{"id":162,"date":"2009-02-22T04:55:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T11:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2009-02-21T23:00:11","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T06:00:11","slug":"the-great-shaman-shamboozle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"The Great Shaman Shamboozle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve McIntyre appears to have caught NASA\u2019s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in a slight problem with the backup data for the outfit\u2019s \u201c2008 was the hottest October on record\u201d globaloney. (See www.climateaudit.org\/?p=4318<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

The GISS computerized maps seemed to show readings 10 degrees higher than normal all across Russia for the month in question, which seemed a bit odd, given that snow fell that month in an area of the United Arab Emirates where the people\u2019s don\u2019t even have a word for snow in their language, and that from the Dakotas to China, from the Alps to New Zealand, 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperature records were set in the month of October, 2008, according to Christopher Brooker, London Telegraph, Nov. 16, 2008.<\/p>\n

In fact, although Russia cools rapidly throughout the fall (as both Napoleon and Hitler learned the hard way) McIntyre discovered upon closer inspection that the GISS October readings were PRECISELY THE SAME for each Russian reporting station as their September readings, a statistically impossible coincidence.<\/p>\n

Oops.<\/p>\n

And since GISS uses a complex algorithm to convert actual temperature readings into its reported output, the error also affected previously published readings for other months, according to the Heartland Institute\u2019s Environment & Climate News, January 2009.<\/p>\n

The discovery followed McIntyre\u2019s demonstration in 2007 that NASA had been unjustifiably adding a significant 0.15 degrees Celsius to its U.S. temperature reports since 2000, the Heartland folks report.<\/p>\n

GISS did not respond to McIntyre\u2019s e-mail pointing out their massive and obvious error, but had pulled the erroneous data off its Web site an hour later, blaming the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the London Daily Telegraph reported.<\/p>\n

Then GISS claimed to have discovered a new \u201chot spot\u201d in the Arctic, although satellite images show Arctic sea ice to be 30 percent more extensive than last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe London Daily Telegraph calls this \u2018a surreal blunder (that) raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming,\u201d wrote Wesley Pruden in The Washington Times of Nov. 21, 2008.<\/p>\n

These kind of \u201caccidents,\u201d which keep generating \u201cglobal warming\u201d data even as mankind faces its worst winter in decades, tend to show an increasing level of desperation. Why would that be?<\/p>\n

Because those who seek to grab political and economic control of the West\u2019s free-market economies, herding huge masses of people out of our cars and free-standing homes and into \u201cmass transit\u201d boondoggles and urbanized concentration ghettos where we\u2019re more easily watched and disarmed, clearly need the hysterical ululating to continue for a few more years, at least. Only hysteria and a quasi-religious jihad can get the job done. Look what they face:<\/p>\n

1) Global warming may well be over. 2) Even if the globe continued to warm at the rate of 1 degree per century, this would be a net minor improvement, allowing us to grow wheat a bit further north. It\u2019s the next ice age that holds the real threat. 3) Carbon dioxide is not a toxin, but is natural and necessary for plant life. \u201cCleaning the air\u201d of carbon dioxide is like \u201ccleaning the earth\u201d of topsoil.<\/p>\n

4) If global warming were to continue and even if it were a bad thing, carbon dioxide is such a tiny part of the atmosphere — and such a minor component among the \u201cgreenhouse gases,\u201d which also include water vapor — that no change in climate trends would result even from shutting down man\u2019s industrial civilization entirely, overnight. Which can\u2019t be done, since most of the world only goes along with this baloney as long as we pay them to mouth the proper magic phrases.<\/p>\n

The big rush to get all their onerous new rules and laws in place right away are part of what Andrew Thomas at The Week That Was (www.sepp.org\/Archive\/weekwas\/2009\/Jan_24_2009.htm<\/a> — scroll down near the bottom) calls the great \u201cShaman Shamboozle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. James Hansen, director of NASA\u2019s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, \u201cand his fellow witch doctors must act fast,\u201d Mr. Thomas explains. \u201cUsing the principle of the Shaman Shamboozle, the evil global warming spirits must be chased away before it is obvious to the tribal masses that the climate is actually getting cooler. In doing so, the shaman ecologists can claim that President Obama\u2019s \u2018green initiatives,\u2019 i.e., taxing anything that emits carbon dioxide, were successful. At that point, their political power over the tribe will be complete and irreversible.\u201d<\/p>\n

It would all be a bit amusing if there weren\u2019t real world consequences. Thanks in part to the absurdity of turning corn into motor fuel — a process which uses more petroleum than it saves — \u201cForeign Affairs\u201d reports world food prices have risen 83 percent since 2005, leading to food riots in 30 countries. Things would have gotten even worse if the EPA hadn\u2019t backed off its proposed \u201cbelching and cow-fart tax\u201d late last year — a rule which would have cost cattle, dairy and hog producers $11 billion per year, driving many out of business.<\/p>\n

Buying into the Globaloney (unless the government there is smarter and more cynical than it appears, instead harboring ulterior motives), the desperately poor African nation of Chad banned the burning of charcoal — the nation\u2019s main fuel — last month. Soldiers and police have been beating up demonstrators, who can\u2019t scrounge enough cow dung and tree branches to make up the difference.<\/p>\n

\u201cChadians must find other ways to cook and forget about charcoal and wood as fuel,\u201d explains Environment Minister Ali Souleyman Dabye to the U.N. \u201cCooking is of course a fundamental necessity for every household. On the other hand … with climate change every citizen must protect his environment.\u201d (www.irinnews.org\/Report.aspx?ReportId=82436<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\u201cBetter to die swiftly and en masse than to continue dying slowly as we are now,\u201d responds one protester, quoted in the January, 2009 newsletter of the Arizona-based Doctors for Disaster Preparedness.<\/p>\n

Meantime, Former astronaut Harrison Schmitt, who walked on the moon and once served New Mexico in the U.S. Senate, doesn\u2019t believe that humans are causing global warming. \u201cI don\u2019t think the human effect is significant compared to the natural effect,\u201d said Schmitt, who is among 70 skeptics scheduled to speak next month at the International Conference on Climate Change in New York.<\/p>\n

Dr. Schmitt (geology) contends scientists \u201care being intimidated\u201d if they disagree with the idea that burning fossil fuels has increased carbon dioxide levels, temperatures and sea levels. \u201cThey\u2019ve seen too many of their colleagues lose grant funding when they haven\u2019t gone along with the so-called political consensus that we\u2019re in a human-caused global warming,\u201d Schmitt explains. See http:\/\/co2sceptics.com\/news.php?id=2809<\/a><\/p>\n

The little boy points at the naked emperor. The little boy opens his mouth to speak. What was that? What did he say?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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