the atmosphere with hope that such messy muchen tuken will simply go away. We do same ting with big oceans, dumping plastics and other garbage with belief that we too small and ocean too big for our unclean ways to have effect.

But now days there be 6.7 Billion (that’s with a Bet, not a Mem) of us on this finite sized planet. When we all pee pee in ocean at same time it does add up. When we all cut forests and burn wood, burn coal and oil, it does add up. It no go away because we want to believe it not there. It no go away because our lying eyes don’t see it.

There is funny thing in science called “conservation of mass”.
When you put large mass of CO2 into atmospheric cesspool, it tend to stay there. It no disappear by magic.

There is other funny thing in science called “conservation of energy”.
When CO2 absorb IR rays, the generated heat energy tend to stay there. It no disappear by magic.

There is funny planet in Solar system called “Venus”.
Over there, the experiment of what happens when atmosphere is full of CO2 is going on as we speak.

We should send “skeptics” to this Venus place so they can check it out for themselves.

Anyway, the Zohan has spoken too much and is no intending to put coal lump in tomorrow morning stocking. Have Heppy Holiday and we talk more after this message is moderated,

Merry Christmas – and let’s all come back on Monday, when we are hopefully sober, and happy.

I see you haven’t changed your tune at all. You ask for evidence and it is provided and you ignore it, oh well. As far as this being the warmest decade in history, that is simply false and you know it is false, or perhaps you just ignore the data that clearly and unambiguously proves otherwise. The funny thing with data is that if you selectively look at it whatever story you want to tell can be told.

I notice you ignored the NASA data and findings, because you undoubtedly cannot brush them off with “are you kidding me” logic. Too bad, because if you didn’t ignore the NASA data you would have learned that according to NASA (and many others you also chose not to read) the earth has entered a cooling cycle.

Your problem is you focus on things with many explanations and ignore all reason. Perhaps the glaciers are melting and not just getting thicker. If that is true it is not a hoax, but just because glaciers might be melting doesn’t mean global warming can’t also be a hoax. I know you know that but are just choosing to play dense, but I am getting really tired of your if 1+1 = 2 then the moon must be made of cheese arguments.

Fact is that the seas are not rising at the levels predicted, if at all. Again, I know you know that.

As far as the data, believe what you will but everyone who is being objective knows there is only one reason to fabricate data.

Happy Holidays!

-Gene

First of all, have a Happy, Healthy and Merry Holiday Season and a Prosperous New Years.
Best Wishes.
–Steppy

Now back to business.

Gene: You are correct, I did not seriously look at all the “evidence” you posted links to. I watched your Jon Stewart clip and saw that he was comically making fun of everybody –including your C Street buddy, Senator Inhofe.

OK. So in fairness, I have now gone back and looked at your Professor Easterbrook link. His predicitions are based on ice cores from .. from Central Greenland? You got to be kidding me. Why not some from Eastern Greenland? You can’t be serious. Global means global. It does not mean cherry picked temperature proxies.

Your Professor Easterbrook opens his arguments by asserting that: “Despite no global warming in 10 years and recording setting cold in 2007-2008, …”

As far as I can tell, this “skeptical” geologist bases his analysis on another hoax of the unethical skeptical denialist community; the idea that Global warming has stopped. In fact the past decade of 2000-2009 has been charted as one of the warmest in history. Global warming continues unabated.

Well it continues unabated unless … unless you listen to the Suffering Succotash Sylvester Limb Back Cat (a.k.a. the “Rush”) who this morning on his dystopia radio show proclaimed that everything is a lie, that we humans are too insignificant to change the world. (I guess he hasn’t paid attention to how many animal species “we” have driven into extinction including major fish populations.)

I have repeatedly said that I wish you were right and I was totally wrong and indeed this whole Global Warming and Climate Change and Ocean Acidification stuff was a giant hoax perpetrated by a bunch of cigar smoking fake scientists locked away in their conspiracy weaving back rooms. And indeed this “conspiracy” has to be the grandest one ever put together because all scientist from all over the world are in on it. Only you and Rush Limbaugh (and Prof. Easterbrook) are tuned into the “real” truth. The glaciers are not melting, the perma-frost is not thawing, the methane is not being released, the oceans are not becoming more acidic and sea levels are not rising. It’s all a hoax, a hoax I tell you. I wish upon a star that truth is there, where you are. But it ain’t.

Chirp. Chirp.

Happy Holidays from Jimminy Cricket (your conscientious adviser)

You hear chirping cricket because everyone knows you choose to ignore all the evidence presented. I have repeatedly given you links to such websites, to articles by well respected scientists and more. Yet, like a true Monty Python character you continue to act as if everyone is ignoring your requests. Such tactics have gotten old and stale.

-Gene

Asked not, did I
where reside the largest number of CO2 emitters,
Asked instead did I
where there is a science based web site that explains the Denialist position on the basis
of well established scientific principles and not on the basis of
pure ad hominem rage.

At the moment all I hear is one chirping cricket.

Perhaps, in China.
http://volokh.com/2009/12/23/china%e2%80%99s-victory-at-copenhagen/#comments